Couldn't Linux companies sue MS claiming that Balmer's statements are harming their business Sure. Show me the Linux company with a warchest that makes it worthwhile to pursue action against Microsoft's legal juggernaut. Even the theoretical maximum damages you could claim aren't worth the substantial risk of losing. If Microsoft has just one patent that's being infringed by just one Linux company, their claims are "valid" and your suit tanks. Meanwhile you've exposed yourself to counterclaims, and risk creating a lot of work and headache for the entire open source community. Nobody really wants to be a target. In addition, nobody is really suffering that much from MS's claims. Most people who know what they are talking about are aware that MS can't go after the *users* of their "patented technology" any more so than to enjoin their usage. Distributors are at least potentially liable for damages.
especially in light of the fact that MS refuses to identify these patents? Well that's their ace in the hole isn't it? As long as they won't identify a specific patent, they aren't limited to a subset of distros that provide, for instance, access to windows shares, ability to read/write ntfs partitions, RDP, or any other MS technologies that *might* be what they're talking about. You can bet that any non-legal personnel at MS will not disclose what patents they refer to outside of a courtroom, because as soon as they do they start limiting themselves.
it took one google search to find a CMYK output plugin for the gimp. Now granted, it's not the most mature or convenient solution, but again, your point that the price of photoshop is too blinking high for even semi-pro's let alone amateurs. If you're not doing press-grade production materials, why would you even bother with photoshop?
Anyone who doesn't understand this sort of thing shouldn't be hacking their electronics. Furthermore, I think it's important to note that Apple has a corporate history of trying to lock in their customers. If you want something that's hackable and able to be used on several different networks, the iPhone is probably not for you. You'd be better off trying to hack a touch screen onto another, more versatile device in the first place.
Yes, almost 10 years on the heels of the "smashing success" that is OWA, they're going to move the rest of the office suite to a non-functional, browser incompatible format that costs way more that competing, functional products.
I wonder if it's just chance that the Gimp also has tons of interface complaints?
Pretty much. The GIMP was designed from scratch as an open source product. Blender, though open source now, was originally a commercial (but free) product. some Blender history.
The GIMP knows it has problems, and has asked UI design professionals to evaluate and contribute to a redesign.
I really don't see what everyone thinks is so "hard" about blender's interface though. It's definitely different, but I thought it was much easier to learn than the maya interface. I will grant however that blenders texture tools suck the big one.
Oh, and GP? Truespace is a toy. That's why you didn't need instructions.
I apologize, I've not done any research specifically on Hong Kong in this regard, however I remeber hearing reports of outrage from Hong Kong over the switch. Perhaps my memory is blowing this out of proportion, or maybe there is a vocal minority that is what I heard rather than the "silent majority."
And no, I certainly don't ascribe to the notion that the British ought to hold dominion. I was under the impression that HK was independent from china though, not as a nation, but independent nonetheless, and that China asserted control.
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater however. One inappropriately inserted reference does not detract from the other, as you admit, viable examples of Tibet and Mongolia (and India).
Please note that there have been presidential-level national security briefings echoing this exact sentiment from the dirty-hippy-fest also known as the U.S. Intelligence community,
games used to have more "fun" back in the olden days It's not that they're putting any less fun in these days, but do you know how expensive it is to manufacture fun in industrialized nations like japan and the U.S.? Now they're using more affordable Chinese-made fun which is doped with melamine and lead to make it cheaper.
I suppose China could dump all those American dollars Yeah, making them effectively worthless, and dropping a lot of the value that is propping up the Yuan. Oh but they could make it all back on their industrial strength.... except as you pointed out, they just plunged their largest consumer market into recession.
There's some lessons there about overextension and debased currency that some might find educational.
That's where you're spot on though. All these fools who don't see how overextending ourselves in two expensive and unwinnable (militarily) conflicts isn't eroding our national security need to get off fox news and go read some history. Islamofascism (whatever that is) might be a threat, but hardly on the scale of cold-war USSR, modern-day china, north korea... or more importantly our domestic education, health-care, social security, and sundry economic problems, to say nothing of global climate change, which threatens to be a bigger threat than all of the above.
