Gates argued that Sony's new high-definition DVD standard, called Blu-ray, needed to be changed so it would work smoothly with personal computers running on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Is there a reason to assume that Blueray drives or disks will not work smoothly in Windows, but will work fine in Linux, Mac, etc??
Look around for cards with HDTV outputs. Now, which ones have good Linux support? (Honestly, I have no idea if ATI's component converter works in Linux) I think the NVidia based cards might support DVI HDTV connections as well as component, is this true?
Pity it won't fit in some HTPC cases such as Antec Overture or AHANIX MCE601B-A that this nor the GIGABYTE GV-N66T128D I tried will fit in. The folded up heatsink on this guy, and the heatpipe arwpping from front to back on the Gigabyte card I tried go up above the card far enough to prevent the case lids from fitting, as the lids go only a very small distance above the rear case bracket screw and the heatsink/heatpipe go a good bit higher than that...
I'd love a fanless card for my MythTV box, but it seems that's not meant to be...
I nominate we all start encouraging our congresmen and congresswomen to put together some legislation that would outlaw tacking on ammendments to bills which are off-topic to the bill at hand. Copy protection of TV shows has nothing to do with government budget reconciliation stuff. It's off-topic, and has no place being attached to such a bill.
If it can't stand on it's own, it should be illegal to hide it in something unrelated just to sneak it past those voting congresspeople that never actually read what they are voting on. OK, sure, that's most of them, but that should be illegal as well. If you haven't read it, they shouldn't vote on it at all or have to abstain that particular item.
But as these tricks are all part of how they do things, it will likely never change. And reading those laws is surely a lot of work, and they won't want to do that before voting...
So, as it will all remain as is and we the people are screwed, I'm going to ask my congressmal to consider attaching something of my own to this spending bill that will make it legal for me to punch each and every congressperson once a year. Make a big shindig of it all and such, at taxpayers expense of course. And I get to show them what I think of their shenanigans with nothing to worry about myself!
This is the first I've seen of Yates' letter from Microsoft. He makes some points, and I'm curious to know how their own format compares.
How many different applications from different vendors already support the MS XML format? How does this number compare to the OpenDocument number?
OpenDocument will be usable on a number of CPU and OS platforms. How many CPU and OS platforms will be supported by MS's own XML format? (I use a Solaris workstation at work and do not myself have access to a Windows PC until I get home, at which point I'm not "working" anymore)
How long ago was MS's own XML standard finalized? And how widely is it in current use today? (I honestly don't know either since MS tools don't run onmy workstation at work, and I don't do this sort of thing at home to be worth buying their stuff myself) Has this been long and wide enough to "prove itself" in comparison to how long and wide OpenDocument's use has been to date?
If MS is losing business due to the choice of standard, why does MS not implement this open standard in their own product?
What are the costs involved with implementing MS's own XML format for 3rd party vendors in their tools such as OpenOffice, KOffice, etc?
MS seems to dictate what capabilities are required for "modern documents". Surely the committee that decided on OpenDocument knew what their own needs are and will be, and could determine if OpenDocument's capabilities were suitable?
Almost funny considering the previous article on slashdot today is titled "U.S. Announces Global Intellectual Property Plan".
So basically what they're saying is that what's good for everyone else is not good if the US government is involved? Does the USA government also get to take foreign patents for free even if the laws in those countries forbid the practice?
It used to seem like Final Fantasy XI was in the same position. Now only one of my friends is still playing it. Plus there's going to be a number of people like myself that find they aren't into that genre of game and will find others to enjoy. Every time id releases a new game, that's the thing to have for a while, no matter what, but then people find other things to enjoy, and the same will happen here.
The CS courses I took covered data structures, search and sort algorithms, operating system concepts, concurrent software/multiprocessor issues, semaphores, and languages and that sort of thing. Seemed pretty ceneric stuff not particularly specific to any OS.
