You're right. You're going to die eventually... The hope is you get bought out by one of the other nights in the room before you lose the battle... If you're *really* lucky, you'll hold him off long enough to become a night yourself (IPO), and then you still have more battles to fight...
Sure, you could get the hell out of the room, but if nobody took any chances technology wouldn't progress.
Say you walk into a room. There's a sword leaning against the wall next to the threshold and a fully armored knight charging you with his sword held high. Do you pick up the sword and parry, or do you simply make peace with your last few seconds of life?
It is clear to me that the parent considers defensive patents the same as using patents in a predatory manner. He's wrong.
How would she have known about the craigslist post? It sounds to me like she had a bad water heater, front door, and sink, plus a broken window... So she cleared the stuff out and called the cops to be able to make an insurance claim.
If this was real, she wouldn't have known about the craigslist angle. She'd simply have thought her house was vandalized.
most of the suits are against people who did not commit a copyright infringement
See, I'd leave you alone for the most part if it weren't for you repeatedly saying that.
"Opinions that are not based on fact are worthless"
You are not aware of the details of the vast majority of these cases mostly because they are settled before anybody finds out about them. Yet you claim to know that most of the people are innocent.
Yeah, I'm disrespectful, and I can be an asshole in my posts, but at least I'll admit when I don't know something, and I don't go around telling people they're ignorant of the facts while myself selectively ignoring some.
Go ahead. Re-paste your same three talking points into a response again. No need for critical thinking.
When you produce a product without any eager customers, your product dies. Nobody (where "somebody" is defined as "a publisher of audio content") was asking for OGG, so why is anybody surprised that it didn't catch on?
It's easier to fish wire between the empty space between studs from above or below than it is to pull wire through a conduit. This is true even if the walls are filled with insulation (though it's slightly obnoxious if the insulation is poly-foam). If you have dead space either above or below any floor you're all set and don't need any conduit.
Blank face plates are ugly. I'd rather have plaster I can cut through if I need to than an ugly, dust collecting face plate I may never use. Additionally, the conduit is only useful if it goes where you want it to. If you're running the wire in the walls you can have it go anywhere.
The only issue I've run into is the compatibility. There are simply too few applications and devices supported. I haven't had stability issues, but I'd still recommend people wait a year before taking the Vista plunge unless they are buying an OEM machine and new peripherals, and you don't run anything but mainstream apps.
this is a moderately common problem [...] The arguments against MS for making unstable operating systems ended when NT was released. Since Windows 2000, MS has made stable operating systems that really are usable by the average joe without difficulty.
Which is it? Vista commonly crashing because of unstable drivers or the OS being stable and usable? It can't be both.
(Yes, I run Vista, and no it has never crashed on me... I have the minimum featureset enabled though.)
If there's one thing left I feel suck with a Mac, is that I can't decide I need better framerates and drop in a stock graphics card. If I were to get a Mac, it'd have to replace my top Windows machine fully. It doesn't really have anything to do with Mac pricing but that I just can't keep two top of the line rigs, one for gaming and one for everything else. Let me stick a high-end GPU in a Mac Pro and you got it.
It seems you are under the mistaken impression that you can't drop any old modern nVidia PCI-E video card in a Mac.
This box isn't marketed for you to install windows and game on. It's a 3D workstation, and thus ships with a workstation video card at they high end. If you want to do that on this machine, then by all meanse, install your own video card.
This isn't really a gaming machine. It's a Mac, after all. The Quadro FX 4500 is pretty near top of the line for a 3D workstation. I'm surprised they don't offer a Quadro FX 5600 though.
Considering that the code-signing stuff is the basis of most DRM that will be written for Vista, this virus is a free pass to snoop kernel memory and remove the DRM from any media Vista supports.
I'm guessing more than a few people will be installing this one on purpose.
Where I work, I have control over when I get in to an extent, but once I'm there I basically can't leave until it seems late enough to satisfy the perception of a "startup mentality". So essentially I get to stay at work until at least a few hours after the sun goes down.
Let it get dark at 4:30. I'm good with that. Sunlight in the morning is better.
o, it would mean patching all over again. TZ info is a cumulative record of time changes. If changed back, we will have to update everything with files that reflect those changes without changing history.
