If you were Bill Gates and wanted that embarassing egg off your face, wouldn't you discount, and ultimately vehemently deny making the statement.
IIRC, when the statement was made, most applications were still tiny. Somewhere I have a WordPerfect 1.0 card promotional card, it ran in 64K. Early versions of CAD were the big memory gobblers.
It would be years before such a statement would appear arrogant, if not ill considered. More embarassing would be the absence of the Internet in The Road Ahead. Such a visionary. There's also that great comment about the Mac being a better computer or the operating sytem being better, or whatever he said, but that was captured on video tape, which would be damning to refute.
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
I dunno about them, but my 32 bit system already has 768MB. 40 bit addressing would present the interesting effect of needing memory manufactures to buy into a different addressing standard, which, as you can well imagine, they'll be slow to do, even with Intel pitching it. Also keep in mind that AMD could follow suit, with their 32 bit line. This doesn't strike me as a very realistic direction to go.
Intel still has some mileage in the P4, throwing more cache at it, etc., but 64 bits is something computer techies understand, and once 64 bit PC's start rolling out, everything else will seem second best, particularly if AMD plays their advertising cards right.
Oh, and the 'no need' argument never has flown. I've been hearing it for decades. If anyone actually listened to it we'd still be pon PC-AT's with VGA.
Re:So that's why NASCAR is so boring ...
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it is simply a daytime soap played out on a race track
While I agree with you, generally, keep in mind soaps have been and continue to be popular. It's certainly a key part of Pro-Wrestling, which has outlasted my predictions. I've always figured the key attraction of NASCAR was 2+ hours to get roaring drunk, a few exciting crashes, then scream your fool head off during the last lap. Seems a perfect way to spend an afternoon, when you think about it.
An economics professor goes to the track... Well, that's what sports and video games are all about, isn't it? As my econ prof put it, "economics is the study of scarcity".
Perfect. There's one one winner, so that's unique. There's 3 that place, so that's scarce. There's a handful that get points in the series, so that's common.
Video games stack up about the same, leaving physics and other sciences out of it for a moment. Feed the ego with wins or temorary need for sense of accomplishements with little tokens, like collecting rings in Sonic or a kick that sends a little blood splashing in some fighter game. Yeah, I lose games quite often, but I still try to limit the availibility of pluses to winners, even acting as a spoiler if that's all I can do (which I did very nicely today, thank you very much:-) Nice to see all the dymanics, which I already knew from other racing sports. (even engaged in a little drafting today on the end of my ride, yeah, buddy you didn't lose me, I'm right behind you going just as fast as you and you're starting to huff and puff and I'm fresh, guess what comes next...) I was considering the whole economic model of a couple games a few days ago, considering why some work and some don't. Games have economies, even single player, so a good economic model, besides just how many win, place or show, helps.
Companys will no longer have to worry about internal memos ending up on F**kedCompany.
Or in courtrooms where they can be highly useful in convicting scumbags like the executives at Enron or WorldNet. Or revealing, such as those escaped memos from Microsoft which were worded something like, "Craig, Linux scares the f**k out of me, just like Java did, co-opt it and kill it, embrace and extend if we have to, but kill it. --Bill PS: Be over for dinner Tues., We're going to roast Stutz on a spit."
Of course you could probably still just bring up the appropriate document, hit ALT-PrintScreen, then paste it in Paint and send the.bmp to anyone you like.
More likely it'll work out the usual way, though, you can't crack it on your desktop, but if you leave your PC on, overnight, with IIS running, the cracker elves will unlock it for you by morning. That always works.
Microsoft is threading DRM
throughout the Office 2003 suite, allowing restrictions to be set on
Outlook mail messages, as well as on Word, Excel and PowerPoint
documents. Using "permission templates," document authors can
determine restriction policies to be applied to entire categories of
documents, according to Microsoft's site."
Fine. Big evil pirate that I am, I'll just export it all as XML, remove the DRM tagged bits, then go back to watching videos in Excel and listening to MP3's in Word.
"Frustrations, though, run high. One Microsoft executive, chief strategist Craig Mundie, even calls Linux
unhealthy for the technology industry. "It ultimately is a question about whether societies are going to
value intellectual property or not," he says."