I think that too many people want to see us recapture our WW2 era success, but without any of the domestic sacrifice that that conflict required of the average citizen.
Sure, buddy.
China has freedom of religion as long as it's not political... there are Christian, Muslim, etc. groups within China. All of which must be sanctioned by the government. Christianity, especially the catholics, have been persecuted and imprisoned in china for decades. Falun Gong, well we know how well that went over. Oh wait, they were a "cult" not a religion.
That's because the guy was a political threat I assume by "the guy" you are referring to the dalai lama.
guy who threatens to lead a large chunk of your territory into independence Tibet has been separate on the map from china for my entire lifetime (30 years or so), and is recognized as such by most international bodies. China is constantly trying to annex bits of surrounding countries, including india, hong kong, mongolia, and I'm sure there's some I'm leaving out. I don't know which part of the Chinese government you're in, but move the propaganda train back to asia, thanks.
I should really know better than to feed the trolls, but... *sigh* here goes.
They are not the same product and it sounds like you haven't even used Live before. No, they're not the same. Live Maps is not as feature-mature as google maps. Live maps has a larger download footprint due to extra css and js files that most map developers will not need. Live Maps lacks good sat imagery for a very large portion of the globe.
Gotta suck to always have a computer that is handicap in the experience they get to see and use. I wouldn't know, I use linux which has had an accelerated 3d desktop and a fully indexed filesystem for a few years now, has several really sweet development environments to choose from (at no additional cost!) and otherwise totally rocks. I still haven't seen vista do anything my computer can't do, except annoy the piss out of me and use way more system resources than it needs. And I'm running happily on 3 year old hardware.
FYI: An article in the New York Times on December 19, 2004 said that Dell laptops are made in Malaysia. In contrast, full size Dell computers are made in the U.S.A. (at least those sold in the USA are made here). Other Dell products, such as PDAs, printers and music players are made by "third party manufacturers" primarily outside of the USA.
So, maybe, maybe not, depending on model. But GP is being rather extreme comparing the horrible things the US is doing and the horrible things china is doing. We're not imprisoning dissidents and journalists yet, and the country we're occupying is at least still free to practice their religion, short of the call to drive the infidels out of the holy land. Contrast with tibet.
We've never had an actual Death Penalty. Well, if we put someone to death, as a penalty, that's kind of what's meant by "death penalty." The fact that all these circumstances surround it is a political reality that you're not going to escape through legislation. and by the way, nice job breaking the layout.
A few MURDERERS will die. and some NON-murderers, which is the whole point here. If the justice system kills someone innocent due in part to your support of the death penalty, it's on your head, like it or not. That's part of the responsibility we bear in a participatory government.
Getting rid of all automobiles would result in the elimination of pedestrian deaths. You could say that is a 'perfect' solution... until you starve to death because the trucks that bring food to your local grocery store no longer exist.
Well I wouldn't starve to death, because I live on a farm. But your point is well taken: eliminate non-cargo traffic, and pedestrian deaths dwindle to near zero, while the benefits of internal combustion engine vehicles persist.
Besides, I've so far left out the fact that with lengthy appeals processes, the cost of executing prisoners is very well on par with keeping them incarcerated. Nevertheless, you continue to argue that saving money is worth having bloody hands, and for me, that makes your opinion pretty much irrelevant.
what is to stop me, or anyone with a girlfriend or wife, from a quick substitution for the webcam.
My first thought exactly. The second thought though, was what about cases where someone has a sexually ambiguous look? This is a lawsuit waiting to happen for this company, especially since they didn't require women to play only women characters. That's discrimination plain and simple.
Just wait until some mannish-looking woman is denied a female character...
