If Microsoft's sales pitch for SA was to throw together some figures showing the cost of buying a new OS release every two years vs. buying into a service agreement and getting complimentary upgrades for the duration, I'd say the customers would have good reason to be pissed off -- the salesdroids gave them inaccurate data.
Of course, just because Longhorn won't be released for several years doesn't preclude the possibility of a "Windows XP Second Edition"-type product to fill the gap.
Yes, the US is spending a lot (a LOT) of money in Iraq. So what? That's completely irrelevant to discussions of a rail tunnel connecting Europe and Africa. COMPLETELY irrelevant.
Or maybe you can explain how digging a tunnel has the effect of stopping terrorism. Seems to me like the opposite would be true -- the tunnel would be a very attractive target for terrorist attacks.
In order to get this PC, you would have to watch 90 minutes (1 and 1/2 hours) minimum of advertising each month.
In the US, you only need to watch 7 or 8 hours of television per month to rack up that many advertising minutes (unless you TiVo, natch...).
Don't get me wrong, any plan to interrupt whatever someone is using a PC for in order to display a commercial break is doomed to failure, but it's not because the length of the commercials is excessive.
Oh, come on. It's not like there aren't certain economies that can be exploited by building a device that can perform multiple functions.
Video game consoles need a high-density optical disk drive. DVD players need a high-density optical disk drive. Why not use one drive for both?
Computers need a video display and hard disk storage. Personal video recorders need a video display and hard disk storage. Why not use the same case components for both?
Even with "all-in-one" convergence, nothing's stopping you from buying multiple devices if you think Foo Corp's MP3 jukebox is the bee's knees, but you prefer Bar Industries' gaming capabilities. So you can have an "all-in-two", or "all-in-three", or even "all-in-n" representing all of the n different things you do.
Yeah, let's just bundle everything together. We all know how well that works in the software world.
You mean like the "office suite"? One of the most successful software marketing concepts of the past 20 years, that.
They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black; subsitute US for UN and it that sentence still makes perfect sense.
Perhaps it makes sense grammatically, but it would be a false statement.
Last I checked, the First Amendement's wording was not "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances... as long as it doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the United States."
it wasn't any other company. It's the company that believes it knows what's best for everyone. The same company that believes it deserves to control all software on Earth.
Given infinite resources, this would be the goal of EVERY software company. It's simply out of the realm of possibility for most.
Hell, you can even see some of that ideal in RMS's opinions of non-Free software.
It's unfair to say that any of these agencies "control" anything. They may establish macro-level policies, but it's not as if by hacking the Justice Dept. you can get a friend released from prison, or by hacking the Dept. of Energy you can initiate a core meltdown in one of the nation's (privately-owned) nuclear power plants.
Our government doesn't make all of our decisions for us. (Yet...?)
Wait... so you KNEW that coders working on government contracts were failing to provide adequate implementations of required security measures?
While I'm not one to use the word "treason", if you failed to alert anyone to this behavior, that could certainly be construed as a failure to fulfill your civic duties.
Sounds to me like winamp will have a distinct bangladesh feel to it next version:)
Mark my words, if Winamp development ends up being sent overseas, the product will suffer.
Just watch. Bad design decisions will creep in. They might even go so far as to use an awkward bitmapped interface instead of standard GUI widgets!
It may even end up being the case where they release a new major version number, and it ends up being so bad that everyone sticks with the previous one instead!
Steve Jobs to the RIAA: "We asked 10,000 monkeys, and they don't seem to think that protecting diginal music is possible."
Shouldn't we all be complaining about how Apple is sending all the jobs overseas to monkeys in Russia and India instead of keeping American monkeys employed?
Aren't the letter codes in the LoC system related to the physical dimensions of the book, though?
That means the shelves can be spaced for the most efficient use of the available space, but if you're browsing by topic you may need to visit several different locations in the stacks -- one for the small books, one for the medium-sized books, one for the oversized books, one for the medium-small books, etc.
Just wait until genetic therapy become available, or disease attacking bacteriophages, or artificialy grown organs. I think medicine is in for revolution.
