To anyone even moderately clueful, even from 200 yards the whiff of SharePoint says: Run away! Do not walk, run! This is not going to help you or your business in any way! This is a tarpit from which you and your data will never escape. You will be tied into Windows and whatever other tortures arrive down the pike - if you don't Just Turn Around Now and RUN! Microsoft has PLANS for you and your money... Locking up your data forever is just a means to an end...
It's extortion. Theft. Deception. And it's time we stopped tolerating it, because we know better - the Open Web itself is proof of technology and ideals that are the civilised alternative to anything Microsoft ever plotted.
would have had the movies made in hong-kong on a shoe-string budget
Actually pre-CGI that's exactly where and how most of Hollywood's animated features were made (just check the credits). Nobody was trying to hide it, and nobody complained about the quality because there was a huge base of inexpensive, experienced cel animation talent there.
Just because a Jedi turns to the dark side doesn't not make him a Sith. He is a Sith for as long as he or she embraces the Dark side. The moment a sith rescinds the Dark Side in a real and genuine manner, he or she ceases to be a sith, and returns to the light of the Jedi.
That's just ripped off from Catholicism, isn't it?
No, it's even worse (depending on your point of view). There won't be an "eco-fascism" phase, because with more than 50% of the world population urbanised, nobody remembers what the environment is supposed to look like.
All of the "exploitable" environment (the Amazon,most other remaining forests, the Arctic, Alaska, and anywhere else you can think of with any kind of economic value) will be razed/drilled/destroyed, which is going to result in further acceleration of habitat and species loss. Because urbanised people can't grow their own food, this is going to exponentially raise the destructive pressure on the environment outside cities to keep everyone fed, and their cars powered, etc.
This is linked to increasing pollution of all kinds (air, water, garbage, etc) and the "environment" as some of us remember it is purely history.
Our grandchildren will inherit something unrecognisable to us (there are already thousands of species and places that existed when you and I were young, that exist no more). Television and Hollywood, with the complicity of the great globalisers, has trained the world into perfect materialists (mini-Americans) who value convenience and profit above all else; for whom greed is the primary motivator; and for whom waste, pollution, injustice - if noticed at all - are merely acceptable side-effects of a selfish way of life. We have failed every human who lived to defend Nature, and every human who will follow who will never know it as we inherited it; and we have failed every other species on the planet. Even the trees.
1) the better way to "protect wildlife" is to not build a city where it lives. (Duh?) The Chinese are absolutely deadly to the environment - not just the air and water, but also leaders in deforestation and species extinction, even outside their borders.
2) the better way to cut pollution is to... uh... do something about the extreme pollution all over mainland China.
Who knew that clean air and water, forests, and sustainable coexistence with other species on the planet was worth having? Human greed trumps everything. The US was the poster child for environmental damage (Bush is very proud of being the "biggest polluter"), but China is competing for that gold medal.
The media prints the fake material uncritically. Happened time and time again in the leadup to Iraq invasion, is happening again with the Ivins anthrax story, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
You're correct. Every dollar that goes to MS strengthens them and their unethical (not to mention illegal) activities.
If we want to improve society, and improve technology, we need to start spending elsewhere. (To paraphrase Grover Cleveland): Microsoft should be small enough to drown in a bathtub; only THEN will power be in the right hands (the users').
And now let's talk about the lock-in effect, and how downright dangerous it is to have your data (and governments' data) behind proprietary locks... Let's talk about how a healthy, sustainable software industry is not "learning to use an overpriced shrinkwrap product put together by some random company near Seattle", but contributing to solutions that can benefit everyone...
Let's build software for humanity, instead of software that enriches a few stupid white men at our collective cost.
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Yeah because we all know Microsoft's hallmarks are reliability and stability... bwahaha
Deserves what they get.
To anyone even moderately clueful, even from 200 yards the whiff of SharePoint says: Run away! Do not walk, run! This is not going to help you or your business in any way! This is a tarpit from which you and your data will never escape. You will be tied into Windows and whatever other tortures arrive down the pike - if you don't Just Turn Around Now and RUN! Microsoft has PLANS for you and your money... Locking up your data forever is just a means to an end...
It's extortion. Theft. Deception. And it's time we stopped tolerating it, because we know better - the Open Web itself is proof of technology and ideals that are the civilised alternative to anything Microsoft ever plotted.
