del "c:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"
ought to do the trick.
A tip for those who hate the WMP 8/9/10 all-in-one player/library/browser frontend -- the older version of the frontend (the one that Media Player Classic looks like) is still included in the distribution, its "mplayer2.exe" in the same directory. If you associate your file types with this executable instead of wmplayer.exe, all your files will open in the "classic" interface.
your son had just read the book, so the ideas in it were at the front of his mind.
The obvious counterpoint is that economists and stockbrokers do this stuff for a living; shouldn't alarm bells about overvaluation have been going off in their heads non-stop?
It's not really salient, though, because of another innovation of the Dot-Com Boom -- the rise of low-fee internet trading. The barrier to entry for people playing the stock market became a lot lower when an investor-to-be didn't have to call up an actual broker and pay a premium to make a stock transaction, thus a lot of new people began to play the market with no experience and little wisdom.
It wasn't the experts that caused the bubble to inflate. It was regular people with dollars in their bank accounts and bigger dollar signs in their eyes.
In typical cases, those who can't perform are kept employed, but passed over for raises and promotions and relegated to increasingly marginal responsibilities in hopes that they'll quit. The workers who can perform are given extra duties to compensate for the non-performers; in return they do get promotions and raises (though not as much as they deserve, since a big chunk of the payroll budget is reserved for the slackers).
Firings in white-collar industries often lead to lawsuits. That's why businesses are generally loath to pursue them.
Some people may have managed to get $80k jobs directly out of college during the cresting of the bubble, but not that many in relative terms. Many many more of them got hired in the range of $30-50k, which is still above average for college grads but not so anomalous as to make news.
And now five years later, many of the people who got hired by companies foolish enough to hire a kid with no work experience for $80k are no longer at those companies, because they're the ones that went under. A lot of them would have difficulty finding new jobs in the field, because once the salary history comes up, both employer and candidate will hesitate to agree to an offer that's one-third less than what the candidate was previously earning for the same work.
Linus Torvalds makes a convenient representational symbol for the Linux community (it's named after him, after all), but is he really an Agenda Setter?
Every interview I've read with him gives the impression that Linus has no plan to achieve world domination, or even knock Microsoft down in the marketplace. He's just an engineer who's trying to make the best operating system he can.
Credit for "the Linux agenda" (if any) more rightly belongs to the RMS'es and ESR's of the world, the business brains at IBM and RedHat and Fedora and the other companies that have taken Linus's work and packaged it as something that's enterprise-ready.
For both candidates: you campaign has placed a lot of focus on your opponent's shortcomings, and of characteristics and behaviors not directly related to political competence.
In contrast to that, what qualities and acts from your opponent's political career do you admire and respect most?
Having people scared out of the public places so that they can't discuss the events which are about to unfold. . ?
Y'know, I think a potentially devastating computer virus would actually make people more likely to turn their computers off, and go out to those public places.
And some dorks still laugh at me and say I'm a paranoid conspiracy nut.
LOL! You're a paranoid conspiracy nut!
Well, if conspiracies don't exist, why are there laws like, 'Conspiracy to commit _____' on the books?
There are such things as conspiracies. There is no such thing as The Conspiracy. The former requires the cooperation of several people; the latter would require the cooperation of thousands of people, all of whom would need to be clever enough not to get caught. And People are just too Stupid for that to happen.
Count on this: If any 'terrorism' happens in the next 5 weeks, you can be sure it will have been be aided and abetted by the US and/or Israeli secret services.
classic rock which I already have on vinyl and thus am legally allowed to have mp3s of
Maybe not, if the music was remastered for CD release and the MP3's you leeched were ripped from CD. It may be considered not just a different format, but a different phonographic work entirely.
IANAL, and this area of copyright law hasn't been tested as far as I know. But until precedent is handed down from the courts one way or the other, I'd hesitate to assume that it's completely legal.
