I have a Sony Vaio laptop at work. It came with XP Professional, hologram sticker and everything. WGA doesn't work on it.
No-one knows why and I certainly don't have time to figure it out. If they try this, I will just switch to Apple at work. I will simply not spend time to fix their stupidities.
Jeez, I keep seeing this on Slashdot. What happened here? Did slashdot become full of middle-managers who believe anything if it is repeated enough times? I expect better from people who are SUPPOSED to understand technology.
...and if you can't tell Java from a scripting language, you don't deserve to be posting on slashdot.
Think games for kids in HD that they actually want to play. Think of Movie extras that update over time. Think if being able to pull up the script during the directors cut, and jump around it, search it, or skip to the actors BIO. Think of direct links to fan-sites from the disk that work in your Blu-ray player. Think of having literally no limits on what a Blu-ray disk can do, as opposed to another poxy scripting language that will probably be full of security holes, while doing things that no-one in their right mind would want to.
You may argue that you want to watch the movie, and Blu-ray let's you do that. But people buy movies, and like to get more out of them than just the movie. Extras ARE interesting if you are a movie buff, or a Buffy fan, or whatever.
Tell me about it. I've been to America plenty of times, and have a number of friends there. The best way I can put it is I "used" to want to live in Silicon Valley.:-(
The EU forced through regulations forcing the "last mile" to be available to any DSL provider who wants to provide service over it. This way, most Europeans have a large choice of ISPs to choose from with a large choice of service offerings. Some are capped, some are not etc. The upshot is that here in France where I live I could have 20MBit ADSL2, with no usage caps, for 14.85 euros a month. If this company introduces new TOS that I don't like, I can change to another one.
In this way, thanks to the far-seeingness (for once) of the EU and National governments being prepared to make one over-riding regulation, the "Net Neutrality" debate is irrelevant here.
Apparently the US "Free Market" has generated a bunch of quasi-monopolies that have sufficient power both to squash LLU policies and "net neutrality". I feel sorry for you poor overpaying consumers in your free market democracy.
I can only suggest you support the little guys and any municipal networks as much as you can. At least they aren't lobbying to push your service fees up when in the rest of the world they are decreasing...
given the incredible collateral pain that would cause for EU businesses
Umm, how exactly would that cause incredible collateral pain?
Nobody would have to stop using existing installations. There would be some upgrades in progress that might have to stop, but not too much. Certainly now, before Vista ships, would be a good time to do such a thing.
After all, its not as if everyone in the EU is using all the so-called advanced (read deliberately non-interoperable) features of windows servers.
They're not as used to the security patch grind as the people running Windows.
Actually, we, by default, just let the automatic update work as it's supposed to, because new revisions of OS X are actually better, not slower and kludgy-er, and don't require us to compromise security with ActiveX in order to upgrade security. It may also be that having paid for, and received, a great product, we trust Apple to deliver on their promises.
The nice thing about a low-power Pentium-M or AMD Turion CPU on an ATX or mini-ATX MB is expandability (a.k.a., PCI slots) and form factor (a.k.a., easily fits in an ATX case).
Absolutely. The C3's I have are on standard ATX mobos for exactly this reason - I used to use a Crusoe but it died. I love to see elegant design, and low-power chips for those who aren't running Quake4 are a great idea.
My desktop PC for home is an AMD64x2, and I am very impressed how quiet that is and how cool it stays in idle. In fact, it's not bad when running Quake4:-)
I agree completely. I saw a program on the BBC that said that only a 3-5% dip in revenue combined with an internet campaign was usually enough to make a multinational change their unethical habits.
People should put their money where their mouths are. BTW I do.
If you are French and commit a child abuse *outside* France, you can still be legally prosecuted in France. Even if it is legal to do it in the a foreign country.
Nobody stops the US Congress (or similar) from passing laws that do a similar thing - they just can't enforce it in other countries. What they could do is pass a law that allows a US company doing this sort of thing anywhere in the world to be charged in the US.
Is China now an accepted member of the World Community or not?
It seems to me that everyone wants to do business in China while turning a blind eye to the simple fact that it is a one-party dictatorship with an extremely questionable human rights record.
We can't have it both ways - either our businesses are allowed to to business in China - in which case they HAVE to comply with the local laws (assuming we still believe in the sovereign state) - or they are not.
