So the end user is out nothing, except for some inconvenience.
Yeah, except that I don't fucking work for Microsoft! Let them do their own dirty work. They sure don't pay me for the time I have to spend fixing the application crashes their miserable "Black Tuesday" patches cause, or configuring the anti-virus software that only slows the chronic wasting disease that's known as the Microsoft Windows Operating System. Or to navigate the maze of licensing requirements that WGA complicates further. Microsoft doesn't just "inconvenience" users, it costs users significant time, money, and effort to keep their crummy shit running. That's an A-number-one fact, and everyone knows it, but many are scared to acknowledge it.
Unfortunately, it's not all about you. Maybe you should ask the USAF how WGA works for them. Scary to think that US military computers could be shut down by Microsoft, or a Microsoft glitch. See here for the true purpose of WGA.
This new Slashdot style also wrecks the Opera 9 (beta 2) browser on linux. The start page loads OK, but when you click on "read more", the page loads and then immediately locks up. You can load a page using plain text, but you can't find any controls. After the page is loaded in plain text, you can change back to the Opera "Author mode" and get the new style. I know Opera 9 is still beta, but the old Slashdot style worked great with it. Slashdot is too much of a pain to use now, and that's a shame.
The occasional book reader?? Please, save us your radical hysteria.
Book reading is, at present, not conducive to DNA sample collecting. Of course, reading politically correct books would never be against the law. Now, those filthy tobacco smokers, on the other hand...
It would be wise to remember that what once seemed radical can soon become typical.
Since the damages in patent cases are restricted to "actual" (meaning lost business profit) damages, it is hardly worth the bother.
Damages could be based on a projected loss of existing market share suffered by Symantec as a result of a competing, infringing product. The Supreme Court did NOT rule against injunctions (which can be imposed prior to the outcome of a trial). The Supreme Court ruled only that damages must be considered in the decision to grant an injunction. The decision makes it harder for intellectual property holding companies (i.e. "patent trolls") that produce nothing and generate no revenue from anything other than litigation settlements to be granted injunctions against existing companies.
Every time a new software version comes out, especially one like this with so many changes, you're bound to see compatibility issues with old software.
I agree. From the article:
ISVs also have to completely rewrite and certify the custom code they write to interface with Winlogon, the Windows process that manages logon and logoff.
If major portions of a system have to be completely redone and recertified, why not redo and certify for a non-Microsoft environment. I've never understood why people feel they have to not only suffer from using an inferior product, but also pay huge fees for the *privilege*. There has never been a better time to break away from Microsoft.
Office might've been bloated once, and arguably still is, but it's nothing compared to the awe-inspiring bulk of OO.o in action.
The massive bulk of MS Office is loaded at startup and it's true size is hidden among the memory reserved by Windows. Ever wonder why so much system memory is unavailable in Windows? Because of the preloading of things like MS Office. OpenOffice.org has to use resources left available to the user and therefore appears to be more bulky than MS Office.
*sigh* OK, if Microsoft don't implement ODF they are rejecting open standards. If they do, they're embracing and extending.
If Microsoft would not pervert the standard it would be alright. The problem is that Microsoft has twisted and attempted to extinguish every standard it "embraces." Yet some still make the cry of "oh, poor, misunderstood Microsoft, they can't win, can they?"
Regardless, Microsoft won't honor it's statement to support interoperability with the OpenDocument standard unless they can do so by forcing any interoperation to first include conversion to the (still unapproved) MS XML standard. That way, Microsoft could still force any document opened in Office to use the closed, proprietary Office binary encoding system that is referenced in every MS XML document. Microsoft thereby controls any ODF extension used in MS Office, and MS wins.
Kerry was a traitor. The North Vietnamese coordinated their propaganda efforts with Kerry when he met with high level North Vietnames officials in Paris while the war was still going on.
Where do you want to go? How about a North Vietnamese re-indoctrination camp? Kerry helped put a lot of people in those. Mod me down, but it's still the truth.
So, (hopefully) they finally got the UniSpammer. I wish the feds had been doing more of this instead of investigating Google's search strings, or aiding the persecution of little girls and dead people for suspected copyright violations. He'll get less of a sentence than someone who wants to play an iTunes song on a Creative player.
It's just sick that you care about your family, safety and privacy so much that you would deny everybody access to your house!
Who said anything about your house? Why worry about the locks, anyway, when you can just come in through the (Microsoft) WINDOWS? If one cares about their family's safety and privacy, the sick thing is to force them to use Windows.
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What happened to Blue Gene?
Blue Genes got replaced by Dockers.
So the end user is out nothing, except for some inconvenience.
Yeah, except that I don't fucking work for Microsoft! Let them do their own dirty work. They sure don't pay me for the time I have to spend fixing the application crashes their miserable "Black Tuesday" patches cause, or configuring the anti-virus software that only slows the chronic wasting disease that's known as the Microsoft Windows Operating System. Or to navigate the maze of licensing requirements that WGA complicates further. Microsoft doesn't just "inconvenience" users, it costs users significant time, money, and effort to keep their crummy shit running. That's an A-number-one fact, and everyone knows it, but many are scared to acknowledge it.
To me it does what it should.
Unfortunately, it's not all about you. Maybe you should ask the USAF how WGA works for them. Scary to think that US military computers could be shut down by Microsoft, or a Microsoft glitch. See here for the true purpose of WGA.
