I bet if he was suing Microsoft, you wouldn't have a problem with it.
They used his work without his permission, a public performance of his work, used to promote a product/service.
I can see the practicality of not wanting to endorse for Apple. The whole losing "street cred" thing. Now instead of a white trash hero who came from a broken home to dominate the hip hop scene, his image shifts to an uppity homosexual who buys Apple products.
It breaks down really easy. Big corporation with monopolistic ambitions broke the law. Individual sues based on his rights.
Just mentally swap out the parties. Instead of Apple, Microsoft (or IBM, or Intel, or whoever's the evil corporate demon of the hour), and instead of Eminem, your favorite unknown independant label artist.
Q9: Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel's processors with 64-bit extension technology, and AMD's 64-bit capable processors? A9: With both companies designing entirely different architectures, the question is whether the operating system and software ported to each processor will run on the other processor, and the answer is yes in most cases. However, Intel processors support additional features, like the SSE3 instructions and Hyper-Threading Technology, which are not supported on non-Intel platforms. As such, we believe developers will achieve maximum performance and stability by designing specifically for Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel's breadth of software tools and enabling services
That sure sounds PRETTY FORTHCOMING TO ME.
I've always wanted to say this. RTFA, Linus!
And, please apply lameness filter to michaels comments. Thank you.
But everybody fucking knew all along they'd be compatible.
MSFT said there would be only one 64 bit windows. Whoever came up with the specs, they carved them in stone with this decision. Obviously if Intel wants to be in Windows desktops, they'd be compatible.
They didn't bury the truth anywhere.
The tech manual is a tech manual. It's full of specs and details, like it should be. It neednt list competitors products that are binary compatible.
And who the fuck cares what linus thinks about the name, frankly. Boo fucking hoo. Sounds like he's jealous because transmeta cant "get it up".
RFIDs arent meant to solely deter shoplifting. Hell, you can rip the security tags off.
They're more about inventory and process control. Store managers want to be able to walk down the aisle with their RFID-scanning laptop and instantly know how many of each item are there. Or, misplaced items can shout "hey, I'm on the wrong shelf!"
Or honest shoppers can take their stuff up to the self-checkout area, and the screen shows you whats in your bag and you sign off on it, rather than having to scan and rebag everything.
And, of course, the paranoid will tell you its so the CIA can scan you from a plain white van and know what kind of deoderant you use.
Shoplifters and thieves will always find a way around the system, so it doesn't matter.
As in the input it requires is less intelligent than Windows, as in Windows asks for the local time zone, and Mandrake asks if you smell your own farts?
Or, the input is intelligent, there's just less of it?
However, any documentation I'm lucky enough to find is years out of date. The CUPS manual is basically a longwinded treatise about reading the manual, for instance. Absolutely no information in there to help you get your printer working.
Do I really want to pore through millions of lines of source code to figure out why I can't get a particular machine to join a SAMBA controlled domain? Or start debugging ghostscript to figure out why everything I print heads to the printer with no margins (and thusly always crops a half inch out all the way around?)
There's plenty of stuff on any OSS/linux/gnu/whatever box I've seen that just plain doesn't work. And there are many folks with real jobs for whom "here's the sourcecode, figure it out yer own fucking self!" just doesn't cut it.
That said, how is the windows registry any more confusing than the tangled mess of bullshit in your average/etc folder, complete with cryptic names, inetd.conf? what the fuck is an inetd.conf for?
And I also much prefer user-installable drivers than having to compile all hardware support into the monolithic kernel.
The impetus behind linux is an ideological/philosophical one, not a technical one. It's a screaming pain in the ass to use day to day.
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It was on Comedy Central the other day, hell it's always on.. I remember noticing, watching the "Jump to Conclusions" scene that the company was spelled "Inotech" on his ID badge..
It could have very well been an in-joke, that the company name is spelled different in different scenes.
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Furthermore, the iris doesn't just betray the identity of the passenger, but can also tell much about his or her possible drug and alcohol consumption.
Cuff him, the computer says he might be high!
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This book sounds decidedly stupid. Why do I want to read it?
It blew my mind how many non-combatants were killed in the bombing campaigns in iraq and afghanistan. I mean, compare to WWII where you'd just carpet bomb a few dozen square miles and hope you hit something good..
Hell even Vietnam or Gulf I.. That's some impressive tech goin on..
Alright, imagine you're a radical terrorist. You and your terrorist friend are walking down the street, both with dynamite strapped to your chests, or a can of nerve gas, whatever.
Scenario 1: Someone snipes your friend from a nearby window. He bleeds to death in your arms. Your reaction? Anger. Damn them! Revenge! Death to the imperialists. After all, you have bullets too. They're fighting on your terms.
