But this photo that you linked to, this isn't an actual photo, right? This looks like its must of been work shopped. It looks like something I could see on Third Rock from the Sun.
Come on, do you think the Machines would change the Matrix like that for us? Nah, they spent to many hours developing the world the way it is now.
And when you wake up, you'll turn on the radio and hear about how this tech company is sueing this another company because they claim that 10 year old code was used to save time in the production of a newer product...Oh Wait, my bad, I just described today.
"People won't actually do work, they will just sue over the rights of work done 10 years ago..."
People are complaining about when this is going to happen. Maybe they're doing this in waves or something, but I've had my hotmail plus service for 3 years now (yes, okay, I admit it, MS leechs 20 bucks a year from me, but thats all I swear! ^_^)
But they told me about the upgrade at the begining of the summer, they sent out an email telling me about this way back in June! Anyway, I'm telling ya, my email account has been upgraded to the 2GB of stoarge for TWO weeks already. (On a side note, I went from 90% full on my old 10MB account to now it reads "less then 1% FULL".)
Can someone provide me a link or any information that breaks down how and how much Real and iTunes is giving back to the artists?
I heard somewhere approx 60% of the mp3's that you buy now were the exact same ones that your got free from Napster a few years ago. So whose getting this money, cause lets not forget the whole reason why the RIAA claims to be protecting our music from ourselves, "to make sure the artists can still comfortably produce new songs".
It just seems a little fishy still, being that downloading music used to be a crime, but because someone started charging for it, its okay now.
You know if you buy a stolen car from a guy on the streets, its still stolen whether you or not you physically boosted it yourself.
At Least inform the public about this
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I've bought some large items on ebay, but the best place to find scammers is when your buying expensive laptops. I've seen a lot of phishing for ebay. I saw a recent report, in which perdicted that for every legit technology buisness, there are two scam ones.
The most important thing, Citibank and Ebay and the others is to inform their current and future customers about problems such as this. The worst thing they can do is not talk about it, pretend the problem will go away, or it is an isolated inncedent. (I'm telling ya, if Firefighters took the same approach at doing their job...)
I like to think that some of my attention I brought to ebay, has paved some of the way, as they seem to be taking a stand to this kind of scam. For instance, now you can forward phishy looking emails to spoof@ebay.com.
Now if you surf the web, hundreds of hits come up when discussing phish and spoof emails regarding Ebay and the like, but just 8 months ago, I found only one hit (and it was actually claiming this to be a real email, not a fake), regarding a fake authentic ebay email, encoraging me that it was alright to pay Western Union with this one particular seller, because he has special circumstances, and ebay will give buyer protection, up to 80% of the sell price. And Ebay themselves gave NO reference to any kind of knowledge or other cases that this kind of stuff was going on and one should be catious.
I hate to mention it, but it is rumored that alot of this stuff, being so well organized with their i's dotted and T's crossed is because some/most of these scams is being ran by various mafia.
It obvious that the whole paper can be summed up with his pie graph given at the beginging of the paper.
I must conceed to the Windows OS,
Any OS that is easier than making a pie chart in Open Office must be far suppior.
I don't know how much money MS is paying him for this, but when you start using phrases like
"XP SP2 will have Heap loads more..."
Yeah it'll have a heap load more of something alright...more crap
If anything, it convinces me to go out and but this "Toy" OS X that he talks about, hmmmm, oh yeah the one that 50% of the hackers use, Oh, yeah they must know an OS when they see one
If Walmart were just as evil as Microsoft...
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"Walmart is just as evil as Microsoft"
No, thats not true.
If walmart was just as evil as MS, we would expect to...
sign wavers everytime we walked in the store
Forced to only shop at Walmart for parts for anything that we already purchased there
Check in once a week to see if there is a new security update for our merchandise
All Sales FINAL
Product information can only be gotten from their website
Realize that every product will be obsolete in 2 years, in which we will have to upgrade to a product twice as expensive.
If we shop at a different store, our products won't be compatible to use Walmart's prodcts
Walmarts Music (Player) CDs will only be available to those who only shop at Walmart, make that, those who Xtra Premium customers, all other customers will have to wait an additional year to never.
Walmarts explorer carts will only be for Walmart Products, and if you try to use anyone else's carts, you will only be able to see half of whats availible.
Walmarts business stragey would be, "If another competitor is better than us, TOO BAD!"
Whats really funny, ironic, sad, whatever, is that on this topic, we're talking about how Linux has suppassed Apple, (yet who advertises constantly?) but on the other story for thin clients, it is riddled with large numbers of people (mac users?) who are shouting at the Author to scrap the thin client idea and go for all Macs. (and the moderators are supporting it, as the Mac comments keep getting listed as "Insightful"
For crying out loud, the poor man wanted info on Thin Clients, (will ya shut up about selling macs to anybody and everbody for just one sec so someone can actually put in an informative response?)
