I stream high quality video over my wireless LAN to my PowerBook all the time. As long as the buffer is set to 1 second or more I have no problems at all.
How will Microsoft recoup losses to the Zune later on? They're not going to sell CDs for $50 like xbox games.
And since when has Microsoft learned from their mistakes? For decades they've been losing money on every venture except their core business. They continue to use the same business practices that landed them in court numerous times. They continue to make insecure software. I have never once seen the company learn from a mistake because they fail to acknowledge they've made any.
Won't these changes actually be illegal in some European countries? Some countries make certain restrictions on copying illegal, or at least that's what I've read in many/. comments. Will Microsoft have to release a different version of the software in Europe?
The problem for MS is they can't stand to lose too much on the sale of each Zune. While sellling the xbox at a loss they recover (somewhat) in the sale of games. They don't have a profitable music service which will compensate for losses on the Zune. Again they'll take a huge loss to get into a new market. But with the Zune they have no way to recover costs later unless they eventually raise the price.
The bigger struggle will be for control of trade routes. Countries with the north-most land are claiming ownership of the new open water. Control of trade routes has always been a major factor in economies. Ownership of the north waters will provide a huge amount of economic and political power to a few countries.
By imposing the Windows Security Center on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at security
By imposing the Windows UI on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at UI.
By imposing the Win32 API on all Windows developers, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at development.
If you sell software to help manage Windows, Microsoft will define your business plan. Those are the consequences of dancing with the devil. Not that they should be happy with it, but you can't expect any less from Microsoft.
Actually when I was a beginner I preferred Gentoo because I got to understand many of the details going on in an OS compile and install. Now I don't want to bother with the details and just get work done, so I use easier-to-install distros. Gentoo doesn't teach the wrong way to do things, just the long and tedious way for those who care about the details.
That's pretty funny coming from someone posting to slashdot. What makes you think the people on youtube and myspace spend any more time there than you do here? They need to "get a life" and go outdoors more, but you don't?
You're assuming the phrase "maximize profit" implies "any way possible." But that's not the case. They can choose what they consider an ethical route to maximizing profit and still avoid being sued by shareholders. AFAIK no company has ever been sued by shareholders for not lobbying the government.
Um, this rice is genetically modified so it can be covered with a very strong pesticide, which is not perfectly safe for consumption. Nice job bringing 9/11 into the conversation, though.
No one knows if there's a difference between genetic modifications made by humans and those made by nature. It's possible human methods introduce side effects that nature does not. It's also possible we make a modification that would be suppressed if it happened naturally, but instead gets exaggerated because we're controlling its reproduction. We can't control natural random genetic changes, but we can control what we do.
With the method recommended in the article the system automatically assumes that a section of text which has not been modified over a series of edits to be more likely to be accurate. It's not that someone denotes a section as fact checked. But if a page has been edited many times, yet one section of it has not been modified, it assumes that unmodified section is more likely correct and colors it appropriately.
The fads around when you were 18 may no longer affect you now, but that doesn't mean they're not a factor in the lives of current 18 year olds. Advertisers and corporations don't care that you grew out of those fads. They only care that the current batch of teenagers is into it and kids will get into it when they get a little older.
MTV's not a fad. The phone isn't a fad. Hanging out at malls isn't a fad. These all became part of teen culture. The same may one day be said of myspace or other social networking sites.
I would imagine that their stock price went up because they got competent management, not because they abandoned their ethical principles. If they had gotten great management while sticking to their principles their stock price may have gone up the exact same amount. A company simply can not run effectively without good management, which is quite obvious to stockholders. Therefore you can't claim stockholders were unhappy with them simply because they tried to stick to their ethical principles. I think you'll have to come up with a better example.
Some scientists were very concerned the first atomic bomb would produce so much heat it would ignite the atmosphere and burn the entire surface of the earth. Fortunately it didn't happen. But it's good that people bring up these ideas so we challenge assumptions and try to be safe while still advancing science.
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A Mac Mini is a complete general purpose desktop computer. The PS3 is not.
I stream high quality video over my wireless LAN to my PowerBook all the time. As long as the buffer is set to 1 second or more I have no problems at all.
How will Microsoft recoup losses to the Zune later on? They're not going to sell CDs for $50 like xbox games.
