Did I read the article right? Dell isn't publishing the terms of the contract, but are keeping the old contracts online. So in the UK, if you buy a Dell you enter into a contract without knowing the terms. How is that fairer than an unfair contract you can read?
Personally, I think it would be sort of sucky for a few months, but if everyone just stopped buying music and videos from *AA affiliated musicians, perhaps the hint would work.
"sucky"? I think it would be fabulous. It's time to get serious. Call or write your local commercial radio station and tell them you are boycotting all their advertisers for supporting the RIAA. We must do everything we can to stop these RIAA-related articles from showing up on slashdot.
(at least from Microsoft's perspective) They have, and can use, all your personal contact information for the price of putting a few documents online. Don't you feel like a sucker?
Except the Nokia 1100 doesn't appear to be available. And they sure want to sell you a plan -- Hey look, the phone is $50. No wait, it's really a Nokia 6230 and it's $249 if you don't sign up for our plan. WTF-- I already have all the vendor lockin I need.
In other news, everyone whose income doesn't derive from Microsoft marketing efforts is sick and tired of "innovation and choice". Time for some new marketing buzzwords.
Microsoft isn't announcing that they are implementing ODF, they are saying they won't take you to court if you write a plugin to save Office documents to ODF. The announcement is pure obfuscation. You don't need the features of the Microsoft Word application when you create a PDF document from a document created in Word; you need the features of a PDF document.
Cows are already out of the barn anyway. Apparently a plugin already exists which works with MS Office versions since 1997
Yes, but is this such a big deal? Corporate product needs passive receivers; real culture invites active participation. When corporate media is controlled end-to-end, it will die because it will never be a part of the culture in any meaningful way. You see it on tv and then it goes away, an endless stream of effectively identical units whose sole purpose is to put eyes in front of commercials. Just tune out. You'll be so much happier.
I hear that people who don't do stuff become senile earlier.
You already don't write longhand probably. Maybe don't play an acoustic musical instrument, recite poetry or exercise regularly. At least keep memorizing random strings for authentication and some vestige of mental function.
Actually there's another, critical, main difference between Microsoft's and Google's positions: Microsoft is a convicted monopolist using their dominant position with their own product (IE7, a piece of software) to try to win market dominance in another field (search engine, a service that users of a web browser may like to use). Mozilla/Firefox and Google, as far as I know, are independent entitiies cooperating because it's in their mutual best interest.
Back in the day, I had a friend who had a clerical job working for the great state of Florida. Well, she got fired because she could do her alotted day's work in about three hours and spent the rest of the workday reading novels. Di'n't look raht to the reguller folks what had ben ther fer 20 years waitin' fo retahrmnt.
Here, here. Nearly every time I try answer my phone in a hurry, I hang it up accidentally. I can't count the times I turned on the camera while trying to exit out of a menu. And it's totally annoying to navigate to my address book and find myself launching a friggin' aol client. Not mention, screen is unreadable in ordinary day light, java boots slowly and sometimes seems to crash.
I have friend with an ancient motorola, no color screen, hardly any doo-dads. I'm so jealous.
Or go into business for yourself. Harder. More work than you ever thought possible. Have to learn how to sell. But you can charge whatever the market will bear. Until computers become appliances, there is a huge market for computer help. It's not sexy. When you've cleaned up your 5th windows virus in 3 days, you'll be totally bored, but the checks will keep on coming in.
But, yeah, it's a waste of a computer science degree. More like being a plumber.
Unfortunately this guy's day job is lobbying for the folks that destroy the environment -- that's right Greenspirit Technologies Ltd. is making money lobbying for the interests of energy companies and chemical manufacturers. He couldn't possibly be biased could he?
http://www.greenspiritstrategies.com/F6.cfm
As for the safety of nuclear energy... I consider our stellar success in keeping chemical contaminants out of the water supply, and raw sewage out of the ocean off of the coast of Southern California, as indicators that it ain't likely that nuclear energy will be safely deployed.
Uhm, and then we could move on to the Bush administration's desire to be producing a few hundred new nukes a year as another good reason to just say no to nuclear energy.
share-able among the workgroup members, on or off site
cross-platform client support
doesn't live on somebody else's server
Apple could make iCal into this, it wouldn't be that hard. I certainly wouldn't complain if the server only ran on OSX Server.
In the meantime, I recommend MeetingMaker. Rock solid server software for Mac/Windows/Solaris/Linux . Native clients for Mac and Windows, Java clients for anything else. There's even a connector for outlook if you really must....
