Microsoft's whole philosophy and marketing is that "it's easy to do" and tha "anybody can do it".
Applying patches isn't always easy- sometimes you've got to do it often.
System security isn't easy- ever.
Microsoft encourages the thinking and then people just do it because "Microsoft says it's secure" or "Microsoft says it's stable" and so forth.
I blame them not because they're big- I blame them because they fostered this BS in the first place!
Ah, but it DOES have a dollar sign in front of it.
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Customer loyalty is obtained in one of several ways- of which "customer satisfaction" is one of those things.
Piss off too many customers and they tell their friends, etc. There's a bitter harvest Sierra's going to harvest at some point and Vivendi's going to pull the plug on the whole division at some point. Of course, it's nothing but business, right?
It could be because there's other, better ways of dealing with those problems that doesn't translate into slower MTUs and non always-on connection (If they run PPPoE, do you honestly believe they're leaving the link up with that assigned IP?).
DHCP works fine and in the context of what you're describing, anyone could set up their routers and DHCP system with minimal effort to achieve the same task and have to expend only as much effort as you would with the PPPoE solution (most likely less, if you think about it).
Multiple PPPoE providers? On the same Ethernet? You won't see that sort of thing happening with DSL- the system's not set up that way. You're given this segment that ties into an ATM cloud that shuttles your traffic, no matter whether or not you're a bridging or a PPPoE customer, to its specified destination. There isn't an ethernet segment there except at the endpoints of the system.
They shipped a copy of TurboLinux with my DSL firewall/router. Not only that, but I didn't seem to have any issues with either Konqueror, Netscape, or Mozilla.
Realize that customer support comprises some companies hiring clueful people and other companies farming it out to "support" companies that run by a script. Step outside the script, and blooey- you're not supported.
For most situations, you don't NEED 5 hot IP addresses- not to mention that PPPoE client software would be needed for those 5 hot IP addresses, which is obnoxious.
All you need to service 5 or 10,000 machines is a NAT router configured to handle the number of machines in question. They sell units over the counter, no Linux/Unix knowlege required, that allow some 200+ users to be using one single IP and they do it well- for about $100US.
PPPoE is not an always on connection. It's super-fast dialup for all intents and purposes- but they're advertising always-on. Either they need to drop the advertising saying that, or not bother with PPPoE.
Oh, and the only reason why PPPoE would be used is if someone were stupid and used their entire pool of fully routable IP addresses instead of NAT allocating everything they sell to the average customer under the class A and class B address blocks via DHCP or fixed allocation.
That's the stuff that lets any of those "50 programming langs on Linux" run under Windows and produce Windows code- even GUI stuff, if you use Fltk, GTK+, or Qt.
Next time, try doing a little research BEFORE posting.
It's pretty much as good or better than most of the stuff on CD players. And this comes from monty of OGG Vorbis fame... I'd say he knows his stuff pretty well when it comes to audio approximation, etc.
Irrelavent- the frog plain flat won't do a damn thing if you do the analogy. While it's an old analogy, it fits- if you think about it.
Oh, and by the way, Kansas might be dusty these days- but the central tenet of that song still fits.
When your time comes, all the money in the world will not another second buy for you. When time weathers away things, they will, at best, guess what you did if you DO manage to make a mark on things.
They're selling piece parts from outfits like Acer, Quanta, etc.
Find a vendor that's using similar/identical motherboards, etc.- but then, that's the rub, ain't it? Strictly speaking, there's nothing magic about Dell, Compaq, etc. for laptops- they're just known for "better" support (As we know from the "Customer Support HOWNOTTO", that's almost an outright lie- at least unless you're an enterprise level customer...).
Pick the best priced laptop, with the best overall construction, and the best overall feature design- there's comparable units out there and they don't have to have the exact innards of the Dell models.
When you went to their web site, trying to order a Linux machine, you'd find that the older models, not the newest ones, had Linux offered. Worse, they'd offer things like NVidia cards for display adapters for these machines and Matrox G400's for the NT/W98 machines. Matrox had better 2D and working 3D support at the time that those machines were shipping out.
I don't really think they put any serious effort into this as they claimed (and Michael Dell wanted)- for whatever reason.
The commingling was deemed to be in violation of the law. If the injunction is awarded, they can't ship XP- and they willingly did the commingling, there's little reason to do so (really, there isn't...). I seriously doubt that they'll get any sympathy from the courts if an injunction's handed down that doesn't let them ship an even further violating product.
Being required to ship a functional version of Windows without IE commingled would be one.
They can't evade an injunction if the appeals court upholds it. It appears that the appeals court feels that MS is as guilty as a cat caught in a goldfish bowl and if Jackson hadn't acted the way he did and didn't hand down such an extreme remedy we'd be seeing them uphold all of the decision.
If they attempt to ship Windows with any injunctions against that act in place, the parties that did the act (from the decision makers all the way to the people carrying out the act) could face, at minimum, Contempt of Court charges, winning at least several months in Club Fed.
