Isn't the initial settlement they ask for something around the amount a lawyer will cost you anyway? I suppose it's planned so people calculate their chances and costs in court, vs just a settlement, and go for the settlement.
What is the correlation between a particular OS and the porn viewing habits of its Linux, Apple or Unix users.
Windows XP - underage porn, 200lb breasts, been drinkin motorcycle ladies
Linux - erotic sexual fantaxy stories with multiple participants and unknown outcomes
MacOS - regular, healthy porn can sometimes stimulate sex in marriage
iphone OS - no time for porn - just sex, sex, and more sex. no marriages. yet. no flashing.
SunOS - Advanced age porn
FreeBSD - lights out, can't see porn, scan logs, see porn of other users, send report to management
There are few Linux distros that preinstall many games, or many of the simple apps people like, I don't quite get it.
Re:Useless, but still copyright protected.
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Windows 95 Turns 15
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OK, just whining for whining's sake, wasting everyone's time. But it did have win32, which could become a free API, if software copyright were limited to 10 years. People could hack 10-year-old software freely, and make it useful again, rather than let it go to waste. XP would become free next year.
Funny how so many people say competition is great, then turn around and start promoting the strategy of eliminating the competition, supporting whoever is "winning", etc.
Read somewhere hemp is actually a pretty strong fiber for making cloth, so for a convertible or something it could actually be pretty useful, jokes and advertising gimmicks aside...
I believe that is the new name for the profession that I saw the other day in a jobs-and-careers magazine. Basically lots of companies are hiring people to "manage" what people say about them online. If that doesn't involve any funny business, I want a citizenship and passport from Disneyland, where we live.
It doesn't, but this is slashdot where agendas are more important than unbiased news.
Agenda meaning an opinion.
Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell
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Windows 95 Turns 15
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· Score: 1
OS/2 didn't get "very few users". It was a very mainstream operating system at its peak.
Indeed I remember seeing many job ads for OS2 programmers, and many corporations having adopted it. Small businesses and home users however mostly used the cheaper clones and dos/windows.
Eliminating privacy for everyone but the elite and riches is akin going back to slavery
I believe that is exactly where we are heading. We are let to believe we have privacy and don't complain, but there is a ton of data on everyone for sale. Privacy is becoming more complex and needs hiring specialists, and breaking privacy just means hiring specialists. In practice, privacy for the rich and powerful.
I clearly remember looking at it and knowing full well it was false, but that I could tell that it was attracting me to pick up the box and want it. I remember feeling tricked, and wondering what the actual game would be.
Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell
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Windows 95 Turns 15
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· Score: 1
Hmm yes. Drivers and software compatibility. Easy of installation. Those are a killer. Around that time a friend of mine had an Atari computer, and constantly complained of no software. Although the Amiga died anyway, even though it ran PC and Mac software. Well I think it was hard to get those running.
We've all been subjected to so much false promises it's now part of culture. People expect, demand, massive promises, don't buy the product if it's not flaunted as an outright miracle, and don't complain when it ultimately doesn't fulfill expectations. It's established business practice, called marketing and advertising, and those who master it are rewarded with lots of money and prestige. Enforcing an actual, 100% fulfilled, do-as-you-say in the marketing business would mean practically a revolution. No more smiling hotties in car ads on empty roads, show traffic, stress, and endless expenses with insurance, parking. Lots of accident statistics, pollution. Just imagine the ads for junk food. Cavities, no nutritious properties, vastly overpriced and unhealthy salt-and-fat-and sugar based, fattening and artery-busting food. It implies deep changes in advertising profits, marketing, production, communication companies, culture.
If HTML standards had been tougher and we'd been more demanding of them being followed, we wouldn't have such a salad of websites. Flash and Java and similar plugins come to mind. If there had been no standards, we would have thrown out thousands of perfectly-good sites and computers in a mad, constant upgrade race since 1990, and end up with no accumulated work around common technologies, such as HTML and XML. We need more accepted standards.
Getting all their apps rewritten by hand, to run on low-memory, low-power devices. Getting all their distribution and supply controlled by keys. Don't make money on the app store, just keep it as the portal everyone must access, let developers and customers get totally addicted to it, and just keep it controlled, with good quality, PR, prices, statistics, tracking, everything under control. Institute many penalties and disadvantages for breaking the walled garden. Fixes piracy, security, badware apps, hacker apps, poor-quality-ware, lots of problems. Further integrates computer and cellphone. Control the supply of software and hardware for music, apps, movies, cellphones, computers. The only part I don't care for is the total-one-corporation-control who I trust just as any corporation, to make money above all and comply with government demands and pressures. Too bad such integration and cooperation is so hard to get, by nature, for uber-rebellious open source hackers. We could build great things. To me, the discussion should center around standards, which after implemented generally everyone accepts, and how to encourage and integrate the activity of everyone, developers, users more, something like these apps-store, music-store, movie-store, forums, etc.
