JeffreysTube wrote" "The judge is less than pleased with the RIAA, which is now trying to drop the case without giving Santangelo a chance to be declared guilty."
Somehow, I don't think Mrs. Santangelo is in this to be declared guilty. But hey, I'm just a dazed onlooker - what would I know about the law.
'More is learned from failures than successes in most engineering endeavors.'
Come again? 'Trial and error', is that what all those millions are funding? Is it that easy to pry monies away from investors? Or is it because it's not your monies going down in flames...?:)
Sorry, but that is one of the lamest excuses I've heard - engineering related or not - Maybe on a headstone, but if you submitted a project update to me with that little tidbit of wisdom framing your take on current status, you'd be watching the next launch attempt (if there was one) from the comfort of your living room, courtesy CNN.
Right, since ZDNet is such a long time Apple/Mac news and information source - and let's just overlook the phishing code embedded in the MoAB web page(s).
I doubt the real truth has actually surfaced just yet, and it may be a long time, if ever, that it does.
"In Scoble's words: 'Microsoft's Internet execution sucks (on whole)."
MS was a late comer to the internet and little has changed since they came around. In some ways, you'd think MS has simply been waiting for the internet to peak and go away, so they could get back to having the full attention of users when kool-aid time comes around. Scoble's rant is just more evidence that their business model spanks of a rigidity that mimics the tobacco and music industries (resisting change) where respect for the client isn't even considered, much less demonstrated.
Scoble is going to be slapped around with 'what took you so long to wake up and smell the coffee?' retort so much that I'm surprised he choose that particular route for his dump this time. I want to know what is really behind his new attitude...
I confirm - I'm living/working in Southern China now, and I pass by a minimum of a dozen sidewalk DVD sellers, each day, between my apartment and the office. If anything is going to impact them, it will be pressure to switch to stealth mode as we get closer to the Olympics. No way can I imagine PTP having any effect at street level. Current price example is US fifty cents per - less if you know how to haggle:)
1/100th & 1/10th, in their words (and yours) = an enormous amount...? Sorry, again, still not buying the literary license at work here. Your defense only serves to better illustrate just how weak it is...give it up:)
The example has nothing to do with 'environmentalists' - it has all to do with the first samples NASA tried to deal with back in 1976 ~ 1977 - which may have zapped anything that might have been found in the process...ooops.
"a couple bacteria could (accidentally) make it the whole way to mars on one of our probes?"
From the bacterium's point of view, there would be nothing 'accidental' about moving from A to B, you know that, right?
"Is it possible we could inadvertently populate mars with our Earth-life? How funny would it be to "discover" life on mars when we actually put it there years before"
Last I heard, we were doing better at killing off anything Martian we may have 'discovered', so I'd say the odds of life from our side coming out alive on the Mars side are pretty much zero.
Three-thousand, eight-hundred meters here at home - compared to fifteen meters for Mars. Fifteen??!! Does that sound enormous to you? If it does, I've got an appendage I'd like to show you, in private, of course, you're not going to believe.
From the ISP's POV, not at all the same as a lot of movies. Not all content moves across the 'net in a similar manner.
Those ISOs are relatively light-weight in terms of xfer overhead. You can pull them down all day and not get any attention, but if you start anything that even barely reeks of streaming or multi-media, you'll trigger a flag that puts you in line for being throttled back.
Manny's script says that Stuart requires a subtle sobriety test each time he calls in...if Stuart responds with anything but a genuine sounding "huh?" at this point in the conversation, the call is escalated and put on hold while a local representative goes out to Stuart's location so that blood and urine samples can be obtained and put on file in the event of legal proceedings.
Tune in next time when Stuart calls Manny for help while attempting to program speed dialing on new corporate VIP mobile phones... "Stuart??? How'd you get my home phone number...???"
"Hello - this is Manny and I will be your corporate level support concierge for this session - how may I help you?"
"Oh, Hi Manny, this is Stuart and I'm at our corporate IT HQ. We need help with the new DST configuration, please."
"Ok, Stuart, I'll be happy to provide whatever help I can, if you will just tell me the name of the corporation you're with, along with the contract ID and your callback number, you can hang up and I'll call you back so we can get things started."
"Ummm...Manny...excuse me, but I've never quite understood why you people always ask for the name of the corporation right off...what's up with that, if I may ask?"