And since when has Microsoft learned from their mistakes? For decades they've been losing money on every venture except their core business. They continue to use the same business practices that landed them in court numerous times. They continue to make insecure software. I have never once seen the company learn from a mistake because they fail to acknowledge they've made any.
Won't these changes actually be illegal in some European countries? Some countries make certain restrictions on copying illegal, or at least that's what I've read in many /. comments. Will Microsoft have to release a different version of the software in Europe?
The problem for MS is they can't stand to lose too much on the sale of each Zune. While sellling the xbox at a loss they recover (somewhat) in the sale of games. They don't have a profitable music service which will compensate for losses on the Zune. Again they'll take a huge loss to get into a new market. But with the Zune they have no way to recover costs later unless they eventually raise the price.
The bigger struggle will be for control of trade routes. Countries with the north-most land are claiming ownership of the new open water. Control of trade routes has always been a major factor in economies. Ownership of the north waters will provide a huge amount of economic and political power to a few countries.
Sounds like Homer's Everything's OK Alarm. "This will sound every three seconds, unless something isn't okay!"
By imposing the Windows Security Center on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at security
By imposing the Windows UI on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at UI.
By imposing the Win32 API on all Windows developers, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at development.
If you sell software to help manage Windows, Microsoft will define your business plan. Those are the consequences of dancing with the devil. Not that they should be happy with it, but you can't expect any less from Microsoft.
Actually when I was a beginner I preferred Gentoo because I got to understand many of the details going on in an OS compile and install. Now I don't want to bother with the details and just get work done, so I use easier-to-install distros. Gentoo doesn't teach the wrong way to do things, just the long and tedious way for those who care about the details.
That's pretty funny coming from someone posting to slashdot. What makes you think the people on youtube and myspace spend any more time there than you do here? They need to "get a life" and go outdoors more, but you don't?
http://www.bitlaw.com/source/cases/copyright/procd .html
Shrink-wrap licenses are not contracts.
Call them what you will but they are enforceable.
Sorry, no contract is legally binding if you're not allowed to read it before purchasing.
At least one federal court disagrees.
It may not count as "News For Nerds." But it's still "Stuff That Matters."
You're assuming the phrase "maximize profit" implies "any way possible." But that's not the case. They can choose what they consider an ethical route to maximizing profit and still avoid being sued by shareholders. AFAIK no company has ever been sued by shareholders for not lobbying the government.
I hope that we got it right in my precinct, but I know that there is no way to know for sure.
Then you didn't get it right. There can be no "hope" in voting records. Either it's right and verifiable, or the voting system is a failure.
Um, this rice is genetically modified so it can be covered with a very strong pesticide, which is not perfectly safe for consumption. Nice job bringing 9/11 into the conversation, though.
No one knows if there's a difference between genetic modifications made by humans and those made by nature. It's possible human methods introduce side effects that nature does not. It's also possible we make a modification that would be suppressed if it happened naturally, but instead gets exaggerated because we're controlling its reproduction. We can't control natural random genetic changes, but we can control what we do.
With the method recommended in the article the system automatically assumes that a section of text which has not been modified over a series of edits to be more likely to be accurate. It's not that someone denotes a section as fact checked. But if a page has been edited many times, yet one section of it has not been modified, it assumes that unmodified section is more likely correct and colors it appropriately.
The fads around when you were 18 may no longer affect you now, but that doesn't mean they're not a factor in the lives of current 18 year olds. Advertisers and corporations don't care that you grew out of those fads. They only care that the current batch of teenagers is into it and kids will get into it when they get a little older.
MTV's not a fad. The phone isn't a fad. Hanging out at malls isn't a fad. These all became part of teen culture. The same may one day be said of myspace or other social networking sites.
I would imagine that their stock price went up because they got competent management, not because they abandoned their ethical principles. If they had gotten great management while sticking to their principles their stock price may have gone up the exact same amount. A company simply can not run effectively without good management, which is quite obvious to stockholders. Therefore you can't claim stockholders were unhappy with them simply because they tried to stick to their ethical principles. I think you'll have to come up with a better example.
Some scientists were very concerned the first atomic bomb would produce so much heat it would ignite the atmosphere and burn the entire surface of the earth. Fortunately it didn't happen. But it's good that people bring up these ideas so we challenge assumptions and try to be safe while still advancing science.
That would stink.
(Sorry.)
That's about right. I think they also want you to buy a more comfortable office chair.