Let's not be naive, dirty business is mainstream, even if not widely practiced. There are already mass-tracking systems. Of various levels of legality and accessibility, depending on how much law, power, money, access, or friends you have. License plate tracking, credit cards, bank records, cookies, building passes, cameras, on and on. Extra easy to tell where everyone is going or not going combining a few of these. Governments and corporations don`t break the law, they outsource. Somebody gathers lots of stuff and sells it, there is demand and profit, and it just takes place, like it not, legal or not. Just open the phone book and start shopping for detectives or security, say what you want, full confidentiality, pay up, and you're done. It's up to us, the public, to realize and deal with the society we are building. Perhaps another look is needed at why crime dropped so much in the early 90's, to see how much of it was due to the wide availabilty of data on everyone.
That's kind of like encryption or using a disguise however. if you use it and nobody else does, and it is detected, you are on the radar *because* you are detected as beating the system.
Gray, black, official secret and multiple legal data markets are inevitably growing. Like drugs, the law can't eliminate the demand for these things. The biggest problem is privacy rights also getting abused as secrecy. We can download mp3's in privacy/secrecy and private entities can track us in privacy/secrecy. Additionally, there are many positive uses for data sharing which are not possible because of privacy questions. Government and corporate transparency. Universal medical records. Locating lost or kidnapped children. As usual, the problem is ill-intentioned minds, and their uses of the laws and technology meant for other purposes. But with all these possibilities to gather data, drug smuggling may soon take a back seat to data smuggling, as it becomes easier and easier, more demanded, and remains completely illegal. We need to start thinking of the equivalent of legalizing drugs, something like data-transparency laws, not only the data-privacy laws.
Useless, but still copyright protected.
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Windows 95 Turns 15
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· Score: 3, Funny
I guess Microsoft didn't make enough money from it yet, because it will still have copyright protection for some 60 years.
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Isn't the initial settlement they ask for something around the amount a lawyer will cost you anyway? I suppose it's planned so people calculate their chances and costs in court, vs just a settlement, and go for the settlement.
Did they get good grades? If so, did they write a how-to?
It's a Linux system presented in all stores across the planet, on prime shelf space.
What is the correlation between a particular OS and the porn viewing habits of its Linux, Apple or Unix users.
Windows XP - underage porn, 200lb breasts, been drinkin motorcycle ladies
Linux - erotic sexual fantaxy stories with multiple participants and unknown outcomes
MacOS - regular, healthy porn can sometimes stimulate sex in marriage
iphone OS - no time for porn - just sex, sex, and more sex. no marriages. yet. no flashing.
SunOS - Advanced age porn
FreeBSD - lights out, can't see porn, scan logs, see porn of other users, send report to management
Win95 was 32-bit "OS" bolted on DOS. OS/2 was 32-bit from the ground up.
Argh, not this again.
I guess death is to make sure history moves forward, otherwise society would keep repeating the same thing for eternity.
True...but did OS/2 have Hover?
There are few Linux distros that preinstall many games, or many of the simple apps people like, I don't quite get it.
OK, just whining for whining's sake, wasting everyone's time. But it did have win32, which could become a free API, if software copyright were limited to 10 years. People could hack 10-year-old software freely, and make it useful again, rather than let it go to waste. XP would become free next year.
I have a feeling that GPS and software integration to create auto-3d model photos are going more important than the resolution.
Funny how so many people say competition is great, then turn around and start promoting the strategy of eliminating the competition, supporting whoever is "winning", etc.
Smokin'!!
Read somewhere hemp is actually a pretty strong fiber for making cloth, so for a convertible or something it could actually be pretty useful, jokes and advertising gimmicks aside...
I believe that is the new name for the profession that I saw the other day in a jobs-and-careers magazine. Basically lots of companies are hiring people to "manage" what people say about them online. If that doesn't involve any funny business, I want a citizenship and passport from Disneyland, where we live.
It doesn't, but this is slashdot where agendas are more important than unbiased news.
Agenda meaning an opinion.
OS/2 didn't get "very few users". It was a very mainstream operating system at its peak.
Indeed I remember seeing many job ads for OS2 programmers, and many corporations having adopted it. Small businesses and home users however mostly used the cheaper clones and dos/windows.
Isn't cellphone tracking already capable of doing much of this?
