On screen keyboard with random window location, use your mouse.
Yes, but this falls prey to the very same over-the-shoulder attack that is why we print * in some password fields, and in the most secure password fields, nothing at all (since then they can't even learn the length.)
I'd rather not leave my account names and passwords in a safe deposit box that could be subpoenad if the feds ever had a reason to.
Considering that they can subpoena your diary, and use it against you in a court of law, the only place safe to keep your passwords is in your head. And then, what with keyloggers, it's only safe if you don't use it also.
Actually, typefaces are a huge pain in the butt to deal with. Worse than even trademarks.
Basically, I don't know if Linotype have any reasonable grounds to sue MS over this, that's how screwed up typeface issues are.
The big things come down to, fundamentally, every typeface is going to look similar, if the didn't they wouldn't be readable. So, dealing with all that is just a big pain in the butt.
Apple chose to include their Apple logo in the fonts, this is partly so they can use it in random applications, but more so that because Apple owns a trademark on the Apple logo, no one can distribute their fonts under *trademark* law, not just typeface law.
This isn't the first font though that Microsoft straight up copied. Arial (which you may be using to view this site even) is just Helvetica, in as much Segoe is Frutiger Next. Don't think MS would open themselves that wide open to a lawsuit by saying that it's identical, no matter how stupid you think someone is, doing something like that is beyond stupid.
Segoe is essentially identical to Frutiger Next, and specifically the problem in the EU, is that someone at Microsoft told the EU that it *was* identical to Frutiger Next.
So, it's naturally really hard to get a trademark on a typeface that you previously said was identical to Frutiger Next.
At the bottom of the wiki page, they have a comparison of the two, the biggest different is the capital Q, where the tail is shifted slightly, and that's all. Oh, the numeral 1 also looks different. Everything else is identical.
$0 seems fair to me. I suppose at this point my choice between VMWare and Microsoft's virtulization software comes down to who's is better. I don't really care who makes it
Exactly. This is also the reason why Microsoft has to be careful about how they market things. If they abuse the position of their monopoly to increase their marketshare, then that's been deemed illegal. Lucky for Microsoft, I don't think any of this Virtual Server stuff is any sort of abuse of their Monopoly. Mostly, this claim has come up when something gets bundled with Windows for free, when someone else is providing a for-pay version. Since Microsoft can afford to undercut anyone, and can leverage the distribution of their software through their OS.
This is one of the things about Windows Media Player. Then, you get WMP free with Windows, but you have to either download RealPlayer, or Quicktime, and while both have a limited capability free version, both are for-pay products in the full. Only WMP is free for the full version, and only WMP is included automatically with Windows. That's why this was deemed to be an abuse in Europe.
So, again, not saying MS is doing anything wrong here with Virtual Server. But just remember, if it ever comes down to who has the deepest pockets, MS has some ridiculously deep pockets.
So by your logic, when I clean your garage, and you give me twenty dollars, did I just screw you over, and were you poor?
It depends. Was cleaning my garage worth twenty dollars? There are three possibilities.
My garage was already mostly clean, and you had very little work to do: You win. You got twenty dollars, and I got very little value.
My garage was just dirty enough that to both me and you it was worth exactly $20: Neither wins, fair exchange.
My garage was a complete and udder mess: I win, by a lot. you did all tons of work, and I only paid out $20.
Now, let's drop the wealth, and value issue from all this. Money only goes one way in the transaction. I have money, and I give it to you. In this simplistic view, I lose money, and you gain exactly the same amount of money. Zero-sum game.
If you want to talk about where the money ends up, then it's a zero-sum game, because there's only so much money in the system, and when I lose money, someone else gains that money in the exact same amount.
Again, I'm not talking about wealth and value here. I'm talking about purely money. If you want lots of money, then the only way to get that lots of money is to get people to give you money. That's the simplest rule of the game.
Now, in order to get people to give you money, they expect something in exchange. So, now the more expansive rule is, in order to gain lots of wealth and value, you need people to give you money for the least amount of wealth/value that you give them. Ideally, none.
