Well said.
I certainly thought that article was hilarious but I was laughing at it, not with it. And the only thought that it provoked was of how it completely missed the point. I am a Network Engineer and I use almost exclusively MS products. I have no problem with Linux or open source, and I think it's a great concept. It wouldn't work for me because I am simply too invested in MS. Not in money, but in time and training. I may be able to boot up the new cool distro of the week, and it might even install correctly for me, but if something breaks I don't know how to fix it. It might be as easy as changing the.wekjrhkje file in the \dev\lib\etc\bin\whatever folder. I simply don't know and I have no incentive to learn it until there is something that I can do on Linux that I can't do on Windows. The only things I do hear are how to fix all the problems that arise from trying to make windows things work in linux. What's the point? The opposite may be true of a linux guy who gets confused in the registry. You have to know enough about both not to be objective to say that one is better, and that is difficult.
Articles like this prove my point. If you are shortsighted enough to think that items 2-4 are correct, I really don't trust your judgement. Viruses, exploits, and spyware are not problems that Microsoft has, they are problems that the most prevalent and standardized OS and apps. Viruses are made for outlook because it's the most popular. All programs are vulnerable. It's laughable that one of the points is that you have to patch Windows often. It's gone from being a problem when no one bothered to even install service packs, much less patches, to being a non-issue. New XP systems update themselves if you ask them to, and often even if you don't. And with all patches installed, with enough knowledge to know not to doubleclick every attachment that hits your inbox, and with some secure passwords and practices it's very secure.
Linux and OSS are great ideas. I like the community for the most part, which is why I'm here. Concepts like slashdot, for all it's shortfalls, it's still where I choose to read and speak. When I come here and read this pedantic tripe it just seems juvenile, and I think it reflects poorly.
"not that of some intelevision spaz touting the depth of burger time gameplay."
Ouch. You know that feeling when you hear a song that came out when you were in high school, and you realize that it's on a classic rock station? Then that jewel in your hand starts blinking, and you hear in your head "Ah, the firey ritual of Carousel... perhaps you'll be renewed!"
I think i just dated myself in a post about dating myself...
So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
The last 5 places I have worked have volume license keys for XP that are loaded from ghost. They also have a perfectly good license on that sticker right on top of the system that has never been used. Hell, someone should use it!
Kansas is so far behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet. How do you expect them to even hear this news?
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Another perfect example to prove this case is that there are pieces left from a skateboard that was going to be included. The icon can still be found for it, but they pulled the skateboard as a vehicle. (Read more about it here: http://www.gtasanandreas.net/weapons/) And there is even a mod to allow you to switch the shovel with the skateboard, but you still can't ride it. They didn't remove all of it because it may have caused problems to the build. They removed just enough so that you wouldn't notice it.
But I think all of us know that this is far more important than silly little things like the Downing St memo or Karl Rove and his crazy antics. After all, this affects children!
So DVD plays over a secure channel too? Who cares? If it gets to the screen, and I can see it and hear it... great. But, since they know that there is existing technology to copy dvds, and no control to stop playing the copies, that seems unlikely.
I doubt they (The content providers) will use it for existing media, they'll do it so they can create a new form of media that they have more control over. Good for them. It'll be marginally better than DVD, and require a new player... same BS they have been doing for decades.
The great thing about this is they will move into digital, release everything this way. Someday it'll get cracked too, and there is no turning back for them... Again. I'm just wondering what they will base their pricing off of if there is no more cost of distribution (Or not much) and no piracy rasing the cost? They'll find a way, no doubt, I just wonder what it will be.
Yeah... leave that to the professionals! You all are just a bunch of nerds that don't know anything about "actual intelligence". Heh... Nerds.
Oh yeah, hey "Actual" intelligence operatives: Bang up job with EVERY PIECE OF INTEL FROM THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1975! Give me a break. The state of our country's "intelligence" wouldn't be funnier if it were run by retared sea monkies that spoke with lisps.
Umm... I'm confused as to how this has anything to do with existing content (Whether it's content THAT YOU'VE ALREADY PAID FOR, or not.). This is if you want to use the Secure Computing platform built in to Longhorn. It's optional. I don't see how they are going to protect content that you already have. This could affect new content, but it seems like from what I have read, that the things that you have now will continue to work then.
