How many times have you found yourself in the position where you needed to send a large group of files (esp. over e-mail or uploading to a website) and WinZip (for instance) just wouldn’t compress it enough to make it feasible for transfer?  The only option you’d have would be to span the files over multiple chunks that need to be reassembled on the other end.  But what if there were programs out there that compressed at a much better ratio?  Well there certainly are, but how much better are they?  And at what cost?  Read the rest of this entry »

Be sure to read (and re-read) the new Microsoftopoly page!

“When it comes right down to it, there’s one main reason that Microsoft is in the position they’re in today — their businessmen.  It certainly isn’t their software, and there’s no way that it’s their executive charm (although Steve Ballmer does seem to have an awkward boyish glow at times).  One might even go so far as to say that Microsoft itself would not be here today if not for their business guys.  It seems that Microsoft is more of a company that sells software, not a software company.  For the majority of their products, they will typically buy other peoples’ software out, load it full of MS logos and slap a price tag on it.  They never do anything innovative, and rarely ever come up with any software ideas on their own.  As stated before:  Microsoft is a company that sells software … not a software development company.”

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At this point, even the legal system is starting to realize that the RIAA is just making a mockery of the court systems. The RIAA continues to launch lawsuits by misapplying copyright laws with unjustifiable, extortionate amounts of money against the P2P offenders. The first file-sharing conviction ever, which forced a single mother from MN to pay $222,000 for having 24 songs available to download on KaZaA, was “recently” thrown out by the judge. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has once again proven that they are ten cents short of a dime, but still manage to throw their money around. Recall a previous post, Microsoft gets raped by ODF, where ODF was accepted to be used as the default file format by the state agencies of Massachusetts. Microsoft made a big stink about this, they said it was “inconsistent and discriminatory”, and they stood their ground. Guess what other file format is now going to be used alongside ODF in Massachusetts? Read the rest of this entry »

I guess the RIAA speaks for no one but themselves when they insist that their artists are being deprived because of illegal file sharing. What they really mean to say is, “I won’t be able to afford my third Ferrari this year because of you guys, so I’ll sue you for it.” Read the rest of this entry »