That way, you can be assured that, if it's listed, it works.
With an incompatibility list, you don't know whether some obscure hardware actually works, or whether nobody's bothered testing it yet. Even if they have tested it, hundreds more will have to test it again because, again, it still won't be on the list, so they don't know whether it's been tested or just forgotten.
True. It wasn't technically legal or illegal. People weren't quite sure. That kept some companies wary of conspicuously spamming. This act, in a sense, legitimizes spam, so companies don't have to be worried any more.
A truly classic political act: misleads and placates the masses while making the companies happy.
When Microsoft dominates desktops, it's like an iron fist with an iron grip that'll punch your lights out if you cross it.
When Linux dominates desktops, it's more like everybody's hanging onto it. If anybody doesn't like it, s/he can open up their hand and see what's inside and change it. If it is, finally, just not worth it anymore, everybody can just let go of it.
Yeah yeah, crappy analogy, but I hope you know what I mean.
"Before you wonder how much Intel paid me to write that, let me say that the people I talked to, bitter CPU rivals, would tell me who is at fault if one of them were. OK, one of them would tell me, the other would hem and haw. They didn't, the story matched.
So, go back to the bridge, and put the conspiracies to rest for now. There is no grand plan, just programming to do. No story here, keep moving along."
This doesn't mean anything. If there was no Intel string-pulling, both would say so like they did. But if there *was* Intel pulling the strings, obviously Intel would say no, but AMD has many reasons to not incur the Microsoft rage by publicly accusing them or even hinting at an accusation.
I'm not saying these results prove a conspiracy. I'm saying these results don't mean anything either way.
They've just gone on an anti-OSS parade and flung mud about the dangers of Linux. They're strategy right now is to discredit Linux and make it seem like an immature unreliable hack. If they create an actual application for it, they've suddenly legitimized it. It's like saying indirectly that Linux is "Microsoft Approved".
Even if most of their money comes from Office, on the global stage, Microsoft is one of the greatest powers only because they control the OS. Lose that, and they will definitely fade into oblivion as people start to experiment with Linux and other OSS.
I'm not that smart but even I could think of this. I think this writer wrote this story just to appear on Slashdot! : P
www.froogles.com, Google's thorn, comes up somewhere on the 3rd page. Of course, this may be due to the sudden profusion of news sites covering this story, but still. A search for "froogles" should definitely show www.froogles.com somewhere on the first page.
"Do no evil", huh? but if it's in the shareholders interests for you to do evil, its illegal not too...
Goodbye, Google, my old love. You've changed too much. It's like I don't even know you anymore. *sniff*
although i laugh about it though, sometimes i feel bad for some unwitting companies. they never saw it coming, and who knows? being slashdotted could severely hurt the company. maybe some sort of slashdot linking ethic should be created, otherwise a net-traffic-dependent company could go bankrupt or something because of us.
More like every person in the states feels like s/he is better than everyone else. If you feel like you're all equal, you'd give respect to everyone, not no one.
Does the store keep a log of what an employee sells and how many of those items have a PSP? Otherwise, why the hell would they actually REFUSE a sale? Makes no sense. I'm guessing employees don't make money off comission of sales per se, but comission off sales of PSPs?
lol that's why slashdot is such an interesting place:
even if you've got a degree in a topic, there's always another with a masters, and another with a phd, and another with a post-phd, and another with a noble prize, and so on
its the smarty-pants dream come true, or a nightmare, depending on your personality
For the curious: don't try it. I used to work for a battery manufacturer. Suffice it to say that if one of the chemical tanks were to rupture, they would have had to evacuate most of that city immediately because of the toxic gas. And that's just one ingredient.
Trust me, it's not worth it, even if you're curious. You might regret it for the rest of your (short?) life!
if people were to put up with that level of complexity ("crap! 2.32 beta doesn't work with this game!" or "damn! you need 2.6 to play this game, but that breaks this game!") then they would have bought a pc in the first place.
Even if that happens, you'll get used to it and just reboot again. If there's one thing that'll never change, it's the complexity's and problems that new technologies bring with them.
What's the big surprise? SCO knows they're screwed, but what do you expect them to do? Tell the PR person to go out crying and start apologizing to investors?
They have to fight to the end because everything's at stake, and without an image of confidence investors will run away.
"Why do we keep rewarding this secretive, authoritarian, and incompetent administration?"
Because you keep remembering them as "secretive, authoritarian, and incompetent", rather than "secretive, authoritarian and evil".
So, you always think the next one will be 'smarter', when it's not about brains. It's about our leaders having fucked up values and not really caring about anything except money and power, same as it's always been.
Slashdot Mirror
That way, you can be assured that, if it's listed, it works.
With an incompatibility list, you don't know whether some obscure hardware actually works, or whether nobody's bothered testing it yet. Even if they have tested it, hundreds more will have to test it again because, again, it still won't be on the list, so they don't know whether it's been tested or just forgotten.
True. It wasn't technically legal or illegal. People weren't quite sure. That kept some companies wary of conspicuously spamming. This act, in a sense, legitimizes spam, so companies don't have to be worried any more.
