The same story is repeating again and again, they can not give WinServer 2003 for free (like InternetExplorer) because the DoJ will nail them immediately, thay can only play the "illegal but free" game and hope that the sysadmins will byte - and may will, especially in the poorer contries. So I beleave the fixed keys are built into the code exactly with the purpose to allow the "widespread piracy". Why does WinXP does not have such fixed keys? MS officials may say "Because it is a client OS, it is not installed in volumes". Bzzzzt - wrong, the clients are usually installed in volumes, the servers are usually 1 to 10 compared to the clients. The answer is because MS has already monopoly on the client side, they do not need new installations, they need money for the existing ones. The server market is different, MS needs "piracy" in order to become the de-facto standard on the server.
Almost but not quite. The real reason that they don't have 'fixed' keys in the client is that most clients already have access to the net, therefore verification is easy as pie. Servers on the other hand don't always have access to the net, and sysadmins absolutely despise having to activate crap over the phone. That's the real reason behind it. It's not some microsoft consipracy. Yes, pirating is part of their marketing plan, no doubt in my mind on that point, but the 'fixed' keys only being in software that isn't in a monopoly market? I think it's more a convinience thing... possibly also because servers do have their hardware swapped, changed, upgraded, and downtime while they contact MS to verify their keys is unacceptable to the admins... I'm sure it's some sort of 'we don't want to piss off our deep pocket customers' IT guys too much' type of philosophy.
I'm amazed they don't say it's not fixable and to wait and upgrade to Windows XP2 (or whatever the hell they call it when it comes out)...
Of course the other option is for 3rd party tools to come out that fix the bug in windows with an active patch (ie, patch the memory while it's running) and charge 49.95 for it... those memory doublers and optimizers from the windows 3.1 days come to mind....
Why not just tell them to upgrade to windows XP? Then they have solved the problem, and made microsoft money... I don't get it. Why tell them to use a firewall... how does microsoft make money that way???
Umm... The only thing Enterprise has going for it compared to any other Trek so far, is the fact it's recorded in widescreen format (I have a 16:9 aspect ratio tv, and it fits so much nicer)...
Then again, the plots are SOOO crappy that I never actually get to enjoy the benifit as my TV won't actually let me tune into the channel playing it...
I mean, there was an entire episode that I dragged myself through, where two people were on a shuttle running out of air, thinking that enterprise was destroyed, going back and forth about how they don't wanna die. That's not entertaining, that's like pulling teeth... Hell, Enterprise is like watching paint dry... except it never seems to dry... it's painful... make it stop!!!
iirc cnn has an irc server (irc.cnn.com)? that has a bot spouting their closed caption feed.
Not exactly a great feed [or unbiased!], but a good way to keep in touch of what's going on.
Damn those coders for making the bot biased! You'd think that CNN was biased enough, but NOOOO... now the damn bot has to add its own twist to the story... UGH.
Think of the people in India that just had their standard of living raised. Who is to say that their living standard is less important than your living standard?
Ya, I'm saying that their standard of living is less important than mine. If I don't look out for myself, I ain't going to survive for very long. Call it being selfish, but it's survival of the fitest, not survival of the most compassionate. I damn well want to keep my job, so I can continue to pay my rent, and buy food. Now if their standard of living increase simply meant a wage decrease for me that would kill my social life a little, hey, sure... But unfortunetly it means NO job for me... in which case I don't have a decrease in my standard of living, I have a CRASH. So say what you will, I'm looking out for number 1 first, ME!!!
The probability of catching radio waves from intelligent life forms in a 4 year window is crazy. The distances they'd have to travel are enormous, and that civilization is probably long extinct, and the spectrum we are looking at is very narrow, and our definition of intelligence is also very narrow... what if what we think of cosmic background noise is in actuality encrypted data transmissions, meant to be indistinguishable from background noise? Too many assumptions are taking place, it's really a waste of resources.
2.2? I'm still running 2.1... Works great (as a firewall)... then again, it's only a 486 DX2 66... so I don't dare fiddle with it... It might turn to dust from old age...
Of course it takes a long time... you forgot rule #1... the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line... err... is it a curved line? no... wait... ahh screw it...
Ok... it's a friday night... I'm sitting at home, with nothing better to do than try and be a smartass on slashdot... Oh lord, I've wasted my life...
