May be obvious, but by far the majority of Windows licenses are sold exactly that way -- bound to a single piece of hardware. You can't move the standard OEM license you got with your PC to some other PC.
Call you crazy? Not at all, I'm going to call you Obvious Man. I'm not surprised that the gadget blogs all fell for this, since they essentially live off the hype machine, but the rest of us ought to know better.
I don't know if that's wise -- turning a simultaneous left-right click into a different action would require a finger lift for a regular left-click. As it is you can click with both fingers rested for a standard click.
I would suggest possibly an option for a three-finger-click to replace the middle-click.
No, I think you still don't quite understand. You don't have to lift any fingers for a left-click. Only for a right-click. That aspect works the exact same way that Apple mice have for some years now.
This is one of those things that sounds really complicated if you think about it, but is actually very simple to use.
Are you sure you're taking into account the power consumption by the frickin' crane that you need to hoist a 50" CRT into position? Or in some cases, the energy consumption of the saw that has to cut a hole into the side of the building wide enough to get the monstrosity inside?
Nonsense -- IBM may have chosen to tread lightly due to the antitrust case but they were never under any orders. And they never collected licensing revenue for ISA. The whole point of MCA was to do so, but nobody ever bought it. Without the antitrust case it's possible that IBM would have sued the cloners for patent infringement regarding ISA, I guess. Not that ISA was much of an "invention".
Your history suxxxors... none of this stuff is true!
IBM didn't license their hardware, and it's incredible that anyone would make that claim. IBM got outsmarted by a handful of geeks from Albuquerque into using an OS that they did not control. Then Microsoft turned around and licensed it to Compaq, which reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS. IBM certainly never intended for any of this to occur! Microsoft essentially seized control of the platform from Big Blue.
It's far from established fact that these manipulations were the reason for the dominance of the PC; IBM was huge name in computing at the time, and even calling something "IBM-compatible" could have provided a big boost to sales. Later on, when Apple tried platform licensing it didn't help. In cell phones and gaming consoles, repeated efforts to create an "open" platform have (so far) been handily demolished by single-source platforms. It's possible that the Microsoft incident was merely an artifact of history.
As for the "loan", Microsoft purchased some Apple stock as part of a cross-licensing deal instigated by allegations of stolen Apple code. I doubt they still own those shares.
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It's nice to know that Mr Gurley has learned how the industry works.
Yeah, that "was the catalyst" line is great. You can come up with all sorts of equivalent expressions. Like "MS-DOS was the catalyst for Linux", or "horse manure was the catalyst for the automobile"
I don't think you could say that 600 pounds of wealth was created. If you're going to measure "wealth" in a unit of currency you need some argument that other people would actually pay that much. Nobody is going to pay $1000 for a stack of pirated games unless you trick them into thinking they're genuine.
Perhaps he received some happiness but you can't measure that with currency.
It's not a non sequitur at all. Whether 3% is a large percentage or a small percentage depends entirely on context. 3% inflation is not too bad. 3% alcohol in your blood is a lot. 3% packet loss is a lot.
600,000 XBoxes at $200 each is $120 Million worth of XBoxes. Seems like a lot to me. (Though honestly I don't oppose the ban.)
1. Despite wanting the game to work, I'm playing it on a PC. It didn't work! I wasn't surprised. 2. The game seems fun. 3. My wife is playing it too. I hate that.
I know of situations where it turned out that the heads in the backup system were misaligned and so the tape only read back on the system they were backing up on
As I recall, this was essentially true all the time for DDS-3 drives. Remember kids, Just Say No to helical tape.
No, he's NOT overstating his point. Unless your data is a bunch of flat text files or Word documents or whatever the restore is a critically difficult process.
Enterprise data like this often has never been in a flat or "dead" state since the original implementation. Complex applications frequently have delicate interactions between the live application and the contents of the database at any particular moment. Having a bunch of database tables on a tape somewhere doesn't do you much good if the application can't actually start from the state contained on the tapes, and it's a two-week manual process to clean up the issues.
If you can afford a "slow and sketchy" restore process, or your application is just not that complicated, then by all means, don't test your restore, and don't create a department with responsibility for backups and nothing else. It's still amateur work.
Hey, those "crappy" games were what we had back in 1992, and dammit, we LIKED them!
In any case, the Sierra direct catalog was always seriously overpriced to avoid competing with the retail channel, as shelf-space was essential for their business back in the days when Internet access was rare. If you couldn't find them cheaper you were shopping at the wrong store. And the $80 Street Fighter had an unusually large ROM, making it expensive to manufacture at the time, so it wasn't all due to markup.
Controlled through fear? If I may ask, what are we being controlled to do? Watch more TV news, mostly, as far as I can tell.
The 1918 flu really did kill millions, although most of the deaths were actually due to secondary bacterial infections that are (usually) easily treated these days. That was 90 years ago, but I'm not yet ready to believe that the modern, Western world is now immune to a plague of that magnitude. If something like SARS or influenza really did mutate and kill millions, it would not be a surprise, historically speaking, or biologically speaking. Seems to be worth letting people know about.
Makes sense to tell people to wash their hands, at least. I don't think this is being ginned up by the soap&water lobby.
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May be obvious, but by far the majority of Windows licenses are sold exactly that way -- bound to a single piece of hardware. You can't move the standard OEM license you got with your PC to some other PC.
Call you crazy? Not at all, I'm going to call you Obvious Man. I'm not surprised that the gadget blogs all fell for this, since they essentially live off the hype machine, but the rest of us ought to know better.
"No matter how small the risk"? You can't mean that. How about 1 in a googol?
I agree, and I think it's time for the government to acknowledge the problem.
I don't know if that's wise -- turning a simultaneous left-right click into a different action would require a finger lift for a regular left-click. As it is you can click with both fingers rested for a standard click.
