I thought Microsoft was trying to get away from anti-trust issues with their latest software. Is there any chance this will do *anything* to the software giant, or will they be able to sweep it under their enormous rug, like everything else?
If i write a component that takes in X1 and outputs X2, isn't it the designer's job to make it look pretty? I mean, supposedly they were the ones that came up with needing the component in the first place, to accomplish some function or other, and thus make the user happy.
But they are alawys wrong. It'll say "7 minutes" and the bus will pull up, or it'll sit there with "?? minutes" on the display. Wow, helpful. I wonder how much the whole system cost -- it looks pretty expensive!
I know there is a small market for it, but if this opens the window for a cross-country heavy metal conglomerate, "overdrive channel" perhaps, I am all for it. sir_haxalot
1) quick and dirty - like a trashy novel 2) well thought out - like Shakespeare
there's no way to do it cheap, fast AND good. Pick two of the three and that's what you can do. Plus, you always get what you pay for... cheap and good is really hard compared to cheap and fast. sir_haxalot
It's really important to pump money into the guys doing what is right, just because that means you're NOT giving $ to the side that does the wrong thing... and hopefully they'll ge the message (cough cough... MICROSOFT) sir_haxalot
So Microsoft has a new look! lemme go see!... time passes and- YEP! looks just like the old macintosh "new look". What a freakin surprise... WINDOWS OS X... IF ONLY they could copy the stability too!
Who cares how unusable, small, etc it is... that is one bad gadget! Tres Batman... can't wait for the color internet-capable cellphone version. sir_haxalot
Boston released a song under a fake band name on mp3.com... it went to #1 in 5 DAYS. Since the song is actually sweet, i would reckon that any band that is good is going to get ranked up there as well. sir_haxalot
i want to see the penguin with boxing gloves on punching bill in the face, south-park style. Not because that's what's happening, but just cause it would be funny and cool. sir_haxalot
-1) As everyone has pointed out, analog will always allow for an end-of-the-line dump. 0) my band will NOT sell copyright-protected CDs ever. That stops word of mouth, which is how bands get more popular. Remember that, metallica? back when everyone copied your tapes and you got huge? Now look, how sad. You killed a method of word-of-mouth and your bass player quit... what a surprise.
1)Breaking copyright is already illegal. If it was such a big deal, then why wouldn't the RIAA, etc go after individual violators directly? It says on the disc, "don't copy this or you're a criminal." Napster wasn't illegal... copying music in the first place is apparently illegal.
2)PS. casette tapes have a physical copy protection that can be beat with scotch tape. OOO scary! Equally easy to break a digital encryption with a cluster of P4 3Ghz's or dual G4 1.25Ghz's.
BMG runs like every label... watch as the independent labels that don't give a crap stick with regular cds, and the whole pro recording world falls down like a house of cards (hopefully) yay for local bands that don't use crippled cds!
