"When I woke up I had a quite upset TA asking me if I was OK, turns out I was unconscious for almost three minutes and he was starting to get quite worried."
any true geek would go get a cup of coffee and check on you in 10 minutes. 3 minutes?! what a baby...
if you were still unconscious, that would be the appropriate time to submit an Ask Slashdot
"As president, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command," Kerry said. "I will demand accountability for those who serve, and I will take responsibility for their actions. And I will do everything that I can in my power to repair the damage that this has caused to America, to our standing in the world, and to the ideals for which we stand.... Today, I have a message for the men and women of our armed forces. As Commander in Chief, I will honor your commitment, and I will take responsibility for the bad as well as the good."
and he's circulating a petition to that effect to try and get Rummy to resign.
having been subjected to a public defense attorney before (and no, not for kiddie porn) i can attest that it is in their best interests (and the prosecutor, don't think there isn't some unspoken knowledge of how this works between them) to instill fear into a defendent and recommend they take a plea bargain before even ASKING te defendant what really happened.
a public attorney is awarded a wage, that is added to the fines of the convicted person. it isn't worth their time to go to trial and waste a bunch of money when they can just get the defendant to agree to a plea and at that point count on a thousand (or more) or so bucks payoff RE that case all for just visiting jail a few times and showing up in court once or twice.
from all the people i spoke to (yes, spoke to *in* jail who were serving time) it's common to sit down, and have them tell you you're looking at 3-4 years in prison (this of course varies) and recommend you just take a plea, all without even fucking asking about your side of the story.
yes, i'm bitter about it, but even moreso i'm angry for all the people whose lives get caught in the justive systems interminable process of rapid conviction commerce.
i can give you one rule, and it of course might be more obvious to some than others (like a frightened 18 year old in jail, or anyone else really) is that ALWAYS get a private defense attorney, NEVER trust your life with a public defender.
i'm one of the young ones i assume (23) and i was setting up a thicknet network when my highschool replaced their aging macs with new whitebox pc's, and that was in..ooohhh 1995.
not even 10 years ago, but i suppose in techterms that should be enough to me me feel old...
acually, it seems that since newer(ish) drives are made to burn at faster speeds, they (those that design the firmware i suppose) assume users wil l therefore burn at faster speeds and the quality of low speed burning is not quite the 'safety standard' many assume it to be.
No, you are failing to take the whole situation into account. They are "non paying customers" for windows XP. however, barring that, they might (in the many cases of the 'local teenage computer whiz' installing pirated copies as a favor or something) buy office, or *any* other windows software or service.
microsoft isn't just successful because people pay for their OS, they're successful because they have a huge installed base of users who then go and support the millions of developers who write applications or provide services for the windows environment.
if another OS were to take a chunk of microsofts marketshare, then the overall health of the entire industry that provides programs/services for windows declines.
the fact that WindowsXP is on every damn computer nearly is what lets RealNetworks (moreso before WMplayer arrived so seriously)provide their software to people for free, because content providers will pay through the nose to have content that can be accessed, and even payed for by windows users. thousands of companies can expect to make money by leveraging the HUGE installed base of Windows computers. if the number of users shrinks for whatever reason in a large enough amount (hobbyist that switch to linux: doesn't matter. but if people switched to Linux in droves because they had to pay through the nose for something that was always seemingly free, or for whatever reason... [and i know this isn't going to happen any time soon, just as they won't go and buy a mac immediately either]) then companies will not have as much incentive or profit potential to support windows, or windows only.
if for whatever reason it becomes a better business idea to support an alternative OS (exclusively or not) instead of windows, then it will be easier for people to get by without having to use windows to accomplish the same functions. if people aren't forced into using windows because it is the easiest way to accomplish something more often than not, or if developers don't see an easy way to tap into a huge stable market, then the strengths of windows will soon dissipate.
that is true, but they have blacklisted one (maybe more) corporate keys. i still use them when i use vmware, but one that began FCKGW if i remember correctly, couldn't install SP1. Evidently they caught wind that a corp key was being used predominantly for warezd copies, and nipped it.
i agree Mossberg is no sage, and i don't require him to be. i only have a feeling that with the likes of microsoft, it is someone like that that can sometimes appeal in a way to stop them. unfortunately it seems that Microsoft is the market, and makes the market for all intents and purposes concerning their...market. better it was stopped in such a manner, rather than have it 'toned down' or have elements of it added in different ways, to get around whatever temporary pr outrage might arise.
for what it's worth, microsoft doesn't listen to/. and there really is no voice of the consumer (consumers with voices, tend to congregate on./ and the like) for them to listen, except for someone like mossberg, who is more aptly the voice of the WSJ and happens to have some fondness for consumer interests.
