Yeah, I mean it makes good sense to take a stand _against_ your own business interests. I'm sure every pirate in the world wouldn't come out with some sob story then and try to get sympathy. Your point is ridiculous - him coming out in this guy's defense would have been untenable.
The guy didn't get prosecuted anyway, so where exactly is the evil being done here?
This is false. Microsoft does not dictate the OS market, consumers dictate it. A monopoly created by consumer choice is no monopoly at all. There are, demonstrably, alternatives. Microsoft has no pricing power over any of the alternatives, some of which are even free. Ergo, Microsoft has no monopoly.
I really don't get the Big Government mentality Slashdot has about MS. Apparently you all think Linux is far superior, and it's even free, but you want the government to step in and punish Microsoft for some obscure reason I've never really understood.
In short - consumers cannot make a monopoly by choosing between multiple distinct products. Monopolies are government created or exist based on scarce physical resources. 90% of the population deciding they want MS products doesn't mean the government suddenly gets to set the price and regulate a private company, at least it doesn't in a rational world.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is - price controls. They call it anti-trust, which is ridiculous because MS has no OS monopoly. They have a Windows monopoly, meaning it's an IP and trademark "monopoly". Logic dictates that antitrust law applies to limited physical resources and government granted monopolies. Most of the dweebs who hate MS and the greedy government entities who attack Microsoft aren't logical, though.
This just in: Apple has a monopoly on the Ipod! McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac, and Brittney Spears has a monopoly on the song "Hit Me Baby One More Time"! Also, Tivo has a monopoly on the Tivo software! Good God, sue them all, quick!
You're partially right, but mainly because people aren't willing to do what is necessary for libertarianism to work. Also note that there are different shades of libertarian. Some are the nutbags who want private jails and private roads, only. Those people are mainly just crackpots and the comparison to communism is apt there.
The real problem is poverty, and the only thing that keeps poverty alive is the birthrate of scum. Scum tend to spit out child after child, while responsible people have far fewer kids. This is simply unsustainable, as can be witnessed by the massive worldwide population boom and the (not coincidental) increase in poverty.
The opening 3 mins of the movie "Idiocracy" pretty much nail it, though the movie itself was horrible. My wife works in the social work field, and these people aren't the noble poor. Some of them will have 3 kids, all of whom will be sexually or physically abused so the state takes them away (if the kids are lucky). Then they will have 5 more kids from 4 different fathers, and abuse the shit out of those kids too. The odd thing is that for all the lip service the government pays to "protect the children" - they don't. Most child abuse, even very severe and especially against very young (under 2) children, goes unpunished.
Be glad I'm not God. I'd brew up a virus that sterilized every human on this planet, but which could be cured for about $5000 worth of effort and materials. This planet would be an amazingly improved place in about 100 years. Poor people could still have children, they'd just need to really _want_ them.
Good God. Is this the best you can do? "Oooh, look, I'm posting anonymously because I'm afraid of being exposed, but there's this big hidden problem and it's all Microsoft's problem!".
DRM has nothing to do with this, the "DRM downscales everything!" FUD scare from that nitwit in Australia has already be debunked. Nice attempt at viral anti-marketing, though.
Zzzz. You're citing a reference that has been debunked for weeks to prove a point? This guy was spreading FUD, MS isn't going to degrade anything but protected content when required, end of story.
And you're clueless. OpenGL is basically shit now, it's not keeping up and driving the hardware (and vice-versa). Let's see a game like Crysis developed on OpenGL - good fucking luck.
Even if it were cutting edge enough, each new platform has lots of costs involved in support, again for very little return.
Umm, guh? This chip is an experimental chip and won't see the light of day for years. The FSB doesn't have years left. Ergo, this is a non sequitur - FSB has nothing to do with this chip.
It's only a government granted monopoly if you consider the market to be "Song X by artist Y". Sure, some asshole has a "monopoly" on selling "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Brittney Spears. Are you arguing that this is a monopoly in any meaningful sense of the word?
