"except that Microsoft may restrict the launching of Non-Microsoft Middleware which replaces or drastically alters the Windows Operating System Product user interface."
Any first year law student could argue that any linux/BSD/otherOS replaces the Windows OS UI, thus no OEM can install an alternate OS.
A little early Xmas present to MSFT from the Bush Administration. This is milder than the previous Decrees that MSFT violated, isn't it?
The copyright is on the photo. As noted elsewhere, the Catholic Church doesn't claim copyright on religious writings (and most of them have long outlived the copyright anyway;) ).
I've been on a J2EE project for over a year now (WebSphere 4) and the performance of Java is less than stellar. I would not recommend Java as a solution for anything client/server unless you have boatloads of cash to throw at a huge cluster (which Yahoo does, of course).
This is not entirely accurate, at least in the US. In the US, the primary fiduciary duty is to the shareholders. And as most shareholders these days want in and out fast with massive profits (whatever happened to thinking beyond this quarters results?), it is the RESPONSIBILITY of corporate execs to screw the customers, screw the employees and hand bags of cash to the investors. This is what is wrong with capitalism as it is practiced today.
I ran several record stores in the early 90's. Artists at that time (and likely still) make pretty much jack on album sales. They get an advance from the label, and giving the "creative accounting" of the labels, that advance seems to take FOREVER to get paid off (artists don't see a penny in royalties until the advance is paid off).
Example: in 1992(?) when "Epic" had been on the charts for months and Faith No More had been in heavy rotation for almost a year, they still had to borrow money from friends and family to buy groceries and several of them still lived with their parents in order to save money.
The money for artists come from merchandising (which is why labels so often now require artists to sign over their merch rights as well to get a deal) and touring (which monies labels are trying to steal as well).
Labels are useful for boy bands and Britney Wannabes and that's it. Any other artist will do much better going indie.
I haven't seen a movie in a theater in about 4 years, and I've seen a total of 7 in the theater in the last 10 years. I hate movie theaters (filthy, distractions, etc etc even at big premieres in Westwood). I'd tolerate how much the theaters suck (as I have 7 times in the past 10 years) if movies were worth watching in the first place. They very very rarely are. I haven't seen LOTR, Episode II, or any of the other "must see" movies of the last few years, and guess what? I don't feel like I'm missing out.
I would disagree, as most Mac users I know have at least 3 disks in their towers and I have an external (firewire) drive on my iMac. This is only my experience and may be abnormal, but given the heavy use of Macs in multimedia (with the accompanying monstrously large files) I seriously doubt it.
I've been using since 0.1 was announced (I know, that's like two weeks) and I've been quite pleased. Layout on cnn.com is pretty fscked up, but other than that it works tremendously well. It's now my primary browser.
What about downloading MP3s of albums you legally own but are too lazy to rip on your own? I've done this many times, particularly for tapes and vinyl. I own the media, I just don't feel like going through the tedious process of encoding analog stuff.
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And me without mod points to upvote the parent. Damn.
I would argue that most of the web journalists who whine about tech issues (or most issues) are overpaid, rather than underpaid. Even if they don't get paid.
Please note that St. Louis City and St. Louis County are completely seperate entities (and have been for well over 100 years). There is much animosity between the two and the hillbilly ignorance of the county should not be considered as a reflection on the city, which is much more sophisticated (this is only said partially tongue in cheek, you don't have to get far outside the city limits to be in Mississippi Burning land).
Yes, two or three minor worms in an optional component of an open source server are certainly as big a deal as the literally thousands of virii/security holes/etc in the fundamental core of Windows. The several thousand servers that have been infected with Slapper.b/c certainly compare in scope to the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, affected by Code Red/Nimda/I Love You/etc.
Games are highly specialized applications that have very specific hardware needs for optimal performance. Those requirements are not the same as all other common applications (word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, writing code, etc etc) with the possible exception of multimedia production. I've always been of the opinion that I'd rather play games on a machine that is specifically designed for playing games on (note that aside from pr0n, games are always the leading edge of technology precisely for that reason). I would, however, like to see upgradeable consoles...
