I think you're referring to the Alexa "Related Items" feature, for which Microsoft included a link in the toolbar. It's not anywhere near as evil as you claim.
The problem is Windows, but you would like to blame and punish IRC servers and users. Why? No, that's just typical Twitter bullshit. The problem is moronic users who don't do enough to protect themselves from viruses, spyware, trojans, and worms. Linux is just as vulnerable in the hands of a complete idiot (well, if they can even get it installed, anyway).
No, it ran as the currently logged in user. The problem is that Windows insists during setup that the user create an administrator account for everyday use. It's the same scenario. (Well, minus the horrible ActiveX crap - noone really likes that)
Gmail works, and uses your email as a wonderful source of personal demographic information to better target ads at you (and improve the lot of marketers everywhere)! Oh, yes. Please sell all my details, Google!
I'll pass on Gmail. I got an account there, but I don't use it because to be honest I don't trust Google. They've amply demonstrated that they are LESS trustworthy than AOL. And that's saying something.
Google, Yahoo, AOL, and every other provider does the same thing. Hell, I don't know if.Mac includes an email address (around here Macs are tremendously expensive - more so than PCs AND Vista Ultimate) but if it does I bet it's got the same thing! Of course, if every single provider of a service does the same thing, on Slashdot ONLY Microsoft can be blamed for it.
There is no circumstance where death is less of a crime than closed source software. When a piece of closed source software causes some issues, they're irritating - you either bitch a bit and move on, or you find an alternative. It does not affect humanity as a whole (which incidentally is a VERY flawed concept. The effect of closed source software on the poor regions of Niger for example, is near nothing) however a person dying is, by definition, the removal of a portion from the whole, and has flow on effects that CAN affect - for example - the poor regions of Niger (say they were a ChildFund sponsor. Their death has caused a drop in funding to said poor region which could possibly result in ADDITIONAL deaths).
Any comparison of the negative effects of a death to closed source software is fucking moronic. Any person who actually believes that closed source software is more of a crime than Murder also needs to experience said Murder first hand so they can then try saying that "closed source software is far more evil!"
Right. And when Ford stops making a model of car they should release the blueprints for free.
Drop the inflated sense of entitlement. He wrote it, it's his decision what he does with it. If he gives out the source code, it's his call. If he doesn't, it's ALSO his call.
Installer, or package (like a single ZIP or RPM or DEB, or whatever. I'll admit to not liking installers either. I prefer a ZIP file).
Did you just suggest telnet or SSH for enterprise support? The hell. We would NEVER, EVER, open a telnet or SSH port here (partly because it'd be illegal for us to do so). If something goes down, we'd better be able to have someone here to fix it in an hour, MAX.
The Office Suite is completely irrelevant to Sharepoint, so I think you might want to lay off the drugs. But if you want to go that route, it's not 5-8 seperate applications. Like Sharepoint, it's 1-1 seperate packages.
I think the real question is... how old is this article? AA's been using MOSS for quite some time to run their website.
Also, there's a lot you don't know about the whole thing there. For a start, MOSS is capable of (get this) XHTML compliant webpages - and enforcing the aforementioned. The whole editing with Word thing isn't as bad as you claim either, since you edit a document and it gets locked up in "Workflow" (preventing it going to the website until it's been approved. Sort of like SVN or CVS for your website with a production branch and a testing branch)
No, he's a Chevy user saying a box of Ford parts is a "just a box of parts". Which is right. For the most part, companies want integrated solutions. Anything that requires installing 5-8 seperate applications is out of the question. Package that all into one installer with centralised enterprise support, and you might have a dealbreaker.
They wouldn't save millions in attorney fees at all, and certainly wouldn't earn respect. Then it'd become blindingly obvious to EVERYONE that the recording companies were responsible for the lawsuits all along.
I'm not sure what to answer to this. Half of it is all too true, the other half is complete bullshit. Office 2007 can and does export to earlier formats (Office 2003 and below, I think it still does WordPerfect, and even - with the right converters installed - OpenDocument Format!).
Then, corrupting standards bodies... yeah, can't disagree with that. Of course there's more than one company that plays at that game.
If they wanted to do something good for the customers, they wouldn't just be using OpenDocument, they'd join the group developing it.
For no known reason, both words mean the same thing. Judgment sounds like an Americanism though, as judgement is how it's spelled in countries that still speak English.
Oh please. You don't need to "subsidize" the selling of software. A copy of software is worth no more than the media it is written on, the box it is packed in, and the paper the EULA is printed on. If there is no media (i.e., you download it), any sale is pure profit Internet bandwidth isn't free.
Um, no it's not. When you buy a CD, the only person with permission to listen to the music is the owner of the CD. The only way what you describe would be legal would be if I then refused to give back the CD (and you had no other copies)
So the windows EULA that forbids resale of OEM licences only applies to me if I copy the software (ie use it). If I don't use it I can ebay my OEM windows licence? Precisely. Just don't expect any end-user support for it, because as soon as you open it you declare that you're a system builder.
With all these name changes, I wonder when Macrovision is going to change theirs? That could get confusing... well, I guess they could nick the name from a subsidiary... "Protected by InstallShield" or "Protected by Zero G" or "Protected by Mediabolic" or "Protected by eMeta". Yeah, they've got a pretty endless supply.
