I doubt GTE has ever collected $400 from anyone. It's always been the $99 special. The final months of 1999, it just became the $0 specail.
You should have had an anticpated install date, or at least a week that they would install it in. Of course I've had mone for year, so they so GTE could be gennerally terrible and eccentric;)
Is it the opposite in the southern hemisphere? Did you see the Football Players answering basic questions on Leno last night?
Absolutley hillarious. What is the planet closest to the Sun? (one wrong answer: earth) At what Temperature does water Boil? (one wrong answer 32 degrees) Who is the Govenor of WI/CA? What country borders California? (wrong answer: Canada) (one response was is this a trick question?)
If it's not mutliple choice like who wants to be a millionaire, americans can't answer it.
Not Quite as difficult as why we have seasons, but some things should be basic knowledge.
Funny, hooked up to a metaframe server via an x-session to different computer.
Pointed out to another person that you can run just the metaframe app, and get better performance, but then you lost the damn directory paths, because the admin has not set them up in samba the same way they are set up in the unix metaframe. Oh well.
Nice reflections shiny skull. Can one say raytrace.
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Here is my latest idea, which does not require a MS breakup, source code release, or a reduction in MS "Innovation", and would greatly increase competition.
MS should not be allowed to SELL/LICENSE it's OS's directly to consumers or OEM's.
What do I mean? MS should license the OS to distributors, who would sell to consumers and OEM's. Distributor would be allowed to bundle whatever applications they wanted.
MS would get what it wants: * It would still control the "innovation" of the OS. * It would still get licensing fees. * It would still be a whole company
Consumers get: * Competition between distributors
The DOJ would inspect the licenseing of the OS to be sure things are on the up and up (no exclusive, MS OS only contracts). When in doubt, all licensing to all distributors is suspended.
OEM's would not be allowed to own a controling interest in any distributors. And could be required to ship a pre-loaded OS, any OS with thier computers. No contracts could have % of any OS installed required, or restrict what OS can be installed.
By breaking his rulings up into findings of fact and findings of law, he's limited the grounds for a M$ appeal.
Yes, that's the rumour. Findings of Fact are Hard to get overturned. That's where MS prevailed the last time. Sporkin Did not have a legal leg to stand on when he tried to send MS and the DOJ back to the table. He Knew the facts, and didn't think the consent decree was good enough. But Jackson said, no law to send them back. Consent Decree stands.
MS press conference was a bit short. Not much good information for them.
Jackson overturned Sporkin when Sporkin said "Try Again" on the first settlement. This was completely pro-MS. This may not have happened if the DOJ and MS had gone back to the table, and come up with an agreement amenialbe to Sporkin.
Calling Jackson Anti-MS is just is Ignorant of the history of the MS vs DOJ.
yea right. Without the Antitrust act: you would be pumping gas from a Getty Station, you would be using an AT&T cell phone, and paying $30/hr to call the next state you would be running windows, because the PC 99 specs would have limited the ability to run linux
The major problem is that they are going after the wrong source, the people who sell the DVD duplication equipment. They make it seem like it's us, but that's just the publicity engine.
The people with the duplication equipment are the ones that can create thousands of DVD's. They can make Pirate DVD's of rencent movies.
Many times, these duplicators are doing duplication for the major movie studios.
The movie industry should have just made sure that only they had access to the duplication equipment. Instead, they went cheap. They let anyone with a duplicator bid for the duplication contract.
Think how many "Pirate" CPU's would exist if Intel contracted out the production of all of it's CPU's to other companies for production (and they charged $1000 for a celeron).
The problem is that engineers need to learn how to do good 5.1 mixing. The mixes are designed to for the user to face the center speaker, it's not as non-directional as stereo configurations. Speaker position is programmed into surround sound set-ups to make it seem like the sound is coming from one direction.
There are a few great music tracks on movie dvds. Turn off the TV, and you've got great sound.
The talking heads Stop making sense has two great 5.1 mixes. One puts you in the front row, and the second is the "soundboard" mix, and what I would expect to be on a dvd audio disk. The music surrounds you.
The Aretha franklin scene is blues brothers is another great mix. The background singers are in the surround speakers.
And you can see how the mixes get better as an engineer gets more experience by listening to Fleetwood Mac The Dance DVD. The surrond speakers come alive in the last few songs.
But with DVD's, widescreen is just a standard. now normal people will want widescreen. BUT WILL THEY SELL IT TO US?
No, Widecreen == HDTV in US. HDTV == Big Price Tag. If they sold cheap widescreen, who would buy a $9000 64" DTV? Even if it's the only one to support 1080p.
Also, not that Phillips sells about 30 models of standard TV in the US. no wonder why we are confused.
And netbios is a great protocol? Atalk is chatty, but it was designed for a pre-90's network, one without system adminstrators, and friggin windows nt boxes.
