It's just like the RealPlayer. During their setup, they have lots of questions about which 'important notices' (ads) you want to receive. It's in a scrollbox showing about 4 unchecked options, but if you scroll down, you'll see the others ARE checked (they obviously are hoping you'll assume they aren't checked and press OK).
I don't want a media, news and ad portal, I just want to play those stupid files. What bloat.
Too late. The second he puts it on the web it becomes unpatentable.
Quite incorrect. The US Patent office gives one year from the date of public disclosure (usually the date it was publicly announced or offered for sale) to file a patent.
The only issue you might have is if someone files a patent for the same thing before you do - you might need to produce a postmarked letter you mailed to yourself with proof inside of the idea - this dated proof shows that you invented it first. However he'd better file soon...these days the USPTO would probably allow you to patent corn flakes for how little prior art research it seems they do.
Yup, another puff piece from quote whores
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I don't know how these guys do it...the sources for this story are, again:
Giga Information Group
Gartner Dataquest
Gartner G2
Cahners In-Stat Group
guys who get paid by the quote.
and the whoring doesn't get as bad as "Consumers don't want to figure out hardware or software. They're so jaded by how hard it is to set up a computer that anything that smells like it scares them to death" - that one thanks to 'Rob Enderle'.
I've got one, CNN, how about "consumers are looking forward to another year of being reamed by lawsuits and stupid laws bought by content providing corporations looking to keep their old business models and sue their way into other people's business"??
It would be nice if Netscape gave a checkbox to remove AIM from the 4.xx releases during install (didn't notice if they do in 6.x), and thanks to Mozilla for not making me waste the bandwidth downloading it. It was my ritual to install Netscape, then kill off the AIM directory and the shortcuts. Not being able to option out of AIM at install time puts Netscape up there with other spamware like Real (not that 'SmartDownload' ie 'DumbAdDownload' got Netscape any points from me either).
Now let me put my Junkbuster list in Mozilla somewhere & I'll be a happy guy. Moz rocks.
Slow down there, cowboy! No need to worry, the Windows XP licence includes backwards downgrades: companies still looking to install an NT4 license on a machine can buy the $200 XP license for that machine and install Windows NT4/2000/Windows 98.
See, you only need to pay $200 if you want to keep that operating system on the computer when you sell it (and Microsoft can report about all the corporations adopting XP).
Besides, just wait for a company to dot-bomb, and buy the computer with the operating system and much more on the hard drive....Oh, sorry, they forgot to rifle throught the old IT storage cabinets and get that OS's license certificate for you, looks like you might need to bid on file cabinets too!
No, it would be more like - you would have only your choice of Budweiser or Bud Light at the Anheiser-Busch monopoly-owned liquor stores, they would buy out any other competing company and substitute Bud for the previous maker's brew, and making your own alcohol would be a crime.
(so would be trying to figure out the ingredients). By the way, 'beer' is their trademark.
Thank god here in Oregon its only as bad as the state running all the liquor stores, setting the prices statewide, and you can't buy liquor anywhere else... (slashcode strips sarcasm markup code)
At least the US probably won't go in and get him e.g. Bin Laden...
However, there have been a good number of cases, usually in the 'drug war' where political pressure was used to encourage other countries to turn over their citizens to the US.
If you are running a Windows 2000 domain, you can just make it a user policy that the patch gets installed if it's not there when the computer boots up. Cake.
The other way is to change the MIME types on your corporate home page server, put the exploit on the main page, and make this patch the exploit payload, so it is automatically run. It'll only happen once, right?
For the CEO on the road? Just send her the patch renamed with.scr and tell him to check it out. Or rename it ElfBowling3.exe...
Would you be willing to buy a DVD player which includes WMP technology, but doesn't say so on the box?
(Heck, you'd probably pay extra for it!)
Closed source is not about profit, it's about control.
So, who "owns" your computer. (or DVD player)
Put some Microsoft code in that DVD player, and any HaXor could 0wn it...
I can guarantee you that $30 sound card with SPDIF output and a $500 external DAC unit is going to sound just as good as anything that they can throw your way, except cheaper.
If you are starting in the digital domain (in this case the CD you bought), the only thing that will affect the quality of the audio you hear is the digital to analog conversion.
Just remember that uncompressed audio is 650mb/74 minutes and you can put that 100 disk CD changer on 65GB of space (or less). Plus you can pick only the songs you want off those CD's. (You may have to hack your own remote control software though, and make a silent client machine without whirring fans and hard drives.)
Nice try Linn, try selling this in the 'new economy'...
The operating system that DID have it first was BeOS.
It had alpha blending in 3.0, if that's the version I used... (transparency was used in the UI mainly for dragging and droppting objects).
The device would only have kinetic energy if it was moving in relation to a frame of reference - if you dropped it, it's potential energy would be turned into kinetic energy.
Both the battery and the explosive would probably be considered chemical energy using this physics teacher nomenclature - equal energy if they mass the same (E=mc^2). C-4 just goes kaboom much better than lithium in the latrine.
I'll be impressed when the Windows installation has a 'development' checkbox that installs source and IDE. But anyway...