how many people at BestBuy do you think know that Intel copies AMD's x64 bit instructions? Hell, include salespeople there too while we're at it. 64 bit is just something that intel will have on the sticker (shitty that it's already on the cpu, but not) just like AMD will, for most everyone.
in addition, you know what? it won't even matter, because thanks to our mandated obsolescence cycle, in less than a year, all cpus will have 64 bit stickers, and it will be a non issue that it's there, or where it came from to Joe Consumer.
i second that. sony has ass parts for customer service and ass parts defining policy on how to act like a business that cares about your, ahem...business.
if you want more than a cute looking laptop don't get a sony, don't bo a fool that falls for a silver-y laptop cuz it has a cool sony logo only.
if you ever expect to call them and have them care about your problems with the machine/delerious advice from sales people, you're much better off buying from a company that has a successful business unit. they actually have to keep shit logical, and try and keep peoples business. even if you're not buying enterprise sized order, i find companys like IBM know how to keep your business, and a company like sony know there'll be a sucker to take your place who wants a cool loking sony laptop to send email with.
oh, and for the record, their media integration isn't so tight-as-shit that it should sway you like it swayed me.
He obviously has great amounts of power that he's wielding against the Dark Side whether or not google listens.
my opinion, brin and co. seem to have been a little naive and got ahead of themselves in the beginning (i guess TM stuff is still pending), so i'm just hoping they're listening to the right people if they aren't personally aware of this mans power on wall street. IPO and just common sense 'that'd be a good feature' shtuff...
quoth:
The article talks about how he "stopped" Smart Tags and Turbo Tax licensing... but I'd argue "DUHHHH"... everyone agreed these were bad ideas...
/quoth
well sure, i thought they were shitty ideas too. so did most of the slashdot/tech community...BUT does anyone think microsoft/other-huge-corporation-that-changes-our- lives-just-by-doing-business
cares about what we think?
do you think all of us who said DUH could have changed the situation for the better? I for one am glad Mossberg is around, if only because he has huge amounts of clout where it matters and he uses it to try and look out for the consumer. the 'consumer' is not us, and doesn't know before hand about events that will matter to millions who use common technologyh in their daily lives, and has absolutely zero ability to stop Really Bad Things from happening in our comfortable little tech world.
Sure, if he had proved himself to be a glaring idiot (somehow obtaining said power anyway) i would worry about that. That doesn't seem to be the case however.
Having a great amount of power is like having a monopoly, it's usually only bad when you start being an asshole about it.
ps. do you worry about GNU/Linus shutting down what could be some earth shatteringly wonderful project with some unthought off-the-cuff remark?
i listen to all kinds of music, and mess around with some here and there, but i'm just havin fun...what's an ornament? and are they usually at 50ms or thereabouts? i'm curious to know what this us about and/or what music you're referring to.
I know gold cd's are supposed to last longer, since they're the reflective layer and don't oxidize like aluminum (i think it's alum) layered cd's...
BUT...i'm wondering, and i am admittedly ignorant about the potential for this working...could there be a way to ditch the reflective layer entirely and just have a tracking read 'head' above the cd? it would seem to me that instead of reading the reflected spaces of something/not-something you could just read them by seeing what was passing through to the other side of the disc...???
i'm sure no **IA wouldn't let any technology that let us read media forever (or more than 2-6 years) become a standard though...
I've used Norton on networks and various other computers that weren't mine, and never had to reboot just to make a virus definition take effect. in fact, i could update the engine itself and pretty much anything else that was required, and never had to reboot once.
what virus scanner is this that has to reboot for new virus definitions to take effect, and why do you use it still?
i mean, even AVG free version doesn't require a reboot. that sounds preposterous.
Slashdot Mirror
unfortunately, they're already powering the world.
or this one here link since it blocks the wrong referrer.
damn...
any true geek would go get a cup of coffee and check on you in 10 minutes. 3 minutes?! what a baby...
if you were still unconscious, that would be the appropriate time to submit an Ask Slashdot
and he's circulating a petition to that effect to try and get Rummy to resign.
a public attorney is awarded a wage, that is added to the fines of the convicted person. it isn't worth their time to go to trial and waste a bunch of money when they can just get the defendant to agree to a plea and at that point count on a thousand (or more) or so bucks payoff RE that case all for just visiting jail a few times and showing up in court once or twice.
from all the people i spoke to (yes, spoke to *in* jail who were serving time) it's common to sit down, and have them tell you you're looking at 3-4 years in prison (this of course varies) and recommend you just take a plea, all without even fucking asking about your side of the story.
yes, i'm bitter about it, but even moreso i'm angry for all the people whose lives get caught in the justive systems interminable process of rapid conviction commerce.