"Well, Stuart, in our effort to provide the best quality service, we need to know upfront which company we are serving so we can insure that our responses fit with such things as non-disclosures, corporate culture, etc. As an example, since this incident deals with DST, if you are with Siemens, we're instructed to use twenty-four hour time, such as the time now being sixteen-forty-two hundred hours. If you are with Hertz Car Rental, the time is four forty-two pm."
"Oh, I see. Well, I'm with Microsoft, Manny, so what does the system say you should tell me?"
"Microsoft - I see. Well, Stuart, the big hand is on the four and the little hand is......."
What is supposed to happen, actually? Are we going to have cameras follow every person, 24/7? That means someone to study that footage, right? And someone to study the footage of them studying the footage of you? And....on and on.
It is clear such clinical monitoring would break down under its own weight - speculative follow-thru says the most logical approach is to give every camera the autonomous ability to decide if something you've done warrants being flagged. Happen in practice? Not hardly.
Back track from the scene of a car bomb explosion? How many cameras are you using? One or several? If several, where are they located in relation to the car? Points of the compass? Sure, if you know to watch the car from the beginning, in which case there is no point in following the arrow of time back to the start, right?
While THX1138 hinted at this and other B'Brother style tactics, it also tried to show why such a system simply isn't feasible. There are just too many ways of being defined as outside the box in terms of what such a system could handle. All it takes is one exception, and the system is no longer worth the time it took to draw up the prototype.
'...confirming that the initial release was unaffected.'
No, sorry.
It only confirms that your copy of the initial release was unaffected. Someone could have come along right after your download and pipped things so that anyone in line right after you received the dirty diaper.
"If you downloaded 2.1.1 when it was first released, it's probably okay. "
'if'...? Everyone should update - it's the only safe and practical response, rather than chancing things on an 'if'.
May be that shifting from XP to OS X is easier than from XP to Veesta.
Office apps? Done. Local admin? Done. Open/close/save/new? Trivial.
Using the trash might take a bit, but hey, no such thing as a free lunch.
I would worry more about the hapless IT staff than I would the users. The statistic I recall said for Windows, you need one admin for every 30 ~ 40 boxes/users. OS X is more along the lines of one for every +100.
Move to either minis or iMacs and run strictly LCDs...the energy savings alone can help pay to retrain some of the redundant IT gorks.
The amount of goodwill generated w/your users? Priceless.
Apparently it's focused on mouse accuracy and menu clicking latency.
Sorry, no.
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Mechanical aspects are just that - strictly mechanical. An 800dpi mouse with a crummy interface is better than a 300dpi mouse and a good interface and has nothing to do with strict user ability. This testing wasn't about ease of targeting based on mouse mechanics - it was about humans and how they make decisions. What is meant is how long you hunt around with the mouse trying to determine the next event that will serve your interests as defined by the current state of the OS, assuming the OS has accurately understood and reacted to you.
As you work with a new OS, you begin to establish a defined set of basic expectations. These are simultaneously calibrated against how reliable they appear to be to you, the wet ware. At some point, you have been trained by the system enough to move from experimentation and doubt as to what will or won't happen next, to Pavlovian reactions which are subsequently modified only as needed.
The original Mac OS was determined, by the US Govt., to take an average of 17 hours of initial use by an operator before they could be labeled trained and basically productive. In contrast, the Windows OS of that time required no less than 7 days before a hapless user was considered an asset.
Want to test yourself and your present OS? Close your eyes, or change the menus to another language and see if you can still hit the right button with the mouse as you operate the system, opening and saving files, etc. Nothing about shear mechanical accuracy or latency involved. It is just you and how well you know and trust the OS, reflecting how well the system was able to train you back when the two of you first met.
"This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression"
Just wait a bit - I'm sure that by the time it hits the front page and the dust settles, it will prove to only be another example of the heavy-handed recidivism we've all come to expect out of redmond. MS can't innovate...can't spot new markets...can't ignore a plum in someone else's grasp, without the targeting systems being brought online.
'...Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor'
As has been said in the past - investing in MS is asking to have your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Dear CHP:
You don't really have enough all 'round experience in the 'real world' to ask or even understand such a question. You seem to have no concept of loyalty to an employer, etc. If this was related to being placed by an agency...one agency that you've been with since you left school...I might buy it. Otherwise, you're much too green to be trusted to stick around long enough for you or the employer to really know if you should go or stay.
