I get anxiety sitting down all day. I wish during the day I had to go move some funiture or something. Divide it up a bit so I can get some manual labor mixed in as well. Oh that would be oh so NIce!
In the last issue of Wired (I forget which version #) there was a good article on this. The avarage person can not afford a copy of windows, so everything is pirated. The government does not inforce any crack downs on piracy. China perfers windows over linux becuase its easier navigate and learn, while linux is more difficult because of lack of Chinese characters and its a little less user friendly.
If the government inforced its laws on piracy, the people would have no choice but to go to linux.
Their are linux compaines in China that are making it more Chinese friendly, i forget the names of the companies, and I have know idea on how well they are doing.
I agree with Katz on this. Very good article. If you do not vote, you are saying "I can not be bought", "I want honesty". I'm tired of political tv adds saying has done this for the economy, and helps our communtiy. Then the very next commercial says the same person increases taxes, health care and voted for killing the first born child of every parent. How fucking stupid do they think we are?
These ads read like freakin infomercials. People argue that you should vote for the lesser of the two evils, I understand this thinking, but I personaly believe I make more of a difference by not voting for this trash.
You can set a VPN and set it up so that only your clients have access to certain parts of you newtwork. I hear that Axent makes a good one. It comes with a firewall and free clients for the end user. Of course, I don't believe that any system is perfect, simply becuase people aren't perfect.
Thank You! I feel the exact same way. There is to much amazon.com bashing at slashdot. I'm tired of seeing every post end with "now if they just drop their patent I'll shop there again", guess what? I've heard that a biggilion time now and I don't care and I'm sure a lot of others don't care either.
Amazon provides an execelent service, good luck trying to find the information they provide, customer service, and low prices in the offline world.
I really wouldn't call it being Paranoid. I to believe that it is good being causious, but I also think that the good people hear at slashdot are targeting Amazon.com.. when Amazon should be the least of their worries when it comes to privacy. You can opt out by sending and email to never@amazon.com. Good reading "Your Secrets Our My business" touches quit a bit on companies including our government selling information on you all the time. The author sugests a notification system, where you are notified when your information is sold.
I had to reply to this whole article. I love Slashdot and its people, but my God.. you people just love to bitch at stuff a little to much.
First off, there is lots of information being passed around on you as we speek. There is NO notification that you get when this happens, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Its to late your information is out there being analized, sold and reanized all the freekin time. No company ever tells you when they sell you informaion - this also go's for the government.
Amazon.com is the only company decent enough to let you know what they are doing with your information, and yes if you don't like there policy then you don't have to shop there. That's why the sent out the press release in the first place, but to bash Amazon.com because its doing what every other company does (including the Government) is just plain retarded. You don't see any other companies with the guts to do what Amazon has done... so give the company some damn credit, even you never buy something from them again.
Get a life bra! Walmart or costco probably has more info on you then Amazon. There is information being passed around on you like you wouldn't believe. At least Amazon is informing you of what there doing, how many other companies can you say that about?
They gave you a polite warning, and they were very open with what they are doing with all the info they collect. There are other companies that have information on your ass as well and probably will never notify you when they trade your information. I suggest you read the book "Your secrets are my Business" to find out what companies are really doing with your personal information. Amazon is proably the only one that cares enuf to inform you what they are doing. So tell me again how are they miss behaving?
No privacy at a store huh? all of your groceries are right there on the counter where everyone can see it! Condoms, latex rubber gloves, vaciline. You name it!
Woahhh, cool your jets tiger. The only thing that bugs me about slashdot posters, is not misinformation, but some wierdo that goes goes into a big rant over something that really isn't a big deal.
You could have made your point in a much more friendly tone.
Screw Adobe. There bitter because they were used to being the leader in their market, so they just were sitten back and watching the cash flow in with their thumb up their asses. Mean while when Macromedia first came to be they were low key (smart) developing some serious inovative tools and visuals for the web. Adobe Photoshop is a good product, but like Micrsoft Office, it is way over priced.
Forshame on Adobe for trying to punish someone elses success.
Your company would have to pay employees to install the, and probably take valuable time as well. Still its better than giving MS the extra cash. Microsoft loves to bend you over.
What make this guy think he can speak for all of us. Why would I consider Corel to be my least favorite distro? Most people don't don't install and uninstall every linux distro there is, then choose which is their favorite and which is their least.
Ok, I respect your opinion on the Simpson. But how the hell can say its to slow??? They barely have enough time to crack all the jokes into a half and hour. Its one crazy wacked out scene after another. Maybe you are refering to some of the older episodes, That I can understand but its definately the fastest past sitcome I have ever seen on tv.
