We wont see any good $400 sublaptops in the near future..
what about the eeepc? they now exclusively bundle XP, they're throwing out the linux install in favor of windows, with an extra $100 microsoft tax included.
glad I got mine before that. Since when? Certainly not in the current models, and the new one is supposed to be available with both Linux and Windows from everything I've read.
How are they ahead of the curve? They have... a phone? No.. they have the iPhone... the only phone on the market with it's own built in reality distortion field generator.
Who cares about CGI when most CAD engineering groups use Windows work stations still. CGI is kids stuff compared to some of the assemblies that they work with in the aerospace industry. Different markets, different legacy systems, different needs. Windows workstations may be the best choice for one sector, but not for another.
I realize almost everyone here knew this back when this whole thing began, but I fear that the music and movie industries will largely ignore this, or, worse, try to improve upon it somehow. The current models are failing, but they don't want to admit it. They'll probably continue investing more into an arms race they can't win. Maybe a mixture of diminishing sales and wasted money will cripple them enough that others can rise up and take their place. I'm not so sure. There have already been moves to get music DRM free. Now Audio books seem to be following suit, so perhaps the penny is finally dropping. DRM is not a safeguard, its a challenge.
Microsoft doesn't WANT IE to be compatible. Have the most popular browser and have it not be compatible, and you force everyone to be compatible with YOU - and the competitors who are "standards" compatible are thereby not compatible with what most people was used to, etc.
If you can't own the internet, this is the next best thing. Only until the others get a significant if inferior market share. IE may have something around 70%, but companies selling stuff on the net don't want to dismiss a potential 30% of customers, and I would imagine that quite a few people decide to favor the non IE browsers out of dislike for Microsoft. It used to be the case that if you used Firefox, you also had to use IE for some sites. now, hardly at all. I came across one site, which was for a UK TV company that wouldn't work properly in Firefox, but it worked fine in sea monkey.
The awkward thing about monopolies is that they have to keep fighting to keep their monopoly, or it disappears faster than one might think. Microsoft won the browser wars, but winning a war is easy. Occupation however is a completely different matter.
I am surprised by this as I would have thought Nvidia would have put more effort into their Vista driver with Linux drivers being mostly on the back burner. I am assuming it is because their Linux driver is old code (which we all know contains less bugs then new code) whereas the Vista driver is written from scratch?
Either way I think this shows the awesomeness of Ubuntu and Linux. ^_^ Except these are workstation graphics cards. And Windows is the one on the back burner. The CGI industry has been using Unix variants for years, and more recently many are moving to Linux for cost considerations.
Can you help me pin down where the lack of clarity was so I don't make the same mistake again.
I have pointed this issue out more than once in the past. This is the first time with so much misunderstanding involved iirc. And the funny thing is, I thought that I had done a better job this time before all the confusion popped up. For what it's worth, not everyone misunderstood your point.
So if IE8 supports standards and is better than the alternatives, what's wrong with using it? Because it is inadvisable to surf while drunk, high, or under prescription medication. Which is th only circumstance where Microsoft would appear to release software that played nice.
How about the thousands of dollars people have spent on software that won't run under Ubuntu? Just put it with the hardware and software that worked fine on XP, but doesn't have drivers for Vista. Then put it on Ebay like everyone else.
Hardware and software obsolescence is a pretty standard symptom of changing to a new Microsoft OS.
I lost about £300 (about $600) worth of hardware and I can't remember how much software back when I went from 98SE to XP. Annoying, but only a surprise if this is your first OS change.
XP to Fedora lost me a cheap scanner and the ability to sync my Palm easily with my main PC. No biggie. I still have an XP box hanging around for when I need a scanner.
So if I understand what JarJartheJedi is saying...
