All that money he's made selling shirts and paintings and stuff, where his assistants brought designs to him and he didn't bother to ask where they got them, well, he's gonna have no problem affording lawyers because he's rich.
It's the poor saps he's stolen from who are going to take the beatings. Such is the way of things.
By the way, the 2nd amendment also favours the rich, they can afford to arm themselves better than the poor.
You know they'll be ready when Intel places large orders for aluminium for heatsinks.
You know they'll be ready when there's a sudden drop in prices of the current Hot CPUs, which are all proven but suddenly look like last month's pizza from under the couch.
You know they'll be ready when AMD hasn't said anything and they are suddenly shipping them, while Intel tells you in 9 mos. then suddenly says 3 mos. (and you can hear the whips cracking through the walls.)
You know they'll be ready when Microsoft doesn't have an operating system ready, but there are a dozen Linux distros good to go.
The President announced today that he as complete faith in the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Smartech Corp. and the RNC, which
utterly destroys any remaining credibility they may have had left.
The longer this fellow stays in office, the more he resembles Richard M. Nixon, IMHO.
Nixon is not dead. How do I know? Always two there are, a Master and an Apprentice.
[which would make it difficult to dial while driving]
That would be a "feature" not a "bug".
Please punch the first suit you hear complaining about that.
I tried to read some tiny bit of text on something while driving and was astounded how difficult it was. That there are people comfortable with their attention lapses, while driving, I find worrisome. I only see every other or every third driver talking to someone in the morning, while enroute on the commute. I'm not surprised in the least when I see these people disrupting the flow of traffic as they putt along in the left lane or can be found at the side of the road with the vehichle they ran into, on a clear blue day.
I hear California is finally doing something about this July 1, but I've heard rumours before. We'll see.
I'm with you brother, although I use HTML 4 and CSS 2. I wish people would take the time to code their pages so they are fast loading and elegant (code-wise), and HTML generation apps would do likewise. Additionally, I wish people would use proper caching as well -- this really speeds a site up too.
I haven't done much with style sheets, finding them to be just one more thing to manage, as they can get rather large the more I relied upon them.
Effectively when we write the HTML code by hand we're creating very lightweight pages. I set some colours and a simple background based upon a small sample and I'm good. I came from the K-I-S-S school of web design, which seems to be dying mostly thanks to webapp/webpage development tools. It's like watching people program without a care about optimizing for size or speed. They're paid by the hour, not for the quality of the code.
I still design pages using HTML 3.2 standard. Life was happy when pages were small and simple. I'm very put-off by the way
HTML now can do things formerly reserved for javascript. Further, people no longer appear interested in the size of the footprint
their pages make and the bandwidth necessary to download them.
We rail away at Microsoft and anyone else who adds bloat to software, but the web is now plagued by page bloat and overly clever
designs which render poorly at times, take over the browser and sometimes crash it. Behaviour is becomming terrible, but as pages are
done by authors who do not really care, so long as it looks like it should and does the basics, they care not what a wreck have created.
Don't even get me started on people whose home page is some massive flash object.
"Hi, we assume you have the latest browser and all the plugins!"
iPod and Dvorak go together like peanut butter and jelly.......
I'm listening to OTR on mine.
I finally broke down and purchased one when I had several hours of flight to suffer and found listening to radio episodes of Gunsmoke, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, etc. make the time go quite enjoyably. I only wish it had a sleep function so I could listen to music while I fall asleep and shut off after 15 minutes.
Subsidising the cost of hardware in the hopes of making up the money on content has worked wonders for the profits of the XBox division...
And Microsoft learnt this from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Atari, et al.
I know, this is a different business model, but it looks like J Allard just trying to do what's "worked" in the past.
Actually this isn't a different business model at all. If Apple is making a profit on the iPod, then good on them. Microsoft has long used their profitable divisions to underwrite their heavy losses in other endeavours -- Zune in this regard is no different. If Microsoft had the plan right from the beginning they could have run it exactly the way game consoles work, as long as they continued to sell a lot of music through their online store or other stores which paid them a fee per tune.
That Microsoft thought they could just muscle in and proclaim what they had to be great and desirable in every way was clearly another Bay Of Pigs mindset at work. Microsoft seeks to impose themselves through the ubiquity of their interfaces and tie everything to Windows as a common point.
Microsoft should just cut their losses, offer everyone a payment to take it back and close up shop.
You mean it could have gone any time? I mean, if it exploded 7000 years ago we'd still not have seen the explosion, and wouldn't for another several hundred years.
This is true. When we look up into the night sky we see history, not the present -- where stars, galaxies, globular clusters, nebulae, et al, were at their respective lightspeed/distance relative distances.
In any event, when the various wavelengths of light and radiation get here will we survive? An event like this could have played a role in mass extinctions.
Thirty years ago computer security was not leaving the phone receiver plugged into the modem (literally having the entire handset plugged in, not just a cord) and making sure the door to the computer room was locked.
