How's this for lucky timing? Audi, through their sponsorship deal with Real Madrid, has gifted the entire Real roster, including Beckham, with brand new, fully loaded Audi Q7 SUVs.
Of course, all the thieves have to do is twiddle two dropdown lists...
Thinks "Trustworthy Computing" is about security...
I said that Trustworthy Computing was a response to security failures, not that TC was "about" security. TC was really about marketing and stalling for time until Longhorn.
...and recommends XP SP2.
I merely compared XP SP2 to XP base. What makes you think that was a general recommendation?
don't recall Microsoft ever disabling [M$Office] features in individual applications based on those tiers
The only thing anybody could come up with was additional stencil sets in Visio Professional. Do you recall something more substantial than that?
Accuses the EFF of "worst-case-scenario hyperbole"
If you can show me, book, chapter, and verse, where in the Bible God retired and named Fred von Lohmann his successor, I will surely recant, as the word of the EFF is now Absolute Truth.
Blames DRM on "Big Media," exonerating Microsoft, and says Vista DRM is no worse than OSX or XP DRM.
I don't see anything in that post that exonerates Microsoft. If you read outside the italicized type, you'll see that I accuse Microsoft and other companies of acquiescing to Big Media's demands. If we apply your standards to your assertion, you've just exonerated Big Media.
Praises Vista
The exact quote is: "Video drivers have moved to user mode in Vista (and praise be for that!)" I was praising Microsoft for a correct design decision. Moving video drivers from user to kernel space in Win2000 and XP destabilized the OS, introducing problems that didn't exist when video drivers were in user space in NT4. Of course, to a paranoid, frothing-at-the-mouth zealot, praising Microsoft makes me a blasphemer.
Loathes the free software community.
I'm going to repost that link verbatim. I challenge anyone on this planet who has a faint grasp of the English language to find any loathing in the following statement: "The nature of Open Source means that the Linux 'community' is both the users and the distro maintainers. Poor Dell* is stuck in the middle. *: I can't believe I just used 'poor Dell' in a sentence."
The GPL can only tell you how to share source code. If you want a religion, find a church.
So, now that you've used Mepis to push your old arch-nemesis' software aside, are you done with Aunt Betty's computer? Not bloody likely. "I can't figure out how to work MythTV, the remote control's dead, I can't find my documents, I have to re-enter all of my e-mail settings and I can't find the cheat sheet from the ISP, and that pretty Thomas Kincade screensaver is gone. Oh, and how do I get to the iTunes store?"
The job's not done until the end user's new environment is as comfortable and familiar as their old environment. That's where Linux falls down today. Most distros' idea of migration is a non-destructive partition sizer and Grub. Once you can boot both, you're on your own.
Oh, man, I don't even want to think about the paperwork necessary to pay taxes to both Pittsburgh and Paragon City. I'd keep it all in some offshore account, but I'm positive Lord Recluse is skimming off the top...
An Illinois state representative found an obscure rule in Jefferson's Manual. If both houses of legislature in any one state pass a joint resolution calling for impeachment proceedings to begin, the US House is supposed to be bound by rule to comply. I say "supposed to be" because Jefferson's Manual isn't legally binding. While it's generally followed, the Constitution is the last word, and the Constitution says nothing on states' ability to initiate or compel impeachment.
So far, proposals have been made in Illinois and California, and there have been rumblings in Vermont.
Because your rights as a citizen of the United States of America should always have a higher priority than your loyalty to any political party. Always.
The EFF post is engaging in a bit of worst-case-scenario hyperbole. If Judge Patel is having a "Maximum Marilyn" kind of day, the RIAA cartel could forfeit the copyrights themselves. More likely, they'll just forfeit the claims made against Hummer Winblad and Bertelsman, since those claims were part of the plan to extend the cartel's control to online services, at the expense of the free market.
Apple was targetting their audience for this one. Since the 17" PB has been a popular choice for video editing/processing, Apple chose the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention to introduce the 17" MBP.
I sometimes wonder if Sony's R&D money would have been better spent on a read-only Memory Stick variant for games. With some clever engineering, they could prevent "PSP Sticks" from being read by any old schmuck with a 6-in-1 card reader, ROM chips would be cheaper, and load times should improve.* I wonder how much the UMD drive's motor has on battery life?
*: Based on my own anecdotal evidence. Maybe my sample set is too small, but every PSP game I've played has been slower than dirt.
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The PS2 is nice, but it's 'incapable of rendering 3-way sex scenes in realtime.'
Low-polygon models have, um, nice personalities. But I'm pretty sure a PS2 can render a couple of paper bags in realtime.
