That way, all the pr0n and digital radio and multiple broadcast stuff like that won't be choking up the relays with redundant packets. You'll see a 1000% improvement the day they mandate multicast I'll betcha.
IANAL either, but I think if you reach a settlement that's the legal way of saying "the matter is closed". You're saying that you're satisfied with the results, so I don't think you can change your mind later.
Unless the federal government gets involved with the RICO act, that is. If the settlements are determined to be coerced, then they would be void and you could try to recover your fees. And maybe even countersue.
What's important to Microsoft is that you bought a copy of Windows. Ie: that they've made their money.
What MS actually cares about is their revenue stream. You bought Windows, and they want that. But they also want you to buy the next Windows too. Their business model is all about repeat business. That's why they keep giving the users reasons to buy the next Windows. Like...not making DX10 available for XP, but only for Vista.
Running a piece of software on a VM running Windows is not "running it anywhere", it's running it on Windows.
Sort of. But running it in a VM implies a possible different host OS. With that host OS, you might find that you like it more and use the VM just for applications that have no Mac or Linux port. You might not buy the next Windows. You might just use XP as a translation layer to run a couple of old rusty apps and stay in your new OS. Which is what they are worried about. Anything that removes users from their revenue stream is what they are worried about.
Microsoft only really care that they sell you a copy of Windows. How you choose to use that copy is of distant secondary importance.
They do care how you use your copy. See here. Remember - it's their revenue stream they are trying to maintain. They do not look at a user as a single sale. A user is a stream. Buy this. Then buy this. Then buy this.
If you're running your Win32/DX games on OSX, then it's an OSX machine that happens to be running Windows as a task or translation layer. The computer is not a Windows box.
MS is all about market share. Without that, they're nothing. That's why they perform stranglehold tactics on PC manufacturers, like this. If people can run to the store and buy a piece of software and run it anywhere, then what's the point of Windows?
Most of us already own an XP disc. With no reason to buy another one, the whole Windows revenue stream dries up.
Imagine being able to play your Windows games, but on an OSX box. Or Linux someday. It would be fantastic. Just make a VM, install your XP on that...then the game. And disconnect the virtual network card so your VM doesn't get pwned.
I'd be hard pressed to say "never" to just about anything when it comes to tech. Remember the famous Bill Gates quote - "640K ought to be enough for anybody." It was true at the time, but looks extremely silly now.
Will we manage any of these in a year, or five years, or five hundred are probably better questions.
Once this thing gets working well, use cadmium sulfide in the receptors and you'd be able to see in a wider visual band than normal eyes. Infrared and ultraviolet would become "visible". You would see heat signatures in the dark, and have nightvision among otherthings.
Microsoft could have handled this differently and spun the whole thing to their advantage. This could have been a "Genuine Advantage" moment. "See? Make sure your pre-installed software comes with the original disks and software keys! We'll let you off the hook, but all you out there please learn from Mr. Ponosov's predicament and deal only with reputable certified Microsoft resellers" or some such.
But instead they turned the other cheek, and a teacher almost was sentenced to prison in Siberia over something as simple as missing software keys. And a Russian judge showed more compassion and understanding of the matter than Bill Gates. Those are the facts, and they do not look good. This is, and rightfully should be, a PR nightmare for Microsoft.
A shame really. The Gates Foundation gives away piles of cash for humanitarian goals, but events like this let you know where that money is really coming from. And what people behind it are really like. Business first, before anything else, always.
How many coaches at halftime ever say they're going to lose the game?
That being said, IMHO this won't be a VHS versus Betamax thing. There is too much manufacturing set up for both sides to simply abandon one format. What I'm hoping happens is that one of the two becomes the dominant format (which it almost certainly will), and the other one will become the "ghetto" HD format.
The loser in this format war will still make money, but it will have to do it by underselling the winner. Lower prices, bigger numbers. When that happens, the loser will most likely wind up as a cheap burner you can stick on an IDE cable. And I'm really looking forward to that for data storage.
Well, you're a good example of the other side of the fence. But not everyone is running a high demand server room. I'd imagine that guys who have your purchase priorities are the exception and not the rule. The consumer market seems to be the lion's share of cpu sales.
