The main thing I'm looking forward here to is the next round of the monster mud wrestling match between Sony and Microsoft. I'm getting my popcorn ready. This time Sony gets out of the gate first, making Microsoft the underdog. I wish both of them a happy trip to hell, by the shortest possible path. Aliens Vs Predator indeed.
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Price. It will probably cost $500. A similarly equipped Windows PC would be $1,000+
Excuse me, but a similarly equiped Windows PC would cost $600. Of course, that would be a Linux PC after the 10 minutes it takes me to install Ubuntu from the USB stick.
Google has a large legal team, so I assume not responding is deliberate, rather than because they forgot or just couldn't think of what to respond with.
Sure, you assume that, and I will assume it's just more hubris.
I wish. He's such an idiot, I would love to seem him fully exposed and finally put to rest the bullshit genius-nerd mythos that grew up around him, when in fact his only real skill is flipping the flinger to the rule of law.
Nobody wants their phone to be as reliable as Windows. They want it to work 24x7x365
Welcome to 2013! You must be a time traveler from the late 1990's! Today, Windows is very stable, as is their phones.
No, wrong, Windows is still not stable. It doesn't actually blue screen all the time like it used to, but it does plenty of really strange, inexplicable things, and it's so crappy at managing resources that it has long been standard corporate policy to reboot all windows machines regularly.
Steve Ballmer Roams The Halls Of Microsoft Swinging A Baseball Bat
Microsoft's history is filled with stories about its rough culture, from it's "stack-ranking" employee reviews to how Bill Gates used to yell, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Here's another one: Six-foot-two Steve Ballmer sometimes brings a baseball bat with him into meetings, and that's if he's feeling happy...
At the risk of invoking a sort of inductive-Godwin here, wasn't that a trick Al Capone used to do?
Am I reading this correctly? Apple has invalid patents but still got damages out of them? Does this mean they are a one-shot deal and that other manufacturers can infringe now? In this case 1 billion dollars to render Apple's portfolio irrelevant was effectively very cheap, given the size of the relevant market
Yes. This is standard operating practice for a thug protection racket operation like Apple.
It is a big issue, because you buy the phone, you don't rent it.
You also buy a home, but while it is still being financed, there are limits on what you can do with it. (For example, not carry full insurance)
Spoken well an truly as someone who does not own their home. I do. I can assure you, there is a world of difference between renting and owning. Basically, the rules for owners are: 1) obey they law. Not a bunch of really stupid restrictions like "can't junk the ugly carpets". If you have issues with how you can insure your home, time to refinance to a less obnoxious bank. You'll make money on that anyway.
Go jack of in a flower pot anonymous wanker. HD-DVD would have surely been an annoying piece of crap as well, with Microsoft driving it you can count on it. The only difference is, we *know* Blu-Ray is a piece of crap which we would not have known, had it lost the fight and remained in obscurity.
DRM is implemented at the container level, not the bitstream level.
BD+ in Blu-ray Disc muddies this a bit, as it allows transforming the decompressed image based on whether or not other authenticity checks pass.
Blu-ray is generally pathetic and an altogether unpleasant experience for the user with slow startup and numerous unskippable ads and threats, just to name two deficiencies.
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Thank you very much for making my point.
The main thing I'm looking forward here to is the next round of the monster mud wrestling match between Sony and Microsoft. I'm getting my popcorn ready. This time Sony gets out of the gate first, making Microsoft the underdog. I wish both of them a happy trip to hell, by the shortest possible path. Aliens Vs Predator indeed.
Price. It will probably cost $500. A similarly equipped Windows PC would be $1,000+
Excuse me, but a similarly equiped Windows PC would cost $600. Of course, that would be a Linux PC after the 10 minutes it takes me to install Ubuntu from the USB stick.
It still looks like a beast, considering that a console is at heart, a toy.
Google has a large legal team, so I assume not responding is deliberate, rather than because they forgot or just couldn't think of what to respond with.
