Microsoft's most successful era was when the 9X, NT, and CE lines were almost completely separate. They try to merge them, and there's disaster, new CEO comes in, wants to merge them in a different way. Windows 8 would have been fine if it were strictly a 9X descendant release. It is not suitable for businesses, there should not have been a Pro version, it should have if they needed to have two versions, been Home, and Home Ultimate or something. Or they could just bring back the Classic interface on all versions and stop trying to be something other than Windows. People hated Luna, people hated Aero, who exactly hated Classic?
Part of the problem with DRM is that different forms of art have different revenue models.
Music has had a split touring/record sales/sheet music model for a long time. Concert tickets are substantially more expensive post-internet. Some say most of the money is in sheet music, there are a lot of pop artists that don't write their own songs, and seem to be doing quite well on their lip synced live performances and the merchandise sales at those.
Movies have always been DRM in a way, new releases are usually only available in theaters unless it's some movie even the producers think is so bad that it goes straight to video, They have always went to expensive theaters first, later cheaper theaters, and then to home and TV usage. No one ever complained much at this model, as it has always existed this way. Some people complain about the DRM on DVD's, you don't have to buy them though, I very rarely do. I either wait for it to come to cable or rent it for less than the price that it was as a new release at the theater.
Software has numerous different models, some more profitable, and some more annoying than others.
The author of an e-book can only really "tour" by selling the movie rights, but that really only works for fiction, and only a small subset of fiction books are ever made into a movie. The ones that are already famous can do a book signing tour, but that only works for those that are already famous. I am a little concerned that some good even great would-be writers pursue careers in other fields because there's no money in writing anymore.
Those are the ones who really get screwed if somehow Android ends up not existing in it's present form with Dalvik because of this. Although I personally did not learn J++, if I had spent a lot of time and effort learning it, I'd be really mad. I have spent a lot of time and effort learning the Android API, and if it ceases to exist, like J++ did, because of some court case, can I sue both Oracle and Google for my time and hardship?
I used to have a Nokia 6 years ago or so. Was a really nice phone. Did the actual phone thing way better than any phone I've had since. Just about everyone who had a cell phone back then had a Nokia, mainly because that was the cheapest one you could get when you went to a cell phone store. These days, it's some other brand. You can still get a Nokia, but it's some expensive smartphone Nokia that no one wants. If someone wants a smartphone they'll buy a Blackberry or an iPhone. If they actually want a phone, they would buy a Nokia, but they don't seem to offer cheap Nokia's anymore...that was their market, they should have embraced it, rather than go after Blackberry and iPhone's....
I think an iPad is an iPod Touch that won't fit in my pocket. I like my iPod Touch but wish it were a little bigger. I understand why it is exactly the same size as an iPhone, but I'd like something in between. Maybe they could call the iPad Mini, or maybe maxiPod?
Maybe if the penalty was the death penalty and a billion dollar fine to the company responsible, or the country and all it's citizens harboring the SPAMMER...
A Mars colony would seem to me that it would be more likely to work if it was tried first on the Moon. With supply lines being so much shorter, eventually a fairly decent size colony could be built, in a much shorter time frame. It really seems far less complicated than building the ISS. Supply ships wouldn't have to dock and all that, just land somewhere fairly close.
All the supplies to build it either place could be sent beforehand. I can see support for a one way trip to Mars being a lot higher if there was already plenty of food, water, and oxygen there. We already have sent a bunch of other crap there. Why not send a ship or two with some bottled water, and food just in case? Or maybe some fine wine? Or some whiskey or vodka or something?
As much as I hate tickets, I think they and all these other states with budget problems need to tell their cops to step it up a notch and give a lot more speeding tickets and such...
I know an ex-cop who claims there's no such thing as quotas...in these tough times, there need to be, and they need to be way, way up there...
I'm pretty sure SuperSpywareBrowser2009 isn't named that, but it surely exists...but one in the top X amount is if you let X get big enough. Is Microsoft really supposed to add SuperSpywareBrowser2009 to their list. Then they'd be the ones getting sued, rather than SuperSpywareBrowser2009. It might very well be the #6 browser in the market...
