The really scarey thing is law enforcement has done all of that already in this country. That why we have the laws to control law enforcement that we have.
You are confused, MS and Sony used 2 different IBM processors. The processor in the XBox is based off of the PPC 97XX chipset which is not a cell processor but a multi-core processor. The processor in the PS3 is the IBM Cell Broadband Engine (BE) Processor, which is another beast altogether. Given that both processors are highly modified for the consoles, I would say they probably have similar performance specs for the current crop of games. The XBox probably has slightly better graphics, because they are using a beefier graphics processor. But the PS3 should blow the XBox out of the water when it comes to parallel processing (more things moving on the screen at the same time). By the way, the Wii uses the P5 7XX processor, I would have to say the real winner of this round of console wars has been IBM.
Sorry the Mach kernel is the kernel BSD includes in their pay distributions, you know like BSD Unix and netBSD. One of the things that caused so much excitement about OS X was the fact that Apple "licensed" a kernel designed for mini/mainframes to build their new OS on.
No Apple did not steal from Xerox, Apple licensed and paid for Xerox's technology they used in the Mac, unless the patents expired Apple is probaby still paying Xerox royalties.
So in other words you want OS X to act like windows because that is what you are used to. Get over yourself. How is resizing a window to fit the content "telling you what to do"? This sounds like what should happen. I personally take offense to the min/max button, how dare they take over my entire screen and hide all the other windows when I just want a little more real estate in my browser.
Ahh, but you seem to discount free will in your argument. Free will introduced something called an opinion and we all have one. Two people who disagree do not change Gods mind, they are just stating "their" interpretation of what they think God wants. In other words they are exerting their free will. This is the challenge presented to us by God, to figure out whats right and whats wrong in any given situation and to act accordingly.
I guess the REAL question is why would a business rely on one person to support their entire network? What would happen if you got into a car accident on the way to work tomorrow? The next admin may not be as knowledgable as you, are they suppose to start all over again with a different distro? One the new admin knows? By using a product with support included they are assuring that if anything happens to you they can still get the support they need. It's better to have a support contract and not need it than to need a support contract and not have it.
This might not be as far fetched as it sounds, is there anywhere we can view what the settlement conditions with the RIAA were for any of these cases? The RIAA did seem to target Kazaa with a majority of lawsuits, and I do know they consider Kazaa to be on the same level as Napster (since they both were at their peaks at about the same time). As ridiculous as it sounds this may have been the plan all along, the RIAA has been caught in conspiracies before (price fixing, making illegal deals with radio stations, not paying the artists, etc...).
You dont get it. The only part of the music industry that should go away is the distribution chain. There will still be a need for talent scouts, promoters, studios, server admins, etc... Its the distributors (RIAA/MPAA) that are becoming obsolete, unfortunately the distribution chain is controlled by groups of lawyers/lobbyists who can prolong their inevitable deaths for what seems like an eternity. I just wish studios would wake up and realize how much of a drain the *AA's are becoming on them, and how much more they could be making if they just disbanded that huge lumbering money sponge.
I dont understand why they do this either. They are effectively killing word of mouth advertising (the most effective there is), its like none of them understands how business works, and instead of changing themselves they are trying to change the world around them. So not only are they clueless, but they are also stupid. Oh well I guess thats what happens when you let lawyers run the company.
Bullshit you racist bastard. In my experience its usually the guy in the 2-ton pickup with the American flag decal in the back window and the fake testicles hanging from his trailer hitch. You know, the guy with the fuck-the-world because I have no self esteem attitude?
Didnt MS originally purchase the stock as part of a settlement Apple filed against MS because MS infringed (I didnt say steal) on Apples IP and MS lost?