I wonder how many development houses are going to jump on C# and start programming on it. If you've got lots of seasoned VC++ programmers, why even bother? One more way to keep people on Windows is make them learn a non-portable language...
QT is money to license for commercial products, but at least you can take QT and the skills learned on it to other platforms.
When I sell my Microsoft software, I can just say, 'oh, I clicked cancel on the EULA and decided to sell it instead.' There's no proof otherwise.
Maybe Microsoft has seen this hole, and by requiring every copy of Windows XP to be registered with them, has proof that you agreed to their license agreement, and then can prove in a court that you agreed to those terms. hrm...
This story doesn't have any credible source cited other than an analyst at the Yankee group. Companies like Yankee, PC Data and Jupiter group pay their analysts based on how often they can get quoted. Basically, publishing companies call them up when they need a quote for a story they've conjured up.
'Yankee Group'
'Hi, this is Bob from ZDNet. We are writing a story on eBooks, can you make up a quote for us?'
'How about "The eBook platform will be on the rise as consumers continue to look for convenience in reading materials. Dmitri will burn in hell."
The article clearly states that the machines were Windows NT machines using Office 97. They were going to be upgraded and re-deployed anyway, so there is no additional cost for this.
The biggest obstacle that I can see for Linux in the enterprise is that there is no good replacement for roaming profiles and single login like Windows 2000 Active Directory can do. A user logging in to any computer in the enterprise can get THEIR desktop, settings, and documents, and can have policies enforced. Of course Windows 2000 makes many old apps not work right when using active directory (and some current ones also) and prevents (for good or bad) anyone but the system admin from installing and running any new software.
When you set up 20 Linux machines as workstations, the user architecture is still like you are deploying 20 servers, all with their own accounts. I don't think any solution put forth yet for Linux makes account and resource administration as simple as Win2K active directory - where the admin can log into any machine and add a user account that almost instantly can log into any computer in the enterprise with the resource rights, profile and desktop template desired.
The other obstacle is applications. What if all your accounting is done in Peachtree, Quickbooks, etc.? That data will never come out of those programs, and it takes lots of training to use them.
Larry Niven wrote about exactly the same thing 17 years before in
The Hole Man - it earned him a Hugo Award to (spoiler) postulate that a black hole dropped into Mars would oscillate back and forth through the planet until it eventually all was eaten up and entered the singularity.
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Or better, call Friday 'sue Bernard Shiffman day'. How many courts can he appear in at once?
It's just like the RealPlayer. During their setup, they have lots of questions about which 'important notices' (ads) you want to receive. It's in a scrollbox showing about 4 unchecked options, but if you scroll down, you'll see the others ARE checked (they obviously are hoping you'll assume they aren't checked and press OK).
I don't want a media, news and ad portal, I just want to play those stupid files. What bloat.
Too late. The second he puts it on the web it becomes unpatentable.
Quite incorrect. The US Patent office gives one year from the date of public disclosure (usually the date it was publicly announced or offered for sale) to file a patent.
The only issue you might have is if someone files a patent for the same thing before you do - you might need to produce a postmarked letter you mailed to yourself with proof inside of the idea - this dated proof shows that you invented it first. However he'd better file soon...these days the USPTO would probably allow you to patent corn flakes for how little prior art research it seems they do.
I don't know how these guys do it...the sources for this story are, again:
guys who get paid by the quote.
and the whoring doesn't get as bad as "Consumers don't want to figure out hardware or software. They're so jaded by how hard it is to set up a computer that anything that smells like it scares them to death" - that one thanks to 'Rob Enderle'.
I've got one, CNN, how about "consumers are looking forward to another year of being reamed by lawsuits and stupid laws bought by content providing corporations looking to keep their old business models and sue their way into other people's business"??
or am I just cranky today?...
id:6:initdefault: is always good for some fun...
It would be nice if Netscape gave a checkbox to remove AIM from the 4.xx releases during install (didn't notice if they do in 6.x), and thanks to Mozilla for not making me waste the bandwidth downloading it. It was my ritual to install Netscape, then kill off the AIM directory and the shortcuts. Not being able to option out of AIM at install time puts Netscape up there with other spamware like Real (not that 'SmartDownload' ie 'DumbAdDownload' got Netscape any points from me either).
Now let me put my Junkbuster list in Mozilla somewhere & I'll be a happy guy. Moz rocks.
Slow down there, cowboy! No need to worry, the Windows XP licence includes backwards downgrades: companies still looking to install an NT4 license on a machine can buy the $200 XP license for that machine and install Windows NT4/2000/Windows 98.
See, you only need to pay $200 if you want to keep that operating system on the computer when you sell it (and Microsoft can report about all the corporations adopting XP).
Besides, just wait for a company to dot-bomb, and buy the computer with the operating system and much more on the hard drive. ...Oh, sorry, they forgot to rifle throught the old IT storage cabinets and get that OS's license certificate for you, looks like you might need to bid on file cabinets too!
No, it would be more like - you would have only your choice of Budweiser or Bud Light at the Anheiser-Busch monopoly-owned liquor stores, they would buy out any other competing company and substitute Bud for the previous maker's brew, and making your own alcohol would be a crime.
