The energy cost with refining, processing, storing and disposing of nuclear materials makes solar look like a bargain. Nuclear fanatics seem to forget the process it takes from digging up something that is one of the rarest elements on our planet and then disposing of such elements when we are done.
Its just going to take time to implement, integrate & upgrade everything to support it. You would have to be kidding yourselves to think MS just made up vista without regard for its core customers. The business version includes encryption, AD, GPO, security, performance, reliability that business users demand and to think Vista isn't an upgrade over XP or 2k in these regards is simply foolish. Auditing, Reporting, Authorization, Policy Management and Manageability have all increased 10 fold if not 100 fold over xp "out of the box" - THAT is what Corporate America wanted - and got! Lord knows They will have to implement the hardware to support it as they would with any other demanding project but that isn't a fault of MS or windows. There isn't an out of the box linux distro within ear shot of a Vista Business & Windows 2008 in end user support & management - everything would be left to 3rd party systems, agent based management and user trust.
1. They don't use one product to subsidize another. Its called investing in opportunities. Using MONEY to attack a market. 2. Stupid viral marketing tactics? Stupid posts on slashdot? 3. Buying off Media? - Not sure where you pulled that one out of. 4. Hiring people to sit on message boards - you mean people like you? 5. Inane attempts at coming up with PR attempts? Like what?
Not sure of what culture you preach of. I find it ironic you blame everything on MS to explain just how YOU behaved.
I mean it obviously turned you into a nice, respectful, polite and caring person. Just because you like sucking down poisonous gas, doesn't mean the rest of us level headed HUMAN BEINGS have to take it.
Yes, i know boot camp trainees have to learn how to put on gear in a controlled gas exposure environment and some barf all over themselves in the process but using such gases on civilian populations during a time of war is indeed a violation of the chemical weapons plain and simple.
I know how to make a smoke screen dark as night with over the counter agents. My smoke screen won't burn your skin off, make you barf all over yourself and cause seizures, panic, vomiting, anxiety, itching.. i guess you may get watery eyes or cough if you breath it in but no matter what the excuse is, it doesn't make selective use of chemical agents any better.
lighten up on the bigotry as well..
since you obviously failed at knowing what a liberal is, i'll spell out what a bigot is for you just in case.
bigotry (bg'-tr) pronunciation n.
The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance.
If the last shred of decency you have 5 years into a life sentence on a god forsaken island is the peace from a (sacred to you) religious book and someone is about to piss on that (figuratively speaking) how would YOU cope with that?
You assume that these people have a great life and they're wimps because they get barked at or someone flushes the koran. Put yourself in there shoes where people scrutinize every time you east, shit, piss and sleep and control every moment of your life and then they turn around and destroy the last sacred bit of decency you ever had.
So something even as basic as DNS or anything that is load balanced/round robin or indexed in some form or fashion would be susceptible to this?
I mean, back when i ran a heavy Nutch/Lucene system the basic idea of balancing a query volume is to distribute the load. This is akin to patenting putting in a 4 lane highway so you can handle traffic a 1 lane highway couldn't.
that means Fox will have to cease all BD disks since they're so particular about BD+ being the "be all end all" encryption they need to prevent "rampant piracy"?
Small & Quick.. all though lately it has been eating massive amounts of memory at times the developers are quick to respond and work with the community to isolate & fix them!
7zip is my second one. Fast and nag free!
Trillian would be my 3rd but i'm anxiously awaiting release of the new product as the current publicly released IM client has been stagnant.
CableCard addons could have worked but comcast would have to certify the whole PS3 video recording "chain" and that would take so long the product would never reach the consumer in time for it to make a difference.
PS3 or not, i wish more devices could have DVR functionality. I want consumer cablecard in my MediaCenter/360 combination as well but that won't happen unless i re-buy my media center and bullocks to that! I also don't want Comcast flagging my content either.
