Do you seriously believe that forcing all software manufacturers to release their code would be productive for society as a whole? Opening up software will mean it gets stolen and the person who developed it doesn't get paid for it. Voila! They stop developing it and everyone suffers. This is exactly what the Communists tried to do - their intentions were good but poor execution meant they were taking away economic incentives and the economy as a whole suffered.
Those tight nondisclosure agreements you talk about mean nothing. The source code will get stolen. So what can you do if someone else steals your code?
First you will have to go through the code for every other product out there before you even know if your code has been stolen. If you've ever been a TA for a programming class you know it is virtually impossible to know if one student has copied code from another if they copier has even the slightest bit of intelligence.
And even when you do find someone who you're sure has copied your code, you will have to go through endless litigation to get back at him for it. And what if it's a company that's not worth anything - even if you win your lawsuit, you'll be stuck with nothing but legal bills and the harm will have already been done
So what happens? You fold up and stop building software because it is just not worth it. This is precisely the problem the communists faced. Their intentions were good, but being poorly applied they took away incentives and progress stopped
And no, doing stuff to expedite or cheapen the legal process is not going to help. The processes are the way they are for a reason - you have to be fair to all parties - the party you think has stolen your stuff may not have! - you have to give them a fair chance to prove it
But the breakup remedy I heard had Microsoft split into two divisions. One for the apps and the other for the Operating System with IE! Wasn't that the problem in the first place?
"Now Microsoft giving out donations to Universities, and hospitals. That's a wholly different thing. If they are doing this to gain good PR, well, that is really despicable. No amount of whitewashing will get them out of that anti-trust suit."
So if they don't donate any money they are despicable money-hungry whores but if they do donate it is only to gain good PR and that is really despicable!
Sheesh.
-Donutello - no relation to Donut who also posted a response here
There was this stupid school or something which kept sending me email, almost every other day saying "NEED DEGREES FAST LIKE TODAY".
Obviously they were using false email addresses and there was no point trying to get the providers to disbar them because I doubt they intended to use any of those addresses again.
However, they had a phone number in there which you were supposed to use to reach them. I called that number and at the tone, yelled out a tirade of abuse and insults ending with a threat to call the police if the emails didn't stop.
The emails stopped. I hadn't left my name or anything so, assuming I wasn't the only person they were spamming, I guess they stopped spamming everyone.
The point of my story is that most of these spammers have to provide you a way to get back to them if they are selling something. That is what you should target to get back at them, not the email address they are sending from. If it's a website, get the provider who provides a link to that website to turn them off. Hurt them where they think the advertising will help and make the spamming pointless
In most people, obesity is caused mainly by a craving/desire to eat beyond what your body needs. You can feed people the patch but they'll still want to eat! If they could control their desire to eat then, they can control their desire to eat now.
Paul Allen has been selling his MS stock for quite a while now. He used the proceeds to buy, among other things, the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trailblazers, and a bunch of tech companies said to make his the most valuable tech portfolio in the world.
Every time this subject comes around some idiot posts about what they call a "Stock pyramid" based upon offering stock options and then some other idiot moderates that post up. What part of "OFF TOPIC" do the moderators not understand?
It's something almost all companies in this industry do. It's something stock investors are aware of. Do you not presume that these people have the basic intelligence to take that into account when investing in the company? Sheesh, you sound like you're bitter because your girl left you for someone who made it rich because of those stock options.
AAARRGGH! If I never hear another car-to-software analogy again it will be too soon. What is it about computer geeks that we like to compare everything we do to cars anyway?!
IANAAE (I'm not an Aerodynamics Engineer) but I don't think the car in front loses any mileage at all. In fact it gains it because the drag is lessened by the fact that the other car is behind it.
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How come daily builds of Windows 2001 are for sale on street corners in Asia, but nobody's leaked MSOffice for linux or IE for linux?
I don't know.. maybe because they don't exist? Duh
Yeah, and in France people think French is a superior language to English too.
My point is: In France people will shift for any number of reasons, including the fact that MS is an American company. Don't infer from this that they did it for reasons of practicality.
The point here is about them allowing a crime to be committed through negligence and through refusal to take action.
Or is this because of a principled objection to copyrights in certain areas. Would your opinion change if the crime being committed was drugs being sold or body parts or something similarly nasty? It's still a crime and I believe that anyone who allows a crime to be committed through negligence shares some responsibility for the crime.
