No. It's not just you. I was puzzled about the chart that I saw showing that certain areas had a lower piracy rate from one year to the next but a larger dollar figure for the losses. I guess that means that the folks in those areas aren't bothering to steal copies of Windows any more but have moved on to using stolen copies of more expensive software like Oracle, SAP, JDEdwards, etc. Either that or the BSA uses similar formulas as the RIAA and MPAA to come up with the amount of their members' "losses".
Who, after the show started looking interesting (once I got past the theme song, that is), promptly moved it to Friday night. That's where networks always seem to put shows that they want to kill. After a half a season on Friday's they come out with a statement ``Well, rating are down so we might just have to cancel this show.'' A lot of people still go out on Friday nights. Is it really rocket science as to why fewer people watch shows on that night when there are fewer people sitting at home watching TV? Oh, wait, this is a decision made by Hollywood execs so perhaps, to them anyway, that does qualify as rocket science.
... because you have to know that this slogan is going to be ridiculed. It probably took all of a few microseconds before the first parody of ``It Just Works'' was thought up. Here's mine:
Longhorn: It Barely Works
Longhorn: It Just Works In the Lab
Longhorn: It Almost Works
Longhorn: It Worked Just a Minute Ago!
I'll be referring to Longhorn using the first one I listed above. Seems like it'll be a useful slogan until about SP3 or SP4. (That's if it ever makes it to market.)
``... Tridgell connected to a BitKeeper site via telnet and used the mostly forgotten "help" tool. Ethical arguments of aside, what really counts as reverse engineering anyway?''
Well, certainly not that! If that's to be considered reverse engineering -- especially illegal reverse engineering -- then the next question we need to be asking is ``Why is it so hot where we're going and what are we doing in this handbasket?''
Anyone remember when ``HELLO'' and ``HELP'' were the same program? (Extra credit: Anyone remember what OS that's from?) Today's legal climate would probably have anyone issuing ``HELP'' on that OS tossed in jail as a system cracker. (Heck, if ``lynx'' can get you indicted in the UK...)
``For those who are still frustrated with the CUPS GUI, how would you improve it?''
Each time I make an attempt to tackle CUPS, I find that the easiest way to deal with configuring it is to delete that package and load LPRng. At least it's something that you can get working in a reasonable amount of time.
``At any rate, a document is not generally considered to be a derived work of a font.''
Just how would anyone think they could make this claim is beyond me. That would be like, say, Grumbacher claiming that someone's painting is a derived work because they used their paints and/or brushes.
Has anyone got information as to the overal costs on a per lumen basis associated with manufacturing LED vs those for traditional incandescent bulbs?
I've read some rather nasty descriptions of the cost of manufacturing semiconductors -- the highly toxic chemicals that are used, worker exposure to these, the large amouts of water that are needed, etc. -- and I'm wondering whether the touted benefit of LEDs being so energy efficient are really true when one takes into the account all of the costs associated with producing and using them.
... just like the few critters that the strongest antibiotics are unable to kill.
I'm not sure what the point of the author was. I don't recall that Linus ever seriously said anything about killing off Windows being a goal of his. My goal is rather modest: to use "Software That Doesn't Suck®" (my thanks to whoever first coined that phrase). I think that's what most people want.
While it might have a smaller footprint once all of those features are cut out (which I doubt since the code doesn't necessarily need to be smaller, just handcuffed), a 1.5GB drive would still barely be useable. Heck, getting three applications installed, let alone run them simultaneously, would be something of a challenge. (I'll bet they limit the number of disk drives as well.)
As for RAM... Win2K ran/runs acceptably in 128MB for daily office tasks such as reading mail, browsing, writing small documents. I'd guess that XP wouldn't perform much differently.
... Microsoft will learn just how useless it is to expect to win the game of Whack-A-Mole.
What I find that might even be funnier is that while Microsoft is busy dumping less expensive (and less functional) copies of Windows XP out on the market in an attempt to stave off the adoption of Linux, they may be making it harder to get people to move to Longhorn. More than one pundit has written a piece about their installed base doesn't move to the latest and greatest (and, of course, the most secure|stable|whatever ever) version of Windows because they've decided that the current version is ``good enough''. Microsoft is only compounding their installed-base problem by releasing XP-lite in Brazil. Some users will buy it to ``get legal'' but those people may be satisfied enough with XP-lite that they become a problem for MS when Longhorn finally comes out. Those who don't buy into XP-lite probably wouldn't have in the first place and will either continue running pirated versions of Windows or switch to Linux. I'd say MS loses no matter which of the three paths a Brazilian user might take.
One can only hope it's being done in Seattle: a visible defence computing project using Linux (or is at least Linux compatible) right in Redmond's back yard.
