I am still confused as to why some analysts are taking Microsoft's buy-in at face value, not questioning their statements regarding how the license is needed for windows-nix interoperability. Has anyone else of any significance purchsed a license at this point? I have seen nothing to indicate that anyone has. Certainly if the only purchaser to date is this particular "motivated buyer," then there's no possible doubt regarding the agenda that is being served.
The guys responding at 8:14 and 8:15 were merely responding, but your post is a gratuitous piling-on.
I don't consider advertising a total waste, but AMD's cash for this battle is not stacked aywhere near as high as Intel's. They couldn't hope to win an advertising/marketing war, even with superior products.
You must pick your battles, and putting money into R&D, and keeping the pressure on Intel to meet their prices, has paid off for AMD so far. I basically agree with the "unintelligent" poster.
Actually, the best address to provide scammers is uce@ftc.gov, especially if they are too dumb to know what that address is.
The FTC is acting against spam, at least scamming spammers, though not as much as you or I might like. I used to post in newsgroups with.gov addresses, but really -- what benefit is there in further bogging down the agencies that we'd like to help us?
Junis has an Amiga, quite a video-ready machine. Though he may have some problem with the popular pirate codecs, Junis could well be in the streets of Afghanistan, selling boots of AotC.
We will know as soon as Junis is ready for the Q&A Katz promised the NY Times would occur once things calm down in Afghanistan.
Though I'm not sure why things have to be calm for Junis to engage in further email. This does puzzle me. As time goes on, my faith in Junis does occasionally falter.
Obviously, I misunderstood you in my previous response.
The media metrics guys don't measure viewership or penetration for any channel that is not a client. Sundance and Independent Film Channel are both "niche" channels, there primarily to market to the crowd drawn by "art" and independent film, and I am sure they have not signed up for any metrics services.
Recent Cable Nielsen results are here, but Sundance and the Independent Film Channel aren't even counted.
You need to sharpen your Googling skills. A search for "Sundance Channel" (include the quotes) brings up their fancy-schmancy website at the top. It's not even a hard URL to guess.
I can see where a press release may be news. But this product announcement does not introduce any new technology, doesn't significantly lower the price of existing tech, so it's not news.
But what is more annoying is the headline: "HP DVD+R Writers Examined"... shee-it, this is a press release, a product announcement, not an "examination" of anything. What moved Hemos to term this an "examination?"
Isn't Hemos the fellah who deals the most with advertisers? He seemed to field most of the advertising questions during the recent chat. What happened to the "editorial firewall" Taco talked about?
If the standards battle is over, DVD+R can't be the winner, unless the forthcoming models beat the compatability stats for the existing models. According to tech-report.com, DVD-R works in 95.5% of existing players; DVD-RW and DVD+RW achieve less than half that. Of course, DVD+R may prove as compatible as DVD-R, but I think we need to see the stats before declaring a winner.
You're right, it is insoluble, and prohibitively expensive to even attempt to resolve. But that stil makes the "prrivacy policy" everyone feels compelled to post unenforcable and therefore pretty much a sham.
I don;t know the answer to the problem, I just know it's a problem.
I understand that os issues are tougher than tcp/ip issues. But that doesn't mean we don't see OS issues.
We do restore the registry for some issues, troubleshoot third party conflicts, resolve gpf's and ipf's. We do see systems that seem to be on their last legs, and often enough are able to help these people over the phone. Users aren't very good at distinguishing OS and TCP/IP issues; and there aren't many OS issues that we can't try to fix, with some success.
If we can't resolve an issue and it's OS-related, we do refer, but that's rarely. Anybody that gets referred to an OEM, generally are going to get their system restored. Even when we know that issue can be resolved with new drivers or a registry rollback.
Excuse me for thinking that it's a cop-out, maybe I'm wrong. But why even bother offering "OS Support" if that support begins and ends with a restore?
Unfortunately, a nuke and reinstall is about the only option in most cases.
That is a cop-out.
I am a tech support guy at an ISP. If we could rely on a recovery CD instead of real troubleshooting, life would sure be easier. It is very, very rarely that we have to tell a customer to go to his computer vendor.
The vast majority of issues that come our way, even those that seem at first rather complex, are resolvable over the phone by a good tech (granted, most people who call us can at least boot their OS, so that is some advantage for us).
Of course, on those rare occasions when we do make a referral to the vendor, we know exactly what will happen. Within 60 seconds, the question will be asked "Do you have your recovery cd?"
OT to go into here, I suppose, but briefly it was a "novelization" of a low-budget sci-fi/horror film, Brain Damage. Of course the word "novelization" brings in preconceived notions of what this book was, but I worked closely with the writer-director on this, precisely because we both thought there were dimensions to his screenplay that could be better expressed in fiction.
