When I saw Guitar Hero listing I thought one thing: David Letterman might have something to do with this. Seth Rogan was on the show once and they both got to talking about Guitar Hero and it turns out David Letterman plays! I know that Letterman is involved somewhat with CBS programming, so maybe he mentioned something like this to Les Moonves over dinner and now it's on TV?
Sure, it's just a theory - but don't you think that would be the source rather than the advice of some CBS intern. "If Dave likes this stuff and he's older, maybe the audience is bigger than we thought." In fact being that Guitar Hero and WoW are featured I'd bet that the whole show is geared towards us older gamers.
AHA! You see that's where you are wrong. The hibernate feature works, sure, but the system still takes a lot of time to start and even worse is rarely stable.
I tried it many times, usually it made me restart the machine, which just took more time. Don't get me wrong, I love XP and 2000 for their speed and *gasp* their stability (I've had an XP install going for just over four years... hosting webpages with Apache), but Vista just needs too much power to run. Throw in games or even a running notepad.exe and the machine is thrashing.
Simply: A brand new PC should not need a RAM upgrade when it is removed from the box. I'm usually pretty happy with Windows, but now I'm somewhat pissed.
What MS is planning to do is the same thing that all U.S. Presidents did since the declaration of The New Deal:
1. Say they are operating within the aforementioned framework 2. Work outside that framework 3. Sabotage that framework 4. Tell everyone it doesn't work ("See opensource failed!" / "Welfare creates a welfare state!") 5. ???? 6. Profit!
Politicians have been doing this for years. "Sure, we'll go with my opponents plan"; wreck that plan; say it didn't work.
That's what I don't understand: I wouldn't use an ATI card if it was given to me. After I bought a TV Wonder (laugh it up kids) I knew firsthand that ATI is crap. When you have to install four drivers for once piece of hardware you know something is wrong. Yes I understand that there are audio and video drivers, but three drivers go right to video (you need a driver for their device to device bridge... wtf!)
It's a shame that other companies offer the same exact solutions that work better and cost half as much. If it wasn't for fanboi's there would be no ATI.
1. Download an Ubuntu Live CD 2. Install Ubuntu 3..... 4. Profit!
After receiving a new laptop with Vista I found that it could take up to five minutes for the machine to be usable from a cold start. It is the first time I've used Linux for anything other than serving up web pages (or other network service) and I'm in love all over again.
Ahh... you see my corn crops are natural, doing their natural thing. If a bee takes my pollen into your field - that's nature. If a bee takes pollen from your field into mine, it's theft?
You are growing Frankensteins, keep them locked up. (Or we may just come to your house with torches)
The whole thing is dead wrong. All that enterprise crap is what keeps the platform solid and almost crash free.
Sure, some extra code may slow things down, but since Linux, Windows and even MacOS now, is all based on server kernels (linux's own, VMS/WNT for anything newer than Windows 2000, *BSD) they don't crash too much. YOU may have problems with XP or 2000, but you shouldn't be. I've had an XP install going for more than four years, Windows 2000 running for months. (If you can't do this, you should not be using it, nuff said)
Code doesn't care how many employees you have. Maybe this guy belongs at Ubuntu, where things are moving towards the 'desktop'. Just ask my new Ubuntu installation on my laptop - it's running like a desktop just fine. I just finished 5 hours of World of Warcraft on it!
Basic features for the office? You have a job in IT don't you?
When you are doing (database/data) analysis and reporting on spreadsheets you certainly don't want to use the Microsoft Works style answer to 'spreadsheeting'.
I don't feel bad because I've already paid for all of these 'illegal' codecs over and over again. I've bought numerous DVD players, computer DVD drives, video cards which decode mpeg*, a hardware WMV/AVI/DIVX/MPEG* player, an ATSC tv (mpeg again), dvd software packages (windvd, et. al.), computers with Windows (and the licenses for many of their codecs), and more.
