what is the point of saying the BSA is "Microsoft-backed"?
The CNET article about Ernie Ball titled "Rockin' On Without Microsoft" probably has something to do with it.
How did that happen? We pass our old computers down. The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don't wipe the hard drive on that PC, that's a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn't being used, it's still a violation if it's on that hard drive. What I really thought is that you ought to treat people the way you want to be treated. I couldn't treat a customer the way Microsoft dealt with me...I went from being a pro-Microsoft guy to instantly being an anti-Microsoft guy.
LightSquared made a $30,400 donation to the Democrats in Sept, 2010. One month later, in October, they made an identical $30,400 donation to the Republicans.
You know, that should be a felony. If you give money to both candidates in a race, it's clearly bribery. Is it no wonder our country is so screwed up these days? Or that there seems to be little difference between Ds and Rs?
I live in Springfield, IL. 110,000 population in Springfield itself and probably twice that if you count all the little towns like Southern View that are actually part of Springfield. But my only choices are Comcast and AT&T.
Sometimes you can determine quality from an actor because they discriminate on what they will do based on the writing, but this is not a sure thing with most actors.
It's never a sure thing. I'd never seen a single movie with either Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman in it that I didn't like, so I plunked down five bucks at Walmart for a movie I'd never heard of, Red.
Possibly the worst movie I ever wasted money on. It was simply a disjointed, incomprehensible mess.
Not decriminalization; most of society's problems with illegal drugs is the illegal trade itself. Making posession legal won't help a bit (although for addictive drugs free treatment would help, but marijuana isn't one of them).
Legalize them, regulate them, tax them. Put the damned Mexican mafia out of business. Buy your crack and heroin in the drug store, buy your weed at a smoke shop or liquor store.
And the country isn't run by idiots, it's run by greedy selfish sociopaths. Never assume idiocy what greedy self-interest explains.
Hey, hairyfeet, stop responding to your own posts, you are not fooling anyone, and you are not being paid for anonymous responses.
How do you know he's not? I suspect that he's employed by Microsoft to bitchslap Linux, because he's so pro-Microsoft that even Steve Ballmer would blush at some of the stuff he posts. He seems to have an almost psychotic hatred of anything open source, especially Linux.
Of course, maybe he doesn't work for MS. Maybe he just has a learning disability. Or maybe he's parodying Apple fans?
Yes, people under 40 see what's happening. Why do you think Ron Paul is consistently crushing his GOP primary rivals in the 18-30 bracket?
Because those under 40 have no idea how badly the environment had been polluted before the EPA that Paul wants to abolish existed. If I could borrow Rority's timeship and take any one of his supporters to any factory back in 1965 they would cease being Ron Paul supporters.
Kids, it was fucking NASTY back then. Ron Paul is plenty old enough to know that.
It's effective at promoting stigma for the recreational use of a drug that is literally less dangerous than ibuprofen.
Not just ibuprophin, but aspirin, Naproxin (Alieve) and acetaminophen (tylenol). Acetaminophen overdose or use with other drugs (alcohol being one) can cause fatal liver damage. Someone I know now has no belly button because of Naproxin; the stuff ate a hole in her gut. The surgery left a scar from her chest to where her belly button used to be and she was in the hospital for a month.
But you knew that, since slashdot draws that funny squiggly red line under a misspelled word.
1. Slashdot doesn't, your browser does. Unless you're using IE 7 or less, in which case everything is spelled correctly, even grobatrelovs.
2. imperical: originating in or based on observation or experience . Your spell checker doesn't flag it if you're using the wrong word. Substitute "yore" or "your" for "you're" in the previous sentence and it is incorrect but unflagged.
Even a few larger ones. Ernie Ball is one of (if not the) largest guitar string manufacturers in the world. They switched to Open Source after a BSA lawsuit.
In 2000, the Business Software Alliance conducted a raid and subsequent audit at the San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based company that turned up a few dozen unlicensed copies of programs. Ball settled for $65,000, plus $35,000 in legal fees. But by then, the BSA, a trade group that helps enforce copyrights and licensing provisions for major business software makers, had put the company on the evening news and featured it in regional ads warning other businesses to monitor their software licenses.
Humiliated by the experience, Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly."
Ball's IT crew settled on a potpourri of open-source software--Red Hat's version of Linux, the OpenOffice office suite, Mozilla's Web browser--plus a few proprietary applications that couldn't be duplicated by open source. Ball, whose father, Ernie, founded the company, says the transition was a breeze, and since then he's been happy to extol the virtues of open-source software to anyone who asks.
Actually, she wasn't that bad lookijng, but I'm having a hard time finding photos of her when she was young. This photo looks like she's maybe 50 or so.
