It seems Solaris is washing its hands of this code completely - not even going to support it. For all intents and purposes, its as close to true abandonware as you can get. This would actually may be the perfect way to get a case like this into court and get some precedent. Solaris wants nothing to do with it, what should they care if someone else does? Theyre not even going to pretend to care about the code. Personally, if I were one of their developers and had that rug pulled out from under me, Id be flattered if a community took it up and made it something better (if only to see someone stick to Solaris:)
Last year, EBay won a case against some of the meta-auction sites that were displaying EBay content on their sites. EBay's argument was that their web pages are their copywritten material and by a meta-site taking that and altering what was originally intended, was infringement. The court agreed. This could be bad news for MS if they push forward with altering sites they did not author.
I apologize that my memory of the details is a bit hazy, and more info is not immediately available to me. No, IANAL.
Nice to know, in case I decide to run Windows under Linux
Nice to know you can read. The post said Internet Explorer on Windows is the best & fastest browser there is, period.
To repeat, it said ON WINDOWS. And on May 10, 2001, it is an accurate statement.
Theres nothing sadder than a blind follower who obviously cant think for themselves. Except perhaps the 2 dolts who moded this as funny (hint: its flamebait).
This is not the "same monopoly tactics" that Microsoft has undertaken in the past. This sort of exclusive rights deal is done ALL THE TIME. Ever see those Visa commercials "...and they dont accept American Express"? Visa pays whoever the commercial features (the olypmics, for example) a certain amount of money to not accept Amex. Ever wonder why if you go to a sporting event, that both Coke and Pepsi products are not available? One or the other paid the stadium to not sell the competitors' product. Its a legitimate tactic and does not constitute a monopoly, someone just needs to overbid. If Sony gave up in the bidding war, it was probably because they felt that it was too high to be able to produce a product of reasonable cost in the quality that we would expect. So what? So Microsoft puts out the game for the X-box and the cost is over $100. They will think twice next time. Supply and demand is the only law that matters there.
Personally, I dont like Microsoft much, but this is yet again, another example of the knee-jerk crap that goes on here whenever MS is mentioned. You just lose credibility when a real issue arises.
note: I am not singling out grub's comment -- most I read say pretty much the same thing.
I can see where you would get that idea. However, if you read the article, as I did before submitting it, you will see that that very issue is addressed.
From the article: Although the company says employees offered the buyout are still welcome to show up on the agreed-upon start date, they could still be fired the very same day.
Even if they were cracking.gov sites, their actions would not consititute an act of war, unless, of course, their actions were sanctioned by a recognized world government. I think the question of politics here has to come in on what will be the Russian reaction to this tactic? Will they demand the return of the men even though duped, they came here of their own volition? What will happen in future attempts at a similar ploy? Since this arrest occurred in early November, and we havnet heard anything about it until now, I dont think Russia will do anything. In fact, with the state of the criminal world over there right now, they are probably glad to have a couple less to worry about.
The chip is produced by Nvidia, a partner, yes, but not Microsoft itself
Not previewing twice makes me one of the people in my.sig I guess:)
The reason why they may have to push back.
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Here we go again, an anti-MS article that just bashes because there are rumors they may be too late to launch for the Xmas season (which BTW, happened to Sony last year). The reason why, which everyone here seems to neglect to check out, is that the main graphics chip has not even been made yet. On paper, it is supposed to be able to render 2.1 million polygons per frame. In comparison, each velociraptor in the original Jurassic Park required 300,000. Not bad. BTW, for those of you with itchy flame triggers, I am getting this information from this month's Wired.
So, jump off the bandwagons, dismount your highhorses, whatever, and realize that youve once again been suckered into looking like idiots. This is one of the most complex graphics chips ever envisioned and having to produce it in sufficient quantities for Xmas when the fabs arent ready yet is going to be tough.
Microsoft or not, Im looking forward to seeing what this thing can do...
I have been in a business that started in 1993 and moved their main focus to the Web in 1997 (in the same industry). Our President saw through alot of the hype and crap being thrown around by the media and his analysis is still one of the best Ive heard about the Internet and e-commerce: The internet is simply a tool to do the same thing your have always done, in a different way. For example, we run a marketplace online. The competition for our website comes not from others in our industry, but with other ways of doing things. We want people to use our site, rather than the fax machine and telephone, as buyers and sellers have done for years...
A brief outline because this is a reply to a post, not a new thread. But you are correct, people should not be starting businesses in this "New! Exciting! Me Too!" way, and these are the failures you hear about. Once more people realize that the Internet is just a way to do the same things, but more efficiently, you will see more success.