I'm aware of the practice, but this address was non-obvious and, as I mentioned earlier, they addressed me by *name*. Unlikely they would hit on both email ID and name.
I'm not fond of the collector's market myself. I worked for Starlog and Fangoria for several years and I guess I was the only person who didn't load up on movie promotional frebies for their collector value.
When I did my book, I did do a "collector's edition" -- but that was a practical matter. The three hundred advance mail orders I recieved was sufficient to finance the initial printing of 1000 hardcovers, "numbered and signed," of course.
That twenty-dollar hardcover sold very well, and what few reviews I got were quite good...so I decided to do a much cheaper paperback...of course, the paperback stiffed. People weren't interested in the content, just the collectavility. Yes, this did tick me off.
So I'm saying I am not into the collector's market, though I did use it to get my book out. What I do like about books is their heft -- the feeling that they sre something "of substance," however illusory that sensation may be.
Though I must point out that the crack-smoking moderator who downmodded me twice, while leaving you untouched...well, let's just say that, next to him, you hardly appear to be a humorless dipshit at all.
Hotmail. After avoiding them for ages, I created an account in order to scope Passport.
The "Greet-King" spam I received within a week of creating a hotmail account that I never used resulted in a lengthy bout of mails to their abuse department and to "TrustE" (the supposed industry "watchdog" which is actuallly just a shill to prevent guvmnt action).
Despite MS assurances that my information would not be shared, their insistence remained that Greet-King got my name and email address from me, when it was not at all possible. Despite the statement that "Hotmail will not sell, lease or rent its member lists with any third parties," they refuse to accept any statement on the user's part that the email address and my name were not shared anywhere.
Hence, a "useless" privacy policy. And a deception -- even if it was just a renegade MS employee that pilfered some user names, MS is uninterested in knowing about it. Carelessness that is not, I believe, an uncommon phenomenon.
I self-published a book back in '92. It made decent money for me, but reached market saturation when I still had a couple of hundred copies, in both hardcover and soft.
Of course, I still have 'em, and whenever I move that is the chief headache. But, even if they didn't have a certain intrinsic value to me, I couldn't toss 'em because bibliophiles seem to value them. (that is pretty pricey; Needful Things seems to have aquired some of my private documents, too, though, I can't for the life of me remember to whom I gave that stuff).
An E-Book would ease my moving burden, and eradicate the collector's market. Good thing? Bad thing? I don't know. I would miss the "feel" of a book, its heft in my hand that still gives me a feeling of having accomplished something by writing it. I'd say that's priceless, but a credit card company fucked that word up.
hehehe
I posted at 2, no one modded me up.
No one modded me down, either, which only proves that no one likes you.
Look, I'm joking. You're not a dipshit. Much.
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I am still confused as to why some analysts are taking Microsoft's buy-in at face value, not questioning their statements regarding how the license is needed for windows-nix interoperability. Has anyone else of any significance purchsed a license at this point? I have seen nothing to indicate that anyone has. Certainly if the only purchaser to date is this particular "motivated buyer," then there's no possible doubt regarding the agenda that is being served.
Funny that they changed "our" to "their," but neglected to expunge the abominable whorespeak "customer-centric."
I don't consider advertising a total waste, but AMD's cash for this battle is not stacked aywhere near as high as Intel's. They couldn't hope to win an advertising/marketing war, even with superior products.
You must pick your battles, and putting money into R&D, and keeping the pressure on Intel to meet their prices, has paid off for AMD so far. I basically agree with the "unintelligent" poster.
The FTC is acting against spam, at least scamming spammers, though not as much as you or I might like. I used to post in newsgroups with .gov addresses, but really -- what benefit is there in further bogging down the agencies that we'd like to help us?
Junis has an Amiga, quite a video-ready machine. Though he may have some problem with the popular pirate codecs, Junis could well be in the streets of Afghanistan, selling boots of AotC.
We will know as soon as Junis is ready for the Q&A Katz promised the NY Times would occur once things calm down in Afghanistan.
Though I'm not sure why things have to be calm for Junis to engage in further email. This does puzzle me. As time goes on, my faith in Junis does occasionally falter.
May Katz forgive me.
...this time I will preview...
The media metrics guys don't measure viewership or penetration for any channel that is not a client. Sundance and Independent Film Channel are both "niche" channels, there primarily to market to the crowd drawn by "art" and independent film, and I am sure they have not signed up for any metrics services.
Recent Cable Nielsen results are here, but Sundance and the Independent Film Channel aren't even counted.
You need to sharpen your Googling skills. A search for "Sundance Channel" (include the quotes) brings up their fancy-schmancy website at the top. It's not even a hard URL to guess.
That isinformative...especially for those who need the VCR plus codes or the rebroadcast times....you could work on your people skills though...
