"Just like in the Tobacco lawsuits they will take the settlement, spend it on unrelated items and move on to the next target."
Well live by the sword, die by the sword. Do you know what LA is spending its tobacco settlement money on? To pay off lawsuits from the LAPD Rampart scandal.
"The best thing about MS is that its products create hundreds and thousands of high-paid, well trained professionals to support and admin the sytems and products."
That may have been the case since NT4.0 was so buggy and unpredictable. But I really think MS's long term goal is to turn computer professionals into low-paid click monkeys. How many NT sysadmins do any troubleshooting more complex than uninstall/reinstall, reboot, install service pack/hotfix/updated driver?
Oh please. You should be happy you don't have Frys out there. They are the most freakin' annoying place to shop. Somewhere between shopping in the former Soviet Union and Radio Shack. Their regular prices are not cheaper than anyone else. They rewrap returned merchandise and sell as new. They're just evil. Of course, sometimes they have an irresistable price on some sale item, and I just can't stay away even with the lines and the surly help.
And I agree about home built systems. Fuck the Microsoft tax.
If so much noise comes from cooling fans would it not make sense to minimize heat at the source if at all possible?
Athlons always had great bang for the buck, but also have higher power consumption and higher heat load. The P-III's are a little slower and more expensive, but they're still more than fast enough for gaming. A P-III 933 is under $150. For even lower power consumption and more speed the P-III 1.2G is about $275. That's more expensive than a P4 1.8G, so I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really concerned with power and heat.
If you still want AMD, the Athlon XP is faster and runs cooler than the Athlon Tbird. The XP1500 is cheap too.
If you read their response, it's all phrased in vague generalities. As you said, nothing specific about which provision of the antiterrorism bill impacts their technical measures. The claim that they didn't lobby for new rights still means they could have intended to preserve their current rights.
Personally I think the virus scenario was a little farfetched, but launching DoS attacks on file trading networks is very plausible, and it's still a computer crime.
I faked my UserAgent string using Proxomitron, and I got into the site with Mozilla 0.9.5. Every MSN page I checked except the front fage renders correctly. The front page has a rendering bug where text in the center frame is squished into the lower left corner.
Very suspicious. Does this remind you of the DR-DOS an Win 3.x intentional bug?
What $3 crack are you smoking? They don't care about your opinion, they just want your money. Has any computer company ever turned down a paying customer for their political beliefs?
Yeah, Memory Stick is great... if you like expensive, copy protected (MagicGate) flash memory. Just say no to Sony. CF and Smartmedia are so cheap now, there is absolutely no reason to buy in to Memory Stick.
This is stupid. It has all the hassles of film plus the disadvantage of crappy 640x480 resolution. Just like film, you can't preview, have to shoot the whole roll then wait for processing, and can't easily copy to your computer. Why even bother?
Yup, the case looks cheesy and flimsy even for being aluminum. When I was looking, I was very impressed by the MS-6215. It's about the same form-factor as the Bookpc, but also has 2 PCI slots. It has the i815 chipset, Fireware, TV-out, and integrated LAN/audio/USB. The i815 graphics are not as good for gaming as the Via PLE133, but for a home theater system, this would be awesome. Pricing is about the same as the Shuttle barebones system, low $200s.
Not only that check out Divxplus. It's a divx player that outputs through the TV-out on your Hollywood+ card. It still does software decoding, but it saves you from needing an extra TV-out for Divx.
If there was anybody with the lobbying power to stop this, I would guess the financial services industry. Secure transmission of financial transactions is vital to the integrity of our banking system.
I think Sen. Gregg would do well to remember the NH state motto: "Live Free or Die"
Probably not. IBM doesn't really have a history of shaking down people for royalties RAMBUS or Unisys style. It's probably a defensive move to keep someone else from filing it first and using it against them offensively.
2. I keep getting these autodialers where there's no answer after I say hello. I'm guessing it's a cheap ass telemarketer that's oversubscribing its operators. If someone picks up and no operator is available, they just get silence. Isn't this considered stalking or harassment?