The fourm is filled with people bonkin Linux, saying that eMacs is better than a linux terminal. Does that make any sense to anyone? anybody? (...in one corner we have a mac and in the other corner, a blank monitor and a keyboard...this will be a close fight)
But like I said, I appieciate the moderators for giving out high marks to these posts, so at least some of us can get a laugh (and maybe, this will help shed some light on why Apple is falling behind...perhaps its because 90% of their users don't even know what a Mac is good for (so they cover that up by telling people, "Its good for everything, its a true 100% "Cure-all")
Like you have any clue what your talking about
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Seriously, Who are your friends? From your intellectual writing it sounds like you might be working for MS directly, is that true? Come on now, be honest:)
7 years ago, did Linux have more of a market share than Apple 7 years ago, was redhat alone worth more than SUN and Apple put together? 7 years ago, did you even know about Linux, did you even try it on your desktop? 7 years ago was walmart (and now Dell) selling Linux PCs OEM? 7 years ago was it rumored that MS was going to attack the GPL 7 years ago did IBM start showing commercials during Prime Time and the SUPERBOWL advertising LINUX? 7 years ago, where you stll using Windows 95? how about 3.1?
The point is: 7 years is a drop in the bucket to some companies like IBM, AT&T, and Intel.
7 years is a long long time to companies like MS, Apple, SGI
"How about NO, Scott"
-Dr. Evil
Look, obviously the author is looking to Thin Clients to save 1. time, 2. Money, 3. Complexity.
Isn't switching to Macs (forcing thousands of people to use a backward thinking OS (compared to windows) going to be going in the opposite direction.
I mean just to rub it in and piss people off, I'll say this,
Macs would be a great solution if the author wanted to make everything, 1. More expensive, 2. More time consuming to do even the simplest of tasks and IT work for the admins, and 3. Make everyone except for the elite few who own a mac at home completely and utterly confused on how to print anything, oh, and 4. Force the Library to continue to keep throwing money at their problems until it returns back to the ground from where it started.
Look complain all you want, but I'm sure if this author just saw that you don't need MS OFFICE to read, edit, and make office docs, then he/she would surely consider the idea of going with a simple linux distro with no extra licenses.
If you went with SuSE and Opera, that would be the Cats Meow. And not to mention Novell owns SuSE now, so networking with Thin Clients would be, how you say, not hard.
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But this photo that you linked to, this isn't an actual photo, right? This looks like its must of been work shopped. It looks like something I could see on Third Rock from the Sun.
And all that stuff will happen in your sleep.
Come on, do you think the Machines would change the Matrix like that for us? Nah, they spent to many hours developing the world the way it is now.
And when you wake up, you'll turn on the radio and hear about how this tech company is sueing this another company because they claim that 10 year old code was used to save time in the production of a newer product...Oh Wait, my bad, I just described today.
"People won't actually do work, they will just sue over the rights of work done 10 years ago..."
I already posted this, but...
My hotmail account has been upgraded to the 2 GB size for a full TWO weeks now. Theres no "Soon" about it.
People are complaining about when this is going to happen. Maybe they're doing this in waves or something, but I've had my hotmail plus service for 3 years now (yes, okay, I admit it, MS leechs 20 bucks a year from me, but thats all I swear! ^_^)
But they told me about the upgrade at the begining of the summer, they sent out an email telling me about this way back in June! Anyway, I'm telling ya, my email account has been upgraded to the 2GB of stoarge for TWO weeks already.
(On a side note, I went from 90% full on my old 10MB account to now it reads "less then 1% FULL".)
Yeah, all these articles are wrong, the story needs to be updated! You have to pay $20 a year for the 2GB of email storage.
Can someone provide me a link or any information that breaks down how and how much Real and iTunes is giving back to the artists?
I heard somewhere approx 60% of the mp3's that you buy now were the exact same ones that your got free from Napster a few years ago. So whose getting this money, cause lets not forget the whole reason why the RIAA claims to be protecting our music from ourselves, "to make sure the artists can still comfortably produce new songs".
It just seems a little fishy still, being that downloading music used to be a crime, but because someone started charging for it, its okay now.
You know if you buy a stolen car from a guy on the streets, its still stolen whether you or not you physically boosted it yourself.
I've bought some large items on ebay, but the best place to find scammers is when your buying expensive laptops. I've seen a lot of phishing for ebay. I saw a recent report, in which perdicted that for every legit technology buisness, there are two scam ones.
The most important thing, Citibank and Ebay and the others is to inform their current and future customers about problems such as this. The worst thing they can do is not talk about it, pretend the problem will go away, or it is an isolated inncedent. (I'm telling ya, if Firefighters took the same approach at doing their job...)
I like to think that some of my attention I brought to ebay, has paved some of the way, as they seem to be taking a stand to this kind of scam. For instance, now you can forward phishy looking emails to spoof@ebay.com.