If I were a recruiter and knew about such moves, I'd be suspicious, regardless of your explanation(s). It sounds more like you've been dismissed after every 90 day probation for the last four hirings.
Also, don't ignore how this will look on credit reports as well - to banks and potential employers. Employers frequently check those these days, so try as you might to gloss over within a resume and you're more likely to just be putting your neck in a noose. Pick a job and stay with it for at least a year. Get more experience out in the world and use that to help pick the job you think you want...later. Otherwise, work for an agency and do your hopping while still showing one employer.
You can always do what most people in the same position do... start your own business and you can change once a week if you like:)
"What's the big shock that MS is trying to do what every human org has always done?"
Did I say it was something new to mankind? Did I say I was aghast? Talk about rewriting history - thanks for the demo:)
Problem is, MS, uses it as a primary business model, over and over again - steal idea; pose as owner; profit (Alcatel ring a bell?)....that and the fact that, yes, it is such an old and tiring tactic (as you imaginatively ran up the flag pole), as we all know. Reminds me now as being similar in slime-style to those 'firms' trawling patent databases with rapid-fire lawsuits in the hope a startled target will knee-jerk into writing a check without even stopping to realize they have nothing to worry about.
Ok? All clear now?
Thanks for taking a run at me, but you may need to learn less weak debating skills if you want to have your own little woodie and moment of fame at another's expense (just like MS) - better luck next time.
Really? That's funny - I'm not the source of the two conflicting articles...surely you can find better ways of showing your ignorance than simply killing the messenger. In any case, you want to waste mod points, fire away.
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JeffreysTube wrote" "The judge is less than pleased with the RIAA, which is now trying to drop the case without giving Santangelo a chance to be declared guilty."
Somehow, I don't think Mrs. Santangelo is in this to be declared guilty. But hey, I'm just a dazed onlooker - what would I know about the law.
'More is learned from failures than successes in most engineering endeavors.'
:)
Come again? 'Trial and error', is that what all those millions are funding? Is it that easy to pry monies away from investors? Or is it because it's not your monies going down in flames...?
Sorry, but that is one of the lamest excuses I've heard - engineering related or not - Maybe on a headstone, but if you submitted a project update to me with that little tidbit of wisdom framing your take on current status, you'd be watching the next launch attempt (if there was one) from the comfort of your living room, courtesy CNN.
I roll-control anomaly in your general direction!
Right, since ZDNet is such a long time Apple/Mac news and information source - and let's just overlook the phishing code embedded in the MoAB web page(s).
I doubt the real truth has actually surfaced just yet, and it may be a long time, if ever, that it does.
"In Scoble's words: 'Microsoft's Internet execution sucks (on whole)."
MS was a late comer to the internet and little has changed since they came around. In some ways, you'd think MS has simply been waiting for the internet to peak and go away, so they could get back to having the full attention of users when kool-aid time comes around. Scoble's rant is just more evidence that their business model spanks of a rigidity that mimics the tobacco and music industries (resisting change) where respect for the client isn't even considered, much less demonstrated.
Scoble is going to be slapped around with 'what took you so long to wake up and smell the coffee?' retort so much that I'm surprised he choose that particular route for his dump this time. I want to know what is really behind his new attitude...
I confirm - I'm living/working in Southern China now, and I pass by a minimum of a dozen sidewalk DVD sellers, each day, between my apartment and the office. If anything is going to impact them, it will be pressure to switch to stealth mode as we get closer to the Olympics. No way can I imagine PTP having any effect at street level. Current price example is US fifty cents per - less if you know how to haggle :)
Why can't Hollywood....never mind.
So let me get this straight...
:)
1/100th & 1/10th, in their words (and yours) = an enormous amount...? Sorry, again, still not buying the literary license at work here. Your defense only serves to better illustrate just how weak it is...give it up
The example has nothing to do with 'environmentalists' - it has all to do with the first samples NASA tried to deal with back in 1976 ~ 1977 - which may have zapped anything that might have been found in the process...ooops.
"a couple bacteria could (accidentally) make it the whole way to mars on one of our probes?"
From the bacterium's point of view, there would be nothing 'accidental' about moving from A to B, you know that, right?
