I'd imagine Microsoft have many, probably hundreds, of legally obtained licenses for SoundForge purchased by different departments and Microsoft offices around the world. Whether or not this particular employee used a pirated copy doesn't mean any laws were broken, I'd wager that Microsoft is amply licensed to use the software.
So, I tell a client I won't make his webpage IE compliant because IE is not standards-compliant. He takes his business to someone who will. Excellent plan.
yeah because blind people are so prevalent on the internet. We don't support Netscape 4 anymore with 2% share, but let's go out of our way to support blind people with.0013% share, just because we have kind hearts.
What likely happened is normal people using IE got out of the house during the holiday weekend, while Mozilla using geeks sat glued to their computer screen.
i've gone through this at least 10 times recently regarding papers that i read regularly, as in at least once per week. I've gotten to the point that i shoot off nasty, sometimes alcohol induced, emails in complete frustration with another daily stop suddenly asking me to register an account (an account for what? I come here to read the news, and that's it! I don't care if you're offering more, I dont want it!)
I'm sure that i'm not the only one to find that the Miami Herald decided to keep up with the Joneses and required me to register to read Dave Berry articles (and presumably any other content, as if anyone goes to herald.com for anything other than berry).
How long until the national outlets follow queue? CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, hell even ESPN, this is a ridiculous trend, and not for tin-foil hat reasons like most of the morons here spout, this is a matter of convenience and usability. This is a matter of being able to click a link and not be greeted with a page asking for information. How many logins is a user required to maintain? Sure browsers may attempt to manage them, if the username field is called username and the password field is called password (which they arent always labeled), so you can't ever clear your cookies, or change browsers, or computers, or whatever. It's ridiculous.
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"That's right, and the conclusion certainly fits. None of that is going to mean much to unbelievers, of course."
Yeah, those filthy unbelievers. They'll get theirs, and we can all point and laugh as they burn in a lake of fire for eternity.
(wasn't Noah like 800 years old or something, as if the story of the flood wasn't ridiculous enough already)
after they choke on their own vomitus maximus, of course.
I'd imagine Microsoft have many, probably hundreds, of legally obtained licenses for SoundForge purchased by different departments and Microsoft offices around the world. Whether or not this particular employee used a pirated copy doesn't mean any laws were broken, I'd wager that Microsoft is amply licensed to use the software.
we're all happy you're so succesful, but in reality most people don't sleep naked atop a big pile of cash as you do.
We need to slashdot the "Support Mozilla Firefox" option here.
Maybe throw in Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc in the suggestion box.
no, he zaid if a browser doesnt comply they should get a blank page. in theory, yeah, but not in practice.
That's pretty damn close to "Note: May or may not work in non-mozilla browsers"
So, I tell a client I won't make his webpage IE compliant because IE is not standards-compliant. He takes his business to someone who will. Excellent plan.
http://it.slashdot.org/~D'Sphitz/journal/
but what does it all mean, nigel?
How is Q1 a valid concern? Warm up the lake? Are you kidding?
any idea how much water is in lake ontario? i'll wager a guess and say alot. it won't warm up the lake.
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i wouldve modded you up if you hadn't whined about being modded down. Lesson learned.
They got 105,000 cds, what do you expect? Ever album to be a chart topper? What you're bitching about is less than 2% of the whole.
Oh yeah, and since they ran a story on PHP 5 last week they're total hypocrites for using Perl. I mean, come on, practice what you preach Slashdot!
Please, the parent is -1 whining about moderating.
And "I love the 90's" just came out on VH1, it is indeed great.
+1 Flaming ?
yeah because blind people are so prevalent on the internet. We don't support Netscape 4 anymore with 2% share, but let's go out of our way to support blind people with .0013% share, just because we have kind hearts.
What likely happened is normal people using IE got out of the house during the holiday weekend, while Mozilla using geeks sat glued to their computer screen.
Don't you mean "Stole any music lately?"
I'm sure that i'm not the only one to find that the Miami Herald decided to keep up with the Joneses and required me to register to read Dave Berry articles (and presumably any other content, as if anyone goes to herald.com for anything other than berry).
How long until the national outlets follow queue? CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, hell even ESPN, this is a ridiculous trend, and not for tin-foil hat reasons like most of the morons here spout, this is a matter of convenience and usability. This is a matter of being able to click a link and not be greeted with a page asking for information. How many logins is a user required to maintain? Sure browsers may attempt to manage them, if the username field is called username and the password field is called password (which they arent always labeled), so you can't ever clear your cookies, or change browsers, or computers, or whatever. It's ridiculous.
yay, I learned something today