"can't get applications for the Mac" is such a load of cr@p.
No it really isn't, MOST (like 90%) apps do not run on a Mac, maybe a mac with Virtual PC, but that's not really a Mac is it? Maybe you mean all the apps you think you need right now.
Networking has been faster, too WTF? Obviously you are completely clueless about networking. Typically small office setups use "ether-er-net" and "tee-cee-pee-eye-pee", which comes in ten-base-T or hindered-base-T. The speed you get is the speed of the network cable, not the OS, unless the OS has a ass backward tcpip stack, ala OS9.
The machines themselves have been CHEAPER for us Ya, that's just a lie. ever heard of capitalism? I'm not even going to argue about this as all you need to do is go to cnet.
And by the way... that 22" Apple flat screen is not only beautiful for working with, but it impresses customers too. Great, I'm glade that makes you a lot more productive, and of course saves you lots of money.
-Jon
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I don't know if I can agree with that. He pointed out very clearly that a very small percentage of artists signed will even let the publisher break even, which is symphonies with the idea that the music business is very much like the venture capital companies.
So what you have is business model of taking large number of high risk investments. For the company to make money they need some of there investments to actually make a profit, which in turn means they can afford to risk money on new talent that might again prove to be profitable.
Think about it this way, a artist/talent/band/singer whatever is a company, they might make money if they we're given some venture capital, direction and marketing, but they don't know how to do any of that, so you help them out, and give the a decent chunk of change to try it out. You say
"Hey, if it doesn't work out don't worry about it, we'll take the loss; but if it does work out, before we pay you your cut we want to get our investment back"
Sounds like a darn good deal if you ask me. They give you money on faith, you try your hardest to make a decent product (album) and if it sells well you see a cut of the profits.
This is also much the same way the game industry works, however you don't hear nearly as much public outcry on how the developers get screwed even though they never get a share of the profits, typically get laid off after a game ships and for the most part get paid sub pare in comparison to there skills.
not that funny actually, i use Mozzila on my XP box exlusivly for porn.. but it's not because i feel moz is well suited for it, but rather for privacy. I've found it way to hard to cover your tracks with IE. i mean think about it..
Clear history: too suspecius, alt: set for 0 day, still keeps 1 day, arg..
Clear Last day history: tedeius, and don't clear auto-complete address bar stuff
and don't forget the cookies and browser cache.
With mozilla i just load it up and close it down, no one knows i have it installed.
What i want is a secret 'porn' button that i can press and IE won't record JACK nothing nada about whats going on.
btw, to keep on topic, the last build of moz for windows wasn't that great. from the way i see it isn't just like netscape 4x, slow and clunky and i'll be dammed thats all fixed by 1.0.
it really depends on how you do cross language development. For instance COM allows in process and in thread calls, even if one side is C++ and the other is VB.
A good example of how COM and 'COM like' systems can work is with DirectX in VB. There is obviously more then one language at play: VB, C++, C and a good deal of x86. however I've seen some very impressive demos done with this exact setup the is because the overhead for calling a C++ method from VB is virtually nothing, at least if it's in process.
What's the point? Trying to type an email on my nokia is impossible, unless these people come up with a better way to input text it really doesn't make since on a cellphone.
Currently the system is to type each letter by pressing cycling through the number keys, i.e. press '1' for 'A', 'B', 'C' etc.. Nokia does feature a auto-complete feature which might be handy, but I haven't had the motivation to make any use out of it.
Don't believe me? Consider this: The following organizations have tested XP, independently of Microsoft: CNET/ZDNET, eTesting Labs, eWeek, PC Magazine, and PC World. All these independent labs came to the same conclusion: XP meets or exceeds the performance of Win2K and Win9x.
I went to eTesting Labs, CNET and ZDNET, while all do have tons about XP, i could not find any benchmarks, could you point me the right direction?
I remember reading about a problem with sblive and via chipsets having timing problems, at one point this caused file corruption as well!
Until SP2 (I believe) Win2k did not natively support ATA100 drives, so many boards either provided their own, or in the case of ATA-RAID controls the drivers we're shown to the system as SCSI. In my experience the native ATA-100 or 3rd party ATA-100 drivers do not perform as well as their SCSI counterparts. long shortly short, if you have a ATA-RAID disk, use the SCSI driver provided from the manufacture... Also if it's a HighPoint(tm) controller don't use the latest version of their drivers, they're is an issue with it where the mouse jumps and the sound card skips.
