Really... pseudonyms are an internet tradition... in fact, with all the marketing hoo-ha and identity theft, only a fool uses their real name on the net
I don't think I have used my real name for anything on the net...
This stuff shouldn't be a surprise, in other industries this type of thing goes on all the time. Make an offer, have it rejected, sweeten it etc until the shareholders start selling. Eventually the big shareholders sell when the pot is sweet enough. For Yahoo, it may be a stretch to say they aren't interested at all, they just aren't interested in the present offer.
Remember, in the free market, everyone has their price. The question really is how much will MS overpay for Yahoo if they want it that badly.
and it is one of the reason that Apple was crushed by the PC back in the day. Apple was simply too damn greedy. No, they don't market to the tech savy, but then neither does Dell. Dell built their business on value and good customer service (now, not so much).
The point is that if your mac was expandable (rarely were they upgradeable), you paid through the nose, hence the jokes about "Appletax". Now a whole new generation can discover it.
And that is why Apple made their money off the iPod in this century.
it is competitive pressure they fear, as they are shaping traffic while they have opened an on-line video store to help provide the bandwidth. The fact that Bell has increased the services they offer while trying not to spend money expanding their server to server infrastructure would probably give competitors a leg up in knowing how close they really are to capacity. Knowing that, they could use it as an edge.
That said, selling high speed as high speed to customers while throttling their speed and hoping they don't notice is still bait and switch.
I quit attempt (if it really amounts to that) to prevent a precendent from occuring is of little usefullness in practical terms. The fact remains that the outcome of the case didn't look good based on the course of the trial. Even if the RIAA is allowed to withdraw, court documents will still exist showing the course of events of the trial and they will remain on public record for any lawyer defending a client in an upcoming case brought by the RIAA. IANAL, but it would seem to me this will just be another case thrown on a growing pile of evidence that the RIAA is trying to push through nuisance cases backed by slipshod research methodology. Sooner or later judges are going to start beating them up for it.
my belief is that this tactic will work out equally as well as it has in the US and elsewhere.
Now... the real issue for me is why do so many of these industry people believe that they can implement a stupid idea better than the last guy?
but considering that all of my experiences with Via's products have been problematic at best, I will give this product the same shunning I have given their motherboard products. At least until I see a couple of years of good real world reports...
Frankly I am surprised that the company lives
have more to do with the drop in piracy then anything else. All encryption schemes have a shelf life and none have proven to be a panacea for publishers. Lest we forget the days of everybody pasting HD-DVD and Blu-Ray unlock codes in their sigs...
One the other hand, few bother pirating lousy games...
Most free anti-virus apps available are free for personal/non-profit use only. If you want to deploy them on a commercial network I beleive you have to pay for almost all of them.
that slows down progress and makes us scrap perfectly good solutions to age-old problems. Asbestos has been banned, and yet studies commissioned by the asbestos council have repeatedly shown that it is beer consumption by asbestos workers that have resulted in the phenomenon known as "flub lung".
Don't be fooled!! In latest studies by the carbon purveyors league, it has been shown that recent outbreaks of "fidgety-digits", or shaking hands syndrome have been related to the detergent used in bar glasses located near carbon plants, as well as the consumption of certain grains in conjunction with coffee.
Makes sense! After all, why would carbon hurt us! Carbon is our friend... diamonds are a woman's best friend, and you, yes, you are a carbon-based lifeform!!
Yes, MS says they will use the broadcast flag if asked, and as others pointed out, Tivo etc hasn't. It's probably because they haven't been asked. MythTv doesn't, but it is an open source project with no one commercial owner. If it was made by a company that made a distro and they were asked... they probably would.
No one, not Jobs, not Gates and not Shuttleworth is going to do a perp walk so you can record shows. That's really between you and your government and the entertainment industry. I have media centre as part of my OS, but I use BeyondTV... They too would recognize the flag if they were told to, and an update would ensure it (I avoid a lot of updates after reading their notes).
Maybe in some eyes, MS is the devil here, but I doubt you will ind many CEOs making a stand for you in such an instance.
