Let's see. Apple Software Update popped up a window and said new software is availible, would you like to install it. I clicked quit and it went away. How is this forcing software on me or anyone?
I call bullshit on Mozilla. Microsoft forced IE 8 on me. I did not have a choice. Apple offered me Safari and I turned them down.
Since the courts have also ruled that EULA's cannot remove property rights such as the afore mentioned right to resell software, I'm not going to worry about it. I bought the software. I will use it as I see fit.
Actually, EULA's have been invalidated in cases where companies claimed that you could not resell programs their customers had bought and paid for because of terms in the EULA. I have never agreed to the terms of a EULA in my life. Putting a check box or a button in your software does not a legal agreement make.
Feel free to be bound by such bullshit if you like.
Well, I wouldn't want to keep you from being able to sleep at night.
I tend to ignore bullshit such as, "Even though you've paid for this, you're not allowed to use it." I'm just like that. I rip my CD's and listen to them on my mp3 player. Heck, I even think I'm allowed to to rip my DVD's and watch them on my portable media player. I'm such a rebel.
Of course, you can certainly feel free to follow any unjust laws that the various intellectual property companies have bought and paid for. I just figure my right to use the products that *I* have bought and paid for is more important. (to me anyway)
All you need to run Win32 software is Windows 98. Plenty of people have discs of Windows 9x lying around the house or office not being used. You're not trying to use it as your day to day OS, you just need something that will run Windows software. Be sure to turn off networking in the virtual machine so you don't have to worry about it's flawed internet security. Now you can run whatever vertical software you need for your business.
They intentionally produce computers that are not easily upgradeable to force users to buy a new Mac instead of being able to upgrade their existing Mac. How many times have people asked apple for an inexpensive Mac tower or mini tower with PCIe slots? The Mac Pro is a great machine, but majorly expensive overkill for home users. You produce a consumer OS. Where is the consumer xMac?
They delete posts from Apple's support boards when users post reports of common problems with Apple products. Stop trying to silence customers who try to share information about problems.
If you buy a car from Honda, does Honda get to tell you what road you're allowed to drive it on? If I buy the music I can listen to it on any device I own. When you try to stop me, I will punish you by not purchasing your product anymore.
It's time for the consumers to show them a little 'voting with your feet' action. I absolutely refuse to buy even one more new CD until these asshats stop filing lawsuits against their customers for making use of their fair use rights. If I pay you for the fucking CD, then I have the right to listen to it on my mp3 player. Hell, while we're at it, if I pay for the DVD I have a right to watch it on my media player. If the RIAA and the MPAA try to prevent me... Then you don't get another dime of my money. It is just that simple.
I've seen the GUI completely lock up on an NT 4 file server at a company I worked for back in the 90's. The interesting thing was that even though the machine wouldn't respond to the keyboard or the mouse it would still work just fine as a file and print server. I would just make all the employees log off of the clients and reboot the server. I guess it happened about four or five times during the years I worked there.
There is one small difference between Microsoft's release of Vista and Apple's release of Leopard. Apple's first service pack (10.5.1) was available for download right on the heels of the OS's release to the public. We're talking a matter of days here. Now Vista SP1 on the other hand... Well, it's supposed to ship... NEXT YEAR.
Unfortunately, the reality today is that companies push out software on 'internet time'. If you aren't familiar with the phrase, 'internet time', that's shorthand for 'fuck all that waiting around till the shit actually works noise'.
Now if you're a fanboy and want to install Vista or Leopard on a non-production box to play with teh shiny; well, I'm sure all your fellow geeks and I understand. However, If you install a brand new OS on a machine you need to do productive work on before service pack 2 then you really *are* a fucktard.
Nope... I tried Firefox and didn't see enough reason to switch. Then a colleague showed me Adblock and NoScript. I wanted the functionality they offered badly enough to switch to Firefox. I would happily try any other browser as long as it included the functionality of those two add ins.
My Bad! John is the COO of Mozilla, not the CEO. I guess they need to be sure they toss the big bucks around to a whole herd of suits and not get it out there to the open source coders who actually make a difference in a all those other open source projects we use and love. Heck, it's just like Microsoft. Somebody throw a chair!
