Look at Russia or China for example. Nobody gives a shit about IP over there for the most part. So the innovation should bloom over there, right? WRONG! There is NO software market in these countries. So please try your laws on lab mice first. The job situation in the US is bad already, don't fuck it up even more by your stupid propaganda.
It is merely a language to define application UIs without writing mucho code (thus allowing non-coders to be responsible for UI). Your XAML UI description transparently links with code-behind, and everything is stored inside same assembly. A solution in search of a problem if you ask me, programming UI in.NET Web/Windows Forms is already easy enough, but that's the path they've chosen.
Just call the guy "chechen terrorist" and you can show him on TV all you want. The important part for them to stay safe is to not air anything that could harm president's approval rating.
directly contradict the constitution. And nobody seems to give a flying fuck. Have you tried to choose so called "alternative military service" lately? Or how about decrypting and wiretapping everyone's cell phones during the latest run-in with chechen boeviks?
cryptographic algorithms not approved by Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI). Just do a google search, this should turn something up. If it doesn't do a yandex.ru search.
ISP's are obliged by law to install wiretapping devices and provide internet connectivity to police to use these wiretapping devices. There's no warrant necessary to wiretap. Best of all, all encryption standards (except GOST, which comes from the government) are outlawed, so you can get hard time for using PGP. I haven't heard about anyone getting sued for using strong crypto, though, so it looks like these laws are not enfoced.
And I'm going to become a lot more poor when I take a mortgage loan. Unfortunately there's no choice but to pay the price if you want to live in a nice area where you have a job.
in Linux? It's a horribly architected, monolithic system designed around failed concepts that are 30 years old, fer chrissakes! The only reason people use it is because it's free (zero upfront cost). If it cost money nobody in their mind would install this crap. In 21st century it's a shame to have a system that doesn't have role-based security, is not modular (so that HW manufacturers could release drivers without much pain), doesn't have a good, common component architecture and doesn't allow a user to copy and paste between apps:0). Any solution remotely diverging from the standard LAMP concept is either a huge dirty hack that will break as soon as someone tries to change anything at all or a completely custom (and expensive) piece of code. What happened to OOP and component based programming? What about any kind of decent architecture for web services?
Of all manufacturers you've listed only Olympus uses Kodak CCD, and only in their E-1 camera. All consumer digicams use Sony CCDs (even Canon I believe), Nikon digital SLRs use Sony CCD, the word is, Minolta is going to use Sony CCD in their digital SLR, too. So the choice of the target is correct - Sony makes the majority of CCDs used in digital cameras today.
Have you checked how much you spend every month on things like DSL/TV/Phone/Cell Phone (about $150), or on dining out (about $120, I'm moderate in this regard) or on groceries (about $450)? $45 isn't even worth talking about.
is because these days OS standards themselves have changed. Users EXPECT the OS to have rich multimedia capabilities out of the box. They EXPECT to be able to listen to music and watch movies right after they've finished installation.
On top of that, developers expect client OSs to have multimedia capabilities, too.
It simply doesn't make sense to remove WMP, because you'll only get a crippled OS out of this and this will hurt the customer (regular Joe Sixpack has no idea how to install all this crap).
On the other hand it does make sense to offer the customer to have other media players on their system IF THEY WANT THEM. Put the installation icons on the desktop, give them clear names and tooltips. DO NOT install your third party crap all over the place by default. I hate it when Real crapware sneaks into my new machine. For me this means I have to rebuild the machine completely because there doesn't seem to be any other way to completely get rid of spyware Real installs.
in space-related stuff. He could buy this thing with spare cash from one of his pockets. Heck, he could probably buy the entire ISS together with astronauts.
Fist of all, contrary to what the poster above says, IE never had automatic ActiveX control installation by default. I don't know what he is smoking, but this was never the case.
Second of all, you can allow IE to install ActiveX automatically from trusted sites and provide your end users a list of trusted sites. Conversely, you can disable ActiveX controls from everywhere else. All of this you can do from a script (but not from within javascript running within IE) if you're local admin, automatically. You can also set up your domain logons so that users run this script when they login. There's a 1000 things you can do, but nobody seems to care to find out how, because folks at MS made their software too easy to use.
It will ask you whether or not you want to do so. You can also disable ActiveX controls altogether if you want.
Another thing is, it was impossible to delete them without going to registry and ripping them out by hand. This is now possible. I also think they'll explain in greater detail to their customers that installing crap from porn sites can actually hurt their computer.
User education is their biggest problem that they have yet to identify.
Now that's innovation, not only you get 20 inch LCD screen and 48 hours battery life, you also get some good workout. As an additional benefit, you can fry eggs on it when watching DVDs!
I doubt anyone takes them seriously :-)
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Their main feature is "Translucent windows" fer chrissakes. Typical adolescent linux fanboys, move along, nothing to see there.
Ceo's of Miller, Budweiser and Guiness are dining at a fine restaurant. It's time to order some beer. Miller guy orders Miller, Budweiser guy orders Budweiser and Guiness guy orders Coke. "WTF?", asks the waiter. "Look, I'm just being polite here. If the other two fellas don't want to drink beer, I'm not drinking it either", Guinness guy answers.
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Simply put these 13 CDs on 2 DVDs and get over it. For whiners who are still on modem links there's always network install.
Look at Russia or China for example. Nobody gives a shit about IP over there for the most part. So the innovation should bloom over there, right? WRONG! There is NO software market in these countries. So please try your laws on lab mice first. The job situation in the US is bad already, don't fuck it up even more by your stupid propaganda.
