They cant find any reason to bark more copyright crap other than 'innovation' hullabaloo.
They just cant say 'the copyright holders need more heaploads of money for longer durations' to the public of course, hence they come up with 'innovation' crap.
You cant innovate nothing if you dont already have huge capital behind your back. There are millions of people trying to 'innovate' under the current system, yet the percentage of those who succeed are comparable to the rates of people winning lotteries.
More bought 'opinion', i say, about this 'report'. Give me 2-3 million dollars extra, ill go buy you another 'respectable' 'report' that is saying copyright is bad.
It was religion long ago, then nationalism and pride that was used by the minority power-holding to supress people's free exchange of ideas. In this century both of them are not heeded as much. What to do ? Need to find some other thing that is exploitable for supression - enter child abuse.
we are all delicate on the matter, everyone knows it, and they exploit it - for what - for something that will in fact definitely be used to supress things that are harmful to the power holding minority.
On the web, you are free to compete, and CAN compete if you bring a better product.
There is no problem of adaptation/transition/framework/learning problems for an internet surfer that chooses to go a simple google.com or comparably simple newcompetitortogoogle.com site.
in operating system arena, operating system is THE framework on which many programs run. Microsoft has monopoly on the FRAMEWORK, not the programs running on it. Even there were better operating systems, the users of windows 'framework' wont be able to make transition to it still, since they NEED the programs running ON the windows framework, and there are millions of programs on it, and on the better operating system there are not.
Had google been the owner of 80% of the actual internet infrastructure, only then the situation would be comparable. It is not.
well, if your company have developed a mutual interface for 12 companies at the start, then you wouldnt need to have people parsing the data to your database.
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Why the hell would you ever have to use flat file or xml for data/hierarchy anyway ?
now even for little stuff we use freely available databases and small snippets.
int. contracts, defence deals, treaties and crap generally happened to be for 2, 4, 5 or 10 years durations for the last 50 years. why now 6 years ? and why now other odd intervals appearing as 7 years and such in such contracts/agreements ?
Im not being conspirationist here, but why the hell 2012 ? Why not 2013 or 2011 or 2018 ?
Currently i am seeing many international agreements, datelines, final dates being given at either 2012 or 1 year after or earlier. Some small nato inter-agreements, some datelines for environmental procedures, some trade deadlines. Why 2012 ? whats so special with it ?
The first is Microsoft's ability to use the exact same HTML based strategy as Google (like Microsoft's current Live initiative)
they had access to html ALL along while google was taking over the web. What did they succeed ? except alienating users by thinking them as ledger numbers, just like an old style corporation would ?
Microsoft leapfrogging the current environment by solving rich application installation/un installation and enforcing an acceptable contract regarding what rich apps can do on a user's machine.
Can they now ?
Then why is microsoft experiencing fines after fines in european union and court orders that are ordering them to remove their integrated media player, browser from their operating system ?
Eu, which is not permitting these, is going to permit microsoft preventing this or that app with its 'rich application installation' ? is that it ?
Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET
And when did it become so ? as a developer who is on the hardcore developer market, i can tell you that.net development is a novelty, sought by a few contractors occasionally every 1-1.5 months in each major agency center.
the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs.
Wow, now visual studio has become the best dev tool, and apparently we all were sleeping when it happened it seems. And furthermore somehow msdn had come to the point that it has best access to developers.
I BEG editors not to post articles from clueless people. This is total crapola, and its only a microsoft rant that is only thinly disguised.
they are frightened to death of them that they might reveal information that nasa and co are able to hide from the public by getting scientists sign dreadful national security oath papers.
i was telling that too - companies dont care about drm. and existing xp and office offers EVERYthing for companies to function. so why the need to upgrade ? there is No need. so im saying that totally unneccessarily at the behest of riaa microsoft messed up their next os. badly.
To tell you the truth i always believed microsoft and the like would again get away with what they did, as it happened to be so in the mischief cases done by big companies.
im quite surpised to see even such a lawsuit has been filed and is proceeding indeed !
really, really surprised, and, happy about it !
there might be sensible people and justice in this world, after all...