For one PC I had to pay premiums on the video card, optical drives, motherboard and 3 pieces of software because of some 'illegal' codec that demands such a premium. Take decoding off video cards and the prices would drop. I'm not afraid because on this Ubuntu laptop I've a copy of Vista, shrunk to a 5 gig partition. Don't I keep some of those rights?
How many times do I have to pay for these same licenses? It's mainly MPEG-2, DVD which is the same, and any proprietary MPEG-4 codec (HDWMV, Divx, et. al.) I don't fear or feel bad about 'stealing' these codecs because I have paid for them a million times. I've played along, my choice of OS shouldn't stop me from continuing to take advantage of these codecs. Besides the video card is doing the lifting and NVidia has already paid that premium because it decodes most of these 'illegal' codecs natively (now a days).
You can end a war by not winning, give up. Of course to really win, and to make the other side beg you to stop, is to wage Total War. Sherman did it, J.Caesar did it, and usually the other side subjects.
Total War however is about the same as terrorism. (These drones are terrorism, dusty ICBM's are terrorism, it's all terrorism. Terrorism is just the means, don't forget.)
What about the fact that putting the software on the device and then selling it is de facto distribution of said software? I don't think it is fair that a 'free' operating system can be used by a for profit company, for free, and yet deny users control over the hardware and access to the source code.
The GPL(2) wasn't written when a lot of system on a chip devices were being made; now that routers to PVR's are running linux the issue needs to be addressed. (And a letter to Linus doesn't grant anything to the requestor - he doesn't have the copyright to all of the code.) When I heard that hardware companies were using linux I thought that it would help us all in the end - but I didn't realize that nothing was required of them (and I didn't realize that they were using the power of the linux kernel to help their DRM schemes (and I'm not a big anti-drm zealot)).
"If you want overtime, install all of the updates as they drop; turn on Automatic Updates; you pay check will get huge!"
Of course his point wasn't that all patches are evil, his point was that patches can break things too! Don't be the first into the pool - you don't win anything for it.
The only reason any politician would ever break up Microsoft would be if they thought they could somehow capitalize on its demise, and I don't see any reason why that's possible.
But you can tell when Dell *may* shelve their existing product lines. All of the parts manufacturers start releasing statements about how chip XYZ will outperform ABC, how a new line of video cards will be released and so forth. Dell can be as quiet as they want to be, but you can predict that new products will come out because the part suppliers love the press.
I've never seen anything about an Apple supplier except Intel - and we don't know what Apple will do with new chips, chipsets and sockets until they've done it.
I must add that NBC/Universal is pretty close and chummy with Microsoft - maybe that has something to do with it. Universal isn't doing this to boost Zune sales, they are doing it to keep their long time business partner Microsoft happy. (i.e.: Meet the Press, an NBC show, has its website hosted at: mtp.msnbc.com)
I'm not saying this is actually the case, just an idea to float out there.
NBC/Universal is huge, Microsoft is huge, together they are a perfect couple. One owns the content, the other is trying to sell devices to play that content (why doesn't Universal just get into the player market?). These two have looked like they may team up and take on Google, Apple, and all comers (NBC/MS vs. YouTube et. al.).
Then again, what about all those product placements that NBC did to push iPod sales? If you watched The Office or Conan when they started selling content on iTMS then you know what I mean. Did the Apple Inc check bounce?
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When I saw Guitar Hero listing I thought one thing: David Letterman might have something to do with this. Seth Rogan was on the show once and they both got to talking about Guitar Hero and it turns out David Letterman plays! I know that Letterman is involved somewhat with CBS programming, so maybe he mentioned something like this to Les Moonves over dinner and now it's on TV?
Sure, it's just a theory - but don't you think that would be the source rather than the advice of some CBS intern. "If Dave likes this stuff and he's older, maybe the audience is bigger than we thought." In fact being that Guitar Hero and WoW are featured I'd bet that the whole show is geared towards us older gamers.