But what you've wrote is interesting. Do people who run these high demand systems really upgrade the cpu every time AMD or Intel manages a tiny delta of performance increase? Seems terribly wasteful if they do. Bleeding edge cpu cost seems to be around 800-1200 dollars American. That's a lot to throw down every time someone manages to push an additional 100MHz out of some chip. The exception IMHO would be whenever there is an architecture change, like the recent glut of dual core chips, or the currently hyped quadcore CPUs. Other than that though, it seems like an awfully expensive way to do business.
Eh, not so much I think. I still prefer toys to video games, myself. I just have a wider definition of toys these days.
A good toy for me would be metalworking tools. A new anvil would be awesome - I'd be like a kid in a candy shop!
And old school toys are great too. If someone dumped a bucket of Legos in front of me right now I'd sit and fiddle with them. I wouldn't be able to stop myself. And I think this is one of the finest toys ever. I'd play with it right now. In my cube. With no shame whatsoever. =)
Hell, that's one of the main reasons why I'm looking forward to having kids. I get to buy a bunch of toys! And sit with my future kids and have fun with them.
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Yeah, I'll still play a game every so often. Usually what I play these days is MTG: Plainswalkers quick duel, or Mame32 Robotron 2084. A simple 5-10 minute diversion and then I'm back to doing whatever. I think a lot of it has to do with the games they make these days. I just don't find all the rendered scenery and 3D stuff engrossing. Or maybe it says something about my dwindling attention span. =)
As for the home life, well, my wife is probably as much or more of a geek than I am. She's a fan of Sid Meier - she's currently playing Colonization. She's a table top gamer too, and has the rules to Rolemaster memorized.
Geek chicks are out there. They're not as rare as you might think. Don't give up hope (if you're interested in finding one that is). I found one and married her, and I'm a pretty unlikely choice for marriage too.
As long as AMD and Intel continue to chase each other in the x86 market, high end chips become low end in the span of six months. Just keep buying 6 months behind the press releases and you get great processors for next to nothing.
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I was a gamer myself, back in the way-back of long ago. I had a C64 and loads of games. And I was an arcade nut. I'd mow lawns and collect returnable bottles just for a chance to play. Owned an Atari 2600. I later bought an Amiga and had boxes of games for that too. I was nuts for video games, and I couldn't get enough.
Then I graduated college and got a job.
Now, I write software for a living. And the very last thing I want to do when I get home is sit in front of a computer. ANY computer. My PS2 has an inch of dust on it. I bought maybe 3 games for it before I gave up. No XBox 360 for me. No PS3. No thank you.
What I sit around and crave these days is to be outdoors.
I walk in parks. If it's snowing, I go skiing. I joined the SCA and go camping for my vacations. My wife and I own bicycles and go biking whenever we can. I home brew, work with metal, and build tents. If no computer is involved, I'm usually pretty happy. I'm enjoying stripping the paint off the woodwork in a room of my house even.
My friends come over every so often and bug me about video games. "Have you played such-and-such yet?" Nope. I haven't. And I don't really have any interest in doing so either. It's too damn boring! I'm currently struggling through Elder Scrolls Oblivion at my brother's request. Soon as you figure out the combat system it's seriously boring.
And plus, I'm a programmer now. I can watch the characters move around on the screen and I pretty much can guess at the algorithm making them move. Takes the fun out of it when you can.
Nope. Can't play games anymore. Just about anything is better than staring at the screen after my 8 hours are up.
...making it a crime to intentionally or willfully conceal a security breach involving personal data.
Let's say you're doing some work on some corporate database software. It's your job - maybe you work at Oracle or something. Or perhaps you're an admin for a website that takes customer data. The details don't matter much. But let's say you find a problem, something that could be exploited.
If you don't go public with it, you get nailed by this law. If you do, you get nailed with the DCMA.
You are guaranteed to break one or the other of those two laws.
The Onion has a feature called Random Rules. They take a celebrity type person and put their MP3 player on random. Then have the person being interviewed discusses what happens to come up on their player.
It's actually a pretty good feature. I especially liked the one with Gerald Casale.
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Seriously, 17 months?
Why the delay? What exactly is it that could possibly take so long? You could almost put the DVDs in a hot air balloon and get them there quicker.
Especially considering that this is sales. Who waits that long to make money? Especially in that industry?
Enable multicast.
That way, all the pr0n and digital radio and multiple broadcast stuff like that won't be choking up the relays with redundant packets. You'll see a 1000% improvement the day they mandate multicast I'll betcha.
