How come nobody has yet thought to take the "copy-protected CDs boycott" approach to all of this? It shouldn't be hard - let your friends, neighbors, employers, and coworkers know that their software vendors don't WANT them to be in control of the computer THEY worked so hard to "purchase," so they're trying a friendly little extortion tactic with their hardware vendors to implement potentially user-hostile technology. Let them know that they CAN and SHOULD return merchandise that doesn't function to expectations for a full and immediate refund. Have them call it a "fundamental defect" or something along those lines. I don't know about you, but "give us our master keys or we bankrupt your distributors" sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
1. Star in classic, overly-campy sci-fi series.
2. Host over-hyped drama-rescue series.
3. Perform insult to music for a badly floundering dot-com.
4. Profit!
Well, it is known that Saddam did in fact, have radio antennas in Iraq, and I believe that there are still some there now.
Yeah, but didn't he ship those to the Middle East after the first Gulf War?
..."vibration sensor" just SOUNDS dirty. Then again, this isn't anything a little chlorine gas couldn't handle... oh, right, preserve the paintings. Damn.
1) That proper HTML can make or break your posts, and
2) You can't teach an overly-assertive and monopolistic monolithic multinational conglomerate new tricks. No matter how hard you try, they just make the DOJ roll over and take their Milkbone for "making an honest effort to cooperate with them."
That I should be a good little Windroid and, in an outstanding double negative, go out and denounce the product approved by my primary OS's detractors?
"Noting the prevalent use of pen and paper by audience members, Ballmer wondered aloud why the content of his speech was not being captured and translated automatically, while also being synchronized with real-time video and a copy of his Microsoft PowerPoint presentation."
I see Steve has finally discovered Speakable Items.
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I wonder what happens when you try to microwave it?
How come nobody has yet thought to take the "copy-protected CDs boycott" approach to all of this? It shouldn't be hard - let your friends, neighbors, employers, and coworkers know that their software vendors don't WANT them to be in control of the computer THEY worked so hard to "purchase," so they're trying a friendly little extortion tactic with their hardware vendors to implement potentially user-hostile technology. Let them know that they CAN and SHOULD return merchandise that doesn't function to expectations for a full and immediate refund. Have them call it a "fundamental defect" or something along those lines. I don't know about you, but "give us our master keys or we bankrupt your distributors" sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
1. Star in classic, overly-campy sci-fi series. 2. Host over-hyped drama-rescue series. 3. Perform insult to music for a badly floundering dot-com. 4. Profit!
Well, it is known that Saddam did in fact, have radio antennas in Iraq, and I believe that there are still some there now. Yeah, but didn't he ship those to the Middle East after the first Gulf War?
..."vibration sensor" just SOUNDS dirty. Then again, this isn't anything a little chlorine gas couldn't handle... oh, right, preserve the paintings. Damn.
...that Legolas was the first sign that ELFs were hazardous to our health. Anything that pale CAN'T be healthy.
1) That proper HTML can make or break your posts, and
2) You can't teach an overly-assertive and monopolistic monolithic multinational conglomerate new tricks. No matter how hard you try, they just make the DOJ roll over and take their Milkbone for "making an honest effort to cooperate with them."
That I should be a good little Windroid and, in an outstanding double negative, go out and denounce the product approved by my primary OS's detractors?
I also see that I lack proper tagging up there. :embarrassed:
"Noting the prevalent use of pen and paper by audience members, Ballmer wondered aloud why the content of his speech was not being captured and translated automatically, while also being synchronized with real-time video and a copy of his Microsoft PowerPoint presentation." I see Steve has finally discovered Speakable Items.