If they rule "making available" some copyrighted work, even if it is done unbenown to the owner of the computer, well, whoever you are who gave a lift to the hitchhiker who was later found to be the serial killer, tremble in your feet. They are going to come after you with "aiding and abetting".
Not sure does not mean MSFT does not know whether or not the Windows installation is genuine or not. It just means that MSFT is not sure, if they crack down too hard on the bootleg copies of windows, whether it will push people into Linux camp and create more marketshare, installs and toe/foothold for Linux.
The agro business will just let it be known to the coyotes that they will be need more hands to do the pollinating because the bees are all dead. The coyotes will deliver more poor desperate Mexicans to the farms. The farmers will pay them as much as they pay the bees now. They have to just suck nectar from the blossoms. No social security, no payroll tax, no workman comp, no time-and-a-half overtime... The talk radio will denounce the illegal Mexicans taking away the job that used to be done by the American bees. They will be strangely silent on the rich, educated Legal American employers flouting the law and focus exclusively on the law breaking by the poor illiterate despo Illegal Immigrants. Sorry I was shooting for funny but more likely ended up as flamebait.
First time I tried, it did not work. Then I disabled NoScript to give permission to that site, then it workd, it showed me my c:\boot.ini. Since I permit only very few trusted sites to execute scripts in my work machine I am safe here. But the common use laptop in my home would be vulnerable. Stil it is only unauthorized snooping of my files. Not as bad as drive by downloads or system modifications.
CFLs cause mercury contamination. I am not very happy with the current state of garbage disposal. They charge you 3$ to dispose you old battery or 1$ to dispose the oil. But some idiots would save three bucks by taking back their old batteries and tossing them into the swamp or the river and create more problems. Hundred of us might pay the disposal fee and all it takes is one idiot to get the bright idea to save three bucks to nullify it all
I think the cost of proper disposal of any of these things, tires, batteries, bulbs should be built into
the cost as a tax and kept as waste management fund. There should be an indenpendant agency to pay out from
the fund to waste disposal companies who document the number of batteries, tires, bulbs properly handled by
them.
Yeah, most of them dont even know where the OS part ends and where the application starts. They have only the vaguest idea of where their machine ends and where the "internet" starts. Just last week I helped someone fix their router. Some very simple glitch. The tech support had her turn off the firewall in the machine, turn off the firewall of the router, came in through remote assistance, messed up everything. The wireless rounter encrpytion turend off. Max connection limit upped to 50. Computer name changed, work group name changed. Asking a plain simple windows box to connect directly to the modem and turn off firewall is plain irresponsible.
I get irritated when my car mechanic changes the radio station when I drop it off for oil change. And here
the torture people go through tech support, incredible.
Somehow an unknown executable ended up in your temp folder. You have no idea how it did. Some application is trying to run that unknown executable every few seconds. You dont know which application is doing that. You dont know what else that application is doing to your system. But you think the UAC has saved your butt. And further suddenly all UAC dialogs stopped. Instead of asking yourself with much trepedation "why?" you become happier! "All others are getting the annoying UAC dialog. But whatever malware is in my system does not bother me with UAC, it got all the authorization it wanted."
This is what the other guy said, "Vista is designed to make you feel warm and fuzzy and happy while your
machine is being rooted."
He is from Cyprus. Most likely English is not his first language. Please forgive his typos and grammar mistakes. Looks like he is hobbyist programmer who did not undergo any formal comp sci training. So he stumbled on to radix sort and thinks he has invented something new.
I am not saying he is Ramanujan or anything like that. But still every amateur deserves to be forgiven once.
There were people in America using different kinds of arrowheads fashioned from flint. Then, some 11000 years ago, near where Albuquerque, New Mexio would be, an arrowhead maker named Beak Doors created a kind of arrowheads for his company Microhard and aggressively promoted it. Many of his detractors claimed he was using illegal methods and that his arrowheads were not superior to other competitors. But Corporate tribals never learned to distinguish between true interoperability and Microhard compatibility. Microhard arrowheads eventually achieved vendor-lock in the tribal societies. That is how what we now call clovis points became ubiquitous in the Americas.
With a name like "crusade" how does it sell in Arab countries? Or do they have a different name for those countries like "Idol Crusher" or something?
