If I read TFA correctly, the deal here is that you are buying Vista, but you get to run XP until you are ready to move the machine to Vista. If you just bought XP you'd have to buy a Vista upgrade later.
Yeah, they're missing an opportunity here - if they admitted it was an upgrade, they could charge for it.
Let me be the first to say...
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Let me be the first to say: GPLv4 - it's going to be terrible, it's unnecessary and unwanted, probably will destroy linux and maybe the world too. GPLv4 will eat babies!
Digital Content is no longer an object to sell itself, as it has no value anymore, but is merely an attraction to attract consumers to purchase other things.
Heh, well I've got a bit of a vested interest in this... but I don't think digital content has no value - just because you can get stuff for free doesn't mean you have to.
It seems to me that most people who 'consume' an musician's work do it via recorded works, only a small fraction will attend gigs or buy T-Shirts (how many do you need?). So I'd say those recorded works should be what you charge for.
Yeah, I think I agree with everything you wrote. I hadn't really analysed why I stopped reading, but...
If you pay close attention to Job's words he actually doesn't take credit for anything that Apple didn't do. Anything they co-opt and bring to market is always a "we" or an "us".
That's it, I hate it when people say stuff like that. If you read it carefully, sure he doesn't claim anything, but to most people it will read it as Apple invented all the stuff he listed.
OK I made it half way through Job's first sentence, which was:
One of the things we feel is this is the biggest breakthrough in user interfaces in 23 years. Since the Mac in 1984 brought us the mouse and bit map displays and folders and icons
Aren't there any other open source author's facing major criminal charges? All we get is Hans, Hans, Hans. If not it seems Microsoft's Black Ops. Dept.* has missed an opportunity.
And not releasing them, what message would that send?
I wasn't suggesting not releasing them. It is just frustrating that even though they are admitting doing illegal things, there are no consequences for those that performed or ordered them.
The message this sends current CIA operatives: go ahead, do whatever illegal stuff you want because you're going to get away with it - in 50 years time we'll tell everyone and have a good laugh about it.
I know TFA is meant in an amusing way... but anyway, I reckon the people who do all of those jobs enjoy them - even the MS one (assuming they get to investigate the problems and it's not just talking about the people who answer the phones and get shouted at).
Basically it boils down to the fact that terrestrial broadcasters pay no royalties whatsoever to the recording companies, but the recording industry wants to extort as much money as they can from the internet music business.
One thing I don't understand is why the terrestrial broadcasters don't pay royalties in the US. AFAIK then do in most other counties. They certainly do in the UK. Anyone know?
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why don't corporations just install XP?
If I read TFA correctly, the deal here is that you are buying Vista, but you get to run XP until you are ready to move the machine to Vista. If you just bought XP you'd have to buy a Vista upgrade later.
I'd consider it an upgrade.
Yeah, they're missing an opportunity here - if they admitted it was an upgrade, they could charge for it.
Let me be the first to say: GPLv4 - it's going to be terrible, it's unnecessary and unwanted, probably will destroy linux and maybe the world too. GPLv4 will eat babies!
Digital Content is no longer an object to sell itself, as it has no value anymore, but is merely an attraction to attract consumers to purchase other things.
Heh, well I've got a bit of a vested interest in this... but I don't think digital content has no value - just because you can get stuff for free doesn't mean you have to.
It seems to me that most people who 'consume' an musician's work do it via recorded works, only a small fraction will attend gigs or buy T-Shirts (how many do you need?). So I'd say those recorded works should be what you charge for.
Swimming against the current, I know.
Hey, I'm not joking - I've still got a whole warehouse of QWWWERTY keyboards left over from the last internet bubble.
Will it be called the World Wide Who, When, What and Where Web? WWWWWWW is quite catchy I think.
Yeah, I think I agree with everything you wrote. I hadn't really analysed why I stopped reading, but...
If you pay close attention to Job's words he actually doesn't take credit for anything that Apple didn't do. Anything they co-opt and bring to market is always a "we" or an "us".
That's it, I hate it when people say stuff like that. If you read it carefully, sure he doesn't claim anything, but to most people it will read it as Apple invented all the stuff he listed.
OK I made it half way through Job's first sentence, which was:
One of the things we feel is this is the biggest breakthrough in user interfaces in 23 years. Since the Mac in 1984 brought us the mouse and bit map displays and folders and icons
hmmm...
We would have coped the same as always, we would rant and rave and generally work ourselves into a tizz
The great thing about this story is that we get to do all that even though nothing happened!
12 off-the-shelf projectors, for when one projector isn't noisy enough for you.
Slashdot only puts the Google and Yahoo! icons by the summary, proving... oh I give up.
OLPC Elian Edition?
Now, the only thing left to do, is someone tell Intel that they're selling hardware.
Or they could just rename the range: Core 2 Duo 2 Beta.
I think I'll wait until it's out of beta, won't be long, right?
My apologies, I don't even know how that happened. Lack of sleep maybe.
So that's what Paris was screaming about as they dragged he off to jail!
I find it hard to believe that anyone on the engineering team would not like to see it break it.
What I need as a 4'x2' poster (or possibly a flashing neon sign) saying: "You CAN NOT use // comments in CSS".
#1 Tip for MS employees: tell people you work at Google.
They'll also be able to figure out my Slashdot handle, because the damn thing has "Satanic Puppy" engraved on the back.
I have avoided that problem by engraving "Anonymous Coward" on mine.
Aren't there any other open source author's facing major criminal charges? All we get is Hans, Hans, Hans. If not it seems Microsoft's Black Ops. Dept.* has missed an opportunity.
(* motto: "Beyond the blue screen")
And not releasing them, what message would that send?
I wasn't suggesting not releasing them. It is just frustrating that even though they are admitting doing illegal things, there are no consequences for those that performed or ordered them.
The message this sends current CIA operatives: go ahead, do whatever illegal stuff you want because you're going to get away with it - in 50 years time we'll tell everyone and have a good laugh about it.
I know TFA is meant in an amusing way... but anyway, I reckon the people who do all of those jobs enjoy them - even the MS one (assuming they get to investigate the problems and it's not just talking about the people who answer the phones and get shouted at).
Basically it boils down to the fact that terrestrial broadcasters pay no royalties whatsoever to the recording companies, but the recording industry wants to extort as much money as they can from the internet music business.
One thing I don't understand is why the terrestrial broadcasters don't pay royalties in the US. AFAIK then do in most other counties. They certainly do in the UK. Anyone know?