If you are referring to his alzheimers, I agree. But I think your parent was rather a joke about his famous refusal to remember anything about Iran-Contra when he was on the record.
I guess you could argue he had early alzheimers and was telling the truth, but I doubt it.
In practice, C++ is finally getting to the point where various compilers accept the same code. That after 15 years or so. Now they want to shake it up again?
But you didn't even mention the very first feature-length computer animated film - toy story. Which goes to show that blaming computers for storyless movies is wrong.
Company/Government X is using linux to do Y! woot!
It would be much nicer if it was news everytime microsoft landed a big contract.
Why would it be nicer? Why even as nice? Linux and Microsoft aren't the same thing. It's fun to watch a big greedy monopolist lose potential sales. It means the world isn't getting more lopsided as fast as it would have otherwise.
That's not what Sync means. If you schedule one appointment on your PC calendaring app and another appointment on your PDA there's supposed to be a push-button way of "synchronizing" the two so both calendars have both appointments.
He's probably talking about rates rather than numbers. Believe it or not, the currently rising cancer rates in places like Africa is not all bad. You know the easiest way to avoid cancer and heart disease? Die from an infectious disease at a young age. Developing countries' cancer rates shoot up when longevity rises, because they typically affect older people. More older people=longer lifetimes. As my grandfather says, getting old ain't wonderful but it beats the alternative.
Then again, it's equally easy to get silly in the other direction...
"You're violating our trademark because the guy in the background of your picture is drinking a Coke emblazoned with our logo and a picture of our logo is still our logo"
"You're stealing our intellectual property because your character looks too much like Mickey Mouse"
"We're gonna sue because that bass drum might have been sampled from us"
Some people act as if slippery slopes can be avoided, but they cannot.
What happens is that you get to the customer, and they basically start hitting you up for general Linux integration support that has nothing to do with your product. Every sale turns into an integration exercise requiring a linux expert onsite.
Isn't all customer support that way? It's classic. The company feels hit up for free unrelated tech support, while the consumer feels they're being bounced around between companies who all point the finger at each other. That is by no means specific to linux, or even to computers.
No matter what Microsoft puts on game disks from now on, *something* has to load and execute it. That something is now out of Microsoft control. You only need to load the dashboard once to compromise the system, after that you're "in" and you can change things besides the dashboard.
Are you joking? After 30+ years of Bell stagnation, the whole industry has been completely transformed. The price of long distance fell through the floor. I can't believe you thought we were better off having to rent phones for $7/mo when now I can buy a new one for $10. How can you think it was a mistake?
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Q2: This vulnerability is in the dashboard, isn't it? So Microsoft can
simply update the dashboard with XBOX Live or with the help of new
games.
A2: Yes Microsoft could try to upgrade the dashboard and fix the
vulnerability with such an update, but keep in mind that this
vulnerability is like a "local root" hole. You can do nearly
everything with it and this includes redirecting reads and writes to
the xboxdash.xbe file. Additionally people who do not play games on
their box will not be reachable with such updates. And groups who
pirate games can always disable the update feature.
Actually I'm pretty sure you're right... in the LONG RUN. Sure the Soviet Union finally crapped out, but look at how long it took and how much misery and grief it caused first.
And I think China is going about it in a more sustainable way... they seem to have a market economy, though with few civil rights. So things could take a loooong time time come around.
Ergonomics: Laptop keyboards *suck*. Also, bring your own mouse to plugin, because laptop 'touch mice' are a joke too.
I really think that's just a matter of habit. I have a touchpad on one laptop, an eraser-head on another, a mouse on one PC and a trackball on the other, I use each one each day and honestly I don't care one way or the other.
Sound: Laptop speakers just ain't gonna reproduce sound as well as seperate speakers. You could plugin headphones, of course, or speakers, but then you might as well just use a desktop PC as they're not easily portable.
Too true... in fact I recently got a very nice pair of headphones, and even with headphones the audio on all 3 laptops I tried was awful! I have to wonder if it's a matter of not being grounded properly? But I ended up buying a Sony CD MP3 walkman to fix that problem and it sounds good, so maybe it isn't grounding after all...
Upgrades: What upgrades? You can't upgrade a laptop like you can a PC. Buy a laptop, and live with its specs.
I agree that's terrible for home use but for work maybe less so. My company seems to think it's cheaper to buy new ones than have the contractors spend time working the bugs out of various upgrades. You know what I mean... sometimes that new video card causes random lockups and takes 3 days to iron out, while a new Dell is better than the old computer across the board and almost always "just works."
