You must be overcompensating for SOMETHING. I wonder what it is?
Living at home. With his 70-year old mother. Don't keep replying to him though, you're just feeding the trolls. One of his other threads went on for OVER THIRTEEN MONTHS. The man is insane.
I mainly just want to know if he at least has a small enough job to cover his broadband expenses.
Microsoft has to learn how to accept competition and not try to kill it or buy it out.
Are you suggesting a new form of capitalism in which companies don't try to eliminate each other? You've got to be pretty naive to think that every other company on the planet that isn't an oligopoly (ie: Coke and Pepsi) isn't also trying to buy and/or kill the competition.
Um, if you parse his sentance, "it" dereferences to "competition". Not "the competition", but "competition". "Kill competition" = "smother all competition and keep them down for good" = Sherman Antitrust Act. Which does in fact refer to an existing kind of capitalism.
After X years of patching remote exploits and worms and such in unix, most software experts (especially OS people) should have been aware that network security in general requires extra work and attention.
So Morris was in 1988. So it took MS 17 years of human experience to begin to understand that network security is important.
Well, I personally disagreed with this notion, all the way back to the my.mp3.com case.
It's absurd. It should be okay to change purchased.wma's to.mp3's for use on another device that you own, no matter what. Maybe there's some reasonable legal argument for why things have to be that way, but if it flies completely in the face of reason, then it should be rejected.
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Tivo is enforcing extra restrictions that publishers want. Copyright law isn't usually involved when you're doing things in your own home (eg. when you're not redistributing, and you're not doing a public performance).
If you signed a contract or clicked through a EULA that says you'll only use content for X number of days, then you need to comply with the law. However, if 90% of content starts being published like this, then everone should and will start ignoring those contracts.
It is okay. People have been doing it for years, pointing www.example.com, ftp.example.com, mail.example.com, etc to the same IP.
Nobody is taking issue with wildcards in general, you dolt. The issue is with ISP's, and especially ones that act more like registrars, filling in spaces of the internet with advertisements that say "your name could be here!", because in those cases, the presence or absence of DNS names is significant (whereas the presence of www4356.slashdot.org isn't significant).
Don't be fooled by the fact that this is uk.com. People aren't complaining because they think uk.com has some special legitimacy. People are complaining because 1) they're advertising themselves as a NIC, and 2) they're not so insignificant that Verisign couldn't use them as supporting evidence (for instance, see bcf.uk.com, sandbag.uk.com, cphp.uk.com. uk.com is clearly a general-purpose NIC).
TiVo constantly does things that make me happy. It's like TiVo is my friend.
So how does TiVo's periodic reduction in features, in a way that's completely out of your control, fit into your conception of Tivo as your friend?
MythTV is like a lifelong friend. It may not be as soft and curvy, and it might not flirt with you. But it won't wake up one morning and start deleting your belongings either.
The issue the Register brings up is that if the community accepts that it's okay for the largest non-TLD portions of DNS to be wildcarded, that it makes it that much easier for Verisign or other TLD's to justify wildcarding TLD's.
Yeah, it's a slippery-slope argument, and in 20 years, it might be possible that everyone agrees that TLD's can never do it, but 2nd-level domains are free to do it. But for now, since Verisign says they'll probably reactivate it, we should send a clear and simple message that it's bad practice in general.
Windows XP's split into personal edition (needs to be activated separately) and corporate edition (doesn't need to be activated separately) makes sense.
Vista seems to be a somewhat intelligent extension of this, with an ultimate edition (does need to be activated separately) to draw the pirate's interest away from the corporate edition (one OS to rule them all).
On the other hand, I don't know if it will really matter. Either Ultimate will be cracked quickly, or pirates will resign themselves to using the corporate edition like before.
Well, business solicitations are different from home solicitations, no? Home telemarketers leave voice messages touting the new low mortgage rate, or something like that. Businesses get some low-level stuff too (supplies, fax paper,...), but also higher-level stuff like resumes from individuals, and magazines calling to see if you'll fill out a survey, or if you want a free subscription to their magazine. It seems like it's more individual cold-callers that personally work for the company they're advocating, calling a fewer number of businesses. Compared to a huge call center calling many many individuals on behalf of some other company. If that were the case, it might be remotely understandable (but not acceptable or legal) if small-time operations made more slip-ups.