Scenarion 2: A big motherfucking bomb drops out of the sky, blows your friend into tiny kibbles-n-bits sized chunks, and sends you ass over elbows into a crumpled heap some 20 yards away. Your reaction? "HOLY FLURKING SHNIT!" What ya gonna do about it? You'd instantly realize you're way the hell out of your league.
Shock and awe.
No matter what your politics are, you cant deny that the iraqi republican guard must have shit their pants when within a half hour, the whole friggin cities infrastructure, and most of their heavy weapons, were cinders.
How fast bugs get fixed seems, to me, to rely on a) how many people are finding/reporting them (from testers to users), and b) how many people are working to fix them.
Obviously MSFT has more users, and since Windows likes to phone home kernel exceptions, I'm sure they have the most data on bugs. The second factor though, I dont know. I dont know how many people MS has working on Windows, and of those people who's tasked with which components. I do know that so far as the linux kernel goes, it's a handful of folks doing most of the work. Of course, the whole OS is much bigger..
Yeah, the code is there, but how many people actively debug it? I use linux, and when I have a bug/crash/whatever, I jump onto google to find a fix or workaround. I don't have the time nor, frankly, the inclination to step through the code, find it, fix it, submit a patch, blah blah..
Never saw the unreadability of hungarian notation, myself. Like any syntax, it takes some getting used to, but I find it so useful to see a variable called giInstanceCount and know its a global integer.. or miInstanceCount for a class level, etc..
The scope tag is probably more useful than the data type.
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Put a tennis ball into a pair of your girlfriend's/wife's old panty hose, bounce it up at the cobwebs a few times.
But since you publicly confess to owning an extra-long Swiffer, you probably dont have a girlfriend or wife.
WHEN ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET PAID?!
For live performances, is the slashbot answer, and is frankly the greatest source of income for most artists..
I bet if he was suing Microsoft, you wouldn't have a problem with it.
They used his work without his permission, a public performance of his work, used to promote a product/service.
I can see the practicality of not wanting to endorse for Apple. The whole losing "street cred" thing. Now instead of a white trash hero who came from a broken home to dominate the hip hop scene, his image shifts to an uppity homosexual who buys Apple products.
It breaks down really easy. Big corporation with monopolistic ambitions broke the law. Individual sues based on his rights.
Just mentally swap out the parties. Instead of Apple, Microsoft (or IBM, or Intel, or whoever's the evil corporate demon of the hour), and instead of Eminem, your favorite unknown independant label artist.
No. They sample all the time, espescially in hip hop/rap, but they clear it with the copyright holders.
The Verve lost a huge lawsuit for "Bittersweet Symphony", the sample they used was from a Rolling Stones concert, for instance.
From Intel's 64 bit extensions faq
Q9: Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel's processors with 64-bit extension technology, and AMD's 64-bit capable processors?
A9: With both companies designing entirely different architectures, the question is whether the operating system and software ported to each processor will run on the other processor, and the answer is yes in most cases. However, Intel processors support additional features, like the SSE3 instructions and Hyper-Threading Technology, which are not supported on non-Intel platforms. As such, we believe developers will achieve maximum performance and stability by designing specifically for Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel's breadth of software tools and enabling services
That sure sounds PRETTY FORTHCOMING TO ME.
I've always wanted to say this. RTFA, Linus!
And, please apply lameness filter to michaels comments. Thank you.
But everybody fucking knew all along they'd be compatible.
MSFT said there would be only one 64 bit windows. Whoever came up with the specs, they carved them in stone with this decision. Obviously if Intel wants to be in Windows desktops, they'd be compatible.
They didn't bury the truth anywhere.
The tech manual is a tech manual. It's full of specs and details, like it should be. It neednt list competitors products that are binary compatible.
And who the fuck cares what linus thinks about the name, frankly. Boo fucking hoo. Sounds like he's jealous because transmeta cant "get it up".
RFIDs arent meant to solely deter shoplifting. Hell, you can rip the security tags off.
They're more about inventory and process control. Store managers want to be able to walk down the aisle with their RFID-scanning laptop and instantly know how many of each item are there. Or, misplaced items can shout "hey, I'm on the wrong shelf!"
Or honest shoppers can take their stuff up to the self-checkout area, and the screen shows you whats in your bag and you sign off on it, rather than having to scan and rebag everything.
And, of course, the paranoid will tell you its so the CIA can scan you from a plain white van and know what kind of deoderant you use.
Shoplifters and thieves will always find a way around the system, so it doesn't matter.
Maybe it's just me, but this seems to not address any of the important RFID issues at all.