I've never watched the Matrix Trilogy. I've read the plots but I want to see some purely gratuitous sex scenes in my movie. If that offends you then you, fair sir, are an idiot. Why in the world should the Wa-whosit brothers be able to dictate to me what I see. I cannot honestly understand at all how someone could believe that, period. Perfectly reasonable statement as far as I can see. Why is anybody objecting to it. After all, selective editing of any creative work, and even a/. post could be considered as such, has no negative effect whatsoever on the story the original author was trying to tell, or in this case, no bearing on the point the poster was trying to make.
Now lets ban all boobies and add lots of good wholesome morally uplifting violence and death instead. We can't have little Johnny wondering why his peepee starts feeling funny during that bit between the explosions and someone having their head blown off now can we? Much better if he gets a clear message that blowing stuff up is good, but naked flesh is obviously the work of the devil....
Seriously.. If you really are so freaked out by an occasional sex scene in a movie, I suggest you get some professional help. Your response is quite abnormal and could be an indicator of some hidden emotional trauma that may very well surface in a very negative and potentially dangerous way later in life.
If a banner ad is indeed bogging down "an entire website" I propose to you that it is your browser/computer that is being bogged down, and needs to be replaced. go ahead and click on that Dell ad.
Honestly, one add is killing the website? One ad.. perhaps not, but half a dozen ads being delivered from a server that can barely keep up? most definitely yes. I've seen it countless times. The text I want loads, the web site graphics load, but the ads are still chugging along and will eventually stop. The worst ones are the ones that don't allow the rest of the page to load until they have finished. It must be even worse for those who have a dial up connection.
Try reading what I wrote; I didn't say "prefer writing for Windows" I said "creating off-the-shelf software." The religon behind OSS will keep those developers (and many investors) away. Yet it doesn't seem to be working... Damn! Or could it be that the religious Linux users are the same category as the evangelical OSX users?
Why compare a laptop that you can buy now to one that isn't even out yet? Why not. Its fun watching the Apple fans puff themselves up so much and come out with arguments that would make whole PR companies seem honest.
Also, does anybody actually use that little red thing in the keyboard? Yep. Seems to be more reliable than touch pads.
You're saying they just copied someone else's public domain 65xx assembly code and didn't get sued? No. If something is public domain, you can't get sued for copying it.
Wasn't that a port of an already existing public domain BASIC?
In 1974, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote the first microcomputer Basic interpreter on a PDP-8 minicomputer for an Intel 8080 microprocessor emulator. MITS licensed MBASIC for the Altair in late 1975, and Micro-Soft was born. By the end of 1976, over ten thousand Altair computers were sold with either the original 4K or a newly expanded 8K MBASIC. Micro-Soft's work on the 8K version was spurred by a new player, Commodore Business Machines, and its Personal Electronic Transactor (PET), which debuted in mid-1976 with a licensed version of what was now called MBASIC 2.0. Early in 1978, Tandy Corporation licensed MBASIC 2.0 for its TRS-80 Model 1 Level II and called it Level II BASIC. At the same time, Tandy cross-licensed Level II BASIC to Apple, so the same MBASIC was running on virtually every microcomputer of any significance. ComputerSource So thats a yes then..
It could be done right with the correct combination of hardware, software, and keys. Use TPM to verify that the worm is valid and to verify the keys, then standard use of certificates and signing can be used to ensure that the patches aren't tampered with before they hit the drive. Until the second week, when a bunch of people reverse engineer it.
Windows Vista won't truly be ready until the first complete Service Pack is released.
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Their answers, not mine! Correct answers outside brackets I assume.
Typical Linux shill who glazes over that they are in the minority in their opinion. So an opinion is only valid if it is held by a majority? Do you also believe that the sun is revolving around the earth?
Windows 98 was also released 10 years ago, when such piracy was not nearly as big a problem as it is today. Times changes, so must security. WGA is Microsoft securing their product. How do you suggest it figure out who stole it and who didn't without bothering you but still preventing pirates from getting their product for free? True enough.. back then, you could install as many copies as you liked with the same license number and nobody was any the wiser. So people took disks home from work, or got an install that came with a friend's computer and passed it around. Completely different.