The act of copying requires the use of the CDDA specification for CD-Roms and CD players.
That's raw data access. I can, if I want, mix real-time, the stream from the CD with any other sound source- and by copyright law I can.
If I can't do that, it's not complying with the CDDA spec and therefore isn't a Compact Disc- it's something that is sort-of one. If it's labeled as such on the package, then the disc is fraudulent or defective- take your pick.
In order for the system to WORK, the CD player has to ignore the bad data. Older models may not do this. If you've got a fast enough machine, you're going to use the CDDA feature of your CD drive instead of the analog port for peak fidelity.
In either of those cases, it's going to hit a piece of equipment with an original disc.
Don't buy off on a fobbed off statement to the public about it won't harm things- think it through.
Depends on the gear- not all consumer units are good about reading discs as others. You could have a person with an earlier model unit or perhaps they're running it on a PC and using the CDDA data to mix it locally with other sound sources instead of using the analog out of the CD drive (Which IS legit!)- in either of those cases, the equipment COULD be damaged by the original disk.
In this case, Sony would be liable since they're selling non-compliant discs that can damage equipment.
Joe Sixpack & Co. might twig onto what they're doing and put a stop to it by the ways we're proposing people do about all this BS.
"What? You mean I didn't buy this album? I just paid good money for it- I'm taking it back to the store... What? I can't take it back? F that noise- I'm not buying another one."
They want the change subtle so that people won't notice- like cooking a live frog, turning up the heat slowly, he'll cook, not noticing his peril.
The license has to be with whatever installation of MS' product goes out. What they COULD do, however, is pre-package the system installer images with the machines going to Windows customers and let the system installer CD do the install work for them- no fuss, no muss.
But that would be a problem with the deals they made with MS, now wouldn't it?
If Microsoft's stuff is as easy as they claim it is, you can offer installation services a' la Dell Plus for an extra charge. You could also offer install packs that blast the image out (Hell, if you're working with an OEM, you're already doing that!) on demand and in 15-20 minutes they're ready to rock- no matter which OS they want.
Saying that it'd kill the sales is disingenious- there's ways of carrying through with the suggestion that users and OEMs can not only live with, but would find workable just the same.
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Quake, CrystalSpace, WorldForge, WorldFactory, and Nevrax just to name a couple off the top of my head.
All of this is important (Not all developers can design commercial game quality sound tracks or textures...) so all endeavors are welcome.
Microsoft's whole philosophy and marketing is that "it's easy to do" and tha "anybody can do it".
Applying patches isn't always easy- sometimes you've got to do it often.
System security isn't easy- ever.
Microsoft encourages the thinking and then people just do it because "Microsoft says it's secure" or "Microsoft says it's stable" and so forth.
I blame them not because they're big- I blame them because they fostered this BS in the first place!
Customer loyalty is obtained in one of several ways- of which "customer satisfaction" is one of those things.
Piss off too many customers and they tell their friends, etc. There's a bitter harvest Sierra's going to harvest at some point and Vivendi's going to pull the plug on the whole division at some point. Of course, it's nothing but business, right?
It appears that it was an AC that posted it- they START at zero.
It was never modded to begin with.
It could be because there's other, better ways of dealing with those problems that doesn't translate into slower MTUs and non always-on connection (If they run PPPoE, do you honestly believe they're leaving the link up with that assigned IP?).
DHCP works fine and in the context of what you're describing, anyone could set up their routers and DHCP system with minimal effort to achieve the same task and have to expend only as much effort as you would with the PPPoE solution (most likely less, if you think about it).
Multiple PPPoE providers? On the same Ethernet? You won't see that sort of thing happening with DSL- the system's not set up that way. You're given this segment that ties into an ATM cloud that shuttles your traffic, no matter whether or not you're a bridging or a PPPoE customer, to its specified destination. There isn't an ethernet segment there except at the endpoints of the system.
They shipped a copy of TurboLinux with my DSL firewall/router. Not only that, but I didn't seem to have any issues with either Konqueror, Netscape, or Mozilla.
Realize that customer support comprises some companies hiring clueful people and other companies farming it out to "support" companies that run by a script. Step outside the script, and blooey- you're not supported.
It's WHY I rarely if ever call customer support.
For most situations, you don't NEED 5 hot IP addresses- not to mention that PPPoE client software would be needed for those 5 hot IP addresses, which is obnoxious.
All you need to service 5 or 10,000 machines is a NAT router configured to handle the number of machines in question. They sell units over the counter, no Linux/Unix knowlege required, that allow some 200+ users to be using one single IP and they do it well- for about $100US.
PPPoE is not an always on connection. It's super-fast dialup for all intents and purposes- but they're advertising always-on. Either they need to drop the advertising saying that, or not bother with PPPoE.
Oh, and the only reason why PPPoE would be used is if someone were stupid and used their entire pool of fully routable IP addresses instead of NAT allocating everything they sell to the average customer under the class A and class B address blocks via DHCP or fixed allocation.
It would work, but packet, as it currently is, isn't as useful as the unregulated 802.11 stuff in the microwave bands...
