well i know it's virtually impossible, but with the rest of what you said i think you understand what i was getting at... last time i tried kde was like 2.0 beta... i'd be currious to see how 3.0 works. i agree that the win32 gui has alot of finer polish that makes it better than kde (never tried gnome), but there are alot of things i liked about kde, like the multi desktops for one... and it was alot more customizeable
heh i guess i rushed when i posted.. i should have put not make money on in quotes... i meant the stuff they claim they gie away for free...
but you have an intresting point about the non-suppoorted stuff... that would make a whole market for older windows systems though... heh imagine people getting win95 and eventually ramping it up so it was better than winxp (sure it's unlikely, but it's possible)
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc. Don't allow anyone to distibute their own versions, but let people look and submit bug fixes etc. It would not be a huge step, but i'd be a step in gaining people's trust
and i'd like to add to this with the statement of reduce eye candy... personally the most eye candy i can stand are image swap gifs with mouse overs... and only to be able to let you see navigational buttons easier...
flash, etal. has just gotten out of hand... eye candy is cool the first 3 times you see it.. after that it's just a waste of bandwidth.
I wonder if these legal types are ever going to actually blame this on the actual people who are sharing...
i think the problem with going after individual people who are sharing files is a twofold:
on one hand there are just plain too many of them and going after a few wont make a big difference, unless they turn it into a huge publicity issue and try to ruin said scapegoat's life
which brings us to the second issue... you end up turning said person into a martyr and get alot of bad publicity, from people who might otherwise be more sympathetic for your cause
either way going after small individuals is more trouble than it's worth.. they are the lesser evil
I wouldn't even call it that... for years they've been ripping off the artists... did we really expect them to suddenly become generous? Like any big coperation they will not change until they have no choice.. for now atleast they hold all the legal balls (and enough money to buy new ones). Until the Artists who create the music can own and control their own music this will never die...
the Funniest part of the whole RIAA BS is how evil they claim the downloaders are and how the riaa is protecting th eintrests of the artist... and then they turn around and start trying thing slike "work for hire"
imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
heh this guy should consider going into business... if he can get things at the right price break he might be able to make a few bucks selling geek specialty items... just put them in a nice case (and if he can demonstrate the sound live, i'd consider buying a pair...
personally, i never cared for real player either... but shortly after i tried wmp7 i promotly got rid of it for the same reasons i got rid of real player... i've been using wmp6.4 since...
the enemy of my enemy is just as bad as my enemy
so now we have two irritating bloated programs that are trying to take over the media sphere...
now that is intresting... but based on the performance of the nForce (where the memeory bandwidth is twice the fsb, but performance wasn't increased that much) how much better do you think the grand champion is going to be unless they pump up the fsb again...
the new p4 is going to be 133x4=600
dual ddr, assuming it's 333, would be 166x2x2=666
assuming each channel is the same width (i can't remember right now) would that extra 66mhz.x64bit make that much of a difference? might be intresting for overclocking though...
according to Ace's the NForce has really good overcloackability. i wonder if it's cause of the eaxtra memory bandwidth headroom...
on what systems you are working with? if you want a performance p4 system then obviously you use rambus... and if you want an amd system you use ddr(since there is no rambus/athlon chipset)
and until there is a rambus/athlon chipset i don't really think we can gague the real world implication of it...
either way i have better things to do with a few $100 than put it into a more expensive chipset/cpu/memory rig. if you have the extra money and the rambus system gives you what you want, then more power to you. overall, right now, you can't say either system is "the best" in ever possible catagory
i partially agree with you, but i would say that most people who did not respond, either are ignorant of the case in general or don't care enough about it to make a post (apathy runs strong in this day)
on the overall whole, i think, the judge should look at the arguments involved as to WHY, rather than just the stastitical value of the numbers when she forms her opinions time to pull out the BS-Meter
it's kind of like that line in "Fight Club," where he explains that his company doesn't do safety recals unless the cost of the recal would be cheaper than the cost of the law suits when x amount of people die, because of faulty manufacture...
yes i know it's wishful thinking but as long as those coperations know that we will hound them to the end of their days, they might actually conceede some of their profits for quality... even if just for some good publicity
the odds were like 2-1 when you filtered out the ones that actually mentioned stuff about the case. although i'd be intrested in seeing the one rumoured porn post...