If that's the case, it's going to be a damned shame if Conservative-sponsored legislation makes all these biomedical discoveries illegal in the United States. A lot of human suffering will continue, which could have been avoided had certain people of influence not been frightened by what they don't understand.
As soon as Linux scales well to 128+ CPUs with full binary compatibility (no recompile)
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you're running hardware that requires >128 CPUs, wouldn't you be rolling your own binaries anyway? I mean, that's not exactly a general-purpose Linux box there, and I'd think you'd want more control over what gets installed on it than what apt-get provides.
My opinion is that having NVIDIA work with kernel developers to come up with fully open-source, GPL licensed Linux drivers for their hardware would be better than ever releasing a single binary-only driver.
Well DUH. But nVidia isn't too keen on that idea. So the realistic options are: - get a binary-only Linux driver - get no Linux driver Which one is better for nVidia users? Which is better for Linux users?
If NVIDIA gets away with providing half-hearted binary-only support for Linux, why can't every other hardware manufacturer?
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If Microsoft's sales pitch for SA was to throw together some figures showing the cost of buying a new OS release every two years vs. buying into a service agreement and getting complimentary upgrades for the duration, I'd say the customers would have good reason to be pissed off -- the salesdroids gave them inaccurate data.
Of course, just because Longhorn won't be released for several years doesn't preclude the possibility of a "Windows XP Second Edition"-type product to fill the gap.
No matter what the final cost is going to be, it's going to be a tiny fraction of what the US spent in Iraq
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Yes, the US is spending a lot (a LOT) of money in Iraq. So what? That's completely irrelevant to discussions of a rail tunnel connecting Europe and Africa. COMPLETELY irrelevant.
Or maybe you can explain how digging a tunnel has the effect of stopping terrorism. Seems to me like the opposite would be true -- the tunnel would be a very attractive target for terrorist attacks.
In order to get this PC, you would have to watch 90 minutes (1 and 1/2 hours) minimum of advertising each month.
In the US, you only need to watch 7 or 8 hours of television per month to rack up that many advertising minutes (unless you TiVo, natch...).
Don't get me wrong, any plan to interrupt whatever someone is using a PC for in order to display a commercial break is doomed to failure, but it's not because the length of the commercials is excessive.
Oh, come on. It's not like there aren't certain economies that can be exploited by building a device that can perform multiple functions.
Video game consoles need a high-density optical disk drive. DVD players need a high-density optical disk drive. Why not use one drive for both?
Computers need a video display and hard disk storage. Personal video recorders need a video display and hard disk storage. Why not use the same case components for both?
Even with "all-in-one" convergence, nothing's stopping you from buying multiple devices if you think Foo Corp's MP3 jukebox is the bee's knees, but you prefer Bar Industries' gaming capabilities. So you can have an "all-in-two", or "all-in-three", or even "all-in-n" representing all of the n different things you do.
Yeah, let's just bundle everything together. We all know how well that works in the software world.
You mean like the "office suite"? One of the most successful software marketing concepts of the past 20 years, that.
Should a website name like www.microsoft.com be allowed as a username @ another website like that?
It's all safe characters according to the RFC's... so yes.
What have you got against Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Mahler, Debussy, Strauss, Schoenberg, Ravel, Bartok, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Cage, Reich, Glass, and Adams?
It's just an XML file that says where you can download the content, what software/hardware you need to view it, and how much it costs.
That's great!
I can hack it to get free content just by modifying the <cost> tag to 0.00!
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black; subsitute US for UN and it that sentence still makes perfect sense.
Perhaps it makes sense grammatically, but it would be a false statement.
Last I checked, the First Amendement's wording was not "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances... as long as it doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the United States."
Kermit is dead. Zmodem is dead.
Is it?
I don't know if you've heard or not, but there's a rumor that Kermit's Alive and Well on the Space Station...
In October, Microsoft committed to making its patch-release schedule more regular, by only publishing patches on the second Tuesday in each month.