I didn't study programming for Windows at all. We had Unix and VMS systems, but didn't do anything particularly specific to any OS, it was generic Modula-2 or generic C or whatever that could run in any shell/CLI, there were no graphics or API calls in anything except for one single project, but they provided a gneric API for that so we didn't need to do Xwindows calls.
How exactly is it so different to program these mainframes that what I saw as a platform-agnostic syllabus is unsuitable for the task?
Hmmm. So there won't be any video games released in 2012? We can't fill in the entire date that year when we write cheques to pay bills? And there will only be three seasons to talk about?
Besides, how long do you think the lifespan of a CEO would be if they turned over control of the licensing to a third party instead of relying on the corp's own legal team? Thats what happens with the GPL -- the terms are defined by the authors of the GPL, and they can change those terms with a new release of the license.
But when you release something under one version of the GPL, you have indeed released under that particular version of the GPL. Newer versions of the GPL do not automatically change the terms of something released under a different version. So when GPL3 is completed, GPL2 things do not automatically update to GPL3 terms do they?
1. Arrive at uni and buy E-books (profit) 2. Spill coffee on laptop, re-buy book for new laptop. (profit) 3. Drop laptop down stairway, rebuy book for new laptop. (profit) 4. Hard drive crashes, rebuy book for new hard drive keying. (profit) 5. Upgrade to Windows Longhorn, rebuy book for new OS environment keying. (profit) 6. Replace old laptop with newer faster model, rebuy book (profit)
How many other opportunities are there to wreck the keying that the book uses to determine what computer it's on and prevents the student from reading the ebook he legitimately paid for??
Yea, perhaps a whole new tinfoil fashion industry will come into being here. Tin foil shirts, tin foil boxers, tin foil suits... Hey, with all this RFID protection going on, could you not also be your own Man-Tenna for all your mobile wifi gear?
Apple could have a different unique key in the EEPROM or something like that. The chips don't have fixed encryption stuff, the alogirthms may or may not be, but keys can be redone, and a big enough company could get custom algorithms implemented.
So while the silicon might possibly be identical, the code running on that silicon doesn't have to be the same as everyone else's, much like the same PentiumM silicon can run Windows or Linux or *BSD or now MacOS.
I own ral estate, which I rent to people to live in.
Can my boss decide who I can or cannot offer a place to live? Real-estate laws require that I not discriminate. Does this law allow a loophole so that my boss could force me to discriminate against people working at the same company as I do? If these two laws have to duke it out, which one wins?
Eh, what a joke. Since graduating form college and moving away from friends and family, the people at work are the only people I know. I am not going to completely sever from my only social life because I happen to work with these people.
I saw that. Twice. Weird how the root in charge of the government only seems to know how to say "robot lions", every other freakin word out of his speaker was that phrase... Made the original series worthy of high-class awards in comparison.
What about the third one, which was three humanoid robots that somehow combined into a larger humanoid robot? I had toys of all three when I was little, but never really figured out this third one as I never saw a cartoon to really explain how it all was supposed to fit together. The instructions were lacking or absent... I think there was a red one, a black one, and a blue one if I remember right.
The vehicles Voltron was cool too. The toys were great, but I didn't get into this cartoon as much as I liked the one with the lions for some reason.
Cool, I'll have to go see this. I enjoyed it as a kid, but ironically hate the Power Rangers now, which is really the same thing but without the cartoony special effects. Ah, I can't wait to see how these toys will compare to those I had back in the day.
I haven't adjusted for regular time in 4 years now. I've stayed on daylight savings time because I like it better that way in the winter. Now I'll be right for more than only half the year!
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Gates argued that Sony's new high-definition DVD standard, called Blu-ray, needed to be changed so it would work smoothly with personal computers running on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Is there a reason to assume that Blueray drives or disks will not work smoothly in Windows, but will work fine in Linux, Mac, etc??
Does anyone else think it'd be fun to hide this in the conference room hooked up to the speakerphone?
