Specially in this case - people tend to forget that Microsoft has a sizable investment in Apple stocks (and always has - wasn't MS Office one of the earliest apps released for the Mac?).
That's forgivable from average people, but it's strange that slashdotters seem to ignore that Apple is no saint.
For all the outrage on the US about privacy issues, it seems like the UK has been leading in the "Surveillance society" field.
Are there no protests about this sort of thing in the UK? Do the people not care? Or are they already so afraid of being singled out that they'd rather stay silent?
Not only that, but he open sourced the code of whatever game he had worked on just a few years ago. Doom and Quake's source code for the community. Who else does that?
Who knows if he'll do the same with the Doom3 engine, but...
"Do you really think the average user feels comfortable storing, say, bank information online?"
From my personal experience? Oh yes. Also, nude pictures of themselves, photos of their marihuana stash, and all manner of things that should really be kept private.
But for the average person, it's cool to be able to connect with other people on Facebook, and play Scrabulous, even if they can do whatever they want with your information.
I'm wondering whether it's even possible to get better results. I don't know enough about the technology to offer a comment, but I've yet to see a LCD that, despite all it's super keen advantages over CRTs, didn't have something that "wasn't quite right" about it.
Dear heavens! I'm not the only one? Wow.
I bought a Dell 20 inch widescreen LCD (207WFP) and I tweaked all manner of settings on it to try and make it as easy to read as my old monitor, to no avail.
Ran the Nvidia control panel settings, calibration utilities, the Rivatuner stuff, messed with windows fonts and everything I could think of, but something about the image quality was just off, and I couldn't read any text for more than 15 minutes without a headache. Which, in my job, is a bad thing. Bright games, such as Team Fortress, were ok, but dark games like "Vampire: The Masquerade" just didn't work. SOMETHING was wrong.
And think it was also the color balance - Blacks weren't "right", monitor was too bright, contrast would never get set up to my liking... Just couldn't read something without my eyes bothering me after a few hours. But these monitors are so popular, I thought I was the problem.
Oh well.
My dad still has a huge Sony Trinitron in his bedroom, and it STILL works. I don't know how old it is, but it has a wooden enclosure with a "classic" look to it. It's at least 20 years old, because that's how long I can remember it's been in his house...
Say what you will, but Sony always made the best hardware. They went to crap when they began working with software/entertainment.
I can't provide links right now, but there were a few prostitutes in Africa that received a lot of coverage because they were apparently immune to HIV.
That was about 5 years ago, but last year they were confirmed to have developed aids. This was much less publicized, I suppose because it's such a downer.
So it's still not really confirmed that anyone is immune to HIV - be careful (Then again, this is slashdot, so maybe you don't have to worry too much;) )
Which is both ridiculous and almost offensive, for a third world country where you need to depend on low end hardware for most of the poor people who can't upgrade.
People are not dumb. 95% of the people I talk to who are not techies/geeks dislike Vista. Accountants and athletes, and retail workers, average people think it's not necessary, too slow.
So Stage 1 is almost over - people do not want to upgrade to the new Windows.
It would be a good time to increase awareness of choices, such as Ubuntu (none of the people I've talked to know about it).
"The general public is oblivious to the fact that internally the AMD architecture is cleaner and more elegant, the only thing they have to go on is marketing."
It doesn't help that in most benchmarks, AMD has been trounced by Intel this past year.
No, but most vendors sell new machines with it. I know Dell supposedly sells PCs with Ubuntu and XP, but I'm in Mexico and they only offer Vista on new PCs.
I plan to try Vista but I'll most likely end up replacing it with XP, I have some custom software that I need and it doesn't run on Vista.
So he's the only one at CNN who saw the ridiculous coverage of Anna Nicole Smith as the crap that it was, and... he was the one with a brain tumor. Sort of explains a lot about CNN.
Read it again, and notice the first part: "To strike the provision..."
Meaning to remove their immunity.
John McCain, a Republican, voted to keep the telcos immune to illegal acts. Obama, a Democrat, voted to strike this provision, thus removing the protection for telcos.
Hillary Clinton, a supposed Democrat, voted Nay, to keep the protection in place.
Very interesting vote. Let's see if the USA is paying attention to this.
As was mentioned, encryption and darknets are not the solution. If governments succeed at this, nothing will stop them from labeling your encrypted connection as "suspicious" in the future.
Please, any users in the UK find a way to protest this. The rest of the world governments will follow if it goes through.
By the way, I'm glad Freenet is not dead. I'll give it another shot.
"If I get rich off my work (probability: imperceptible), I'll leave the dough to my wife and daughter (who both happen to be younger and healthier than me, and thus likely to survive me). I feel the same way about patent. If an inventor wants to monetize his invention, he should either develop it himself or license it to a company to develop. When he dies, it should become public domain."
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"The enemy of your enemy is not your friend."
Specially in this case - people tend to forget that Microsoft has a sizable investment in Apple stocks (and always has - wasn't MS Office one of the earliest apps released for the Mac?).
That's forgivable from average people, but it's strange that slashdotters seem to ignore that Apple is no saint.
OR is it just a bunch of sheep?
For all the outrage on the US about privacy issues, it seems like the UK has been leading in the "Surveillance society" field.
Are there no protests about this sort of thing in the UK? Do the people not care? Or are they already so afraid of being singled out that they'd rather stay silent?
Not only that, but he open sourced the code of whatever game he had worked on just a few years ago. Doom and Quake's source code for the community. Who else does that?
Who knows if he'll do the same with the Doom3 engine, but...