You go and try to exthort cash PER UNIT some other company produces, distributes, sells and supports !
Get a load of that ! What kind of arrogance is this ?
And thereby marking ALL purchasers of that particular product as 'potential pirates' with the argument too, which is something that is punishable by civil law in many european countries - indirect insult.
What a degree of spoiledness, and arrogance is that those people are able to DARE do such moves ?
And some of you ask "why do people hate microsoft" and say "you fuckin linux zealot"...
See ?
Its microsoft again that brought that precedent with zune. AGAIN microsoft. again microsoft, after the fuckin novell deal that given them somehow the right to shit out totally clueless sentences like "linux owes us". again microsoft, RIGHT after their launch of their ever-first personal player, zune, causing another crapola for us that we dont know how it will effect us in future.
ALWAYS microsoft. it seems that they are just media cartel's and rich elite's fucking little right hand.
I dont get it. Arent there taxpayers who vote ? Is it a goddammit kingdom that is run by fuckin suit elite ? Arent any of you willing to say "nay" to these proceedings ? blow your senator's ears off about those practices so they are forced to take a stance ?
Oh man. check the insolence - theyll tax when purchasing, they'll sell the songs for cash, adn then they'll ALSO sue and try to suppress people who they think is 'pirating'.
isnt there anyone in america that can say "fuck off" to these motherfucking bastards so that they should hear in a manner they can understand ?
Indeed, your wise, civil, visionary post gives much more insight on the matter than my 'little twat idiot' post, isnt it ?
Not only that, but it also hints that you are a microsoft freakie, and due to your uncivil, aggressive and no-manner behaviour gives another reason to hate microsoft and all things associated with it.
Become a civilized human being first, then shit around about other people. People like you should never get any responsibility, leave aside mod points.
The 'terrorists' are fighting to create a world that there will be a head imam, and some other imams under him, and their word will be the law, hence something withOUT free speech,
and this guy is proposing to curb free speech to fight them.
See the irony here ?
All the hussle would be avoided if he turned to islam and moved to iran, hence there would be no trouble of 'free speech' for him.
I dont care how it is like working there. I am talking about how they treat the rest of the world.
In groups/societies exhibiting such kind of behaviour, the inner philosopy cant be all rosy.
you and your teammates may have created a little collaboration oasis in lower middle level of the company, but, the behemoth acts according to its own personality.
Exactly why they are not able to adopt the collaborative and cooperative demeanor of fasa. Then, the post was quickly modded down by a microsoft zealot, apparently it was destined for this, it seems :
Seriously, microsoft represents the opposite of what made the internet a civilization-wide revolution as of now : Cooperation, Collaboration, Coexistence, Friendly Competition, Sharing, Curiousity, Modesty.
No surprise, considering the roots of this company was formed by 3-4 fledgling young geeks back at 1970s, when the above concepts were in decline since the 60s and materialism&yuppieness&personal achievement and wealth was on the rise into the 80s. These were youngsters then who wanted to hit it big, and hit it good. And due to the nature of the times they have matured in, they have become kinda yuppie geeks, people of the 80es themselves.
1-2 among them, you know who, were much more willing on treading this path and also easy in mind about scratching anything that proved to be a burden, and they scratched their friends/colleagues who they started on the road with. Geekdom was rising then, tech was coming, i.t. was forming, so they got an advantage, they formed juicy business deals while following the path of 'scratch all, hit it big, 'im a material girl'. they crushed and stamped out many competition back then, with the same philosopyh that provided scratching of friends/colleagues. (dos'es era). after some time, when 'deal them, tie them, bring them in the darkness and bind them' policies succeeded with the advent of windows and office, they became real big. ms pWnEd all pcs round the world by then, seemingly. computer meant 'windows' in some countries' non-techie slang.
then the internet came. due to the nature of it, which is a carrier of information, its nature formed on the philosophical properties of 'information' (information in the sense of knowledge, news) - seeking of free flow, no-bars, easy sharing, non-ownership as much as possible, common to all and so on.