"Is it possible we could inadvertently populate mars with our Earth-life? How funny would it be to "discover" life on mars when we actually put it there years before"
Last I heard, we were doing better at killing off anything Martian we may have 'discovered', so I'd say the odds of life from our side coming out alive on the Mars side are pretty much zero.
Did you know that if you took all of the sand from the Sahara Desert and spread it out that it would cover all of North Africa...?
Compared to the Earth, as an example, the 10m stat actually says there is very little water. Think about it.
80 meters depth covering just a bit more than 10% of the entire planet. 2/3 ~ 3/4 of Earth is covered in water, with the average depth of all the major oceans sitting at 3800m.
Three-thousand, eight-hundred meters here at home - compared to fifteen meters for Mars. Fifteen??!! Does that sound enormous to you? If it does, I've got an appendage I'd like to show you, in private, of course, you're not going to believe.
"Any ideas on how to solve the altitude problem in a Lego-friendly way?"
I was impressed up until this point - the guy already has GPS onboard, which includes altitude parameters, and he doesn't know about it...?
Terrestrial DTV?
'I download a lot of Linux ISOs...'
:)
From the ISP's POV, not at all the same as a lot of movies. Not all content moves across the 'net in a similar manner.
Those ISOs are relatively light-weight in terms of xfer overhead. You can pull them down all day and not get any attention, but if you start anything that even barely reeks of streaming or multi-media, you'll trigger a flag that puts you in line for being throttled back.
Try it and see
Manny's script says that Stuart requires a subtle sobriety test each time he calls in...if Stuart responds with anything but a genuine sounding "huh?" at this point in the conversation, the call is escalated and put on hold while a local representative goes out to Stuart's location so that blood and urine samples can be obtained and put on file in the event of legal proceedings.
Tune in next time when Stuart calls Manny for help while attempting to program speed dialing on new corporate VIP mobile phones... "Stuart??? How'd you get my home phone number...???"
"Hello - this is Manny and I will be your corporate level support concierge for this session - how may I help you?"
"Oh, Hi Manny, this is Stuart and I'm at our corporate IT HQ. We need help with the new DST configuration, please."
"Ok, Stuart, I'll be happy to provide whatever help I can, if you will just tell me the name of the corporation you're with, along with the contract ID and your callback number, you can hang up and I'll call you back so we can get things started."
"Ummm...Manny...excuse me, but I've never quite understood why you people always ask for the name of the corporation right off...what's up with that, if I may ask?"
"Well, Stuart, in our effort to provide the best quality service, we need to know upfront which company we are serving so we can insure that our responses fit with such things as non-disclosures, corporate culture, etc. As an example, since this incident deals with DST, if you are with Siemens, we're instructed to use twenty-four hour time, such as the time now being sixteen-forty-two hundred hours. If you are with Hertz Car Rental, the time is four forty-two pm."
"Oh, I see. Well, I'm with Microsoft, Manny, so what does the system say you should tell me?"
"Microsoft - I see. Well, Stuart, the big hand is on the four and the little hand is......."
...fly that thing into one of the more placid ring planes and really get attention.
What is supposed to happen, actually? Are we going to have cameras follow every person, 24/7? That means someone to study that footage, right? And someone to study the footage of them studying the footage of you? And....on and on.
It is clear such clinical monitoring would break down under its own weight - speculative follow-thru says the most logical approach is to give every camera the autonomous ability to decide if something you've done warrants being flagged. Happen in practice? Not hardly.
Back track from the scene of a car bomb explosion? How many cameras are you using? One or several? If several, where are they located in relation to the car? Points of the compass? Sure, if you know to watch the car from the beginning, in which case there is no point in following the arrow of time back to the start, right?
While THX1138 hinted at this and other B'Brother style tactics, it also tried to show why such a system simply isn't feasible. There are just too many ways of being defined as outside the box in terms of what such a system could handle. All it takes is one exception, and the system is no longer worth the time it took to draw up the prototype.
...same as when they killed CB radio. My response then is the same now - 300 watts of cold steel Palomar SSB amplifier.
'...confirming that the initial release was unaffected.'
No, sorry.
It only confirms that your copy of the initial release was unaffected. Someone could have come along right after your download and pipped things so that anyone in line right after you received the dirty diaper.