This is why people who steal make tons of money, they get lots of wealth/value with nothing in exchange. Drug dealers, alcohol, and tabacco included also make tons of money, because their market has a significantly greater worth on the use of the products, than the seller has in just holding the products. Thus causing the prices to be quite high for what you're actually selling.
Also a big market is software, and digital content suppliers. In this case, everything that is provided in exchange for your money is ethereal, non-physical "IP". You don't even sell it to them, you're just letting them use it under a set of restrictions that you establish, and in the future, could technically revoke. Look at that, now you're selling things for vastly over the price required to make it (in the order of 1000~10000x times more in some cases) Just because the customer perceives a value in it.
"Everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money"
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. I, like everyone else I know, don't get rich screwing people over. Instead, we get rich from benefiting other people, who voluntarily increase our wealth. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth evil.
Right... I'm aware that it's not a zero-sum game, because the Gov can produce more money at any time. But when you think about it this way: Within the terms of who has money, it is a zero-sum game. If you get a dollar from me, then I lose a dollar. It all has to add up to the same total.
No, *wealth* is not a zero-sum game, as when I give you money, I'm expecting something from that. But money certainly is.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.;-)
Hey! I spent a month in Munich, a year or two before hand, so I was DYING for some Weisswurst. I mean, as bad as it is to get Weisswurst in Berlin, imagine trying to get it anywhere in the US! Although, I kind of regret the choice, now.
I did however eat my first night there at a placed called "Schildkröte", and got the "Berliner Teller", it was damn nice.:)
More like desperate. They're only doing this because Xen's eating their lunch.
No, it's because the Virtualization market is heating up. And it's likely VMWare that's causing Microsoft to sweat, not Xen, or any F/OSS alternative.
You used to see this back in the day when local, and ma' and pa' shops roamed the earth. For instance, one bakery would have a monopoly in the area, when a new one would pop up, and start undercutting the other's prices. Then they'd retaliate, and you'd end up with a flying storm of lowering prices, until one of them were forced out of business.
At this point, the price would be rock bottom, and the winner, would gradually increase prices until they were making a good profit again, but generally it worked out well for the community that was shopping there.
Of course, the whole problem comes in that to startup a bakery you don't need billions of dollars and years of development to produce your product. Microsoft is now sitting in a practically unchallengable monopoly position. When monopolies hit this point, it's my opinion that controls should be leveraged to ensure that they're not gouging their captive audience.
Yeah, KDW kinda bothered me, too... seems like it was a rich person store. I stopped by the next day and had some Weisswurst, since this was the closest I was going to get to Munich/Bavaria on that trip.
It didn't taste right, and cost twice as much, but then, so will anything that's a local specialty outside of that area. I was just more surprised that they even had Weisswurst there.
I think that's the only thing I bought there, everything else was just way too overpriced, or was just plain expensive to begin with.
When I was in Berlin, Germany, I was walking through KDW, and they had a gold plated keyboard. It was some 3000 in cost.
I was just like "who the hell would buy something like that."
This too. It's just too much. It's like, buy one of those, and everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money that you can just drop it on something like this.
A.) It's Asperger's. B.) You totally don't know about Aspergers, and you're likely a Neurotypical (NT). Which means you're going to mistake typical Asperger behavior for being socially inappropriate.
Please, be aware that he had no intentions of coming across to you as a pompous ass. He is however socially challenged though (Asperger's is in the Autism spectrum). And Aspies and Austics just can't perceive how you're going to interpret what they write.
If they're being honest and blunt, you're likely going to call them a pompous ass. See, if he had some sort of device to buzz him and tell him that people are going to take his words as if he were a pompous ass, he'd be able to avoid doing so. But until such time as a social prostetic is available for slashdot, you're just going to have to deal with people whom you perceive as pompous asses.
Does -anyone- wear sandals and a ponytail anymore? That's kind of cliche.
I'm sure some people do, but it's like "suit and tie" it means more than just what it says. Basically any "uncouth" dress.
In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments."