That is also my experience. On the project I work on we have always tried to adhere to standards (some of our users come from environments where IE is just not available), this has had the effect that I havent had to think about browser compatibility in about 2 years. We have still managed to create a site that is constantly getting kudos from our customers and the big boys in the company, yet we havent sacrificed any usability by following standards. As far as I am concerned ActiveX, OWC, Ajax and Flash are mechanisms lazy people use so they dont have to think about the tough problems (of course I am not including people working in legacy environments in this statement, you dont have control of what was implemented in the past). Most people use way too much flair on their website, keep it simple stupid, google got to where they are today by giving the customers just what they needed and nothing more.
the virtual players stage a virtual coup and overtake the virtual government? I dont get it, are they going to start taxing the money in monopoly now? If you cant buy real things with it, ITS NOT REAL MONEY, how can they tax it? This would be one more step in seeing our forefathers dream destroyed, this is like the definition of taxaton without representation. Or is there real money exchanging hands for these online assets?
You hit the nail right on the head. In fact I would wager close to 90% of our problems could be solved if we just asked "why" it is a problem, instead of passing archaic laws and trying to control human behavior.
Raising campaign funds and getting elected. Thats it, nothing more, after that they are all completely lost. George Bush is a model of organization when he is on the campaign trail. He has entry strategies, exit strategies every part of his campaigning is well thought out. Its when he tries to actually do the job he spent so much time campaigning for that he falls flat on his face. I remember as I was growing up Republicans where definately more politically aware than they are today. I could ask just about any Republican what their current candidates platform was and they could tell me and they would all agree. Today if I ask 5 different Republicans what George Bush's stance on topics are, I will get 5 different answers (and they are usually contratictory to what he himself actually said). Republicans these days dont want to think about politics they just want a canned and scripted candidate that says what they want to hear, and they dont seem to care if that candidate lies to them or not.
How do you know what Jesus wanted? Where you there? Remember he turned the water to wine so people could party at a wedding? It was also common in the Jewish religion at the time to smoke hashish after meals (including children). The chance that jesus had smoked hashish and drank alcohol is pretty darn good as they were common customs of the time and his religion. Jesus never said no drinking and smoking, he did say not to let these things rule your life and to never put them before god.
We should adopt a placement system within public schools. I think Germany has a system like this. Kids have to go to grade school to learn the basics. After that they are required to take a test and they are either placed in a trade school or allowed to go on to higher education. I understand there are many problems with this (wrong placement, the obvious problems with nationalized testing, etc) but there are models to learn from and improve on. Most of the reason the disruptive kids are disruptive is because they are bored, why would I need to learn calculus or history beyond the basics when I know I am going to work at my dads auto shop when I am done with school. We need to get the kids that are more interested in getting out in workforce than going to school, out in the workforce. Teach them the basics they will need to know to survive then train them to work, so we are forcing them to learn things that they really wont use the rest of their lives. We are also forcing the students who may not be the best in the school environment to stay well beyond their capacity to within that environment. Some people learn more effectively by doing.
This is a ridiculous argument. We define the word by what we know now, when we learn something new or find a body that doesnt fit the current definition of planet we change the definition. This is what a living language is. This is just ramblings by an ultra anal retentive who doesnt seem to realize that there are very few (if any) words that are defined the same way today as they were in the past. Personally I hope we never come up with a definitive definition of planet, that would mean everyone is done thinking about it.
they must think they have some sort of case already. For anyone who is actually old enough to have followed MS through their lifetime, will realize this is their usual foreplay before the extinguish phase of their business model. They wouldnt be offering protection to these companies unless they thought they had a viable threat. Microsoft will go through the whole embrace, extend, extinguish phase whether they work or not, this is what they do. They are probably trying to establish Linux as a proprietary OS in the minds of the customers, this will somewhat even up the playing field for them. Or Microsoft is planning on filing one bogus patent suit after another (SCO got away with it) until the customers think that linux is riddled with patent issues and lose interest. Debian, Ubuntu and all the free implementations of linux should be preparing their legal teams now for what is coming. I have a feeling the first real shots are going to be fired in this war (up until now its just been "My OS is better than yours" kind of marketing/fanboy rhetoric). There should at least be a review board formed to actively find any patent issues in Linux (FSF, Groklaw collaboration?), and to react and prove or discredit any accusations made.
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The really scarey thing is law enforcement has done all of that already in this country. That why we have the laws to control law enforcement that we have.
