Maybe Microsoft needs to start taking Viagra? I mean, if they can't keep it up like they were...
Isn't horizontal movement what Pfizer was shooting for?
Then again, should a company like Pfizer really be working with a company named microSOFT (Give it a second, it will come to you.....)
That's the point of statistics: to mislead as much as possible, without ever actually lying.
Take this benchmark for instance. Apple disclosed all the information they had to. They never LIED to the public (at least with this), but by burying necessary information deep and showing only numbers they have managed to mislead anyone who is too stupid to do further research. If you can't find the little link underneath the data shown and click on it, they figure you deserve to know only what they say.
Umm, actually, it's a documented fact that Apple stole their windowing system (at least the theory for it) from Xerox. They were invited in to look at the new Xerox systems, saw what they were doing, and decided they needed it for themselves. It's really surprising, in light of that fact, that they allowed Microsoft to do the same thing.
And although I would never walk into a Mac convention and loudly proclaim that their windowing system is stolen from Xerox, you can't label someone a troll just for telling the truth.
Where are you from exactly? Here in Nebraska, USA gas is 1.499/gallon. I've never seen a gas station that didn't charge 9/10ths of a cent per unit (gallon, litre, or whatever you want).
I agree that this pricing plan is stupid, it isn't fooling anyone, and that the comment from the article was quite useless, but does one bad comment invalidate the entire article?
Isn't OS X based on the Linux kernel? I thought I had heard that somewhere, and if it's true, they have no excuse not to have access. Anyone online can get it...
with any arguments about loss in profit are the situations that can't be rectified with it.
For example: if I download MP3s from a concert I attended, where have the profits been lost? How about if I download MP3s from a concert that happened before I was born? Since I was unable to attend anyway, has money been lost here?
What about albums that aren't for sale anymore? The only way to buy that album is used, and the artist makes no profit from this. Where has money been lost?
I'm not saying I'm for or against file-trading, I'm actually rather neutral. For every example RIAA can claim, there is an exception like the one above, but for every example a trader can give, there is also an exception. What about the indie artist who is struggling to survive?
Neither side has presented very good answers to these exceptions, and instead tries to ignore them. Before anyone can claim for or against file -trading, or anything for that matter, they should look at all situations and exceptions.
Just my 2 cents.
In this incoherent rambling, I did find an interesting point worth exploring: GPLing music. I guess I had never thought of it before, but it does make sense now.
A project group I'm currently in has written a few backdoors into our system. They allow us to bypass logging in and out - crucial information for our timeclock system - so that if one of the programs in our system bombs, we don't have to shut the entire timeclock system down to log ourselves back out. It's not the best solution by far, as we are having to track hours by hand. We didn't build the original system, however, and don't have time to properly fix it.
We are planning on taking the backdoors out as soon as our "programmer" testing is done, doing a quick double check, and then sending it off to be fully tested by users. I'm curious as to how often this (taking out backdoors) is done?
I think what might help even more is having a beancounter who can look beyond the immediate dollar needs. Cutting programs to get under budget is the problem. Spending the money to start them, and then cancelling them in the middle, is too expensive to justify even having a space program anymore.
Perhaps instead, we could finish a program through to completion most of the time. I can see there are times when it is not feasible to continue, but I'm sure that most of the time with some ingenuity (and maybe some duct tape), they can work out any problem that arises.
So, you're basically saying that Astronauts are the ones benefitting from growing tomatoes in zero g's? That's not really a good enough payoff, is it?
Seriously, there has to be a common good payoff for it to be worth it, doesn't there? Something good for everyone? Or at least the taxpayers who fund it?
Perhaps instead of investing in growing tomatoes, we should investigate moving bodies/supplies faster from here to Mars and back.
I didn't say it would be quick and easy for someone to do. Are you willing to take the chance, however, that someone COULD take over your computer with a cell phone? It may never happen to you. Chances are, unless you're high profile, no one cares. But are you willing to take the risk?
Doesn't it worry anyone else that someone can control their computer with a cell phone? I'm sure there is security in place to keep hackers from using it, but they're tricky, and damned smart. I can see it now:
"We lost years of work"
"Any idea how it happened?"
"Yeah, we were hacked by a cell phone".
Great idea, but was it really thought through all the way?
OK, I've been trying to find someone who makes a true split keyboard for a long time now. And I don't mean a keyboard with the keys separated in the middle, I mean a keyboard that's in two halves that I can put on either arm of my computer chair and type with my arms in a relaxed position. Anyone seen these anywhere???
How about Company C? They go open source on the mainframe, which comes with full IBM support. Don't forget, IBM is REALLY pushing Linux now, as it is cheaper for them to produce, and, in most people's opinions, a better system than OS/390 or z/OS.
Actually, if you were to set your document up correctly, random traversal is a piece of cake. In fact, this is why most files today are VSAM KSDS files, which are files that are built specifically for random reads.
