Just imagine: they've trumped everyone else for the home desktop system, and so they dip into territory previously ruled by video stores, Pay Per View, and speciality movie channels.
No.. this won't happen. It would require Microsoft to pay royalties to the media companies. Find me just one instance where MS has ever payed royalties to anyone.
"I know EXACTLY who to call. Who do I call for a Linux issue? Redhat? IBM? Who did I buy it from? Who is supporting it?
Redhat has done wonders for the industry. But I need ONE vendor to contact for ALL my issues who has deep expertise in all aspects of the software."
Let me guess, you've never actually used MS support have you. Call them with a problem and they'll tell you to call Dell... call Dell and they'll tell you to call MS. Who do you call? MS or Dell? Who did you buy the OS from? Perhaps you need to call Best Buy.
Here's something fun, call MS and ask them for drivers... then we'll see how well your "ONE vendor" theory holds up.
Aparently, this satellite is higher up than some of the other ones... so instead of a 9 minute orbit, it's a 93 minute orbit! It can only take 1 swab of an area per orbit.. so that's 1 picture every 93 minutes. (And it's FOV is 15km, you rotate further than 15km in 93 minutes, so they have to wait 3 days to get back to the same exact spot)
"Holy cow, you all better get your tinfoil hats ready, because they really *can* and most likely *will* be watching us with these things!"
Except for the fact that the satellite orbits the earth every 9 minutes, so you only get 1 picture every 9 minutes. Also don't forget that the earth is revolving below it (these satellites are in polar orbit, so the earth rotates below them). Which means it takes half a day for it to get to the proper latitude, and depending on the camera's angle, it may only be able to make 2 passes (that's 2 pictures, taken 9 minutes apart) before it has to wait 12 hours.
So no, they won't be watching you with these.. and they never will until they can zoom in from geosyncronous orbit (30k miles). Physics is against them.
"Remember the telephone-over-powerline products to give you extra extensions?"
People did use those, and they were a disaster.
There was an article a few years ago about a guy who had a phone number that was one digit off from Los Angeles' WebTV dialup number. He was getting hundreds of calls a day because people were using the phone-over-power extensions with their WebTV and the linenoise was causing them to misdial from time to time.
Slashdot Mirror
The day people read the article, is the day the slashdot effect ceases to exist.
Don't tell me to read the article while the server is currently dying a miserable death.. unless you feel like mirroring it yourself.
That's not true at all.. if you read the posts on bugtraq, then you would've seen that turning the GUID off barely helps at all!
WMP generates a new ID not every use, but every session!
It doesn't generate a new ID until you close IE and reopen it... so they can still track you until you close IE.
"Would you want to be personally responsible for any GPL'ed code you wrote?"
Absolutely... all my GPL'd software comes with a money-back guarrantee.
This is how the case will be won, and how Microsoft will lose their trademark for Windows.
Lawyer: Mr Gates, could you help me by naming the things I point to?
Gates: Depends on what "point" means.
L: What would you call this? (points to empty blue spot on the screen)
G: That's the Microsoft Windows desktop.
L: Ok, now what is this thing here? (points to floating white box with titlebar and border)
G: That's an application window.
L: Exactly, that's a window. Now, (pointing to several application windows), what are these called?
G: Those are just windows.
L: Exactly! These are windows! It's not an OS, is it? It's a widget in a GUI!
G: Well... [insert blathering doublespeak here]
That's how the case will be won. "Windows" is a generic GUI term describing 2 or more applications.
Don't believe me? Let's look at some other trademarks that have been classified as generic:
Kleenex, Shredded Wheat, Aspirin, Corn Flakes, Baby Oil.
Of course we can see why those are generic, but how about these:
Al-Kol, Flor-Tile, Jujubes, and even Monopoly (the board game). All are generic, with their wierd spellings and everything.
If Monopoly can lose it's trademark, so can Windows.
But cat /dev/random > /dev/hda1
:)
should be good enough for anyone
No.. this won't happen. It would require Microsoft to pay royalties to the media companies. Find me just one instance where MS has ever payed royalties to anyone.
"I know EXACTLY who to call. Who do I call for a Linux issue? Redhat? IBM? Who did I buy it from? Who is supporting it?
Redhat has done wonders for the industry. But I need ONE vendor to contact for ALL my issues who has deep expertise in all aspects of the software."
Let me guess, you've never actually used MS support have you. Call them with a problem and they'll tell you to call Dell... call Dell and they'll tell you to call MS. Who do you call? MS or Dell? Who did you buy the OS from? Perhaps you need to call Best Buy.
Here's something fun, call MS and ask them for drivers... then we'll see how well your "ONE vendor" theory holds up.
Every time someone says something about Microsoft's Peer Review.. I can only think of one thing to say. "Netscape Engineers Are Weenies"
Proof positive that MS has no peer review or code auditing to speak of.
Slight correction:
Aparently, this satellite is higher up than some of the other ones... so instead of a 9 minute orbit, it's a 93 minute orbit! It can only take 1 swab of an area per orbit.. so that's 1 picture every 93 minutes. (And it's FOV is 15km, you rotate further than 15km in 93 minutes, so they have to wait 3 days to get back to the same exact spot)
"Holy cow, you all better get your tinfoil hats ready, because they really *can* and most likely *will* be watching us with these things!"
Except for the fact that the satellite orbits the earth every 9 minutes, so you only get 1 picture every 9 minutes. Also don't forget that the earth is revolving below it (these satellites are in polar orbit, so the earth rotates below them). Which means it takes half a day for it to get to the proper latitude, and depending on the camera's angle, it may only be able to make 2 passes (that's 2 pictures, taken 9 minutes apart) before it has to wait 12 hours.
So no, they won't be watching you with these.. and they never will until they can zoom in from geosyncronous orbit (30k miles). Physics is against them.
"Remember the telephone-over-powerline products to give you extra extensions?"
People did use those, and they were a disaster.
There was an article a few years ago about a guy who had a phone number that was one digit off from Los Angeles' WebTV dialup number. He was getting hundreds of calls a day because people were using the phone-over-power extensions with their WebTV and the linenoise was causing them to misdial from time to time.
hmm.. I wonder why that is... (as I read the article with my laptop in my lap)
This isn't as bad as the other restrictions.
Cox specifically prohibits the use of a router (and NAT). This is so Cox can sell you another IP at $7 a month.
Of course that doesn't prevent me from using one.. you'd have to be pretty stupid to call up Cox and tell them you're using a router.