No. National Security usually allows the government to completely ignore the rights of an IP owner, essentially annexing those rights for itself. I know it's like that here, I can't imagine the US being more restricted.
Uh, no. You and I both know you should not have to compete against your own product being offered for free. And that there's no way for a game developer to compete with free, because you simply cannot have a value added component without someone nicking it too.
Case in point, Starcraft. Pretty much zero copy protection (the CD key 123-456789-012 was actually considered valid!) and Blizzard's way of making you pay was to actually validate your CD key when connecting to Battle.net. What happened? Someone wrote a server emulator so you could create competing networks without that CD key check.
Now, Fallout 3 (collectors) had the value added bonus of an actual physical object (a figurine, about 9 inches high or so). BUT, a small company couldn't hope to procure any items such as those and have a margin high enough to pay the bills.
Stop rationalising piracy. It isn't right, and it isn't moral.
Yes, but AVG sucks. Try it with a real Antivirus vendor (and no, that isn't Symantec. Norton runs so slow the virus has enough time to complete a whole infection cycle before getting caught).
I think "Click OK" is firmly defeated by the old Winzip strategy actually - the order of buttons is randomised, and the accelerator key is also randomly rebound on each load. The only static was that enter opened the registration dialog and escape aborted.
Anyway, the State Department's problem is only the tip of the iceberg. MS Exchange has been infecting US hospitals and that means downtime, lost messages and vastly decreased productivity. In healthcare, that means lost lives.
That's the biggest pack of fucking bullshit I've seen on Slashdot. I've yet to see an instance of Exchange losing email in our hospital, and the administrators who've run it for 10 years have yet to see it too. It doesn't happen, you're making shit up.
Microsoft has described this in excruciating detail before, because at one point even they managed to crash their Exchange server - through mail list reply all spam.
Disagree again. I'm tired of seeing people claiming that everything Microsoft does is inspired by Apple.
Aero was not inspired by Aqua. UAC is not inspired by... uh, Mac OS X doesn't even have anything like it, does it?
(Also, how does NeXT = Apple by any stretch? At that time, Jobs was nowhere near Apple, and you can't count a NeXT product as an Apple one. Fanboi indeed).
What's this eCommerce company, so I can avoid it? That's a very sleazy practice. If I change my card number, it's unacceptable that some other company will just hand over the details, especially if I were to change it to avoid YOU.
Because if they did that, there'd be an anti-trust lawsuit on their doorstep in seconds. That's the problem with all the "monopoly" crap that Slashdotters like to spout about being a great thing, it actually DOES stop Microsoft improving in any big way.
How long do you think Macrovision would tolerate Microsoft running an integrated repository where developers don't have to buy InstallShield? How about IGN going insane because noone visits Fileplanet any more? Can you see where this is going?
Apple didn't invent the dock. If you're gonna spout that shit, we'll say Apple stole the dock from Stardock, who wrote it for OS/2. And that they got the idea from...
And the list goes on. Apple doesn't invent, just like Microsoft. They "appropriate".
Unless of course the user isn't an admin. In that case they're prevented from opening the door for someone with (or without) dogshit on their boots until an administrator comes along with the key.
The Windows Update service does it, and it's already elevated (being a service). I should note though that you DO need to agree to a UAC dialog if (and only if) you manually invoked the update, which you do not need to if Automatic Updates invoked it. This is because it needs UAC approval for your user to communicate with an elevated service.
The DRM encumbered tracks in the iTunes store and in my library (which Apple will happily charge me $0.60 a track to upgrade, when they feel like it, for a total of $2.39 per track - fuck that) beg to differ.
There was an OS X version planned, but it never got off the ground. I guess you could chuck an email or something at the company saying you might be interested if there was OS X support (after all, demand drives development doesn't it?)
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No. National Security usually allows the government to completely ignore the rights of an IP owner, essentially annexing those rights for itself. I know it's like that here, I can't imagine the US being more restricted.
I'm surprised they also missed SourceFire, Inc (ClamAV) - and probably a few other AV vendors too.
Ah, but he's the only real /.er here. He's even got the icon to prove it.
So what the hell are we?
Uh, no. You and I both know you should not have to compete against your own product being offered for free. And that there's no way for a game developer to compete with free, because you simply cannot have a value added component without someone nicking it too.
