I love the idea but living in the rather rainy North of the UK I can't imagine it would be a very good idea to have shoe that start to degrade in a damp environment.
This sure beats the Steam method where buyers of used games are totally locked out, in the case of modern warfare can only be activated by one steam account and only one. They wont even unlock it even if you have the physical copy and a receipt from Amazon marketplace.
One comment in the artical amused me "There have never been swarms of beggars in the streets of American cities", erm no excpet maybe during the 1930s era great depression, or the civil war.
Im guessing they would like to target bulk refillers like cartridge world. I think its quiet sad given the environmental impact of all those desposible cartridges lexmark should be running encouraging refilling not encouraging landfill.
The big problem with IT is the perception most staff just expect IT systems to work and get very irate when things go wrong. It also means they are not usually grateful when things get fixed or improved which leave it staff feeling very undervalued.
I once installed a distro of Mandrake which totalled my cd rom so I would say linux does have problems with hardware. Before you start saying Apple has control over the hardware you should check out how much kit just plug and plays (and not in the windows plug and pray sense) on Macs, the Apple developers have spent a long time making all sort of dievices just work.
The thing about economic development is it creates competition with the west you only need to see the number of post bashing offshoring to India to see the major barriers to economic reform.
You can remove quicktime from OSX and I Apple publish (and even open source) large chunks of OSX to allow other to develop media players for mac. Whereas on Windwos your stuck with media player whether you like it or not and not only to MS not publish fetures they have in the past changed the windows apis in order to hanstring the competition.
In the same way modern coders learn "modern" langauges like Visual C#.net Java so you they can go and learn older langauge. I had to learn business basic when I joined a company it was a bit different having to use the most unforgiving editors and limited syntax but clearly within the reach of most programmers. Also while there are probably less than 100 throughbred basic programmers in the UK if we really want software developed there are massive software houses in India full coders with cobol basic and a variety of other languague skills.
ALso because Mac and Linux are more security consious and divorce the local trusted world and the untrusted internet unlike windows where merging IE and explorer means your open too all sorts of colourful exploits. On Open source versus propritary take apache as a case in point its used more than IIS and has more people writing exploits yet it dosnt get as badly affected as IIS.
Only this morning I attempted to log onto the UK national lottery site only to find it tell me I needed a supported browser. I complained in vain to their customer service people just got back a standard we only support IE ignoring all my privacy / security / platfrom worries (im a Mac user).
I hear you why the heck do the phone companies force me to pay for a voice phone line when all I ever use is adsl, in the case of the UK i guess because we have a monopolistic company dictating how technology is used, if only I had cable in m area.
A lot of people have been asking what the point of the artical is, why does it matter, well possibly because Microsoft announced the launch of their search engine http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4000015.stm and are claiming more pages index than google (5 billion) so google have responded by effectivly doubling their pages indexed.
I totally agree I used to bike to work when I worked at an office that had a staff shower, the place I work now while closer dosnt so I wont be cycling any time soon.
I remember at school being encouraged to share with my peers because it was nice, now big multinationals are giving early lessons in consumerism, what the heck happened?
Although I aplaud HP for taking the rights of their customers, I can't help feeling they have decided to do this SCO havent got a hope in heck of winning
It seems these days people are afraid of everything, and Microsoft have used that fear to seems like they are doing us a favour by taking away a service!
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I love the idea but living in the rather rainy North of the UK I can't imagine it would be a very good idea to have shoe that start to degrade in a damp environment.
This sure beats the Steam method where buyers of used games are totally locked out, in the case of modern warfare can only be activated by one steam account and only one. They wont even unlock it even if you have the physical copy and a receipt from Amazon marketplace.
One comment in the artical amused me "There have never been swarms of beggars in the streets of American cities", erm no excpet maybe during the 1930s era great depression, or the civil war.
Never buy an Acer laptop the keyboads totally suck :-(
There is still a communiy for C64 music and games
http://remix.kwed.org/
http://www.slayradio.org/
http://www.remix64.com/
there is even a pod cast http://www.slayradio.org/podcast/
Personaly I think the managers involved shold be sacked they clerly havent instilled any sort of ense / good practise into their employees
Im guessing they would like to target bulk refillers like cartridge world.
I think its quiet sad given the environmental impact of all those desposible cartridges lexmark should be running encouraging refilling not encouraging landfill.
That is probably exactly the tactic Microsoft would have used with Xenix if they actually thought they could get away with it.
The big problem with IT is the perception most staff just expect IT systems to work and get very irate when things go wrong. It also means they are not usually grateful when things get fixed or improved which leave it staff feeling very undervalued.
Maybe becuase AMD have paid intel to licence the SSE code
I once installed a distro of Mandrake which totalled my cd rom so I would say linux does have problems with hardware.
Before you start saying Apple has control over the hardware you should check out how much kit just plug and plays (and not in the windows plug and pray sense) on Macs, the Apple developers have spent a long time making all sort of dievices just work.
The thing about economic development is it creates competition with the west you only need to see the number of post bashing offshoring to India to see the major barriers to economic reform.
You can remove quicktime from OSX and I Apple publish (and even open source) large chunks of OSX to allow other to develop media players for mac. Whereas on Windwos your stuck with media player whether you like it or not and not only to MS not publish fetures they have in the past changed the windows apis in order to hanstring the competition.
In the same way modern coders learn "modern" langauges like Visual C#.net Java so you they can go and learn older langauge. I had to learn business basic when I joined a company it was a bit different having to use the most unforgiving editors and limited syntax but clearly within the reach of most programmers.
Also while there are probably less than 100 throughbred basic programmers in the UK if we really want software developed there are massive software houses in India full coders with cobol basic and a variety of other languague skills.
ALso because Mac and Linux are more security consious and divorce the local trusted world and the untrusted internet unlike windows where merging IE and explorer means your open too all sorts of colourful exploits.
On Open source versus propritary take apache as a case in point its used more than IIS and has more people writing exploits yet it dosnt get as badly affected as IIS.
Only this morning I attempted to log onto the UK national lottery site only to find it tell me I needed a supported browser.
I complained in vain to their customer service people just got back a standard we only support IE ignoring all my privacy / security / platfrom worries (im a Mac user).
I hear you why the heck do the phone companies force me to pay for a voice phone line when all I ever use is adsl, in the case of the UK i guess because we have a monopolistic company dictating how technology is used, if only I had cable in m area.
A lot of people have been asking what the point of the artical is, why does it matter, well possibly because Microsoft announced the launch of their search engine http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4000015.stm and are claiming more pages index than google (5 billion) so google have responded by effectivly doubling their pages indexed.
I totally agree I used to bike to work when I worked at an office that had a staff shower, the place I work now while closer dosnt so I wont be cycling any time soon.
That would be taxi-cabs would it?
This is great news for all those M16/CIA/etc agents how leave their laptops in the back of taxis!
I remember at school being encouraged to share with my peers because it was nice, now big multinationals are giving early lessons in consumerism, what the heck happened?
Although I aplaud HP for taking the rights of their customers, I can't help feeling they have decided to do this SCO havent got a hope in heck of winning
It seems these days people are afraid of everything, and Microsoft have used that fear to seems like they are doing us a favour by taking away a service!
I dont agree at all a good CD you can listern to 100s of times whereas even an excellent movie you might at most what 10-100 times.