Go Adobe! It's nice to see someone standing up to MS. The worst that could happen is Adobe goes out of business. Hmm. Copyright lasts a while after the death of the creator(don't know how that works with the death of a company). So, if Adobe doesn't want MS's stinky paws on its format, they still win. MS can't touch it for a looooong time. In which time, MS will get bored with PDF and steal someone else's format.
I love it when I get fake e-mails from people who pretend to need me to take their money for them. It's fun the play with their minds and make them think I believe them. It's also fun to e-mail them back a crazy mess to make it look like I'm insane. I usually answer their questions about my name and address and the like, by making up things. Then, at the bottom of the e-mail, I sign it with "Elvis G. Presley". I'm just waiting for someone to reply thinking that I really am the King.
Well, I know where I'm moving. I'd do that around here, but the people don't even know what a kilobit is. The general knowledge is that dial-up is painfully slow(they have no idea why), DSL is faster(still no idea why), and Cable is the fastest(again clueless). That's really the general knowledge. They've never even heard of T1, T2, or T3, because the only fiber we have around here is Metemucil. No, I'm not going to say where I'm from. That would only embarrass me further.
I thought that too, but I have a 56k modem, and I've never gotten any connection above 21600bps. I usually only get a dl speed of 1kbs. Like you said, dial-up sucks, but I have the same problem as the people with DSL. It's also interesting to note that DSL and dial-up are the same price around here. Thats' right. There's only one dial-up provider and one DSL provider. Both charge 16 dollars for their service. So, I don't know what speed the DSL people "claim" to offer, but I would bet it's surely a little better than 21600bps. The only problem with that is, I live in a place where they don't even care about keeping up the lines they already have,(there have been 4 trees on them for 2 months now) so they're not ever going to put DSL lines in here. So, yeah, dial-up can suck just as much as DSL percentage wise.
So, if I search Google for free full copies of copyrighted software, is it Google's fault if I download one of those free copies? If I understand Bittorrent correctly, one is downloading from other people, not TPB. So, TPB is like Google for Bittorrent, right? In which case, they can't fairly shut one down without doing the same thing to the other. TPB and Google provide a service. What people do with that service should be the people's fault.
You might be interested in taking a look at the site below. http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm It has a number of ways to make USB work for DOS. Several people have verified that the ways work, although I have not gotten any to work. Not Bootdisk.com's fault. I have USB 1.0 on my DOS machine, so, I assume, new 2.0 Flash drives will not work with it. The fact that a Flash drive won't work on the same PC with Win98 confirms this suspicion.
"Each time a zero day or other serious problem hits, I remind them, but they are literally afraid of having to learn something new, & so stick with the MS offerings."
What's so bad about it is, the incredible Mr. Bill knows this. So, why would he have any reason to fix his software? It's sad really. When MS traded DOS for fancy GUI's, it seems they forgot about everything else. Surely people will wake up and start using a better OS someday. Wake up people! Join Linus and the penguins of the computer revolution! Yes, PC compatriots, listen to BoRegardless. There are better OS's out there, and guess what? Some are even free!
People are going to find cracks for the software they want whether Google is "helping" them or not. I agree with the other people who posted here. Do a better job with your company, and people will not want to cheat you out of your software.
But of course there is. If everything worked the way it should, and could, those big companies would lose a few pennies here and there. You make a good point. I think companies are holding out on us.
What I want to know is, if Apple can make such high capacity little devices, why can't USB Thumb-drive manufacturers? I've never seen one over 2 gigs, and that one wasn't really a Thumb-drive. It was a little cheese wheel-looking thing with a retractable cord. Granted, I live in the middle of nowheresville so can someone prove me wrong here, or are they keeping something from us? What I'm asking is, is there a USB drive with a capacity over 2 gigs that I can fit in my pocket, without it pulling my pants down?
"It feels like twnety different teams worked on fourty different things without any real coordination or a common set of user interface guidelines."
I think that's what MS is going for. It makes the consumer think that they had a whole lot of people working on Vista, so they don't complain as much about the gimongous price tag. Plus, if that is what happened, they can always say that at least they hired enough people. Finally, this gives the great Mr. Bill someone to blame when Vista crashes. Well, that's my theory anyhow.
Sir, you are 100 percent correct. I agree completely. But, the fact is, people love eye candy and easy use. Mr. Bill knows this, so thats all he puts into Windows. Nothing more. This practice has gotten him enough money to feed all the starving nations in the world for a year or more, so he has no reason to change anything about his OS. Maybe one day the world will wake up and switch to a secure OS. Join the penguins of the computer revolution!
