Hrm... that's inverse to the usual logic here... the down-modding of anti-MS comments... I don't really have an opinion either way & try to reserve judgment...
Why 2 articles so close about what WON'T be in Windows 7 and now what WILL be in Windows 7... ? Maybe I'm not seeing the forest for the trees but what kind of marketing tactics are these?
For instance in the movie industry... in a highly anticipated movie, let's say a book-to-movie one, you never hear about what they've LEFT OUT until the reviews start pouring in. OTOH, we hear "all about the great scene from the book that's also in the movie"... well before the reviews in the previews or buzz...
Or with Apple announcements we hear at best rumors about what will & won't be in it...
and then we hear from Microsoft a while back (forgive me for not recalling the article) that there won't be much external buzz about the contents of Windows 7 & that development will be much more "sealed" or "internal" for lack of better words...
so why the change of heart? Why are we hearing so much about what will & won't be there? There has to be more reason to this than to just generate some sort of overall interest via marketing in this respect, and I'm wondering beyond the typical answer "...because their last OS sucked ass" mainly because that answer doesn't really answer anything... any more insightful ideas?
I tend to favor the opinion of professionals over some random jerkoff on the internet. If you've studied the issue for more than a decade and also have a legitimate reason for going against the consensus of your peers, I'd love to hear it.
Perfectly valid point. Now I don't need a decade of assumed "experience" trying to justify something I know not to be true but you still have not explained why you will BLINDLY believe something. Like the other posters I believe a citation would be required to back such a claim up. In fact, we can play your silly little game without the need for name calling which, btw, completely invalidates your claims- please cite 2 scholarly sources and at least 1 double blind study to back yourself up.
As a skeptic I require a little more than just what some association or group of labcoats says to make something true. What is the origin of this disease? What is the contagion? What is the claimed rate of survival and estimated rate of contraction?
The American Medical Association has given formal recognition to the disease concept since 1956. You're only half a century behind the times... not too late to catch up.
So if the AMA calls being a dumbass a disease you will blindly follow along with this premise as well?
I hope it is google then maybe the iaa and mpaa will be put in there place
Not that I disagree with you but I would also like to see Google put in their place. That company's do no evil is the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard.
is a fat ass who needs a more proportionate BMI. I'm sure there are a lot of them here... Let me get out of the way before you crush me with your stupid mod points fattie.
People who choose to license their software OpenSource vs. Closed Source says nothing about their programming ability. There are a bunch of really crappy GNU projects out there as well as a bunch of crappy closed source projects... Yea there is the argument of millions of eyes fixing problems but
You hit the nail on the head, there are millions of eyes looking at the code but how many of those eyes are in the heads of idiots? Probably more than anyone thinks- how many people still buy Britney Spears albums (or ever have)? There are plenty of idiots in the world and every open source project has the same proportion of them... not saying that closed source is any better but this failed argument of millions of eyes is such propaganda... it does nothing to help OSS by perpetuating that myth:)
So open source software is not of 'markedly' higher quality. If it is of even 'slightly' higher quality, or 'exactly the same quality' as closed source software, then the fact that it costs less, and gives users freedoms that they don't have with closed source software, means that closed source is doomed.
Please explain how you come to this conclusion. I may not be understanding your argument. I would like to know how factors such as marketing, market penetration, user acceptance, interface quality, support quality (in terms of user-friendliness and customer service), methods of distribution and target audiences apply to both argument and conclusion. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure those are all of equal weight when determining the overall success or failure of a open/closed source model of software development.
I don't know how shit works in Canada so I have no clue. But if they advertise 7MB/s and don't say anything about a lower speed cap then you should have some legal recourse. Really I think what is advertises should come over what it says on some contract they have you sign. Bait and switch you know. This used to really fucking illegal, now its just a wink and a nod. Yeah, the tv said unlimited but the contract you signed says different. WTF is up with that?
You can thank two professions for this: 1. Marketing departments bait you in 2. Lawyers switch it out on you.
Get rid of the two and you'll see an end to false advertising and contract based services (like cellphones) or at least in their current form... I've got a whole defamatory (and likely bigoted) view on these sort of consumer-based conspiracies lol:) can't post that here though. The bastion of free speech is heavily moderated by fuckwads... yikes! another conspiracy!
To put this is some perspective, the US has offered Burma (Myanmar) $3m in aid.
Why is this insightful, because it has some sort of inferred political agenda? Real insightful... meanwhile, why don't we throw soapboxes at each other? I'm not trolling, please explain why this is insightful? How about OFFTOPIC?
My email has never been more organized and I can put things under multiple tags. Using GMail... there are some filtering techniques they are lacking but overall it's great & the have a nice function "filter for emails like these" that can aid in creating filters...
