At a time when the USA is threatened with "holy war" by organized Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists, the BSA induces Sunnite clergy to declare the same thing on copyright infringement?
I am not a muslim but there is a big difference between Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists and Islam itself.
Islamic terrorists are a group of people who commits acts of terror in the name of Islam. True, they have the support of some members of the clergy but that doesn't make the religion itself evil.
Your analogy is more like saying the Pope is evil because there are anti-abortion terrorists who take his words about abortion being a sin very literally and commit acts of terror against people who don't behave according to their wishes.
So is GW evil for meeting with the Pope while visiting Europe? Is Italy guilty of harboring an evil terrorist?
I'm sorry, but this to me is rather like Stalin giving Hitler's genocide policy an endorsement. These same Islamic clergy refuse to unequivocaly condemn the actions of Bin Laden.
Are you sure of that? Do you have a source you can point me to which mentions the Egyptian Sunnite clergy and a refusal to condemn Bin Laden? Or did you just pull that out of your ass based on reports of some members of some clergy in some muslim country refusing to condemn Osama?
You managed to completely miss the point of my post.
There is no point spending $ to buy this track to prove a point if you wouldn't otherwise. Only an idiot would release one song, see positive results and take the plunge. Say whatever you want to about Vivendi but I doubt they are run by idiots.
Instead, it will be a slow and drawn-out release. At some point, it's going to stop being "cool" and Slashdotters are going to stop putting in money that they wouldn't otherwise to sell the industry on this idea. At that point the true market support will become obvious. If that is there, this idea will succeed - otherwise it will die a slow death.
If you're going to spend $ to buy music you wouldn't otherwise, all you're going to get is the loss of a $.
I've seen a few posts encouraging everyone on here to buy the song even if we don't care for the artist or the actual song.
That will achieve nothing. Depending on the success of this pilot they will determine whether it is worth doing at all. Next, they will probably release a whole CD that way and see how that goes. That will be followed by release of another few - say 10%. Unless every Slashdotter is committing to buying every thing they ever release online, buying this song now is not going to serve any purpose.
At this point they are probably trying to assess the extent of piracy/online fraud they are exposing themselves to as well as trying to figure out the logistics of every step of their operation. That's what pilots are for. I doubt they are going to say "ooh, we sold a million copies of this, let's release everything this way!"
To all the genius-level deep thinkers who are dissing BS: put your code where your mouths are. Get every bit of software written in C++ off your systems. Then see what your "linux" system is worth. Sure, you can get by without gcc, gimp, gnome, ncurses, emacs, bash. But you can start by getting glibc off your systems. And after you delete it, reboot.
Idiots. There is no "linux" without C++. Not only does C++ software provide the bedrock on which the system rests, C++ provides the intellectual framework on which rests the whole conception of an operating system. If it wasn't for Bjarne Stoustroup and C++, you wouldn't have "linux," period.
But don't worry. Nobody really expects any of you to actually DO anything in defense of software. It's clear enough that with you folks, it's all take and no give.
Obvious bulk mail goes into my junk folder. Nice, except that my junk folder contributes to my total space used and isn't purged automagically if more space is needed. There isn't even an option to do this. (Sigh, I need more space again. Maybe they'll send me another advert so I can sign up..)
Go to Options --> Junk mail deletion and you can choose to send it to/dev/null without it ever counting against your quota.
But seriously, I don't see why anyone should need more than 2Mb of space in a free email account. I use free email accounts only when I don't trust the person I'm giving the address to to not spam me (but when I need to give an email address to get a confirmation code, etc.)
My hotmail account has almost never been over 1Mb. If you're using it to store important email, you should either look into downloading your email using a POP3 client or seriously consider getting a real email provider.
I just checked my hotmail options and those three boxes were NOT checked. So I have no idea what the hell the article writer is talking about or what's different between his case and mine.
Of course, this post will probably get buried under the avalanche of people who want to believe the article.
It is also risky since India is a third world country Software developers in India have as much access to the latest technology when it comes to computing as any developer in the US would. I don't see how India being a third world country in any way negatively affects the expected output. On the contrary, lower costs means you will get more bang for your buck.
and its neighbor is about to launch a nuke at it.
Pakistan is no more likely to launch a nuke on India than Cuba is to launch one on the US or than someone is likely to fly another plane into a major US landmark. For all the posturing that occurs, the last time Pakistan and India were at war was over 30 years ago. War hysteria is something politicians stir up to distract from local issues and rarely result in much action.
The rest of your arguments are valid but the xenophobe in you sticks out when you make blunt statements like above.
The link was to moneycentral. You can find the same article at Yahoo!, CBS Marketwatch, ClearStation and any other financial news site you care to read.