"...why should they be forced to "upgrade" to something that's less useful?"
They are only "forced" to upgrade if they want to see whatever the content provider is trying to control access to. I think that is perfectly reasonable. First, because the content providers need to be able to charge accordingly for the things they are in business to create. Second, because that's horseshit and none of that will ever really work.;)
What I would hope to see in this case is the subsidizing of the cost of these panels, but that might be out of reach. But you really can't hope that there are more lead-filled CRTs made just because they are marginally better in a few aspects today. The sooner we all use panels, the better. And the panels will get a lot better a lot faster. I think that we are probably getting right to the edge of what can be done with a CRT, but just beginning on what can be done with a panel.
A better analogy would probably be something with digital vs. film, Beta vs. VHS, or CDs vs. Vinyl, but I'm sure those are already in other comments and I thought I'd try out a new one. But any of those could potentially prove my point. Digital is the way to go. You gain some things, you lose some things. They'll make this new way that will stop people from copying things, create a standard that everyone will use. It might even work for a few years to stop copying, but things will catch up and there will be ways around it. Remember when you couldn't burn cd's? You had to copy them to tapes and play those if you wanted to copy? And it was less quality, but free. There, that's better.:)
But I know, I know, suggesting that any corporation be responsible for the damage it does
means I'm a communist, or a terrorist, or an America-hater or whatever the new buzzword is.
Just because MS is adding compatability to their OS does not mean that they are responsible for the end of CRT tubes. That is the point I was making. You can't pin it on them, they are just giving content providers what they want. So blame the right people.
Otherwise, I think it's very short sighted to think that CRTs are going to be around much longer no matter how well they work. How many black and white tv's do you have around? Should you keep them because they still work? Sure, a huge 21" CRT still looks better than an LCD, but how long is that going to last? Those things are all going back into the ground someday, and it's not Microsoft's fault, no matter how you look at it. I think corporations whould held responsible for the damage they do, but I'd have about 1000 companies higher on the list than MS, and certainly not for this reason. You want to get mad at someone for making this happen? How about the MPAA and the like that want this standard in the first place?
Yeah! Because those people were going to use their shitty CRTs forever if it wasn't for Microsoft! We should charge MS for something that was guaranteed to happen anyways!
Wait... isn't that the ex-second lady? Or vice-first lady? (Or, more accurately, the should-have-been-ex-or-current-first-lady-if-it-wa sn't-for-mass-voter-fraud-in-florida? It looks great on the business cards.) What do you call the vice president's wife, officially?
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...and backwards.
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The reason why those 4 seasons seemed so short was probably because it was actually 3 seasons.;)
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"that was randomly shuffled." Thanks to clear channel, that feature has been lost to time also.
It uses a "Standard" 22 1/2 volt battery... Not soldered in.
It comes in colors, not just black or white.
It has a built in speaker (For the music, the click speaker doesn't count.)
And my favorite... It has a GENUINE superhetrodyne circuit. Not more of those knock off fugazi superhetrodyne circuits!
Engineered for lifetime performance... or at least for as long as 22 1/2 volt batteries exist.
Step 3: Learn to type with one hand plugged into the usb port. (Cue the one handed broswing jokes...)
How about "Fantastically non-frictional"
Articles like this prove my point. If you are shortsighted enough to think that items 2-4 are correct, I really don't trust your judgement. Viruses, exploits, and spyware are not problems that Microsoft has, they are problems that the most prevalent and standardized OS and apps. Viruses are made for outlook because it's the most popular. All programs are vulnerable. It's laughable that one of the points is that you have to patch Windows often. It's gone from being a problem when no one bothered to even install service packs, much less patches, to being a non-issue. New XP systems update themselves if you ask them to, and often even if you don't. And with all patches installed, with enough knowledge to know not to doubleclick every attachment that hits your inbox, and with some secure passwords and practices it's very secure.
Linux and OSS are great ideas. I like the community for the most part, which is why I'm here. Concepts like slashdot, for all it's shortfalls, it's still where I choose to read and speak. When I come here and read this pedantic tripe it just seems juvenile, and I think it reflects poorly.
But to be fair, the PhD gets to keep his soul. ;)
Ouch. You know that feeling when you hear a song that came out when you were in high school, and you realize that it's on a classic rock station? Then that jewel in your hand starts blinking, and you hear in your head "Ah, the firey ritual of Carousel... perhaps you'll be renewed!"
