Microsoft does not have a monopoly on web-based portals or free e-mail websites. Even if MSN.com was the only portal and Hotmail was the only e-mail service, they are not "essential goods" nor is there any consumer cost associated with them. Therefore the monopoly laws would not apply.
So however you look at it, your argument is knee-jerk FUD and holds no weight whatsoever.
Review of Transmeta from a year ago. It's interesting how this humor article pointed out everything wrong with the company during its IPO and it's the exact same stuff we're reading now that Transmeta is near its demise.
(I tried to copy & paste the text to conserve SA's bandwidth but the Lameness filter says it has too many 'junk' characters. Too bad it doesn't actually say which characters are considered junk.)
If they run a small business at home, hopefully they have the business service and not the residential service. This only affects the residential customers.
I have their advanced service with 5 static IPs, and it is well worth the extra cost. I can do all sorts of things that I couldn't on cable (either due to technology or policy) and it's been plenty zippy. At $65 it's a steal, especially when you are splitting it with 3 roommates!
PPPoE is only for dynamic IP allocation, so hopefully they won't change my service. *knocks on wood*
Microsoft makes IE 5 for Solaris (6 is on the way). You can put a Solaris machine on your network (the OS is free now and old Sun hardware is easy to find) and have IE in Linux via X11. A great way to impress your friends.
William Hanna was an visionary in his field, who deserves to be remembered among the likes of Walt Disney. My happiest childhood memories were at the Hanna Barbera Land theme park in Houston, something that William Hanna had a direct role in creating. (Unfortunately, the theme park was torn down a few years ago to make room for a run of the mill water park.) I supposedly even met William Hanna once, but I was three at the time.:) Thanks to Cartoon Network his legacy will be passed on to yet another generation. May he live on forever!
He purchased rights to use that IP address from the company that owns it. The IP address is property and has nothing to do with the "Open Source ethos".
It's like saying that if I hotwire your car and steal it, I have more right to it than you do because I was there first.
This is the case because in the USA, we're supposedly Innocent Until Proven Guilty.
You make a good argument, except for this... The tactics used by DirectTV only affected cards that had been illegaly hacked. Anyone who fell victim to the attack by DirectTV had already been "proven guilty" because had they not been breaking the law, no damage would have occured.
I know it sounds like a cheap argument, but in this day and age it would probably stand up in court.
If I'm using an "unlicensed" SmartCard (btw I'm not, I actually rarely ever watch TV), I still own that card - it's my property. If DirectTV breaks it by any means, they are illegally tampering with something I own.
Ah, but you don't really own the card, at least not from a legal standpoint. The card's software was created by DirectTV and as such is licensed proprietary code. As with any software license, they have the right to terminate it at any time. (Read the EULA on your latest game, it's in there.) And since you are not the rightful licensee of the code, they are not required to offer any form of reimbursement.
Of course this is all a moot point since the software code on the card had already been illegally reverse-engineered and altered, and because of that violation of the license agreement is illegal to operate in the first place.
They may be more durable than you think. I've managed to forget about Playstation memory cards and send them through the washer and they are none worse for it.
Good thing I was line drying my jeans, I'm sure the dryer machine would have been a bit harsher...;)
Sheesh, enough whining already. So, he left out one little ". Big deal, I'm sure someone will fix it in a few minutes anyway. And maybe there are a few spelling mistakes, but as Mark Twain said, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." It's a poor mind that has nothing to do other than pick apart the work of others.
No, and I haven't forgotten how to use the channel up/down buttons on the front of my TV either. But if I have a remote control handy, of course I'm going to use it.
Quite right... I don't know what is worse, finger pads or those tiny trackballs. The only thing I've ever really liked is the "eraser" pointer on some of IBM's ThinkPads.
The problem with using a USB mouse is that most laptops are used for business travel, and a mouse is not very convenient on an airplane tray. Maybe an external Logitech trackball would be nice for getting your extra buttons.
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Remarq wasn't really discontinued per se, it changed its name back to SuperNews and got purchased by some other company which turned it into a fee based service. I personally liked the Remarq interface a lot better than the Deja interface, but I guess I'm stuck with Deja now.
