Does Ballmer base his claims on the fact that PC business has such a diverse user base?
If not, I don't get it.
I mean, every platform has users who don't obey license agreements. Be it copying the software or otherwise.
Apple has been many times accused of having too expensive hardware (which I think is a myth from the last millennium), but still - the piracy on x86 PCs is way more common than on Macs. And the same thing on Sun, HP workstations etc.
I really don't buy the Ballmer's explanation, which is based on expensive (?) hardware. I would say, that it's more likely that;
a) large market share of Windows and applications for Windows
b) expensive software
is more likely the reason which has created this overbloated group of people who don't pay for their software.
And about the parent. Well, the case doesn't look that good to be frank. I mean, the lines don't match, there are too much branches and stuff. And it's almost an insult to mix and match plastic and wood. If you want to make something out of wood, start from the scratch. A good example can be found from here (lots of pictures, text in Finnish);
The case is made out of Finnish plywood (birch), which is also used in the famous chairs by Alvar Aalto. Like this one, for example, dating back more than seventy years to the early thirties;
Anyways, I like the idea of wooden cases. And not only from the aesthetic viewpoint. The resonance is radically different in wooden cases than in metallic ones. Instead of nasty "brrr", it's more like "mmmm", which is always a good sign:)
We had couple of infected computers, which had MyDoom on them. After extensive registry and file search I found information about the crackers, who were dumb enough to use rootkits with ASCII encoded configuration files. There was all the information for a serious bust there, where they could be found, their passwords and information, which could be used to get their IP addresses (which I did) and so forth.
These fellows were using the infamous xs4all.nl from the Netherlands, but rest of the information indicated, that the people behind the attack were from Poland, Czech and Russia. This wasn't really a suprise for me, because many of the so called script kiddies are from these countries - at least, those who annoy people in the Western Europe and Scandinavia.
I wish they could do something useful with their cut&paste -skills instead of making IRC bots and FTP servers. It just seems, that these people are just bored and not necessarily ill-faithed.
Sounds too good to be true. I wish there would be similar stuff in Europe. But unluckily, I haven't found anything like this at this side of the Atlantic. Only things that come to my mind are targeted to corporate type of people, who can pay - let's say $1000 and more for a weekend for absolutely "nothing", like Kevin Mitnick's keynote.
From time to time, I try to go around the stereotype and drink a cup of that hot brewed creamy java or those weird coffees, like a coffee called "Illumination" (or something) from Mexico. However, any type of coffee I've tried can't stand a chance over a good cup of tea, preferably vanilla flavoured or decaf lemon tea.
No jitters, no "I think I'll have to organize my desk or I think I'm going to die soon, if I don't organize my desk NOW, I'm going to..." feeling, but still something, which makes perfect companion for cookies and such.
God save the Tea!
(P.S. I know, that it was wrong to say "God save the Tea." It's possible, that the Queen somewhere is weeping, but still - I think that tea is probably the best thing that have come out of the British Empire, although they kind of ripped it off from Ceylon etc.)
Yup, I was aware that by hiring the techs they wouldn't probably get the copyrights (or the IP) that SCO claims IBM is breaking (stealing). I was just thinking, how IBM and SCO techs could benefit from the situation when SCO execs are clearly trying to pull the "the bigger the lie, the more they think it's the truth" stunt.
Yeah, you're probably right about that the employees going from SCO to IBM wouldn't still settle the whole deal, because they've their contracts with SCO. I was just thinking about how IBM could "teach a lesson" and still be fair to the ones who I think shouldn't be "taught a lesson", because their executives were being on a power trip.
On the current situation, when people can't get a job from IT that easily, it would be horrible, if SCO techs would get their lose their jobs etc, because of people like McBride.
I don't like politics that much, but I can't helping about compairing this way that SCO is acting to the so called "drunken revolution" in the ruins of Soviet Union then moving towards being a democratic Russia. In there, few old drunken (literally) communists, who used to be in power, thought that they could just take the power from the democratic government, with few shots of vodka and then show the people who's the Man. Of course, it didn't work that way and they got their asses kicked.
Well, some people are thinking this is about the Matrix, so I guess I could also ask my question, which seems kind of far fetched, but still an interesting question.
From juridical viewpoint, would it be possible for IBM to hire the all technical (meaning coders and developers) staff from SCO and just simply put SCO out of business, leaving the marketdroids and executive staff soaking in their own... hey hey, kids... in debt?
