The X-Window standard was select text --> middle mouse button to paste. This is much more intuitive and much faster than MS Windows two key combo to copy and another two keys to paste. In fact, most mortals I came in contact with have very vague idea how to operate two key combinations (ahem... press and hold down Ctrl, then press and release C. Yes, I frequently have to explain this)
The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are supported to improve the learning curve for fresh Windows refugees. This should not be stamped as a setback: once a significant proportion of desktop users converts, the Ctrl-combinations will be deprecated -- try to use the mouse, you will understand why.
Amazon.com, I am also subscribed to Hulu. Netflix does not support Linux for political reasons (CEO is on board at Microsoft), but I do not support Netflix because it cannot run on my HTPC:P
Your cable box is an app platform? You already got one from the future by Cablevision's standards. Let me list what's wrong with the one from Cablevision, for a change:
DVR. I got one for an $20/m premium. Allows to automatically record things on timer. vs. Internet: Can watch any show any episode at whim, searchable by title and air date.
Advertisements: despite being steeply priced, about 50% of the content is advertisement. Not skippable.
Quality: subpar video quality, that skips and stutters in the evening, DVR starts and stops recording things 5 minutes ahead of time, cutting off the conclusions.
Other apps: my HTPC allows to run any app imaginable, on TV screen. Cable box? Zilch.
Price: Cablevision is $70/m for basic package + $20/m for DVR. Did I mention that 50% of content is advertisement? Subpar quality? Sounds like a rip off? That's what monopolies do.
Disclaimer: I discontinued cable service two years ago and never looked back.
When you announce you're going to buy a a huge number of shares in a company, the price of those shares usually go up.
And this is exactly why nobody in his right mind announces that he is going to buy a huge number of shares. Huge number of shares is bought in secret, in many odd lots.
This is also the reason why buyouts do not go after 51%, but 100% of the company, and the negotiations are conducted in secret. Those who start buying shares like crazy before negotiations are made public are actually engaged in insider trading. A couple of guys got arrested for this a few years back. They got caught because the deal was called off in the last minute, and they already bought gazillion shares, acting on insider information.
I am fully proficient in two languages. Every time some important statement is translated (on Slashdot in particular), dozens of skeptics crop up who question what was lost in translation. The answer is: NOTHING OF VALUE. Seriously. Translation, when performed by a human being, is a much more exact science than you seem to believe.
Of course, there are "subtle nuances" that you speak of, but they are just that -- subtle nuances. They do not change the meaning.
You forgot about leverage. One only needs to put down ~10% of the price, just like when you buy a house. I am not sure about 51%, I think it is all or nothing deal.
Having said that, the above mentioned buyout would make no sense, because MSFT is both ridiculously overpriced and does not fit Apple's business model.
Bing (Microsoft product) paid Verizon (a near-monopolistic wireless carrier) to do exactly this. Google search was scraped from all the Blackberries, and possibly other phones as well, even though Google was the default search engine when customers purchased the device. This was done openly and for some reason FCC took no interest in the event. At least now we know who's pocket FCC is sitting in.
If you learned anything from playing SC, you try to kill the enemy supply/production first. So the correct order is as follows:
1. An army of robots "goes ahead and exterminates the entire (enemy?) civilian population."
2. Clean up the enemy robot army, if the latter is still functional.
If USB3 manufacturers choose to boycott Linux, then I have no option but to boycott them in return. By the time usb3 becomes indispensable someone will hack a driver for it. For now I am a happy member of 99.9% of computer users who do just fine without it.
Another example: Blueray disks. No Linux support. Surprisingly enough, no Mac support either. And most people are just fine without them. The manufacturers have a choice of easing the uber-secure nonsense, or watch their monstrous product continue to flop into oblivion.
Dual boot confuses the heck out of everyone. If you think they might ever need to boot in Windows, just keep them away from Linux. At one instance I had to disable multiple desktops as well, for simplicity.
