My beef is that monetary penalties against MSFT just aren't worth it. It's like fining you or me 10cents every time we speed. Big Deal.
Even forcing MSFT to make a version of windows without media player is a joke. Many people are used to using media player, and so many companies have created products counting on the fact that a user will have media player. Big Deal.
What are users going to get out of this? $10 off their next purchase of MSFT software. So now MSFT makes a slightly smaller margin on their software for.00001% of the population that happens to have this coupon. The customer is *still* giving MSFT money out of their pocket.
The gov't needs to start thinking outside the box, monetary, software reconfigs aren't going to fix it. They need to deal with MSFT like they did with the coal and railroad barons of the early 1900s and with AT&T. The gov't is always trying to put the "djini back into the bottle." We all know its easier to do wrong and beg for foregiveness than it is to ask for permission....
Could a store post a sign at the front door or somewhere in the aisle that says "All EULAs are available at the service counter"?
Now you don't have to open the box, you just have to go to some counter and ask specifically for the EULA. Though, what happens if someone gives you the software as a gift? You would now have to go to the store and get the EULA prior to opening the box as the giver of said gift, probably didn't read the EULA...
Its kind of like the "Nutritional Information" signs at McDonalds... you really have to press to get the information... then once you do, you don't want to eat there.
No networking means, no web browsing. Seems kinda counterproductive to eliminate this as the web is one of those things that makes computers the most attractive abilities of a computer. I know I wouldn't be doing much with mine if it wasn't for networking.
Give me a break... my girlfriend can't even figure out how to check the air in her tires, has been known to go a *LONG* time without changing her oil and in one occasion ran out of gas.
I can't imagine this with airplanes or flying cars...
We'll have flying cars when monkey's start flying outta my...
-Out of sight is out of mind. If you are not using your laptop keep it hidden. If someone breaks into your room (you really think they change the locks on your door every time a roomate leaves?
-Keep a copy of classwork on university servers/accounts. That way if your laptop gets stolen you still have your data. Tar/gzip/ftp works nicely here. Not your porn/mp3 collection, but essays/papers/assignements. Servers are in 'server rooms' in locked buildings and are backed up. Your PC probably isn't.
-Get rid of your laptop bag. Get a backpack that is padded for a laptop. You don't want to advertise that you have one.
-Be careful of roommates/suitemates. Unless you know your roommate(s) or suitemates from highschool. Also, you never know who *their* friends are.
-It only takes "a second" to take something. Just like people who leave kids/pets in sweltering cars. ("I was only going into the store for a second..") so might your laptop.
Remember, at the end of the day. Its all common sense, and what would the cost be to replace this stuff.
Other than that... have fun. Its college for crying out loud.. lock/hide the laptop.. find a chick and a kegparty and have fun.
Looks like marketing and law (patent system), is now the ultimate form of FUD......I was going to install linux... but I was afraid that MSFT might sue me for using a 3 buttoned mouse with an integrated horizonal scroll wheel...
Anybody notice, that RAP or Hip Hop requires the singer/group to have absolutely no instrumental skills?
Every see a rap/hip hop group/band that is actually playing an instrument? Its all computer generated now. Atleast the predessors to rap/hip hop (grunge, glam, disco whatever..) required the group to play they're own tunes.
What are you retension requirements for this data? 2 months? 1 year? Forever? How often do you need to access this backed up data?
If you requirements are rare restores, then I'd go with tape. You can back up to a tape drive about as fast as a ATA disk and you can move the tapes offsite. Restores w/tape are a bit more painful, but then a tape isn't as delicate as a disk drive.
I've worked at dotcoms and now a large company which gives out stock options to its employees. Until i joined the large company I didn't realize the value of options (not a get rich scheme).
If companies have to expense options, they'll drop the option programs as the expensing will kill profitability. Therefore companies will nolonger give out options (MSFT has already stopped giving out options), and thus the major $$$ form of compensation will be salary, and salary does not keep an employee at a company for a long time, as you can jump ship to another company easier to get a raise than to ask mgmt.
