I initially thought that he meant his name was Azgalor and I think "Why the hell are you complaining? It obviously violates the TOS!". Then I realized his name was Cmdrtaco and the name of the server was Azgalor and felt like a stupid twit:(
Who is going to force all those porn sites to go to.xxx? If there's no enforcement then the.xxx domains will just have a second.com address pointing to their IP so they won't be filterable by domain anymore.
My energy company won't even take money to fix problems caused by THEIR equipment on my property. Even if me working on the problem could cause a gas line break on an entire street, they refused to do the work to fix a gas leak because it was on my side of their valve and the valve needed replaced because it was unworkable and they wouldn't even do that.
If it turned that the Chinas, North Koreas and Irans of the world were a majority in the UN voting to take away your access to information you want or need, would you still hold that position?
That just says that people in the government must configure it as the default. Microsoft could make their own format the default for new installations while allowing people to configure Word to save in whatever format they wish by default. You can already configure Word to save in other formats by default.
You are aware that it's the people of the state that elect their senators, right? The same people that elect the people that used to vote for senators are just doing the voting for senators themselves.
and it's okay to use tax dollars from people that have no interest in it to provide it free to anyone who wants it whether they paid any taxes towards it or not?
Where they are worried about is the people that got 45 day trial versions of Norton with their PC (and it shouldn't be in the OS when it's shipping pre-insalled?) and usually end up getting a subscription after being trashed by a virus when their copy expires and isn't updated. If they don't get a trial copy because MS is protecting them and forcing the signature updates on them through WU, why would they pay for subscriptions?
And they will be forced to do so by the insurance company when people start suing because the doctor was "negligent". Even if their "condition" reduced chance of survival by even 0.1%, someone will sue over it claiming that it was THE cause of their loved one not surviving an operation.
They've seen that the highly socialist EU is so hostile to highly successful capitalist corporations that it's just damn EASY to get them to unleash the hounds.
The good lawyers will tell their client not to even tell them whether they actually did it or not. Their job is to defend them and that was what they were hired to do. They can't just take their money and then refuse to do their job. Walking out would also jeopardize the defendants case by signalling to everyone that he did it and lawyer refused to take the case. If you were accused of murder, would you like it if your attorney made up his mind that you did it and refused to do his job? If there is no defense for the guilty, why do you think there would be a defense for the innocent?
So it's going to be good because it's non-MS? I don't see how this is going to take off when native versions of StarOffice that run on several platforms have not. Not even the free OpenOffice that will do almost all of what this does has truly harmed Redmond. This is just another stab by Sun at their "thin-client" future where they lock us in harder than Microsoft ever could except we'll need a fat client to run the browser that will be rendering this DHTML UI. Unless it's Java then we're screwed. Perhaps they're just going after the Google cool factor? I can't wait for the free Google "beta" that will lock everyone out of their documents the day they unveil the subscription model from Sun;) Isn't this what we all feared from Microsoft's Office.NET scheme that never took off?
The initial blitz was against big time uploaders. Now they're going after just about any uploader because they've just started sending it all to their new collection agency. The next step (which may be going on now for all we know) is to go after any and all downloaders.
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I initially thought that he meant his name was Azgalor and I think "Why the hell are you complaining? It obviously violates the TOS!". Then I realized his name was Cmdrtaco and the name of the server was Azgalor and felt like a stupid twit :(
And this, children, is why Slashdotters don't get laid.
I think you've oversimplified thing...
If you actually had read the list, you'd know that most of it is completely irrelevant ;p
Who is going to force all those porn sites to go to .xxx? If there's no enforcement then the .xxx domains will just have a second .com address pointing to their IP so they won't be filterable by domain anymore.
My energy company won't even take money to fix problems caused by THEIR equipment on my property. Even if me working on the problem could cause a gas line break on an entire street, they refused to do the work to fix a gas leak because it was on my side of their valve and the valve needed replaced because it was unworkable and they wouldn't even do that.
That's the classic view. It's probably not the default anyway or won't be.
If it turned that the Chinas, North Koreas and Irans of the world were a majority in the UN voting to take away your access to information you want or need, would you still hold that position?
That just says that people in the government must configure it as the default. Microsoft could make their own format the default for new installations while allowing people to configure Word to save in whatever format they wish by default. You can already configure Word to save in other formats by default.
You are aware that it's the people of the state that elect their senators, right? The same people that elect the people that used to vote for senators are just doing the voting for senators themselves.
and it's okay to use tax dollars from people that have no interest in it to provide it free to anyone who wants it whether they paid any taxes towards it or not?
Where they are worried about is the people that got 45 day trial versions of Norton with their PC (and it shouldn't be in the OS when it's shipping pre-insalled?) and usually end up getting a subscription after being trashed by a virus when their copy expires and isn't updated. If they don't get a trial copy because MS is protecting them and forcing the signature updates on them through WU, why would they pay for subscriptions?
And they will be forced to do so by the insurance company when people start suing because the doctor was "negligent". Even if their "condition" reduced chance of survival by even 0.1%, someone will sue over it claiming that it was THE cause of their loved one not surviving an operation.
If you haven't patented something and you show it to people, how can those people possibly steal it when you've given it to them?
You do realize what actual pirates did on the ocean, right? I'm pretty sure they stole shit...
Maybe your C++ code was ass?
I wasn't aware that C++ eliminated the issues with pointers and deallocation. I do agree with the strings part, though.
They've seen that the highly socialist EU is so hostile to highly successful capitalist corporations that it's just damn EASY to get them to unleash the hounds.
Dell probably pays some flat annual rate plus the $15 per copy or something.
The good lawyers will tell their client not to even tell them whether they actually did it or not. Their job is to defend them and that was what they were hired to do. They can't just take their money and then refuse to do their job. Walking out would also jeopardize the defendants case by signalling to everyone that he did it and lawyer refused to take the case. If you were accused of murder, would you like it if your attorney made up his mind that you did it and refused to do his job? If there is no defense for the guilty, why do you think there would be a defense for the innocent?
This certainly wouldn't stop the Democrats from doing it when they come to power and just laughing at the Republicans for not doing it first...
So it's going to be good because it's non-MS? I don't see how this is going to take off when native versions of StarOffice that run on several platforms have not. Not even the free OpenOffice that will do almost all of what this does has truly harmed Redmond. This is just another stab by Sun at their "thin-client" future where they lock us in harder than Microsoft ever could except we'll need a fat client to run the browser that will be rendering this DHTML UI. Unless it's Java then we're screwed. Perhaps they're just going after the Google cool factor? I can't wait for the free Google "beta" that will lock everyone out of their documents the day they unveil the subscription model from Sun ;) Isn't this what we all feared from Microsoft's Office .NET scheme that never took off?
The initial blitz was against big time uploaders. Now they're going after just about any uploader because they've just started sending it all to their new collection agency. The next step (which may be going on now for all we know) is to go after any and all downloaders.
What created God? What created God's God? What created God's God's God?
The church up the street expects people to pay 10-20% of their income to the church...