The reason why it sends info about other applications (and third party drivers for that matter) is so that they can attempt to be a single-source vendor of patches if needed.
IOW, you don't have any real idea what MS is doing to your computer or why, but you're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
May I ask why? What have they done to gain your trust? Do you honestly think they won't store and analyze that data however they want?
Guess what, many of the American Indian tribes were warlike, too. They would just as happily have kicked the Europeans' butts, had they posessed the wherewithal to do so. They weren't morally superior, just technically inferior.
PERL is an ivory tower? Wow, that must've been some flame war.
Well, it was only in comparison to tcl. Anything looks well-thought-out by comparison. Turns out string rewriting + side effects isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm usually not a language bigot, but does tcl have ANY redeeming qualities?
...most any video you might want to encode would fit in 4 gigs *uncompressed*
Umm, 4 gigs is only about 2.4 *minutes* of 640 x 480 x 24bpp x 30fps video.
Compressing a video stream certainly should not take that much memory (nor anywhere near), but editing is another matter. Yes, clever implementation can get around the constraints somewhat, but effort spent being clever is NOT spent on making a program nicer to use. A program optimized for minimal memory usage is by definition not optimized for ease of use or maintainence, nor for speed of execution.
Users are not crying out for > 4 GB right now. But you either have to expect that they will within a few years, or present a convincing argument that the exponential curve of memory demand maintained for the last 20 years is about to flatten off, precisely at a moment convenient for Intel. I have my doubts.
The problem is, Casio can make a simple, cheap organizer for $30.
I'm miffed at Palm because my m515 crashed yesterday and destroyed all my data. Besides feeling stupid and angry at myself for not making a backup recently, I'm irritated at Palm for not having a more robust OS. People shouldn't have to implement "hacks" that threaten system stability just to make an app switcher or graffiti-area keyboard.
I'm all for a simple, elegant interface, but there should still be solid software engineering underneath.
I don't see the relevance of your comment. I interpreted this story not to be about software geeks doing drama, but about drama people having a free drama community, in the same way software geeks have a free software community.
But I am skeptical, because as far as I can see the free software community is unique. Listen to all the Macintosh graphic-artist types who complain that Linux falls short in appearance. Does it occur to them to jump in a fix it? Rarely if ever. And musicians go so far as to discourage other musicians from performing for free, feeling this would kill the market for professionals.
but refuse to give even a second thought to paying a quarter of that for a machine that will hold a quarter of the people, if you're lucky a quarter of the stuff, and going a quarter of that speed down the same road. I mean really, the price looks to scale nearly perfectly here.
No, just being 3/4 slower cuts the value by 3/4. Holding only 1/4 the people cuts the value by 3/4 again. Same goes for cargo. So we're looking, at best, at (1/4)^3 = 1/64 the value here.
Bobby Fischer praised the 9/11 attacks over the radio. He can go to hell and burn for all I care.
You mindless retard [ishipress.com]
"Bobby expresses extreme views, such as when he says that white Americans should go back to Europe and Black Americans should go back to Africa and give America back to the Indians. While this is a silly idea, once again there are many who agree with it....
Also, the attack on the Pentagon, which Bobby did know about, was not by definition a terrorist act. Under any reasonable definition of "terrorism", the Pentagon is a legitimate military target.
Nice reference, I had no idea Fisher was such a blithering idiot. Apparently he feels the terrorists were perfectly within their rights to drive an airliner full of innocent civilians into the Pentagon. I think I liked him better as an long-forgotten recluse.
Google have a top-notch system but the whole indexing thing is still laughable. They are not really taking advantage of structured markup in evaluating keywords - they extract the same information as if it were a plain text file sans markup. Yeah, sometimes top-level headers and link text is used, but that's it really.
I don't think there's all that much information in structured markup. Certainly no where near as much as in the boring old plain text, so why focus on semantic analysis of the tags rather than the text?
It's just a matter of priorities. A dirty bomb or hijacked airliner will kill a few thousand at most. With the Cold War we faced the prospect of a few nukes on every major city at once. Directly comparing the terrorists to the cold war lacks any sense of proportion.