Actually, it was far more sophisticated than your simplified example. As a DEC RSTS admin I had to contend with people using TECO (which was used as a text editor, but was also a runtime environment which had some unique abilities to explore other's directories, including those of admins) to explore a RSTS system, finding applications which could run with with the privileged (near equivilent to root) bit set and seeing what havoc they could wreak. We also had Phishing, of a sort, which were fake login programs. I even wrote a honey-pot to trap those looking around for things and did catch one and did log every keystroke so I could demonstrate malicious intent.
As an admin I had to keep periodic watch on what was running and what some very clever people were up to. Clever coders and devious minds existed well before Microsoft and the internet. I'm not really seeing anything I didn't when I first began as a lowly student programmer. What I am disappointed in is the dominant operating system in the world still relies upon rudimentary security or very, very complex security.
I attended a seminar on DotNet security and my eyes fairly glased over as the presenter went on for about 90 minutes without once covering the same item twice. I can plainly say simply specialising in the complex security of DotNet could be a career in itself. Small wonder most coders do not master this aspect and elect default security instead, which is where many vulnerabilities are exposed.
I wonder if you are still using wood #2 pencils since there is no "real benefit" to those new fangled plastic and metal mechanical pencils.
In fact I do have a couple #2 pencils on my desk. Things which require ink for formal paperwork, signatures, faxing I use my pen. For notes I like to use a pencil.
What's the relevance of this or are you generalising in some juvenile matter than I'm some kind of luddite?
Alas, where I work we will be enthusiastically embracing Vista. My supervisor was very upbeat when she told me I would be getting a new computer loaded with Vista and that I needed to familiarise myself with it because everyone else would be getting Vista, too.
I'm an old school computer guy. I don't "upgrade" until I have to or there is sufficient benefit to be gained. I learned this from a crafty old fellow who felt so, after being burned several times.
As to why, I see Vista as little more than a ploy to hold market share and gain some profits, as the existing XP profit cycle has likely flattened. There will be a few bells and whistles, but the security aspect tells me they know less about writing operating systems than their predecessors of 30 years ago. I think they still just don't get it. I also feel it's been rushed.
After all these years Windows is still a big mysterious black box, wherein things happen of which we know little and therefore have little say in behaviour of or control over.
Besides, I've always been a fan of having the actual code at my finger tips.;-)
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I'd be much more worried about what the legions of goons are going to do to him outside of court.
Who is a goon?
too lampoon is human, to forgive divine - from Bat Boy, in a 50's MAD
What the lawyers don't want you to see.
Bring on the iPod clones!
The iMac clones!
The Powerbook clones!
Ring the death knell, only Steve Jobs has imagination. Oh no!
He can still run it from the shadows.
See how they stood up
With enough money he can drive the poor artists who came up with his ideas for him out of business.
All that money he's made selling shirts and paintings and stuff, where his assistants brought designs to him and he didn't bother to ask where they got them, well, he's gonna have no problem affording lawyers because he's rich.
It's the poor saps he's stolen from who are going to take the beatings. Such is the way of things.
By the way, the 2nd amendment also favours the rich, they can afford to arm themselves better than the poor.
There seems to be a pattern here.
But when are they likely to be ready?
First Alu Muttar in orbit! w00t!
The President announced today that he as complete faith in the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Smartech Corp. and the RNC, which utterly destroys any remaining credibility they may have had left.
The longer this fellow stays in office, the more he resembles Richard M. Nixon, IMHO.
Nixon is not dead. How do I know? Always two there are, a Master and an Apprentice.
[which would make it difficult to dial while driving]
That would be a "feature" not a "bug".
Please punch the first suit you hear complaining about that.
I tried to read some tiny bit of text on something while driving and was astounded how difficult it was. That there are people comfortable with their attention lapses, while driving, I find worrisome. I only see every other or every third driver talking to someone in the morning, while enroute on the commute. I'm not surprised in the least when I see these people disrupting the flow of traffic as they putt along in the left lane or can be found at the side of the road with the vehichle they ran into, on a clear blue day.
I hear California is finally doing something about this July 1, but I've heard rumours before. We'll see.
1. Take grain of salt.
2. Read Gartner analysis.
3. Consume Ripple as required.
I'm with you brother, although I use HTML 4 and CSS 2. I wish people would take the time to code their pages so they are fast loading and elegant (code-wise), and HTML generation apps would do likewise. Additionally, I wish people would use proper caching as well -- this really speeds a site up too.
I haven't done much with style sheets, finding them to be just one more thing to manage, as they can get rather large the more I relied upon them.
Effectively when we write the HTML code by hand we're creating very lightweight pages. I set some colours and a simple background based upon a small sample and I'm good. I came from the K-I-S-S school of web design, which seems to be dying mostly thanks to webapp/webpage development tools. It's like watching people program without a care about optimizing for size or speed. They're paid by the hour, not for the quality of the code.
OK, I'm a curmudgeon. There, happy?
I still design pages using HTML 3.2 standard. Life was happy when pages were small and simple. I'm very put-off by the way HTML now can do things formerly reserved for javascript. Further, people no longer appear interested in the size of the footprint their pages make and the bandwidth necessary to download them.