You seem to think that "value" has to be monetary all the time.
No, just in this context. It isn't the value to you; if it wasn't more valuable to you than the money you paid for it you would have never bought it. But its value to the publisher is purely the lucre and only the lucre.
Britannica went bankrupt in 1996, long before Wikipedia was a crowdsourced gleam in Jimmy Walesâ(TM) open-access eye. In 1990, the company had $650 million in revenue. In 1996, it was being sold off in toto for $135 million. What happened in between was Encarta.
Not because Encarta made Microsoft money (it didnâ(TM)t), or because Britannica didnâ(TM)t develop comparable products for CD-ROM and the web (they totally did, with the first CD-ROM encyclopedia in 1989 and Britannica Online in 1994). Instead, Encarta was an inexpensive, multimedia, not-at-all comprehensive encyclopedia that helped Microsoft sell Windows PCs to families. And once you had a PC in the living room or den where the encyclopedia used to be, it was all over for Mighty Britannica.
When Wikipedia emerged five years later, Britannica was already a weakened giant. It wasnâ(TM)t a free and open encyclopedia that defeated its print edition. It was the personal computer itself.
*sigh* damned kids, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I was stationed in Thailand in the USAF in 1974. Heroin was incredibly cheap, easy to obtain, and fifty times as powerful as the streets in the US, nearly 100% pure. I knew a LOT of heroin junkies there. I met a few after returning to the US, and none of them continued their heroin habits -- but all of them still smoked cigarettes. Yes, quitting heroin is much worse than giving up coffee, but giving up cigarettes is harder.
You not only don't understand, you don't WANT to understand.
As to "destroy the ability to act rationally", you don't have to be addicted to alcohol for it to make you irrational, just a little drunk.
Again, have you ever known of anyone who stole to support their alcohol or cigarette habits? Alcohol's withdrawal symptoms are so severe they can be fatal. You might want to see what wikipedia says aboout alcohol's addictiveness... no, probably not since you insist on remaining ignorant.
Withdrawal reactions as a result of physical dependence on alcohol is the most dangerous and can be fatal. It often creates a full blown effect which is physically evident through shivering, palpitations, sweating and in some cases, convulsions and death if not treated.[5]... Unlike the withdrawal syndrome associated with opiate dependence, DT (and alcohol withdrawal in general) can be fatal. Mortality was as high as 35% before the advent of intensive care and advanced pharmacotherapy; in the modern era of medicine, death rates range from 5-15%.[1]
Some of you ignorant, bull headed kids really annoy me. Wake up and smell the shit your government is serving you. Alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous drugs there are.
As TFA points out, most people didn't crack open their copies of Encyclopedia Britannica (although it appears from the anecdotes around here that the Slashdot demographic, as is typical, is behaves completely different from the rest of the human population).
Of course we're different. I'll bet any slashdotter who had a set of them read every single volume, cover to cover. I know I did (there were 26 volumes then, I was 12)
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what is the point of saying the BSA is "Microsoft-backed"?
The CNET article about Ernie Ball titled "Rockin' On Without Microsoft" probably has something to do with it.
Maybe it will drive more businesses towards using F/OSS tools and ditch their shackles. Something very Marxian about it ....
Karl or Groucho?
LightSquared made a $30,400 donation to the Democrats in Sept, 2010. One month later, in October, they made an identical $30,400 donation to the Republicans.
You know, that should be a felony. If you give money to both candidates in a race, it's clearly bribery. Is it no wonder our country is so screwed up these days? Or that there seems to be little difference between Ds and Rs?
I live in Springfield, IL. 110,000 population in Springfield itself and probably twice that if you count all the little towns like Southern View that are actually part of Springfield. But my only choices are Comcast and AT&T.
When I submitted this article, the preview wasn't reliably displaying changes to text in the edit box;
Yeah, that's been broken for quite a while. I hate the way they changed journal submissions, too.
"needs struggles" got by me.
Fixing that's supposed to be an editor's job. Sometimes they do an excellent job and sometimes they do a really bad one.
so what really interest's me
What interests me is finding out why in the hell you guys do that?
Sometimes you can determine quality from an actor because they discriminate on what they will do based on the writing, but this is not a sure thing with most actors.
It's never a sure thing. I'd never seen a single movie with either Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman in it that I didn't like, so I plunked down five bucks at Walmart for a movie I'd never heard of, Red.
Possibly the worst movie I ever wasted money on. It was simply a disjointed, incomprehensible mess.
Not decriminalization; most of society's problems with illegal drugs is the illegal trade itself. Making posession legal won't help a bit (although for addictive drugs free treatment would help, but marijuana isn't one of them).
