As I see it, CD is just a medium for digital data. Even with the most cheap equipment (such as someone's thrown-out P2 and the free CD ripping program) it can be backed up infinitely with no loss.
So, it's a bit wrong to compare its durability to an analog sound recording which is being eaten by time, quite probably eroding every time you touch it or use it.
On the other hand, you don't really need to have all your trivial and useful information available at a single glance. There is nothing the widgets do I wouldn't prefer a Very Small Shell Script and curl/wget for.
The problem here might be Microsoft NOT abusing their monopoly enough. If they were forcing a single installation system for all software (a la Gentoo's Portage), they could transparently modify privileges for all software. "Remember, in order to play games you have to be a member of the 'games' group". And furthermore, make admin not being able to play games or surf the web by default and the users will understand.
No, it's not clever, it's simply horrible design. If they consider the menu bar such a key tool for browsing that it has to be the most accessible, something is wrong. The menu bar is that thing you click, wait for the animation which fades thingies into view, than you read (or at least scan) to find out what to click. But I consider this whole discussion unnecessary, as the menu bar was probably dragged under the tab bar by someone who toyed with computer when the picture was taken. There is no way in hell that this topsy-turvy design is what MS intended. Also, once more, it's not clever.
Gentoo is extremely low maintenance (which could be said of Debian and Ubuntu), but unlike those allows you to easily set a persistent policies of what elements you allow or do not allow through USE flags. Compiling WOULD be a pain in the ass, but all the truly large ones (OpenOffice, Mozilla et al.) come as binary packages. And with KDE now atomized, compiling is truly no problem any more.
Rehashing tired "ricer" jokes is fine by me, but it would sadden me if prejudice stopped anyone from trying it out. For me, it completely broke the impression that Linux is difficult.
And closed ones provide this incentive? Open APIs are at least knowledge never lost - they can be forked and better standards can emerge. With todays closed APIs whoever developed it has no incentive to develop, only exploit; he tries to use his domination in one area to unfairly gain leverage in others. And with a closed API entrenched in the market with the blessing of whoever controls the most PCs on which they it is used, innovative new ones often have a difficulty succeeding unless they provide something as drastic as free beer with their technical innovation.
My guess is that this could be something like:
- get linux to run well on MS virtual machines, so linux can become just an app running under 2k3, and therefore slowely sink into oblivion.
Either you are kidding, or you think them mighty stupid. Sure, what Microsoft wants is to have an unpenetrable fortress which serves as Open Source solutions delivery platform, houses all users' personal data in encrypted form and is generally the entire non-stupid part of their computing experience soiling its entertainment center. And how would that make Linux "sink into oblivion"? It'd make Windows the equivalent of DirectX-enabled BIOS. which runs the user's true trusted and open system (Gentoo, in my case).
So, it's not two exposures, but rather one that's slow enough in its sweeping of the FOV for the (madly running) photographer to overtake the object and catch it twice in different parts of the exposed surface.
It calls to mind an interesting observation that an unnamed "senior advisor"to President Bush made to a New York Times Magazine reporter last fall:
The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you,
all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' (from here)
I wonder how MSN search compares to Google in terms of hardware versus load.
Or more interestingly, hardware versus load versus overall cost of solution? It's all nice if 64-bit Windows servers are free for your company, of course...
That's the way to go, Debian! Less software is just what you need if you don't want your users to defect Ubuntu or Gentoo. In times when every distribution offers more and more packages, offering less is really innovative.
And let me quote:
- Jim Allchin is a very senior person
- for someone of Jim's rank to take the time and openly discuss Longhorn and Microsoft strategy with us was amazing
- I thank Jim for taking his time
- And certainly bloggers typically do not get the type of opportunity to suggest features to someone at Jim's level.
- So on to the dinner. I wrote Wow, with regards to Jim actually meeting with us
- Best of all was Jim's reaction when I expressed my delight
- Jim reacted strongly and said that
- if what Jim suggested about further speed improvements
- Jim asked questions about some
- the most rewarding was the ability to talk to Jim specifically
- Jim confirmed that there would be
- Jim and Microsoft are very excited
- Jim suggested that
- Jim said that by not requiring
- Jim said that you are going to see
- Jim said that although Microsoft could
- Jim suggested that Microsoft has a firm grasp
- Jim did acknowledge that
- Jim said that they are working on many of these issues
- I was able to ask Jim about when we might
- I asked Jim if we would see
- One of the primary purposes for Jim getting together with us
- Jim seemed very concerned with how we all
- Jim seemed very receptive
- It was fun to be able to share with Jim
- Jim seemed to feel that this is a bigger
- Jim agreed that giving people
- I suggested to Jim
- It was weird feeling the déjà vu as I left the dinner last night after spending a few hours with Jim. I was reminded again of that old dream
Third-grade writing style a new vogue among bloggers, or simply someone infatuated with... Jim?
