This is unfortunately falling back on my previous argument, but DR-DOS is not an app, it's an operating system.
It's still well within the realm of what we're talking about. Let's use another example that is very legitimate. Quicktime. Everytime Quicktime came out with a version, Microsoft would throw a "fix" out for Windows 95 that would break it. Apple would come out with another version and whammo... yet another time a fix would break it.
Another one is Quarterdecks QEMM Memory Manager. Windows users had been using QEMM for a long time, and believe it or not, it still worked with Windows 95. After a few fixes, it was buggy and would crash the system. Now it's a distant memory. I could go on and on, but I'm not going to. I have already posted more than one example, exceeding your necessary limit.
Whats "stupid" is a person defending a company that has as obvious a dark history as the catholic church.
Look: they don't want to give you free entertainment. They want to sell entertainment to others.
They need to start making something worth while then, if it's not worth much if anything to him.
If you don't like that, don't do it. Don't fuck with other peoples livelihoods just because you're too cheap to buy your toys.
In todays world of the "buy it, then try it, don't like it then screw you" economy, I fully support copying and trying. If they made something good, you'll want the manual/cd/official support that comes with it. Whether or not he's too cheap to buy his "toys" is of no concern considering he already stated that it's not worth it.
That means that since he tried the product out (gasp) and found it to be worth less than he's willing to put out, the outcome is that he's not going to waste money. That doesn't make him cheap, that means that he's a good consumer.
It's just illegal nowadays to be a good consumer in the computer arena.
I hope one of these days I get the opportunity to steal from you.
Awwww yeah.... Spoken like a real corporate businessman there. (no sarcasm...)
You decide that you will not use Product A at all, because copying it is morally, ethically and legally wrong. If it's not worth $10 to you, then why would you want a copy? (the step you missed).
Let's skip right to the point here... the last application/game/other binary I saw at the store that was $10 was a shareware application back in 1995. Most are > $50.00.
All morals out of the way (morals? pashaw... no one thinks of morals when I'm on the recieving end of a screw) it isn't in any regards stealing. Hell, the least that any company could do is offer a legitimate demo. Most of the time, that's why it's done! I'll go on the line here and say that most of the copying of "pirated" software I have done is to evaluate it. I have a whole slew of purchased software over here because of it. However, if I find that it crashes my system, or it doesn't work as promised I use the nice delete function because sure enough, it's not worth my time.
Well, obviously it's worth something. People don't do anything for no reason whatsoever.
Evidentally you don't go outside very often:)
I bet you go to car dealerships and drive cars off the lot that are 'too expensive' for you too.
Well, if I could somehow replicate the car by driving it off the lot for 15 minutes, wouldn't you do it? LOL Besides, driving a car off of the lot for a test drive is legal... something I don't see in the software industry. However, the trend of little tidbits costing outrageous amounts of money tends to transcend the two industries.
Since the thing tracks how many miles it has to go before needing an oil change, I expect future models will check their mileage, and then automatically call the closest dealership (determined by GPS) to schedule an appointment.
Oh that'd be just peachy.... everyone knows how economical and speedy dealerships are when it comes to service. "yeah, your car needs an oil change.. ya need to bring it by tuesday morning about oh... 7:00AM. It should be done sometime wednesday morning. your cost'll be around 79 dollars."
I wonder though, with all the advents that have occured lately, (9/11, security tightening, civil right violations that are state sanctioned) how will the gov't get there hands into this? I know it sounds slightly stupid to think, but the cautious side of me *knows* beyond a shadow of a doubt there will be some kind of sniffer running. Hell, since you can't bring nail files onto the plane, whats to stop people from just turning off their freakin' laptop and cracking peoples skulls with it? (users of Dell Latitudes know what I'm talking about.. the thing almost looks designed for that)
But seriously... caution by the consumer cattle needs to be taken. I've wondered about the airplane phones for years, but at the price of those I seriously doubt anyone but a PHB or a PHB lacky would use one of those... or someone with a corporate card and no reason to hold back:)
Man, if I only got 64kbps at my office, I would be talking to our network admin! 64 kbps reminds me of the days of sharing a 56k dial-up internet connection among 30 people. Now that was slow...
