Did you even consider that some organsiation has to be recording and intercepting the al queda cell phone calls, and the US is a little bit far away to be doing that?
I live a mile from GCHQ - it looks like a huge donut, and is apparently mostly built underground. The scarey thing is that I recently read that it's the second most desirable terrorist target after the Whitehouse. Nice!
The point with ReactOS isn't to keep up with the latest and greatest. ReactOS with full NT4 compatibility will have a function in many offfices, that still have a huge NT4 presence, but are find that they are coming to the end of their support life cycle with Microsoft. ReactOS would squeeze a little more life out of their systems, and would also provide an easier upgrade path to a straight Linux system than simply going Windows --> Linux.
Home users are a different breed to corporate users, and tend to want the latest version of an OS. Of course, ReactOS is in no position to compete with XP, but wouldn't we be hoping that rather than chosing Windows XP, home users will eventually be installing one of the multitude of distros available?
Just watch John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars - it was uncannily like Doom.... from the deserted space bases, to the look of the 'possessed' - hell, it was even on Mars!
I would imagine that a lot of the savings would be eaten up by the initial work required to convert existing systems and the large training programs that would be involved to ease users through the transition from other operating systems.
I'd bet over an extended period of time, however, that the % savings would increase.
Hmm so Microsoft do this to poor old Mike Rowe, and it's yet another example of the nasty corporate behemouth, yet when Apple do the same thing to someone who registered the domain BEFORE it was a registered Apple trademark, and they're to be praised for their actions?
What's equally surprising is that it's not as if Apple haven't had their share of trademark issues with the record label of the same name owned by The Beatles.
So Microsoft and The Beatles bad, Apple good? How on earth did they achieve this demi-god status amongst everyone?
I love liquid lenses. I often indulge in testing sessions where upon I don my own pair of "liquid lenses" by drinking 8 pints. It's sooo cool how it makes all the ugly chicks look like Jennifer Aniston!
"DOS style attack"? Hardly - it actively monitors the servers to prevent them going off line. A DOS attack goes all out to take a server down.
All Lycos is doing is send hits out to slow down a server. How is that different to posting a link in a news article in Slashdot? We all know that will get slashdotted, yet links are still posted. In both Lycos' and Slashdot's cases, something deliberate is done which causes a degredation in server perfomance. I don't see how it's any more of a DOS style attack than slashdotting a site.
Microsoft are recognising the competition here because it potentially earns them revenue by selling a quantity of legit versions of XP. I don't think they would be quite so forthcoming with Firefox support for a service they don't stand to directly gain from - for example, I don't see windows update support through Firefox happening any time soon.
Did anyone see John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. That for me captured the doom feel perfectly - from the look of the infected, to the deserted colonies on Mars complete with strung up bodies - all it lacked was a couple of the supernatural beasts, and that could have been a great Doom movie!
The thing about monopolies is that, as in a business sense, it's the equivilent of launching the space shuttle at the end of Civilisation - you win, you achieved the ultimate goal, and every company wants to be in that place.
Therefore, behind a monopoly, there's always another monopoly watching and waiting in the shadows, looking to take over from the popular and dominant market force. For example:
Microsoft (Apple) Intel (AMD) Nvidia (ATI) iTunes (Napster) IBM (Sun) Gnome (KDE)
They'll tell you that they wouldn't ever want to be a monopoly, but it's poppycock - the whole principles of business are based on monopoly.
ATI mainly outsold Nvidia because of Nvidia's shoddy manufacturing of early Geforce 5 series cards - poor drivers, drivers that lied, and late to market hardware that looked distinctly weak by the time it was public. This was a direct mirror of the emergence of Nvidia over 3DFX as a major graphics card force a few years ealier, with the exception that this time around, Nvidia had a lot greater cash reserve than 3DFX ever did, so could actually afford to make the mistake.
As it is, I'd be very surprised to find out that the ATI share was more than 55/45 in their favor (remember - a LOT of people outside of hardcord gamer circles are still using early Geforce / TNT cards - I have even seen Geforce 2 *MX* cards still being sold as low cost no frills acceleration) and with the new 6600 cards coming out, this is going to be a firm kick to the nether regions of ATI. There just isn't a card on the market that can hold a candle to it, and when you combine this with Nvidia's far superior Doom 3 performance, I'd certainly not bet against Nvidia becoming a dominant 3D acceleration force over the next few years.