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From the fact that the only new feature in the past few years was the popup blocker. Microsoft hadn't been arsed to do anything about new features or standards compliance until Firefox came along. The IE "team" was just there to spackle over the latest high-profile security crack.
IE is still the 500 lb. gorilla in user share terms, but it's a lazy, out-of-shape 500 lb. gorilla.
So when did that AC say that he was a Democrat, hmm? Or a liberal? Oh, that's right. He didn't. He just said something crude and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone who has friends or loved ones in combat.
You were the one who, with Pavlovian reliability, equated "asshole" with "liberal".
Now do you see what's wrong with this nation? I'm sick and tired of this shit. All of it. From both sides. It's poison, and it has made its way deep inside all of us. Slowly, from the inside out, it's burning through people, families, congregations, communities.
How can we come together to find a cure when it's a poison designed to divide us?
How DARE you debase me by presuming that, by ticking "Democrat" on my voter registration form, I agree with every AC troll who posts something crude for the sole purpose of pissing you off.
The wide-ranging poll also shows that 58% of those serving in country say the U.S. mission in Iraq is clear in their minds, while 42% said it is either somewhat or very unclear to them, that they have no understanding of it at all, or are unsure. While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly "to retaliate for Saddam's role in the 9-11 attacks," 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was "to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq."
if you have a GSM phone on European frequencies, it's likely you've heard this noise - cell phones interfere with almost *any* radio and audio equipment in Europe probably due to some harmonic off the frequency used
Oh, it's American GSM phones, too. Put a GSM phone near just about anything with a speaker, and you'll hear the RF noise before the phone starts ringing. Motorola RAZRs are horrible for that. At work, the noise in the speakerphone on my desk is worse from my neighbor's RAZR, one cubicle over, than it is from my T616, one foot away.
...can't you see how easily that will translate right over to video games, media players for video over the web, etc?
There is a point at which John Doe will say "Screw it. It ain't worth the trouble." And I think the HDCP requirement will be that point. Can you name a form of media that required a new monitor when the "old" monitor could display the same output? It's one thing to replace an old SDTV with a new HDTV. There are compelling visible benefits. It's another to replace a $1000 23" screen that's perfectly capable of 1080p with another $1000 23" screen that's perfectly capable of 1080p, just for a chip that makes the Blu-Ray drive happy. That's a lot of money for an incremental benefit. A Blu-Ray player for the TV will be cheaper.
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How's this for lucky timing? Audi, through their sponsorship deal with Real Madrid, has gifted the entire Real roster, including Beckham, with brand new, fully loaded Audi Q7 SUVs.
Of course, all the thieves have to do is twiddle two dropdown lists...
I said that Trustworthy Computing was a response to security failures, not that TC was "about" security. TC was really about marketing and stalling for time until Longhorn.
I merely compared XP SP2 to XP base. What makes you think that was a general recommendation?
The only thing anybody could come up with was additional stencil sets in Visio Professional. Do you recall something more substantial than that?
If you can show me, book, chapter, and verse, where in the Bible God retired and named Fred von Lohmann his successor, I will surely recant, as the word of the EFF is now Absolute Truth.
I don't see anything in that post that exonerates Microsoft. If you read outside the italicized type, you'll see that I accuse Microsoft and other companies of acquiescing to Big Media's demands. If we apply your standards to your assertion, you've just exonerated Big Media.
The exact quote is: "Video drivers have moved to user mode in Vista (and praise be for that!)" I was praising Microsoft for a correct design decision. Moving video drivers from user to kernel space in Win2000 and XP destabilized the OS, introducing problems that didn't exist when video drivers were in user space in NT4. Of course, to a paranoid, frothing-at-the-mouth zealot, praising Microsoft makes me a blasphemer.
I'm going to repost that link verbatim. I challenge anyone on this planet who has a faint grasp of the English language to find any loathing in the following statement: "The nature of Open Source means that the Linux 'community' is both the users and the distro maintainers. Poor Dell* is stuck in the middle. *: I can't believe I just used 'poor Dell' in a sentence."
The GPL can only tell you how to share source code. If you want a religion, find a church.
So, now that you've used Mepis to push your old arch-nemesis' software aside, are you done with Aunt Betty's computer? Not bloody likely. "I can't figure out how to work MythTV, the remote control's dead, I can't find my documents, I have to re-enter all of my e-mail settings and I can't find the cheat sheet from the ISP, and that pretty Thomas Kincade screensaver is gone. Oh, and how do I get to the iTunes store?"
The job's not done until the end user's new environment is as comfortable and familiar as their old environment. That's where Linux falls down today. Most distros' idea of migration is a non-destructive partition sizer and Grub. Once you can boot both, you're on your own.
But ya got Bill Gates real good, didn't ya?