Even if you had horrible, horrible taste in music you could go out and buy it on CD or buy it from many different online sources. Or more importantly, you could buy music from other sources - there are indepependent musicians out there who sell their product in a variety of ways without DRM.
I just don't understand why people get so worked up about DRM around here to the point of often advocating that the government pass various silly laws. Instead, they should just not buy the product.
And... you couldn't get the contents of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland elsewhere? Did they somehow DRM every copy in existence? You raise an issue of trivial importance.
The main thing is that DRM is a pain in the ass. Instead of whining about it and cheering on various socialist asshole countries that try to hamper capitalism by forcing e.g. Apple to change their business model I just don't buy shit that's DRM'd unless I can crack it or do what I want with it. See how simple that is?
God this country (and the world) is getting more and more full of assholes with serious entitlement complexes.
Thank God you're so much smarter than all these companies. Clearly you're right and they don't do any thinking or research before deciding to use DRM. You really should be the CEO of Sony.
Crikey. Of course it fucking works. These people aren't stupid. They want to stop casual copying of their content. Their DRM schemes generally achieve this.
Scanning...scanning...scanning.... Yep. No valid points in your post at all.
_You_ don't define how much something should cost. The market does. What you call greed is called "capitalism" here in the US, Chavez. We're talking about fucking music here, not air, water, or food. Let the record companies price it and DRM it as much as they want, if I don't like it I won't buy it.
The most ridiculous kinds of arguments are the ones where someone makes an assertion that a company would be better off if they did things my way, because then they'll make even more money - so let's make a law or force them to do it! Completely nonsensical. It's like the laughable reasons people try to shove "diversity" down corporate throats - "it's for your own good, you'll get more different ideas! Yeah, that's the ticket!".
Established by who, a bunch of filthy dweebs on some Internet news/discussion forum? I know you freaks engage in a lot of groupthink, but it has certainly not been established that "DRM is bad".
DRM is a tool, and it has positive (for the producers and indirectly for consumers) and negative (for same) aspects. The key is to get it done right, or not at all.
Yeah, that is pretty cute. I know _I_ certainly want to claim that my CPU is more "technologically advanced" and don't really care about performance. I'm sure server operators are the same way. I'd take the most technologically advanced CPU in the world even if it only ran at 80286 speeds, because then I get nerd bragging rights!!
"Hey, boss, we need to by another 100 machines to support these validation runs. Or we could buy 80 machines of this other brand which will accomplish the same thing and save a lot of money, but they're just not as technologically advanced!"
Good god, how did this get modded as informative? "This just in, random poster redefines reality, AMD64 really faster than Core 2 Duo regardless of the tons of real world application performance data which completely contradicts this!!!"
Please people, get a grip. This guys little application does tons of random memory reads. This is the one area where the Opteron still kicks ass because it has an IMC. The number of applications where this is useful is fairly small, and it's been known for a long time.
There's nothing "interesting" about this, it's just some fanboi claiming that performance in his application domain is applicable to general computing applications people care about, and it's not.
You were doing good on numbers 1-6, but then you just went off into geeky-dweeb make-believe world on the rest, then you went completely fugue state on us with the rest of your comments.
First, MS is doing tons of interesting stuff. You have no idea. My guess is you're just some random systems admin, or that whatever you are you aren't a developer. Go look around on MSDN. MS is doing very cutting edge stuff on the development front, the only industry player even close is IBM.
Second, you seem to have a very provincial view. Nobody but the geekiest of the geeky dweebs really hates Microsoft. Many people still think they're cool, and a lot of people are actually professionals and learn the best technology for the task and don't care if they're "cool".
Not really feasible. You don't want your best and brightest developers doint sustaining work. There is an easy way to give incentive to people - make them accountable if the product sucks. I think your point seems on its surface to make sense, but in the real world it doesn't.
I know it's completely against the bizarro-world mentality you folks have to even consider this, but wasn't the original quote related by a third party? I know...crazy.