Eliminating privacy for everyone but the elite and riches is akin going back to slavery
I believe that is exactly where we are heading. We are let to believe we have privacy and don't complain, but there is a ton of data on everyone for sale. Privacy is becoming more complex and needs hiring specialists, and breaking privacy just means hiring specialists. In practice, privacy for the rich and powerful.
I clearly remember looking at it and knowing full well it was false, but that I could tell that it was attracting me to pick up the box and want it. I remember feeling tricked, and wondering what the actual game would be.
Hmm yes. Drivers and software compatibility. Easy of installation. Those are a killer. Around that time a friend of mine had an Atari computer, and constantly complained of no software. Although the Amiga died anyway, even though it ran PC and Mac software. Well I think it was hard to get those running.
There is nothing else in the stores or on TV
We've all been subjected to so much false promises it's now part of culture. People expect, demand, massive promises, don't buy the product if it's not flaunted as an outright miracle, and don't complain when it ultimately doesn't fulfill expectations. It's established business practice, called marketing and advertising, and those who master it are rewarded with lots of money and prestige. Enforcing an actual, 100% fulfilled, do-as-you-say in the marketing business would mean practically a revolution. No more smiling hotties in car ads on empty roads, show traffic, stress, and endless expenses with insurance, parking. Lots of accident statistics, pollution. Just imagine the ads for junk food. Cavities, no nutritious properties, vastly overpriced and unhealthy salt-and-fat-and sugar based, fattening and artery-busting food. It implies deep changes in advertising profits, marketing, production, communication companies, culture.
If HTML standards had been tougher and we'd been more demanding of them being followed, we wouldn't have such a salad of websites. Flash and Java and similar plugins come to mind. If there had been no standards, we would have thrown out thousands of perfectly-good sites and computers in a mad, constant upgrade race since 1990, and end up with no accumulated work around common technologies, such as HTML and XML. We need more accepted standards.
Getting all their apps rewritten by hand, to run on low-memory, low-power devices. Getting all their distribution and supply controlled by keys. Don't make money on the app store, just keep it as the portal everyone must access, let developers and customers get totally addicted to it, and just keep it controlled, with good quality, PR, prices, statistics, tracking, everything under control. Institute many penalties and disadvantages for breaking the walled garden. Fixes piracy, security, badware apps, hacker apps, poor-quality-ware, lots of problems. Further integrates computer and cellphone. Control the supply of software and hardware for music, apps, movies, cellphones, computers. The only part I don't care for is the total-one-corporation-control who I trust just as any corporation, to make money above all and comply with government demands and pressures. Too bad such integration and cooperation is so hard to get, by nature, for uber-rebellious open source hackers. We could build great things. To me, the discussion should center around standards, which after implemented generally everyone accepts, and how to encourage and integrate the activity of everyone, developers, users more, something like these apps-store, music-store, movie-store, forums, etc.
Let's not be naive, dirty business is mainstream, even if not widely practiced. There are already mass-tracking systems. Of various levels of legality and accessibility, depending on how much law, power, money, access, or friends you have. License plate tracking, credit cards, bank records, cookies, building passes, cameras, on and on. Extra easy to tell where everyone is going or not going combining a few of these. Governments and corporations don`t break the law, they outsource. Somebody gathers lots of stuff and sells it, there is demand and profit, and it just takes place, like it not, legal or not. Just open the phone book and start shopping for detectives or security, say what you want, full confidentiality, pay up, and you're done. It's up to us, the public, to realize and deal with the society we are building. Perhaps another look is needed at why crime dropped so much in the early 90's, to see how much of it was due to the wide availabilty of data on everyone.
That's kind of like encryption or using a disguise however. if you use it and nobody else does, and it is detected, you are on the radar *because* you are detected as beating the system.
Gray, black, official secret and multiple legal data markets are inevitably growing. Like drugs, the law can't eliminate the demand for these things. The biggest problem is privacy rights also getting abused as secrecy. We can download mp3's in privacy/secrecy and private entities can track us in privacy/secrecy. Additionally, there are many positive uses for data sharing which are not possible because of privacy questions. Government and corporate transparency. Universal medical records. Locating lost or kidnapped children. As usual, the problem is ill-intentioned minds, and their uses of the laws and technology meant for other purposes. But with all these possibilities to gather data, drug smuggling may soon take a back seat to data smuggling, as it becomes easier and easier, more demanded, and remains completely illegal. We need to start thinking of the equivalent of legalizing drugs, something like data-transparency laws, not only the data-privacy laws.
I guess Microsoft didn't make enough money from it yet, because it will still have copyright protection for some 60 years.