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How the PS3 Hit $600
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Every single product from MS has been a "me too" ripoff of one of their competitors.
Hmm.. I haven't seen any other verification tools that are comparable to Static Driver Verifier or PREfast. Please just remind me where they've ripped this off..
There's a huge difference between Microsoft Research and IBM Research. While researchers at Microsoft are basically free to choose what they want to work on, IBM researchers have to convince one of the product groups to give them funding for their projects.. if I had the choice, I'd rather work at Microsoft Research than at IBM Research.
Come on.. calm down. The price will be down to $400 after a few months, unless the Sony CEO prefers to staple all those unsold PS3s in his office.. (presuming he has such a huge office)...
I wonder if this means they will actually recycle them in Cupertino, or sent overseas to be dumped
Do a little research before you submit a story next time.. especially if the story is several days old. From Apples homepage:
Hazardous materials
No hazardous waste from Apple's U.S. recycling program is shipped outside North America. All recovered materials are processed domestically, with the exception of some commodity materials that can be recycled for future use. Apple's recycling policies prohibit the use of recovered plastics as fuel in smelting.
the complexity associated with modern development tools is way too steep a curve for your average 14 year old to wrap their heads around
That's why interactive development tools are the way to go, and Microsoft has already realized that. When I learned programming, 15 years ago, my first programs were 1-liners, and the interpreter gave me immediate feedback. Nowadays, even "Hello World" programs are at least 20 lines long, you have to instantiate classes, and specify which resources and libraries to link. When you run the program, a console window pops up for a second and that was it. Even for simple tasks like reading input from the console you have to know a lot about your class library.
Languages like F# and OCaml are much easier to learn, since they have an interpreter (even though native compilation is possible) and are interactive, and they still allow you to dig into object oriented programming.
If you're referring to the fact that it's very close to what one would call Adware, this is the same on my Mac. Every other time I start Quicktime it suggests to buy the full version, and several menu points are grayed out like in Crippleware. Obviously, Apple is are also planning to add ads to iTunes.
I would buy it just because of that! Hmm.. offtopic, but why the fuck can't you buy My Little Pony T-shirts at think geek. They are pretty hard to get in Large..
Sure it would work BETTER if it was a native app, but it worked well enough.
In fact, it didn't. I was using the OS/2 version of Lotus Smartsuite, but it was so buggy that I was forced to switch to the Windows version..:( Not to mention that most of the OS/2 printer drivers were crap, so I also used Windows to print my stuff. The native OS/2 application that I used most was Emacs. This is probably also the reason why I switched from OS/2 to Linux rather than to Windows;-)
Because it seems that microsoft shut down the R&D department so long ago.
Well, it's more like everybody else (HP/Compaq, Bell Labs, etc.) shut down their research labs, while Microsoft has been expanding them in the last 10 years..
Because the Geneva conventions only apply to uniformed soldiers. These guys were neither uniformed not soldiers of any government.
While this is definitely the correct answer to my provocation, it still doesn't feel right. As I said, the rules are made such that, when everybody follows them, the ones who made them will win.
Not that I'm sympathizing with terrorists, but I guess there's more than one innocent prisoner at Guantanamo Bay... isn't that kafkaesque? "why don't I get a fair trial?" "well, weren't wearing a uniform, were you?"
and the US apologizes repeatedly for it. I have yet to hear Bin Laden apologize for the accidental civilian deaths on 9-11.
Ok, if he apologized, but did it again right after that, would you feel better? And some of the apologies of the US really aren't very plausible. They sacrifice a few dispensable soldiers and pretend that the leaders hadn't known what was going on.
These enemy combatants didn't follow the rules of war - hence no protection.
Has it ever come to your mind that "the rules of war" are made up by the powerful nations? Take the example of the international criminal court: The USA will not ratify the international criminal court unless it is made sure that US soldiers cannot be tried for war crimes. Furthermore, the USA simply stated that everybody arrested in Guantanamo is exempted from the Geneva conventions. Why? Well, because. While a little bit of collateral damage (i.e., a few hundred dead civilians) is perfectly acceptable when a missile misses its target, its against "the rules of war" to blow yourself up in midst a crowd of civilians. Certain countries are not allowed to own atomic weapons. Which countries define who's allowed to? Well, the countries that already own atomic weapons.
"...make it possible for him to be held indefinitely without trial."
Statement 2:
Maybe he should have thought about this BEFORE he decided to commit the crime.
Ever heard something about "not guilty unless proven guilty"? If there's no trial, then in my opinion it follows immediately that he didn't commit the crime (or at least, that he cannot be charged for it).
