Data warehouses aren't "covered entities". Know this and read your link again. Hackers and information thieves also do not fit as "covered entities", not like you will know who sold the information to the warehouse anyways Health insurers and practitioners ARE covered, but coverage does not prevent them from buying information.
I remember opening a friends computer many years back to help him upgrade the memory. After close examination we noticed that the memory was soldered in to place. Later someone asked me to help them upgrade their graphics card. I opened the case and noticed the AGP slot looked funny. I quickly figured out that the slot was actually backwards. So to answer your question about laptops: the answer is vendor lock-in for hardware upgrades and limit choices. Until customers start demanding standards the manufacturers are more than happy to keep dishing out the closed solutions.
I think what the open source community needs is a patent troll.
Or just write an open letter demanding Microsoft show the patents. It is the responsibility of the patent holder to protect its patents so if Microsoft ignores the letter they will have a very, very difficult time trying to later prosecute them.
"This seems like it'd be a great idea in Iraq - breach a door"
and get hit with a chair. Millions of taxpayers dollars lost to breach a door lost to a $5 dollar chair.
"I have to wonder how it takes a grenade hit.."
Explosively I would guess. It's not really armored well and could easily be taken out with an AK47. But hey, it fills some contractors pockets while he sits on the beach soaking in the sun laughing his ass off about how stupid we were to buy those pieces of shit.
If you want a practical use of a robot and a gun, look no further than the movie Aliens. A sentry gun with a simple motion sensor is much more useful. Sure it won't breach a door but it sure as hell could slow down a mob of incoming enemies. I have to state "slow down" since humans will still quickly dispatch of it.
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>Not really, at least not without rewriting a bunch of the XP kernel to handle all the video hardware virtualization that Vista supports.
I smell serious bullshit and techno babble with words like "hardware virtualization". Can I virtualize new hardware?! Oh, and kernel? Do you really think graphics have anything to do with the OS kernel?!!
If you don't demand competition, then don't be surprised when producers don't compete.
You seem to lack understanding of how the market works.
In the U.S., most Americans walk around with a cellphone their provider gave them for free. On the converse, Japanese often pay top dollar for the best cellphone. This is because in the U.S. the mentality is to get the most for less. Cheaper is better. Its a Walmart world.
Go ask an Indian how many monopoly products he bought last year.
I did. He said there are a lot of monopolies in India. He figures that there are easily more monopolies in India as compared to U.S.. Why is this important to the U.S. consumer?
Exactly how much effort have you put into finding the best price, on any product, in the last week?
Like I said earlier, Americans are huge bargain hunters. Haggling may be a lost trade, but haggling doesn't mean you always pay less. For example, if you haggle a product I was selling for $500 down to $400, is that a deal? Lets just say that you can find the same product in Walmart now for $375. How? Walmart did the haggling and bought a crap load of the item in question.
Just a little did-you-know, but Apple just dropped a bunch of code on the LLVM project for ARM based processors. My guess is that they are trying to cover their GPL violations up.
I agree with you. Don't mind the astroturfing RMS losers religious crusade. I'm hoping for a GPL that avoids the silly v3 agenda, puts RMS in his place, and gets back to what makes the GPL great.
With Apple's secrecy, articles like these are run without having all the facts. Sensationalism becomes rampant.
Sure, for a little while. But eventually people get tired of people yelling "the sky is falling". I think Google and Apple, keeping their business their business, is a good practice.
>But nearly everyone I know over 40 tends to prefer "simple".
I'm under 40 and prefer simpler. I also don't appear to be in the minority since the majority of web surfers, most of whom are under 40, prefer Google over an other search engines mostly because its simpler.
Simpler has other advantages:
1. It can adapt more quickly since there is less to fight with. 2. Room for expansion. 3. Lot quicker to bug fix. 4. Can be managed by smaller groups.
They spent all their time learning about useless crap like advanced multivariable calculus, matrix theory...
That "useless crap" is why American students are considerably more well rounded than our foreign counterparts (who are usually fed a steady diet of vanilla teachings for their future as cheap labor). I can understand their anger, since they are given no options to ever succeed in life.
I tried it out. I quickly noticed it was using XUL. XUL apps, like Firefox and Thunderbird, *each* consume large amounts of my computer's memory. They need to come up with a shared, one time loaded XUL library for XUL apps.
So this article was planted by Microsoft then? Or is that what the submittor want us to believe?
Come on. This is Slashdot. If there is a conspiracy theory they would just openly say it. Besides that the article does do a fair job at comparing the two operating systems. A big surprise would have been if Vista, being that its suppose to be an upgrade, was actually inferior to XP. Now THAT would be news.
Nahhh. You're making too much sense. To find an easier explanation, I just used the common excuse for defending the security holes and bugs in two popular Microsoft products: Internet Explorer and Windows. What you have to say is "more people use Oracle, so that is why there are more security holes and bugs".