If you do have a via board, you may want to check out viahardware.com, they have some excellent FAQ's as well as all the latest drivers.
At any rate I am 99% sure it has something to do with your hardware, bios or drivers not Win2k specifically.
a site I won't mention is run by a friend of mine, he actually makes his living off it. Its just a gamers news site, but he actually makes enough money off it to have a car (BMW btw), have a nice apartment and live life.
The catch is he has about 1 1/2 employees. so his revenue pretty much comes down to:
$income = $bandwidth + $other_guy - $ad_revenue;
..there isn't much in the way of other costs.
So if taco decides he and someone else can run the show (which they should be able too) slashdot should be able to get by, it won't be glorious and may not be able to sponsor guest writers like Mr. Katz, but they should able to keep the site up and maybe buy some food.
In WinXP how does one uninstall MSN instant messenger, I use AIM and don't know anyone on MSN IM so it has no use to me, all it does is clutter up my systray.
the official Disney page for the show is here, I didn't see anything about "anti-file swapping" on the site. From the looks of the flash promo it seems to be a post ren n' stimpy style modern urban comedy.
Microsoft does do Research, as a matter of fact I worked their for a while. MS Research uses about two buildings filled with people that handle about 30 projects at a time. It's a rather large effort, however I have yet to have seen much use from it.
Some things get in commercial apps that you don't see, like a programming language/concept called 'IP' or intentional programming was used in Outlook, but unless you we're a developer on the team you wouldn't know about it. Allegiance a online space combat RTS was a pet project of MS Research's lead man Rick Rashid, developed entirely at MS Research and went commercial, Allegiance was actually a very good game, but got little to no commercial success.
I have to wonder if that that 12-bit color display is palletized or not. Right now 16-bit barley passes for true color with 5+5+6 (with 6 for the green). What would 12-bit have 4+4+4? 4096 colors doesn't seem that great.. then again thats what the amiga had, and it managed to look 'ok'.
it wasn't a final build, it's really not fair to judge it.
that being said, I have winxp final and I find it multitasking a little strange. For example having it read from a cdrom that is badly scratched causes the machine to almost die. this doesn't happen under win2k, however I would expect it under win9x.
I only have vague assumptions that I pulled out of my ass for why this happens though.
Freenet IMO is broken except for the most fanatic of freedom fighters. The central problem with Freenet is its speed, which I believe is inherently broken. When a user begins a transfer of a file over the Freenet network it is copied to every node (space abiding) along the path. This is to enforce redundancy, and is central to the anonymous nature of the Freenet network as it allows users to be unaware of what they are storing; it also has a weakest link problem in that a hop from the source might be very slow. In theory if a file is popular enough it will always be close, however we have yet to see that happen.
Freenet is un-searchable; users are required to KNOW what they are looking for. I don't deem this is a deathblow as other services could get around this, an indexing service for example
On top of this Freenet has the exact same scaling problems as Gnutella, it's a flat network where one node will eventually get bogged down just passing the traffic of it's peers.
Not to completely slam Freenet, it's very clever in some ways, and is ideal if what your looking for is a secure safe store of data; just don't expect that data to come back to you very rapidity, if at all.
you can find microsofts licensing page here the interesting part is that it seemed that did extend the current "5.0" licensing schemes to latter next year; however due to the mega marketing talk i can't really tell whats going on.
here's an excerpt from the page:
Launch Period Extended In response to customer requests, the Launch Period for the introduction of Microsoft's new Licensing 6.0 programs and Software Assurance, along with the availability of Upgrade Advantage, have been extended to February 28, 2002. Details include:
Open License 5.0 & 6.0 customers can enroll their non-current licenses in Software Assurance by purchasing the existing Upgrade Advantage (UA) offering before March 1, 2002.
Open License customers can obtain up to 2 years of UA coverage for that license when purchased under a new Open License authorization number.
Select License 5.0 customers can enroll their non-current licenses in Software Assurance by purchasing the existing Upgrade Advantage (UA) offering before March 1, 2002.
Select License customers can obtain up to 2 years of UA coverage for that license by signing a new Select License 5.0 agreement before October 1, 2001.
Open License and Select License customers will be able to enroll their installed base of current licenses, including Windows 2000 Professional, Office XP suites, the Windows 2000 Server family, and the.NET Enterprise Servers, through Software Assurance between October 1, 2001, and February 28, 2002.
