Yes you are right. No benefits at all. There is absolutely no guarantee from Microsoft. Microsoft assumes no responsibility.
This would be so easy to circumvent that I just can't believe how much energy is being place on this. Here is one silly example. Create a page which brings up a popup window without the browsers tool bars, which has the same look and feel as the navigation tool bars of the browser. Display the green bar the same way as seen on a legitimate site. It does not have to be perfect...most people will NOT see the difference. How many times have you seen someone entering URL's in Google/MSN/Yahoo's search. I haven't put much energy in this, just thinking out loud.
We need to first stop this attitude that when you purchase a computer you still don't own it. First and foremost the owner should have absolute control over the system. Pop-ups, pop-under and all that should have been an option for the owner of the system not for a Webmaster. In order to keep this conversation short I'm not going to go into many details.
There needs to be liability if a product does not perform as advertised. The developer, manufacturer, service provider needs to be held accountable. I mean seriously how can you own an SSL certificate without the authorities knowing who you are? Wasn't that what SSL certification was all about or was that just marketing?
Most coffee tastes better when brewed with hot watter, the hotter, the better the brew.
I was a little surprised that they didn't take the hot water tank manufacturers to court since they allow the temperature to exceed that of the coffee of your mentioned case. Which, by the way, was a stupid case.
This is just a ploy to have someone pay for their TV after they forgot to put on the strap. There is no way that one of these straps broke just by playing the Wii.
I decided to order the new straps just to see how much stress the old one handle. I am willing to bet they can handle more than 50lbs.
"NPD's own weekly data had Microsoft falling from the No. 2 vendor of MP3 players in its first week to No. 5 in its second week."
I believe that the spin is more in your comments than in the heading. Reading the article gives the impression that the Zune is doing great until you look a little closer. What I would have liked to see is the actual figures of the 2 weeks.
I have mod points and I generally agree with your comments that it's about the users but MS had nothing to do with the success of the PC.
At the time the first IBM PC (8088) came out with "IBM DOS" (MS DOS), the home computer was already on it's way. Apple was already there, as were others. The reason the PC took off and surpassed the Apple ][ was due to IBM opening up the hardware specs, which permitted innovation and later competition with the arrival of clones. IBM the gorilla tried to impose it's will which opened the door for MS.
As far as I can remember the software side was always about tie-in. WP, IBM, NOVEL, APPLE and especially MS. MS can't "come back". They never cared about the user. From the start they only cared about sales. They haven't changed and they don't know how to, or if you prefer, the markets will not allow them.
FLOSS has come around to resolve the final issue. Users creating software for users.
A managed switch will handle the LAN a router will handle the WAN. When I have hundreds, of machines I prefer a managed switch. I like to see what is happening on the whole network not just what hits the server.
The people setting up these solutions are not looking for simple solutions, they are looking for solutions that work.
I do not see myself setting up such an environment as described above and asking the server to do the shaping. I would shape it on the router or the switch.
Code HTML to standards adjust for IE if need be. Pages have a longer lifespan as well as future compatibility with Wii, PS3, and other web appliances. While Microsoft may have more desktops their percent of IE users will continue to diminish in the future.
Those that oppose are in the "Public Interest". They oppose the fact that the public, including gun owners, is at risk of personal injury or death by people who own guns. If you can remove the risk inherent to the public from gun ownership then they will go away. Invent a gun that does not kill or injure people.
On the other hand if the US government would legislate that all citizens would be given a gun and all the ammunition they could possibly use, the NRA would not go away. (OVER SIMPLIFICATION) They are not about the right to own guns. They are about the right to profit from the ownership of guns, which is not in the public interest. The NRA would demand that they and / or their members supply the guns.
Under your definition the term should not exist because every opinion is a "special interest". So why bother?
I am of the opinion that a gun is a tool which in the right circumstances is very useful. People who wish to own guns should have that right, but I have a hard time with the cowards who use a gun on other people. Especially when the other individual is unarmed. It is in the public interest to reduce the damage that people with guns cause. The limitation of guns is to the public interest. The ownership of guns is my personal special interest and gain. I do not own a gun. I have no use for such a tool but if I did I would acquire one.
