A boycott sounds silly to me. It is the responsibility of a corporation to abide by the courts in its jurisdiction. I wouldn't want a corporation to ignore court orders concerning employee treatment, or environmental concerns. Calling for a boycott is indirectly disrespect for Law.
Doesn't that sort of imply that there is a universal set of ethics that everyone agrees on? It's true that you can't get everyone to join a boycott, but the idea is that enough % of people are disgusted enough by company x's ethics that they boycott it, forcing company x to rethink their position, or do without those people (and the more people that are disgusted, the most necessary it becomes to rethink your position).
That's the idea of a free market, it's not "most people don't like x so we'll ban x and they must change their ways". It's "most people don't like x so x will have to make due with a niche market or change their ways". And it's a sliding scale, not black & white. If everyone blindly accepted any ethics as long as the courts approved them, wouldn't every company do the bare minimum? Now what do you think of a company that does the bare minimum? Apple put on 37 pieces of flair today. (etc, etc).
Imagine if Powerpoint, Excel, Visio, etc were included in Microsoft Word. You couldn't get Word separately. And try to imagine that the documenting part of MS Word was a glitchy mess (it's a real stretch I know). Finally, imagine someone complained about this on/. (another big stretch) and then someone replied "you're a bone head, if you want just documentation software without the extra features, you should use notepad".
Care to expand on it's features? Yeah, it's got the scheduling and it's handy to be able to share a schedule around, but that doesn't strike me as especially powerful, or hard to program even. Everything else doesn't seem necessary to most people. But admittedly I only use it for e-mail and schedules, perhaps you can enlighten me on what else I should use Outlook for?
It's a matter of spite. If someone is trying to bury information that should be public, webmasters will want to make sure it's the most well-known piece of information on the internet, mainly to show what you get for trying to hide it. I rather like the effect myself.
IMO this is exactly the kind of case where vicarious liability makes sense. Usually I see it as unfair to the employer but in this case it just feels to me like the way the business processes were designed was what caused the problem. That's really only a gut feeling (probably because it's MS...)
I know, weird for a/.er to have a gut feeling against MS.
It's the process. Waving goodbye = not patentable. Waving goodbye at a computer to turn it off = likely patentable (sadly). Punching Apple execs in the face one by one = not patentable, but fun to do. IANAL, so I'm not sure about the last one.
Gahhhh, apologies for the redundancy. Mods, if you have the insane urge to mod my comment up, I suggest the equivalent post below instead, since they posted way before me.
I don't have an iPod, but don't iPods have you scroll using a circular motion? Mouse wheels are sorta circular too, albeit you don't use a circular motion.
Anyway, be sure to patent that circular scroll bar. May be stupid and inconvenient but it would look mighty nice.
I think it's true that Crusader is a cooler title, but why wouldn't he just resign with honour from the corrupt Florida Bar to save face? Come to think of it, he probably will do that, about 5 seconds before the judge claims their verdict.
Judge: "Due to the fact that your batshit crazy, this court has no choice but to..."
Jack: "Your dis-honour [that's a JT joke if I ever heard one], I would like to announce my honourable resignation from your corrupt organization!
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If Microsoft made the patent, I'd actually be happier, because then it would be illegal for Google to put this annoying shit on Youtube ;)
This is correct.
"As made famous by" = cover
"By" = original
But last in the game of life.
That's the idea of a free market, it's not "most people don't like x so we'll ban x and they must change their ways". It's "most people don't like x so x will have to make due with a niche market or change their ways". And it's a sliding scale, not black & white. If everyone blindly accepted any ethics as long as the courts approved them, wouldn't every company do the bare minimum? Now what do you think of a company that does the bare minimum? Apple put on 37 pieces of flair today. (etc, etc).
Code can also be a personal and unique creation. For that matter, drawings can be just as dry as dry code.[/trollfood]
Not a single obvious spelling mistake.
Imagine if Powerpoint, Excel, Visio, etc were included in Microsoft Word. You couldn't get Word separately. And try to imagine that the documenting part of MS Word was a glitchy mess (it's a real stretch I know). Finally, imagine someone complained about this on /. (another big stretch) and then someone replied "you're a bone head, if you want just documentation software without the extra features, you should use notepad".
*twilight zone music*
It's not... very good.
Care to expand on it's features? Yeah, it's got the scheduling and it's handy to be able to share a schedule around, but that doesn't strike me as especially powerful, or hard to program even. Everything else doesn't seem necessary to most people. But admittedly I only use it for e-mail and schedules, perhaps you can enlighten me on what else I should use Outlook for?
I hate how they totally changed the interface from Microsoft Mindwipe 2003.
It's a matter of spite. If someone is trying to bury information that should be public, webmasters will want to make sure it's the most well-known piece of information on the internet, mainly to show what you get for trying to hide it. I rather like the effect myself.
IMO this is exactly the kind of case where vicarious liability makes sense. Usually I see it as unfair to the employer but in this case it just feels to me like the way the business processes were designed was what caused the problem. That's really only a gut feeling (probably because it's MS...)
/.er to have a gut feeling against MS.
I know, weird for a
Kit Kat bars don't break as often as a 360.
"I mean, I know it's just joke after joke, but I like that. At least it doesn't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages, you know?"
--Trucker, Cartoon Wars Part II
I'll move out of my parent's basement when I can, but your other order is unconsionable and I won't stand by it.
Couple that with the Department of Defense and you have enough 1984 to go around.
It's the process. Waving goodbye = not patentable. Waving goodbye at a computer to turn it off = likely patentable (sadly). Punching Apple execs in the face one by one = not patentable, but fun to do. IANAL, so I'm not sure about the last one.
Gahhhh, apologies for the redundancy. Mods, if you have the insane urge to mod my comment up, I suggest the equivalent post below instead, since they posted way before me.
I don't have an iPod, but don't iPods have you scroll using a circular motion? Mouse wheels are sorta circular too, albeit you don't use a circular motion.
Anyway, be sure to patent that circular scroll bar. May be stupid and inconvenient but it would look mighty nice.
They should give some of the extra money to the fellows running the current patent system as a way of saying "thanks (and never change)"
That is, if they don't already.
Or it was all part of a master plan to give this account extra karma!
j\k
Yeah don't worry, everyone hates spelling Nazis. I think they're even one tier below the common troll.
[trollfood]And you have to spend time in order to get it. Not free.[/trollfood]
I think it's true that Crusader is a cooler title, but why wouldn't he just resign with honour from the corrupt Florida Bar to save face? Come to think of it, he probably will do that, about 5 seconds before the judge claims their verdict.
Judge: "Due to the fact that your batshit crazy, this court has no choice but to..."
Jack: "Your dis-honour [that's a JT joke if I ever heard one], I would like to announce my honourable resignation from your corrupt organization!