IANAL either, but I think if you reach a settlement that's the legal way of saying "the matter is closed". You're saying that you're satisfied with the results, so I don't think you can change your mind later.
Unless the federal government gets involved with the RICO act, that is. If the settlements are determined to be coerced, then they would be void and you could try to recover your fees. And maybe even countersue.
If they lose this one, it sets a precedent.
See?
In a crash, gasoline will puddle under the vehicle you'd probably be trapped in. A gaseous fuel would dissipate in the air.
Respectfully, I must disagree.
What's important to Microsoft is that you bought a copy of Windows. Ie: that they've made their money.
What MS actually cares about is their revenue stream. You bought Windows, and they want that. But they also want you to buy the next Windows too. Their business model is all about repeat business. That's why they keep giving the users reasons to buy the next Windows. Like...not making DX10 available for XP, but only for Vista.
Running a piece of software on a VM running Windows is not "running it anywhere", it's running it on Windows.
Sort of. But running it in a VM implies a possible different host OS. With that host OS, you might find that you like it more and use the VM just for applications that have no Mac or Linux port. You might not buy the next Windows. You might just use XP as a translation layer to run a couple of old rusty apps and stay in your new OS. Which is what they are worried about. Anything that removes users from their revenue stream is what they are worried about.
Microsoft only really care that they sell you a copy of Windows. How you choose to use that copy is of distant secondary importance.
They do care how you use your copy. See here. Remember - it's their revenue stream they are trying to maintain. They do not look at a user as a single sale. A user is a stream. Buy this. Then buy this. Then buy this.
If you're running your Win32/DX games on OSX, then it's an OSX machine that happens to be running Windows as a task or translation layer. The computer is not a Windows box.
MS is all about market share. Without that, they're nothing. That's why they perform stranglehold tactics on PC manufacturers, like this. If people can run to the store and buy a piece of software and run it anywhere, then what's the point of Windows?
Most of us already own an XP disc. With no reason to buy another one, the whole Windows revenue stream dries up.
If that isn't funny enough, how about this one?
"We'll kill spam in two years." - Bill Gates, 2004.
I wonder how long it will take him to say he never said that one either? ;^)
Just wait until the VMware guys get DirectX 9 working at speed. Then move that to other operating systems.
Imagine being able to play your Windows games, but on an OSX box. Or Linux someday. It would be fantastic. Just make a VM, install your XP on that...then the game. And disconnect the virtual network card so your VM doesn't get pwned.
I'd be hard pressed to say "never" to just about anything when it comes to tech. Remember the famous Bill Gates quote - "640K ought to be enough for anybody." It was true at the time, but looks extremely silly now.
Will we manage any of these in a year, or five years, or five hundred are probably better questions.
What if this was the work of one individual?
A person who had her own agenda, wasn't in sync with the goals of our company?
Well, that usually works.
Once this thing gets working well, use cadmium sulfide in the receptors and you'd be able to see in a wider visual band than normal eyes. Infrared and ultraviolet would become "visible". You would see heat signatures in the dark, and have nightvision among other things.
Microsoft could have handled this differently and spun the whole thing to their advantage. This could have been a "Genuine Advantage" moment. "See? Make sure your pre-installed software comes with the original disks and software keys! We'll let you off the hook, but all you out there please learn from Mr. Ponosov's predicament and deal only with reputable certified Microsoft resellers" or some such.
But instead they turned the other cheek, and a teacher almost was sentenced to prison in Siberia over something as simple as missing software keys. And a Russian judge showed more compassion and understanding of the matter than Bill Gates. Those are the facts, and they do not look good. This is, and rightfully should be, a PR nightmare for Microsoft.
A shame really. The Gates Foundation gives away piles of cash for humanitarian goals, but events like this let you know where that money is really coming from. And what people behind it are really like. Business first, before anything else, always.
And they're all related. At least I think so, since all their last names are JPG.
How many coaches at halftime ever say they're going to lose the game?
That being said, IMHO this won't be a VHS versus Betamax thing. There is too much manufacturing set up for both sides to simply abandon one format. What I'm hoping happens is that one of the two becomes the dominant format (which it almost certainly will), and the other one will become the "ghetto" HD format.
The loser in this format war will still make money, but it will have to do it by underselling the winner. Lower prices, bigger numbers. When that happens, the loser will most likely wind up as a cheap burner you can stick on an IDE cable. And I'm really looking forward to that for data storage.