The slogan special interest is used for all of these variants, but never to describe political allies. Use of that term, especially in the United States, implies that the "special" interest is not the "public" interest. Many scholars dislike the term special interest, since it carries this loaded, negative connotation. Among other things, it presumes that we know exactly what the general interest (or public interest) is. Some use vested interests or particularistic groups, but in academic literature, these have been replaced by "interest group".
While this comes from Wikipedia it is also how it's defined in a few other paper prints. "Special Interest" denotes not in the "Public Interest". A standard is in the public interest. A proprietary format is special interest, in this case Microsoft.
If we continue playing we can make the words say what we want and no longer understand each other. If you look closely at your definition it implies "not in the public interest". In a sense you make my point.
I love people who define their own meaning in common terms. The term "Special Interests" is used when someone has a personal gain. The use of standards compliant solutions, be they in IT or any other field, are a benefit to the society as a whole. I sure as hell would not like to go to a Doctors office and be told to take 2 aspirins and expect it to be something else...
A standard is not owned by anyone. DOC files are not standard and are subject to change at the whim of one and only one company. As we keep on playing with words, one day we will no longer understand each other.
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Why would you need 3D for email, or Web? Why would I even need 5 FPS? The area on the screen that is changing as I type this is very small at best 50x50 pixels. I'm not talking about games. You are. Forget the games. Read my posts.
1bit res is 1.9MB, 8bit is 15MB that's at 1600x1200 2D. At 1080i you need 21MB for 16bit color. At 1024x768 at 32 bits is about 24MB.
As per the specs presented thus far, it is more than adequate to display a beautiful desktop on a HDTV.
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# Nintendo Wii's 'HollyWood' GPU is clocked at 243MHZ, the internal memory of it includes 3mb of embedded graphics memory and 24megabytes of high speed main memory. # 64megabytes of GDDR3 (MEM2) as the external main memory. Just like the internal memory, it can be accessed from the CPU and GPU with a maximum bandwidth of 4gbytes/sec and can also store programs in the MEM2.
You don't need speed to type...email, letter, or surf the web....
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The card in the Wii is more than capable of doing over 1600x1200. What the Wii can't do is render 3D textures at 30fps or more at 720p. Nintendo is marketing the Wii as a game system and not a computer. If they marketed the system as 720p then people would expect the games to be 720p.
Ubuntu, here today...Just combine marketing forces. Have it run on the Wii and PS3 as well as Intel. Bundle it with other FLOSS. Continue on the XP, MSOffice 2007, Win 95/98/200 compatibility and you just took out Vista with its additional restrictions. There are more compatibility issues between Vista and XP than Ubuntu and XP. That's from my experience with Vista, I could be wrong.
You talk but you haven't looked at the specs. The ATI cards on the Wii are capable of better resolution that the Walmart PC. The graphics card in the system in which I am typing is capable of over 1600x1200 but i'd be an idiot to try to play HD games on it. This card is over 7 years old. The image is crisp and clear. HD game play is another matter.
Adding the component cables can give you 1080i resolution on a monitor that can handle it, which would be 1440 pixels across but even at 480p you would have decent enough resolution to write an email, type a letter or document, browse the Web. I'm not talking out of my ass, I have an HD TV but unfortunately due to my satellite receiver and my TV HDMI compatibility issues it makes in annoying to watch regular TV on HDMI due to the frequent resets(this is another issue). The display characteristics under HDMI 1080i and component video 1080i are barely noticeable.
My Wii is connected with RCA cables, I ordered the component cables and can hardly wait. The Wii license agreement was very clear at 8', and they only used half the screen. If they used the full screen they could clearly display any site, email and word document very clearly.
The Wii with it's current design is more powerful than any cheep system at Walmart at the current price level. I will not even try to compare a PS3. The Wii has better specs than my G3, and my G3 is great for email, typing documents, Web, chat.....
Linux/FreeBSD, Gnome/KDE, OOo, Firefox, Gaim, on Wii and PS3. At $50 a CD just the Wii with 4 million units to be released by the end of the year it would be a killing.
They wouldn't need to develop it just negotiate with Ubuntu. It's easier to maintain than Windows.
I've even sent Nintendo an email last year. To bad I don't have the finances to fund this.