And yet we snore, toss and turn, twitch, and sometimes talk in our sleep. Nothing says easy meal more than a loud unconscious mammal.
What are you talking about? Snoring is a defensive measure. Hell, it probably sounded like a large herd of vicious animals roaring when you put enough humans together snoring in unison.
And if that's not enough, I imagine that these early humans probably didn't do much in the way of bathing. Nothing says "I just tossed my lunch" than being downwind from a large pack of primitive humans.
That's a lot of assumptions, and it's not really possible from the video to figure out all the events. But what we do know is that in two cases he is immobile. This is helped by the police yelling at him to get up. There were three cops and not a single one of them tries to physically remove him (which they can legally do) or restrain him (again, legal) in any fashion, but rather just yell at him and use a taser (illegal on the taser part since it was used against police procedure).
You would have to assume that the officers could be highly suspicious of this possible ploy to get them in close so he could bite them since they knew he was perfectly capable of walking.
Police are trained to restrain and move people. Try catching an episode of COPS on television. If this weren't the case, criminals could just lie on the ground and wait for the cops to leave. So your assumption there is dead wrong.
>Well, they don't look emulated or feel emulated, unlike java. But hey, I'm sure there's some technical reason you're right and noone cares.
You mean "don't look emulated or feel emulated, unlike Swing". SWT, which is a Java widget toolkit, uses native widgets. Also, after toying with a few Qt apps on Windows, it appears their emulation is about the same as Swings in many regards. I don't think this is a negative though, since native widgets on Windows are pretty ugly.
>Qt supports plenty platforms, plenty compilers, much better UI design tools and it's open source.
My problem with Qt is that is its license. If you want a commercial app you have to pay the Troll. wxWidgets license is, IMOH, much better in that regard.
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Data warehouses aren't "covered entities". Know this and read your link again. Hackers and information thieves also do not fit as "covered entities", not like you will know who sold the information to the warehouse anyways Health insurers and practitioners ARE covered, but coverage does not prevent them from buying information.
I remember opening a friends computer many years back to help him upgrade the memory. After close examination we noticed that the memory was soldered in to place. Later someone asked me to help them upgrade their graphics card. I opened the case and noticed the AGP slot looked funny. I quickly figured out that the slot was actually backwards. So to answer your question about laptops: the answer is vendor lock-in for hardware upgrades and limit choices. Until customers start demanding standards the manufacturers are more than happy to keep dishing out the closed solutions.
I think what the open source community needs is a patent troll.
Or just write an open letter demanding Microsoft show the patents. It is the responsibility of the patent holder to protect its patents so if Microsoft ignores the letter they will have a very, very difficult time trying to later prosecute them.
"This seems like it'd be a great idea in Iraq - breach a door"
and get hit with a chair. Millions of taxpayers dollars lost to breach a door lost to a $5 dollar chair.
"I have to wonder how it takes a grenade hit.."
Explosively I would guess. It's not really armored well and could easily be taken out with an AK47. But hey, it fills some contractors pockets while he sits on the beach soaking in the sun laughing his ass off about how stupid we were to buy those pieces of shit.
If you want a practical use of a robot and a gun, look no further than the movie Aliens. A sentry gun with a simple motion sensor is much more useful. Sure it won't breach a door but it sure as hell could slow down a mob of incoming enemies. I have to state "slow down" since humans will still quickly dispatch of it.
>Not really, at least not without rewriting a bunch of the XP kernel to handle all the video hardware virtualization that Vista supports.
I smell serious bullshit and techno babble with words like "hardware virtualization". Can I virtualize new hardware?! Oh, and kernel? Do you really think graphics have anything to do with the OS kernel?!!
If you don't demand competition, then don't be surprised when producers don't compete.
You seem to lack understanding of how the market works.
In the U.S., most Americans walk around with a cellphone their provider gave them for free. On the converse, Japanese often pay top dollar for the best cellphone. This is because in the U.S. the mentality is to get the most for less. Cheaper is better. Its a Walmart world.
Go ask an Indian how many monopoly products he bought last year.
I did. He said there are a lot of monopolies in India. He figures that there are easily more monopolies in India as compared to U.S.. Why is this important to the U.S. consumer?
Exactly how much effort have you put into finding the best price, on any product, in the last week?
Like I said earlier, Americans are huge bargain hunters. Haggling may be a lost trade, but haggling doesn't mean you always pay less. For example, if you haggle a product I was selling for $500 down to $400, is that a deal? Lets just say that you can find the same product in Walmart now for $375. How? Walmart did the haggling and bought a crap load of the item in question.
The FCC has already stated that they will fine any company that abuses their ability to Tier bandwidth.
Bush said he would bring peace to Iraq.