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This is actually a pretty standard clause in most of the policies I have read. Although this is the first that doesn't say it will contact you when it is changed so you can review - I just got one from ebay the other day. Even worse is exactly what you say, that if they do change their terms, they're not going to tell you.
Its called the Neilson ratings. They contact people and put a box in their homes to monitor their viewing habits and cross-reference that information with the viewer's demographic info. It is then published and used to determine which shows are retained, which are cut, and yes, it is valuable information for advertisers to know that their target market watches show ABC a hell of a lot more than XYZ. Nobody knows who you are, I have heard that Neilson actually asks people not to advertise their status, but I cannot verify this.
TiVo, and you will probably find that ReplayTV does the same thing (I didnt read the entire article so it may be mentioned), is just an expansion of this, except you dont have to be contacted by Neilson.
I have always wanted to be a Neilson person -- and this may prompt me to get TiVo sooner than later -- I dont know how many times Ive loved a show, only to see it cancelled. I like to think that if I had been in the Neilson sampling audience, it may have made a difference...
Norman Spinrad wrote a novel about them (calling the church something else), 'Mind Games'. Now he can not get a book published in any country.
Steve Martin wrote Bowfinger, and the past couple years, all he has done is appear in SNL rerun specials. I guess we can thank the boys at Mind Fu....head for that one.
I am not a lawyer, but know of many non-compete disputes which have arisin over the years involving my company in one way or another (electronic components distribution industry, but none recently). There are a couple things that will almost guarantee an NC not hold up in court, and the example above is a perfect case of one of them. If you are compelled to sign under penalty of job loss or compensation loss, it will probably not stand. If the individual in the story had to sign when he was hired, that is one thing. The fact that he had been there for a story and was threatened with termination year is a completely different story, and something that usually results in the judge throwing out the NC. If you do leave and go somewhere else and his old company files a charge, the new one definately has a case to get it overturned.
The other case is that the NC unfairly prevents the signor to earn a fair living. For example, if you go to school to be an EE, become one and work as one, you are going to gain practical knowledge that you would use if you ever left the job. Barring someone for 2 years from using this knowledge and basically from working as an EE, will get the NC negated in court. Its not like you can just get another job with the comperable compensation. You cannot be barred from earning a living if you have a specialized skill.
Again, I am not a lawyer, but I know first-hand cases that have been thrown out on both counts (Im sorry for those of you who demand specific case evidence, but for confidentiality reasons, neither names nor companies will be named). However, the original poster gave the best advice on how to handle the situation, have a lawyer check over anything like that that you are asked to sign. Whatever you do, do not let them force you into doing something "by the end of the day" -- if you werent important enough, they wouldnt ask you to sign one in the first place, so they will probably let you have a day or two to get advise. If not, take what you know and go somewhere else.
If you feel you were unfairly compelled to sign, dont worry, there are avenues you can take.
Ive never heard of Josh McDowell. I form my own opinions, thank you, over the years of reading many texts, including the Bible. Plus I do my own thinking on top of that.
So if youre going to accuse me of rehashing someone else's arguments, at least dont post AC.
humanity continued to live lifespans of up to 965 years old
Im sorry but I need a little more proof than "its written in the Bible" for me to believe that someone was 965 years old. One thing to remember is that before the Bible was written, these stories were passed on by word-of-mouth and things get exaggerated. Another thing to consider is that footnotes do not get passed along. Anthropoligists have proven that most primitive cultures worked on cycles of the moon - not the sun. If you were to take 965 and devide it by 13 (roughly the number of moon cycles that occur in a solar year), you would get 74. That in itself is quite an impressive age in that day and probably would have made it into the oral history of the time. When they stories were passed from generation to genearation, facts such as "oh yeah, we used a lunar calendar and a year was actually 28 days" are not passed along.
A little common sense can go a long way in interpreting anything...
You may type fast, but your eye -> brain word-recognition is a bit slow. I detected no whining there, a flame, yes, but no complaining.
I do agree with the AC though -- and Ive read Tolkien (not more than once per book though). I dont think its worth a +4... certainly not the +5 it will probably end up with.
Instead of learning a new program, you really only have to get Napigator at www.napigator.com, which does run on Win 9X and NT. It fires up Napster program and you will be able to connect to any of the OpenNap servers, as well as a whole slew of others.
I agree with the original poster that the OpenNap ones are the best. They even have more volume than Napster's servers.
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guilty as charged :) responded a little too quickly to the post I guess!
It seems Solaris is washing its hands of this code completely - not even going to support it. For all intents and purposes, its as close to true abandonware as you can get. This would actually may be the perfect way to get a case like this into court and get some precedent. Solaris wants nothing to do with it, what should they care if someone else does? Theyre not even going to pretend to care about the code. Personally, if I were one of their developers and had that rug pulled out from under me, Id be flattered if a community took it up and made it something better (if only to see someone stick to Solaris :)
Last year, EBay won a case against some of the meta-auction sites that were displaying EBay content on their sites. EBay's argument was that their web pages are their copywritten material and by a meta-site taking that and altering what was originally intended, was infringement. The court agreed. This could be bad news for MS if they push forward with altering sites they did not author.
