Be shure ti not buy any products that have anything to do with WB. So nothing with Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, anything from Hamma-Barnera or Tom&Jerry.
Obviously do not use any of their afiliated cinema's and do not watch any of the DC comics related things on tv.
The website is talking about some 6600 feature films, 48000 television titles and 14000 animated titles.
And I am not even talking about Time Warner. And the other larger companies are just as bad.
In all honesty, it is either un-possible or you can not live a life as you do it now. So better give up entertainment all together. Just go to the local pub where some local band is playing. Leave the moment they stop and the recorded music is back on.
The problem is, is that we are not their only consumers. Kellogs and MacDonals are also and they buy their crap to 'give' it to us as pictures on a box, so we buy more of their crap.
Imagine if they could take a sample of your DNA, correct inherited defects, and then re-implant you with stem cells carrying the corrected sequence. It would mean hope for victims of all kinds of diseases like Tay-Sachs or Kreuzfeld-Jacob.
All nice, but can you imagine what it would do for sports? This would be the ultimate doping.
That was not by design. That was because he could not control those markets. There should be no anti-virus market. Extra hardware is something he likes to sell himself. Games as well.
So what market has he build?
4) He brought down the price of software.
No. He raised the price of software. The software he is selling has mot become cheaper. The price has become higher. Where all software indeed became cheaper, Windows is becoming more expensive. The fact that all software becomes cheaper is market driven. More computers, menas more people you can sell to, means lower prices.
Indeed MS is not the vilain people try to portray it. It is much worse. From the first letter he send to talk about piracy to whatever the company he is doing now, he is trying to drown, not embrace, whatever anybody else is making.
So if I work hard building - let's say - boats, and one day I drop dead of a heart attack, my children inherit the boats and can sell them. But if I work hard designing boats, my kids starve?
They can still sell the designs. Just like anybody else. The moment you sell your boat, your kids won't be able to sell that same boat anymore. What you can do is sign some printouts and they can sell those papers, compared to other people who can not sell the same design with your signature on it.
What you can give your children is both the infrastructure and knowledge to sell your designs.
Copyright shoulde be about protecting the maker of whatever is copyrighted. your kids are not the makers. Copyright is not about providing endless money for you and whomever comes after you.
The reason is simple. On Usenet people somewhat could ignore those who did not follow the rules. Often the people with knowledge were also the people who liked the netiquette.
In a company you seldom can ignore people and very often you can not even correct them. Try explaining a CEO that he is doing something wrong. Try ignoring him. Try to put presure on him.
That together with software that completely ignores how things are done by default and you have the mess we are in now.
Then there is the legal department who want to add a 47 line message about the email that is completely st00pid. 'IF the email is not for you' Well, it ended up in my mailbox, so that means that it was inteded for me.
some sort of digital rights management for the documents in the system
First and formost, be aware that the information in the contant can be taken out. Even just reading it or re-typing it is possible. Some people might even memorize parts of what is in the documents.
Next perhaps you want to be sure that the papers come from the people that they say it comes from. For that you can use gpg. Either by signing or by encrypting it.
I am not sure if there is a method that has embedded gpg in the document. That could potentialy be a good idea as it is then verifiable IF the signature is in there. No signature, no valid file.
I am sure it is possible to build something that would make this possible. Again understand that this does NOT protect the data in there. It just verifies that the content is unchanged.
Look also at how many people will be using such a system, because the more people, the easier it will for somebody to look at something that is not intended for them. Managers gove logins and passwords to their secretaries and so on.
Now if you make a document type with empedded gpg, you could install software on client machines that will do part of the autentication based on e.g. their IP adress.
You could even have a kind of code-machine that banks use.
The question is if it is worth it. I doubt that it is.
The plan is to ctrl-click the thumbnails and open them in tabs.
In Firefox I use the middle-click as my other hand is, uh, otherwise occupied.
I would love to have the tabs starting at the right side, because now when closing the last few, you need to follow the tabs, whereas otherwise the red X will be in the same place all the time
Seriously, that's fine. You keep using IE 6 all you like.
Well, I do NOT like it. Unfortunatly teh comapny where I work has decided to go with another company that were able to write an intranet web apllication that only works in 6. It does not work in 7 and it does not work in Firefox.