With all those crippling limitations, they'd better pop an Ubuntu CD in the Starter Edition box if they don't want their prospective customers to feel cheated. Because, Ubuntu offers a nicely packaged OS suited for beginners, with tons of applications and NO limit on screen resolution, networking or multitasking and it's what everyone will end up using anyhow. Cpt. Obvious cannot stress enough: MS sucks.
Is that the PSP _STILL_ leaves room for Apple to release a proper portable video playing device, with USB connection to a PC and something like a 60 GB hard drive. If they did that and offered TV shows for download at reasonable prices while also giving it an ability to play AVI, MPEG and several other formats, they'd win _AGAIN_. That is, presuming that people are interested in portable video at all - we'll be able to project upon that based on PSP movies' success, I guess. Although Sony's system is as lame and not with the times as it ever was.
Exactly. If you can sit down, relax and focus your attention on a TV show, chances are your TV and/or computer are near. I don't go to the dentist so much as to justify PSP as a video-playing device.
Offered by Slashdot at the bottom of the page: ""Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never." -- Winston Churchill"
Anyway, no DRM is OK. When I buy music, I want to share it with people. Music is a communion and it is absurd that it should separate people (into owners and non-owners) instead of bring them together (making and enjoying it). I personally feel that no artist should be as ridiculously overcompensated as they are now. If they lose their incentive, then let them not play their music. It will find its way and bubble up regardlessly, no matter what anyone says. But turning it into an industry was a bad move. It happened over the millenia, mind you - I don't blame the eighties and the rise of the gung-ho economy for its downfall. Nor do I think RIAA is the devil - it is humanity's fault and a sign of our times that things should be as they are.
Anyway, freeing the music is equivalent to destroying it. And we should, every one of us on a personal level. I still listen to it, just have no hang ups about getting music from others and sharing it with them and I try to compensate the artist if and only if they seem to lack the money - bought two Ozric Tentacles CDs at their concert even though I had them in MP3 already.
Who do the sounds belong to, anyway? Who does the experience belong to? Who is to say that the current industry provides better, more inspired music, than the communities millenia ago did? OK, you got me monologuing, seems I'm a typical evil pirating mastermind after all.
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I, for one, welcome our new sensitive-fingered dominae.
Which sort of leads to my question. How in the world did the decision for a Warcraft MMORPG get made?
They tried to print their own money, but then found out that it's illegal and that the paper costs a lot -- this was the next best thing.
The people responsible for this greed will pay one day.
/. post that on that historic 8th of August has sparked the New American Revolution.
And this, children, is the
As I see it, CD is just a medium for digital data. Even with the most cheap equipment (such as someone's thrown-out P2 and the free CD ripping program) it can be backed up infinitely with no loss.
So, it's a bit wrong to compare its durability to an analog sound recording which is being eaten by time, quite probably eroding every time you touch it or use it.
On the other hand, you don't really need to have all your trivial and useful information available at a single glance. There is nothing the widgets do I wouldn't prefer a Very Small Shell Script and curl/wget for.
The problem here might be Microsoft NOT abusing their monopoly enough. If they were forcing a single installation system for all software (a la Gentoo's Portage), they could transparently modify privileges for all software. "Remember, in order to play games you have to be a member of the 'games' group". And furthermore, make admin not being able to play games or surf the web by default and the users will understand.
No, it's not clever, it's simply horrible design. If they consider the menu bar such a key tool for browsing that it has to be the most accessible, something is wrong. The menu bar is that thing you click, wait for the animation which fades thingies into view, than you read (or at least scan) to find out what to click. But I consider this whole discussion unnecessary, as the menu bar was probably dragged under the tab bar by someone who toyed with computer when the picture was taken. There is no way in hell that this topsy-turvy design is what MS intended. Also, once more, it's not clever.
Gentoo is extremely low maintenance (which could be said of Debian and Ubuntu), but unlike those allows you to easily set a persistent policies of what elements you allow or do not allow through USE flags. Compiling WOULD be a pain in the ass, but all the truly large ones (OpenOffice, Mozilla et al.) come as binary packages. And with KDE now atomized, compiling is truly no problem any more.
Rehashing tired "ricer" jokes is fine by me, but it would sadden me if prejudice stopped anyone from trying it out. For me, it completely broke the impression that Linux is difficult.
And closed ones provide this incentive? Open APIs are at least knowledge never lost - they can be forked and better standards can emerge. With todays closed APIs whoever developed it has no incentive to develop, only exploit; he tries to use his domination in one area to unfairly gain leverage in others. And with a closed API entrenched in the market with the blessing of whoever controls the most PCs on which they it is used, innovative new ones often have a difficulty succeeding unless they provide something as drastic as free beer with their technical innovation.
My guess is that this could be something like: - get linux to run well on MS virtual machines, so linux can become just an app running under 2k3, and therefore slowely sink into oblivion.
Either you are kidding, or you think them mighty stupid. Sure, what Microsoft wants is to have an unpenetrable fortress which serves as Open Source solutions delivery platform, houses all users' personal data in encrypted form and is generally the entire non-stupid part of their computing experience soiling its entertainment center. And how would that make Linux "sink into oblivion"? It'd make Windows the equivalent of DirectX-enabled BIOS. which runs the user's true trusted and open system (Gentoo, in my case).
shouldn't that be: "In Soviet Russia, the search engine queries you"?
