He also noted that under the program, government workers could be paid up to $200 a day while working for private companies.
UP TO?!? Hmm, guess they're just talking about Windows admins, maybe? Setting the ceiling at $52k won't get you the cream of the crop, even in this market.
I am using the latest 6037 drivers with MMC 7.6, which is the MMC which comes with the Radeon 8500.
Same exact config here, although it's a P3 running on an Intel 815 motherboard, and no workie. No other cards in the system other than the ATI and the 3DFX, and ATI locks up within 10 minutes of watching video. Nothing else on the planet makes this box crash, but bring up MMC 7.6, and bam, it's out like a light.
I was just telling a customer that I didn't know of any easy way (read: my grandma can do it way) to turn his PC into a TiVo-like device. Looks like this might be it -- shall have to do some more research when I get to work.
Let me save you some time - the only way this thing is like Tivo is that it can pause live TV, and it can record to a hard drive. It can't recommend shows you would like, it can't automatically record your favorite shows no matter when they air (like History Channel or TLC specials that change times on a weekly basis), and it can't view TV schedules more than 1 week out. I've had the AIW Radeon for about six months now, and I still want a Tivo.
and it's not with the hardware but the software that gives you the TiVo like operation...
Well, my first problem is that this thing just isn't like Tivo. Tivo will automatically record your favorite shows no matter what the schedule is, which is great when you like stuff on TLC or History Channel that seems to air at random times.
Furthermore, Tivo is smart enough to record things it thinks you will like. This software is dumb as a rock - if I don't tell it to record something, it won't.
Even worse, the Gemstar Guide Plus software will only let you download 7 days of listings - you can't see further than 7 days out. That blows - I don't want to sit down every week and plan my next week of viewing, I want to do it maybe once a month. When I go on vacation, I can only record shows in the next 7 days - heaven help you if you're gone more than 7 days.
Last, and worst, it doesn't REALLY work with dual displays. If you have two video cards in your system, and the second one isn't ATI, the program won't launch. You have to disable the second desktop in order to watch TV. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous.
He proposes implanting time codes into all open source networking and security software that cause it to "expire" like a Blade Runner replicant when it reaches a certain age, forcing an update."
Remember the bug where Windows 98 would automatically halt after 49 days? See, Microsoft really IS ahead of the security curve!
If they can't put it out the door without bunding parts of IE and Media Player or whatever, then just don't put them on the program menus, don't put them on the desktop, and don't make them the default file handlers. What's so hard about that?
It's a piece of cake compromise, and I sincerely doubt it's anybody's goal here to remove every bit of IE's code from Windows. If MS wants to use the IE code to display the user's desktop, or to show files in Windows Explorer, fine. Correct me if I'm wrong (always a given on Slashdot, people will even correct you if you're right) but I think the goal of the suit is to stop the anticompetitive measures, not remove certain lines of source code. Just start with the Start Menu, and go from there.
"I believe that if you supported the desktop side more and there were more Linux desktop users, you'd sell more servers," he said.
This is exactly how Windows invaded the enterprise: it was easy for businesses to buy into Windows servers simply because they looked & felt just like the desktop OS. Newbie network admins loved Windows over Netware because they could quickly transfer their knowledge into the server room.
Fast forward to today, and Linux is trying to invade from the other side. Suddenly, this guy makes me realize that it's just as if we were trying to get Novell to the desktop - it wouldn't have worked either, even if Novell had a desktop OS.
Funnily enough, the last time I checked with my IS guys, I could put together two complete no-brand systems for what they pay for a full Dell system + support.
You forgot about the killer hidden cost: labor. I don't disagree that it'd be much cheaper in materials for us all to build our own boxen (but not laptops, mind you). Factor in just $60/hr for salary, benefits, and support costs for an in-house box-builder. I can build a standardized box in less than an hour, but then there's the OS install, service packs, and device drivers - there goes another two hours. Toss in the app installations, and there goes half a day, and more than $300 in labor - and we haven't even discussed burn-in testing.
Or, I can just pick up the phone and get my customized install done by Dell, drop-installed to anybody's office. Zero labor costs.
So wait, why shouldn't we just use whatever web browser we prefer to view the OWA page?
Because most of OWA's cool features, like inline formatting, spell checking, and drag & drop only work with IE6 and above (or could be IE5.5, can't remember for certain).
When I have a problem with a Dell box, I get a replacement the same day (or next, depending on how much cash flow we had when we purchased it) without excuses or hoofing it over to a local vendor. Could I save some money by hooking up with an importer who brought the same laptops over sans nameplate? Sure, but as many import shops as I've seen go under in the last few years, I'd be a complete idiot.