I got mine on Friday. Went to a small shop. Reserved the unit when I talked to the owner. On Friday afternoon I figured that since no deliveries were done on Sunday, there was a chance that I would pick it up. I got there just in time.
Yes the Big boys had a lot more units. No one else considered reserving with this small independent. So while some were waiting for the big boys to open, I was playing my ass off with my kids. You should have seen their faces....
You are missing the fact that you don't have to use OSS.
On the other hand, if you had some code that would benefit you financially but you did not have the energy, time, or money to develop a full fledged application that clients required. You could always add your code to an FLOSS project and benefit financially by supporting the final solution.
When people put their greed to the side and look for a fair solution to a problem we all benefit. As can be seen by Microsoft borrowing code from BSD to get stability in Win2000. It would have been nice if Microsoft would have contributed back to the BSD code that they so gladly borrowed. But greed is greed and Microsoft missed the point.
Due to this attitude people who believe that we can all benefit and not have to impoverish one to benefit another release their code under GPL. If we all can benefit we can all be financially comfortable and secure.
What are you missing? I don't know but I don't always work for financial gain. I live comfortably in a 11 room house with a garage and 3 washrooms. I have friends who helped me fix the roof, paint my house, move,... I find this compensation enough when they require a hand.
I don't think you get it. The people who loaded their system with their friends XP who copy movies they rent will be affected. That's how I read it. Now that will affect most people I know who run XP.
There are business today which run completely without computers let alone Microsoft.
Your solution would hurt Microsoft more than the fine. Once business starts realizing that other less expensive solutions exist the migration will accelerate.
Spending 5% of your income this year in order to save 1% for the remainder of your life is a very worthwhile investment. If enough people did it the savings would be automatic for everyone as sson as it would be uneconomical for these bundles to exist.
Another way to look at it is that this is not $100 of income. This is $100 net after taxes. In some jurisdictions, depending on your salary, this may represent over $200 or more of net income if you are in a tax bracket that taxes your at more than 50%.
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Yes you are right. No benefits at all. There is absolutely no guarantee from Microsoft. Microsoft assumes no responsibility.
This would be so easy to circumvent that I just can't believe how much energy is being place on this. Here is one silly example. Create a page which brings up a popup window without the browsers tool bars, which has the same look and feel as the navigation tool bars of the browser. Display the green bar the same way as seen on a legitimate site. It does not have to be perfect...most people will NOT see the difference. How many times have you seen someone entering URL's in Google/MSN/Yahoo's search. I haven't put much energy in this, just thinking out loud.
We need to first stop this attitude that when you purchase a computer you still don't own it. First and foremost the owner should have absolute control over the system. Pop-ups, pop-under and all that should have been an option for the owner of the system not for a Webmaster. In order to keep this conversation short I'm not going to go into many details.
There needs to be liability if a product does not perform as advertised. The developer, manufacturer, service provider needs to be held accountable. I mean seriously how can you own an SSL certificate without the authorities knowing who you are? Wasn't that what SSL certification was all about or was that just marketing?
Most coffee tastes better when brewed with hot watter, the hotter, the better the brew.
I was a little surprised that they didn't take the hot water tank manufacturers to court since they allow the temperature to exceed that of the coffee of your mentioned case. Which, by the way, was a stupid case.
This is just a ploy to have someone pay for their TV after they forgot to put on the strap. There is no way that one of these straps broke just by playing the Wii.
I decided to order the new straps just to see how much stress the old one handle. I am willing to bet they can handle more than 50lbs.
I believe that the spin is more in your comments than in the heading. Reading the article gives the impression that the Zune is doing great until you look a little closer. What I would have liked to see is the actual figures of the 2 weeks.
I have mod points and I generally agree with your comments that it's about the users but MS had nothing to do with the success of the PC.
At the time the first IBM PC (8088) came out with "IBM DOS" (MS DOS), the home computer was already on it's way. Apple was already there, as were others. The reason the PC took off and surpassed the Apple ][ was due to IBM opening up the hardware specs, which permitted innovation and later competition with the arrival of clones. IBM the gorilla tried to impose it's will which opened the door for MS.