How about a mysterious phone call or email to the poor sap who's running the webserver that's about to be slashdoted? Then EVERYONE can have the benefit of seeing the story...
Otherwise, I'll sign up, and put a bot on the page that will keep track of what's being posted, mirror it on a free site, and make millions!;)
Since Microsoft is no longer a member of the group that gets to decide what goes into OpenGL... Are they going to simply stop at that, thereby saying, DirectX is superior, and we don't have the time to mess around with OpenGL... or are they going to move to make graphics drivers WHQL certified not support OpenGL, but only DirectX? Are manufacturers of graphics cards such as Nvidia and ATI going to feel pressure from microsoft NOT to support OpenGL in their drivers? Is that where this might be headed?
Not that that would be a bad thing, since there are many companies out there that create good OpenGL drivers for every video card imaginable (for the right price of course)... but would microsoft lack of support, or possible active "anti-support" of OpenGL be enough to kill it?
Just one question... what if the spammer doesn't connect to your SMTP server to send billions of messages from it? What if the spammer (with half a brain, and some scripting ability), only sends a few emails through your SMTP server? Most SMTP servers are wide open still, and simply sending 10 emails on one server and moving on to another open server would be so low that statistical usage wouldn't show anything on the radar screen... or did I not understand what you are trying to do?
...or at least being a good programmer and being a person with whom other people want to spend a lot of time, who has good hygiene and good social skills, are not correlated
I take offense to that... I have poor hygiene and poor social skills, and it hasn't made me a good programmer!
EchoStar and Bell should have gone with the guys that worked on that satellite... Check out how crappy modern satellites are (Lockheed Martin for example)... hell, they're in low earth orbit and they can't last a whole month before dying(LM's Nimiq 2)... Pioneer went through the asteroid belt... come on... Evolution means going forward, not back... Can't we build reliable satellites of yesteryear?
Time to change the icon from Bill Gates as the Borg, to Bill Gates as Judge Dredd...
I'm curious.. has a lawyer from microsoft, or a lawyer for Bill, ever complained about that icon mis-representing his client as a ruthless, un-caring, threat to humanity?
Ya, I thought not... no evidence to back up the claim he's not any of the above...:P
Hey, MS does send out a lot of DirectX crap to beta testers, past and present... so Although I tested DirectX 7, that doesn't mean I care about DirectX 9...
Even though technically, I did sign up on their list way back when, this might end up being catagorized as SPAM, and as such, Microsoft may end up with one hell of a penalty... I'm of the opinion, that they are simply trying to cover their asses, since it's rather easy to claim what they sent is spam from one of the "I hate Microsoft" zealots, and real difficult for Microsoft to provide hard evidence that says, "Here, you opted in to be on your mailing list back in 1998"... See the potential problem to be screwed over by ANTI-MICROSOFT activists? It's not a plot to give Microsoft control over bulk unsolicited email distribution, it's just some lawyers and accountants going... HOLY CRAP! We need damage control, and we need it NOW!:P
Of course, that's just my opinion, and I've been wrong before...;)
I don't think it's odd that microsoft is fighting spam, and at the same time sending it... come on... think about it...
1. We advertise MSN/Hotmail as anti-spam... 2. We spam the living snot out of every other ISP on the planet 3. We put neat little check boxes on our web based email pages that say "ULTIMATE ANTI_SPAM FILTER" and the like 4. Everyone switches to MSN/Hotmail 5. Profit.
It's like installing a sophisticated electronic ignition interlock system in a Yugo or something. Why bother?
EXACTLY! With the DMCA making it illegal to even attempt to circumvent the protection, it would be enough to put a stupid cdkey on the damn thing, and anyone breaking the key algorithm would be jailed for 5 years without even a fair trial!:P
What guarantee do I have that some hacker isn't going to break into that database of "don't email me please" addresses, and not spam the living snot out of them, all while re-writing the original database and claiming that my address was never on the list???
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What about being able to transport and store the information offsite?
I mean, sure tape isn't great, but it's a lot more transportable than harddrives.
That's great, what about linux support?
The same story is repeating again and again, they can not give WinServer 2003 for free (like InternetExplorer) because the DoJ will nail them immediately, thay can only play the "illegal but free" game and hope that the sysadmins will byte - and may will, especially in the poorer contries. So I beleave the fixed keys are built into the code exactly with the purpose to allow the "widespread piracy". Why does WinXP does not have such fixed keys? MS officials may say "Because it is a client OS, it is not installed in volumes". Bzzzzt - wrong, the clients are usually installed in volumes, the servers are usually 1 to 10 compared to the clients. The answer is because MS has already monopoly on the client side, they do not need new installations, they need money for the existing ones. The server market is different, MS needs "piracy" in order to become the de-facto standard on the server.