What, don't we think that CSS encryption and region codes are TEH DEVIL anymore? Or is the MPAA not evil for foisting those things upon us now that we've found workarounds for them?
What function of Oracle made it more useful than MySQL in this case?
Oracle Corp. provided a higher, and therefore better, price quote for providing support services than anyone involved with MySQL could come up with.
It's certainly a valid DB for Web Applications - even if Oracle might scale better.
Considering that this was a company that didn't even HAVE a database prior to this web initiative (read as: buzzword compliance became an issue), I'd have to guess that scalability was probably not a major factor in the decisionmaking.
And as far as vendor lock-in goes, I'm really not one to have concerns with that as far as Oracle is concerned. They are to enterprise databases what IBM was to desktop PCs in the 1980's, and Microsoft was to office software in the 1990's; nobody ever went out of business due to buying Oracle. They'll be around for a long time.
Practicing your right to assemble is NOT a security risk.
Incorrect. It's not illegal, but it may very well may be a security risk.
Put yourself in the shoes of a police officer or security agent -- if 200 people show up in your area out of the blue, you're going to be suspicious, and you're going to watch them closely. Maybe there's one bad egg in that crowd. Maybe they're all bad. Maybe there's no bad eggs, but while you're focused on watching them somebody else takes advantage of your guard being down and gets away with something.
I'm tired of the average consumer being ignorant of the differences between video connection standards.
Maybe it would help if the manufacturers weren't retarded with their naming conventions.
There's DVI-A, DVI-D, DVI-I, all of which look the same unless you examine the pin configuration closely, and are mostly not interchangeable. And DVI-A is not even digital at all! That's right, it stands for "Digital Video Interconnect, Analog".
So even if I connect my display to my graphics card with a DVI cable, it's still possible that the connection will be VGA-style analog, unless I do a significant amount of research about the capabilities of the card, the display, and even the cable itself.
That's too much work for the "average consumer" to be bothered with. I can't say I'd blame them for being ignorant.
Isn't this just a rehash of the "MPC" and "MPC2" designations for multimedia PC's that we had a decade ago, only targeted towards 3D gaming? How long did those last before they were abandoned?
Each state should have the right to lease or sell spectrum.
How would you prevent a broadcaster in New York City from sending their signal into New Jersey and Connecticut?
If states were of uniform size and shape, and broadcasters were situated in the geographic center of each, there might be a case for it. But as it stands now, broadcast signals neither know nor care about state borders.
not a sinister plot by the Government to enslave the population, as you yankees seem to be happy to believe so easily...
To be fair, not even half of "us yankees" believe that public service funding is a sinister idea. While our conservatives tend to be more so than their counterparts in Great Britain and elsewhere, we also have our share of moderates and liberals who believe in the value of governmental spending for the public good, to varying extents.
I don't know what school you went to or what the curriculae were like, but I'll bet that a good number of the courses in the Business programs had sections dealing with ethics in them, even though a standalone course called "Ethics" may not have been a requisite.
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Am I reading it wrong, or is the title of that Wired article (Google News: Beta Not Make Money) really bad grammar?
I interpret it as an attempted pun. "beta" = "better". As in, "Google better not make money off Google News".
i've read interviews with Brooks where he has said, pretty plainly, that he doesn't believe in sequals.
:( :( :(
Does that mean that The History of The World, Part Two isn't going to be made?
Red Hat is the most common distro, and they don't ship mplayer.
RedHat is also a distro targeted to enterprise computing, and there's no reason to have an X-based media player on a LAMP server.
Microsoft does not make it legally possible for me to ship a modified version of Windows that contains a different movie player.
Nor should they have to. It's their product, they can set the terms for distribution (within the limits of law).
A tip for those who hate the WMP 8/9/10 all-in-one player/library/browser frontend -- the older version of the frontend (the one that Media Player Classic looks like) is still included in the distribution, its "mplayer2.exe" in the same directory. If you associate your file types with this executable instead of wmplayer.exe, all your files will open in the "classic" interface.
