"The main reason they originally started showing up in businesses was VisiCalc, which simply wasn't available in any other form except chalk boards."
Not really. What was a small business supposed to use a mini or a mainframe? Personal Computers brought computing to businesses that otherwise couldn't afford it.
Well, there really was no pro version of either 98/ME or Windows NT. I was just pointing out that there was more of a connection between NT and 2000 than there was between 98/ME and 2000. I guess you're talking about a closer timeline. It's just that a Pro version usually implies the home version plus a few extra features. Windows ME and Windows 2000 were really completely different OSs that had fairly good compatibility at the application level.
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"If you take a pre-recorded audio sample and hand it to a top-of-the-line piece of speech-to-text software, it will take that sample, and give you text far more accurate than what you can get with most programs, but it may take a minute or two."
But what you won't get is speech recognition that is as good as humans. Until then, it will fall short of being true AI.
I'm not sure who you think you're arguing with. I was responding to the guy who was saying that it only costs $0.25 to produce a Windows CD.
As to this notion that there is some ethical limit to the number of times an IP creator is rewarded, I think it's absurd.
Of course, it has little to do with the RIAA anyway because they're not IP creators, they are IP investors. You don't have to trash artists rights to be against what the RIAA is doing.
"Well to be fair 2k was sort of the 'pro' version of 98/ME."
Not really. If anything, it would be the 'pro' version of Windows NT. The key feature starting with NT was the lack of real mode code.
That meant that crappy apps like Lotus ccMail couldn't crash it. I remember when every Windows 95/98/ME PC would crash and those few of us who were programming for NT just kept on going.
"Considering that a Windows DVD costs maybe $0.25 to produce, I suspect that without tiered pricing people would still be able to afford it."
Hey, if you know some programmers who are willing to work for a total $0.25 on a major project that follows my agenda rather than theirs I'd like to hire them.
The point is that most people don't want to go through a complicated scheme to buy a computer.
Look at Apple. They've spent a lot of money on marketing to promote their computers. If the profit margins on Linux are too small to support marketing, that's just too bad. Word of mouth just isn't going to cut it, no matter how good Linux gets.
Sure. After all, it's not as if all this monopoly stuff has anything to do with what customers want. We'll do all the thinking for our "little luser brothers".
In these hard economic times if your job depended on bashing Microsoft you'd be looking hard for any reason to justify your existence. The alternative is having to work a real job and who wants that!
Again, I don't think many people saw these ads. They just needed to buy a computer and it came with Vista.
As for showing Vista in it's best incarnation, how is that different than what video game makers do. If a game is available in DS, XBOX 360, and PS3, do they show you the DS version in the commercial?
Actually, I doubt that most computer buyers saw any Vista ads and probably didn't even know what Aero was. It's the informed geek and their lawyer friends who did the bulk of complaining.
I only wish that Linux's ability to extend the life of older hardware was as strong as often implied. It would be great to have a reasonably useful Linux system running on a 386 with 8MB of RAM (i.e a Windows 95 class machine). While that might be possible, I'd be surprised if the advances in Linux installation would be included in any compatible distro.
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"I quite agree - even taking this a step further some of the unixy terminal programs were often the best."
The problem is that there's a lot of functionality that can't be achieved by piping any combination of standard Unix applets together.
"The main reason they originally started showing up in businesses was VisiCalc, which simply wasn't available in any other form except chalk boards."
Not really. What was a small business supposed to use a mini or a mainframe? Personal Computers brought computing to businesses that otherwise couldn't afford it.
Bill was not lying. Just ask any fifth grade boy if his friend can truthfully say "I've had sex" if all he got was a BJ.
You keep using that word "need". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Do you have to end every post with a lame platitude?
"He said nothing about development costs which you are trying to dishonestly connect."
You have it backwards. He was implying that the cost of software is equal to the cost of the media. That's inherently misleading.
"All ethical reasons why you claim might some creator is "entitled" to unlimited rewards, not limited rewards, apply equally to pirates"
You misunderstand me. Pirates don't deserve any rewards, limited or unlimited.
So you think that if young people had to live in their parents' basements in 2000, they won't have to now because the economy is so much better off?
Well, there really was no pro version of either 98/ME or Windows NT. I was just pointing out that there was more of a connection between NT and 2000 than there was between 98/ME and 2000. I guess you're talking about a closer timeline. It's just that a Pro version usually implies the home version plus a few extra features. Windows ME and Windows 2000 were really completely different OSs that had fairly good compatibility at the application level.
"If you take a pre-recorded audio sample and hand it to a top-of-the-line piece of speech-to-text software, it will take that sample, and give you text far more accurate than what you can get with most programs, but it may take a minute or two."
But what you won't get is speech recognition that is as good as humans. Until then, it will fall short of being true AI.
non-moron here. Nice to meet you.
I'm not sure who you think you're arguing with. I was responding to the guy who was saying that it only costs $0.25 to produce a Windows CD.
As to this notion that there is some ethical limit to the number of times an IP creator is rewarded, I think it's absurd.
Of course, it has little to do with the RIAA anyway because they're not IP creators, they are IP investors. You don't have to trash artists rights to be against what the RIAA is doing.
"Well to be fair 2k was sort of the 'pro' version of 98/ME."
Not really. If anything, it would be the 'pro' version of Windows NT. The key feature starting with NT was the lack of real mode code.
That meant that crappy apps like Lotus ccMail couldn't crash it. I remember when every Windows 95/98/ME PC would crash and those few of us who were programming for NT just kept on going.
"Considering that a Windows DVD costs maybe $0.25 to produce, I suspect that without tiered pricing people would still be able to afford it."
Hey, if you know some programmers who are willing to work for a total $0.25 on a major project that follows my agenda rather than theirs I'd like to hire them.
Of course MS is even less interested in GCC than I am.
Who gives a shit about writing plugins for GCC? It's just a compiler for God's sake!
The point is that most people don't want to go through a complicated scheme to buy a computer.
Look at Apple. They've spent a lot of money on marketing to promote their computers. If the profit margins on Linux are too small to support marketing, that's just too bad. Word of mouth just isn't going to cut it, no matter how good Linux gets.
Sure. After all, it's not as if all this monopoly stuff has anything to do with what customers want. We'll do all the thinking for our "little luser brothers".
In these hard economic times if your job depended on bashing Microsoft you'd be looking hard for any reason to justify your existence. The alternative is having to work a real job and who wants that!
"I make controversial statements without thinking a lot."
Again, I don't think many people saw these ads. They just needed to buy a computer and it came with Vista.
As for showing Vista in it's best incarnation, how is that different than what video game makers do. If a game is available in DS, XBOX 360, and PS3, do they show you the DS version in the commercial?
I agree. This is all about legal fees.
Actually, I doubt that most computer buyers saw any Vista ads and probably didn't even know what Aero was. It's the informed geek and their lawyer friends who did the bulk of complaining.
I only wish that Linux's ability to extend the life of older hardware was as strong as often implied. It would be great to have a reasonably useful Linux system running on a 386 with 8MB of RAM (i.e a Windows 95 class machine). While that might be possible, I'd be surprised if the advances in Linux installation would be included in any compatible distro.
What about all the embedded systems that don't use any OS?
Sure, but there's no evidence of any general quality difference between H1Bs and American citizens, so how is that relevant?