Agreed. I was just reading the fine print to learn if I could legitimately tether on my ATT Unlimited Data Plan. Guess what? I could find no definitive answer, just a bunch of hedges, maybes and ifs.
I want to tether once every great while when traveling not replace my FiOS at home. Just say it's okay. Don't wink, nod and imply that you'll look the other way until I use too much of your precious bandwidth.
He added that customers don't want simplicity for the sake of it, claiming that the last time Microsoft tried that route, customer ratings of the firm "plummeted" for two years."
Is talking about Bob?
No, serious question. Maybe he's referring to a licensing situation that I am unaware of.
Judging from the low number of comments posted in reply to this story, it looks like a lot of people are going "So What?"
This could be big though. Here we have a well known and well defined format (pdf) moving in and occupying this space first before Microsoft. This gives pdf (and Adobe if you wish) a big headstart in defining the market for products based upon this standard.
Next, some people in Redmond will try to figure out how to displace this spec with their own. I think they will find it harder to discredit ETSI than it was for them to discredit Peter Quinn. And I hope they find it harder to buy ETSI than it was for them to buy ISO.
Agreed. I think it's "accidental lightening". With a brick and mortar shop when things turn sour and you don't want anything left for your creditors to take, you set a fire in the stock room. This is the same thing but with an on-line concern instead of bricks and mortar. The end result will be identical though, nothing but ashes. Fitting in a way.
The dead-tree publishers have your address so they can deliver their product to you. They may have your phone number as well so they can contact you concerning their product. The electronic publisher has your IP address so they can deliver the product to you and they might have your email address so they can contact you concerning the product.
Murdock doesn't need or deserve any additional demographic information concerning his subscribers. He already has all that he needs. He's asking for additional information above and beyond what is required to conduct the transaction. That's the big deal.
I too can see why he expects this information - he's old and living in the fantasy of world passed by.
A friend of mine recently was told by Apple that they would not honor the warranty on his nearly new but broken iPod because the moisture sensor had been tripped. He claimed it never got wet and bitches at them for a while and they end up sending him a brand new iPod.
I can recommend the book Epicenter of Peace by Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan. While Nazarbayev is not very well liked in certain circles for other reasons, the book is an interesting story of why he decided to lead Kazakhstan to denuclearization.
One of the many things I learned from this book was the difference between nonproliferation and denuclearization. Kazakhstan didn't simply agree to store away the warheads like the U.S. and Russia have agreed to do, they dismantled them and shipped them entirely out of the country (basically to Russia and the U.S.). Then they dismantled the accompanying infrastructure, reseach facilities, education facilities, etc so that hopefully, nuclear arms would never again be deployed in Kazakhstan.
There are of course, many uses of the word "free" when associated with software. From what I can see, TFA is referring to the situation where some entrepreneur somehow believes that he can make massive amounts of money by getting others to do his work for free. Obviously, his plan is destined to fail and then our intripid entrepreneur gets all pissey about how the model broken because it sure couldn't have been anything he did wrong.
He looks at us like we are so many lab rats. He fully believes that all he has to do is figure out where to place the cheese and we will all go crazy to make his software for him so he can reap great profit while all he is out is some stinking cheese.
We're not lab rats. We are volunteers. We volunteer for many of the same reasons that people donate to charities, spend time with youth groups or work a few hours each week at a soup kitchen. Why have we not been subjected to articles about someone setting up a soup kitchen, attracting volunteers and then getting all pissey because he wasn't able to properly monetize the situation? Because expecting to do so would be really fucking stupid.
Quit thinking you're going to get rich quick off our backs; embrace volunteerism for what it is, an act of altruism.
Generally, the public you refer to doesn't care one bit about copyright cases or law. Only the corporations and people like Paul McCartney or Elton John (who have a vested interest in keeping new artists out) support stronger copyright laws. There is little division in the public's opinion.
Agreed, this judge should never have been on this case.
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Old guy falls for phishing email, clicks link. Film at 11:00.
No Furries!
Agreed. I was just reading the fine print to learn if I could legitimately tether on my ATT Unlimited Data Plan. Guess what? I could find no definitive answer, just a bunch of hedges, maybes and ifs.
I want to tether once every great while when traveling not replace my FiOS at home. Just say it's okay. Don't wink, nod and imply that you'll look the other way until I use too much of your precious bandwidth.