Toshiba HD-DVD players are 238 on Amazon.com. I've seen them go onsale to 199.00. The Xbox Addon is 149.00 at blockbuster and 179.00 elsehwere and all HD-DVD players have 5 free HD-DVD movies. The 360 addon also packs in KingKong.
For a value add service a 75% return rate is pretty darn good. Its not like they stopped selling it and aren't gaining new market share either.
Software assurance includes more than just future proofing license/versions, it has support, infrastructure, recovery, home use, licensing, discounts and many other options/features.
with more choices of software assurance out there (much akin to Linux Support offerings) i think competition is heating up and everyone is getting a better value today than they did when the program first launched.
Because in the long run over other supported contracts its more affordable. Its not just a license but a pretty robust support infrastructure that is included in your pricing and scales well for businesses large and small and more times than not is cheaper than retail pricing.
Just my experience. Software Assurance is more like the commercial linus world where the value is the service & support rather than the actual software - as it is to more businesses than not.
Cost of the software itself is very little of the ultimate price at the end of the day. (not claiming its absolute, but very true more than not)
I know more "indy" developers that code irrespective of the platform. Programming is just different these days - what took an entire staff can now be done efficiently with just a few. Is the market downsizing or has growth in the field shrank or is it more platform agnostic? How do you determine a windows coder vs a universal or only a linux/unix coder?
Windows has some of the best tools out there - software as a whole has matured to a level that there hasn't been anything "new" and its been mostly upgrades. No wonder the market has shifted. Just because there are more developers in other environments, doesn't mean the market has dried up, just that it has matured.
Cancelled cable, purchased an OTA tuner and what i don't get OTA i buy in hi-def on the 360 or torrent from the intarweb. None of which this apple product will afford you to do without going through hoops.
Believe it or not, every console out there has games you speak of. Not Sony, Microsoft or Nintendos fault you don't look for them.
Just so happens the major fanbase want innovation - across the board. If you had played Xbox live its transparent whether the game is on or offline for the most part, there isn't much "doo daa"'ing around to get up and working. That is why they're loved & addored.
I tell you what, those games from 15 years ago polished & wrapped up on xbox live are well worth the 5-10 bucks to play again against live people over the internet.
Especially for those of us who work, get an hour to play a game here and there and enjoy playing against people we know who may or may not live in the same house.
Simple games are out there and have been for ages.
If you GPL the code and GPL the codec and the Data is a mix of the Codec and Product where does the GPL stop? I'll have to look at GCC's license to see how they do the same because technically i could edit a binary and not edit the code but still be subject to the GPL correct?
Seriously, i hadn't thought about GPL being applied to a "process" in a way such a codec, always thought of it form the source side. A codec is a we bit different since its basically creating something on the fly and if the GPL can apply to a process to keep that process free/unpatented wouldn't anything you apply that process to be subject to the license as a derivative work?
going out on a limb i'm sure:)
strange one would exclude open source licensing as that even excludes software on the microsoft side of the fence unless that is meant to protect the codec and the resulting data from derivative work type licensing issues to begin with.
Content can be licensed GPL. I see it for games to websites to different public license variants.
I'm just curious with codecs especially. I understand GPL as it is for source code but what does GPL mean if you use that license for your source and your product if that product was your own proprietary data set such as a high fidelity lossless compression archive?
But isnt that the "grey area" that MP3 Patent lawsuits are brought upon? MP3's aren't the data, its the codec. If the actual "bits" as written by the licensed software is part of the logic of the program couldn't someone say that by using a GPL program to make images based off a GPL codec in a GPL format would have to be GPL'd?
In a sense its like compiling a program, when its compiled it isn't code, its executable data.
just curious. I've wondered what would happen if we moved the "fine line".
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The energy cost with refining, processing, storing and disposing of nuclear materials makes solar look like a bargain. Nuclear fanatics seem to forget the process it takes from digging up something that is one of the rarest elements on our planet and then disposing of such elements when we are done.
