This Slashdot entry, itself, appears to be spam. Neither link provides any information that anyone who's gotten one of these mails didn't already know.
Neither blog provides proof, forensic details, or anything even remotely interesting to a geek seeking out "news for nerds." Just the bare necessary to make it look like it's a well-meaning tech link and not a scheme to inflate someone's page views.
All they are is a couple of paragraphs saying, "Hey, you know all those new spam messages you're getting? They're spam!"
Maybe it's well-intentioned, but as far as I can tell this is just more BlogSpam pretending to be a Slashdot entry. It's getting like freakin' Digg around here these days.
Ah, good. I'm glad you've sorted it out then. All he had to do is tell GoDaddy that it's an authentication problem, and everything will be magically better and the world will be filled up rainbows and unicorns.
If I was MS, I'd be fed up with it by now and just dump it all and start fresh. Maybe start making my own hardware like Apple to cut down on headaches and customer support. They've got experience with the Xbox. Maybe making their own computers isn't such a bad idea. Guarantee the OS will work on THEIR machine, and if someone wants to try it on something cheaper from Dell, go nuts, but you're on your own.
Essentially, what the Linux crowd has been begging Apple to do with OS X for years now. This could be a way for Microsoft to make a serious comeback and beat Apple at its own game.
This is infact not normal behaviour, I don't know where you got this from. In countries with functioning mobile phone markets (that would be almost everywhere else except the US) the customers will quickly abandon any company cripling their phones for another one.
You're absolutely right. Look at how Vodaphone, O2, NTT, KDDI, and other companies have been brought to their knees by crippling and locking their phones.
Oh, wait. They haven't.
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. GSM was free (as in speech) back in the early 90's, but the market has changed greatly since then.
The GPS-enabled Nextels we have at work routinely locate my co-workers hundreds of miles from where they actually are -- often in the middle of Lake Michigan when they're actually on dry land. Sometimes I can be looking at someone in the office in Chicago and the computer puts their "dot" in the middle of a field in Iowa.
If Apple offered GPS in their phone as crappy as what appears to be the standard, they'd be raked over the coals for it.
This is nice and lovley until you realize that everyone cripples the service, so you have no choice.
Not every carrier cripples the service. If you believe this, you either haven't done your research or live out in the sticks where there are only one or two carriers.
Even your home network when you see roaming costs, like Vodafone UK charging $20/Mb for roaming data!
Geez. That would have added almost $4,500 to my phone bill. Good thing I live in the United States where I get all-I-can-eat data plan from T-Mobile for $19.99/month on my UNLOCKED phone (T-Mobile bill I got yesterday said I used 223 megabytes).
Oh, wait... I'm sorry. I forgot this is Slashdot and we're supposed to be bashing America here. Sorry.
And in the mean time, in the rest of the world, crippled phones DON'T EXIST. Because the phone you use is independent from the carrier. Welcome to open standards (GSM).
False.
Locked, subsidized, and crippled phones exist on a number of carriers in Europe and Asia. I've seen them in England, France, Belgium, Austria, and Japan.
You sound like someone who's been drinking too much Anti-U.S. Kool-Aid and has never shopped around for mobile phone service outside the United States.
And for the record, I have an UNLOCKED GSM phone that I use on T-Mobile here in the United States. You don't have to buy a locked phone. Just just have to be dumb to do it.
I've heard that before, but is it really still true?
How much different is what's in an Apple box compared to... say... a Dell? The only commonly changeable parts on most Windows boxes these days are the graphics cards, AFAIK. It's been a long time (486 days) since I built my own machine. But since then, it seems like the guts market has evaporated. Don't most people use the on-board sound cards these days?
With most Apples, all accessories are attached by Firewire or USB -- same as with Windows machines. I don't think most people outside of Slashdot and Ars muck about inside.
So if the computer manufacturers are working WITH Microsoft to get certified as Vista compatable and get all those nice stickers on their machines, they should JUST WORK. Hardly any of the Vista complaints I see are on white boxes -- they're almost always on Dell or Acers or Sony or other machines that were purchased with Vista already installed.
Why are those machines having the same problems as the MacGyvered ones?
If it wasn't for the commercialization of the internet, 90% of e-mail today would go through FidoNet.
Commercialization made the internet available to the masses. You may not like the masses mucking about in your sandbox, but it has opened a world of opportunity to many people. Looking down your nose at them doesn't make you better. It makes you arrogant.
Have you ever considered that it's not just memory state? You have to bring all devices to their previous state as well, which happens on a per-device basis. Please learn about what you're talking about before bitching.
I know this is going to sound like a troll, but it's not meant that way:
Because they are perceived as "lesser" weapons, they get used more often.
Any references on this, or are you just turning your paranoia into FUD?
In my line of work I see A LOT of police reports for major cities. I see a lot more officers using guns than tasers or beanbag guns.
The problem, though is that after the brouhaha, people started deliberately using the "innocent" word in mean-spirited ways. I mean, come on, before all of this mess, no one ever used the word niggardly in normal conversation.
Not necessarily. It depends on who's in your circle of friends. YOUR circle of friends may not use that word, but that doesn't mean that "no one" ever used it, especially in formal writing or speeches.
During the controversy, one of the newspapers (Boston, I think) ran through one of the loudest critics prior speeches and found that he'd used it in the past, as well.
