The problem with this is that with Apple you are dealing with a vertically integrated company. They make the machine and the OS in question. Thus they can present one complete unified license for the package.
In the case of Windows you are being sold a license of a product owned by someone else. In addition, the terms of the EULA were created by Microsoft, not the manufacturer of the particular x86 laptop.
Finally, the EULA in question explicitely states that if you do not agree to its terms than you must return the product for a refund. Microsoft was the group that created this problem. They want to have all of the legal protection that they can get from their EULA but don't want to live up to the terms of it.
Oh, and on the Mac side there probably really is no "OEM price" because Mac OS doesn't have an OEM incarnation.
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Mad Max - Segway Warrior
Opening scene - Max "roaring" down the road on his super-charged Segway surrounded by hoards of baddies. We see Max being hit multiple times, reeling from the shock of each blow, but he just keeps going.
Baddie #1 - Curse that Segway, if we could just knock Max down we'd be able to ravage the orphanage and take over that oil refinery...
(You can take it from there though I recommend that you don't.:-D )
Get an old Cyrix chip and a regular PCI video card.
Once you get UT down to about 2 - 3 frames per second I'm sure you won't have any 'simulator sickness' problems.
Personally, Decent was the only one that really got me confused. (I'd keep trying to "flip the world" in my head to figure out which why my ship was flying.)
It's kind of ironic that they "added" the Zeroth law well after robots were created. I guess the original positronic brain coder forgot his Comp Sci arrays rules and started counting at 1.
Positronic Brain SP 1 was needed to correct the oversight.:-D
From now on whenever you're at a store that wants personal information just give them the info of either the spam queen or king featured recently here in SlashDot.
Personally, whenever I'm asked to provide an email address I just type in billg@microsoft.com.
Course Syllabus - How to recognize theft. "`Theft' is a harsh word, but that it is, pure and simple," the letter stated. "... It is no different from walking into the campus bookstore and in a clandestine manner walking out with a textbook without paying for it."
And yet strangely enough no one has ever been prosecuted for theft in any of these cases. People have been charged with copyright infringement but not charges of THEFT have ever been filed.
Extra credit assignment: Come up with 10 non-sequitor shop lifting examples to equate with P2P downloading.
Be careful with the mailbox. Technically that's Federal property and you can't just simply go and stuff things into it. Flyers on the windshield, however, are perfectly legal.
Personally, I think a good number of flyers up the tailpipe is the way to go.
The Windows brain: Clippy - It appears you're trying to catch a ball... *THUD* OUCH!
The Linux brain: Guy named Beowulf #1: Move left 3 feet. Guy named Beowulf #2: Move forward 2 feet. Guy named Beowulf #3: Raise arms 10 inches. Guy named Beowulf #4: Catch ball.
The Apple brain: This would be a lot easier if the ball were translucent. Also, the Apple ball only has one seam to make it easier for the user.
MS stated they were going to spend $500 million in advertising during the first year. The numbers you're looking at now are related to what, the current quarter? (Lost $177m in 3 months ended Sept 30th.)
When do you think they spent most of that $500 million? That's right, the launch events, the pre-release hype, and everything leading up to that first day. (Think of all of those campus tours and giveaways and what not.)
This is talking about the losses of the box for the most recent quarter. Marketing expenditures for the XBox have decreased dramatically since then.
In fact, losses accelerated when they clipped $100 off the price tag. They've managed to do some work to decrease the cost of the box since then but nowhere near a 33% cost reduction.
People ARE asking them to write NEW code to the current environment. MS continues to simply slap functionality on top of the NT code base. (2000 and XP are still built on top of the initial NT code base.)
Microsoft knows that they have some serious security problems in their code. MS SVP Brian Valentine has admitted that Windows wasn't designed with security in mind.
Fine. We'll accept all that.
The thing is for us to accept that MS is serious about security they're going to have to throw out Windows and start again from the ground up. (Just look at Apple and the OS X line.) You can even code in backwards compatibility, just sandbox it.
What is so darn evil about having to register to read an article at the NY Times? It's not like you can't just register as Bill Gates or something there.
Better yet, register as that Spam Queen from the other article.:-D
The problem is that the "average computer user" doesn't think that by simply turning on their box they're doing the equivalent of leaving the keys in the car with the door open. The fact that that is what they're doing is a pretty sad testimony to the default security configuration of certain OS's.