Its just going to take time to implement, integrate & upgrade everything to support it. You would have to be kidding yourselves to think MS just made up vista without regard for its core customers. The business version includes encryption, AD, GPO, security, performance, reliability that business users demand and to think Vista isn't an upgrade over XP or 2k in these regards is simply foolish. Auditing, Reporting, Authorization, Policy Management and Manageability have all increased 10 fold if not 100 fold over xp "out of the box" - THAT is what Corporate America wanted - and got! Lord knows They will have to implement the hardware to support it as they would with any other demanding project but that isn't a fault of MS or windows. There isn't an out of the box linux distro within ear shot of a Vista Business & Windows 2008 in end user support & management - everything would be left to 3rd party systems, agent based management and user trust.
Zune controls being hard? hahha
1. Hit play
2. Listen to your music
wow
Oh Please
1. They don't use one product to subsidize another. Its called investing in opportunities. Using MONEY to attack a market.
2. Stupid viral marketing tactics? Stupid posts on slashdot?
3. Buying off Media? - Not sure where you pulled that one out of.
4. Hiring people to sit on message boards - you mean people like you?
5. Inane attempts at coming up with PR attempts? Like what?
Not sure of what culture you preach of. I find it ironic you blame everything on MS to explain just how YOU behaved.
I mean it obviously turned you into a nice, respectful, polite and caring person. Just because you like sucking down poisonous gas, doesn't mean the rest of us level headed HUMAN BEINGS have to take it.
Yes, i know boot camp trainees have to learn how to put on gear in a controlled gas exposure environment and some barf all over themselves in the process but using such gases on civilian populations during a time of war is indeed a violation of the chemical weapons plain and simple.
I know how to make a smoke screen dark as night with over the counter agents. My smoke screen won't burn your skin off, make you barf all over yourself and cause seizures, panic, vomiting, anxiety, itching.. i guess you may get watery eyes or cough if you breath it in but no matter what the excuse is, it doesn't make selective use of chemical agents any better.
lighten up on the bigotry as well..
since you obviously failed at knowing what a liberal is, i'll spell out what a bigot is for you just in case.
bigotry (bg'-tr) pronunciation
n.
The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance.
If the last shred of decency you have 5 years into a life sentence on a god forsaken island is the peace from a (sacred to you) religious book and someone is about to piss on that (figuratively speaking) how would YOU cope with that?
You assume that these people have a great life and they're wimps because they get barked at or someone flushes the koran. Put yourself in there shoes where people scrutinize every time you east, shit, piss and sleep and control every moment of your life and then they turn around and destroy the last sacred bit of decency you ever had.
So something even as basic as DNS or anything that is load balanced/round robin or indexed in some form or fashion would be susceptible to this?
I mean, back when i ran a heavy Nutch/Lucene system the basic idea of balancing a query volume is to distribute the load. This is akin to patenting putting in a 4 lane highway so you can handle traffic a 1 lane highway couldn't.
that means Fox will have to cease all BD disks since they're so particular about BD+ being the "be all end all" encryption they need to prevent "rampant piracy"?
If it keeps going up, look for wider wireless adoption rates or migration to fiber once again
Putty, how could i forget that one! AMEN!
Small & Quick.. all though lately it has been eating massive amounts of memory at times the developers are quick to respond and work with the community to isolate & fix them!
7zip is my second one. Fast and nag free!
Trillian would be my 3rd but i'm anxiously awaiting release of the new product as the current publicly released IM client has been stagnant.
They dash any hopes of this happening :(
CableCard addons could have worked but comcast would have to certify the whole PS3 video recording "chain" and that would take so long the product would never reach the consumer in time for it to make a difference.
PS3 or not, i wish more devices could have DVR functionality. I want consumer cablecard in my MediaCenter/360 combination as well but that won't happen unless i re-buy my media center and bullocks to that! I also don't want Comcast flagging my content either.