What is the need for secrecy in the Chinese government about manned space flights? Certainly there are many military uses of space (the US has had many launches whose payloads were secret as well), but it seems like MANNED spaceflight is usually portrayed as primarily scientific (even if it isn't, it's still easily possible to put a purely-scientific face on it). Is China being secretive for no good reason, just because they feel like it?
1b) Apple has never done RF hardware before (well, not on the level of cell phones, where size, power consumption, and interoperability are more critical than RF things Apple has done)
1c) Apple has never dealt with FCC cellular approval, or any other country around the world
For the meantime, it seems like the major cellular manfucturers are where it's at for cell phones, because it's a somewhat unique business. Microsoft wants a phone with their OS on it, they go to Motorola/HTC/etc, and bolt their apps on top of the RF manufacturer's hardware and lower-layer software.
In this case, Apple appears to have had minimal input, as the OS, hardware keys, and available storage weren't designed by Apple, so it wasn't too surprising what the outcome was.
Motorola doens't sell ringtones, Cingular does. Motorola tailors the software more towards Cingular than Apple though, because 1) carriers have always been able to make boku money off of ringtones, and 2) tailoring it towards carriers is the way it's always been done, and apparently Apple couldn't/didn't want to convince Motorola otherwise.
Cingular still makes boku money, just like they always have. And Motorola still makes whatever money they always have. So the phone isn't a failure at all. But it's nothing like the spectacular success that iPod was either. What do you expect from two huge companies who are trying to hang on to their revenue streams?
I don't know, business machines have been coming with sound cards for a long time. These days they're coming with CD writers, DVD drives, etc etc. I'm sure they'll come with optical audio outputs in a few years, for all those 5.1 sound systems people have in their cubes.
And if you think that Vista is going to be exclusively for consumers, please tell me how Dell will provide $400 dollar machines with such beefy video cards!! It defies logic!
So MS mistakenly sent a job offer to ESR. The obvious thing to do would be to try to play along for as long as possible, and see how many free meals/vacations he could get out of it, just to make the final news stories that much funnier. Going to the press now is like saying no when a woman offers to take off her clothes.
Well, the FIRST distinction should be "practical, working software" and "we'll have to do a huge amount of work". Requiring someone to use open software, and that requirement forces them to do a lot of hacking on that software to get it up to snuff, doesn't make sense.
If, on the other hand, you have two pieces of software that 99% meet your needs, then by all means, require that the more open one be used.
Though there are three or four posts in this article that SOUND like they're not completely making shit up, so who knows. Keep your windshield wipers ready on the commute home in case you run into any flying pigs.
Didn't your chem teacher burn into your brain to always use units like mine did? Google makes unit use trivial (well, except they don't have a unit called "floppy"). And it's only 7.73 months if you use 3 1/2" (1440 kibibit) floppies.
... which requires either paying for a MASSIVE amount of bandwidth (granted, reduced by rsync once you get a full copy transfered, but even getting the initial copy across will take the several months, if not years, of monthly bandwidth caps from a common broadband connection), or paying for a station wagon full of backup tapes to drive you stuff out of the bayou (note that storing your home backups at work, and visa-versa wouldn't work in the New Orleans case since the whole frickin place is a giant swamp).
In short, not practical for most people. (and don't build a city in the middle of the bayou!)
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Living at home. With his 70-year old mother. Don't keep replying to him though, you're just feeding the trolls. One of his other threads went on for OVER THIRTEEN MONTHS. The man is insane.
I mainly just want to know if he at least has a small enough job to cover his broadband expenses.
After X years of patching remote exploits and worms and such in unix, most software experts (especially OS people) should have been aware that network security in general requires extra work and attention.
So Morris was in 1988. So it took MS 17 years of human experience to begin to understand that network security is important.
It's absurd. It should be okay to change purchased .wma's to .mp3's for use on another device that you own, no matter what. Maybe there's some reasonable legal argument for why things have to be that way, but if it flies completely in the face of reason, then it should be rejected.