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Twitter, why are you posting anonymously?
I think you're referring to the Alexa "Related Items" feature, for which Microsoft included a link in the toolbar. It's not anywhere near as evil as you claim.
Don't waste your time, that moron will never learn.
No, it ran as the currently logged in user. The problem is that Windows insists during setup that the user create an administrator account for everyday use. It's the same scenario. (Well, minus the horrible ActiveX crap - noone really likes that)
Gmail works, and uses your email as a wonderful source of personal demographic information to better target ads at you (and improve the lot of marketers everywhere)! Oh, yes. Please sell all my details, Google!
I'll pass on Gmail. I got an account there, but I don't use it because to be honest I don't trust Google. They've amply demonstrated that they are LESS trustworthy than AOL. And that's saying something.
Here's the first clue: that's not the Terms of Use that you receive if you actually click the Terms link ON Hotmail!
As such, because that's not linked from Hotmail, it does not apply to Hotmail. Here is the Terms that apply to Hotmail.
Google, Yahoo, AOL, and every other provider does the same thing. Hell, I don't know if .Mac includes an email address (around here Macs are tremendously expensive - more so than PCs AND Vista Ultimate) but if it does I bet it's got the same thing! Of course, if every single provider of a service does the same thing, on Slashdot ONLY Microsoft can be blamed for it.
Holy shit, where is the "-1 Fucking Idiotic" mod?
There is no circumstance where death is less of a crime than closed source software. When a piece of closed source software causes some issues, they're irritating - you either bitch a bit and move on, or you find an alternative. It does not affect humanity as a whole (which incidentally is a VERY flawed concept. The effect of closed source software on the poor regions of Niger for example, is near nothing) however a person dying is, by definition, the removal of a portion from the whole, and has flow on effects that CAN affect - for example - the poor regions of Niger (say they were a ChildFund sponsor. Their death has caused a drop in funding to said poor region which could possibly result in ADDITIONAL deaths).
Any comparison of the negative effects of a death to closed source software is fucking moronic. Any person who actually believes that closed source software is more of a crime than Murder also needs to experience said Murder first hand so they can then try saying that "closed source software is far more evil!"
Like he said. This is Slashdot, replace his entire post with "fuck M$".
Right. And when Ford stops making a model of car they should release the blueprints for free.
Drop the inflated sense of entitlement. He wrote it, it's his decision what he does with it. If he gives out the source code, it's his call. If he doesn't, it's ALSO his call.
He's less of a prick than you are.
Installer, or package (like a single ZIP or RPM or DEB, or whatever. I'll admit to not liking installers either. I prefer a ZIP file).
Did you just suggest telnet or SSH for enterprise support? The hell. We would NEVER, EVER, open a telnet or SSH port here (partly because it'd be illegal for us to do so). If something goes down, we'd better be able to have someone here to fix it in an hour, MAX.
The Office Suite is completely irrelevant to Sharepoint, so I think you might want to lay off the drugs. But if you want to go that route, it's not 5-8 seperate applications. Like Sharepoint, it's 1-1 seperate packages.
I think the real question is... how old is this article? AA's been using MOSS for quite some time to run their website.
Also, there's a lot you don't know about the whole thing there. For a start, MOSS is capable of (get this) XHTML compliant webpages - and enforcing the aforementioned. The whole editing with Word thing isn't as bad as you claim either, since you edit a document and it gets locked up in "Workflow" (preventing it going to the website until it's been approved. Sort of like SVN or CVS for your website with a production branch and a testing branch)
No, he's a Chevy user saying a box of Ford parts is a "just a box of parts". Which is right. For the most part, companies want integrated solutions. Anything that requires installing 5-8 seperate applications is out of the question. Package that all into one installer with centralised enterprise support, and you might have a dealbreaker.
Sony PS3.
They wouldn't save millions in attorney fees at all, and certainly wouldn't earn respect. Then it'd become blindingly obvious to EVERYONE that the recording companies were responsible for the lawsuits all along.
I'm not sure what to answer to this. Half of it is all too true, the other half is complete bullshit. Office 2007 can and does export to earlier formats (Office 2003 and below, I think it still does WordPerfect, and even - with the right converters installed - OpenDocument Format!).
... yeah, can't disagree with that. Of course there's more than one company that plays at that game.
Then, corrupting standards bodies
If they wanted to do something good for the customers, they wouldn't just be using OpenDocument, they'd join the group developing it.
It says something that this is coming from a lawyer.
For no known reason, both words mean the same thing. Judgment sounds like an Americanism though, as judgement is how it's spelled in countries that still speak English.
Um, no it's not. When you buy a CD, the only person with permission to listen to the music is the owner of the CD. The only way what you describe would be legal would be if I then refused to give back the CD (and you had no other copies)
It's a forum post, which means just some random person stating it.
That, and I don't think Microsoft really even bother moderating their forums. Bit like SourceForge/Slashdot, really.
Because it's making them virtually all of their money. Without advertising, Google would be bankrupted very quickly.
It wont happen.