Of course, mathematics is a young man's game. But it's also old man's game. If you're willing to devote yourself to mathematics, it's yours!
In most cases when people "get old" they just tend to drop mathematics to spend some time with their kids or whatnot. It's not like they lost their ability to think.
I think USENET is probably the best part of the Internet. It's plain text and there's no way USENET will ever change to "pay-per-view" type of sharing information, which I think WWW is sliding towards to.
I see no reason why USENET should be considered "dead", the same way for example Gopher is "dead". I hope, that in the future (Internet2), USENET could still be thought to be one of the "core" services, that the Internet has to offer.
I think for example Nokia 8990 should (and does) work pretty good even in the States. If you're more "robust" just buy couple of different cellphones that do the trick. Why? 8890 costs quite a bit.
Oh, it's always the Japanese. Small phones. Tiny notebooks. Next thing you see, they'll have smaller cars and penises, too! Bah, how's that for a Slashdot humor?
Anyways, my opinion is, that this is another great example of Japanese innovative way to cherish their consumers. I think they're doing the right thing. I was just wondering, is there some other fluid that would be more suitable for cooling the laptop instead of water? Alcohol or beer sure wouldn't do the trick, so all you RMS wannabees.. you know.. just shut up:)
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy Air - 10,000 Hz Legend Lackluster - Container (www.lackluster.info) Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport Infected Mushroom - B.P. Empire(www.infected.co.il) Armin van Buuren - Boundaries of Imagination Lab-4 - Neurocide (www.lab4.com) Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (www.kraftwerk.de) Squarepusher - Go Plastic Future Sound of London - Accelerator Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Old ones, but still great:)
If you live in the States and want to try some "fresh beats", try http://www.satelliterecords.com.
Also, worth mentioning, is TraceAddict.com, which hosts lots of _live_ sets.
I must say, that this is a GOOD topic. I have wondered the same thing myself (why the goods from Japan never come available to rest of the _world_). But found just a bit annoying that it just sees the world of electronics/IT including consumer markets as a sum of two countries; Japan and United States.
Sheesh... nice attitude from the days of British Empire ("Let me out from this prison! I'm British!").
I think this is a great idea. And the way they implemented it - beautiful. Real DIY -attitude!
I'm not a "hippie" myself. I don't like most of the people (I love them though, enough not to kill them) in this world, but...
If somebody would like to start a project with me, which would produce a easy-to-install/easy-to-configure/lo-fi (just think about all those 386/486/Pentiums) Linux (or?) distribution which would be made for people in 3rd world countries and poor people in general - I would be very very in to it:)
I don't think I want so much respect from these
people you named slashdorks. I want them to give
themselves a bit of respect by coding or doing
something creative besides playing Quake and
jerking-off to Jenna Jameson (or porn in general).
While ago, I saw this cute girl just standing
around (alone) at one party. I wondered, if I
should go and talk to her. I didn't hesitate,
but before I was even able to move forward
from my dancing, this large peace of meat
in a form of bodybuilder (filled up with
speed/crank) comes to the picture and just
grabs the girl and goes away. That moment,
I understood, that there's something wrong
in this world.
Right now, I have the same feeling.
If you didn't understand why I was feeling the
same way, here's the explanation. I consider
myself as a hacker of some sort who loves
computers. And then there are these idiots who
fsck around with computers and treat them bad.
That, of course, makes me sad.
As demosceners say: "Stop playing quake and start coding!"
For some reason I prefer Slackware as my Linux
distro. Why? Well basically, it doesn't have
Yast or Linuxconf, of which both suck like no
other women have sucked before and which in
this case, is _not_ good.
Slashdot Mirror
Does Ballmer base his claims on the fact that PC business has such a diverse user base?
If not, I don't get it.
I mean, every platform has users who don't obey license agreements. Be it copying the software or otherwise.
Apple has been many times accused of having too expensive hardware (which I think is a myth from the last millennium), but still - the piracy on x86 PCs is way more common than on Macs. And the same thing on Sun, HP workstations etc.
I really don't buy the Ballmer's explanation, which is based on expensive (?) hardware. I would say, that it's more likely that;
a) large market share of Windows and applications for Windows
b) expensive software
is more likely the reason which has created this overbloated group of people who don't pay for their software.
