Maybe it's not absolutely perfect. But what protocol is? Here's a list of other protocols that have major problems: TCP/IP HTTP SOAP FTP SMTP
If/. was in charge of releasing protocols, the internet would never have happened. There's always someone finding a problem. Well, guess what, there is always a problem.
Instead of complaining, contribute, find a good place to start with and improve it over time - that is what has happened to all the above protocols.
"Thus the money previously paid for licensing would be directed into the local IT workforce, creating jobs, producing local IT experience and knowledge that can then boost the local industry instead of watching all our tax money go offshore...
So we give the money to IBM instead and let them take it offshore?
I'm sure in my early DOS days (DOS 2.11 on an 8086) I had a trial copy of a windowing system which from my vague memory was called GEO. Is this the same company? Odd there is no mention of it. Am I making this up?
It's not about how much cash you have. If Disney is a good investment, then investors/merchant banks will provide the money. If the investors/merchant banks believe under the new management that Disney is capable of making enough profit (or ComCast increase their profit enough) to cover the loan, then they will cough up the money.
In the 80's it wasn't that unusual for companies to buy out other companies larger than themselves. Probably still happens today.
...while in the United States, they're dragging the case out, perhaps for years, by appealing issues in a trial that hasn't even happened
Why must the/. "editors" put a negative spin on everything Microsoft does? If Red Hat were in a law suit to defend their most valuable brand name, would you expect them to lie down and play dead or fight it? Of course Microsoft (or any other company) is going to fight something like this. Given that the directors have a legal obligation to provide shareholder value, it could be argued it would be illegal for them not to put up a good fight!
I also think that if a prof writes a book, they should get the profits from it.
Yes, and it will be reviewed on Amazon.com (and other places as well), if it's bad, users will be forthcoming in saying so. The teacherreviews is (or should be) about their performance as a professor. In much the same way I might ask a friend to recommend an accountant, teacherreviews helps me choose a college/course to attend.
I'd always thought being outside of the US made file sharing that little bit safer - an international legal boundary to cross before being harassed.
However, one particular line in the IP agreement shows that is no longer the case:
"An expeditious process that allows for copyright owners to engage with Internet Service Providers and subscribers to deal with allegedly infringing copyright material on the Internet."
Maybe "pointy-eared bosses prefer" (the ones that bring enough money into the business to pay your wage) have different priorities to you. I work on the website of a largeish software company and we produce content on our site with the information that different users need.
"zero-content" stuff may contain zero technical content, but not everyone wants the deep technical content. They want to know how our software will help their business. The "pointy-eared bosses" find the content aimed at geeks quite useless.
Presumably following the trend, you see many london buses have cameras installed in them, and signs letting you know about that.
A few years ago while on a bus in London late at night (number 52 towards Kensal Green) I was mugged. Of course I spoke to the police, and amongst other things asked if they could get the photos/video from the bus.
They investigated. The answer? The cameras aren't real - they are dummies there as a deterrent. I wonder if having a fake camera is better or worse than no camera - the public feels safer but I bet most of the criminals know they are fake. The worst of both worlds?
Other things scientists said were unattainable/impossible:
- Proving the earth wasn't the centre of the universe
- Moving faster than a horse
- Flying
- Man landing on the moon
- Most likely, rub sticks together to start fire
If people listened to every expert who said something is impossible we'd still be in caves.
I agree with the original poster. If you can name *one* case where Microsoft has made a legal threat based on infringement on one of their patents (and I'm sure they have a pretty long list somewhere of known infringements) I'd like to hear about it.
Seems in general that for large companies (eg. IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, etc) patents are more of a defensive tool, but for small companies (eg. Eolas) they can sometimes be more of an offensive tool.
Not quite level design, but I did audio for quite a lot of games. "How fun" everyone says. Here's a game a worked on - an extreme example, but not that much.
It was a flying/shooting game where you ran missions. In the studio with an actor, who says "Alpha base to captain, over" "Beta base to captain, over" "Delta base to captain, over" etc Then.. "Captain to alpha base, over" "Captain to beta base, over" "Captain to delta base, over" etc. And a whole bunch of variants. Came to a few 1000 lines from memory. They need to then be chopped into separate files and processed (a batch job fortunately) with the right effects, compression, etc, and then every single one needs to be checked for quality.