Plus many companies spend big $$$ repurchasing stock on the market to keep up the stock price.
Lastly, if options are expensed then only the execs will get options and not the workers in the trenches.
But I didn't elect my congressman to support/vote/debate on issues like this. There are people begging for change on the streets and women being beaten... while these fat cats sit on capital hill and vote to protect a billion dollar company from a few people with camcorders.
Really, how many people would rather buy a fake than watch an authentic version in the cinema or DVD?
State officials say there is no need for recounts, or an audit trail, with the touchscreen system because it was designed to prevent people from voting in the same race more than once -- an overvote -- and provide multiple alerts to voters to warn them when they are skipping a race -- an undervote.
This is like Ford saying there is no need to put seatbelts in their cars, because their drivers are so good they don't get in car crashes.
Its just like the supermarkets with their "discount cards". Which to get one you must give your ph#/name/address etc... (of course you can give bogus information). But now the supermarkets start tracking exactly what you buy and when you buy it....
If I buy a 5lb bag of bran.. should I get a call from the exlax salesman?
Y'know it used to be you joined a dotcom to become rich... but that is soooo 90s. Now you just find something stupid and sue over it.
In other news... a small farm in Washington State is suing Steve Jobs over his company. As this farm has been growing apples, namely the macintosh variety for over 75years.
I'm just jealous that I haven't come up with something to sue over.
Hmm... I've been using unix for a long time... maybe I could sue Slashdot b/c i've had root longer than this board has been around?
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No i don't have a degree, but people now are living into their 80-90s yet social security still kicks in at 65.
What would happen if the avg person lived to 100-110 yet social security still kicked in at 65? You work for 45 yrs (assuming you start at 20), and then get 35yrs of social security?
Plus the more people the higher the demand for resources (food, gas, land/housing). Plus people tend to want to live on the fringe of society (suburbs..) rather than in cities so population density within the cities is low however the demand for resources is still high (more gas for the 40mile commute, more instructure spent to run gas/phone/electricity to the houses).
Great, like traffic isn't bad enough as it is...
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According to Robert Malthus...
His hypothesised that (unchecked) population growth always exceeds the growth of means of subsistence. Actual (checked) population growth is kept in line with food supply growth by "positive checks" (starvation, disease and the like, elevating the death rate) and "preventive checks" (i.e. postponement of marriage, etc. that keep down the birthrate), both of which are characterized by "misery and vice". Malthus's hypothesis implied that actual population always has a tendency to push above the food supply. Because of this tendency, any attempt to ameliorate the condition of the lower classes by increasing their incomes or improving agricultural productivity would be fruitless, as the extra means of subsistence would be completely absorbed by an induced boost in population. As long as this tendency remains, Malthus argued, the "perfectibility" of society will always be out of reach.
Can we really deal with a population that lives to be 150? 200? If the earth's populatoin is just over 6Billion... would we sustain a population of 7-8 Billion?
I live in the sanjose area and they are buildings/houses on every hill in the area, of which 5 years ago the hills were still covered in grass. And the higher the population, the quicker we consume resources...
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My beef is that monetary penalties against MSFT just aren't worth it. It's like fining you or me 10cents every time we speed. Big Deal.
.00001% of the population that happens to have this coupon. The customer is *still* giving MSFT money out of their pocket.
Even forcing MSFT to make a version of windows without media player is a joke. Many people are used to using media player, and so many companies have created products counting on the fact that a user will have media player. Big Deal.
What are users going to get out of this? $10 off their next purchase of MSFT software. So now MSFT makes a slightly smaller margin on their software for
The gov't needs to start thinking outside the box, monetary, software reconfigs aren't going to fix it. They need to deal with MSFT like they did with the coal and railroad barons of the early 1900s and with AT&T. The gov't is always trying to put the "djini back into the bottle." We all know its easier to do wrong and beg for foregiveness than it is to ask for permission....
Could a store post a sign at the front door or somewhere in the aisle that says "All EULAs are available at the service counter"?