How is Microsoft going to keep their Update servers from melting down on the second Tuesday in each month? Maybe they'll have to switch them to Linux.
push them out on a schedule with SMS
Ye Gods, that conjured up the horrorific concept of Microsoft operating code running on mobile phones...
(please no one post a link to a WinCE-based smartphone if one exists. I'd rather not know.)
it wasn't any other company. It's the company that believes it knows what's best for everyone. The same company that believes it deserves to control all software on Earth.
Given infinite resources, this would be the goal of EVERY software company. It's simply out of the realm of possibility for most.
Hell, you can even see some of that ideal in RMS's opinions of non-Free software.
It's unfair to say that any of these agencies "control" anything. They may establish macro-level policies, but it's not as if by hacking the Justice Dept. you can get a friend released from prison, or by hacking the Dept. of Energy you can initiate a core meltdown in one of the nation's (privately-owned) nuclear power plants.
Our government doesn't make all of our decisions for us. (Yet...?)
Wait... so you KNEW that coders working on government contracts were failing to provide adequate implementations of required security measures?
While I'm not one to use the word "treason", if you failed to alert anyone to this behavior, that could certainly be construed as a failure to fulfill your civic duties.
Sounds to me like winamp will have a distinct bangladesh feel to it next version :)
Mark my words, if Winamp development ends up being sent overseas, the product will suffer.
Just watch. Bad design decisions will creep in. They might even go so far as to use an awkward bitmapped interface instead of standard GUI widgets!
It may even end up being the case where they release a new major version number, and it ends up being so bad that everyone sticks with the previous one instead!
Oh wait.
Any guess as to what OS their next PC is going to run?
Windows XP Home.
(Was that not the answer you were looking for?)
Steve Jobs to the RIAA: "We asked 10,000 monkeys, and they don't seem to think that protecting diginal music is possible."
Shouldn't we all be complaining about how Apple is sending all the jobs overseas to monkeys in Russia and India instead of keeping American monkeys employed?
And how many versions of windows are there?
95, 98, 98SE, NT, ME, 2000, 2000 Server, CE, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center Edition, XP Tablet Edition...
Aren't the letter codes in the LoC system related to the physical dimensions of the book, though?
That means the shelves can be spaced for the most efficient use of the available space, but if you're browsing by topic you may need to visit several different locations in the stacks -- one for the small books, one for the medium-sized books, one for the oversized books, one for the medium-small books, etc.
Even more interesting is the fact that the molecules are only regarded as Class C Nanoproducts under the Nanotechnology Protection Act of 2018
Even MORE more interesting is how this article is dated 2013, but makes reference to a law passed five years later.
Just wait until genetic therapy become available, or disease attacking bacteriophages, or artificialy grown organs. I think medicine is in for revolution.
If that's the case, it's going to be a damned shame if Conservative-sponsored legislation makes all these biomedical discoveries illegal in the United States. A lot of human suffering will continue, which could have been avoided had certain people of influence not been frightened by what they don't understand.
As soon as Linux scales well to 128+ CPUs with full binary compatibility (no recompile)
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you're running hardware that requires >128 CPUs, wouldn't you be rolling your own binaries anyway? I mean, that's not exactly a general-purpose Linux box there, and I'd think you'd want more control over what gets installed on it than what apt-get provides.
Why not listen to what Andreesen has to say, instead of waiting for him to say what you WANT him to say?
Amazingly enough, an interview cannot cover every conceivable topic that exists.
Most drivers simply push data to the right place and fiddle with registers in the right way.
But... isn't this true of ALL CODE, EVER?
My opinion is that having NVIDIA work with kernel developers to come up with fully open-source, GPL licensed Linux drivers for their hardware would be better than ever releasing a single binary-only driver.
Well DUH. But nVidia isn't too keen on that idea. So the realistic options are:
- get a binary-only Linux driver
- get no Linux driver
Which one is better for nVidia users? Which is better for Linux users?
If NVIDIA gets away with providing half-hearted binary-only support for Linux, why can't every other hardware manufacturer?
Half is greater than zero...