microsoft did not realize what the hell this was going to be later. after all, they owned pcs around the world, and it ran on them. more the internet propagated, more pcs would be needed, they calculated probably. they were right it happened as such and also it helped windows sales.
but after all, in all cases of knowledge/information being present, sharing occured, and with the sharing information/knowledge redoubled itself with every passing instant. internet grew huge.
once you set the roots of something, then build a community/company/society around it, it recruits people of similar kind to itself, and bonds with societies/companies/communities of similar kind to it. so, when microsoft woke up to internet, it naturally responded according to its own personality - tried to stamp out competition. we all know netscape/ie thing. they were successful in this too. maybe the last time they succeeded in this. after some time they crushed netscape, internet has grown to a place that was a community/nation by itself and at that time it/(we) have developed a trans-internet society/culture with experience, preference, knowledge, lore, even politics about anything going on in i.t. and internet. at THAT point microsoft stopped winning.
then came the google. it was just compliant with the philosophy over the net - simple, no-evil (as much as possible), up-to-point, non-aggressive, not limiting, cooperative and such. people embraced, and it grew huge.
they mocked google and other companies that followed the new non-yuppie, non-'hit it big' thing, as they were locked in suits of the 80es still. they mocked, but mocks or laughs or bravado are pitiful when the majority of human civilization (as much as the percentage on the internet, which is something huge itself) is going some way and you are not.
so what happened ? they couldnt fit the times, they were not able to fit the people on the net and give them what they needed, some other people did that, the fir
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They cant find any reason to bark more copyright crap other than 'innovation' hullabaloo.
They just cant say 'the copyright holders need more heaploads of money for longer durations' to the public of course, hence they come up with 'innovation' crap.
You cant innovate nothing if you dont already have huge capital behind your back. There are millions of people trying to 'innovate' under the current system, yet the percentage of those who succeed are comparable to the rates of people winning lotteries.
More bought 'opinion', i say, about this 'report'. Give me 2-3 million dollars extra, ill go buy you another 'respectable' 'report' that is saying copyright is bad.
It was religion long ago, then nationalism and pride that was used by the minority power-holding to supress people's free exchange of ideas. In this century both of them are not heeded as much. What to do ? Need to find some other thing that is exploitable for supression - enter child abuse.
we are all delicate on the matter, everyone knows it, and they exploit it - for what - for something that will in fact definitely be used to supress things that are harmful to the power holding minority.
On the web, you are free to compete, and CAN compete if you bring a better product.
There is no problem of adaptation/transition/framework/learning problems for an internet surfer that chooses to go a simple google.com or comparably simple newcompetitortogoogle.com site.
in operating system arena, operating system is THE framework on which many programs run. Microsoft has monopoly on the FRAMEWORK, not the programs running on it. Even there were better operating systems, the users of windows 'framework' wont be able to make transition to it still, since they NEED the programs running ON the windows framework, and there are millions of programs on it, and on the better operating system there are not.
Had google been the owner of 80% of the actual internet infrastructure, only then the situation would be comparable. It is not.
Post article is null and void.
well, if your company have developed a mutual interface for 12 companies at the start, then you wouldnt need to have people parsing the data to your database.
Why the hell would you ever have to use flat file or xml for data/hierarchy anyway ?
now even for little stuff we use freely available databases and small snippets.
int. contracts, defence deals, treaties and crap generally happened to be for 2, 4, 5 or 10 years durations for the last 50 years. why now 6 years ? and why now other odd intervals appearing as 7 years and such in such contracts/agreements ?
Im not being conspirationist here, but why the hell 2012 ? Why not 2013 or 2011 or 2018 ?
Currently i am seeing many international agreements, datelines, final dates being given at either 2012 or 1 year after or earlier. Some small nato inter-agreements, some datelines for environmental procedures, some trade deadlines. Why 2012 ? whats so special with it ?
stuff around the net using it.
Some people are still trying to make easy cash about tech-trends it seems. But, it became an old trick.