And... you think because you're getting an IP address from DHCP that nobody can map who had IP address x.x.x.x at time YY:ZZ on date x/x/x? You're deluding yourself.
Good god, who cares? You people _do_ know that your machine is easily identifiable by, I don't know....your IP ADDRESS!!?
Furthermore, even if you're behind, for example, a firewall _someone_ knows your IP address from proxy logs. Also, Skype could easily generate a GUID and store it somewhere on your computer where you couldn't find it, or use an existing GUID
Here's a question... you actually buy this? You seriously think that you can't uninstall Vista and reinstall XP with your old key? I have a bridge to sell you...
This is fear-mongering and FUD. The XP key is not valid to run _concurrently_ with the Vista that you upgraded it to. It will still work on its own. Try it.
Ahh. The old "look how good I have it on Linux" taunt. I've only seen about 15 variations on this in this article alone. Reminds me greatly of the "Smug" episode of South Park.
How are all those Direct3D games working out for you? How about the professional 3D design applications? Fact is, Linux is losing miserably on the desktop for a reason. So in short, nobody cares about your geeky dweeb Linux jokes but you and the rest of these Slashdot ponces.
Oooh, nice. I give your attempted Microsoft bashing a 6/10 rating. It _just_ sounds plausible enough to the layperson such that they could think you're right, that's why it's not a 3/10. However, anyone with even a clue knows you're full of shit and NVidia could have had the video driver done a long time ago regardless of what MS is doing in other parts of the OS. Hence, no 10/10 for you.
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The guy didn't get prosecuted anyway, so where exactly is the evil being done here?
I really don't get the Big Government mentality Slashdot has about MS. Apparently you all think Linux is far superior, and it's even free, but you want the government to step in and punish Microsoft for some obscure reason I've never really understood.
In short - consumers cannot make a monopoly by choosing between multiple distinct products. Monopolies are government created or exist based on scarce physical resources. 90% of the population deciding they want MS products doesn't mean the government suddenly gets to set the price and regulate a private company, at least it doesn't in a rational world.
This just in: Apple has a monopoly on the Ipod! McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac, and Brittney Spears has a monopoly on the song "Hit Me Baby One More Time"! Also, Tivo has a monopoly on the Tivo software! Good God, sue them all, quick!
Linux doesn't exist, MacOS doesn't exist, *BSD doesn't exist, and none of the dozens of more specialized OS's actually exist.
The real problem is poverty, and the only thing that keeps poverty alive is the birthrate of scum. Scum tend to spit out child after child, while responsible people have far fewer kids. This is simply unsustainable, as can be witnessed by the massive worldwide population boom and the (not coincidental) increase in poverty.
The opening 3 mins of the movie "Idiocracy" pretty much nail it, though the movie itself was horrible. My wife works in the social work field, and these people aren't the noble poor. Some of them will have 3 kids, all of whom will be sexually or physically abused so the state takes them away (if the kids are lucky). Then they will have 5 more kids from 4 different fathers, and abuse the shit out of those kids too. The odd thing is that for all the lip service the government pays to "protect the children" - they don't. Most child abuse, even very severe and especially against very young (under 2) children, goes unpunished.
Be glad I'm not God. I'd brew up a virus that sterilized every human on this planet, but which could be cured for about $5000 worth of effort and materials. This planet would be an amazingly improved place in about 100 years. Poor people could still have children, they'd just need to really _want_ them.
DRM has nothing to do with this, the "DRM downscales everything!" FUD scare from that nitwit in Australia has already be debunked. Nice attempt at viral anti-marketing, though.
Zzzz. You're citing a reference that has been debunked for weeks to prove a point? This guy was spreading FUD, MS isn't going to degrade anything but protected content when required, end of story.
Even if it were cutting edge enough, each new platform has lots of costs involved in support, again for very little return.
1.8 _Real_ TFLOPS is a lot. The 360 and PS3 have 1/2.18 "fake" TFLOPS.
Umm, guh? This chip is an experimental chip and won't see the light of day for years. The FSB doesn't have years left. Ergo, this is a non sequitur - FSB has nothing to do with this chip.