What's that rumbling? Mt. St. Helens? No that's the reaction at One Microsoft Way.
``CSC, Accenture, EDS, et al are probably salivating at the thought of such a passage of law.''
I sort of doubt it. While they might get some work out of this, much of the work to make the change will be done by OS vendors who write the necessary patches. The consultancies might make some bucks by supplying people to assist in applying the patches. Unfortunately for them, a lot of companies already have a good deal of experience applying patches to their systems (thanks to their using Windows).
... I know this isn't the same guy (or even the same spelling of the last name) but once the mental picture of Pee Wee getting all flustered over spyware had been formed, I just couldn't resist.
I have woken up, gotten dressed, gone down to the hotel's breakfast bar...
Ah! That's because the hotel management insisted on bolting that piece-o-crap alarm clock to the nightstand (like you'd ever want to steal the thing). You didn't have to actually get out of bed to shut it off. I always take a wind up travel alarm that I can place across the room. There's nothing like having to leap out of bed to get the blood flowing. And wake-up calls? Ha! A waste of time.
While this invention has a certain "cool" quotient, it's not enough for me to want to part with my cash. Here's what's always worked for me: Put the alarm clock far enough away from the bed so that you have to get up to shut it off. My current clock has two alarms that I set about 5 minutes apart and a volume control that makes the alarm louder the longer it's going off. I have the thing sitting in the bathroom. Once you get out of bed twice to shut it off, you're awake and ready to roll.
``First up, Lake Forest, Illinois-based Advanced Audio Devices (AAD) alleges its patent, number 6,587,403, for a 'music jukebox,' filed in August 2000 but granted in July 2003, covers the kind of thing Apple has brought to market as the iPod.''
I'll bet that system I put together and have running down in the basement that's serving up MP3 and Ogg music files to the home[1] network is infringing as well. Gosh... I feel like such an outlaw now! (And it's so-o-o exciting!)
[1] Note to the RIAA: These are on our home network and cannot venture outside the firewall so don't bother sending your legal thugs.
You can imagine what folks in the developing world must be thinking: "Um, we are all hoping that she doesn't get the change to do to the World Bank what she did to HP!"
``I spent three days of productive work time listening to polyphonic ringtone versions of speed metal, trying to find exactly the ringtone that expressed my personality with enough irony and enough coolness that I could live with it going off ten times a day. In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?''
Well, if you worked for me and I knew this, they'd hear that there's a new job opening. You spent three freakin' days picking out a ring tone?
They support AMD, they don't support AMD, they support...
Rather like their support for Linux. On again, off again, on again, off again... Hemming and hawing seems to be an integral part of the Dell corporate culture, doesn't it?
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No. It's not just you. I was puzzled about the chart that I saw showing that certain areas had a lower piracy rate from one year to the next but a larger dollar figure for the losses. I guess that means that the folks in those areas aren't bothering to steal copies of Windows any more but have moved on to using stolen copies of more expensive software like Oracle, SAP, JDEdwards, etc. Either that or the BSA uses similar formulas as the RIAA and MPAA to come up with the amount of their members' "losses".
``You can't watch the movie that Daddy bought you because he's still on his business trip and won't be back until next week.''
Oh, yah. That equipment will go over real big with the movie buying public.
One has to wonder whether most people developing technology like this have any clue whatsoever about what life in the Real World(tm) is actually like.
... because you have to know that this slogan is going to be ridiculed. It probably took all of a few microseconds before the first parody of ``It Just Works'' was thought up. Here's mine:
Longhorn: It Barely Works
Longhorn: It Just Works In the Lab
Longhorn: It Almost Works
Longhorn: It Worked Just a Minute Ago!
I'll be referring to Longhorn using the first one I listed above. Seems like it'll be a useful slogan until about SP3 or SP4. (That's if it ever makes it to market.)
We have a winner!
Ah... if only ``make menuconfig'' was as much fun as a SYSGEN. :-)
Well, certainly not that! If that's to be considered reverse engineering -- especially illegal reverse engineering -- then the next question we need to be asking is ``Why is it so hot where we're going and what are we doing in this handbasket?''
Anyone remember when ``HELLO'' and ``HELP'' were the same program? (Extra credit: Anyone remember what OS that's from?) Today's legal climate would probably have anyone issuing ``HELP'' on that OS tossed in jail as a system cracker. (Heck, if ``lynx'' can get you indicted in the UK...)
Each time I make an attempt to tackle CUPS, I find that the easiest way to deal with configuring it is to delete that package and load LPRng. At least it's something that you can get working in a reasonable amount of time.
Just how would anyone think they could make this claim is beyond me. That would be like, say, Grumbacher claiming that someone's painting is a derived work because they used their paints and/or brushes.