Thereby drawing them ever closer to their goal -- wherever crappy software is sold, microsoft is close at hand! What a great idea. Nintendo dumps their stake because, big surprise, Nintendo cares about quality! Good for them, and I hope Microsoft has a great time figuring out that all the money in the world isn't what makes Mario cool. sir_haxalot
How can the sound come out if it is protected? It can't. They have to unprotect it somewhere in the stream, and I can just copy from there --- unless headphones start coming with computers in them to decrypt the audio stream... not likely. sir_haxalot
Microsoft is about to go down like Ajax when Hercules picked him up from the Earth. Microsoft's only power lies in the fact that so many computers come preloaded with their crap... once it's not that way, no one will assume that everyone is using Microsoft, and thus no one will HAVE to buy their software anymore, which needless to say isn't any better or worse than anyone else's software, it just comes on there, so what ware you gonna do... well now you have a choice. everyone go buy an HP! sir_haxalot
The problem I have had is that if one gets the juniors to ask questions, the questions end up being more or less, "can you code this for me so i get credit?"... the critical thinking process is being sorely neglected in Computer science instruction, i'm afraid. sir_haxalot
0 - you come back and the robot's still there. 1 - you come back and it escaped to parking lot. 2 - you come back and the robot has stolen your car. 3 - you come back and the robot has robot babies. 4 - you come back and the robot found you a date, and cooked your favorite dish! 5 - you come back and the robot wants to know if you were out cheating on it, and complains about having to cook. sir_haxalot
Having played all my life, I can tell you that as with many people, watching on TV or remotely, or even being at a concert and haginv to watch on the big screen sucks compared to being in the first 5 rows. People have to see the live show up close and in person to really "be there". sir_haxalot
I thought the reason businesses weren't already tracking cellphones was because it is kinda a privacy issue... the data could be horribly misused if cellphones could be individually identified. Why not just imbed a generic "I'm someone's car and I'm here" chip in every car and track that? sir_haxalot
HTML coding is a good example of the economic effect of open source code. Since everyone can see the code, many more can learn to do it, and the cost to create the code goes WAY down. However, for programmers this means a lower wage. As a programmer, it will be harder to earn a living from Open Source, since it progressively costs less and less to create code as time goes on. sir_haxalot
When they had no money, the quality was "better". As they progressively get more money, quality dives, to the point of purposefully going back and wrecking the few things they did have right in order to increase profits. Imagine Star wars Episode IV version 3.1B... if they had to re-release the movie 5 or 6 times to make all the necessary adjustments for the series to actually flow together. Imagine Star Wars controlling 45% of the movie market, fighting off monopoly lawsuits left and right, and a director that owns an island somewhere in a galaxy far far away... sir_haxalot
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... but XMen was good too, so who cares... it has to be better than Daredevil, and that's the important thing.
I thought Microsoft was trying to get away from anti-trust issues with their latest software. Is there any chance this will do *anything* to the software giant, or will they be able to sweep it under their enormous rug, like everything else?
If i write a component that takes in X1 and outputs X2, isn't it the designer's job to make it look pretty? I mean, supposedly they were the ones that came up with needing the component in the first place, to accomplish some function or other, and thus make the user happy.
But they are alawys wrong. It'll say "7 minutes" and the bus will pull up, or it'll sit there with "?? minutes" on the display. Wow, helpful. I wonder how much the whole system cost -- it looks pretty expensive!
I know there is a small market for it, but if this opens the window for a cross-country heavy metal conglomerate, "overdrive channel" perhaps, I am all for it.
sir_haxalot
1) quick and dirty - like a trashy novel
2) well thought out - like Shakespeare
there's no way to do it cheap, fast AND good. Pick two of the three and that's what you can do.
Plus, you always get what you pay for... cheap and good is really hard compared to cheap and fast.
sir_haxalot
It's really important to pump money into the guys doing what is right, just because that means you're NOT giving $ to the side that does the wrong thing... and hopefully they'll ge the message (cough cough... MICROSOFT)
sir_haxalot
So Microsoft has a new look! lemme go see! ... time passes and-
YEP! looks just like the old macintosh "new look". What a freakin surprise... WINDOWS OS X... IF ONLY they could copy the stability too!
sir_haxalot
Who cares how unusable, small, etc it is... that is one bad gadget! Tres Batman... can't wait for the color internet-capable cellphone version.
sir_haxalot
Boston released a song under a fake band name on mp3.com... it went to #1 in 5 DAYS. Since the song is actually sweet, i would reckon that any band that is good is going to get ranked up there as well.
sir_haxalot
i want to see the penguin with boxing gloves on punching bill in the face, south-park style. Not because that's what's happening, but just cause it would be funny and cool.
sir_haxalot
-1) As everyone has pointed out, analog will always allow for an end-of-the-line dump.