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I have always used Firefox and mozilla before that and Netscape before that. I distinctly remember that MSNBC used to have lots of difficulty and cascading menu used to overflow frame boundaries and make a general mess. So I stopped visiting that site. For this story I clicked on the link, (I know, I know, as a slashdotter I should not read the article, but please forgive this newbie with id>900000) and it seems to rendering correctly. A side effect of IE7 roll out? All these sites finally stop putting hacks?
The United States, it seems, is the only country in the world that prefers to use the name football to refer to a game that doesn't actually use the feet.
The Football is called so in USA because the ball used is exactly 12 inches long. The name Football is already taken, sorry you have to call it soccer in USA. You can make bubbly wine, but you cant call it champaigne. Google is talking to some small German email provider over the name gmail, because it is already taken in Germany. Cisco took the name iPhone before Apple did. So they talked and came to an understanding. You want to call it football in your country. Do so. But dont expect the land of the free and home of the brave to follow you like sheep.
I talked to our sys admin. Exchange server is licensed on a per user basis. Office is available for unlimited copies. So looks like Google is exactly targeting the right segment. Cherry picking.
Thanks for the correction.
Microsoft is not going supernova. Not in 5 years not in 10 years.
Let us take for example the vendor lock and switching costs. You can get decent oil change for your car for 20$. 10$ if you really clip coupons and are willing to let Joe's QuickLube to do it. And most car dealers charge 30$ for the very same service. Still there are millions of car owners who would happily pay 30$ to the dealer willingly.
Now take a look at how difficult it is to use a competing product instead of Microsoft. The switching
costs are high and there is very heavy vendor lock. In 5 years, the marketplace might become more level.
Finally the corporations might start demanding true interoperability. MS might lose market share. From
90% share in Office and 80-85% share in browsers and 95% share in computers, it might go down. How low
will it go, I cant guess. May be to 50%. May be to 33%. The profitability also might suffer. But after all is said and done, MS will still have decent market share and a decent profit making business. Look around, IBM is still around, isn't it? It was the IBM dinosaur around which nimble Microsoft ran circles around. 10 years from now there will be three dinosaurs, IBM, MSFT and GOOG. And there will be another nimble player.
100,000 user ids have been sold? Or 100,000 companies each with multiple user ids sold? I am guessing it is the former. These are the low hanging fruits folks. Microsoft has actively pushed bulk and unlimited licensing to most of its big customers. If their company already has unlimited number of MSOffice licenses, you need to provide a pretty powerful reason for them to start paying 50$ per user per year. Right now I dont see the compelling business reason to do so.
Arthur Anderson auditing firm and Enron would have loved this technology. Dont shred incriminating documents, just erase and reprint innocuous shipping vouchers on them and say, "Gee! we were just saving money, cutting down on printing costs, We would have never intentionally destroyed evidence wink wink"
Is there a fee involved to get the certification? Does it involve signing any gag-order like non disclosure agreement? Does MS pledge not to share any info it gets during the certification process with the submitter's competitors?
If the Fortune 500 companies chip in 100K each, you will have 50 million $ funding to establish a completely vendor neutral certifying agency/institute that will offer True Interoperability instead of the short sighted Microsoft Compatibility. But expecting corporate America to think beyond the next quarter's 10-K form to SEC is too much, I guess.
Fossil fuel natural gas is also a finite source. But dont forget America alone has 100 million cows and about 120 million pigs. Cant guess how many million chicken. All their waste produced methane. Currently their wastes are a mixture of methane, nutrient rich fertilizer and small amounts of extremely stinky gases mainly H2S.
If these can be seperated you get so many benefits. Pollution/odour abatement, organic fertilizer, auto fuel, green house gas emission reduction, etc etc. Last time I actually did the calculation I came up with six cows can keep one car running. With a million cow, we are talking about 15% reduction in oil consumption. Since we import 50% of the oil, this would represent 30% reduction in oil imports. Add the pigs and chicken, we can run our cars on their shit instead of importing oil from the middle east.
On national security standpoint alone, we should be investing very heavily on recovering fuel from farm waste.