Well, it is on systems that don't suck, anyway. Most of us run windows though... Windows doesn't seem to have any concept of what DST was in the past.
If a machine could not be upgraded to run Vista at all, then there would be a problem, but I think it would be the manufacturer's problem, not MS's.
It's not good enough to be able to be upgraded to "run vista at all". It needs to be able to run it with all the features Microsoft advertises as "Vista". Many machines (laptops mostly) can't be upgraded at all, or can only have their memory upgraded and the video hardware will never let them turn on all the Aero features.
If you go to the dealer and they sold you a V6/4 without disclaiming the difference, then you'd go after the dealer, not the engine manufacturer.
That's a good point. Perhaps these people should be going after the OEM that put the sticker on the box instead.
Microsoft's ads make their customers believe that Aero is Vista.
If I advertise a brand of car for sale with a picture of that brand's high end model to a market which knows nothing of the brand's models, but then ship them a broken down beater of the low end model after the customer writes the check, wouldn't that be false advertising? Say my ad is for a brand new Chevy for $30k, and the picture is a 2007 Corevtte Z06... After you write the check, would you be a little pissed when they handed you the keys to an Aveo with only two spark plugs?
"Wi-Fi internet access" means "sandboxed and filtered web access over 802.11".
New technology, after all, needs to be beaten into submission before it's deployed to ensure it has no impact on existing revenue streams. The idea of allowing a new technology to (along with it's primary function) make an existing revenue generator obsolete because it would make that new technology popular enough to more than make up for revenue losses is the MBA's equivalent of a Roman numeral zero.
We had a C64 and a Sinclair (with the 16k expansion module), and the Sinclair definitely got more use. It was, what, 1/10th the size? So it stayed hooked up all the time, while I (and my dad) were forced by my mom to put the C64 away after we used it. Additionally, the C64 came off mostly as a video game console. The joysticks that came in the box probably didn't help.
I will say one thing though... That C64 still works, but the stupid membrane keyboard on the Sinclair gave up ages ago.
The BASIC on the two machines were sufficiently compatible that most software available on cassette was compatible between the two machines.
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You're right. You're going to die eventually... The hope is you get bought out by one of the other nights in the room before you lose the battle... If you're *really* lucky, you'll hold him off long enough to become a night yourself (IPO), and then you still have more battles to fight...
Sure, you could get the hell out of the room, but if nobody took any chances technology wouldn't progress.
Why do you think their patents weren't defensive? Which VoIP competitors has Vonage sued out of business over a patent dispute?
Say you walk into a room. There's a sword leaning against the wall next to the threshold and a fully armored knight charging you with his sword held high. Do you pick up the sword and parry, or do you simply make peace with your last few seconds of life?
It is clear to me that the parent considers defensive patents the same as using patents in a predatory manner. He's wrong.
So you think this wouldn't have happened if Vonage hadn't pursued patents?
Let me add a dose of reality to your delusion. They simply would have been sued out of business sooner.
That sounds like a good movie. Does he get the girl at the end?
Really? Sounds fake to me...
How would she have known about the craigslist post? It sounds to me like she had a bad water heater, front door, and sink, plus a broken window... So she cleared the stuff out and called the cops to be able to make an insurance claim.
If this was real, she wouldn't have known about the craigslist angle. She'd simply have thought her house was vandalized.
See, I'd leave you alone for the most part if it weren't for you repeatedly saying that.
"Opinions that are not based on fact are worthless"
You are not aware of the details of the vast majority of these cases mostly because they are settled before anybody finds out about them. Yet you claim to know that most of the people are innocent.
Yeah, I'm disrespectful, and I can be an asshole in my posts, but at least I'll admit when I don't know something, and I don't go around telling people they're ignorant of the facts while myself selectively ignoring some.
Go ahead. Re-paste your same three talking points into a response again. No need for critical thinking.
When you produce a product without any eager customers, your product dies. Nobody (where "somebody" is defined as "a publisher of audio content") was asking for OGG, so why is anybody surprised that it didn't catch on?
Comcast may not block ports on business connections, but expect to be blocked remotely... By e-mail servers, for example.
Blacklists treat Comcast static business IPs as equal evils to their dynamic IP pools.
Also, upstream sucks on cable, regardless of whether you pay for the business connection or not.