A truly classic political act: misleads and placates the masses while making the companies happy.
An "Accessibility Wizard" that turns the screen upside on special needs folk?
Now that's just cruel.
When Microsoft dominates desktops, it's like an iron fist with an iron grip that'll punch your lights out if you cross it.
When Linux dominates desktops, it's more like everybody's hanging onto it. If anybody doesn't like it, s/he can open up their hand and see what's inside and change it. If it is, finally, just not worth it anymore, everybody can just let go of it.
Yeah yeah, crappy analogy, but I hope you know what I mean.
"Before you wonder how much Intel paid me to write that, let me say that the people I talked to, bitter CPU rivals, would tell me who is at fault if one of them were. OK, one of them would tell me, the other would hem and haw. They didn't, the story matched.
So, go back to the bridge, and put the conspiracies to rest for now. There is no grand plan, just programming to do. No story here, keep moving along."
This doesn't mean anything. If there was no Intel string-pulling, both would say so like they did. But if there *was* Intel pulling the strings, obviously Intel would say no, but AMD has many reasons to not incur the Microsoft rage by publicly accusing them or even hinting at an accusation.
I'm not saying these results prove a conspiracy. I'm saying these results don't mean anything either way.
They've just gone on an anti-OSS parade and flung mud about the dangers of Linux. They're strategy right now is to discredit Linux and make it seem like an immature unreliable hack. If they create an actual application for it, they've suddenly legitimized it. It's like saying indirectly that Linux is "Microsoft Approved".
Even if most of their money comes from Office, on the global stage, Microsoft is one of the greatest powers only because they control the OS. Lose that, and they will definitely fade into oblivion as people start to experiment with Linux and other OSS.
I'm not that smart but even I could think of this. I think this writer wrote this story just to appear on Slashdot! : P
www.froogles.com, Google's thorn, comes up somewhere on the 3rd page. Of course, this may be due to the sudden profusion of news sites covering this story, but still. A search for "froogles" should definitely show www.froogles.com somewhere on the first page.
"Do no evil", huh? but if it's in the shareholders interests for you to do evil, its illegal not too...
Goodbye, Google, my old love. You've changed too much. It's like I don't even know you anymore. *sniff*
I live in Canada, wonder if its the same thing here.
Sounds like these ascap people certainly need a cap in their ass...
lol /.'d already
although i laugh about it though, sometimes i feel bad for some unwitting companies. they never saw it coming, and who knows? being slashdotted could severely hurt the company. maybe some sort of slashdot linking ethic should be created, otherwise a net-traffic-dependent company could go bankrupt or something because of us.
That begs the interesting question: How many read news like sports? (to scratch eachother's backs?) How many to actually learn what's going on?
Surprised nobody's brought up www.mymiserablelife.com yet.
More like every person in the states feels like s/he is better than everyone else. If you feel like you're all equal, you'd give respect to everyone, not no one.
Does the store keep a log of what an employee sells and how many of those items have a PSP? Otherwise, why the hell would they actually REFUSE a sale? Makes no sense. I'm guessing employees don't make money off comission of sales per se, but comission off sales of PSPs?
lol that's why slashdot is such an interesting place:
even if you've got a degree in a topic,
there's always another with a masters,
and another with a phd,
and another with a post-phd,
and another with a noble prize,
and so on
its the smarty-pants dream come true, or a nightmare, depending on your personality
For the curious: don't try it. I used to work for a battery manufacturer. Suffice it to say that if one of the chemical tanks were to rupture, they would have had to evacuate most of that city immediately because of the toxic gas. And that's just one ingredient.
Trust me, it's not worth it, even if you're curious. You might regret it for the rest of your (short?) life!
Guess it's a war of attrition. Hate to admit it, but with so much money, Microsoft would win that kind of war. That may be why they're waging it!
if people were to put up with that level of complexity ("crap! 2.32 beta doesn't work with this game!" or "damn! you need 2.6 to play this game, but that breaks this game!") then they would have bought a pc in the first place.
Even if that happens, you'll get used to it and just reboot again. If there's one thing that'll never change, it's the complexity's and problems that new technologies bring with them.
as in ***kilograms***. All the boxed items together might total over 100 kilograms, which is why freight would be so expensive.
and initiate contact with humanity with the following message:
"-unsubscribe l33t_d00d@hotmail.com"
It'd be a momentous event for humanity, for sure.
it's ok if you have a cool 60 billion backing you.
What's the big surprise? SCO knows they're screwed, but what do you expect them to do? Tell the PR person to go out crying and start apologizing to investors? They have to fight to the end because everything's at stake, and without an image of confidence investors will run away.
Cliche maybe, but:
"First they ignore you, then they attack you, etc..."
Looks like we've entered phase 2...
We gotta open source this ("midnight") black box! : ) Engines want to be free!
"Why do we keep rewarding this secretive, authoritarian, and incompetent administration?"
Because you keep remembering them as "secretive, authoritarian, and incompetent", rather than "secretive, authoritarian and evil".
So, you always think the next one will be 'smarter', when it's not about brains. It's about our leaders having fucked up values and not really caring about anything except money and power, same as it's always been.