the simple fact that the judge wanted any letters that didn't have good detail and arguments about the case or appeared to be form letters should eliminate alot of the astroturfing... of course this just leaves "expert opinion" type letters left (which have their own biases)
i don't think ashcroft would count/. as a terrorist entity until it took out a web site that he cared about.. i mean we are/.ing sites talking about evolution in this case... he might even like the idea...
you've got a very good point, but i was talking about the computing public.... those that are more aware of the issues... if you take the general populace i doubt many could tell you who the last 3 vice presidents of the us were (this is of course speaking about americans).
even at my job i see a greater decreating confidence in microsoft amonst the technically inclined. there seems to be two camps.
those that use ms product implicitly (even though many of them have countless problems). this camp graduated from the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" school.
those who preffer to use non-ms products when ever possible. this is a slow, but apparently growing minority
a friend of mine once said, "trust is a funny thing. you never really know if you can trust someone, till you find out you can't."
microsoft, right now, is in that stage. people have just started discovering that they can't trust microsoft. wheather they can or not is not the issue, but the perception of trust is ruined. it will take a long period of dilligence and commitment to prove themselves worthy of trust again. on the other hand, i kind of wish many other companies would make an honest attempt to regain our trust
i figure if the patent office smoked enough crack to grant bt that patent, and that other music distrobution patent, then this guy might be able to convince them that his work is prior art.
the biggest problem with these patents, is that someone comes up with a REALLY broad idea that no one else has decided is worth patenting and then, years later, when someone inadvertantly uses that patent to create something ubiquitous, they start claiming all rights to it on the plus side: maybe the guy who wrote goodtimes, will sue microsoft for the idea of an e-mail worm that can spread automatically...
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Microsoft, might decide that they don't liek this and buy Oregon, break it into parts, then sell what they don't want to California and Seattle.
probably, but hey... like the old saying goes...
you can't make somebody love you
you can only stalk them and hope they panic and ive in...
I guess in about 17 years it'll be time to ask that girl if she'll sleep with me if the world was about to end...
well i know it's virtually impossible, but with the rest of what you said i think you understand what i was getting at...
last time i tried kde was like 2.0 beta... i'd be currious to see how 3.0 works. i agree that the win32 gui has alot of finer polish that makes it better than kde (never tried gnome), but there are alot of things i liked about kde, like the multi desktops for one... and it was alot more customizeable
heh i guess i rushed when i posted.. i should have put not make money on in quotes... i meant the stuff they claim they gie away for free...
but you have an intresting point about the non-suppoorted stuff... that would make a whole market for older windows systems though... heh imagine people getting win95 and eventually ramping it up so it was better than winxp (sure it's unlikely, but it's possible)
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc. Don't allow anyone to distibute their own versions, but let people look and submit bug fixes etc. It would not be a huge step, but i'd be a step in gaining people's trust
*heh* cute
unfortunatly i'm not a linux user... i just used to MUD alot and have bad eyes (completly unrelated i assure you)
and i'd like to add to this with the statement of reduce eye candy... personally the most eye candy i can stand are image swap gifs with mouse overs... and only to be able to let you see navigational buttons easier...
flash, etal. has just gotten out of hand... eye candy is cool the first 3 times you see it.. after that it's just a waste of bandwidth.
i would have to agree with you there.. i find a balck background with grey/siler text much less of an eye strain
I wonder if these legal types are ever going to actually blame this on the actual people who are sharing ...
i think the problem with going after individual people who are sharing files is a twofold:
on one hand there are just plain too many of them and going after a few wont make a big difference, unless they turn it into a huge publicity issue and try to ruin said scapegoat's life
which brings us to the second issue... you end up turning said person into a martyr and get alot of bad publicity, from people who might otherwise be more sympathetic for your cause
either way going after small individuals is more trouble than it's worth.. they are the lesser evil
I wouldn't even call it that... for years they've been ripping off the artists... did we really expect them to suddenly become generous? Like any big coperation they will not change until they have no choice.. for now atleast they hold all the legal balls (and enough money to buy new ones). Until the Artists who create the music can own and control their own music this will never die...