Just because SOME people are that special combination of both ignorant and loud, it shouldn't change the way educated people communicate.
The reason they can do this is because Delorean never did anything small. He had enough parts made to produce a ton of cars
Actually, in order to get federal approval to mass produce cars for sale in the United States, a car company is required to have a large stockpile of parts. That's so if it goes belly-up (as DeLorean did), people who own the cars are still able to get them repaired for a reasonable period of time. I think they're required to have enough parts to service the cars for five years.
It's why many Yugos were on the road for years after they stopped being sold in America.
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Dude, it's a joke. I know it's still Sunday morning, but have a few beers and chill.
Geez. Even the Commodore 64 can play MP3's.
Windows can't compete with a 1 Mhz computer made in 1992 with 38,911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
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This Slashdot entry, itself, appears to be spam. Neither link provides any information that anyone who's gotten one of these mails didn't already know.
Neither blog provides proof, forensic details, or anything even remotely interesting to a geek seeking out "news for nerds." Just the bare necessary to make it look like it's a well-meaning tech link and not a scheme to inflate someone's page views.
All they are is a couple of paragraphs saying, "Hey, you know all those new spam messages you're getting? They're spam!"
Maybe it's well-intentioned, but as far as I can tell this is just more BlogSpam pretending to be a Slashdot entry. It's getting like freakin' Digg around here these days.
Ah, good. I'm glad you've sorted it out then. All he had to do is tell GoDaddy that it's an authentication problem, and everything will be magically better and the world will be filled up rainbows and unicorns.
Prig.
Wow. What a mess.
If I was MS, I'd be fed up with it by now and just dump it all and start fresh. Maybe start making my own hardware like Apple to cut down on headaches and customer support. They've got experience with the Xbox. Maybe making their own computers isn't such a bad idea. Guarantee the OS will work on THEIR machine, and if someone wants to try it on something cheaper from Dell, go nuts, but you're on your own.
Essentially, what the Linux crowd has been begging Apple to do with OS X for years now. This could be a way for Microsoft to make a serious comeback and beat Apple at its own game.
Oh, wait. They haven't.
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. GSM was free (as in speech) back in the early 90's, but the market has changed greatly since then.
The GPS-enabled Nextels we have at work routinely locate my co-workers hundreds of miles from where they actually are -- often in the middle of Lake Michigan when they're actually on dry land. Sometimes I can be looking at someone in the office in Chicago and the computer puts their "dot" in the middle of a field in Iowa.
If Apple offered GPS in their phone as crappy as what appears to be the standard, they'd be raked over the coals for it.
Oh, wait... I'm sorry. I forgot this is Slashdot and we're supposed to be bashing America here. Sorry.
Locked, subsidized, and crippled phones exist on a number of carriers in Europe and Asia. I've seen them in England, France, Belgium, Austria, and Japan.
You sound like someone who's been drinking too much Anti-U.S. Kool-Aid and has never shopped around for mobile phone service outside the United States.
And for the record, I have an UNLOCKED GSM phone that I use on T-Mobile here in the United States. You don't have to buy a locked phone. Just just have to be dumb to do it.
I've heard that before, but is it really still true?
How much different is what's in an Apple box compared to... say... a Dell? The only commonly changeable parts on most Windows boxes these days are the graphics cards, AFAIK. It's been a long time (486 days) since I built my own machine. But since then, it seems like the guts market has evaporated. Don't most people use the on-board sound cards these days?
With most Apples, all accessories are attached by Firewire or USB -- same as with Windows machines. I don't think most people outside of Slashdot and Ars muck about inside.
So if the computer manufacturers are working WITH Microsoft to get certified as Vista compatable and get all those nice stickers on their machines, they should JUST WORK. Hardly any of the Vista complaints I see are on white boxes -- they're almost always on Dell or Acers or Sony or other machines that were purchased with Vista already installed.
Why are those machines having the same problems as the MacGyvered ones?
Oh, I'm sorry -- You were talking out of your ass? I should have known by the smell.
Yes, Yoda. Sentence structure from the Midwest you have.
If it wasn't for the commercialization of the internet, 90% of e-mail today would go through FidoNet.
Commercialization made the internet available to the masses. You may not like the masses mucking about in your sandbox, but it has opened a world of opportunity to many people. Looking down your nose at them doesn't make you better. It makes you arrogant.
How come Apple can do it, but Microsoft can't?
An open-source reading program is probably as close as most Thais will get to free speech, especially where the King is concerned.
(It needs to be said. I'll gladly take the -1 off-topic hits.)
No SVideo? Maybe because AppleTV isn't a Sony device from the early 90's.
No composite? Maybe because the AppleTV isn't a Commodore 64.
As he's stated before, Apple skates to where the puck WILL BE, not where it has been.
Do they even sell TVs without HDMI or DVI anymore?
This isn't the conspiracy you're looking for.
They can go about their business.
Move along.
In my line of work I see A LOT of police reports for major cities. I see a lot more officers using guns than tasers or beanbag guns.
During the controversy, one of the newspapers (Boston, I think) ran through one of the loudest critics prior speeches and found that he'd used it in the past, as well.
Just because SOME people are that special combination of both ignorant and loud, it shouldn't change the way educated people communicate.
It's why many Yugos were on the road for years after they stopped being sold in America.