And i think you have the right to have that opinion; I just think it's a little 1 dimensional. i have some one dimensional opinions myself; I won't vote for a political candidate who doesn't support the 2nd amendment, no matter how great they are in other areas. this caused me to write-in my daughter instead of voting for Gore in the 2000 election (and I feel very, very, very bad about that).
Here are another few "rights" I think it is my option to exercise: I think I have the right to download, as MP3's, tracks from my extensive vinyl collection. (Note: if I was technically unable to rip from vinyl to digital, I would feel bad about downloading the MP3. I don't know why I have that idea. but as my goal is to spare the vinyl, I don't feel bad about it) I think I have the right to download MP3's for CD's I've bought that are damaged or don't work. I think I have the right to download a copy of anything I purchased, as long as I retain the original product. I've bought games that have malware copy protection (starforce, et al) and the only way to play the game is to download the pirate version. Now I understand that what I think I have the right to do, and what the law says I have the right to do, seems to be different. But as my father once told me, "there is Right & Wrong, and there is Lawful & Unlawful. they don't mean the same things"
If I don't like it, i'm not too likely to download it. most of the music I like, except for a couple of flukes, isn't on Torrent or P2P. What I do use shareaza (P2P) for is to make up for living half the year someplace where I only have dialup; shareaza works better than getright. Since I retired from the network biz, i'm also kinda a busy amateur photographer, CGI "artist", and 3d object designer, I throw my stuff out in the world using P2P, to keep my bandwidth bills down on my website. I sell some stuff at renderosity.com and a few other places...and I've seen my for-sale stuff on P2P. I'm not bothered by it. it's free advertising, and I've had people purchase my stuff then tell me that they tried it from P2P, liked it, so they bought it. I suppose the possibility exists that i'm losing sales in this way, but I really doubt it. I'm not a Evil money grubbing pig, so maybe that explains my attitude... but P2P is the perfect way for a lot of markets to advertise. Bands should see music downloading as a way to advertise their gigs, or other value-added product that they actually get a fair chunk of the proceeds from. How about this; if a band, lets say somebody who isn't famous for trying to jail their fans, put up on their band website a simple little paypal button next to a list of their songs; they could ask for.50+ for each one, as soon as the paypal is paid, you are sent a link to the ftp, edtk or.tor for the track. and no DRM, no death threats, no nothing. they would make more money in that way than they currently make from the M(af)IAA system.
Tesla would be shaking his head in disgust. do a wiki lookup on the "earth battery"; after that, jump over to "Wardenclyffe". People really need to stop thinking that hertzian waves are the only thing under the sun.
I found another review, that includes a screenshot. http://www.1up.com.nyud.net:8080/do/newsStory?cId= 3160086 I'm getting the impression that this is essentially going to be the game city life, with integration with the sims 2 game. which actually doesn't sound like a bad game. City Life got boring fast, this might not.
PhpNuke & Postnuke, in that order. PhpNuke has sort of fallen to the wayside, all the cool kids develop for Postnuke now. and everything, and I mean everything, is changeable. look & feel is mainly based on stylesheets, and there are a zillion pre-made "themes" out there for free. Postnuke is fun. I've been playing around with this whole web thing since around '95-'96, and tried a lot of different things; PostNuke seems to be the best "platform" I've seen, it is powerful, and very, very easy to embed your own apps and add-ons right into the guts of things, as long as you are willing to put up with open source documentation & mentality when you need help. IMO, there is no dif between a "community server" and a "Content Management System", except for fine distinctions that make no sense to anyone except the people who claim there is a difference. But you asked for what other people thought. Sorry. And I'm not sure if there is any Cyclic adenosine monophosphate involved.
I haven't tried drupal. I have tried Joomla (on crack. I just don't quite understand how the people using it can call it intuitive), Mambo (see my Joomla snide comment), PostNuke (rocks, pure and simple. Very Free), DotNetNuke( pretty good, more stable than postnuke, slightly. Free, but apps usually cost) and most recently, Community Server.
