Actually, the only cost of it is the 50 TO 75 US DOLLAR PER CHARGE chargeback fee if they don't catch the transaction in time. I don't have enough faith in the generousity of banks that they'd waive that.
The issue of organizations apologizing for their roots is a complex one. Sure, it isn't a bad idea in terms of just being nice - especially if you don't agree with the position of your predecessors. However, you need to be careful about holding people today accountable for things that organizations they belonged to did 100 years ago. Should American's today apologize to the Indians for displacing their land? If so, which ones? Perhaps you could tell that to New Zealand.
I'll take a blind guess... you told them "no, we don't have any music covered by your licenses. I would suggest you leave" and they left? More than one person can play at the lawsuit game.
As for pocket change, you, sir, have no idea what you're typing about. You must have no experience whatsoever owning and operating your own business. No, $300 is pretty much pocket change out of my budgets. Hell, I fund that myself out of my income. You must run a lemonade stand if you think that's significant.
Demons, you persist in using APPLICATIONS to mean the Operating System! NT Backup, not an OS component. Installed with the OS, yes. NOT part of it. ASP.NET. Not an OS component. And you decide to tack in folders that don't exist on the PCs of anyone who's actually recently REBOOTED (the ones under CatRoot) and a couple of temporary user-space folders (System has a profile too, you know).
Your entire ranting is a whole load of FUD. I assume if I felt the inclination to look at your "website" (which I don't) I'd find nothing but Microsoft bashing right? Grow up and find some real stuff to bitch about. It's Microsoft, they have plenty of REAL reasons to bash them.
%TEMP% (usually %LocalAppData%\Temp) Temporary Directory for programs in User Space
Wherever IE hides its TEMP directory (no, not the cache) Doesn't exist - bullshit
%SystemRoot% (really, I don't know why) No temp files are stored in this place by the operating system, save PAGEFILE.SYS which is your virtual memory - bullshit
[Every Drive]\Recycler The RECYCLE BIN?!? Explicit user action is required to get files there! When empty, it's contents will be the typical stuff - one desktop.ini per user, in a subfolder with the user's SID as it's name. Again - bullshit
[Every Drive]\System Volume Information System Restore - not a temp folder. No temp files are stored there, but a HUGE amount of your drive will be used by it, to... well, do system restore. Turn off System Restore, and the folder uses FAR less space. Again - bullshit
[Any Drive]\[Random Characters].tmp The operating system does not create folders matching this pattern. If you see folders which are just what looks like a GUID with no dashes, TRY REBOOTING. Again - bullshit
%SystemDrive%\TEMP (yes, really) Applications in SYSTEM space don't know where your user space temp directory is (they're isolated from user space), so they use this folder. Well, DUH.
Now we are entering a period where the RIAA seems to think they should get a dollar from you if you whistle a tune when you walk down the sidewalk. Has the hookers and cocaine money train really slowed down that much for them? They must be a bunch of paranoid, power-mad f*cks with an extreme sense of entitlement. The RIAA isn't involved in this mess. The people asking for money is ASCAP, BMI, and other licensing companies - these companies (unlike the RIAA) collect money for the writers to pay out for the royalties on the original music, not to the publishers for the recording. Typically, these organisations are less evil than RIAA. It should also be noted that they're charging $300 a year, which should be pocket change to a business (and they likely wouldn't even charge a regular person - when was the last time you heard of ASCAP suing old grannies?)
um, well off-topic, actually I did hear on NPR this morning larry is hoping to lure the winning New Zealand TEAM that piloted the Swiss boat to America's Cup victory; well he wants them to work for him now. Give us credit- no matter who wins, WE DO!
Hey! I have never used copy-paste to reply to twitter's bullshit! I always spend at least two minutes thinking of a valid, well-documented reason that he's talking out his arse!