Beyond that, there are many languages besides COBOL on the mainframe that you can use. You can run C/C++ and Java for starters. These might be easier for what you were looking for.
There was something like this a few years ago... was a big thing in architectural circles. At a fair (I think), they built the shell of a house using only this fog technique, and allowed people to tour it. The only problems: 1) had to be built on a lake to keep the water supply up, and 2) the pictures they tried hanging on the walls kept falling off.
Until recently, China didn't have unbiased internet news either. It was all filtered by the government. In that scenario, where would you turn to for unbiased news?
I'm assuming you work at a hospital? Try this: find a connection to one of the radio antennas for the building. Connect into it, and you're home free (unless you get caught, in which case you're probably work free).
Be sure not to hook into an important antenna, as people could get hurt!
And there will be even MORE third party tools to skirt DRM if it does become illegal. M$ needs to face the facts: people are going to do what they want with their computers, and there is very little that anyone can do to stop it.
Just as an exercise: envision the US if DRM became the standard. Skirting DRM would then be considered a form of hacking, which would be a jailable offense. With the push of both M$ and RIAA, law enforcement would crack down on this more. Many people would be in jail whose only crime was sharing a file with a friend...
Not quite awake enough to take this furthur. Anyone else?
I think I'd be happy if only 50% went to the artist. That's still a lot more than some artists are getting.
What is a fair price per track, though? Assuming an average CD ($15.00 for 12 tracks), you could pay up to $1.25 per track. Everyone seems to be suggesting that it should be much cheaper than that (I think someone in here said $.25/track). Would I pay $.25/track for music? Sure, IF they had the bands I listen to, but when you listen to the odd assortment of bands that I listen to, that is a crap shoot. Even P2P is a gamble with some of the bands I like, and I usually end up getting the CD online, burning and distributing so that others can find them too.
Maybe if they set up a system like this (Can't find what you like? Tell us, and we'll find it for you), I would be more open to the idea.
Funny, some of those unbathed, ill-groomed troglodytes dropped out of college, started companies, wrote software, and took over the computer industry. Why again is a college education so important?
To play devils advocate for a minute, have YOU ever play educational video games? When I was young it was "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego" "Oregon Trail" and "Logo" (although not a game technically, it was taught as one). I learned about our geography, history, and programming from these three simple, mediocre games.
As for our nation of drones who fall for junk science, how long did we believe in those two elements that were fakes? How many people know, for sure, if milk is good or bad for them? If science is experiencing a downfall, it is the scientists fault, for not thoroughly checking their results before publishing them.
I'm sorry if I'm ranting here, but I'm tired of people who don't really think through what they say. Here's an idea: how 'bout we stop all progress whatsoever. We can go back to the old ways of teaching that apparently didn't work, turning out mindless corporate slaves, who don't know how to think for themselves, who have no problem solving skills, and who will be miserable for the rest of their lives in a crap job, all because we've decided that the old ways are the best. Let's not adapt with the times at all. I think I'll return my computer tonight, and get a Commodore 64. Or maybe I'll just go back to pencil and paper...
If we refuse to adapt to the times, we will be destroyed by them.
I seem to remember reading something like this in a story once. The main character was blind, and underwent surgery (didn't get into many details) that gave him back sight. He had never seen anything before, and in the end went insane from all the colors etc. etc. and gauged his eyes out. Things that he had known from touch & sound weren't what he imagined...
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Maybe Microsoft needs to start taking Viagra? I mean, if they can't keep it up like they were... Isn't horizontal movement what Pfizer was shooting for? Then again, should a company like Pfizer really be working with a company named microSOFT (Give it a second, it will come to you.....)
Although it is tempting to argue, I will agree with you. I must have missed that while reading.
Take this benchmark for instance. Apple disclosed all the information they had to. They never LIED to the public (at least with this), but by burying necessary information deep and showing only numbers they have managed to mislead anyone who is too stupid to do further research. If you can't find the little link underneath the data shown and click on it, they figure you deserve to know only what they say.
And although I would never walk into a Mac convention and loudly proclaim that their windowing system is stolen from Xerox, you can't label someone a troll just for telling the truth.
I agree that this pricing plan is stupid, it isn't fooling anyone, and that the comment from the article was quite useless, but does one bad comment invalidate the entire article?
Thanks for clearing that up for me. Makes much more sense now.
Isn't OS X based on the Linux kernel? I thought I had heard that somewhere, and if it's true, they have no excuse not to have access. Anyone online can get it...
with any arguments about loss in profit are the situations that can't be rectified with it.
For example: if I download MP3s from a concert I attended, where have the profits been lost? How about if I download MP3s from a concert that happened before I was born? Since I was unable to attend anyway, has money been lost here?
What about albums that aren't for sale anymore? The only way to buy that album is used, and the artist makes no profit from this. Where has money been lost?
