OK, business leaders and others have to back the right technology and/or business model, but things seem to me to be less clear-cut than the old 'what will kill DVD like it kiled VHS' debate.
Things are less simple, with content available from a bewildering variety of sources, for an equally wide range of target devices. Streaming TV to your cell phone, DVD/Blueray for home via rental or mail, or streaming/download, low-res mp3 or music videos for the kids on PC/iPods/phone...whatever.
So the question is perhaps, without pissing off their customers with court cases or DRM, how will content creators manage to make their offer available to the widest range of people - in the widest range of formats - and still make some money?
If it works, then maybe the power guys will have what they need to take their stuff up.
But it's a very big 'if' IMHO...the current shuttle show the tremendous problems associated with 'reusable' spacecraft, and even then they launch it conventionally.
I seem to remember that (maybe prompted by the Sealand debate), the UN changed the rules so that any artifical island cannot qualify for statehood, (even if it's outside territorial waters).
Firstly, Hubble is working fine. Secondly, FTA "NASA spokeswoman, Beth Dickey, would not specifically comment on whether or not the collision had created elevated risk for the Hubble repair mission.
"What we've told everyone is that there is an elevated risk to virtually any satellite in low-earth orbit," Dickey said. "As far as NASA's assets are concerned, that risk is considered to be very small. I have not seen or heard anything that would lead me to think differently."
Not 2 licenses... At my company, we build clones for our customer - with Vista, but we downgrade them all to XP. It's just 1 license. According to M$FT, They will not provide you with Media (you need your own XP media) or a license key (you reuse a key you have). When you go to activate, (if you didn't use a non-activation code) you have to explain to the rep that you are using your downgrade rights, and they will provide a new machine code for activation (not a new key). Vista Ultimate and Vista Business can be downgraded to XP in this manner.
So, to paraphrase: 1. They will not provide you with Media (you need your own XP media) 2. They will not provide you with...a license key (you reuse a key you have). 3. Some complex bullshit is required to activate.
Sounds just like downloading a Torrent, only more expensive...
Not quite correct. FTA:"...when Dell was accused of gouging customers by charging $150 to downgrade a new computer to XP. Dell countered that although it did charge $20 to install XP on the machine, as well as to cover the cost of the additional media, the bulk -- $120 of the $150 -- was the price of upgrading the PC from the standard Home Premium to the more expensive Business edition.
Microsoft does not offer downgrade rights with its Vista Home Premium, the most popular of Vista's editions."
Your Dell config came with Vista Home Premium? Well, if you want XP you're SOL, that'll be $120 to 'upgrade' the Vista you want to 'downgrade'.
Do you somehow think that buying Vista gives you a free copy of XP?
No, but if I specified XP instead of Vista, (as is the case here), I certainly would not expect to pay more for it, especially as the 'new' stuff is supposed to better and thus more expensive.
Personally, I think single-vendor solutions tend to trade a lack of flexibility, functionality and performance to get that stability, hence, I tend to favor 'best-of-breed' approaches, but to each his own.
Agree. You also avoid single point of failure and the "I know this, it looks just like my desktop..." 'superuser' toasting your server...
If you've ever posted a photo of yourself on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, a blog, or your website, people can easily get a high-quality photo of you without you knowing it.
If you're that worried about it, stick it somewhere in your resume or intro. letter... Something like, 'P.S. Google $your_name and the first place person is a bad guy who is NOT me!'
Don't worry about appearing 'odd' in your letter - getting notice is good. Might get you the interview. As someone who's ploughed through plenty of resumes in my time, believe me, a little humour goes a long way.
Best advice of all (offtopic) is to get your intro letters and resumes checked by an experienced professional. Tailor both for each job you really want. Makes a huge difference.
Before I disappear in a wall of flames, let me explain.
Can you imagine having to take into consideration all of this DRM crap evey time you wrote or modified virtually any part of any app?
Apple got it right with iTunes. Whether or not it was Jobs alone, (which I doubt), they finally got pretty much everything they wanted; both control of the end-user (they've got iTunes and the iPod), and now DRM-free music.
What does poor Microsoft have? No compelling device, (Zune, anybody? Thought not) channel, anything... I wonder what great stuff they could come up with if they told the MAAFIA to take a hike and instead concentrated on a Googlesque '20% of your time on zany ideas' approach.
Why the hell to they have to worry about DRM anyway? This is a legacy of 1990s thinking where everybody was worried about controlling 'content', (Sony buying BMG) etc. If the content providers want to control access to their content, then *they* should be the ones coming up with the secure apps and pathways, not the OS providers.
I got so sick of carrying multiple chargers and cables all around the world. What a waste of resources, too. I'm sure I'm not the only one with literally dozens of incompatible chargers, PC-cables and headphones rotting in a cupboards.
Plus he's right - the better (Moto, BBerry) devices come (in Europe) with multi-plug transformers that dole out plenty of charging juice on anything from 100 to 250 volt.