Amazon sends a confirmation notice when you place an order. No email = no transaction. The email is a confirmation the order process has started, unless there is some text in the email that states otherwise. From memory, Amazon do not write "This is a receipt" on their confirmation emails, so no contract at this point. The bricks and mortar equivalent would be taking the item to the check out. The transaction turns into a contract once the payment has been made. So cash, cheque, or credit card acceptance. The sequence of events has a lot of importance.
This happened to Kodak a few years ago via their UK web site. They made the mistake of saying in so many words on the order confirmation email, that this is a receipt. So legally, they had sold the item in advance of payment to the customer.
They ended up being forced to sell a lot of cheap digital cameras for the incorrectly marked price, even though they had not taken a single penny from any customer. After that, several online retailers started clearly stating that the confirmation email was NOT a receipt in any way. Given the existence of the receipt, they would very likely have lost the many county court(small claims) cases. And even if they had won, they would have had to pay a lawyer to attend each hearing while the customer was only liable for £40 I think.
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If you can't own the internet, this is the next best thing. Only until the others get a significant if inferior market share. IE may have something around 70%, but companies selling stuff on the net don't want to dismiss a potential 30% of customers, and I would imagine that quite a few people decide to favor the non IE browsers out of dislike for Microsoft.
It used to be the case that if you used Firefox, you also had to use IE for some sites. now, hardly at all. I came across one site, which was for a UK TV company that wouldn't work properly in Firefox, but it worked fine in sea monkey.
The awkward thing about monopolies is that they have to keep fighting to keep their monopoly, or it disappears faster than one might think. Microsoft won the browser wars, but winning a war is easy. Occupation however is a completely different matter.
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Now lets ban all boobies and add lots of good wholesome morally uplifting violence and death instead. We can't have little Johnny wondering why his peepee starts feeling funny during that bit between the explosions and someone having their head blown off now can we? Much better if he gets a clear message that blowing stuff up is good, but naked flesh is obviously the work of the devil....
Seriously.. If you really are so freaked out by an occasional sex scene in a movie, I suggest you get some professional help. Your response is quite abnormal and could be an indicator of some hidden emotional trauma that may very well surface in a very negative and potentially dangerous way later in life.
The voice of experience?
Honestly, one add is killing the website? One ad.. perhaps not, but half a dozen ads being delivered from a server that can barely keep up? most definitely yes. I've seen it countless times. The text I want loads, the web site graphics load, but the ads are still chugging along and will eventually stop. The worst ones are the ones that don't allow the rest of the page to load until they have finished. It must be even worse for those who have a dial up connection.
In 1974, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote the first microcomputer Basic interpreter on a PDP-8 minicomputer for an Intel 8080 microprocessor emulator.
MITS licensed MBASIC for the Altair in late 1975, and Micro-Soft was born. By the end of 1976, over ten thousand Altair computers were sold with either the original 4K or a newly expanded 8K MBASIC. Micro-Soft's work on the 8K version was spurred by a new player, Commodore Business Machines, and its Personal Electronic Transactor (PET), which debuted in mid-1976 with a licensed version of what was now called MBASIC 2.0. Early in 1978, Tandy Corporation licensed MBASIC 2.0 for its TRS-80 Model 1 Level II and called it Level II BASIC. At the same time, Tandy cross-licensed Level II BASIC to Apple, so the same MBASIC was running on virtually every microcomputer of any significance. ComputerSource So thats a yes then..
This happened to Kodak a few years ago via their UK web site. They made the mistake of saying in so many words on the order confirmation email, that this is a receipt. So legally, they had sold the item in advance of payment to the customer.
They ended up being forced to sell a lot of cheap digital cameras for the incorrectly marked price, even though they had not taken a single penny from any customer.
After that, several online retailers started clearly stating that the confirmation email was NOT a receipt in any way. Given the existence of the receipt, they would very likely have lost the many county court(small claims) cases. And even if they had won, they would have had to pay a lawyer to attend each hearing while the customer was only liable for £40 I think.