> Sounds like movies will be similar to Cable VOD. TV episodes is like iTMS or Unbox, except only enough room for a few seasons of shows. Not being able to ever burn those shows makes them pretty much a waste of money, much worse than buying them from other services. They should be free, considering you're eventually going to need to delete them.
You can always redownload the show you already bought. You do not have to pay for it. It is the same deal as with Arcade games.
Let me get this straight, do you mean that if in the time of Windows 3.0-3.1 Microsoft was declared a monopoly they should not be able to include TCP stack into Windows since this would have put out Trumpet Winsock out of business? Do I understand you correctly?
> I think you will get in big trouble if all this data has to fit into a.NET datatype, you'll need a lot of coding around (string to filename, integer to filename, etc etc) to get it working, which is not what shell scripting is about!!! I will write a real program if I want to do something tidy like that, my shell script is there to solve a problem quick 'n dirty, thank you very much!
Google personal homepage showed up waaay after Microsoft experiments in this kind of homepage under http://start.com./ Talk about revisionist history...
Thing is, msh is not registered as handler for *.msh files, so in order to run the script you will have to execute 'msh.exe script.msh' from the command-line, it will not work by clicking an icon in Outlook Express for example.
> By the contracts signed by Dell, HP and other OEM's that they pay much more than their competitors if they ship Linux. Also they cant install Linux in a dualboot config, see the fall of BeOS for reference. Its a big difference to have your OS installed by an expert than doing it yourself. Most people never install Windows, they ask me and my likes. The desktop analogy is their biggest enemy, not the placing of the icons on the desktop.
This was the case before DOJ case. Settlement with DOJ specifically prohibits Microsoft to do this. Please research your facts before making such claims.
> WMA is the lock-in(out), not the iPod. Afaik, Ipod will happily play MP3 (If not with the stock software, then certainly with alternate software), which is the only 'not locked in' format.
The same argument goes for pretty much every WMA player in existence. They all can play MP3 ' the only not locked in format'. I really do not understand how it makes iPod less locked in compared to WMA compatible players.
> Sounds like he wants a bunch of foreign workers who wouldn't quibble over a $20,000-30,000 salary where a US coder would expect a bit more.
Actually college graduates on entry level SDE positions in Microsoft start around $60,000+ independent of their country of origin, so I doubt this is the plan of mr. Gates. It is just damn hard to find good people.
and MOST people run with IE set for trust everything because they have had trouble with the random poorly designed bank site. ---------- Bullshit.Most people run it with default settings (which are pretty reasonable) because they do not know how to change them anyway.
> One example for you... Login to W2K as user, and start cmd as Administrator through runas. Now try to run any program from that cmd. Tough luck - none of what you run from there will work as if you are an administrator! Is it retarded or what? Actually all the programs which start new process will run as administrator.
> all users are in the ADMINISTRATOR group in the domain. This is bullshit. Devs are local machine administrators, but no way in hell they are DOMAIN administrators.
Well it's "good" DRM. You can burn the song to CD. You can play it on 3 computers. You can play it on an infinite number of iPods. That's the good end of DRM if you ask me.
Well, Napster allows you to do all that using Microsoft DRM. Microsoft's new music store will allow you to do that (if you have not RTFA). What is so inherently evil about WMA DRM compared to FairPlay?
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There is no easy way to get your tunes from Zune YET, I'll give you that. Anything else is pretty much the same.
> Does the Zune system let you do any of those things?
For tracks you bought - yes for all things you listed. For tracks you rented via subscription - no.
> Less restrictive DRM.
Can you please highlight the differences? In which way iPod's DRM is less restrictive?
> Sounds like movies will be similar to Cable VOD. TV episodes is like iTMS or Unbox, except only enough room for a few seasons of shows. Not being able to ever burn those shows makes them pretty much a waste of money, much worse than buying them from other services. They should be free, considering you're eventually going to need to delete them.
You can always redownload the show you already bought. You do not have to pay for it. It is the same deal as with Arcade games.
Let me get this straight, do you mean that if in the time of Windows 3.0-3.1 Microsoft was declared a monopoly they should not be able to include TCP stack into Windows since this would have put out Trumpet Winsock out of business? Do I understand you correctly?
