Right, except Apple was also granted a trademark in 2003 for the use of "tiger" in reference to an operating system. Why didn't Tiger Direct take action then? Oh, I know, because this is a blatant PR grab.
Damn Microsoft for introducing people to the concept of viruses. It's just in everyone's head now that viruses are a fact of life and there's nothing we can do about it except slap more software on our machines, and it won't be long before every smart-gadget in our homes has "anti virus" software available to it. I can see it now: Symantec AV Toaster Edition. 73% of toaster users are aware of viruses targetting their bread!" The cost to the consumer isn't even an issue compared to the computing resources wasted on virus monitoring, spyware monitoring, software firewalls, etc. Will my toaster toast at half speed when running Symantec AV Toaster Edition? Is it really ethical for a company to charge you for a nonexistant "threat" and then make your computing experience worse than before, making you think you have even MORE problems?
The thing that sucks is, even if Microsoft did fix everything in Longhorn and make viruses a much less serious issue, there's still an industry out there that will continue to find a reason to exist. I think we're gonna see a lot more of this type of scaremongering in the future.
Cell phone makers don't seem to understand a major problem with throwing every possible gadget in the world into one's cell phone: battery life. What happens when there's an emergency, and I need to call someone, but my phone is dead because I've been listening to MP3s, playing games, and taking pictures all day? What if I accidentally forget to stop the music when I stop listening, and it plays all day in my backpack? I'd rather separate my "fun" gadgets from my "necessity/emergency" gadgets, just in case.
Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wait, what? She was given a bill for simply downloading (not SHARING) music? And she was told "pay us NOW or we will litigate you into oblivion" ? So, the company flat out said "the value of this music is $X, but if we take you to court it will become $Y" ? Call me crazy, but something about this story doesn't add up.
Adobe is pretty lax about piracy, as long as you're not reselling copies. Most people who aren't using it for commercial purposes buy it for $0. Think of it this way: are you going to pay $599 for software you have never used before? No. So, if one pirates it and THEN learns to use it, they may eventually go professional, and then have the money (and feel legally obligated, should a client question them) to buy it.
The turning-a-blind-eye-to-piracy approach allows people the opportunity to learn the software without a big investment, and once you have learned it, you're pretty much hooked. Then, when a new version of Photoshop comes out (and perhaps you aren't a broke script kiddie anymore), you consider actually buying it for the new features instead of waiting around for it to be cracked. You also know that your money won't go to software you will never use.
And even if you don't buy that argument, Adobe does have a cheaper version, called Photoshop Elements. It has features the casual user would need, and allows someone to grow familiar with the Photoshop interface before diving into the murky waters of $600 software.
One difference is, you can hide Internet Explorer.
Also, it doesn't mesh well with me that Adobe assumes they can go about inserting toolbars into other products wherever they please. At least Internet Explorer and Windows are both made by Microsoft. Pretty soon, we'll see the Adobe Bittorrent Toolbar installed whenever you install Acrobat. "Click here to see if the e-book you downloaded was pirated illegally!" "Loading of PhotoshopCScrack.torrent blocked by Adobe BT Toolbar!"
There was probably a clause in your original ICQ TOS that said "we reserve the right to change this whenever we want, without notification" or something of the sort.
You have to uninstall the previous version first, or the new version is simply installed on top of it, without removing registry keys (including the entry in add/remove programs). The Firefox site and Firefox installer advise you to remove any previous versions before installing the current one.
This is not a "PC" problem. It is a "Windows" problem. What assures you that these machines won't be running Windows, with all of the same problems? If a popular product does what a PC can do (browse the web, send e-mail, play video files), you can bet that Windows will be the only thing most people can handle. While I'd love to see Windows not used as much, most people would rather deal with the viruses and spyware than learn a new OS.
They asked for nominations/votes about two weeks ago--TivoToGo was still vaporware at that point. The rankings are based on how many people write in about it. I think people are inclined to declare vaporware based on not only the timeliness of a product but the demand as well. It doesn't matter if it's only a quarter late..if a company gives an October release date, rabid fans expect it in October, and they get kinda pissed when it's not out.
The search that comes with Windows XP is a)ungodly slow b)often unable to find what you need and c)only searches file names. It can't search within chat transcripts, e-mails, or documents. Even if it could, Windows search does a terrible job of arranging the results once they have been found. There is great potential to improve upon the current local search.
No, this is more like giving you a key to our boss's house, without his permission. And, our boss has contracts with everyone on his phone list that ensure that our company will not sell their phone number. And our boss probably made us sign a paper when we started working for him saying we would never sell/give out confidential company info.
In fact, there's no guarantee that the other employee GAVE him his access code. He could have found the post-it under his keyboard or whathaveyou. Regardless, since it was not HIS access code, he had no permission from the company to access this data in the first place.