Yeah I've not really been paying attention to any of this up until now, but what exactly is in the pod? Is it physical material to analyse, such as rocks and dust etc, or is it media containing data such as photographs?
First thing I did when I saw this article was shudder. Why? The majority of problems I've ever had with XP have been with the shoddy implementation of a Hardware Abstraction Layer, and the associated problems that an 'all your eggs in one basket' approach can bring you. You can see for yourself: Just Google for 'Missing Hal.DLL' and you'll see just how easy it is for this file to be corrupted / disappear etc etc.
I don't think the above post deserved to be flamebait - he made a valid point, just somewhat uneloquently.
A bad joke would be that you preloaded thier source code a few months ago, but lets not go there.
<p>Why is that a bad joke? I thought it was hilarious. Any company with shoddy system security, and therefore contributing yet more boxes to the lack of security epidemic deserves everything they've got coming to them.</p>
Appologies in advance to you Appleites out there and please be gentle:)
BUT.... How can the monopolies commission come down like a ton of bricks on Microsoft for locking people into a technology, when the only way you can legally download music for the iPod is through iTunes? Surely by not licensing their DRM technology, Apple are creating an equal monopoly for the vast number of iTunes users out there?
And I'd be interested to know if any Apple fans could answer - why does this not bother you?
1) Remember the spectrum that they combined with a built in cassette player? Remember how when the tape deck failed, you had to bin the whole machine? Oh wait..iPod...battery....replace whole unit.. I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
2) Heat, heat and heat! From the pictures, that case doesn't appear to be particularly well ventilated, and there just can't be the room in there for a decent fan airflow. Pop a half-decent graphics card in there, play highly intensive games, wait a year and a half, and you have a potential fiasco on your hands. No matter how pretty a box looks, I would never buy it if I didn't think it could practically ensure a prelonged period of intensive use.
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He used to have Firefox installed, but the Grinch removed it.
Neato :) Would that be more towards Staverton or Chelt?
They had cellphones 30 years ago?
Did you even consider that some organsiation has to be recording and intercepting the al queda cell phone calls, and the US is a little bit far away to be doing that?
I live a mile from GCHQ - it looks like a huge donut, and is apparently mostly built underground. The scarey thing is that I recently read that it's the second most desirable terrorist target after the Whitehouse. Nice!
The point with ReactOS isn't to keep up with the latest and greatest. ReactOS with full NT4 compatibility will have a function in many offfices, that still have a huge NT4 presence, but are find that they are coming to the end of their support life cycle with Microsoft. ReactOS would squeeze a little more life out of their systems, and would also provide an easier upgrade path to a straight Linux system than simply going Windows --> Linux.
Home users are a different breed to corporate users, and tend to want the latest version of an OS. Of course, ReactOS is in no position to compete with XP, but wouldn't we be hoping that rather than chosing Windows XP, home users will eventually be installing one of the multitude of distros available?
>> saved me the price of a movie admission (and of course snack food)
5 x nacho tubs, 3 family size sodas, 5 foot long hotdogs and 2 tubs of mega-sized popcorn swimming in butter?
Just watch John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars - it was uncannily like Doom.... from the deserted space bases, to the look of the 'possessed' - hell, it was even on Mars!
I would imagine that a lot of the savings would be eaten up by the initial work required to convert existing systems and the large training programs that would be involved to ease users through the transition from other operating systems.
I'd bet over an extended period of time, however, that the % savings would increase.
Hmm so Microsoft do this to poor old Mike Rowe, and it's yet another example of the nasty corporate behemouth, yet when Apple do the same thing to someone who registered the domain BEFORE it was a registered Apple trademark, and they're to be praised for their actions?
What's equally surprising is that it's not as if Apple haven't had their share of trademark issues with the record label of the same name owned by The Beatles.
So Microsoft and The Beatles bad, Apple good? How on earth did they achieve this demi-god status amongst everyone?
I love liquid lenses. I often indulge in testing sessions where upon I don my own pair of "liquid lenses" by drinking 8 pints. It's sooo cool how it makes all the ugly chicks look like Jennifer Aniston!
"DOS style attack"? Hardly - it actively monitors the servers to prevent them going off line. A DOS attack goes all out to take a server down.
All Lycos is doing is send hits out to slow down a server. How is that different to posting a link in a news article in Slashdot? We all know that will get slashdotted, yet links are still posted. In both Lycos' and Slashdot's cases, something deliberate is done which causes a degredation in server perfomance. I don't see how it's any more of a DOS style attack than slashdotting a site.