I've just gotta say, this guy isn't paying attention to the industry. I interviewed at Microsoft with a guy in sandals, shorts, and a "Lego Star Wars" shirt. I don't recall if he had a pony tail, but it wouldn't surprise me.
One of the first science fiction authors to truly show us that science fiction is more than just a genre of space novels, it's a way to place one's self outside of reality so that it can be safely analyzed and commented on from a distance.
Yeah, I really enjoyed a lot of the Sci-Fi series that did this, too. Too bad Hollywood hasn't caught onto this.
Take a wonderful book with an underlying subtext about politics and military mentality and turn it into a teen flick full of guts and gore.
Who ever wrote that screen play needs to apologize. Not like I'm saying anything new about the Starship Troopers movie.
They say that the Sendmail Consortium says that some 70% of the world's email uses their services, but the fact that Windows isn't affected by the flaw will help curtail the effect?
Who the hell thought that was even a smart thing to say? I mean, that's like saying that because Mac OSX and Linux aren't affected by the Sasser virus that this will curtail the effects of any worm.
WHAT CRACK ARE YOU SMOKING AND WHY AREN'T YOU SHARING?!
That being said, the links do indeed point out that Check21 is all about making the float period shorter, and nothing about it becoming illegal to take advantage of the remaining small float period.
Regardless of all the argument here. Banks don't like check float, and that's the reason for the Check 21 law.
They still TELL everyone that it's for THEIR benefit and security, not that it was in the bank's own self-interest for reducing check float time, which they've always been frustrated by.
At least even in part that someone can use the money before the check actually hit, and then the check bounces, and the bank has to deal with an angry customer coming in and yelling and complaining that the check bounced, and the other bank being upset that they already cleared the check and gave out the money.
Check float, whether legal or illegal has continually been a problem for a great number of people who accidentally bounce checks. Reducing the float time was the goal of these laws, *not* the security of the customer.
Yeah, I actually took a graphics class where we had to write a bunch of programs. Java provides no defined behavior for drawing a single pixel on the screen. You could use (and we were told) to use a drawRect() with width and height of 0. (using 1 for both results in a 2x2 rectangle by definition)
The problem is that some OSes and implementations don't draw anything at all. So, on Windows and Linux, you get a pixel, on Mac OSX, and Sun, you get nothing. (I mean, it's a 0 width, 0 height rectangle, that means draw nothing, right?)
The frustrating thing is the first Lab went out, and I designed it on a Linux machine, and I turn it in, and the TA for the course, who was grading them, was grading them on a Sun machine. So the response comes back "Your program doesn't draw anything" Aw... thanks Java.
I've actually written a POSIX compliant web-server that supported CGI/1.1, and enough HTTP/1.1 to be at least useful, and it was far more compatible at the source level than Java was at the binary level.
if they're stripping the DRM out of bought files for use on other players they are still buying from Apple and giving Apple money for the privilege. By definition, they wouldn't be going to P2P
The issue isn't that Apple would still get money for the music. The issue is that Apple wouldn't have to sell an iPod for someone to listen to their iTunes Music Store music portably.
Also, there's the issue that the music industry that grants allowances for Apple to sell their music would not stand for DRM-less music. Apple has already gone with the lightest DRM that they could, and still have the industry happy. If they had to allow for DRM work-arounds for France, then the Music Industry would pull support, and Apple iTMS is suddenly full of indy bands, and none of the popular music that sells tons of copies. (Which is the very definition of popular music. Whatever people are buying the most of.)
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On screen keyboard with random window location, use your mouse.
Yes, but this falls prey to the very same over-the-shoulder attack that is why we print * in some password fields, and in the most secure password fields, nothing at all (since then they can't even learn the length.)
"Actually in fact, I am not the Dred Pirate Robinson, and neither was the one I inherited the name from."
I'd rather not leave my account names and passwords in a safe deposit box that could be subpoenad if the feds ever had a reason to.
Considering that they can subpoena your diary, and use it against you in a court of law, the only place safe to keep your passwords is in your head. And then, what with keyloggers, it's only safe if you don't use it also.
Why not wait a bit on this technology until they can take a picture of your eyes to see how far away the focal distance is and get a perfect focus?