How does the same bandwidth of a single-channel isdn connection remind you of a 56k modem dialup (usually connecting at 44k and having variances due to the line flucuations) shared between 30 people??
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so does that actually mean that if your going 50% the speed of light towards the broadcast satellite, you'll lose a certain percentage of bandwidth due to packets making it to the satellite almost instantaneously and not being retransmitted due to the satellite being COMPLETELY DISMEMBERED by the craft flying 50% the speed of light from the surface of the earth to the orbiting object only miles above the surface? At that rate, we could make a flight from NY to LA in a little over a hundredth of a second.
Note: subtle humer, and trying to bring things into relativity. Any craft travelling 334.8 Million MPH (approximately half the speed of light? 3.348e+08) towards an object only 20 or so miles above the surface would reach it in a little over 1 millionth of a second. (is that right? 0.000108 seconds? rounded of course.)
Of course, we're talking about Microwave frequencies, so it's not exactly light speed. Last I checked, that was one of the downfalls of satellite internet. (high MTU to make up for the highly latent transmit)
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Do you have any idea how expensive it is to maintain a PC for gaming? If you did you would never call a PC gamer cheap again.
Especially considering the fact that some of the newer games have requirements that are completely ludicrous. Why does ANY program require a 500Mhz processor with 128mb ram and 16mb a video ram? I can understand the 16mb video ram, but jesus... 500mhz?? My systems a 450mhz....
Microsoft makes software for the 90% of users that are mainstream. Never forget that. Chances are you don't fall into that category.
Funny how nearly every person I have fixed a system for complains repeatedly about the speed and reliability of the Microsoft software they use. Odd configurations do not consist of of a default Win95/98/2000 installation with service packs. I'd venture to say I have serviced more of the percentage than 10%. Not all of them are going to be in the 10% there.... if they are, then well... microsoft had better get a bomb ready, because that means the 10% is located in a very close proximity and can be easily annihilated:)
The 'best part' about.NET is the fact that it is compiled, managed, sandboxed code with a truly awesome set of tools to play with. Improved data management, almost every object in it is serializable (you can save it to the HD in text or binary format, and reload it later, built in, no extra coding).
Odd, java has been able to do all of this for at least a year or two now. No one has touted this to be a groundbreaking achievement, and mostly it's been ignored.
Java can be compiled to native code, sandboxed, and has a plethora of tools to deal with it. You can serialize the data without a problem....
in fact, the only reason I know of NOT to like.NET is the usual 'Windows Only' bullshit.
That would be the major kicker for me. Unless my primary audience I know would be Windows (and for the type of applications they want ya to write, I don't think so...) then I'd go for an alternative... not necessarily Java either. Depending on the situation, and the client-base, it could be Java, DHTML, CGI, Javascript, etc... a single tool for every task is not what the industry needs.
Wow, you sure are bittered by something. Have you been taking your medication?
Open source developers are not people who sit around all day long (well... most don't lol) and code for free. They merely donate their time, or if they are lucky enough to work for a company thats sponsoring an OSS project, they do it there. Open source software doesn't care how closed source software is doing... it just naturally progresses along as more people add their thoughts to the code, whether it's optimizations or functionality. I for one use Mozilla as my primary browser, and enjoy everything they have done. One of the smartest things that they did was take java completely out of the browser and let sun take care of it with SunSpot, the java plugin.
Yeah... your right. nearly every webbrowser out there (minus the ones that have stripped down functions) are memory hogs, including IE. It's just that most of the memory taken is in the operating system =) *LOL*
Unfortunately, as time goes on and programs become more complex, more memory is necessary. That, and the API on the underside seem to continuously take more memory! I wonder why... never took the time to find that out.
Have the people at SETI ever done any modelling to see what our old TV-signals would look like 10 light years from earth?
Probably slightly staticy =) I don't think the people at SETI could watch that broadcast without constantly trying to tune it in better. They'd probably just turn it off in disgust because the static would break up at the best part.
But seriously, SETI does signal examinations for a variance of different things. One of those things is repetition, and television/radio has alot of that to it.
I see the pointy that any further information about space (even out of our solar system) is useful, but what would we do if we found an earth-like planet?