Does anyone have any screenshots of it that don't look like one of those hacker greetz pages you used to get on pirated Amiga games?
Microsoft are recognising the competition here because it potentially earns them revenue by selling a quantity of legit versions of XP. I don't think they would be quite so forthcoming with Firefox support for a service they don't stand to directly gain from - for example, I don't see windows update support through Firefox happening any time soon.
Did anyone see John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. That for me captured the doom feel perfectly - from the look of the infected, to the deserted colonies on Mars complete with strung up bodies - all it lacked was a couple of the supernatural beasts, and that could have been a great Doom movie!
Whoever modded this as funny has totally missed the point!
There really *was* a famicom network - it had online banking and gambling services if I remember correctly.
You can't run more than three applications at once?
So that's
1 - Anti virus
2 - Firewall
3 - Anti spyware
Nice....
The thing about monopolies is that, as in a business sense, it's the equivilent of launching the space shuttle at the end of Civilisation - you win, you achieved the ultimate goal, and every company wants to be in that place.
Therefore, behind a monopoly, there's always another monopoly watching and waiting in the shadows, looking to take over from the popular and dominant market force. For example:
Microsoft (Apple)
Intel (AMD)
Nvidia (ATI)
iTunes (Napster)
IBM (Sun)
Gnome (KDE)
They'll tell you that they wouldn't ever want to be a monopoly, but it's poppycock - the whole principles of business are based on monopoly.
ATI mainly outsold Nvidia because of Nvidia's shoddy manufacturing of early Geforce 5 series cards - poor drivers, drivers that lied, and late to market hardware that looked distinctly weak by the time it was public. This was a direct mirror of the emergence of Nvidia over 3DFX as a major graphics card force a few years ealier, with the exception that this time around, Nvidia had a lot greater cash reserve than 3DFX ever did, so could actually afford to make the mistake.
As it is, I'd be very surprised to find out that the ATI share was more than 55/45 in their favor (remember - a LOT of people outside of hardcord gamer circles are still using early Geforce / TNT cards - I have even seen Geforce 2 *MX* cards still being sold as low cost no frills acceleration) and with the new 6600 cards coming out, this is going to be a firm kick to the nether regions of ATI. There just isn't a card on the market that can hold a candle to it, and when you combine this with Nvidia's far superior Doom 3 performance, I'd certainly not bet against Nvidia becoming a dominant 3D acceleration force over the next few years.
Yeah I've not really been paying attention to any of this up until now, but what exactly is in the pod? Is it physical material to analyse, such as rocks and dust etc, or is it media containing data such as photographs?
First thing I did when I saw this article was shudder. Why? The majority of problems I've ever had with XP have been with the shoddy implementation of a Hardware Abstraction Layer, and the associated problems that an 'all your eggs in one basket' approach can bring you. You can see for yourself: Just Google for 'Missing Hal.DLL' and you'll see just how easy it is for this file to be corrupted / disappear etc etc.
I don't think the above post deserved to be flamebait - he made a valid point, just somewhat uneloquently.
A bad joke would be that you preloaded thier source code a few months ago, but lets not go there.
<p>Why is that a bad joke? I thought it was hilarious. Any company with shoddy system security, and therefore contributing yet more boxes to the lack of security epidemic deserves everything they've got coming to them.</p>
Appologies in advance to you Appleites out there and please be gentle :)
BUT.... How can the monopolies commission come down like a ton of bricks on Microsoft for locking people into a technology, when the only way you can legally download music for the iPod is through iTunes? Surely by not licensing their DRM technology, Apple are creating an equal monopoly for the vast number of iTunes users out there?
And I'd be interested to know if any Apple fans could answer - why does this not bother you?
For two reasons -
1) Remember the spectrum that they combined with a built in cassette player? Remember how when the tape deck failed, you had to bin the whole machine? Oh wait..iPod...battery....replace whole unit.. I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
2) Heat, heat and heat! From the pictures, that case doesn't appear to be particularly well ventilated, and there just can't be the room in there for a decent fan airflow. Pop a half-decent graphics card in there, play highly intensive games, wait a year and a half, and you have a potential fiasco on your hands. No matter how pretty a box looks, I would never buy it if I didn't think it could practically ensure a prelonged period of intensive use.
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