Well, actually I spend 22 seconds thinking of one, because it's just that easy, and then spend the next 1 minute and 38 seconds drinking coffee, generally slacking off, and chewing food.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on operating systems, according to the Apple crowd here, because Apple don't have a monopoly on MP3 players (apparently, if lots of people buy Windows because they want to, it's a monopoly. If lots of people buy iPods because they want to, it's "consumer choice at work") - though I suppose here at linux.slashdot.org I can expect less Apple Kool-Aid drinking.
Back onto the topic though, perhaps Linux would gain more of a following if some people volunteered their efforts (or charged discounted rates) to schools to install and support it. Once people are familiar with it in an educational environment, it would probably be considered as a far more viable option at the purchasing level at your local Walmart or what have you.
That said, that "taking hold of their dreams" line was really cheesy. Never do that again, Slashdot editors. Ever.
% Botched backwards compatibility % Disc scratching % Two paychecks to buy the damn thing % Crappy graphics - YEECH! % Noisy as hell % Can't handle 1080p for real games % Ripoff peripheral prices % Ripoff console prices % No HD-DVD playback for 1080p HD movies
And more and more adds [only in EA games - just like the XB360, you cockmuncher] everywhere.
I agree with, well... most of what you said there. However, you comment that if you come up with a new OS + Office + Browser + so on that you can't use Microsoft Office formats or they attack you with lawsuits... well, the same would occur if you made an MP3 player and reverse engineered the FairPlay DRM to allow your device to play that too. I know, the iTunes store isn't really a monopoly, but it's the closest analogy there is considering it's the #3 music store in the world (second only to Best Buy and Walmart I think it was).
Now you might say that iTunes does in fact allow you to convert to MP3 (an open, non-DRMed format) - I could respond that Microsoft Office does in fact allow you to convert to RTF (an open, licensing-free format).
It's a better analogy than you might originally think - and I think I might have accidentally convinced myself that MS Office isn't a monopoly either.
What Apple has done is create the Windows of Music. You either play on that platform, or die. Which makes it a natural monopoly. Any attempt by them to leverage a natural monopoly to gain an artificial one (buying radio stations, for example) would be highly illegal.
If the Apple iPod is not a "prosecutable monopoly" because it's a natural monopoly, nor is Microsoft Windows. Both arose to their dominant position because people just bought them. Your argument is either a defense of Microsoft, or a completely bullshit fallacy.
By the way, I think the fact that WordPerfect generally sucked was what shut Corel out of the Office Suite market >
Actually, there is an extra signature necessary - the certificate needs to be signed by WHQL - Windows Hardware Quality Labs - to be considered a valid, signed, driver.
It's complete bullshit. Microsoft will sign pretty much everything put in front of them. And it's only necessary for Kernel mode drivers anyway (I consider that reasonable, do you?). It's pretty expensive, yes. Mostly because for every signed driver, they need to build a new PC, and get a bunch of engineers to test it and stuff. Pretty rigorous process (well, I hope so anyway).
Give it up. If you're against Apple, you'll be modded Troll into oblivion, and getting anyone to agree with you is downright impossible. Apple can do no Evil, you know? The Great Jobs Will Save Us.
Slashdot's web server has a portable Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field Generator, I tell you.
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Ah yes, but they're terribly wonderful in New Zealand. Maybe we have more competition?
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Actually, the only cost of it is the 50 TO 75 US DOLLAR PER CHARGE chargeback fee if they don't catch the transaction in time. I don't have enough faith in the generousity of banks that they'd waive that.
Demons, you persist in using APPLICATIONS to mean the Operating System! NT Backup, not an OS component. Installed with the OS, yes. NOT part of it. ASP.NET. Not an OS component. And you decide to tack in folders that don't exist on the PCs of anyone who's actually recently REBOOTED (the ones under CatRoot) and a couple of temporary user-space folders (System has a profile too, you know).
Your entire ranting is a whole load of FUD. I assume if I felt the inclination to look at your "website" (which I don't) I'd find nothing but Microsoft bashing right? Grow up and find some real stuff to bitch about. It's Microsoft, they have plenty of REAL reasons to bash them.