No, they don't! Evidence: Napster, Kazaa, et al. Casual piracy in the workplace. Mix-tapes. etc.
I'm waiting to hear how many people at the Redmond campus have been busted for using Napster or Kazaa. It's simply too much to expect of the 10,000 people Microsoft employs that all 10,000 are above photocopying magazine articles, giving tapes or CDR's to friends, downloading TV or Movie shows off the internet, or lifting the odd bit of code from someone else's project to insert into their own. Heck, even the British government has done such. I wonder what St. Mundie has in his closet.
Okay, i've googled around, and i can't figure out what this one means.
The item after it, "Don't stress it, you'll survive ", is all you need to know, but I'll add that waiting another week would have been a big mistake. It's not something you're likely to find on google, I probably don't have any references to it on my webpage, either.
Monopoly nothing, they conducted themselves recklessly (share holders had to be wondering the competency of those in charge), only lucking out on Jackson's off the cuff remarks which saved them on the claim he wasn't impartial. Rigged demos, Bill's uncooperative testimony, executives purjuring themselves... hard to believe these weren't just some local hoods on trial, rather than representitives of one of the most successful corporations in history.
Patent Gui interface, operating system for personal computer, graphical interface assembled from text tags, one-click shopping, auction over a network, business over a network, sound and video over a network and then don't enforce them, saying the world is free to do with these as they please.
Don't spend so much time reading slashdot.
Get a summer job in a national park, to meet girls!
Spend at least a year travelling overseas.
Read Watership Down every spring.
Do not trade in your vinyl records for CDs
Set a doctor appointment on June 19th, 1986
Don't stress it, you'll survive.
Invest in a better bicycle.
Spend more time in the glow of the sun and moon, less in the glow of a CRT
The PTO is who is responsible... for most likely (given
their track record) allowing a bull-shit patent to go through.
If so, Microsoft definitely dropped the ball by (a) agreeing to license it rather than fighting it immediately (b) telling customers not to worry about it.
Remember the BSA (Business Software Alliance), they're a group of jack-booted nazis who barge into businesses suspected of using one copy too many of Microsoft Office, cut network cables to prevent users from remotely cleaning harddrives, and generally behave like some third world secret police, to the very people Microsoft tries so hard to bring under their influence.
Do you suppose the BSA would now act on behalf of Timeline? That would be irony, and damn funny.
Bull. Microsoft's legal division is probably larger than most law firms. And since when do you have to be a law
firm to break a promise.
IANAL, YANAL. If Microsoft retains one or one thousand lawyers, they are still responsible for notifying customers that certain value-additions to the server, sold or licensed by those customers (thus sub-licensing, what Microsoft has stated they are free to do 'unencumbered') those customers are liable. Apparently from evidence, Microsoft consulted on this statement before issuing it. That's what we call a smoking gun. I expect customers, if pursued will place the burden of treble damages, plus their own expenses and damages costs on Microsoft.
This of course all depends upon Timeline pursuing a list of all customers and investigating their products for infringement. They could bankroll the process with a settlement from Microsoft, however, I suspect to protect their underhandedly won and significant market, Microsoft will attempt to settle with Timeline, paying some hefty fee and renegotiating the terms of licensing. Since Microsoft has attempted to cut Timelines own legs off (buying their main distributor) expect Timeline to request a pound of flesh.
Lacking a settlement, here's yet one more argument in favor of buying software and services from Anybody-But-Microsoft. One would think they were coached on this whole preposterous strategy by the same team that coached them initially in the antitrust trial. i.e. some truly stupid, arrogant and overconfident lot.
But where are these 15-year olds who know what a surfactant is?:)
They probably thought it was a smurfectant (something for removing smurfs or smurfiness.)
This story just smacks of genuine imitation science. But on a more serious note: Why would disolving oil into water make for a better salad dressing? I always thought the slight taste of balsamic vinigar here, slight tast of olive oil there, was what made dressings work, rather than some dimethylgrundge glop that tastes the same all over.