HP employees (not the company) helped save the Stanford theatre. Stanford theatre good. HP employees did good things. "HP Way" good is somehow inferred from that.
HP merged with Compaq and changed the symbol. The old HP Way did good things. I don't think the HPQ way will be good because the HP way was.
WTF? That made no sense at all. If HP employees did good things, presumably that should not change at all with the same employees working for pretty much the same company with a different stock symbol.
This will probably get modded down as a troll by those who disagree - oh well, I'm karma capped anyway.
Regardless of your opinion of whether the merger is a good thing or not, this letter is nothing but FUD. He spends a lot of time talking about how the Stanford theater is great and how great the old days were but completely fails to connect that to the merger or the name change being bad.
It has to be said. Innocent until proven guilty only applies in criminal trials, this is a civil trial.
Ditto with Fifth Amendment rights. You can't please the fifth in a civil case and you have to provide testimony and allow discovery even if it is prejudicial to your case.
And no, it doesn't suck. It sounds like you have assumed that SonicBlue is guilty and that the data will prove it. This is simply a discovery process. SonicBlue has the data and claims that they are innocent. Now the judge has asked them to hand over the data so everyone can see for themselves if they are lying.
The commercials were about how they would double your servers performance or pay you $1 million. They only failed to mention that even if they were unsuccessful, you'd still owe them several million for software + consultancy and you couldn't tell anyone that they failed.
MS/Unisys were advertising the alleged superiority of their offering over Big Iron Unix servers and talking about how Unix sucked, etc.
Apple, on the other hand is placing an ad about how their Desktop box with Unix on it is so much cooler than other Unix (desktop) boxes.
The two are not even vaguely related.
<conspiracy theory>Is this just an attempt by slashdot editors to generate hits by including a gratuitous microsoft reference in an article?</conspiracy theory>
As far as the Netscape icon is concerned, I think they are making the excellent point that OS X is Unix (with the shell command and netscape) while at the same time being able to run MS Office. This is also reflected in one of the comments which said that the single machine was now able to replace three machines which were used for research, coding and writing.
HP, IBM, Compaq, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle you name it, have one bottomline that they look to satisfy: profits.
If supporting open standards helps them get there, then that's what they will support. If it's not, then guess where they will go? Note that the profits may not be generated immediately. For example, they might support a particular initiative and even give away their code to either build goodwill or kill a competitor. But that too, is ultimately for one goal: to maximize profits.
Don't fool yourself into believing otherwise. Companies exist to maximize profits for shareholders. (Of course there are always the ones with the crazy CEOs like Larry Ellison who decide to fuck a company over just because they had the audacity to wean employees away from Oracle).
So any time you hear a company supporting an open standard you know one of the below is true: o They don't have a dominant position in the area and want to fight the company that does. o They have a dominant position in the area but don't see a revenue stream and see a better revenue stream coming from the goodwill.
Did you even try to find out how to do this before logging in to Slashdot to whine about it? It's even in the help and support center on your computer if you don't want to connect to the internet.
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Interesting article... just installed XP on a computer at home. I've looked around for any way to disable that Search Assistant's behaviour with no luck.
Originally, the next release after Whistler was supposed to be called Blackcomb. (Whistler and Blackcomb are two ski slopes in Whistler, BC). When they decided to add a release between Whistler and Blackcomb they decided to name it Longhorn after the Longhorn bar which is between Whistler and Blackcomb.
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You have obviously not seen the huge amounts of DARPA grants that most universities get. A lot of research (including some I did in grad school) was made possible by military assistance.
Remember, the internet was developed with military funding.
(DARPA = Defence Advanced Research Projects Administration)
I'm honestly surprised that I haven't heard this offered as a reason.
When you ship a product, you test it with every supported configuration setting and option. It's great to talk about modular software in Computer Science class but out in the real world you have to acknowledge that that is not true. I know I won't just arbitrarily yank out any "modular" components from the product I work on and ship it without testing to see the effects.
The test matrix for Windows is already pretty huge. I'd imagine multiplying it by even a small number (with/without IE, with/without media player, etc.) will increase test costs immensely.
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At a time when the USA is threatened with "holy war" by organized Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists, the BSA induces Sunnite clergy to declare the same thing on copyright infringement?
I am not a muslim but there is a big difference between Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists and Islam itself.
Islamic terrorists are a group of people who commits acts of terror in the name of Islam. True, they have the support of some members of the clergy but that doesn't make the religion itself evil.
Your analogy is more like saying the Pope is evil because there are anti-abortion terrorists who take his words about abortion being a sin very literally and commit acts of terror against people who don't behave according to their wishes.
So is GW evil for meeting with the Pope while visiting Europe? Is Italy guilty of harboring an evil terrorist?