0) my band will NOT sell copyright-protected CDs ever. That stops word of mouth, which is how bands get more popular. Remember that, metallica? back when everyone copied your tapes and you got huge? Now look, how sad. You killed a method of word-of-mouth and your bass player quit... what a surprise.
1)Breaking copyright is already illegal. If it was such a big deal, then why wouldn't the RIAA, etc go after individual violators directly? It says on the disc, "don't copy this or you're a criminal." Napster wasn't illegal... copying music in the first place is apparently illegal.
2)PS. casette tapes have a physical copy protection that can be beat with scotch tape. OOO scary! Equally easy to break a digital encryption with a cluster of P4 3Ghz's or dual G4 1.25Ghz's.
sir_haxalot
BMG runs like every label... watch as the independent labels that don't give a crap stick with regular cds, and the whole pro recording world falls down like a house of cards (hopefully) yay for local bands that don't use crippled cds!
Thereby drawing them ever closer to their goal -- wherever crappy software is sold, microsoft is close at hand! What a great idea. Nintendo dumps their stake because, big surprise, Nintendo cares about quality! Good for them, and I hope Microsoft has a great time figuring out that all the money in the world isn't what makes Mario cool.
sir_haxalot
That's what my dad was told in the early days... if only the patent office had been right!
sir_haxalot
How can the sound come out if it is protected? It can't. They have to unprotect it somewhere in the stream, and I can just copy from there --- unless headphones start coming with computers in them to decrypt the audio stream... not likely.
sir_haxalot
Microsoft is about to go down like Ajax when Hercules picked him up from the Earth. Microsoft's only power lies in the fact that so many computers come preloaded with their crap... once it's not that way, no one will assume that everyone is using Microsoft, and thus no one will HAVE to buy their software anymore, which needless to say isn't any better or worse than anyone else's software, it just comes on there, so what ware you gonna do... well now you have a choice. everyone go buy an HP!
sir_haxalot
The problem I have had is that if one gets the juniors to ask questions, the questions end up being more or less, "can you code this for me so i get credit?" ... the critical thinking process is being sorely neglected in Computer science instruction, i'm afraid.
sir_haxalot
Isn't it obvious by now that any security can be passed by some means, or else it wouldn't be accessible to the user in the first place?
sir_haxalot
Remember the pre-battle bots competitions at MIT? I wanted to go to MIT just to be able to do that!
sir_haxalot
0 - you come back and the robot's still there.
1 - you come back and it escaped to parking lot.
2 - you come back and the robot has stolen your car.
3 - you come back and the robot has robot babies.
4 - you come back and the robot found you a date, and cooked your favorite dish!
5 - you come back and the robot wants to know if you were out cheating on it, and complains about having to cook.
sir_haxalot
Having played all my life, I can tell you that as with many people, watching on TV or remotely, or even being at a concert and haginv to watch on the big screen sucks compared to being in the first 5 rows. People have to see the live show up close and in person to really "be there".
sir_haxalot
I thought the reason businesses weren't already tracking cellphones was because it is kinda a privacy issue... the data could be horribly misused if cellphones could be individually identified. Why not just imbed a generic "I'm someone's car and I'm here" chip in every car and track that?
sir_haxalot
HTML coding is a good example of the economic effect of open source code. Since everyone can see the code, many more can learn to do it, and the cost to create the code goes WAY down. However, for programmers this means a lower wage. As a programmer, it will be harder to earn a living from Open Source, since it progressively costs less and less to create code as time goes on.
sir_haxalot
When they had no money, the quality was "better". As they progressively get more money, quality dives, to the point of purposefully going back and wrecking the few things they did have right in order to increase profits. Imagine Star wars Episode IV version 3.1B... if they had to re-release the movie 5 or 6 times to make all the necessary adjustments for the series to actually flow together. Imagine Star Wars controlling 45% of the movie market, fighting off monopoly lawsuits left and right, and a director that owns an island somewhere in a galaxy far far away...
sir_haxalot