Quicktime for Windows? Euuuurgh!
your son had just read the book, so the ideas in it were at the front of his mind.
The obvious counterpoint is that economists and stockbrokers do this stuff for a living; shouldn't alarm bells about overvaluation have been going off in their heads non-stop?
It's not really salient, though, because of another innovation of the Dot-Com Boom -- the rise of low-fee internet trading. The barrier to entry for people playing the stock market became a lot lower when an investor-to-be didn't have to call up an actual broker and pay a premium to make a stock transaction, thus a lot of new people began to play the market with no experience and little wisdom.
It wasn't the experts that caused the bubble to inflate. It was regular people with dollars in their bank accounts and bigger dollar signs in their eyes.
It's why VHS won out over Betamax.
Only Sony made Beta decks. Everyone else made VHS.
It's why Microsoft won out over Macintosh.
Only Apple made Macs. Everyone else made x86 PCs that could run DOS and Windows.
It's not Marketing's fault when people prefer a broader market to a niche market.
Those who can't perform are fired, period.
That's not how it works.
In typical cases, those who can't perform are kept employed, but passed over for raises and promotions and relegated to increasingly marginal responsibilities in hopes that they'll quit. The workers who can perform are given extra duties to compensate for the non-performers; in return they do get promotions and raises (though not as much as they deserve, since a big chunk of the payroll budget is reserved for the slackers).
Firings in white-collar industries often lead to lawsuits. That's why businesses are generally loath to pursue them.
Some people may have managed to get $80k jobs directly out of college during the cresting of the bubble, but not that many in relative terms. Many many more of them got hired in the range of $30-50k, which is still above average for college grads but not so anomalous as to make news.
And now five years later, many of the people who got hired by companies foolish enough to hire a kid with no work experience for $80k are no longer at those companies, because they're the ones that went under. A lot of them would have difficulty finding new jobs in the field, because once the salary history comes up, both employer and candidate will hesitate to agree to an offer that's one-third less than what the candidate was previously earning for the same work.
Bubble is a sorting algorithm. I thought any first-year CS student would have known that.
Linus Torvalds makes a convenient representational symbol for the Linux community (it's named after him, after all), but is he really an Agenda Setter?
Every interview I've read with him gives the impression that Linus has no plan to achieve world domination, or even knock Microsoft down in the marketplace. He's just an engineer who's trying to make the best operating system he can.
Credit for "the Linux agenda" (if any) more rightly belongs to the RMS'es and ESR's of the world, the business brains at IBM and RedHat and Fedora and the other companies that have taken Linus's work and packaged it as something that's enterprise-ready.
For both candidates: you campaign has placed a lot of focus on your opponent's shortcomings, and of characteristics and behaviors not directly related to political competence.
In contrast to that, what qualities and acts from your opponent's political career do you admire and respect most?
Having people scared out of the public places so that they can't discuss the events which are about to unfold. . ?
Y'know, I think a potentially devastating computer virus would actually make people more likely to turn their computers off, and go out to those public places.
And some dorks still laugh at me and say I'm a paranoid conspiracy nut.
LOL! You're a paranoid conspiracy nut!
Well, if conspiracies don't exist, why are there laws like, 'Conspiracy to commit _____' on the books?
There are such things as conspiracies. There is no such thing as The Conspiracy. The former requires the cooperation of several people; the latter would require the cooperation of thousands of people, all of whom would need to be clever enough not to get caught. And People are just too Stupid for that to happen.
Count on this: If any 'terrorism' happens in the next 5 weeks, you can be sure it will have been be aided and abetted by the US and/or Israeli secret services.
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Shame on anybody who modded up this fanatic as "Insightful"!
classic rock which I already have on vinyl and thus am legally allowed to have mp3s of
Maybe not, if the music was remastered for CD release and the MP3's you leeched were ripped from CD. It may be considered not just a different format, but a different phonographic work entirely.