I'm sorry, but this to me is rather like Stalin giving Hitler's genocide policy an endorsement. These same Islamic clergy refuse to unequivocaly condemn the actions of Bin Laden.
Are you sure of that? Do you have a source you can point me to which mentions the Egyptian Sunnite clergy and a refusal to condemn Bin Laden? Or did you just pull that out of your ass based on reports of some members of some clergy in some muslim country refusing to condemn Osama?
Heidi Klum might sue Slashdot forcing them to guarantee that you won't mention fake pictures of your vacation with her.
You managed to completely miss the point of my post.
There is no point spending $ to buy this track to prove a point if you wouldn't otherwise. Only an idiot would release one song, see positive results and take the plunge. Say whatever you want to about Vivendi but I doubt they are run by idiots.
Instead, it will be a slow and drawn-out release. At some point, it's going to stop being "cool" and Slashdotters are going to stop putting in money that they wouldn't otherwise to sell the industry on this idea. At that point the true market support will become obvious. If that is there, this idea will succeed - otherwise it will die a slow death.
If you're going to spend $ to buy music you wouldn't otherwise, all you're going to get is the loss of a $.
I've seen a few posts encouraging everyone on here to buy the song even if we don't care for the artist or the actual song.
That will achieve nothing. Depending on the success of this pilot they will determine whether it is worth doing at all. Next, they will probably release a whole CD that way and see how that goes. That will be followed by release of another few - say 10%. Unless every Slashdotter is committing to buying every thing they ever release online, buying this song now is not going to serve any purpose.
At this point they are probably trying to assess the extent of piracy/online fraud they are exposing themselves to as well as trying to figure out the logistics of every step of their operation. That's what pilots are for. I doubt they are going to say "ooh, we sold a million copies of this, let's release everything this way!"
Oh, this is going to be fun...
To all the genius-level deep thinkers who are dissing BS: put your code where your mouths are. Get every bit of software written in C++ off your systems. Then see what your "linux" system is worth. Sure, you can get by without gcc, gimp, gnome, ncurses, emacs, bash. But you can start by getting glibc off your systems. And after you delete it, reboot.
Idiots. There is no "linux" without C++. Not only does C++ software provide the bedrock on which the system rests, C++ provides the intellectual framework on which rests the whole conception of an operating system. If it wasn't for Bjarne Stoustroup and C++, you wouldn't have "linux," period.
But don't worry. Nobody really expects any of you to actually DO anything in defense of software. It's clear enough that with you folks, it's all take and no give.
Isn't that an oxymoron? Or are the creators of the X-files grammatically challenged just like the Slashdot editors?
[For the dense, I'm refering to the use of the adjective lone in connection with the plural word gunmen]
Currently Linux Windows Managers are an easy transistion from Windows
Yes, and the moon is just a hop skip and a jump away.
Sorry, we live in the real world.
Obvious bulk mail goes into my junk folder. Nice, except that my junk folder contributes to my total space used and isn't purged automagically if more space is needed. There isn't even an option to do this. (Sigh, I need more space again. Maybe they'll send me another advert so I can sign up..)
/dev/null without it ever counting against your quota.
Go to Options --> Junk mail deletion and you can choose to send it to
But seriously, I don't see why anyone should need more than 2Mb of space in a free email account. I use free email accounts only when I don't trust the person I'm giving the address to to not spam me (but when I need to give an email address to get a confirmation code, etc.)
My hotmail account has almost never been over 1Mb. If you're using it to store important email, you should either look into downloading your email using a POP3 client or seriously consider getting a real email provider.
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I just checked my hotmail options and those three boxes were NOT checked. So I have no idea what the hell the article writer is talking about or what's different between his case and mine.
Of course, this post will probably get buried under the avalanche of people who want to believe the article.
What a bunch of FUD!
It is also risky since India is a third world country
Software developers in India have as much access to the latest technology when it comes to computing as any developer in the US would. I don't see how India being a third world country in any way negatively affects the expected output. On the contrary, lower costs means you will get more bang for your buck.
and its neighbor is about to launch a nuke at it.
Pakistan is no more likely to launch a nuke on India than Cuba is to launch one on the US or than someone is likely to fly another plane into a major US landmark. For all the posturing that occurs, the last time Pakistan and India were at war was over 30 years ago. War hysteria is something politicians stir up to distract from local issues and rarely result in much action.
The rest of your arguments are valid but the xenophobe in you sticks out when you make blunt statements like above.
Idiot. It's a press release.
The link was to moneycentral. You can find the same article at Yahoo!, CBS Marketwatch, ClearStation and any other financial news site you care to read.
The price of the XBOX was cut in Europe in April.