First, enlighten us and tell us what the "important RFID issues" are.
Then, tell us why this device was supposed to resolve them, and didnt.
Thousands of MADMEN could be built by many nations...
And yet, would be completely financed by the US.
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Yeah, I see that coming really natural to Apple users.
Remember back in the 60s and before
No, I dont.
Now tell us how you used to walk 20 miles to school in the snow, uphill both ways, gramps.
Less intelligent input?
As in the input it requires is less intelligent than Windows, as in Windows asks for the local time zone, and Mandrake asks if you smell your own farts?
Or, the input is intelligent, there's just less of it?
How do you figure that?
/etc folder, complete with cryptic names, inetd.conf? what the fuck is an inetd.conf for?
Whoopty damn doo, the source is available to me.
However, any documentation I'm lucky enough to find is years out of date. The CUPS manual is basically a longwinded treatise about reading the manual, for instance. Absolutely no information in there to help you get your printer working.
Do I really want to pore through millions of lines of source code to figure out why I can't get a particular machine to join a SAMBA controlled domain? Or start debugging ghostscript to figure out why everything I print heads to the printer with no margins (and thusly always crops a half inch out all the way around?)
There's plenty of stuff on any OSS/linux/gnu/whatever box I've seen that just plain doesn't work. And there are many folks with real jobs for whom "here's the sourcecode, figure it out yer own fucking self!" just doesn't cut it.
That said, how is the windows registry any more confusing than the tangled mess of bullshit in your average
And I also much prefer user-installable drivers than having to compile all hardware support into the monolithic kernel.
The impetus behind linux is an ideological/philosophical one, not a technical one. It's a screaming pain in the ass to use day to day.
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It was on Comedy Central the other day, hell it's always on.. I remember noticing, watching the "Jump to Conclusions" scene that the company was spelled "Inotech" on his ID badge..
It could have very well been an in-joke, that the company name is spelled different in different scenes.
Watch out for yer cornhole, bud.
it was spelled INOtech.
You dopes.
And this isn't exactly news, btw, nor does it matter.
Real men dont call tech support, they fix it themselves.
Furthermore, the iris doesn't just betray the identity of the passenger, but can also tell much about his or her possible drug and alcohol consumption.
Cuff him, the computer says he might be high!
This book sounds decidedly stupid. Why do I want to read it?
Magic space genie grants wishes. WOWEE ZOWEE!
It blew my mind how many non-combatants were killed in the bombing campaigns in iraq and afghanistan. I mean, compare to WWII where you'd just carpet bomb a few dozen square miles and hope you hit something good..
Hell even Vietnam or Gulf I.. That's some impressive tech goin on..
Alright, imagine you're a radical terrorist. You and your terrorist friend are walking down the street, both with dynamite strapped to your chests, or a can of nerve gas, whatever.
Scenario 1: Someone snipes your friend from a nearby window. He bleeds to death in your arms. Your reaction? Anger. Damn them! Revenge! Death to the imperialists. After all, you have bullets too. They're fighting on your terms.
Scenarion 2: A big motherfucking bomb drops out of the sky, blows your friend into tiny kibbles-n-bits sized chunks, and sends you ass over elbows into a crumpled heap some 20 yards away. Your reaction? "HOLY FLURKING SHNIT!" What ya gonna do about it? You'd instantly realize you're way the hell out of your league.
Shock and awe.
No matter what your politics are, you cant deny that the iraqi republican guard must have shit their pants when within a half hour, the whole friggin cities infrastructure, and most of their heavy weapons, were cinders.
Except, noone wants to audit code.
It's boring and thankless.
How fast bugs get fixed seems, to me, to rely on a) how many people are finding/reporting them (from testers to users), and b) how many people are working to fix them.
Obviously MSFT has more users, and since Windows likes to phone home kernel exceptions, I'm sure they have the most data on bugs. The second factor though, I dont know. I dont know how many people MS has working on Windows, and of those people who's tasked with which components. I do know that so far as the linux kernel goes, it's a handful of folks doing most of the work. Of course, the whole OS is much bigger..
Yeah, the code is there, but how many people actively debug it? I use linux, and when I have a bug/crash/whatever, I jump onto google to find a fix or workaround. I don't have the time nor, frankly, the inclination to step through the code, find it, fix it, submit a patch, blah blah..
They're promoting security via obscurity.
Whatever.
Never saw the unreadability of hungarian notation, myself. Like any syntax, it takes some getting used to, but I find it so useful to see a variable called giInstanceCount and know its a global integer.. or miInstanceCount for a class level, etc..
The scope tag is probably more useful than the data type.
Cunt-Rod Burns in high school?
I would have.