Then an other company only works with the latetst Firefox.
Yes, I know they are idiots. I would love to ditch IE6 for Firefox alltogether, yet that is not an option for everybody.
Logging in takes about 15 minutes with several different systems having the need to be launched. Also we have a policy that ready for work is when your PC is up and running and ready for work.
That means those 15 minutes are my personal time. So no way I am going to do the startup then.
I am sure that if they were paying the 15 minutes for each and everybody, they will be looking for solutions extremely fast. And hybernate does not work. Neither does the screensaver that could already turn off the monitor.
I have a way to protect you Linux machines against these Social Engineering attacks. Just enter the following in a terminal and after pressing ENTER follow instructions.
If you want to do business in a country, you follow the laws by that country. How hard is that to understand?
If you do not want to do that, you do not do business in that country.
Wether this is an American company in France, A Belgian company in Spain or a Russian one in the USofA.
I am sure that I will be fined selling alcohol to people under the age of 21 in the USofA, no matter what my opinion is of that law, or the fact that the country of my headoffice allows this. I am sure both Heineken and InBev would agree.
Because the General Public License (GPL) is not universally interpreted the same way by everyone, we can't give anyone a legal opinion about how our language relates to the GPL or other OSS licenses,
So basicaly what they are saying is the same as you: IANAL
In Belgium on the 30th of December there was a 'heavy download day' to get attention to the fact that 10GB/12GB per month is not realy serious anymore.
A few thousand people started to download heavily that day. They downloaded way more then just the average with some 8GB per person for that day. The providers did not even see a blimp on their usage.
The ONLY reason they do it is so that they can charge extra, without the need to invest, Just like they charge some 30 to 60 EUR for fixied IP's for broadband and cable. No investment, big return.
As there is a duopoly, there is no serious competition in pricing.
The bandtwith is available to give everybody unlimited access. It is just so much nices to sqeeze the last penny from the customers, blame piracy for it and at the same time advertise how you can see movies and listen to music you download from the Intertubes.
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Be shure ti not buy any products that have anything to do with WB. So nothing with Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, anything from Hamma-Barnera or Tom&Jerry.
Obviously do not use any of their afiliated cinema's and do not watch any of the DC comics related things on tv.
The website is talking about some 6600 feature films, 48000 television titles and 14000 animated titles.
And I am not even talking about Time Warner. And the other larger companies are just as bad.
In all honesty, it is either un-possible or you can not live a life as you do it now. So better give up entertainment all together. Just go to the local pub where some local band is playing. Leave the moment they stop and the recorded music is back on.
The problem is, is that we are not their only consumers. Kellogs and MacDonals are also and they buy their crap to 'give' it to us as pictures on a box, so we buy more of their crap.
All nice, but can you imagine what it would do for sports? This would be the ultimate doping.
That was not by design. That was because he could not control those markets. There should be no anti-virus market. Extra hardware is something he likes to sell himself. Games as well.
So what market has he build?
No. He raised the price of software. The software he is selling has mot become cheaper. The price has become higher.
Where all software indeed became cheaper, Windows is becoming more expensive. The fact that all software becomes cheaper is market driven. More computers, menas more people you can sell to, means lower prices.
That has nothing to do with Microsoft.
An interesting article about the PS pricing strategy
It is from 1999, but still acurate.
Indeed MS is not the vilain people try to portray it. It is much worse. From the first letter he send to talk about piracy to whatever the company he is doing now, he is trying to drown, not embrace, whatever anybody else is making.
They can still sell the designs. Just like anybody else.
The moment you sell your boat, your kids won't be able to sell that same boat anymore.
What you can do is sign some printouts and they can sell those papers, compared to other people who can not sell the same design with your signature on it.
What you can give your children is both the infrastructure and knowledge to sell your designs.
Copyright shoulde be about protecting the maker of whatever is copyrighted. your kids are not the makers. Copyright is not about providing endless money for you and whomever comes after you.
The moment you write something, you become the copyright holder.
In Belgium and many other places the ISPs *ARE* the telco's.