Now you don't have to open the box, you just have to go to some counter and ask specifically for the EULA. Though, what happens if someone gives you the software as a gift? You would now have to go to the store and get the EULA prior to opening the box as the giver of said gift, probably didn't read the EULA...
Its kind of like the "Nutritional Information" signs at McDonalds... you really have to press to get the information... then once you do, you don't want to eat there.
HockeyPuck ---> .
So will this cause adaward and spybot to get eliminated b/c MSFT will just ship (for free) malware removal software?
This is like a relative trying to convert you to Colgate from Crest....
lame gift.
Give em a linux powered media player or something useful...
What about putting photos and music on it and use it as the card itself...
Could we expect Tobacco style lawsuits in the near future?
-$100million due to the 'yellowing' of teeth.
-$1milllion due to the staining of mugs
I wonder if that old lady with the burned crotch from McD's will come back?
C'mon ppl take some responsibility for your own life: Fatty foods will make you fat. Sugary foods will give you cavities. Caffeine is addictive..
DUH!
Seriously, what is the point of this version?
No networking means, no web browsing. Seems kinda counterproductive to eliminate this as the web is one of those things that makes computers the most attractive abilities of a computer. I know I wouldn't be doing much with mine if it wasn't for networking.
What constitutes an app?
Give me a break... my girlfriend can't even figure out how to check the air in her tires, has been known to go a *LONG* time without changing her oil and in one occasion ran out of gas.
I can't imagine this with airplanes or flying cars...
We'll have flying cars when monkey's start flying outta my...
Does an independent testing body determine the levels or do the hardware vendors themselves police these ratings?
Its a good intention to make it easier for non-techies to determine how much computer is needed for a specific app.... lame in execution.
Wait, you mean to tell me that one day... I'll be able to listen to "streaming audio" from a "wireless device"? Wow! I can't believe it...
I say... Welcome to 1954... and the birth of the transistor radio...
http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/regency/
Common sense
-Out of sight is out of mind. If you are not using your laptop keep it hidden. If someone breaks into your room (you really think they change the locks on your door every time a roomate leaves?
-Keep a copy of classwork on university servers/accounts. That way if your laptop gets stolen you still have your data. Tar/gzip/ftp works nicely here. Not your porn/mp3 collection, but essays/papers/assignements. Servers are in 'server rooms' in locked buildings and are backed up. Your PC probably isn't.
-Get rid of your laptop bag. Get a backpack that is padded for a laptop. You don't want to advertise that you have one.
-Be careful of roommates/suitemates. Unless you know your roommate(s) or suitemates from highschool. Also, you never know who *their* friends are.
-It only takes "a second" to take something. Just like people who leave kids/pets in sweltering cars. ("I was only going into the store for a second..") so might your laptop.
Remember, at the end of the day. Its all common sense, and what would the cost be to replace this stuff.
Other than that... have fun. Its college for crying out loud.. lock/hide the laptop.. find a chick and a kegparty and have fun.
-HockeyPuck
Sue 'em...
...I was going to install linux... but I was afraid that MSFT might sue me for using a 3 buttoned mouse with an integrated horizonal scroll wheel...
Looks like marketing and law (patent system), is now the ultimate form of FUD...
Blame QA... they should have tested it better. :)
Anybody notice, that RAP or Hip Hop requires the singer/group to have absolutely no instrumental skills?
Every see a rap/hip hop group/band that is actually playing an instrument? Its all computer generated now. Atleast the predessors to rap/hip hop (grunge, glam, disco whatever..) required the group to play they're own tunes.
Tis a shame..
35 years ago we put a man on the moon.. Pretty awesome if you ask me.
What kills me is that people exclaim how the iPOD, XBOX or Furby is "revolutionary" or will change how the world does [insert buzzword here].
I wonder how many high school students today even know we put a man on the moon...
Anybody notice that the screen shots look similiar to Half-Life? Is it that the engines are approaching the same abilities? Screen Shots
What are you retension requirements for this data? 2 months? 1 year? Forever? How often do you need to access this backed up data?
