I don't agree that the bad guys are so good and the good guys suck as you seem to characterize. Your are overreacting.
The cartoon was uninspired and not worth forwarding to anyone I know, I agree.
How do you let someone know that there is a new law that will let someone walk in your front door and change your television channel? its very hard to convince anyone of that because its so preposterous. People will think you are just exaggerating. The cartoon does not seem to understand that.
Your abuse line was the first thing to pop into my head. What will Microsoft do when the driver writers start complaining about the architecture and inability to isolate themselves from others drivers and bugs? With this new system, a driver crash can turn into $$$.
In the end I like it because either way, somebody is going to be held responsible. At least if the ratings are easy to understand and not obfuscated or marketdroided.
It was definitely a stupid game. I don't think I ever put a quarter in it. it looked so nice, but it gave the player absolutely no feedback about what he should be doing. It seemed like playing blindfolded.
QoS is not the same thing as Net neutrality. QoS is really one application vs. another. Net Neutrality is one person vs. another. With QoS I could be the user of all the services being arbitrated. QoS makes it so my VOIP gets smoother connection than my web browser or my file download. QoS does not make it so my VOIP gets smoother connection than your VOIP. If it does then I wouldn't call that QoS.
Funny. I had this same argument over the eclipse license. The license makes things unclear. Which normally is not unacceptable for a legal document. Yet compared with the GPL and LGPL that make things clear, it then makes the EPL clear that things omitted are NOT included.
The argument against mine was that the FAQ clarified this, which I found laughable. Seems like Sun is not the only one trying to pull this stunt.
My main problem is that a vague license means the entity with the best lawyers has a huge advantage. So big companies like Sun or IBM couldn't care less. I don't think its a coincidence that the GPL/LGPL are much less vague given their objective and who they are intended to protect.
Not by the developers at least. The customer may have something to say about quality. Not to mention if you want to meet CMMI. We use Teamcenter Requirement by UGS. I think its rather whack though. It stores the documents and can version control them, but it sucks at diff. But so what when its purpose is traceability. But then you would expect it to store/version the traceability links which it does not.
Its what we use but there has got to be something better. Looks like another one of those software projects where the original developers moved on, and they sent it to Russia for adding new useless features here and there. Kind of like MS Office after 97.
That being the case, why are the customers still buying these high end workstation cards? I thought NVIDIA tried that and their cards keep getting 'cracked'. Well at least to turn a gaming card into a workstation card. Anyway, games tend to be more demanding than 3d modelling considering the lighting requirements of games.
Im personally not for this as an AMD stock holder myself. What does AMD gain? I like their focus on CPUs. This would just make them a bigger company, but nore more profitable or anything. Unless theyt think they can do good works with the ati chipsets. But AMD gave away its own chipset tech to NVIDIA IIRC.
This merger/purchase would be strange.
Oh and to buy NVIDIA would be even worse. NVIDIA is doing well on their chipset front. AMD buying NVIDIA would have to make their intel chipsets suffer. I really dont think AMD would improve NVIDIA any, and NVIDIA wont improve AMD.
No, I think all you need is root on a box that someone ssh into. Under certain configuration, you can then pretend to be that user with respect to other boxes that the particular user can access with the credentials he used to access the box you have root on.
There is no way you can call Eclipse Not Java just because it uses the available Java facilities to interface with the local OS. Eclipse runs in a sun JVM. Anything that is running in a sun JVM is definitely Java.
I agree that Sun is protecting their Java trademark. They have to after what MS pulled trying to kill off Java. I think they do go further than they really have to with it though.
vonage also told me i could fax over the main line, but i ordered the secondary line for fax anyway. its set to highest quality automatically and cant be changed.
mostly faxes go through, but occasionally some done. fax is old tech and lots of shoddy faxes out there my wife has come up against...
i been on vonage about a year and the quality is no where near a standard phone line. but the cost is so much lower is not even funny. with her family across the US now, I am saving a TON of money. Mostly the call quality is good though. Anyway, if its important and it gets bad i can use my cell phone anyway.
Personally Its rock solid to me. I intend to get in on the IPO as well.
Sun is worried about IBM forking there code. Which is predictable. Or what about Microsoft trying to take another jab at Java. its not Open Source developers they fear.
Easy, DTA. I dont trust ANY email. I just got comething from vonage sending me to a website about their ipo vonageipo.com. This is the 2nd time they send me to a website that is not vonage.com. They are really clueless in that respect. I got some snail mail that lends validity to the email but I still dont trust the email.
I guess you can call it neat. Hey were not going to tell you how to break into your computer, but you can let us break into your computer for you. We don't trust you, but you should trust us.
I use VNC over ssh all the time. Anything I do is connected over ssh, except samba which is blocked by my two broadband router/firewalls. Matter of fact, vnc is also allowed out of my linux box, but blocked by the firewalls. Makes easier to connect from downstairs to upstairs, but not by much honestly.