Actually, every time I do a search in the Firefox search box I (along with a few million others) am giving Mozilla way, way more money than they actually need. Since this money is coming mostly from users who believe in the open source community, I'm pissed that the money does not go back out to support the open source community.
I suppose that since I do not like the way they are keeping huge piles of bank for themselves, I can just stop using their search box and click a link to go to the google page myself as a form of protest. I assume that going to the web page and searching myself doesn't generate revenue for Mozilla/Firefox like using the built in search box does.
Let's face it, Mozilla doesn't need a six figure CEO to coordinate a small group of programmers.
Mozilla expenses for 2006 were $19,776,193. Expenditures remain highly focused in two key areas: people and infrastructure. By the end of 2006 Mozilla was funding approximately 90 people working full or part-time on Mozilla around the world.
You need a six figure CEO to manage 90 freaking people? BULLSHIT!!!
I was truly confused when John Lilly (the CEO in question) started talking smack when Apple released a free web browser for windows. When you coordinate an open source group that gives away free software, why should you be threatened by anybody else giving away a free software? Well, I can think of half a million reasons for it now!
Force the money on him anyway! (kidding) Do all the other creators of top ten extensions feel the same way? How about sharing the love with the folks at Samba, Apache, Et al.
There is no way that the head of an open source project should be taking half a mil in compensation. Donate the freaking money to other open source projects that have done important work for the open source community.
I'm sure the Samba and Apache crews can use a little of the love. Hell, the people who created Adblock are the reason I use Firefox... Give them some of the damn cash! Which other open source projects do you think have done the community a lot of good and deserve some of the bank?
Windows NT 3.1 = Windows NT version 1 Windows NT 3.51 = Windows NT version 1.5 Windows NT 4 = Windows NT version 2 Windows 2000 = Windows NT version 3 Windows XP = Windows NT version 3.1 Windows Vista = Windows NT version 4 The thing MS is calling "Windows 7" = Windows NT version 5
The Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x code trees were unrelated dead ends and were abandoned. When keeping up with which version number Windows has gotten up to, you should only pay attention to the NT based versions.
If you have a Mac, you can pay Ambrosia Software 15 bucks for their program that lets you create and sync as many custom ringtones as you would like to your iPhone. If you have Windows as far as I know you're SOL. Ambrosia has done Windows versions of some of their software in the past though. It wouldn't hurt to go to their website and request a Windows Version.
What idiot in Apple's Marketing department let them launch this without a commercial featuring Jim Morrison? 'Come on, come on, come on... Touch me babe!"
Apparently, the thing you missed was the intelligence to realize that referring to 'Apple's MP3 player" covers both iPod and iTunes.
Just in case that still isn't enough to clue you in, iTunes is an Apple MP3 player that can rip music CD's into MP3 files that can play on the iPod (which by the way is a hardware MP3 player) or any other (hardware or software) MP3 player on the market.
Interestingly, when Microsoft shipped Windows XP, it's version of Windows Media Player did not have that ability at all. Instead, Windows Media Player could only rip to Microsoft's proprietary WMA format unless you paid extra for the privilege of ripping to the industry standard MP3 format.
I do know how much using standards available to others on an even playing field disturbs Microsoft and it's fanboys though. Why else keep taking multi million dollar hits to the bottom line to avoid complying with EU antitrust restrictions on opening up your formats and protocols to competitors?
This is not to say that one is better than the other -- just that they meet different needs in the marketplace.
Dear Microsoft,
Thank you for your input. However our needs in the marketplace seem to be different than your own. Most users don't find being locked into a Microsoft proprietary document format to be their most important need. How about you quit bitching about Apple locking people into their proprietary music player long enough to quit locking users into your Office document formats, or your Exchange email sever, or any of your products that refuse to support open standards. After all, Apple's MP3 player will let me play a standard MP3 and will allow me to rip a standard CD. How about you let us open an open standard document format?
LOL... I put Greg Bear on my list based on his older stuff like Moving Mars, Eon, Forge of God, and Anvil of Stars... Then I took him right back off based on his newer crap like Darwin's Children and Dead Lines. I was so, so disappointed in both of them.
Don't forget Destination Moon which was loosely based off of Heinlein's first juvenile, Rocketship Galileo. RAH wrote the script for the movie and helped with production.
