But I wouldn't be surprised. Mr. Miguel de Icaza has been very clear about his love for Microsoft and "their" technologies. I never actually hear him choosing community technologies to boast, but maybe that is just due to bias reporting. Either way, it will be interesting to see his reaction if think ever really go bad. I'd also be interested in hearing his opinion on the recent law suit against RedHat.
More space for me. On a more serious note, don't put things online if you don't want the world to know. Better yet, assume everything transfered via the internet is world readable (444)
I don't understand the logic either. It's not like Microsoft fixes these things out of the goodness of their own hearts. They are responsible for it as far as I understand.
I think us non-Americans should be a lot more worried than the Americans. At least they are of use to their corporate overlords: they pay tax and consume. Your country could simply be invaded tomorrow and then have it claimed you were housing terrorists, planning terrorism, supporting terrorism, or just deny the whole thing.
That's the price they pay for being the first to try this. Bittorrent is less expensive, faster (often), more convenient and less restrictive that a lot of the other methods. So even the album was free, one might still prefer to use via a torrent indexer.
I am not yet clear on exactly are the benefits supposed to be to consumers? I can see how it will benefit the content providers and cable consumers, esp. giving them more control... but I would assume there is at least some benefit, other than being charged less, to the consumer. Does anyone know?
That doesn't contradict the point of the poster you replied to. All employees of Microsoft implicitly support everything Microsoft does by virtue of the fact they still work there. This is true for any organization.
Countries aren't supposed to treat businesses like criminals either, if they did this to an individual people would be up in arms, why should it be right just because they did it to a corporation? I mean, it's not like Cisco's going to run away, if they got the bill they'd pretty much have to pay up. What is said country supposed to do when said company is committing illegal acts?
This is going to be quite interesting to see. One can hope that good things will come of this, but I honestly don't see it. Luckily, I'm not in a position whereby my mistrust will affect the outcome negatively.
....but is it just me, or does this sound like Mario64 and Mario Sunshine's basic theme of collecting stars after tasks, only on planets instead of "rooms" or "areas"? You make it sound like they retitled it and were trying to pass it off as a brand new thing. And how exactly are you going to download Mario Galaxy?
So how, exactly, is this *not* organized crime? You beat me to it. I have given it some thought, and the only difference I see is that the IRS directly gets a cut, and I would argue that even with the mob/mafia, the IRS does get a cut of the profits, if only indirectly and in smaller proportions.
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But I wouldn't be surprised. Mr. Miguel de Icaza has been very clear about his love for Microsoft and "their" technologies. I never actually hear him choosing community technologies to boast, but maybe that is just due to bias reporting. Either way, it will be interesting to see his reaction if think ever really go bad. I'd also be interested in hearing his opinion on the recent law suit against RedHat.
Have you considered complaining to the people who you gave your money to for the device?
The majority of decision makers attend third-party meetings themselves?
What exactly is your point?
How can this system be used outside of law enforcement?
More space for me. On a more serious note, don't put things online if you don't want the world to know. Better yet, assume everything transfered via the internet is world readable (444)
They're working on that.
Shouldn't standard fonts be freely available cross-platform? I don't see an .gz, .bz2, .rpm, or .deb. Or did I just miss them?
Human gunners aren't nearly as efficient though.
The US is going to shoot down their own jets?
Is there any more space on store shelves for more PS3s?
ODT for my own rw copy, PDF attachments, homework, etc.
I don't understand the logic either. It's not like Microsoft fixes these things out of the goodness of their own hearts. They are responsible for it as far as I understand.
I think us non-Americans should be a lot more worried than the Americans. At least they are of use to their corporate overlords: they pay tax and consume. Your country could simply be invaded tomorrow and then have it claimed you were housing terrorists, planning terrorism, supporting terrorism, or just deny the whole thing.
That's the price they pay for being the first to try this. Bittorrent is less expensive, faster (often), more convenient and less restrictive that a lot of the other methods. So even the album was free, one might still prefer to use via a torrent indexer.
I am not yet clear on exactly are the benefits supposed to be to consumers? I can see how it will benefit the content providers and cable consumers, esp. giving them more control... but I would assume there is at least some benefit, other than being charged less, to the consumer. Does anyone know?
That doesn't contradict the point of the poster you replied to. All employees of Microsoft implicitly support everything Microsoft does by virtue of the fact they still work there. This is true for any organization.
Complicated or not, this has been mentioned several times.
Countries aren't suppose to bow to businesses.
I hope you aren't too stupid to see the difference between a user and a developer.
This is going to be quite interesting to see. One can hope that good things will come of this, but I honestly don't see it. Luckily, I'm not in a position whereby my mistrust will affect the outcome negatively.
....but is it just me, or does this sound like Mario64 and Mario Sunshine's basic theme of collecting stars after tasks, only on planets instead of "rooms" or "areas"? You make it sound like they retitled it and were trying to pass it off as a brand new thing. And how exactly are you going to download Mario Galaxy?Is yum install subversion, or the equivalent GUI clicks a problem?
You beat me to it. I have given it some thought, and the only difference I see is that the IRS directly gets a cut, and I would argue that even with the mob/mafia, the IRS does get a cut of the profits, if only indirectly and in smaller proportions.