This is an extremely strong point. My mother is legally blind and has to use screen readers and enlangeners and whatnot. After 2-3 years of fighting I capitulated. She uses all Microsoft programs now because those are the programs that the screen readers and magnifiers actually Test with. (though they claim much more support than they appear to test) She is completely locked in.
Why just last week she required a database program and I had to tell her how much it would cost to add MS Access to her set of programs.
I recall a few months back having to comment on how open office's approach to assistive technology was poor as well.
In the end, it took MS a team to get it done, and it does work. It may take an open source team/ focus group to get this done. I may end up in it myself as my mother expects me to 'make work' any features she wants anyway...
I think there is a whole host of folks out there with HD TVs realizing how inferior DVDs are to HDTV. These are the people anxious to upgrade / see what the industry has to offer.
I agree that console games likely will not have much impact. Anyone with a HDTV is not likely to be satisfied with the 'HD' quality that would be produced by a console DVD player anyway.
The winner will of course be the format with the best price/performance and availability.
Very unlikely. pr0n industry values quantity over quality. A HD DVD is sort of a luxury version. Not much 'elite' porn out there as it is. The majority of stores and websites sell pure garbage. So-and-so #124. Why do they bother?
And what they do sell as elite porn... Well what can you expect from the pr0n industry after all?
This would have the same effect day traders have had on the stock market. The big players will loose money as the small players eat up the margin.
On the surface a power company would be pleased by this as it is still their power and allows them to effectively sell more. But I suspect power companies are not balancing cost with demand but gouging and making more profit during peak hours. This type of device will reduce this quite a bit. Part of that peak hour profit take will go to the owners of these devices.
Contrary to the FP, how you make this device is not significant. Its not being sold or even marketed as an energy saving device. Its being sold as a money making device. This the managers he is spouting on about are in the right and he is not.
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COM is not related to CORBA. Perhaps you meant to say DCOM?
Besides, CORBA is cross-language. Thats its unique feature.
DCOM: Windows Windows
RMI(Java): Windows Linux Macintosh
CORBA: Java C C++ etc..
Note: MS may have renamed 'DCOM' once again. I been off windows exclusive programming a while so I'm not sure. I think maybe its ActiveX now!?
I don't agree that the bad guys are so good and the good guys suck as you seem to characterize. Your are overreacting.
The cartoon was uninspired and not worth forwarding to anyone I know, I agree.
How do you let someone know that there is a new law that will let someone walk in your front door and change your television channel? its very hard to convince anyone of that because its so preposterous. People will think you are just exaggerating. The cartoon does not seem to understand that.
Your abuse line was the first thing to pop into my head. What will Microsoft do when the driver writers start complaining about the architecture and inability to isolate themselves from others drivers and bugs? With this new system, a driver crash can turn into $$$.
In the end I like it because either way, somebody is going to be held responsible. At least if the ratings are easy to understand and not obfuscated or marketdroided.
It was definitely a stupid game. I don't think I ever put a quarter in it. it looked so nice, but it gave the player absolutely no feedback about what he should be doing. It seemed like playing blindfolded.
It was very stupid.
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QoS is not the same thing as Net neutrality. QoS is really one application vs. another. Net Neutrality is one person vs. another. With QoS I could be the user of all the services being arbitrated. QoS makes it so my VOIP gets smoother connection than my web browser or my file download. QoS does not make it so my VOIP gets smoother connection than your VOIP. If it does then I wouldn't call that QoS.
Just wondering the same thing. Why doesent Zone alarm flag this?
Funny. I had this same argument over the eclipse license. The license makes things unclear. Which normally is not unacceptable for a legal document. Yet compared with the GPL and LGPL that make things clear, it then makes the EPL clear that things omitted are NOT included.
The argument against mine was that the FAQ clarified this, which I found laughable. Seems like Sun is not the only one trying to pull this stunt.
My main problem is that a vague license means the entity with the best lawyers has a huge advantage. So big companies like Sun or IBM couldn't care less. I don't think its a coincidence that the GPL/LGPL are much less vague given their objective and who they are intended to protect.
Not by the developers at least. The customer may have something to say about quality. Not to mention if you want to meet CMMI. We use Teamcenter Requirement by UGS. I think its rather whack though. It stores the documents and can version control them, but it sucks at diff. But so what when its purpose is traceability. But then you would expect it to store/version the traceability links which it does not.
Its what we use but there has got to be something better. Looks like another one of those software projects where the original developers moved on, and they sent it to Russia for adding new useless features here and there. Kind of like MS Office after 97.
That being the case, why are the customers still buying these high end workstation cards? I thought NVIDIA tried that and their cards keep getting 'cracked'. Well at least to turn a gaming card into a workstation card. Anyway, games tend to be more demanding than 3d modelling considering the lighting requirements of games.
