This dirty little secret makes it easier to be a guerilla OpenOffice user in corporate environments. People are so used to Microsoft's screwups that they will tend to interpret any problem you have as an internal compatibility issue within different versions of msoffice.
Some people (and industries) have have even adapted to this crap and moved way from Microsoft and to more standard solutions.
I upgraded the shitty Intel graphics on a Win7 PC for a friend. I really only did it so that they could do some gaming but it turned out that the improvements to Win7 performance across the board was very noticeable. It showed up in places that neither of us were expecting.
You're likely just wallowing in a latrine pit and have gotten so used to the smell that you don't realize that you're hip deep in human excrement.
You could get stuff done on a very limited OS with primitive hardware like a 68k or an 8088. That doesn't mean that it's anything that anyone still wants to do now.
Tablets are the hot new thing now because PCs got useful and boring and software stopped gobbling up cycles before Moore's Law could keep up.
Tablets haven't quite yet caught up to the power of PCs from when that bloat vs power sweet spot happened with PCs. So there will likely be tasks starved for resources on a tablet just as they would be with a 90s PC.
Tablets primarily benefit from being locked down crippled "ecosystems" where it's harder to see the sharp edges because a lot of effort is put into hiding them.
When you tolerate and encourage bigots you tend to get associated with them. There's really no "nice" way of putting that.
People like that should not be pandered to. They SHOULD be marginalized. That's already being done by the demographic shifts that have started within the nation.
A lot of this isn't even state vs state but it's city vs country with the country tending to be much more Red. All of those county maps that CNN was showing on election night helps put this in perspective.
Yes quite. This is the perfect example of a "states rights" issue. If you want to succeed then you need to have a local succession convention in your own state. Dragging the "enemy" in Washington into it really seems beyond absurd.
It's like genuine fire eaters petitioning Lincoln.
These people are too stupid to even know what they're asking for.
There was an article on Techdirt like this with senior people from the content industries doing the complaining about things like the magical button they want at Google.com that will allow them to stop piracy. This kind of stupidity isn't just restricted to people's n00b friends and relatives. Captains of industry that should be smarter than that also buy into that kind of nonsense.
All around there are plenty of people that don't understand that there's a limit to what tech can do or what companies are willing or able to do.
You are confusing capitalism with the novel "Brave New World".
There's simply no good reason to be wasteful. It's economically ineffcient and negatively impacts the environment as well as one's ability to be self-sufficient and plan ahead.
In any market that resembles the ideal models of capitalism, Sony should have been run out of town on a rail.
An area of computer tech NOT mired in bogus trivial patents? THAT would be the thing that you need to defend. The original jaded comments were very much consistent with the state of current patent law.
Just consider Tivos own patents and the fact that someone else sitting on a patent jury managed to get a redundant patent.
The PTO can't even keep track of it's own nonsense.
You are trying to create a false dichotomy. Of course that is bogus. We could simply reform the system. A lot of it would be nothing more than rolling back recent changes. It's like what you do when your production server starts to run amok.
You don't shoot it, you undo recent changes.
It's recent changes that have made our patent system mock worthy. It's not the concept in general. We just need a less permissive approach. We need to stop treating the toxic waste that is a 20 year long monopoly as if it were in fact candy.
20 year monopoly.
Contemplate what a 20 year technology rollback means to you personally. That's basically what you're advocating for our collective future.
A patent lawyer defending the current patent system is much like a wannabe patent troll fighting for Apple against Samsung.
The fact that Romney did his best to be a closet case even in light of the Benghazi Incident did not endear me to him. He had the perfect opportunity to be presidential, to show some moral courage, and to even demonstrate how he can relate to the man on the street in the Middle East while also correctly framing the entire situation in terms of core American values.
"Been there. Done that. Understand your rage. Gotta take the bad with the good in a free society. Your liberty depends on the other guy's."
You can only really judge a man by his results. As much lip service as is given to "captains of industry", it seems like they botched it this time. They had it about as good as they're going to get it. Obama hasn't finished cleaning up the mess they left from before. So he was very vulnerable from a "but how are you doing now" perspective.
The "captains of industry" failed to sell that. They failed to execute despite blowing a smaller nations debt on the effort.