I love this book, and it has taught me a bunch even though I've never had a chance to use XINU. By the way, in case you've never heard of it, XINU stands for XINU Is Not UNIX.:)
I have seen Microsoft from the inside many times and know quite a few of their employees very personally. If there is any truth that Microsoft had at one time denied employees benefits, I am sure it was some sort of mistake. In fact, according to the NY Times article, starting in 1997 they hired all of their Permatemp employees into full time positions with full benefits. (Of course that isn't mentioned on the slashdot front page.) The case only covers Dec 1986 thru 1997 temps and by making a settlement Microsoft is acknowledging that those employees deserve benefits. With full health, pentions, and stock options, Microsoft employees are some of the best treated workers I know. Microsoft IS a great place to work (and very challenging too!) and one of the most respected employers in the field.
The green running guy in the beginning is from Keystone Kapers, as are many of the sounds. (He's blue in the game.) That's also what the mall scene is from.
Reminds me of those old McDonalds boxes that had two compartments, so that the meat and bread stayed warm and the lettuce and tomato stayed cold. A good idea, except for all the styrofoam that was wasted.
I've never been a big fan of Macrovision. (Damn them for protecting their interlectual property!) Anyway, I've been wondering if there are any ways around it. In the back of magazines like Popular Science they advertise boxes to stop Macrovision, supposedly you order the plans and build it yourself from Radio Shack parts. Are they really effective? If so, it could be a nice cheap way for ShowStopper owners to salvage some usefulness from their expensive new toy.
The reason the PS/2 is going the way of the Betamax isn't about technology, it's about marketing. You see, Sony kept the Betamax proprietary and the industry shruged at it, and the customers never became interested. The same is true with the PS/2. They enter a market with a huge base of good, cheap hardware (ISA) and try to sell a totally incompatible yet technically superior system (microchannel) and nobody understands why they should buy all new equipment. Had IBM made the microchannel standard available to manufacturers at a reasonable cost instead of only allowing super-expensive cards to enter the market, it could have taken over ISA in a heartbeat. Just like the betamax, people don't want expensive and superior, they want cheap and adequate.
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Microsoft does not have a monopoly on web-based portals or free e-mail websites. Even if MSN.com was the only portal and Hotmail was the only e-mail service, they are not "essential goods" nor is there any consumer cost associated with them. Therefore the monopoly laws would not apply.
So however you look at it, your argument is knee-jerk FUD and holds no weight whatsoever.
HAHA! I'm a Reboot fanatic but the connection never occured to me. I think I will have to get a GameCube now too!
(I tried to copy & paste the text to conserve SA's bandwidth but the Lameness filter says it has too many 'junk' characters. Too bad it doesn't actually say which characters are considered junk.)
If they run a small business at home, hopefully they have the business service and not the residential service. This only affects the residential customers.
I have their advanced service with 5 static IPs, and it is well worth the extra cost. I can do all sorts of things that I couldn't on cable (either due to technology or policy) and it's been plenty zippy. At $65 it's a steal, especially when you are splitting it with 3 roommates! PPPoE is only for dynamic IP allocation, so hopefully they won't change my service. *knocks on wood*
Microsoft makes IE 5 for Solaris (6 is on the way). You can put a Solaris machine on your network (the OS is free now and old Sun hardware is easy to find) and have IE in Linux via X11. A great way to impress your friends.
William Hanna was an visionary in his field, who deserves to be remembered among the likes of Walt Disney. My happiest childhood memories were at the Hanna Barbera Land theme park in Houston, something that William Hanna had a direct role in creating. (Unfortunately, the theme park was torn down a few years ago to make room for a run of the mill water park.) I supposedly even met William Hanna once, but I was three at the time. :) Thanks to Cartoon Network his legacy will be passed on to yet another generation. May he live on forever!
Not ALL open source OS users are cheap bastards, you know...
*sigh*
He purchased rights to use that IP address from the company that owns it. The IP address is property and has nothing to do with the "Open Source ethos".
It's like saying that if I hotwire your car and steal it, I have more right to it than you do because I was there first.
This is the case because in the USA, we're supposedly Innocent Until Proven Guilty.
You make a good argument, except for this... The tactics used by DirectTV only affected cards that had been illegaly hacked. Anyone who fell victim to the attack by DirectTV had already been "proven guilty" because had they not been breaking the law, no damage would have occured.
I know it sounds like a cheap argument, but in this day and age it would probably stand up in court.
