You know the old saying a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush? In this case, 250k in the bank is better than any amount in the air. There's no guaranteed a finished product will emerge. Not to mention that for $100 John A H4x0r could get the source and gnutella it (hey information wants to be free right, I bet he'd even have supporters on slashdot for "opening" the doom source code), and then id's lost their state of the art 3d technology advantage.
why not license it for cheap after Doom III comes out, then GPL later?
Easy, they want to make money from it! If they can charge $250,000 and sell copies of it, there's clearly demand for that product and as a result id gets money (again, this is their goal). It's not like id gets anything from other companies licensing their software OTHER than money.
Why don't they pay any tax? I don't know the full reasons obviously, but I bet part of it is the INSANE amount of money MS and Bill Gates give to charities, foundations, schools, etc.
People talk all the time about how greedy and all Gates is, but they don't realize he gives away more money in a day then most people will make in a lifetime. My school for instance has gotten somewhere around 40 million dollars from Gates in the past couple years--one of my computer science professors joked that "with the amount of money microsoft gave us for this room [a special MS room in comp sci building" we could have plated it in gold and had money to spare." -- they didn't plate it in gold but they bought the biggest widescreen flatpanel computer monitor I've ever seen.
Holy crap, you know something everyone else doesn't?? Wait, what about all ther ecounts that were eventually finished, what did they say? Bush won the election. End of story.
The registry has the problems that I mentioned. We are not talking about problems you had. We are talking about problems that I have had and that are commonly known. It is very easy to back up the registry. It is impossible under some conditions to make use of a backup. Those conditions are explained in the article.
Ok, you say that "If this one large, often fragmented, file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications.". Simply not true. Windows makes regular back ups, if you're a safety person, you can make your own backups, ergo, if it is corrupted there is a 99% chance that windows will recover on it's own. So, your statement is not true. You could say that "If this one large oft-fragmented file becomes corrupted, there is chance that a complete re-format and re-install will need to be done" -- that would be true.
Do you have ANY evidence that this is true: "Microsoft apparently designed it this way to provide copy protection." ?
Also, do you have any evidence that the registry can become partially corrupted? I really don't think that this can happen. And this is one of the central parts of your "Registry can't be backed up / restored" paragraphs.
"So, you cannot create your own backup tools, as you could in Windows 98." -- Also false, I told you the name of several ways to do that (regedit, reg command, etc)
As for thei nfamous "backup" article the article itself says "This article briefly describes methods that Windows XP supports for cloning or for duplicating a Windows XP installation. " This has NOTHING to do with making disk image backups. NOTHING. It has to do with CLONING or REPLICATING. To explain what this: Take one computer, install, configure, make disk image, cloen to another computer, and 10 more. This won't work in XP. AND the article you link to even tells you how to get around this in another article and in this one (sysprep.exe). So this is patently wrong.
About the ALT+TAB thing--I just opened 25 windows. They are arranged in 3 rows of 8 icons, and it works. fine. So I can verify this is not true (for XP).
A lot of the stuff I said "I've never run into" or along those lines. the reason I say that is that I can't verify for true or false your claims. Not saying you're making them up, just that I haven't seen them, and your article rather makes it seem like everyoen runs into these problems.
No, that's not the point. The point is to go after users--the super nodes--the big time sharers, NOT the system. Punish the people who need punishment for doing things they shouldn't.
BUT it is my understand that nobody is talking about taking down the whole infrastructure this time--going after the super nodes or whatever you wish to call them, not the casual users, the big time sharers. And nobody is talking about outlawing p2p, mp3s, or anything else you bring up.
If the government stopping you from downloading music that you haven't bought is your idea of liberties being trampled I suggest you a) read some history b) read some current world news c) rethink your situation.
Indeed, the prohibition of drugs and the actions that have been taken to try and stamp out its use has caused far greater harm, in both a humanitarian and economic sense, than the abuse of the substances themselves ever did or could have.
Hello Mr White Suburbia (I'm assuming), what don't you tell the people of Colombia how fine drugs are?
What kind of selfish musician are you??? You should copyleft your music so we all can benefit. And more people will listen to your music and buy your CD's, so we're going to do what's right for you, no matter what you want, you have NO RIGHT to control your own property.
FOOL ALERT!!!! Free Speech doesn't give you the right to steal someone's work. Free Speech doesn't give you the right to listen to anyone's music whenever you want to. How about some common sense please!!