Seems like this only works for the ideal oil and ideal water, anyway. My tap water has chlorine in it, some water has fluorine ions in it, do you just whip off to Safeway and buy this special water?
On an OT note...I ran out to pick up some rice and found Zebra brand basmati rice, which is:
ISO 9002 certified (How? Perhaps the company is compliant, but why is this on the bag?)
ANSI-RAB-QMS Accredited (Again, how does this apply to the rice?)
Exported by DATA CORPORATION of Pakistan (ah, ok, so the rice is a Data product..., I'm still confused..
Actually there are four Baby Bells, SBC, Verizon, BellSouth, and Qwest.
I searched around a bit and found there were AT&T + 7 baby bells. Three have been gobbled up by the other four. Although, I was under the impression that there were only three remaining baby-bells from something in the news recently, which I can't corroborate atm.
On another note...(OT) I ran out to pick up some rice and found Zebra brand basmati rice, which is:
ISO 9002 certified (How? Perhaps the company is compliant, but why is this on the bag?)
ANSI-RAB-QMS Accredited (Again, how does this apply to the rice?)
Exported by DATA CORPORATION of Pakistan (ah, ok, so the rice is a Data product..., I'm still confused...)
it means they don't have to share and can
basically charge what they want.
In case you haven't noticed, with all the dead DSL and highspeed service providers, the phone companies have already figured out that they can charge what they want, and have been. The cost of DSL is making a T1 look attractive.
So, I could get a T1 and I could run around the neighborhood offering cut-rate wireless broadband. Get enough and I'm hardly paying a cent for what bandwidth I use. Now, if only I was a trustworthy soul and didn't sniff packets for anything that isn't my business, it would be a winner.
I've been puzzling over something, lately. If AT&T was such a terrible beast that it needed to be broken up into (what, 11?) baby-bells, how is it acceptable that these things are pulling a T2, gathering themselves together so only 3 baby bells exist? Seems the whole anti-competitive issue begins there, not with the FCC yanking the rug out from under non-bell DSL providers.
The lack of an internal CD, on my Sony Vaio 505TX was a major source of angst. Consider hooking up something hanging off a cable, with an external powersupply, slightly wider (squared) than a CD and 5/8" or more thick and how to place/dangle it while using this on your lap. I'd never consider another laptop w/o internal CD. Now I'm sure you can find a nice little laptop somewhere with a CD, and comperable to this and slap Lindows or RH or whatever and you'd be happy as a clam.
hey might not share my Email but what about my personal info and credit card number?
Who care about email if spammer can use my credit card directly!
That's PayPal that shares your credit card numbers, by leaving security holes. The good thing about credit cards, as opposed to debit cards, is you are protected against fraud. They empty your debit card account and that's it.
On the StoneTrek site, there's a piece concerning the distribution of these extraordinarily well done hybrid (Flintstones-Star Trek) cartoons. Music was one particular sticking point, as portions of both themes play in the episodes. Assuming a less restrictive copyright code (both shows are over 30 years old, right?) and a better spirit of cooperation between enterprises (not including the ship, no pun intended, either) it's a heck of a smooth effort and very entertaining, but will not see the light of day on TV or commercial distribution.
Oh, you can find StoneTrek here, to save some bandwidth on the home site.
If you are running 50 instances of NT Server on a single box, how many NT licenses do you need?
That depends... with 50 instances, your odds of seeing one poop-out have increased so you may need fewer than expected. Granted, NT was more stable than 95,98,etc., don't forget NT is headed for the dumpster. In a few years it'll be 2000, as they consolidate everything under XP and it's successor.
My only question would be, what kind of nut wants to host that many sessions of Windows on one machine, unless you're like a cable provider and your customers are running clients.
I like the bit at the end about Wall Street embracing IBM's zSeries. It'll be a long time before they embrace a Microsoft product, for other than the most peripheral use. So, guess the target... Cable? Education? Companies which still don't get it? Who?
Or it could be bad. And I have no idea what to think. Microsoft still makes money off of the license that goes with the sale of VirtualPC.
I saw the article already, but based upon M$ history and the announced integration of yet another application into already bloated and non-secure mess that Windows is, I foresee future news, with a familiar flavor. I.e. "this exploit allows anyone to take over any instance of blahblahblah".