You are confused, MS and Sony used 2 different IBM processors. The processor in the XBox is based off of the PPC 97XX chipset which is not a cell processor but a multi-core processor. The processor in the PS3 is the IBM Cell Broadband Engine (BE) Processor, which is another beast altogether. Given that both processors are highly modified for the consoles, I would say they probably have similar performance specs for the current crop of games. The XBox probably has slightly better graphics, because they are using a beefier graphics processor. But the PS3 should blow the XBox out of the water when it comes to parallel processing (more things moving on the screen at the same time). By the way, the Wii uses the P5 7XX processor, I would have to say the real winner of this round of console wars has been IBM.
No, No, No. Vista is not the product of the decade, its the product that took a decade.
Sorry the Mach kernel is the kernel BSD includes in their pay distributions, you know like BSD Unix and netBSD. One of the things that caused so much excitement about OS X was the fact that Apple "licensed" a kernel designed for mini/mainframes to build their new OS on.
No Apple did not steal from Xerox, Apple licensed and paid for Xerox's technology they used in the Mac, unless the patents expired Apple is probaby still paying Xerox royalties.
I always said, "Windows users have to defend their OS of choice", while "Mac and Linux users praise their choice of OS".
So in other words you want OS X to act like windows because that is what you are used to. Get over yourself. How is resizing a window to fit the content "telling you what to do"? This sounds like what should happen. I personally take offense to the min/max button, how dare they take over my entire screen and hide all the other windows when I just want a little more real estate in my browser.
Ahh, but you seem to discount free will in your argument. Free will introduced something called an opinion and we all have one. Two people who disagree do not change Gods mind, they are just stating "their" interpretation of what they think God wants. In other words they are exerting their free will. This is the challenge presented to us by God, to figure out whats right and whats wrong in any given situation and to act accordingly.
I guess the REAL question is why would a business rely on one person to support their entire network? What would happen if you got into a car accident on the way to work tomorrow? The next admin may not be as knowledgable as you, are they suppose to start all over again with a different distro? One the new admin knows? By using a product with support included they are assuring that if anything happens to you they can still get the support they need. It's better to have a support contract and not need it than to need a support contract and not have it.
please feel free to not wait until then, if you need any help!
Aww hell the exec that made the comment probably had the hooker write it while he was snorting coke off of her ass.
This might not be as far fetched as it sounds, is there anywhere we can view what the settlement conditions with the RIAA were for any of these cases? The RIAA did seem to target Kazaa with a majority of lawsuits, and I do know they consider Kazaa to be on the same level as Napster (since they both were at their peaks at about the same time). As ridiculous as it sounds this may have been the plan all along, the RIAA has been caught in conspiracies before (price fixing, making illegal deals with radio stations, not paying the artists, etc...).
You dont get it. The only part of the music industry that should go away is the distribution chain. There will still be a need for talent scouts, promoters, studios, server admins, etc... Its the distributors (RIAA/MPAA) that are becoming obsolete, unfortunately the distribution chain is controlled by groups of lawyers/lobbyists who can prolong their inevitable deaths for what seems like an eternity. I just wish studios would wake up and realize how much of a drain the *AA's are becoming on them, and how much more they could be making if they just disbanded that huge lumbering money sponge.
I dont understand why they do this either. They are effectively killing word of mouth advertising (the most effective there is), its like none of them understands how business works, and instead of changing themselves they are trying to change the world around them. So not only are they clueless, but they are also stupid. Oh well I guess thats what happens when you let lawyers run the company.
Bullshit you racist bastard. In my experience its usually the guy in the 2-ton pickup with the American flag decal in the back window and the fake testicles hanging from his trailer hitch. You know, the guy with the fuck-the-world because I have no self esteem attitude?
Didnt MS originally purchase the stock as part of a settlement Apple filed against MS because MS infringed (I didnt say steal) on Apples IP and MS lost?
That is also my experience. On the project I work on we have always tried to adhere to standards (some of our users come from environments where IE is just not available), this has had the effect that I havent had to think about browser compatibility in about 2 years. We have still managed to create a site that is constantly getting kudos from our customers and the big boys in the company, yet we havent sacrificed any usability by following standards. As far as I am concerned ActiveX, OWC, Ajax and Flash are mechanisms lazy people use so they dont have to think about the tough problems (of course I am not including people working in legacy environments in this statement, you dont have control of what was implemented in the past). Most people use way too much flair on their website, keep it simple stupid, google got to where they are today by giving the customers just what they needed and nothing more.