Probably do what we normally do to newly found landmasses, send our missionaries there to "show them the truth" then shortly after they start to trust the missionaries send our soldiers and armed guards in to "bring order to the chaos of said barbaric society.". Granted that there is a sentient lifeform on that planet. Otherwise, we'll just infect the non-sentient lifeforms with our diseases.
it is expensive and time consuming to send a probe to Mars, would we really want to investigate this far off planet before we properly explore our own solar system? And put the money in when the results may only come back years after we are all dead? Nope.
Well, in order to actually do anything you have to DO SOMETHING. There is no, "gee, if it's free and takes no time, sure.." attitude about exploration or finding new frontiers. I'm sure the early discoverers didn't think that they could be doing better things than staring up at the sky plotting the stars... or even curing the diseases of the past which some killed the doctor themselves during the experimentation. The point is, we are at a point that we either take baby steps to the moon then further, or we take a giant leap to the edge of our solar system and beyond. Personally, I believe we can do a two-pronged approach. Search the skies with the new technologies we achieve in order to see whats out there further, while we are taking our baby steps into our earch-orbit station/moon station/mars mining complex. *g*
If we don't do it, is the next generation going to think the same thing? Are they going to be less lazy then our generation? Believe me, I already see the trend of the upcoming generation... we need to do as much as we can before they come into power because theres gonna be one HUGE stagnation period:)
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This is unfortunately falling back on my previous argument, but DR-DOS is not an app, it's an operating system.
It's still well within the realm of what we're talking about.
Let's use another example that is very legitimate. Quicktime. Everytime Quicktime came out with a version, Microsoft would throw a "fix" out for Windows 95 that would break it. Apple would come out with another version and whammo... yet another time a fix would break it.
Another one is Quarterdecks QEMM Memory Manager. Windows users had been using QEMM for a long time, and believe it or not, it still worked with Windows 95. After a few fixes, it was buggy and would crash the system. Now it's a distant memory. I could go on and on, but I'm not going to. I have already posted more than one example, exceeding your necessary limit.
Whats "stupid" is a person defending a company that has as obvious a dark history as the catholic church.
and if it can get into mysql, you can use the odbc connectivity to get into any other database.
Just a matter of semantics.
thats probably because most of us read first, start download, then post :)
Look: they don't want to give you free entertainment. They want to sell entertainment to others.
They need to start making something worth while then, if it's not worth much if anything to him.
If you don't like that, don't do it. Don't fuck with other peoples livelihoods just because you're too cheap to buy your toys.
In todays world of the "buy it, then try it, don't like it then screw you" economy, I fully support copying and trying. If they made something good, you'll want the manual/cd/official support that comes with it. Whether or not he's too cheap to buy his "toys" is of no concern considering he already stated that it's not worth it.
That means that since he tried the product out (gasp) and found it to be worth less than he's willing to put out, the outcome is that he's not going to waste money. That doesn't make him cheap, that means that he's a good consumer.
It's just illegal nowadays to be a good consumer in the computer arena.
I hope one of these days I get the opportunity to steal from you.
Awwww yeah....
Spoken like a real corporate businessman there. (no sarcasm...)
You decide that you will not use Product A at all, because copying it is morally, ethically and legally wrong. If it's not worth $10 to you, then why would you want a copy? (the step you missed).
:)
Let's skip right to the point here... the last application/game/other binary I saw at the store that was $10 was a shareware application back in 1995. Most are > $50.00.
All morals out of the way (morals? pashaw... no one thinks of morals when I'm on the recieving end of a screw) it isn't in any regards stealing. Hell, the least that any company could do is offer a legitimate demo. Most of the time, that's why it's done! I'll go on the line here and say that most of the copying of "pirated" software I have done is to evaluate it. I have a whole slew of purchased software over here because of it. However, if I find that it crashes my system, or it doesn't work as promised I use the nice delete function because sure enough, it's not worth my time.
Well, obviously it's worth something. People don't do anything for no reason whatsoever.
Evidentally you don't go outside very often
I bet you go to car dealerships and drive cars off the lot that are 'too expensive' for you too.