True.
:)
It may sound weird, but there were even wooden airplanes. Beechcraft used to build airplanes out of plywood.
I recommend an excellent Princeton Architectural Press book called "Bent Ply", check it out;
Bent Ply
And about the parent. Well, the case doesn't look that good to be frank. I mean, the lines don't match, there are too much branches and stuff. And it's almost an insult to mix and match plastic and wood. If you want to make something out of wood, start from the scratch. A good example can be found from here (lots of pictures, text in Finnish);
Wooden Handmade Case
The case is made out of Finnish plywood (birch), which is also used in the famous chairs by Alvar Aalto. Like this one, for example, dating back more than seventy years to the early thirties;
Paimio Chair
Anyways, I like the idea of wooden cases. And not only from the aesthetic viewpoint. The resonance is radically different in wooden cases than in metallic ones. Instead of nasty "brrr", it's more like "mmmm", which is always a good sign
Intresting.
We had couple of infected computers, which had MyDoom on them. After extensive registry and file search I found information about the crackers, who were dumb enough to use rootkits with ASCII encoded configuration files. There was all the information for a serious bust there, where they could be found, their passwords and information, which could be used to get their IP addresses (which I did) and so forth.
These fellows were using the infamous xs4all.nl from the Netherlands, but rest of the information indicated, that the people behind the attack were from Poland, Czech and Russia. This wasn't really a suprise for me, because many of the so called script kiddies are from these countries - at least, those who annoy people in the Western Europe and Scandinavia.
I wish they could do something useful with their cut&paste -skills instead of making IRC bots and FTP servers. It just seems, that these people are just bored and not necessarily ill-faithed.
Sure it can!
Unfortunately, you won't be available to see it, because the calculator will print this;
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this screen is too small to contain.
Sounds too good to be true. I wish there would be similar stuff in Europe. But unluckily, I haven't found anything like this at this side of the Atlantic. Only things that come to my mind are targeted to corporate type of people, who can pay - let's say $1000 and more for a weekend for absolutely "nothing", like Kevin Mitnick's keynote.
Anyways, you guys have fun!
Shh.. that's a secret.
No, but seriously. What does that mean? That the old stuff is always better? Well, you go ahead and code Descent IV with that Fortran of yours.
Yeah, chai is good ... _if you want to be some freakin' hippie_! Oh, sorry about that :)
It's something, which is not out of late 60's Beatles record. But still, divine, none the less.
From time to time, I try to go around the stereotype and drink a cup of that hot brewed creamy java or those weird coffees, like a coffee called "Illumination" (or something) from Mexico. However, any type of coffee I've tried can't stand a chance over a good cup of tea, preferably vanilla flavoured or decaf lemon tea.
No jitters, no "I think I'll have to organize my desk or I think I'm going to die soon, if I don't organize my desk NOW, I'm going to..." feeling, but still something, which makes perfect companion for cookies and such.
God save the Tea!
(P.S. I know, that it was wrong to say "God save the Tea." It's possible, that the Queen somewhere is weeping, but still - I think that tea is probably the best thing that have come out of the British Empire, although they kind of ripped it off from Ceylon etc.)
Yup, I was aware that by hiring the techs they wouldn't probably get the copyrights (or the IP) that SCO claims IBM is breaking (stealing). I was just thinking, how IBM and SCO techs could benefit from the situation when SCO execs are clearly trying to pull the "the bigger the lie, the more they think it's the truth" stunt.
Yeah, you're probably right about that the employees going from SCO to IBM wouldn't still settle the whole deal, because they've their contracts with SCO. I was just thinking about how IBM could "teach a lesson" and still be fair to the ones who I think shouldn't be "taught a lesson", because their executives were being on a power trip.
On the current situation, when people can't get a job from IT that easily, it would be horrible, if SCO techs would get their lose their jobs etc, because of people like McBride.
I don't like politics that much, but I can't helping about compairing this way that SCO is acting to the so called "drunken revolution" in the ruins of Soviet Union then moving towards being a democratic Russia. In there, few old drunken (literally) communists, who used to be in power, thought that they could just take the power from the democratic government, with few shots of vodka and then show the people who's the Man. Of course, it didn't work that way and they got their asses kicked.
Well, some people are thinking this is about the Matrix, so I guess I could also ask my question, which seems kind of far fetched, but still an interesting question.