While I'm on the tirade, Sam Adams can kiss my ass while I... for his stupid green box bullcrap for lameo cyclists in PDX who REFUSE to follow the rules of the road on their VEHICLE... urgh it makes me so mad... they can take that & the book thing and huff it.
I love living in Oregon but it's crap like this (that happens repeatedly in this state) that is making me consider the jump to Seattle. Really, recently this state has become big-brother in a way that only San Francisco can compare.
Which is, of course, pure unadulterated bullshit. There's nothing that prevents anyone from running closed source code on an open source kernel.
Not so, some slashdot trol-i mean zealot will come along with their OSS(TM) hammer smashing your ubuntu box while chanting "Free as in beer! Free as in speech!"
I equate it to the whole if you buy pot you're supporting terrorism bullshit commercials, be careful if you go the rout of OSS, you may be taking your life (or someone else's) in to your own hands!!
I laugh my ass off at the pot commercial where the laughing kid blows his head off with a rifle after a few bong hits.
Lawyers are social people by trade & by lifestyle, the better representative will go meet his client f2f because that is what's most important, not privacy and pgp bullshit.
and all the idiot html'ers I've met over the years who swear up and down about CSS and still put 80 nested tables in their pages along with the rest of their crap.
It's also easy to see that Microsoft and their friends at Intel want nothing more than to kill OLPC
Please show one shred of unbiased evidence which supports this. As far as I can tell the quoted articles and supportive statements are nothing but FUD.
use another search engine. Those privacy concerns and their little notices don't mean squat, when are you going to realize that? Quite simply, if you're not comfortable with some sort of identifying information of yours being traded or given by some company or corporation you either don't understand the nature of commodities or are unwilling to see that the idea of privacy on the internet is far different from the real world. Grow a sack.
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Thanks for all the great replies, I am that much more enlightened and proportionally disillusioned:)
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They own 25% and sound unhappy.
Yes, can someone please explain as I am not very well-versed in corporate law... what are the legal ramifications of this suit & how does one sue a company that you own 25% of? Isn't that like suing your kids while they're still teenagers or something?
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Hrm... that's inverse to the usual logic here... the down-modding of anti-MS comments... I don't really have an opinion either way & try to reserve judgment...
Why 2 articles so close about what WON'T be in Windows 7 and now what WILL be in Windows 7... ? Maybe I'm not seeing the forest for the trees but what kind of marketing tactics are these?
For instance in the movie industry... in a highly anticipated movie, let's say a book-to-movie one, you never hear about what they've LEFT OUT until the reviews start pouring in. OTOH, we hear "all about the great scene from the book that's also in the movie"... well before the reviews in the previews or buzz...
Or with Apple announcements we hear at best rumors about what will & won't be in it...
and then we hear from Microsoft a while back (forgive me for not recalling the article) that there won't be much external buzz about the contents of Windows 7 & that development will be much more "sealed" or "internal" for lack of better words...
so why the change of heart? Why are we hearing so much about what will & won't be there? There has to be more reason to this than to just generate some sort of overall interest via marketing in this respect, and I'm wondering beyond the typical answer "...because their last OS sucked ass" mainly because that answer doesn't really answer anything... any more insightful ideas?
I tend to favor the opinion of professionals over some random jerkoff on the internet.
If you've studied the issue for more than a decade and also have a legitimate reason for going against the consensus of your peers, I'd love to hear it.
Perfectly valid point. Now I don't need a decade of assumed "experience" trying to justify something I know not to be true but you still have not explained why you will BLINDLY believe something. Like the other posters I believe a citation would be required to back such a claim up. In fact, we can play your silly little game without the need for name calling which, btw, completely invalidates your claims- please cite 2 scholarly sources and at least 1 double blind study to back yourself up.
As a skeptic I require a little more than just what some association or group of labcoats says to make something true. What is the origin of this disease? What is the contagion? What is the claimed rate of survival and estimated rate of contraction?
The American Medical Association has given formal recognition to the disease concept since 1956. You're only half a century behind the times... not too late to catch up.
So if the AMA calls being a dumbass a disease you will blindly follow along with this premise as well?
I hope it is google then maybe the iaa and mpaa will be put in there place
Not that I disagree with you but I would also like to see Google put in their place. That company's do no evil is the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard.
is a fat ass who needs a more proportionate BMI. I'm sure there are a lot of them here... Let me get out of the way before you crush me with your stupid mod points fattie.