Nope, I didn't realize that. I stand corrected on the matter. Forgive me. It was early, and I was mad. Windows had just crashed before my posting. Perhaps I should have attacked Windows instability instead. Oh, well. There's always next time, I suppose. What I meant was that, MS wasn't backwards compatiblbe. Once they make a new Windows version, they expect everyone to just stop using the old one and buy it. And they're willing to do a lot to make that happen, like not being backwards compatible with their new software. For instance, they'll make themselves look really good by giving away a free anti-spyware program. But, you can only get it if you have a new version of Windows, so you have to shell out big bucks to get XP. And since XP loves system resources, unless you have a moderately fast computer, you've got to buy a new one or upgrade your's. You see where I'm going, right. I guess I should have made that more clear, before. Sorry.
Sounds like what MS has been doing for years. Stealing things and passing them off as their own. Maybe the practice is finally going to bite them in the butt. Personally, I hope this does happen. I have nothing against the MPEG people or the 360. All I'm saying is, MS should get their software right before they delve into the world of soldering. So, maybe a few lawsuits will get into MS's head that they don't own the world. They just own 90% of what they call software that runs it. Please don't take this as an insult to the 360. I like the system, and I think it has some of the best graphics I've ever seen. Just take a moment to think this over, though. When MS created the 360, they didn't even have the courtisy to make it backward compatible out of the box. Remind you of anything? Windows, perhaps? So, if MS has to release all new 360's, what's to prevent them from doing the same thing to current owners of the system? If MS doesn't stop burning bridges, they are going to get their tales scorched. Wake up people! I'll probably get flamed for this, but I don't care. You all know it's the truth.
Sounds like MS is trying to see just how much weight it has to throw around.
Just think. If this works out as it probably will, MS will have just brought the Internet community to its knees. I'm not complaining about the loss of ActiveX.
I'm just saying, if it happens, MS will have demonstrated its massive amount of technological bullying power. And, I for one, would prefer people wake up and switch to a real browser, like Firefox, Netscape, or even Opera(Never underestimate the little guys).
MS must have a few screws loose to try something like this. I think Bill's money is going to his head. That or he knows just how much power MS has.
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Go Adobe!
It's nice to see someone standing up to MS.
The worst that could happen is Adobe goes out of business. Hmm. Copyright lasts a while after the death of the creator(don't know how that works with the death of a company). So, if Adobe doesn't want MS's stinky paws on its format, they still win. MS can't touch it for a looooong time.
In which time, MS will get bored with PDF and steal someone else's format.
I love it when I get fake e-mails from people who pretend to need me to take their money for them. It's fun the play with their minds and make them think I believe them. It's also fun to e-mail them back a crazy mess to make it look like I'm insane.
I usually answer their questions about my name and address and the like, by making up things. Then, at the bottom of the e-mail, I sign it with "Elvis G. Presley".
I'm just waiting for someone to reply thinking that I really am the King.
Well, I know where I'm moving.
I'd do that around here, but the people don't even know what a kilobit is. The general knowledge is that dial-up is painfully slow(they have no idea why), DSL is faster(still no idea why), and Cable is the fastest(again clueless).
That's really the general knowledge. They've never even heard of T1, T2, or T3, because the only fiber we have around here is Metemucil.
No, I'm not going to say where I'm from. That would only embarrass me further.
I thought that too, but I have a 56k modem, and I've never gotten any connection above 21600bps. I usually only get a dl speed of 1kbs.
Like you said, dial-up sucks, but I have the same problem as the people with DSL.
It's also interesting to note that DSL and dial-up are the same price around here. Thats' right. There's only one dial-up provider and one DSL provider. Both charge 16 dollars for their service. So, I don't know what speed the DSL people "claim" to offer, but I would bet it's surely a little better than 21600bps. The only problem with that is, I live in a place where they don't even care about keeping up the lines they already have,(there have been 4 trees on them for 2 months now) so they're not ever going to put DSL lines in here.
So, yeah, dial-up can suck just as much as DSL percentage wise.
So, if I search Google for free full copies of copyrighted software, is it Google's fault if I download one of those free copies?
If I understand Bittorrent correctly, one is downloading from other people, not TPB. So, TPB is like Google for Bittorrent, right?
In which case, they can't fairly shut one down without doing the same thing to the other.
TPB and Google provide a service. What people do with that service should be the people's fault.
You might be interested in taking a look at the site below.
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
It has a number of ways to make USB work for DOS.
Several people have verified that the ways work, although I have not gotten any to work. Not Bootdisk.com's fault. I have USB 1.0 on my DOS machine, so, I assume, new 2.0 Flash drives will not work with it. The fact that a Flash drive won't work on the same PC with Win98 confirms this suspicion.
