Microsoft can't be let off the hook twice, both the US and EU cases have cost US and EU tax payers a lot of money.
The US case was largely dropped due to a change of US leadership and a short sighted attitude that it's best to have a big US IT monopoly than let things go abroad.
The EU case could easily disappear for similar reasons, the EU commissioners aren't democratically elected and have been known to take backhanders in the past.
So where is the evidence that TV broadcasts and people videoing TV shows ever ruined the media giants?
TV still exists, Hollywood exists and Disney etc are larger than ever. So there is no need to restrict people left right and center. In fact it's all theory that people who have "pirate" media would have purchased it had they not been able to pirate it. The pirate market is seen at possible growth and revenue when in fact many people pirate it either because they can't afford it or just don't want to spend that amount of money on the media in the first place.
In my experience, while Notes was clunky it had more features and facilities than Exchange (a company I worked even had a bug tracking system within). It was also more stable than exchange, rarely had downtime.
It's a product that just needs some polish, a bit of a Volvo app.
If you want to stay constantly awake and avoid the ups and downs then you need to eat less refined food. The refined food gets digested fast and your body's blood sugar levels rocket then plummet shortly after making you feel tired.
Foods which are digested slower will keep your blood sugar more constant.
This is largely the basic of the Gi diet and I've tried it and it works.
If you want software based on open source then you use Star Office, this has been packaged and tested, it is also supported.
Basically you can't complain about open source if you've not paid anything for it. If someone gives me a free meal I'm not going to complain, if I pay for one and it sucks I will.
Anyway, Open Office 3.1? 2 has only just been released.
Why can't these people whine before the release date, submit the bugs and get them fixed instead of slating all the hard work people are doing for free?
Maybe launched it in the US first as US gamers are more likely to forgive Microsoft for this (it's a US company). If they had launched in Japan first it would have completely flopped if these problems had occured there.
Personally what I put this down to is a very minor change in the hardware, different RAM chips or something. It might be that the games companies took shipment of their test units a long time back and these were using some very slightly different components or board design.
It's also easier to diagnose problems on Unix machines, logging is a lot more detailed.
Having spend a day trying to get a web application to play ball on a Win2003 server machine yesterday I can tell you I'd have felt much more confident with a Unix machine. It's just very hard to know what's going on with a Windows box, the Event Viewer is rubbish and not utilised much.
IMHO KDE is more useful for those who are considering migrating from Windows to Linux. So I don't see why the commercial vendors are flocking to Gnome?
Well, lets say the web is looking tired and a replacement is proposed, you have to think who will be proposing it?
Given the cynicism about Microsoft their proposal would be rejected, likewise with Apple (but then they use open source, they don't release any of their work other than patches to open source). There's few companies who would be trusted.
You have more pocketable PPCs with phone functionality which are more useful (they can download email on the move). Plus you have smartphones which aren't much bigger and sometimes the same size as ordinary phones.
If you give the computers to the children they will learn it and the perceived difficulty is irrelavent.
When a child is born it understands no language yet learns one. Windows isn't easy for a complete beginner either, inexperienced computer users ask millions of questions about Windows every day.
It's probably more to do with the long term installed userbase. There really has never been a popular competitor to Windows on the x86 architecture. Even a company as vast as IBM gave in.
Many electronics companies don't see why they should devote developer time or make technical resources available when it's such a miniscule market.
Only because AMD have so magnificently outgunned them for a number of years now. AMD wouldn't have put out such a lame processor as the P4 is.
Look at how Intel put all its 64-bit hopes on the Itanium which has all but failed.
The P4 was supposed to reach 10GHz and yet it won't even reach 4Ghz now. Intel have ditched the P4's processing core keeping the memory bus and have reverted to a suped up PIII core. Hardly a ringing endorsement for a company with their resources. In a way it's like Microsoft, they promised the earth for Vista and they had to scrap most of the features promised, fork the Windows server code and get their development practises into gear.
This kinda proves that ponopolies simply breed complacency.
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What use will an 8 megapixel sensor be when half of the pixels will be noise?
If you know anything about digital sensors then noise at high ISO is a serious issue when using small sensors. Also the optics are important.
I don't see the point of blurry, noisy 8MP images.
Microsoft can't be let off the hook twice, both the US and EU cases have cost US and EU tax payers a lot of money.
The US case was largely dropped due to a change of US leadership and a short sighted attitude that it's best to have a big US IT monopoly than let things go abroad.
The EU case could easily disappear for similar reasons, the EU commissioners aren't democratically elected and have been known to take backhanders in the past.
IBM has just dropped Itanium and will be using Opteron in the replacement for that server line.
So AMD have a lot of good supporters. If Dell get in there I would imagine that the volumes and marketshare could increase.
So where is the evidence that TV broadcasts and people videoing TV shows ever ruined the media giants?