OTA FTW
Toshiba HD-DVD players are 238 on Amazon.com. I've seen them go onsale to 199.00. The Xbox Addon is 149.00 at blockbuster and 179.00 elsehwere and all HD-DVD players have 5 free HD-DVD movies. The 360 addon also packs in KingKong.
For a value add service a 75% return rate is pretty darn good. Its not like they stopped selling it and aren't gaining new market share either.
Software assurance includes more than just future proofing license/versions, it has support, infrastructure, recovery, home use, licensing, discounts and many other options/features.
with more choices of software assurance out there (much akin to Linux Support offerings) i think competition is heating up and everyone is getting a better value today than they did when the program first launched.
so all is not lost.
hate replying to myself but i meant linux (not linus) and well darnit, i should just go to bed. I'm tired :)
Because in the long run over other supported contracts its more affordable. Its not just a license but a pretty robust support infrastructure that is included in your pricing and scales well for businesses large and small and more times than not is cheaper than retail pricing.
Just my experience. Software Assurance is more like the commercial linus world where the value is the service & support rather than the actual software - as it is to more businesses than not.
Cost of the software itself is very little of the ultimate price at the end of the day. (not claiming its absolute, but very true more than not)
I know more "indy" developers that code irrespective of the platform. Programming is just different these days - what took an entire staff can now be done efficiently with just a few. Is the market downsizing or has growth in the field shrank or is it more platform agnostic? How do you determine a windows coder vs a universal or only a linux/unix coder?
Windows has some of the best tools out there - software as a whole has matured to a level that there hasn't been anything "new" and its been mostly upgrades. No wonder the market has shifted. Just because there are more developers in other environments, doesn't mean the market has dried up, just that it has matured.
Does that make them uncool?
Cancelled cable, purchased an OTA tuner and what i don't get OTA i buy in hi-def on the 360 or torrent from the intarweb. None of which this apple product will afford you to do without going through hoops.
Believe it or not, every console out there has games you speak of. Not Sony, Microsoft or Nintendos fault you don't look for them.
Just so happens the major fanbase want innovation - across the board. If you had played Xbox live its transparent whether the game is on or offline for the most part, there isn't much "doo daa"'ing around to get up and working. That is why they're loved & addored.
I tell you what, those games from 15 years ago polished & wrapped up on xbox live are well worth the 5-10 bucks to play again against live people over the internet.
Especially for those of us who work, get an hour to play a game here and there and enjoy playing against people we know who may or may not live in the same house.
Simple games are out there and have been for ages.
Thats not the same.
Code = Software
Codec = Process
Data = Product
If you GPL the code and GPL the codec and the Data is a mix of the Codec and Product where does the GPL stop? I'll have to look at GCC's license to see how they do the same because technically i could edit a binary and not edit the code but still be subject to the GPL correct?
ahh good find.
:)
Seriously, i hadn't thought about GPL being applied to a "process" in a way such a codec, always thought of it form the source side. A codec is a we bit different since its basically creating something on the fly and if the GPL can apply to a process to keep that process free/unpatented wouldn't anything you apply that process to be subject to the license as a derivative work?
going out on a limb i'm sure
strange one would exclude open source licensing as that even excludes software on the microsoft side of the fence unless that is meant to protect the codec and the resulting data from derivative work type licensing issues to begin with.
If the ODF format was a "GPL" format would the resulting data have to be GPL?
Content can be licensed GPL. I see it for games to websites to different public license variants.
I'm just curious with codecs especially. I understand GPL as it is for source code but what does GPL mean if you use that license for your source and your product if that product was your own proprietary data set such as a high fidelity lossless compression archive?
But isnt that the "grey area" that MP3 Patent lawsuits are brought upon? MP3's aren't the data, its the codec. If the actual "bits" as written by the licensed software is part of the logic of the program couldn't someone say that by using a GPL program to make images based off a GPL codec in a GPL format would have to be GPL'd?
In a sense its like compiling a program, when its compiled it isn't code, its executable data.
just curious. I've wondered what would happen if we moved the "fine line".