1) Should you capitulate to DOSnet blackmailers or figure out some way to survive their attack? 2) Should you attempt to attack those DOSnet blackmailers?
They require two separate cost/benefit... er... analysis... analyses... analysises... calculations.
Perhaps the rest of your argument does not work since you started out with a false premise.
No. I said "if" for a reason: I do not feel that Microsoft has a monopoly in PC operating systems. However, if they did, they could still have competitors in other markets. I said "the allegation" for a reason as well: I know perfectly well that they compete with other PC operating systems.
There is not a contradiction between having a monopoly situation (sole supplier of operating systems) and there being competitors (suppliers of media players).
Your original comment ("Never mind that if there is competition, there is no monopoly.") was an oversimplification and contributed nothing to the discussion. If you'd like to point out that they are not the exclusive provider of PC operating systems, feel free to do so.
"Microsoft was taken into court because the competition complained about their ways to keep their monopoly in place"
Never mind that if there is competition, there is no monopoly.
Horsepucky. If they have a monopoly on PC operating systems, that would not mean they have a monopoly on media players or web browsers or video game consoles. So they can have a monopoly and yet have competitors.
The sentence you quote is still all horked, because the allegation wasn't that they did this stuff to maintain their monopoly (restrictive licenses with OEMs on the other hand...). The allegation is that they're using their monopoly in one industry to help them compete in another industry.
Anyway: no contradiction whatsoever. You are an idiot. Shut up.
my experience with it involves mostly South-American-Spanish, not Southern-Europe-Spanish food
In my experience, people never refer to food from South America as "Spanish" cuisine. It's usually either Mexican or Salvadoran or some Americanized (in a good way! Tex-Mex or California) equivalent. If you say "Spanish food" you mean paella and tapas. Not burritos or tacos or enchiladas or chimichangas. Not guacamole.
A friend of mine drove for takeout taxi and I used to order from campusfoods all the time.
I don't see why this service is innovative. Maybe it does something better than those two companies, but I doubt it's a revolutionary improvement. sixdegrees -> friendster
There's a bit of mailing list activity from people working on porting WebKit (and the internal qt-alike), and the Apple folks have been encouraging.
Dunno who's doing the work, because I'm not watching CVS or bugzilla or nothing. It sounds like they'll merge the existing GTK Webkit port first. Some dude says he's going to pound on it 'till it compiles in Windows and swears he'll keep it up for a year. Dunno who these people are, so I don't know how much salt to take anything with.
But the notable thing is that the Apple employees are down with WebKit getting ported to Windows, and that would imply that they will try to keep that port maintained.
They are deliberately skewing the use of the word from the specific common-use meaning of "very small machines" to a very general case "very small manmade things".
As far as I can tell, that is a widely accepted skewing: The first part of the push for nanotech is simply "very small manmade things" with which to build your "very small machines" and some of the first benefits of this push will be stain resistant pants, better sunblock, and better cosmetics.
The first concerns about nanotech are thus about "very small manmade things" too: these tiny particles will be produced in an abundance the likes of which the world has never seen. This could be fine or it could not, depending on the material. This has been widely discussed, and you reveal your own ignorance rather than that of those you criticize.
None of these protesters are worried about grey goo. They're worried about the damage that these particles could do to an ecosystem. Maybe they're wrong, but it's a valid concern. Dunno how big those teflon fibers really are, and dunno whether they're really novel, but it's not a completely new use of the word "nanotech".
Dunno what to call your logical error, but the religious right is obviously a just a (wholly contained) subset of all the malignant dickheads on Planet Earth.
When you find work with better hours, tell your boss you want better hours or you're taking someone else's job offer. If you can't do that, ask your boss to consider reducing your hours in exchange for a pay cut.
My stepmom did that, and it worked to everyone's benefit. She asked for a 10% raise and a 20% reduction in her salary in exchange for a four day work week. Would your boss like to reduce the amount he spends on salary?
I don't understand why it's unfeasible to do a scan-on-write. Just like all these new desktop search applications. After a file is created or modified, it gets added to a threaded queue of shit to scan for viruses. In the event that you run it faster than the scan is complete, THEN scan on read.
I imagine that AV software doesn't trust that it can be engineered to scan every single file reliably on creation. Still seems like it could work.