I don't know about the American worker, but American corporations are thinking:
Mexicans.
Oh, this one is a real gem. A true diamond from a chirping Microsoft canary:
...if MS had shipped it, and it wasn't up to the quality standard they promised it would be...
It would be... just like every other Microsoft product!
ROTFLMAO! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
They'll probably just add some crappy RAM and CPU hogging features and call it inovative.
Don't forget the DRM, or the dollars added to the price.
This new Slashdot style also wrecks the Opera 9 (beta 2) browser on linux. The start page loads OK, but when you click on "read more", the page loads and then immediately locks up. You can load a page using plain text, but you can't find any controls. After the page is loaded in plain text, you can change back to the Opera "Author mode" and get the new style. I know Opera 9 is still beta, but the old Slashdot style worked great with it. Slashdot is too much of a pain to use now, and that's a shame.
The occasional book reader?? Please, save us your radical hysteria.
...
Book reading is, at present, not conducive to DNA sample collecting. Of course, reading politically correct books would never be against the law. Now, those filthy tobacco smokers, on the other hand
It would be wise to remember that what once seemed radical can soon become typical.
You missed the word "allegedly," and then you make some weird, baseless tie to terrorism to distract the debate.
I didn't miss the word allegedly. It was right in the original quote. You can't read and you say my opinion is uneducated.
And the "weird, baseless tie to terrorism" is exactly my point about a "theme".
From TFA:
... the MPAA allegedly paid $15,000 to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets...
THE MPAA IS SUPPORTING TERRORISTS!
How's that for a theme? Sound familiar to anyone in the U.S.?
I just love my free Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. I just wish I didn't have to pay the $200 for the operating system needed to run it. :)
I think I'll just do other stuff till the guy responds in 72 hours.
Never heard of a deadline, have you.
Since the damages in patent cases are restricted to "actual" (meaning lost business profit) damages, it is hardly worth the bother.
Damages could be based on a projected loss of existing market share suffered by Symantec as a result of a competing, infringing product. The Supreme Court did NOT rule against injunctions (which can be imposed prior to the outcome of a trial). The Supreme Court ruled only that damages must be considered in the decision to grant an injunction. The decision makes it harder for intellectual property holding companies (i.e. "patent trolls") that produce nothing and generate no revenue from anything other than litigation settlements to be granted injunctions against existing companies.
Ah, that would explain those ancient Mayan predictions of something terrible happening to the human race in 2012.
The POPEs, don't forget the POPEs !
The insect egghead in the giant-ant invading movie THEM!
Every time a new software version comes out, especially one like this with so many changes, you're bound to see compatibility issues with old software.
I agree. From the article:
ISVs also have to completely rewrite and certify the custom code they write to interface with Winlogon, the Windows process that manages logon and logoff.
If major portions of a system have to be completely redone and recertified, why not redo and certify for a non-Microsoft environment. I've never understood why people feel they have to not only suffer from using an inferior product, but also pay huge fees for the *privilege*. There has never been a better time to break away from Microsoft.
Office might've been bloated once, and arguably still is, but it's nothing compared to the awe-inspiring bulk of OO.o in action.
The massive bulk of MS Office is loaded at startup and it's true size is hidden among the memory reserved by Windows. Ever wonder why so much system memory is unavailable in Windows? Because of the preloading of things like MS Office. OpenOffice.org has to use resources left available to the user and therefore appears to be more bulky than MS Office.
*sigh* OK, if Microsoft don't implement ODF they are rejecting open standards. If they do, they're embracing and extending.
If Microsoft would not pervert the standard it would be alright. The problem is that Microsoft has twisted and attempted to extinguish every standard it "embraces." Yet some still make the cry of "oh, poor, misunderstood Microsoft, they can't win, can they?"
Regardless, Microsoft won't honor it's statement to support interoperability with the OpenDocument standard unless they can do so by forcing any interoperation to first include conversion to the (still unapproved) MS XML standard. That way, Microsoft could still force any document opened in Office to use the closed, proprietary Office binary encoding system that is referenced in every MS XML document. Microsoft thereby controls any ODF extension used in MS Office, and MS wins.
It's not mudslinging. It's the truth.
Kerry was a traitor. The North Vietnamese coordinated their propaganda efforts with Kerry when he met with high level North Vietnames officials in Paris while the war was still going on. Where do you want to go? How about a North Vietnamese re-indoctrination camp? Kerry helped put a lot of people in those. Mod me down, but it's still the truth.
So, (hopefully) they finally got the UniSpammer. I wish the feds had been doing more of this instead of investigating Google's search strings, or aiding the persecution of little girls and dead people for suspected copyright violations. He'll get less of a sentence than someone who wants to play an iTunes song on a Creative player.
Like, my ponies are gonna cry! OMG!!!!
Hehehe. They won't cry as much as the *artists* when they realize they're bending over for a long hard ride on the Sony baloney pony.
It's just sick that you care about your family, safety and privacy so much that you would deny everybody access to your house!
Who said anything about your house? Why worry about the locks, anyway, when you can just come in through the (Microsoft) WINDOWS? If one cares about their family's safety and privacy, the sick thing is to force them to use Windows.
So that's why the recent immigration protests were so well attended - those people had nothing else to do?
They sure weren't working on their tax returns like I was on mine.