1. All the things that try to connect to the internet. I run ZoneAlarm, and I have only seen 4. Generic Host Process 11. Media Player, checking for codec
I'm not saying you're lieing, but just that that's all I've run into.
As for your next paragraph--big companies move slowly, it sucks yes, but your hysterical "microsoft ignores bugs and wants people to get hacked" is off the wall.
You also talk about your theory that microsoft makes buggy software so that people will buy upgrades. What are the bugs people typically mention ? IIS, Outlook, IE, hotmail. ALL free, so your theory for those programs can't be right.
Your next paragraph also seems ridiculous, indicating some sort of spying conspiracy.
And your next paragraph is verifiably false--the corporate culture is supposed to be great at microsoft. I've known 2 interns who worked there over summers, both loved it. Motivation != quality.
the DRM stuff all seems ok
Your next paragraph about the government lost me...
Ok, your (your?) registry discussion is where I have the most problems. first you say if the registry becomes corrupted you have to re-format, re-install, etc. This is simply not true. One, Windows makes periodic backups of the registry automatically, from which to restore. You say the registry is a single very vulnerable point of failure? By being a single point, it's also easy to backup and restore. Re-formatting isn't necessary even if for some bizarre reason you had to do a re-install. Rescue install can handle that easily, if again, for some bizarre reason, the registry backups don't work. The registry prevents control by the user? Again, bull, for 99% of what most users would want to change, there is a control panel, or a settings box, or a management console, etc.
Incidentally, user registry settings are stored in a different hive file. Again, you lose me on the next part of your discussion. Under what scenario will a registry become partially corrupted and not recognize this? I've never heard of this happening, do you have any evidence that this happens? Again, you talk about re-formatting and I say bah. Next you talk about how Windows XP prevents you from backing up the registry...again simply not true. Take a look at a) the regedit export command, b) the "reg" command (console) c) I imagine it's taken care of in System Restore as well (I turned it off--never had a need for it).
The next section on backups is even MORE ridiculous. Did you even read that article?? The problem with disk duplication of windows is that the SID (MS Network IP address..a unique identifier in other words) cannot be identical. Nowhere does it say MS forbids backing up (which works fine--it ONLY doesn't work if you are replicating to multiple installs). This is pure proveable FUD.
Ok, the next part is yadda yadda yadda about Passport. I clicked no, it's never come up again, no loss of functionality, I don't see the problem.
Palladium fine, we don't know anything yet, but fine, speculate all you want..
As for the CLI, I don't know about this. I've found sound emulation to be AMAZING under XP--I've been able to run DOS games with sound (Quest for glory to be precise) that I literally haven't been able to run since DOS days.
The extra spaces thing you mention is very deliberate. You can paste as input into a program. If the command prompt arbitrarily decides to stop pasting what you have in the clipboard, you can be in for some problems here. I haven't run into any of the other problems you bemoan.
XP Scheduler inefficiencies? Again, no idea what you're talking about. Never run into it. Your language is unclear, but it seems the blame is to lay on the driver writers, not MS? So there are no buggy drivers for nix/bsd?
I've never run into that ALT+TAB bug either.
The last part again seems part out paranoid xfiles-ish to me, but hey, you can have your opinion--it's the factual errors in this article that bother me.
Fact: in 1900, if you wanted to see the President, an appointment was nice, but not necessary.
I'd be interested in knowing if this is true--it sounds blatantly false to me. It's not like presidents didn't get busy until this century...
Yesterday, I heard on NPR that the Secret Service is closing more streets around the White House for "security reasons." I had one thought: "Yep, here we go, building our own Forbidden City."
Fact: In the times of more openness, there were no worries about truck bombs that could do such massive damage (mcveigh), suicide bombers, airplane attacks, etc. These are are relatively new things for America. Gone are the days of the lone assassin escaping into the night...
That article is complete FUD btw...I could practically go through and dispute every single point (or at least 90% of them). THis came up a couple of weeks ago too. sigh.
'MANY others companies...' drivel, pure drivel. Companies are neither good or bad. Aside from good/bad being totally subjective there is the point that companies should not be judged rather the people who invest/manage/work there should be judged. For instance, the Red Cross has taken millions of dollars after Spet. 11th for the purpose of helping the families. They have released...
I meant good in terms of being responsible to their shareholders. Ie, not pulling a 3dfx. I agree that companies are neither good nor bad in a moral sense.