(so would be trying to figure out the ingredients). By the way, 'beer' is their trademark.
Thank god here in Oregon its only as bad as the state running all the liquor stores, setting the prices statewide, and you can't buy liquor anywhere else... (slashcode strips sarcasm markup code)
At least the US probably won't go in and get him e.g. Bin Laden...
However, there have been a good number of cases, usually in the 'drug war' where political pressure was used to encourage other countries to turn over their citizens to the US.
If you are running a Windows 2000 domain, you can just make it a user policy that the patch gets installed if it's not there when the computer boots up. Cake.
The other way is to change the MIME types on your corporate home page server, put the exploit on the main page, and make this patch the exploit payload, so it is automatically run. It'll only happen once, right?
For the CEO on the road? Just send her the patch renamed with .scr and tell him to check it out. Or rename it ElfBowling3.exe...
Would you be willing to buy a DVD player which includes WMP technology, but doesn't say so on the box? (Heck, you'd probably pay extra for it!)
Closed source is not about profit, it's about control. So, who "owns" your computer. (or DVD player)
Put some Microsoft code in that DVD player, and any HaXor could 0wn it...
I can guarantee you that $30 sound card with SPDIF output and a $500 external DAC unit is going to sound just as good as anything that they can throw your way, except cheaper. If you are starting in the digital domain (in this case the CD you bought), the only thing that will affect the quality of the audio you hear is the digital to analog conversion. Just remember that uncompressed audio is 650mb/74 minutes and you can put that 100 disk CD changer on 65GB of space (or less). Plus you can pick only the songs you want off those CD's. (You may have to hack your own remote control software though, and make a silent client machine without whirring fans and hard drives.) Nice try Linn, try selling this in the 'new economy'...
The operating system that DID have it first was BeOS.
It had alpha blending in 3.0, if that's the version I used... (transparency was used in the UI mainly for dragging and droppting objects).
The device would only have kinetic energy if it was moving in relation to a frame of reference - if you dropped it, it's potential energy would be turned into kinetic energy.
Both the battery and the explosive would probably be considered chemical energy using this physics teacher nomenclature - equal energy if they mass the same (E=mc^2). C-4 just goes kaboom much better than lithium in the latrine.
I'll be impressed when the Windows installation has a 'development' checkbox that installs source and IDE. But anyway... I wonder how many development houses are going to jump on C# and start programming on it. If you've got lots of seasoned VC++ programmers, why even bother? One more way to keep people on Windows is make them learn a non-portable language... QT is money to license for commercial products, but at least you can take QT and the skills learned on it to other platforms.
Sounds suspiciously encrypted...better not use any DMCA-violating software that would bypass that encryption...
When I sell my Microsoft software, I can just say, 'oh, I clicked cancel on the EULA and decided to sell it instead.' There's no proof otherwise.
Maybe Microsoft has seen this hole, and by requiring every copy of Windows XP to be registered with them, has proof that you agreed to their license agreement, and then can prove in a court that you agreed to those terms. hrm...
Or how long before one of the crew members becomes possessed/infected by some alien force...
Or the computer gets taken over...
Or the shields get blasted down to nothing and our heroes pull out just in time...
Sheesh.
This story doesn't have any credible source cited other than an analyst at the Yankee group. Companies like Yankee, PC Data and Jupiter group pay their analysts based on how often they can get quoted. Basically, publishing companies call them up when they need a quote for a story they've conjured up.
'Yankee Group'
'Hi, this is Bob from ZDNet. We are writing a story on eBooks, can you make up a quote for us?'
'How about "The eBook platform will be on the rise as consumers continue to look for convenience in reading materials. Dmitri will burn in hell."
'Thanks!'
The article clearly states that the machines were Windows NT machines using Office 97. They were going to be upgraded and re-deployed anyway, so there is no additional cost for this.
The biggest obstacle that I can see for Linux in the enterprise is that there is no good replacement for roaming profiles and single login like Windows 2000 Active Directory can do. A user logging in to any computer in the enterprise can get THEIR desktop, settings, and documents, and can have policies enforced. Of course Windows 2000 makes many old apps not work right when using active directory (and some current ones also) and prevents (for good or bad) anyone but the system admin from installing and running any new software.
When you set up 20 Linux machines as workstations, the user architecture is still like you are deploying 20 servers, all with their own accounts. I don't think any solution put forth yet for Linux makes account and resource administration as simple as Win2K active directory - where the admin can log into any machine and add a user account that almost instantly can log into any computer in the enterprise with the resource rights, profile and desktop template desired.
The other obstacle is applications. What if all your accounting is done in Peachtree, Quickbooks, etc.? That data will never come out of those programs, and it takes lots of training to use them.
But then again, Linux/KDE/Apps are all free...
Larry Niven wrote about exactly the same thing 17 years before in The Hole Man - it earned him a Hugo Award to (spoiler) postulate that a black hole dropped into Mars would oscillate back and forth through the planet until it eventually all was eaten up and entered the singularity.