Love standards... marketing people hate them... all these distros are struggling to get their distros recognized as "the best" for whatever their focus is...
The first thing a marketing person does when they encounter a standard is try to circumvent it to make the product "unique"...
would probably allow for more choice in platform. Since the 80's, both MS and Apple have donated and plowed money and software into schools. Both are proprietary and that's why they did it. To create future market. MS had deeper pockets and over time outspent Apple. That was the 80's. By the 90's, business by then was solidly MS DOS/early Windows and had a flock of people entering the workforce who were MS familiar. This is continuing today. Schools have come to depend on donations of software and computers and if MS wants to pony up vista machines with OOXML Office 2007 packages, they'll take it.
I can't fault a school for taking such a deal (provided they are true donations). MS is just taking advantage of the fact that schools in a lot of jurisdictions are underfunded. For that to change, the electorate has to kick up a stink. In the meantime, if I'm running a school and need money for a new boiler etc, and MS gives me free software and computers, I'm taking it. That's an expense I don't have to worry about. At least the developing world got OLPCs.
with such a law that others in this discussion have pointed out, the Harper government is in a minority position and considering they have been unable to get any traction towards a majority position, they are not apt to bother with such legislation, especially if it pisses people off in the least.
We are considering the law from the government standpoint means, "thanks for the bribes lobbyists, we'll think about what you said".
to figure out when exactly bilking and misleading your customers became an open and unabashed business practice. At the extreme you have groups like the RIAA etc criminalizing their customers, and ISPs who routinely advertise unlimited only to get bent out of shape and throttle, cap etc their users when they actually do what they contracted for...
This is happening in other industries, giving us things like "secret warranties (which really should be recalls)" and bicast being sold as genuine leather etc.
Back in the day, companies at least hid this behaviour.
The way things are going, it does not seem to be a stretch that someday a company will lobby to enact laws that require consumers to buy their products.
that reading stuff like this makes me wants to download a bunch of movies, burn a couple of cakes of DVDs and leave them around town at various bus stops
of a litigious society. Damn near any concept, stupid or smart, gets paraded through the court system and the best lawyer (regardless of the merits of the case) wins.
After all, the woman who filed suit for burning herself crotch with a cup of coffee won (McDick's was found 80% responsible).
that some people are have towards the "strong recommendation", I point out that this is how businesses negotiate. It starts with "we want you to", followed by the vendor response. It's the, "I asked you nicely approach"...
If the vendor doesn't respond, then the ante will be upped. The PC sellers need more market. Things are pretty cutthroat for the Dell's and HP's of the world. If the vendor doesn't help in the company in its move to expand its market... yeah, pressure will be brought... and in this case, Linux does owe MS (so to speak), the failure of Vista to gain market share means the PC sellers have to look elsewhere
Ink jet printers are stupid, especially for people who print occasionally and in black in white. A toner cartridge is more expensive, but is cheaper in the longer run producing far more copies and it never dries out.
If you need to print photos, a colour ink jet is a damned expensive way to do it... if do print photos occasionally, at least around where I live, photo printer kiosks abound.
That they are hostile foreigners who hold favoured nation trading status...
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Essentially, yes it does... For example, a lawyer can make a claim in a court and the judge can ask that the jury disregard it for a technicality... But, how do you forget? It still plays a role at decision time even if it "officially" isn't part of the record or decision.
Further, if thee lawyers bring another flimsy case forward, a review of precedent can show the same lawyer bringing frivolous cases forward in the past and eventually that will lead to harsher punishments by the courts.
And if nothing else, if the lawyer goes for a job with a new firm, then a review of that lawyer's previous cases will show that a judge had it entered into the court record that he/she was incompetent.
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MS can stop trying to buy Yahoo and do this for free!!
Really... pseudonyms are an internet tradition... in fact, with all the marketing hoo-ha and identity theft, only a fool uses their real name on the net
I don't think I have used my real name for anything on the net...