For the ultimate in lazy, the Ultrafoci Glasses(tm) are perfect for you!
Tired of focusing your eyes? We'll do it for you!
Actually, typefaces are a huge pain in the butt to deal with. Worse than even trademarks.
Basically, I don't know if Linotype have any reasonable grounds to sue MS over this, that's how screwed up typeface issues are.
The big things come down to, fundamentally, every typeface is going to look similar, if the didn't they wouldn't be readable. So, dealing with all that is just a big pain in the butt.
Apple chose to include their Apple logo in the fonts, this is partly so they can use it in random applications, but more so that because Apple owns a trademark on the Apple logo, no one can distribute their fonts under *trademark* law, not just typeface law.
This isn't the first font though that Microsoft straight up copied. Arial (which you may be using to view this site even) is just Helvetica, in as much Segoe is Frutiger Next. Don't think MS would open themselves that wide open to a lawsuit by saying that it's identical, no matter how stupid you think someone is, doing something like that is beyond stupid.
No, read the details of the case. Microsoft told the EU that Segoe was identical to Frutiger Next.
Naturally no one should be able to register an IP that is identical to someone else's.
Segoe is essentially identical to Frutiger Next, and specifically the problem in the EU, is that someone at Microsoft told the EU that it *was* identical to Frutiger Next.
So, it's naturally really hard to get a trademark on a typeface that you previously said was identical to Frutiger Next.
At the bottom of the wiki page, they have a comparison of the two, the biggest different is the capital Q, where the tail is shifted slightly, and that's all. Oh, the numeral 1 also looks different. Everything else is identical.
"[to bard]: To cover (meat) in thin pieces of bacon or fat to preserve moisture"
Now that "suggests lubing up the genitals" in ways that I really didn't need to hear about.
MMmmmmm.... Bacon....
How much money is 200 points? Not everyone plays X-Box Live you know.
$0 seems fair to me. I suppose at this point my choice between VMWare and Microsoft's virtulization software comes down to who's is better. I don't really care who makes it
Exactly. This is also the reason why Microsoft has to be careful about how they market things. If they abuse the position of their monopoly to increase their marketshare, then that's been deemed illegal. Lucky for Microsoft, I don't think any of this Virtual Server stuff is any sort of abuse of their Monopoly. Mostly, this claim has come up when something gets bundled with Windows for free, when someone else is providing a for-pay version. Since Microsoft can afford to undercut anyone, and can leverage the distribution of their software through their OS.
This is one of the things about Windows Media Player. Then, you get WMP free with Windows, but you have to either download RealPlayer, or Quicktime, and while both have a limited capability free version, both are for-pay products in the full. Only WMP is free for the full version, and only WMP is included automatically with Windows. That's why this was deemed to be an abuse in Europe.
So, again, not saying MS is doing anything wrong here with Virtual Server. But just remember, if it ever comes down to who has the deepest pockets, MS has some ridiculously deep pockets.
So by your logic, when I clean your garage, and you give me twenty dollars, did I just screw you over, and were you poor?
It depends. Was cleaning my garage worth twenty dollars? There are three possibilities.
My garage was already mostly clean, and you had very little work to do: You win. You got twenty dollars, and I got very little value.
My garage was just dirty enough that to both me and you it was worth exactly $20: Neither wins, fair exchange.
My garage was a complete and udder mess: I win, by a lot. you did all tons of work, and I only paid out $20.
Now, let's drop the wealth, and value issue from all this. Money only goes one way in the transaction. I have money, and I give it to you. In this simplistic view, I lose money, and you gain exactly the same amount of money. Zero-sum game.
If you want to talk about where the money ends up, then it's a zero-sum game, because there's only so much money in the system, and when I lose money, someone else gains that money in the exact same amount.
Again, I'm not talking about wealth and value here. I'm talking about purely money. If you want lots of money, then the only way to get that lots of money is to get people to give you money. That's the simplest rule of the game.
Now, in order to get people to give you money, they expect something in exchange. So, now the more expansive rule is, in order to gain lots of wealth and value, you need people to give you money for the least amount of wealth/value that you give them. Ideally, none.