I'm not saying I'm for or against file-trading, I'm actually rather neutral. For every example RIAA can claim, there is an exception like the one above, but for every example a trader can give, there is also an exception. What about the indie artist who is struggling to survive?
Neither side has presented very good answers to these exceptions, and instead tries to ignore them. Before anyone can claim for or against file -trading, or anything for that matter, they should look at all situations and exceptions.
Just my 2 cents.
Anyone else on here record music under GPL?
A project group I'm currently in has written a few backdoors into our system. They allow us to bypass logging in and out - crucial information for our timeclock system - so that if one of the programs in our system bombs, we don't have to shut the entire timeclock system down to log ourselves back out. It's not the best solution by far, as we are having to track hours by hand. We didn't build the original system, however, and don't have time to properly fix it.
We are planning on taking the backdoors out as soon as our "programmer" testing is done, doing a quick double check, and then sending it off to be fully tested by users. I'm curious as to how often this (taking out backdoors) is done?
Perhaps instead, we could finish a program through to completion most of the time. I can see there are times when it is not feasible to continue, but I'm sure that most of the time with some ingenuity (and maybe some duct tape), they can work out any problem that arises.
Seriously, there has to be a common good payoff for it to be worth it, doesn't there? Something good for everyone? Or at least the taxpayers who fund it?
Perhaps instead of investing in growing tomatoes, we should investigate moving bodies/supplies faster from here to Mars and back.
I didn't say it would be quick and easy for someone to do. Are you willing to take the chance, however, that someone COULD take over your computer with a cell phone? It may never happen to you. Chances are, unless you're high profile, no one cares. But are you willing to take the risk?
"We lost years of work"
"Any idea how it happened?"
"Yeah, we were hacked by a cell phone".
Great idea, but was it really thought through all the way?
OK, I've been trying to find someone who makes a true split keyboard for a long time now. And I don't mean a keyboard with the keys separated in the middle, I mean a keyboard that's in two halves that I can put on either arm of my computer chair and type with my arms in a relaxed position. Anyone seen these anywhere???
How about Company C? They go open source on the mainframe, which comes with full IBM support. Don't forget, IBM is REALLY pushing Linux now, as it is cheaper for them to produce, and, in most people's opinions, a better system than OS/390 or z/OS.
Beyond that, there are many languages besides COBOL on the mainframe that you can use. You can run C/C++ and Java for starters. These might be easier for what you were looking for.
There was something like this a few years ago... was a big thing in architectural circles. At a fair (I think), they built the shell of a house using only this fog technique, and allowed people to tour it. The only problems: 1) had to be built on a lake to keep the water supply up, and 2) the pictures they tried hanging on the walls kept falling off.
Until recently, China didn't have unbiased internet news either. It was all filtered by the government. In that scenario, where would you turn to for unbiased news?
Be sure not to hook into an important antenna, as people could get hurt!
Just as an exercise: envision the US if DRM became the standard. Skirting DRM would then be considered a form of hacking, which would be a jailable offense. With the push of both M$ and RIAA, law enforcement would crack down on this more. Many people would be in jail whose only crime was sharing a file with a friend...
Not quite awake enough to take this furthur. Anyone else?
What is a fair price per track, though? Assuming an average CD ($15.00 for 12 tracks), you could pay up to $1.25 per track. Everyone seems to be suggesting that it should be much cheaper than that (I think someone in here said $.25/track). Would I pay $.25/track for music? Sure, IF they had the bands I listen to, but when you listen to the odd assortment of bands that I listen to, that is a crap shoot. Even P2P is a gamble with some of the bands I like, and I usually end up getting the CD online, burning and distributing so that others can find them too.
Maybe if they set up a system like this (Can't find what you like? Tell us, and we'll find it for you), I would be more open to the idea.
woops, hit the bold button on accident. Sorry about that...
Funny, some of those unbathed, ill-groomed troglodytes dropped out of college, started companies, wrote software, and took over the computer industry. Why again is a college education so important? To play devils advocate for a minute, have YOU ever play educational video games? When I was young it was "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego" "Oregon Trail" and "Logo" (although not a game technically, it was taught as one). I learned about our geography, history, and programming from these three simple, mediocre games. As for our nation of drones who fall for junk science, how long did we believe in those two elements that were fakes? How many people know, for sure, if milk is good or bad for them? If science is experiencing a downfall, it is the scientists fault, for not thoroughly checking their results before publishing them. I'm sorry if I'm ranting here, but I'm tired of people who don't really think through what they say. Here's an idea: how 'bout we stop all progress whatsoever. We can go back to the old ways of teaching that apparently didn't work, turning out mindless corporate slaves, who don't know how to think for themselves, who have no problem solving skills, and who will be miserable for the rest of their lives in a crap job, all because we've decided that the old ways are the best. Let's not adapt with the times at all. I think I'll return my computer tonight, and get a Commodore 64. Or maybe I'll just go back to pencil and paper... If we refuse to adapt to the times, we will be destroyed by them.
Just something to think about.