The problem is not that the satellites are of no use. The problem is that they are so expensive to maintain that any possible use they can be put to is not worth the cost.
But that has nothing to do with burning up the satellites. The investors will get tax writeoffs for the losses they made, regardless of what Iridium does with the satellites.
Are you talking about BankOfAmerica? I have been using their online bill paying for about 3 years now. I don't need any special software, everything works off the web with both Netscape and IE. You don't need a special kind of account and there are no special charges.
About the only thing I can think of you needing is a Versateller account for which there is a small fee unless you have a regular direct deposit set up to your account.
I agree with you except I feel it can be made simpler than that. You should simply be able to type United Airlines and go the the United Airlines website or United Truck Movers or something. If you simply entered United, it would return to you a page with a list of possible companies you might be looking for. And THIS should be the default behavior for all web-browsers when you enter stuff into the Address line (I won't call it the URL line anymore)
IE has something they call "Internet Keywords" which seems like a step in the right direction here.
Right. And HTML is just text and text was invented by the Greeks a long time ago.
I hate frivolous patents as much as the next guy but using existing concepts in new ways to achieve something no one else thought of IS innovation and should be patentable imho.
In related news, other members of the community denounced the "invention" of the wheel calling it mere FUD. They claimed, varyingly, that:
1. The wheel was the same thing as "walking" which they had originally invented thousands of years earlier. 2. MS just wanted to introduce new jargon like "wheel" to dupe innocent people into believing they were actually innovating. 3. Some people acknowledged that it was an interesting concept but said that they were sure MS screwed things up while inventing it and that it was in their humble opinion a bad idea and that users should get a choice about whether to use it or not. 4. They don't trust any product from MS and MS sucks and is evil and wicked and they are sure the wheel is just a mechanism to hurt people and extend their domination and own everyones souls.
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You can't exactly go from one company to another without being forced to cash in all your stock options and abandon the ones that haven't vested yet.
NAZI = National Socialist Party (in German)
Mind you, the last thing I'll call them is left-wing, but they certainly did seem to think of themselves that way.
Do you seriously believe that forcing all software manufacturers to release their code would be productive for society as a whole? Opening up software will mean it gets stolen and the person who developed it doesn't get paid for it. Voila! They stop developing it and everyone suffers. This is exactly what the Communists tried to do - their intentions were good but poor execution meant they were taking away economic incentives and the economy as a whole suffered.
Those tight nondisclosure agreements you talk about mean nothing. The source code will get stolen. So what can you do if someone else steals your code?
First you will have to go through the code for every other product out there before you even know if your code has been stolen. If you've ever been a TA for a programming class you know it is virtually impossible to know if one student has copied code from another if they copier has even the slightest bit of intelligence.
And even when you do find someone who you're sure has copied your code, you will have to go through endless litigation to get back at him for it. And what if it's a company that's not worth anything - even if you win your lawsuit, you'll be stuck with nothing but legal bills and the harm will have already been done
So what happens? You fold up and stop building software because it is just not worth it. This is precisely the problem the communists faced. Their intentions were good, but being poorly applied they took away incentives and progress stopped
And no, doing stuff to expedite or cheapen the legal process is not going to help. The processes are the way they are for a reason - you have to be fair to all parties - the party you think has stolen your stuff may not have! - you have to give them a fair chance to prove it
I don't want to nitpick or be offtopic but I believe the French McDonald sells wine, not beer.
But the breakup remedy I heard had Microsoft split into two divisions. One for the apps and the other for the Operating System with IE! Wasn't that the problem in the first place?
"Now Microsoft giving out donations to Universities, and hospitals. That's a wholly different thing. If they are doing this to gain good PR, well, that is really despicable. No amount of whitewashing will get them out of that anti-trust suit."
So if they don't donate any money they are despicable money-hungry whores but if they do donate it is only to gain good PR and that is really despicable!
Sheesh.
-Donutello - no relation to Donut who also posted a response here
There was this stupid school or something which kept sending me email, almost every other day saying "NEED DEGREES FAST LIKE TODAY".
Obviously they were using false email addresses and there was no point trying to get the providers to disbar them because I doubt they intended to use any of those addresses again.
However, they had a phone number in there which you were supposed to use to reach them. I called that number and at the tone, yelled out a tirade of abuse and insults ending with a threat to call the police if the emails didn't stop.
