At least that was the assertion by the Justice Department.
That raises an interesting question interesting.
If SP3 breaks any software made by third parties, the companies with broken software will have to wear the costs and damage to reputation. MS won't hold up distribution of the SP for a competitor.
Clearly, Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly OS position to give clear competitive advantage to one of their own products.
an Axis 207MW [axis.com], up to 1280x1024 at 12 fps.
I have one of those too. Axis cameras are good for the price. I also use Linksys WVC200s, which are good pan/tilt/zoom cameras for around AU$350. A real cheapie is XNET's NTC101W Wireless IPCamera for around AU$200. The XNETs are low quality, but good for motion detection, which is then used to trigger the Axis.
I mainly use Motion on the software side, along with a couple of shell scripts. At the moment, it's all custom stuff, and my personal setup runs on a MythTV/Samba fileserving box. I've been looking at putting it all together in a live CD distro if I get time.
Not counting the Linux box, which is doing multiple duty, I put together a pretty good home security package for less than AU$1500, most of which was the Axis (at AU$600).
The most complex homeostatic mechanism we have experienced. We don't understand all the feedback mechanisms. Our models are riddled with flaws and assumptions. All our lives depend on it.
And the solution is to turn a blowtorch onto it?
I suppose you fix your CPU with a pipe wrench and arc welder?
You'll find that gardening does cost you, even though you don't have to pull out your wallet at harvest time.
True for vegetables, but open software often IS really free(gratis) for the bulk of users.
That's because once the veges are used, they no longer exist, and sharing them reduces the amount available to each consumer. The cost of software is all in producing the first copy. Subsequent copies are free.
In fact, Bill G is talking gibberish because there's no way to talk logically about the huge cost of the software industry.
Low-cost reproduction is a troubling flaw in capitalism, and has been for a long time. Britney Spears and Bill Gates do not themselves produce anything that is valuable enough to justify society's rewards to them, but while their cost to each individual in society is low, we tolerate it.
Our socio-economic system is badly skewed as a result.
The media barons of Fleet St, et al, were the first of course, and it's interesting to see that in the centuries that have followed, capitalism has still failed to evolve a solution to that flaw.
in the EFP, the charge is in the shape of a shallow dish, and it forms the lining into a solid penetrator.
A similar device has civilian use.
I've used ballistic disks in underground mines several times. They're basically an 11kg shaped TNT charge that fires a 6kg slug of steel into an area you want to fracture. The resulting jet of metal has a range of about 30m.
a cheap Rode mic, a cheap m-audio interface Garageband and a few plugins
I own a Shure KSM 44, and we've used other gear on occasion, including a hired U87. The rest of the gear varies a bit - there's probably a few thousand dollars worth in the whole collection, but certainly less than ten grand.
You can recoup that sort of investment pretty quickly if you're keeping your fans' money instead of giving it to a label.
I'm just saying that he wasn't getting Vista anyway so it didn't matter.
Well I would have thought that the bit where I said Vista was painfully slow might have suggested that I did get Vista.
Fortunately it was the $20 upgrade deal from XP, so I didn't waste too much money. Wouldn't mind the $20 bucks back though, if us Aussies are entitled to join the class action.
The cost of releasing a track has dropped to almost nothing. With an $800 Boss solid-state recording deck and a laptop, we have tools that are an order of magnitude better than whole recording studios from a decade ago.
If the majors had reduced their prices to match the drop in costs, they might have kept a place in the market. As it is, their greed and stupidity means they deserve to die.
Oddly enough though, our band still produces CDs for local fans to buy at gigs, and they sell well despite the tracks being freely available on the web. A little goodwill goes a long way, I suspect.
The eco-burial cemetery in Western Australia is Pinnaroo, and if you'd seen how it works, you'd realise it's not particularly complex in practice.
All cemeteries maintain burial records, normally based around plot and grid numbers. In the eco-burial system, GPS coordinates are used instead. Likewise, family who wish to visit graves aren't dumped in the bush with a GPS and ration pack. There are walking trails around the cemetery, and the burial plots are not far off the paths.
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That raises an interesting question interesting.
If SP3 breaks any software made by third parties, the companies with broken software will have to wear the costs and damage to reputation. MS won't hold up distribution of the SP for a competitor.
Clearly, Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly OS position to give clear competitive advantage to one of their own products.
Should the DoJ be interested?
Police over here in WA have a special distro designed for forensics.
Someone HAS figured this out.
At least, that's the only safe assumption you can make about any Windows box now.
Hello stalker. I was wondering when you'd show up.
