What I got from reading my Verizon DSL service agreement was that they were making no warranty at all concerning the actual throughput on my line, regardless of the advertised speed.
How is that different from any other ISP that does the exact same thing? If you want guarantees on your throughput you're going to have to shell out for a dedicated line.
Most of those third party sales on the 360 are emulated games or game remakes from older consoles
Bullshit. None of those games are emulated or remakes. They were all games developed specifically for the 360. I love this shifting goalpost that came about once it was shown that the GP was false because Microsoft or the 360 always has to lose.
The point is that the costs of services like Amazon or NetApp, etc include the costs for support, server maintenance, upgrades, etc. That they are only comparing this to just the bare minimum price for this company to construct their server is highly misleading.
That's all fine and dandy but where is my support going to come from when this server has issues? Are they throwing in for free maintenance and upgrades to this server when it no longer meets requirements? If not, this figure is highly disingenuous.
Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income?
Huh? This doesn't even make sense. Please provide any statutory or case law that even remotely would back one bringing such a frivolous lawsuit.
To me that seems more fair than the current Patent system.
No, the logic would extend to any invention in the history of computing not just things being done today. Any research from Bell Labs or PARC or any other such research institute was just mundane and not novel because according to the GP's stupid logic that it's all just "interacting with a computer".
People keep saying stuff like this but anti-trust or anti-monopoly laws don't use such overly literal definitions when defining what is and isn't a monopoly.
Exactly there is nothing novel about this. Companies have been setting up deals to get their software installed by OEMs for decades. The only reason this was posted was to try to push an anti-Microsoft spin and nothing else.
How is this not interacting with a computer? And it doesn't sound all that novel now, does it?
According to this logic no invention in the history of computing has ever been novel because it can all just be broken down to "interacting with a computer".
Well mine was more just a question of whether it can be done as I wasn't sure. Last I heard a few years back was that someone could break it in 9 days. From what I've now found, apparently a brute force attack is still pretty slow.
No, apparently it's only an acceptable practice when it's a Linux vendor who drops support for a product (and usually in a far shorter time span than Microsoft).
Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed.
Make sure to read the bolded portion a few times until it sinks in.
Did you even bother to read the summary? This is about the awesome bar going into your bookmarks and then adding those URLs in as suggested site to go to. This has nothing to do with clearing your history or cookies or anything else.
You are. Open sores developers don't care what their users want. It's not "1337" if you actually fix things in response to user feedback on usability. That's the reason why there are so many plugins to restore the "awesome" bar back to something resembling the original URL bar.
So again, you've yet to point out what relevance your response had to do with what I said. That some things may be simpler to do in Linux has absolutely no relevance to the fact that power management is a pain in the ass on Linux as compared to it's simplicity on Windows. Expecting an average user to want to use Linux when things as basic as power management requires such complex steps to get working is why none of them are flocking to it.
I can point to a few hundred things which are easy in Linux and involve jumping through many hoops in Windows.
And? What is the relevance of that in relation to the complexity of power management in a Linux distro as opposed to it's absolute simplicity in Windows? This is a nice attempt at deflecting the problem, but it doesn't make it go away.
Someone at Lenovo went through the steps to tune XP to the computer.
If by "that you mean they just chose one of the pre-made power management profiles for laptops that come preinstalled with Windows then yes they did "tune" XP to the computer.
I bet if you took a retail Windows XP and installed it, it would get about the same battery life.
You would be wrong. Power management is enabled by default and as such you would get better battery life out of the box.
Making one of your products look better than another of your products doesn't really make any of your products look worse...
But they would have no reason to falsely claim that one of their products was worse than it actually is. Which is the point I was making and you failed to address. This would be like Ford falsely claiming that one of it's cars has 25% less gas mileage than it really does which would make absolutely no sense to do. Secondly, yes it would make it look worse in the eyes of someone who was shopping for a laptop with a keen eye for the battery life.
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What I got from reading my Verizon DSL service agreement was that they were making no warranty at all concerning the actual throughput on my line, regardless of the advertised speed.
How is that different from any other ISP that does the exact same thing? If you want guarantees on your throughput you're going to have to shell out for a dedicated line.
Most of those third party sales on the 360 are emulated games or game remakes from older consoles
Bullshit. None of those games are emulated or remakes. They were all games developed specifically for the 360. I love this shifting goalpost that came about once it was shown that the GP was false because Microsoft or the 360 always has to lose.