Look around for cards with HDTV outputs. Now, which ones have good Linux support? (Honestly, I have no idea if ATI's component converter works in Linux) I think the NVidia based cards might support DVI HDTV connections as well as component, is this true?
Pity it won't fit in some HTPC cases such as Antec Overture or AHANIX MCE601B-A that this nor the GIGABYTE GV-N66T128D I tried will fit in. The folded up heatsink on this guy, and the heatpipe arwpping from front to back on the Gigabyte card I tried go up above the card far enough to prevent the case lids from fitting, as the lids go only a very small distance above the rear case bracket screw and the heatsink/heatpipe go a good bit higher than that...
I'd love a fanless card for my MythTV box, but it seems that's not meant to be...
I nominate we all start encouraging our congresmen and congresswomen to put together some legislation that would outlaw tacking on ammendments to bills which are off-topic to the bill at hand. Copy protection of TV shows has nothing to do with government budget reconciliation stuff. It's off-topic, and has no place being attached to such a bill.
If it can't stand on it's own, it should be illegal to hide it in something unrelated just to sneak it past those voting congresspeople that never actually read what they are voting on. OK, sure, that's most of them, but that should be illegal as well. If you haven't read it, they shouldn't vote on it at all or have to abstain that particular item.
But as these tricks are all part of how they do things, it will likely never change. And reading those laws is surely a lot of work, and they won't want to do that before voting...
So, as it will all remain as is and we the people are screwed, I'm going to ask my congressmal to consider attaching something of my own to this spending bill that will make it legal for me to punch each and every congressperson once a year. Make a big shindig of it all and such, at taxpayers expense of course. And I get to show them what I think of their shenanigans with nothing to worry about myself!
This is the first I've seen of Yates' letter from Microsoft. He makes some points, and I'm curious to know how their own format compares.
How many different applications from different vendors already support the MS XML format? How does this number compare to the OpenDocument number?
OpenDocument will be usable on a number of CPU and OS platforms. How many CPU and OS platforms will be supported by MS's own XML format? (I use a Solaris workstation at work and do not myself have access to a Windows PC until I get home, at which point I'm not "working" anymore)
How long ago was MS's own XML standard finalized? And how widely is it in current use today? (I honestly don't know either since MS tools don't run onmy workstation at work, and I don't do this sort of thing at home to be worth buying their stuff myself) Has this been long and wide enough to "prove itself" in comparison to how long and wide OpenDocument's use has been to date?
If MS is losing business due to the choice of standard, why does MS not implement this open standard in their own product?
What are the costs involved with implementing MS's own XML format for 3rd party vendors in their tools such as OpenOffice, KOffice, etc?
MS seems to dictate what capabilities are required for "modern documents". Surely the committee that decided on OpenDocument knew what their own needs are and will be, and could determine if OpenDocument's capabilities were suitable?
Almost funny considering the previous article on slashdot today is titled "U.S. Announces Global Intellectual Property Plan".
So basically what they're saying is that what's good for everyone else is not good if the US government is involved? Does the USA government also get to take foreign patents for free even if the laws in those countries forbid the practice?
It used to seem like Final Fantasy XI was in the same position. Now only one of my friends is still playing it. Plus there's going to be a number of people like myself that find they aren't into that genre of game and will find others to enjoy. Every time id releases a new game, that's the thing to have for a while, no matter what, but then people find other things to enjoy, and the same will happen here.
So, are we not allowed to be really really angry about this patent, because becoming so furious might conflict with the patent and get us sued?!
The CS courses I took covered data structures, search and sort algorithms, operating system concepts, concurrent software/multiprocessor issues, semaphores, and languages and that sort of thing. Seemed pretty ceneric stuff not particularly specific to any OS.
I didn't study programming for Windows at all. We had Unix and VMS systems, but didn't do anything particularly specific to any OS, it was generic Modula-2 or generic C or whatever that could run in any shell/CLI, there were no graphics or API calls in anything except for one single project, but they provided a gneric API for that so we didn't need to do Xwindows calls.
