Which is way better then C+ programs? Pretty much every single C+ program be it the WOW client of Firefox all have huge memory leaks that take up Gigs after like an hour of use in just leaked memory. At least for Java you know it is all being used to make the program faster.
That fact remains that the air is completely horrible in China. Sure it is not a permanent or perfect solution to move pollution to china but in the short term, at least, it greatly improves our quality of life.
I have had a few jobs as IT and I have to say I (and everyone else in my field) were loved. I was the guy that fixed your broken shit and got your thesis to finally work in an hour after you spent 5 weeks on it. In general most people like help when they ask for it, and when you can perform magic in front of them and save then 50 hours of boring and repetitive computer work or tell them why the '&' symbol is not working in their HTML then they will love you for it.
What? no. The average person cannot crack anything, pre, post, or current DRM. You do not even need copy protection to stop the average person. I guaranty you, the average person that they companies are worried about would not even be able to get around anything ever created to slow or stop pirating.
DRM is not about copy protection, DRM is about restricting the use of a product to paying customers. It is not some fundamental improved technique of copy protection as it is fundamentally the same to crack. and as it has since the dawn of the computer takes interested and technically skilful individual/group to get around. Not that any programmer cannot learn the ropes in a matter of hours.
DRM does not stop casual or any type of pirates, from everything the general public has been told/seen from cracking groups Ubisoft with their draconian DRM was just as fast and easy to crack as every other game ever released.
And the PS3 has nothing to do with it, that is all hardware restrictions.
I don't think the issue is how big were their costs but why they paid $4B. The article makes it sound like they just felt bad for the company and decided to give them the $4B. But obviously it is some under the table payment for something rather substantial as $4B is like the yearly revenue of a giant multinational company. It is not something that a company can just afford to give away or even write into a contract as a "if things don't work out" clause.
But that is not a absolute, right now we use those things but in the future who knows, maybe we can make solar panels out of 100% bio degradable hemp for example.
They are fundamentally different because oil and all other classic fuel sources cannot ever be created in a timely enough fashion to meet even a fraction of our needs (I think we use ~ 300 million years worth of oil production every day for example). While for solar, by definition, we only use a days worth in one small area (at absolute maximum) to power the solar panel. What techniques we currently use to make the solar panels or the oil rigs is incidental.
If you get a windows license (or which I have like 10 that I never needed) then you can be sure that MS got paid something for that. It is not a charity. Why the Linux box is more I don't know, but I would not put it past MS to of put it in some contract they had with the dealer.
Sure, but it is still nice to have for any windows machine, and in most cases you cannot guarantee that everyone who uses a computer is a security expert.
But Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are all mainly PC programs and certainty did not suffer (particularly Chrome since it did not even exist). An ad for linux OSs would make a lot more sense, with maybe a button to push if you want your money back and a link to download the distro of your choice.
Well can you uninstalled notepad? it is a core program and I am sure it reasonably shares code with a lot of different windows features. It is the program that deals with internet traffic and I am sure that there are lots of parts of it that the OS simply needs if programs like Firefox are going to be able to send and receive internet traffic. And you cannot expect MS to be saints.
While you can uninstall everything in say Ubuntu that was because they set forth with that goal, but you could argue that even Ubuntu has a uninstallable text reader simple because in file previews it shows text (can you uninstall this feature, probably but I would likely find it hard to do anything above disabling it). If I had to guess I would say it is probably built into and inseparable to gnome, so should they be sued for anti-trust (which is almost the linux version of a OS)?
And they should of been punished for their underhanded OEM sales (which made it basically impossible to buy a PC and not pay the MS tax), and it would not be completely unreasonable to force them to allow OEMs to install another browsers if they wanted. But to force MS to allow users to choose a browser to install on start-up is just stupid.
But while MS is the worst, all browser devs have a long history of shotty and different HTML compliance. And that has little to do with should they be forced to not included IE (particularly since the case took place long after MS was past its worst versions of IE).
As far as I know I am moderately aware of the particulars of the case. But no reasonable argument can be made against MS on its inclusion of IE. Every OS on the planet packages a default browser and there is no reason not too (Anti-Trust was supposed to be designed to help consumers not hurt them).
Personally I hate IE as much any anyone, but for required operations like internet browser I am glad that I have at least that one fallback.
This whole Microsoft witch hunt is ridiculous. MS does lots of things that should get people and governments mad but including necessary software is not one of them.
First off you need a browser on OS install, and you really really should have a antivirus so that you don't get infected while searching the internet for one. Whats next, MS is evil for including paint and notepad? Or it is unfair for the game industry that solitaire is installed along with the OS?
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Which is way better then C+ programs?
Pretty much every single C+ program be it the WOW client of Firefox all have huge memory leaks that take up Gigs after like an hour of use in just leaked memory.
At least for Java you know it is all being used to make the program faster.
That fact remains that the air is completely horrible in China. Sure it is not a permanent or perfect solution to move pollution to china but in the short term, at least, it greatly improves our quality of life.