What if I started a business selling custom-printed 4-color tax forms, could I sue the govt to stop mailing out the IRS-prepared tax packets so people would have to pay me money to prepare their taxes?
The current situation truly is corporate welfare because setting up a free, official website would increase the rate of e-filing, and that would save the govt. tons of money on tax processing, not to mention publishing all those tax forms and instruction books.
It's a simple matter of conduction govt. business in the most efficient and effective way. Purposely creating govt. inefficiencies so private companies can make money is dumb.
This may be a good sign that you could save money by having somebody prepare your taxes.
I'm not flaming you though, I had the same thing happen once, the first year after my first child was born, because I doubted I would qualify for the $500 tax child credit (most of those are for American Indians, farmers, handicapped, whatever). I had already counted him as a dependent, so it seemed like double-counting. Obviously I should head over to H&R Block myself:)
I had never seen Opera "in person" until today. My office mate installed it just to see msn skewered. This is a great publicity stunt, particularly because it's an act MS can never follow.
What Lexis-Nexus and WestLaw have done is collate and cross-reference this incredible volume of data. Why shouldn't they be compensated for performing an immensely useful service by the people who use the service?
Of course they can charge for value-added services like cross-referencing. But they do not own the court records themselves. The govt. should publish those.
One of my favorite (favourite?) memories from London was hopping on a bus just as a jogger went by. I thought nothing of it until I noticed him catch up to us at the next intersection. Then again at the next. And so it continued for several miles through London - each time it seemed we had left him behind, we hit more traffic and he would jog by once again. How long would we remain neck and neck? Only until Piccadilly Circus, as it turned out, where as traffic ground to a halt, I watched the jogger recede into the distance, leaving us behind.
Taxes aren't the only way to redistribute wealth. For instance, this slashdot story is about a law that says your boss can't make you work without paying you.
Or laws about orgainized labor - those also affect the distribution of wealth, but not through taxes.
Or the law that profitable companies must pay dividends to shareholders.
Or, for that matter, the law that entitles children to publicly funded education. Without that, I'm sure the distribution of wealth would be even much more lopsided than it is now.
In the meantime, most European countries have effective immigration laws, since they don't rely on an imported underclass to keep their economy going...
What are you talking about? European countries, with their shrinking populations, rely on an imported underclass at least as much as the US.
3 1/2 hours isn't that bad, my palm m515 doesn't last that long on high brightness. Who looks at their pda for 3 1/2 hours in a day? It shouldn't take longer than 30 seconds to check the calendar. How much talk time do cellphones get these days?
My big problem with this thing is the size. Even a palm V is a little larger than I'd like. If it doesn't fit discreetly in my hip pocket it's useless to me. Those little keyboards are useless. If I can't touch-type, might as well make it smaller and hit the keys with a stylus. On my palm I use QuickType, after some practice it's far faster than graffiti (and open source too!)
Nope, Exclusive lesbianism is statistically much safer again.
Safer than having an exclusive partner who is also free of disease? No it isn't.
By your logic, all women should therefore become lesbians and use artificial insemination from HIV-negative men to become pregnant.
Alternatively, we could all become celibate. That'd solve the problem!
I'm just as safe having sex with my wife.
Grow up. The ancients didn't practice what they preach. Neither do contemporary Christians or Jews, as a group. There's a lot of fornication goin' on, and there always will be, and any public health campaigns that aren't designed around this simple fact will fail.
There's some truth to that, but it totally ignores the different rate of AIDS spread between different groups, which is a very real phenomenon. I've never known anybody who got AIDS.
We hear about Africans with AIDS raping kids because they think having sex with a non-infected person will cure them. Surely you agree the answer in that case is NOT just handing out condoms?
The parent asserted that there are health benefits to not sleeping around. Religion aside, isn't that a pretty straightforward assertion?
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This patent wasn't filed "8 or 9 years" ago, it was filed in 1999.