TV still exists, Hollywood exists and Disney etc are larger than ever. So there is no need to restrict people left right and center. In fact it's all theory that people who have "pirate" media would have purchased it had they not been able to pirate it. The pirate market is seen at possible growth and revenue when in fact many people pirate it either because they can't afford it or just don't want to spend that amount of money on the media in the first place.
If it was a micro kernel then yes it would be considered a bit fat. But it's a monolithic kernel and contains all the drivers too.
In my experience, while Notes was clunky it had more features and facilities than Exchange (a company I worked even had a bug tracking system within). It was also more stable than exchange, rarely had downtime.
It's a product that just needs some polish, a bit of a Volvo app.
If you want to stay constantly awake and avoid the ups and downs then you need to eat less refined food. The refined food gets digested fast and your body's blood sugar levels rocket then plummet shortly after making you feel tired.
Foods which are digested slower will keep your blood sugar more constant.
This is largely the basic of the Gi diet and I've tried it and it works.
They're also lumping together the kernel, base software, libraries and the optional things like X server and Window manager.
A typical Linux/Unix system can be anything from a base install and a few daemons to a system with daemons, X, KDE/Gnome etc and development tools.
Apple server would be worse, OSX's thread model is rather flawed, fairly useless as a database server:
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If you want software based on open source then you use Star Office, this has been packaged and tested, it is also supported.
Basically you can't complain about open source if you've not paid anything for it. If someone gives me a free meal I'm not going to complain, if I pay for one and it sucks I will.
Anyway, Open Office 3.1? 2 has only just been released.
Why can't these people whine before the release date, submit the bugs and get them fixed instead of slating all the hard work people are doing for free?
I find it laughable that science of all things would be calling for changes in the way people communicate and share information to be held back.
The way science is funded needs changing, not the way people share information. The most information and sharing of findings the better.
Maybe launched it in the US first as US gamers are more likely to forgive Microsoft for this (it's a US company). If they had launched in Japan first it would have completely flopped if these problems had occured there.
Personally what I put this down to is a very minor change in the hardware, different RAM chips or something. It might be that the games companies took shipment of their test units a long time back and these were using some very slightly different components or board design.
It's also easier to diagnose problems on Unix machines, logging is a lot more detailed.
Having spend a day trying to get a web application to play ball on a Win2003 server machine yesterday I can tell you I'd have felt much more confident with a Unix machine. It's just very hard to know what's going on with a Windows box, the Event Viewer is rubbish and not utilised much.
IMHO KDE is more useful for those who are considering migrating from Windows to Linux. So I don't see why the commercial vendors are flocking to Gnome?
Well, lets say the web is looking tired and a replacement is proposed, you have to think who will be proposing it?
Given the cynicism about Microsoft their proposal would be rejected, likewise with Apple (but then they use open source, they don't release any of their work other than patches to open source). There's few companies who would be trusted.
So it just leaves the standards bodies like W3C.
Disney are typical of a big organisation, easier to buy up products than develop them. Hence all the characters they have bought and rebranded.
There's those who would go even if it's a one way trip. But sadly it won't be up to the public to decide :)
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Could be a new reality TV show
You have more pocketable PPCs with phone functionality which are more useful (they can download email on the move). Plus you have smartphones which aren't much bigger and sometimes the same size as ordinary phones.
It's funny, a lot of the old Amiga crowd must have bought Apple computers, since I see a lot fo the old arguments recycled.
Like "why not get an XBox/PS2 if you like games" used as a defence when the point about lack of games on the Mac is mentioned.
Linux is more similar to Unix than Windows is. It's a similar matter of recompiling some apps.
It's the easiest migration path.
Linux can be tailored to work on much lower hardware requirements than Windows.
Look at the $100 laptop project, that is Linux based not Windows.
If you give the computers to the children they will learn it and the perceived difficulty is irrelavent.
When a child is born it understands no language yet learns one. Windows isn't easy for a complete beginner either, inexperienced computer users ask millions of questions about Windows every day.
It's probably more to do with the long term installed userbase. There really has never been a popular competitor to Windows on the x86 architecture. Even a company as vast as IBM gave in.
Many electronics companies don't see why they should devote developer time or make technical resources available when it's such a miniscule market.
Over time things will improve.
Maybe because he wants to walk around a museum and laugh at all the competitors he put out of business. Worlds biggest ego trip :)
Only because AMD have so magnificently outgunned them for a number of years now. AMD wouldn't have put out such a lame processor as the P4 is.
Look at how Intel put all its 64-bit hopes on the Itanium which has all but failed.
The P4 was supposed to reach 10GHz and yet it won't even reach 4Ghz now. Intel have ditched the P4's processing core keeping the memory bus and have reverted to a suped up PIII core. Hardly a ringing endorsement for a company with their resources. In a way it's like Microsoft, they promised the earth for Vista and they had to scrap most of the features promised, fork the Windows server code and get their development practises into gear.
This kinda proves that ponopolies simply breed complacency.