IANAL, and this area of copyright law hasn't been tested as far as I know. But until precedent is handed down from the courts one way or the other, I'd hesitate to assume that it's completely legal.
(DVDs have good quality and nonrestrictive DRM)
What, don't we think that CSS encryption and region codes are TEH DEVIL anymore? Or is the MPAA not evil for foisting those things upon us now that we've found workarounds for them?
What function of Oracle made it more useful than MySQL in this case?
Oracle Corp. provided a higher, and therefore better, price quote for providing support services than anyone involved with MySQL could come up with.
It's certainly a valid DB for Web Applications - even if Oracle might scale better.
Considering that this was a company that didn't even HAVE a database prior to this web initiative (read as: buzzword compliance became an issue), I'd have to guess that scalability was probably not a major factor in the decisionmaking.
And as far as vendor lock-in goes, I'm really not one to have concerns with that as far as Oracle is concerned. They are to enterprise databases what IBM was to desktop PCs in the 1980's, and Microsoft was to office software in the 1990's; nobody ever went out of business due to buying Oracle. They'll be around for a long time.
Practicing your right to assemble is NOT a security risk.
Incorrect. It's not illegal, but it may very well may be a security risk.
Put yourself in the shoes of a police officer or security agent -- if 200 people show up in your area out of the blue, you're going to be suspicious, and you're going to watch them closely. Maybe there's one bad egg in that crowd. Maybe they're all bad. Maybe there's no bad eggs, but while you're focused on watching them somebody else takes advantage of your guard being down and gets away with something.
I'm tired of the average consumer being ignorant of the differences between video connection standards.
Maybe it would help if the manufacturers weren't retarded with their naming conventions.
There's DVI-A, DVI-D, DVI-I, all of which look the same unless you examine the pin configuration closely, and are mostly not interchangeable. And DVI-A is not even digital at all! That's right, it stands for "Digital Video Interconnect, Analog".
So even if I connect my display to my graphics card with a DVI cable, it's still possible that the connection will be VGA-style analog, unless I do a significant amount of research about the capabilities of the card, the display, and even the cable itself.
That's too much work for the "average consumer" to be bothered with. I can't say I'd blame them for being ignorant.
You'll need a magnifying glass to read it?
Only if the UI designers measure typefaces in pixels, rather than something sane and device-independent like points or centimeters...
Isn't this just a rehash of the "MPC" and "MPC2" designations for multimedia PC's that we had a decade ago, only targeted towards 3D gaming? How long did those last before they were abandoned?
Each state should have the right to lease or sell spectrum.
How would you prevent a broadcaster in New York City from sending their signal into New Jersey and Connecticut?
If states were of uniform size and shape, and broadcasters were situated in the geographic center of each, there might be a case for it. But as it stands now, broadcast signals neither know nor care about state borders.
MC Chris is an internet phenomenon?
I always assumed most of his popularity came from television -- his involvement in the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming.
Feature my voice and music on a TV series watched fanatically by young adults and I'd probably become more popular, too.
not a sinister plot by the Government to enslave the population, as you yankees seem to be happy to believe so easily...
To be fair, not even half of "us yankees" believe that public service funding is a sinister idea. While our conservatives tend to be more so than their counterparts in Great Britain and elsewhere, we also have our share of moderates and liberals who believe in the value of governmental spending for the public good, to varying extents.
I don't know what school you went to or what the curriculae were like, but I'll bet that a good number of the courses in the Business programs had sections dealing with ethics in them, even though a standalone course called "Ethics" may not have been a requisite.
The amusing thing about access is it supports subselects! There isn't a release of mysql that does this yet.
WACKY CLOWN: Hey kids, what time is it?
SLASHDOT (in unison): Time for another pointless MySQL-vs-PostgreSQL advocacy flamewar!!!
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