They did, however, have good software. It was so good in fact that Apple was teetering on the brink of equipping Macs with it. It honestly put OS7.x and OS8.x to shame, particularly with memory management and multimedia, one of which Apple was famous for.
I wonder if any of the Vista test scenarios consists of workstation with less than 4 gigs of ram and anything other than a 15,000 rpm ultra320 scsi drive. Probably not.
That's what I've been saying for years, Dvorak has a job because he's a professional troll and writes from the "wrong side" of any issue. He also does it with a heavy degree of holier-than-thou tech-writer slant, which creates indignation in the reader. He really is a brilliant writer in these respects.
AnyDVD has an HD edition that rips HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs. So your point is moot and has been since its release. Of course you'll need the obligatory dual-format LG drive in your PC and an insane amount of storage per disc, but these are just details. BTW you know making backups of DVDs is prohibited by law in the US, and protection is getting tougher (Pirates 3 proves this).
"but B.O. and problems with girls does not define us anymore"
Actually we're bordering on Old Man Smell now and the problems with girls we have are along the lines of "my wife isn't giving me any" and "my daughter is about to reach puberty, hand me the xanax".
Wow, nice rant. I liked most of it except for the tinfoil-hat ending about hiding remote access and moving it from place to place. I think the late Francis E. Dec might have agreed with you.
A casual look at Nielsen or other numbers shows BR disc is the clear winner and the gap continues to widen. Sony's PS3 is the world's most popular BR player...anyone who owns one and an HDTV will naturally choose it as their format of choice. This helps their market penetration and attach rate. So far I've seen 3-1 disc sales in favor of BR discs and during Black Friday it spiked to 4-1.
Europe has already decided on the BR format as well. An estimated 75% of HD movie sales have been BR discs. Personally I have some bias since I bought a PS3 at launch, but the numbers from many sources show BR has a clear and dominating lead. Seeing Hitachi and Toshiba launch super cheap players just reeks of desperation as they fight to keep from becoming the next Betamax. Anyone can visit their local big brick retailer and see the difference in shelf space between the two formats as well. BR dominates the shelves at Target, Super Target, Meijer's, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. Even my local Blockbuster has a ton of BR discs and a handful of HD-DVD discs. This is the retailers doing what smart retailers do: responding to sales by offering more of the item that moves more units.
I agree with your last point there. If you can't prove damages (i.e. you wrecked my car and I couldn't get to work for a week so you owe me a car plus a week's pay), how can you award them? The damages are virtual and unknown. They range from nearly zero dollars (nobody on the Kazaa network traded with her, but she owes for the music she downloaded) to millions (everyone on Kazaa was leeching from her and she has a DS3 piped into her NAS appliance full of music). Since nobody has actually run the numbers, the $9k per song totaling well over $200k is just a number from someone's ass.
It's a shame that the very companies who bring us entertainment content have to be so damn consumer-unfriendly. Like retail outlets, they should do what they can to keep shrinkage down but still accept that a certain percentage of their product will be lost to the public despite their diligence. Has Microsoft cracked down on every single mom and pop shop full of 5 unlicensed Windows workstations? Not really...because they see the big picture and know a certain amount of 'shrinkage' will happen regardless. I know I'm comparing apples to grapes here so I'll leave it at that.
Bah. I'm working towards quickening the Idiocracy of the future. I only wish I could live long enough to see the day US currency has a picture of a WWE wrestler with a mullet and has colorful phrases like "that's what I'm talkin' bout" and "haulin' ass, gettin' PAID!". http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/363916236_e250c458b3.jpg for reference.
Actually, sort of like D.C. gun control laws and other municipalities that find their situation absolves them of a constitutional responsibility. The case in D.C. is still pending though.
Funky bag a "FARADAY CAGE"? LOL. That's an antistatic bag dude. It prevents static electricity from damaging delicate components like RAM, hard drives, etc.
Uh, yeah you can. The fact that the Faraday cage is _electrified_ is your first clue. Without electricity it's just another metal cage that RF signals can freely pass through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage. The section on How It Works explains this.
Yeah and look on the bright side, since all of his work is Open Source, someone else that sees value in Reiser4 can pick up the torch and run with it. Although I haven't seen that happen yet, it may someday.