I freaking love community server personal edition. free. fair docs, but you don't need 'em. stable. can't expand it easily, but it comes with a blog, file, photo, forum, tagging...and some other stuff, off the bat. good implementations, at that. If you just need to throw a quick website out there with the essential parts of a site working, Community Server is the obvious choice. after that.... probably postnuke, but you're gonna have to get some of the freebie add-ons to make it get to the point that community server starts at. I do not work for or even have a clue who makes community server, BTW.
Some people still belive Win2K is better than XP as well, I feel sorry for them. XP is faster, more reliable, and more resilient (Just system restore alone is a technology that makes XP a must have over Win2k). While your entire post is extremely well written, the above comment calls into question your ability to reason and discounts any points you may have been trying to make, some of which may have had some merit.
All 3 points you make ("faster, more reliable, and more resilient") are widely known to be false, at least among professionals ("Hey guys, wanna replace all our Win2k pro workstations with XP?" is only said as a joke); the last time I read anything so obviously counter to reality was while I was using microsoft supplied materials to study for a cert; this makes me think you may possibly just have come from a microsoft boot camp and are immersed in the propaganda?
If you want to start comparing credentials, lets take this to e-mail.
Huh. hadn't heard about that, pretty good concept. of course you could do something similar with a mapped network drive in Win2k. which only needs 96mb to run. for win2k server. which will run ANY software currently out there for any windows product, unless it's AMD 64-bit specific (since Redmond decided not to release the 64-bit win2k patch they developed). I guess people really like the pretty desktop theme.
$7 gas, cameras on every corner, no right to bear arms, and political correctness gone to a insane, socialist extreme. you guys really need to revolt. seriously. probably would have been easier back when you were allowed to have guns, but hindsight is 20/20, eh?
No, about half as much. or even free. like always with Linux. check out prism, counterpoint, Viewtouch GNU, Volante, brainstorm, etc, etc. Linux has a very strong presence in point-of-sale, several national retail and service chains use it.
Care to clarify the "faster than light" thing? or have you "teleporters" not figured out a way to test it yet? with the small distances involved I could see accurate measurement being a pain.
Seriously. The problem isn't that Vista doesn't have drivers, the problem is reviews like this that treat Vista as something other than it is, a Evil Joke. Do NOT take it seriously; This is possibly the best chance we've ever had, we as in the computer using public, to make a change in how redmond does business. I don't think anyone would argue, seriously, that Vista is better than XP. or (of course) Win2k. it's maybe better than WinME. Why treat it seriously? Why do anything that encourages users to accept this buggy, bloated, DRM and malware-to-the-core "product"? by doing reviews of this sort you are telling people that it is a viable option, even if you are saying that it is an inferior option.
If english is not your first language, I think the mistake could be natural.
However, I am real curious as to what makes you state with such assurance that WMP DRM and MCE DRM are unrelated; I think you are, in effect, saying that there are 2 completely unrelated DRM subsystems on a Win MCE computer, correct? I can find no documentation to support this point of view, and would very much appreciate it if you could provide a link. I have no problem being proved wrong.
However, there is a strong evidence supporting my being right; if you look at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/play er/11/readme.aspx there is a strong implication. I'm fairly certain that Media Center ignores DRM when recording video, paying attention to only the broadcaster's copy protection flag (CGMS-A). When it writes it to the local drive, I'm fairly positive it then uses the DRM subsystem to "protect" that file, and it is through the process of trying to fairly use this DRM "protected" file that the majority of usage issues come from.
As a user of windows since v2.0, a Systems & computer pro since before that, a MCSE, and (insert all sorts of other essentially meaningless crap here), I've come to an amazing conclusion: While they on occasion accidentally do something right, Microsoft Sucks.
I bought a HP DV8230US desktop replacement laptop last year with Win MCE on it; I thought the Tivo-ish feature might come in handy when I was travelling.
And, it does in fact rock. and rock hard. I've been doing digital recording for a lot of years, and this is just freaking sweet. and super easy to use.
BUT.
You can count on Microsoft to mess up a wet dream. The Media player 11 "update" installs some draconian DRM, that spreads to the recording capabilities of MCE (and kills your already downloaded content, and loses your licenses, and...). Luckily, anyone who is of a right mind AND still uses a microsoft product.... well, all 3 of us, know to turn OFF windows update and completely research any "upgrade" they want to make to your systems. And if they are Evil, don't do them.
