Someone will of course respond "then don't use their service." Well, thats great, I'd love to. Unfortunately my government subsidy to Comcast gave Comcast a monopoly on the lines... and for some reason there are areas of the city that are "designated RCN" areas, while others are "designated Comcast" areas. What is this bullshit??
You didn't look hard enough for alternatives. T1 service is available almost everywhere, with no caps.
It's so cute how they think that they get to say what license plug-ins use.
People with real lawyers and a lot of money on the line have settled this question a long time ago, when various commercial software producers tried to stop third-parties from making unauthorized add-ons. Those trying to stop unauthorized plug-ins lost, for a few reasons.
A plug-in is generally not a derivative work of the thing it plugs into. (The FSF is sometimes confused here, because they often confuse "derivative work" with "is useless without").
To the extent that a plug-in has to incorporate code from the thing it plugs into in order to work (e.g., structure definitions, function call sequences, constants), the copyright on the host program does not cover those, as they are procedures or methods of operation.
The courts have found that there is a strong public policy interest in disallowing authors to use their copyright monopoly to get patent-like protection for their works.
But in the uncool market the Zune has to compete with Creative, iRiver and all those companies, that actually know how to make an MP3 player
On the sales rank charts at Amazon, Zune is usually ahead of everyone except Apple. A typical sample of the top 20 will be about 16 iPods, with a Zune somewhere in the middle, and a couple other non-Apple players in the bottom half.
I'd be willing to pay money for any program that filters out adds (without making too many mistakes).
I've always wondered why this doesn't exist for TV
The problem with that solution is that it does not scale. If everybody did it, the broadcasters would go away.
A scalable solution would be for you and others like you to pay money to the broadcasters to not run ads.
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There is no tying here. The inauguration was available from dozens of sites, in a wide variety of formats. It was trivial for any Linux user to find multiple sites that would work find with most Linux distributions either out of the box, or with a trivial install of some codecs.
They could offer Windows with no browser at all--just an icon labeled "Internet" that brings up a list of browser download buttons with all major browsers there, including Opera, and Opera is still going to tank.
You can see this just by considering their share on other platforms, where they have not had to put up with IE coming with the OS.
I think the shutdown consists of a hard off (power cut off), not an ACPI shutdown. The bios wouldn't have time to zero the memory. At least thats the way I understand it.
Wouldn't it only need to zero the memory that contains the key?
Circuit City: I see an item on their web site that i want, on sale. I drive down to my nearby Circuit City, and find the item. It is not on sale.
I ask the salesman if he'll give me the web price. He says no.
So I drive home, go to the web site, and order the item (at the sale price) for in-store pickup.
I drive back down to the store and pick it up.
Best Buy: I see an item on their web site that i want, on sale. I drive down to my nearby Best Buy, and find the item. It is not on sale.
I ask the salesman if he'll give me the web price. He says "let me check", and looks it up on the website. He sees it is on sale, and matches the price.
Right - different OS _is_ a different configuration, with that logic all OS benchmarks are invalid
When the test is to compare different OSes, the OS is NOT part of the configuration. The OS is the variable that you are testing, which is SUPPOSED to be different. All the other possible variables, are the configuration, and those are supposed to be the same.
This is kind of bogus, from a scientific point of view. There is no reason for anyone to need to see the source code for the device in order to determine if the device is accurate. This can be determined by black box testing of the device.
Each device contains a controller, and the house power distribution center contains a controller. The device controllers and the house controller communicate over the power lines.
Devices must get permission from the house controller to consume the power they consume (beyond a minimal amount they are allowed to always consumer to power their controllers and sensors).
Devices tell the house how long they will need power, how long they can wait to start, whether they need the power continuously or can pause for a bit if needed, and how much they need. For example, if the fridge needs to start, but can wait a couple minutes, the house might have it wait until the microwave finishes. If the fridge says it can't wait, the house might ask the oven to stop for a a bit so the fridge can have the power to start the compressor.
Ideally, the system would be designed so that there is very little voltage and current at the outlet, until a device asks for it. Then the outlet provides the voltage and current that is asked for. Appliances plugged in but not in use would present much less of a shock hazard this way.
I have been watching this happen over and over and over again. Companies developing their products to use Linux but turn around and not support Linux client access. I had stupidly picked up a wireless networked video camera that was known to run Linux on the inside and made a very stupid assumption that Linux client access would therefore be a no-brainer. WRONG! It was Windows only for client access... not even Mac could access it.
Similar experience here. My computer uses capacitors made by Johanson Dielectrics, so I carefully picked a GPS that also uses capacitors from Johanson Dielectrics, figuring that meant they would work together, but the damned thing would not work with my computer.
It's about time some higher authority arrested the patent troll friendly "judges" for contempt of justice
You should actually check the stats for EDT. First, most patent cases there aren't patent troll cases. Second, defendants have been winning the majority of cases over the last couple of years.
Customer gives BB address and CC, BB saves address and CC for all time. NO STORY HERE, every company does this!!
Actually, no, not every company does this. Companies that don't provide the option for returning customers to use an on-file credit card cannot retain the CC number indefinitely--that would violate the PCI standard, and would get them banned from accepting credit cards.
