Get real. They may settle a class action suit, at most. The lawyers will get like thirty million apiece, and the users will get a coupon for $3 off their next purchase of a Sony music CD.
It seems to me that, because terrorism is a problem, we should have federal proctors actually oversee all communications. All keyboards should have transponders that alert the nearest FBI office of any keywords that might have anything to do with terrorism. All payphones should have a $6 per hour Homeland Security professional flunky listening to all our conversations. All public places should be videotaped and audio should be recorded not just in public, but in every home and office. Perhaps the best way would be to implant microphones and radio transmitters directly into our jawbones, so even if we row out into the middle of a lake in the middle of a national park, we can still be safe.
In fact, allowing people to wander off into the woods, which are really only there to be transformed into consumable forestry products, shouldn't be legal either. The penalty for infraction on any rule, including not reporting full written and notarized transcripts of all thoughts and conversations, should be death. Maybe just a lobotomy for first time offenders.
Think of how much safer we would all be! All thoughtcrime will be eliminated within our lifetime! Victory over Eurasia will be assured at last!
Of course, none of this would be anti-American at all, because 'feeling safe' is the only thing that matters anymore.
Since Dragonfly BSD was released by a couple people who couldn't stand the thought of FBSD5, can we expect a fork of 5 for the people who can't stand 6?
It would be feasible with enough CPU and upstream bandwidth, but does this company have the resources?
Additionally, for the video to have any sort of quality, you'd have to transfer your DV over the internet to them, edit it online, and then download the finished product. Even in the first world, where high bandwidth connections are readily available, this would be a stretch. Here in the good old second world of the USA, where upstream caps of 30 KB/sec are common, it's a pipe dream. Unless one convinces the cable internet providers to remove the upload caps or uses snail mail. And I think that the ISPs won't remove those caps, as most tend to suck the cock of the MPAA / RIAA so ferociously that they can't really concentrate on anything else.
Does anyone else see the inherent problems with offering an iMovie competitor that runs over the internet? I really can't see the point in this, and I doubt they've the bandwidth or CPU farm to handle such an endeavor.
I wonder if their service includes a free vial of snake oil too?
Is it really possible for a customer to trust a very recently anti-open-source company to provide a Linux solution?
Unisys has invested money and time in bashing Linux, and will be seen for a long time as being in bed with Microsoft. Some sort of public apology and admission that they were wrong would help them push their open source solutions much more effectively than just offering some Linux based 'solutions'.
Why would a customer choose Unisys for Linux? What do they offer that IBM doesn't? Something smells here to me.
I think one can view the iPod and the Mac / OS X as two completely separate product lines. They are complimentary, but Steve is not dumb enough to make it an either / or proposition. The iPod appeals to a large group of consumers, and spreads the brand around to people who may not be aware of Apple computers.
A combination of good solid features and marketing have made the iPod the dominant specimen in the MP3 player market. Think about it - people don't go shopping for an MP3 player, people go shopping for an iPod. Hell, most people out there think iPod when somebody mentions MP3 players.
I don't think Apple is going to sell OS X for generic PCs - Next tried that and it nearly killed them. Steve is sure to have learned his lesson from that incident, and the Clone Wars which nearly killed Apple. Apple is increasing its market share every year, and is riding a wave perhaps surpassing their Apple II days. Apple is comfortable with slowly increasing the size of their niche, rather than being like Dell and HP and Gateway, who must get by with slimmer and slimmer margins supplemented by user data collected by the spyware installed by default on their machines.
With the breakneck speed at which broadcasters are switching to 'all digital' I'll be lucky to be able to record my shows from an analog source for another thirty years.
Besides, won't there be devices which will translate digital TV signals into a normal analog signal that travels over 75 ohm coax for backwards compatibility? What's to stop me from recording whatever I want simply by bypassing the digital domain completely?
Method for creating lower localized air pressure with an aim of supplying oxygen to a circulatory system. (breathing)
Method for creating duplicate cells by dividing cell walls, organelles, and replicating DNA strands. (cell division)
Method for firing chemical and electrical impulses supporting nervous activity in large nerve clusters. (thinking)
Method for converting photons into ATP by means of chemical reaction in chloroplast organelles. (photosynthesis)
Method for creating constantly changing levels in large bodies of water by inducing said level changes through action of a third party. (tides)
Method for obtaining drinkable liquids through applying force to an object while object is in a receptacle, and allowing said liquid to drain into a second container. (making juice)
Method for applying repeated physical stimulation to an object for entertainment purposes. (jerking off)
I have hundreds of these. Would anybody like to lend me the money to apply for patents for these? I'll give you 5% of the licensing fees!