Software Assurance and License & Software Assurance (L&SA) will be available beginning October 1, 2001 through the Open License and Select License programs, replacing the Version Upgrade (VUP), Product Upgrade (PUP), Competitive Upgrade (CUP), and Language Upgrade (LUP) license types.
Enterprise Agreement 6.0 and EA 6.0 Subscription for customers with at least 250 PCs will also be available starting October 1, 2001, and will automatically include the benefits of Software Assurance.
They don't take any case. They only take cases, which will get the most press, therefore showing their cause.
ACLU isn't as bad, but actually has a no-computer policy now, they're handing all that over to the EFF.
GNU is only for license copyleft issues, which is a mute point - as it seems that every company who violates GPL quickly turns the other cheek.
I agree with the author, we should form a union, PAC (Political Action Committee), something so that we can be more organized and be clearly heard, but make it easy enough for people like me, and I'm sure for many of the other thousands of people who feel the same way but don't want to write a letter to there congressman or protest on a weekend.
What I don't want to support is any anti-Microsoft legislation, frankly I've been against the whole crusade against them, a lot of people think that slashdot is full of 'rabid linux zealots' if slashdot does form some type of political group - please leave that linux stuff behind.
limewire is one of my favorite gnutella clients, also the first decent windowed java app I've seen. I commend them for doing this, but have to wonder how this fits into there business plane. They just made a deal with File Metrics Inc to brand Limewire tech as SwapNut. but why would they make there source (read: IP) free if there business plane is to license there IP?
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First from the CEO, then from about 15 other co-workers. Right now the IT team is running around trying to figure out how to filter it out.
I peeked inside and found that it links to the VB runtime DLL. Unfortantly I can't tell anymore then that at this point.
-Jon
can't..resist..flaming..clueless..Mac..zealot..
"can't get applications for the Mac" is such a load of cr@p.
No it really isn't, MOST (like 90%) apps do not run on a Mac, maybe a mac with Virtual PC, but that's not really a Mac is it? Maybe you mean all the apps you think you need right now.
Networking has been faster, too
WTF? Obviously you are completely clueless about networking. Typically small office setups use "ether-er-net" and "tee-cee-pee-eye-pee", which comes in ten-base-T or hindered-base-T. The speed you get is the speed of the network cable, not the OS, unless the OS has a ass backward tcpip stack, ala OS9.
The machines themselves have been CHEAPER for us
Ya, that's just a lie. ever heard of capitalism? I'm not even going to argue about this as all you need to do is go to cnet.
And by the way... that 22" Apple flat screen is not only beautiful for working with, but it impresses customers too.
Great, I'm glade that makes you a lot more productive, and of course saves you lots of money.
-Jon
link is realmedia surestream or something.
I dono, he still looks like a moron
I don't know if I can agree with that. He pointed out very clearly that a very small percentage of artists signed will even let the publisher break even, which is symphonies with the idea that the music business is very much like the venture capital companies.
So what you have is business model of taking large number of high risk investments. For the company to make money they need some of there investments to actually make a profit, which in turn means they can afford to risk money on new talent that might again prove to be profitable.
Think about it this way, a artist/talent/band/singer whatever is a company, they might make money if they we're given some venture capital, direction and marketing, but they don't know how to do any of that, so you help them out, and give the a decent chunk of change to try it out. You say
"Hey, if it doesn't work out don't worry about it, we'll take the loss; but if it does work out, before we pay you your cut we want to get our investment back"
Sounds like a darn good deal if you ask me. They give you money on faith, you try your hardest to make a decent product (album) and if it sells well you see a cut of the profits.
This is also much the same way the game industry works, however you don't hear nearly as much public outcry on how the developers get screwed even though they never get a share of the profits, typically get laid off after a game ships and for the most part get paid sub pare in comparison to there skills.
not that funny actually, i use Mozzila on my XP box exlusivly for porn.. but it's not because i feel moz is well suited for it, but rather for privacy. I've found it way to hard to cover your tracks with IE. i mean think about it..
Clear history: too suspecius, alt: set for 0 day, still keeps 1 day, arg..
Clear Last day history: tedeius, and don't clear auto-complete address bar stuff
and don't forget the cookies and browser cache.
With mozilla i just load it up and close it down, no one knows i have it installed.