AppleTalk worked. You plugged in a laserwriter, and hooked up 20 or 30 macs, and you could print to it. It still works.
Windows still requires you to install the printer on each machine And Linux requires you to know what the address is.
It's what 9 hours after the hack (if jfs' note is EDT), and there is still no one at PC week has written an article, or even POSTED a linux pcweek hacked, details to follow.
Of course not, "Fed's leave MS alone", and "The MS strategy" is much more important to PCweeks advertising base.
When does the judges finding of fact get released? Before or at the same time as the verdict?
The Judges "Facts" are hard to get reversed.
Decisions based on the "Facts" are easier to get reversed or overturned, since the judge may have inncorrectly applied the various laws. The "Facts" will be the most interesting, and could force MS to settle.
MS has a 90% market share MS has used exclusive contracts in the past etc
I just got back from a trip to UNC Chapel Hill. Centralizing unix support. Screwing things up. And charging a whole lot for nothing. While encouraging NT.
As part of the latest computing plan, they are giving Windows boxes in exchange for old boxes.
Charging a $1000 a year to connect a Unix box to the network. They say that they will do the support, but the damn admins seems to have broken the setup after a major breakin (path was/usr/bin;.). Programs did not work. Users did not understand that this was not UNIX's fault, it was the stupid adminstation. But since they could not understand the problem, or get support, it was a UNIX problem. They were supposed to be adding a dozen unix admins, but they had not done it yet (still only a rumored 4).
It's a great way to encourage windows. Charge for unix support, hire poor admins, and give away windows computers.
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I doubt GTE has ever collected $400 from anyone. It's always been the $99 special. The final months of 1999, it just became the $0 specail.
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You should have had an anticpated install date, or at least a week that they would install it in. Of course I've had mone for year, so they so GTE could be gennerally terrible and eccentric
Did you see the Football Players answering basic questions on Leno last night?
Absolutley hillarious.
What is the planet closest to the Sun? (one wrong answer: earth)
At what Temperature does water Boil? (one wrong answer 32 degrees)
Who is the Govenor of WI/CA?
What country borders California? (wrong answer: Canada) (one response was is this a trick question?)
If it's not mutliple choice like who wants to be a millionaire, americans can't answer it.
Not Quite as difficult as why we have seasons, but some things should be basic knowledge.
Want a nice crackpot site, go to C. Cagle's singtech. You only have to forget everything you know.
Funny, hooked up to a metaframe server via an x-session to different computer.
Pointed out to another person that you can run just the metaframe app, and get better performance, but then you lost the damn directory paths, because the admin has not set them up in samba the same way they are set up in the unix metaframe. Oh well.
Nice reflections shiny skull. Can one say raytrace.
Here is my latest idea, which does not require a MS breakup, source code release, or a reduction in MS "Innovation", and would greatly increase competition.
MS should not be allowed to SELL/LICENSE it's OS's directly to consumers or OEM's.
What do I mean? MS should license the OS to distributors, who would sell to consumers and OEM's. Distributor would be allowed to bundle whatever applications they wanted.
MS would get what it wants:
* It would still control the "innovation" of the OS.
* It would still get licensing fees.
* It would still be a whole company
Consumers get:
* Competition between distributors
The DOJ would inspect the licenseing of the OS to be sure things are on the up and up (no exclusive, MS OS only contracts). When in doubt, all licensing to all distributors is suspended.
OEM's would not be allowed to own a controling interest in any distributors. And could be required to ship a pre-loaded OS, any OS with thier computers. No contracts could have % of any OS installed required, or restrict what OS can be installed.
Yes, that's the rumour. Findings of Fact are Hard to get overturned. That's where MS prevailed the last time. Sporkin Did not have a legal leg to stand on when he tried to send MS and the DOJ back to the table. He Knew the facts, and didn't think the consent decree was good enough. But Jackson said, no law to send them back. Consent Decree stands.
MS press conference was a bit short. Not much good information for them.
MS Excel was a great product. Much better than multiplan, and easier to use than Lotus.
Mac Word was Great until V6, when MS decided mediocraty, oops platform parity, should be a priority.
If you count that person sleeping with the chairperson had her product released, then MS Bob counts as one innovation.
Gee, Anti-Microsoft? What you smoking?
Jackson overturned Sporkin when Sporkin said "Try Again" on the first settlement. This was completely pro-MS. This may not have happened if the DOJ and MS had gone back to the table, and come up with an agreement amenialbe to Sporkin.
Calling Jackson Anti-MS is just is Ignorant of the history of the MS vs DOJ.
yea right. Without the Antitrust act:
you would be pumping gas from a Getty Station,
you would be using an AT&T cell phone, and paying $30/hr to call the next state
you would be running windows, because the PC 99 specs would have limited the ability to run linux
and this is america, home of the looney.
If anyone mentions morals, I tune out.