Even if you had horrible, horrible taste in music you could go out and buy it on CD or buy it from many different online sources. Or more importantly, you could buy music from other sources - there are indepependent musicians out there who sell their product in a variety of ways without DRM.
I just don't understand why people get so worked up about DRM around here to the point of often advocating that the government pass various silly laws. Instead, they should just not buy the product.
The main thing is that DRM is a pain in the ass. Instead of whining about it and cheering on various socialist asshole countries that try to hamper capitalism by forcing e.g. Apple to change their business model I just don't buy shit that's DRM'd unless I can crack it or do what I want with it. See how simple that is?
God this country (and the world) is getting more and more full of assholes with serious entitlement complexes.
Crikey. Of course it fucking works. These people aren't stupid. They want to stop casual copying of their content. Their DRM schemes generally achieve this.
_You_ don't define how much something should cost. The market does. What you call greed is called "capitalism" here in the US, Chavez. We're talking about fucking music here, not air, water, or food. Let the record companies price it and DRM it as much as they want, if I don't like it I won't buy it.
The most ridiculous kinds of arguments are the ones where someone makes an assertion that a company would be better off if they did things my way, because then they'll make even more money - so let's make a law or force them to do it! Completely nonsensical. It's like the laughable reasons people try to shove "diversity" down corporate throats - "it's for your own good, you'll get more different ideas! Yeah, that's the ticket!".
DRM is a tool, and it has positive (for the producers and indirectly for consumers) and negative (for same) aspects. The key is to get it done right, or not at all.
"Hey, boss, we need to by another 100 machines to support these validation runs. Or we could buy 80 machines of this other brand which will accomplish the same thing and save a lot of money, but they're just not as technologically advanced!"
Please people, get a grip. This guys little application does tons of random memory reads. This is the one area where the Opteron still kicks ass because it has an IMC. The number of applications where this is useful is fairly small, and it's been known for a long time.
There's nothing "interesting" about this, it's just some fanboi claiming that performance in his application domain is applicable to general computing applications people care about, and it's not.
First, MS is doing tons of interesting stuff. You have no idea. My guess is you're just some random systems admin, or that whatever you are you aren't a developer. Go look around on MSDN. MS is doing very cutting edge stuff on the development front, the only industry player even close is IBM.
Second, you seem to have a very provincial view. Nobody but the geekiest of the geeky dweebs really hates Microsoft. Many people still think they're cool, and a lot of people are actually professionals and learn the best technology for the task and don't care if they're "cool".
Not really feasible. You don't want your best and brightest developers doint sustaining work. There is an easy way to give incentive to people - make them accountable if the product sucks. I think your point seems on its surface to make sense, but in the real world it doesn't.
I know it's completely against the bizarro-world mentality you folks have to even consider this, but wasn't the original quote related by a third party? I know...crazy.
And... you think because you're getting an IP address from DHCP that nobody can map who had IP address x.x.x.x at time YY:ZZ on date x/x/x? You're deluding yourself.
Furthermore, even if you're behind, for example, a firewall _someone_ knows your IP address from proxy logs. Also, Skype could easily generate a GUID and store it somewhere on your computer where you couldn't find it, or use an existing GUID
This is fear-mongering and FUD. The XP key is not valid to run _concurrently_ with the Vista that you upgraded it to. It will still work on its own. Try it.
How are all those Direct3D games working out for you? How about the professional 3D design applications? Fact is, Linux is losing miserably on the desktop for a reason. So in short, nobody cares about your geeky dweeb Linux jokes but you and the rest of these Slashdot ponces.
Oooh, nice. I give your attempted Microsoft bashing a 6/10 rating. It _just_ sounds plausible enough to the layperson such that they could think you're right, that's why it's not a 3/10. However, anyone with even a clue knows you're full of shit and NVidia could have had the video driver done a long time ago regardless of what MS is doing in other parts of the OS. Hence, no 10/10 for you.