We can't help it. This stuff is just so hilarious. Instead of doing some honest soul searching and acknowledging the fact that the electorate has changed, the GOP wants to kid themselves with nonsense like this.
A server crash is completely irrelevant to the fact that you are actively antagonizing anyone that isn't an old white male fundie.
You run Communist style purges on your own top people and then are surprised when your "true conservatives" tend to be intolerable nutbags.
Intel has been getting it's act together in this regard. So this advantage of ARM isn't so great anymore. Meanwhile, you still do have the massive performance gap between x86 and ARM should you decide to do something besides browse LOLcats.
The Cloud isn't fast enough or reliable enough for your Post-PC fantasy to be a reality at this point. Non-trivial amounts of local storage are still needed.
Even if it were otherwise, you still might not be comfortable with a government that claims you have no ownership interest in files.
It's already been done before. I worked on a system in 2001 that did this sort of thing. This seems like little more than one of those "but on the internet" kinds of patents that seem so prevalent these days.
Replace "but on the internet" with "but on social media".
The only problem with that is that the likes of MythTV are in the same arms race. As soon as any open source project figures out how to deal with the the new scheme, EVERYONE will ( including Dish).
Although we may be quickly reaching the point where it just doesn't matter anymore.
> Do you understand what "DRM" and "DRM-free" would equate to when it comes to your medical records?
There would be some Linux tool that could decode it without being in any sort of legal grey area. I could always be sure that there is a decoder for the data even when the format becomes obsolete. I would not be at the mercy of the clinic or whatever medical device vendor they used.
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This dirty little secret makes it easier to be a guerilla OpenOffice user in corporate environments. People are so used to Microsoft's screwups that they will tend to interpret any problem you have as an internal compatibility issue within different versions of msoffice.
Some people (and industries) have have even adapted to this crap and moved way from Microsoft and to more standard solutions.
I upgraded the shitty Intel graphics on a Win7 PC for a friend. I really only did it so that they could do some gaming but it turned out that the improvements to Win7 performance across the board was very noticeable. It showed up in places that neither of us were expecting.
You're likely just wallowing in a latrine pit and have gotten so used to the smell that you don't realize that you're hip deep in human excrement.
You could get stuff done on a very limited OS with primitive hardware like a 68k or an 8088. That doesn't mean that it's anything that anyone still wants to do now.
Tablets are the hot new thing now because PCs got useful and boring and software stopped gobbling up cycles before Moore's Law could keep up.
Tablets haven't quite yet caught up to the power of PCs from when that bloat vs power sweet spot happened with PCs. So there will likely be tasks starved for resources on a tablet just as they would be with a 90s PC.
Tablets primarily benefit from being locked down crippled "ecosystems" where it's harder to see the sharp edges because a lot of effort is put into hiding them.
When you tolerate and encourage bigots you tend to get associated with them. There's really no "nice" way of putting that.
People like that should not be pandered to. They SHOULD be marginalized. That's already being done by the demographic shifts that have started within the nation.
A lot of this isn't even state vs state but it's city vs country with the country tending to be much more Red. All of those county maps that CNN was showing on election night helps put this in perspective.
Tiny counties in the panhandle vs blue Miami.
That's a statistically insignificant number in a few states.
It's like far less than the margin of victory in the battleground states. (in any presidential election)
Yes quite. This is the perfect example of a "states rights" issue. If you want to succeed then you need to have a local succession convention in your own state. Dragging the "enemy" in Washington into it really seems beyond absurd.
It's like genuine fire eaters petitioning Lincoln.
These people are too stupid to even know what they're asking for.
Overgrown iPods are not PC tablets.
On the other hand, there's a wealth of suitable competitors now. There are plenty of other companies making good enough alternatives.
Unless you into buying DRM-laden media from the Apple company store, you really don't have any reason to feel trapped.
A good DVR makes TV watchable.
It can find things for you and present them to you under your own terms.
This is the classic "I can't fix my own printer" problem that inspired RMS to propagate Free Software.
Of course the problem is proprietary softare and systems that cannot be serviced by the end user.
There was an article on Techdirt like this with senior people from the content industries doing the complaining about things like the magical button they want at Google.com that will allow them to stop piracy. This kind of stupidity isn't just restricted to people's n00b friends and relatives. Captains of industry that should be smarter than that also buy into that kind of nonsense.