Now if you surf the web, hundreds of hits come up when discussing phish and spoof emails regarding Ebay and the like, but just 8 months ago, I found only one hit (and it was actually claiming this to be a real email, not a fake), regarding a fake authentic ebay email, encoraging me that it was alright to pay Western Union with this one particular seller, because he has special circumstances, and ebay will give buyer protection, up to 80% of the sell price. And Ebay themselves gave NO reference to any kind of knowledge or other cases that this kind of stuff was going on and one should be catious.
I hate to mention it, but it is rumored that alot of this stuff, being so well organized with their i's dotted and T's crossed is because some/most of these scams is being ran by various mafia.
It obvious that the whole paper can be summed up with his pie graph given at the beginging of the paper. I must conceed to the Windows OS, Any OS that is easier than making a pie chart in Open Office must be far suppior. I don't know how much money MS is paying him for this, but when you start using phrases like "XP SP2 will have Heap loads more..." Yeah it'll have a heap load more of something alright...more crap If anything, it convinces me to go out and but this "Toy" OS X that he talks about, hmmmm, oh yeah the one that 50% of the hackers use, Oh, yeah they must know an OS when they see one
"Walmart is just as evil as Microsoft"
No, thats not true.
If walmart was just as evil as MS, we would expect to...
sign wavers everytime we walked in the store
Forced to only shop at Walmart for parts for anything that we already purchased there
Check in once a week to see if there is a new security update for our merchandise
All Sales FINAL
Product information can only be gotten from their website
Realize that every product will be obsolete in 2 years, in which we will have to upgrade to a product twice as expensive.
If we shop at a different store, our products won't be compatible to use Walmart's prodcts
Walmarts Music (Player) CDs will only be available to those who only shop at Walmart, make that, those who Xtra Premium customers, all other customers will have to wait an additional year to never.
Walmarts explorer carts will only be for Walmart Products, and if you try to use anyone else's carts, you will only be able to see half of whats availible.
Walmarts business stragey would be, "If another competitor is better than us, TOO BAD!"
Just some thoughts ^_^
Whats really funny, ironic, sad, whatever, is that on this topic, we're talking about how Linux has suppassed Apple, (yet who advertises constantly?)
but on the other story for thin clients, it is riddled with large numbers of people (mac users?) who are shouting at the Author to scrap the thin client idea and go for all Macs. (and the moderators are supporting it, as the Mac comments keep getting listed as "Insightful"
For crying out loud, the poor man wanted info on Thin Clients, (will ya shut up about selling macs to anybody and everbody for just one sec so someone can actually put in an informative response?)
The fourm is filled with people bonkin Linux, saying that eMacs is better than a linux terminal. Does that make any sense to anyone? anybody? (...in one corner we have a mac and in the other corner, a blank monitor and a keyboard...this will be a close fight)
But like I said, I appieciate the moderators for giving out high marks to these posts, so at least some of us can get a laugh (and maybe, this will help shed some light on why Apple is falling behind...perhaps its because 90% of their users don't even know what a Mac is good for (so they cover that up by telling people, "Its good for everything, its a true 100% "Cure-all")
Seriously, Who are your friends? From your intellectual writing it sounds like you might be working for MS directly, is that true? Come on now, be honest :)
7 years ago, did Linux have more of a market share than Apple
7 years ago, was redhat alone worth more than SUN and Apple put together?
7 years ago, did you even know about Linux, did you even try it on your desktop?
7 years ago was walmart (and now Dell) selling Linux PCs OEM?
7 years ago was it rumored that MS was going to attack the GPL
7 years ago did IBM start showing commercials during Prime Time and the SUPERBOWL advertising LINUX?
7 years ago, where you stll using Windows 95? how about 3.1?
The point is:
7 years is a drop in the bucket to some companies like IBM, AT&T, and Intel.
7 years is a long long time to companies like MS, Apple, SGI
You choose who you want to invest in.
"How about NO, Scott" -Dr. Evil Look, obviously the author is looking to Thin Clients to save 1. time, 2. Money, 3. Complexity. Isn't switching to Macs (forcing thousands of people to use a backward thinking OS (compared to windows) going to be going in the opposite direction. I mean just to rub it in and piss people off, I'll say this, Macs would be a great solution if the author wanted to make everything, 1. More expensive, 2. More time consuming to do even the simplest of tasks and IT work for the admins, and 3. Make everyone except for the elite few who own a mac at home completely and utterly confused on how to print anything, oh, and 4. Force the Library to continue to keep throwing money at their problems until it returns back to the ground from where it started. Look complain all you want, but I'm sure if this author just saw that you don't need MS OFFICE to read, edit, and make office docs, then he/she would surely consider the idea of going with a simple linux distro with no extra licenses. If you went with SuSE and Opera, that would be the Cats Meow. And not to mention Novell owns SuSE now, so networking with Thin Clients would be, how you say, not hard.
Yeah, I tried it using Wine It came back saying "All Optimizing has already taken place" "Please Downgrade to Windows XP To Continue!" "End Of Line"
who knew?