And I use it all the time. No commercials is really, really nice, anyone who's ever had to commute can attest to this. (All the stations I listen to don't have commercials) The other nice feature is a display of what's currently playing, which is much better than listening to a station for another hour trying to figure out what the song was. The reception is fine (NYC Metro Area, sat. not repeater) and it's definitely worth the 10 bucks a month for service. Just NEVER having to channel surf makes it worth it.
It doesn't really count when you have quicklaunch enabled. That's like saying when I already have IE open and pull it up from the taskbar it loads faster than anything else. The quicklaunch is just the way that the mozilla folks have tried to hide the bloat, and they do it by bloating even more (running yet another program). Load time is the time from no code for the program in memory to completely loaded, not the time from 75% in memory (quicklaunch) to fully loaded.
I don't know how this got marked as insightful, apparently the movie industry has some mod points today. However, regardless of how anti-Taco you are feeling today, there's one overriding problem with this happening. If the movie doesn't do as well as expected, it will immediately be blamed on this pre-leak, which as many people have pointed out, doesn't matter at all. So basically it coming out early hurts every person who thinks it's their right to do what they want with their media. Don't attack the person who posts a story just cause you have a stick up your @$$, think about the post and say something insightful instead of some sweeping generalization (blanket statement you say?) that makes absolutely no sense
There's no way that any court would allow this company to say screw you Microsoft, and allow everyone else to use their stuff. You can't selectively inforce a patent, even if they aren't full of crap and do have the patent. If the stick it to Microsoft the court's gonna make them stick it to everyone. And seriously, how could some company patent the idea of extending a program, overall I just find this stupid.
"We have the technology. So why do we still make people save each of their documents, at least once, manually? Cruft." Please that's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Do I want word or open office or abiword randomly saving documents all over my drive and trust it "to pick a sensible name for a document." NO, that's stupid, if we wanted to use Mac's that held our hand through every click then we would. Just because you can't use a computer when you're too stupid doesn't mean the interface is crufty, it means you're too stupid.
Apple lies about customers switching, hell if linux companies had the money they'd lie about customers switching too. Every company lies. Every company has "customers" in their commercials. Get over the fact that it's Microsoft and get on with your lives. Your personal geek crusade to get your Aunt Suzzie to stop using Windows isn't gonna hurt Bill Gates pockets.
I like how the page has a giant "slashdot" buddy group, with a "wired" link below it... That is the news plugin which allows you to add rss feeds the contents of which are displayed with links to the full stories.
Bad guys uncap modems: $0 (they're h4x0rs after all) FBI arrests bandwidth stealers: $4,000 Bad guys sue FBI for violating their ( choose one, civil rights, first amendment rights, blah blah) and win settlement: $25,000,000 So let's recap: Uncle Sam: Out $25,004,000 Cable Company: Same as before Bad Guys: You can buy a hell of a lot of bandwidth with $25,004,000 Another wonderful example of our legal system at "work".
First the FAQ is blatant M$ bashing. Not really worth the read. Second in the interview they mention that the drive will not function if stolen. That could be a HUGE problem. How are you supposed to clone drives to bigger drives etc.
This was only a matter of time, once a critcal mass of people have DVD players, you'll be hard pressed to find VHS tapes and players anywhere. Try to buy a 5 1/4 floppy, and soon even a 3 1/2 floppy.
COST Unless the cost of the open source solutions is lower than the cost of the Microsoft solutions, there will be no mass exodus from Microsoft products. I know that in many cases the open source solutions are free, or at the very least much cheaper than Microsoft's, but the cost of supporting open source solutions is much higher, and will remain that way until more companies and IT workers become as hardcore with open source as many people here are.
it would take a unbelieveable amount of work for microsoft to get just the "window manager" part of the os appart and ported over to linux. and for any amount of work over none, i don't see why microsoft would want to do this. it really wouldn't benifit them and it would take a huge effort to support when someone's grandma calls and says "i just bought the new version of windows and it's telling me i need kernel 2.whatever or above. i'm running xp does that count??"