Well, if I could somehow replicate the car by driving it off the lot for 15 minutes, wouldn't you do it? LOL Besides, driving a car off of the lot for a test drive is legal... something I don't see in the software industry. However, the trend of little tidbits costing outrageous amounts of money tends to transcend the two industries.
they've had remove kill switches out for years...
I saw one in the J.C. Whitney book back in 1992. I was going to get one, but then I figured the novelty would wear off.
Arlington is cool in a number of ways - many police officers live in the county, so they drive their patrol cars home and keep them in the driveways.
HUH? Arlington != country... Saying that about on par with saying that Manassas is a metropolis. It's right across the river from DC, for godsake!
Since the thing tracks how many miles it has to go before needing an oil change, I expect future models will check their mileage, and then automatically call the closest dealership (determined by GPS) to schedule an appointment.
Oh that'd be just peachy.... everyone knows how economical and speedy dealerships are when it comes to service. "yeah, your car needs an oil change.. ya need to bring it by tuesday morning about oh... 7:00AM. It should be done sometime wednesday morning. your cost'll be around 79 dollars."
I wonder though, with all the advents that have occured lately, (9/11, security tightening, civil right violations that are state sanctioned) how will the gov't get there hands into this? I know it sounds slightly stupid to think, but the cautious side of me *knows* beyond a shadow of a doubt there will be some kind of sniffer running. Hell, since you can't bring nail files onto the plane, whats to stop people from just turning off their freakin' laptop and cracking peoples skulls with it? (users of Dell Latitudes know what I'm talking about.. the thing almost looks designed for that)
:)
But seriously... caution by the consumer cattle needs to be taken. I've wondered about the airplane phones for years, but at the price of those I seriously doubt anyone but a PHB or a PHB lacky would use one of those... or someone with a corporate card and no reason to hold back
Or would it just be illegal when they enter national airspace?
:)
but the question is... what gov't would it be illegal under at 40K ft above the atlantic/pacific? ahhh, minds will ponder such things...
it's still out, and catching on pretty quickly now as I see. More people are starting to use satellite internet through the compusa promotions...
That, and I *think* earthlink is providing it now for 69 bucks a month.
We did?
Must have been a mod or something....
Man, if I only got 64kbps at my office, I would be talking to our network admin! 64 kbps reminds me of the days of sharing a 56k dial-up internet connection among 30 people. Now that was slow...
How does the same bandwidth of a single-channel isdn connection remind you of a 56k modem dialup (usually connecting at 44k and having variances due to the line flucuations) shared between 30 people??
so does that actually mean that if your going 50% the speed of light towards the broadcast satellite, you'll lose a certain percentage of bandwidth due to packets making it to the satellite almost instantaneously and not being retransmitted due to the satellite being COMPLETELY DISMEMBERED by the craft flying 50% the speed of light from the surface of the earth to the orbiting object only miles above the surface?
At that rate, we could make a flight from NY to LA in a little over a hundredth of a second.
Note: subtle humer, and trying to bring things into relativity. Any craft travelling 334.8 Million MPH (approximately half the speed of light? 3.348e+08) towards an object only 20 or so miles above the surface would reach it in a little over 1 millionth of a second. (is that right? 0.000108 seconds? rounded of course.)
Of course, we're talking about Microwave frequencies, so it's not exactly light speed. Last I checked, that was one of the downfalls of satellite internet. (high MTU to make up for the highly latent transmit)
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to maintain a PC for gaming? If you did you would never call a PC gamer cheap again.
Especially considering the fact that some of the newer games have requirements that are completely ludicrous. Why does ANY program require a 500Mhz processor with 128mb ram and 16mb a video ram? I can understand the 16mb video ram, but jesus... 500mhz?? My systems a 450mhz....
Sure, I'd love try that... but unfortunately it's not readily available :(
Microsoft makes software for the 90% of users that are mainstream. Never forget that. Chances are you don't fall into that category.