So, my uber-laptop dtill works great. And somehow, I'll live without the untold joys of Windows Media Player 11.
One of my Many, Many, many majors was Chemistry, So I can sort of see where you are coming from. However, as the parent of a teenager who just doesn't have ANY interest in chemistry, I have to say this is a good idea.
A quick check before typing this reveals that while he has no idea what a noble gas is, he can tell you everything that is written on any Pokemon or Digimon card ever made. If you make the things that you are required to have a basic grasp of into a game, you are going to make a lot of kids initial foray into science less of a nightmare, without so much risk of building a hatred of the subject that will cripple their learning for the rest of their lives.
I bought a pinnacle external SCSI single speed burner in '94. media was about $10 a pop. The drive cost me $1900.
I made up the cost of the drive doing backups in about 3 months.
I still have, and use, some of the CD's i made; the media was about 2 times as thick as the modern day stuff, and I've never had ANY problems reading them.
The point is: if they make a relatively cheap reader for these puppies (like $200, +/- 40), I'll buy one. I might wait until it comes down to 10k, but I'll buy one. It's a good inverstment.
If they don't build a reader cheap... welll, screw it.
I would post this as AnonymousLuser, but that hasn't worked well for me lately. Hypothetically, a person could assume that money is being spent by some of Microsoft's enemies to gather evidence that the numbers being presented are fraudulent, and the majority of the "Sales" are, in actuality, Given away. Given away by block grant to universities, large corporations, government agencies, etc in order to create a (one would assume) situation where it appears people are actually purchasing, with money, the steaming pile of crap which is Vista. Hypothetically, that is.
That is quite often a good visual representation of my backyard. No catalog, though. lots of books & oaks with Ivy around during (hmm. I live in the bible belt, got to be careful on this) my naturalist reading club meetings. (which I really need to start having again)
I sort of have to disagree with that. Windows 2000 was, is, and will be (until the process of making it obsolete via lack of patches to make it compliant with new hardware is complete) very competitive with anything else, especially when you factor in ease of use and administration. I switched from the HP-UX / Solaris world to the Microsoft world professionally in '97 when I discovered that A) I could make more money that way, and B) that I actually liked being able to work with a product I was playing games on at home. When Win2k came along, it was like validation; I didn't at the time, and still don't, like what they did with the DNS server & Active Directory, but it DID work, and worked well. Towards the middle of NT 4's life, and until about 6 months after the release of win2k, things were sweet in microsoft land; things worked, if you blocked all the ports except the ones you actually used you were pretty safe, and the OS did everything; search engine, internet chat server, web server, early versions of VOIP, the list goes on & on. and if you shelled out the money for a good copy of office 2000, you got a free copy of SQL server and a whole crapload of web-enabled toys to play with from the OSE. Almost immediately thereafter, however, Microsoft obviously began to come to the conclusion that they had succeeded too well; there was no real reason to upgrade from win2k/office2k. ever. So they started killing it. They started killing function via patch. the fully developed 64-bit patch was put on the shelf until after the release of WinXP, except for in a highly expensive version of (not absolutely sure about this) Windows 2000 database server LE. Some people think that the code "leak" of 2004 was intentional, in order to push people either to XP or windows 2003. No effort was made to make intel hyperthreading CPU's work properly (they do work, but count each tread as a separate CPU, which they aren't, causing slowdowns). and.NET. In recent years, companies have started releasing games that fail to install on win2k; in all examples to date, the games can be forced to install on win2k, and work easily as well as they do on the target platform. I retired from full time work for a couple of years now, but when I do consults, it's either Debian, Solaris or Win2k. Screw the.net crap and it's descendants. (Feel free to disagree, this is mainly my spur of the moment opinion and not highly researched)
No doubt. If the Mouse's intelligence branch just found out about this today, can you just imagine the the sheer amount of congressional knees that are going to be on the carpet over the next few days? Sure, it will mean that the CIA will be getting the funding for "eyes on the ground" that they have been asking for over the last decade or so, but the Mouse will NOT be happy about this, heads will roll. I doubt an ICBM will be the first response, though. Bad for Business.