The Carmack rocks.
It's the difference between having no entry for Planet Earth, and having one that says "Mostly Harmless".
Yeah. Sounds like an argument from an old-school media to keep itself relevant.
"Seriously, guys, you need US to editorialize your un-filtered information! We know what's good!"
"Do you really think the average user feels comfortable storing, say, bank information online?"
From my personal experience? Oh yes. Also, nude pictures of themselves, photos of their marihuana stash, and all manner of things that should really be kept private.
Well, you're a geek and know that it's stupid.
But for the average person, it's cool to be able to connect with other people on Facebook, and play Scrabulous, even if they can do whatever they want with your information.
Yeah, half a century ago. Mexico expropiated the oil from foreign countries in the 40's, and there was never a retaliation like the one against Cuba.
It's "Vista Capable", so... no! ;)
I'm wondering whether it's even possible to get better results. I don't know enough about the technology to offer a comment, but I've yet to see a LCD that, despite all it's super keen advantages over CRTs, didn't have something that "wasn't quite right" about it.
Dear heavens! I'm not the only one? Wow.
I bought a Dell 20 inch widescreen LCD (207WFP) and I tweaked all manner of settings on it to try and make it as easy to read as my old monitor, to no avail.
Ran the Nvidia control panel settings, calibration utilities, the Rivatuner stuff, messed with windows fonts and everything I could think of, but something about the image quality was just off, and I couldn't read any text for more than 15 minutes without a headache. Which, in my job, is a bad thing. Bright games, such as Team Fortress, were ok, but dark games like "Vampire: The Masquerade" just didn't work. SOMETHING was wrong.
And think it was also the color balance - Blacks weren't "right", monitor was too bright, contrast would never get set up to my liking... Just couldn't read something without my eyes bothering me after a few hours. But these monitors are so popular, I thought I was the problem.
Oh well.
My dad still has a huge Sony Trinitron in his bedroom, and it STILL works. I don't know how old it is, but it has a wooden enclosure with a "classic" look to it. It's at least 20 years old, because that's how long I can remember it's been in his house...
Say what you will, but Sony always made the best hardware. They went to crap when they began working with software/entertainment.
I can't provide links right now, but there were a few prostitutes in Africa that received a lot of coverage because they were apparently immune to HIV.
;) )
That was about 5 years ago, but last year they were confirmed to have developed aids. This was much less publicized, I suppose because it's such a downer.
So it's still not really confirmed that anyone is immune to HIV - be careful (Then again, this is slashdot, so maybe you don't have to worry too much
It costs 650 dollars in Mexico.
Which is both ridiculous and almost offensive, for a third world country where you need to depend on low end hardware for most of the poor people who can't upgrade.
People are not dumb. 95% of the people I talk to who are not techies/geeks dislike Vista. Accountants and athletes, and retail workers, average people think it's not necessary, too slow.
So Stage 1 is almost over - people do not want to upgrade to the new Windows.
It would be a good time to increase awareness of choices, such as Ubuntu (none of the people I've talked to know about it).
If you work at MS security, you really need to explain UAC.
"The general public is oblivious to the fact that internally the AMD architecture is cleaner and more elegant, the only thing they have to go on is marketing."
It doesn't help that in most benchmarks, AMD has been trounced by Intel this past year.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html
No, but most vendors sell new machines with it. I know Dell supposedly sells PCs with Ubuntu and XP, but I'm in Mexico and they only offer Vista on new PCs.
I plan to try Vista but I'll most likely end up replacing it with XP, I have some custom software that I need and it doesn't run on Vista.
So he's the only one at CNN who saw the ridiculous coverage of Anna Nicole Smith as the crap that it was, and ... he was the one with a brain tumor. Sort of explains a lot about CNN.
Why are you even posting about something that is easily searchable? Is this not slashdot?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO
Yahoo has gone down a bit since the announcement.
Read it again, and notice the first part: "To strike the provision..."
Meaning to remove their immunity.
John McCain, a Republican, voted to keep the telcos immune to illegal acts.
Obama, a Democrat, voted to strike this provision, thus removing the protection for telcos.
Hillary Clinton, a supposed Democrat, voted Nay, to keep the protection in place.
Very interesting vote. Let's see if the USA is paying attention to this.
"Besides, if you're so poor at managing money that you can't leverage 50 years of income into a retirement account, you're an idiot."
Or an artist!
As was mentioned, encryption and darknets are not the solution. If governments succeed at this, nothing will stop them from labeling your encrypted connection as "suspicious" in the future.
Please, any users in the UK find a way to protest this. The rest of the world governments will follow if it goes through.
By the way, I'm glad Freenet is not dead. I'll give it another shot.
"If I get rich off my work (probability: imperceptible), I'll leave the dough to my wife and daughter (who both happen to be younger and healthier than me, and thus likely to survive me). I feel the same way about patent. If an inventor wants to monetize his invention, he should either develop it himself or license it to a company to develop. When he dies, it should become public domain."
When you die, you say?
Hmm... When is your next fishing trip, again?
Love, your wife
How is this possible?
The best sales pitch for SP1 is that it COPIES FILES FASTER? Which is still probably slower than it was with XP, thus making it a non-improvement?
Ridiculous.
No, it's not real. It's a mockup sent by a reader. =/
Plus, it looks extra crappy.
Wow! I'm surprised. I seriously expected to see all "XP sucks +5 insightful" posts, but there's many that outright said that it was a great OS.
Well, Sonny Bono was a scientologist.