Almost but not quite. The real reason that they don't have 'fixed' keys in the client is that most clients already have access to the net, therefore verification is easy as pie. Servers on the other hand don't always have access to the net, and sysadmins absolutely despise having to activate crap over the phone. That's the real reason behind it. It's not some microsoft consipracy. Yes, pirating is part of their marketing plan, no doubt in my mind on that point, but the 'fixed' keys only being in software that isn't in a monopoly market? I think it's more a convinience thing... possibly also because servers do have their hardware swapped, changed, upgraded, and downtime while they contact MS to verify their keys is unacceptable to the admins... I'm sure it's some sort of 'we don't want to piss off our deep pocket customers' IT guys too much' type of philosophy.
(actually, it's because I'm using XP with that pirated serial number that SP1 kindly "de-activates" for you)
:P
Now honestly... do you not think that admitting to piracy (even on Slashdot) is not a rather stupid thing to do?
No wait... actually what I meant to say was, don't you think admitting to using Windows on Slashdot is a stupid thing to do?
I'm amazed they don't say it's not fixable and to wait and upgrade to Windows XP2 (or whatever the hell they call it when it comes out)...
Of course the other option is for 3rd party tools to come out that fix the bug in windows with an active patch (ie, patch the memory while it's running) and charge 49.95 for it... those memory doublers and optimizers from the windows 3.1 days come to mind....
Why not just tell them to upgrade to windows XP? Then they have solved the problem, and made microsoft money... I don't get it. Why tell them to use a firewall... how does microsoft make money that way???
I see a lesson to be learned here... this is a great idea... make sure there is an audience for it before wasting money...
Perhaps they should have waited for Star Trek Nemesis to win something BEFORE releasing it to theaters...
Umm... The only thing Enterprise has going for it compared to any other Trek so far, is the fact it's recorded in widescreen format (I have a 16:9 aspect ratio tv, and it fits so much nicer)...
Then again, the plots are SOOO crappy that I never actually get to enjoy the benifit as my TV won't actually let me tune into the channel playing it...
I mean, there was an entire episode that I dragged myself through, where two people were on a shuttle running out of air, thinking that enterprise was destroyed, going back and forth about how they don't wanna die. That's not entertaining, that's like pulling teeth... Hell, Enterprise is like watching paint dry... except it never seems to dry... it's painful... make it stop!!!
On the same train of thought, what if the US were to lose the war with Iraq?
Why speculate on the impossible?
iirc cnn has an irc server (irc.cnn.com)? that has a bot spouting their closed caption feed.
Not exactly a great feed [or unbiased!], but a good way to keep in touch of what's going on.
Damn those coders for making the bot biased! You'd think that CNN was biased enough, but NOOOO... now the damn bot has to add its own twist to the story... UGH.
Hey, aren't we being selfish?
Think of the people in India that just had their standard of living raised. Who is to say that their living standard is less important than your living standard?
Ya, I'm saying that their standard of living is less important than mine. If I don't look out for myself, I ain't going to survive for very long. Call it being selfish, but it's survival of the fitest, not survival of the most compassionate. I damn well want to keep my job, so I can continue to pay my rent, and buy food. Now if their standard of living increase simply meant a wage decrease for me that would kill my social life a little, hey, sure... But unfortunetly it means NO job for me... in which case I don't have a decrease in my standard of living, I have a CRASH. So say what you will, I'm looking out for number 1 first, ME!!!
The probability of catching radio waves from intelligent life forms in a 4 year window is crazy. The distances they'd have to travel are enormous, and that civilization is probably long extinct, and the spectrum we are looking at is very narrow, and our definition of intelligence is also very narrow... what if what we think of cosmic background noise is in actuality encrypted data transmissions, meant to be indistinguishable from background noise? Too many assumptions are taking place, it's really a waste of resources.
2.2? I'm still running 2.1... Works great (as a firewall)... then again, it's only a 486 DX2 66... so I don't dare fiddle with it... It might turn to dust from old age...
