Unfortunately, I see the outcome of this as a huge PR win for Microsoft, and I think Gates may actually take the bait. This adds to his recent buildup of reputation as world benefactor. If he has Microsoft withdraw the complaint (or offers up some benevolent deal), Microsoft gets a PR coup. And, that would be a shame.
So this poor schmuck should rot in Siberia so as not to make Gates look human or MS to look reasonable? May I suggest you offer to switch places with him? It's the principle, after all.
And the bad news is that Gates IS a world benefactor. Bad news unless you live in sub-Saharan Africa, that is.
Look, I hate MS as much as anyone. Happiest day of my computing life was when I dumped Windows for Linux. But as enemies of humanity, MS doesn't make the team. They write shitty software and screw consumers, but they do far less real damage than the average investment bank.
Seriously. Vista seems to be shaping up as the gift that keeps on giving, if you're in the market for schadenfreude.
My guess is that they're actually keys for "Club Clippy," a special secret online video vault full of Ballmer-Goes-Wild scat porn. Ooogaooga!
This is the ONLY method that will ever put a dent in this crap. Hold the user reponsible. In NY State, every motor vehicle has to pass an inspection, including pollution abatement. Fail, and you're not getting registered until it's fixed. Why not apply the same standard to net pollution? I sure as hell don't know how to fix my catalytic converter, but it's up to me to pay someone who does.
"You have unused icons on your desktop..."
God, I remember that. It's meddlesome trivial nonsense like that that made me dump windows. How many hours did they spend cooking that up when they could have been patching things? It's as if you run into a ER with a severed aorta and the doc says "Your shoe is untied."
A couple of months ago I had occasion to study an MRI of my brain over my neurologist's shoulder as he pointed to various spots and explained their significance. This was on a networked desktop pc running XP at a major university medical center. I asked about one particularly alarming bright spot and he assured me that it was "just an artifact."
I guess I should count myself lucky that it wasn't a dancing paper clip.
I'm confused. Are all the Anonymous Cowards the same guy in every discussion?
Actually, if MS dropped support for Win95 programs, I'd believe somebody there had a fucking clue.
Of course "irregardless" is a word. It's apparently a word you don't like, and it's considered by many not to be acceptable in Standard English, but many dialects of English use multiple markers for negation. As for the "logic" of the word, English is not mathematics, and two negatives do not equal a positive.
Joe Biden? The senator from MBNA? The lowlife scumbag who pushed through the "bankruptcy reform act" and fought to prevent caps on the interest card companies could charge? The guy who's never met a bank or payday lender he didn't want to help to screw the consumer?
You were going to vote for that turd?
I actually wrote a book for Random House in 1996 called "The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet," which consisted of a newbies' guide to getting online (incl. a warning against AOL) and hundreds of site synopses and links.
It's still in print. They're still selling it (albeit a 1998 revision, but still...). I was mortified when I realized last year that people are still buying it, but there's nothing I can do about it.
I gave my dog some lima beans and she sold them back to me in the middle of the living room rug.
I think it was the dorky Ferrari emblem on the can that did it.
Perhaps when Raymond invades, occupies and "civilizes" the Middle East with his little racist buddies, he can force all those A-rabs to use Linux. Instant desktop user base, dude.
Something like 99.9% of people just want a 'internet' thingy, they don't care about having a computer or security or whatever, and if the blue e was the internet before, then it is probably still the internet now, and they don't care about the fire in your pants or whatever the hell you were rambling about when they were paying your bill.
Seriously, the only reason most people know they're running Windows is because it says so when they turn on the pc. There's the monitor, there's the "CPU," the mouse, and the keyboard. Dazzit. Remember, these are the same folks who ran out a few years back and covered their houses in plastic sheeting and duct tape because John Ashcroft told them to. Operating system? Why, English, of course. Or,as my sis-in-law interjected during a Thanksgiving discussion of Linux vs Windows with my brother, "I just use my Dell."
Copyright is a compromise that in a reasonable world should promote creativity. DRM is designed precisely to impose obligations and restrictions on the public that have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright, but everything to do with greed and taking away legitimate rights.
... and your DVD will still be locked when the copyright term elapses. There's the most obvious violation of the bargain.
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They rang the fucking bell days ago. Salivate, dammit.
Unfortunately, I see the outcome of this as a huge PR win for Microsoft, and I think Gates may actually take the bait. This adds to his recent buildup of reputation as world benefactor. If he has Microsoft withdraw the complaint (or offers up some benevolent deal), Microsoft gets a PR coup. And, that would be a shame.
So this poor schmuck should rot in Siberia so as not to make Gates look human or MS to look reasonable? May I suggest you offer to switch places with him? It's the principle, after all.