That's possible. My home phone is spends a lot of time dialed in to the net (my friends know to call my cell). There were a couple times that my phone rang with a call from a telemarketer seconds after I hung up the modem. If you keep the line busy until 10pm, they can't call after that.
It's not enough to just target your market. By this definition of a micromarket, they'd be good at spotting posers wanting to join just to cash in.
Micromarkets are "collections of people, communities joined by shared interests." And the big catch is that you need to belong to these groups to have a conversation with them.
A good example would be the big sneaker companies trying to break into the skateboard shoe market. See this article. Nike trying to buy off Tony Hawk with a $6mil contract makes them look like the 300lb jock that skaters love to hate.
If there's any software company that's more annoying, intrusive and just plain shady than Microsoft, Real is it. The GUID and cookies all default to enabled, but at least now you have the option to turn it off.
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Yes, the actual criminal charge against Dmitri is for selling the software.
However, if the crime was "selling" this software why didn't they arrest the sales and marketing guys of Elcomsoft or people from the US company that collects their registration fees (regnow.com)? They arrested the author of the program, who merely had an incidental role in selling the software. There were many people in the US that day who were involved in "selling" or "traffiking" the software, but they chose to only arrest the programmer.
And don't forget CP/M. One could argue that Apple, Atari, and Commodore were home and hobbyist computers with limited business usage (40 column displays don't cut it for word processing), but CP/M ruled the business market in the late 70s-early 80s with lots of different hardware manufacturers and decent compatibility between brands. Remember the Osborne, Kaypro, Northstar, Xerox?
The two biggest things about the IBM PC were the 16bit CPU that broke the 64K RAM barrier and just the fact that IBM was endorsing the very concept of a personal computer.
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"Just like in the Tobacco lawsuits they will take the settlement, spend it on unrelated items and move on to the next target."
Well live by the sword, die by the sword. Do you know what LA is spending its tobacco settlement money on? To pay off lawsuits from the LAPD Rampart scandal.
"The best thing about MS is that its products create hundreds and thousands of high-paid, well trained professionals to support and admin the sytems and products."
That may have been the case since NT4.0 was so buggy and unpredictable. But I really think MS's long term goal is to turn computer professionals into low-paid click monkeys. How many NT sysadmins do any troubleshooting more complex than uninstall/reinstall, reboot, install service pack/hotfix/updated driver?
Oh please. You should be happy you don't have Frys out there. They are the most freakin' annoying place to shop. Somewhere between shopping in the former Soviet Union and Radio Shack. Their regular prices are not cheaper than anyone else. They rewrap returned merchandise and sell as new. They're just evil. Of course, sometimes they have an irresistable price on some sale item, and I just can't stay away even with the lines and the surly help.
And I agree about home built systems. Fuck the Microsoft tax.
If so much noise comes from cooling fans would it not make sense to minimize heat at the source if at all possible?
Athlons always had great bang for the buck, but also have higher power consumption and higher heat load. The P-III's are a little slower and more expensive, but they're still more than fast enough for gaming. A P-III 933 is under $150. For even lower power consumption and more speed the P-III 1.2G is about $275. That's more expensive than a P4 1.8G, so I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really concerned with power and heat.
If you still want AMD, the Athlon XP is faster and runs cooler than the Athlon Tbird. The XP1500 is cheap too.
Decibels are on a logarithmic scale too. 2x the dB is MUCH more than twice as loud.
If you read their response, it's all phrased in vague generalities. As you said, nothing specific about which provision of the antiterrorism bill impacts their technical measures. The claim that they didn't lobby for new rights still means they could have intended to preserve their current rights.
Personally I think the virus scenario was a little farfetched, but launching DoS attacks on file trading networks is very plausible, and it's still a computer crime.
I faked my UserAgent string using Proxomitron, and I got into the site with Mozilla 0.9.5. Every MSN page I checked except the front fage renders correctly. The front page has a rendering bug where text in the center frame is squished into the lower left corner.