i can give you one rule, and it of course might be more obvious to some than others (like a frightened 18 year old in jail, or anyone else really) is that ALWAYS get a private defense attorney, NEVER trust your life with a public defender.
not even 10 years ago, but i suppose in techterms that should be enough to me me feel old...
google
=)
microsoft isn't just successful because people pay for their OS, they're successful because they have a huge installed base of users who then go and support the millions of developers who write applications or provide services for the windows environment.
if another OS were to take a chunk of microsofts marketshare, then the overall health of the entire industry that provides programs/services for windows declines.
the fact that WindowsXP is on every damn computer nearly is what lets RealNetworks (moreso before WMplayer arrived so seriously)provide their software to people for free, because content providers will pay through the nose to have content that can be accessed, and even payed for by windows users. thousands of companies can expect to make money by leveraging the HUGE installed base of Windows computers. if the number of users shrinks for whatever reason in a large enough amount (hobbyist that switch to linux: doesn't matter. but if people switched to Linux in droves because they had to pay through the nose for something that was always seemingly free, or for whatever reason... [and i know this isn't going to happen any time soon, just as they won't go and buy a mac immediately either]) then companies will not have as much incentive or profit potential to support windows, or windows only.
if for whatever reason it becomes a better business idea to support an alternative OS (exclusively or not) instead of windows, then it will be easier for people to get by without having to use windows to accomplish the same functions. if people aren't forced into using windows because it is the easiest way to accomplish something more often than not, or if developers don't see an easy way to tap into a huge stable market, then the strengths of windows will soon dissipate.
that is true, but they have blacklisted one (maybe more) corporate keys. i still use them when i use vmware, but one that began FCKGW if i remember correctly, couldn't install SP1. Evidently they caught wind that a corp key was being used predominantly for warezd copies, and nipped it.
for what it's worth, microsoft doesn't listen to /. and there really is no voice of the consumer (consumers with voices, tend to congregate on ./ and the like) for them to listen, except for someone like mossberg, who is more aptly the voice of the WSJ and happens to have some fondness for consumer interests.
in addition, you know what? it won't even matter, because thanks to our mandated obsolescence cycle, in less than a year, all cpus will have 64 bit stickers, and it will be a non issue that it's there, or where it came from to Joe Consumer.
if you want more than a cute looking laptop don't get a sony, don't bo a fool that falls for a silver-y laptop cuz it has a cool sony logo only.
if you ever expect to call them and have them care about your problems with the machine/delerious advice from sales people, you're much better off buying from a company that has a successful business unit. they actually have to keep shit logical, and try and keep peoples business. even if you're not buying enterprise sized order, i find companys like IBM know how to keep your business, and a company like sony know there'll be a sucker to take your place who wants a cool loking sony laptop to send email with.
oh, and for the record, their media integration isn't so tight-as-shit that it should sway you like it swayed me.
(shudder)
why?
He's talking about Jon (shudder) Katz people...
my opinion, brin and co. seem to have been a little naive and got ahead of themselves in the beginning (i guess TM stuff is still pending), so i'm just hoping they're listening to the right people if they aren't personally aware of this mans power on wall street. IPO and just common sense 'that'd be a good feature' shtuff...
The article talks about how he "stopped" Smart Tags and Turbo Tax licensing
/quoth
well sure, i thought they were shitty ideas too. so did most of the slashdot/tech community...BUT does anyone think microsoft/other-huge-corporation-that-changes-our- lives-just-by-doing-business
cares about what we think?
do you think all of us who said DUH could have changed the situation for the better? I for one am glad Mossberg is around, if only because he has huge amounts of clout where it matters and he uses it to try and look out for the consumer. the 'consumer' is not us, and doesn't know before hand about events that will matter to millions who use common technologyh in their daily lives, and has absolutely zero ability to stop Really Bad Things from happening in our comfortable little tech world.
Having a great amount of power is like having a monopoly, it's usually only bad when you start being an asshole about it.
ps. do you worry about GNU/Linus shutting down what could be some earth shatteringly wonderful project with some unthought off-the-cuff remark?
you mean GNU/RMS
BUT...i'm wondering, and i am admittedly ignorant about the potential for this working...could there be a way to ditch the reflective layer entirely and just have a tracking read 'head' above the cd? it would seem to me that instead of reading the reflected spaces of something/not-something you could just read them by seeing what was passing through to the other side of the disc...???
i'm sure no **IA wouldn't let any technology that let us read media forever (or more than 2-6 years) become a standard though...
what virus scanner is this that has to reboot for new virus definitions to take effect, and why do you use it still?
i mean, even AVG free version doesn't require a reboot. that sounds preposterous.