Yeah, alas there's nothing like the DVD Decrypter/Shrink Combo for the Mac. I shelled out the 25 bucks for Popcorn, but this comes nowhere near to DVD Decrypter/Shrink:(
wwwoffle is just caching stuff that you've at least visited once (so you still pay for the download once). Webaroo would provide some preselected/preloaded stuff. Combined with a cheap on-demand internet connection (i.e., with a rigorous download limit) this might even make sense, if cost for storage (including the effort of installing it) plus the cost for webaroo doesn't exceed the cost of a broadband connection... an 80 GB Harddisk costs around 50 bucks. Your initial search would of course be restricted to the data webaroo provides, I think that's the deal breaker.
In any case, is it just my tin-foil-hat nature that sees this as a great way of hiding/censoring parts of the internet?
Not saying Webaroo is a good idea, but censoring can be done by current search engines, too (at least, it's easy to hide content from less ambitious users)
Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?
He's probably referring to pipe, tilde and backslash. Somebody at Apple obviously thinks that it's more intuitive NOT to label these keys;-)
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Going To Boot Camp
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This will entice a huge population of people who have been teetering on the edge to make the switch. And now every time they reboot into OS X from Windows, or into Windows from OS X, the superiority of OS X will become clear.
10 years ago (or longer?) I was a huge OS/2 fan. I loved the OS/2, but I kept Windows on a separate partition because I wanted to run certain programs that didn't work under OS/2 (not even in the Windows emulation, which I had running most of the time anyway). Even some of the programs that were available under OS/2, e.g. Lotus Smartsuite, worked much better under Windows. So I kept booting into Windows. Most of the time. When I started using Linux, I wiped OS/2 from my harddisk, because I virtually never used it anyway.
I'm using a Mac now. But rather than dual-booting, I'll just buy a second computer once Vista is released. Thus, I won't be tempted to run Vista all the time on the only computer that I own.
On the long run, dual booting just doesn't work for me.
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Every single product from MS has been a "me too" ripoff of one of their competitors.
Hmm.. I haven't seen any other verification tools that are comparable to Static Driver Verifier or PREfast. Please just remind me where they've ripped this off..
Doh.. :(
Of course, that's assuming some other mechanism isn't in the pipeline to circumvent that.
;-)
Yeah.. Sony is negotiating with Roxio to automatically add a RootKit to all audio CDs burned with Toast
There's a huge difference between Microsoft Research and IBM Research. While researchers at Microsoft are basically free to choose what they want to work on, IBM researchers have to convince one of the product groups to give them funding for their projects.. if I had the choice, I'd rather work at Microsoft Research than at IBM Research.
Come on.. calm down. The price will be down to $400 after a few months, unless the Sony CEO prefers to staple all those unsold PS3s in his office.. (presuming he has such a huge office)...
with someone like Stallman you can be sure it's going into trinkets and geek toys, probably a new macbook
;-)
Oh, I'm sure Steve Jobs would give him a MacBook for free if he'd promise that he'd pose with it on the photos he sells to his fanboys
I wonder if this means they will actually recycle them in Cupertino, or sent overseas to be dumped
Do a little research before you submit a story next time.. especially if the story is several days old. From Apples homepage:
Hazardous materials
No hazardous waste from Apple's U.S. recycling program is shipped outside North America. All recovered materials are processed domestically, with the exception of some commodity materials that can be recycled for future use. Apple's recycling policies prohibit the use of recovered plastics as fuel in smelting.
the complexity associated with modern development tools is way too steep a curve for your average 14 year old to wrap their heads around
That's why interactive development tools are the way to go, and Microsoft has already realized that. When I learned programming, 15 years ago, my first programs were 1-liners, and the interpreter gave me immediate feedback. Nowadays, even "Hello World" programs are at least 20 lines long, you have to instantiate classes, and specify which resources and libraries to link. When you run the program, a console window pops up for a second and that was it. Even for simple tasks like reading input from the console you have to know a lot about your class library.
Languages like F# and OCaml are much easier to learn, since they have an interpreter (even though native compilation is possible) and are interactive, and they still allow you to dig into object oriented programming.
I've seen the logo the first time today. Somehow it really reminds me of the Sony Vaio logo..
QuickTime/iTunes on Windows is a piece of cr*p.
If you're referring to the fact that it's very close to what one would call Adware, this is the same on my Mac. Every other time I start Quicktime it suggests to buy the full version, and several menu points are grayed out like in Crippleware. Obviously, Apple is are also planning to add ads to iTunes.