If I'm using an "unlicensed" SmartCard (btw I'm not, I actually rarely ever watch TV), I still own that card - it's my property. If DirectTV breaks it by any means, they are illegally tampering with something I own.
Ah, but you don't really own the card, at least not from a legal standpoint. The card's software was created by DirectTV and as such is licensed proprietary code. As with any software license, they have the right to terminate it at any time. (Read the EULA on your latest game, it's in there.) And since you are not the rightful licensee of the code, they are not required to offer any form of reimbursement.
Of course this is all a moot point since the software code on the card had already been illegally reverse-engineered and altered, and because of that violation of the license agreement is illegal to operate in the first place.
They may be more durable than you think. I've managed to forget about Playstation memory cards and send them through the washer and they are none worse for it.
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Good thing I was line drying my jeans, I'm sure the dryer machine would have been a bit harsher...
Sheesh, enough whining already. So, he left out one little ". Big deal, I'm sure someone will fix it in a few minutes anyway. And maybe there are a few spelling mistakes, but as Mark Twain said, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." It's a poor mind that has nothing to do other than pick apart the work of others.
No, and I haven't forgotten how to use the channel up/down buttons on the front of my TV either. But if I have a remote control handy, of course I'm going to use it.
Quite right... I don't know what is worse, finger pads or those tiny trackballs. The only thing I've ever really liked is the "eraser" pointer on some of IBM's ThinkPads.
The problem with using a USB mouse is that most laptops are used for business travel, and a mouse is not very convenient on an airplane tray. Maybe an external Logitech trackball would be nice for getting your extra buttons.
Remarq wasn't really discontinued per se, it changed its name back to SuperNews and got purchased by some other company which turned it into a fee based service. I personally liked the Remarq interface a lot better than the Deja interface, but I guess I'm stuck with Deja now.
I love this book, and it has taught me a bunch even though I've never had a chance to use XINU. By the way, in case you've never heard of it, XINU stands for XINU Is Not UNIX. :)
I have seen Microsoft from the inside many times and know quite a few of their employees very personally. If there is any truth that Microsoft had at one time denied employees benefits, I am sure it was some sort of mistake. In fact, according to the NY Times article, starting in 1997 they hired all of their Permatemp employees into full time positions with full benefits. (Of course that isn't mentioned on the slashdot front page.) The case only covers Dec 1986 thru 1997 temps and by making a settlement Microsoft is acknowledging that those employees deserve benefits. With full health, pentions, and stock options, Microsoft employees are some of the best treated workers I know. Microsoft IS a great place to work (and very challenging too!) and one of the most respected employers in the field.
The green running guy in the beginning is from Keystone Kapers, as are many of the sounds. (He's blue in the game.) That's also what the mall scene is from.
Just a note about that link, Kevin's Tetris is for the Colecovision, not the 2600.
Transmeta fans (and non-fans) will probably be amused by today's edition of Something Awful. Check it out.
Reminds me of those old McDonalds boxes that had two compartments, so that the meat and bread stayed warm and the lettuce and tomato stayed cold. A good idea, except for all the styrofoam that was wasted.
The guy who made the Mona Lisa mosaic also made a 3 dimensional Tux model which looks pretty nice:
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/ leg o/penguin.html
I've never been a big fan of Macrovision. (Damn them for protecting their interlectual property!) Anyway, I've been wondering if there are any ways around it. In the back of magazines like Popular Science they advertise boxes to stop Macrovision, supposedly you order the plans and build it yourself from Radio Shack parts. Are they really effective? If so, it could be a nice cheap way for ShowStopper owners to salvage some usefulness from their expensive new toy.
The reason the PS/2 is going the way of the Betamax isn't about technology, it's about marketing. You see, Sony kept the Betamax proprietary and the industry shruged at it, and the customers never became interested. The same is true with the PS/2. They enter a market with a huge base of good, cheap hardware (ISA) and try to sell a totally incompatible yet technically superior system (microchannel) and nobody understands why they should buy all new equipment. Had IBM made the microchannel standard available to manufacturers at a reasonable cost instead of only allowing super-expensive cards to enter the market, it could have taken over ISA in a heartbeat. Just like the betamax, people don't want expensive and superior, they want cheap and adequate.
Huh? Oh, you mean that OTHER PS2... bah!