You'd almost think Microsoft marketing wants tech-savvy people to discuss anything but their defective products and poor support.
Vista.
You haven't really got the point of this whole open source thing yet, have you?
I have one of those too. Axis cameras are good for the price. I also use Linksys WVC200s, which are good pan/tilt/zoom cameras for around AU$350. A real cheapie is XNET's NTC101W Wireless IPCamera for around AU$200. The XNETs are low quality, but good for motion detection, which is then used to trigger the Axis.
I mainly use Motion on the software side, along with a couple of shell scripts. At the moment, it's all custom stuff, and my personal setup runs on a MythTV/Samba fileserving box. I've been looking at putting it all together in a live CD distro if I get time.
Not counting the Linux box, which is doing multiple duty, I put together a pretty good home security package for less than AU$1500, most of which was the Axis (at AU$600).
What about sex offenders?
Maybe not, but grumpy reflexes are a good thing to have when evaluating stories like this.
These guys have been touting the same cyanobacteria for years, first as a replacement for paper, now as an alternative fuel.
Given that cellulose is a poor fuel feedstock to start with, I'd suggest they'll have even less success this time around.
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
I think if I lived in a place with that rate of imprisonment, I'd be keeping my head down and avoiding controversy too.
And this is why we will face extinction.
The most complex homeostatic mechanism we have experienced. We don't understand all the feedback mechanisms. Our models are riddled with flaws and assumptions. All our lives depend on it.
And the solution is to turn a blowtorch onto it?
I suppose you fix your CPU with a pipe wrench and arc welder?
(One way or another.)
True for vegetables, but open software often IS really free(gratis) for the bulk of users.
That's because once the veges are used, they no longer exist, and sharing them reduces the amount available to each consumer. The cost of software is all in producing the first copy. Subsequent copies are free.
In fact, Bill G is talking gibberish because there's no way to talk logically about the huge cost of the software industry.
Low-cost reproduction is a troubling flaw in capitalism, and has been for a long time. Britney Spears and Bill Gates do not themselves produce anything that is valuable enough to justify society's rewards to them, but while their cost to each individual in society is low, we tolerate it.
Our socio-economic system is badly skewed as a result.
The media barons of Fleet St, et al, were the first of course, and it's interesting to see that in the centuries that have followed, capitalism has still failed to evolve a solution to that flaw.
The guy's using Knoppix. Unless he's installed the keylogger himself and remastered the CD, it 'aint a problem.
A similar device has civilian use.
I've used ballistic disks in underground mines several times. They're basically an 11kg shaped TNT charge that fires a 6kg slug of steel into an area you want to fracture. The resulting jet of metal has a range of about 30m.
I own a Shure KSM 44, and we've used other gear on occasion, including a hired U87. The rest of the gear varies a bit - there's probably a few thousand dollars worth in the whole collection, but certainly less than ten grand.
You can recoup that sort of investment pretty quickly if you're keeping your fans' money instead of giving it to a label.
Well I would have thought that the bit where I said Vista was painfully slow might have suggested that I did get Vista.
Fortunately it was the $20 upgrade deal from XP, so I didn't waste too much money. Wouldn't mind the $20 bucks back though, if us Aussies are entitled to join the class action.
The people left alive are the ones paying for the ceremony. Why do you care what they do with the money?
Live music and self publishers.
The cost of releasing a track has dropped to almost nothing. With an $800 Boss solid-state recording deck and a laptop, we have tools that are an order of magnitude better than whole recording studios from a decade ago.
If the majors had reduced their prices to match the drop in costs, they might have kept a place in the market. As it is, their greed and stupidity means they deserve to die.
Oddly enough though, our band still produces CDs for local fans to buy at gigs, and they sell well despite the tracks being freely available on the web. A little goodwill goes a long way, I suspect.
Why on earth would that happen?
The eco-burial cemetery in Western Australia is Pinnaroo, and if you'd seen how it works, you'd realise it's not particularly complex in practice.
All cemeteries maintain burial records, normally based around plot and grid numbers. In the eco-burial system, GPS coordinates are used instead. Likewise, family who wish to visit graves aren't dumped in the bush with a GPS and ration pack. There are walking trails around the cemetery, and the burial plots are not far off the paths.
The ceremony's not for the dead. It's for the ones left alive, so they have a sense of closure.
They allow headstones made from local rock. 15m should be close enough for most people to find the grave.
Or you need to interoperate with people using their products. Haven't you been paying attention to the EU prosecution, the buying of ISO etc?