Wow, Think about the whole picture first before you becom a hater. There are to many hater's in this world. Jeff has created an online catalog with millions and millions of product that can be easily searched, researched, reviewed, and purchased, from you home. Considering the history of the world, YES Amazon.com is pretty damn amazing. I personaly don't care for time magazine, and would have to agree that they are cashing in on the tech hype. "Man of the year" is just a phrase that doesn't mean to much to me, but I do think that Jeff has done some pretty amazing stuff.
Remember that people are supose to invest in compainies becuase the investor believes the company can do well and wants the company to use their money to do well regardless of what the company is worth. Today we think of investors as daytradin freeks with no loyalties to a company. Apparently a lot of people want Red Hat to do well or they just wanted to get rich quick.:)
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I get anxiety sitting down all day. I wish during the day I had to go move some funiture or something. Divide it up a bit so I can get some manual labor mixed in as well. Oh that would be oh so NIce!
If the government inforced its laws on piracy, the people would have no choice but to go to linux.
Their are linux compaines in China that are making it more Chinese friendly, i forget the names of the companies, and I have know idea on how well they are doing.
These ads read like freakin infomercials. People argue that you should vote for the lesser of the two evils, I understand this thinking, but I personaly believe I make more of a difference by not voting for this trash.
You can set a VPN and set it up so that only your clients have access to certain parts of you newtwork. I hear that Axent makes a good one. It comes with a firewall and free clients for the end user. Of course, I don't believe that any system is perfect, simply becuase people aren't perfect.
Thank You! I feel the exact same way. There is to much amazon.com bashing at slashdot. I'm tired of seeing every post end with "now if they just drop their patent I'll shop there again", guess what? I've heard that a biggilion time now and I don't care and I'm sure a lot of others don't care either. Amazon provides an execelent service, good luck trying to find the information they provide, customer service, and low prices in the offline world.
I really wouldn't call it being Paranoid. I to believe that it is good being causious, but I also think that the good people hear at slashdot are targeting Amazon.com .. when Amazon should be the least of their worries when it comes to privacy. You can opt out by sending and email to never@amazon.com. Good reading "Your Secrets Our My business" touches quit a bit on companies including our government selling information on you all the time. The author sugests a notification system, where you are notified when your information is sold.
First off, there is lots of information being passed around on you as we speek. There is NO notification that you get when this happens, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Its to late your information is out there being analized, sold and reanized all the freekin time. No company ever tells you when they sell you informaion - this also go's for the government.
Amazon.com is the only company decent enough to let you know what they are doing with your information, and yes if you don't like there policy then you don't have to shop there. That's why the sent out the press release in the first place, but to bash Amazon.com because its doing what every other company does (including the Government) is just plain retarded. You don't see any other companies with the guts to do what Amazon has done... so give the company some damn credit, even you never buy something from them again.
Get a life bra! Walmart or costco probably has more info on you then Amazon. There is information being passed around on you like you wouldn't believe. At least Amazon is informing you of what there doing, how many other companies can you say that about?
They gave you a polite warning, and they were very open with what they are doing with all the info they collect. There are other companies that have information on your ass as well and probably will never notify you when they trade your information. I suggest you read the book "Your secrets are my Business" to find out what companies are really doing with your personal information. Amazon is proably the only one that cares enuf to inform you what they are doing. So tell me again how are they miss behaving?
No privacy at a store huh? all of your groceries are right there on the counter where everyone can see it! Condoms, latex rubber gloves, vaciline. You name it!
I don't believe I said he couldn't get upset. But cussing out someone for calling something news instead of a press release bordlines psycho.
You could have made your point in a much more friendly tone.
Forshame on Adobe for trying to punish someone elses success.
Your company would have to pay employees to install the, and probably take valuable time as well. Still its better than giving MS the extra cash. Microsoft loves to bend you over.
Why are you all bitter about life bra?
What make this guy think he can speak for all of us. Why would I consider Corel to be my least favorite distro? Most people don't don't install and uninstall every linux distro there is, then choose which is their favorite and which is their least.
Ok, I respect your opinion on the Simpson. But how the hell can say its to slow??? They barely have enough time to crack all the jokes into a half and hour. Its one crazy wacked out scene after another. Maybe you are refering to some of the older episodes, That I can understand but its definately the fastest past sitcome I have ever seen on tv.
Wow, Think about the whole picture first before you becom a hater. There are to many hater's in this world. Jeff has created an online catalog with millions and millions of product that can be easily searched, researched, reviewed, and purchased, from you home. Considering the history of the world, YES Amazon.com is pretty damn amazing. I personaly don't care for time magazine, and would have to agree that they are cashing in on the tech hype. "Man of the year" is just a phrase that doesn't mean to much to me, but I do think that Jeff has done some pretty amazing stuff.
Remember that people are supose to invest in compainies becuase the investor believes the company can do well and wants the company to use their money to do well regardless of what the company is worth. Today we think of investors as daytradin freeks with no loyalties to a company. Apparently a lot of people want Red Hat to do well or they just wanted to get rich quick. :)