There's a big catch: it only works with Exchange 2000 servers, not 5.5, and it requires that the OWA (Outlook via Web) is installed on the Exchange server. Wish my employer wasn't still on 5.5, then it'd be a lot more exciting.
That's a matter of opinion. Remember, this requires new hard drives - something that doesn't exactly happen every day in big business. You're talking new hard drive duplicators, external hard drive enclosures, etc. This is like saying fibre channel hard drives are available today - well, sure they are, but they aren't getting big play in your typical home or business.
Reminds me of my favorite arcade game. Trackballs were really the only game controllers that you could seriously bang on, vent your frustration with, and not feel like you were damaging the controller or yourself. You could spin that bad boy like nobody's business. Joysticks fought back, but trackballs went with the flow.
will we see companies like Macromedia (who also promised native OS X support) hurry along to follow suit?"
I bet you'll see a press release from Macromedia soon, but that'll be it for a while. They're behind schedule releasing Dreamweaver 5 and Ultradev 5, which is rumored to support dot-Net, and they've gotten to the point where they're just putting out open-ended Microsoft-style vaporware press releases instead.
Not to disrespect Mac folks, but I bet the profit involved in putting out Ultradev 5 with dot-Net authoring will result in a lot more sales than Dreamweaver in native OSX, but of course, that's just my betting. Then again, maybe this is the reason DW/UD5 is so behind schedule - maybe they're trying to release everything at once, including native OSX support and dot-Net authoring. I'm getting to the point where I wouldn't accept anything less when this thing finally comes out.
I dunno if it was in place when you were a subscriber either, but there's a way to report DVDs that never arrived as well. Fortunately I haven't had to use this (yet?) so I don't know what they actually do if you report a shipping problem, but at least there's an established process.
It was in place, and here's what happens: they ask if you're absolutely sure you didn't get it, and then they ask if you'd like to get the same disc or the next thing in your queue. It would seem at first glance like they'd just let it go, but if you dig deep enough in the member services pages, they show all of the discs you've ever reported as lost. They do indeed track it, they just don't even suggest that it's being held against you. If they would have shown it that way, and stated how much they were going to charge upon cancellation, I would have cancelled after the first lost disc.
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He ought to ride off into the sunset while he still has his dignity and pride, and acknowledge that while he had a great ride, the reality of the world has finally overtaken him.
Psst - hey Jon - I think right here is where I say something about the pot calling the kettle black.
Uh, since you bought the DVD's I'd say it sounds an awful lot like you owned them; which means if the mailman was stealing, you should be able to get the police to return your stolen property, or sue the boy for the price of what he stole.
In theory, yeah - if I could only get Netflix to send me a receipt for my purchase. They simply charged my card, and they refused to put anything in writing as to why they charged my card. (I should have mentioned that in the original post!)
I was a user for about a year, and I kept having problems with them losing movies. They would say they'd shipped the DVD, but it never arrived. After four of these, I got frustrated and cancelled.
The day I cancelled, I got a charge on my credit card for the full retail price of all four DVD's! Their service agreement hadn't said anything about this, and the "lost-dvd" page didn't say anything about it either. I called and called them, e-mailed, tried everything I could, but they wouldn't listen. I even offered to buy them the DVD's at my local Blockbuster (at less than 1/4 of the price they charged my card) but no luck.
Later, we found out that our mailman had been stealing things from everybody's mailboxes at our apartment complex. There still wasn't anything I could do about it, though.
Does anyone here know why Intel named this processor with such a strange name ? Everybody associates Itanium with Italy - a country with Mafia
Uhh, no, try titanium, a material known for its phenomenal strength. Lop off the first letter, and you have a word that calls to mind the Internet, Intel, and titanium. Pretty slick name, if you ask me.
The sad thing is that titanium has gotten to the gimmick level lately. They use it in everything from sunglasses to golf balls to notebook cases, and it usually isn't even the right material for the job. It's just used for the "coolness" factor....
This is the perfect application for Ellison's national ID card. With one swipe, your age would be verified, your bar tab put on your credit card, your friends would be notified, and the government would know if you were hanging out at the same watering hole as known terrorists.
Why is it that when Ellison pushes stuff like this, everybody screams invasion of privacy, but when a German bar owner does it, the rabid/. paranoia doesn't show up?
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Don't be surprised in a month when suddenly people start missing a lot less often in multiplayer mode.
He also noted that under the program, government workers could be paid up to $200 a day while working for private companies.
UP TO?!? Hmm, guess they're just talking about Windows admins, maybe? Setting the ceiling at $52k won't get you the cream of the crop, even in this market.
