I think he's paying the priced for including adverts in his sig. Asking people to pray to santa or whoever is no better or worse than the 'get me a free iPod' sigs.
It's an interesting idea. Personally I hope he's learnt his lesson.
Even if he worked for a group that doesn't keep secrets, they would have to be concerned though. How do they know that he isn't violating other agreements while he works for them? What if he's working on a project and decides to borrow code from another product with an incompatible licence.
Like the first reply said, it's up to you as an adult to agree to a licence or walk away from the product.
In some countries, you can purchase a tax disc for your car that can only be used during certain hours. It's common for companies to have vehicle licences that allow them to only be used during office hours.
This works for the companies because I assume it's cheaper. If there wasn't a benefit to them, they'd just go for a regular tax disc.
This chap chose to accept a contract so he could benefit from seeing unreleased software. He didn't adhere to the terms of the contract, end of story.
My web hosting company doesn't allow me to host porn on my site. I accept this licence and accept that my site would be taken down if I posted porn.
Is that you again? Seriously, what are you trying to say?
I've sat through management PowerPoint presentations that make more sense.
Yes Scientologists are people. What the hell does that mean in this context though? Mormons are people. Carpenters are people. The Ikea board of directors are people.
Yep, everyone has secrets, what were you trying to say? What does "in-ethics, on-line scientologists have a great time" mean?
Not as funny as the previous post but still amusing.
Depends on what you define as an artist. I've played in a band and arranged some music in the past. Was I at that time an artist? This is entertainment. By the nature of the business, a vast majority will not be making much money out of it.
Your points are confusing and angry. So you're saying that any artist who makes money from their CD sales is already so rich that they don't need this money?
Since you understand so much about the record business, why not provide us with examples of these artists and the figures you looked at so you could come to these conclusions.
For someone accusing others of having no understanding, you seem to have a child's view of the world.
Well yes, you would expect this kind of behaviour from any zealot. A hygeine zealot will consider one shower a day to be a filthy neglect of your hygeine. That's the nature of a zealot so in a strange way, you're right.
The article makes some fair points about the changes in iTunes but doesn't mention the improvements. I can authorise more computers to play my Music Store tracks than I could before (it was only 3, not it's up to 5). I can stream my music over AirPort.
He does make a fair point though that it can be a slippery slope. Perhaps we need to find ways to stop companies inserting "Everything is subject change" clauses in their contracts?
Just hold the battery upside down so the + terminal is facing downwards. That makes it easier for last remaining bit of electricity to flow. I call it the tomato sauce bottle principle.
You have to believe though. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Sorry, my typo. Yep, I meant to say illegal termination.
Heh heh, some argue that assisted suicide is murder. I suppose it depends on whether it is a doctor doing it or the local loan shark helping you to fall off a bridge.
This could be an interesting cultural difference. I'm not an expert but as I understand it, financial legislation in the US tends be more 'letter of the law', which can can lead to organisations looking for loopholes. I believe British financial legislation tends to be more 'the spirit of the law'. I prefer the second since it leaves less scope for abuse. Of course, it can leave the fine-point a bit open to interpretation but generally, the laws should be easier to understand.
it's like comparing these two.
"You cannot, either by use of a weapon or otherwise, cause the legal termination of a persons life."
If the American government can't fix the problem, then it's up to other governments to do what they can.
What would you rather have? The EU takes legal action against MS or tries to institute a change of regime in the states?
Slightly off-topic here but this is what the ICC is about. If a country can deal with a crim itself, then the ICC has no need to be involved. If they are unable to do it, then the ICC is needed. For example, if a British soldier commits war crimes and the British government is not seen to be taking action.
Hi, you might remember me from emails such as URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED.
As the benevolent dicator of Elbonia, why do the people bother me with these election things. Can't they just leave me to get on with my business?
Probably because it's the law. No-one is forced to use the electricity company but then, if the electricity company do everything they can to block competition, what choice do you have?
I suppose it depends on whether there is a mechanism to follow-up on this.
Here's a nice example from Ireland. Driving penalty points were only introduced fairly recently. This meant that every time you got caught speeding or jumping traffic lights, you would get fined but nothing else. If you were fairly well-off, you just saw this as an occupational hazard. As long as you were only caught a few times a month, you just paid your fine and nothing else.
This used to happen on trains as well in the UK. You travel without a ticket and if you get away with it maybe 5 times, if you are caught and fined on the 6th occasion, you're still better off than you would have been if you were buying tickets each day.