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Let's see. Apple Software Update popped up a window and said new software is availible, would you like to install it. I clicked quit and it went away. How is this forcing software on me or anyone?
I call bullshit on Mozilla. Microsoft forced IE 8 on me. I did not have a choice. Apple offered me Safari and I turned them down.
Since the courts have also ruled that EULA's cannot remove property rights such as the afore mentioned right to resell software, I'm not going to worry about it. I bought the software. I will use it as I see fit.
Actually, EULA's have been invalidated in cases where companies claimed that you could not resell programs their customers had bought and paid for because of terms in the EULA. I have never agreed to the terms of a EULA in my life. Putting a check box or a button in your software does not a legal agreement make.
Feel free to be bound by such bullshit if you like.
Well, I wouldn't want to keep you from being able to sleep at night.
I tend to ignore bullshit such as, "Even though you've paid for this, you're not allowed to use it." I'm just like that. I rip my CD's and listen to them on my mp3 player. Heck, I even think I'm allowed to to rip my DVD's and watch them on my portable media player. I'm such a rebel.
Of course, you can certainly feel free to follow any unjust laws that the various intellectual property companies have bought and paid for. I just figure my right to use the products that *I* have bought and paid for is more important. (to me anyway)
All you need to run Win32 software is Windows 98. Plenty of people have discs of Windows 9x lying around the house or office not being used. You're not trying to use it as your day to day OS, you just need something that will run Windows software. Be sure to turn off networking in the virtual machine so you don't have to worry about it's flawed internet security. Now you can run whatever vertical software you need for your business.
They intentionally produce computers that are not easily upgradeable to force users to buy a new Mac instead of being able to upgrade their existing Mac. How many times have people asked apple for an inexpensive Mac tower or mini tower with PCIe slots? The Mac Pro is a great machine, but majorly expensive overkill for home users. You produce a consumer OS. Where is the consumer xMac?
They delete posts from Apple's support boards when users post reports of common problems with Apple products. Stop trying to silence customers who try to share information about problems.
If you buy a car from Honda, does Honda get to tell you what road you're allowed to drive it on? If I buy the music I can listen to it on any device I own. When you try to stop me, I will punish you by not purchasing your product anymore.
It's time for the consumers to show them a little 'voting with your feet' action. I absolutely refuse to buy even one more new CD until these asshats stop filing lawsuits against their customers for making use of their fair use rights. If I pay you for the fucking CD, then I have the right to listen to it on my mp3 player. Hell, while we're at it, if I pay for the DVD I have a right to watch it on my media player. If the RIAA and the MPAA try to prevent me... Then you don't get another dime of my money. It is just that simple.
Mac OS X is free... With the purchase of any Mac. :oP
I've seen the GUI completely lock up on an NT 4 file server at a company I worked for back in the 90's. The interesting thing was that even though the machine wouldn't respond to the keyboard or the mouse it would still work just fine as a file and print server. I would just make all the employees log off of the clients and reboot the server. I guess it happened about four or five times during the years I worked there.
There is one small difference between Microsoft's release of Vista and Apple's release of Leopard. Apple's first service pack (10.5.1) was available for download right on the heels of the OS's release to the public. We're talking a matter of days here. Now Vista SP1 on the other hand... Well, it's supposed to ship... NEXT YEAR.
Unfortunately, the reality today is that companies push out software on 'internet time'. If you aren't familiar with the phrase, 'internet time', that's shorthand for 'fuck all that waiting around till the shit actually works noise'.
Now if you're a fanboy and want to install Vista or Leopard on a non-production box to play with teh shiny; well, I'm sure all your fellow geeks and I understand. However, If you install a brand new OS on a machine you need to do productive work on before service pack 2 then you really *are* a fucktard.
Nope... I tried Firefox and didn't see enough reason to switch. Then a colleague showed me Adblock and NoScript. I wanted the functionality they offered badly enough to switch to Firefox. I would happily try any other browser as long as it included the functionality of those two add ins.
My Bad! John is the COO of Mozilla, not the CEO. I guess they need to be sure they toss the big bucks around to a whole herd of suits and not get it out there to the open source coders who actually make a difference in a all those other open source projects we use and love. Heck, it's just like Microsoft. Somebody throw a chair!