The tapes had state employee SSN's on them; weren't the consultant's and the intern's on there too?
AHA! You see that's where you are wrong. The hibernate feature works, sure, but the system still takes a lot of time to start and even worse is rarely stable.
I tried it many times, usually it made me restart the machine, which just took more time. Don't get me wrong, I love XP and 2000 for their speed and *gasp* their stability (I've had an XP install going for just over four years... hosting webpages with Apache), but Vista just needs too much power to run. Throw in games or even a running notepad.exe and the machine is thrashing.
Simply: A brand new PC should not need a RAM upgrade when it is removed from the box. I'm usually pretty happy with Windows, but now I'm somewhat pissed.
What MS is planning to do is the same thing that all U.S. Presidents did since the declaration of The New Deal:
1. Say they are operating within the aforementioned framework
2. Work outside that framework
3. Sabotage that framework
4. Tell everyone it doesn't work ("See opensource failed!" / "Welfare creates a welfare state!")
5. ????
6. Profit!
Politicians have been doing this for years. "Sure, we'll go with my opponents plan"; wreck that plan; say it didn't work.
That's what I don't understand: I wouldn't use an ATI card if it was given to me. After I bought a TV Wonder (laugh it up kids) I knew firsthand that ATI is crap. When you have to install four drivers for once piece of hardware you know something is wrong. Yes I understand that there are audio and video drivers, but three drivers go right to video (you need a driver for their device to device bridge... wtf!)
It's a shame that other companies offer the same exact solutions that work better and cost half as much. If it wasn't for fanboi's there would be no ATI.
Would you mind coming to my office to explain a 'database' to the manager?
Then you can move onto normalization.
Thanks in advance.
Was it the Michael Jackson song that went: "Man in the middle"?
Don't worry you can easily remove IE7 from Vista:
....
1. Download an Ubuntu Live CD
2. Install Ubuntu
3.
4. Profit!
After receiving a new laptop with Vista I found that it could take up to five minutes for the machine to be usable from a cold start. It is the first time I've used Linux for anything other than serving up web pages (or other network service) and I'm in love all over again.
Ahh... you see my corn crops are natural, doing their natural thing. If a bee takes my pollen into your field - that's nature. If a bee takes pollen from your field into mine, it's theft?
You are growing Frankensteins, keep them locked up.
(Or we may just come to your house with torches)
The whole thing is dead wrong. All that enterprise crap is what keeps the platform solid and almost crash free.
Sure, some extra code may slow things down, but since Linux, Windows and even MacOS now, is all based on server kernels (linux's own, VMS/WNT for anything newer than Windows 2000, *BSD) they don't crash too much. YOU may have problems with XP or 2000, but you shouldn't be. I've had an XP install going for more than four years, Windows 2000 running for months. (If you can't do this, you should not be using it, nuff said)
Code doesn't care how many employees you have. Maybe this guy belongs at Ubuntu, where things are moving towards the 'desktop'. Just ask my new Ubuntu installation on my laptop - it's running like a desktop just fine. I just finished 5 hours of World of Warcraft on it!
Basic features for the office? You have a job in IT don't you?
When you are doing (database/data) analysis and reporting on spreadsheets you certainly don't want to use the Microsoft Works style answer to 'spreadsheeting'.
This might have been true if Firefox had been the only app running on a system, but it seldom is.
There are other applications? Sure at work, but at home?
You are a socialist. I hate that you get a better deal than me.
Even though we were born of your enlightenment, we hate you. Frenchy.
Besides, we don't even like the Statue of Liberty.
I don't feel bad because I've already paid for all of these 'illegal' codecs over and over again. I've bought numerous DVD players, computer DVD drives, video cards which decode mpeg*, a hardware WMV/AVI/DIVX/MPEG* player, an ATSC tv (mpeg again), dvd software packages (windvd, et. al.), computers with Windows (and the licenses for many of their codecs), and more.