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And I use it all the time. No commercials is really, really nice, anyone who's ever had to commute can attest to this. (All the stations I listen to don't have commercials) The other nice feature is a display of what's currently playing, which is much better than listening to a station for another hour trying to figure out what the song was. The reception is fine (NYC Metro Area, sat. not repeater) and it's definitely worth the 10 bucks a month for service. Just NEVER having to channel surf makes it worth it.
It doesn't really count when you have quicklaunch enabled. That's like saying when I already have IE open and pull it up from the taskbar it loads faster than anything else. The quicklaunch is just the way that the mozilla folks have tried to hide the bloat, and they do it by bloating even more (running yet another program). Load time is the time from no code for the program in memory to completely loaded, not the time from 75% in memory (quicklaunch) to fully loaded.
Just my $0.02
dupes.org, it seems more fitting recently. :-)
I don't know how this got marked as insightful, apparently the movie industry has some mod points today. However, regardless of how anti-Taco you are feeling today, there's one overriding problem with this happening. If the movie doesn't do as well as expected, it will immediately be blamed on this pre-leak, which as many people have pointed out, doesn't matter at all. So basically it coming out early hurts every person who thinks it's their right to do what they want with their media.
Don't attack the person who posts a story just cause you have a stick up your @$$, think about the post and say something insightful instead of some sweeping generalization (blanket statement you say?) that makes absolutely no sense
There's no way that any court would allow this company to say screw you Microsoft, and allow everyone else to use their stuff. You can't selectively inforce a patent, even if they aren't full of crap and do have the patent. If the stick it to Microsoft the court's gonna make them stick it to everyone. And seriously, how could some company patent the idea of extending a program, overall I just find this stupid.
"We have the technology. So why do we still make people save each of their documents, at least once, manually? Cruft." Please that's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Do I want word or open office or abiword randomly saving documents all over my drive and trust it "to pick a sensible name for a document." NO, that's stupid, if we wanted to use Mac's that held our hand through every click then we would. Just because you can't use a computer when you're too stupid doesn't mean the interface is crufty, it means you're too stupid.
Apple lies about customers switching, hell if linux companies had the money they'd lie about customers switching too. Every company lies. Every company has "customers" in their commercials. Get over the fact that it's Microsoft and get on with your lives. Your personal geek crusade to get your Aunt Suzzie to stop using Windows isn't gonna hurt Bill Gates pockets.
I like how the page has a giant "slashdot" buddy group, with a "wired" link below it...
That is the news plugin which allows you to add rss feeds the contents of which are displayed with links to the full stories.
Bad guys uncap modems: $0 (they're h4x0rs after all)
FBI arrests bandwidth stealers: $4,000
Bad guys sue FBI for violating their ( choose one, civil rights, first amendment rights, blah blah) and win settlement: $25,000,000
So let's recap:
Uncle Sam: Out $25,004,000
Cable Company: Same as before
Bad Guys: You can buy a hell of a lot of bandwidth with $25,004,000
Another wonderful example of our legal system at "work".
First the FAQ is blatant M$ bashing. Not really worth the read. Second in the interview they mention that the drive will not function if stolen. That could be a HUGE problem. How are you supposed to clone drives to bigger drives etc.
is what a person who had at least one parent who was a smurf has to do with privacy.
This was only a matter of time, once a critcal mass of people have DVD players, you'll be hard pressed to find VHS tapes and players anywhere. Try to buy a 5 1/4 floppy, and soon even a 3 1/2 floppy.
COST
Unless the cost of the open source solutions is lower than the cost of the Microsoft solutions, there will be no mass exodus from Microsoft products. I know that in many cases the open source solutions are free, or at the very least much cheaper than Microsoft's, but the cost of supporting open source solutions is much higher, and will remain that way until more companies and IT workers become as hardcore with open source as many people here are.
it would take a unbelieveable amount of work for microsoft to get just the "window manager" part of the os appart and ported over to linux. and for any amount of work over none, i don't see why microsoft would want to do this. it really wouldn't benifit them and it would take a huge effort to support when someone's grandma calls and says "i just bought the new version of windows and it's telling me i need kernel 2.whatever or above. i'm running xp does that count??"