I think you are too hard on this lawyer. After all, lawyers are often just prostitutes who don't care whose dicks they suck as long as they get their crack rock.
The lawyer-poster proves that most of their ilk do not have any conscience or ability to tell right from wrong - they just want their next fix.
Of course, there are always exceptions. Those three or four lawyers who this rant doesn't apply to know who they are.
I seem to recall the same response a few years ago when I was critical of the Xbox and its success in Japan.
Give it a year or two. I bet dollars to doughnuts that for every xbox 360 game that gets released we see 40 or 50 for the PS3, plus all the PS2 and PSX games that are backwards compatible with it.
I hope MS realizes that it will take excellent, Japanese-targeted games to sell the 360. The whole swanky-dank lounge idea will get people to play around with a 360, but the Japanese fans won't buy it until they can get their regionally targeted games.
After the initial installation, when Spotlight indexes the whole disk, it hardly takes up any processor time. This can be verified with top or Activity Monitor.
And Dashboard never loads if you never activate it.
So, your wife's machine was slowing down for other reasons.
I have a Media Center Edition PC and it was loaded up with spyware from the factory. It's a few years old now, so they have been doing this for a long time.
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How is this informative? Toyota doesn't sell Lexus cars in Japan. They sell Toyotas.
Windows runs code automatically from the CD without any user interaction, other than sticking the CD in.
It is poor engineering.
This is more like sending that little girl (windows) into a maximum security prison (the internet) nude.
Yeah, Sony's doomed over this.
Get real. They may settle a class action suit, at most. The lawyers will get like thirty million apiece, and the users will get a coupon for $3 off their next purchase of a Sony music CD.
Tell that to the trichordates.
It seems to me that, because terrorism is a problem, we should have federal proctors actually oversee all communications. All keyboards should have transponders that alert the nearest FBI office of any keywords that might have anything to do with terrorism. All payphones should have a $6 per hour Homeland Security professional flunky listening to all our conversations. All public places should be videotaped and audio should be recorded not just in public, but in every home and office. Perhaps the best way would be to implant microphones and radio transmitters directly into our jawbones, so even if we row out into the middle of a lake in the middle of a national park, we can still be safe.
In fact, allowing people to wander off into the woods, which are really only there to be transformed into consumable forestry products, shouldn't be legal either. The penalty for infraction on any rule, including not reporting full written and notarized transcripts of all thoughts and conversations, should be death. Maybe just a lobotomy for first time offenders.
Think of how much safer we would all be! All thoughtcrime will be eliminated within our lifetime! Victory over Eurasia will be assured at last!
Of course, none of this would be anti-American at all, because 'feeling safe' is the only thing that matters anymore.
Actually, as another poster noted these photographs may indeed reveal a lot about the mechanism by which the virus works.
Whoever modded your post as insightful is on crack.
Since Dragonfly BSD was released by a couple people who couldn't stand the thought of FBSD5, can we expect a fork of 5 for the people who can't stand 6?
Inquiring minds want to know!
It would be feasible with enough CPU and upstream bandwidth, but does this company have the resources?
Additionally, for the video to have any sort of quality, you'd have to transfer your DV over the internet to them, edit it online, and then download the finished product. Even in the first world, where high bandwidth connections are readily available, this would be a stretch. Here in the good old second world of the USA, where upstream caps of 30 KB/sec are common, it's a pipe dream. Unless one convinces the cable internet providers to remove the upload caps or uses snail mail. And I think that the ISPs won't remove those caps, as most tend to suck the cock of the MPAA / RIAA so ferociously that they can't really concentrate on anything else.
Does anyone else see the inherent problems with offering an iMovie competitor that runs over the internet? I really can't see the point in this, and I doubt they've the bandwidth or CPU farm to handle such an endeavor.
I wonder if their service includes a free vial of snake oil too?
Is it really possible for a customer to trust a very recently anti-open-source company to provide a Linux solution?
Unisys has invested money and time in bashing Linux, and will be seen for a long time as being in bed with Microsoft. Some sort of public apology and admission that they were wrong would help them push their open source solutions much more effectively than just offering some Linux based 'solutions'.