I am using the latest 6037 drivers with MMC 7.6, which is the MMC which comes with the Radeon 8500.
Same exact config here, although it's a P3 running on an Intel 815 motherboard, and no workie. No other cards in the system other than the ATI and the 3DFX, and ATI locks up within 10 minutes of watching video. Nothing else on the planet makes this box crash, but bring up MMC 7.6, and bam, it's out like a light.
I was just telling a customer that I didn't know of any easy way (read: my grandma can do it way) to turn his PC into a TiVo-like device. Looks like this might be it -- shall have to do some more research when I get to work.
Let me save you some time - the only way this thing is like Tivo is that it can pause live TV, and it can record to a hard drive. It can't recommend shows you would like, it can't automatically record your favorite shows no matter when they air (like History Channel or TLC specials that change times on a weekly basis), and it can't view TV schedules more than 1 week out. I've had the AIW Radeon for about six months now, and I still want a Tivo.
and it's not with the hardware but the software that gives you the TiVo like operation...
Well, my first problem is that this thing just isn't like Tivo. Tivo will automatically record your favorite shows no matter what the schedule is, which is great when you like stuff on TLC or History Channel that seems to air at random times.
Furthermore, Tivo is smart enough to record things it thinks you will like. This software is dumb as a rock - if I don't tell it to record something, it won't.
Even worse, the Gemstar Guide Plus software will only let you download 7 days of listings - you can't see further than 7 days out. That blows - I don't want to sit down every week and plan my next week of viewing, I want to do it maybe once a month. When I go on vacation, I can only record shows in the next 7 days - heaven help you if you're gone more than 7 days.
Last, and worst, it doesn't REALLY work with dual displays. If you have two video cards in your system, and the second one isn't ATI, the program won't launch. You have to disable the second desktop in order to watch TV. I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous.
He proposes implanting time codes into all open source networking and security software that cause it to "expire" like a Blade Runner replicant when it reaches a certain age, forcing an update."
Remember the bug where Windows 98 would automatically halt after 49 days? See, Microsoft really IS ahead of the security curve!
If they can't put it out the door without bunding parts of IE and Media Player or whatever, then just don't put them on the program menus, don't put them on the desktop, and don't make them the default file handlers. What's so hard about that?
It's a piece of cake compromise, and I sincerely doubt it's anybody's goal here to remove every bit of IE's code from Windows. If MS wants to use the IE code to display the user's desktop, or to show files in Windows Explorer, fine. Correct me if I'm wrong (always a given on Slashdot, people will even correct you if you're right) but I think the goal of the suit is to stop the anticompetitive measures, not remove certain lines of source code. Just start with the Start Menu, and go from there.
"I believe that if you supported the desktop side more and there were more Linux desktop users, you'd sell more servers," he said.
This is exactly how Windows invaded the enterprise: it was easy for businesses to buy into Windows servers simply because they looked & felt just like the desktop OS. Newbie network admins loved Windows over Netware because they could quickly transfer their knowledge into the server room.
Fast forward to today, and Linux is trying to invade from the other side. Suddenly, this guy makes me realize that it's just as if we were trying to get Novell to the desktop - it wouldn't have worked either, even if Novell had a desktop OS.
Funnily enough, the last time I checked with my IS guys, I could put together two complete no-brand systems for what they pay for a full Dell system + support.
You forgot about the killer hidden cost: labor. I don't disagree that it'd be much cheaper in materials for us all to build our own boxen (but not laptops, mind you). Factor in just $60/hr for salary, benefits, and support costs for an in-house box-builder. I can build a standardized box in less than an hour, but then there's the OS install, service packs, and device drivers - there goes another two hours. Toss in the app installations, and there goes half a day, and more than $300 in labor - and we haven't even discussed burn-in testing.
Or, I can just pick up the phone and get my customized install done by Dell, drop-installed to anybody's office. Zero labor costs.
So wait, why shouldn't we just use whatever web browser we prefer to view the OWA page?
Because most of OWA's cool features, like inline formatting, spell checking, and drag & drop only work with IE6 and above (or could be IE5.5, can't remember for certain).
When I have a problem with a Dell box, I get a replacement the same day (or next, depending on how much cash flow we had when we purchased it) without excuses or hoofing it over to a local vendor. Could I save some money by hooking up with an importer who brought the same laptops over sans nameplate? Sure, but as many import shops as I've seen go under in the last few years, I'd be a complete idiot.
There's a big catch: it only works with Exchange 2000 servers, not 5.5, and it requires that the OWA (Outlook via Web) is installed on the Exchange server. Wish my employer wasn't still on 5.5, then it'd be a lot more exciting.