Yeah, they also said they would continue to support Mac computers, but is this something you really want? I couldn't help, but notice a comment that 'they don't intend to kill the software'. Really... It's just one more sword to dangle over Apple, when Steve gets too uppity.
I don't see any long-term winners here, other than those selling Connectix's assets.
I've seen only a few of these penny stock pump-and-dump scams in my mail, most of the daily deluge is pecker enhancement, offshore pharmacy, mortgage cons and pr0n.
As of yet I'm still trying to find a way to post on USENET with a bogus email account in the header, since my ISP doesn't seem to favor anonymous postings (hence I'm on CD's, probably more than AOL puts out, traded among spammers.)
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IIRC, when the statement was made, most applications were still tiny. Somewhere I have a WordPerfect 1.0 card promotional card, it ran in 64K. Early versions of CAD were the big memory gobblers.
It would be years before such a statement would appear arrogant, if not ill considered. More embarassing would be the absence of the Internet in The Road Ahead. Such a visionary. There's also that great comment about the Mac being a better computer or the operating sytem being better, or whatever he said, but that was captured on video tape, which would be damning to refute.
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
I dunno about them, but my 32 bit system already has 768MB. 40 bit addressing would present the interesting effect of needing memory manufactures to buy into a different addressing standard, which, as you can well imagine, they'll be slow to do, even with Intel pitching it. Also keep in mind that AMD could follow suit, with their 32 bit line. This doesn't strike me as a very realistic direction to go.
Intel still has some mileage in the P4, throwing more cache at it, etc., but 64 bits is something computer techies understand, and once 64 bit PC's start rolling out, everything else will seem second best, particularly if AMD plays their advertising cards right.
Oh, and the 'no need' argument never has flown. I've been hearing it for decades. If anyone actually listened to it we'd still be pon PC-AT's with VGA.
While I agree with you, generally, keep in mind soaps have been and continue to be popular. It's certainly a key part of Pro-Wrestling, which has outlasted my predictions. I've always figured the key attraction of NASCAR was 2+ hours to get roaring drunk, a few exciting crashes, then scream your fool head off during the last lap. Seems a perfect way to spend an afternoon, when you think about it.
Perfect. There's one one winner, so that's unique. There's 3 that place, so that's scarce. There's a handful that get points in the series, so that's common.
Video games stack up about the same, leaving physics and other sciences out of it for a moment. Feed the ego with wins or temorary need for sense of accomplishements with little tokens, like collecting rings in Sonic or a kick that sends a little blood splashing in some fighter game. Yeah, I lose games quite often, but I still try to limit the availibility of pluses to winners, even acting as a spoiler if that's all I can do (which I did very nicely today, thank you very much :-) Nice to see all the dymanics, which I already knew from other racing sports. (even engaged in a little drafting today on the end of my ride, yeah, buddy you didn't lose me, I'm right behind you going just as fast as you and you're starting to huff and puff and I'm fresh, guess what comes next...) I was considering the whole economic model of a couple games a few days ago, considering why some work and some don't. Games have economies, even single player, so a good economic model, besides just how many win, place or show, helps.
Or in courtrooms where they can be highly useful in convicting scumbags like the executives at Enron or WorldNet. Or revealing, such as those escaped memos from Microsoft which were worded something like, "Craig, Linux scares the f**k out of me, just like Java did, co-opt it and kill it, embrace and extend if we have to, but kill it. --Bill PS: Be over for dinner Tues., We're going to roast Stutz on a spit."
Of course you could probably still just bring up the appropriate document, hit ALT-PrintScreen, then paste it in Paint and send the .bmp to anyone you like.
More likely it'll work out the usual way, though, you can't crack it on your desktop, but if you leave your PC on, overnight, with IIS running, the cracker elves will unlock it for you by morning. That always works.
Fine. Big evil pirate that I am, I'll just export it all as XML, remove the DRM tagged bits, then go back to watching videos in Excel and listening to MP3's in Word.
No, they don't! Evidence: Napster, Kazaa, et al. Casual piracy in the workplace. Mix-tapes. etc.