> How about putting customer-friendly things back into Windows like mp3 ripping.
Last time I checked mp3 ripping was in Windows. What on earth are you rambling about?
> Why not pure XML communication between programs in a shell? Then it's fully backwards compatible with older text-oriented utlities.
By default it is objects, but there is Xml formatter as well which you can insert into pipeline and get XML if you need it.
> I think you will get in big trouble if all this data has to fit into a .NET datatype, you'll need a lot of coding around (string to filename, integer to filename, etc etc) to get it working, which is not what shell scripting is about!!! I will write a real program if I want to do something tidy like that, my shell script is there to solve a problem quick 'n dirty, thank you very much!
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This exact scenario is actually simpler in Powershell - check this blog entry
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/04/
> Between this and the story we heard yesterday from the ex-Unix Microsoft programmer,
Yesterday ex-Unix programmer story was written about 2 years ago, so I highly doubt it is related.
> XMLHTTPRequest is too important for MS not to try and control it. I wouldn't rule out a good ol' "embrace and extend" move.
What the hell are you talking about ? Microsoft invented the damn thing. Embrace and extend my ass...
Google personal homepage showed up waaay after Microsoft experiments in this kind of homepage under http://start.com./ Talk about revisionist history...
Have you read TFA ?
Thing is, msh is not registered as handler for *.msh files, so in order to run the script you will have to execute 'msh.exe script.msh' from the command-line, it will not work by clicking an icon in Outlook Express for example.
> By the contracts signed by Dell, HP and other OEM's that they pay much more than their competitors if they ship Linux. Also they cant install Linux in a dualboot config, see the fall of BeOS for reference. Its a big difference to have your OS installed by an expert than doing it yourself. Most people never install Windows, they ask me and my likes. The desktop analogy is their biggest enemy, not the placing of the icons on the desktop.
This was the case before DOJ case. Settlement with DOJ specifically prohibits Microsoft to do this. Please research your facts before making such claims.
Get debuggers package fromi nstallx86.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/
It includes kill.exe which kills process quickly and reliably.
> WMA is the lock-in(out), not the iPod. Afaik, Ipod will happily play MP3 (If not with the stock software, then certainly with alternate software), which is the only 'not locked in' format.
The same argument goes for pretty much every WMA player in existence. They all can play MP3 ' the only not locked in format'. I really do not understand how it makes iPod less locked in compared to WMA compatible players.
> Sounds like he wants a bunch of foreign workers who wouldn't quibble over a $20,000-30,000 salary where a US coder would expect a bit more.
Actually college graduates on entry level SDE positions in Microsoft start around $60,000+ independent of their country of origin, so I doubt this is the plan of mr. Gates. It is just damn hard to find good people.
Have you tried to apply here ?
http://microsoft.com/jobs
> I am not paying for a product that is clearly still in the testing phases.
And microsoft is not charging for it. RTFA
RTFA - all the maps for Halo 2 will be free by the end of the summber.
and MOST people run with IE set for trust everything because they have had trouble with the random poorly designed bank site. .Most people run it with default settings (which are pretty reasonable) because they do not know how to change them anyway.
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Bullshit
> Hell, even their previews are months behind schedule. I don't think we'll ever see Longhorn.
It was released in November to MSDN subscribers. It was released to everybody today.
> One example for you... Login to W2K as user, and start cmd as Administrator through runas. Now try to run any program from that cmd. Tough luck - none of what you run from there will work as if you are an administrator! Is it retarded or what?
Actually all the programs which start new process will run as administrator.
> all users are in the ADMINISTRATOR group in the domain.
This is bullshit. Devs are local machine administrators, but no way in hell they are DOMAIN administrators.
Well it's "good" DRM. You can burn the song to CD. You can play it on 3 computers. You can play it on an infinite number of iPods. That's the good end of DRM if you ask me.
Well, Napster allows you to do all that using Microsoft DRM. Microsoft's new music store will allow you to do that (if you have not RTFA). What is so inherently evil about WMA DRM compared to FairPlay?