I think it was more that he accepted the evils as a necessary side effect, and would have dealt with them in the fullness of time, once general order and stability was in place. You can see this in Pellaeon's handling of the Remnant.
Read the Spectre of the Past/Vision of the Future series. Spoilers ahead.
Thrawn was after order and stability; he decided that the Empire was the best place to start. He'd have backed the Rebellion if he'd though it would been more likely to work.
Well, take it to the extreme. If 'liberty' is all important, than what is MOST important? My liberty to kill you at my whim, or your liberty to walk the streets being reasonably secure that you won't be randomly slain by passing people?
Exactly. Choose your liberty; the liberty to be safe, or the liberty to say whatever you'd like.
Oh, and if you're quoting Ben Franklin, line up at the paddock, it's time to be shorn.
Bah. Limit the drivers to run at the speed (and capability; 16 bit colour, for example) of an SLI Voodoo2 setup, and they'll be fine. That would be more than enough to run all the old 'glide only' games, and would discourage any sort of active development.
Er, have a close look at the flip side of all those coins burning your pocket. Who's face is that? Elizabeth the second, queen of England and of the United Kingdom. And whenever you do something naughty, the docket reads "The queen -vs- you"...
Yeah, and the moment the queen tries to exercise any actual power, that'll change.:-)
Point of order: Canada is not a democratic monarchy. Canada is a social democracy (in name) with ceremonial trappings.
In actuality, I don't know what we are; we democratically elect our officials, who are then legally required to vote according to party lines, no matter what the constituants actually want.
It's got nothing to do with 'everybody does it.' It's just that there are companies that did it FAR BETTER, and MORE, than Microsoft EVER DID. In the computing world, IBM. In the video game world, Nintendo. Oh, and Sony, for that matter.
It amazes me that people allow their hatred of MS to blind themselves to other truths.
The idea probably is to have a wide range of language styles, in the hopes that the language of whoever we wind up warning in the future will have a similar language, and wind up being able to translate it.
You want sleze in the video game industry, you go to the master: Nintendo.
Go find a book called 'Game Over.' Read it. Boggle in amazement at the realization that Microsoft is a lightweight in the world of sleaze.
If you have the Blade DVD, there's a wonderful little featurette called "The Origins of Blade" which examines all of this as precursors. Includes Stan Lee talking about all of these very issues.
It's not 'cultural aspects of computing' it's 'cultural aspects.' You want to sell ANYTHING in Japan? Go get some decent Japanese books. A good author to look for, in this case, is L. Boye de Mente.
Modularity implies that things can be added, as well as subtracted. Embedded XP allows you to strip bits out, then ship. Can they be added in later? Not at the moment. Will all the various programs that currently exist, and expect the bits to be in there, gracefully fail? No.
What would y'all say if Real sued Apple for shipping with iTunes?
Basically, though, what it boils down to is 'how is rewriting the OS a suitable punishment for forcing unfair contracts onto OEMs?'
Honestly, that's like pointing out the fact that Rolls Royce builds engines for jet liners, then asking why they cannot make a flying car.
I think that all Microsoft has to do is bring in a system that's vastly different from his demo one, and ask him to install his version of Embedded XP on it.
"Hmm, nice, a P3 running with a Geforce2, SB Live, and 3Com modem. Can you install that thingy you have on this athlon running a Radeon with a DLink network card, and a non-SB soundcard? No? Hmm. Well, watch us install XP Home on it, then install XP Home, from the same CD, onto your machine. Now, how is your modular version better?"
Could Microsoft strip a bunch of crap out? Absolutely. Should they? No.
Office for Mac (with Outlook to attach to Exchange, requiring a CAL.)
First thing I thought of when I saw the headline. But this IS/. after all; no logic can stand before the blistering flames directed at Microsoft.
Or, do some logging, then start closing down ports. When somebody complains, check their logs, and assuming that they're using said ports for stuff other than their jobs; i.e. piracy and pr0n, quietly inquire as to why they need such things. Then offer to grab a supervisor 'to act as an arbitrator; I don't want to seem like the harsh ogre here.' Then watch them flee like the cowards they are.
Oh, and if your software can do it, unblock the ports at non-peak hours. Or implement QoS that lets the software run, but gives it lowest bandwidth priority. That way, ANYTHING else will take away their bandwidth, but if the link is idle anyway, they can rock.
Unless you're running burstable. Then just mention the cost.
Make a game about the American Revolution. Then raise a big stink about how you can't use it to teach children about how y'all threw off the shackles of the British Monarchy, because it's illegal for children to learn about such things.
Actually, what you'd program it to do is look in your inbox, find something with an attachment, infect said attachment, and send it back.
Or look for something with 'fwd:' in the subject, and forward an infected version to everybody.
Or go through your 'already sent' list, and resend each one, after infecting it and putting a line like "My mail server seems to be having trouble, so I'm not sure if you got this, so here it is again." at the beginning.
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If you have a laser pointer, you can flip the mouse over, and point the laser at the optical pickup, and make a really really crude optical joystick.
