The original Raiders was so good everybody was willing to overlook what a terrible, steaming pile of terribleness Temple of Doom was. Then they sort of redeemed themselves with Last Crusade, but River Phoenix inconveniently torpedoed the rebirth of the franchise, and the result is we get an ancient Harrison Ford back in the original role an eon later. I wonder how they're going to hide the fact that he's around 70 years old. But no matter... if they can re-create a portion of the magic that made Raiders a classic I'll be breaking out the fedora and bull whip in celebration... er, figuratively.
That is my favorite gripe about Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Advantage for whom, exactly? It's an advantage only for Microsoft, for the customers it's a hassle.
They're not in the business of finding way to cut fees for customers. Not only are Internet ads becoming more invasive, the people selling them are finding ways to subvert each others inventory and revenue. We, as the customers, just sit back and *benefit* from this enhanced user experience.
I hope they all bankrupt each other in court. AdBlock is becoming more and more attractive every day.
I was hoping somebody would bring this up. The extent to which they outright copied SS-2 was a little embarrassing, considering how ground-breaking Doom and Doom II were.
That is one of the ridiculous aspects of this suit, and all of the claimed losses. If you multiply each instance of a song/movie by the number of seeds + downloaders, then multiply again over time then it's possible to come up with an astronomical false value. It's false because it assumes the downloaders would have purchased it in the first place, or don't already own it, or will never purchase it.
The only way to semi-accurately calculate their losses is to look at their declining profits year to year, which I would consider a real value partially accountable to piracy.
What it all means is their business model is dead and they need to adjust it before Apple, Amazon and others become the new middle-man.
Personally I don't care who the middle-man is so long as I can buy a digital album for around $10. Are you listening, entertainment-industry L.A. fat cats? Some of you are getting it, but not very many of you are.
I can tell you from fist-hand experience that the board room, once the doors are closed, is an excellent place to learn the latest sexist, vile and dirty jokes.
I just went through a bunch of research, I spread-sheeted the whole thing by accumulating ratings and a feature list. I came to the conclusion that all cellphones still suck in one way or another. So I picked the 2 most important features to me and went with it. They were: voice quality and battery life.
It turned out my 3 year old Nokia was just perfect.
If you choose to pay for support then you get support AND you get to use proprietary software to manage your servers. Just because they make Ubuntu free they should also make their specialized software free too? That's like getting a free car then complaining when you have to pay for gas.
They have to make money somewhere. Everyone knows Ubuntu is free because it's a hook to get companies, eventually, to sign up for support. So what?
You guys are all wrong. the NYT is right, because the comment was, "...the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it."
In other words they worried about the user experience, not technically standard syntax or some parser's score.
It's nice to see that not only does the New York Times hire the best writers, they also hire the best techs.
Because then, theoretically, you don't have to have both Linux and Windows people on staff. I.T. managers want to hire less people, not more, and the Windows guys are usually cheaper.
I can only imagine it's a collection of small apps and scripts that locate important files and registry values. These are already available, all over the place. Most of them are free.
By saying it bypasses *all* security, that would include full disk encryption and somehow obtaining admin access. I find it very hard to believe that this is the case.
I'd be real interested to see this USB key examined. There should be a bounty paid to the first person to get their hands on one.
I totally agree. I buy my ink from a certain large auction site at a fraction of the extortionist prices charged by the printer's manufacturer. If I want hi-quality I go to Kinkos, or use one of the online photo printing services for that.
The 3rd party inks are not as good but I refuse to pay the huge markup on the store brand ink on principal.
I was wondering where you got the idea that Microsoft would put DRM onto their OLPC/XP for e-books so I checked out your linked blog post.
"Now, it is likely that third world students will be running DRM-locked textbooks that are only acessable under Windows."
In other words, you made it all up and are just spreading FUD. Every time Microsoft is involved people start seeing creepy characters lurking in the shadows.
Yes, Microsoft should be frightened that the third world will grow up using Linux. Apple should be equally frightened. Microsoft is not above the tactic of squashing competition before it's allowed to develop. They've done it before after all. That doesn't mean we should speculate that Microsoft is putting DRM on their "special XP lite" to shake down 3rd world kids. I think we should give Negroponte a little more credit than that.
As a matter of FYI, I downloaded burned and installed it in about 2 hours.:45 minutes of that has been tweaking my desktop, since the eye candy options have moved around some since 7.04 it took me some time to figure it out.
Like all of the other government agencies they're woefully underfunded. All they can really do is grant the patents and let the courts work out the differences.
So long as corporations are using patents as monopoly door-stops then this is probably the only way it will work, unless something changes. A single multinational corporation has more legal brainpower than the patent office, how can the US Patent Office possibly deal with ALL of them at once?
Coming from somebody who uses Office daily, whether I like it or not, I was in agreement with you for a while. Until I got used to the new interface. It is really greatly improved. Sometimes I hunt for a function still but on the whole it's now much more intuitive and easier to get to features without having to scroll through an endless series of drawdowns / pop-outs / more drawdowns.
Anyway it's about time they did something new with Office. For the longest number of years I was hard-pressed to see any advantage in upgrading between Office 97 - 2003, except for some useful things in Outlook.
Microsoft will never implode but their hubris is leading them down an expensive path. They're acting as though their monopoly is secured while all the numbers show them losing market share every year. The complexity of their OS also makes it very difficult to change from this path.
Their products are complicated and the licensing and sales packages are complicated. I still can't tell you the difference between Vista Premium & Ultimate without looking it up.
A subscription model is even worse. Customers hate it, and the possibilities for confusion, frustration and failure are endless.