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In case you weren't aware, our constitution explicitely sets forth the doctrine of separation. It's in the First Amendment. The government has no business determining what is and is not "moral", which is fortunate because I don't believe that any politician is qualified to make that decision.
Note that "In God We Trust" and "Under God" were both added to our culture after all the founders were dead and buried.
It goes beyond that. It is the next step in the long term goal of many corporations (US and other) to ensure that anything you ever do other than breathe involves paying someone something.
I can answer them all with a response of no. So that makes at least one;)
If you want to talk demographics, I'm a white male in my 30's, grew up in Silicon Valley where I lived until after college. No, I'm not religious or conservative by any stretch of the imagination, I just find drugs to be boring.
It does. Second section, goes a little something like this:
This, combined with the knowledge that modern chimps are largely immune to the AIDS virus and its simian variants, pointed toward an AIDS-like disease as the culprit.
(emphasis mine). They don't actually say SIV, but it is quite clearly what they are talking about.
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The American media/education system/etc etc do their best to ignore the fact that the rest of the world exists. I would be willing to bet that if you randomly chose a kid from any high school in the US and asked them to point out, say, Portugal or Sweden or something slightly less obvious than Italy/UK/Germany/France on a map, they wouldn't be able to do it.
And our country is currently being run by a group of individuals who are closely aligned with an organization by the name of the Eagle Forum, whose spokesperson Phyllis Schlafly said that schools shouldn't teach children that the US is part of a larger world community because it's unpatriotic.
Paul Everitt (Zope/Digital Creations) spoke in Colorado about 2 years ago at a Linux conference. Zope Corporations was preparing to bid on a large contract for a national news organization, and they ran their proposal past one of the board members who was a VC and familiar with the market and with Zope Corp's abilities. He told them it was all fine but they needed to double their bid price in order to be taken seriously. Paul told him they would be making a nice profit at the bid price they had settled on, and the VC told him that they would never get the contract if they didn't double their bid price, because the client wouldn't take them seriously. They doubled the bid price and still came in under all almost all the other bidders and got the contract.
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I don't know about others, but DirectTV is not rolling out "their own", they are partnering with... Tivo.
I didn't say it was accurate, I said they would ARGUE that they could prevent it.
Sigh. I'm particularly disturbed by this quote:
"except that Microsoft may restrict the
launching of Non-Microsoft Middleware which replaces or drastically alters the
Windows Operating System Product user interface."
Any first year law student could argue that any linux/BSD/otherOS replaces the Windows OS UI, thus no OEM can install an alternate OS.
A little early Xmas present to MSFT from the Bush Administration. This is milder than the previous Decrees that MSFT violated, isn't it?
The copyright is on the photo. As noted elsewhere, the Catholic Church doesn't claim copyright on religious writings (and most of them have long outlived the copyright anyway ;) ).
I've been on a J2EE project for over a year now (WebSphere 4) and the performance of Java is less than stellar. I would not recommend Java as a solution for anything client/server unless you have boatloads of cash to throw at a huge cluster (which Yahoo does, of course).
This is not entirely accurate, at least in the US. In the US, the primary fiduciary duty is to the shareholders. And as most shareholders these days want in and out fast with massive profits (whatever happened to thinking beyond this quarters results?), it is the RESPONSIBILITY of corporate execs to screw the customers, screw the employees and hand bags of cash to the investors. This is what is wrong with capitalism as it is practiced today.
Example: in 1992(?) when "Epic" had been on the charts for months and Faith No More had been in heavy rotation for almost a year, they still had to borrow money from friends and family to buy groceries and several of them still lived with their parents in order to save money.
The money for artists come from merchandising (which is why labels so often now require artists to sign over their merch rights as well to get a deal) and touring (which monies labels are trying to steal as well).
Labels are useful for boy bands and Britney Wannabes and that's it. Any other artist will do much better going indie.
It's already been said here, but here's my deal:
I haven't seen a movie in a theater in about 4 years, and I've seen a total of 7 in the theater in the last 10 years. I hate movie theaters (filthy, distractions, etc etc even at big premieres in Westwood). I'd tolerate how much the theaters suck (as I have 7 times in the past 10 years) if movies were worth watching in the first place. They very very rarely are. I haven't seen LOTR, Episode II, or any of the other "must see" movies of the last few years, and guess what? I don't feel like I'm missing out.