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And i think you have the right to have that opinion; I just think it's a little 1 dimensional. i have some one dimensional opinions myself; I won't vote for a political candidate who doesn't support the 2nd amendment, no matter how great they are in other areas. this caused me to write-in my daughter instead of voting for Gore in the 2000 election (and I feel very, very, very bad about that).
Here are another few "rights" I think it is my option to exercise:
I think I have the right to download, as MP3's, tracks from my extensive vinyl collection.
(Note: if I was technically unable to rip from vinyl to digital, I would feel bad about downloading the MP3. I don't know why I have that idea. but as my goal is to spare the vinyl, I don't feel bad about it)
I think I have the right to download MP3's for CD's I've bought that are damaged or don't work.
I think I have the right to download a copy of anything I purchased, as long as I retain the original product. I've bought games that have malware copy protection (starforce, et al) and the only way to play the game is to download the pirate version.
Now I understand that what I think I have the right to do, and what the law says I have the right to do, seems to be different. But as my father once told me, "there is Right & Wrong, and there is Lawful & Unlawful. they don't mean the same things"
If I don't like it, i'm not too likely to download it. .50+ for each one, as soon as the paypal is paid, you are sent a link to the ftp, edtk or .tor for the track. and no DRM, no death threats, no nothing. they would make more money in that way than they currently make from the M(af)IAA system.
most of the music I like, except for a couple of flukes, isn't on Torrent or P2P.
What I do use shareaza (P2P) for is to make up for living half the year someplace where I only have dialup; shareaza works better than getright. Since I retired from the network biz, i'm also kinda a busy amateur photographer, CGI "artist", and 3d object designer, I throw my stuff out in the world using P2P, to keep my bandwidth bills down on my website. I sell some stuff at renderosity.com and a few other places...and I've seen my for-sale stuff on P2P. I'm not bothered by it. it's free advertising, and I've had people purchase my stuff then tell me that they tried it from P2P, liked it, so they bought it. I suppose the possibility exists that i'm losing sales in this way, but I really doubt it.
I'm not a Evil money grubbing pig, so maybe that explains my attitude... but P2P is the perfect way for a lot of markets to advertise. Bands should see music downloading as a way to advertise their gigs, or other value-added product that they actually get a fair chunk of the proceeds from.
How about this; if a band, lets say somebody who isn't famous for trying to jail their fans, put up on their band website a simple little paypal button next to a list of their songs; they could ask for
Tesla would be shaking his head in disgust.
do a wiki lookup on the "earth battery"; after that, jump over to "Wardenclyffe".
People really need to stop thinking that hertzian waves are the only thing under the sun.
I found another review, that includes a screenshot.= 3160086
http://www.1up.com.nyud.net:8080/do/newsStory?cId
I'm getting the impression that this is essentially going to be the game city life, with integration with the sims 2 game.
which actually doesn't sound like a bad game. City Life got boring fast, this might not.
PhpNuke & Postnuke, in that order. PhpNuke has sort of fallen to the wayside, all the cool kids develop for Postnuke now. and everything, and I mean everything, is changeable. look & feel is mainly based on stylesheets, and there are a zillion pre-made "themes" out there for free.
Postnuke is fun. I've been playing around with this whole web thing since around '95-'96, and tried a lot of different things; PostNuke seems to be the best "platform" I've seen, it is powerful, and very, very easy to embed your own apps and add-ons right into the guts of things, as long as you are willing to put up with open source documentation & mentality when you need help.
IMO, there is no dif between a "community server" and a "Content Management System", except for fine distinctions that make no sense to anyone except the people who claim there is a difference.
But you asked for what other people thought. Sorry. And I'm not sure if there is any Cyclic adenosine monophosphate involved.
I haven't tried drupal.
I have tried Joomla (on crack. I just don't quite understand how the people using it can call it intuitive), Mambo (see my Joomla snide comment), PostNuke (rocks, pure and simple. Very Free), DotNetNuke( pretty good, more stable than postnuke, slightly. Free, but apps usually cost) and most recently, Community Server.