Well, no one knew about YouTube either couple of years ago. So that Joost is unknown is not that big a detriment. With bagfuls of cash they can get name recognition like Big Daddy. Again securing video content against the analog hole is impossible. Further all it takes is a software video driver that sits between the CPU and the hardware to create a T. With enough oomph in the CPU it can be done and nothing can be done to secure against it.
That is why Vista is big on signed drivers and devices that comply with "display only no copy" connectors and cables. Still it will only prevent casual copying and backing up content. The real pirates will circumvent all this with ease.
It is also possible for both Joost and YouTube and may be couple of more players in the market. With the commercial skipping dvrs, the advertisement supported network TV is dead. It will become what AM radio is today. TV shows will be like magazines. You can copy the Time Magazine if you care but why would you? There is market for hundreds of magazines and about five or six distribution frameworks. You Tube will be one. Joost may or may not be the second.
Well it is from the dumb terrorists the real serious terrorists recruit suicide bombers. The suicide bomber is beyond reason and is highly irrational. It is very difficult to defend against them. Thought they are dumb compared to humans, they are very smart compared to a guided missile in homing into the targets. The only defence against them is to find the missile launchers, the people who recruit them, arm them, aquire target info and launch these dumb terrorists.
But that does not justify wholesale spying on grand scale by the Govt. It is very easy for such an agency to morph into a Gestapo or KGB. We would have simply avoided being ruled by one totalitarian by being ruled by another totalitarian.
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If they rule "making available" some copyrighted work, even if it is done unbenown to the owner of the computer, well, whoever you are who gave a lift to the hitchhiker who was later found to be the serial killer, tremble in your feet. They are going to come after you with "aiding and abetting".
Not sure does not mean MSFT does not know whether or not the Windows installation is genuine or not. It just means that MSFT is not sure, if they crack down too hard on the bootleg copies of windows, whether it will push people into Linux camp and create more marketshare, installs and toe/foothold for Linux.
The agro business will just let it be known to the coyotes that they will be need more hands to do the pollinating because the bees are all dead. The coyotes will deliver more poor desperate Mexicans to the farms. The farmers will pay them as much as they pay the bees now. They have to just suck nectar from the blossoms. No social security, no payroll tax, no workman comp, no time-and-a-half overtime ... The talk radio will denounce the illegal Mexicans taking away the job that used to be done by the American bees. They will be strangely silent on the rich, educated Legal American employers flouting the law and focus exclusively on the law breaking by the poor illiterate despo Illegal Immigrants. Sorry I was shooting for funny but more likely ended up as flamebait.
The website you are visiting slashdot will list the faults of vista and you will come to a sad realization. Allow or cancel?
First time I tried, it did not work. Then I disabled NoScript to give permission to that site, then it workd, it showed me my c:\boot.ini. Since I permit only very few trusted sites to execute scripts in my work machine I am safe here. But the common use laptop in my home would be vulnerable. Stil it is only unauthorized snooping of my files. Not as bad as drive by downloads or system modifications.
I think the cost of proper disposal of any of these things, tires, batteries, bulbs should be built into the cost as a tax and kept as waste management fund. There should be an indenpendant agency to pay out from the fund to waste disposal companies who document the number of batteries, tires, bulbs properly handled by them.
I get irritated when my car mechanic changes the radio station when I drop it off for oil change. And here the torture people go through tech support, incredible.
This is what the other guy said, "Vista is designed to make you feel warm and fuzzy and happy while your machine is being rooted."
I am not saying he is Ramanujan or anything like that. But still every amateur deserves to be forgiven once.
There were people in America using different kinds of arrowheads fashioned from flint. Then, some 11000 years ago, near where Albuquerque, New Mexio would be, an arrowhead maker named Beak Doors created a kind of arrowheads for his company Microhard and aggressively promoted it. Many of his detractors claimed he was using illegal methods and that his arrowheads were not superior to other competitors. But Corporate tribals never learned to distinguish between true interoperability and Microhard compatibility. Microhard arrowheads eventually achieved vendor-lock in the tribal societies. That is how what we now call clovis points became ubiquitous in the Americas.
With a name like "crusade" how does it sell in Arab countries? Or do they have a different name for those countries like "Idol Crusher" or something?