We rail away at Microsoft and anyone else who adds bloat to software, but the web is now plagued by page bloat and overly clever designs which render poorly at times, take over the browser and sometimes crash it. Behaviour is becomming terrible, but as pages are done by authors who do not really care, so long as it looks like it should and does the basics, they care not what a wreck have created.
Don't even get me started on people whose home page is some massive flash object.
"Hi, we assume you have the latest browser and all the plugins!"
OL-LEDs, in his honour.
It just had to be a British company! (If you don't understand, search this page for the word "British".)
I hear tell the scots will attempt to fry anything!
Imagine a beowulf cluster at the bottom of a McDonald's French Frier.
iPod and Dvorak go together like peanut butter and jelly.......
I'm listening to OTR on mine.
I finally broke down and purchased one when I had several hours of flight to suffer and found listening to radio episodes of Gunsmoke, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, etc. make the time go quite enjoyably. I only wish it had a sleep function so I could listen to music while I fall asleep and shut off after 15 minutes.
I don't know about what you wrote, but the anonymous post following yours got the reference to Ozymandias aka Ramses II.
Spot on. Well done!
Hi, I'm looking for a song. I think it's called Ozymandias.
Subsidising the cost of hardware in the hopes of making up the money on content has worked wonders for the profits of the XBox division...
And Microsoft learnt this from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Atari, et al.
I know, this is a different business model, but it looks like J Allard just trying to do what's "worked" in the past.
Actually this isn't a different business model at all. If Apple is making a profit on the iPod, then good on them. Microsoft has long used their profitable divisions to underwrite their heavy losses in other endeavours -- Zune in this regard is no different. If Microsoft had the plan right from the beginning they could have run it exactly the way game consoles work, as long as they continued to sell a lot of music through their online store or other stores which paid them a fee per tune.
That Microsoft thought they could just muscle in and proclaim what they had to be great and desirable in every way was clearly another Bay Of Pigs mindset at work. Microsoft seeks to impose themselves through the ubiquity of their interfaces and tie everything to Windows as a common point.
Microsoft should just cut their losses, offer everyone a payment to take it back and close up shop.
You mean it could have gone any time? I mean, if it exploded 7000 years ago we'd still not have seen the explosion, and wouldn't for another several hundred years.
This is true. When we look up into the night sky we see history, not the present -- where stars, galaxies, globular clusters, nebulae, et al, were at their respective lightspeed/distance relative distances.
In any event, when the various wavelengths of light and radiation get here will we survive? An event like this could have played a role in mass extinctions.
Microsoft would like their format to become dominate, but hopefully that will not happen because an open format like AAC is better for everyone.
This further underscores why Microsoft should stop fixating on the music/video business and turn their attention back to their core business.
Eta Carinae could go any time and it's only 7,500 to 8,000 LY away.
Thirty years ago computer security was not leaving the phone receiver plugged into the modem (literally having the entire handset plugged in, not just a cord) and making sure the door to the computer room was locked.
Actually, it was far more sophisticated than your simplified example. As a DEC RSTS admin I had to contend with people using TECO (which was used as a text editor, but was also a runtime environment which had some unique abilities to explore other's directories, including those of admins) to explore a RSTS system, finding applications which could run with with the privileged (near equivilent to root) bit set and seeing what havoc they could wreak. We also had Phishing, of a sort, which were fake login programs. I even wrote a honey-pot to trap those looking around for things and did catch one and did log every keystroke so I could demonstrate malicious intent.
As an admin I had to keep periodic watch on what was running and what some very clever people were up to. Clever coders and devious minds existed well before Microsoft and the internet. I'm not really seeing anything I didn't when I first began as a lowly student programmer. What I am disappointed in is the dominant operating system in the world still relies upon rudimentary security or very, very complex security.
I attended a seminar on DotNet security and my eyes fairly glased over as the presenter went on for about 90 minutes without once covering the same item twice. I can plainly say simply specialising in the complex security of DotNet could be a career in itself. Small wonder most coders do not master this aspect and elect default security instead, which is where many vulnerabilities are exposed.
I wonder if you are still using wood #2 pencils since there is no "real benefit" to those new fangled plastic and metal mechanical pencils.
In fact I do have a couple #2 pencils on my desk. Things which require ink for formal paperwork, signatures, faxing I use my pen. For notes I like to use a pencil.
What's the relevance of this or are you generalising in some juvenile matter than I'm some kind of luddite?
Alas, where I work we will be enthusiastically embracing Vista. My supervisor was very upbeat when she
told me I would be getting a new computer loaded with Vista and that I needed to familiarise myself with it
because everyone else would be getting Vista, too.
I'm an old school computer guy. I don't "upgrade" until I have to or there is sufficient benefit to be
gained. I learned this from a crafty old fellow who felt so, after being burned several times.
As to why, I see Vista as little more than a ploy to hold market share and gain some profits, as the existing
XP profit cycle has likely flattened. There will be a few bells and whistles, but the security aspect tells me they know
less about writing operating systems than their predecessors of 30 years ago. I think they still just don't get it. I also feel it's been rushed.
After all these years Windows is still a big mysterious black box, wherein things happen of which we know little and therefore
have little say in behaviour of or control over.
Besides, I've always been a fan of having the actual code at my finger tips.