If you requirements are rare restores, then I'd go with tape. You can back up to a tape drive about as fast as a ATA disk and you can move the tapes offsite. Restores w/tape are a bit more painful, but then a tape isn't as delicate as a disk drive.
I've worked at dotcoms and now a large company which gives out stock options to its employees. Until i joined the large company I didn't realize the value of options (not a get rich scheme).
If companies have to expense options, they'll drop the option programs as the expensing will kill profitability. Therefore companies will nolonger give out options (MSFT has already stopped giving out options), and thus the major $$$ form of compensation will be salary, and salary does not keep an employee at a company for a long time, as you can jump ship to another company easier to get a raise than to ask mgmt.
Plus many companies spend big $$$ repurchasing stock on the market to keep up the stock price.
Lastly, if options are expensed then only the execs will get options and not the workers in the trenches.
HockeyPuck ---> .
But I didn't elect my congressman to support/vote/debate on issues like this. There are people begging for change on the streets and women being beaten... while these fat cats sit on capital hill and vote to protect a billion dollar company from a few people with camcorders.
Really, how many people would rather buy a fake than watch an authentic version in the cinema or DVD?
HockeyPuck ---> .
What kills me is this quote:
State officials say there is no need for recounts, or an audit trail, with the touchscreen system because it was designed to prevent people from voting in the same race more than once -- an overvote -- and provide multiple alerts to voters to warn them when they are skipping a race -- an undervote.
This is like Ford saying there is no need to put seatbelts in their cars, because their drivers are so good they don't get in car crashes.
Get rid of the FCC....?
Welcome our new master... Clearchannel...
Its just like the supermarkets with their "discount cards". Which to get one you must give your ph#/name/address etc... (of course you can give bogus information). But now the supermarkets start tracking exactly what you buy and when you buy it....
If I buy a 5lb bag of bran.. should I get a call from the exlax salesman?
Could the labels claim that Xington has reverse engineered or cracked the process for uploading ring tones?
I personally hate ringtones, even in the office some nut has beethoven beeping and booping... what's wrong with vibrate?
Y'know it used to be you joined a dotcom to become rich... but that is soooo 90s. Now you just find something stupid and sue over it.
In other news... a small farm in Washington State is suing Steve Jobs over his company. As this farm has been growing apples, namely the macintosh variety for over 75years.
I'm just jealous that I haven't come up with something to sue over.
Hmm... I've been using unix for a long time... maybe I could sue Slashdot b/c i've had root longer than this board has been around?
No i don't have a degree, but people now are living into their 80-90s yet social security still kicks in at 65.
What would happen if the avg person lived to 100-110 yet social security still kicked in at 65? You work for 45 yrs (assuming you start at 20), and then get 35yrs of social security?
Plus the more people the higher the demand for resources (food, gas, land/housing). Plus people tend to want to live on the fringe of society (suburbs..) rather than in cities so population density within the cities is low however the demand for resources is still high (more gas for the 40mile commute, more instructure spent to run gas/phone/electricity to the houses).
According to Robert Malthus... His hypothesised that (unchecked) population growth always exceeds the growth of means of subsistence. Actual (checked) population growth is kept in line with food supply growth by "positive checks" (starvation, disease and the like, elevating the death rate) and "preventive checks" (i.e. postponement of marriage, etc. that keep down the birthrate), both of which are characterized by "misery and vice". Malthus's hypothesis implied that actual population always has a tendency to push above the food supply. Because of this tendency, any attempt to ameliorate the condition of the lower classes by increasing their incomes or improving agricultural productivity would be fruitless, as the extra means of subsistence would be completely absorbed by an induced boost in population. As long as this tendency remains, Malthus argued, the "perfectibility" of society will always be out of reach. Can we really deal with a population that lives to be 150? 200? If the earth's populatoin is just over 6Billion... would we sustain a population of 7-8 Billion? I live in the sanjose area and they are buildings/houses on every hill in the area, of which 5 years ago the hills were still covered in grass. And the higher the population, the quicker we consume resources...