Im personally not for this as an AMD stock holder myself. What does AMD gain? I like their focus on CPUs. This would just make them a bigger company, but nore more profitable or anything. Unless theyt think they can do good works with the ati chipsets. But AMD gave away its own chipset tech to NVIDIA IIRC.
This merger/purchase would be strange.
Oh and to buy NVIDIA would be even worse. NVIDIA is doing well on their chipset front. AMD buying NVIDIA would have to make their intel chipsets suffer. I really dont think AMD would improve NVIDIA any, and NVIDIA wont improve AMD.
Its main purpose is not to improve picture quality but to produce a better picture. Which it does. These are not the same things.
No, I think all you need is root on a box that someone ssh into. Under certain configuration, you can then pretend to be that user with respect to other boxes that the particular user can access with the credentials he used to access the box you have root on.
There is no way you can call Eclipse Not Java just because it uses the available Java facilities to interface with the local OS. Eclipse runs in a sun JVM. Anything that is running in a sun JVM is definitely Java.
I agree that Sun is protecting their Java trademark. They have to after what MS pulled trying to kill off Java. I think they do go further than they really have to with it though.
Never underestimate the way in which Microsoft empowers stupid users (my parents included.)
vonage also told me i could fax over the main line, but i ordered the secondary line for fax anyway. its set to highest quality automatically and cant be changed.
mostly faxes go through, but occasionally some done. fax is old tech and lots of shoddy faxes out there my wife has come up against...
i been on vonage about a year and the quality is no where near a standard phone line. but the cost is so much lower is not even funny. with her family across the US now, I am saving a TON of money. Mostly the call quality is good though. Anyway, if its important and it gets bad i can use my cell phone anyway.
Personally Its rock solid to me. I intend to get in on the IPO as well.
Sun is worried about IBM forking there code. Which is predictable. Or what about Microsoft trying to take another jab at Java. its not Open Source developers they fear.
Easy, DTA. I dont trust ANY email. I just got comething from vonage sending me to a website about their ipo vonageipo.com. This is the 2nd time they send me to a website that is not vonage.com. They are really clueless in that respect. I got some snail mail that lends validity to the email but I still dont trust the email.
its odd that a state secret can be known/shared by a non-state organization that has no special security clearance AFAIK. And several of them...
Hopefully this will be laughed out of court like so many others.
Just highlights the fact that the fight for freedom never ends. the CIA would act like the KGB if they could. Same with any other government entity.
I guess you can call it neat. Hey were not going to tell you how to break into your computer, but you can let us break into your computer for you. We don't trust you, but you should trust us.
I use VNC over ssh all the time. Anything I do is connected over ssh, except samba which is blocked by my two broadband router/firewalls. Matter of fact, vnc is also allowed out of my linux box, but blocked by the firewalls. Makes easier to connect from downstairs to upstairs, but not by much honestly.
This is an extremely strong point. My mother is legally blind and has to use screen readers and enlangeners and whatnot. After 2-3 years of fighting I capitulated. She uses all Microsoft programs now because those are the programs that the screen readers and magnifiers actually Test with. (though they claim much more support than they appear to test) She is completely locked in.
Why just last week she required a database program and I had to tell her how much it would cost to add MS Access to her set of programs.
I recall a few months back having to comment on how open office's approach to assistive technology was poor as well.
In the end, it took MS a team to get it done, and it does work. It may take an open source team/ focus group to get this done. I may end up in it myself as my mother expects me to 'make work' any features she wants anyway...
If he learns a valuable life lesson from the Sims, then is he to trust that lessons learned form the Sims are valuable?
Because the Sims actually could care less about raising your children.
I think there is a whole host of folks out there with HD TVs realizing how inferior DVDs are to HDTV. These are the people anxious to upgrade / see what the industry has to offer.
I agree that console games likely will not have much impact. Anyone with a HDTV is not likely to be satisfied with the 'HD' quality that would be produced by a console DVD player anyway.
The winner will of course be the format with the best price/performance and availability.
Very unlikely. pr0n industry values quantity over quality. A HD DVD is sort of a luxury version. Not much 'elite' porn out there as it is. The majority of stores and websites sell pure garbage. So-and-so #124. Why do they bother?
And what they do sell as elite porn... Well what can you expect from the pr0n industry after all?
Don't you mean octal?
This would have the same effect day traders have had on the stock market. The big players will loose money as the small players eat up the margin.
On the surface a power company would be pleased by this as it is still their power and allows them to effectively sell more. But I suspect power companies are not balancing cost with demand but gouging and making more profit during peak hours. This type of device will reduce this quite a bit. Part of that peak hour profit take will go to the owners of these devices.
Contrary to the FP, how you make this device is not significant. Its not being sold or even marketed as an energy saving device. Its being sold as a money making device. This the managers he is spouting on about are in the right and he is not.