And the bad news is that Gates IS a world benefactor. Bad news unless you live in sub-Saharan Africa, that is.
Look, I hate MS as much as anyone. Happiest day of my computing life was when I dumped Windows for Linux. But as enemies of humanity, MS doesn't make the team. They write shitty software and screw consumers, but they do far less real damage than the average investment bank.
Especially when you invade their country and turn it into a free-fire zone for no damn reason.
And deaths in a war can legally be adjudged murder. Ask the guy who was just convicted of murdering three Iraqi civilians.
Seriously. Vista seems to be shaping up as the gift that keeps on giving, if you're in the market for schadenfreude. My guess is that they're actually keys for "Club Clippy," a special secret online video vault full of Ballmer-Goes-Wild scat porn. Ooogaooga!
This is the ONLY method that will ever put a dent in this crap. Hold the user reponsible. In NY State, every motor vehicle has to pass an inspection, including pollution abatement. Fail, and you're not getting registered until it's fixed. Why not apply the same standard to net pollution? I sure as hell don't know how to fix my catalytic converter, but it's up to me to pay someone who does.
"You have unused icons on your desktop..." God, I remember that. It's meddlesome trivial nonsense like that that made me dump windows. How many hours did they spend cooking that up when they could have been patching things? It's as if you run into a ER with a severed aorta and the doc says "Your shoe is untied."
A couple of months ago I had occasion to study an MRI of my brain over my neurologist's shoulder as he pointed to various spots and explained their significance. This was on a networked desktop pc running XP at a major university medical center. I asked about one particularly alarming bright spot and he assured me that it was "just an artifact." I guess I should count myself lucky that it wasn't a dancing paper clip.
I'm confused. Are all the Anonymous Cowards the same guy in every discussion? Actually, if MS dropped support for Win95 programs, I'd believe somebody there had a fucking clue.
I love the smell of astroturf in the morning. Smells like ... panic.
Repost it under your own name and we'll talk.
Of course "irregardless" is a word. It's apparently a word you don't like, and it's considered by many not to be acceptable in Standard English, but many dialects of English use multiple markers for negation. As for the "logic" of the word, English is not mathematics, and two negatives do not equal a positive.
Joe Biden? The senator from MBNA? The lowlife scumbag who pushed through the "bankruptcy reform act" and fought to prevent caps on the interest card companies could charge? The guy who's never met a bank or payday lender he didn't want to help to screw the consumer? You were going to vote for that turd?
Ted, is that you? They let you have a computer?
repeat after me: You're doin' a heckuva job, Clippy!
Have a nice nap?
I actually wrote a book for Random House in 1996 called "The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet," which consisted of a newbies' guide to getting online (incl. a warning against AOL) and hundreds of site synopses and links. It's still in print. They're still selling it (albeit a 1998 revision, but still...). I was mortified when I realized last year that people are still buying it, but there's nothing I can do about it.
which is why Ubuntu is ... dying? Coulda fooled me.
I gave my dog some lima beans and she sold them back to me in the middle of the living room rug. I think it was the dorky Ferrari emblem on the can that did it.
Perhaps when Raymond invades, occupies and "civilizes" the Middle East with his little racist buddies, he can force all those A-rabs to use Linux. Instant desktop user base, dude.
Something like 99.9% of people just want a 'internet' thingy, they don't care about having a computer or security or whatever, and if the blue e was the internet before, then it is probably still the internet now, and they don't care about the fire in your pants or whatever the hell you were rambling about when they were paying your bill.
Seriously, the only reason most people know they're running Windows is because it says so when they turn on the pc. There's the monitor, there's the "CPU," the mouse, and the keyboard. Dazzit. Remember, these are the same folks who ran out a few years back and covered their houses in plastic sheeting and duct tape because John Ashcroft told them to. Operating system? Why, English, of course. Or,as my sis-in-law interjected during a Thanksgiving discussion of Linux vs Windows with my brother, "I just use my Dell."
Copyright is a compromise that in a reasonable world should promote creativity. DRM is designed precisely to impose obligations and restrictions on the public that have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright, but everything to do with greed and taking away legitimate rights.
... and your DVD will still be locked when the copyright term elapses. There's the most obvious violation of the bargain.
I've always found that "Mentions you!" does the trick.
pair.com. Ten years, no problems.
Absolutely. It's like hearing about a train derailment on the other side of town.
and a bit further down the road, MS lawyers will grind Novell into mush through extended legal wrangling over that contract.
The first one is right on the money. The "wisdom of the free market" is as much specious bullshit as the manger scene and the Easter Bunny.