Bored yet? Now repeat the whole process in French, German and Portugese.
Is it just me or are these predictable blue screen comments getting boring? I've been using NT4 > Windows 2000 > Windows XP > Windows 2003 for 6 or 7 years now, and I can recollect 4 or 5 blue screens, most of them on NT4 and in all cases running dodgy software. I don't know anyone who does get regular bluescreens on the NT kernel based windows.
I dual booted and installed Redhat 7.1 a few years back and got 2 kernel dumps in 2 days... sure, I probably did something wrong, but the machine was running windows fine.
If you are a non-technical person and/or someone who wants to be setup almost instantly at a gig and/or someone who just wants to make music and not fiddle with software and cables, which solution is better?
Some people are happy to pay a premium for convenience. You (and most/.ers) aren't one of them, so that's fine.
Ok, predictably lots of comments about the use of the term "open" and the choice of Windows XP as an OS.
So, let's say they did based it on Linux. Would it make the slightest bit of difference? Yes. They wouldn't be able to run all their favourite windows music software, plugins, etc. Open is relative to your point of view. From the point of view of someone who has just spent in the ballpark of $8000 to make music, Windows (or arguably OSX) *is* the most open OS, not linux.
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It's very difficult to send spam via hotmail. You have a limit of messages sent per day (100?) and automated account creation is very difficult.
Maybe it's not absolutely perfect. But what protocol is? Here's a list of other protocols that have major problems:
/. was in charge of releasing protocols, the internet would never have happened. There's always someone finding a problem. Well, guess what, there is always a problem.
TCP/IP
HTTP
SOAP
FTP
SMTP
If
Instead of complaining, contribute, find a good place to start with and improve it over time - that is what has happened to all the above protocols.
"Thus the money previously paid for licensing would be directed into the local IT workforce, creating jobs, producing local IT experience and knowledge that can then boost the local industry instead of watching all our tax money go offshore...
So we give the money to IBM instead and let them take it offshore?
How about Microsoft?
I'm sure in my early DOS days (DOS 2.11 on an 8086) I had a trial copy of a windowing system which from my vague memory was called GEO. Is this the same company? Odd there is no mention of it. Am I making this up?
It's not about how much cash you have. If Disney is a good investment, then investors/merchant banks will provide the money. If the investors/merchant banks believe under the new management that Disney is capable of making enough profit (or ComCast increase their profit enough) to cover the loan, then they will cough up the money.
In the 80's it wasn't that unusual for companies to buy out other companies larger than themselves. Probably still happens today.
...while in the United States, they're dragging the case out, perhaps for years, by appealing issues in a trial that hasn't even happened
/. "editors" put a negative spin on everything Microsoft does? If Red Hat were in a law suit to defend their most valuable brand name, would you expect them to lie down and play dead or fight it? Of course Microsoft (or any other company) is going to fight something like this. Given that the directors have a legal obligation to provide shareholder value, it could be argued it would be illegal for them not to put up a good fight!
Why must the
I also think that if a prof writes a book, they should get the profits from it.
Yes, and it will be reviewed on Amazon.com (and other places as well), if it's bad, users will be forthcoming in saying so. The teacherreviews is (or should be) about their performance as a professor. In much the same way I might ask a friend to recommend an accountant, teacherreviews helps me choose a college/course to attend.
While I have trouble telling the difference between mozilla, thunderbird, firefox and phoenix, what chance does the proverbial Mom & Pop user stand?
Microsoft thanks you for helping continue the IE dominance.
I'd always thought being outside of the US made file sharing that little bit safer - an international legal boundary to cross before being harassed.
However, one particular line in the IP agreement shows that is no longer the case:
"An expeditious process that allows for copyright owners to engage with Internet Service Providers and subscribers to deal with allegedly infringing copyright material on the Internet."
Australian file sharers, beware.