The emails stopped. I hadn't left my name or anything so, assuming I wasn't the only person they were spamming, I guess they stopped spamming everyone.
The point of my story is that most of these spammers have to provide you a way to get back to them if they are selling something. That is what you should target to get back at them, not the email address they are sending from. If it's a website, get the provider who provides a link to that website to turn them off. Hurt them where they think the advertising will help and make the spamming pointless
In most people, obesity is caused mainly by a craving/desire to eat beyond what your body needs. You can feed people the patch but they'll still want to eat! If they could control their desire to eat then, they can control their desire to eat now.
You know you can use Tools->Language to select your language.
Paul Allen has been selling his MS stock for quite a while now. He used the proceeds to buy, among other things, the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trailblazers, and a bunch of tech companies said to make his the most valuable tech portfolio in the world.
Every time this subject comes around some idiot posts about what they call a "Stock pyramid" based upon offering stock options and then some other idiot moderates that post up. What part of "OFF TOPIC" do the moderators not understand?
It's something almost all companies in this industry do. It's something stock investors are aware of. Do you not presume that these people have the basic intelligence to take that into account when investing in the company? Sheesh, you sound like you're bitter because your girl left you for someone who made it rich because of those stock options.
AAARRGGH! If I never hear another car-to-software analogy again it will be too soon. What is it about computer geeks that we like to compare everything we do to cars anyway?!
IANAAE (I'm not an Aerodynamics Engineer) but I don't think the car in front loses any mileage at all. In fact it gains it because the drag is lessened by the fact that the other car is behind it.
How come daily builds of Windows 2001 are for sale on street corners in Asia, but nobody's leaked MSOffice for linux or IE for linux?
I don't know.. maybe because they don't exist? Duh
Yeah, and in France people think French is a superior language to English too.
My point is: In France people will shift for any number of reasons, including the fact that MS is an American company. Don't infer from this that they did it for reasons of practicality.
The point here is about them allowing a crime to be committed through negligence and through refusal to take action.
Or is this because of a principled objection to copyrights in certain areas. Would your opinion change if the crime being committed was drugs being sold or body parts or something similarly nasty? It's still a crime and I believe that anyone who allows a crime to be committed through negligence shares some responsibility for the crime.
Don't forget Espn.com is owned by Mickey Mouse Inc. That's Disney, ABC, ESPN for you - it's not really that much of a pushover.
The problem is not that the satellites are of no use. The problem is that they are so expensive to maintain that any possible use they can be put to is not worth the cost.
But that has nothing to do with burning up the satellites. The investors will get tax writeoffs for the losses they made, regardless of what Iridium does with the satellites.
Are you talking about BankOfAmerica? I have been using their online bill paying for about 3 years now. I don't need any special software, everything works off the web with both Netscape and IE. You don't need a special kind of account and there are no special charges.
About the only thing I can think of you needing is a Versateller account for which there is a small fee unless you have a regular direct deposit set up to your account.
You should call and ask about HomeBanking
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This is on a T1 connection, btw. Damn, when the FBI decides they don't want to share the information they have, they sure do find a way.
I agree with you except I feel it can be made simpler than that. You should simply be able to type United Airlines and go the the United Airlines website or United Truck Movers or something. If you simply entered United, it would return to you a page with a list of possible companies you might be looking for. And THIS should be the default behavior for all web-browsers when you enter stuff into the Address line (I won't call it the URL line anymore)
IE has something they call "Internet Keywords" which seems like a step in the right direction here.
Right. And HTML is just text and text was invented by the Greeks a long time ago.
I hate frivolous patents as much as the next guy but using existing concepts in new ways to achieve something no one else thought of IS innovation and should be patentable imho.
From a newspaper article thousands of years ago:
In related news, other members of the community denounced the "invention" of the wheel calling it mere FUD. They claimed, varyingly, that:
1. The wheel was the same thing as "walking" which they had originally invented thousands of years earlier.
2. MS just wanted to introduce new jargon like "wheel" to dupe innocent people into believing they were actually innovating.
3. Some people acknowledged that it was an interesting concept but said that they were sure MS screwed things up while inventing it and that it was in their humble opinion a bad idea and that users should get a choice about whether to use it or not.
4. They don't trust any product from MS and MS sucks and is evil and wicked and they are sure the wheel is just a mechanism to hurt people and extend their domination and own everyones souls.