I'm waiting to hear how many people at the Redmond campus have been busted for using Napster or Kazaa. It's simply too much to expect of the 10,000 people Microsoft employs that all 10,000 are above photocopying magazine articles, giving tapes or CDR's to friends, downloading TV or Movie shows off the internet, or lifting the odd bit of code from someone else's project to insert into their own. Heck, even the British government has done such. I wonder what St. Mundie has in his closet.
No time to read the articles, just gimme the jist.
That's not Funny, that's Insightful!
Okay, i've googled around, and i can't figure out what this one means.
The item after it, "Don't stress it, you'll survive ", is all you need to know, but I'll add that waiting another week would have been a big mistake. It's not something you're likely to find on google, I probably don't have any references to it on my webpage, either.
Monopoly nothing, they conducted themselves recklessly (share holders had to be wondering the competency of those in charge), only lucking out on Jackson's off the cuff remarks which saved them on the claim he wasn't impartial. Rigged demos, Bill's uncooperative testimony, executives purjuring themselves... hard to believe these weren't just some local hoods on trial, rather than representitives of one of the most successful corporations in history.
Buy AT&T stock
Patent Gui interface, operating system for personal computer, graphical interface assembled from text tags, one-click shopping, auction over a network, business over a network, sound and video over a network and then don't enforce them, saying the world is free to do with these as they please.
Don't spend so much time reading slashdot.
Get a summer job in a national park, to meet girls!
Spend at least a year travelling overseas.
Read Watership Down every spring.
Do not trade in your vinyl records for CDs
Set a doctor appointment on June 19th, 1986
Don't stress it, you'll survive.
Invest in a better bicycle.
Spend more time in the glow of the sun and moon, less in the glow of a CRT
If so, Microsoft definitely dropped the ball by (a) agreeing to license it rather than fighting it immediately (b) telling customers not to worry about it.
Remember the BSA (Business Software Alliance), they're a group of jack-booted nazis who barge into businesses suspected of using one copy too many of Microsoft Office, cut network cables to prevent users from remotely cleaning harddrives, and generally behave like some third world secret police, to the very people Microsoft tries so hard to bring under their influence.
Do you suppose the BSA would now act on behalf of Timeline? That would be irony, and damn funny.
Bull. Microsoft's legal division is probably larger than most law firms. And since when do you have to be a law firm to break a promise.
IANAL, YANAL. If Microsoft retains one or one thousand lawyers, they are still responsible for notifying customers that certain value-additions to the server, sold or licensed by those customers (thus sub-licensing, what Microsoft has stated they are free to do 'unencumbered') those customers are liable. Apparently from evidence, Microsoft consulted on this statement before issuing it. That's what we call a smoking gun. I expect customers, if pursued will place the burden of treble damages, plus their own expenses and damages costs on Microsoft.
This of course all depends upon Timeline pursuing a list of all customers and investigating their products for infringement. They could bankroll the process with a settlement from Microsoft, however, I suspect to protect their underhandedly won and significant market, Microsoft will attempt to settle with Timeline, paying some hefty fee and renegotiating the terms of licensing. Since Microsoft has attempted to cut Timelines own legs off (buying their main distributor) expect Timeline to request a pound of flesh.
Lacking a settlement, here's yet one more argument in favor of buying software and services from Anybody-But-Microsoft. One would think they were coached on this whole preposterous strategy by the same team that coached them initially in the antitrust trial. i.e. some truly stupid, arrogant and overconfident lot.
Hmm, maybe any of the following:
Exxon-Valdez bottled water
No mo' GoJo
Vegetable oils that penetrate the skin and enter the blood stream (Lube your Heart with new STP Salad Dressing!)
McD's marinates fries in tallow juice. (Ecch)
Uncannily something related to CowboyNeal
They probably thought it was a smurfectant (something for removing smurfs or smurfiness.)
This story just smacks of genuine imitation science. But on a more serious note: Why would disolving oil into water make for a better salad dressing? I always thought the slight taste of balsamic vinigar here, slight tast of olive oil there, was what made dressings work, rather than some dimethylgrundge glop that tastes the same all over.