The minute you give up the physical artifact and rely on a digital representation of your data, you are at the risk of any company who wishes to exert some control over the format of that data.
As everyone else is pointing out, I also don't understand why you think physical devices are somehow better off in this regard. You leave no caveat for data standardization in either the physical or digital realm, and standardization is the only thing that gives you any such data security.
It's not data, but look what these home canners got stuck with. Fortunately, their jar lids are standardized. Otherwise, they'd have been SOL.
The last thing I want to do is buy a big beefy dual G5 now, and in 2 years not be able to run new programs. Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but who can say that won't be the case?
Because they've done it before, and it wasn't the case. They ported NeXTStep (you know, Mach & BSD based) to Intel and had fat binaries running for years. This is part of the reason that Apple went with NeXTStep over BeOS: It's battle tested. They knew that this OS had already been through every transition that they could imagine having to make. This comment is why I read slashdot:
That would make the most sense, but then WTF is the deal with this:
You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
That sounds a whole shitload of a lot like shrinkwrapped OS X for your PC (given that it's a supported chipset).
Didn't NeXT do exactly this? What makes you so sure that Jobs won't make that same decision a second time? Yes, I know that eventually forced them to abandon hardware sales and doesn't look so good in hindsight. Maybe Jobs is doing something that doesn't look good in hindsight. Maybe he sees it differently (thinks different?) than the rest of the world.
Don't get me wrong. I don't begin to imagine that I understand WTF is going on here. My hat tastes bad.
They're intentionally neglecting a significant portion of the cost of a console.
If you want your XBox360 to be as rad as rad can be, you're going to need to buy a $2000-$5000 HDTV.
I don't own a television. I realize I'm in the minority, but that is a significant barrier to entry for me in the console arena. I'm not going to buy some shitty 20" television and let it take up space in my apartment just so I can enjoy a low res version of an XBox360 game.
Instead, I'll take that $2000-$5000, get a computer that can display HDTV, and get an HDTV-res display. And then I'll buy an XBox360.
But you know what that didn't do? It didn't stop me from getting a fucking awesome PC. Because televisions are fucking expensive. Leave in the whole story, and consoles don't kill PCs.
The only problem I have is that Apple didn't initially provide a way to replace the batteries.
As pointed out by above link, they also attempted to physically prevent battery replacement and told customers to buy new iPods when their batteries died.
So, your only problem is pretty much their only problem.
How many of these suits are valid, and how many are simply pissy users and overzealous lawyers
What if it's all three? Valid suit, pissy users, and overzealous lawyers all working together to prevent companies from fucking idiots like you.
It is exactly the point of a corporation to maximize shareholder value. The only reason that murdering people and selling their organs wouldn't maximize shareholder value is because pissy users and overzealous lawyers (and punitive damages) work to make it so.
Thank the fucking lord for those pissy users and overzealous lawyers.
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1) Should you capitulate to DOSnet blackmailers or figure out some way to survive their attack?
2) Should you attempt to attack those DOSnet blackmailers?
They require two separate cost/benefit... er... analysis... analyses... analysises... calculations.
There is not a contradiction between having a monopoly situation (sole supplier of operating systems) and there being competitors (suppliers of media players).
Your original comment ("Never mind that if there is competition, there is no monopoly.") was an oversimplification and contributed nothing to the discussion. If you'd like to point out that they are not the exclusive provider of PC operating systems, feel free to do so.
The sentence you quote is still all horked, because the allegation wasn't that they did this stuff to maintain their monopoly (restrictive licenses with OEMs on the other hand...). The allegation is that they're using their monopoly in one industry to help them compete in another industry.
Anyway: no contradiction whatsoever. You are an idiot. Shut up.
They're not anti-science, you moron. They want more research.
A friend of mine drove for takeout taxi and I used to order from campusfoods all the time.
I don't see why this service is innovative. Maybe it does something better than those two companies, but I doubt it's a revolutionary improvement. sixdegrees -> friendster
- Yes, they meant WebCore not WebKit
- There's a bit of mailing list activity from people working on porting WebKit (and the internal qt-alike), and the Apple folks have been encouraging.
