Well, yes, it's nice to cooperate, but do you wish to cooperate with someone who constantly stabs it's cooperants in the back?
If MS fixes the bugs because of their cooperation, it makes things easier for them. Sometimes it's OK to put aside your prejudice and use common business sense.
Same thing happened to me (Virgin Mobile, too). But they only called occasionally (once every couple months, or so). So after a couple years I finally called them back and told them they had the wrong number, and I haven't heard from them since.
You neglected to mention the $20/month in taxes, fees, and other charges that don't appear in the monthly rate... That's funny, because I have AT&T local/long distance and DSL, and my monthly bill is about $33. Of which $18 is for DSL. Leaving $15 to cover both my phone service, and the $20/month in taxes, fees, and other charges. Wow! I guess they're paying me to have phone service!
Maybe this was just a troll, but I don't think so. It sounds that you really believe you are in the right. Do you think that preventing people from sharing information with legal action is the correct way for corporations to maintain their profit margins? Please do elaborate.
And that "hippie dust" you smell, that is called compassion and balance, and it is fueled by what many call "web 2.0" - a revolution in human norms with several billion people all awakening to the gross and ridiculous activities of many wealthy corporations of the world. You really should live it up while you still can karma will catch you.
Your attempt at a pejorative dig shows how intolerant and ignorant you are of what is happening outside of the TV-drivel-eating masses in the US-centric, capitalist, English-speaking money-worship isolated culture you espouse.
Nice cherry-pick on your retort too. The OP was written after I RTFA and your bolding of one phrase to support your argument is, well, powerful in it's own way.
Amazing... all those paragraphs and not a single rebuttal.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to remove your post. I have a patent on "3-step" plans on the internet.
For those who are wondering, yes, I have also patented plans with a "N-1. ???", "N. Profit!" (number of question and exclamation marks variable) sequence on the internet.
Your argument in my opinion reeks of the same fallacy as the "if I got nothing to hide..." argument. But in this case, there's nothing fallacious about it. The information is not publicly available unless you choose to make it publicly available, so there is no invasion of privacy here.
I have never used a Canon, but a new HP all-in-one worked fine out of the box, no drivers/software installation necessary, using generic PS with my Mac. At least for printing. I didn't try scan, since it was actually my dad's, and I was just borrowing it for a bit.
Actually, from TFA, the patent expired in 2000! It just hasn't been widely applied because more development was needed to make it affordable. This really isn't a story about evil patents holding back nice things from the little people.
Did you ever have any development experience on mac? I love developing more on linux than on mac and windows. It is about the usability of the operating systems. Interface is not always graphical, there is something known as the interface with the system which matters a lot. Afterall the main role of any operating system is to provide a good interface upto the root level. If you're developing non-graphically, the interfaces in OS X should be about the same as on Linux. That's why much linux software has been ported to OS X, frequently involving simpy tweaking the make file.
I have developed on Linux (KDevelop with QT, command line), Windows (VS, Eclipse), and Mac 7-X (THINK Pascal, CodeWarrior, XCode/IB, command line). Of these, I found THINK and CodeWarrior to be the best IDEs. For languages, you've got everything on every platform. Most of the Linux libraries are included in OS X, and it has Cocoa for GUI work (and Objective-C is just a nice language). Windows... well... whatever.
"Variables Attributable to
Third Degree Burn*
Water Temp. (F) Exposure time
120 9.5 minutes
125 2.0 minutes
130 30 seconds
140 15 seconds
150 1.8 seconds
158 1.0 seconds
*From studies conducted by Lewis & Love
(1926; Wu. Yung-Chi, N.B.S. (1972); Dr.
M.A. Stoll, for U.S. Navy (1979)"
Strangely, when I stick my finger in a pot of water I'm bringing to a boil, I don't get third degree burns, even shortly before it boils. Certainly, I don't keep my finger in there for a full second when it's 200 F, but those times seem a bit on the short side.
Slashdot Mirror
Before I got DSL I had a modem that had an option to connect at 112Kb/s. As far as I could tell, it worked.
Dangit, meant to choose "insightful," but my finger slipped.
Maybe they're making sure no one else will ever be able to make an ad-supported OS...
If MS fixes the bugs because of their cooperation, it makes things easier for them. Sometimes it's OK to put aside your prejudice and use common business sense.
It's ASCII-Mation, dude! Get with the times!
Gosh... they stole slashdot, too?
Canada is so high in the list of "pirate" countries... if piracy is legal there.
So, basically, they cloned a bacterium?
Same thing happened to me (Virgin Mobile, too). But they only called occasionally (once every couple months, or so). So after a couple years I finally called them back and told them they had the wrong number, and I haven't heard from them since.
Hmm, seems like they've successfully performed a NOT on Moore's law.
Of course, since this is for RENTING a DVD, it shouldn't matter to the consumer whether or not there's DRM, as long as it plays in their device.
And that "hippie dust" you smell, that is called compassion and balance, and it is fueled by what many call "web 2.0" - a revolution in human norms with several billion people all awakening to the gross and ridiculous activities of many wealthy corporations of the world. You really should live it up while you still can karma will catch you.
Your attempt at a pejorative dig shows how intolerant and ignorant you are of what is happening outside of the TV-drivel-eating masses in the US-centric, capitalist, English-speaking money-worship isolated culture you espouse.
Nice cherry-pick on your retort too. The OP was written after I RTFA and your bolding of one phrase to support your argument is, well, powerful in it's own way.
Amazing... all those paragraphs and not a single rebuttal.
The guy's here explaining himself.
For those who are wondering, yes, I have also patented plans with a "N-1. ???", "N. Profit!" (number of question and exclamation marks variable) sequence on the internet.
If it processes it in real time, it doesn't need to record it, really. Just pass through in and out.
I have never used a Canon, but a new HP all-in-one worked fine out of the box, no drivers/software installation necessary, using generic PS with my Mac. At least for printing. I didn't try scan, since it was actually my dad's, and I was just borrowing it for a bit.
Actually, from TFA, the patent expired in 2000! It just hasn't been widely applied because more development was needed to make it affordable. This really isn't a story about evil patents holding back nice things from the little people.
The spammers have hacked Apple!
Eh. They'd probably break parole and just not show up. Slackers.
Nah, they just put them to work in congress.
Nah, they put them to work voting for congress.