Yeah... your right... It has clarified alot for me. I guess ive been reading slashdot to much, and have in the last few years started to believe that linux WAS commercially viable, and MIGHT be able to compete with Microsoft... but I guess in the end we must just take in stride the fact that there is no commercially viable option for replacing windows.
And what... exactly... is it that microsoft is the only supplier of?? Software usable by the masses? Maybe.... Desktop OS? wrong. Server OS? wrong. Yes Microsoft has been found guilty of anti-competitive practices and monopolisitc practices, but they are in fact NOT a monopoly, there IS competition.
By saying that my analogy is wrong because it doesnt include a monopoly means that you believe Microsoft IS a monopoly, in which case I would have to ask you why you dont feel that open source software can compete with Microsoft. Why do you feel that Mac cant compete with Microsoft???
So lets try this again, what if Ford was the only supplier of cars in the US and if you wanted a car you pretty much had to buy a Ford. Now, ford decides it wants to move into the fuel market. So they switch all Ford cars to use only Ford fuel.
And where is it you purchase your Microsoft electricity from? Where do you get your Microsoft computer cases from?
I guess i could just say your analogy sucks... a better and more appropriate analogy would be...
What if Ford created a car and you had to use a Ford starter in it, or if you had to use Ford door pannels. Oh.. wait... you do.
Yes there are aftermarket parts not made by ford, but those parts were made by a 3rd party who reverse engineered them. Parent post is correct, its laws that our lawmakers make like the DMCA that makes it illegal to reverse engineer most software. In the words of my hip and cool friends... dont hate the player, hate the game.
The only thing in this world I have found to be sleazier than lawyers are software salesmen. This isnt isnt a new idea from Microsoft... IBM did it for years with mainframe releases. You have to have a service contract to get the updates to fix the bugs.
This problem of releasing buggy software and charging for fixes is inherent in the software world.
First I want to say that I hate AOL... Im just trying to figure this out.
But I would think they are *trying* for the best of both worlds...
AOL has better content controll from years of being "family friendly", however they have built their browser into a portal platform. Besides the sheer quantity of suck that AOL brings, one of their worst problems is that its not that easy to just type in a address and go, thats where IE comes in.
I think their stand alone browser might appeal to end users looking for content control without having to install the AOL software on their computer and getting AOL's portal services.
The browser will probably be available to AOL users to provide them more ease of use, while allowing them to still moderate what their children see through the browser.
Again.. I hate AOL, its the devil, but this is the spin I see AOL trying to put on it.
First it was Ozzy Osbourne records, then D&D, now video games.
Case in point... This woolley lady...
The mother of a 21-year old EverQuest addict who killed himself last Thanksgiving morning is filing a lawsuit against Sony Entertainment on the grounds that the addictive nature of the game weakened her son to the point of suicide.
Elizabeth Woolley of Osceola, Wisconsin says that her son, Shawn, was so addicted to EverQuest that he surrendered everything - his home, family, and job - to play the game.
Shawn had more than his share of personal problems - in fact, if you've been reading this site for a while, you can practically recite them along with me. He was diagnosed with "depression and schizoid personality disorder, symptoms of which include a lack of desire for social relationships, little or no sex drive and a limited range of emotions in social settings." He was also an epileptic, and according to his mother, his last eight seizures were due to computer use.
Woolley's lawyer is the "colorful" attorney Jack Thompson, who is most famous for the 1990 debacle over rap group 2 Live Crew. Thompson attempted to get the members of the infamous rap group thrown into jail because their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be contained numerous instances of words that he just didn't like.
Elizabeth Woolley wants a label on games like EverQuest, to warn people of the potential dangers of playing them for extended periods of time. This has two problems with it:
Woolley herself had no need of such a label, as she was fully aware of her son's mental and physical problems, and knew that his game playing was getting out of hand.
Neither Woolley nor her son were likely to heed such a label if it did exist previously, since they both seemed to have ignored the epilepsy warning that came with EverQuest - the same warning that is voluntarily printed in the manual for practically every video game on the market.
Lets blame Sony for making the game, Walmart for selling the bullets, Ozzy for making the records, and leave the innocent parents alone.
There are alot of gamers out there... Im one of them, I go to lan parties, have a ton of cyber friends, but I also have a girlfriend, a job, a car, and many friends in RL... because my parents taught me the ability to differentiate between REALITY AND FANTASY
When people say "uptime" they mean no reboots, no power outages... the time the box has been up and continiously running... if you have a XP box with 2 years of uptime... you have more serious problems... and if its on the internet, your box IS hosed.