What i want is a secret 'porn' button that i can press and IE won't record JACK nothing nada about whats going on.
btw, to keep on topic, the last build of moz for windows wasn't that great. from the way i see it isn't just like netscape 4x, slow and clunky and i'll be dammed thats all fixed by 1.0.
-Jon
it really depends on how you do cross language development. For instance COM allows in process and in thread calls, even if one side is C++ and the other is VB.
A good example of how COM and 'COM like' systems can work is with DirectX in VB. There is obviously more then one language at play: VB, C++, C and a good deal of x86. however I've seen some very impressive demos done with this exact setup the is because the overhead for calling a C++ method from VB is virtually nothing, at least if it's in process.
What's the point? Trying to type an email on my nokia is impossible, unless these people come up with a better way to input text it really doesn't make since on a cellphone.
Currently the system is to type each letter by pressing cycling through the number keys, i.e. press '1' for 'A', 'B', 'C' etc.. Nokia does feature a auto-complete feature which might be handy, but I haven't had the motivation to make any use out of it.
-Jon
Don't believe me? Consider this: The following organizations have tested XP, independently of Microsoft: CNET/ZDNET, eTesting Labs, eWeek, PC Magazine, and PC World. All these independent labs came to the same conclusion: XP meets or exceeds the performance of Win2K and Win9x.
I went to eTesting Labs, CNET and ZDNET, while all do have tons about XP, i could not find any benchmarks, could you point me the right direction?
-Jon
I remember reading about a problem with sblive and via chipsets having timing problems, at one point this caused file corruption as well!
Until SP2 (I believe) Win2k did not natively support ATA100 drives, so many boards either provided their own, or in the case of ATA-RAID controls the drivers we're shown to the system as SCSI. In my experience the native ATA-100 or 3rd party ATA-100 drivers do not perform as well as their SCSI counterparts. long shortly short, if you have a ATA-RAID disk, use the SCSI driver provided from the manufacture... Also if it's a HighPoint(tm) controller don't use the latest version of their drivers, they're is an issue with it where the mouse jumps and the sound card skips.
If you do have a via board, you may want to check out viahardware.com, they have some excellent FAQ's as well as all the latest drivers.
At any rate I am 99% sure it has something to do with your hardware, bios or drivers not Win2k specifically.
late,
-Jon
it's an old one, one of my fav's is:
"Hey, did you hear? There's a new object oriented version of COBAL!"
"cool, whats it called?"
"ADD 1 TO COBAL"
-Jon
If taco's smart then yes.
a site I won't mention is run by a friend of mine, he actually makes his living off it. Its just a gamers news site, but he actually makes enough money off it to have a car (BMW btw), have a nice apartment and live life.
The catch is he has about 1 1/2 employees. so his revenue pretty much comes down to:
$income = $bandwidth + $other_guy - $ad_revenue;
..there isn't much in the way of other costs.
So if taco decides he and someone else can run the show (which they should be able too) slashdot should be able to get by, it won't be glorious and may not be able to sponsor guest writers like Mr. Katz, but they should able to keep the site up and maybe buy some food.
-Jon
Commodore never "got" the Amiga. Yet another example of Corporate America failing to see the forest through the trees.
Amiga was a Canadian company.
That page had a lot of other usefull tips as well, i'll hold on to that link.
-Jon
In WinXP how does one uninstall MSN instant messenger, I use AIM and don't know anyone on MSN IM so it has no use to me, all it does is clutter up my systray.
thanks,
-Jon
the official Disney page for the show is here, I didn't see anything about "anti-file swapping" on the site. From the looks of the flash promo it seems to be a post ren n' stimpy style modern urban comedy.
Microsoft does do Research, as a matter of fact I worked their for a while. MS Research uses about two buildings filled with people that handle about 30 projects at a time. It's a rather large effort, however I have yet to have seen much use from it.
Some things get in commercial apps that you don't see, like a programming language/concept called 'IP' or intentional programming was used in Outlook, but unless you we're a developer on the team you wouldn't know about it. Allegiance a online space combat RTS was a pet project of MS Research's lead man Rick Rashid, developed entirely at MS Research and went commercial, Allegiance was actually a very good game, but got little to no commercial success.