Case in point, Starcraft. Pretty much zero copy protection (the CD key 123-456789-012 was actually considered valid!) and Blizzard's way of making you pay was to actually validate your CD key when connecting to Battle.net. What happened? Someone wrote a server emulator so you could create competing networks without that CD key check.
Now, Fallout 3 (collectors) had the value added bonus of an actual physical object (a figurine, about 9 inches high or so). BUT, a small company couldn't hope to procure any items such as those and have a margin high enough to pay the bills.
Stop rationalising piracy. It isn't right, and it isn't moral.
Yes, but AVG sucks. Try it with a real Antivirus vendor (and no, that isn't Symantec. Norton runs so slow the virus has enough time to complete a whole infection cycle before getting caught).
I assume that a mailing list application would be capable of pulling members from an LDAP datastore, after all, that's what LDAP is for!
I think "Click OK" is firmly defeated by the old Winzip strategy actually - the order of buttons is randomised, and the accelerator key is also randomly rebound on each load. The only static was that enter opened the registration dialog and escape aborted.
Anyway, the State Department's problem is only the tip of the iceberg. MS Exchange has been infecting US hospitals and that means downtime, lost messages and vastly decreased productivity. In healthcare, that means lost lives.
That's the biggest pack of fucking bullshit I've seen on Slashdot. I've yet to see an instance of Exchange losing email in our hospital, and the administrators who've run it for 10 years have yet to see it too. It doesn't happen, you're making shit up.
Microsoft has described this in excruciating detail before, because at one point even they managed to crash their Exchange server - through mail list reply all spam.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/04/08/109626.aspx
Sounds like the State Department might not have upgraded to Exchange 2003.
Why do you think most forums don't nest like slashcode does?
Telligent Community Server does. Invision Power Board does. vBulletin does too.
So what's these "most forums" you speak of? I just picked some of the largest in the field, and they all support threading/nesting.
Disagree again. I'm tired of seeing people claiming that everything Microsoft does is inspired by Apple.
Aero was not inspired by Aqua. UAC is not inspired by... uh, Mac OS X doesn't even have anything like it, does it?
(Also, how does NeXT = Apple by any stretch? At that time, Jobs was nowhere near Apple, and you can't count a NeXT product as an Apple one. Fanboi indeed).
UGO doesn't even compete in the not-so-costly online industry. They're a joke.
What's this eCommerce company, so I can avoid it? That's a very sleazy practice. If I change my card number, it's unacceptable that some other company will just hand over the details, especially if I were to change it to avoid YOU.
It's Windows. It doesn't have "root", it has "administrator".
The only drivers that are more than 5mb are video drivers and printers
... or Logitech.
Because if they did that, there'd be an anti-trust lawsuit on their doorstep in seconds. That's the problem with all the "monopoly" crap that Slashdotters like to spout about being a great thing, it actually DOES stop Microsoft improving in any big way.
How long do you think Macrovision would tolerate Microsoft running an integrated repository where developers don't have to buy InstallShield? How about IGN going insane because noone visits Fileplanet any more? Can you see where this is going?
(Please note, I am only addressing the first line of your post. The remainder is actually quite interesting).
Apple didn't invent the dock. If you're gonna spout that shit, we'll say Apple stole the dock from Stardock, who wrote it for OS/2. And that they got the idea from...
And the list goes on. Apple doesn't invent, just like Microsoft. They "appropriate".
Only brain-damaged filesystems need to be defragged (FAT32, NTFS)
... ext2, HFS+.
Unless of course the user isn't an admin. In that case they're prevented from opening the door for someone with (or without) dogshit on their boots until an administrator comes along with the key.
The Windows Update service does it, and it's already elevated (being a service). I should note though that you DO need to agree to a UAC dialog if (and only if) you manually invoked the update, which you do not need to if Automatic Updates invoked it. This is because it needs UAC approval for your user to communicate with an elevated service.
But the store itself is not your computer. My argument still is true.
No it isn't. 90% of all tracks on the iTunes store are STILL wrapped in UnFairplay.
The DRM encumbered tracks in the iTunes store and in my library (which Apple will happily charge me $0.60 a track to upgrade, when they feel like it, for a total of $2.39 per track - fuck that) beg to differ.
There was an OS X version planned, but it never got off the ground. I guess you could chuck an email or something at the company saying you might be interested if there was OS X support (after all, demand drives development doesn't it?)
Explorer's not that bad...
Yeah alright it is. But I disagree that Finder is better. Having used both, the Finder clearly sucks more.