People who choose to license their software OpenSource vs. Closed Source says nothing about their programming ability. There are a bunch of really crappy GNU projects out there as well as a bunch of crappy closed source projects... Yea there is the argument of millions of eyes fixing problems but
You hit the nail on the head, there are millions of eyes looking at the code but how many of those eyes are in the heads of idiots? Probably more than anyone thinks- how many people still buy Britney Spears albums (or ever have)? There are plenty of idiots in the world and every open source project has the same proportion of them... not saying that closed source is any better but this failed argument of millions of eyes is such propaganda... it does nothing to help OSS by perpetuating that myth
So open source software is not of 'markedly' higher quality. If it is of even 'slightly' higher quality, or 'exactly the same quality' as closed source software, then the fact that it costs less, and gives users freedoms that they don't have with closed source software, means that closed source is doomed.
Please explain how you come to this conclusion. I may not be understanding your argument. I would like to know how factors such as marketing, market penetration, user acceptance, interface quality, support quality (in terms of user-friendliness and customer service), methods of distribution and target audiences apply to both argument and conclusion. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure those are all of equal weight when determining the overall success or failure of a open/closed source model of software development.
a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate.
You know, like an older sibling.
like a big brother of sorts?
I don't know how shit works in Canada so I have no clue. But if they advertise 7MB/s and don't say anything about a lower speed cap then you should have some legal recourse. Really I think what is advertises should come over what it says on some contract they have you sign.
Bait and switch you know. This used to really fucking illegal, now its just a wink and a nod. Yeah, the tv said unlimited but the contract you signed says different. WTF is up with that?
You can thank two professions for this:
1. Marketing departments bait you in
2. Lawyers switch it out on you.
Get rid of the two and you'll see an end to false advertising and contract based services (like cellphones) or at least in their current form... I've got a whole defamatory (and likely bigoted) view on these sort of consumer-based conspiracies lol
To put this is some perspective, the US has offered Burma (Myanmar) $3m in aid.
Why is this insightful, because it has some sort of inferred political agenda? Real insightful... meanwhile, why don't we throw soapboxes at each other? I'm not trolling, please explain why this is insightful? How about OFFTOPIC?
They're using them and a bunch of XBoxes to create a supercomputer possible of calculating what wacky thing the president is going to do next.
Knowing the failure rate of xbox 360s 10% of them will get the ring of death.
My email has never been more organized and I can put things under multiple tags. Using GMail... there are some filtering techniques they are lacking but overall it's great & the have a nice function "filter for emails like these" that can aid in creating filters...
While I'm on the tirade, Sam Adams can kiss my ass while I... for his stupid green box bullcrap for lameo cyclists in PDX who REFUSE to follow the rules of the road on their VEHICLE... urgh it makes me so mad... they can take that & the book thing and huff it.
I love living in Oregon but it's crap like this (that happens repeatedly in this state) that is making me consider the jump to Seattle. Really, recently this state has become big-brother in a way that only San Francisco can compare.
Which is, of course, pure unadulterated bullshit. There's nothing that prevents anyone from running closed source code on an open source kernel.
Not so, some slashdot trol-i mean zealot will come along with their OSS(TM) hammer smashing your ubuntu box while chanting "Free as in beer! Free as in speech!"
yeesh...
I equate it to the whole if you buy pot you're supporting terrorism bullshit commercials, be careful if you go the rout of OSS, you may be taking your life (or someone else's) in to your own hands!!
I laugh my ass off at the pot commercial where the laughing kid blows his head off with a rifle after a few bong hits.
Lawyers are social people by trade & by lifestyle, the better representative will go meet his client f2f because that is what's most important, not privacy and pgp bullshit.
and all the idiot html'ers I've met over the years who swear up and down about CSS and still put 80 nested tables in their pages along with the rest of their crap.
It's also easy to see that Microsoft and their friends at Intel want nothing more than to kill OLPC
Please show one shred of unbiased evidence which supports this. As far as I can tell the quoted articles and supportive statements are nothing but FUD.
use another search engine. Those privacy concerns and their little notices don't mean squat, when are you going to realize that? Quite simply, if you're not comfortable with some sort of identifying information of yours being traded or given by some company or corporation you either don't understand the nature of commodities or are unwilling to see that the idea of privacy on the internet is far different from the real world. Grow a sack.
Thanks for all the great replies, I am that much more enlightened and proportionally disillusioned :)
They own 25% and sound unhappy. Yes, can someone please explain as I am not very well-versed in corporate law... what are the legal ramifications of this suit & how does one sue a company that you own 25% of? Isn't that like suing your kids while they're still teenagers or something?
how did they keep the fuel from igniting from the engine while it was leaking?
The fuel from the blackbird is very difficult to ignite. Unlike car fuel, if you throw your cigar into it, the cigar will go out.
I see -- so then I will just make a "welcome" screen with an appropriate custom EULA ad it's all good.
Talk to your lawyer about that. Just make sure the coffee is delicious, injected with extra caffeine and all will be forgiven no matter what