But what is more annoying is the headline: "HP DVD+R Writers Examined" ... shee-it, this is a press release, a product announcement, not an "examination" of anything. What moved Hemos to term this an "examination?"
Isn't Hemos the fellah who deals the most with advertisers? He seemed to field most of the advertising questions during the recent chat. What happened to the "editorial firewall" Taco talked about?
He said his stuff is on DV-tape, a media far more likely to be used for original content than the "rips" that you are imagining.
If the standards battle is over, DVD+R can't be the winner, unless the forthcoming models beat the compatability stats for the existing models. According to tech-report.com, DVD-R works in 95.5% of existing players; DVD-RW and DVD+RW achieve less than half that. Of course, DVD+R may prove as compatible as DVD-R, but I think we need to see the stats before declaring a winner.
I don;t know the answer to the problem, I just know it's a problem.
We do restore the registry for some issues, troubleshoot third party conflicts, resolve gpf's and ipf's. We do see systems that seem to be on their last legs, and often enough are able to help these people over the phone. Users aren't very good at distinguishing OS and TCP/IP issues; and there aren't many OS issues that we can't try to fix, with some success.
If we can't resolve an issue and it's OS-related, we do refer, but that's rarely. Anybody that gets referred to an OEM, generally are going to get their system restored. Even when we know that issue can be resolved with new drivers or a registry rollback.
Excuse me for thinking that it's a cop-out, maybe I'm wrong. But why even bother offering "OS Support" if that support begins and ends with a restore?
That is a cop-out.
I am a tech support guy at an ISP. If we could rely on a recovery CD instead of real troubleshooting, life would sure be easier. It is very, very rarely that we have to tell a customer to go to his computer vendor.
The vast majority of issues that come our way, even those that seem at first rather complex, are resolvable over the phone by a good tech (granted, most people who call us can at least boot their OS, so that is some advantage for us).
Of course, on those rare occasions when we do make a referral to the vendor, we know exactly what will happen. Within 60 seconds, the question will be asked "Do you have your recovery cd?"
No offense meant, I was just desperate to get down from 50 KP, it is so boring when you're maxed out.
OT to go into here, I suppose, but briefly it was a "novelization" of a low-budget sci-fi/horror film, Brain Damage. Of course the word "novelization" brings in preconceived notions of what this book was, but I worked closely with the writer-director on this, precisely because we both thought there were dimensions to his screenplay that could be better expressed in fiction.
When I did my book, I did do a "collector's edition" -- but that was a practical matter. The three hundred advance mail orders I recieved was sufficient to finance the initial printing of 1000 hardcovers, "numbered and signed," of course.
That twenty-dollar hardcover sold very well, and what few reviews I got were quite good...so I decided to do a much cheaper paperback...of course, the paperback stiffed. People weren't interested in the content, just the collectavility. Yes, this did tick me off.
So I'm saying I am not into the collector's market, though I did use it to get my book out. What I do like about books is their heft -- the feeling that they sre something "of substance," however illusory that sensation may be.
It was worth the karma points.
Though I must point out that the crack-smoking moderator who downmodded me twice, while leaving you untouched...well, let's just say that, next to him, you hardly appear to be a humorless dipshit at all.
Hotmail. After avoiding them for ages, I created an account in order to scope Passport.
The "Greet-King" spam I received within a week of creating a hotmail account that I never used resulted in a lengthy bout of mails to their abuse department and to "TrustE" (the supposed industry "watchdog" which is actuallly just a shill to prevent guvmnt action).
Despite MS assurances that my information would not be shared, their insistence remained that Greet-King got my name and email address from me, when it was not at all possible. Despite the statement that "Hotmail will not sell, lease or rent its member lists with any third parties," they refuse to accept any statement on the user's part that the email address and my name were not shared anywhere.
Hence, a "useless" privacy policy. And a deception -- even if it was just a renegade MS employee that pilfered some user names, MS is uninterested in knowing about it. Carelessness that is not, I believe, an uncommon phenomenon.
Of course, I still have 'em, and whenever I move that is the chief headache. But, even if they didn't have a certain intrinsic value to me, I couldn't toss 'em because bibliophiles seem to value them. (that is pretty pricey; Needful Things seems to have aquired some of my private documents, too, though, I can't for the life of me remember to whom I gave that stuff).
An E-Book would ease my moving burden, and eradicate the collector's market. Good thing? Bad thing? I don't know. I would miss the "feel" of a book, its heft in my hand that still gives me a feeling of having accomplished something by writing it. I'd say that's priceless, but a credit card company fucked that word up.
hehehe I posted at 2, no one modded me up. No one modded me down, either, which only proves that no one likes you. Look, I'm joking. You're not a dipshit. Much.
I hate to karma-whore like this but, you are a freaking dipshit.
Now, let's see those karma points just roll in!