Stop the insanity!
Has anyone got information as to the overal costs on a per lumen basis associated with manufacturing LED vs those for traditional incandescent bulbs?
I've read some rather nasty descriptions of the cost of manufacturing semiconductors -- the highly toxic chemicals that are used, worker exposure to these, the large amouts of water that are needed, etc. -- and I'm wondering whether the touted benefit of LEDs being so energy efficient are really true when one takes into the account all of the costs associated with producing and using them.
... just like the few critters that the strongest antibiotics are unable to kill.
I'm not sure what the point of the author was. I don't recall that Linus ever seriously said anything about killing off Windows being a goal of his. My goal is rather modest: to use "Software That Doesn't Suck®" (my thanks to whoever first coined that phrase). I think that's what most people want.
While it might have a smaller footprint once all of those features are cut out (which I doubt since the code doesn't necessarily need to be smaller, just handcuffed), a 1.5GB drive would still barely be useable. Heck, getting three applications installed, let alone run them simultaneously, would be something of a challenge. (I'll bet they limit the number of disk drives as well.)
As for RAM... Win2K ran/runs acceptably in 128MB for daily office tasks such as reading mail, browsing, writing small documents. I'd guess that XP wouldn't perform much differently.
... Microsoft will learn just how useless it is to expect to win the game of Whack-A-Mole.
What I find that might even be funnier is that while Microsoft is busy dumping less expensive (and less functional) copies of Windows XP out on the market in an attempt to stave off the adoption of Linux, they may be making it harder to get people to move to Longhorn. More than one pundit has written a piece about their installed base doesn't move to the latest and greatest (and, of course, the most secure|stable|whatever ever) version of Windows because they've decided that the current version is ``good enough''. Microsoft is only compounding their installed-base problem by releasing XP-lite in Brazil. Some users will buy it to ``get legal'' but those people may be satisfied enough with XP-lite that they become a problem for MS when Longhorn finally comes out. Those who don't buy into XP-lite probably wouldn't have in the first place and will either continue running pirated versions of Windows or switch to Linux. I'd say MS loses no matter which of the three paths a Brazilian user might take.
One can only hope it's being done in Seattle: a visible defence computing project using Linux (or is at least Linux compatible) right in Redmond's back yard.
What's that rumbling? Mt. St. Helens? No that's the reaction at One Microsoft Way.
And for proof of that, check out her video here. Now, Laura, tell us again how objective you are again. (I could use a good laugh.)
Good idea. And, with the current administration, very appropriate.
(He sez while ducking to avoid Bush Backers taking aim...)
I sort of doubt it. While they might get some work out of this, much of the work to make the change will be done by OS vendors who write the necessary patches. The consultancies might make some bucks by supplying people to assist in applying the patches. Unfortunately for them, a lot of companies already have a good deal of experience applying patches to their systems (thanks to their using Windows).
... I know this isn't the same guy (or even the same spelling of the last name) but once the mental picture of Pee Wee getting all flustered over spyware had been formed, I just couldn't resist.
Pee Wee fixes computers? (Heh, heh!)
Ah! That's because the hotel management insisted on bolting that piece-o-crap alarm clock to the nightstand (like you'd ever want to steal the thing). You didn't have to actually get out of bed to shut it off. I always take a wind up travel alarm that I can place across the room. There's nothing like having to leap out of bed to get the blood flowing. And wake-up calls? Ha! A waste of time.
While this invention has a certain "cool" quotient, it's not enough for me to want to part with my cash. Here's what's always worked for me: Put the alarm clock far enough away from the bed so that you have to get up to shut it off. My current clock has two alarms that I set about 5 minutes apart and a volume control that makes the alarm louder the longer it's going off. I have the thing sitting in the bathroom. Once you get out of bed twice to shut it off, you're awake and ready to roll.
I'll bet that system I put together and have running down in the basement that's serving up MP3 and Ogg music files to the home[1] network is infringing as well. Gosh... I feel like such an outlaw now! (And it's so-o-o exciting!)
[1] Note to the RIAA: These are on our home network and cannot venture outside the firewall so don't bother sending your legal thugs.
You can imagine what folks in the developing world must be thinking: "Um, we are all hoping that she doesn't get the change to do to the World Bank what she did to HP!"
Well, if you worked for me and I knew this, they'd hear that there's a new job opening. You spent three freakin' days picking out a ring tone?
Hmm... which one?
I was thinking "Kafka" or, perhaps, "Joseph Heller", but Vonnegut?
They support AMD, they don't support AMD, they support ...
Rather like their support for Linux. On again, off again, on again, off again... Hemming and hawing seems to be an integral part of the Dell corporate culture, doesn't it?