This clearly illustrates the disconnect between IT and users' needs in large organizations. The professor needed a laptop, but he also needed a USB keyboard that would allow him to type naturally. He made his own compromise without knowing that he could have requested an external keyboard for the laptop. Then again, IT probably never followed up with him after doling out the laptop to see how he was getting along with it.
I'm lucky to work in a smallish organization where it's easy to track who has what and it's simple to follow up with anyone, new or old users, to see how their new hardware is working out.
Did Hemingway only consider something treacherous that could very well result in your death a "sport"? Mountaineering a sport...wow. Time to set the scotch down Ernie.
Actually I just checked mine, and since the authentic license (like mine) is missing the dot on that i, the fake will *have* the dot on the i. I guess that's what you meant to say.
Ok, since it's so hard for you to imagine our wonderful government overstepping its boundaries in regards to our constitutional rights under an ultra-secretive, paranoid, neocon administration...
Go ahead and google 4th amendment patriot act unconstitutional like I did. This guy's story is everywhere and I'm surprised you missed it. Not only were parts of the Patriot Act and FISA rules unconstitutional, but the man in question, Brandon Mayfield, is collecting a 2 million dollar payday courtesy of Uncle Sam royally fucking this one up.
Moonbats, indeed. I'm glad this happened to an attorney or it would have never been ruled on.
You're probably asking for a measure of force. If high school physics still works right, Force = Mass multiplied by Acceleration. I would imagine that your average office chair is more massive than a hard drive, therefore the chair wins.
Ballmer should be careful, they'll classify him as a weapon of mass destruction next.
While I believe you're right in your assertion, most system-critical servers and workstations are wholly divorced from the Internet. At least, that's best practice for most places. Whether or not things are implemented that way is ultimately up to the staff/contractors that handle IT.
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They did, however, have good software. It was so good in fact that Apple was teetering on the brink of equipping Macs with it. It honestly put OS7.x and OS8.x to shame, particularly with memory management and multimedia, one of which Apple was famous for.
I wonder if any of the Vista test scenarios consists of workstation with less than 4 gigs of ram and anything other than a 15,000 rpm ultra320 scsi drive. Probably not.
Thanks for the insight but I was making a joke.
Red Wings FTW!
Retrofitted? What does the sub have on it, a giant pair of scissors sticking out of the front?
That's what I've been saying for years, Dvorak has a job because he's a professional troll and writes from the "wrong side" of any issue. He also does it with a heavy degree of holier-than-thou tech-writer slant, which creates indignation in the reader. He really is a brilliant writer in these respects.
AnyDVD has an HD edition that rips HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs. So your point is moot and has been since its release. Of course you'll need the obligatory dual-format LG drive in your PC and an insane amount of storage per disc, but these are just details. BTW you know making backups of DVDs is prohibited by law in the US, and protection is getting tougher (Pirates 3 proves this).
"but B.O. and problems with girls does not define us anymore"
Actually we're bordering on Old Man Smell now and the problems with girls we have are along the lines of "my wife isn't giving me any" and "my daughter is about to reach puberty, hand me the xanax".
Wow, nice rant. I liked most of it except for the tinfoil-hat ending about hiding remote access and moving it from place to place. I think the late Francis E. Dec might have agreed with you.
A casual look at Nielsen or other numbers shows BR disc is the clear winner and the gap continues to widen. Sony's PS3 is the world's most popular BR player...anyone who owns one and an HDTV will naturally choose it as their format of choice. This helps their market penetration and attach rate. So far I've seen 3-1 disc sales in favor of BR discs and during Black Friday it spiked to 4-1.
Europe has already decided on the BR format as well. An estimated 75% of HD movie sales have been BR discs. Personally I have some bias since I bought a PS3 at launch, but the numbers from many sources show BR has a clear and dominating lead. Seeing Hitachi and Toshiba launch super cheap players just reeks of desperation as they fight to keep from becoming the next Betamax. Anyone can visit their local big brick retailer and see the difference in shelf space between the two formats as well. BR dominates the shelves at Target, Super Target, Meijer's, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. Even my local Blockbuster has a ton of BR discs and a handful of HD-DVD discs. This is the retailers doing what smart retailers do: responding to sales by offering more of the item that moves more units.