I freaking love community server personal edition. free. fair docs, but you don't need 'em. stable. can't expand it easily, but it comes with a blog, file, photo, forum, tagging...and some other stuff, off the bat. good implementations, at that. If you just need to throw a quick website out there with the essential parts of a site working, Community Server is the obvious choice. after that.... probably postnuke, but you're gonna have to get some of the freebie add-ons to make it get to the point that community server starts at.
I do not work for or even have a clue who makes community server, BTW.
If you want to start comparing credentials, lets take this to e-mail.
Huh. hadn't heard about that, pretty good concept. of course you could do something similar with a mapped network drive in Win2k. which only needs 96mb to run. for win2k server. which will run ANY software currently out there for any windows product, unless it's AMD 64-bit specific (since Redmond decided not to release the 64-bit win2k patch they developed).
I guess people really like the pretty desktop theme.
$7 gas, cameras on every corner, no right to bear arms, and political correctness gone to a insane, socialist extreme. you guys really need to revolt. seriously. probably would have been easier back when you were allowed to have guns, but hindsight is 20/20, eh?
No, about half as much. or even free. like always with Linux.
check out prism, counterpoint, Viewtouch GNU, Volante, brainstorm, etc, etc. Linux has a very strong presence in point-of-sale, several national retail and service chains use it.
Care to clarify the "faster than light" thing? or have you "teleporters" not figured out a way to test it yet? with the small distances involved I could see accurate measurement being a pain.
But then they wouldn't be SIGNED. Oh my GOD!
Seriously. The problem isn't that Vista doesn't have drivers, the problem is reviews like this that treat Vista as something other than it is, a Evil Joke.
Do NOT take it seriously; This is possibly the best chance we've ever had, we as in the computer using public, to make a change in how redmond does business.
I don't think anyone would argue, seriously, that Vista is better than XP. or (of course) Win2k. it's maybe better than WinME.
Why treat it seriously? Why do anything that encourages users to accept this buggy, bloated, DRM and malware-to-the-core "product"? by doing reviews of this sort you are telling people that it is a viable option, even if you are saying that it is an inferior option.
If english is not your first language, I think the mistake could be natural.
y er/11/readme.aspx there is a strong implication.
However, I am real curious as to what makes you state with such assurance that WMP DRM and MCE DRM are unrelated; I think you are, in effect, saying that there are 2 completely unrelated DRM subsystems on a Win MCE computer, correct? I can find no documentation to support this point of view, and would very much appreciate it if you could provide a link. I have no problem being proved wrong.
However, there is a strong evidence supporting my being right; if you look at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/pla
I'm fairly certain that Media Center ignores DRM when recording video, paying attention to only the broadcaster's copy protection flag (CGMS-A). When it writes it to the local drive, I'm fairly positive it then uses the DRM subsystem to "protect" that file, and it is through the process of trying to fairly use this DRM "protected" file that the majority of usage issues come from.
I am not 100% certain, but I think the problem is directly related to the DRM subsystem that is installed with Windows Media player 11.
As a user of windows since v2.0, a Systems & computer pro since before that, a MCSE, and (insert all sorts of other essentially meaningless crap here), I've come to an amazing conclusion: While they on occasion accidentally do something right, Microsoft Sucks. I bought a HP DV8230US desktop replacement laptop last year with Win MCE on it; I thought the Tivo-ish feature might come in handy when I was travelling. And, it does in fact rock. and rock hard. I've been doing digital recording for a lot of years, and this is just freaking sweet. and super easy to use. BUT. You can count on Microsoft to mess up a wet dream. The Media player 11 "update" installs some draconian DRM, that spreads to the recording capabilities of MCE (and kills your already downloaded content, and loses your licenses, and...). Luckily, anyone who is of a right mind AND still uses a microsoft product.... well, all 3 of us, know to turn OFF windows update and completely research any "upgrade" they want to make to your systems. And if they are Evil, don't do them. So, my uber-laptop dtill works great. And somehow, I'll live without the untold joys of Windows Media Player 11.