I'd buy it even if it were called "OMG PONIES!"
I would buy it just because of that!
Hmm.. offtopic, but why the fuck can't you buy My Little Pony T-shirts at think geek. They are pretty hard to get in Large..
Sure it would work BETTER if it was a native app, but it worked well enough.
:( Not to mention that most of the OS/2 printer drivers were crap, so I also used Windows to print my stuff. The native OS/2 application that I used most was Emacs. This is probably also the reason why I switched from OS/2 to Linux rather than to Windows ;-)
In fact, it didn't. I was using the OS/2 version of Lotus Smartsuite, but it was so buggy that I was forced to switch to the Windows version..
Because it seems that microsoft shut down the R&D department so long ago.
Well, it's more like everybody else (HP/Compaq, Bell Labs, etc.) shut down their research labs, while Microsoft has been expanding them in the last 10 years..
Because the Geneva conventions only apply to uniformed soldiers. These guys were neither uniformed not soldiers of any government.
While this is definitely the correct answer to my provocation, it still doesn't feel right. As I said, the rules are made such that, when everybody follows them, the ones who made them will win.
Not that I'm sympathizing with terrorists, but I guess there's more than one innocent prisoner at Guantanamo Bay... isn't that kafkaesque? "why don't I get a fair trial?" "well, weren't wearing a uniform, were you?"
and the US apologizes repeatedly for it. I have yet to hear Bin Laden apologize for the accidental civilian deaths on 9-11.
Ok, if he apologized, but did it again right after that, would you feel better? And some of the apologies of the US really aren't very plausible. They sacrifice a few dispensable soldiers and pretend that the leaders hadn't known what was going on.
Has it ever come to your mind that "the rules of war" are made up by the powerful nations? Take the example of the international criminal court: The USA will not ratify the international criminal court unless it is made sure that US soldiers cannot be tried for war crimes. Furthermore, the USA simply stated that everybody arrested in Guantanamo is exempted from the Geneva conventions. Why? Well, because.
While a little bit of collateral damage (i.e., a few hundred dead civilians) is perfectly acceptable when a missile misses its target, its against "the rules of war" to blow yourself up in midst a crowd of civilians. Certain countries are not allowed to own atomic weapons. Which countries define who's allowed to? Well, the countries that already own atomic weapons.
Statement 2:
Ever heard something about "not guilty unless proven guilty"? If there's no trial, then in my opinion it follows immediately that he didn't commit the crime (or at least, that he cannot be charged for it).
Yeah, alas there's nothing like the DVD Decrypter/Shrink Combo for the Mac. I shelled out the 25 bucks for Popcorn, but this comes nowhere near to DVD Decrypter/Shrink :(
Considering the quality of the driver for my HP 5652 Deskjet, this would not have been to HP's disadvantage..
wwwoffle is just caching stuff that you've at least visited once (so you still pay for the download once). Webaroo would provide some preselected/preloaded stuff. Combined with a cheap on-demand internet connection (i.e., with a rigorous download limit) this might even make sense, if cost for storage (including the effort of installing it) plus the cost for webaroo doesn't exceed the cost of a broadband connection... an 80 GB Harddisk costs around 50 bucks. Your initial search would of course be restricted to the data webaroo provides, I think that's the deal breaker.
Not saying Webaroo is a good idea, but censoring can be done by current search engines, too (at least, it's easy to hide content from less ambitious users)
Family?? Which family?? Who are this kids and why do they call me dad?
Hard to believe when this comes from somebody working at IBM. The only company that has been hiring extensively in the last few years is Microsoft.
He's probably referring to pipe, tilde and backslash. Somebody at Apple obviously thinks that it's more intuitive NOT to label these keys
10 years ago (or longer?) I was a huge OS/2 fan. I loved the OS/2, but I kept Windows on a separate partition because I wanted to run certain programs that didn't work under OS/2 (not even in the Windows emulation, which I had running most of the time anyway). Even some of the programs that were available under OS/2, e.g. Lotus Smartsuite, worked much better under Windows. So I kept booting into Windows. Most of the time. When I started using Linux, I wiped OS/2 from my harddisk, because I virtually never used it anyway.
I'm using a Mac now. But rather than dual-booting, I'll just buy a second computer once Vista is released. Thus, I won't be tempted to run Vista all the time on the only computer that I own.
On the long run, dual booting just doesn't work for me.
Yeah, but they probably don't want to dictate what happens to the name. My guess is they just want some money from Apple (Cupertino) ;-)