I have always used Firefox and mozilla before that and Netscape before that. I distinctly remember that MSNBC used to have lots of difficulty and cascading menu used to overflow frame boundaries and make a general mess. So I stopped visiting that site. For this story I clicked on the link, (I know, I know, as a slashdotter I should not read the article, but please forgive this newbie with id>900000) and it seems to rendering correctly. A side effect of IE7 roll out? All these sites finally stop putting hacks?
The Football is called so in USA because the ball used is exactly 12 inches long. The name Football is already taken, sorry you have to call it soccer in USA. You can make bubbly wine, but you cant call it champaigne. Google is talking to some small German email provider over the name gmail, because it is already taken in Germany. Cisco took the name iPhone before Apple did. So they talked and came to an understanding. You want to call it football in your country. Do so. But dont expect the land of the free and home of the brave to follow you like sheep.
I talked to our sys admin. Exchange server is licensed on a per user basis. Office is available for unlimited copies. So looks like Google is exactly targeting the right segment. Cherry picking. Thanks for the correction.
Let us take for example the vendor lock and switching costs. You can get decent oil change for your car for 20$. 10$ if you really clip coupons and are willing to let Joe's QuickLube to do it. And most car dealers charge 30$ for the very same service. Still there are millions of car owners who would happily pay 30$ to the dealer willingly.
Now take a look at how difficult it is to use a competing product instead of Microsoft. The switching costs are high and there is very heavy vendor lock. In 5 years, the marketplace might become more level. Finally the corporations might start demanding true interoperability. MS might lose market share. From 90% share in Office and 80-85% share in browsers and 95% share in computers, it might go down. How low will it go, I cant guess. May be to 50%. May be to 33%. The profitability also might suffer. But after all is said and done, MS will still have decent market share and a decent profit making business. Look around, IBM is still around, isn't it? It was the IBM dinosaur around which nimble Microsoft ran circles around. 10 years from now there will be three dinosaurs, IBM, MSFT and GOOG. And there will be another nimble player.
100,000 user ids have been sold? Or 100,000 companies each with multiple user ids sold? I am guessing it is the former. These are the low hanging fruits folks. Microsoft has actively pushed bulk and unlimited licensing to most of its big customers. If their company already has unlimited number of MSOffice licenses, you need to provide a pretty powerful reason for them to start paying 50$ per user per year. Right now I dont see the compelling business reason to do so.
Arthur Anderson auditing firm and Enron would have loved this technology. Dont shred incriminating documents, just erase and reprint innocuous shipping vouchers on them and say, "Gee! we were just saving money, cutting down on printing costs, We would have never intentionally destroyed evidence wink wink"
If the Fortune 500 companies chip in 100K each, you will have 50 million $ funding to establish a completely vendor neutral certifying agency/institute that will offer True Interoperability instead of the short sighted Microsoft Compatibility. But expecting corporate America to think beyond the next quarter's 10-K form to SEC is too much, I guess.
... of the diaper?
If these can be seperated you get so many benefits. Pollution/odour abatement, organic fertilizer, auto fuel, green house gas emission reduction, etc etc. Last time I actually did the calculation I came up with six cows can keep one car running. With a million cow, we are talking about 15% reduction in oil consumption. Since we import 50% of the oil, this would represent 30% reduction in oil imports. Add the pigs and chicken, we can run our cars on their shit instead of importing oil from the middle east. On national security standpoint alone, we should be investing very heavily on recovering fuel from farm waste.
Great men think alike! got the same idea at the same time ;-)
... to throw chairs at your underlings.
"you are about to read a scary story about the lack of security in Vista. Allow or cancel?"
That is why Vista is big on signed drivers and devices that comply with "display only no copy" connectors and cables. Still it will only prevent casual copying and backing up content. The real pirates will circumvent all this with ease.
It is also possible for both Joost and YouTube and may be couple of more players in the market. With the commercial skipping dvrs, the advertisement supported network TV is dead. It will become what AM radio is today. TV shows will be like magazines. You can copy the Time Magazine if you care but why would you? There is market for hundreds of magazines and about five or six distribution frameworks. You Tube will be one. Joost may or may not be the second.
But that does not justify wholesale spying on grand scale by the Govt. It is very easy for such an agency to morph into a Gestapo or KGB. We would have simply avoided being ruled by one totalitarian by being ruled by another totalitarian.