What wonderful logic. Truely insightful. And, tragically, completely useless in today's IT job market.
Companies looking for temp workers (heaven forbid they think about actually hiring someone) have a long and detailed laundry list of "buzz words" that they think are job requirements/necessary skill sets. If your resume doesn't hit in the word matching then out it goes.
The best "buzz word" to have these days is probably Web Services. The good thing is that successfully implementing real Web Services actually requires a generalist.
So, tack a little XML knowledge onto the old resume and slap in a few words about B2B and EAI. This could actually lead to something interesting.
Yes it's a library. It's a place where people go to get information.
Well, these "filters" block information. Some of it real garbage that people shouldn't be seeing, but some of it is also useful, necessary, and possibly even life saving information.
To add insult to injury, we're being asked to trust one or two corporations with "protecting our children". They won't even let us look at the list of sites that they block (understandable as that is their business). Without that information what's to keep them from blocking every site and page with the word breast in it? (You won't even be able to view your local restauraunts menu online.)
Again, the original point was that there could be a case made that the MPAA might be leaking these movies to get the anti-piracy result that they want.
That case would need to be backed with proper evidence for it to be more than an "interesting theory". I merely got involved in this when someone tried to dismiss the first argument as a simple MPAA is bad thing.
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The problem with this is that with Apple you are dealing with a vertically integrated company. They make the machine and the OS in question. Thus they can present one complete unified license for the package.
In the case of Windows you are being sold a license of a product owned by someone else. In addition, the terms of the EULA were created by Microsoft, not the manufacturer of the particular x86 laptop.
Finally, the EULA in question explicitely states that if you do not agree to its terms than you must return the product for a refund. Microsoft was the group that created this problem. They want to have all of the legal protection that they can get from their EULA but don't want to live up to the terms of it.
Oh, and on the Mac side there probably really is no "OEM price" because Mac OS doesn't have an OEM incarnation.
Mad Max - Segway Warrior
:-D )
Opening scene - Max "roaring" down the road on his super-charged Segway surrounded by hoards of baddies. We see Max being hit multiple times, reeling from the shock of each blow, but he just keeps going.
Baddie #1 - Curse that Segway, if we could just knock Max down we'd be able to ravage the orphanage and take over that oil refinery...
(You can take it from there though I recommend that you don't.
Within days, I was on a mailing list for volunteer fire fighters. Volunteer Firefighters? I'm reaaaaaaaaaaally curious how I ended up with that. heh.
:-D
Simple. You probably got too many +1 Flamebait mods.
Get an old Cyrix chip and a regular PCI video card.
Once you get UT down to about 2 - 3 frames per second I'm sure you won't have any 'simulator sickness' problems.
Personally, Decent was the only one that really got me confused. (I'd keep trying to "flip the world" in my head to figure out which why my ship was flying.)
It's kind of ironic that they "added" the Zeroth law well after robots were created. I guess the original positronic brain coder forgot his Comp Sci arrays rules and started counting at 1.
:-D
Positronic Brain SP 1 was needed to correct the oversight.
The minute they see Mozilla on Linux they could just pop up one of two ads for a click:
1) MS dissed on SlashDot! Read all about it here!
2) 1337 H4x0r g1rls h3r3!!!
The real challenge would be finding the body space to run off the "Windows Printer Test Page"
People who really understand a language could write it from scratch if they had to.
I have some very bad memories of trying to write a "meta-circular evaluator" in scheme.
As I used to say: Any language that's a dialect of a speech impediment should simply be avoided.
Naw, R J Reynolds and Phillip Morris promote open sores.
What?!? You mean they can get it down to only 8 hours? :-D
I'd say your chances of getting laid are better if you tell 'em you're resurrecting a '53 Corvette than a PDP-8.
Ummm, because I'm confused? :-D
No, I give bad information to sites that I don't want to have my info. SlashDot isn't one that I feel the need to pollute.
From now on whenever you're at a store that wants personal information just give them the info of either the spam queen or king featured recently here in SlashDot.
Personally, whenever I'm asked to provide an email address I just type in billg@microsoft.com.
Course Syllabus - How to recognize theft.