No, however it is one of the factors that has kept me from owning a car, which is essentially a gratuitous luxury, over the 15 or so years I've been eligible to own one. I don't want to drive a car, because I don't endorse the damage they do versus their "benefit" of drivers becoming fat and lazy and overburdening the health care system with higher rates of heart disease and vascular disorders. Not to mention causing a run on fossil fuels, leading the the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis so that we can secure their oil rights.
Similarly, I don't support the death penalty because it has been shown that it is NOT an effective crime deterrent, and is historically abused to favor the ruling class, i.e. middle class white folks are the most numerous population group, and the least likely to be executed. As for its benefit of saving you money, that's great. You'll get to save a few dollars a year and a few people will die for it. Seems like an even trade to me.
It seems like you agree... that "morally" my argument is correct, but "practically" you'd rather have $22.03/year in savings than a clean societal conscience because hey "it's not perfect". I for one, oppose my government killing anyone in my name. It actually is a perfect method... no one innocent dies from that.
It's bad enough they have people perceiving the iphone to have problems because of cell service outages[.] Right, because I blame motorola for my verizon service sucking.
they've kept control of their hardware, ensuring a consistent and good experience on their computer.
Silly me, after paying $1500 for the damn thing, I was walking around under the mistaken impression it was my computer.
So your agrument is that the statistical likelihood of a false accusation leading to an execution is diminishing.
Please, for the record, if you could tell us how many accidental killings at the hands of society would be acceptable. please express in either a percentage form, or how many times it would be ok for you personally to be killed by mistake.
umm... this guy did call 911, and when the police showed up they arrested him not the storemanager. So, how does your brilliant strategy of not being a sissy go again?
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I hate GUIs too, and you can be sure I'll be lobbying for a command-line-only interface for the Gimp. It might have a steep learning curve, but can you imagine how powerful and efficient that would be? Now, that is absolute crazy talk, my friend.
Yeah, it's the UI that keeps me from completely switching. Not the lack of suitable CMYK support and color profiles, not the lack of a decent chopping tool, nothing to do with the huge assortment of really low grade plugins, many with duplicate functionality. Not the missing procedural brushes or textures either.
Honestly. If the UI was the only thing wrong with the GIMP, I'd never use photoshop. Unfortunately, the UI is among the least of the worries of the GIMP team, and putting lipstick on this pig is not going to improve adoption one bit. After all, if Photoshop users know where to find everything they expect in an image editor, it will take them that much less time to notice that the GIMP doesn't have it.
that said, the GIMP is great, as long as you don't have any real work to do.
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it took one google search to find a CMYK output plugin for the gimp. Now granted, it's not the most mature or convenient solution, but again, your point that the price of photoshop is too blinking high for even semi-pro's let alone amateurs. If you're not doing press-grade production materials, why would you even bother with photoshop?
Yes, almost 10 years on the heels of the "smashing success" that is OWA, they're going to move the rest of the office suite to a non-functional, browser incompatible format that costs way more that competing, functional products.
The folks at Microsoft are such innovators...
Pretty much. The GIMP was designed from scratch as an open source product. Blender, though open source now, was originally a commercial (but free) product. some Blender history.
The GIMP knows it has problems, and has asked UI design professionals to evaluate and contribute to a redesign.
I really don't see what everyone thinks is so "hard" about blender's interface though. It's definitely different, but I thought it was much easier to learn than the maya interface. I will grant however that blenders texture tools suck the big one.
Oh, and GP? Truespace is a toy. That's why you didn't need instructions.
I apologize, I've not done any research specifically on Hong Kong in this regard, however I remeber hearing reports of outrage from Hong Kong over the switch. Perhaps my memory is blowing this out of proportion, or maybe there is a vocal minority that is what I heard rather than the "silent majority."
And no, I certainly don't ascribe to the notion that the British ought to hold dominion. I was under the impression that HK was independent from china though, not as a nation, but independent nonetheless, and that China asserted control.
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater however. One inappropriately inserted reference does not detract from the other, as you admit, viable examples of Tibet and Mongolia (and India).