-Jon
I have to wonder if that that 12-bit color display is palletized or not. Right now 16-bit barley passes for true color with 5+5+6 (with 6 for the green). What would 12-bit have 4+4+4? 4096 colors doesn't seem that great.. then again thats what the amiga had, and it managed to look 'ok'.
-Jon
-Jon
We cannot not let petty issues like "freedom" stand in the way of protecting American ideals.
it wasn't a final build, it's really not fair to judge it.
that being said, I have winxp final and I find it multitasking a little strange. For example having it read from a cdrom that is badly scratched causes the machine to almost die. this doesn't happen under win2k, however I would expect it under win9x.
I only have vague assumptions that I pulled out of my ass for why this happens though.
-Jon
ahem.
Freenet IMO is broken except for the most fanatic of freedom fighters. The central problem with Freenet is its speed, which I believe is inherently broken. When a user begins a transfer of a file over the Freenet network it is copied to every node (space abiding) along the path. This is to enforce redundancy, and is central to the anonymous nature of the Freenet network as it allows users to be unaware of what they are storing; it also has a weakest link problem in that a hop from the source might be very slow. In theory if a file is popular enough it will always be close, however we have yet to see that happen.
Freenet is un-searchable; users are required to KNOW what they are looking for. I don't deem this is a deathblow as other services could get around this, an indexing service for example
On top of this Freenet has the exact same scaling problems as Gnutella, it's a flat network where one node will eventually get bogged down just passing the traffic of it's peers.
Not to completely slam Freenet, it's very clever in some ways, and is ideal if what your looking for is a secure safe store of data; just don't expect that data to come back to you very rapidity, if at all.
-Jon
here's an excerpt from the page:
Launch Period Extended
In response to customer requests, the Launch Period for the introduction of Microsoft's new Licensing 6.0 programs and Software Assurance, along with the availability of Upgrade Advantage, have been extended to February 28, 2002. Details include:
Open License 5.0 & 6.0 customers can enroll their non-current licenses in Software Assurance by purchasing the existing Upgrade Advantage (UA) offering before March 1, 2002.
Open License customers can obtain up to 2 years of UA coverage for that license when purchased under a new Open License authorization number.
Select License 5.0 customers can enroll their non-current licenses in Software Assurance by purchasing the existing Upgrade Advantage (UA) offering before March 1, 2002.
Select License customers can obtain up to 2 years of UA coverage for that license by signing a new Select License 5.0 agreement before October 1, 2001.
Open License and Select License customers will be able to enroll their installed base of current licenses, including Windows 2000 Professional, Office XP suites, the Windows 2000 Server family, and the .NET Enterprise Servers, through Software Assurance between October 1, 2001, and February 28, 2002.
Software Assurance and License & Software Assurance (L&SA) will be available beginning October 1, 2001 through the Open License and Select License programs, replacing the Version Upgrade (VUP), Product Upgrade (PUP), Competitive Upgrade (CUP), and Language Upgrade (LUP) license types.
Enterprise Agreement 6.0 and EA 6.0 Subscription for customers with at least 250 PCs will also be available starting October 1, 2001, and will automatically include the benefits of Software Assurance.
l ectLicense!!!!
EnterpriseAgreementSoftwareAssuranceOpenLicenseSe
Wow! I'm glade i'm not in charge of understanding this dribble!
-Jon
They don't take any case. They only take cases, which will get the most press, therefore showing their cause.
ACLU isn't as bad, but actually has a no-computer policy now, they're handing all that over to the EFF.
GNU is only for license copyleft issues, which is a mute point - as it seems that every company who violates GPL quickly turns the other cheek.
I agree with the author, we should form a union, PAC (Political Action Committee), something so that we can be more organized and be clearly heard, but make it easy enough for people like me, and I'm sure for many of the other thousands of people who feel the same way but don't want to write a letter to there congressman or protest on a weekend.
What I don't want to support is any anti-Microsoft legislation, frankly I've been against the whole crusade against them, a lot of people think that slashdot is full of 'rabid linux zealots' if slashdot does form some type of political group - please leave that linux stuff behind.
-Jon
limewire is one of my favorite gnutella clients, also the first decent windowed java app I've seen. I commend them for doing this, but have to wonder how this fits into there business plane. They just made a deal with File Metrics Inc to brand Limewire tech as SwapNut. but why would they make there source (read: IP) free if there business plane is to license there IP?
-Jon
I searched google and found some pictures
Does anyone know which one is the one they are talking about in the artical?
-Jon