Imagine you buy a piece of software and get home and install. Upon reading the EULA (or seeing your firewall freak out), you discover the software is full of spyware, and you can't use it without allowing it to phone home to the parents company with a record of your weblogs. No indication of this on the box whatsoever, it's all in the EULA. I know *I* would want to be able to return this, or better yet, know it ahead of time so I don't have to purchase it.
This doesn't just happen in 400 level electives. This kind of stuff happens in 100 level courses, that are required, both as CORE classes and prereqs for other classes. "Drop the class" is not a serious option.
This is also EXTREMELY unfair to students on academic scholarships; if the school expects me to keep a 3.5 to maintain my scholarships, I expect it to be POSSIBLE to do well in the classes. Professors who do this sort of thing are breaking the deal the university makes with me regarding these scholarships. "Here's all this money...oops, sorry you're required to take _______ class, which 90% of people fail, so your scholarships are gonna be gone next semester!"
During prohibition, bottles of grape juice came with labels warning those who bought them not to do this, this, and this because that would turn it into wine, and wine is illegal. If you don't think it's morally wrong, and it's easy to do and hard for authorities to control, laws aren't going to stop you.
It's not about legality, it's about enforcement. If p2p is THIS easy, it's gonna be hard to fine or imprison everyone who does it, ever. There's only limited amounts of man-power to spend fighting anything illegal, and I doubt much concern is going to be thrown about over 15 lines of code, similar to one person turning a bottle of grape juice into wine.
Weatherbug ITSELF is not spyware. But, for the longest time, Weatherbug came with Gator aka Claria upon install. I think being bundled with spyware is just as bad as being spyware. At this point, Weatherbug also defined itself as "Adware" on its site, because they gave you random popups. Type "spyware weatherbug" into any search engine, and you'll get an actual history instead of Weatherbug's site, which tends to leave things out. I have a sneaking suspicion that Weatherbug only got rid of the spyware in response to the bad publicity it has gotten lately.
These are the same people who throw their P4 machine in the dumpster a year after they get it because it's "obselete and slow." ONE spyware may not be noticeable, but when you have them fighting for control of your internet connection, startup page, toolbar of choice, etc, it's gonna get to the point where your machine won't boot up anymore. Then, it's $1,000 to Dell for a new machine. And the first thing they install? Yep....Weatherbug!
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Right, except Apple was also granted a trademark in 2003 for the use of "tiger" in reference to an operating system. Why didn't Tiger Direct take action then? Oh, I know, because this is a blatant PR grab.
Damn Microsoft for introducing people to the concept of viruses. It's just in everyone's head now that viruses are a fact of life and there's nothing we can do about it except slap more software on our machines, and it won't be long before every smart-gadget in our homes has "anti virus" software available to it. I can see it now: Symantec AV Toaster Edition. 73% of toaster users are aware of viruses targetting their bread!" The cost to the consumer isn't even an issue compared to the computing resources wasted on virus monitoring, spyware monitoring, software firewalls, etc. Will my toaster toast at half speed when running Symantec AV Toaster Edition? Is it really ethical for a company to charge you for a nonexistant "threat" and then make your computing experience worse than before, making you think you have even MORE problems? The thing that sucks is, even if Microsoft did fix everything in Longhorn and make viruses a much less serious issue, there's still an industry out there that will continue to find a reason to exist. I think we're gonna see a lot more of this type of scaremongering in the future.
Cell phone makers don't seem to understand a major problem with throwing every possible gadget in the world into one's cell phone: battery life. What happens when there's an emergency, and I need to call someone, but my phone is dead because I've been listening to MP3s, playing games, and taking pictures all day? What if I accidentally forget to stop the music when I stop listening, and it plays all day in my backpack? I'd rather separate my "fun" gadgets from my "necessity/emergency" gadgets, just in case.
Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wait, what? She was given a bill for simply downloading (not SHARING) music? And she was told "pay us NOW or we will litigate you into oblivion" ? So, the company flat out said "the value of this music is $X, but if we take you to court it will become $Y" ? Call me crazy, but something about this story doesn't add up.
Adobe is pretty lax about piracy, as long as you're not reselling copies. Most people who aren't using it for commercial purposes buy it for $0. Think of it this way: are you going to pay $599 for software you have never used before? No. So, if one pirates it and THEN learns to use it, they may eventually go professional, and then have the money (and feel legally obligated, should a client question them) to buy it.
The turning-a-blind-eye-to-piracy approach allows people the opportunity to learn the software without a big investment, and once you have learned it, you're pretty much hooked. Then, when a new version of Photoshop comes out (and perhaps you aren't a broke script kiddie anymore), you consider actually buying it for the new features instead of waiting around for it to be cracked. You also know that your money won't go to software you will never use.
And even if you don't buy that argument, Adobe does have a cheaper version, called Photoshop Elements. It has features the casual user would need, and allows someone to grow familiar with the Photoshop interface before diving into the murky waters of $600 software.
One difference is, you can hide Internet Explorer.