"This is one thing mac users have been bitching about for awhile now. No upgrade pricing!"
That's assuming there's a compelling reason to upgrade. I've got an office full of OSX users on Panther for 2 years, and those machines may go out of service still running Panther, unless there is some "gotta have" feature in Leopard. Granted, this is a business, and there isn't a compelling case for getting the latest enhancements to iLife.
Apple is a hardware company. Their hardware support extends to creating user-friendly applications that non-techies like to use and an operating system that 'just works'. Now Apple releases Boot Camp -- even more support for end users who want tools they can use to do the things they need to do, rather than provide a guaranteed employment scheme for armies of troubleshooters. Apple isn't competing with Microsoft, they are competing with Dell.
Let's be realistic. Innovation in health care is wasted effort in the US. Your health insurance, if you even have any, isn't going to pay for treatment using this technology within your lifetime. And no matter how good the technology is, you are going to die sooner or later, anyway. But, until you kick the bucket, you can have a healthy life. This is already possible for most of us without nanotechnology-- it just requires an attitude of care for the machinery.
As noted by others, it's not legal because Microsoft is a monopoly and the anti-virus companies could easily make the case that bundling by Microsoft is an illegal use of monopoly power to get into a market they don't currently control (or something along those lines.) So to avoid messy lawsuits, Microsoft needs only to design and market a secure operating system. They don't technically get more money, as they don't have an add-on product to sell-- but the anti-virus vendors basically go out of business and the cost of owning a PC goes down, which helps Microsoft keep the price of its software afloat. Of course, with their cash reserves they'll probably find it easier to just litigate.
Ya know, it's just possible that he's a competent manager, but doesn't understand how the internet works. (And apparently isn't able to read the default page in its entirety [well he wouldn't be the first]). The guy's clearly in the wrong, we all know it, let him 'save face' (what a weird expression), and move on.
The retailers don't need to follow customers around to see what food, books, electronic gear, etc., they buy; they just offer a discount for "joining". Not much different from some of the come-ons that convince naive users to install spyware, actually.
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Did I read the article right? Dell isn't publishing the terms of the contract, but are keeping the old contracts online. So in the UK, if you buy a Dell you enter into a contract without knowing the terms. How is that fairer than an unfair contract you can read?
Apparently hosted on a german university server.
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Personally, I think it would be sort of sucky for a few months, but if everyone just stopped buying music and videos from *AA affiliated musicians, perhaps the hint would work.
"sucky"? I think it would be fabulous. It's time to get serious. Call or write your local commercial radio station and tell them you are boycotting all their advertisers for supporting the RIAA. We must do everything we can to stop these RIAA-related articles from showing up on slashdot.
(at least from Microsoft's perspective)
They have, and can use, all your personal contact information for the price of putting a few documents online. Don't you feel like a sucker?
Except the Nokia 1100 doesn't appear to be available. And they sure want to sell you a plan -- Hey look, the phone is $50. No wait, it's really a Nokia 6230 and it's $249 if you don't sign up for our plan. WTF-- I already have all the vendor lockin I need.
In fact, the last link in the article, pretty pictures and all, is just an extended advertisment for a homeopathic remedy.
In other news, everyone whose income doesn't derive from Microsoft marketing efforts is sick and tired of "innovation and choice". Time for some new marketing buzzwords.
Microsoft isn't announcing that they are implementing ODF, they are saying they won't take you to court if you write a plugin to save Office documents to ODF. The announcement is pure obfuscation. You don't need the features of the Microsoft Word application when you create a PDF document from a document created in Word; you need the features of a PDF document.
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Cows are already out of the barn anyway. Apparently a plugin already exists which works with MS Office versions since 1997
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060504
Yes, but is this such a big deal? Corporate product needs passive receivers; real culture invites active participation. When corporate media is controlled end-to-end, it will die because it will never be a part of the culture in any meaningful way. You see it on tv and then it goes away, an endless stream of effectively identical units whose sole purpose is to put eyes in front of commercials. Just tune out. You'll be so much happier.
I hear that people who don't do stuff become senile earlier.
You already don't write longhand probably. Maybe don't play an acoustic musical instrument, recite poetry or exercise regularly. At least keep memorizing random strings for authentication and some vestige of mental function.
Actually there's another, critical, main difference between Microsoft's and Google's positions: Microsoft is a convicted monopolist using their dominant position with their own product (IE7, a piece of software) to try to win market dominance in another field (search engine, a service that users of a web browser may like to use). Mozilla/Firefox and Google, as far as I know, are independent entitiies cooperating because it's in their mutual best interest.