It's easier to fish wire between the empty space between studs from above or below than it is to pull wire through a conduit. This is true even if the walls are filled with insulation (though it's slightly obnoxious if the insulation is poly-foam). If you have dead space either above or below any floor you're all set and don't need any conduit.
Blank face plates are ugly. I'd rather have plaster I can cut through if I need to than an ugly, dust collecting face plate I may never use. Additionally, the conduit is only useful if it goes where you want it to. If you're running the wire in the walls you can have it go anywhere.
The only issue I've run into is the compatibility. There are simply too few applications and devices supported. I haven't had stability issues, but I'd still recommend people wait a year before taking the Vista plunge unless they are buying an OEM machine and new peripherals, and you don't run anything but mainstream apps.
Which is it? Vista commonly crashing because of unstable drivers or the OS being stable and usable? It can't be both.
(Yes, I run Vista, and no it has never crashed on me... I have the minimum featureset enabled though.)
It seems you are under the mistaken impression that you can't drop any old modern nVidia PCI-E video card in a Mac.
This box isn't marketed for you to install windows and game on. It's a 3D workstation, and thus ships with a workstation video card at they high end. If you want to do that on this machine, then by all meanse, install your own video card.
This isn't really a gaming machine. It's a Mac, after all. The Quadro FX 4500 is pretty near top of the line for a 3D workstation. I'm surprised they don't offer a Quadro FX 5600 though.
Considering that the code-signing stuff is the basis of most DRM that will be written for Vista, this virus is a free pass to snoop kernel memory and remove the DRM from any media Vista supports.
I'm guessing more than a few people will be installing this one on purpose.
Where I work, I have control over when I get in to an extent, but once I'm there I basically can't leave until it seems late enough to satisfy the perception of a "startup mentality". So essentially I get to stay at work until at least a few hours after the sun goes down.
Let it get dark at 4:30. I'm good with that. Sunlight in the morning is better.
Well, it is on systems that don't suck, anyway. Most of us run windows though... Windows doesn't seem to have any concept of what DST was in the past.
It's not good enough to be able to be upgraded to "run vista at all". It needs to be able to run it with all the features Microsoft advertises as "Vista". Many machines (laptops mostly) can't be upgraded at all, or can only have their memory upgraded and the video hardware will never let them turn on all the Aero features.
That's a good point. Perhaps these people should be going after the OEM that put the sticker on the box instead.
Microsoft's ads make their customers believe that Aero is Vista.
If I advertise a brand of car for sale with a picture of that brand's high end model to a market which knows nothing of the brand's models, but then ship them a broken down beater of the low end model after the customer writes the check, wouldn't that be false advertising? Say my ad is for a brand new Chevy for $30k, and the picture is a 2007 Corevtte Z06... After you write the check, would you be a little pissed when they handed you the keys to an Aveo with only two spark plugs?
"Wi-Fi internet access" means "sandboxed and filtered web access over 802.11".
New technology, after all, needs to be beaten into submission before it's deployed to ensure it has no impact on existing revenue streams. The idea of allowing a new technology to (along with it's primary function) make an existing revenue generator obsolete because it would make that new technology popular enough to more than make up for revenue losses is the MBA's equivalent of a Roman numeral zero.
We had a C64 and a Sinclair (with the 16k expansion module), and the Sinclair definitely got more use. It was, what, 1/10th the size? So it stayed hooked up all the time, while I (and my dad) were forced by my mom to put the C64 away after we used it. Additionally, the C64 came off mostly as a video game console. The joysticks that came in the box probably didn't help.
I will say one thing though... That C64 still works, but the stupid membrane keyboard on the Sinclair gave up ages ago.
The BASIC on the two machines were sufficiently compatible that most software available on cassette was compatible between the two machines.
Duh. Obviously I meant "company" and not "country".
How, exactly, would an European country teach a Japanese country that?
I don't think I'm being hypocritical, since I'm saying that people should be equally skeptical of both sides.
You're right. There are going to be posters with an agenda from both sides posting to the internet... But two wrongs don't make a right.
Movies on physical media have resale value, can be loaned to friends, taken with you on vacation, in the car, etc...
Electronically distributed movies tend to crack down on those behaviors without discounting much on the price.