I apologize that my memory of the details is a bit hazy, and more info is not immediately available to me. No, IANAL.
Nice to know, in case I decide to run Windows under Linux
Nice to know you can read. The post said Internet Explorer on Windows is the best & fastest browser there is, period.
To repeat, it said ON WINDOWS. And on May 10, 2001, it is an accurate statement.
Theres nothing sadder than a blind follower who obviously cant think for themselves. Except perhaps the 2 dolts who moded this as funny (hint: its flamebait).
Microsoft buys the market
This is not the "same monopoly tactics" that Microsoft has undertaken in the past. This sort of exclusive rights deal is done ALL THE TIME. Ever see those Visa commercials "...and they dont accept American Express"? Visa pays whoever the commercial features (the olypmics, for example) a certain amount of money to not accept Amex. Ever wonder why if you go to a sporting event, that both Coke and Pepsi products are not available? One or the other paid the stadium to not sell the competitors' product. Its a legitimate tactic and does not constitute a monopoly, someone just needs to overbid. If Sony gave up in the bidding war, it was probably because they felt that it was too high to be able to produce a product of reasonable cost in the quality that we would expect. So what? So Microsoft puts out the game for the X-box and the cost is over $100. They will think twice next time. Supply and demand is the only law that matters there.
Personally, I dont like Microsoft much, but this is yet again, another example of the knee-jerk crap that goes on here whenever MS is mentioned. You just lose credibility when a real issue arises.
note: I am not singling out grub's comment -- most I read say pretty much the same thing.
I can see where you would get that idea. However, if you read the article, as I did before submitting it, you will see that that very issue is addressed.
From the article: Although the company says employees offered the buyout are still welcome to show up on the agreed-upon start date, they could still be fired the very same day.
Problem is, that the FBI "reverse hacking" of russian computers is done by an official US government branch
Touché, I was only seeing the other way around. I do think the WWIII thing is a bit of a stretch, but you never do know...
Even if they were cracking
The chip is produced by Nvidia, a partner, yes, but not Microsoft itself
Not previewing twice makes me one of the people in my .sig I guess :)
Here we go again, an anti-MS article that just bashes because there are rumors they may be too late to launch for the Xmas season (which BTW, happened to Sony last year). The reason why , which everyone here seems to neglect to check out, is that the main graphics chip has not even been made yet. On paper, it is supposed to be able to render 2.1 million polygons per frame. In comparison, each velociraptor in the original Jurassic Park required 300,000. Not bad. BTW, for those of you with itchy flame triggers, I am getting this information from this month's Wired.
So, jump off the bandwagons, dismount your highhorses, whatever, and realize that youve once again been suckered into looking like idiots. This is one of the most complex graphics chips ever envisioned and having to produce it in sufficient quantities for Xmas when the fabs arent ready yet is going to be tough.
Microsoft or not, Im looking forward to seeing what this thing can do...
I have been in a business that started in 1993 and moved their main focus to the Web in 1997 (in the same industry). Our President saw through alot of the hype and crap being thrown around by the media and his analysis is still one of the best Ive heard about the Internet and e-commerce: The internet is simply a tool to do the same thing your have always done, in a different way. For example, we run a marketplace online. The competition for our website comes not from others in our industry, but with other ways of doing things. We want people to use our site, rather than the fax machine and telephone, as buyers and sellers have done for years...
A brief outline because this is a reply to a post, not a new thread. But you are correct, people should not be starting businesses in this "New! Exciting! Me Too!" way, and these are the failures you hear about. Once more people realize that the Internet is just a way to do the same things, but more efficiently, you will see more success.
Microsoft reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Passport Web Site and Passport Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions. Continued use of the Passport Web Site or Passport Services after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
This is actually a pretty standard clause in most of the policies I have read. Although this is the first that doesn't say it will contact you when it is changed so you can review - I just got one from ebay the other day. Even worse is exactly what you say, that if they do change their terms, they're not going to tell you.
Its called the Neilson ratings. They contact people and put a box in their homes to monitor their viewing habits and cross-reference that information with the viewer's demographic info. It is then published and used to determine which shows are retained, which are cut, and yes, it is valuable information for advertisers to know that their target market watches show ABC a hell of a lot more than XYZ. Nobody knows who you are, I have heard that Neilson actually asks people not to advertise their status, but I cannot verify this.