They went the wrong way with this though, I wonder if they could have gotten around all of this by installing Firefox, and Safari, etc but not given a desktop shortcut...or something...or even given them one, most people would still click on the blue e...
There was someone who thought Smart Appliances were a smart idea? They've only been talking about this for over a decade...it's just now people are figuring out it's a dumb idea? Why would anyone want to subject their appliances, of all things, to omething that's completely unnecessary, and will cost a lot of money to fix when it glitches, which it most likely will, like they did with their cars? I'm sure anyone who's had to pay for an expensive repair for a car problem, due to a computer problem, will never buy one of these appliances, that is until, like cars, they are the only models offered...
He should have said he thought they were breaking into it and he was taking a picture to send to the news and police and asked to see their identification. Only idiots would break into an ATM in front of people and not be wearing security guard uniforms.
Why is the presumption is that they cannot experience pain? I always assumed they did until I was told otherwise by some "expert." Was this always the presumption, or only after they were dissected, and studied and compared to mammals? I'd presume they do feel pain as they seem to avoid it in pretty much the same way mammals do. Or do only humans feel pain, is that what we are presuming now?
They don't stay in my ears. I don't see how anyone can walk or jog with them, and yet I see people doing it all the time. They fall out at least once a song with me just sitting in a chair. I used to have an older set of earbuds back in the 90's, they were a bit bigger, and had little foam things on them like regular headphones do, they didn't fall out nearly as much...did I permanently stretch out my ears?
I don't get it...they practically have a monopoly on their main products, it would seem if ANYONE would be doing alright in a bad economy, it would be Microsoft...even though sales probably are down, they are still rather high, and the actual cost of producing a DVD-ROM is rather low compared to the price of the products, which is very high due to lack of competition, and it's not like there's huge development costs either, since their main products are basically the same as they have been for years and years, with a new look and a handful of new features and bugfixes...none of this makes any sense...
But what about the whole iostream.h getting deprecated thing? Or this previously unnecessary using namespace std; statement?
Honestly, I haven't used C++ in quite a while, and barely even recognize it anymore it's changed so much...really, LINQ is an addition you can use or not, they flat out changed the C++ language for whatever reason I don't know, what I do know is if I have to code in C++ ever again, there's a far more substantial learning curve than simply learning LINQ was for.NET...
I went there to buy a CD awhile back, (when I was in college, maybe 4 years ago, in a small town with no indie record stores) and they absolutely insisted on getting my phone number before they'd ring it up...I eventually just made one up...I wanted to buy the CD, why did they need a phone number...to telemarket me later, and get an exemption from the DoNotCall list because I'm a "client" is the only reason I can think of, it's not like there is some sort of technical support involved...that really turned me off as a customer and I don't think I'm the only one...
Why not delay forever? The whole switch was a bad idea anyway. It is an inferior technology to analog for over the air period. There was never anything wrong with analog. There is plenty wrong with digital. Why isn't everyone talking about canceling the switch completely?
Add/Remove Programs can be used to install programs that come with Windows but are not installed by default. There were some interesting and useful programs there that often weren't installed on OEM versions, especially in Windows 9X, though most of them have either been eliminated or are now automatically installed on newer versions.
Aww just downloadable content...
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Was all psyched up for a new game in a new city...kind of like Vice City...but set in Washington DC...
...simply requiring a password if they don't want people to get into their site like every other site in the world that has content that they don't want linked to? Probably not...
How about a warning message(that can be disabled, maybe), if it's something that's going to be opened by Adobe Reader, with and option to save instead or cancel...that thing will slow down any system...or a way to set in the browser to never open PDF files inline, regardless of what plugin, or settings, some 3rd party insists on installing, or changing.
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Why do they keep trying to do this?