The first is Microsoft's ability to use the exact same HTML based strategy as Google (like Microsoft's current Live initiative)
.NET
.net development is a novelty, sought by a few contractors occasionally every 1-1.5 months in each major agency center.
they had access to html ALL along while google was taking over the web. What did they succeed ? except alienating users by thinking them as ledger numbers, just like an old style corporation would ?
Microsoft leapfrogging the current environment by solving rich application installation/un installation and enforcing an acceptable contract regarding what rich apps can do on a user's machine.
Can they now ?
Then why is microsoft experiencing fines after fines in european union and court orders that are ordering them to remove their integrated media player, browser from their operating system ?
Eu, which is not permitting these, is going to permit microsoft preventing this or that app with its 'rich application installation' ? is that it ?
Microsoft has the best virtual machine with
And when did it become so ? as a developer who is on the hardcore developer market, i can tell you that
the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs.
Wow, now visual studio has become the best dev tool, and apparently we all were sleeping when it happened it seems. And furthermore somehow msdn had come to the point that it has best access to developers.
I BEG editors not to post articles from clueless people. This is total crapola, and its only a microsoft rant that is only thinly disguised.
they are frightened to death of them that they might reveal information that nasa and co are able to hide from the public by getting scientists sign dreadful national security oath papers.
memory ok. what about cpu ?
i was telling that too - companies dont care about drm. and existing xp and office offers EVERYthing for companies to function. so why the need to upgrade ? there is No need. so im saying that totally unneccessarily at the behest of riaa microsoft messed up their next os. badly.
At the behest of riaa members, universal and other crap, microsoft pumped vista with so much drm crapola that it hogs memory and cpu.
now, to appease 3-4 corporations, they will not be able to sell their own product to many of the world's corporations.
no corp. would like to upgrade their WHOLE pc infrastructure in order to run something that offers almost nothing new to the office, but loads of drm.
To tell you the truth i always believed microsoft and the like would again get away with what they did, as it happened to be so in the mischief cases done by big companies.
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im quite surpised to see even such a lawsuit has been filed and is proceeding indeed !
really, really surprised, and, happy about it !
there might be sensible people and justice in this world, after all
You allow excessive processes to be run on client side, yet you say its secure ?
anything relegated to client side is exploitable to hell.
Arent cnn, time warner and such are a part of the riaa-mpaa-media cartel ? and they and microsoft are each other's darling ?
In no trade branches too !
You go and try to exthort cash PER UNIT some other company produces, distributes, sells and supports !
Get a load of that ! What kind of arrogance is this ?
And thereby marking ALL purchasers of that particular product as 'potential pirates' with the argument too, which is something that is punishable by civil law in many european countries - indirect insult.
What a degree of spoiledness, and arrogance is that those people are able to DARE do such moves ?
And some of you ask "why do people hate microsoft" and say "you fuckin linux zealot" ...
See ?
Its microsoft again that brought that precedent with zune. AGAIN microsoft. again microsoft, after the fuckin novell deal that given them somehow the right to shit out totally clueless sentences like "linux owes us". again microsoft, RIGHT after their launch of their ever-first personal player, zune, causing another crapola for us that we dont know how it will effect us in future.
ALWAYS microsoft. it seems that they are just media cartel's and rich elite's fucking little right hand.
I dont get it. Arent there taxpayers who vote ? Is it a goddammit kingdom that is run by fuckin suit elite ? Arent any of you willing to say "nay" to these proceedings ? blow your senator's ears off about those practices so they are forced to take a stance ?
It will be an outright incitement to pirate more.
Oh man. check the insolence - theyll tax when purchasing, they'll sell the songs for cash, adn then they'll ALSO sue and try to suppress people who they think is 'pirating'.
isnt there anyone in america that can say "fuck off" to these motherfucking bastards so that they should hear in a manner they can understand ?
"Are you a linux junkie ?" they ask ...
YES goddammit !
And it is because of CRAP like these microsoft pulls off.
Indeed, your wise, civil, visionary post gives much more insight on the matter than my 'little twat idiot' post, isnt it ?