For one PC I had to pay premiums on the video card, optical drives, motherboard and 3 pieces of software because of some 'illegal' codec that demands such a premium. Take decoding off video cards and the prices would drop. I'm not afraid because on this Ubuntu laptop I've a copy of Vista, shrunk to a 5 gig partition. Don't I keep some of those rights?
How many times do I have to pay for these same licenses? It's mainly MPEG-2, DVD which is the same, and any proprietary MPEG-4 codec (HDWMV, Divx, et. al.) I don't fear or feel bad about 'stealing' these codecs because I have paid for them a million times. I've played along, my choice of OS shouldn't stop me from continuing to take advantage of these codecs. Besides the video card is doing the lifting and NVidia has already paid that premium because it decodes most of these 'illegal' codecs natively (now a days).
Do I feel bad?
No.
+5 funny in this case is +5 insightful
"Did you see that awesome drone that just killed my friend? It had a quad-core processor for vision!"
Reminds me of The Onion article: Dead Iraqi Would Have Loved Democracy
The way to end war by winning it
Or just win WWI, the war to end all wars!
You can end a war by not winning, give up. Of course to really win, and to make the other side beg you to stop, is to wage Total War. Sherman did it, J.Caesar did it, and usually the other side subjects.
Total War however is about the same as terrorism. (These drones are terrorism, dusty ICBM's are terrorism, it's all terrorism. Terrorism is just the means, don't forget.)
What happens when Netcraft dies?
ahhh, the hardware clause.
What about the fact that putting the software on the device and then selling it is de facto distribution of said software? I don't think it is fair that a 'free' operating system can be used by a for profit company, for free, and yet deny users control over the hardware and access to the source code.
The GPL(2) wasn't written when a lot of system on a chip devices were being made; now that routers to PVR's are running linux the issue needs to be addressed. (And a letter to Linus doesn't grant anything to the requestor - he doesn't have the copyright to all of the code.) When I heard that hardware companies were using linux I thought that it would help us all in the end - but I didn't realize that nothing was required of them (and I didn't realize that they were using the power of the linux kernel to help their DRM schemes (and I'm not a big anti-drm zealot)).
I had a gray beard say to me once,
"If you want overtime, install all of the updates as they drop; turn on Automatic Updates; you pay check will get huge!"
Of course his point wasn't that all patches are evil, his point was that patches can break things too! Don't be the first into the pool - you don't win anything for it.
LTFA
Thanks for summarizing the summary.
The only reason any politician would ever break up Microsoft would be if they thought they could somehow capitalize on its demise, and I don't see any reason why that's possible.
Stallman for President 2008!
But you can tell when Dell *may* shelve their existing product lines. All of the parts manufacturers start releasing statements about how chip XYZ will outperform ABC, how a new line of video cards will be released and so forth. Dell can be as quiet as they want to be, but you can predict that new products will come out because the part suppliers love the press.
I've never seen anything about an Apple supplier except Intel - and we don't know what Apple will do with new chips, chipsets and sockets until they've done it.
I must add that NBC/Universal is pretty close and chummy with Microsoft - maybe that has something to do with it. Universal isn't doing this to boost Zune sales, they are doing it to keep their long time business partner Microsoft happy. (i.e.: Meet the Press, an NBC show, has its website hosted at: mtp.msnbc.com)
I'm not saying this is actually the case, just an idea to float out there.
NBC/Universal is huge, Microsoft is huge, together they are a perfect couple. One owns the content, the other is trying to sell devices to play that content (why doesn't Universal just get into the player market?). These two have looked like they may team up and take on Google, Apple, and all comers (NBC/MS vs. YouTube et. al.).
Then again, what about all those product placements that NBC did to push iPod sales? If you watched The Office or Conan when they started selling content on iTMS then you know what I mean. Did the Apple Inc check bounce?