See How NOT to use 'secret questions' about the bad authentication design of an Australian government web site.
Would that be considered more newsworthy than the fact that over 1000 civilians died in the first attack. :(
Then decided to Google first. But there seems to be some confusion as to what a Mynock is?
would have had the movies made in hong-kong on a shoe-string budget
Actually pre-CGI that's exactly where and how most of Hollywood's animated features were made (just check the credits). Nobody was trying to hide it, and nobody complained about the quality because there was a huge base of inexpensive, experienced cel animation talent there.
your reputation for independence is more important than early access to films
IF ONLY THAT WERE TRUE. But it's just wishful thinking in Bizarro-America.
Just because a Jedi turns to the dark side doesn't not make him a Sith. He is a Sith for as long as he or she embraces the Dark side. The moment a sith rescinds the Dark Side in a real and genuine manner, he or she ceases to be a sith, and returns to the light of the Jedi.
That's just ripped off from Catholicism, isn't it?
and ask.
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No, it's even worse (depending on your point of view). There won't be an "eco-fascism" phase, because with more than 50% of the world population urbanised, nobody remembers what the environment is supposed to look like.
All of the "exploitable" environment (the Amazon, most other remaining forests, the Arctic, Alaska, and anywhere else you can think of with any kind of economic value) will be razed/drilled/destroyed, which is going to result in further acceleration of habitat and species loss. Because urbanised people can't grow their own food, this is going to exponentially raise the destructive pressure on the environment outside cities to keep everyone fed, and their cars powered, etc.
This is linked to increasing pollution of all kinds (air, water, garbage, etc) and the "environment" as some of us remember it is purely history.
Our grandchildren will inherit something unrecognisable to us (there are already thousands of species and places that existed when you and I were young, that exist no more). Television and Hollywood, with the complicity of the great globalisers, has trained the world into perfect materialists (mini-Americans) who value convenience and profit above all else; for whom greed is the primary motivator; and for whom waste, pollution, injustice - if noticed at all - are merely acceptable side-effects of a selfish way of life. We have failed every human who lived to defend Nature, and every human who will follow who will never know it as we inherited it; and we have failed every other species on the planet. Even the trees.
1) the better way to "protect wildlife" is to not build a city where it lives. (Duh?) The Chinese are absolutely deadly to the environment - not just the air and water, but also leaders in deforestation and species extinction, even outside their borders.
2) the better way to cut pollution is to... uh... do something about the extreme pollution all over mainland China.
Who knew that clean air and water, forests, and sustainable coexistence with other species on the planet was worth having? Human greed trumps everything. The US was the poster child for environmental damage (Bush is very proud of being the "biggest polluter"), but China is competing for that gold medal.
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we didn't clutter up useful orbit space with a bunch of debris when we were done
Just how was that achieved?
The media prints the fake material uncritically. Happened time and time again in the leadup to Iraq invasion, is happening again with the Ivins anthrax story, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The FSM hacks in Scheme48. (And uses 3-space tabs.)
and will be hacked by the more highly evolved. :)
Talk about Stone Age beliefs...
One cite: Risks Digest.
Thanks William, I'll stick to OS X (and Linux for that matter). Apple and the Linux community do fix bugs continuously.
...is that it's much easier to "scrutinise" when you're holding the source code in your hands.
You're correct. Every dollar that goes to MS strengthens them and their unethical (not to mention illegal) activities.
If we want to improve society, and improve technology, we need to start spending elsewhere. (To paraphrase Grover Cleveland): Microsoft should be small enough to drown in a bathtub; only THEN will power be in the right hands (the users').
And now let's talk about the lock-in effect, and how downright dangerous it is to have your data (and governments' data) behind proprietary locks... Let's talk about how a healthy, sustainable software industry is not "learning to use an overpriced shrinkwrap product put together by some random company near Seattle", but contributing to solutions that can benefit everyone...
Let's build software for humanity, instead of software that enriches a few stupid white men at our collective cost.
Help Make Microsoft History.
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"Trojan found that installs malware on Windows computers."
Wake me up when the rest of us need to worry. Oh, and tag this microsoft windows please.
But don't you think posting as AC is overkill? :)
These days... maybe not...