The Wii has the highest number of third party million sellers this generation.
Bullshit. 360 has 36 third party million sales games. Wii has only 19. Using stats from here and here.
The point is that the costs of services like Amazon or NetApp, etc include the costs for support, server maintenance, upgrades, etc. That they are only comparing this to just the bare minimum price for this company to construct their server is highly misleading.
Linux-based server using commodity parts that contains 67 terabytes of storage at a material cost of $7,867.
That's all fine and dandy but where is my support going to come from when this server has issues? Are they throwing in for free maintenance and upgrades to this server when it no longer meets requirements? If not, this figure is highly disingenuous.
Even Microsoft's own developers admit that their C/C++ indexing is primitive and broken,
So then you'd have no trouble providing a citation for this claim, no?
Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income?
Huh? This doesn't even make sense. Please provide any statutory or case law that even remotely would back one bringing such a frivolous lawsuit.
To me that seems more fair than the current Patent system.
No, the logic would extend to any invention in the history of computing not just things being done today. Any research from Bell Labs or PARC or any other such research institute was just mundane and not novel because according to the GP's stupid logic that it's all just "interacting with a computer".
People keep saying stuff like this but anti-trust or anti-monopoly laws don't use such overly literal definitions when defining what is and isn't a monopoly.
Exactly there is nothing novel about this. Companies have been setting up deals to get their software installed by OEMs for decades. The only reason this was posted was to try to push an anti-Microsoft spin and nothing else.
How is this not interacting with a computer? And it doesn't sound all that novel now, does it?
According to this logic no invention in the history of computing has ever been novel because it can all just be broken down to "interacting with a computer".
PS3s are big endian machines. Xbox 360s are little endian. Q.E.D They can't talk to each other.
Gee, if only someone would discover the mystical secret of translating between big and little endian.
The ONLY example of a truly oppressive "right-wing" government is ... () the national socialist party of Germany.
The Nazis were't socialist and neither was Hitler. And it's amusing that you try to equate them as being left-wing.
Well mine was more just a question of whether it can be done as I wasn't sure. Last I heard a few years back was that someone could break it in 9 days. From what I've now found, apparently a brute force attack is still pretty slow.
Exactly. Secondly can't a 56-bit DES cipher be broken quite easily these days?
Not only is it vastly more secure, it's also an order of magnitude or two faster than wireless.
Really? Please show me this consumer-available wired ethernet that runs at 10 gigabit.
... and that makes it an acceptable practice?
No, apparently it's only an acceptable practice when it's a Linux vendor who drops support for a product (and usually in a far shorter time span than Microsoft).
Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed .
Make sure to read the bolded portion a few times until it sinks in.
Did you even bother to read the summary? This is about the awesome bar going into your bookmarks and then adding those URLs in as suggested site to go to. This has nothing to do with clearing your history or cookies or anything else.
Or am I missing something?
You are. Open sores developers don't care what their users want. It's not "1337" if you actually fix things in response to user feedback on usability. That's the reason why there are so many plugins to restore the "awesome" bar back to something resembling the original URL bar.
So again, you've yet to point out what relevance your response had to do with what I said. That some things may be simpler to do in Linux has absolutely no relevance to the fact that power management is a pain in the ass on Linux as compared to it's simplicity on Windows. Expecting an average user to want to use Linux when things as basic as power management requires such complex steps to get working is why none of them are flocking to it.
I can point to a few hundred things which are easy in Linux and involve jumping through many hoops in Windows.
And? What is the relevance of that in relation to the complexity of power management in a Linux distro as opposed to it's absolute simplicity in Windows? This is a nice attempt at deflecting the problem, but it doesn't make it go away.
Someone at Lenovo went through the steps to tune XP to the computer. If by "that you mean they just chose one of the pre-made power management profiles for laptops that come preinstalled with Windows then yes they did "tune" XP to the computer.
I bet if you took a retail Windows XP and installed it, it would get about the same battery life.
You would be wrong. Power management is enabled by default and as such you would get better battery life out of the box.
Making one of your products look better than another of your products doesn't really make any of your products look worse...
But they would have no reason to falsely claim that one of their products was worse than it actually is. Which is the point I was making and you failed to address. This would be like Ford falsely claiming that one of it's cars has 25% less gas mileage than it really does which would make absolutely no sense to do. Secondly, yes it would make it look worse in the eyes of someone who was shopping for a laptop with a keen eye for the battery life.