Of course it takes a long time... you forgot rule #1... the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line... err... is it a curved line? no... wait... ahh screw it...
Ok... it's a friday night... I'm sitting at home, with nothing better to do than try and be a smartass on slashdot... Oh lord, I've wasted my life...
How about a mysterious phone call or email to the poor sap who's running the webserver that's about to be slashdoted? Then EVERYONE can have the benefit of seeing the story...
;)
Otherwise, I'll sign up, and put a bot on the page that will keep track of what's being posted, mirror it on a free site, and make millions!
Since Microsoft is no longer a member of the group that gets to decide what goes into OpenGL... Are they going to simply stop at that, thereby saying, DirectX is superior, and we don't have the time to mess around with OpenGL... or are they going to move to make graphics drivers WHQL certified not support OpenGL, but only DirectX? Are manufacturers of graphics cards such as Nvidia and ATI going to feel pressure from microsoft NOT to support OpenGL in their drivers? Is that where this might be headed?
Not that that would be a bad thing, since there are many companies out there that create good OpenGL drivers for every video card imaginable (for the right price of course)... but would microsoft lack of support, or possible active "anti-support" of OpenGL be enough to kill it?
Just one question... what if the spammer doesn't connect to your SMTP server to send billions of messages from it? What if the spammer (with half a brain, and some scripting ability), only sends a few emails through your SMTP server? Most SMTP servers are wide open still, and simply sending 10 emails on one server and moving on to another open server would be so low that statistical usage wouldn't show anything on the radar screen... or did I not understand what you are trying to do?
...or at least being a good programmer and being a person with whom other people want to spend a lot of time, who has good hygiene and good social skills, are not correlated
I take offense to that... I have poor hygiene and poor social skills, and it hasn't made me a good programmer!
EchoStar and Bell should have gone with the guys that worked on that satellite... Check out how crappy modern satellites are (Lockheed Martin for example)... hell, they're in low earth orbit and they can't last a whole month before dying(LM's Nimiq 2)... Pioneer went through the asteroid belt... come on... Evolution means going forward, not back... Can't we build reliable satellites of yesteryear?
Don't you mean M$ ?
:P
hmm... is that referring to Monopoly money? In which case I think it is accurate...
Time to change the icon from Bill Gates as the Borg, to Bill Gates as Judge Dredd...
:P
I'm curious.. has a lawyer from microsoft, or a lawyer for Bill, ever complained about that icon mis-representing his client as a ruthless, un-caring, threat to humanity?
Ya, I thought not... no evidence to back up the claim he's not any of the above...
Bad humor on a Tuesday... what can I say?
Hey, MS does send out a lot of DirectX crap to beta testers, past and present... so Although I tested DirectX 7, that doesn't mean I care about DirectX 9...
:P
;)
Even though technically, I did sign up on their list way back when, this might end up being catagorized as SPAM, and as such, Microsoft may end up with one hell of a penalty... I'm of the opinion, that they are simply trying to cover their asses, since it's rather easy to claim what they sent is spam from one of the "I hate Microsoft" zealots, and real difficult for Microsoft to provide hard evidence that says, "Here, you opted in to be on your mailing list back in 1998"... See the potential problem to be screwed over by ANTI-MICROSOFT activists? It's not a plot to give Microsoft control over bulk unsolicited email distribution, it's just some lawyers and accountants going... HOLY CRAP! We need damage control, and we need it NOW!
Of course, that's just my opinion, and I've been wrong before...
I don't think it's odd that microsoft is fighting spam, and at the same time sending it... come on... think about it...
:P
1. We advertise MSN/Hotmail as anti-spam...
2. We spam the living snot out of every other ISP on the planet
3. We put neat little check boxes on our web based email pages that say "ULTIMATE ANTI_SPAM FILTER" and the like
4. Everyone switches to MSN/Hotmail
5. Profit.
So you see Microsoft has it all planned out...
QED...
It's like installing a sophisticated electronic ignition interlock system in a Yugo or something. Why bother?
:P
EXACTLY! With the DMCA making it illegal to even attempt to circumvent the protection, it would be enough to put a stupid cdkey on the damn thing, and anyone breaking the key algorithm would be jailed for 5 years without even a fair trial!
What guarantee do I have that some hacker isn't going to break into that database of "don't email me please" addresses, and not spam the living snot out of them, all while re-writing the original database and claiming that my address was never on the list???