Microsoft's most successful era was when the 9X, NT, and CE lines were almost completely separate. They try to merge them, and there's disaster, new CEO comes in, wants to merge them in a different way. Windows 8 would have been fine if it were strictly a 9X descendant release. It is not suitable for businesses, there should not have been a Pro version, it should have if they needed to have two versions, been Home, and Home Ultimate or something. Or they could just bring back the Classic interface on all versions and stop trying to be something other than Windows. People hated Luna, people hated Aero, who exactly hated Classic?
I'd never heard of it before this article. I think that's a large, possibly the largest, part of the problem...
Part of the problem with DRM is that different forms of art have different revenue models.
Music has had a split touring/record sales/sheet music model for a long time. Concert tickets are substantially more expensive post-internet. Some say most of the money is in sheet music, there are a lot of pop artists that don't write their own songs, and seem to be doing quite well on their lip synced live performances and the merchandise sales at those.
Movies have always been DRM in a way, new releases are usually only available in theaters unless it's some movie even the producers think is so bad that it goes straight to video, They have always went to expensive theaters first, later cheaper theaters, and then to home and TV usage. No one ever complained much at this model, as it has always existed this way. Some people complain about the DRM on DVD's, you don't have to buy them though, I very rarely do. I either wait for it to come to cable or rent it for less than the price that it was as a new release at the theater.
Software has numerous different models, some more profitable, and some more annoying than others.
The author of an e-book can only really "tour" by selling the movie rights, but that really only works for fiction, and only a small subset of fiction books are ever made into a movie. The ones that are already famous can do a book signing tour, but that only works for those that are already famous. I am a little concerned that some good even great would-be writers pursue careers in other fields because there's no money in writing anymore.
Those are the ones who really get screwed if somehow Android ends up not existing in it's present form with Dalvik because of this. Although I personally did not learn J++, if I had spent a lot of time and effort learning it, I'd be really mad. I have spent a lot of time and effort learning the Android API, and if it ceases to exist, like J++ did, because of some court case, can I sue both Oracle and Google for my time and hardship?
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I used to have a Nokia 6 years ago or so. Was a really nice phone. Did the actual phone thing way better than any phone I've had since. Just about everyone who had a cell phone back then had a Nokia, mainly because that was the cheapest one you could get when you went to a cell phone store. These days, it's some other brand. You can still get a Nokia, but it's some expensive smartphone Nokia that no one wants. If someone wants a smartphone they'll buy a Blackberry or an iPhone. If they actually want a phone, they would buy a Nokia, but they don't seem to offer cheap Nokia's anymore...that was their market, they should have embraced it, rather than go after Blackberry and iPhone's....
I think an iPad is an iPod Touch that won't fit in my pocket. I like my iPod Touch but wish it were a little bigger. I understand why it is exactly the same size as an iPhone, but I'd like something in between. Maybe they could call the iPad Mini, or maybe maxiPod?
Maybe if the penalty was the death penalty and a billion dollar fine to the company responsible, or the country and all it's citizens harboring the SPAMMER...
A Mars colony would seem to me that it would be more likely to work if it was tried first on the Moon. With supply lines being so much shorter, eventually a fairly decent size colony could be built, in a much shorter time frame. It really seems far less complicated than building the ISS. Supply ships wouldn't have to dock and all that, just land somewhere fairly close.
All the supplies to build it either place could be sent beforehand. I can see support for a one way trip to Mars being a lot higher if there was already plenty of food, water, and oxygen there. We already have sent a bunch of other crap there. Why not send a ship or two with some bottled water, and food just in case? Or maybe some fine wine? Or some whiskey or vodka or something?
As much as I hate tickets, I think they and all these other states with budget problems need to tell their cops to step it up a notch and give a lot more speeding tickets and such...
I know an ex-cop who claims there's no such thing as quotas...in these tough times, there need to be, and they need to be way, way up there...
Let everyone in, and let everyone drink....
But I'm sure someone will object to that too...