I suppose that since I do not like the way they are keeping huge piles of bank for themselves, I can just stop using their search box and click a link to go to the google page myself as a form of protest. I assume that going to the web page and searching myself doesn't generate revenue for Mozilla/Firefox like using the built in search box does.
Let's face it, Mozilla doesn't need a six figure CEO to coordinate a small group of programmers.
Mozilla expenses for 2006 were $19,776,193. Expenditures remain highly focused in two key areas: people and infrastructure. By the end of 2006 Mozilla was funding approximately 90 people working full or part-time on Mozilla around the world.
You need a six figure CEO to manage 90 freaking people? BULLSHIT!!!
I was truly confused when John Lilly (the CEO in question) started talking smack when Apple released a free web browser for windows. When you coordinate an open source group that gives away free software, why should you be threatened by anybody else giving away a free software? Well, I can think of half a million reasons for it now!
Force the money on him anyway! (kidding) Do all the other creators of top ten extensions feel the same way? How about sharing the love with the folks at Samba, Apache, Et al.
There is no way that the head of an open source project should be taking half a mil in compensation. Donate the freaking money to other open source projects that have done important work for the open source community.
I'm sure the Samba and Apache crews can use a little of the love. Hell, the people who created Adblock are the reason I use Firefox... Give them some of the damn cash! Which other open source projects do you think have done the community a lot of good and deserve some of the bank?
You see, It goes like this....
Windows NT 3.1 = Windows NT version 1
Windows NT 3.51 = Windows NT version 1.5
Windows NT 4 = Windows NT version 2
Windows 2000 = Windows NT version 3
Windows XP = Windows NT version 3.1
Windows Vista = Windows NT version 4
The thing MS is calling "Windows 7" = Windows NT version 5
The Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x code trees were unrelated dead ends and were abandoned. When keeping up with which version number Windows has gotten up to, you should only pay attention to the NT based versions.
If you have a Mac, you can pay Ambrosia Software 15 bucks for their program that lets you create and sync as many custom ringtones as you would like to your iPhone. If you have Windows as far as I know you're SOL. Ambrosia has done Windows versions of some of their software in the past though. It wouldn't hurt to go to their website and request a Windows Version.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/
What idiot in Apple's Marketing department let them launch this without a commercial featuring Jim Morrison? 'Come on, come on, come on... Touch me babe!"
How many months till XP is not available anymore at retail or OEM levels? Oh, that's right... Five.
Turning on sharing doesn't share every users home directory. It shares the public directory inside their home directory.
Apparently, the thing you missed was the intelligence to realize that referring to 'Apple's MP3 player" covers both iPod and iTunes.
Just in case that still isn't enough to clue you in, iTunes is an Apple MP3 player that can rip music CD's into MP3 files that can play on the iPod (which by the way is a hardware MP3 player) or any other (hardware or software) MP3 player on the market.
Interestingly, when Microsoft shipped Windows XP, it's version of Windows Media Player did not have that ability at all. Instead, Windows Media Player could only rip to Microsoft's proprietary WMA format unless you paid extra for the privilege of ripping to the industry standard MP3 format.
I do know how much using standards available to others on an even playing field disturbs Microsoft and it's fanboys though. Why else keep taking multi million dollar hits to the bottom line to avoid complying with EU antitrust restrictions on opening up your formats and protocols to competitors?
Dear Microsoft,
Thank you for your input. However our needs in the marketplace seem to be different than your own. Most users don't find being locked into a Microsoft proprietary document format to be their most important need. How about you quit bitching about Apple locking people into their proprietary music player long enough to quit locking users into your Office document formats, or your Exchange email sever, or any of your products that refuse to support open standards. After all, Apple's MP3 player will let me play a standard MP3 and will allow me to rip a standard CD. How about you let us open an open standard document format?
Fuck you very much,
Your Users
LOL... I put Greg Bear on my list based on his older stuff like Moving Mars, Eon, Forge of God, and Anvil of Stars... Then I took him right back off based on his newer crap like Darwin's Children and Dead Lines. I was so, so disappointed in both of them.
Don't forget Destination Moon which was loosely based off of Heinlein's first juvenile, Rocketship Galileo. RAH wrote the script for the movie and helped with production.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Moon_(fi