> It's one of the least-annoying there is. This is astroturfing and unsubstantiated FUD.
> Apple probably didn't want to add it at all but only did it grudgingly, More astroturfing or possibly groteseque stupidity -- Proprietary DRM is the cornerstone of Apple's online music business
> I don't get why she's complaining about Apple's DRM specifically. Because it has 90% of the market. Initally, the RIAA probably thought non-interoperable DRM was a great idea because Apple, Real, and Microsoft would split the market, and people would end up re-purchasing music depending on device compatibility.
However at this point, Apple is so dominate, the market for online music can never really grow larger than Apple wants it to be. There's whole categories of digital music devices that are not feasible right now because of the lack of iTMS compatibility. So while Apple grew the market from nothing, now that it's established. they are really the limiting factor to the total size of the market and how the songs are priced and marketed.
Or at least that's how the RIAA would see it -- and they're not always exactly objective. But still, if there were to do it over again, they would be industry-wide standards for DRM.
Where are our 10GHz Pentium 4s now? Does anyone really remember Intel's promise? Does anyone really care?
Intel did put itself through a whole round of public humiliation over this.
And are you actually suggesting that Intel was lying when they stated they could scale NetBurst to 10Ghz? It turned out to be huge engineering and strategic mistake that's cost them dearly (see recent financial news).
Note that you can install IE on Win95 and NT4 without choosing the ActiveDesktop. Which makes those OSes a lot safer than Win98 which comes it on by default and requires some hacking to disable.
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Back in the day sysadmins were taken largely from the highly educated, highly cynical, highly independent portion of the population, motivated by their own drummer, the computers themselves.
I think you are confusing "University Sysadmins" that dominated the early internet with "Corporate Sysadmins" that have always done whatever the boss wanted.
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For the most part, the general Internet hosting market is pretty much the worthless segement of the market. Yes, this is an area where Apache/LAMP dominates, but mainly only because it's cheap for ISPs to offer the services and there's a ton of pre-cooked forum/ecomm/blog packages out there.
When you get into custom developed sites, there's a few things to note -- (A) A large percentage run behind firewalls and will never be counted by Netcraft. (B) People tend to use Java or.NET much more often than Perl or PHP. (C) IIS is very very common on the Intranet, even for Java stuff.
The truth is nobody cares what GoDaddy uses to park domains. Maybe it's a technical test of IIS in some fashion, but is it really worth it for Microsoft to convert sites that aren't doing anything? Windows/IIS will never compete in the $20/month free PHP package market, so it's not really worth bothering about.
You are absoltuely correct. Something like 90% of Netcraft is parked domains, vhosted thousands to a single server.
But every single "Security Doesn't Have Anything to Do With Marketshare" argument seems to start with a reference to these meaningless statistics. So, if the statistics shift, the faulty arguments about Linux security are weakened. Therefore it's a huge freaking deal to Linux Zealots.
Bruce Perens got so worked up about these stats, that he's starting a movement for people to park their domains on Linux servers. I wish I was making this up, but sadly it shows you the level of astounding intellect in play in Linux Advocacy circles.
This entire thing is non-news. IBM was not shipping Linux on PCs and ThinkPads. Now Levano is not shipping Linux on PCs and ThinkPads. There's been no change in policy or "backtracking".
Apparently a lot of you saw an IBM Linux commercial and then invented a fantasy world where IBM was selling Linux to desktop users. They weren't, and they've been consistant in saying that there is no real demand for such outside of particular consulting opportunitites.
Oh please, a significant portion of the financial support for the Democratic party comes from Hollywood. As a whole the Dems are more "pro-IP" than the GOP is.
Strongly typed interfaces catch simple mistakes, but not any mistakes that would have survived the most casual testing by the developer while making something.
"most casual testing" != "testing every possible code path with every possible condition".
My experience is that multiprogrammer project + weak-typing produces a lot of type-checking code such as: if (x==null) error if (typeof(x)!=integer) error
Simply so the error condition is invoked in someone elses code rather than your code. So you end up with almost as much 'typing' overhead as you would have had you just used a strongly typed langauge to begin with.
However, for smaller single-programmer projects, weak-typing (or duck-typing or whatever you want to call it) can work well, and there's some interesting runtime stuff you can do. But it doesn't scale well to more typical larger groups.