I think it was more that he accepted the evils as a necessary side effect, and would have dealt with them in the fullness of time, once general order and stability was in place. You can see this in Pellaeon's handling of the Remnant.
In which as the beautiful queen progresses through evil, she becomes more and more ugly.
Read the Spectre of the Past/Vision of the Future series. Spoilers ahead. Thrawn was after order and stability; he decided that the Empire was the best place to start. He'd have backed the Rebellion if he'd though it would been more likely to work.
See: almost every disney movie. Especially snow white.
- Activate receiver, pre/pro and amp, if any
- Select 'DVD' input
- Activate television
- Select appropriate input
- Activate DVD player
- run DVD
And that's a pretty basic list.Well, take it to the extreme. If 'liberty' is all important, than what is MOST important? My liberty to kill you at my whim, or your liberty to walk the streets being reasonably secure that you won't be randomly slain by passing people?
Exactly. Choose your liberty; the liberty to be safe, or the liberty to say whatever you'd like. Oh, and if you're quoting Ben Franklin, line up at the paddock, it's time to be shorn.
Bah. Limit the drivers to run at the speed (and capability; 16 bit colour, for example) of an SLI Voodoo2 setup, and they'll be fine. That would be more than enough to run all the old 'glide only' games, and would discourage any sort of active development.
Point of order: Canada is not a democratic monarchy. Canada is a social democracy (in name) with ceremonial trappings. In actuality, I don't know what we are; we democratically elect our officials, who are then legally required to vote according to party lines, no matter what the constituants actually want.
It's got nothing to do with 'everybody does it.' It's just that there are companies that did it FAR BETTER, and MORE, than Microsoft EVER DID. In the computing world, IBM. In the video game world, Nintendo. Oh, and Sony, for that matter. It amazes me that people allow their hatred of MS to blind themselves to other truths.
The idea probably is to have a wide range of language styles, in the hopes that the language of whoever we wind up warning in the future will have a similar language, and wind up being able to translate it.
If I recall from my younger days, Spidey could military press 80 imperial tons.
You want sleze in the video game industry, you go to the master: Nintendo. Go find a book called 'Game Over.' Read it. Boggle in amazement at the realization that Microsoft is a lightweight in the world of sleaze.
If you have the Blade DVD, there's a wonderful little featurette called "The Origins of Blade" which examines all of this as precursors. Includes Stan Lee talking about all of these very issues.
It's not 'cultural aspects of computing' it's 'cultural aspects.' You want to sell ANYTHING in Japan? Go get some decent Japanese books. A good author to look for, in this case, is L. Boye de Mente.
It's funny because it's true.
Get used to it; this is how Windows will wind up if the courts get their way.
Modularity implies that things can be added, as well as subtracted. Embedded XP allows you to strip bits out, then ship. Can they be added in later? Not at the moment. Will all the various programs that currently exist, and expect the bits to be in there, gracefully fail? No. What would y'all say if Real sued Apple for shipping with iTunes? Basically, though, what it boils down to is 'how is rewriting the OS a suitable punishment for forcing unfair contracts onto OEMs?'
Honestly, that's like pointing out the fact that Rolls Royce builds engines for jet liners, then asking why they cannot make a flying car. I think that all Microsoft has to do is bring in a system that's vastly different from his demo one, and ask him to install his version of Embedded XP on it. "Hmm, nice, a P3 running with a Geforce2, SB Live, and 3Com modem. Can you install that thingy you have on this athlon running a Radeon with a DLink network card, and a non-SB soundcard? No? Hmm. Well, watch us install XP Home on it, then install XP Home, from the same CD, onto your machine. Now, how is your modular version better?" Could Microsoft strip a bunch of crap out? Absolutely. Should they? No.
Office for Mac (with Outlook to attach to Exchange, requiring a CAL.) First thing I thought of when I saw the headline. But this IS /. after all; no logic can stand before the blistering flames directed at Microsoft.
Or, do some logging, then start closing down ports. When somebody complains, check their logs, and assuming that they're using said ports for stuff other than their jobs; i.e. piracy and pr0n, quietly inquire as to why they need such things. Then offer to grab a supervisor 'to act as an arbitrator; I don't want to seem like the harsh ogre here.' Then watch them flee like the cowards they are. Oh, and if your software can do it, unblock the ports at non-peak hours. Or implement QoS that lets the software run, but gives it lowest bandwidth priority. That way, ANYTHING else will take away their bandwidth, but if the link is idle anyway, they can rock. Unless you're running burstable. Then just mention the cost.
Make a game about the American Revolution. Then raise a big stink about how you can't use it to teach children about how y'all threw off the shackles of the British Monarchy, because it's illegal for children to learn about such things.
Actually, what you'd program it to do is look in your inbox, find something with an attachment, infect said attachment, and send it back. Or look for something with 'fwd:' in the subject, and forward an infected version to everybody. Or go through your 'already sent' list, and resend each one, after infecting it and putting a line like "My mail server seems to be having trouble, so I'm not sure if you got this, so here it is again." at the beginning.