If you signed a contract or clicked through a EULA that says you'll only use content for X number of days, then you need to comply with the law. However, if 90% of content starts being published like this, then everone should and will start ignoring those contracts.
Don't be fooled by the fact that this is uk.com. People aren't complaining because they think uk.com has some special legitimacy. People are complaining because 1) they're advertising themselves as a NIC, and 2) they're not so insignificant that Verisign couldn't use them as supporting evidence (for instance, see bcf.uk.com, sandbag.uk.com, cphp.uk.com. uk.com is clearly a general-purpose NIC).
MythTV is like a lifelong friend. It may not be as soft and curvy, and it might not flirt with you. But it won't wake up one morning and start deleting your belongings either.
Yeah, it's a slippery-slope argument, and in 20 years, it might be possible that everyone agrees that TLD's can never do it, but 2nd-level domains are free to do it. But for now, since Verisign says they'll probably reactivate it, we should send a clear and simple message that it's bad practice in general.
Vista seems to be a somewhat intelligent extension of this, with an ultimate edition (does need to be activated separately) to draw the pirate's interest away from the corporate edition (one OS to rule them all).
On the other hand, I don't know if it will really matter. Either Ultimate will be cracked quickly, or pirates will resign themselves to using the corporate edition like before.
Well, business solicitations are different from home solicitations, no? Home telemarketers leave voice messages touting the new low mortgage rate, or something like that. Businesses get some low-level stuff too (supplies, fax paper, ...), but also higher-level stuff like resumes from individuals, and magazines calling to see if you'll fill out a survey, or if you want a free subscription to their magazine. It seems like it's more individual cold-callers that personally work for the company they're advocating, calling a fewer number of businesses. Compared to a huge call center calling many many individuals on behalf of some other company. If that were the case, it might be remotely understandable (but not acceptable or legal) if small-time operations made more slip-ups.
What is the need for secrecy in the Chinese government about manned space flights? Certainly there are many military uses of space (the US has had many launches whose payloads were secret as well), but it seems like MANNED spaceflight is usually portrayed as primarily scientific (even if it isn't, it's still easily possible to put a purely-scientific face on it). Is China being secretive for no good reason, just because they feel like it?
1c) Apple has never dealt with FCC cellular approval, or any other country around the world
For the meantime, it seems like the major cellular manfucturers are where it's at for cell phones, because it's a somewhat unique business. Microsoft wants a phone with their OS on it, they go to Motorola/HTC/etc, and bolt their apps on top of the RF manufacturer's hardware and lower-layer software.
In this case, Apple appears to have had minimal input, as the OS, hardware keys, and available storage weren't designed by Apple, so it wasn't too surprising what the outcome was.
Cingular still makes boku money, just like they always have. And Motorola still makes whatever money they always have. So the phone isn't a failure at all. But it's nothing like the spectacular success that iPod was either. What do you expect from two huge companies who are trying to hang on to their revenue streams?
Are links like this illegal?
Nethack is more than 10 years old.
Does anybody have comparisons for OS X machines? They render much of their OS in the GPU, right?
So MS mistakenly sent a job offer to ESR. The obvious thing to do would be to try to play along for as long as possible, and see how many free meals/vacations he could get out of it, just to make the final news stories that much funnier. Going to the press now is like saying no when a woman offers to take off her clothes.
If, on the other hand, you have two pieces of software that 99% meet your needs, then by all means, require that the more open one be used.
Though there are three or four posts in this article that SOUND like they're not completely making shit up, so who knows. Keep your windshield wipers ready on the commute home in case you run into any flying pigs.
Motorola / Freescale Semiconductor. ST:TNG / Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Didn't your chem teacher burn into your brain to always use units like mine did? Google makes unit use trivial (well, except they don't have a unit called "floppy"). And it's only 7.73 months if you use 3 1/2" (1440 kibibit) floppies.
By the way, why does Google define gigabytes and gibibytes to be the same thing? It makes the calculation a bit more confusing.
In short, not practical for most people. (and don't build a city in the middle of the bayou!)