Sounds like just a cash grab to me
This stuff shouldn't be a surprise, in other industries this type of thing goes on all the time. Make an offer, have it rejected, sweeten it etc until the shareholders start selling. Eventually the big shareholders sell when the pot is sweet enough. For Yahoo, it may be a stretch to say they aren't interested at all, they just aren't interested in the present offer. Remember, in the free market, everyone has their price. The question really is how much will MS overpay for Yahoo if they want it that badly.
and it is one of the reason that Apple was crushed by the PC back in the day. Apple was simply too damn greedy. No, they don't market to the tech savy, but then neither does Dell. Dell built their business on value and good customer service (now, not so much).
The point is that if your mac was expandable (rarely were they upgradeable), you paid through the nose, hence the jokes about "Appletax". Now a whole new generation can discover it.
And that is why Apple made their money off the iPod in this century.
it is competitive pressure they fear, as they are shaping traffic while they have opened an on-line video store to help provide the bandwidth. The fact that Bell has increased the services they offer while trying not to spend money expanding their server to server infrastructure would probably give competitors a leg up in knowing how close they really are to capacity. Knowing that, they could use it as an edge. That said, selling high speed as high speed to customers while throttling their speed and hoping they don't notice is still bait and switch.
For foreign readers... attaching "adult" to any description in the Excited States means that it is sexual in nature...
Which is why the jokes are flying under this topic
I quit attempt (if it really amounts to that) to prevent a precendent from occuring is of little usefullness in practical terms. The fact remains that the outcome of the case didn't look good based on the course of the trial. Even if the RIAA is allowed to withdraw, court documents will still exist showing the course of events of the trial and they will remain on public record for any lawyer defending a client in an upcoming case brought by the RIAA. IANAL, but it would seem to me this will just be another case thrown on a growing pile of evidence that the RIAA is trying to push through nuisance cases backed by slipshod research methodology. Sooner or later judges are going to start beating them up for it.
my belief is that this tactic will work out equally as well as it has in the US and elsewhere. Now... the real issue for me is why do so many of these industry people believe that they can implement a stupid idea better than the last guy?
and why should Facebook tell you what they are doing? That would give away a competitive edge.
Stupid Canadians are so un-American.
but considering that all of my experiences with Via's products have been problematic at best, I will give this product the same shunning I have given their motherboard products. At least until I see a couple of years of good real world reports... Frankly I am surprised that the company lives
have more to do with the drop in piracy then anything else. All encryption schemes have a shelf life and none have proven to be a panacea for publishers. Lest we forget the days of everybody pasting HD-DVD and Blu-Ray unlock codes in their sigs...
One the other hand, few bother pirating lousy games...
Most free anti-virus apps available are free for personal/non-profit use only. If you want to deploy them on a commercial network I beleive you have to pay for almost all of them.
that slows down progress and makes us scrap perfectly good solutions to age-old problems. Asbestos has been banned, and yet studies commissioned by the asbestos council have repeatedly shown that it is beer consumption by asbestos workers that have resulted in the phenomenon known as "flub lung".
Don't be fooled!! In latest studies by the carbon purveyors league, it has been shown that recent outbreaks of "fidgety-digits", or shaking hands syndrome have been related to the detergent used in bar glasses located near carbon plants, as well as the consumption of certain grains in conjunction with coffee.
Makes sense! After all, why would carbon hurt us! Carbon is our friend... diamonds are a woman's best friend, and you, yes, you are a carbon-based lifeform!!
Stop this insanity.
All true, but they are not going to wrangle with the providers of the content they hope to dsplay. At least not on your behalf.
It is also worth noting that MS has a financial stake in NBC, hence MSNBC.
Yes, MS says they will use the broadcast flag if asked, and as others pointed out, Tivo etc hasn't. It's probably because they haven't been asked. MythTv doesn't, but it is an open source project with no one commercial owner. If it was made by a company that made a distro and they were asked... they probably would. No one, not Jobs, not Gates and not Shuttleworth is going to do a perp walk so you can record shows. That's really between you and your government and the entertainment industry. I have media centre as part of my OS, but I use BeyondTV... They too would recognize the flag if they were told to, and an update would ensure it (I avoid a lot of updates after reading their notes). Maybe in some eyes, MS is the devil here, but I doubt you will ind many CEOs making a stand for you in such an instance.