:)
Funny how nearly every person I have fixed a system for complains repeatedly about the speed and reliability of the Microsoft software they use. Odd configurations do not consist of of a default Win95/98/2000 installation with service packs. I'd venture to say I have serviced more of the percentage than 10%. Not all of them are going to be in the 10% there.... if they are, then well... microsoft had better get a bomb ready, because that means the 10% is located in a very close proximity and can be easily annihilated
The 'best part' about .NET is the fact that it is compiled, managed, sandboxed code with a truly awesome set of tools to play with. Improved data management, almost every object in it is serializable (you can save it to the HD in text or binary format, and reload it later, built in, no extra coding).
.NET is the usual 'Windows Only' bullshit.
Odd, java has been able to do all of this for at least a year or two now. No one has touted this to be a groundbreaking achievement, and mostly it's been ignored.
Java can be compiled to native code, sandboxed, and has a plethora of tools to deal with it. You can serialize the data without a problem....
in fact, the only reason I know of NOT to like
That would be the major kicker for me. Unless my primary audience I know would be Windows (and for the type of applications they want ya to write, I don't think so...) then I'd go for an alternative... not necessarily Java either. Depending on the situation, and the client-base, it could be Java, DHTML, CGI, Javascript, etc... a single tool for every task is not what the industry needs.
I bet it didn't take Microsoft that long to release Windows 1.0
but it did take them nearly 10-14 years to get Windows even partially right with the release of Windows 95.
Wow, you sure are bittered by something. Have you been taking your medication?
Open source developers are not people who sit around all day long (well... most don't lol) and code for free. They merely donate their time, or if they are lucky enough to work for a company thats sponsoring an OSS project, they do it there. Open source software doesn't care how closed source software is doing... it just naturally progresses along as more people add their thoughts to the code, whether it's optimizations or functionality. I for one use Mozilla as my primary browser, and enjoy everything they have done. One of the smartest things that they did was take java completely out of the browser and let sun take care of it with SunSpot, the java plugin.
Yeah... your right. nearly every webbrowser out there (minus the ones that have stripped down functions) are memory hogs, including IE. It's just that most of the memory taken is in the operating system =) *LOL*
Unfortunately, as time goes on and programs become more complex, more memory is necessary. That, and the API on the underside seem to continuously take more memory! I wonder why... never took the time to find that out.
Have the people at SETI ever done any modelling to see what our old TV-signals would look like 10 light years from earth?
Probably slightly staticy =) I don't think the people at SETI could watch that broadcast without constantly trying to tune it in better. They'd probably just turn it off in disgust because the static would break up at the best part.
But seriously, SETI does signal examinations for a variance of different things. One of those things is repetition, and television/radio has alot of that to it.
I see the pointy that any further information about space (even out of our solar system) is useful, but what would we do if we found an earth-like planet?
:)
Probably do what we normally do to newly found landmasses, send our missionaries there to "show them the truth" then shortly after they start to trust the missionaries send our soldiers and armed guards in to "bring order to the chaos of said barbaric society.". Granted that there is a sentient lifeform on that planet. Otherwise, we'll just infect the non-sentient lifeforms with our diseases.
it is expensive and time consuming to send a probe to Mars, would we really want to investigate this far off planet before we properly explore our own solar system? And put the money in when the results may only come back years after we are all dead? Nope.
Well, in order to actually do anything you have to DO SOMETHING. There is no, "gee, if it's free and takes no time, sure.." attitude about exploration or finding new frontiers. I'm sure the early discoverers didn't think that they could be doing better things than staring up at the sky plotting the stars... or even curing the diseases of the past which some killed the doctor themselves during the experimentation. The point is, we are at a point that we either take baby steps to the moon then further, or we take a giant leap to the edge of our solar system and beyond. Personally, I believe we can do a two-pronged approach. Search the skies with the new technologies we achieve in order to see whats out there further, while we are taking our baby steps into our earch-orbit station/moon station/mars mining complex. *g*
If we don't do it, is the next generation going to think the same thing? Are they going to be less lazy then our generation? Believe me, I already see the trend of the upcoming generation... we need to do as much as we can before they come into power because theres gonna be one HUGE stagnation period
hmmmm...
does the previous relationship between worf and wesley have any bearing on the outcome of the future klingon treaties?
(any of you trekies who know about the homo books that are out probably are about as disgusted as I am about it, but it's kinda funny.)
maybe I'll buy an apple now...
at least I know the video card is made by a reputable company now.