Oh, man, I don't even want to think about the paperwork necessary to pay taxes to both Pittsburgh and Paragon City. I'd keep it all in some offshore account, but I'm positive Lord Recluse is skimming off the top...
An Illinois state representative found an obscure rule in Jefferson's Manual. If both houses of legislature in any one state pass a joint resolution calling for impeachment proceedings to begin, the US House is supposed to be bound by rule to comply. I say "supposed to be" because Jefferson's Manual isn't legally binding. While it's generally followed, the Constitution is the last word, and the Constitution says nothing on states' ability to initiate or compel impeachment.
So far, proposals have been made in Illinois and California, and there have been rumblings in Vermont.
Specter is in the 2nd year of his term. It's Rick Santorum's seat that's up for re-election this year.
Because your rights as a citizen of the United States of America should always have a higher priority than your loyalty to any political party. Always.
Well, consider the timeline of the last major product announcement.
I don't blame Apple for being a little gun-shy right now. I doubt Apple will pre-announce another product launch before the next keynote.
The EFF post is engaging in a bit of worst-case-scenario hyperbole. If Judge Patel is having a "Maximum Marilyn" kind of day, the RIAA cartel could forfeit the copyrights themselves. More likely, they'll just forfeit the claims made against Hummer Winblad and Bertelsman, since those claims were part of the plan to extend the cartel's control to online services, at the expense of the free market.
Apple was targetting their audience for this one. Since the 17" PB has been a popular choice for video editing/processing, Apple chose the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention to introduce the 17" MBP.
You might want to get that sarcasm detector looked at.
Only if your definition of "more fuel efficient" is "replace every Lincoln Navigator with a Daewoo Lanos". Score: -1, appeal to ridicule.
No platinum. Fewer diamonds than a Victoria's Secret bra. Lame.
I sometimes wonder if Sony's R&D money would have been better spent on a read-only Memory Stick variant for games. With some clever engineering, they could prevent "PSP Sticks" from being read by any old schmuck with a 6-in-1 card reader, ROM chips would be cheaper, and load times should improve.* I wonder how much the UMD drive's motor has on battery life?
*: Based on my own anecdotal evidence. Maybe my sample set is too small, but every PSP game I've played has been slower than dirt.
Low-polygon models have, um, nice personalities. But I'm pretty sure a PS2 can render a couple of paper bags in realtime.
Bethesda Nightmare Scenario #1:
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From the fact that the only new feature in the past few years was the popup blocker. Microsoft hadn't been arsed to do anything about new features or standards compliance until Firefox came along. The IE "team" was just there to spackle over the latest high-profile security crack.
IE is still the 500 lb. gorilla in user share terms, but it's a lazy, out-of-shape 500 lb. gorilla.
The nature of Open Source means that the Linux "community" is both the users and the distro maintainers. Poor Dell* is stuck in the middle.
*: I can't believe I just used "poor Dell" in a sentence.
So when did that AC say that he was a Democrat, hmm? Or a liberal? Oh, that's right. He didn't. He just said something crude and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone who has friends or loved ones in combat.
You were the one who, with Pavlovian reliability, equated "asshole" with "liberal".
Now do you see what's wrong with this nation? I'm sick and tired of this shit. All of it. From both sides. It's poison, and it has made its way deep inside all of us. Slowly, from the inside out, it's burning through people, families, congregations, communities.
How can we come together to find a cure when it's a poison designed to divide us?
How DARE you debase me by presuming that, by ticking "Democrat" on my voter registration form, I agree with every AC troll who posts something crude for the sole purpose of pissing you off.
This would be the poll in question, conducted by Zogby. Here's the critical paragraph, emphasis mine:
Sadly, Sturgeon's Law will trump both.
What else would those short shorts be showing off?
Although prosthetic legs would certainly explain why the controls sucked in Angel Of Darkness.
Oh, it's American GSM phones, too. Put a GSM phone near just about anything with a speaker, and you'll hear the RF noise before the phone starts ringing. Motorola RAZRs are horrible for that. At work, the noise in the speakerphone on my desk is worse from my neighbor's RAZR, one cubicle over, than it is from my T616, one foot away.
There is a point at which John Doe will say "Screw it. It ain't worth the trouble." And I think the HDCP requirement will be that point. Can you name a form of media that required a new monitor when the "old" monitor could display the same output? It's one thing to replace an old SDTV with a new HDTV. There are compelling visible benefits. It's another to replace a $1000 23" screen that's perfectly capable of 1080p with another $1000 23" screen that's perfectly capable of 1080p, just for a chip that makes the Blu-Ray drive happy. That's a lot of money for an incremental benefit. A Blu-Ray player for the TV will be cheaper.