So far i only successfully converted one person (not counting my family), after her computer was taken over by "Antivirus 2000" virus, which crawled in registry, blocked antivirus installation, and demanded money, plain and simple. All of my other "successes" eventually reverted back to Windows, with great deal of pain too, since MS stopped shipping installation disks some time ago.
Even if you take an average Joe who only needs web and some rudimentary document editing, printer becomes the next major headache. I had to discard a brand new Canon printer/scanner and manually compile driver for HP printer.... Not something a non technical person can do.
This was not your typical university project or even a system written by programmers. I used this technique in a monstrous behemoth ported from mainframe, most "API's" had been written over the past 40 years by non-programmers.... in Fortran. The whole system is one huge point of failure waiting to happen. If you think this is funny, it probably is, but the circumstances warranted this technique, because infinite loops happened more often than your average customer is willing to tolerate.
Do they deploy 'any interactive computer service'? It seems they do not! There is no other feasible explanation for creating a new set of laws that is ending with "on computer" clause. They should just declare "war on computers... and any new stuff we don't get", and be done with it.
The 70,000 not legit users they are driving away represent both Goodwill and potential future sales. If the game is good, they will both tell all their friends and can buy some game in the future (when they have more money and less time for obtaining hacked versions).
Having not legit users costs the company nothing. Driving them away costs upkeep of the DRM scheme. When DRM breaks down and locks off legit customers, that's even more lost goodwill and future sales.
So there is a tradeoff between a slight revenue increase today and a significant loss of goodwill and sales in the future. Of course, for the management types, the slight increase "now" trumps everything in the future, when they might not be part of the company.
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All my content is streamed from internet. Quality of stream is almost always lower than 1080p, so there is no need for higher resolution for TV watching both now and in foreseeable future.
I also noticed that when I sit right in front of the 46" TV-LCD panel, that serves for a nice and spacious desktop real estate. Only one aspect of this setup bothers me: for 46" of real estate the screen resolution is crap!
So yes, good thinking. Start making beyond-1080 screens at a reasonable price and I will snatch one right away. No TV functionality required, just an HDMI or DVI port.
The legislature will never happen, because the government is starting to take advantage of all the private data amassed at corporate data centers, particularly through Patriot Act. We can expect more legislature that will make all your private info available to government "on demand".
True yet so weird. Owning a $50 bullion business without shelling a penny for it. "Hostile takeover through installation of a proxy CEO." Compared to this leveraged buyout is kindergarten play. They also use "veteran ex-MS insiders" to control various committees of US Govt. Someone needs to update those MBA books!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/18/mind-controlling-parasites-date-millions-years/
There also was a rather powerful cult in Russia: Beloe Bratstvo (White Brotherhood). They were famous for cases of kidnapping and brainwashing, sometimes taking whole classes of teenagers, right out of school. Unlike in US, religion is not protected in Russia, so eventually the organizers got arrested and the cult dispersed. What I find to be an interesting fact about this is their procedure of brainwashing: fresh converts were told to starve, and sleep while sitting on a chair. My guess is that this reduced brain capacity to reason and made "religion" conversion easy.
Of course, in no way do I want to imply that those born, raised or converted into religion have anything to do with mental illness, but sometimes the links do exist, often enough to make the topic worth a serious research.
Completely unaware of their customer's interests as well. They refuse to update the video card driver on my VAIO laptop, as well as forbid Nvidia to provide me with a driver. They do not want to know about BSODs their driver generates. More than that, when I seek support they tell me to go to whatever country it is I bought it from. When I tell them that I bought it in US they act as a big broken record player.
The difference between brains and beauty is that you're more or less born into good looks — entitled, if you will. Intelligence? That takes work.
It is true both ways, I can say "you are born into good intelligence but good looks take work," and will be equally right (wrong).
Intelligence is a function of brain, which is a very complex neural net, and every one is born with a slightly different one. It should be obvious that intelligence is both "born with" and "enhanced with work".
One cannot gain beauty by sitting in front of computer/TV, while munching junk food. Takes some routine physical workout, not just that "born with" mystery.
There is no ball in the "optical trackball". Just a tiny static piece of plastic where "trackball" used to be. It's hard to see what it is on a picture but stop by any mobile phone store and check out one of the later models from HTC and Blackberry.