I sincerely hope it won't work this way with MS though.
Yeah, it's useful for a quick page but has a few bugs. Nothing particularly nasty, normally cosmetic in my experience.
It would be nice though if it wouldn't reformat the source. I used to use Composer and BBedit and cursed Composer when it would open the nicely formatted HTML document and turn it in to an incredibly unreadable block of text.
yeah, customer service can make you want to have a shower afterwards.
I used to go on-site to houses for call-outs. It's amazing how filthy people can allow their houses to be when they know an engineer is coming out.
I remember one wonderful visit where it was pretty clear that the husband had been beating his wife. While I was downstairs trying to install a device, they were upstairs shouting at each other. I was glad to be out of that house.
I think you had to do the most difficult thing there in customer service. Try to help someone who is clearly a nasty person.
He kind of succeeded. He wanted to speak to the manager of the whole place. After being rather shocked at this news, I checked and found that he didn't have a wife.
Luckily my manager took over and dealt with this piece of human slime.
It was particularly annoying since he said that "his wife was dying giving birth to his child". Now, my colleague next to me was just getting over his girlfriend having a mis-carriage. If he'd received this call, I dread to think what effect it would have had on him.
At the time, I'd have paid serious money to break an acid filled pint glass in his face. Gets me angry just thinking about it. Time to have a coffee and a smoke I think.
You've somehow succeeded in reducing buildings full of people to the same level of importance as a backup electricity generator.
I doubt that the companies there have a big network of redundant call centres ready in case of terrorist attacks.
Regarding companies not caring about the quality of support may be right in some cases but not all. Setting up a new call centre is not a trivial matter. Two days would be unrealistic unless you're looking at a tiny non-technical desk.
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Or don't let people have children unless they can afford to give them a private education and buy them a decent car when they pass their driving test.
That's seriously fucked up reasoning. Are poor people allowed to have children if they have a grannie who can babysit?
Praying. The lazy alternative to taking action.
I think he's paying the priced for including adverts in his sig. Asking people to pray to santa or whoever is no better or worse than the 'get me a free iPod' sigs.
No way. People who pronounce W as "Wuh" are the same people who pronounce D as "Duh". I think that tells us something.
It's an interesting idea. Personally I hope he's learnt his lesson.
Even if he worked for a group that doesn't keep secrets, they would have to be concerned though. How do they know that he isn't violating other agreements while he works for them? What if he's working on a project and decides to borrow code from another product with an incompatible licence.
Like the first reply said, it's up to you as an adult to agree to a licence or walk away from the product.
In some countries, you can purchase a tax disc for your car that can only be used during certain hours. It's common for companies to have vehicle licences that allow them to only be used during office hours.
This works for the companies because I assume it's cheaper. If there wasn't a benefit to them, they'd just go for a regular tax disc.
This chap chose to accept a contract so he could benefit from seeing unreleased software. He didn't adhere to the terms of the contract, end of story.
My web hosting company doesn't allow me to host porn on my site. I accept this licence and accept that my site would be taken down if I posted porn.
Well, it is a rip off in the sense that anyone who licences PostScript from Adobe could be described as ripping off Adobe.
Is that you again? Seriously, what are you trying to say?
I've sat through management PowerPoint presentations that make more sense.
Yes Scientologists are people. What the hell does that mean in this context though? Mormons are people. Carpenters are people. The Ikea board of directors are people.
Yep, everyone has secrets, what were you trying to say? What does "in-ethics, on-line scientologists have a great time" mean?
Not as funny as the previous post but still amusing.
Depends on what you define as an artist. I've played in a band and arranged some music in the past. Was I at that time an artist? This is entertainment. By the nature of the business, a vast majority will not be making much money out of it.
Your points are confusing and angry. So you're saying that any artist who makes money from their CD sales is already so rich that they don't need this money?
Since you understand so much about the record business, why not provide us with examples of these artists and the figures you looked at so you could come to these conclusions.
For someone accusing others of having no understanding, you seem to have a child's view of the world.
Hey, don't mock those guys. After all, they brought down the Berlin Wall!!
I hope this gets the funny mod it so richly deserves.
Well yes, you would expect this kind of behaviour from any zealot. A hygeine zealot will consider one shower a day to be a filthy neglect of your hygeine. That's the nature of a zealot so in a strange way, you're right.