It is merely a language to define application UIs without writing mucho code (thus allowing non-coders to be responsible for UI). Your XAML UI description transparently links with code-behind, and everything is stored inside same assembly. A solution in search of a problem if you ask me, programming UI in .NET Web/Windows Forms is already easy enough, but that's the path they've chosen.
that SPECIFICALLY shows only white people (99%), clearly states that it only shows white people, and doesn't give a shit about national minorities.
Or a channel that only has shows for men (no, not sex related), calls women bitches, gays - fags, and boosts macho side of male personality.
Would something like this be protected by the 1st ammendment?
"White channel" on TV. Black channel is allowed, white channel would be a no-no and perceived as racist.
Just call the guy "chechen terrorist" and you can show him on TV all you want. The important part for them to stay safe is to not air anything that could harm president's approval rating.
directly contradict the constitution. And nobody seems to give a flying fuck. Have you tried to choose so called "alternative military service" lately? Or how about decrypting and wiretapping everyone's cell phones during the latest run-in with chechen boeviks?
cryptographic algorithms not approved by Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI). Just do a google search, this should turn something up. If it doesn't do a yandex.ru search.
Did you file this year's taxes? Don't feed me this loyalty shit. I'm loyal up to the minute when I'm forced to be loyal.
ISP's are obliged by law to install wiretapping devices and provide internet connectivity to police to use these wiretapping devices. There's no warrant necessary to wiretap. Best of all, all encryption standards (except GOST, which comes from the government) are outlawed, so you can get hard time for using PGP. I haven't heard about anyone getting sued for using strong crypto, though, so it looks like these laws are not enfoced.
And I'm going to become a lot more poor when I take a mortgage loan. Unfortunately there's no choice but to pay the price if you want to live in a nice area where you have a job.
It's ridiculous to pay $350-400K for a house that's built out of crappy wood by minimal-wage mexicans.
in Linux? It's a horribly architected, monolithic system designed around failed concepts that are 30 years old, fer chrissakes! The only reason people use it is because it's free (zero upfront cost). If it cost money nobody in their mind would install this crap. In 21st century it's a shame to have a system that doesn't have role-based security, is not modular (so that HW manufacturers could release drivers without much pain), doesn't have a good, common component architecture and doesn't allow a user to copy and paste between apps :0). Any solution remotely diverging from the standard LAMP concept is either a huge dirty hack that will break as soon as someone tries to change anything at all or a completely custom (and expensive) piece of code. What happened to OOP and component based programming? What about any kind of decent architecture for web services?
Of all manufacturers you've listed only Olympus uses Kodak CCD, and only in their E-1 camera. All consumer digicams use Sony CCDs (even Canon I believe), Nikon digital SLRs use Sony CCD, the word is, Minolta is going to use Sony CCD in their digital SLR, too. So the choice of the target is correct - Sony makes the majority of CCDs used in digital cameras today.
Have you checked how much you spend every month on things like DSL/TV/Phone/Cell Phone (about $150), or on dining out (about $120, I'm moderate in this regard) or on groceries (about $450)? $45 isn't even worth talking about.
is because these days OS standards themselves have changed. Users EXPECT the OS to have rich multimedia capabilities out of the box. They EXPECT to be able to listen to music and watch movies right after they've finished installation.
On top of that, developers expect client OSs to have multimedia capabilities, too.
It simply doesn't make sense to remove WMP, because you'll only get a crippled OS out of this and this will hurt the customer (regular Joe Sixpack has no idea how to install all this crap).
On the other hand it does make sense to offer the customer to have other media players on their system IF THEY WANT THEM. Put the installation icons on the desktop, give them clear names and tooltips. DO NOT install your third party crap all over the place by default. I hate it when Real crapware sneaks into my new machine. For me this means I have to rebuild the machine completely because there doesn't seem to be any other way to completely get rid of spyware Real installs.
Someone, clue those moronic lawyers in.
in space-related stuff. He could buy this thing with spare cash from one of his pockets. Heck, he could probably buy the entire ISS together with astronauts.
Good ole binary marshallers are OK and much more efficient.
Fist of all, contrary to what the poster above says, IE never had automatic ActiveX control installation by default. I don't know what he is smoking, but this was never the case.
Second of all, you can allow IE to install ActiveX automatically from trusted sites and provide your end users a list of trusted sites. Conversely, you can disable ActiveX controls from everywhere else. All of this you can do from a script (but not from within javascript running within IE) if you're local admin, automatically. You can also set up your domain logons so that users run this script when they login. There's a 1000 things you can do, but nobody seems to care to find out how, because folks at MS made their software too easy to use.
It will ask you whether or not you want to do so. You can also disable ActiveX controls altogether if you want.
Another thing is, it was impossible to delete them without going to registry and ripping them out by hand. This is now possible. I also think they'll explain in greater detail to their customers that installing crap from porn sites can actually hurt their computer.
User education is their biggest problem that they have yet to identify.
slashdot crowd also expects them to:
1. Release the source under GPL
2. Give the product away for free
3. Hate Microsoft
Neither of which they do. So I predict this will be a complete failure.
Now that's innovation, not only you get 20 inch LCD screen and 48 hours battery life, you also get some good workout. As an additional benefit, you can fry eggs on it when watching DVDs!
Their main feature is "Translucent windows" fer chrissakes. Typical adolescent linux fanboys, move along, nothing to see there.
You hit the nail on the head, man. IBM is trying to drown SUN.
Ceo's of Miller, Budweiser and Guiness are dining at a fine restaurant. It's time to order some beer. Miller guy orders Miller, Budweiser guy orders Budweiser and Guiness guy orders Coke. "WTF?", asks the waiter. "Look, I'm just being polite here. If the other two fellas don't want to drink beer, I'm not drinking it either", Guinness guy answers.