I don't think he said Permanent Monopoly.
He said that it has a monopoly, and that there are no competitors in the recent forseeable future.
In addition, MS has been using it's monopoly to try to keep it's monopoly.
The major problem is that they are going after the wrong source, the people who sell the DVD duplication equipment. They make it seem like it's us, but that's just the publicity engine.
The people with the duplication equipment are the ones that can create thousands of DVD's. They can make Pirate DVD's of rencent movies.
Many times, these duplicators are doing duplication for the major movie studios.
The movie industry should have just made sure that only they had access to the duplication equipment. Instead, they went cheap. They let anyone with a duplicator bid for the duplication contract.
Think how many "Pirate" CPU's would exist if Intel contracted out the production of all of it's CPU's to other companies for production (and they charged $1000 for a celeron).
The problem is that engineers need to learn how to do good 5.1 mixing. The mixes are designed to for the user to face the center speaker, it's not as non-directional as stereo configurations. Speaker position is programmed into surround sound set-ups to make it seem like the sound is coming from one direction.
There are a few great music tracks on movie dvds. Turn off the TV, and you've got great sound.
The talking heads Stop making sense has two great 5.1 mixes. One puts you in the front row, and the second is the "soundboard" mix, and what I would expect to be on a dvd audio disk. The music surrounds you.
The Aretha franklin scene is blues brothers is another great mix. The background singers are in the surround speakers.
And you can see how the mixes get better as an engineer gets more experience by listening to Fleetwood Mac The Dance DVD. The surrond speakers come alive in the last few songs.
MS made a promise to port direct 3d to the mac, when QD3d announced. never made it.
Lot's of FUD. Never seen lots of things, such as MSN for mac.
RCA once had a widewcreen. Did not sell we1l.
But with DVD's, widescreen is just a standard. now normal people will want widescreen. BUT WILL THEY SELL IT TO US?
No, Widecreen == HDTV in US. HDTV == Big Price Tag. If they sold cheap widescreen, who would buy a $9000 64" DTV? Even if it's the only one to support 1080p.
Also, not that Phillips sells about 30 models of standard TV in the US. no wonder why we are confused.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore?family=G4
Nothing on Buy.html, Cause there was nothing there to start with.
And netbios is a great protocol? Atalk is chatty, but it was designed for a pre-90's network, one without system adminstrators, and friggin windows nt boxes.
AppleTalk worked. You plugged in a laserwriter, and hooked up 20 or 30 macs, and you could print to it. It still works.
Windows still requires you to install the printer on each machine And Linux requires you to know what the address is.
Could shield the parts of the crt that need sheilding (the gun).
Or could line the case with semi-transparent aluminum (sorry I couldn't resist), or other material.
A usb zip only runs $129.
It's usb, so just carry it with you to the computing lab, and make sure the lab has installed the drivers.
usb floppy is $70. Bit expensive.
No Mac browser for a long time (and this still applies)
Overhyped. A bit more complex than it needed to be.
MS hype about thier 3d interface, which now no longer exists.
I don't see it for games, games have thier own high-performance 3d engines.
Chat. 3D chat. Hype.
Science and Art. Yes.
It is a really good file format. You can make prototypes with real world names so that groups of users can write vrml by hand (or by script).
I don't want to write in Java3d. I want to write the visualizations.
The X3d will hopefully lower some of the requirements.
It's what 9 hours after the hack (if jfs' note is EDT), and there is still no one at PC week has written an article, or even POSTED a linux pcweek hacked, details to follow.
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Of course not, "Fed's leave MS alone", and "The MS strategy" is much more important to PCweeks advertising base.
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When does the judges finding of fact get released? Before or at the same time as the verdict?
The Judges "Facts" are hard to get reversed.
Decisions based on the "Facts" are easier to get reversed or overturned, since the judge may have inncorrectly applied the various laws. The "Facts" will be the most interesting, and could force MS to settle.
MS has a 90% market share
MS has used exclusive contracts in the past
etc
Thing about the INTEL deal is that you can run linux, solaris x86, or windows on the INTEL boxes.
The boxes just come with NT installed, but INTEL says you can install any OS you want.
I just got back from a trip to UNC Chapel Hill. Centralizing unix support. Screwing things up. And charging a whole lot for nothing. While encouraging NT.
/usr/bin;.). Programs did not work. Users did not understand that this was not UNIX's fault, it was the stupid adminstation. But since they could not understand the problem, or get support, it was a UNIX problem. They were supposed to be adding a dozen unix admins, but they had not done it yet (still only a rumored 4).
As part of the latest computing plan, they are giving Windows boxes in exchange for old boxes.
Charging a $1000 a year to connect a Unix box to the network. They say that they will do the support, but the damn admins seems to have broken the setup after a major breakin (path was
It's a great way to encourage windows. Charge for unix support, hire poor admins, and give away windows computers.