Very suspicious. Does this remind you of the DR-DOS an Win 3.x intentional bug?
What $3 crack are you smoking? They don't care about your opinion, they just want your money. Has any computer company ever turned down a paying customer for their political beliefs?
Yeah, Memory Stick is great... if you like expensive, copy protected (MagicGate) flash memory. Just say no to Sony. CF and Smartmedia are so cheap now, there is absolutely no reason to buy in to Memory Stick.
This is stupid. It has all the hassles of film plus the disadvantage of crappy 640x480 resolution. Just like film, you can't preview, have to shoot the whole roll then wait for processing, and can't easily copy to your computer. Why even bother?
Yup, the case looks cheesy and flimsy even for being aluminum. When I was looking, I was very impressed by the MS-6215. It's about the same form-factor as the Bookpc, but also has 2 PCI slots. It has the i815 chipset, Fireware, TV-out, and integrated LAN/audio/USB. The i815 graphics are not as good for gaming as the Via PLE133, but for a home theater system, this would be awesome. Pricing is about the same as the Shuttle barebones system, low $200s.
Not only that check out Divxplus. It's a divx player that outputs through the TV-out on your Hollywood+ card. It still does software decoding, but it saves you from needing an extra TV-out for Divx.
If there was anybody with the lobbying power to stop this, I would guess the financial services industry. Secure transmission of financial transactions is vital to the integrity of our banking system.
I think Sen. Gregg would do well to remember the NH state motto: "Live Free or Die"
Probably not. IBM doesn't really have a history of shaking down people for royalties RAMBUS or Unisys style. It's probably a defensive move to keep someone else from filing it first and using it against them offensively.
"the engines are converting it to high enough frequencies that it's undetectable to the human ear"
I hope you don't have any pets around the house. Dogs are gonna freak when they hear it.
There's a few problems with that approach.
1. They don't stop calling back.
2. I keep getting these autodialers where there's no answer after I say hello. I'm guessing it's a cheap ass telemarketer that's oversubscribing its operators. If someone picks up and no operator is available, they just get silence. Isn't this considered stalking or harassment?
That's possible. My home phone is spends a lot of time dialed in to the net (my friends know to call my cell). There were a couple times that my phone rang with a call from a telemarketer seconds after I hung up the modem. If you keep the line busy until 10pm, they can't call after that.
One big expense for sure is licensing the 3d engine. Not to mention the art, music and sound. Any word on how the free Crystal Space engine is doing?
"7 out of a total of 6 dead??"
He may mean that one failed twice because its replacement also died.
Oh sure. I feel SOOO much safer driving around with 1000lbs of lead acid batteries.
"since the American TV "news" wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole [unless there was a cat stuck up the tree in the next block]."
or in California, if there's a car chase. The only place where they stop all TV just to show a live car chase.
If there's any software company that's more annoying, intrusive and just plain shady than Microsoft, Real is it. The GUID and cookies all default to enabled, but at least now you have the option to turn it off.
And remember to register with-
Email address: unsubscribe@real.com
ZIP code: 90210
Yes, the actual criminal charge against Dmitri is for selling the software.
However, if the crime was "selling" this software why didn't they arrest the sales and marketing guys of Elcomsoft or people from the US company that collects their registration fees (regnow.com)? They arrested the author of the program, who merely had an incidental role in selling the software. There were many people in the US that day who were involved in "selling" or "traffiking" the software, but they chose to only arrest the programmer.
And don't forget CP/M. One could argue that Apple, Atari, and Commodore were home and hobbyist computers with limited business usage (40 column displays don't cut it for word processing), but CP/M ruled the business market in the late 70s-early 80s with lots of different hardware manufacturers and decent compatibility between brands. Remember the Osborne, Kaypro, Northstar, Xerox?
The two biggest things about the IBM PC were the 16bit CPU that broke the 64K RAM barrier and just the fact that IBM was endorsing the very concept of a personal computer.