By that same logic, they should be taxing everything else that comes bundled with Windows. Special assesments for notepad, solitaire, random DLL's, etc.
However, Linux users don't want to know what the special assesments will be for/bin/bash and/usr/bin/passwd. We won't even mention what Emacs is gonna cost you.
Actually in many cases, that works without even having to flash the card with the appropriate mac image, even in cases where the card was never designed to work in a mac, or even has a flashable firmware.
A lot of PCI cards that do not have any firmware, work just fine on a ppc/linux setup to begin with, even when the cards do not have any support in MacOS or OSX.
I have a realtek ethernet card and a generic AMD usb card in my oldworld 603e machine already.
In addition, a lot of cards that do have firmware will work as long as you do not care about the device being available from boot. I have an older matrox card and an adaptac 2940UW in my machine.
Both work just fine as long as I don't need them until the linux kernel takes over. With proper kernel parameters, the matrox card is even my console, I just don't see anything until the kernel is booting. Ditto, I boot and load kernel from a 250MB narrow-scsi drive on the machines onboard scsi. My root partition is on an UW drive on the adaptec card.
Took a little bit of doing, but this 'grossly obsolete' machine is running just great after adding some 'somewhat obsolete' parts. With 256MB, a fast drive, and a card with decent X performance (the 10-year-old matrox)... It performs a heck of a lot better than it's 180Mhz would make you guess.
I'm sure Microsoft has some significant assets in the E.U., I'm sure these assets could be frozen and seized if there was reason to believe the fine was not going to be paid.
Whether these assets, when liquidated, are worth more or less 500,000,000 quid is another topic, but their value must still be significant.
I have several circa 1986 IBM model M's. I have been using these keyboards exclusively since I was knee-high to a cockroach.
I just toss em in the sink and clean them with hot soapy water and a scrub brush. Then I just let them sit upside down for a few days to dry out. Since I always have a few spares, every month or so I just grab a clean one off the shelf and wash the previous one.
Wash these keyboards more often then I do laundry (hey, I'm a geek)...Never had a problem. Ever. The one I'm typing on right now has probably been washed at least 20 times.
Other than this silly laptop, I use nothing but Model M's myself and can't agree with you more. However, you completely miss the parent poster's point.
There are adapters, which are very very cheap (try $10 range) that let you plug a PS/2 keyboard into a USB port and treat it like any other HID device.
Since I don't plan on using anything other than my Model M's for my desk, these adapters are a godsend since you know as well as I do that the PS/2 ports days *are* numbered. Plus being able to plug my Model M's into powermac's, etc. rocks.
the one redeeming feature that I have seen in these tablets is that most of them have screens that SWIVEL 180 degrees. Having that in a high-end (say one with a 16" screen) notebook would give me a woody. Namely, I could have a laptop, and then when I arrived at my destination, whip out a keyboard and mouse (from my *checked* baggage, tyvm), swivel the screen.... I could even see bluetooth being handy.
Hehehehehehe. We used to use a trick very similar on the Amiga way back when. "LoadWB" in your startup-sequence would actually load and display the Amiga WorkBench (similar to Finder, Explorer, whatever).
You would do your basic initialization (establish your path, your assigns, etc.) then run "LoadWB" and *then* load all your other crap.
End result....System would boot and be "useable" in a couple of seconds, even on an 8Mhz system.
civil case, otherwise known as a lawsuit being tried in a civil court. Microsoft could not have been found guilty of anything, only liable or not liable.
Civil and criminal court are very, very, very different places and the results of a victory or defeat are very different, indeed.
Remote desktop sharing, which is, for all intents and purposes, terminal services controlling the local console, is for me, quite frankly, the most significant improvement made to Windows since NT 4.
I know this is Slashdot, and about a million people will try to tell me that I could use VNC (or PCAnywhere, etc) to achieve the same result. Bullshit. VNC, PCAnywhere, etc., are wonderful for remote system administration, troubleshooting, etc, etc, but for trying to use a remote system for productive work (even over a 100Mb switched ethernet connection) they are almost worthless. The latency alone...