The article makes some fair points about the changes in iTunes but doesn't mention the improvements. I can authorise more computers to play my Music Store tracks than I could before (it was only 3, not it's up to 5). I can stream my music over AirPort.
He does make a fair point though that it can be a slippery slope. Perhaps we need to find ways to stop companies inserting "Everything is subject change" clauses in their contracts?
Just hold the battery upside down so the + terminal is facing downwards. That makes it easier for last remaining bit of electricity to flow. I call it the tomato sauce bottle principle.
You have to believe though. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Sorry, my typo. Yep, I meant to say illegal termination.
Heh heh, some argue that assisted suicide is murder. I suppose it depends on whether it is a doctor doing it or the local loan shark helping you to fall off a bridge.
That's an excellent idea. Well done those Nordics.
This could be an interesting cultural difference. I'm not an expert but as I understand it, financial legislation in the US tends be more 'letter of the law', which can can lead to organisations looking for loopholes. I believe British financial legislation tends to be more 'the spirit of the law'. I prefer the second since it leaves less scope for abuse. Of course, it can leave the fine-point a bit open to interpretation but generally, the laws should be easier to understand.
it's like comparing these two.
"You cannot, either by use of a weapon or otherwise, cause the legal termination of a persons life."
"Don't murder people. It's bad."
If the American government can't fix the problem, then it's up to other governments to do what they can.
What would you rather have? The EU takes legal action against MS or tries to institute a change of regime in the states?
Slightly off-topic here but this is what the ICC is about. If a country can deal with a crim itself, then the ICC has no need to be involved. If they are unable to do it, then the ICC is needed. For example, if a British soldier commits war crimes and the British government is not seen to be taking action.
Hi, you might remember me from emails such as URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED.
As the benevolent dicator of Elbonia, why do the people bother me with these election things. Can't they just leave me to get on with my business?
Probably because it's the law. No-one is forced to use the electricity company but then, if the electricity company do everything they can to block competition, what choice do you have?
I suppose it depends on whether there is a mechanism to follow-up on this.
Here's a nice example from Ireland. Driving penalty points were only introduced fairly recently. This meant that every time you got caught speeding or jumping traffic lights, you would get fined but nothing else. If you were fairly well-off, you just saw this as an occupational hazard. As long as you were only caught a few times a month, you just paid your fine and nothing else.
This used to happen on trains as well in the UK. You travel without a ticket and if you get away with it maybe 5 times, if you are caught and fined on the 6th occasion, you're still better off than you would have been if you were buying tickets each day.
I sincerely hope it won't work this way with MS though.
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
Blance. It's simple, it's crisp, it's low-fat. Try some today!
Yeah, it's useful for a quick page but has a few bugs. Nothing particularly nasty, normally cosmetic in my experience.
It would be nice though if it wouldn't reformat the source. I used to use Composer and BBedit and cursed Composer when it would open the nicely formatted HTML document and turn it in to an incredibly unreadable block of text.
yeah, customer service can make you want to have a shower afterwards.
I used to go on-site to houses for call-outs. It's amazing how filthy people can allow their houses to be when they know an engineer is coming out.
I remember one wonderful visit where it was pretty clear that the husband had been beating his wife. While I was downstairs trying to install a device, they were upstairs shouting at each other. I was glad to be out of that house.
I think you had to do the most difficult thing there in customer service. Try to help someone who is clearly a nasty person.
It might be naive but it sounds like a bloody good idea to me.
Locate the IPs and then send someone around to snip their cable.
He kind of succeeded. He wanted to speak to the manager of the whole place. After being rather shocked at this news, I checked and found that he didn't have a wife.
Luckily my manager took over and dealt with this piece of human slime.
It was particularly annoying since he said that "his wife was dying giving birth to his child". Now, my colleague next to me was just getting over his girlfriend having a mis-carriage. If he'd received this call, I dread to think what effect it would have had on him.
At the time, I'd have paid serious money to break an acid filled pint glass in his face. Gets me angry just thinking about it. Time to have a coffee and a smoke I think.
You've somehow succeeded in reducing buildings full of people to the same level of importance as a backup electricity generator.
I doubt that the companies there have a big network of redundant call centres ready in case of terrorist attacks.
Regarding companies not caring about the quality of support may be right in some cases but not all. Setting up a new call centre is not a trivial matter. Two days would be unrealistic unless you're looking at a tiny non-technical desk.
Yep, that along with a united Ireland and peace between Palestine and Israel. For some reason, some people don't see it that clearly.