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The X-Window standard was select text --> middle mouse button to paste. This is much more intuitive and much faster than MS Windows two key combo to copy and another two keys to paste. In fact, most mortals I came in contact with have very vague idea how to operate two key combinations (ahem... press and hold down Ctrl, then press and release C. Yes, I frequently have to explain this)
The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are supported to improve the learning curve for fresh Windows refugees. This should not be stamped as a setback: once a significant proportion of desktop users converts, the Ctrl-combinations will be deprecated -- try to use the mouse, you will understand why.
Amazon.com, I am also subscribed to Hulu. Netflix does not support Linux for political reasons (CEO is on board at Microsoft), but I do not support Netflix because it cannot run on my HTPC :P
Disclaimer: I discontinued cable service two years ago and never looked back.
When you announce you're going to buy a a huge number of shares in a company, the price of those shares usually go up.
And this is exactly why nobody in his right mind announces that he is going to buy a huge number of shares. Huge number of shares is bought in secret, in many odd lots.
This is also the reason why buyouts do not go after 51%, but 100% of the company, and the negotiations are conducted in secret. Those who start buying shares like crazy before negotiations are made public are actually engaged in insider trading. A couple of guys got arrested for this a few years back. They got caught because the deal was called off in the last minute, and they already bought gazillion shares, acting on insider information.
I am fully proficient in two languages. Every time some important statement is translated (on Slashdot in particular), dozens of skeptics crop up who question what was lost in translation. The answer is: NOTHING OF VALUE. Seriously. Translation, when performed by a human being, is a much more exact science than you seem to believe.
Of course, there are "subtle nuances" that you speak of, but they are just that -- subtle nuances. They do not change the meaning.
You forgot about leverage. One only needs to put down ~10% of the price, just like when you buy a house. I am not sure about 51%, I think it is all or nothing deal.
Having said that, the above mentioned buyout would make no sense, because MSFT is both ridiculously overpriced and does not fit Apple's business model.
Bing (Microsoft product) paid Verizon (a near-monopolistic wireless carrier) to do exactly this. Google search was scraped from all the Blackberries, and possibly other phones as well, even though Google was the default search engine when customers purchased the device. This was done openly and for some reason FCC took no interest in the event. At least now we know who's pocket FCC is sitting in.
If you learned anything from playing SC, you try to kill the enemy supply/production first. So the correct order is as follows:
1. An army of robots "goes ahead and exterminates the entire (enemy?) civilian population."
2. Clean up the enemy robot army, if the latter is still functional.
If USB3 manufacturers choose to boycott Linux, then I have no option but to boycott them in return. By the time usb3 becomes indispensable someone will hack a driver for it. For now I am a happy member of 99.9% of computer users who do just fine without it.
Another example: Blueray disks. No Linux support. Surprisingly enough, no Mac support either. And most people are just fine without them. The manufacturers have a choice of easing the uber-secure nonsense, or watch their monstrous product continue to flop into oblivion.
Dual boot confuses the heck out of everyone. If you think they might ever need to boot in Windows, just keep them away from Linux. At one instance I had to disable multiple desktops as well, for simplicity.
So far i only successfully converted one person (not counting my family), after her computer was taken over by "Antivirus 2000" virus, which crawled in registry, blocked antivirus installation, and demanded money, plain and simple. All of my other "successes" eventually reverted back to Windows, with great deal of pain too, since MS stopped shipping installation disks some time ago.
Even if you take an average Joe who only needs web and some rudimentary document editing, printer becomes the next major headache. I had to discard a brand new Canon printer/scanner and manually compile driver for HP printer.... Not something a non technical person can do.
This was not your typical university project or even a system written by programmers. I used this technique in a monstrous behemoth ported from mainframe, most "API's" had been written over the past 40 years by non-programmers.... in Fortran. The whole system is one huge point of failure waiting to happen. If you think this is funny, it probably is, but the circumstances warranted this technique, because infinite loops happened more often than your average customer is willing to tolerate.