I don't know if Disney was interested in the PPV part, but they were boycotting DVD because they felt the DRM system was fatally flawed... and they turned out to be right.
They don't say that much. HL2 has a great setting, and you can *imagine* that there must be a great story behind that setting. But in terms of actual in-game story content? No.
The Inq does seem to have a somewhat poor reputation on this site and elsewhere; any chance anyone could tell me why? Are there documented cases of the Inq lying, or being deceitful?
I think people confuse the Inq with the similar site The Register -- they're both british, both have similar looks, and similar writing styles. Except The Register prints all sorts of garbage, while the Inqurier tends to be right on the money with their rumors.
Most of their info is not especially interesting chip production details, but IIRC The Inqurier correctly predicted that Intel was dumping the P4 Netburst core in favor the Pentium-M design months before Intel made any announcements.
A PDF that doesn't open in Adobe Reader is pretty much useless. Microsoft doesn't make a PDF reader, so there's no reason for them to "extend" the PDF spec.
Now, I suppose it's possible that MS will create PDFs that open slowly, or cause Reader to crash sometimes or something foul of that nature. But it's more likely that Adobe is just freaking out because of the potential lost revenue.
I think the word you're looking for is "immersion"
Either that or "gimmick". The worst case scenario is that the controller will be used for only for titles like "Virtual Wok" and that regular action games would still be better played with the normal controllers.
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> It's one of the least-annoying there is.
This is astroturfing and unsubstantiated FUD.
> Apple probably didn't want to add it at all but only did it grudgingly,
More astroturfing or possibly groteseque stupidity -- Proprietary DRM is the cornerstone of Apple's online music business
> I don't get why she's complaining about Apple's DRM specifically.
Because it has 90% of the market. Initally, the RIAA probably thought non-interoperable DRM was a great idea because Apple, Real, and Microsoft would split the market, and people would end up re-purchasing music depending on device compatibility.
However at this point, Apple is so dominate, the market for online music can never really grow larger than Apple wants it to be. There's whole categories of digital music devices that are not feasible right now because of the lack of iTMS compatibility. So while Apple grew the market from nothing, now that it's established. they are really the limiting factor to the total size of the market and how the songs are priced and marketed.
Or at least that's how the RIAA would see it -- and they're not always exactly objective. But still, if there were to do it over again, they would be industry-wide standards for DRM.
Where are our 10GHz Pentium 4s now? Does anyone really remember Intel's promise? Does anyone really care?
Intel did put itself through a whole round of public humiliation over this.
And are you actually suggesting that Intel was lying when they stated they could scale NetBurst to 10Ghz? It turned out to be huge engineering and strategic mistake that's cost them dearly (see recent financial news).
I had an account on a box like that until about 2002. Got hacked and never came back.
> Good administrators, perhaps?
More likely good users , because they aren't digging up ancient local root holes.
Right-click on the network icon doesn't work for Win98?
Proliant turned a mediocre x86 server business into a huge success. HP would have been screwed if they hadn't aquired Compaq.
Note that you can install IE on Win95 and NT4 without choosing the ActiveDesktop. Which makes those OSes a lot safer than Win98 which comes it on by default and requires some hacking to disable.
Back in the day sysadmins were taken largely from the highly educated, highly cynical, highly independent portion of the population, motivated by their own drummer, the computers themselves.
I think you are confusing "University Sysadmins" that dominated the early internet with "Corporate Sysadmins" that have always done whatever the boss wanted.
For the most part, the general Internet hosting market is pretty much the worthless segement of the market. Yes, this is an area where Apache/LAMP dominates, but mainly only because it's cheap for ISPs to offer the services and there's a ton of pre-cooked forum/ecomm/blog packages out there.
.NET much more often than Perl or PHP. (C) IIS is very very common on the Intranet, even for Java stuff.
When you get into custom developed sites, there's a few things to note -- (A) A large percentage run behind firewalls and will never be counted by Netcraft. (B) People tend to use Java or
The truth is nobody cares what GoDaddy uses to park domains. Maybe it's a technical test of IIS in some fashion, but is it really worth it for Microsoft to convert sites that aren't doing anything? Windows/IIS will never compete in the $20/month free PHP package market, so it's not really worth bothering about.