No, you are wrong. Companies have a duty to their shareholders. If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, they are open to legal problems, and even disregarding that, they are doing something wrong. 3dfx is a perfect example of a bad company. MANY others companies are good companies. Think dividends for example.
Having said that, yes, managers make more money that Joe Shareholder, and that's as it should be--they are employees of the company.
Greg Ballard was former CEO of 3dfx before it crashed. 3dfx is a terrible story of mismanagment of manager abuse. As a company, 3dfx existed to make money for it's managers, and for no one else--and Mr Ballard was at the helm then for 3dfx, and now for SonicBlue. Do the words Golden Parachute mean anythign to you Mr Ballard? If anyone is investing in SonicBlue, I'd pull out...
I really enjoy how invariably the posts in each slashdot article about cellphones are split 50/50 between:
a) "I HATE CELLPHONES THEY ARE THE BANE OF ALL THINGS GOOD AND SHOULD BE OUTLAWED, GREAT THIS JUST MEANS THAT EVEN MORE PEOPLE WILL BE YAPPING IN PUBLIC AND AT MOVIES" (seen here)
and
b) "FINALLY CRAPPY OLD AMERICA IS CATCHING UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD, FINALLY, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, WE'RE STILL BETTER, TAKE THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM, CELL PHONES FOREVER!!" (seen here)
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I recently visited Egypt, and while there, at least 5 or 6 different times had people come up saying something along the lines of "Hello!! Are you from America? Yes?? Hi Ho Silver!!"
Very friendly people, and loved trying to use their english, and also saying "Hi ho silver!!!":)
1) For every modified video that is sold/rented, a copy of the original is bought. This is so that I cant go buy one copy of a movie, change it minutely, make 5 more copies of "my" changed version and sell it.
2) That it's a censored version is clearly marked
3) I don't think additions should be allowed. No advertisements that weren't supposed to be there, popups, annoying floating logos etc.
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You know the old saying a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush? In this case, 250k in the bank is better than any amount in the air. There's no guaranteed a finished product will emerge. Not to mention that for $100 John A H4x0r could get the source and gnutella it (hey information wants to be free right, I bet he'd even have supporters on slashdot for "opening" the doom source code), and then id's lost their state of the art 3d technology advantage.
How is this a good question? It's simple.
why not license it for cheap after Doom III comes out, then GPL later?
Easy, they want to make money from it! If they can charge $250,000 and sell copies of it, there's clearly demand for that product and as a result id gets money (again, this is their goal). It's not like id gets anything from other companies licensing their software OTHER than money.
Why don't they pay any tax? I don't know the full reasons obviously, but I bet part of it is the INSANE amount of money MS and Bill Gates give to charities, foundations, schools, etc.
People talk all the time about how greedy and all Gates is, but they don't realize he gives away more money in a day then most people will make in a lifetime. My school for instance has gotten somewhere around 40 million dollars from Gates in the past couple years--one of my computer science professors joked that "with the amount of money microsoft gave us for this room [a special MS room in comp sci building" we could have plated it in gold and had money to spare." -- they didn't plate it in gold but they bought the biggest widescreen flatpanel computer monitor I've ever seen.
That sure hasn't held true (historically speaking) in China...
His story Gold discusses many of these issues. A good read, and definitely interesting.
Except Gore won the election.
Holy crap, you know something everyone else doesn't?? Wait, what about all ther ecounts that were eventually finished, what did they say? Bush won the election. End of story.
The registry has the problems that I mentioned. We are not talking about problems you had. We are talking about problems that I have had and that are commonly known. It is very easy to back up the registry. It is impossible under some conditions to make use of a backup. Those conditions are explained in the article.
Ok, you say that "If this one large, often fragmented, file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications.". Simply not true. Windows makes regular back ups, if you're a safety person, you can make your own backups, ergo, if it is corrupted there is a 99% chance that windows will recover on it's own. So, your statement is not true. You could say that "If this one large oft-fragmented file becomes corrupted, there is chance that a complete re-format and re-install will need to be done" -- that would be true.
Do you have ANY evidence that this is true: "Microsoft apparently designed it this way to provide copy protection." ?
Also, do you have any evidence that the registry can become partially corrupted? I really don't think that this can happen. And this is one of the central parts of your "Registry can't be backed up / restored" paragraphs.