Put a counter in all your loops. If the counter hits some arbitrarily ridiculous number throw an exception.
This goes contrary to my management's belief that if anything goes wrong the program should "crash and burn".
Do they deploy 'any interactive computer service'? It seems they do not! There is no other feasible explanation for creating a new set of laws that is ending with "on computer" clause. They should just declare "war on computers... and any new stuff we don't get", and be done with it.
because they need the money to pay our troops.
....and to bail out financial institutions that got us in trouble n the first place and to fund tax cuts for the rich.
The 70,000 not legit users they are driving away represent both Goodwill and potential future sales. If the game is good, they will both tell all their friends and can buy some game in the future (when they have more money and less time for obtaining hacked versions).
Having not legit users costs the company nothing. Driving them away costs upkeep of the DRM scheme. When DRM breaks down and locks off legit customers, that's even more lost goodwill and future sales.
So there is a tradeoff between a slight revenue increase today and a significant loss of goodwill and sales in the future. Of course, for the management types, the slight increase "now" trumps everything in the future, when they might not be part of the company.
For HTPC use:
All my content is streamed from internet. Quality of stream is almost always lower than 1080p, so there is no need for higher resolution for TV watching both now and in foreseeable future.
I also noticed that when I sit right in front of the 46" TV-LCD panel, that serves for a nice and spacious desktop real estate. Only one aspect of this setup bothers me: for 46" of real estate the screen resolution is crap!
So yes, good thinking. Start making beyond-1080 screens at a reasonable price and I will snatch one right away. No TV functionality required, just an HDMI or DVI port.
The legislature will never happen, because the government is starting to take advantage of all the private data amassed at corporate data centers, particularly through Patriot Act. We can expect more legislature that will make all your private info available to government "on demand".
That's amazing - I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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Don't forget m$ own Nokia now.
True yet so weird. Owning a $50 bullion business without shelling a penny for it. "Hostile takeover through installation of a proxy CEO." Compared to this leveraged buyout is kindergarten play. They also use "veteran ex-MS insiders" to control various committees of US Govt. Someone needs to update those MBA books!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/18/mind-controlling-parasites-date-millions-years/
There also was a rather powerful cult in Russia: Beloe Bratstvo (White Brotherhood). They were famous for cases of kidnapping and brainwashing, sometimes taking whole classes of teenagers, right out of school. Unlike in US, religion is not protected in Russia, so eventually the organizers got arrested and the cult dispersed. What I find to be an interesting fact about this is their procedure of brainwashing: fresh converts were told to starve, and sleep while sitting on a chair. My guess is that this reduced brain capacity to reason and made "religion" conversion easy.
Of course, in no way do I want to imply that those born, raised or converted into religion have anything to do with mental illness, but sometimes the links do exist, often enough to make the topic worth a serious research.
Completely unaware of their customer's interests as well. They refuse to update the video card driver on my VAIO laptop, as well as forbid Nvidia to provide me with a driver. They do not want to know about BSODs their driver generates. More than that, when I seek support they tell me to go to whatever country it is I bought it from. When I tell them that I bought it in US they act as a big broken record player.
Great countries were not made of people complaining.
Just look at the countries where people complaining had been promptly executed. Those were the greatest countries! For the executioners, at least.
The difference between brains and beauty is that you're more or less born into good looks — entitled, if you will. Intelligence? That takes work.
It is true both ways, I can say "you are born into good intelligence but good looks take work," and will be equally right (wrong).
Intelligence is a function of brain, which is a very complex neural net, and every one is born with a slightly different one. It should be obvious that intelligence is both "born with" and "enhanced with work".
One cannot gain beauty by sitting in front of computer/TV, while munching junk food. Takes some routine physical workout, not just that "born with" mystery.
There is no ball in the "optical trackball". Just a tiny static piece of plastic where "trackball" used to be. It's hard to see what it is on a picture but stop by any mobile phone store and check out one of the later models from HTC and Blackberry.
A glorified optical trackball? Only it is mechanical = will wear out much sooner.