Dunno who's doing the work, because I'm not watching CVS or bugzilla or nothing. It sounds like they'll merge the existing GTK Webkit port first. Some dude says he's going to pound on it 'till it compiles in Windows and swears he'll keep it up for a year. Dunno who these people are, so I don't know how much salt to take anything with.But the notable thing is that the Apple employees are down with WebKit getting ported to Windows, and that would imply that they will try to keep that port maintained.
Mildly offtopic, but interesting, right?
You are an idiot.
No telling except that she has said so in the past.
She, if I am not mistaken.
Yeah. Too bad about those prohibitions on nuclear energy and GM crops.
The first concerns about nanotech are thus about "very small manmade things" too: these tiny particles will be produced in an abundance the likes of which the world has never seen. This could be fine or it could not, depending on the material. This has been widely discussed, and you reveal your own ignorance rather than that of those you criticize.
None of these protesters are worried about grey goo. They're worried about the damage that these particles could do to an ecosystem. Maybe they're wrong, but it's a valid concern. Dunno how big those teflon fibers really are, and dunno whether they're really novel, but it's not a completely new use of the word "nanotech".
Dunno what to call your logical error, but the religious right is obviously a just a (wholly contained) subset of all the malignant dickheads on Planet Earth.
Yeah, you're the second person to point that out. Clearly I was full of crap. I'll have to go dig up my source and figure out what I got wrong.
Ancient, then. Most people would like to be able to receive email from misconfigured and ancient SMTP servers.
Greylisting will prevent you from receiving email from a variety of non-complying SMTP hosts. Lotus Notes/Domino/Whatnot among others, IIRC.
That's really rough, though. There's no need to resign yourself to not seeing more of your wife and kid. If you'd like.
Look for other work with better hours.
Don't stay there poisoning yourself.
When you find work with better hours, tell your boss you want better hours or you're taking someone else's job offer. If you can't do that, ask your boss to consider reducing your hours in exchange for a pay cut.
My stepmom did that, and it worked to everyone's benefit. She asked for a 10% raise and a 20% reduction in her salary in exchange for a four day work week. Would your boss like to reduce the amount he spends on salary?
I don't understand why it's unfeasible to do a scan-on-write. Just like all these new desktop search applications. After a file is created or modified, it gets added to a threaded queue of shit to scan for viruses. In the event that you run it faster than the scan is complete, THEN scan on read.
I imagine that AV software doesn't trust that it can be engineered to scan every single file reliably on creation. Still seems like it could work.
It's not data, but look what these home canners got stuck with. Fortunately, their jar lids are standardized. Otherwise, they'd have been SOL.
Didn't NeXT do exactly this? What makes you so sure that Jobs won't make that same decision a second time? Yes, I know that eventually forced them to abandon hardware sales and doesn't look so good in hindsight. Maybe Jobs is doing something that doesn't look good in hindsight. Maybe he sees it differently (thinks different?) than the rest of the world.
Don't get me wrong. I don't begin to imagine that I understand WTF is going on here. My hat tastes bad.
They're intentionally neglecting a significant portion of the cost of a console.
If you want your XBox360 to be as rad as rad can be, you're going to need to buy a $2000-$5000 HDTV.
I don't own a television. I realize I'm in the minority, but that is a significant barrier to entry for me in the console arena. I'm not going to buy some shitty 20" television and let it take up space in my apartment just so I can enjoy a low res version of an XBox360 game.
Instead, I'll take that $2000-$5000, get a computer that can display HDTV, and get an HDTV-res display. And then I'll buy an XBox360.
But you know what that didn't do? It didn't stop me from getting a fucking awesome PC. Because televisions are fucking expensive. Leave in the whole story, and consoles don't kill PCs.
You're an idiot.As pointed out by above link, they also attempted to physically prevent battery replacement and told customers to buy new iPods when their batteries died.
So, your only problem is pretty much their only problem.What if it's all three? Valid suit, pissy users, and overzealous lawyers all working together to prevent companies from fucking idiots like you.
It is exactly the point of a corporation to maximize shareholder value. The only reason that murdering people and selling their organs wouldn't maximize shareholder value is because pissy users and overzealous lawyers (and punitive damages) work to make it so.
Thank the fucking lord for those pissy users and overzealous lawyers.