When I first read the title I thought it said "Sony To Bundle WMDs with DVDs." Weapons of Mass Destruction!?! So Sony's been hiding them. I knew they were hiding out there somewhere...
That's a point well taken. Perhaps the better solution, then, and more effective than lawsuits, is to continue developing anti-spam filters until their effectiveness reaches the point where it is no longer profitable to spam? If we could get the technology to the point where spam never reaches human eyes, these guys would have to come up with something else.
This is the kind of thing I like to see. It's time we start holding some of these companies who use spam, spyware, adware, etc. responsible. I hope Texas' suit against Sony is successful, too.
Yeah, but several of the US' biggest population centers are in CA, NY, and TX. We wouldn't be as excited if this were Wyoming or Idaho (home of yours truly).
Two things that have helped me a ton as a developer:
1. A good revisioning system. Being able to look back at a previous version of a piece of source code, compare revisions, etc., is a big help, as is being able to manage branches for easy concurrent development of different versions.
2. Invest in some VMWare licenses. You can set up standard development or build environments so everybody's working from the same page. Also, using snapshots is a HUGE boon for debugging. When something crashes or otherwise doesn't work, you can run through it again in exactly the same state, over and over, until you find the problem.
I've looked around Sony-BMG's site for a while (although not really extensively) I haven't actually seen anything indicating that they care what the customer thinks, let alone a way to provide feedback. I'd make complaining part of my morning routine if they had some sort of "tell us what you think" form or forum and if I thought it'd actually do any good.
Not that I think it would. They've proved what their priorities are. It's sad that the music industry have gotten so far from "the customer is always right." Now it's "the consumer is a peice of crap and is not to be trusted." Oh well, at least I've got allofmp3.com.
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When I first read the title I thought it said "Sony To Bundle WMDs with DVDs." Weapons of Mass Destruction!?! So Sony's been hiding them. I knew they were hiding out there somewhere...
That's a point well taken. Perhaps the better solution, then, and more effective than lawsuits, is to continue developing anti-spam filters until their effectiveness reaches the point where it is no longer profitable to spam? If we could get the technology to the point where spam never reaches human eyes, these guys would have to come up with something else.
This is the kind of thing I like to see. It's time we start holding some of these companies who use spam, spyware, adware, etc. responsible. I hope Texas' suit against Sony is successful, too.
The MPAA filed a lawsuit against Apple this morning, citing massive revenue losses due to the new Apple DVR.
Yeah, but several of the US' biggest population centers are in CA, NY, and TX. We wouldn't be as excited if this were Wyoming or Idaho (home of yours truly).
"I think they've set back audio CD protection by years."
Ahhhhhhh... that made my day. I could read that over and over.
Two things that have helped me a ton as a developer:
1. A good revisioning system. Being able to look back at a previous version of a piece of source code, compare revisions, etc., is a big help, as is being able to manage branches for easy concurrent development of different versions.
2. Invest in some VMWare licenses. You can set up standard development or build environments so everybody's working from the same page. Also, using snapshots is a HUGE boon for debugging. When something crashes or otherwise doesn't work, you can run through it again in exactly the same state, over and over, until you find the problem.
I've looked around Sony-BMG's site for a while (although not really extensively) I haven't actually seen anything indicating that they care what the customer thinks, let alone a way to provide feedback. I'd make complaining part of my morning routine if they had some sort of "tell us what you think" form or forum and if I thought it'd actually do any good. Not that I think it would. They've proved what their priorities are. It's sad that the music industry have gotten so far from "the customer is always right." Now it's "the consumer is a peice of crap and is not to be trusted." Oh well, at least I've got allofmp3.com.