One of my Many, Many, many majors was Chemistry, So I can sort of see where you are coming from. However, as the parent of a teenager who just doesn't have ANY interest in chemistry, I have to say this is a good idea. A quick check before typing this reveals that while he has no idea what a noble gas is, he can tell you everything that is written on any Pokemon or Digimon card ever made. If you make the things that you are required to have a basic grasp of into a game, you are going to make a lot of kids initial foray into science less of a nightmare, without so much risk of building a hatred of the subject that will cripple their learning for the rest of their lives.
I bought a pinnacle external SCSI single speed burner in '94. media was about $10 a pop. The drive cost me $1900. I made up the cost of the drive doing backups in about 3 months. I still have, and use, some of the CD's i made; the media was about 2 times as thick as the modern day stuff, and I've never had ANY problems reading them. The point is: if they make a relatively cheap reader for these puppies (like $200, +/- 40), I'll buy one. I might wait until it comes down to 10k, but I'll buy one. It's a good inverstment. If they don't build a reader cheap... welll, screw it.
I would post this as AnonymousLuser, but that hasn't worked well for me lately.
Hypothetically, a person could assume that money is being spent by some of Microsoft's enemies to gather evidence that the numbers being presented are fraudulent, and the majority of the "Sales" are, in actuality, Given away.
Given away by block grant to universities, large corporations, government agencies, etc in order to create a (one would assume) situation where it appears people are actually purchasing, with money, the steaming pile of crap which is Vista.
Hypothetically, that is.
That is quite often a good visual representation of my backyard. No catalog, though. lots of books & oaks with Ivy around during (hmm. I live in the bible belt, got to be careful on this) my naturalist reading club meetings.
(which I really need to start having again)
win98se, or win2k?
although come to think about it, I bet Win3.11 would be pretty secure these days.
I sort of have to disagree with that. .NET. .net crap and it's descendants.
Windows 2000 was, is, and will be (until the process of making it obsolete via lack of patches to make it compliant with new hardware is complete) very competitive with anything else, especially when you factor in ease of use and administration.
I switched from the HP-UX / Solaris world to the Microsoft world professionally in '97 when I discovered that A) I could make more money that way, and B) that I actually liked being able to work with a product I was playing games on at home.
When Win2k came along, it was like validation; I didn't at the time, and still don't, like what they did with the DNS server & Active Directory, but it DID work, and worked well.
Towards the middle of NT 4's life, and until about 6 months after the release of win2k, things were sweet in microsoft land; things worked, if you blocked all the ports except the ones you actually used you were pretty safe, and the OS did everything; search engine, internet chat server, web server, early versions of VOIP, the list goes on & on. and if you shelled out the money for a good copy of office 2000, you got a free copy of SQL server and a whole crapload of web-enabled toys to play with from the OSE.
Almost immediately thereafter, however, Microsoft obviously began to come to the conclusion that they had succeeded too well; there was no real reason to upgrade from win2k/office2k. ever.
So they started killing it. They started killing function via patch. the fully developed 64-bit patch was put on the shelf until after the release of WinXP, except for in a highly expensive version of (not absolutely sure about this) Windows 2000 database server LE. Some people think that the code "leak" of 2004 was intentional, in order to push people either to XP or windows 2003. No effort was made to make intel hyperthreading CPU's work properly (they do work, but count each tread as a separate CPU, which they aren't, causing slowdowns). and
In recent years, companies have started releasing games that fail to install on win2k; in all examples to date, the games can be forced to install on win2k, and work easily as well as they do on the target platform.
I retired from full time work for a couple of years now, but when I do consults, it's either Debian, Solaris or Win2k. Screw the
(Feel free to disagree, this is mainly my spur of the moment opinion and not highly researched)
Might be a fairly good idea to file a provisional patent on that.
I could have sworn that my first one was something like 19xxx, back in '96.
No doubt. If the Mouse's intelligence branch just found out about this today, can you just imagine the the sheer amount of congressional knees that are going to be on the carpet over the next few days? Sure, it will mean that the CIA will be getting the funding for "eyes on the ground" that they have been asking for over the last decade or so, but the Mouse will NOT be happy about this, heads will roll.
I doubt an ICBM will be the first response, though. Bad for Business.
You very nearly killed me with that one.
My kids are used to seeing me giggling quietly to myself, not seeing me redfaced, choking & laughing.