Seems like this only works for the ideal oil and ideal water, anyway. My tap water has chlorine in it, some water has fluorine ions in it, do you just whip off to Safeway and buy this special water?
On an OT note...I ran out to pick up some rice and found Zebra brand basmati rice, which is:
ISO 9002 certified (How? Perhaps the company is compliant, but why is this on the bag?)
ANSI-RAB-QMS Accredited (Again, how does this apply to the rice?)
Exported by DATA CORPORATION of Pakistan (ah, ok, so the rice is a Data product..., I'm still confused..
I searched around a bit and found there were AT&T + 7 baby bells. Three have been gobbled up by the other four. Although, I was under the impression that there were only three remaining baby-bells from something in the news recently, which I can't corroborate atm.
On another note...(OT) I ran out to pick up some rice and found Zebra brand basmati rice, which is:
ISO 9002 certified (How? Perhaps the company is compliant, but why is this on the bag?)
ANSI-RAB-QMS Accredited (Again, how does this apply to the rice?)
Exported by DATA CORPORATION of Pakistan (ah, ok, so the rice is a Data product..., I'm still confused...)
In case you haven't noticed, with all the dead DSL and highspeed service providers, the phone companies have already figured out that they can charge what they want, and have been. The cost of DSL is making a T1 look attractive.
So, I could get a T1 and I could run around the neighborhood offering cut-rate wireless broadband. Get enough and I'm hardly paying a cent for what bandwidth I use. Now, if only I was a trustworthy soul and didn't sniff packets for anything that isn't my business, it would be a winner.
I've been puzzling over something, lately. If AT&T was such a terrible beast that it needed to be broken up into (what, 11?) baby-bells, how is it acceptable that these things are pulling a T2, gathering themselves together so only 3 baby bells exist? Seems the whole anti-competitive issue begins there, not with the FCC yanking the rug out from under non-bell DSL providers.
The lack of an internal CD, on my Sony Vaio 505TX was a major source of angst. Consider hooking up something hanging off a cable, with an external powersupply, slightly wider (squared) than a CD and 5/8" or more thick and how to place/dangle it while using this on your lap. I'd never consider another laptop w/o internal CD. Now I'm sure you can find a nice little laptop somewhere with a CD, and comperable to this and slap Lindows or RH or whatever and you'd be happy as a clam.
That's PayPal that shares your credit card numbers, by leaving security holes. The good thing about credit cards, as opposed to debit cards, is you are protected against fraud. They empty your debit card account and that's it.
I thought they already did, employing their flexible "we don't share your email address with anyone*" policy.
*Unless they ask for it.
Oh, you can find StoneTrek here, to save some bandwidth on the home site.
That depends... with 50 instances, your odds of seeing one poop-out have increased so you may need fewer than expected. Granted, NT was more stable than 95,98,etc., don't forget NT is headed for the dumpster. In a few years it'll be 2000, as they consolidate everything under XP and it's successor.
My only question would be, what kind of nut wants to host that many sessions of Windows on one machine, unless you're like a cable provider and your customers are running clients.
I like the bit at the end about Wall Street embracing IBM's zSeries. It'll be a long time before they embrace a Microsoft product, for other than the most peripheral use. So, guess the target... Cable? Education? Companies which still don't get it? Who?
I saw the article already, but based upon M$ history and the announced integration of yet another application into already bloated and non-secure mess that Windows is, I foresee future news, with a familiar flavor. I.e. "this exploit allows anyone to take over any instance of blahblahblah".
Yeah, they also said they would continue to support Mac computers, but is this something you really want? I couldn't help, but notice a comment that 'they don't intend to kill the software'. Really... It's just one more sword to dangle over Apple, when Steve gets too uppity.
I don't see any long-term winners here, other than those selling Connectix's assets.
I've seen only a few of these penny stock pump-and-dump scams in my mail, most of the daily deluge is pecker enhancement, offshore pharmacy, mortgage cons and pr0n.
As of yet I'm still trying to find a way to post on USENET with a bogus email account in the header, since my ISP doesn't seem to favor anonymous postings (hence I'm on CD's, probably more than AOL puts out, traded among spammers.)