"So, you cannot create your own backup tools, as you could in Windows 98." -- Also false, I told you the name of several ways to do that (regedit, reg command, etc)
As for thei nfamous "backup" article the article itself says "This article briefly describes methods that Windows XP supports for cloning or for duplicating a Windows XP installation. " This has NOTHING to do with making disk image backups. NOTHING. It has to do with CLONING or REPLICATING. To explain what this: Take one computer, install, configure, make disk image, cloen to another computer, and 10 more. This won't work in XP. AND the article you link to even tells you how to get around this in another article and in this one (sysprep.exe). So this is patently wrong.
About the ALT+TAB thing--I just opened 25 windows. They are arranged in 3 rows of 8 icons, and it works. fine. So I can verify this is not true (for XP).
A lot of the stuff I said "I've never run into" or along those lines. the reason I say that is that I can't verify for true or false your claims. Not saying you're making them up, just that I haven't seen them, and your article rather makes it seem like everyoen runs into these problems.
No, that's not the point. The point is to go after users--the super nodes--the big time sharers, NOT the system. Punish the people who need punishment for doing things they shouldn't.
There is no need to hurl personal insults at me
You are correct. I apologize.
BUT it is my understand that nobody is talking about taking down the whole infrastructure this time--going after the super nodes or whatever you wish to call them, not the casual users, the big time sharers. And nobody is talking about outlawing p2p, mp3s, or anything else you bring up.
I dunno, I think placing a link is more like writing a book AND providing a gun. Point taken though.
If the government stopping you from downloading music that you haven't bought is your idea of liberties being trampled I suggest you a) read some history b) read some current world news c) rethink your situation.
Indeed, the prohibition of drugs and the actions that have been taken to try and stamp out its use has caused far greater harm, in both a humanitarian and economic sense, than the abuse of the substances themselves ever did or could have.
Hello Mr White Suburbia (I'm assuming), what don't you tell the people of Colombia how fine drugs are?
As long as you are not actually hosting the illegal software, this SHOULD be covered under the first amendment.
Right, and due to the first amendment if you hire a hitman to kill someone you're innocent because you didn't actually pull the trigger. Accessory.
What kind of selfish musician are you??? You should copyleft your music so we all can benefit. And more people will listen to your music and buy your CD's, so we're going to do what's right for you, no matter what you want, you have NO RIGHT to control your own property.
end sarcasm...
Well so much for free speech
FOOL ALERT!!!! Free Speech doesn't give you the right to steal someone's work. Free Speech doesn't give you the right to listen to anyone's music whenever you want to. How about some common sense please!!
ok, here are my complaints:
1. All the things that try to connect to the internet. I run ZoneAlarm, and I have only seen
4. Generic Host Process
11. Media Player, checking for codec
I'm not saying you're lieing, but just that that's all I've run into.
As for your next paragraph--big companies move slowly, it sucks yes, but your hysterical "microsoft ignores bugs and wants people to get hacked" is off the wall.
You also talk about your theory that microsoft makes buggy software so that people will buy upgrades. What are the bugs people typically mention ? IIS, Outlook, IE, hotmail. ALL free, so your theory for those programs can't be right.
Your next paragraph also seems ridiculous, indicating some sort of spying conspiracy.
And your next paragraph is verifiably false--the corporate culture is supposed to be great at microsoft. I've known 2 interns who worked there over summers, both loved it. Motivation != quality.
the DRM stuff all seems ok
Your next paragraph about the government lost me...
Ok, your (your?) registry discussion is where I have the most problems. first you say if the registry becomes corrupted you have to re-format, re-install, etc. This is simply not true. One, Windows makes periodic backups of the registry automatically, from which to restore. You say the registry is a single very vulnerable point of failure? By being a single point, it's also easy to backup and restore. Re-formatting isn't necessary even if for some bizarre reason you had to do a re-install. Rescue install can handle that easily, if again, for some bizarre reason, the registry backups don't work. The registry prevents control by the user? Again, bull, for 99% of what most users would want to change, there is a control panel, or a settings box, or a management console, etc.
Incidentally, user registry settings are stored in a different hive file. Again, you lose me on the next part of your discussion. Under what scenario will a registry become partially corrupted and not recognize this? I've never heard of this happening, do you have any evidence that this happens? Again, you talk about re-formatting and I say bah. Next you talk about how Windows XP prevents you from backing up the registry...again simply not true. Take a look at a) the regedit export command, b) the "reg" command (console) c) I imagine it's taken care of in System Restore as well (I turned it off--never had a need for it).
