Why is it when M$ makes a ba-zillion dollars I get an icky feeling in the pit of my stomache, but when Apple has a profit for a quarter I feel happy all day long?
Good thing he didn't put any links to the website in his post...
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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Sorry... the link:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6667257/
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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I couldn't find a fifa article, but here's one saying that China banned Soccor manager 2005 because it "violated Chinese law, the Xinhua news agency reported..." because it "classifies Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet as countries"
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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from TFA: Liu Binjie, deputy director of the administration and director of the state anti-porn office said here Wednesday that the Chinesegovernment in 2005 will focus on combating illegal publications. This especially concerns pirated textbooks, electronic publications and illegal journals that will have negative influence on the youth.
illegal publications as in China does not like them, therefore they are illegal. NOT this is pirated therefore illegal.
The administration has called for relevant departments across the country to clean up the electronic publication and software markets, confiscate any of the 50 games if found and hold the publishers, producers and distributors of these games accountable.
Surely that are not holding the game producers accountable for having their software pirated? Some countries do not have the freedom that we take for granted.
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can't really figure out why they would outlaw FIFA and Sims
I believe I read an article (can't find the link now, sorry) that in fifa, it recognizes Tiwan as a seperare country, which China does not.
I'm not sure that I agree with M$ on this one... (big surprise from a linux user). It's like having a stolen car (or borrowed from a friend) with a dangerous recall notice. The car is unsafe, and should be fixed since it came unsafe from the factory. Windows is insecure, and it came that way from the factory. This will not stop Windows pirating, it will just make the viruses that exploit security holes spread faster from all the un-patched PCs out there.
I'm not sure that a true geek would be a "good" manager. A geek (at least this geek) likes to DO things, tinker, and explore. Managers need to be in meetings (and stay awake, tell people to do things and tinker (the fun part of working with computers), and tell their geek underlings to stop posting on/. all day and get back to work - Yes sir.
Sometimes consumers will stop shopping at (or visiting) business and their affilates because they do not agree with what they are doing, or who they are doing business with. How many people have you heard say they are boycotting WalMart because of what they do. Not shopping somewhere is just as much free speech as telling people you don't like WalMart. If said business is getting angry letters, or emails, or threats from other customers that they will not continue to do business with them if they do not act, they may drop 1 customer to keep many customers happy, it's good business sense. It's not The Planets job to protect the students right of free speech.
I don't have any personal information on my computer. Sure, I have a hardware firewall (hackable) and a password with upper and lower case, numbers, and symbols in it (hackable). No bank account numbers, I never check the box [] remember my password for email, maybe my last name is on there, and I don't use IE. People can't steal what does not exist.
hurricanes have been striking with increasing devastation
Record devistration in terms of $$ amount, but as far as people hurt, that number has gone down. Little to do with weather, more to do with rich people building houses out on the beaches where the huricanes hit land.
There's flooding and landslides.
Again, more to do with people building houses where they shouldn't and cutting down trees that used to hold the soil in place.
The bigged threat to the human race is the human race itself.
If M$ really wanted to end the threat, and I mean end it for mom & dad users, Linux will always be alive for hackers and/. users, then they should lower their prices so rediculously low that people won't think twice about buying it. I'm sure they can chop a $100 without Billy's wallet getting any lighter.
I think there needs to be a balance... I slacked through high school, I was smart enough not to have to study to slide by on a B average, which was fine for me. So I only got 1 math scholarship to go to college - I'm a geek, so no free ride football deal for me. I wasted college time (and money) with parties, started a family, had to drop out to support the family and now have a hard time getting a well paying job. Yes, we need ditch diggers and construction workers, but I'm lazy, I like to use my brain instead of my back.
I think the most important thing (and least taught) young people need to know is how to manage money. Buy now and pay later credit cards can drive one into debt very quickly. I wish I would have learned that lesson sooner.
I think for some tasks, a video teacher (not game) would work better, like learning how to do something. Kids may appear to learn better from video games because it is something they are interested in and pay attention to it. I learn factual-type information on topics I'm interested in from books because I focus on the book. It's all a matter of grabbing kids attention and keeping it, video games are fun, fun gets their attention.
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An african swallow would be much more cost effective.
The R&D department was replaced by 1 guy google'ing companies for M$ to buy.
Why is it when M$ makes a ba-zillion dollars I get an icky feeling in the pit of my stomache, but when Apple has a profit for a quarter I feel happy all day long?
Server Sales 18% up
That's probably the number of NT4 boxes replaced since M$ "discontinued" support on it.
hosting bandwidth is _very_ limited
Good thing he didn't put any links to the website in his post...