You are absoltuely correct. Something like 90% of Netcraft is parked domains, vhosted thousands to a single server.
But every single "Security Doesn't Have Anything to Do With Marketshare" argument seems to start with a reference to these meaningless statistics. So, if the statistics shift, the faulty arguments about Linux security are weakened. Therefore it's a huge freaking deal to Linux Zealots.
Bruce Perens got so worked up about these stats, that he's starting a movement for people to park their domains on Linux servers. I wish I was making this up, but sadly it shows you the level of astounding intellect in play in Linux Advocacy circles.
Why? Because OSR2 doesn't support many of the infection vectors present in newer Win32 flavors. It's too old.
This is true only if you didn't install the IE4+ desktop update. Otherwise you have a load of vulnerable shell components that will never be patched.
This entire thing is non-news. IBM was not shipping Linux on PCs and ThinkPads. Now Levano is not shipping Linux on PCs and ThinkPads. There's been no change in policy or "backtracking".
Apparently a lot of you saw an IBM Linux commercial and then invented a fantasy world where IBM was selling Linux to desktop users. They weren't, and they've been consistant in saying that there is no real demand for such outside of particular consulting opportunitites.
Or, if you'd like a nice GUI to do this, download Tweak UI from Microsoft:
r toys/xppowertoys.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powe
I know NOT A SINGLE person that can actually work with the default settings of any MS system)
Maybe you need to expand your personal horizons a bit, because it sounds like you live in a nerd-centric universe.
Anyway, System State backup.
Observation.
Oh please, a significant portion of the financial support for the Democratic party comes from Hollywood. As a whole the Dems are more "pro-IP" than the GOP is.
Strongly typed interfaces catch simple mistakes, but not any mistakes that would have survived the most casual testing by the developer while making something.
"most casual testing" != "testing every possible code path with every possible condition".
My experience is that multiprogrammer project + weak-typing produces a lot of type-checking code such as:
if (x==null) error
if (typeof(x)!=integer) error
Simply so the error condition is invoked in someone elses code rather than your code. So you end up with almost as much 'typing' overhead as you would have had you just used a strongly typed langauge to begin with.
However, for smaller single-programmer projects, weak-typing (or duck-typing or whatever you want to call it) can work well, and there's some interesting runtime stuff you can do. But it doesn't scale well to more typical larger groups.
I don't know if Disney was interested in the PPV part, but they were boycotting DVD because they felt the DRM system was fatally flawed ... and they turned out to be right.
They don't say that much. HL2 has a great setting, and you can *imagine* that there must be a great story behind that setting. But in terms of actual in-game story content? No.
Reality disagres with your delusional mumblings. No version of Office reads PDF files.
The Inq does seem to have a somewhat poor reputation on this site and elsewhere; any chance anyone could tell me why? Are there documented cases of the Inq lying, or being deceitful?
I think people confuse the Inq with the similar site The Register -- they're both british, both have similar looks, and similar writing styles. Except The Register prints all sorts of garbage, while the Inqurier tends to be right on the money with their rumors.
Most of their info is not especially interesting chip production details, but IIRC The Inqurier correctly predicted that Intel was dumping the P4 Netburst core in favor the Pentium-M design months before Intel made any announcements.
That's the point of XML -- everything can be bastardized into it.
For text-based formats, there's certain reasons not to use XML, but if the goal is any form of interoperatbility, ya might as well use it.
A PDF that doesn't open in Adobe Reader is pretty much useless. Microsoft doesn't make a PDF reader, so there's no reason for them to "extend" the PDF spec.
Now, I suppose it's possible that MS will create PDFs that open slowly, or cause Reader to crash sometimes or something foul of that nature. But it's more likely that Adobe is just freaking out because of the potential lost revenue.
I think the word you're looking for is "immersion"
Either that or "gimmick". The worst case scenario is that the controller will be used for only for titles like "Virtual Wok" and that regular action games would still be better played with the normal controllers.
You can find the same "certification" information here also:
http://www.lenovo.com/think/linux (same page, different logo).
Anyways, big deal. IBM wasn't shipping Linux or even supporting it directly. Just providing some installation info.
First of all, Lenovo is not IBM; IBM was shipping Linux
The story sort of implies that, but IBM wasn't shipping Linux on its desktops.