With the rate that things are colliding recently, any comet will be taken out by an asteroid, satellite or stray sub way before it gets near a population centre
I'm curious how they can be sure it is you in the picture given the look of the full costume.
That's where the power of social networking comes into play. If a bunch of other people have pictures of him in the KKK costume and tag it with his name, it verifies that he was the one running around in the costume.
No it does not. It merely means that some vague online identity/identities, (which may in fact be the same person), are saying that the person in this picture is called 'x'. Quite different from real verification.
I could create a 100 sockpuppets on Facebook and say that it was 'me' in a picture kissing Heidi Klum; would not make it true. Damn.
The problem is software being delivered as binaries. Binary software distribution is holding back progress, making it necessary to continue supporting old kludgy architectures instead of making a clean break to something new and modern.
Depends what you mean by 'delivered'. If it's to fellow IT professionals, then they're probably going to want the source, and will hopefully know what to do with it. The only problem is, you might not want to give/sell it to them. Not everything is FOSS, and most of the big commercially used server apps are definately not, (OK, outside Apache, I'm thinking ERP).
As for end users, wll, most of them can't even install applications, let alone compile something...
FTA: "Campaigners privately say the move is remarkable, although they worry that it may undermine the generics industry which currently supplies the cheapest drugs in poor countries."
Exactly. Big pharma is in big trouble - blockbuster drugs going off patent, no new ones coming online, Govs. getting more aggressive in fixing prices. So, this is a smart move. While they still can, they can use the one advantage they still have - their size - to buy/crush the small 'generics' producers out.
Still, whatever the underlying motivation, it's encouraging to see big pharma at last getting more involved with the poorer nations of the world, which have been scandalously ignored.
Eh? At least be original in your trolling instead of just copying the same crap each time. With a little effort, research and imagination you could put together a 'mini-series' of Linux trolls that we'd all have fun rebutting. I suggest you start with something simple, such as driver support, then move on to something more advanced...
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Damn - wish I had mod points. Problem would be to decide between 'funny' and 'insightful'...
A faster machine doesn't make you type faster...
Unless you're using voice recognition. /offtopic
Works fine with other POP/IMAP clients, too ;-)
OK, business leaders and others have to back the right technology and/or business model, but things seem to me to be less clear-cut than the old 'what will kill DVD like it kiled VHS' debate.
Things are less simple, with content available from a bewildering variety of sources, for an equally wide range of target devices. Streaming TV to your cell phone, DVD/Blueray for home via rental or mail, or streaming/download, low-res mp3 or music videos for the kids on PC/iPods/phone...whatever.
So the question is perhaps, without pissing off their customers with court cases or DRM, how will content creators manage to make their offer available to the widest range of people - in the widest range of formats - and still make some money?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/0149254
If it works, then maybe the power guys will have what they need to take their stuff up.
But it's a very big 'if' IMHO...the current shuttle show the tremendous problems associated with 'reusable' spacecraft, and even then they launch it conventionally.
I seem to remember that (maybe prompted by the Sealand debate), the UN changed the rules so that any artifical island cannot qualify for statehood, (even if it's outside territorial waters).
FTA:
Microsoft boasts that its system for inviting (and omitting) users is more complicated than its competitors'.
I hope they mean 'sophisticated', but then again, this is M$.
Firstly, Hubble is working fine. Secondly, FTA "NASA spokeswoman, Beth Dickey, would not specifically comment on whether or not the collision had created elevated risk for the Hubble repair mission.
"What we've told everyone is that there is an elevated risk to virtually any satellite in low-earth orbit," Dickey said. "As far as NASA's assets are concerned, that risk is considered to be very small. I have not seen or heard anything that would lead me to think differently."
More complex if you talk to "John Smith" from India
I feel your pain, bro.
Not 2 licenses... At my company, we build clones for our customer - with Vista, but we downgrade them all to XP. It's just 1 license. According to M$FT, They will not provide you with Media (you need your own XP media) or a license key (you reuse a key you have). When you go to activate, (if you didn't use a non-activation code) you have to explain to the rep that you are using your downgrade rights, and they will provide a new machine code for activation (not a new key). Vista Ultimate and Vista Business can be downgraded to XP in this manner.
So, to paraphrase: ...a license key (you reuse a key you have).
1. They will not provide you with Media (you need your own XP media)
2. They will not provide you with
3. Some complex bullshit is required to activate.
Sounds just like downloading a Torrent, only more expensive...
Not quite correct. FTA:"...when Dell was accused of gouging customers by charging $150 to downgrade a new computer to XP. Dell countered that although it did charge $20 to install XP on the machine, as well as to cover the cost of the additional media, the bulk -- $120 of the $150 -- was the price of upgrading the PC from the standard Home Premium to the more expensive Business edition.
Microsoft does not offer downgrade rights with its Vista Home Premium, the most popular of Vista's editions."
