Except you can't fit a high quality movie onto a CD without significant compression (DivX;) style, which VCD players can't support anyway). And that compression is quite noticeably lossy.
People buy DVDs to watch movies. Who the hell buys DVDs to listen to music?
Probably not as bad as new.net, mind you...
I just gave a deep discount to a co-worker for cleaning her computer up. The amount of nastiness left on that computer before she brought it to me prevented an upgrade to IE6 and broke the start-up process, leaving it in a totally unusable state. And she had to get files on the machine back, no backups to restore from.
So I had to go the long way around and clean it all up manually. Ugh.
new.net, bde, 4 different instances of gator, the list goes on and on and on.
On the other hand I also trained her to use ad-aware. So hopefully that won't be a recurring issue.
Sleepycat Software makes Berkeley DB available for download over the
World-Wide Web at no charge. The package includes complete source code,
documentation, and support for building the library on a large number
of operating systems and hardware platforms.
Unfortunately, we know the attitude of average computer users.
And once Brilliant start waving those coupons and offers under the the-average-joe-computer-user's nose they'll jump at running whatever it is that Brilliant is installing on their computers.
Not to sound completely ignorant, but what makes you think a virus that has "evolved" in terrestrial conditions has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving the conditions of Europa's "oceans", and even if it somehow manages to do so and remain active, what possibility is it that it can actually "infect" whatever organisms may be there, should any exist?
Having read all 9 of the current WoT novels I'd have to say the LotR trilogy was far less of an utter waste of time.
I don't even think "Robert Jordan" knows how he's going to get to where he wants the "trilogy" to end!
I'm as much a WoT addict now as anyone,having just finished yet another re-read of the 9 books, waiting eagerly for book 10 (should be out late this year, yes?), and starting on book 3 again in yet another series re-read, but I despair to think of where and when the series will take us.
It's a print-layout format, not a document format. You can't simply open it up, edit the text, reformat, and save. And HTML has no page layout options whatsoever -- by design.
Two extremes when you need something in the middle.
Am I one of the few people who don't seem to think there's anything with Microsoft saying, "hey, if you only sell machines with Windows on them, we'll give you a $10 discount on the licenses"?
The angle, I think, that one needs to look at this should be: "hey, if you ship only Windows machines, we'll reward you with a discount", not "we're charging you more because you're not shipping solely our products". You see this sort of thing all the time in endorsement contracts.
And, after all, if the OEMs actually saw a practical advantage to shipping something like Linux on desktops instead of Microsoft OSes... like those side offer lines (business, professional lines, whatever) from Dell, etc., they're not obligated to stick with Microsoft.
Free choice, right?
And it's economically advantageous for smaller OEMs to stick with solely Microsoft offerings, given their options, unless you're so small as to be catering to the niche group of Linux users, in which case you often wouldn't need to bundle an OS anyway!
This is what you get when you get a group of completely technologically clueless people running an anti-trust case against a software company. There are so many things wrong with that one paragraph that I don't know where to begin, and whether to laugh or to cry.
These are probably the same people who dont mind paying $400 for Office.
No, these are the same people that pirate Office from work, probably from sysadmins with burned CD-Rs of Office they warezed from USENET.
Damned freeloaders.
As I recall, this was only an issue if you had a double-free because of glibc, and I believe the original article specifically singled out Linux because it was dependant on the specific behavior of glibc.
Not too much longer. Games such as Doom and Quake that have had their source code released have already been ported to various PDA platforms, and I wouldn't think it's much more of a stretch to operate a wireless tcp/ip dedicated server for these things...
It involves modifying the client to use the 3rd-party servers instead of Blizzard's own. You are making the program do something which the program would never have allowed by itself.
Many readers have wrote comments to the effect of their Microsoft optical mouse dying and them getting a free replacement from MS with just a phone call.
These are not isolated incidents.
Early versions of MS's optical mice have an exceptionally weak spot in what is otherwise a finely engineered product, which is where the cord enters the mouse itself. The wiring there can easily break, and indeed does also frequently occur on non-Microsoft mice.
MS is aware of this problem. It is not acknowledged to be a systematic problem, and they handle the replacement policy very well, as some here have noted. But it is still a problem with the earlier versions of MS optical mice.
Current versions of these excellent mice seem to have that connection point reinforced.
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Except you can't fit a high quality movie onto a CD without significant compression (DivX ;) style, which VCD players can't support anyway). And that compression is quite noticeably lossy.
People buy DVDs to watch movies. Who the hell buys DVDs to listen to music?
Probably not as bad as new.net, mind you... I just gave a deep discount to a co-worker for cleaning her computer up. The amount of nastiness left on that computer before she brought it to me prevented an upgrade to IE6 and broke the start-up process, leaving it in a totally unusable state. And she had to get files on the machine back, no backups to restore from. So I had to go the long way around and clean it all up manually. Ugh. new.net, bde, 4 different instances of gator, the list goes on and on and on. On the other hand I also trained her to use ad-aware. So hopefully that won't be a recurring issue.
