XML XML XML.. great to see another buzzword compliant solution. Give it five years, we'll be trying to migrate stuff in XML to some other new fangled solution.
Yes, with the employees of Oracle (who have no time) and the employees of Microsoft (who have no time and no skills) looking for stuff that hackers already know about things are gunna be more secure. Please.. Whilst the Cartel is sitting on discoverys so they can take their time fixing the damn things the rest of the world is going to be doing the same thing it already does ie, find bugs and report them. This is just a big excuse to delay releasing patches.
dude, I dont even want to live in a watered down democracy, the majority are my mortal enemy being one of the minority myself. Why cant everybody just mind their own business and live their own insignificant little lives?
Yawn.. must I be so precise. Even though the US is a Democratic Republic I would still say that it is a democracy. Maybe not a "true" democracy but it has a democratic process.
how is this a solution? It's not like the french government is a merchant selling widgets. "Just go someone else" assumes that your vote with your dollar is actually going to change something.
Well I dont know about FPS but surely RTS games are primed for gambling. After all, these games deal directly with money/gold/energy. So instead of sending your little peon to collect gold or whatever, you just plug in your credit card and deposit a few dollars into your account. Maybe there's different levels of game play, where you can battle it out for $5 = 5000 credits or your can play a high roller game where $5 = 5 credits. Winner takes all. Maybe it costs 100 credits to create a tank and when the enemy kills the tank he gets 99 credits and the bank takes 1 or maybe you dont even need to take a cut because for every game that is played there will always be units on the winning side that are paid for but you dont get a refund for.
Well I just searched for the name and it had two t's like everyone else on earth with that name so you can understand my mistake. I dont think you have to be a geek to know anything about marketshare. As a matter of fact, I would say that your average geek wishes he never did learn anything about marketshare and all the business crap that suits have to deal with. Is McNeely even CEO of Sun these days? I dont know, I dont care, but if you're talking about Microsoft being a monopoly, you really should ask a few questions of the guy who is in charge of about the only company that actively competes against Windoze these days.
Can anyone tell me if there any digital cam corders that record to IDE harddrives? Like say, you can plug any old IDE harddrive into it and increase your storage capacity any time you want by buying a harddrive? Perhaps the cam corder could even run linux? When you consider that 40 gig harddrives are pretty cheap these days, it seems like a pretty worth while product.
There are some hard questions here, and for that matter, some
questions that in my view need to be answered. And I am delighted
that Mr. Gates, whom, as he knows, I genuinely admire and respect, is
here to present his views. For the reality is that the future of
innovation in the software industry depends in large part on the
power, practices, and arguably the success of Microsoft.
the mere fact that you think that you cant get a new judge that is unbiased, one way or the other, nullifies this whole argument anyway. If you are willing to believe that any new judge would be biased in Microsoft's favour then why are you not the least bit concerned that Jackson wasnt biased. Sheesh, show a little respect for the system.
That's what an appeal is for. To debate the fairness of the trial, to introduce new evidence or to in any way request a new trial. It's not like "hey, the judge was a bastard", "oh. well in that case you're dismissed Microsoft, go about your newly found illegal business. Write it up folks, Microsoft is immune from all future prosecution." If the trial was unfair, try it again. I dont care, the truth is on our side.
I was the programmer in the development of a sealed box firewall about the size a CD case (about twice as thick), they went broke before the product was launched:)
Apart from the fact that this is fictional, what difference does it make how you copy the data? The tenet of this (fake) physicist's (fake) system is that observation of the data destroys the data, including all copies that have been made. So yes, you can record it in some fashion but that recording and all copies made of it will revert to random bits as soon as any of the copies are viewed. So stop thinking so hard and laugh already.
very true. I believe the masters are all uncompressed (so called D1 masters), do these ever leave the studio? Say, could you ever go to a cinema and watch a master?
I dont know about you but I watch two types of bootlegs, camcorder jobs for the movies that are currently in the cinema and dvd rips for everything else. The dvd rips are pure digital. Digital off the dvd, pump it into virtual dub, recompress it with divx (and press "never show me this warning again" when it detects it) and fuck around for 15 minutes getting the sound just right.
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XML XML XML.. great to see another buzzword compliant solution. Give it five years, we'll be trying to migrate stuff in XML to some other new fangled solution.
Yes, with the employees of Oracle (who have no time) and the employees of Microsoft (who have no time and no skills) looking for stuff that hackers already know about things are gunna be more secure. Please.. Whilst the Cartel is sitting on discoverys so they can take their time fixing the damn things the rest of the world is going to be doing the same thing it already does ie, find bugs and report them. This is just a big excuse to delay releasing patches.