He added that customers don't want simplicity for the sake of it, claiming that the last time Microsoft tried that route, customer ratings of the firm "plummeted" for two years."
Is talking about Bob?
No, serious question. Maybe he's referring to a licensing situation that I am unaware of.
... Oh intercourse the penguin.
Please, somebody just kill the Zune. It's embarrassing to watch this projects continued failures.
Just a guess: A really poor knock-off of World Of Goo?
Judging from the low number of comments posted in reply to this story, it looks like a lot of people are going "So What?"
This could be big though. Here we have a well known and well defined format (pdf) moving in and occupying this space first before Microsoft. This gives pdf (and Adobe if you wish) a big headstart in defining the market for products based upon this standard.
Next, some people in Redmond will try to figure out how to displace this spec with their own. I think they will find it harder to discredit ETSI than it was for them to discredit Peter Quinn. And I hope they find it harder to buy ETSI than it was for them to buy ISO.
Bummer, my mod points expired yesterday. Dude, that was seriously funny!
Agreed. I think it's "accidental lightening". With a brick and mortar shop when things turn sour and you don't want anything left for your creditors to take, you set a fire in the stock room. This is the same thing but with an on-line concern instead of bricks and mortar. The end result will be identical though, nothing but ashes. Fitting in a way.
Just what every SC player has been waiting for.
Was this poll taken in Sunset Valley or Riverview?
The dead-tree publishers have your address so they can deliver their product to you. They may have your phone number as well so they can contact you concerning their product. The electronic publisher has your IP address so they can deliver the product to you and they might have your email address so they can contact you concerning the product.
Murdock doesn't need or deserve any additional demographic information concerning his subscribers. He already has all that he needs. He's asking for additional information above and beyond what is required to conduct the transaction. That's the big deal.
I too can see why he expects this information - he's old and living in the fantasy of world passed by.
A friend of mine recently was told by Apple that they would not honor the warranty on his nearly new but broken iPod because the moisture sensor had been tripped. He claimed it never got wet and bitches at them for a while and they end up sending him a brand new iPod.
"Best Of Queen" That's a 3 cd set mate.
Hey! You're being pretty mean to the monkeys there aren't you?
What makes this different from a Russian botnet?
I can recommend the book Epicenter of Peace by Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan. While Nazarbayev is not very well liked in certain circles for other reasons, the book is an interesting story of why he decided to lead Kazakhstan to denuclearization.
One of the many things I learned from this book was the difference between nonproliferation and denuclearization. Kazakhstan didn't simply agree to store away the warheads like the U.S. and Russia have agreed to do, they dismantled them and shipped them entirely out of the country (basically to Russia and the U.S.). Then they dismantled the accompanying infrastructure, reseach facilities, education facilities, etc so that hopefully, nuclear arms would never again be deployed in Kazakhstan.
It's an interesting story.
I wonder if he'll remember to include a revenue source in his plan this time.
There are of course, many uses of the word "free" when associated with software. From what I can see, TFA is referring to the situation where some entrepreneur somehow believes that he can make massive amounts of money by getting others to do his work for free. Obviously, his plan is destined to fail and then our intripid entrepreneur gets all pissey about how the model broken because it sure couldn't have been anything he did wrong.
He looks at us like we are so many lab rats. He fully believes that all he has to do is figure out where to place the cheese and we will all go crazy to make his software for him so he can reap great profit while all he is out is some stinking cheese.
We're not lab rats. We are volunteers. We volunteer for many of the same reasons that people donate to charities, spend time with youth groups or work a few hours each week at a soup kitchen. Why have we not been subjected to articles about someone setting up a soup kitchen, attracting volunteers and then getting all pissey because he wasn't able to properly monetize the situation? Because expecting to do so would be really fucking stupid.
Quit thinking you're going to get rich quick off our backs; embrace volunteerism for what it is, an act of altruism.
If I were Darl, I'd be headed to a country that doesn't cooperate with U.S. extradition requests.
No shit Sherlock!
Yeah, but the moose was pretty hard on that skinny, dark haired chick.
Generally, the public you refer to doesn't care one bit about copyright cases or law. Only the corporations and people like Paul McCartney or Elton John (who have a vested interest in keeping new artists out) support stronger copyright laws. There is little division in the public's opinion.
Agreed, this judge should never have been on this case.
Adobe seems to have got it right with its latest version ...
I accidentally spit my coffee when I read that! Dude, you owe me a keyboard.