The reason is simple. On Usenet people somewhat could ignore those who did not follow the rules. Often the people with knowledge were also the people who liked the netiquette.
In a company you seldom can ignore people and very often you can not even correct them. Try explaining a CEO that he is doing something wrong. Try ignoring him. Try to put presure on him.
That together with software that completely ignores how things are done by default and you have the mess we are in now.
Then there is the legal department who want to add a 47 line message about the email that is completely st00pid. 'IF the email is not for you' Well, it ended up in my mailbox, so that means that it was inteded for me.
If you are thinking that your company might get sued and drag you along by something you send by email, you probably are guilty anyway.
Widows is a generic term. Shell is a generic term. Word is a genric word.
First and formost, be aware that the information in the contant can be taken out. Even just reading it or re-typing it is possible. Some people might even memorize parts of what is in the documents.
Next perhaps you want to be sure that the papers come from the people that they say it comes from. For that you can use gpg. Either by signing or by encrypting it.
I am not sure if there is a method that has embedded gpg in the document. That could potentialy be a good idea as it is then verifiable IF the signature is in there. No signature, no valid file.
I am sure it is possible to build something that would make this possible. Again understand that this does NOT protect the data in there. It just verifies that the content is unchanged.
Look also at how many people will be using such a system, because the more people, the easier it will for somebody to look at something that is not intended for them. Managers gove logins and passwords to their secretaries and so on.
Now if you make a document type with empedded gpg, you could install software on client machines that will do part of the autentication based on e.g. their IP adress.
You could even have a kind of code-machine that banks use.
The question is if it is worth it. I doubt that it is.
http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/
Great. Thanks. Better then the CTRL-W which I was already using, but sometimes a person just wants to use the mouse and nothing else but the mouse.
In Firefox I use the middle-click as my other hand is, uh, otherwise occupied.
I would love to have the tabs starting at the right side, because now when closing the last few, you need to follow the tabs, whereas otherwise the red X will be in the same place all the time
Well, I do NOT like it. Unfortunatly teh comapny where I work has decided to go with another company that were able to write an intranet web apllication that only works in 6. It does not work in 7 and it does not work in Firefox.
Then an other company only works with the latetst Firefox.
Yes, I know they are idiots. I would love to ditch IE6 for Firefox alltogether, yet that is not an option for everybody.
Logging in takes about 15 minutes with several different systems having the need to be launched. Also we have a policy that ready for work is when your PC is up and running and ready for work.
That means those 15 minutes are my personal time. So no way I am going to do the startup then.
I am sure that if they were paying the 15 minutes for each and everybody, they will be looking for solutions extremely fast. And hybernate does not work. Neither does the screensaver that could already turn off the monitor.
something like this?
Windows, Shell and there will be many others with common words. Walkman however is not.
and what cities are they talking about?
I tried looking for those cities, but found nothing.
If you want to do business in a country, you follow the laws by that country. How hard is that to understand?
If you do not want to do that, you do not do business in that country.
Wether this is an American company in France, A Belgian company in Spain or a Russian one in the USofA.
I am sure that I will be fined selling alcohol to people under the age of 21 in the USofA, no matter what my opinion is of that law, or the fact that the country of my headoffice allows this. I am sure both Heineken and InBev would agree.
So basicaly what they are saying is the same as you: IANAL
Are you Miss Teen South Carolina's brother?
Is this what they use for dark fiber to run the Intertubes over?
150GB a month? In belgium you get 10 or 12GB, depending on wether you are ADSL or Cable. :-/
In Belgium on the 30th of December there was a 'heavy download day' to get attention to the fact that 10GB/12GB per month is not realy serious anymore.
A few thousand people started to download heavily that day. They downloaded way more then just the average with some 8GB per person for that day. The providers did not even see a blimp on their usage.
The ONLY reason they do it is so that they can charge extra, without the need to invest, Just like they charge some 30 to 60 EUR for fixied IP's for broadband and cable. No investment, big return.
As there is a duopoly, there is no serious competition in pricing.
The bandtwith is available to give everybody unlimited access. It is just so much nices to sqeeze the last penny from the customers, blame piracy for it and at the same time advertise how you can see movies and listen to music you download from the Intertubes.