Sorry... the link:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6667257/
I couldn't find a fifa article, but here's one saying that China banned Soccor manager 2005 because it "violated Chinese law, the Xinhua news agency reported..." because it "classifies Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet as countries"
from TFA:
Liu Binjie, deputy director of the administration and director of the state anti-porn office said here Wednesday that the Chinesegovernment in 2005 will focus on combating illegal publications. This especially concerns pirated textbooks, electronic publications and illegal journals that will have negative influence on the youth.
illegal publications as in China does not like them, therefore they are illegal. NOT this is pirated therefore illegal.
The administration has called for relevant departments across the country to clean up the electronic publication and software markets, confiscate any of the 50 games if found and hold the publishers, producers and distributors of these games accountable.
Surely that are not holding the game producers accountable for having their software pirated? Some countries do not have the freedom that we take for granted.
can't really figure out why they would outlaw FIFA and Sims
I believe I read an article (can't find the link now, sorry) that in fifa, it recognizes Tiwan as a seperare country, which China does not.
I'm not sure that I agree with M$ on this one... (big surprise from a linux user). It's like having a stolen car (or borrowed from a friend) with a dangerous recall notice. The car is unsafe, and should be fixed since it came unsafe from the factory. Windows is insecure, and it came that way from the factory. This will not stop Windows pirating, it will just make the viruses that exploit security holes spread faster from all the un-patched PCs out there.
The PS3 is rumored to have a very fast processor
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/15
I'm not sure that a true geek would be a "good" manager. A geek (at least this geek) likes to DO things, tinker, and explore. Managers need to be in meetings (and stay awake, tell people to do things and tinker (the fun part of working with computers), and tell their geek underlings to stop posting on /. all day and get back to work - Yes sir.
Sometimes consumers will stop shopping at (or visiting) business and their affilates because they do not agree with what they are doing, or who they are doing business with. How many people have you heard say they are boycotting WalMart because of what they do. Not shopping somewhere is just as much free speech as telling people you don't like WalMart. If said business is getting angry letters, or emails, or threats from other customers that they will not continue to do business with them if they do not act, they may drop 1 customer to keep many customers happy, it's good business sense. It's not The Planets job to protect the students right of free speech.
ignorance is bliss :)
I don't have any personal information on my computer. Sure, I have a hardware firewall (hackable) and a password with upper and lower case, numbers, and symbols in it (hackable). No bank account numbers, I never check the box [] remember my password for email, maybe my last name is on there, and I don't use IE. People can't steal what does not exist.
Did you know you can write fiction about collaborative fiction writing using collaborative fiction writing tools?
/. story about collaborative fiction writing using a web browser?
Translated: Did you know, that you can make up a
hurricanes have been striking with increasing devastation
Record devistration in terms of $$ amount, but as far as people hurt, that number has gone down. Little to do with weather, more to do with rich people building houses out on the beaches where the huricanes hit land.
There's flooding and landslides.
Again, more to do with people building houses where they shouldn't and cutting down trees that used to hold the soil in place.
The bigged threat to the human race is the human race itself.
If M$ really wanted to end the threat, and I mean end it for mom & dad users, Linux will always be alive for hackers and /. users, then they should lower their prices so rediculously low that people won't think twice about buying it. I'm sure they can chop a $100 without Billy's wallet getting any lighter.
I think there needs to be a balance... I slacked through high school, I was smart enough not to have to study to slide by on a B average, which was fine for me. So I only got 1 math scholarship to go to college - I'm a geek, so no free ride football deal for me. I wasted college time (and money) with parties, started a family, had to drop out to support the family and now have a hard time getting a well paying job. Yes, we need ditch diggers and construction workers, but I'm lazy, I like to use my brain instead of my back.
I think the most important thing (and least taught) young people need to know is how to manage money. Buy now and pay later credit cards can drive one into debt very quickly. I wish I would have learned that lesson sooner.
I think for some tasks, a video teacher (not game) would work better, like learning how to do something. Kids may appear to learn better from video games because it is something they are interested in and pay attention to it. I learn factual-type information on topics I'm interested in from books because I focus on the book. It's all a matter of grabbing kids attention and keeping it, video games are fun, fun gets their attention.
I escape from reality all the time...
In that case, could you please send your credit card numbers, dob, ssn, and mother's maiden name to spongeboblinuxpants@64.4.19.134?
To carry your analogy out a little more... smarter geeks could be viewed as smater "dolphins" which are not fish or this case "phish" but are mamals.
But not freedom from violating signed contracts (NDA) like AppleInsiders anonymous sources did.
Their /. bussiness plan is going to work!
1. Sue big company with superiour OS and claim IP
2. Use court ordered code in our new OS
3. PROFIT!!!