This is why people who steal make tons of money, they get lots of wealth/value with nothing in exchange. Drug dealers, alcohol, and tabacco included also make tons of money, because their market has a significantly greater worth on the use of the products, than the seller has in just holding the products. Thus causing the prices to be quite high for what you're actually selling.
Also a big market is software, and digital content suppliers. In this case, everything that is provided in exchange for your money is ethereal, non-physical "IP". You don't even sell it to them, you're just letting them use it under a set of restrictions that you establish, and in the future, could technically revoke. Look at that, now you're selling things for vastly over the price required to make it (in the order of 1000~10000x times more in some cases) Just because the customer perceives a value in it.
Yeah, I don't think Microsoft is gouging the public either. That's why there haven't been more lawsuits on that issue.
But there are and have been other monopolies that did do this. Ma' Bell for example was a good example of a company that abused a captive audience.
I suppose it's possible that the thing that saved Microsoft from getting split up, was precisely this; that they don't abuse their customers.
"Everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money"
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. I, like everyone else I know, don't get rich screwing people over. Instead, we get rich from benefiting other people, who voluntarily increase our wealth. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth evil.
Right... I'm aware that it's not a zero-sum game, because the Gov can produce more money at any time. But when you think about it this way: Within the terms of who has money, it is a zero-sum game. If you get a dollar from me, then I lose a dollar. It all has to add up to the same total.
No, *wealth* is not a zero-sum game, as when I give you money, I'm expecting something from that. But money certainly is.
The KaDeWe is mainly a tourist trap.
;-)
:)
Oh, *so* true. Hehe.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.
Hey! I spent a month in Munich, a year or two before hand, so I was DYING for some Weisswurst. I mean, as bad as it is to get Weisswurst in Berlin, imagine trying to get it anywhere in the US! Although, I kind of regret the choice, now.
I did however eat my first night there at a placed called "Schildkröte", and got the "Berliner Teller", it was damn nice.
More like desperate. They're only doing this because Xen's eating their lunch.
No, it's because the Virtualization market is heating up. And it's likely VMWare that's causing Microsoft to sweat, not Xen, or any F/OSS alternative.
You used to see this back in the day when local, and ma' and pa' shops roamed the earth. For instance, one bakery would have a monopoly in the area, when a new one would pop up, and start undercutting the other's prices. Then they'd retaliate, and you'd end up with a flying storm of lowering prices, until one of them were forced out of business.
At this point, the price would be rock bottom, and the winner, would gradually increase prices until they were making a good profit again, but generally it worked out well for the community that was shopping there.
Of course, the whole problem comes in that to startup a bakery you don't need billions of dollars and years of development to produce your product. Microsoft is now sitting in a practically unchallengable monopoly position. When monopolies hit this point, it's my opinion that controls should be leveraged to ensure that they're not gouging their captive audience.
Yeah, KDW kinda bothered me, too... seems like it was a rich person store. I stopped by the next day and had some Weisswurst, since this was the closest I was going to get to Munich/Bavaria on that trip.
It didn't taste right, and cost twice as much, but then, so will anything that's a local specialty outside of that area. I was just more surprised that they even had Weisswurst there.
I think that's the only thing I bought there, everything else was just way too overpriced, or was just plain expensive to begin with.
*smacks you*
Shut up troll. Just because someone adds a little information into things, doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it.
Some people may not even know what KDW is. I didn't know until I actually went to Berlin, and I had been speaking German for 10 years.
When I was in Berlin, Germany, I was walking through KDW, and they had a gold plated keyboard. It was some 3000 in cost.
I was just like "who the hell would buy something like that."
This too. It's just too much. It's like, buy one of those, and everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money that you can just drop it on something like this.
A.) It's Asperger's.
B.) You totally don't know about Aspergers, and you're likely a Neurotypical (NT). Which means you're going to mistake typical Asperger behavior for being socially inappropriate.
Please, be aware that he had no intentions of coming across to you as a pompous ass. He is however socially challenged though (Asperger's is in the Autism spectrum). And Aspies and Austics just can't perceive how you're going to interpret what they write.
