Although I don't agree with the concept, the 'difference' really equates to simply WHO is hanging out on the line for you to copy it from.
Example: Pink Floyd song Money, played on the radio this morning. Perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my built-in cassette recorder. Played the video on VH-1 this afternoon, perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my vcr and/or my cassette deck again. Own the original album, perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my cassette deck, again.
Dang, left all those cassettes at home when I went to the party. Jump on Kazaa at the party and grab it from joeuser, WOOP! WOOP! WOOP! RIAA show up at joeuser's door. Nevermind the fact that anyone can legally obtain a copy of just about any popular song from multiple locations without forking over $$$ 'sometime' in a given month, but if you just go 'get-it-right-now' from the 'wrong' source it is magically 'bad'.
I hardly ever watch anything on TV that isn't The History/Discovery Channel, unless it is Seinfeld, which I try to catch (twice) daily and 4 times on Wednesday!:)
BTW... The Sopranos BLOW. The whole premise of the show... where somehow, this cold, ruthless, sick bastard Tony somehow has become some kind of pop 'hero' to the gazillions of people who watch it is pretty sickening. Somehow it seems to equate to 'the bad guy wins, and this is good...', and that's not good no matter how you slice it.
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...a one-big-html, or a pdf version of the documment I am looking for, I don't get pop-xxxxxx's, and the page loads quickly, I don't really care what the underlying tech is for that particular site.
And you wonder why it takes Windows longer and longer and longer to boot up over time as you install more 'stuff', or programs on the sly install more 'stuff' on their own...what a great place to hide covert stuff from the user.
In the race to follow MS's "put it all in the registry" suggestions, I have seen idiot developers put FAQ's, Help files, and other such LARGE nonsense be "put in the registry", I shit you not.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for the EU Court, which appears to have a bit of common sense, unlike the US Court system, to officially invalidate those things the average Joe considers meaningless... "shrinkwrap EULA's". i.e. You paid for it, it's yours.
I realize it doesn't, but it SHOULD work that way...mostly. The basic reasons it doesn't is that they could really care less about fiscal responsibility. They only really care about funnelling pork barrel projects to their home districts, keeping, and making, promises and financial commitments to their big $$$ contributors and PACS. All of this for the real sole reason of trying to lock up the 'next election' in their favor. Eliminate all political contributions, and institute term limits and you go a long way in correcting this mess.
It it only a debt if the people in charge do not CUT SPENDING to make up for it. Face it, if you suddenly took a significant pay cut at your job, you would simply SPEND LESS.
"...And any future action would require first that MS be proven a current monopoly..."
I believe you are incorrect on this. 'Current' makes no difference. The fact that they have already been convicted of being an 'illegal monopoly', if that is actually the correct term, means that they are required to, FROM THEN ON, operate under a completely different set of rules than all the other businesses out there. At least until the Court rules otherwise.
Has anyone that ever has had dealings with Microsoft NOT gotten screwed by them before it was all said and done?
I keep thinking of things like Stacker, DrDOS, Netscape, and the SCO 'connection' among the many others. With MS having any sort of C# patents I really don't see HOW they won't eventually use it against the Mono folks at some point...like right about the time Mono would reach critical mass...
Actually you can steal music and movies, but only if you managed to physically steal the original master tape/reel/sheet music before a second copy was made.
If this is the real thing, and it happens to be the whole enchilada, this could either bring to the forefront or lay to rest the theory of the unacknowleged API's that they supposedly have in there so that their own apps run better/faster, etc.
If they had taught you the asm first, it would likely have given you a much better undestanding later when they throw the AND, OR, and XOR type stuff at you in the higher level languages. Assuming you enter the degree program with little or no programming experience in the first place. In any case, I certainly agree that Asm should be taught in whichever courseline they teach the 'other' programming languages.
I suppose the app could easily be written to start the server when it starts and shut the server down when it ends, thus not wasting resources all the time...couldn't you? Not that mysqld is a resource hog anyway...
As someone who has young (and old) kids, as well as myself, but not a boatload of cash to blow, I can tell you that on this issue backward compat IS important. The younger one, although he plays Vice City, etc, still likes to get out the old ps1 games on occasion and spend a week playing them. I play a lot of Madden, but once in awhile I get a urge for the original Tomb Raider for a few hours.
I certainly don't want to try and maintain several versions on PSx on top of the tv. Not only that, but IMHO, the one real advantage that Nintendo has always had over PSx/XB is *no moving parts* to wear out.
Don't tell me backward compat is that hard. Geez almost 20 years ago Commodore did it with their C128 by putting a couple of chips inside so that you had a full C64 on call.
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Although I don't agree with the concept, the 'difference' really equates to simply WHO is hanging out on the line for you to copy it from.
Example: Pink Floyd song Money, played on the radio this morning. Perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my built-in cassette recorder. Played the video on VH-1 this afternoon, perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my vcr and/or my cassette deck again. Own the original album, perfectly ok for me to dupe it to my cassette deck, again.