Since then, XBOX sales are neck and neck with PS2 sales.
However, don't let facts get in the way of your analysis.
HP employees (not the company) helped save the Stanford theatre. Stanford theatre good. HP employees did good things. "HP Way" good is somehow inferred from that.
HP merged with Compaq and changed the symbol. The old HP Way did good things. I don't think the HPQ way will be good because the HP way was.
WTF? That made no sense at all. If HP employees did good things, presumably that should not change at all with the same employees working for pretty much the same company with a different stock symbol.
This will probably get modded down as a troll by those who disagree - oh well, I'm karma capped anyway.
Regardless of your opinion of whether the merger is a good thing or not, this letter is nothing but FUD. He spends a lot of time talking about how the Stanford theater is great and how great the old days were but completely fails to connect that to the merger or the name change being bad.
It has to be said. Innocent until proven guilty only applies in criminal trials, this is a civil trial.
Ditto with Fifth Amendment rights. You can't please the fifth in a civil case and you have to provide testimony and allow discovery even if it is prejudicial to your case.
And no, it doesn't suck. It sounds like you have assumed that SonicBlue is guilty and that the data will prove it. This is simply a discovery process. SonicBlue has the data and claims that they are innocent. Now the judge has asked them to hand over the data so everyone can see for themselves if they are lying.
The commercials were about how they would double your servers performance or pay you $1 million. They only failed to mention that even if they were unsuccessful, you'd still owe them several million for software + consultancy and you couldn't tell anyone that they failed.
MS/Unisys were advertising the alleged superiority of their offering over Big Iron Unix servers and talking about how Unix sucked, etc.
Apple, on the other hand is placing an ad about how their Desktop box with Unix on it is so much cooler than other Unix (desktop) boxes.
The two are not even vaguely related.
<conspiracy theory>Is this just an attempt by slashdot editors to generate hits by including a gratuitous microsoft reference in an article?</conspiracy theory>
As far as the Netscape icon is concerned, I think they are making the excellent point that OS X is Unix (with the shell command and netscape) while at the same time being able to run MS Office. This is also reflected in one of the comments which said that the single machine was now able to replace three machines which were used for research, coding and writing.
HP, IBM, Compaq, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle you name it, have one bottomline that they look to satisfy: profits.
If supporting open standards helps them get there, then that's what they will support. If it's not, then guess where they will go? Note that the profits may not be generated immediately. For example, they might support a particular initiative and even give away their code to either build goodwill or kill a competitor. But that too, is ultimately for one goal: to maximize profits.
Don't fool yourself into believing otherwise. Companies exist to maximize profits for shareholders. (Of course there are always the ones with the crazy CEOs like Larry Ellison who decide to fuck a company over just because they had the audacity to wean employees away from Oracle).
So any time you hear a company supporting an open standard you know one of the below is true:
o They don't have a dominant position in the area and want to fight the company that does.
o They have a dominant position in the area but don't see a revenue stream and see a better revenue stream coming from the goodwill.
Did you even try to find out how to do this before logging in to Slashdot to whine about it? It's even in the help and support center on your computer if you don't want to connect to the internet.
Interesting article ... just installed XP on a computer at home. I've looked around for any way to disable that Search Assistant's behaviour with no luck.
I hope you didn't try too hard. Microsoft wouldn't want you to accidentally bump into the help file or an article on the web telling you how to do it. The bastards!
For all you folks who bitch about how Windows is dumbed down, now you know it's because of idiot users like the poster who can't even RTFM.
What I find most interesting is that Indian mythology also has a story very similar to Noah's ark.
To me, this points to one of two things:
1. A great flood (of some magnitude) or
2. A common cultural origin (more likely)
This has probably been stated before...
Originally, the next release after Whistler was supposed to be called Blackcomb. (Whistler and Blackcomb are two ski slopes in Whistler, BC). When they decided to add a release between Whistler and Blackcomb they decided to name it Longhorn after the Longhorn bar which is between Whistler and Blackcomb.
You have obviously not seen the huge amounts of DARPA grants that most universities get. A lot of research (including some I did in grad school) was made possible by military assistance.
Remember, the internet was developed with military funding.
(DARPA = Defence Advanced Research Projects Administration)
I'm honestly surprised that I haven't heard this offered as a reason.
When you ship a product, you test it with every supported configuration setting and option. It's great to talk about modular software in Computer Science class but out in the real world you have to acknowledge that that is not true. I know I won't just arbitrarily yank out any "modular" components from the product I work on and ship it without testing to see the effects.
The test matrix for Windows is already pretty huge. I'd imagine multiplying it by even a small number (with/without IE, with/without media player, etc.) will increase test costs immensely.
Idiot karma whore.