the Funniest part of the whole RIAA BS is how evil they claim the downloaders are and how the riaa is protecting th eintrests of the artist... and then they turn around and start trying thing slike "work for hire"
imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
heh this guy should consider going into business... if he can get things at the right price break he might be able to make a few bucks selling geek specialty items... just put them in a nice case (and if he can demonstrate the sound live, i'd consider buying a pair...
personally, i never cared for real player either... but shortly after i tried wmp7 i promotly got rid of it for the same reasons i got rid of real player... i've been using wmp6.4 since...
the enemy of my enemy is just as bad as my enemy
so now we have two irritating bloated programs that are trying to take over the media sphere...now that is intresting... but based on the performance of the nForce (where the memeory bandwidth is twice the fsb, but performance wasn't increased that much) how much better do you think the grand champion is going to be unless they pump up the fsb again...
the new p4 is going to be 133x4=600
dual ddr, assuming it's 333, would be 166x2x2=666
assuming each channel is the same width (i can't remember right now) would that extra 66mhz.x64bit make that much of a difference? might be intresting for overclocking though... according to Ace's the NForce has really good overcloackability. i wonder if it's cause of the eaxtra memory bandwidth headroom...
on what systems you are working with? if you want a performance p4 system then obviously you use rambus... and if you want an amd system you use ddr(since there is no rambus/athlon chipset)
and until there is a rambus/athlon chipset i don't really think we can gague the real world implication of it...
either way i have better things to do with a few $100 than put it into a more expensive chipset/cpu/memory rig. if you have the extra money and the rambus system gives you what you want, then more power to you. overall, right now, you can't say either system is "the best" in ever possible catagory
i partially agree with you, but i would say that most people who did not respond, either are ignorant of the case in general or don't care enough about it to make a post (apathy runs strong in this day)
on the overall whole, i think, the judge should look at the arguments involved as to WHY, rather than just the stastitical value of the numbers when she forms her opinions time to pull out the BS-Meter
it's kind of like that line in "Fight Club," where he explains that his company doesn't do safety recals unless the cost of the recal would be cheaper than the cost of the law suits when x amount of people die, because of faulty manufacture...
yes i know it's wishful thinking but as long as those coperations know that we will hound them to the end of their days, they might actually conceede some of their profits for quality... even if just for some good publicitythe odds were like 2-1 when you filtered out the ones that actually mentioned stuff about the case. although i'd be intrested in seeing the one rumoured porn post...
the simple fact that the judge wanted any letters that didn't have good detail and arguments about the case or appeared to be form letters should eliminate alot of the astroturfing... of course this just leaves "expert opinion" type letters left (which have their own biases)
a vocal minority "seeming" like a majority
isn't the already the case??
i don't think ashcroft would count /. as a terrorist entity until it took out a web site that he cared about.. i mean we are /.ing sites talking about evolution in this case... he might even like the idea...
even at my job i see a greater decreating confidence in microsoft amonst the technically inclined. there seems to be two camps.
- those that use ms product implicitly (even though many of them have countless problems). this camp graduated from the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" school.
- those who preffer to use non-ms products when ever possible. this is a slow, but apparently growing minority
atleast where i work that's the two camps...a friend of mine once said, "trust is a funny thing. you never really know if you can trust someone, till you find out you can't."
microsoft, right now, is in that stage. people have just started discovering that they can't trust microsoft. wheather they can or not is not the issue, but the perception of trust is ruined. it will take a long period of dilligence and commitment to prove themselves worthy of trust again. on the other hand, i kind of wish many other companies would make an honest attempt to regain our trust
i figure if the patent office smoked enough crack to grant bt that patent, and that other music distrobution patent, then this guy might be able to convince them that his work is prior art.
the biggest problem with these patents, is that someone comes up with a REALLY broad idea that no one else has decided is worth patenting and then, years later, when someone inadvertantly uses that patent to create something ubiquitous, they start claiming all rights to it
on the plus side: maybe the guy who wrote goodtimes, will sue microsoft for the idea of an e-mail worm that can spread automatically...
well technically the mod was "informative" not "useful" .)
well we have a planet named "pluto" why not a galaxy named "goofy?" but then again... disney might start suing...