No, what gives you that idea?
the virtual players stage a virtual coup and overtake the virtual government? I dont get it, are they going to start taxing the money in monopoly now? If you cant buy real things with it, ITS NOT REAL MONEY, how can they tax it? This would be one more step in seeing our forefathers dream destroyed, this is like the definition of taxaton without representation. Or is there real money exchanging hands for these online assets?
You hit the nail right on the head. In fact I would wager close to 90% of our problems could be solved if we just asked "why" it is a problem, instead of passing archaic laws and trying to control human behavior.
Raising campaign funds and getting elected. Thats it, nothing more, after that they are all completely lost. George Bush is a model of organization when he is on the campaign trail. He has entry strategies, exit strategies every part of his campaigning is well thought out. Its when he tries to actually do the job he spent so much time campaigning for that he falls flat on his face. I remember as I was growing up Republicans where definately more politically aware than they are today. I could ask just about any Republican what their current candidates platform was and they could tell me and they would all agree. Today if I ask 5 different Republicans what George Bush's stance on topics are, I will get 5 different answers (and they are usually contratictory to what he himself actually said). Republicans these days dont want to think about politics they just want a canned and scripted candidate that says what they want to hear, and they dont seem to care if that candidate lies to them or not.
How do you know what Jesus wanted? Where you there? Remember he turned the water to wine so people could party at a wedding? It was also common in the Jewish religion at the time to smoke hashish after meals (including children). The chance that jesus had smoked hashish and drank alcohol is pretty darn good as they were common customs of the time and his religion. Jesus never said no drinking and smoking, he did say not to let these things rule your life and to never put them before god.
We should adopt a placement system within public schools. I think Germany has a system like this. Kids have to go to grade school to learn the basics. After that they are required to take a test and they are either placed in a trade school or allowed to go on to higher education. I understand there are many problems with this (wrong placement, the obvious problems with nationalized testing, etc) but there are models to learn from and improve on. Most of the reason the disruptive kids are disruptive is because they are bored, why would I need to learn calculus or history beyond the basics when I know I am going to work at my dads auto shop when I am done with school. We need to get the kids that are more interested in getting out in workforce than going to school, out in the workforce. Teach them the basics they will need to know to survive then train them to work, so we are forcing them to learn things that they really wont use the rest of their lives. We are also forcing the students who may not be the best in the school environment to stay well beyond their capacity to within that environment. Some people learn more effectively by doing.
Seriously, O'Rielly is a self absorbed idiot who believes anyone that disagrees with him is 'one of them'.
You have just described the majority of political extremists in this country, conservative or liberal.
This is a ridiculous argument. We define the word by what we know now, when we learn something new or find a body that doesnt fit the current definition of planet we change the definition. This is what a living language is. This is just ramblings by an ultra anal retentive who doesnt seem to realize that there are very few (if any) words that are defined the same way today as they were in the past. Personally I hope we never come up with a definitive definition of planet, that would mean everyone is done thinking about it.
they must think they have some sort of case already. For anyone who is actually old enough to have followed MS through their lifetime, will realize this is their usual foreplay before the extinguish phase of their business model. They wouldnt be offering protection to these companies unless they thought they had a viable threat. Microsoft will go through the whole embrace, extend, extinguish phase whether they work or not, this is what they do. They are probably trying to establish Linux as a proprietary OS in the minds of the customers, this will somewhat even up the playing field for them. Or Microsoft is planning on filing one bogus patent suit after another (SCO got away with it) until the customers think that linux is riddled with patent issues and lose interest. Debian, Ubuntu and all the free implementations of linux should be preparing their legal teams now for what is coming. I have a feeling the first real shots are going to be fired in this war (up until now its just been "My OS is better than yours" kind of marketing/fanboy rhetoric). There should at least be a review board formed to actively find any patent issues in Linux (FSF, Groklaw collaboration?), and to react and prove or discredit any accusations made.