Not only that, but it also hints that you are a microsoft freakie, and due to your uncivil, aggressive and no-manner behaviour gives another reason to hate microsoft and all things associated with it.
Become a civilized human being first, then shit around about other people. People like you should never get any responsibility, leave aside mod points.
And curiously, you are an anonymous coward.
...
i wonder why is that
The 'terrorists' are fighting to create a world that there will be a head imam, and some other imams under him, and their word will be the law, hence something withOUT free speech,
and this guy is proposing to curb free speech to fight them.
See the irony here ?
All the hussle would be avoided if he turned to islam and moved to iran, hence there would be no trouble of 'free speech' for him.
I dont care how it is like working there. I am talking about how they treat the rest of the world.
In groups/societies exhibiting such kind of behaviour, the inner philosopy cant be all rosy.
you and your teammates may have created a little collaboration oasis in lower middle level of the company, but, the behemoth acts according to its own personality.
Exactly why they are not able to adopt the collaborative and cooperative demeanor of fasa. Then, the post was quickly modded down by a microsoft zealot, apparently it was destined for this, it seems :
Seriously, microsoft represents the opposite of what made the internet a civilization-wide revolution as of now : Cooperation, Collaboration, Coexistence, Friendly Competition, Sharing, Curiousity, Modesty.
No surprise, considering the roots of this company was formed by 3-4 fledgling young geeks back at 1970s, when the above concepts were in decline since the 60s and materialism&yuppieness&personal achievement and wealth was on the rise into the 80s. These were youngsters then who wanted to hit it big, and hit it good. And due to the nature of the times they have matured in, they have become kinda yuppie geeks, people of the 80es themselves.
1-2 among them, you know who, were much more willing on treading this path and also easy in mind about scratching anything that proved to be a burden, and they scratched their friends/colleagues who they started on the road with. Geekdom was rising then, tech was coming, i.t. was forming, so they got an advantage, they formed juicy business deals while following the path of 'scratch all, hit it big, 'im a material girl'. they crushed and stamped out many competition back then, with the same philosopyh that provided scratching of friends/colleagues. (dos'es era). after some time, when 'deal them, tie them, bring them in the darkness and bind them' policies succeeded with the advent of windows and office, they became real big. ms pWnEd all pcs round the world by then, seemingly. computer meant 'windows' in some countries' non-techie slang.
then the internet came. due to the nature of it, which is a carrier of information, its nature formed on the philosophical properties of 'information' (information in the sense of knowledge, news) - seeking of free flow, no-bars, easy sharing, non-ownership as much as possible, common to all and so on.
microsoft did not realize what the hell this was going to be later. after all, they owned pcs around the world, and it ran on them. more the internet propagated, more pcs would be needed, they calculated probably. they were right it happened as such and also it helped windows sales.
but after all, in all cases of knowledge/information being present, sharing occured, and with the sharing information/knowledge redoubled itself with every passing instant. internet grew huge.
once you set the roots of something, then build a community/company/society around it, it recruits people of similar kind to itself, and bonds with societies/companies/communities of similar kind to it. so, when microsoft woke up to internet, it naturally responded according to its own personality - tried to stamp out competition. we all know netscape/ie thing. they were successful in this too. maybe the last time they succeeded in this. after some time they crushed netscape, internet has grown to a place that was a community/nation by itself and at that time it/(we) have developed a trans-internet society/culture with experience, preference, knowledge, lore, even politics about anything going on in i.t. and internet. at THAT point microsoft stopped winning.
then came the google. it was just compliant with the philosophy over the net - simple, no-evil (as much as possible), up-to-point, non-aggressive, not limiting, cooperative and such. people embraced, and it grew huge.
they mocked google and other companies that followed the new non-yuppie, non-'hit it big' thing, as they were locked in suits of the 80es still. they mocked, but mocks or laughs or bravado are pitiful when the majority of human civilization (as much as the percentage on the internet, which is something huge itself) is going some way and you are not.
so what happened ? they couldnt fit the times, they were not able to fit the people on the net and give them what they needed, some other people did that, the fir