From juridical viewpoint, would it be possible for IBM to hire the all technical (meaning coders and developers) staff from SCO and just simply put SCO out of business, leaving the marketdroids and executive staff soaking in their own... hey hey, kids... in debt?
Just wondering.
Well, most of the Good Things are unheard of in Finland, anyways. And that has nothing to do with coffee :)
Of course, mathematics is a young man's game. But it's also old man's game. If you're willing to devote yourself to mathematics, it's yours!
In most cases when people "get old" they just tend to drop mathematics to spend some time with their kids or whatnot. It's not like they lost their ability to think.
Want proof?
I can't give you one, but here's a conjecture.
Paul Erdös!
I think USENET is probably the best part of the Internet. It's plain text and there's no way USENET will ever change to "pay-per-view" type of sharing information, which I think WWW is sliding towards to.
I see no reason why USENET should be considered "dead", the same way for example Gopher is "dead". I hope, that in the future (Internet2), USENET could still be thought to be one of the "core" services, that the Internet has to offer.
I think for example Nokia 8990 should (and does) work pretty good even in the States. If you're more "robust" just buy couple of different cellphones that do the trick. Why? 8890 costs quite a bit.
Oh, it's always the Japanese. Small phones. Tiny notebooks. Next thing you see, they'll have smaller cars and penises, too! Bah, how's that for a Slashdot humor?
:)
Anyways, my opinion is, that this is another great example of Japanese innovative way to cherish their consumers. I think they're doing the right thing. I was just wondering, is there some other fluid that would be more suitable for cooling the laptop instead of water? Alcohol or beer sure wouldn't do the trick, so all you RMS wannabees.. you know.. just shut up
Thanks a lot, guys!
-- Mikko
OK, here's a list of records that I fancy;
:)
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Lackluster - Container (www.lackluster.info)
Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
Infected Mushroom - B.P. Empire(www.infected.co.il)
Armin van Buuren - Boundaries of Imagination
Lab-4 - Neurocide (www.lab4.com)
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (www.kraftwerk.de)
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Future Sound of London - Accelerator
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Old ones, but still great
If you live in the States and want to try some "fresh beats", try http://www.satelliterecords.com.
Also, worth mentioning, is TraceAddict.com, which hosts lots of _live_ sets.
Oh my, what has September 11th done!
:)
I must say, that this is a GOOD topic. I have wondered the same thing myself (why the goods from Japan never come available to rest of the _world_). But found just a bit annoying that it just sees the world of electronics/IT including consumer markets as a sum of two countries; Japan and United States.
Sheesh... nice attitude from the days of British Empire ("Let me out from this prison! I'm British!").
Anyways - have a nice weekend
-- Mikko
I think this is a great idea. And the way they implemented it - beautiful. Real DIY -attitude!
:)
I'm not a "hippie" myself. I don't like most of the people (I love them though, enough not to kill them) in this world, but...
If somebody would like to start a project with me, which would produce a easy-to-install/easy-to-configure/lo-fi (just think about all those 386/486/Pentiums) Linux (or?) distribution which would be made for people in 3rd world countries and poor people in general - I would be very very in to it
Way to go!,
-- Mikko
True (at least part of it)!
I don't think I want so much respect from these
people you named slashdorks. I want them to give
themselves a bit of respect by coding or doing
something creative besides playing Quake and
jerking-off to Jenna Jameson (or porn in general).
Respect (to you)!
While ago, I saw this cute girl just standing
around (alone) at one party. I wondered, if I
should go and talk to her. I didn't hesitate,
but before I was even able to move forward
from my dancing, this large peace of meat
in a form of bodybuilder (filled up with
speed/crank) comes to the picture and just
grabs the girl and goes away. That moment,
I understood, that there's something wrong
in this world.
Right now, I have the same feeling.
If you didn't understand why I was feeling the
same way, here's the explanation. I consider
myself as a hacker of some sort who loves
computers. And then there are these idiots who
fsck around with computers and treat them bad.
That, of course, makes me sad.
As demosceners say: "Stop playing quake and start coding!"
Have a nice day!,
For some reason I prefer Slackware as my Linux
distro. Why? Well basically, it doesn't have
Yast or Linuxconf, of which both suck like no
other women have sucked before and which in
this case, is _not_ good.
Well, anyways. Slackware it is!