"Each time a zero day or other serious problem hits, I remind them, but they are literally afraid of having to learn something new, & so stick with the MS offerings."
What's so bad about it is, the incredible Mr. Bill knows this. So, why would he have any reason to fix his software?
It's sad really. When MS traded DOS for fancy GUI's, it seems they forgot about everything else.
Surely people will wake up and start using a better OS someday.
Wake up people! Join Linus and the penguins of the computer revolution! Yes, PC compatriots, listen to BoRegardless. There are better OS's out there, and guess what? Some are even free!
People are going to find cracks for the software they want whether Google is "helping" them or not.
I agree with the other people who posted here. Do a better job with your company, and people will not want to cheat you out of your software.
But of course there is.
If everything worked the way it should, and could, those big companies would lose a few pennies here and there.
You make a good point. I think companies are holding out on us.
Sorry, everybody. I just did a little research and found a very cool answer.
Yes, there is. 16 gigs to be exact. Costs $499.00, though.
You can find it below if interested.
http://www.supermediastore.com/flashdrive-16gb-usb -20-usb-flash-drive.html
What I want to know is, if Apple can make such high capacity little devices, why can't USB Thumb-drive manufacturers? I've never seen one over 2 gigs, and that one wasn't really a Thumb-drive. It was a little cheese wheel-looking thing with a retractable cord. Granted, I live in the middle of nowheresville so can someone prove me wrong here, or are they keeping something from us?
What I'm asking is, is there a USB drive with a capacity over 2 gigs that I can fit in my pocket, without it pulling my pants down?
"It feels like twnety different teams worked on fourty different things without any real coordination or a common set of user interface guidelines."
I think that's what MS is going for. It makes the consumer think that they had a whole lot of people working on Vista, so they don't complain as much about the gimongous price tag. Plus, if that is what happened, they can always say that at least they hired enough people. Finally, this gives the great Mr. Bill someone to blame when Vista crashes.
Well, that's my theory anyhow.
Sir, you are 100 percent correct. I agree completely.
But, the fact is, people love eye candy and easy use. Mr. Bill knows this, so thats all he puts into Windows. Nothing more.
This practice has gotten him enough money to feed all the starving nations in the world for a year or more, so he has no reason to change anything about his OS.
Maybe one day the world will wake up and switch to a secure OS.
Join the penguins of the computer revolution!
Opera rocks! Down with stinky putrid IE.
Nope, I didn't realize that. I stand corrected on the matter.
Forgive me. It was early, and I was mad. Windows had just crashed before my posting. Perhaps I should have attacked Windows instability instead. Oh, well. There's always next time, I suppose.
What I meant was that, MS wasn't backwards compatiblbe. Once they make a new Windows version, they expect everyone to just stop using the old one and buy it. And they're willing to do a lot to make that happen, like not being backwards compatible with their new software. For instance, they'll make themselves look really good by giving away a free anti-spyware program. But, you can only get it if you have a new version of Windows, so you have to shell out big bucks to get XP. And since XP loves system resources, unless you have a moderately fast computer, you've got to buy a new one or upgrade your's. You see where I'm going, right.
I guess I should have made that more clear, before. Sorry.
Sounds like what MS has been doing for years. Stealing things and passing them off as their own. Maybe the practice is finally going to bite them in the butt.
Personally, I hope this does happen. I have nothing against the MPEG people or the 360. All I'm saying is, MS should get their software right before they delve into the world of soldering. So, maybe a few lawsuits will get into MS's head that they don't own the world. They just own 90% of what they call software that runs it.
Please don't take this as an insult to the 360. I like the system, and I think it has some of the best graphics I've ever seen. Just take a moment to think this over, though. When MS created the 360, they didn't even have the courtisy to make it backward compatible out of the box. Remind you of anything? Windows, perhaps? So, if MS has to release all new 360's, what's to prevent them from doing the same thing to current owners of the system?
If MS doesn't stop burning bridges, they are going to get their tales scorched. Wake up people!
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I don't care. You all know it's the truth.
Sounds like MS is trying to see just how much weight it has to throw around. Just think. If this works out as it probably will, MS will have just brought the Internet community to its knees. I'm not complaining about the loss of ActiveX. I'm just saying, if it happens, MS will have demonstrated its massive amount of technological bullying power. And, I for one, would prefer people wake up and switch to a real browser, like Firefox, Netscape, or even Opera(Never underestimate the little guys). MS must have a few screws loose to try something like this. I think Bill's money is going to his head. That or he knows just how much power MS has.