Before somebody tries to tell me that I could accomplish the same result with W2K server... Once again, bullshit, BTDT. It's perfectly speedy enough, but there are certain things that are vital for my work, which can only run on the local console. Full debugger capability, being a prime example (you can not debug a COM DLL, that is being called from a service or anything else running outside of your process space except on the local console or a remote control of the local console.)
Also, being Slashdot, you are all thinking.... "Gee, X has been able to do that forever." Yes, and I love it. I use the Cygwin version of XFree86 to establish X sessions to my 'nix boxen every day, and have been doing so with various X servers running on various platforms for many years. However, I have client work, which is what pays my bills, that can only be effectively performed on a Windows machine (not that there is anything wrong with 'nix, but they pay me to write software using Visual Studio and SQL Server.)
Running XP on my main development machine (a 2 CPU P3), made the difference between needing to buy a $350 laptop vs. a $2,500 laptop, and the work of maintaining a full development environment on said laptop. I'm sitting in my living room right now, with an RDP connection to my XP machine upstairs, and an X11 connection to my PPCLinux box.
YMMV, but I would have killed for this ten years ago.
then you dont mind us installing a new tracking device on your cars to tell the manufacturer and your loan company and officer where your vehicle is at all times
On high-risk loans, they already do.
Initially, the data is used to make reposession easier. If that does not work, the loan company will eventually report the car stolen (which it really is at that point) and will relay that data to the authorities.
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By that same logic, they should be taxing everything else that comes bundled with Windows. Special assesments for notepad, solitaire, random DLL's, etc.
/bin/bash and /usr/bin/passwd. We won't even mention what Emacs is gonna cost you.
However, Linux users don't want to know what the special assesments will be for
Hmmmm
You must be gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Actually in many cases, that works without even having to flash the card with the appropriate mac image, even in cases where the card was never designed to work in a mac, or even has a flashable firmware.
A lot of PCI cards that do not have any firmware, work just fine on a ppc/linux setup to begin with, even when the cards do not have any support in MacOS or OSX.
I have a realtek ethernet card and a generic AMD usb card in my oldworld 603e machine already.
In addition, a lot of cards that do have firmware will work as long as you do not care about the device being available from boot. I have an older matrox card and an adaptac 2940UW in my machine.
Both work just fine as long as I don't need them until the linux kernel takes over. With proper kernel parameters, the matrox card is even my console, I just don't see anything until the kernel is booting. Ditto, I boot and load kernel from a 250MB narrow-scsi drive on the machines onboard scsi. My root partition is on an UW drive on the adaptec card.
Took a little bit of doing, but this 'grossly obsolete' machine is running just great after adding some 'somewhat obsolete' parts. With 256MB, a fast drive, and a card with decent X performance (the 10-year-old matrox)... It performs a heck of a lot better than it's 180Mhz would make you guess.
I'm sure Microsoft has some significant assets in the E.U., I'm sure these assets could be frozen and seized if there was reason to believe the fine was not going to be paid.
Whether these assets, when liquidated, are worth more or less 500,000,000 quid is another topic, but their value must still be significant.
Nope
(drum roll)
They used Tolkien Ring
I have several circa 1986 IBM model M's. I have been using these keyboards exclusively since I was knee-high to a cockroach.
I just toss em in the sink and clean them with hot soapy water and a scrub brush. Then I just let them sit upside down for a few days to dry out. Since I always have a few spares, every month or so I just grab a clean one off the shelf and wash the previous one.
Wash these keyboards more often then I do laundry (hey, I'm a geek)...Never had a problem. Ever. The one I'm typing on right now has probably been washed at least 20 times.
obligatory examples are netscape and winzip
The ZIP handling features in XP are licensed from WinZip. I'm sure Microsoft is by far and away Niko's best customer.
Other than this silly laptop, I use nothing but Model M's myself and can't agree with you more. However, you completely miss the parent poster's point.