At this point we seem to want companies to do business in China under Western rules - sorry but that isn't how it works, any more than a company could come into Europe or the USA and only conform to Chinese laws.
Plugged in the PSU connector plug one row out. Most of the capacitors on the board exploded when I switched it on. Resolved never to drink and assemble PCs again.:-)
It's based on UPnP AV Mediaserver protocols. There are projects around working on UPnP clients and servers and sample code from Intel for Linux.
It's complicated to get your head around because of the Jargon used in DLNA but a little effort makes you realise what an elegant, distributed, powerful set-up this is. My favourite part is the proxy media server service that allows a server to also act as the directory listing for ALL servers on the network, providing a simple way to access all media, regardless of location.
While I agree with everything you said, I never said I had stuck with any version of Windows. I'm using a combination of Mandriva 2006 64bit and Mac OS X 10.4, with various Linux machines around the house.
So Microsoft won't be telling me what to do, and I have up to date software.
I never installed XP at home, and don't miss it. I'm certainly not going to install Vista anywhere.
Besides, the easy way to watch DVDs on crippled OS's like Windows is to rip it and re-record it without region codes, or no-skip flags. It makes a backup of your DVD and you can watch it anywhere.
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Filmmaking by committee. I smell success already.
...and you think Hollywood movies are made by individuals?
This is a fantastic step backwards.
Can we make the tech cool AND useful?
Until they started to climb a hill, in which then his kids would pass him.
What a crock of shit. I crossed the Alps this summer in my 2005 Prius. Do they count as a hill?
I have a Sony Vaio laptop at work. It came with XP Professional, hologram sticker and everything. WGA doesn't work on it.
No-one knows why and I certainly don't have time to figure it out. If they try this, I will just switch to Apple at work. I will simply not spend time to fix their stupidities.
Jeez, I keep seeing this on Slashdot. What happened here? Did slashdot become full of middle-managers who believe anything if it is repeated enough times? I expect better from people who are SUPPOSED to understand technology.
c tion-14009/Index.html and look to see which names you recognise. Just about every brand except Toshiba is here.
Go here http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Se
Samsung will be first (oh but it's still a Sony standard). And Philips, and Sharp, and Panasonic, and Pioneer, and Mitsibushi, and LG, and Zenith
Who else?: Hitachi, JVC, Yamaha, Zenith, and that's without even starting on the RECORDABLE PC drives...
...and if you can't tell Java from a scripting language, you don't deserve to be posting on slashdot.
Think games for kids in HD that they actually want to play. Think of Movie extras that update over time. Think if being able to pull up the script during the directors cut, and jump around it, search it, or skip to the actors BIO. Think of direct links to fan-sites from the disk that work in your Blu-ray player. Think of having literally no limits on what a Blu-ray disk can do, as opposed to another poxy scripting language that will probably be full of security holes, while doing things that no-one in their right mind would want to.
You may argue that you want to watch the movie, and Blu-ray let's you do that. But people buy movies, and like to get more out of them than just the movie. Extras ARE interesting if you are a movie buff, or a Buffy fan, or whatever.
Tell me about it. I've been to America plenty of times, and have a number of friends there. The best way I can put it is I "used" to want to live in Silicon Valley. :-(
Good luck.
LLU = Local Loop Unbundling
The EU forced through regulations forcing the "last mile" to be available to any DSL provider who wants to provide service over it. This way, most Europeans have a large choice of ISPs to choose from with a large choice of service offerings. Some are capped, some are not etc. The upshot is that here in France where I live I could have 20MBit ADSL2, with no usage caps, for 14.85 euros a month. If this company introduces new TOS that I don't like, I can change to another one.
In this way, thanks to the far-seeingness (for once) of the EU and National governments being prepared to make one over-riding regulation, the "Net Neutrality" debate is irrelevant here.
Apparently the US "Free Market" has generated a bunch of quasi-monopolies that have sufficient power both to squash LLU policies and "net neutrality". I feel sorry for you poor overpaying consumers in your free market democracy.
I can only suggest you support the little guys and any municipal networks as much as you can. At least they aren't lobbying to push your service fees up when in the rest of the world they are decreasing...
Inquiring minds want to know!
