Wasn't this also the original plot for "Red Dwarf" - the BBC SciFi sitcom. Dave Lister a 3rd class technician on a Mining Corporation spacecraft gets put into suspended animation as a punishment for smuggling a cat aboard the spaceship. Something goes wrong on the ship and he isn't re-animated (the crew disappears). He wakes up 3 million years later and discovers he left 2 pence (or some equally trivial amount) in a bank account and from the interest accrued is now the richest man in the universe.
How does it make you feel, that because of the flaws in your OS, honest, hardworking individuals with legitimate businesses are now (through DDoS attacks) becoming the innocent victims of organized crime. Will you and your entire management team resign if the same mistakes are repeated in Vista?
I fundamentally agree. Deliberately using your paying customers as your unpaid copy editors is an appallingly lazy and disappointing admission to hear anyone make. I've thought about subscribing recently, but certainly won't ever consider it now.
Thompson has a track record of writing articles that are either ill-informed or technically incorrect and then defending himself with the lame excuse that his is an 'opinion piece'. I can never understand why Slashdot (or the BBC for that matter) give him the space he clearly doesn't deserve. He tries to present himself as something of a guru, but probably couldn't get a job as a junior IT helpdesk worker (apologies to all the highly competent helpdesk guys out there).
He's the poster-boy for the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". If you look at his resume it's clear that he tried to make it as a techie, but didn't have what it takes, and so became a "commentator". It's funny - there used to be a feedback section on his BBC column, but it mysteriously disappeared a few months ago, shortly after he posted some badly researched drivel about problems copying his archived email from Windows to OS X and got shot down in flames by almost everyone who responded.
So, they don't want their OS running on other platforms, but they don't mind if Windows runs on their hardware.
Apple don't want to become Microsoft. They want to become Dell. They can shift a significant number of hardware units to people who previously wouldn't have considered a Macintosh, but now it can also boot Windows might buy one because it means as well as playing with OS X, they still have the comfort zone of retaining Windows.
Actually in reality it's usually the total opposite. The EU has massive food surplus problems caused by over-farming. So in essence the majority of farmers who benefit from CAP are actually paid NOT to produce anything at all. They get a subsidy for every field in which they DON'T grow crops. France gets most of the money, thanks to the billions contributed to the EU by the British taxpayer.
No need to remove them from office. That would give them a platform to raise hell. Better just to follow the normal Blair government course of action and ignore them.
Judge Penfield Jackson's finding of fact declared Microsoft a monopoly. The issue is settled. Done. Finished.
Actually, I believe you'll find he did no such thing. If you read Penfield Jackson's Conclusions of Law and Final Order in its entirity, he declares Microsoft to possess "Monopoly Power", but at no point does he actually define Microsoft to be a monopoly. He's very careful about that. It's a subtle point but an important one. He defines Monopoly Power in terms of previous case-law as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."
The only point at which he describes Microsoft as a monopoly is when he is outlining the claims of the Plantiffs, who themselves portray Microsoft as a monopoly (but then it's in their own interest to do so).
If I was the CEO of Western Digital or Seagate I'd be having seriously sleepness nights about the future of my business. Those guys need to pump their R&D money into solid state storage research pretty bloody quickly before Flash memory does to them what WYSIWYG Word Processors did to Tip-Ex (aka correction fluid).
Bah... I dream of FoxPro. I used to work for a fairly large record label which still uses Clipper running on a Honeywell Bull XPS 1000 (Bull OS) for the main product calalogue.
So some guy makes a purely speculative guess about what might (or might not) happen in the next year, and then goes on to explain that a keylogger actually logs keystrokes.
And this is all it takes these days to get a front page mention on Slashdot.
My point was that he and his cronies are responsible for the all pervasive attitude that America should own the world and everything in it. I can't help feeling that the current political climate in the US has a lot to do with the reluctance to share responsibility with the international community.
Sure, you could argue that people have little incentive to tag on Amazon, but then you could make the same argument for writing reviews, rating a product, or making recommendation lists - yet thousands of people do it every day. One of the great things about the 'net is that it is one of the few remaining places in life that you occasionally witness a little altruism.
I recently discovered that if you play any two songs by Dido simulateneously, you will find that they are in fact all practically identical. Of course, you don't actually have to play them at the same time to notice this.
In Japan, it's getting hard to find a phone without an mp3 player these days. And on a recent trip back to the UK, it appeared that they weren't short of music phones there either. Is America lagging so far behind the curve that the ROKR is the only choice?
Except it's not a PS3. It's was a vain attempt by Sony to extend the life of the PS2 by combining it with a sub-standard DVR. In the last quarter I think they've sold about 20.
There's plenty in Japan, but who wants to pay $800 (80,000 yen) for one -which is what they were retailing for in Bic Camera when I bought a Gameboy Micro a couple of days ago.
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So you won't 'share' your name then?