Well as long as the air remains breathable here, then I would sat that it is worth it.
I have had a few jobs as IT and I have to say I (and everyone else in my field) were loved.
I was the guy that fixed your broken shit and got your thesis to finally work in an hour after you spent 5 weeks on it.
In general most people like help when they ask for it, and when you can perform magic in front of them and save then 50 hours of boring and repetitive computer work or tell them why the '&' symbol is not working in their HTML then they will love you for it.
What? no.
The average person cannot crack anything, pre, post, or current DRM. You do not even need copy protection to stop the average person.
I guaranty you, the average person that they companies are worried about would not even be able to get around anything ever created to slow or stop pirating.
DRM is not about copy protection, DRM is about restricting the use of a product to paying customers. It is not some fundamental improved technique of copy protection as it is fundamentally the same to crack. and as it has since the dawn of the computer takes interested and technically skilful individual/group to get around.
Not that any programmer cannot learn the ropes in a matter of hours.
DRM does not stop casual or any type of pirates, from everything the general public has been told/seen from cracking groups Ubisoft with their draconian DRM was just as fast and easy to crack as every other game ever released.
And the PS3 has nothing to do with it, that is all hardware restrictions.
I don't think the issue is how big were their costs but why they paid $4B. The article makes it sound like they just felt bad for the company and decided to give them the $4B. But obviously it is some under the table payment for something rather substantial as $4B is like the yearly revenue of a giant multinational company.
It is not something that a company can just afford to give away or even write into a contract as a "if things don't work out" clause.
But that is not a absolute, right now we use those things but in the future who knows, maybe we can make solar panels out of 100% bio degradable hemp for example.
They are fundamentally different because oil and all other classic fuel sources cannot ever be created in a timely enough fashion to meet even a fraction of our needs (I think we use ~ 300 million years worth of oil production every day for example).
While for solar, by definition, we only use a days worth in one small area (at absolute maximum) to power the solar panel. What techniques we currently use to make the solar panels or the oil rigs is incidental.
But 90% of it was significantly different and for different things.
How did it not make sense?
Fill text boxes with text, that is about it.
Wave was amazing.
And no one uses them because in early beta they are closed down.
Interesting if true, but I hear about antibiotic resistant bacteria in animals almost constantly so I am not convinced yet.
If you get a windows license (or which I have like 10 that I never needed) then you can be sure that MS got paid something for that. It is not a charity.
Why the Linux box is more I don't know, but I would not put it past MS to of put it in some contract they had with the dealer.
And you pay for notepad and paint.
What is your point.
Sure, but it is still nice to have for any windows machine, and in most cases you cannot guarantee that everyone who uses a computer is a security expert.
PC = Windows*
But Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are all mainly PC programs and certainty did not suffer (particularly Chrome since it did not even exist).
An ad for linux OSs would make a lot more sense, with maybe a button to push if you want your money back and a link to download the distro of your choice.
Well can you uninstalled notepad? it is a core program and I am sure it reasonably shares code with a lot of different windows features.
It is the program that deals with internet traffic and I am sure that there are lots of parts of it that the OS simply needs if programs like Firefox are going to be able to send and receive internet traffic.
And you cannot expect MS to be saints.
While you can uninstall everything in say Ubuntu that was because they set forth with that goal, but you could argue that even Ubuntu has a uninstallable text reader simple because in file previews it shows text (can you uninstall this feature, probably but I would likely find it hard to do anything above disabling it).
If I had to guess I would say it is probably built into and inseparable to gnome, so should they be sued for anti-trust (which is almost the linux version of a OS)?
And they should of been punished for their underhanded OEM sales (which made it basically impossible to buy a PC and not pay the MS tax), and it would not be completely unreasonable to force them to allow OEMs to install another browsers if they wanted.
But to force MS to allow users to choose a browser to install on start-up is just stupid.
But while MS is the worst, all browser devs have a long history of shotty and different HTML compliance.
And that has little to do with should they be forced to not included IE (particularly since the case took place long after MS was past its worst versions of IE).
As far as I know I am moderately aware of the particulars of the case. But no reasonable argument can be made against MS on its inclusion of IE. Every OS on the planet packages a default browser and there is no reason not too (Anti-Trust was supposed to be designed to help consumers not hurt them).
Personally I hate IE as much any anyone, but for required operations like internet browser I am glad that I have at least that one fallback.
This whole Microsoft witch hunt is ridiculous.
MS does lots of things that should get people and governments mad but including necessary software is not one of them.
First off you need a browser on OS install, and you really really should have a antivirus so that you don't get infected while searching the internet for one.
Whats next, MS is evil for including paint and notepad?
Or it is unfair for the game industry that solitaire is installed along with the OS?
I far bigger issue then singular humans mistaking antibiotics is the universal use by the farming industry on animals.
But I guess the big question is, would it even fail to enrich the water in anything approaching normal conditions.
And people regularly drink distilled water, and I imagine that they are pretty effective at distilling it.
A far more accurate analogy would be "go ahead and manufacture your own old no longer supported model of car instead of buying used."