This is exactly the problem. They said:
MS Windows server ===== works with ======> non-MS server OS
They did not say
non-MS OS ====== works with ========> MS Windows server
...and that is exactly the problem that they are being sued for
Don't be fooled by the doublespeak.This is so fucking stupid. This is a business model called "renting" - it's happened for a very very long time.
I suppose we will have to watch the US Economy collapse as they tie themselves in self-imposed legal knots. What an unbelieveable situation.
How much more will it take before the US lawmakers realise that the Intellectual Property balance in the US has hit the end-scale stop.
given the incredible collateral pain that would cause for EU businesses
Umm, how exactly would that cause incredible collateral pain?
Nobody would have to stop using existing installations. There would be some upgrades in progress that might have to stop, but not too much. Certainly now, before Vista ships, would be a good time to do such a thing.
After all, its not as if everyone in the EU is using all the so-called advanced (read deliberately non-interoperable) features of windows servers.
I was going to reply to this, but you said everything I was going to. Swap Palm TX for Clio and you have my response.
One word: Games.
Just buy a freakin console. Your life will be MUCH easier and the copy protection in the games will not screw up your PC.
sheesh.
Actually, we, by default, just let the automatic update work as it's supposed to, because new revisions of OS X are actually better, not slower and kludgy-er, and don't require us to compromise security with ActiveX in order to upgrade security. It may also be that having paid for, and received, a great product, we trust Apple to deliver on their promises.
The nice thing about a low-power Pentium-M or AMD Turion CPU on an ATX or mini-ATX MB is expandability (a.k.a., PCI slots) and form factor (a.k.a., easily fits in an ATX case).
:-)
Absolutely. The C3's I have are on standard ATX mobos for exactly this reason - I used to use a Crusoe but it died. I love to see elegant design, and low-power chips for those who aren't running Quake4 are a great idea.
My desktop PC for home is an AMD64x2, and I am very impressed how quiet that is and how cool it stays in idle. In fact, it's not bad when running Quake4
Myth TV server
Not if you want it to do encode/decode. It's a barely adequate media player. I use it for a DVB PVR where everything stays in digital bitstreams.
For fileserving/streaming/proxy/asterix VoIP/webserver/VPN etc for SOHO it's absolutely fine.
I have used fanless Via C3 chips for several years now. One is running a Linux Fileserver at home, the other a DVB multi-tuner PVR.
Last I saw they are on the C7 chip. Not so famous as AMD, but for certain tasks, get the job done nicely.
I agree completely. I saw a program on the BBC that said that only a 3-5% dip in revenue combined with an internet campaign was usually enough to make a multinational change their unethical habits.
People should put their money where their mouths are. BTW I do.
BTW, I agree with your basic principle here
Is China now an accepted member of the World Community or not?
It seems to me that everyone wants to do business in China while turning a blind eye to the simple fact that it is a one-party dictatorship with an extremely questionable human rights record.
We can't have it both ways - either our businesses are allowed to to business in China - in which case they HAVE to comply with the local laws (assuming we still believe in the sovereign state) - or they are not.
At this point we seem to want companies to do business in China under Western rules - sorry but that isn't how it works, any more than a company could come into Europe or the USA and only conform to Chinese laws.
So, are we working with China or not?
Plugged in the PSU connector plug one row out. Most of the capacitors on the board exploded when I switched it on. Resolved never to drink and assemble PCs again. :-)
It's based on UPnP AV Mediaserver protocols. There are projects around working on UPnP clients and servers and sample code from Intel for Linux.
It's complicated to get your head around because of the Jargon used in DLNA but a little effort makes you realise what an elegant, distributed, powerful set-up this is. My favourite part is the proxy media server service that allows a server to also act as the directory listing for ALL servers on the network, providing a simple way to access all media, regardless of location.
While I agree with everything you said, I never said I had stuck with any version of Windows. I'm using a combination of Mandriva 2006 64bit and Mac OS X 10.4, with various Linux machines around the house.
So Microsoft won't be telling me what to do, and I have up to date software.
Cheers,
I never installed XP at home, and don't miss it. I'm certainly not going to install Vista anywhere.
Besides, the easy way to watch DVDs on crippled OS's like Windows is to rip it and re-record it without region codes, or no-skip flags. It makes a backup of your DVD and you can watch it anywhere.
Happy New Year!