Love standards... marketing people hate them... all these distros are struggling to get their distros recognized as "the best" for whatever their focus is...
The first thing a marketing person does when they encounter a standard is try to circumvent it to make the product "unique"...
would probably allow for more choice in platform. Since the 80's, both MS and Apple have donated and plowed money and software into schools. Both are proprietary and that's why they did it. To create future market. MS had deeper pockets and over time outspent Apple. That was the 80's. By the 90's, business by then was solidly MS DOS/early Windows and had a flock of people entering the workforce who were MS familiar. This is continuing today. Schools have come to depend on donations of software and computers and if MS wants to pony up vista machines with OOXML Office 2007 packages, they'll take it.
I can't fault a school for taking such a deal (provided they are true donations). MS is just taking advantage of the fact that schools in a lot of jurisdictions are underfunded. For that to change, the electorate has to kick up a stink. In the meantime, if I'm running a school and need money for a new boiler etc, and MS gives me free software and computers, I'm taking it. That's an expense I don't have to worry about. At least the developing world got OLPCs.
with such a law that others in this discussion have pointed out, the Harper government is in a minority position and considering they have been unable to get any traction towards a majority position, they are not apt to bother with such legislation, especially if it pisses people off in the least.
We are considering the law from the government standpoint means, "thanks for the bribes lobbyists, we'll think about what you said".
to figure out when exactly bilking and misleading your customers became an open and unabashed business practice. At the extreme you have groups like the RIAA etc criminalizing their customers, and ISPs who routinely advertise unlimited only to get bent out of shape and throttle, cap etc their users when they actually do what they contracted for... This is happening in other industries, giving us things like "secret warranties (which really should be recalls)" and bicast being sold as genuine leather etc. Back in the day, companies at least hid this behaviour. The way things are going, it does not seem to be a stretch that someday a company will lobby to enact laws that require consumers to buy their products.
that reading stuff like this makes me wants to download a bunch of movies, burn a couple of cakes of DVDs and leave them around town at various bus stops
of a litigious society. Damn near any concept, stupid or smart, gets paraded through the court system and the best lawyer (regardless of the merits of the case) wins.
After all, the woman who filed suit for burning herself crotch with a cup of coffee won (McDick's was found 80% responsible).
that some people are have towards the "strong recommendation", I point out that this is how businesses negotiate. It starts with "we want you to", followed by the vendor response. It's the, "I asked you nicely approach"...
If the vendor doesn't respond, then the ante will be upped. The PC sellers need more market. Things are pretty cutthroat for the Dell's and HP's of the world. If the vendor doesn't help in the company in its move to expand its market... yeah, pressure will be brought... and in this case, Linux does owe MS (so to speak), the failure of Vista to gain market share means the PC sellers have to look elsewhere
Be positive, it is a step in the right direction.
Ink jet printers are stupid, especially for people who print occasionally and in black in white. A toner cartridge is more expensive, but is cheaper in the longer run producing far more copies and it never dries out.
If you need to print photos, a colour ink jet is a damned expensive way to do it... if do print photos occasionally, at least around where I live, photo printer kiosks abound.
That they are hostile foreigners who hold favoured nation trading status...
Essentially, yes it does... For example, a lawyer can make a claim in a court and the judge can ask that the jury disregard it for a technicality... But, how do you forget? It still plays a role at decision time even if it "officially" isn't part of the record or decision.
Further, if thee lawyers bring another flimsy case forward, a review of precedent can show the same lawyer bringing frivolous cases forward in the past and eventually that will lead to harsher punishments by the courts.
And if nothing else, if the lawyer goes for a job with a new firm, then a review of that lawyer's previous cases will show that a judge had it entered into the court record that he/she was incompetent.