As far as I can remember the software side was always about tie-in. WP, IBM, NOVEL, APPLE and especially MS. MS can't "come back". They never cared about the user. From the start they only cared about sales. They haven't changed and they don't know how to, or if you prefer, the markets will not allow them.
FLOSS has come around to resolve the final issue. Users creating software for users.
A managed switch will handle the LAN a router will handle the WAN. When I have hundreds, of machines I prefer a managed switch. I like to see what is happening on the whole network not just what hits the server.
The people setting up these solutions are not looking for simple solutions, they are looking for solutions that work.
I do not see myself setting up such an environment as described above and asking the server to do the shaping. I would shape it on the router or the switch.
Code HTML to standards adjust for IE if need be. Pages have a longer lifespan as well as future compatibility with Wii, PS3, and other web appliances. While Microsoft may have more desktops their percent of IE users will continue to diminish in the future.
Those that oppose are in the "Public Interest". They oppose the fact that the public, including gun owners, is at risk of personal injury or death by people who own guns. If you can remove the risk inherent to the public from gun ownership then they will go away. Invent a gun that does not kill or injure people.
On the other hand if the US government would legislate that all citizens would be given a gun and all the ammunition they could possibly use, the NRA would not go away. (OVER SIMPLIFICATION) They are not about the right to own guns. They are about the right to profit from the ownership of guns, which is not in the public interest. The NRA would demand that they and / or their members supply the guns.
Under your definition the term should not exist because every opinion is a "special interest". So why bother?
I am of the opinion that a gun is a tool which in the right circumstances is very useful. People who wish to own guns should have that right, but I have a hard time with the cowards who use a gun on other people. Especially when the other individual is unarmed. It is in the public interest to reduce the damage that people with guns cause. The limitation of guns is to the public interest. The ownership of guns is my personal special interest and gain. I do not own a gun. I have no use for such a tool but if I did I would acquire one.
Like I said;
The term special interest
The slogan special interest is used for all of these variants, but never to describe political allies. Use of that term, especially in the United States, implies that the "special" interest is not the "public" interest. Many scholars dislike the term special interest, since it carries this loaded, negative connotation. Among other things, it presumes that we know exactly what the general interest (or public interest) is. Some use vested interests or particularistic groups, but in academic literature, these have been replaced by "interest group".
While this comes from Wikipedia it is also how it's defined in a few other paper prints. "Special Interest" denotes not in the "Public Interest". A standard is in the public interest. A proprietary format is special interest, in this case Microsoft.
If we continue playing we can make the words say what we want and no longer understand each other. If you look closely at your definition it implies "not in the public interest". In a sense you make my point.
I love people who define their own meaning in common terms. The term "Special Interests" is used when someone has a personal gain. The use of standards compliant solutions, be they in IT or any other field, are a benefit to the society as a whole. I sure as hell would not like to go to a Doctors office and be told to take 2 aspirins and expect it to be something else...
A standard is not owned by anyone. DOC files are not standard and are subject to change at the whim of one and only one company. As we keep on playing with words, one day we will no longer understand each other.
gray? Oooooo... Ahhhhhh....
Why would you need 3D for email, or Web? Why would I even need 5 FPS? The area on the screen that is changing as I type this is very small at best 50x50 pixels. I'm not talking about games. You are. Forget the games. Read my posts.
1bit res is 1.9MB, 8bit is 15MB that's at 1600x1200 2D. At 1080i you need 21MB for 16bit color. At 1024x768 at 32 bits is about 24MB.
As per the specs presented thus far, it is more than adequate to display a beautiful desktop on a HDTV.
# Nintendo Wii's 'HollyWood' GPU is clocked at 243MHZ, the internal memory of it includes 3mb of embedded graphics memory and 24megabytes of high speed main memory.
# 64megabytes of GDDR3 (MEM2) as the external main memory. Just like the internal memory, it can be accessed from the CPU and GPU with a maximum bandwidth of 4gbytes/sec and can also store programs in the MEM2.
You don't need speed to type...email, letter, or surf the web....
The card in the Wii is more than capable of doing over 1600x1200. What the Wii can't do is render 3D textures at 30fps or more at 720p. Nintendo is marketing the Wii as a game system and not a computer. If they marketed the system as 720p then people would expect the games to be 720p.