Your argument only makes Windows people look even more stupid...I dont care how long your servers are.
Yes, I know I cant spell.. I dont give a crap... thanks!
In reading your post, it becomes obvious that you dont have any clue what your talking about, I will give you a brief portion of his testimoney before congress on July 24th 2003.
More recently, provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) have led to faculty
being threatened with lawsuits for publishing their security research, and some faculty (Fred Cohen
and myself included) have decided to curtail or stop our research in some areas of security
because of the potential for us to be arrested or sued. This is particularly true in the area of
software threats -- the very same tools and techniques necessary to reverse-engineer and protect
against malicious software are seen as a threat by many in the entertainment and content provision
industries. Legislation against technology instead of against infringing behavior can
only hurt our progress in securing the infrastructure.
It doesnt say that AAC is Apples DRM.. it says that Apples DRM is called 'Fairplay' and licensing that to others would increase usage of the AAC FORMAT.
Not that supprising, im sure American adults watched more that 1669 hours of Janet Jacksons nipple, without including time spent watching the rest of the superbowl.
You have to understand who holds the stick here... The EU can fine Microsoft, big deal, they have the money...
If Microsoft decided to play their card, and just stop selling software to Europe, pull the support.. it would be a event that you would read about in history books 100 years from now. Instead of black tuesday in the US, it would be black tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and so on... it would put the EU back in the damn stoneage...and everyone knows it... so they slap Microsoft with a little fine, because its ALL THEY CAN DO!
Slashdot Mirror
Geek IQ?? Heck my son passed it and he wasnt even finished with lunch yet... http://phoenix.momslikeme.com/members/ScrapbookActions.aspx?g=2467703&m=15226262
Yeah... your right... It has clarified alot for me. I guess ive been reading slashdot to much, and have in the last few years started to believe that linux WAS commercially viable, and MIGHT be able to compete with Microsoft... but I guess in the end we must just take in stride the fact that there is no commercially viable option for replacing windows.
And what... exactly... is it that microsoft is the only supplier of?? Software usable by the masses? Maybe.... Desktop OS? wrong. Server OS? wrong. Yes Microsoft has been found guilty of anti-competitive practices and monopolisitc practices, but they are in fact NOT a monopoly, there IS competition. By saying that my analogy is wrong because it doesnt include a monopoly means that you believe Microsoft IS a monopoly, in which case I would have to ask you why you dont feel that open source software can compete with Microsoft. Why do you feel that Mac cant compete with Microsoft???
So lets try this again, what if Ford was the only supplier of cars in the US and if you wanted a car you pretty much had to buy a Ford. Now, ford decides it wants to move into the fuel market. So they switch all Ford cars to use only Ford fuel.
And where is it you purchase your Microsoft electricity from? Where do you get your Microsoft computer cases from? I guess i could just say your analogy sucks... a better and more appropriate analogy would be ...
What if Ford created a car and you had to use a Ford starter in it, or if you had to use Ford door pannels. Oh.. wait... you do.
Yes there are aftermarket parts not made by ford, but those parts were made by a 3rd party who reverse engineered them. Parent post is correct, its laws that our lawmakers make like the DMCA that makes it illegal to reverse engineer most software. In the words of my hip and cool friends... dont hate the player, hate the game.
At last.. Jesus is taking his ball.. AND GOING HOME!!
repent!
The only thing in this world I have found to be sleazier than lawyers are software salesmen. This isnt isnt a new idea from Microsoft... IBM did it for years with mainframe releases. You have to have a service contract to get the updates to fix the bugs.
This problem of releasing buggy software and charging for fixes is inherent in the software world.
That sounds so familliar to Steve Ballmer.. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
Volume shadow copy restore... Web services edition..
2 reasons for you.
what other classic toys do you remember from your youth that are still fun enough that kids will play with them today?
BOOBIES!
*clicks link*
Holy shit.. its the monkees on a weird bike.
First I want to say that I hate AOL... Im just trying to figure this out.
But I would think they are *trying* for the best of both worlds...
AOL has better content controll from years of being "family friendly", however they have built their browser into a portal platform. Besides the sheer quantity of suck that AOL brings, one of their worst problems is that its not that easy to just type in a address and go, thats where IE comes in.
I think their stand alone browser might appeal to end users looking for content control without having to install the AOL software on their computer and getting AOL's portal services.
The browser will probably be available to AOL users to provide them more ease of use, while allowing them to still moderate what their children see through the browser.
Again.. I hate AOL, its the devil, but this is the spin I see AOL trying to put on it.