I agree "outselling" is ambiguous, but you goofed by saying desktops still "rule the market." A market is *always* measured in dollars, not units. Otherwise one would say that the market for automobiles is dwarfed by the market for M&Ms.
I don't think it'll be too long before everybody is choosing laptops over desktops. Sooner or later, portability is more interesting than a few hundred megahertz.
I don't know how it is other places, but where I work laptops are really taking over, for convenience and quiet. Sometimes you need to go work with somebody in a lab. Or during a meeting you want to take notes (or look like you're taking notes while actually getting work done). And then obviously there's travel. And work from home. The price difference between laptops and desktops is small compared to the expense of the employee who runs that computer. And the performance gap is both unimportant and quite small.
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I guess you could argue he had early alzheimers and was telling the truth, but I doubt it.
In practice, C++ is finally getting to the point where various compilers accept the same code. That after 15 years or so. Now they want to shake it up again?
But you didn't even mention the very first feature-length computer animated film - toy story. Which goes to show that blaming computers for storyless movies is wrong.
Is there no way to exchange keys face to face to facilitate end-to-end encryption? Other than verbal steganography?
Could you suggest the internet radio stations you like?
Size and weight correlate pretty well on laptops.
Somebody who doesn't know the difference between this and a $100 Palm buys the Palm.
It's not simply copying a file.
I just had to say that.
He's probably talking about rates rather than numbers. Believe it or not, the currently rising cancer rates in places like Africa is not all bad. You know the easiest way to avoid cancer and heart disease? Die from an infectious disease at a young age. Developing countries' cancer rates shoot up when longevity rises, because they typically affect older people. More older people=longer lifetimes. As my grandfather says, getting old ain't wonderful but it beats the alternative.
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"You're violating our trademark because the guy in the background of your picture is drinking a Coke emblazoned with our logo and a picture of our logo is still our logo"
- "You're stealing our intellectual property because your character looks too much like Mickey Mouse"
- "We're gonna sue because that bass drum might have been sampled from us"
Some people act as if slippery slopes can be avoided, but they cannot.I've heard the PGA tries hard to keep scores comparable over the decades, but I guess there's really no way to tell.
No matter what Microsoft puts on game disks from now on, *something* has to load and execute it. That something is now out of Microsoft control. You only need to load the dashboard once to compromise the system, after that you're "in" and you can change things besides the dashboard.
Are you joking? After 30+ years of Bell stagnation, the whole industry has been completely transformed. The price of long distance fell through the floor. I can't believe you thought we were better off having to rent phones for $7/mo when now I can buy a new one for $10. How can you think it was a mistake?
I keep waiting for some "internet edit" of AI to come out with improvements such as a single ending instead of 3.
Q2: This vulnerability is in the dashboard, isn't it? So Microsoft can simply update the dashboard with XBOX Live or with the help of new games.
A2: Yes Microsoft could try to upgrade the dashboard and fix the vulnerability with such an update, but keep in mind that this vulnerability is like a "local root" hole. You can do nearly everything with it and this includes redirecting reads and writes to the xboxdash.xbe file. Additionally people who do not play games on their box will not be reachable with such updates. And groups who pirate games can always disable the update feature.
And I think China is going about it in a more sustainable way... they seem to have a market economy, though with few civil rights. So things could take a loooong time time come around.
I really think that's just a matter of habit. I have a touchpad on one laptop, an eraser-head on another, a mouse on one PC and a trackball on the other, I use each one each day and honestly I don't care one way or the other.
Too true... in fact I recently got a very nice pair of headphones, and even with headphones the audio on all 3 laptops I tried was awful! I have to wonder if it's a matter of not being grounded properly? But I ended up buying a Sony CD MP3 walkman to fix that problem and it sounds good, so maybe it isn't grounding after all...
I agree that's terrible for home use but for work maybe less so. My company seems to think it's cheaper to buy new ones than have the contractors spend time working the bugs out of various upgrades. You know what I mean... sometimes that new video card causes random lockups and takes 3 days to iron out, while a new Dell is better than the old computer across the board and almost always "just works."
I agree "outselling" is ambiguous, but you goofed by saying desktops still "rule the market." A market is *always* measured in dollars, not units. Otherwise one would say that the market for automobiles is dwarfed by the market for M&Ms.
Brainstormed back in the day? The Russians built it, and it does work.