There are adapters, which are very very cheap (try $10 range) that let you plug a PS/2 keyboard into a USB port and treat it like any other HID device.
Since I don't plan on using anything other than my Model M's for my desk, these adapters are a godsend since you know as well as I do that the PS/2 ports days *are* numbered. Plus being able to plug my Model M's into powermac's, etc. rocks.
The technology you mention, although interesting, was introduced in 1981.
I don't know what you are smoking to claim this was the first consumer vide format, but pass the pipe, please.
Highly overrated. You can season them however you like, they still taste like chicken.
automatically crawls any links listed...bring their web servers to their knees
Oh, the Slashdot business model!
No, that's less than a hundredth of what AOL paid for Time-Warner two years ago.
AOL bought Time-Warner, not the other way around.
the one redeeming feature that I have seen in these tablets is that most of them have screens that SWIVEL 180 degrees. Having that in a high-end (say one with a 16" screen) notebook would give me a woody. Namely, I could have a laptop, and then when I arrived at my destination, whip out a keyboard and mouse (from my *checked* baggage, tyvm), swivel the screen.... I could even see bluetooth being handy.
Hmmmmmm....So "convincing" a judge and jury would not be important?
Yep. I have a circa 1993 PowerBook 170 that has a SCSI drive...Wait a minute...that's a 25 Mhz machine...With an 80MB HD...Never mind....
/me starts to mutter...alpha...amiga...would keep going but the list would get too long...
And what exactly are you trying to say about the average Slashdot reader??????
Hehehehehehe. We used to use a trick very similar on the Amiga way back when. "LoadWB" in your startup-sequence would actually load and display the Amiga WorkBench (similar to Finder, Explorer, whatever).
You would do your basic initialization (establish your path, your assigns, etc.) then run "LoadWB" and *then* load all your other crap.
End result....System would boot and be "useable" in a couple of seconds, even on an 8Mhz system.
to avoid the risk of being found guilty in court
Civil and criminal court are very, very, very different places and the results of a victory or defeat are very different, indeed.
Added nothing of note?
Remote desktop sharing, which is, for all intents and purposes, terminal services controlling the local console, is for me, quite frankly, the most significant improvement made to Windows since NT 4.
I know this is Slashdot, and about a million people will try to tell me that I could use VNC (or PCAnywhere, etc) to achieve the same result. Bullshit. VNC, PCAnywhere, etc., are wonderful for remote system administration, troubleshooting, etc, etc, but for trying to use a remote system for productive work (even over a 100Mb switched ethernet connection) they are almost worthless. The latency alone...
Before somebody tries to tell me that I could accomplish the same result with W2K server... Once again, bullshit, BTDT. It's perfectly speedy enough, but there are certain things that are vital for my work, which can only run on the local console. Full debugger capability, being a prime example (you can not debug a COM DLL, that is being called from a service or anything else running outside of your process space except on the local console or a remote control of the local console.)
Also, being Slashdot, you are all thinking.... "Gee, X has been able to do that forever." Yes, and I love it. I use the Cygwin version of XFree86 to establish X sessions to my 'nix boxen every day, and have been doing so with various X servers running on various platforms for many years. However, I have client work, which is what pays my bills, that can only be effectively performed on a Windows machine (not that there is anything wrong with 'nix, but they pay me to write software using Visual Studio and SQL Server.)
Running XP on my main development machine (a 2 CPU P3), made the difference between needing to buy a $350 laptop vs. a $2,500 laptop, and the work of maintaining a full development environment on said laptop. I'm sitting in my living room right now, with an RDP connection to my XP machine upstairs, and an X11 connection to my PPCLinux box.
YMMV, but I would have killed for this ten years ago.
Initially, the data is used to make reposession easier. If that does not work, the loan company will eventually report the car stolen (which it really is at that point) and will relay that data to the authorities.
That will be locked the moment the transaction clears, due to a vague violation of an unwritten policy.
While we're at it, let's publicly abandon the Unix trademark
The Open Group has owned the registered trademark UNIX since 1994
Just thank god he didn't press the automatic tampon removal button.