The next section on backups is even MORE ridiculous. Did you even read that article?? The problem with disk duplication of windows is that the SID (MS Network IP address..a unique identifier in other words) cannot be identical. Nowhere does it say MS forbids backing up (which works fine--it ONLY doesn't work if you are replicating to multiple installs). This is pure proveable FUD.
Ok, the next part is yadda yadda yadda about Passport. I clicked no, it's never come up again, no loss of functionality, I don't see the problem.
Palladium fine, we don't know anything yet, but fine, speculate all you want..
As for the CLI, I don't know about this. I've found sound emulation to be AMAZING under XP--I've been able to run DOS games with sound (Quest for glory to be precise) that I literally haven't been able to run since DOS days.
The extra spaces thing you mention is very deliberate. You can paste as input into a program. If the command prompt arbitrarily decides to stop pasting what you have in the clipboard, you can be in for some problems here. I haven't run into any of the other problems you bemoan.
XP Scheduler inefficiencies? Again, no idea what you're talking about. Never run into it. Your language is unclear, but it seems the blame is to lay on the driver writers, not MS? So there are no buggy drivers for nix/bsd?
I've never run into that ALT+TAB bug either.
The last part again seems part out paranoid xfiles-ish to me, but hey, you can have your opinion--it's the factual errors in this article that bother me.
Fact: in 1900, if you wanted to see the President, an appointment was nice, but not necessary.
I'd be interested in knowing if this is true--it sounds blatantly false to me. It's not like presidents didn't get busy until this century...
Yesterday, I heard on NPR that the Secret Service is closing more streets around the White House for "security reasons." I had one thought: "Yep, here we go, building our own Forbidden City."
Fact: In the times of more openness, there were no worries about truck bombs that could do such massive damage (mcveigh), suicide bombers, airplane attacks, etc. These are are relatively new things for America. Gone are the days of the lone assassin escaping into the night...
That article is complete FUD btw...I could practically go through and dispute every single point (or at least 90% of them). THis came up a couple of weeks ago too. sigh.
'MANY others companies...' drivel, pure drivel. Companies are neither good or bad. Aside from good/bad being totally subjective there is the point that companies should not be judged rather the people who invest/manage/work there should be judged. For instance, the Red Cross has taken millions of dollars after Spet. 11th for the purpose of helping the families. They have released ...
I meant good in terms of being responsible to their shareholders. Ie, not pulling a 3dfx. I agree that companies are neither good nor bad in a moral sense.
No, you are wrong. Companies have a duty to their shareholders. If they don't hold up their end of the bargain, they are open to legal problems, and even disregarding that, they are doing something wrong. 3dfx is a perfect example of a bad company. MANY others companies are good companies. Think dividends for example.
Having said that, yes, managers make more money that Joe Shareholder, and that's as it should be--they are employees of the company.
hah, I didn't even look at the SonicBlue charts. Terrible...
Greg Ballard was former CEO of 3dfx before it crashed. 3dfx is a terrible story of mismanagment of manager abuse. As a company, 3dfx existed to make money for it's managers, and for no one else--and Mr Ballard was at the helm then for 3dfx, and now for SonicBlue. Do the words Golden Parachute mean anythign to you Mr Ballard? If anyone is investing in SonicBlue, I'd pull out...
I really enjoy how invariably the posts in each slashdot article about cellphones are split 50/50 between:
a) "I HATE CELLPHONES THEY ARE THE BANE OF ALL THINGS GOOD AND SHOULD BE OUTLAWED, GREAT THIS JUST MEANS THAT EVEN MORE PEOPLE WILL BE YAPPING IN PUBLIC AND AT MOVIES" (seen here)
and
b) "FINALLY CRAPPY OLD AMERICA IS CATCHING UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD, FINALLY, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, WE'RE STILL BETTER, TAKE THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM, CELL PHONES FOREVER!!" (seen here)
I recently visited Egypt, and while there, at least 5 or 6 different times had people come up saying something along the lines of "Hello!! Are you from America? Yes?? Hi Ho Silver!!"
:)
Very friendly people, and loved trying to use their english, and also saying "Hi ho silver!!!"
I don't see how this is a problem IF:
1) For every modified video that is sold/rented, a copy of the original is bought. This is so that I cant go buy one copy of a movie, change it minutely, make 5 more copies of "my" changed version and sell it.
2) That it's a censored version is clearly marked
3) I don't think additions should be allowed. No advertisements that weren't supposed to be there, popups, annoying floating logos etc.