May I ask why? What have they done to gain your trust? Do you honestly think they won't store and analyze that data however they want?
Guess what, many of the American Indian tribes were warlike, too. They would just as happily have kicked the Europeans' butts, had they posessed the wherewithal to do so. They weren't morally superior, just technically inferior.
Compressing a video stream certainly should not take that much memory (nor anywhere near), but editing is another matter. Yes, clever implementation can get around the constraints somewhat, but effort spent being clever is NOT spent on making a program nicer to use. A program optimized for minimal memory usage is by definition not optimized for ease of use or maintainence, nor for speed of execution.
Users are not crying out for > 4 GB right now. But you either have to expect that they will within a few years, or present a convincing argument that the exponential curve of memory demand maintained for the last 20 years is about to flatten off, precisely at a moment convenient for Intel. I have my doubts.
I'm miffed at Palm because my m515 crashed yesterday and destroyed all my data. Besides feeling stupid and angry at myself for not making a backup recently, I'm irritated at Palm for not having a more robust OS. People shouldn't have to implement "hacks" that threaten system stability just to make an app switcher or graffiti-area keyboard.
I'm all for a simple, elegant interface, but there should still be solid software engineering underneath.
But I am skeptical, because as far as I can see the free software community is unique. Listen to all the Macintosh graphic-artist types who complain that Linux falls short in appearance. Does it occur to them to jump in a fix it? Rarely if ever. And musicians go so far as to discourage other musicians from performing for free, feeling this would kill the market for professionals.
It's just a matter of priorities. A dirty bomb or hijacked airliner will kill a few thousand at most. With the Cold War we faced the prospect of a few nukes on every major city at once. Directly comparing the terrorists to the cold war lacks any sense of proportion.
If they can become superuser and your files aren't encrypted, your password is of little use to them.
google hashcash. I think it's a great idea.
The current situation truly is corporate welfare because setting up a free, official website would increase the rate of e-filing, and that would save the govt. tons of money on tax processing, not to mention publishing all those tax forms and instruction books.
It's a simple matter of conduction govt. business in the most efficient and effective way. Purposely creating govt. inefficiencies so private companies can make money is dumb.
I'm not flaming you though, I had the same thing happen once, the first year after my first child was born, because I doubted I would qualify for the $500 tax child credit (most of those are for American Indians, farmers, handicapped, whatever). I had already counted him as a dependent, so it seemed like double-counting. Obviously I should head over to H&R Block myself :)
I had never seen Opera "in person" until today. My office mate installed it just to see msn skewered. This is a great publicity stunt, particularly because it's an act MS can never follow.
One of my favorite (favourite?) memories from London was hopping on a bus just as a jogger went by. I thought nothing of it until I noticed him catch up to us at the next intersection. Then again at the next. And so it continued for several miles through London - each time it seemed we had left him behind, we hit more traffic and he would jog by once again. How long would we remain neck and neck? Only until Piccadilly Circus, as it turned out, where as traffic ground to a halt, I watched the jogger recede into the distance, leaving us behind.
Or laws about orgainized labor - those also affect the distribution of wealth, but not through taxes.
Or the law that profitable companies must pay dividends to shareholders.
Or, for that matter, the law that entitles children to publicly funded education. Without that, I'm sure the distribution of wealth would be even much more lopsided than it is now.
http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/facultypages/martin/ Germany/Germany.htm
As for your atheist persecution complex, give me a break.
My big problem with this thing is the size. Even a palm V is a little larger than I'd like. If it doesn't fit discreetly in my hip pocket it's useless to me. Those little keyboards are useless. If I can't touch-type, might as well make it smaller and hit the keys with a stylus. On my palm I use QuickType, after some practice it's far faster than graffiti (and open source too!)
My wild guess is $25.
We hear about Africans with AIDS raping kids because they think having sex with a non-infected person will cure them. Surely you agree the answer in that case is NOT just handing out condoms?
The parent asserted that there are health benefits to not sleeping around. Religion aside, isn't that a pretty straightforward assertion?