Back in the day, I had a friend who had a clerical job working for the great state of Florida. Well, she got fired because she could do her alotted day's work in about three hours and spent the rest of the workday reading novels. Di'n't look raht to the reguller folks what had ben ther fer 20 years waitin' fo retahrmnt.
She said "Veronica". mmm.
Here, here. Nearly every time I try answer my phone in a hurry, I hang it up accidentally. I can't count the times I turned on the camera while trying to exit out of a menu. And it's totally annoying to navigate to my address book and find myself launching a friggin' aol client. Not mention, screen is unreadable in ordinary day light, java boots slowly and sometimes seems to crash.
I have friend with an ancient motorola, no color screen, hardly any doo-dads. I'm so jealous.
Or go into business for yourself. Harder. More work than you ever thought possible. Have to learn how to sell. But you can charge whatever the market will bear. Until computers become appliances, there is a huge market for computer help. It's not sexy. When you've cleaned up your 5th windows virus in 3 days, you'll be totally bored, but the checks will keep on coming in.
But, yeah, it's a waste of a computer science degree. More like being a plumber.
Imagine making 1 billion slashdot posts at -1. Oh that was me before I got an account.
Unfortunately this guy's day job is lobbying for the folks that destroy the environment -- that's right Greenspirit Technologies Ltd. is making money lobbying for the interests of energy companies and chemical manufacturers. He couldn't possibly be biased could he? http://www.greenspiritstrategies.com/F6.cfm
As for the safety of nuclear energy... I consider our stellar success in keeping chemical contaminants out of the water supply, and raw sewage out of the ocean off of the coast of Southern California, as indicators that it ain't likely that nuclear energy will be safely deployed.
Uhm, and then we could move on to the Bush administration's desire to be producing a few hundred new nukes a year as another good reason to just say no to nuclear energy.
share-able among the workgroup members, on or off site
cross-platform client support
doesn't live on somebody else's server
Apple could make iCal into this, it wouldn't be that hard. I certainly wouldn't complain if the server only ran on OSX Server.
In the meantime, I recommend MeetingMaker. Rock solid server software for Mac/Windows/Solaris/Linux . Native clients for Mac and Windows, Java clients for anything else. There's even a connector for outlook if you really must....
So I can eliminate bloat by pirating the software? That can't be right. Must read article. Yawn.
"This is one thing mac users have been bitching about for awhile now. No upgrade pricing!"
That's assuming there's a compelling reason to upgrade. I've got an office full of OSX users on Panther for 2 years, and those machines may go out of service still running Panther, unless there is some "gotta have" feature in Leopard. Granted, this is a business, and there isn't a compelling case for getting the latest enhancements to iLife.
Apple is a hardware company. Their hardware support extends to creating user-friendly applications that non-techies like to use and an operating system that 'just works'. Now Apple releases Boot Camp -- even more support for end users who want tools they can use to do the things they need to do, rather than provide a guaranteed employment scheme for armies of troubleshooters. Apple isn't competing with Microsoft, they are competing with Dell.
Let's be realistic. Innovation in health care is wasted effort in the US. Your health insurance, if you even have any, isn't going to pay for treatment using this technology within your lifetime. And no matter how good the technology is, you are going to die sooner or later, anyway. But, until you kick the bucket, you can have a healthy life. This is already possible for most of us without nanotechnology-- it just requires an attitude of care for the machinery.
As noted by others, it's not legal because Microsoft is a monopoly and the anti-virus companies could easily make the case that bundling by Microsoft is an illegal use of monopoly power to get into a market they don't currently control (or something along those lines.) So to avoid messy lawsuits, Microsoft needs only to design and market a secure operating system. They don't technically get more money, as they don't have an add-on product to sell-- but the anti-virus vendors basically go out of business and the cost of owning a PC goes down, which helps Microsoft keep the price of its software afloat. Of course, with their cash reserves they'll probably find it easier to just litigate.
Ya know, it's just possible that he's a competent manager, but doesn't understand how the internet works. (And apparently isn't able to read the default page in its entirety [well he wouldn't be the first]). The guy's clearly in the wrong, we all know it, let him 'save face' (what a weird expression), and move on.
Let's be compassionate.
The retailers don't need to follow customers around to see what food, books, electronic gear, etc., they buy; they just offer a discount for "joining". Not much different from some of the come-ons that convince naive users to install spyware, actually.