"If you downloaded 2.1.1 when it was first released, it's probably okay. "
'if'...? Everyone should update - it's the only safe and practical response, rather than chancing things on an 'if'.
What about it?
May be that shifting from XP to OS X is easier than from XP to Veesta.
Office apps? Done. Local admin? Done. Open/close/save/new? Trivial.
Using the trash might take a bit, but hey, no such thing as a free lunch.
I would worry more about the hapless IT staff than I would the users. The statistic I recall said for Windows, you need one admin for every 30 ~ 40 boxes/users. OS X is more along the lines of one for every +100.
Move to either minis or iMacs and run strictly LCDs...the energy savings alone can help pay to retrain some of the redundant IT gorks.
The amount of goodwill generated w/your users? Priceless.
Apparently it's focused on mouse accuracy and menu clicking latency.
Sorry, no.
br> Mechanical aspects are just that - strictly mechanical. An 800dpi mouse with a crummy interface is better than a 300dpi mouse and a good interface and has nothing to do with strict user ability. This testing wasn't about ease of targeting based on mouse mechanics - it was about humans and how they make decisions. What is meant is how long you hunt around with the mouse trying to determine the next event that will serve your interests as defined by the current state of the OS, assuming the OS has accurately understood and reacted to you.
As you work with a new OS, you begin to establish a defined set of basic expectations. These are simultaneously calibrated against how reliable they appear to be to you, the wet ware. At some point, you have been trained by the system enough to move from experimentation and doubt as to what will or won't happen next, to Pavlovian reactions which are subsequently modified only as needed.
The original Mac OS was determined, by the US Govt., to take an average of 17 hours of initial use by an operator before they could be labeled trained and basically productive. In contrast, the Windows OS of that time required no less than 7 days before a hapless user was considered an asset.
Want to test yourself and your present OS? Close your eyes, or change the menus to another language and see if you can still hit the right button with the mouse as you operate the system, opening and saving files, etc. Nothing about shear mechanical accuracy or latency involved. It is just you and how well you know and trust the OS, reflecting how well the system was able to train you back when the two of you first met.
"This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression"
Just wait a bit - I'm sure that by the time it hits the front page and the dust settles, it will prove to only be another example of the heavy-handed recidivism we've all come to expect out of redmond. MS can't innovate...can't spot new markets...can't ignore a plum in someone else's grasp, without the targeting systems being brought online. '...Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor'
As has been said in the past - investing in MS is asking to have your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Dear CHP: You don't really have enough all 'round experience in the 'real world' to ask or even understand such a question. You seem to have no concept of loyalty to an employer, etc. If this was related to being placed by an agency...one agency that you've been with since you left school...I might buy it. Otherwise, you're much too green to be trusted to stick around long enough for you or the employer to really know if you should go or stay.
:)
If I were a recruiter and knew about such moves, I'd be suspicious, regardless of your explanation(s). It sounds more like you've been dismissed after every 90 day probation for the last four hirings.
Also, don't ignore how this will look on credit reports as well - to banks and potential employers. Employers frequently check those these days, so try as you might to gloss over within a resume and you're more likely to just be putting your neck in a noose. Pick a job and stay with it for at least a year. Get more experience out in the world and use that to help pick the job you think you want...later. Otherwise, work for an agency and do your hopping while still showing one employer.
You can always do what most people in the same position do... start your own business and you can change once a week if you like
"What's the big shock that MS is trying to do what every human org has always done?"
:)
...that and the fact that, yes, it is such an old and tiring tactic (as you imaginatively ran up the flag pole), as we all know. Reminds me now as being similar in slime-style to those 'firms' trawling patent databases with rapid-fire lawsuits in the hope a startled target will knee-jerk into writing a check without even stopping to realize they have nothing to worry about.
Did I say it was something new to mankind? Did I say I was aghast? Talk about rewriting history - thanks for the demo
Problem is, MS, uses it as a primary business model, over and over again - steal idea; pose as owner; profit (Alcatel ring a bell?).
Ok? All clear now?
Thanks for taking a run at me, but you may need to learn less weak debating skills if you want to have your own little woodie and moment of fame at another's expense (just like MS) - better luck next time.
Really? That's funny - I'm not the source of the two conflicting articles...surely you can find better ways of showing your ignorance than simply killing the messenger. In any case, you want to waste mod points, fire away.
Karma: STILL Excellent!