Sure, you assume that, and I will assume it's just more hubris.
Will Bill Gates return then?
I wish. He's such an idiot, I would love to seem him fully exposed and finally put to rest the bullshit genius-nerd mythos that grew up around him, when in fact his only real skill is flipping the flinger to the rule of law.
Right, the ABM effect.
Nobody wants their phone to be as reliable as Windows. They want it to work 24x7x365
Welcome to 2013! You must be a time traveler from the late 1990's! Today, Windows is very stable, as is their phones.
No, wrong, Windows is still not stable. It doesn't actually blue screen all the time like it used to, but it does plenty of really strange, inexplicable things, and it's so crappy at managing resources that it has long been standard corporate policy to reboot all windows machines regularly.
Steve Ballmer Roams The Halls Of Microsoft Swinging A Baseball Bat
Microsoft's history is filled with stories about its rough culture, from it's "stack-ranking" employee reviews to how Bill Gates used to yell, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Here's another one: Six-foot-two Steve Ballmer sometimes brings a baseball bat with him into meetings, and that's if he's feeling happy...
At the risk of invoking a sort of inductive-Godwin here, wasn't that a trick Al Capone used to do?
Are you calling Bill Gates a thug? Good call.
OpenGL is the future of hardware accelerated graphics.
And the past, and the present, just to round out the hat trick.
Microsoft doesn't use Perforce. They use an ancient, crappy fork of Perforce called Source Depot.
Is that more crappy than the current crappy thing called Perforce?
Am I reading this correctly? Apple has invalid patents but still got damages out of them? Does this mean they are a one-shot deal and that other manufacturers can infringe now? In this case 1 billion dollars to render Apple's portfolio irrelevant was effectively very cheap, given the size of the relevant market
Yes. This is standard operating practice for a thug protection racket operation like Apple.
Gorilla arm.
If MS buys Dell, it would be the end of server and enterprise gear quality as we know it.
True, it would improve considerably. Ever used DRAC?
Of course, I meant "because everybody would switch to another supplier".
If MS buys Dell, it would be the end of server and enterprise gear quality as we know it.
True, it would improve considerably. Ever used DRAC?
Last I checked Dell and HP are both very much still MS partners.
I believe that "thralls" describes the relationship more accurately.
I'm also glad you moved out.
Too bad you stayed.
It is a big issue, because you buy the phone, you don't rent it.
You also buy a home, but while it is still being financed, there are limits on what you can do with it. (For example, not carry full insurance)
Spoken well an truly as someone who does not own their home. I do. I can assure you, there is a world of difference between renting and owning. Basically, the rules for owners are: 1) obey they law. Not a bunch of really stupid restrictions like "can't junk the ugly carpets". If you have issues with how you can insure your home, time to refinance to a less obnoxious bank. You'll make money on that anyway.
I know it is in Australia (ACCC).... would have thought US had more protection.
The US does have more protection... for monopolists.
Go jack of in a flower pot anonymous wanker. HD-DVD would have surely been an annoying piece of crap as well, with Microsoft driving it you can count on it. The only difference is, we *know* Blu-Ray is a piece of crap which we would not have known, had it lost the fight and remained in obscurity.
The GPLv3 is a non starter in the enterprise world.
That must be why Android is such a commercial failure, eh?
Yes, that's exactly why there are no GPLv3 phones out there
GPLv2 phones rule the world. What's your point?
Microsoft got so obsessed with security that they dropped the ball on everything else and they still are about as watertight as a crepe paper boat.
The generally accepted term is "pirating".
DRM is implemented at the container level, not the bitstream level.
BD+ in Blu-ray Disc muddies this a bit, as it allows transforming the decompressed image based on whether or not other authenticity checks pass.
Blu-ray is generally pathetic and an altogether unpleasant experience for the user with slow startup and numerous unskippable ads and threats, just to name two deficiencies.
Hah, I missed the sarcasm tag. Oh there was no sarcasm tag. Nice troll.