"`Theft' is a harsh word, but that it is, pure and simple," the letter stated. "... It is no different from walking into the campus bookstore and in a clandestine manner walking out with a textbook without paying for it."
And yet strangely enough no one has ever been prosecuted for theft in any of these cases. People have been charged with copyright infringement but not charges of THEFT have ever been filed.
Extra credit assignment: Come up with 10 non-sequitor shop lifting examples to equate with P2P downloading.
It turns out it wasn't arson, but merely a misunderstanding.
They asked him to install the new "firewall"...
Be careful with the mailbox. Technically that's Federal property and you can't just simply go and stuff things into it. Flyers on the windshield, however, are perfectly legal.
Personally, I think a good number of flyers up the tailpipe is the way to go.
The Windows brain:
Clippy - It appears you're trying to catch a ball...
*THUD* OUCH!
The Linux brain:
Guy named Beowulf #1: Move left 3 feet.
Guy named Beowulf #2: Move forward 2 feet.
Guy named Beowulf #3: Raise arms 10 inches.
Guy named Beowulf #4: Catch ball.
The Apple brain:
This would be a lot easier if the ball were translucent. Also, the Apple ball only has one seam to make it easier for the user.
MS stated they were going to spend $500 million in advertising during the first year. The numbers you're looking at now are related to what, the current quarter? (Lost $177m in 3 months ended Sept 30th.)
When do you think they spent most of that $500 million? That's right, the launch events, the pre-release hype, and everything leading up to that first day. (Think of all of those campus tours and giveaways and what not.)
This is talking about the losses of the box for the most recent quarter. Marketing expenditures for the XBox have decreased dramatically since then.
In fact, losses accelerated when they clipped $100 off the price tag. They've managed to do some work to decrease the cost of the box since then but nowhere near a 33% cost reduction.
Of course they won't write code perfectly.
Nobody's asking them to write code perfectly.
People ARE asking them to write NEW code to the current environment. MS continues to simply slap functionality on top of the NT code base. (2000 and XP are still built on top of the initial NT code base.)
Microsoft knows that they have some serious security problems in their code. MS SVP Brian Valentine has admitted that Windows wasn't designed with security in mind.
Fine. We'll accept all that.
The thing is for us to accept that MS is serious about security they're going to have to throw out Windows and start again from the ground up. (Just look at Apple and the OS X line.) You can even code in backwards compatibility, just sandbox it.
Of course the movie was only 2 hours long so I guess we'll just have to take their word for it. :-D
Ummm, gee, didn't you register to SlashDot?
:-D
What is so darn evil about having to register to read an article at the NY Times? It's not like you can't just register as Bill Gates or something there.
Better yet, register as that Spam Queen from the other article.
There's a perception gap in that.
The problem is that the "average computer user" doesn't think that by simply turning on their box they're doing the equivalent of leaving the keys in the car with the door open. The fact that that is what they're doing is a pretty sad testimony to the default security configuration of certain OS's.
What wonderful logic. Truely insightful. And, tragically, completely useless in today's IT job market.
Companies looking for temp workers (heaven forbid they think about actually hiring someone) have a long and detailed laundry list of "buzz words" that they think are job requirements/necessary skill sets. If your resume doesn't hit in the word matching then out it goes.
The best "buzz word" to have these days is probably Web Services. The good thing is that successfully implementing real Web Services actually requires a generalist.
So, tack a little XML knowledge onto the old resume and slap in a few words about B2B and EAI. This could actually lead to something interesting.
Good luck.
Yes it's a library. It's a place where people go to get information.
Well, these "filters" block information. Some of it real garbage that people shouldn't be seeing, but some of it is also useful, necessary, and possibly even life saving information.
To add insult to injury, we're being asked to trust one or two corporations with "protecting our children". They won't even let us look at the list of sites that they block (understandable as that is their business). Without that information what's to keep them from blocking every site and page with the word breast in it? (You won't even be able to view your local restauraunts menu online.)
Sigh, no. I didn't even imply that either.
Again, the original point was that there could be a case made that the MPAA might be leaking these movies to get the anti-piracy result that they want.
That case would need to be backed with proper evidence for it to be more than an "interesting theory". I merely got involved in this when someone tried to dismiss the first argument as a simple MPAA is bad thing.