Wasn't this also the original plot for "Red Dwarf" - the BBC SciFi sitcom. Dave Lister a 3rd class technician on a Mining Corporation spacecraft gets put into suspended animation as a punishment for smuggling a cat aboard the spaceship. Something goes wrong on the ship and he isn't re-animated (the crew disappears). He wakes up 3 million years later and discovers he left 2 pence (or some equally trivial amount) in a bank account and from the interest accrued is now the richest man in the universe.
Where the hell are all the good assassins when you need one...
The end of BT? Errr... who owns the majority of the cables Tesco is using. (hint. take the letters T and B and rearrange them)
How does it make you feel, that because of the flaws in your OS, honest, hardworking individuals with legitimate businesses are now (through DDoS attacks) becoming the innocent victims of organized crime. Will you and your entire management team resign if the same mistakes are repeated in Vista?
I fundamentally agree. Deliberately using your paying customers as your unpaid copy editors is an appallingly lazy and disappointing admission to hear anyone make. I've thought about subscribing recently, but certainly won't ever consider it now.
That's a real shame. You made an excellent point and then completely undermined it by not following your own advice.
Spot on. I think a more accurate statement would be, "I write for a non-tech audience because I can convince them that I know something about I.T."
Thompson has a track record of writing articles that are either ill-informed or technically incorrect and then defending himself with the lame excuse that his is an 'opinion piece'. I can never understand why Slashdot (or the BBC for that matter) give him the space he clearly doesn't deserve. He tries to present himself as something of a guru, but probably couldn't get a job as a junior IT helpdesk worker (apologies to all the highly competent helpdesk guys out there).
He's the poster-boy for the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". If you look at his resume it's clear that he tried to make it as a techie, but didn't have what it takes, and so became a "commentator". It's funny - there used to be a feedback section on his BBC column, but it mysteriously disappeared a few months ago, shortly after he posted some badly researched drivel about problems copying his archived email from Windows to OS X and got shot down in flames by almost everyone who responded.
So, they don't want their OS running on other platforms, but they don't mind if Windows runs on their hardware. Apple don't want to become Microsoft. They want to become Dell. They can shift a significant number of hardware units to people who previously wouldn't have considered a Macintosh, but now it can also boot Windows might buy one because it means as well as playing with OS X, they still have the comfort zone of retaining Windows.
Actually in reality it's usually the total opposite. The EU has massive food surplus problems caused by over-farming. So in essence the majority of farmers who benefit from CAP are actually paid NOT to produce anything at all. They get a subsidy for every field in which they DON'T grow crops. France gets most of the money, thanks to the billions contributed to the EU by the British taxpayer.
No need to remove them from office. That would give them a platform to raise hell. Better just to follow the normal Blair government course of action and ignore them.
Actually, I believe you'll find he did no such thing. If you read Penfield Jackson's Conclusions of Law and Final Order in its entirity, he declares Microsoft to possess "Monopoly Power", but at no point does he actually define Microsoft to be a monopoly. He's very careful about that. It's a subtle point but an important one. He defines Monopoly Power in terms of previous case-law as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."
The only point at which he describes Microsoft as a monopoly is when he is outlining the claims of the Plantiffs, who themselves portray Microsoft as a monopoly (but then it's in their own interest to do so).
If I was the CEO of Western Digital or Seagate I'd be having seriously sleepness nights about the future of my business. Those guys need to pump their R&D money into solid state storage research pretty bloody quickly before Flash memory does to them what WYSIWYG Word Processors did to Tip-Ex (aka correction fluid).
Don't forget, Berners-Lee merely invented the Web. Gore created the whole goddamn internet.
Wow... October 27th must have been a slack day for news....
Bah... I dream of FoxPro. I used to work for a fairly large record label which still uses Clipper running on a Honeywell Bull XPS 1000 (Bull OS) for the main product calalogue.
And this is all it takes these days to get a front page mention on Slashdot.
My point was that he and his cronies are responsible for the all pervasive attitude that America should own the world and everything in it. I can't help feeling that the current political climate in the US has a lot to do with the reluctance to share responsibility with the international community.
Of course... We totally understand... because we all know that the Internet is much safer in the hands of the Bush Administration.
Sure, you could argue that people have little incentive to tag on Amazon, but then you could make the same argument for writing reviews, rating a product, or making recommendation lists - yet thousands of people do it every day. One of the great things about the 'net is that it is one of the few remaining places in life that you occasionally witness a little altruism.
I recently discovered that if you play any two songs by Dido simulateneously, you will find that they are in fact all practically identical. Of course, you don't actually have to play them at the same time to notice this.
In Japan, it's getting hard to find a phone without an mp3 player these days. And on a recent trip back to the UK, it appeared that they weren't short of music phones there either. Is America lagging so far behind the curve that the ROKR is the only choice?
Except it's not a PS3. It's was a vain attempt by Sony to extend the life of the PS2 by combining it with a sub-standard DVR. In the last quarter I think they've sold about 20.
There's plenty in Japan, but who wants to pay $800 (80,000 yen) for one -which is what they were retailing for in Bic Camera when I bought a Gameboy Micro a couple of days ago.