For example, the Home ribbon in Word offers shortcuts for the clipboard (cut, copy, paste) and font formatting (font and font size, underlines and superscripts and so on) -- the kind of everyday tasks most of us use in Word.
*snort*
Seriously - MS, openoffice is carving away the "Office 97 provides all our needs" segment & the collaboration market you're so eagerly chasing is... well lets say I don't think its got the potential you think it does.
I have a request tho' - I'd like the click+scrolly wheel zooms in a different direction for word & ie bug fixed. Please?
Don't get me wrong -- I want to try emusic (but I can't figure out how to see what is available prior to signing up) but face it, there are many people out there who will find that emusic doesn't have the kind of music (namely, the artists they like) they want to hear.
Until emusic fixes this, they will not go fully mainstream.
emusic cant 'fix' this unless they get in bed with the corrupt labels & become equally corrupt themseleves.
Thanks, you're quite right, didn't parse that correctly when I first read it (I've been thinking for the past few months that poor old sony artists are getting less the 1/2 a cent per song)
I believe he is saying that the fact that a company had to expend time and effort to clean a machine was because an employee used company property for a non-company function, so that employee should be blamed, not Sony.
I don't know a single workplace that bans the playing of music cds (and I've worked in plenty).
Where I work the handbook specificaly says that I can listen to music CDs on my workstations PC as long as I use headphones and the CD is an original.
So, presumably (if you have windows admin access), if you played a sony CD, it would install the rootkit.
Would you deserve the blame?
Honestly, if a company made exploding teabags, and my company got blown up after the recpetionist made a cup of tea using a tea bag from home, gfxguy would come along saying 'if the receptionist hadn't bought tea from home and made it using company resources, this would never have happened'.
I agree it seems innocuous, but she's using company equipment to do it. If she was listening to her own radio or discman or something, there'd be nothing to discuss and there wouldn't have been a problem.
I'm still not clear on what you're saying - do you think I should blame the secretary in my hypothetical scenario rather then sony?
It's nice to see a company that selling music in a drm-unencumbered format. It's basically doing things right - instead of locking your customers in (after they've bought a track, they find out lots of players can't play it).
Also, eMusic supports indie artists. Really good to see, because some artists get less then half a cent per purchase from other online music stores.
OK, my options for a lawsuit that will likely cost me far more in money, time & effort then I will recieve back are not limited. Great.
Do you think its OK that no government has gone after sony for distributing hundreds of thousands of rootkits, compromising hundred of thousands of computers?
Why don't you blame the temp receptionist for using her company computer for personal use?
Let me rephrase your question.
Why don't you blame the temp recpetionist for playing a music CD, instead of the amoral, multinational corporation that placed a piece of malignant software, designed to cripple the way a computer works on said music CD.
Cause clearly a filing clerk working at a completely unrelated division of Sony should be punished for this.
You know, if I worked as a filing clerk, and got to do 20 hours / week cleaning the local church or helping old people or something whilst getting paid for and not doing my normal work I wouldn't consider it punishment.
But, what I meant was Sony as a company, doing the equivilant of 20 hours community service per week per employee for four-five years. They could pay others to do it, pay their employees to do it or whatever.
Imagine if after reading about the original rootkit & associated vulnerabilities, you check your DNS records & see that indeed, one or more PCs you're responsible for are infected. You spend hundreds of hours following it up, removing the PCs from the network, checking to see there were no secondary malware infections, etc, etc, etc.
At the end of all your time, you still can't claim the replacement CD + download + patch, (let alone compensation for your lost time) because you didn't buy the offending CD (it was a temp receptionist).
I really want to see someone go after Sony for a real settlement. For that matter, I'd like to see a government go after Sony. Corporations have the same rights as individuals, how about we give them the same responsibilities as well. I think a four or five years of community service for the entire company (say 20 hours a week), would be about what's deserved for a widespread crack attempt like this.
and yes, your point was completely valid, if the/. crowd can accept video ads (from MS no less), then the rest of the internet will lap up video ads that aren't forced on you.
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2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
You feel like you're overpaying for Intel, but you didn't ever feel like you were overpaying for PowerPC in the past? I have a feeling that if Apple had used AMD chips, you'd still be paying the same price, but more of it would go directly into Apple's pockets.
I did feel like I was overpaying for ppc - but I guess you're right. Apple products are just overpriced.
I guess I'll just stay happy with my very cheap AMD laptop:-)
Intel might be the king in the performance-per-watt race, but AMD is still the king in the far more important performance-per-dollar race.
It's a pity Apple didn't go AMD as well as Intel for their supplier of x86 chips - 'cause I always feel like I'm overpaying for an intel product:-/
[offtopic] 'Print' version is split into 10 pages.
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Hardware secrets - you suck.
10 pages not saying very much is (irritating, but) acceptable, but when you split the print article into 10 pages, you've crossed line from greediness to stupidity.
(fires up IE). Oh nice, and there's advertisments on each of the print pages too. How is that supposed to be printable?
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Seriously - MS, openoffice is carving away the "Office 97 provides all our needs" segment & the collaboration market you're so eagerly chasing is... well lets say I don't think its got the potential you think it does.
I have a request tho' - I'd like the click+scrolly wheel zooms in a different direction for word & ie bug fixed. Please?
Don't get me wrong -- I want to try emusic (but I can't figure out how to see what is available prior to signing up) but face it, there are many people out there who will find that emusic doesn't have the kind of music (namely, the artists they like) they want to hear.
Until emusic fixes this, they will not go fully mainstream.
emusic cant 'fix' this unless they get in bed with the corrupt labels & become equally corrupt themseleves.
I think I prefer them as they are....