Why would a customer choose Unisys for Linux? What do they offer that IBM doesn't? Something smells here to me.
I think one can view the iPod and the Mac / OS X as two completely separate product lines. They are complimentary, but Steve is not dumb enough to make it an either / or proposition. The iPod appeals to a large group of consumers, and spreads the brand around to people who may not be aware of Apple computers.
A combination of good solid features and marketing have made the iPod the dominant specimen in the MP3 player market. Think about it - people don't go shopping for an MP3 player, people go shopping for an iPod. Hell, most people out there think iPod when somebody mentions MP3 players.
I don't think Apple is going to sell OS X for generic PCs - Next tried that and it nearly killed them. Steve is sure to have learned his lesson from that incident, and the Clone Wars which nearly killed Apple. Apple is increasing its market share every year, and is riding a wave perhaps surpassing their Apple II days. Apple is comfortable with slowly increasing the size of their niche, rather than being like Dell and HP and Gateway, who must get by with slimmer and slimmer margins supplemented by user data collected by the spyware installed by default on their machines.
Think about it.
"Those who don't understand unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
In this case you can replace 'unix' with 'Mach' and apply it to Singularity. Except, of course, you have to use Microsoft's wacky C# dialect.
Let's get real with these prices:
17" LCD - $35
AMD Athlon64 3000+ - $19.99
Socket 939 MB w/PCIe and SATA - $3
2 GB PC2-4200 ram - $12
SATA 250GB drive - $20
PCIe Radeon X600 Pro w/256 MB RAM - $.01
802.11g Wifi Card - -$3600
Bluetooth mouse / keyboard - $-7200
case / PSU - -$120,000
blu-ray DVD - -$2.4 million
As you can see, getting an equivalent PC with realistic rebates will actually pay you $2,530,710. Almost enough money to tolerate Windows XP.
With the breakneck speed at which broadcasters are switching to 'all digital' I'll be lucky to be able to record my shows from an analog source for another thirty years.
Besides, won't there be devices which will translate digital TV signals into a normal analog signal that travels over 75 ohm coax for backwards compatibility? What's to stop me from recording whatever I want simply by bypassing the digital domain completely?
Method for creating lower localized air pressure with an aim of supplying oxygen to a circulatory system. (breathing)
Method for creating duplicate cells by dividing cell walls, organelles, and replicating DNA strands. (cell division)
Method for firing chemical and electrical impulses supporting nervous activity in large nerve clusters. (thinking)
Method for converting photons into ATP by means of chemical reaction in chloroplast organelles. (photosynthesis)
Method for creating constantly changing levels in large bodies of water by inducing said level changes through action of a third party. (tides)
Method for obtaining drinkable liquids through applying force to an object while object is in a receptacle, and allowing said liquid to drain into a second container. (making juice)
Method for applying repeated physical stimulation to an object for entertainment purposes. (jerking off)
I have hundreds of these. Would anybody like to lend me the money to apply for patents for these? I'll give you 5% of the licensing fees!
I think you are too hard on this lawyer. After all, lawyers are often just prostitutes who don't care whose dicks they suck as long as they get their crack rock.
The lawyer-poster proves that most of their ilk do not have any conscience or ability to tell right from wrong - they just want their next fix.
Of course, there are always exceptions. Those three or four lawyers who this rant doesn't apply to know who they are.
I seem to recall the same response a few years ago when I was critical of the Xbox and its success in Japan.
Give it a year or two. I bet dollars to doughnuts that for every xbox 360 game that gets released we see 40 or 50 for the PS3, plus all the PS2 and PSX games that are backwards compatible with it.
If there's one thing any company never learns is the lesson 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander'.
I hope MS realizes that it will take excellent, Japanese-targeted games to sell the 360. The whole swanky-dank lounge idea will get people to play around with a 360, but the Japanese fans won't buy it until they can get their regionally targeted games.
After the initial installation, when Spotlight indexes the whole disk, it hardly takes up any processor time. This can be verified with top or Activity Monitor.
And Dashboard never loads if you never activate it.
So, your wife's machine was slowing down for other reasons.
Of course one is free to slander or libel. They may be punished in civil court, though.
Wheee! The Motley Fool's popovers are DELICIOUS!
That's why we Mac users have the Little Snitch.
I have a Media Center Edition PC and it was loaded up with spyware from the factory. It's a few years old now, so they have been doing this for a long time.
Yes, HP computers are literally loaded chock full of spyware from the factory.