Sort of makes you wonder about the free market.
dude, I dont even want to live in a watered down democracy, the majority are my mortal enemy being one of the minority myself. Why cant everybody just mind their own business and live their own insignificant little lives?
Yawn.. must I be so precise. Even though the US is a Democratic Republic I would still say that it is a democracy. Maybe not a "true" democracy but it has a democratic process.
The government collecting taxes to build roads implies that you can drive on the roads.
how is this a solution? It's not like the french government is a merchant selling widgets. "Just go someone else" assumes that your vote with your dollar is actually going to change something.
if the masses are breaking the law, why is it even a law? Even France is a democracy. France is a democracy right?
Well I dont know about FPS but surely RTS games are primed for gambling. After all, these games deal directly with money/gold/energy. So instead of sending your little peon to collect gold or whatever, you just plug in your credit card and deposit a few dollars into your account. Maybe there's different levels of game play, where you can battle it out for $5 = 5000 credits or your can play a high roller game where $5 = 5 credits. Winner takes all. Maybe it costs 100 credits to create a tank and when the enemy kills the tank he gets 99 credits and the bank takes 1 or maybe you dont even need to take a cut because for every game that is played there will always be units on the winning side that are paid for but you dont get a refund for.
well you could definitely build one but it's not the same as having one built by a consumer products company. Integration and all.
Well I just searched for the name and it had two t's like everyone else on earth with that name so you can understand my mistake. I dont think you have to be a geek to know anything about marketshare. As a matter of fact, I would say that your average geek wishes he never did learn anything about marketshare and all the business crap that suits have to deal with. Is McNeely even CEO of Sun these days? I dont know, I dont care, but if you're talking about Microsoft being a monopoly, you really should ask a few questions of the guy who is in charge of about the only company that actively competes against Windoze these days.
Can anyone tell me if there any digital cam corders that record to IDE harddrives? Like say, you can plug any old IDE harddrive into it and increase your storage capacity any time you want by buying a harddrive? Perhaps the cam corder could even run linux? When you consider that 40 gig harddrives are pretty cheap these days, it seems like a pretty worth while product.
Mod me back down, that was Senator Orrin G. Hatch not Ashcroft. Two other great quotes in that hearing though:
"There is a very strong need and desire to have single operating system running on all computers worldwide." -- Steward Alsop.
"it's clear the best product doesn't win." -- Scott McNealy, talking about the desktop market.
There are some hard questions here, and for that matter, some
questions that in my view need to be answered. And I am delighted
that Mr. Gates, whom, as he knows, I genuinely admire and respect, is
here to present his views. For the reality is that the future of
innovation in the software industry depends in large part on the
power, practices, and arguably the success of Microsoft.
Gee, let me think about this...
the mere fact that you think that you cant get a new judge that is unbiased, one way or the other, nullifies this whole argument anyway. If you are willing to believe that any new judge would be biased in Microsoft's favour then why are you not the least bit concerned that Jackson wasnt biased. Sheesh, show a little respect for the system.
damn.. think the font on that page could be any more unreadable?
have a look at the last 5 stories dude, there aint much being submitted.
That's what an appeal is for. To debate the fairness of the trial, to introduce new evidence or to in any way request a new trial. It's not like "hey, the judge was a bastard", "oh. well in that case you're dismissed Microsoft, go about your newly found illegal business. Write it up folks, Microsoft is immune from all future prosecution." If the trial was unfair, try it again. I dont care, the truth is on our side.
I was the programmer in the development of a sealed box firewall about the size a CD case (about twice as thick), they went broke before the product was launched :)
Factory Direct Pricing of the complete Matchbox PC, part number 10901: $1,495.00
Apart from the fact that this is fictional, what difference does it make how you copy the data? The tenet of this (fake) physicist's (fake) system is that observation of the data destroys the data, including all copies that have been made. So yes, you can record it in some fashion but that recording and all copies made of it will revert to random bits as soon as any of the copies are viewed. So stop thinking so hard and laugh already.
very true. I believe the masters are all uncompressed (so called D1 masters), do these ever leave the studio? Say, could you ever go to a cinema and watch a master?
when the publishing house takes most of the loot, sure.
I dont know about you but I watch two types of bootlegs, camcorder jobs for the movies that are currently in the cinema and dvd rips for everything else. The dvd rips are pure digital. Digital off the dvd, pump it into virtual dub, recompress it with divx (and press "never show me this warning again" when it detects it) and fuck around for 15 minutes getting the sound just right.
better yet, buy that book from a second hand book store. Chances are they wont even accept your credit card and they dont pay any royalties.