How exactly is it so different to program these mainframes that what I saw as a platform-agnostic syllabus is unsuitable for the task?
> Where exactly did you get the idea that the meat
> you were eating now was somehow natural?
You mean deli sandwich meat doesn't actually come from brick shaped animals?
Hmmm. So there won't be any video games released in 2012? We can't fill in the entire date that year when we write cheques to pay bills? And there will only be three seasons to talk about?
You'd better apply for a similar patent covering th emethod of applying for a Copyright via HTTP.
Besides, how long do you think the lifespan of a
CEO would be if they turned over control of the
licensing to a third party instead of relying on the corp's own legal team? Thats what happens with the GPL -- the terms are defined by the authors of the GPL, and they can change those terms with a new release of the license.
But when you release something under one version of the GPL, you have indeed released under that particular version of the GPL. Newer versions of the GPL do not automatically change the terms of something released under a different version. So when GPL3 is completed, GPL2 things do not automatically update to GPL3 terms do they?
1. Arrive at uni and buy E-books (profit)
2. Spill coffee on laptop, re-buy book for new laptop. (profit)
3. Drop laptop down stairway, rebuy book for new laptop. (profit)
4. Hard drive crashes, rebuy book for new hard drive keying. (profit)
5. Upgrade to Windows Longhorn, rebuy book for new OS environment keying. (profit)
6. Replace old laptop with newer faster model, rebuy book (profit)
How many other opportunities are there to wreck the keying that the book uses to determine what computer it's on and prevents the student from reading the ebook he legitimately paid for??
> ...it'll be called "The Freedom Chip".
Well yea, because calling them "French Chips" would just be silly.
Yea, perhaps a whole new tinfoil fashion industry will come into being here. Tin foil shirts, tin foil boxers, tin foil suits... Hey, with all this RFID protection going on, could you not also be your own Man-Tenna for all your mobile wifi gear?
Apple could have a different unique key in the EEPROM or something like that. The chips don't have fixed encryption stuff, the alogirthms may or may not be, but keys can be redone, and a big enough company could get custom algorithms implemented.
So while the silicon might possibly be identical, the code running on that silicon doesn't have to be the same as everyone else's, much like the same PentiumM silicon can run Windows or Linux or *BSD or now MacOS.
I own ral estate, which I rent to people to live in.
Can my boss decide who I can or cannot offer a place to live? Real-estate laws require that I not discriminate. Does this law allow a loophole so that my boss could force me to discriminate against people working at the same company as I do? If these two laws have to duke it out, which one wins?
Eh, what a joke. Since graduating form college and moving away from friends and family, the people at work are the only people I know. I am not going to completely sever from my only social life because I happen to work with these people.
to fit 10% additional crew to compensate.
I saw that. Twice. Weird how the root in charge of the government only seems to know how to say "robot lions", every other freakin word out of his speaker was that phrase... Made the original series worthy of high-class awards in comparison.
What about the third one, which was three humanoid robots that somehow combined into a larger humanoid robot? I had toys of all three when I was little, but never really figured out this third one as I never saw a cartoon to really explain how it all was supposed to fit together. The instructions were lacking or absent... I think there was a red one, a black one, and a blue one if I remember right.
The vehicles Voltron was cool too. The toys were great, but I didn't get into this cartoon as much as I liked the one with the lions for some reason.
For a while they covered up the Voltron name with stickers that said Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. They sold zillions of Voltron toys this way.
Cool, I'll have to go see this. I enjoyed it as a kid, but ironically hate the Power Rangers now, which is really the same thing but without the cartoony special effects. Ah, I can't wait to see how these toys will compare to those I had back in the day.
I haven't adjusted for regular time in 4 years now. I've stayed on daylight savings time because I like it better that way in the winter. Now I'll be right for more than only half the year!