Amazing spin, there, byolinux. They were asking questions that they KNEW were not answerable by customer service. They were attempting to deny service to customers who actually needed to use customer service (their announcement specifically said they wanted to tie up every available appointment).
Congratulations, you crushed a competitor and, at the same time, destroyed hope for millions of needy people
Yeah. How dare Intel actually go talk to educators in third world countries and find out what they actually wanted and needed for their students, and then design a machine to satisfy that, instead of just guessing like the OLPC folks did? Those bastards.
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The same reason one would use The GIMP over MySQL or Eclipse.
I doubt he generated any fear. No one at that conference would be dumb enough to think that Gates released malaria carrying mosquitos.
You didn't look hard enough for alternatives. T1 service is available almost everywhere, with no caps.
A more accurate statement would be "PGP and GnuPG's web of trust system has been mostly ignored pretty much since it was created".
It's so cute how they think that they get to say what license plug-ins use.
People with real lawyers and a lot of money on the line have settled this question a long time ago, when various commercial software producers tried to stop third-parties from making unauthorized add-ons. Those trying to stop unauthorized plug-ins lost, for a few reasons.
That worked out pretty well for Bernie Taupin.
On the sales rank charts at Amazon, Zune is usually ahead of everyone except Apple. A typical sample of the top 20 will be about 16 iPods, with a Zune somewhere in the middle, and a couple other non-Apple players in the bottom half.
I just mute the TV sound when the adverts come on, you'd be amazed at the difference it makes.
(Obviously this doesn't work too well with radio...)
With radio, what you want to do is mute the video during ads.
The problem with that solution is that it does not scale. If everybody did it, the broadcasters would go away.
A scalable solution would be for you and others like you to pay money to the broadcasters to not run ads.
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There is no tying here. The inauguration was available from dozens of sites, in a wide variety of formats. It was trivial for any Linux user to find multiple sites that would work find with most Linux distributions either out of the box, or with a trivial install of some codecs.
They could offer Windows with no browser at all--just an icon labeled "Internet" that brings up a list of browser download buttons with all major browsers there, including Opera, and Opera is still going to tank.
You can see this just by considering their share on other platforms, where they have not had to put up with IE coming with the OS.
Wasn't the "secure computing" preached by Intel/MS and others a "secure" platform that would solve all the security issues?
No
To me seams that it was only a farse to disguise DRM into everyones computers...
And fail...
No again. Here is some useful information on this from IBM.
I think the shutdown consists of a hard off (power cut off), not an ACPI shutdown. The bios wouldn't have time to zero the memory. At least thats the way I understand it.
Wouldn't it only need to zero the memory that contains the key?
If you don't mind ugliness, the ceiling makes a good place to run cables. Here's my ethernet, phone, and speaker cables from my previous place.
They were being held up by cup hooks.
You can find things at Home Depot designed to hide cables running along the ceiling, if you care about beauty (or have a wife).
NOTE: you can get ethernet cable that is thin and flat, much like telephone cable. That is what I used.
Circuit City: I see an item on their web site that i want, on sale. I drive down to my nearby Circuit City, and find the item. It is not on sale.
I ask the salesman if he'll give me the web price. He says no.
So I drive home, go to the web site, and order the item (at the sale price) for in-store pickup.
I drive back down to the store and pick it up.
Best Buy: I see an item on their web site that i want, on sale. I drive down to my nearby Best Buy, and find the item. It is not on sale.
I ask the salesman if he'll give me the web price. He says "let me check", and looks it up on the website. He sees it is on sale, and matches the price.
I pay and drive home with the item.
When the test is to compare different OSes, the OS is NOT part of the configuration. The OS is the variable that you are testing, which is SUPPOSED to be different. All the other possible variables, are the configuration, and those are supposed to be the same.
This is kind of bogus, from a scientific point of view. There is no reason for anyone to need to see the source code for the device in order to determine if the device is accurate. This can be determined by black box testing of the device.
I had a similar idea, but more general.
Similar experience here. My computer uses capacitors made by Johanson Dielectrics, so I carefully picked a GPS that also uses capacitors from Johanson Dielectrics, figuring that meant they would work together, but the damned thing would not work with my computer.
You should actually check the stats for EDT. First, most patent cases there aren't patent troll cases. Second, defendants have been winning the majority of cases over the last couple of years.
Except address information is not encoded on the credit card. Oops.
Actually, no, not every company does this. Companies that don't provide the option for returning customers to use an on-file credit card cannot retain the CC number indefinitely--that would violate the PCI standard, and would get them banned from accepting credit cards.
Debit cards have the same information on the magnetic stripe as credit cards. There are no non-trivial differences.
Amazing spin, there, byolinux. They were asking questions that they KNEW were not answerable by customer service. They were attempting to deny service to customers who actually needed to use customer service (their announcement specifically said they wanted to tie up every available appointment).
This was a DOS attack, plain and simple.
Yeah. How dare Intel actually go talk to educators in third world countries and find out what they actually wanted and needed for their students, and then design a machine to satisfy that, instead of just guessing like the OLPC folks did? Those bastards.