I'm pretty sure SuperSpywareBrowser2009 isn't named that, but it surely exists...but one in the top X amount is if you let X get big enough. Is Microsoft really supposed to add SuperSpywareBrowser2009 to their list. Then they'd be the ones getting sued, rather than SuperSpywareBrowser2009. It might very well be the #6 browser in the market...
They went the wrong way with this though, I wonder if they could have gotten around all of this by installing Firefox, and Safari, etc but not given a desktop shortcut...or something...or even given them one, most people would still click on the blue e...
There was someone who thought Smart Appliances were a smart idea? They've only been talking about this for over a decade...it's just now people are figuring out it's a dumb idea? Why would anyone want to subject their appliances, of all things, to omething that's completely unnecessary, and will cost a lot of money to fix when it glitches, which it most likely will, like they did with their cars? I'm sure anyone who's had to pay for an expensive repair for a car problem, due to a computer problem, will never buy one of these appliances, that is until, like cars, they are the only models offered...
He should have said he thought they were breaking into it and he was taking a picture to send to the news and police and asked to see their identification. Only idiots would break into an ATM in front of people and not be wearing security guard uniforms.
Why is the presumption is that they cannot experience pain? I always assumed they did until I was told otherwise by some "expert." Was this always the presumption, or only after they were dissected, and studied and compared to mammals? I'd presume they do feel pain as they seem to avoid it in pretty much the same way mammals do. Or do only humans feel pain, is that what we are presuming now?
They don't stay in my ears. I don't see how anyone can walk or jog with them, and yet I see people doing it all the time. They fall out at least once a song with me just sitting in a chair. I used to have an older set of earbuds back in the 90's, they were a bit bigger, and had little foam things on them like regular headphones do, they didn't fall out nearly as much...did I permanently stretch out my ears?
I prefer FM to a CD because usually the max volume is much higher.
I don't get it...they practically have a monopoly on their main products, it would seem if ANYONE would be doing alright in a bad economy, it would be Microsoft...even though sales probably are down, they are still rather high, and the actual cost of producing a DVD-ROM is rather low compared to the price of the products, which is very high due to lack of competition, and it's not like there's huge development costs either, since their main products are basically the same as they have been for years and years, with a new look and a handful of new features and bugfixes...none of this makes any sense...
But what about the whole iostream.h getting deprecated thing? Or this previously unnecessary using namespace std; statement?
Honestly, I haven't used C++ in quite a while, and barely even recognize it anymore it's changed so much...really, LINQ is an addition you can use or not, they flat out changed the C++ language for whatever reason I don't know, what I do know is if I have to code in C++ ever again, there's a far more substantial learning curve than simply learning LINQ was for .NET...
I went there to buy a CD awhile back, (when I was in college, maybe 4 years ago, in a small town with no indie record stores) and they absolutely insisted on getting my phone number before they'd ring it up...I eventually just made one up...I wanted to buy the CD, why did they need a phone number...to telemarket me later, and get an exemption from the DoNotCall list because I'm a "client" is the only reason I can think of, it's not like there is some sort of technical support involved...that really turned me off as a customer and I don't think I'm the only one...
Why not delay forever? The whole switch was a bad idea anyway. It is an inferior technology to analog for over the air period. There was never anything wrong with analog. There is plenty wrong with digital. Why isn't everyone talking about canceling the switch completely?
Add/Remove Programs can be used to install programs that come with Windows but are not installed by default. There were some interesting and useful programs there that often weren't installed on OEM versions, especially in Windows 9X, though most of them have either been eliminated or are now automatically installed on newer versions.
Was all psyched up for a new game in a new city...kind of like Vice City...but set in Washington DC...
...simply requiring a password if they don't want people to get into their site like every other site in the world that has content that they don't want linked to? Probably not...
How about a warning message(that can be disabled, maybe), if it's something that's going to be opened by Adobe Reader, with and option to save instead or cancel...that thing will slow down any system...or a way to set in the browser to never open PDF files inline, regardless of what plugin, or settings, some 3rd party insists on installing, or changing.