So we're covered on that front without having to pass new laws
How so? The FCC head changes on a regular basis. Whose to say the next chief doesn't feel differently? No laws mean no limits.
Without laws we have anarachy. Sorry, I prefer the laws.
Just a little did-you-know, but Apple just dropped a bunch of code on the LLVM project for ARM based processors. My guess is that they are trying to cover their GPL violations up.
[i]but could they really call it anything else?[/i]
iPod Phone, Phone iPod, Apple Phone, Granny Smith, Red Delicious...
I agree with you. Don't mind the astroturfing RMS losers religious crusade. I'm hoping for a GPL that avoids the silly v3 agenda, puts RMS in his place, and gets back to what makes the GPL great.
No, since Firefox is not owned by Google.
With Apple's secrecy, articles like these are run without having all the facts. Sensationalism becomes rampant.
Sure, for a little while. But eventually people get tired of people yelling "the sky is falling". I think Google and Apple, keeping their business their business, is a good practice.
Nah, just use PostgreSQL .... or sell your own MySQL Debian support :)
>But nearly everyone I know over 40 tends to prefer "simple".
I'm under 40 and prefer simpler. I also don't appear to be in the minority since the majority of web surfers, most of whom are under 40, prefer Google over an other search engines mostly because its simpler.
Simpler has other advantages:
1. It can adapt more quickly since there is less to fight with.
2. Room for expansion.
3. Lot quicker to bug fix.
4. Can be managed by smaller groups.
Apple is the only company that makes a complete computer.
For three times the cost.
>they aren't banning it. they are banning the use of voip that comes from outside the country, doesn't pay taxes, isn't bound by Indian law, etc.
If thats the case, they are employing government level protectism and should have their membership removed from the WTO.
Is that really different from the US?
Yes, and I will let you explain why:
They spent all their time learning about useless crap like advanced multivariable calculus, matrix theory...
That "useless crap" is why American students are considerably more well rounded than our foreign counterparts (who are usually fed a steady diet of vanilla teachings for their future as cheap labor). I can understand their anger, since they are given no options to ever succeed in life.
>Yes, there's the patent situation, but Microsoft can't do much about interoperability as a convicted monopolist.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe even convicted monopolists have rights to their IP.
I tried it out. I quickly noticed it was using XUL. XUL apps, like Firefox and Thunderbird, *each* consume large amounts of my computer's memory. They need to come up with a shared, one time loaded XUL library for XUL apps.
So this article was planted by Microsoft then? Or is that what the submittor want us to believe?
Come on. This is Slashdot. If there is a conspiracy theory they would just openly say it. Besides that the article does do a fair job at comparing the two operating systems. A big surprise would have been if Vista, being that its suppose to be an upgrade, was actually inferior to XP. Now THAT would be news.
Nahhh. You're making too much sense. To find an easier explanation, I just used the common excuse for defending the security holes and bugs in two popular Microsoft products: Internet Explorer and Windows. What you have to say is "more people use Oracle, so that is why there are more security holes and bugs".
And yet we snore, toss and turn, twitch, and sometimes talk in our sleep. Nothing says easy meal more than a loud unconscious mammal.
What are you talking about? Snoring is a defensive measure. Hell, it probably sounded like a large herd of vicious animals roaring when you put enough humans together snoring in unison.
And if that's not enough, I imagine that these early humans probably didn't do much in the way of bathing. Nothing says "I just tossed my lunch" than being downwind from a large pack of primitive humans.
That's a lot of assumptions, and it's not really possible from the video to figure out all the events. But what we do know is that in two cases he is immobile. This is helped by the police yelling at him to get up. There were three cops and not a single one of them tries to physically remove him (which they can legally do) or restrain him (again, legal) in any fashion, but rather just yell at him and use a taser (illegal on the taser part since it was used against police procedure).
You would have to assume that the officers could be highly suspicious of this possible ploy to get them in close so he could bite them since they knew he was perfectly capable of walking.
Police are trained to restrain and move people. Try catching an episode of COPS on television. If this weren't the case, criminals could just lie on the ground and wait for the cops to leave. So your assumption there is dead wrong.
>Well, they don't look emulated or feel emulated, unlike java. But hey, I'm sure there's some technical reason you're right and noone cares.
You mean "don't look emulated or feel emulated, unlike Swing". SWT, which is a Java widget toolkit, uses native widgets. Also, after toying with a few Qt apps on Windows, it appears their emulation is about the same as Swings in many regards. I don't think this is a negative though, since native widgets on Windows are pretty ugly.
>Qt supports plenty platforms, plenty compilers, much better UI design tools and it's open source.
My problem with Qt is that is its license. If you want a commercial app you have to pay the Troll. wxWidgets license is, IMOH, much better in that regard.
Somebody was going to say that too.