TiVo, and you will probably find that ReplayTV does the same thing (I didnt read the entire article so it may be mentioned), is just an expansion of this, except you dont have to be contacted by Neilson.
I have always wanted to be a Neilson person -- and this may prompt me to get TiVo sooner than later -- I dont know how many times Ive loved a show, only to see it cancelled. I like to think that if I had been in the Neilson sampling audience, it may have made a difference...
Norman Spinrad wrote a novel about them (calling the church something else), 'Mind Games'. Now he can not get a book published in any country.
Steve Martin wrote Bowfinger, and the past couple years, all he has done is appear in SNL rerun specials. I guess we can thank the boys at Mind Fu....head for that one.
How much do you want to bet this post never gets moderated above a 1 or gets marked as flame bait?
Yet another example of the stupidity of most moderators. Offtopic, yet. Flamebait, possibly. This post is most certainly NOT a troll.
I hope this one comes up in metamod
I was just able to get on MusicCity.
But there are algorithems out there, such as the encheferizer, that can do this. For instance, "Oops, I did it again!" would be:
Pig Latin: Oopsway, Iway idday itway againway!
Sweedish Chef: Oups, I deed it egeeen! Bork Bork Bork!
Valley Girl: Oops, man, I did it again! Oh, wow!
Jive: Oops, ah' dun did it again. Right On!
I am not a lawyer, but know of many non-compete disputes which have arisin over the years involving my company in one way or another (electronic components distribution industry, but none recently). There are a couple things that will almost guarantee an NC not hold up in court, and the example above is a perfect case of one of them. If you are compelled to sign under penalty of job loss or compensation loss, it will probably not stand. If the individual in the story had to sign when he was hired, that is one thing. The fact that he had been there for a story and was threatened with termination year is a completely different story, and something that usually results in the judge throwing out the NC. If you do leave and go somewhere else and his old company files a charge, the new one definately has a case to get it overturned.
The other case is that the NC unfairly prevents the signor to earn a fair living. For example, if you go to school to be an EE, become one and work as one, you are going to gain practical knowledge that you would use if you ever left the job. Barring someone for 2 years from using this knowledge and basically from working as an EE, will get the NC negated in court. Its not like you can just get another job with the comperable compensation. You cannot be barred from earning a living if you have a specialized skill.
Again, I am not a lawyer, but I know first-hand cases that have been thrown out on both counts (Im sorry for those of you who demand specific case evidence, but for confidentiality reasons, neither names nor companies will be named). However, the original poster gave the best advice on how to handle the situation, have a lawyer check over anything like that that you are asked to sign. Whatever you do, do not let them force you into doing something "by the end of the day" -- if you werent important enough, they wouldnt ask you to sign one in the first place, so they will probably let you have a day or two to get advise. If not, take what you know and go somewhere else.
If you feel you were unfairly compelled to sign, dont worry, there are avenues you can take.
Ive never heard of Josh McDowell. I form my own opinions, thank you, over the years of reading many texts, including the Bible. Plus I do my own thinking on top of that.
So if youre going to accuse me of rehashing someone else's arguments, at least dont post AC.
humanity continued to live lifespans of up to 965 years old
Im sorry but I need a little more proof than "its written in the Bible" for me to believe that someone was 965 years old. One thing to remember is that before the Bible was written, these stories were passed on by word-of-mouth and things get exaggerated. Another thing to consider is that footnotes do not get passed along. Anthropoligists have proven that most primitive cultures worked on cycles of the moon - not the sun. If you were to take 965 and devide it by 13 (roughly the number of moon cycles that occur in a solar year), you would get 74. That in itself is quite an impressive age in that day and probably would have made it into the oral history of the time. When they stories were passed from generation to genearation, facts such as "oh yeah, we used a lunar calendar and a year was actually 28 days" are not passed along.
A little common sense can go a long way in interpreting anything...
You may type fast, but your eye -> brain word-recognition is a bit slow. I detected no whining there, a flame, yes, but no complaining.
I do agree with the AC though -- and Ive read Tolkien (not more than once per book though). I dont think its worth a +4... certainly not the +5 it will probably end up with.
Read below for the flames.
You just cant connect to their servers.
Instead of learning a new program, you really only have to get Napigator at www.napigator.com, which does run on Win 9X and NT. It fires up Napster program and you will be able to connect to any of the OpenNap servers, as well as a whole slew of others.
I agree with the original poster that the OpenNap ones are the best. They even have more volume than Napster's servers.
From the article: "The device contains 256-Mbit of on-chip embedded DRAM"
MEGAbits, or 32 MB
I achieved cold fusion in my bathtub this morning.
You better double-check your results and to make sure that gas emission was indeed helium.
yeah, I saw that after rereading it a 2nd time :)