Meanwhile, Linux keeps becoming easier to use and Apple is still keeping it simple at one price.
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The original Raiders was so good everybody was willing to overlook what a terrible, steaming pile of terribleness Temple of Doom was. Then they sort of redeemed themselves with Last Crusade, but River Phoenix inconveniently torpedoed the rebirth of the franchise, and the result is we get an ancient Harrison Ford back in the original role an eon later. I wonder how they're going to hide the fact that he's around 70 years old. But no matter... if they can re-create a portion of the magic that made Raiders a classic I'll be breaking out the fedora and bull whip in celebration... er, figuratively.
That is my favorite gripe about Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Advantage for whom, exactly? It's an advantage only for Microsoft, for the customers it's a hassle.
They're not in the business of finding way to cut fees for customers. Not only are Internet ads becoming more invasive, the people selling them are finding ways to subvert each others inventory and revenue. We, as the customers, just sit back and *benefit* from this enhanced user experience.
I hope they all bankrupt each other in court. AdBlock is becoming more and more attractive every day.
That's what all the new-fangle dual core CPUs are for. One to download the porn the other to watch it.
I was hoping somebody would bring this up. The extent to which they outright copied SS-2 was a little embarrassing, considering how ground-breaking Doom and Doom II were.
That is one of the ridiculous aspects of this suit, and all of the claimed losses. If you multiply each instance of a song/movie by the number of seeds + downloaders, then multiply again over time then it's possible to come up with an astronomical false value. It's false because it assumes the downloaders would have purchased it in the first place, or don't already own it, or will never purchase it.
The only way to semi-accurately calculate their losses is to look at their declining profits year to year, which I would consider a real value partially accountable to piracy.
What it all means is their business model is dead and they need to adjust it before Apple, Amazon and others become the new middle-man.
Personally I don't care who the middle-man is so long as I can buy a digital album for around $10. Are you listening, entertainment-industry L.A. fat cats? Some of you are getting it, but not very many of you are.
It only shut down when the legal threats began. Meanwhile how many new torrent trackers have popped up? This is the definition of "hollow victory."
I admit, it's a funny typo.
I can tell you from fist-hand experience that the board room, once the doors are closed, is an excellent place to learn the latest sexist, vile and dirty jokes.
I just went through a bunch of research, I spread-sheeted the whole thing by accumulating ratings and a feature list. I came to the conclusion that all cellphones still suck in one way or another. So I picked the 2 most important features to me and went with it. They were: voice quality and battery life.
It turned out my 3 year old Nokia was just perfect.
My little brother and I were scent-messaging each other a long time ago.
I suggest this new technology for you: LYNX. If that's still too media-rich, you can lead the revolution in bringing us all back to Gopher.
If you choose to pay for support then you get support AND you get to use proprietary software to manage your servers. Just because they make Ubuntu free they should also make their specialized software free too? That's like getting a free car then complaining when you have to pay for gas.
They have to make money somewhere. Everyone knows Ubuntu is free because it's a hook to get companies, eventually, to sign up for support. So what?
You guys are all wrong. the NYT is right, because the comment was, "...the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it."
In other words they worried about the user experience, not technically standard syntax or some parser's score.
It's nice to see that not only does the New York Times hire the best writers, they also hire the best techs.
Because then, theoretically, you don't have to have both Linux and Windows people on staff. I.T. managers want to hire less people, not more, and the Windows guys are usually cheaper.
I can only imagine it's a collection of small apps and scripts that locate important files and registry values. These are already available, all over the place. Most of them are free.
By saying it bypasses *all* security, that would include full disk encryption and somehow obtaining admin access. I find it very hard to believe that this is the case.
I'd be real interested to see this USB key examined. There should be a bounty paid to the first person to get their hands on one.
I totally agree. I buy my ink from a certain large auction site at a fraction of the extortionist prices charged by the printer's manufacturer. If I want hi-quality I go to Kinkos, or use one of the online photo printing services for that.
The 3rd party inks are not as good but I refuse to pay the huge markup on the store brand ink on principal.
I was wondering where you got the idea that Microsoft would put DRM onto their OLPC/XP for e-books so I checked out your linked blog post.
"Now, it is likely that third world students will be running DRM-locked textbooks that are only acessable under Windows."
In other words, you made it all up and are just spreading FUD. Every time Microsoft is involved people start seeing creepy characters lurking in the shadows.
Yes, Microsoft should be frightened that the third world will grow up using Linux. Apple should be equally frightened. Microsoft is not above the tactic of squashing competition before it's allowed to develop. They've done it before after all. That doesn't mean we should speculate that Microsoft is putting DRM on their "special XP lite" to shake down 3rd world kids. I think we should give Negroponte a little more credit than that.
I agree. If they're unaware the bot is running they'll also be unaware of the anti-bot.
No problems thus far.
Do you for some reason believe that there are no courts in Brazil?
You draw the line with a court order. No court order no data. This way it becomes a legal issue instead of a moral issue.
So long as corporations are using patents as monopoly door-stops then this is probably the only way it will work, unless something changes. A single multinational corporation has more legal brainpower than the patent office, how can the US Patent Office possibly deal with ALL of them at once?
Anyway it's about time they did something new with Office. For the longest number of years I was hard-pressed to see any advantage in upgrading between Office 97 - 2003, except for some useful things in Outlook.
Their products are complicated and the licensing and sales packages are complicated. I still can't tell you the difference between Vista Premium & Ultimate without looking it up.
A subscription model is even worse. Customers hate it, and the possibilities for confusion, frustration and failure are endless.
Meanwhile, Linux keeps becoming easier to use and Apple is still keeping it simple at one price.
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