Thanks, you're quite right, didn't parse that correctly when I first read it (I've been thinking for the past few months that poor old sony artists are getting less the 1/2 a cent per song)
I believe he is saying that the fact that a company had to expend time and effort to clean a machine was because an employee used company property for a non-company function, so that employee should be blamed, not Sony.
I don't know a single workplace that bans the playing of music cds (and I've worked in plenty).
Where I work the handbook specificaly says that I can listen to music CDs on my workstations PC as long as I use headphones and the CD is an original.
So, presumably (if you have windows admin access), if you played a sony CD, it would install the rootkit.
Would you deserve the blame?
Honestly, if a company made exploding teabags, and my company got blown up after the recpetionist made a cup of tea using a tea bag from home, gfxguy would come along saying 'if the receptionist hadn't bought tea from home and made it using company resources, this would never have happened'.
Its a stupid, victim blaming argument to follow.
But some of us couldn't help but think, "Oh, you mean like Emusic?"
Correction, some of us couldn't help but think, "Oh, you mean like Emusic, only crippled?"
I agree it seems innocuous, but she's using company equipment to do it. If she was listening to her own radio or discman or something, there'd be nothing to discuss and there wouldn't have been a problem.
I'm still not clear on what you're saying - do you think I should blame the secretary in my hypothetical scenario rather then sony?
It's nice to see a company that selling music in a drm-unencumbered format. It's basically doing things right - instead of locking your customers in (after they've bought a track, they find out lots of players can't play it).
Also, eMusic supports indie artists. Really good to see, because some artists get less then half a cent per purchase from other online music stores.
OK, my options for a lawsuit that will likely cost me far more in money, time & effort then I will recieve back are not limited. Great.
Do you think its OK that no government has gone after sony for distributing hundreds of thousands of rootkits, compromising hundred of thousands of computers?
Why don't you blame the temp receptionist for using her company computer for personal use?
Let me rephrase your question.
Why don't you blame the temp recpetionist for playing a music CD, instead of the amoral, multinational corporation that placed a piece of malignant software, designed to cripple the way a computer works on said music CD.
Cause clearly a filing clerk working at a completely unrelated division of Sony should be punished for this.
You know, if I worked as a filing clerk, and got to do 20 hours / week cleaning the local church or helping old people or something whilst getting paid for and not doing my normal work I wouldn't consider it punishment.
But, what I meant was Sony as a company, doing the equivilant of 20 hours community service per week per employee for four-five years. They could pay others to do it, pay their employees to do it or whatever.
It sounds to me as if you were trying to be alarmist
Incorrect. Reread the thread.
The gp thought he'd overestimated the growth rates, not underestimated.
Imagine if after reading about the original rootkit & associated vulnerabilities, you check your DNS records & see that indeed, one or more PCs you're responsible for are infected. You spend hundreds of hours following it up, removing the PCs from the network, checking to see there were no secondary malware infections, etc, etc, etc.
At the end of all your time, you still can't claim the replacement CD + download + patch, (let alone compensation for your lost time) because you didn't buy the offending CD (it was a temp receptionist).
I really want to see someone go after Sony for a real settlement. For that matter, I'd like to see a government go after Sony. Corporations have the same rights as individuals, how about we give them the same responsibilities as well. I think a four or five years of community service for the entire company (say 20 hours a week), would be about what's deserved for a widespread crack attempt like this.
And yeah us daily posters are sick in the head... did that come as a shock to you?
:-)
Course not
The slashdot game is a mild addiction like WoW (well that's not mild by the sound of things).
Slashdot has ads?
;-)
/. crowd can accept video ads (from MS no less), then the rest of the internet will lap up video ads that aren't forced on you.
*fires up IE*
Damnit you're right!
and yes, your point was completely valid, if the
Eh? 13mm *is* half an inch.
*snort* you're right *sighs* Where the hell did I leave my brain this afternoon.
Just goes to show, we should get rid of those units & get everyone on to metric asap!
I don't think they'll mind to much - from tfa:
Source? :P
:-)
Fair enough
Some species of coral grow only a millimeter per year, and even quick sprouters add less than an inch.
From my memory it was 13 millimeters. But I was wrong (that was one species only)
I thought it was more like 1/2 inch per year
Ahem, sorry, (I'm not used to working in British imperial units, they're so old fashioned!)
I should have said 1/20th inch per year
(around 13mm, I lost a zero converting)
Yo AC!
Nice to hear from you again!
I can tell that you're an anti-mac bigot, who's just trying to bait me. Why don't you get an account, log in & we can discuss your anti-mac agenda?
It takes 30,000 years to grow 1 cubic inch of coral,
Source?
I thought it was more like 1/2 inch per year
Are you sure? Disease:
Scientists Search Deep Sea Reefs for Wonder Drugs
Sounds like the time I spent in Indonesia doing nothing but taking magic mushrooms & snorkling.
Oh no! Wait! That wasn't deep sea reefs!
You feel like you're overpaying for Intel, but you didn't ever feel like you were overpaying for PowerPC in the past? I have a feeling that if Apple had used AMD chips, you'd still be paying the same price, but more of it would go directly into Apple's pockets.
:-)
I did feel like I was overpaying for ppc - but I guess you're right. Apple products are just overpriced.
I guess I'll just stay happy with my very cheap AMD laptop
So once again, welcome, Intel!
:-/
Intel might be the king in the performance-per-watt race, but AMD is still the king in the far more important performance-per-dollar race.
It's a pity Apple didn't go AMD as well as Intel for their supplier of x86 chips - 'cause I always feel like I'm overpaying for an intel product
Hardware secrets - you suck.
10 pages not saying very much is (irritating, but) acceptable, but when you split the print article into 10 pages, you've crossed line from greediness to stupidity.
(fires up IE). Oh nice, and there's advertisments on each of the print pages too. How is that supposed to be printable?