No, I'm not new here - but I really shouldn't be surprised that people would use this as an excuse to bash the RIAA.
The recording industry doesn't get squat from this. The original songwriters do.
It's not a percentage. It's a per unit cost. I recall reading something about it the other day, actually.
_ law.html - it's really quite informative.
Have a read of http://www.cleverjoe.com/articles/music_copyright
Hey! I have never used copy-paste to reply to twitter's bullshit! I always spend at least two minutes thinking of a valid, well-documented reason that he's talking out his arse!
Well, actually I spend 22 seconds thinking of one, because it's just that easy, and then spend the next 1 minute and 38 seconds drinking coffee, generally slacking off, and chewing food.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on operating systems, according to the Apple crowd here, because Apple don't have a monopoly on MP3 players (apparently, if lots of people buy Windows because they want to, it's a monopoly. If lots of people buy iPods because they want to, it's "consumer choice at work") - though I suppose here at linux.slashdot.org I can expect less Apple Kool-Aid drinking.
Back onto the topic though, perhaps Linux would gain more of a following if some people volunteered their efforts (or charged discounted rates) to schools to install and support it. Once people are familiar with it in an educational environment, it would probably be considered as a far more viable option at the purchasing level at your local Walmart or what have you.
That said, that "taking hold of their dreams" line was really cheesy. Never do that again, Slashdot editors. Ever.
See, I can make up shit too!
DIEBOLD?!?
I agree with, well... most of what you said there. However, you comment that if you come up with a new OS + Office + Browser + so on that you can't use Microsoft Office formats or they attack you with lawsuits... well, the same would occur if you made an MP3 player and reverse engineered the FairPlay DRM to allow your device to play that too. I know, the iTunes store isn't really a monopoly, but it's the closest analogy there is considering it's the #3 music store in the world (second only to Best Buy and Walmart I think it was).
Now you might say that iTunes does in fact allow you to convert to MP3 (an open, non-DRMed format) - I could respond that Microsoft Office does in fact allow you to convert to RTF (an open, licensing-free format).
It's a better analogy than you might originally think - and I think I might have accidentally convinced myself that MS Office isn't a monopoly either.
If the Apple iPod is not a "prosecutable monopoly" because it's a natural monopoly, nor is Microsoft Windows. Both arose to their dominant position because people just bought them. Your argument is either a defense of Microsoft, or a completely bullshit fallacy.
By the way, I think the fact that WordPerfect generally sucked was what shut Corel out of the Office Suite market >
Presuming they only test one driver at a time, yes. But I doubt that's the case ;)
The OSI doesn't own the term "Open Source". Technically, anyone can use it. Relevant trademark search: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=o oaet0.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=& p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD&e xpr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=open+source&p_tagrep l~%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a _search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query. They can prohibit use of "Open Source Initiative Approved License(r)" but they can't say what "Open Source" is because they own no trademark on it.
Open Source is not trademarked whatsoever by OSI. Open Source Initiative Approved License(r) is trademarked by OSI.
So no, it doesn't matter what OSI thinks, because they hold no trademark on "Open Source"
Actually, there is an extra signature necessary - the certificate needs to be signed by WHQL - Windows Hardware Quality Labs - to be considered a valid, signed, driver.
It's complete bullshit. Microsoft will sign pretty much everything put in front of them. And it's only necessary for Kernel mode drivers anyway (I consider that reasonable, do you?). It's pretty expensive, yes. Mostly because for every signed driver, they need to build a new PC, and get a bunch of engineers to test it and stuff. Pretty rigorous process (well, I hope so anyway).
Give it up. If you're against Apple, you'll be modded Troll into oblivion, and getting anyone to agree with you is downright impossible. Apple can do no Evil, you know? The Great Jobs Will Save Us.
Slashdot's web server has a portable Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field Generator, I tell you.
Ah yes, but they're terribly wonderful in New Zealand. Maybe we have more competition?
Informative? Hah.
No, intentionally blocking is not forging caller ID. If your phone displays "Caller Unknown", you just made $0