What is this word? True computer industry professionals only know the term "Central Processing Unit".
>Or "RAM"
What is this "RAM" you are speaking of? Only the elite computing priests who are blessed to be operaters of the high and holy machines use the term "Random Access Memory".
>we mean CD/DVD drive.
"CD/DVD" what? Are you making these things up?
Please don't taint computer industry with your "popular culture" just because they use it.
>It's nice to see that some governmental anti-trust bodies have the backbone to stand up to Microsoft.
This isn't towards the poster, but more to the moderaters.
Everyone should have a good idea of how big MS is and how little the fine means to them. If I was MS I would be thinking along the lines of "... just the cost of doing business".
I go into a store buy a CD. How can an iPod play it? There is no laser reader/spinning area to put the cd in.
I have to "take the song off the CD, put it into a file". If you know how to do that, then you should be able to know how to put it into a different format.
>Why? The only thing that makes a cola a cola is the inclusion of the cola bean as an ingredient. What Pepsi, Coke, RC, and others do is vary the other ingredients, like sugar and caffeine, to taste.
Because technically, the big thing that differenciates colas is the marketting of them. Not everyone seriously cares about the difference between the taste of the colas. They can tell the difference, but I'm not sure the average person would pass up RC if they feel like a cola.
>Advocating that Linux should be the one true OS is to fall for the same kind of hubris that Microsoft is known for.
I never said that Linux is the one true OS. I believe that the OS doesn't matter in the long run. Even if you don't have the low level OS code, given enough time, you won't need it since you will realize its strenghts and weaknesses. MS or Linux or OSX, it just different flavours of cola.
Linux could be killed by a future draconian DRM/DMCA sort of product that wants be run on a locked down system.
From a pure technical point of view, your friend has a good point. But life is not purely technical. In theory, there should only be one "cola" product.
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Please, its not if the company is forcing him to work in chemcial plant with no protection. ITS JUST A CELL-PHONE.
My work place won't allow me to work in comfy shorts and open faced sandles and nothing else. (and my productivity is much higher when in comfy shorts) Aren't they treating me like a piece of meat?
But I'm not sure if it applies here because its not personal information the evil forces of evil would like to capture, just which IP address did what "bunny killing" act.
They can then go to the ISP to trace it back to you.
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Actually, its Alias Wavefront which owns Maya and SGI owns Alias.
Considering how successful the one button mouse is for them, I never underestimate Apple.
This, actually, is true.
Before, tv rips were boarderline because enlarging it to full screen would make it nicely pixalated.
Now, high quality, "why am I paying for cable" tv-rips are much easier.
Its just different negotiation tactics. Each party is seeing how far the other will go. The EU just played one card that the DoJ felt it didn't.
EU was in negotiations before this announcement, and thats all it is, an announcement. Don't be fooled into taking it as a statement of fact/law.
Check out the HP iPaq 1900 series.
Unless you have really bad eyes, its usable in full day light.
>you're talking about a sample size of 1 here for MS on the contrary most open source security holes I hear about on /. are patched in less than 2 days
And you are talking about a sample size of 1 for websites as a source of news.
And a highly biased one at that.
>Velocity was one of those concepts used by our CTO to explain why he didn't have to work more than 4 hours per day.
>He no longer works here.
No, he just got so good at it he doesn't have to work more than 0 hours per day.
Proof by example.
>if I put together a solid DDoS exploit for Windows using XNA, it will affect XBOX and Windows Mobile devices?
.NET for games. .NET has yet to establish itself anywhere useful except
So are you saying that cross platform compatability is bad? Should all those people who port Linux are wrong?
>Moreover, this sounds like
So we shouldn't do anything new?
>the word "CPU"
What is this word? True computer industry professionals only know the term "Central Processing Unit".
>Or "RAM"
What is this "RAM" you are speaking of? Only the elite computing priests who are blessed to be operaters of the high and holy machines use the term "Random Access Memory".
>we mean CD/DVD drive.
"CD/DVD" what? Are you making these things up?
Please don't taint computer industry with your "popular culture" just because they use it.
But what is preventing another MS to rise?
>It's nice to see that some governmental anti-trust bodies have the backbone to stand up to Microsoft.
This isn't towards the poster, but more to the moderaters.
Everyone should have a good idea of how big MS is and how little the fine means to them. If I was MS I would be thinking along the lines of "... just the cost of doing business".
I go into a store buy a CD. How can an iPod play it? There is no laser reader/spinning area to put the cd in.
I have to "take the song off the CD, put it into a file". If you know how to do that, then you should be able to know how to put it into a different format.
>Yes, playground bullies are indeed petty. Thanks for the insight!
Can I use that excuse for everything I say?
Its exactly what a second-rate troll would do.
Its her middle name.
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When you make jokes at someone's mother its a petty thing to do.
What's your mother's name?
>Why? The only thing that makes a cola a cola is the inclusion of the cola bean as an ingredient. What Pepsi, Coke, RC, and others do is vary the other ingredients, like sugar and caffeine, to taste.
Because technically, the big thing that differenciates colas is the marketting of them. Not everyone seriously cares about the difference between the taste of the colas. They can tell the difference, but I'm not sure the average person would pass up RC if they feel like a cola.
>Advocating that Linux should be the one true OS is to fall for the same kind of hubris that Microsoft is known for.
I never said that Linux is the one true OS. I believe that the OS doesn't matter in the long run. Even if you don't have the low level OS code, given enough time, you won't need it since you will realize its strenghts and weaknesses. MS or Linux or OSX, it just different flavours of cola.
>just go along with what the consumers have picked to be the defacto standard.
Who picked Apple to be the defacto standard??!?!
You do know that the largest portable music format is CD?
And where does the iPod read CDs directly? (No ripping it doesn't count because then it doesn't really matter if its wma or mp3 or ogg).
Linux could be killed by a future draconian DRM/DMCA sort of product that wants be run on a locked down system.
From a pure technical point of view, your friend has a good point. But life is not purely technical. In theory, there should only be one "cola" product.
If the editors wanted to they can, have have before, remove the post.
Its ultimately up to them what happens to them.
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When will Apple get the idea of the second mouse button?
Please, its not if the company is forcing him to work in chemcial plant with no protection. ITS JUST A CELL-PHONE.
My work place won't allow me to work in comfy shorts and open faced sandles and nothing else. (and my productivity is much higher when in comfy shorts) Aren't they treating me like a piece of meat?
And what flavour is your iMac?
Almost all of them are restricted or can be by non-disclosure agreements or the good old DMCA.
If car makers give them away freely, then they lose that protection.
Its not that they don't listen, people can disagree what is good and what isn't.
Its the fact that they didn't even click on the link. How good can their judgement be?
No, it effects all private corporations too.
But I'm not sure if it applies here because its not personal information the evil forces of evil would like to capture, just which IP address did what "bunny killing" act.
They can then go to the ISP to trace it back to you.