Maybe "pointy-eared bosses prefer" (the ones that bring enough money into the business to pay your wage) have different priorities to you. I work on the website of a largeish software company and we produce content on our site with the information that different users need.
"zero-content" stuff may contain zero technical content, but not everyone wants the deep technical content. They want to know how our software will help their business. The "pointy-eared bosses" find the content aimed at geeks quite useless.
Presumably following the trend, you see many london buses have cameras installed in them, and signs letting you know about that.
A few years ago while on a bus in London late at night (number 52 towards Kensal Green) I was mugged. Of course I spoke to the police, and amongst other things asked if they could get the photos/video from the bus.
They investigated. The answer? The cameras aren't real - they are dummies there as a deterrent. I wonder if having a fake camera is better or worse than no camera - the public feels safer but I bet most of the criminals know they are fake. The worst of both worlds?
How true. Here's a link to another site whose editors frequently distort reality to make a story more interesting.
Other things scientists said were unattainable/impossible:
- Proving the earth wasn't the centre of the universe
- Moving faster than a horse
- Flying
- Man landing on the moon
- Most likely, rub sticks together to start fire
If people listened to every expert who said something is impossible we'd still be in caves.
Then the BSD demon would need a new place to live - his home would be frozen over.
I agree with the original poster. If you can name *one* case where Microsoft has made a legal threat based on infringement on one of their patents (and I'm sure they have a pretty long list somewhere of known infringements) I'd like to hear about it.
Seems in general that for large companies (eg. IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, etc) patents are more of a defensive tool, but for small companies (eg. Eolas) they can sometimes be more of an offensive tool.
And even if it is truly independent, people will argue about the methodology.
Benchmarks, independent or not, are useful as a hazy indicator at best, a waste of electrons at worst.
Not quite level design, but I did audio for quite a lot of games. "How fun" everyone says. Here's a game a worked on - an extreme example, but not that much.
It was a flying/shooting game where you ran missions. In the studio with an actor, who says
"Alpha base to captain, over"
"Beta base to captain, over"
"Delta base to captain, over"
etc
Then..
"Captain to alpha base, over"
"Captain to beta base, over"
"Captain to delta base, over"
etc.
And a whole bunch of variants. Came to a few 1000 lines from memory. They need to then be chopped into separate files and processed (a batch job fortunately) with the right effects, compression, etc, and then every single one needs to be checked for quality.
Bored yet? Now repeat the whole process in French, German and Portugese.
"How fun".
Updates on the only items that HAVEN'T run linux so far:
- Porting linux to a kitchen blender
- Porting linux to a carrot
- Porting linux to the wart on my grandmothers knee
Slow is slow. Maybe they understand, maybe they don't. The windows 2000 machine is fast. The knoppix machine is slow. Reasons are irrelevant.
In what way is this not W3C XML? W3C define the standard XML. The XML Office 2003 produces is well formed. Therefore it is W3C XML.
Looks like we've found the perfect packaging material for Duke Nukem 3.
Is it just me or are these predictable blue screen comments getting boring? I've been using NT4 > Windows 2000 > Windows XP > Windows 2003 for 6 or 7 years now, and I can recollect 4 or 5 blue screens, most of them on NT4 and in all cases running dodgy software. I don't know anyone who does get regular bluescreens on the NT kernel based windows.
I dual booted and installed Redhat 7.1 a few years back and got 2 kernel dumps in 2 days... sure, I probably did something wrong, but the machine was running windows fine.
If you are a non-technical person and/or someone who wants to be setup almost instantly at a gig and/or someone who just wants to make music and not fiddle with software and cables, which solution is better?
/.ers) aren't one of them, so that's fine.
Some people are happy to pay a premium for convenience. You (and most
Ok, predictably lots of comments about the use of the term "open" and the choice of Windows XP as an OS.
So, let's say they did based it on Linux. Would it make the slightest bit of difference? Yes. They wouldn't be able to run all their favourite windows music software, plugins, etc. Open is relative to your point of view. From the point of view of someone who has just spent in the ballpark of $8000 to make music, Windows (or arguably OSX) *is* the most open OS, not linux.