If they're being honest and blunt, you're likely going to call them a pompous ass. See, if he had some sort of device to buzz him and tell him that people are going to take his words as if he were a pompous ass, he'd be able to avoid doing so. But until such time as a social prostetic is available for slashdot, you're just going to have to deal with people whom you perceive as pompous asses.
Does -anyone- wear sandals and a ponytail anymore? That's kind of cliche.
I'm sure some people do, but it's like "suit and tie" it means more than just what it says. Basically any "uncouth" dress.
In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments."
I've just gotta say, this guy isn't paying attention to the industry. I interviewed at Microsoft with a guy in sandals, shorts, and a "Lego Star Wars" shirt. I don't recall if he had a pony tail, but it wouldn't surprise me.
One of the first science fiction authors to truly show us that science fiction is more than just a genre of space novels, it's a way to place one's self outside of reality so that it can be safely analyzed and commented on from a distance.
Yeah, I really enjoyed a lot of the Sci-Fi series that did this, too. Too bad Hollywood hasn't caught onto this.
Take a wonderful book with an underlying subtext about politics and military mentality and turn it into a teen flick full of guts and gore.
Who ever wrote that screen play needs to apologize. Not like I'm saying anything new about the Starship Troopers movie.
They say that the Sendmail Consortium says that some 70% of the world's email uses their services, but the fact that Windows isn't affected by the flaw will help curtail the effect?
Who the hell thought that was even a smart thing to say? I mean, that's like saying that because Mac OSX and Linux aren't affected by the Sasser virus that this will curtail the effects of any worm.
WHAT CRACK ARE YOU SMOKING AND WHY AREN'T YOU SHARING?!
That being said, the links do indeed point out that Check21 is all about making the float period shorter, and nothing about it becoming illegal to take advantage of the remaining small float period.
Regardless of all the argument here. Banks don't like check float, and that's the reason for the Check 21 law.
They still TELL everyone that it's for THEIR benefit and security, not that it was in the bank's own self-interest for reducing check float time, which they've always been frustrated by.
At least even in part that someone can use the money before the check actually hit, and then the check bounces, and the bank has to deal with an angry customer coming in and yelling and complaining that the check bounced, and the other bank being upset that they already cleared the check and gave out the money.
Check float, whether legal or illegal has continually been a problem for a great number of people who accidentally bounce checks. Reducing the float time was the goal of these laws, *not* the security of the customer.
Yeah, I actually took a graphics class where we had to write a bunch of programs. Java provides no defined behavior for drawing a single pixel on the screen. You could use (and we were told) to use a drawRect() with width and height of 0. (using 1 for both results in a 2x2 rectangle by definition)
The problem is that some OSes and implementations don't draw anything at all. So, on Windows and Linux, you get a pixel, on Mac OSX, and Sun, you get nothing. (I mean, it's a 0 width, 0 height rectangle, that means draw nothing, right?)
The frustrating thing is the first Lab went out, and I designed it on a Linux machine, and I turn it in, and the TA for the course, who was grading them, was grading them on a Sun machine. So the response comes back "Your program doesn't draw anything" Aw... thanks Java.
I've actually written a POSIX compliant web-server that supported CGI/1.1, and enough HTTP/1.1 to be at least useful, and it was far more compatible at the source level than Java was at the binary level.
if they're stripping the DRM out of bought files for use on other players they are still buying from Apple and giving Apple money for the privilege. By definition, they wouldn't be going to P2P
The issue isn't that Apple would still get money for the music. The issue is that Apple wouldn't have to sell an iPod for someone to listen to their iTunes Music Store music portably.
Also, there's the issue that the music industry that grants allowances for Apple to sell their music would not stand for DRM-less music. Apple has already gone with the lightest DRM that they could, and still have the industry happy. If they had to allow for DRM work-arounds for France, then the Music Industry would pull support, and Apple iTMS is suddenly full of indy bands, and none of the popular music that sells tons of copies. (Which is the very definition of popular music. Whatever people are buying the most of.)