Ubuntu, here today...Just combine marketing forces. Have it run on the Wii and PS3 as well as Intel. Bundle it with other FLOSS. Continue on the XP, MSOffice 2007, Win 95/98/200 compatibility and you just took out Vista with its additional restrictions. There are more compatibility issues between Vista and XP than Ubuntu and XP. That's from my experience with Vista, I could be wrong.
You talk but you haven't looked at the specs. The ATI cards on the Wii are capable of better resolution that the Walmart PC. The graphics card in the system in which I am typing is capable of over 1600x1200 but i'd be an idiot to try to play HD games on it. This card is over 7 years old. The image is crisp and clear. HD game play is another matter.
Adding the component cables can give you 1080i resolution on a monitor that can handle it, which would be 1440 pixels across but even at 480p you would have decent enough resolution to write an email, type a letter or document, browse the Web. I'm not talking out of my ass, I have an HD TV but unfortunately due to my satellite receiver and my TV HDMI compatibility issues it makes in annoying to watch regular TV on HDMI due to the frequent resets(this is another issue). The display characteristics under HDMI 1080i and component video 1080i are barely noticeable.
My Wii is connected with RCA cables, I ordered the component cables and can hardly wait. The Wii license agreement was very clear at 8', and they only used half the screen. If they used the full screen they could clearly display any site, email and word document very clearly.
The Wii with it's current design is more powerful than any cheep system at Walmart at the current price level. I will not even try to compare a PS3. The Wii has better specs than my G3, and my G3 is great for email, typing documents, Web, chat.....
Linux/FreeBSD, Gnome/KDE, OOo, Firefox, Gaim, on Wii and PS3. At $50 a CD just the Wii with 4 million units to be released by the end of the year it would be a killing.
They wouldn't need to develop it just negotiate with Ubuntu. It's easier to maintain than Windows.
I've even sent Nintendo an email last year. To bad I don't have the finances to fund this.
I got mine on Friday. Went to a small shop. Reserved the unit when I talked to the owner. On Friday afternoon I figured that since no deliveries were done on Sunday, there was a chance that I would pick it up. I got there just in time.
Yes the Big boys had a lot more units. No one else considered reserving with this small independent. So while some were waiting for the big boys to open, I was playing my ass off with my kids. You should have seen their faces....
I'm not talking about past technology nor was the article. DRM is about HD-DVD, ZUNE and other stuff like that.
You are missing the fact that you don't have to use OSS.
On the other hand, if you had some code that would benefit you financially but you did not have the energy, time, or money to develop a full fledged application that clients required. You could always add your code to an FLOSS project and benefit financially by supporting the final solution.
When people put their greed to the side and look for a fair solution to a problem we all benefit. As can be seen by Microsoft borrowing code from BSD to get stability in Win2000. It would have been nice if Microsoft would have contributed back to the BSD code that they so gladly borrowed. But greed is greed and Microsoft missed the point.
Due to this attitude people who believe that we can all benefit and not have to impoverish one to benefit another release their code under GPL. If we all can benefit we can all be financially comfortable and secure.
What are you missing? I don't know but I don't always work for financial gain. I live comfortably in a 11 room house with a garage and 3 washrooms. I have friends who helped me fix the roof, paint my house, move,... I find this compensation enough when they require a hand.
I don't think you get it. The people who loaded their system with their friends XP who copy movies they rent will be affected. That's how I read it. Now that will affect most people I know who run XP.
It's just funny that way....
You don't need Microsoft to run your business.
There are business today which run completely without computers let alone Microsoft.
Your solution would hurt Microsoft more than the fine. Once business starts realizing that other less expensive solutions exist the migration will accelerate.
If I give up $10 in potential income to save $5, I still lose.
It all depends on your tax bracket. Net income? or Just Income?
As an individual that $5 probably cost you $10 if you include the income taxes you paid.
Spending 5% of your income this year in order to save 1% for the remainder of your life is a very worthwhile investment. If enough people did it the savings would be automatic for everyone as sson as it would be uneconomical for these bundles to exist.
Another way to look at it is that this is not $100 of income. This is $100 net after taxes. In some jurisdictions, depending on your salary, this may represent over $200 or more of net income if you are in a tax bracket that taxes your at more than 50%.