Also, it doesn't mesh well with me that Adobe assumes they can go about inserting toolbars into other products wherever they please. At least Internet Explorer and Windows are both made by Microsoft. Pretty soon, we'll see the Adobe Bittorrent Toolbar installed whenever you install Acrobat. "Click here to see if the e-book you downloaded was pirated illegally!" "Loading of PhotoshopCScrack.torrent blocked by Adobe BT Toolbar!"
There was probably a clause in your original ICQ TOS that said "we reserve the right to change this whenever we want, without notification" or something of the sort.
Yeah, that answered my question. Thanks.
How would you know if it "falsely" reported a cartridge as empty?
Hmmm....give my money to the Russian mafia.....or give it to the RIAA.
Well, the Russian mafia won't use that money to sue my friends. So, yeah, I think I'll get my checkbook.
This might be band-aiding the situation, but I haven't had to deal with the /. rendering probs since I downloaded the Slashfix extension.
You have to uninstall the previous version first, or the new version is simply installed on top of it, without removing registry keys (including the entry in add/remove programs). The Firefox site and Firefox installer advise you to remove any previous versions before installing the current one.
I see no problem with these stickers. As long as there is a similar sticker inside every Bible claiming "Creationism is a theory, NOT a fact."
This is not a "PC" problem. It is a "Windows" problem. What assures you that these machines won't be running Windows, with all of the same problems? If a popular product does what a PC can do (browse the web, send e-mail, play video files), you can bet that Windows will be the only thing most people can handle. While I'd love to see Windows not used as much, most people would rather deal with the viruses and spyware than learn a new OS.
They asked for nominations/votes about two weeks ago--TivoToGo was still vaporware at that point. The rankings are based on how many people write in about it. I think people are inclined to declare vaporware based on not only the timeliness of a product but the demand as well. It doesn't matter if it's only a quarter late..if a company gives an October release date, rabid fans expect it in October, and they get kinda pissed when it's not out.
I stand corrected. However, I do think the method and speed of searching could be improved.
The search that comes with Windows XP is a)ungodly slow b)often unable to find what you need and c)only searches file names. It can't search within chat transcripts, e-mails, or documents. Even if it could, Windows search does a terrible job of arranging the results once they have been found. There is great potential to improve upon the current local search.
It's not closed source.
No, this is more like giving you a key to our boss's house, without his permission. And, our boss has contracts with everyone on his phone list that ensure that our company will not sell their phone number. And our boss probably made us sign a paper when we started working for him saying we would never sell/give out confidential company info.
In fact, there's no guarantee that the other employee GAVE him his access code. He could have found the post-it under his keyboard or whathaveyou. Regardless, since it was not HIS access code, he had no permission from the company to access this data in the first place.
Imagine you buy a piece of software and get home and install. Upon reading the EULA (or seeing your firewall freak out), you discover the software is full of spyware, and you can't use it without allowing it to phone home to the parents company with a record of your weblogs. No indication of this on the box whatsoever, it's all in the EULA. I know *I* would want to be able to return this, or better yet, know it ahead of time so I don't have to purchase it.
This doesn't just happen in 400 level electives. This kind of stuff happens in 100 level courses, that are required, both as CORE classes and prereqs for other classes. "Drop the class" is not a serious option.
This is also EXTREMELY unfair to students on academic scholarships; if the school expects me to keep a 3.5 to maintain my scholarships, I expect it to be POSSIBLE to do well in the classes. Professors who do this sort of thing are breaking the deal the university makes with me regarding these scholarships. "Here's all this money...oops, sorry you're required to take _______ class, which 90% of people fail, so your scholarships are gonna be gone next semester!"
During prohibition, bottles of grape juice came with labels warning those who bought them not to do this, this, and this because that would turn it into wine, and wine is illegal. If you don't think it's morally wrong, and it's easy to do and hard for authorities to control, laws aren't going to stop you.
It's not about legality, it's about enforcement. If p2p is THIS easy, it's gonna be hard to fine or imprison everyone who does it, ever. There's only limited amounts of man-power to spend fighting anything illegal, and I doubt much concern is going to be thrown about over 15 lines of code, similar to one person turning a bottle of grape juice into wine.
Weatherbug ITSELF is not spyware. But, for the longest time, Weatherbug came with Gator aka Claria upon install. I think being bundled with spyware is just as bad as being spyware. At this point, Weatherbug also defined itself as "Adware" on its site, because they gave you random popups. Type "spyware weatherbug" into any search engine, and you'll get an actual history instead of Weatherbug's site, which tends to leave things out. I have a sneaking suspicion that Weatherbug only got rid of the spyware in response to the bad publicity it has gotten lately.
These are the same people who throw their P4 machine in the dumpster a year after they get it because it's "obselete and slow." ONE spyware may not be noticeable, but when you have them fighting for control of your internet connection, startup page, toolbar of choice, etc, it's gonna get to the point where your machine won't boot up anymore. Then, it's $1,000 to Dell for a new machine. And the first thing they install? Yep....Weatherbug!