I for one don't need your fancy multiple cores. If only elinks starts supporting CSS properly, I'd get another decade out of this P133 of mine.
So, it's not two exposures, but rather one that's slow enough in its sweeping of the FOV for the (madly running) photographer to overtake the object and catch it twice in different parts of the exposed surface.
It calls to mind an interesting observation that an unnamed "senior advisor"to President Bush made to a New York Times Magazine reporter last fall: ... and you,
all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' (from here)
The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors
I wonder how MSN search compares to Google in terms of hardware versus load.
Or more interestingly, hardware versus load versus overall cost of solution? It's all nice if 64-bit Windows servers are free for your company, of course...
Root is safe, beta is gold, MS is open enough and MN2004 is coming back on a corrected trajectory. All makes sense.
Ubuntu is Debian with 'less software', dick.
Well, I think they should have kept all of Debian's dick in Ubuntu.
That's the way to go, Debian! Less software is just what you need if you don't want your users to defect Ubuntu or Gentoo. In times when every distribution offers more and more packages, offering less is really innovative.
Allow me to commend you on some fine journalism devoid of homophobia, on your blog, Thomas.
And let me quote:
- Jim Allchin is a very senior person
- for someone of Jim's rank to take the time and openly discuss Longhorn and Microsoft strategy with us was amazing
- I thank Jim for taking his time
- And certainly bloggers typically do not get the type of opportunity to suggest features to someone at Jim's level.
- So on to the dinner. I wrote Wow, with regards to Jim actually meeting with us
- Best of all was Jim's reaction when I expressed my delight
- Jim reacted strongly and said that
- if what Jim suggested about further speed improvements
- Jim asked questions about some
- the most rewarding was the ability to talk to Jim specifically
- Jim confirmed that there would be
- Jim and Microsoft are very excited
- Jim suggested that
- Jim said that by not requiring
- Jim said that you are going to see
- Jim said that although Microsoft could
- Jim suggested that Microsoft has a firm grasp
- Jim did acknowledge that
- Jim said that they are working on many of these issues
- I was able to ask Jim about when we might
- I asked Jim if we would see
- One of the primary purposes for Jim getting together with us
- Jim seemed very concerned with how we all
- Jim seemed very receptive
- It was fun to be able to share with Jim
- Jim seemed to feel that this is a bigger
- Jim agreed that giving people
- I suggested to Jim
- It was weird feeling the déjà vu as I left the dinner last night after spending a few hours with Jim. I was reminded again of that old dream
Third-grade writing style a new vogue among bloggers, or simply someone infatuated with... Jim?
With all those crippling limitations, they'd better pop an Ubuntu CD in the Starter Edition box if they don't want their prospective customers to feel cheated. Because, Ubuntu offers a nicely packaged OS suited for beginners, with tons of applications and NO limit on screen resolution, networking or multitasking and it's what everyone will end up using anyhow. Cpt. Obvious cannot stress enough: MS sucks.
eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins)
Oy! I strongly resemble that remark!
Is that the PSP _STILL_ leaves room for Apple to release a proper portable video playing device, with USB connection to a PC and something like a 60 GB hard drive. If they did that and offered TV shows for download at reasonable prices while also giving it an ability to play AVI, MPEG and several other formats, they'd win _AGAIN_. That is, presuming that people are interested in portable video at all - we'll be able to project upon that based on PSP movies' success, I guess. Although Sony's system is as lame and not with the times as it ever was.
Exactly. If you can sit down, relax and focus your attention on a TV show, chances are your TV and/or computer are near. I don't go to the dentist so much as to justify PSP as a video-playing device.
Until you realize you'd be watching them on a glorious palm-sized screen.
Offered by Slashdot at the bottom of the page: ""Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never." -- Winston Churchill"
Anyway, no DRM is OK. When I buy music, I want to share it with people. Music is a communion and it is absurd that it should separate people (into owners and non-owners) instead of bring them together (making and enjoying it). I personally feel that no artist should be as ridiculously overcompensated as they are now. If they lose their incentive, then let them not play their music. It will find its way and bubble up regardlessly, no matter what anyone says. But turning it into an industry was a bad move. It happened over the millenia, mind you - I don't blame the eighties and the rise of the gung-ho economy for its downfall. Nor do I think RIAA is the devil - it is humanity's fault and a sign of our times that things should be as they are.
Anyway, freeing the music is equivalent to destroying it. And we should, every one of us on a personal level. I still listen to it, just have no hang ups about getting music from others and sharing it with them and I try to compensate the artist if and only if they seem to lack the money - bought two Ozric Tentacles CDs at their concert even though I had them in MP3 already.
Who do the sounds belong to, anyway? Who does the experience belong to? Who is to say that the current industry provides better, more inspired music, than the communities millenia ago did? OK, you got me monologuing, seems I'm a typical evil pirating mastermind after all.