Dang, left all those cassettes at home when I went to the party. Jump on Kazaa at the party and grab it from joeuser, WOOP! WOOP! WOOP! RIAA show up at joeuser's door. Nevermind the fact that anyone can legally obtain a copy of just about any popular song from multiple locations without forking over $$$ 'sometime' in a given month, but if you just go 'get-it-right-now' from the 'wrong' source it is magically 'bad'.
I hardly ever watch anything on TV that isn't The History/Discovery Channel, unless it is Seinfeld, which I try to catch (twice) daily and 4 times on Wednesday! :)
BTW... The Sopranos BLOW. The whole premise of the show... where somehow, this cold, ruthless, sick bastard Tony somehow has become some kind of pop 'hero' to the gazillions of people who watch it is pretty sickening. Somehow it seems to equate to 'the bad guy wins, and this is good...', and that's not good no matter how you slice it.
...a one-big-html, or a pdf version of the documment I am looking for, I don't get pop-xxxxxx's, and the page loads quickly, I don't really care what the underlying tech is for that particular site.
And you wonder why it takes Windows longer and longer and longer to boot up over time as you install more 'stuff', or programs on the sly install more 'stuff' on their own...what a great place to hide covert stuff from the user.
In the race to follow MS's "put it all in the registry" suggestions, I have seen idiot developers put FAQ's, Help files, and other such LARGE nonsense be "put in the registry", I shit you not.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for the EU Court, which appears to have a bit of common sense, unlike the US Court system, to officially invalidate those things the average Joe considers meaningless... "shrinkwrap EULA's". i.e. You paid for it, it's yours.
True, as much as tearing down the wall surrounding East Berlin didn't allow East Berlinners to freely migrate out of there...
I realize it doesn't, but it SHOULD work that way...mostly. The basic reasons it doesn't is that they could really care less about fiscal responsibility. They only really care about funnelling pork barrel projects to their home districts, keeping, and making, promises and financial commitments to their big $$$ contributors and PACS.
All of this for the real sole reason of trying to lock up the 'next election' in their favor. Eliminate all political contributions, and institute term limits and you go a long way in correcting this mess.
Wow, could this be the guy who invented the CueCat fiasco?
It it only a debt if the people in charge do not CUT SPENDING to make up for it. Face it, if you suddenly took a significant pay cut at your job, you would simply SPEND LESS.
"...And any future action would require first that MS be proven a current monopoly..."
I believe you are incorrect on this. 'Current' makes no difference. The fact that they have already been convicted of being an 'illegal monopoly', if that is actually the correct term, means that they are required to, FROM THEN ON, operate under a completely different set of rules than all the other businesses out there. At least until the Court rules otherwise.
Has anyone that ever has had dealings with Microsoft NOT gotten screwed by them before it was all said and done?
I keep thinking of things like Stacker, DrDOS, Netscape, and the SCO 'connection' among the many others. With MS having any sort of C# patents I really don't see HOW they won't eventually use it against the Mono folks at some point...like right about the time Mono would reach critical mass...
"...but nothing they've ever done rises to the level of what SCO has been attempting...."
:)
you mean SINKS to the level of what SCO has been attempting, don't you?
I didn't see it as: unimportant/important.
...which makes it even funnier...
I saw it as: quiet/LOUD!
Ahh, but when I transfer your bits of money to my account, you no longer have it, and that is the difference.
Actually you can steal music and movies, but only if you managed to physically steal the original master tape/reel/sheet music before a second copy was made.
"...we should spend the money..."
Who is "we" here?
"...we...sell of the HDTV spectrum..."
Who is "we" here?
I'll wager the first one is the Joe Taxpayer, and the second is not, no matter how they spin it.
If this is the real thing, and it happens to be the whole enchilada, this could either bring to the forefront or lay to rest the theory of the unacknowleged API's that they supposedly have in there so that their own apps run better/faster, etc.
uh, Fucktard?
Can you say "Paid Shill"??
I was around then (watched all the Apollo flights) and I recall these things. I live in America, too.
If they had taught you the asm first, it would likely have given you a much better undestanding later when they throw the AND, OR, and XOR type stuff at you in the higher level languages. Assuming you enter the degree program with little or no programming experience in the first place.
In any case, I certainly agree that Asm should be taught in whichever courseline they teach the 'other' programming languages.
I suppose the app could easily be written to start the server when it starts and shut the server down when it ends, thus not wasting resources all the time...couldn't you? Not that mysqld is a resource hog anyway...
Yet another reason to stay away from the XBox. Now MS wants to get all the gamers started on their upgrade treadmill!
As someone who has young (and old) kids, as well as myself, but not a boatload of cash to blow, I can tell you that on this issue backward compat IS important. The younger one, although he plays Vice City, etc, still likes to get out the old ps1 games on occasion and spend a week playing them. I play a lot of Madden, but once in awhile I get a urge for the original Tomb Raider for a few hours.
I certainly don't want to try and maintain several versions on PSx on top of the tv. Not only that, but IMHO, the one real advantage that Nintendo has always had over PSx/XB is *no moving parts* to wear out.
Don't tell me backward compat is that hard. Geez almost 20 years ago Commodore did it with their C128 by putting a couple of chips inside so that you had a full C64 on call.