Legalize them, regulate them, tax them. Put the damned Mexican mafia out of business. Buy your crack and heroin in the drug store, buy your weed at a smoke shop or liquor store.
And the country isn't run by idiots, it's run by greedy selfish sociopaths. Never assume idiocy what greedy self-interest explains.
It's ° and it doesn't work here. I wish they'd fix that, the degree sign is pretty damned necessary at a science/tech site.
Except that it's Obama's Federal attorney who got the money back. It's Republican Bloomberg who helped SAIC rob it.
Modding him flamebait pretty much proves his point. Jesus, guys, wtf is wrong with you?
Now waste some mod points on me so you'll not have so many left to mod down other informative comments. You won't hurt my karma.
Hey, hairyfeet, stop responding to your own posts, you are not fooling anyone, and you are not being paid for anonymous responses.
How do you know he's not? I suspect that he's employed by Microsoft to bitchslap Linux, because he's so pro-Microsoft that even Steve Ballmer would blush at some of the stuff he posts. He seems to have an almost psychotic hatred of anything open source, especially Linux.
Of course, maybe he doesn't work for MS. Maybe he just has a learning disability. Or maybe he's parodying Apple fans?
Yes, people under 40 see what's happening. Why do you think Ron Paul is consistently crushing his GOP primary rivals in the 18-30 bracket?
Because those under 40 have no idea how badly the environment had been polluted before the EPA that Paul wants to abolish existed. If I could borrow Rority's timeship and take any one of his supporters to any factory back in 1965 they would cease being Ron Paul supporters.
Kids, it was fucking NASTY back then. Ron Paul is plenty old enough to know that.
It's effective at promoting stigma for the recreational use of a drug that is literally less dangerous than ibuprofen.
Not just ibuprophin, but aspirin, Naproxin (Alieve) and acetaminophen (tylenol). Acetaminophen overdose or use with other drugs (alcohol being one) can cause fatal liver damage. Someone I know now has no belly button because of Naproxin; the stuff ate a hole in her gut. The surgery left a scar from her chest to where her belly button used to be and she was in the hospital for a month.
We in Illinois are so patriotic that even being dead doesn't keep us from voting!
But you knew that, since slashdot draws that funny squiggly red line under a misspelled word.
1. Slashdot doesn't, your browser does. Unless you're using IE 7 or less, in which case everything is spelled correctly, even grobatrelovs.
2. imperical: originating in or based on observation or experience . Your spell checker doesn't flag it if you're using the wrong word. Substitute "yore" or "your" for "you're" in the previous sentence and it is incorrect but unflagged.
Even a few larger ones. Ernie Ball is one of (if not the) largest guitar string manufacturers in the world. They switched to Open Source after a BSA lawsuit.
Actually, she wasn't that bad lookijng, but I'm having a hard time finding photos of her when she was young. This photo looks like she's maybe 50 or so.
You seem to think that "value" has to be monetary all the time.
No, just in this context. It isn't the value to you; if it wasn't more valuable to you than the money you paid for it you would have never bought it. But its value to the publisher is purely the lucre and only the lucre.
From TFA:
Stop trolling
*sigh* damned kids, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I was stationed in Thailand in the USAF in 1974. Heroin was incredibly cheap, easy to obtain, and fifty times as powerful as the streets in the US, nearly 100% pure. I knew a LOT of heroin junkies there. I met a few after returning to the US, and none of them continued their heroin habits -- but all of them still smoked cigarettes. Yes, quitting heroin is much worse than giving up coffee, but giving up cigarettes is harder.
You not only don't understand, you don't WANT to understand.
As to "destroy the ability to act rationally", you don't have to be addicted to alcohol for it to make you irrational, just a little drunk.
Again, have you ever known of anyone who stole to support their alcohol or cigarette habits? Alcohol's withdrawal symptoms are so severe they can be fatal. You might want to see what wikipedia says aboout alcohol's addictiveness... no, probably not since you insist on remaining ignorant.
Some of you ignorant, bull headed kids really annoy me. Wake up and smell the shit your government is serving you. Alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous drugs there are.
Writing a check that bounces isn't a criminal act even
Incorrect.
If I buy a CD I can resell the CD, but I can't resell a copy of thet CD -- the copy is as monitarily worthless as the counterfeit dollar.
As TFA points out, most people didn't crack open their copies of Encyclopedia Britannica (although it appears from the anecdotes around here that the Slashdot demographic, as is typical, is behaves completely different from the rest of the human population).
Of course we're different. I'll bet any slashdotter who had a set of them read every single volume, cover to cover. I know I did (there were 26 volumes then, I was 12)
I think you misunderstood the poor fellow, he's probably just a Brit with a speech impediment asking for a cigarette.
You kids and your neutrinos... the oldtrinos actually WORK!