I think i just dated myself in a post about dating myself...
Isn't Woodcrest a really cheap screw-top wine? (I guess we'll know for sure if the next chip is named the "Mad Dog 20/20".)
So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
... and every other person could point out that it's a dupe from when he did that session last Monday.
The last 5 places I have worked have volume license keys for XP that are loaded from ghost. They also have a perfectly good license on that sticker right on top of the system that has never been used. Hell, someone should use it!
Kansas is so far behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet. How do you expect them to even hear this news?
But I think all of us know that this is far more important than silly little things like the Downing St memo or Karl Rove and his crazy antics. After all, this affects children!
...but nipples are absolutely for adults only.
I doubt they (The content providers) will use it for existing media, they'll do it so they can create a new form of media that they have more control over. Good for them. It'll be marginally better than DVD, and require a new player... same BS they have been doing for decades. The great thing about this is they will move into digital, release everything this way. Someday it'll get cracked too, and there is no turning back for them... Again. I'm just wondering what they will base their pricing off of if there is no more cost of distribution (Or not much) and no piracy rasing the cost? They'll find a way, no doubt, I just wonder what it will be.
Oh yeah, hey "Actual" intelligence operatives: Bang up job with EVERY PIECE OF INTEL FROM THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1975! Give me a break. The state of our country's "intelligence" wouldn't be funnier if it were run by retared sea monkies that spoke with lisps.
Umm... I'm confused as to how this has anything to do with existing content (Whether it's content THAT YOU'VE ALREADY PAID FOR, or not.). This is if you want to use the Secure Computing platform built in to Longhorn. It's optional. I don't see how they are going to protect content that you already have. This could affect new content, but it seems like from what I have read, that the things that you have now will continue to work then.
Bang up job so far. I'm absolutely convinced that you could use my "$$$" more usefully.
They are only "forced" to upgrade if they want to see whatever the content provider is trying to control access to. I think that is perfectly reasonable. First, because the content providers need to be able to charge accordingly for the things they are in business to create. Second, because that's horseshit and none of that will ever really work. ;)
What I would hope to see in this case is the subsidizing of the cost of these panels, but that might be out of reach. But you really can't hope that there are more lead-filled CRTs made just because they are marginally better in a few aspects today. The sooner we all use panels, the better. And the panels will get a lot better a lot faster. I think that we are probably getting right to the edge of what can be done with a CRT, but just beginning on what can be done with a panel.
A better analogy would probably be something with digital vs. film, Beta vs. VHS, or CDs vs. Vinyl, but I'm sure those are already in other comments and I thought I'd try out a new one. But any of those could potentially prove my point. Digital is the way to go. You gain some things, you lose some things. They'll make this new way that will stop people from copying things, create a standard that everyone will use. It might even work for a few years to stop copying, but things will catch up and there will be ways around it. Remember when you couldn't burn cd's? You had to copy them to tapes and play those if you wanted to copy? And it was less quality, but free. There, that's better. :)
Just because MS is adding compatability to their OS does not mean that they are responsible for the end of CRT tubes. That is the point I was making. You can't pin it on them, they are just giving content providers what they want. So blame the right people.
Otherwise, I think it's very short sighted to think that CRTs are going to be around much longer no matter how well they work. How many black and white tv's do you have around? Should you keep them because they still work? Sure, a huge 21" CRT still looks better than an LCD, but how long is that going to last? Those things are all going back into the ground someday, and it's not Microsoft's fault, no matter how you look at it. I think corporations whould held responsible for the damage they do, but I'd have about 1000 companies higher on the list than MS, and certainly not for this reason. You want to get mad at someone for making this happen? How about the MPAA and the like that want this standard in the first place?
Yeah! Because those people were going to use their shitty CRTs forever if it wasn't for Microsoft! We should charge MS for something that was guaranteed to happen anyways!
Wait... isn't that the ex-second lady? Or vice-first lady? (Or, more accurately, the should-have-been-ex-or-current-first-lady-if-it-wa sn't-for-mass-voter-fraud-in-florida? It looks great on the business cards.) What do you call the vice president's wife, officially?
...and backwards.
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