So in other words they make money by being a proprietary software vendor.
Sleepycat Software makes Berkeley DB available for download over the World-Wide Web at no charge. The package includes complete source code, documentation, and support for building the library on a large number of operating systems and hardware platforms.
"Like the software? Buy the book! Order the Berkeley DB book on Amazon.com"
And with Qt ... only the X11 version is released under both the QPL and the GPL ... the other stuff require purchase or it's crippleware.
Nice try.
You're teaching a part of a MCSD course and you're teaching them ... *nix?!
Unfortunately, we know the attitude of average computer users. And once Brilliant start waving those coupons and offers under the the-average-joe-computer-user's nose they'll jump at running whatever it is that Brilliant is installing on their computers.
Not to sound completely ignorant, but what makes you think a virus that has "evolved" in terrestrial conditions has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving the conditions of Europa's "oceans", and even if it somehow manages to do so and remain active, what possibility is it that it can actually "infect" whatever organisms may be there, should any exist?
You could've said the same thing, oh, 10 years ago, and stuck with MS-DOS 6.22. Far less buggy, right?
And with Word Perfect 5.1, a vendor-supplied custom TCP/IP stack for your NICs, some command-line ftp client, kermit, etc., who needs anything else?
However short that time period is, it's not short enough for me.
'nuff said.
Having read all 9 of the current WoT novels I'd have to say the LotR trilogy was far less of an utter waste of time.
I don't even think "Robert Jordan" knows how he's going to get to where he wants the "trilogy" to end!
I'm as much a WoT addict now as anyone,having just finished yet another re-read of the 9 books, waiting eagerly for book 10 (should be out late this year, yes?), and starting on book 3 again in yet another series re-read, but I despair to think of where and when the series will take us.
PDF? You are joking right?
It's a print-layout format, not a document format. You can't simply open it up, edit the text, reformat, and save. And HTML has no page layout options whatsoever -- by design.
Two extremes when you need something in the middle.
I suppose what I'm trying to get at here is that it's a reward, not a punishment.
Am I one of the few people who don't seem to think there's anything with Microsoft saying, "hey, if you only sell machines with Windows on them, we'll give you a $10 discount on the licenses"? The angle, I think, that one needs to look at this should be: "hey, if you ship only Windows machines, we'll reward you with a discount", not "we're charging you more because you're not shipping solely our products". You see this sort of thing all the time in endorsement contracts. And, after all, if the OEMs actually saw a practical advantage to shipping something like Linux on desktops instead of Microsoft OSes ... like those side offer lines (business, professional lines, whatever) from Dell, etc., they're not obligated to stick with Microsoft.
Free choice, right?
And it's economically advantageous for smaller OEMs to stick with solely Microsoft offerings, given their options, unless you're so small as to be catering to the niche group of Linux users, in which case you often wouldn't need to bundle an OS anyway!
This is what you get when you get a group of completely technologically clueless people running an anti-trust case against a software company. There are so many things wrong with that one paragraph that I don't know where to begin, and whether to laugh or to cry.
So wait, why shouldn't we just use whatever web browser we prefer to view the OWA page?
Yeah, but for which side? "Bill Gates uses vi! Emacs is god!" ? :)
As I recall, this was only an issue if you had a double-free because of glibc, and I believe the original article specifically singled out Linux because it was dependant on the specific behavior of glibc.
How is this an issue for Microsoft software?
Not too much longer. Games such as Doom and Quake that have had their source code released have already been ported to various PDA platforms, and I wouldn't think it's much more of a stretch to operate a wireless tcp/ip dedicated server for these things...
It involves modifying the client to use the 3rd-party servers instead of Blizzard's own. You are making the program do something which the program would never have allowed by itself.
No, you'd be prosecuted under the traffic laws for jaywalking.
*bzzt*
Try again.
So, you against your wife.
The winner of that little contest is a foregone conclusion.
assassin kill ama!~~
Many readers have wrote comments to the effect of their Microsoft optical mouse dying and them getting a free replacement from MS with just a phone call.
These are not isolated incidents.
Early versions of MS's optical mice have an exceptionally weak spot in what is otherwise a finely engineered product, which is where the cord enters the mouse itself. The wiring there can easily break, and indeed does also frequently occur on non-Microsoft mice.
MS is aware of this problem. It is not acknowledged to be a systematic problem, and they handle the replacement policy very well, as some here have noted. But it is still a problem with the earlier versions of MS optical mice.
Current versions of these excellent mice seem to have that connection point reinforced.
*sigh*
Me too. Debian sid system here, so it's not Redhat-specific.
Ok, it's a development beta kernel, but you'd think they'd at least make sure it compiles before handing it out?
In other words this is a laptop without a screen?