All around there are plenty of people that don't understand that there's a limit to what tech can do or what companies are willing or able to do.
You are confusing capitalism with the novel "Brave New World".
There's simply no good reason to be wasteful. It's economically ineffcient and negatively impacts the environment as well as one's ability to be self-sufficient and plan ahead.
In any market that resembles the ideal models of capitalism, Sony should have been run out of town on a rail.
An area of computer tech NOT mired in bogus trivial patents? THAT would be the thing that you need to defend. The original jaded comments were very much consistent with the state of current patent law.
Just consider Tivos own patents and the fact that someone else sitting on a patent jury managed to get a redundant patent.
The PTO can't even keep track of it's own nonsense.
Except they don't do that either. They just meddle in your private life and leave you to fend for yourself with the consequences.
They simply aren't willing to "step up" once they've had their little power trip. They will try to suppress those that actually do.
You are trying to create a false dichotomy. Of course that is bogus. We could simply reform the system. A lot of it would be nothing more than rolling back recent changes. It's like what you do when your production server starts to run amok.
You don't shoot it, you undo recent changes.
It's recent changes that have made our patent system mock worthy. It's not the concept in general. We just need a less permissive approach. We need to stop treating the toxic waste that is a 20 year long monopoly as if it were in fact candy.
20 year monopoly.
Contemplate what a 20 year technology rollback means to you personally. That's basically what you're advocating for our collective future.
A patent lawyer defending the current patent system is much like a wannabe patent troll fighting for Apple against Samsung.
The fact that Romney did his best to be a closet case even in light of the Benghazi Incident did not endear me to him. He had the perfect opportunity to be presidential, to show some moral courage, and to even demonstrate how he can relate to the man on the street in the Middle East while also correctly framing the entire situation in terms of core American values.
"Been there. Done that. Understand your rage. Gotta take the bad with the good in a free society. Your liberty depends on the other guy's."
You can only really judge a man by his results. As much lip service as is given to "captains of industry", it seems like they botched it this time. They had it about as good as they're going to get it. Obama hasn't finished cleaning up the mess they left from before. So he was very vulnerable from a "but how are you doing now" perspective.
The "captains of industry" failed to sell that. They failed to execute despite blowing a smaller nations debt on the effort.
We can't help it. This stuff is just so hilarious. Instead of doing some honest soul searching and acknowledging the fact that the electorate has changed, the GOP wants to kid themselves with nonsense like this.
A server crash is completely irrelevant to the fact that you are actively antagonizing anyone that isn't an old white male fundie.
You run Communist style purges on your own top people and then are surprised when your "true conservatives" tend to be intolerable nutbags.
> and that ARM offers such efficiency
Big deal.
Intel has been getting it's act together in this regard. So this advantage of ARM isn't so great anymore. Meanwhile, you still do have the massive performance gap between x86 and ARM should you decide to do something besides browse LOLcats.
If anything, it's AMD that's lagging behind here.
The Cloud isn't fast enough or reliable enough for your Post-PC fantasy to be a reality at this point. Non-trivial amounts of local storage are still needed.
Even if it were otherwise, you still might not be comfortable with a government that claims you have no ownership interest in files.
It's already been done before. I worked on a system in 2001 that did this sort of thing. This seems like little more than one of those "but on the internet" kinds of patents that seem so prevalent these days.
Replace "but on the internet" with "but on social media".
The only thing that your mindless trolling demonstrates is the fact that you don't bother to actually read what you respond to.
The only problem with that is that the likes of MythTV are in the same arms race. As soon as any open source project figures out how to deal with the the new scheme, EVERYONE will ( including Dish).
Although we may be quickly reaching the point where it just doesn't matter anymore.
> Do you understand what "DRM" and "DRM-free" would equate to when it comes to your medical records?
There would be some Linux tool that could decode it without being in any sort of legal grey area. I could always be sure that there is a decoder for the data even when the format becomes obsolete. I would not be at the mercy of the clinic or whatever medical device vendor they used.
Hell. I DVD rips that are older than that. Most of my MP3 collection is twice older than that.
Perhaps it's time for open formats, thumb drives, and people doing for themselves.