Well, you're a good example of the other side of the fence. But not everyone is running a high demand server room. I'd imagine that guys who have your purchase priorities are the exception and not the rule. The consumer market seems to be the lion's share of cpu sales.
But what you've wrote is interesting. Do people who run these high demand systems really upgrade the cpu every time AMD or Intel manages a tiny delta of performance increase? Seems terribly wasteful if they do. Bleeding edge cpu cost seems to be around 800-1200 dollars American. That's a lot to throw down every time someone manages to push an additional 100MHz out of some chip. The exception IMHO would be whenever there is an architecture change, like the recent glut of dual core chips, or the currently hyped quadcore CPUs. Other than that though, it seems like an awfully expensive way to do business.
Eh, not so much I think. I still prefer toys to video games, myself. I just have a wider definition of toys these days.
A good toy for me would be metalworking tools. A new anvil would be awesome - I'd be like a kid in a candy shop!
And old school toys are great too. If someone dumped a bucket of Legos in front of me right now I'd sit and fiddle with them. I wouldn't be able to stop myself. And I think this is one of the finest toys ever. I'd play with it right now. In my cube. With no shame whatsoever. =)
Hell, that's one of the main reasons why I'm looking forward to having kids. I get to buy a bunch of toys! And sit with my future kids and have fun with them.
Yeah, I'll still play a game every so often. Usually what I play these days is MTG: Plainswalkers quick duel, or Mame32 Robotron 2084. A simple 5-10 minute diversion and then I'm back to doing whatever. I think a lot of it has to do with the games they make these days. I just don't find all the rendered scenery and 3D stuff engrossing. Or maybe it says something about my dwindling attention span. =)
As for the home life, well, my wife is probably as much or more of a geek than I am. She's a fan of Sid Meier - she's currently playing Colonization. She's a table top gamer too, and has the rules to Rolemaster memorized.
Geek chicks are out there. They're not as rare as you might think. Don't give up hope (if you're interested in finding one that is). I found one and married her, and I'm a pretty unlikely choice for marriage too.
As long as AMD and Intel continue to chase each other in the x86 market, high end chips become low end in the span of six months. Just keep buying 6 months behind the press releases and you get great processors for next to nothing.
I was a gamer myself, back in the way-back of long ago. I had a C64 and loads of games. And I was an arcade nut. I'd mow lawns and collect returnable bottles just for a chance to play. Owned an Atari 2600. I later bought an Amiga and had boxes of games for that too. I was nuts for video games, and I couldn't get enough.
Then I graduated college and got a job.
Now, I write software for a living. And the very last thing I want to do when I get home is sit in front of a computer. ANY computer. My PS2 has an inch of dust on it. I bought maybe 3 games for it before I gave up. No XBox 360 for me. No PS3. No thank you.
What I sit around and crave these days is to be outdoors.
I walk in parks. If it's snowing, I go skiing. I joined the SCA and go camping for my vacations. My wife and I own bicycles and go biking whenever we can. I home brew, work with metal, and build tents. If no computer is involved, I'm usually pretty happy. I'm enjoying stripping the paint off the woodwork in a room of my house even.
My friends come over every so often and bug me about video games. "Have you played such-and-such yet?" Nope. I haven't. And I don't really have any interest in doing so either. It's too damn boring! I'm currently struggling through Elder Scrolls Oblivion at my brother's request. Soon as you figure out the combat system it's seriously boring.
And plus, I'm a programmer now. I can watch the characters move around on the screen and I pretty much can guess at the algorithm making them move. Takes the fun out of it when you can.
Nope. Can't play games anymore. Just about anything is better than staring at the screen after my 8 hours are up.
Let's say you're doing some work on some corporate database software. It's your job - maybe you work at Oracle or something. Or perhaps you're an admin for a website that takes customer data. The details don't matter much. But let's say you find a problem, something that could be exploited.
If you don't go public with it, you get nailed by this law. If you do, you get nailed with the DCMA.
You are guaranteed to break one or the other of those two laws.
And a whole lot of other useful things like teachers, public housing, additional health care and other benefits to our country if we weren't spending our money somewhere else at the moment.
The Onion has a feature called Random Rules. They take a celebrity type person and put their MP3 player on random. Then have the person being interviewed discusses what happens to come up on their player.
It's actually a pretty good feature. I especially liked the one with Gerald Casale.
Nope, it's not Federation law, it's a higher power.