That's a matter of opinion. Remember, this requires new hard drives - something that doesn't exactly happen every day in big business. You're talking new hard drive duplicators, external hard drive enclosures, etc. This is like saying fibre channel hard drives are available today - well, sure they are, but they aren't getting big play in your typical home or business.
Reminds me of my favorite arcade game. Trackballs were really the only game controllers that you could seriously bang on, vent your frustration with, and not feel like you were damaging the controller or yourself. You could spin that bad boy like nobody's business. Joysticks fought back, but trackballs went with the flow.
Great, now my phone is gonna be so tiny I can put it on my keychain!
What's so bad about that? And come to think of it, a keychain might make a decent antenna if you could wrap the wire right...
will we see companies like Macromedia (who also promised native OS X support) hurry along to follow suit?"
I bet you'll see a press release from Macromedia soon, but that'll be it for a while. They're behind schedule releasing Dreamweaver 5 and Ultradev 5, which is rumored to support dot-Net, and they've gotten to the point where they're just putting out open-ended Microsoft-style vaporware press releases instead.
Not to disrespect Mac folks, but I bet the profit involved in putting out Ultradev 5 with dot-Net authoring will result in a lot more sales than Dreamweaver in native OSX, but of course, that's just my betting. Then again, maybe this is the reason DW/UD5 is so behind schedule - maybe they're trying to release everything at once, including native OSX support and dot-Net authoring. I'm getting to the point where I wouldn't accept anything less when this thing finally comes out.
They're trying to build a version to fly at Kitty Hawk for the centennial celebration of the original flight, December 17th 1903.
I dunno if it was in place when you were a subscriber either, but there's a way to report DVDs that never arrived as well. Fortunately I haven't had to use this (yet?) so I don't know what they actually do if you report a shipping problem, but at least there's an established process.
It was in place, and here's what happens: they ask if you're absolutely sure you didn't get it, and then they ask if you'd like to get the same disc or the next thing in your queue. It would seem at first glance like they'd just let it go, but if you dig deep enough in the member services pages, they show all of the discs you've ever reported as lost. They do indeed track it, they just don't even suggest that it's being held against you. If they would have shown it that way, and stated how much they were going to charge upon cancellation, I would have cancelled after the first lost disc.
He ought to ride off into the sunset while he still has his dignity and pride, and acknowledge that while he had a great ride, the reality of the world has finally overtaken him.
Psst - hey Jon - I think right here is where I say something about the pot calling the kettle black.
Have you written your credit card company to challenge the charge?
Ayup. Still waiting.
Uh, since you bought the DVD's I'd say it sounds an awful lot like you owned them; which means if the mailman was stealing, you should be able to get the police to return your stolen property, or sue the boy for the price of what he stole.
In theory, yeah - if I could only get Netflix to send me a receipt for my purchase. They simply charged my card, and they refused to put anything in writing as to why they charged my card. (I should have mentioned that in the original post!)
I was a user for about a year, and I kept having problems with them losing movies. They would say they'd shipped the DVD, but it never arrived. After four of these, I got frustrated and cancelled.
The day I cancelled, I got a charge on my credit card for the full retail price of all four DVD's! Their service agreement hadn't said anything about this, and the "lost-dvd" page didn't say anything about it either. I called and called them, e-mailed, tried everything I could, but they wouldn't listen. I even offered to buy them the DVD's at my local Blockbuster (at less than 1/4 of the price they charged my card) but no luck.
Later, we found out that our mailman had been stealing things from everybody's mailboxes at our apartment complex. There still wasn't anything I could do about it, though.
Does anyone here know why Intel named this processor with such a strange name ? Everybody associates Itanium with Italy - a country with Mafia
Uhh, no, try titanium, a material known for its phenomenal strength. Lop off the first letter, and you have a word that calls to mind the Internet, Intel, and titanium. Pretty slick name, if you ask me.
The sad thing is that titanium has gotten to the gimmick level lately. They use it in everything from sunglasses to golf balls to notebook cases, and it usually isn't even the right material for the job. It's just used for the "coolness" factor....
This is the perfect application for Ellison's national ID card. With one swipe, your age would be verified, your bar tab put on your credit card, your friends would be notified, and the government would know if you were hanging out at the same watering hole as known terrorists.
/. paranoia doesn't show up?
Why is it that when Ellison pushes stuff like this, everybody screams invasion of privacy, but when a German bar owner does it, the rabid
I guess the idea is that you can get an e-mail to let you know that Bob is having a drink so you can stop by and chat.
Grrrreat. Just what I need, my girlfriend having the ability to get an SMS message on her phone whenever I violate my no-carb diet.