Strangely, I value detailed analysis and facts over sensationalism and boogeymen.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/77
Please note that there have been presidential-level national security briefings echoing this exact sentiment from the dirty-hippy-fest also known as the U.S. Intelligence community,
That's where you're spot on though. All these fools who don't see how overextending ourselves in two expensive and unwinnable (militarily) conflicts isn't eroding our national security need to get off fox news and go read some history. Islamofascism (whatever that is) might be a threat, but hardly on the scale of cold-war USSR, modern-day china, north korea... or more importantly our domestic education, health-care, social security, and sundry economic problems, to say nothing of global climate change, which threatens to be a bigger threat than all of the above.
I think that too many people want to see us recapture our WW2 era success, but without any of the domestic sacrifice that that conflict required of the average citizen.
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So, maybe, maybe not, depending on model. But GP is being rather extreme comparing the horrible things the US is doing and the horrible things china is doing. We're not imprisoning dissidents and journalists yet, and the country we're occupying is at least still free to practice their religion, short of the call to drive the infidels out of the holy land. Contrast with tibet.
I'm not saying we're not bad, but we're no China
Well I wouldn't starve to death, because I live on a farm. But your point is well taken: eliminate non-cargo traffic, and pedestrian deaths dwindle to near zero, while the benefits of internal combustion engine vehicles persist.
Besides, I've so far left out the fact that with lengthy appeals processes, the cost of executing prisoners is very well on par with keeping them incarcerated. Nevertheless, you continue to argue that saving money is worth having bloody hands, and for me, that makes your opinion pretty much irrelevant.
My first thought exactly. The second thought though, was what about cases where someone has a sexually ambiguous look? This is a lawsuit waiting to happen for this company, especially since they didn't require women to play only women characters. That's discrimination plain and simple.
Just wait until some mannish-looking woman is denied a female character...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_Nazi
No, however it is one of the factors that has kept me from owning a car, which is essentially a gratuitous luxury, over the 15 or so years I've been eligible to own one. I don't want to drive a car, because I don't endorse the damage they do versus their "benefit" of drivers becoming fat and lazy and overburdening the health care system with higher rates of heart disease and vascular disorders. Not to mention causing a run on fossil fuels, leading the the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis so that we can secure their oil rights.
Similarly, I don't support the death penalty because it has been shown that it is NOT an effective crime deterrent, and is historically abused to favor the ruling class, i.e. middle class white folks are the most numerous population group, and the least likely to be executed. As for its benefit of saving you money, that's great. You'll get to save a few dollars a year and a few people will die for it. Seems like an even trade to me.
It seems like you agree... that "morally" my argument is correct, but "practically" you'd rather have $22.03/year in savings than a clean societal conscience because hey "it's not perfect". I for one, oppose my government killing anyone in my name. It actually is a perfect method... no one innocent dies from that.
Silly me, after paying $1500 for the damn thing, I was walking around under the mistaken impression it was my computer.
come on, fanboys. you can do better.
Eloquence.So your agrument is that the statistical likelihood of a false accusation leading to an execution is diminishing.
Please, for the record, if you could tell us how many accidental killings at the hands of society would be acceptable. please express in either a percentage form, or how many times it would be ok for you personally to be killed by mistake.
umm... this guy did call 911, and when the police showed up they arrested him not the storemanager. So, how does your brilliant strategy of not being a sissy go again?
Yeah, it's the UI that keeps me from completely switching. Not the lack of suitable CMYK support and color profiles, not the lack of a decent chopping tool, nothing to do with the huge assortment of really low grade plugins, many with duplicate functionality. Not the missing procedural brushes or textures either.
Honestly. If the UI was the only thing wrong with the GIMP, I'd never use photoshop. Unfortunately, the UI is among the least of the worries of the GIMP team, and putting lipstick on this pig is not going to improve adoption one bit. After all, if Photoshop users know where to find everything they expect in an image editor, it will take them that much less time to notice that the GIMP doesn't have it.
that said, the GIMP is great, as long as you don't have any real work to do.