Your Dell config came with Vista Home Premium? Well, if you want XP you're SOL, that'll be $120 to 'upgrade' the Vista you want to 'downgrade'.
I'm confused.
Do you somehow think that buying Vista gives you a free copy of XP?
No, but if I specified XP instead of Vista, (as is the case here), I certainly would not expect to pay more for it, especially as the 'new' stuff is supposed to better and thus more expensive.
Personally, I think single-vendor solutions tend to trade a lack of flexibility, functionality and performance to get that stability, hence, I tend to favor 'best-of-breed' approaches, but to each his own.
Agree. You also avoid single point of failure and the "I know this, it looks just like my desktop..." 'superuser' toasting your server...
If you've ever posted a photo of yourself on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, a blog, or your website, people can easily get a high-quality photo of you without you knowing it.
You've seen a high quality photo on Facebook?
If you're that worried about it, stick it somewhere in your resume or intro. letter... Something like, 'P.S. Google $your_name and the first place person is a bad guy who is NOT me!'
Don't worry about appearing 'odd' in your letter - getting notice is good. Might get you the interview. As someone who's ploughed through plenty of resumes in my time, believe me, a little humour goes a long way.
Best advice of all (offtopic) is to get your intro letters and resumes checked by an experienced professional. Tailor both for each job you really want. Makes a huge difference.
I mean, can you think of a modern building that is still likely to be standing in 2000 years?
Yes, unfortunately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower
The only bit of the 3rd Reich that may actually 'last a 1000 years'
Before I disappear in a wall of flames, let me explain.
Can you imagine having to take into consideration all of this DRM crap evey time you wrote or modified virtually any part of any app?
Apple got it right with iTunes. Whether or not it was Jobs alone, (which I doubt), they finally got pretty much everything they wanted; both control of the end-user (they've got iTunes and the iPod), and now DRM-free music.
What does poor Microsoft have? No compelling device, (Zune, anybody? Thought not) channel, anything... I wonder what great stuff they could come up with if they told the MAAFIA to take a hike and instead concentrated on a Googlesque '20% of your time on zany ideas' approach.
Why the hell to they have to worry about DRM anyway? This is a legacy of 1990s thinking where everybody was worried about controlling 'content', (Sony buying BMG) etc. If the content providers want to control access to their content, then *they* should be the ones coming up with the secure apps and pathways, not the OS providers.
Mod Zocalo way the f*ck up, please.
I got so sick of carrying multiple chargers and cables all around the world. What a waste of resources, too. I'm sure I'm not the only one with literally dozens of incompatible chargers, PC-cables and headphones rotting in a cupboards.
Plus he's right - the better (Moto, BBerry) devices come (in Europe) with multi-plug transformers that dole out plenty of charging juice on anything from 100 to 250 volt.
With the rate that things are colliding recently, any comet will be taken out by an asteroid, satellite or stray sub way before it gets near a population centre
Considering that 2 satellites just collided, astronomical odds don't seem that great.
You beat me to it :)
I'm curious how they can be sure it is you in the picture given the look of the full costume.
That's where the power of social networking comes into play. If a bunch of other people have pictures of him in the KKK costume and tag it with his name, it verifies that he was the one running around in the costume.
No it does not. It merely means that some vague online identity/identities, (which may in fact be the same person), are saying that the person in this picture is called 'x'. Quite different from real verification.
I could create a 100 sockpuppets on Facebook and say that it was 'me' in a picture kissing Heidi Klum; would not make it true. Damn.
So, we've had a US vs. Russian sat, now a UK vs. French ICBM sub, what are the next cold war icons scheduled to collide?
The problem is software being delivered as binaries. Binary software distribution is holding back progress, making it necessary to continue supporting old kludgy architectures instead of making a clean break to something new and modern.
Depends what you mean by 'delivered'. If it's to fellow IT professionals, then they're probably going to want the source, and will hopefully know what to do with it. The only problem is, you might not want to give/sell it to them. Not everything is FOSS, and most of the big commercially used server apps are definately not, (OK, outside Apache, I'm thinking ERP).
As for end users, wll, most of them can't even install applications, let alone compile something...
FTA: "Campaigners privately say the move is remarkable, although they worry that it may undermine the generics industry which currently supplies the cheapest drugs in poor countries."
Exactly. Big pharma is in big trouble - blockbuster drugs going off patent, no new ones coming online, Govs. getting more aggressive in fixing prices. So, this is a smart move. While they still can, they can use the one advantage they still have - their size - to buy/crush the small 'generics' producers out.
Still, whatever the underlying motivation, it's encouraging to see big pharma at last getting more involved with the poorer nations of the world, which have been scandalously ignored.
Eh? At least be original in your trolling instead of just copying the same crap each time. With a little effort, research and imagination you could put together a 'mini-series' of Linux trolls that we'd all have fun rebutting. I suggest you start with something simple, such as driver support, then move on to something more advanced...