I would suggest possibly an option for a three-finger-click to replace the middle-click.
No, I think you still don't quite understand. You don't have to lift any fingers for a left-click. Only for a right-click. That aspect works the exact same way that Apple mice have for some years now.
This is one of those things that sounds really complicated if you think about it, but is actually very simple to use.
The "Magic Mouse" clicks just like a regular mouse, so you only have to lift your (left) finger if you want a right-click.
Are you sure you're taking into account the power consumption by the frickin' crane that you need to hoist a 50" CRT into position? Or in some cases, the energy consumption of the saw that has to cut a hole into the side of the building wide enough to get the monstrosity inside?
Nonsense -- IBM may have chosen to tread lightly due to the antitrust case but they were never under any orders. And they never collected licensing revenue for ISA. The whole point of MCA was to do so, but nobody ever bought it. Without the antitrust case it's possible that IBM would have sued the cloners for patent infringement regarding ISA, I guess. Not that ISA was much of an "invention".
Your history suxxxors... none of this stuff is true!
IBM didn't license their hardware, and it's incredible that anyone would make that claim. IBM got outsmarted by a handful of geeks from Albuquerque into using an OS that they did not control. Then Microsoft turned around and licensed it to Compaq, which reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS. IBM certainly never intended for any of this to occur! Microsoft essentially seized control of the platform from Big Blue.
It's far from established fact that these manipulations were the reason for the dominance of the PC; IBM was huge name in computing at the time, and even calling something "IBM-compatible" could have provided a big boost to sales. Later on, when Apple tried platform licensing it didn't help. In cell phones and gaming consoles, repeated efforts to create an "open" platform have (so far) been handily demolished by single-source platforms. It's possible that the Microsoft incident was merely an artifact of history.
As for the "loan", Microsoft purchased some Apple stock as part of a cross-licensing deal instigated by allegations of stolen Apple code. I doubt they still own those shares.
It's nice to know that Mr Gurley has learned how the industry works.
Yeah, that "was the catalyst" line is great. You can come up with all sorts of equivalent expressions. Like "MS-DOS was the catalyst for Linux", or "horse manure was the catalyst for the automobile"
I don't think you could say that 600 pounds of wealth was created. If you're going to measure "wealth" in a unit of currency you need some argument that other people would actually pay that much. Nobody is going to pay $1000 for a stack of pirated games unless you trick them into thinking they're genuine.
Perhaps he received some happiness but you can't measure that with currency.
It's not a non sequitur at all. Whether 3% is a large percentage or a small percentage depends entirely on context. 3% inflation is not too bad. 3% alcohol in your blood is a lot. 3% packet loss is a lot.
600,000 XBoxes at $200 each is $120 Million worth of XBoxes. Seems like a lot to me. (Though honestly I don't oppose the ban.)
1. Despite wanting the game to work, I'm playing it on a PC. It didn't work! I wasn't surprised.
2. The game seems fun.
3. My wife is playing it too. I hate that.
He's a "responsible IT person" -- you know the sort. I imagine his Microsoft rep told him that Chrome wasn't Enterprise-Ready(tm).
Perhaps a more recent example of that scheme would be Katamari Damacy.
It would be especially convenient if I could push down on both joysticks to flip the whole car over.
I know of situations where it turned out that the heads in the backup system were misaligned and so the tape only read back on the system they were backing up on
As I recall, this was essentially true all the time for DDS-3 drives. Remember kids, Just Say No to helical tape.
No, he's NOT overstating his point. Unless your data is a bunch of flat text files or Word documents or whatever the restore is a critically difficult process.
Enterprise data like this often has never been in a flat or "dead" state since the original implementation. Complex applications frequently have delicate interactions between the live application and the contents of the database at any particular moment. Having a bunch of database tables on a tape somewhere doesn't do you much good if the application can't actually start from the state contained on the tapes, and it's a two-week manual process to clean up the issues.
If you can afford a "slow and sketchy" restore process, or your application is just not that complicated, then by all means, don't test your restore, and don't create a department with responsibility for backups and nothing else. It's still amateur work.
the work done since the nomination usually isn't factored into the final award.
But this "usually" is just an assumption. The Nobel press release cites activities that were not in progress at the time of the nomination.
It's obvious that in this case the committee chose to award the prize based largely on work that was done after the nomination. So what?
I'm not sure how that conclusion follows from the premise. There were hundreds of nominations, so the nomination is not the same thing as the award.
You could also pay $50 in a store and get a bad DVD of the game. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and contact support.
Sierra games ... Those crappy little DOS games
Hey, those "crappy" games were what we had back in 1992, and dammit, we LIKED them!
In any case, the Sierra direct catalog was always seriously overpriced to avoid competing with the retail channel, as shelf-space was essential for their business back in the days when Internet access was rare. If you couldn't find them cheaper you were shopping at the wrong store. And the $80 Street Fighter had an unusually large ROM, making it expensive to manufacture at the time, so it wasn't all due to markup.
No credit, no credit report.
Well sure, but "credit" can mean some pretty plain-vanilla transactions these days, like having an account with the local electric company or telco.
Controlled through fear? If I may ask, what are we being controlled to do? Watch more TV news, mostly, as far as I can tell.
The 1918 flu really did kill millions, although most of the deaths were actually due to secondary bacterial infections that are (usually) easily treated these days. That was 90 years ago, but I'm not yet ready to believe that the modern, Western world is now immune to a plague of that magnitude. If something like SARS or influenza really did mutate and kill millions, it would not be a surprise, historically speaking, or biologically speaking. Seems to be worth letting people know about.
Makes sense to tell people to wash their hands, at least. I don't think this is being ginned up by the soap&water lobby.