I agree with your last point there. If you can't prove damages (i.e. you wrecked my car and I couldn't get to work for a week so you owe me a car plus a week's pay), how can you award them? The damages are virtual and unknown. They range from nearly zero dollars (nobody on the Kazaa network traded with her, but she owes for the music she downloaded) to millions (everyone on Kazaa was leeching from her and she has a DS3 piped into her NAS appliance full of music). Since nobody has actually run the numbers, the $9k per song totaling well over $200k is just a number from someone's ass.
It's a shame that the very companies who bring us entertainment content have to be so damn consumer-unfriendly. Like retail outlets, they should do what they can to keep shrinkage down but still accept that a certain percentage of their product will be lost to the public despite their diligence. Has Microsoft cracked down on every single mom and pop shop full of 5 unlicensed Windows workstations? Not really...because they see the big picture and know a certain amount of 'shrinkage' will happen regardless. I know I'm comparing apples to grapes here so I'll leave it at that.
Bah. I'm working towards quickening the Idiocracy of the future. I only wish I could live long enough to see the day US currency has a picture of a WWE wrestler with a mullet and has colorful phrases like "that's what I'm talkin' bout" and "haulin' ass, gettin' PAID!". http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/363916236_e250c458b3.jpg for reference.
"Sort of like U.S. gun control laws."
Actually, sort of like D.C. gun control laws and other municipalities that find their situation absolves them of a constitutional responsibility. The case in D.C. is still pending though.
Funky bag a "FARADAY CAGE"? LOL. That's an antistatic bag dude. It prevents static electricity from damaging delicate components like RAM, hard drives, etc.
Uh, yeah you can. The fact that the Faraday cage is _electrified_ is your first clue. Without electricity it's just another metal cage that RF signals can freely pass through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage. The section on How It Works explains this.
Yeah and look on the bright side, since all of his work is Open Source, someone else that sees value in Reiser4 can pick up the torch and run with it. Although I haven't seen that happen yet, it may someday.
Things haven't changed too much if you look at it from the sphincter's perspective.
;)
Oh yeah, I went there.
This clearly illustrates the disconnect between IT and users' needs in large organizations. The professor needed a laptop, but he also needed a USB keyboard that would allow him to type naturally. He made his own compromise without knowing that he could have requested an external keyboard for the laptop. Then again, IT probably never followed up with him after doling out the laptop to see how he was getting along with it.
I'm lucky to work in a smallish organization where it's easy to track who has what and it's simple to follow up with anyone, new or old users, to see how their new hardware is working out.
Did Hemingway only consider something treacherous that could very well result in your death a "sport"? Mountaineering a sport...wow. Time to set the scotch down Ernie.
Actually I just checked mine, and since the authentic license (like mine) is missing the dot on that i, the fake will *have* the dot on the i. I guess that's what you meant to say.
Ok, since it's so hard for you to imagine our wonderful government overstepping its boundaries in regards to our constitutional rights under an ultra-secretive, paranoid, neocon administration...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20999950/
Go ahead and google 4th amendment patriot act unconstitutional like I did. This guy's story is everywhere and I'm surprised you missed it. Not only were parts of the Patriot Act and FISA rules unconstitutional, but the man in question, Brandon Mayfield, is collecting a 2 million dollar payday courtesy of Uncle Sam royally fucking this one up.
Moonbats, indeed. I'm glad this happened to an attorney or it would have never been ruled on.
So is a spitball, but I think we're all aware of the force it'd end up delivering. :)
You're probably asking for a measure of force. If high school physics still works right, Force = Mass multiplied by Acceleration. I would imagine that your average office chair is more massive than a hard drive, therefore the chair wins.
Ballmer should be careful, they'll classify him as a weapon of mass destruction next.
While I believe you're right in your assertion, most system-critical servers and workstations are wholly divorced from the Internet. At least, that's best practice for most places. Whether or not things are implemented that way is ultimately up to the staff/contractors that handle IT.
Actually I prefer "Lamont, you big dummy!"