Yeah, and keyboards are made to misspell words...
How many times do we have to go over this?
BLAME THE PARENTS...
First it was Ozzy Osbourne records, then D&D, now video games.
Case in point... This woolley lady...
The mother of a 21-year old EverQuest addict who killed himself last Thanksgiving morning is filing a lawsuit against Sony Entertainment on the grounds that the addictive nature of the game weakened her son to the point of suicide. Elizabeth Woolley of Osceola, Wisconsin says that her son, Shawn, was so addicted to EverQuest that he surrendered everything - his home, family, and job - to play the game.
Shawn had more than his share of personal problems - in fact, if you've been reading this site for a while, you can practically recite them along with me. He was diagnosed with "depression and schizoid personality disorder, symptoms of which include a lack of desire for social relationships, little or no sex drive and a limited range of emotions in social settings." He was also an epileptic, and according to his mother, his last eight seizures were due to computer use.
Woolley's lawyer is the "colorful" attorney Jack Thompson, who is most famous for the 1990 debacle over rap group 2 Live Crew. Thompson attempted to get the members of the infamous rap group thrown into jail because their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be contained numerous instances of words that he just didn't like.
Elizabeth Woolley wants a label on games like EverQuest, to warn people of the potential dangers of playing them for extended periods of time. This has two problems with it:
Woolley herself had no need of such a label, as she was fully aware of her son's mental and physical problems, and knew that his game playing was getting out of hand.
Neither Woolley nor her son were likely to heed such a label if it did exist previously, since they both seemed to have ignored the epilepsy warning that came with EverQuest - the same warning that is voluntarily printed in the manual for practically every video game on the market.
Lets blame Sony for making the game, Walmart for selling the bullets, Ozzy for making the records, and leave the innocent parents alone.
There are alot of gamers out there... Im one of them, I go to lan parties, have a ton of cyber friends, but I also have a girlfriend, a job, a car, and many friends in RL... because my parents taught me the ability to differentiate between REALITY AND FANTASY
I wish more parents would do the same.
Speaking of currency.. I hope this gets passed and we get a new dollar bill.. Its the best idea for new currency I have ever seen
/ libbill.htm
http://hcps2.hanover.k12.va.us/lms/liberty%20bill
For example, do you know what I found on the computer a few days ago? Spyware! I wonder who let that in...
You did... surfing porn sites and clicking YES on every popup asking you if you wanted to install gain/gator/cometcursor/mysearch...
You can blame IE, you can blame Microsoft... but in the end... the real admins know... BLAME THE USERS!!!
When people say "uptime" they mean no reboots, no power outages... the time the box has been up and continiously running... if you have a XP box with 2 years of uptime... you have more serious problems... and if its on the internet, your box IS hosed.
Your argument only makes Windows people look even more stupid...I dont care how long your servers are.
Yes, I know I cant spell.. I dont give a crap... thanks!
/arnold accent
/end arnold accent
ITS NOT A TUMOR!!
Thumb screws you insensitive clod!!
When I saw program... I was thinking along the lines of the Truck dismount..
Not really that funny until you start thinking of the little mans position riding the meteor...
In reading your post, it becomes obvious that you dont have any clue what your talking about, I will give you a brief portion of his testimoney before congress on July 24th 2003.
More recently, provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) have led to faculty being threatened with lawsuits for publishing their security research, and some faculty (Fred Cohen and myself included) have decided to curtail or stop our research in some areas of security because of the potential for us to be arrested or sued. This is particularly true in the area of software threats -- the very same tools and techniques necessary to reverse-engineer and protect against malicious software are seen as a threat by many in the entertainment and content provision industries. Legislation against technology instead of against infringing behavior can only hurt our progress in securing the infrastructure.
It doesnt say that AAC is Apples DRM.. it says that Apples DRM is called 'Fairplay' and licensing that to others would increase usage of the AAC FORMAT.
Not that supprising, im sure American adults watched more that 1669 hours of Janet Jacksons nipple, without including time spent watching the rest of the superbowl.
You have to understand who holds the stick here... The EU can fine Microsoft, big deal, they have the money...
If Microsoft decided to play their card, and just stop selling software to Europe, pull the support.. it would be a event that you would read about in history books 100 years from now. Instead of black tuesday in the US, it would be black tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and so on... it would put the EU back in the damn stoneage...and everyone knows it... so they slap Microsoft with a little fine, because its ALL THEY CAN DO!
What good does it do you to be able to view 10,000 pages when you cant get to their page because its /.'d
With 10gb over copper... All your pr0n are belong to us!!