I would disagree, as most Mac users I know have at least 3 disks in their towers and I have an external (firewire) drive on my iMac. This is only my experience and may be abnormal, but given the heavy use of Macs in multimedia (with the accompanying monstrously large files) I seriously doubt it.
I've been using since 0.1 was announced (I know, that's like two weeks) and I've been quite pleased. Layout on cnn.com is pretty fscked up, but other than that it works tremendously well. It's now my primary browser.
What about downloading MP3s of albums you legally own but are too lazy to rip on your own? I've done this many times, particularly for tapes and vinyl. I own the media, I just don't feel like going through the tedious process of encoding analog stuff.
And me without mod points to upvote the parent. Damn.
I would argue that most of the web journalists who whine about tech issues (or most issues) are overpaid, rather than underpaid. Even if they don't get paid.
Please note that St. Louis City and St. Louis County are completely seperate entities (and have been for well over 100 years). There is much animosity between the two and the hillbilly ignorance of the county should not be considered as a reflection on the city, which is much more sophisticated (this is only said partially tongue in cheek, you don't have to get far outside the city limits to be in Mississippi Burning land).
Seriously. I'm amazed at the excitement generated by an advertisement. Hey Look! Nike has a new commercial out, it is SO awesome!
Yes, two or three minor worms in an optional component of an open source server are certainly as big a deal as the literally thousands of virii/security holes/etc in the fundamental core of Windows. The several thousand servers that have been infected with Slapper.b/c certainly compare in scope to the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, affected by Code Red/Nimda/I Love You/etc.
Games are highly specialized applications that have very specific hardware needs for optimal performance. Those requirements are not the same as all other common applications (word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, writing code, etc etc) with the possible exception of multimedia production. I've always been of the opinion that I'd rather play games on a machine that is specifically designed for playing games on (note that aside from pr0n, games are always the leading edge of technology precisely for that reason). I would, however, like to see upgradeable consoles...
In case you weren't aware, our constitution explicitely sets forth the doctrine of separation. It's in the First Amendment. The government has no business determining what is and is not "moral", which is fortunate because I don't believe that any politician is qualified to make that decision.
Note that "In God We Trust" and "Under God" were both added to our culture after all the founders were dead and buried.
I thought it was
Man -vs- Man, Man -vs- Nature, and Man -vs- The Empire Brain Building.
(no one will get this...)
It goes beyond that. It is the next step in the long term goal of many corporations (US and other) to ensure that anything you ever do other than breathe involves paying someone something.
I can answer them all with a response of no. So that makes at least one ;)
If you want to talk demographics, I'm a white male in my 30's, grew up in Silicon Valley where I lived until after college. No, I'm not religious or conservative by any stretch of the imagination, I just find drugs to be boring.
(emphasis mine). They don't actually say SIV, but it is quite clearly what they are talking about.
The American media/education system/etc etc do their best to ignore the fact that the rest of the world exists. I would be willing to bet that if you randomly chose a kid from any high school in the US and asked them to point out, say, Portugal or Sweden or something slightly less obvious than Italy/UK/Germany/France on a map, they wouldn't be able to do it.
And our country is currently being run by a group of individuals who are closely aligned with an organization by the name of the Eagle Forum, whose spokesperson Phyllis Schlafly said that schools shouldn't teach children that the US is part of a larger world community because it's unpatriotic.
Or Zope using CMF. Either of which are great solutions.
Paul Everitt (Zope/Digital Creations) spoke in Colorado about 2 years ago at a Linux conference. Zope Corporations was preparing to bid on a large contract for a national news organization, and they ran their proposal past one of the board members who was a VC and familiar with the market and with Zope Corp's abilities. He told them it was all fine but they needed to double their bid price in order to be taken seriously. Paul told him they would be making a nice profit at the bid price they had settled on, and the VC told him that they would never get the contract if they didn't double their bid price, because the client wouldn't take them seriously. They doubled the bid price and still came in under all almost all the other bidders and got the contract.