Ever heard of Cygwin or MINGW?
That's the stuff that lets any of those "50 programming langs on Linux" run under Windows and produce Windows code- even GUI stuff, if you use Fltk, GTK+, or Qt.
Next time, try doing a little research BEFORE posting.
Are you sure you're not the same?
- People hiding behind anonyminity just to make personal jabs suck...
It's pretty much as good or better than most of the stuff on CD players. And this comes from monty of OGG Vorbis fame... I'd say he knows his stuff pretty well when it comes to audio approximation, etc.
Irrelavent- the frog plain flat won't do a damn thing if you do the analogy. While it's an old analogy, it fits- if you think about it.
Oh, and by the way, Kansas might be dusty these days- but the central tenet of that song still fits.
When your time comes, all the money in the world will not another second buy for you. When time weathers away things, they will, at best, guess what you did if you DO manage to make a mark on things.
They're selling piece parts from outfits like Acer, Quanta, etc.
Find a vendor that's using similar/identical motherboards, etc.- but then, that's the rub, ain't it? Strictly speaking, there's nothing magic about Dell, Compaq, etc. for laptops- they're just known for "better" support (As we know from the "Customer Support HOWNOTTO", that's almost an outright lie- at least unless you're an enterprise level customer...).
Pick the best priced laptop, with the best overall construction, and the best overall feature design- there's comparable units out there and they don't have to have the exact innards of the Dell models.
When you went to their web site, trying to order a Linux machine, you'd find that the older models, not the newest ones, had Linux offered. Worse, they'd offer things like NVidia cards for display adapters for these machines and Matrox G400's for the NT/W98 machines. Matrox had better 2D and working 3D support at the time that those machines were shipping out.
I don't really think they put any serious effort into this as they claimed (and Michael Dell wanted)- for whatever reason.
The commingling was deemed to be in violation of the law. If the injunction is awarded, they can't ship XP- and they willingly did the commingling, there's little reason to do so (really, there isn't...). I seriously doubt that they'll get any sympathy from the courts if an injunction's handed down that doesn't let them ship an even further violating product.
Being required to ship a functional version of Windows without IE commingled would be one.
They can't evade an injunction if the appeals court upholds it. It appears that the appeals court feels that MS is as guilty as a cat caught in a goldfish bowl and if Jackson hadn't acted the way he did and didn't hand down such an extreme remedy we'd be seeing them uphold all of the decision.
If they attempt to ship Windows with any injunctions against that act in place, the parties that did the act (from the decision makers all the way to the people carrying out the act) could face, at minimum, Contempt of Court charges, winning at least several months in Club Fed.
The act of copying requires the use of the CDDA specification for CD-Roms and CD players.
That's raw data access. I can, if I want, mix real-time, the stream from the CD with any other sound source- and by copyright law I can.
If I can't do that, it's not complying with the CDDA spec and therefore isn't a Compact Disc- it's something that is sort-of one. If it's labeled as such on the package, then the disc is fraudulent or defective- take your pick.
In order for the system to WORK, the CD player has to ignore the bad data. Older models may not do this. If you've got a fast enough machine, you're going to use the CDDA feature of your CD drive instead of the analog port for peak fidelity.
In either of those cases, it's going to hit a piece of equipment with an original disc.
Don't buy off on a fobbed off statement to the public about it won't harm things- think it through.
Depends on the gear- not all consumer units are good about reading discs as others. You could have a person with an earlier model unit or perhaps they're running it on a PC and using the CDDA data to mix it locally with other sound sources instead of using the analog out of the CD drive (Which IS legit!)- in either of those cases, the equipment COULD be damaged by the original disk.
In this case, Sony would be liable since they're selling non-compliant discs that can damage equipment.
Joe Sixpack & Co. might twig onto what they're doing and put a stop to it by the ways we're proposing people do about all this BS.
"What? You mean I didn't buy this album? I just paid good money for it- I'm taking it back to the store... What? I can't take it back? F that noise- I'm not buying another one."
They want the change subtle so that people won't notice- like cooking a live frog, turning up the heat slowly, he'll cook, not noticing his peril.
Riiight. You're just used to coding for Windows- it's easier for you because you're inured in that style of coding.
SGI released the reference implementation under a MPL variant type license back last year. Right along with the GLX implementation.
It's Open Source.
The license has to be with whatever installation of MS' product goes out. What they COULD do, however, is pre-package the system installer images with the machines going to Windows customers and let the system installer CD do the install work for them- no fuss, no muss.
But that would be a problem with the deals they made with MS, now wouldn't it?
If Microsoft's stuff is as easy as they claim it is, you can offer installation services a' la Dell Plus for an extra charge. You could also offer install packs that blast the image out (Hell, if you're working with an OEM, you're already doing that!) on demand and in 15-20 minutes they're ready to rock- no matter which OS they want.
Saying that it'd kill the sales is disingenious- there's ways of carrying through with the suggestion that users and OEMs can not only live with, but would find workable just the same.