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MS will NEVER totally move to a subscription-based system. EVER. No matter how much flame food it gives you to say otherwise, you're wrong. The majority of Microsoft's customers (I believe it is around 70%) are OEMs. There is no OEM in the world that is going to get away with saying "Here.. buy our PC but you have to also subscribe to Windows". People would scorn them out of business. It simply doesnt fit their business model to move totally away from sales.
Mandrake has changed ALOT since 6.1... Until 8.0, Mandrake was definitely my Linux distro of choice, but not one I would use regularly on a workstation. Now, with 8.0, everything is there that I need, everything was a piece of cake to get running (easier than Windows, I'd even go so far as to say), and I haven't had to screw with any config files by hand. There's no one that could truthfully say the same for any version of Debian. Maybe Debian is a little more flexible on some things and not quite as desktop-oriented as Mandrake, but it is certainly light years behind Mandrake in the ease and usability department.
I think someone did... thats why Napster has perpetually been in beta (Beta 10.3? geeezus). at least they've recognized all this time that their software was barely beta quality and honestly kept calling it that, instead of rushing that sub-par quality software out as a "release" version...
Who's to say the filtering isn't being done client-side? It would make sense if the filtering component was small/simple enough to include with each client. Puts all the load of fingerprinting and filtering all the songs on the client, not only reducing the workload of the server but also the bandwidth used between the client and server. I have no idea how exactly they're doing the filtering. But it would certainly make sense to me to do it at the client level...
I'd definitely agree with this... I've been using it for a couple months now and I can't think of anything I haven't been able to find on there. Even better, it has video and image search just like Scour did plus a couple other categories (documents and software i think).
But... as a matter of ethics, no judge would get away with presiding over a case in which the defendant is the same company that they themselves once sued, particularly when it is for essentially the same reason
Before Cox Cable came to Vegas, the local company Prime Cable offered cable modem access (one of the earliest in the country, if I remember). And god was their service just horrid. Luckily, the most basic modem installation was only $20. The first time they came out, the guy installed everything and nothing worked. Rather than troubleshoot, he claimed "there MUST be a problem at the street!" and told me that another tech would be out soon. A week later some guy in a rusty old van came and dug up my front yard. And then ended up running the line along a fence and the side of the house. STILL not working. Tech #3 shows up just under 2 weeks after the first and replaces the modem. Third time's the charm! Luckily, when Cox Cable came to town and bought out Prime Cable, they really focused on straightening out the problems with the modem division. Granted, it took them a while, but things have gotten much better. When I moved into the place I'm at now, I called on a Monday to order 2 digital tv boxes and a modem. The earliest appointment they had was that afternoon. And instead of doing the regular 8-12 or 1-5 time frames that Prime Cable had, they moved to 7-9,9-11,1-3,3-5,and 5-7. Two hours is a whole lot better than four, especially when the hours extend further in the day. Even better, a couple weeks ago my modem was acting up and I called the tech support around 11am. There was a tech at my door at about 1:15 and my modem was normal again by around 2. Beyond that, they recently raised the basic downstream rate to 1.5mbps from 512kbps with no additional charge (unless more than 1 IP is used-- but thats what NAT routers are for). It seems to me the folks in Vegas are pretty lucky these days (at least from my experience), compared to some of the other shithead cable companies in this country.
My first programming language was C, using a great book I found abandoned in the detention room when I was in high school. It was called Beginning with C, and it was definitely geared towards beginners. It had a whole chapter on the hardware aspects of a PC--cpu, memory, i/o, etc--and then went slowly into the language itself. The book was really good at teaching how the syntax and functionality of C goes almost hand-in-hand with what's actually happening in hardware. And its this point that languages like Python and Java miss when used as a teaching language. I started with C and went on to learn scores of other languages over the years, from VB to Perl to Python and Java. And I guarantee that each was that much easier to learn simply because I had a solid understanding of how things worked internally. I certainly think that OO has to be part of any good CS program, or at least introduced in an AP class, but it definitely shouldn't be the cornerstone of one.
There's a specific provision in 17 USC Section 109 (b) (1) that prohibits renting computer programs (that aren't video games...
This service is renting video games, right? Or did I miss something?
I mean, so they're video games for a PC and not for a game console. As far as that law is written, I don't see the difference...
Anyone else remember a service delivered by the cable company that brought on-demand games to the Sega Genesis? The cable company out here in Vegas, Prime Cable at the time, had this service for around 2 years if I can remember that only cost $4.95/month on top of the cable subscription that gave you access to like 40 Genesis games on-demand. They had most of the popular games and even if a little slow on updating their system, they usually had the "new" ones in a reasonable amount of time too. As far as hardware, it was just an adapter that plugged in like a game and had a connection to the cable line. If I remember right, they eventually shut down the service because of lack of demand. Talk about a few years too soon... I know I'd easily fork out that 5 or 10 bucks a month now to get on-demand games for my dreamcast or ps2...
How do you think it is that *anyone* gets into the game business? Obviously the folks that are already there had to do a lot of question asking to get where they are. Beyond that, this is about the same for *any* profession.
People aren't born knowing everything. The only way anyone would get anywhere is by asking questions. Unfortunately, it is the jackasses like you that end up discouraging someone who wants to learn, simply by criticizing their question.
The old adage "if you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything at all" certainly holds true in this case. If you don't have the maturity and foresight to do this for your own good, do it for the good of the rest of the Slashdot population.
You can release your code any way you want to. It matters to a plugin developer who wants to release his plugin for your app under the GPL. If the plugin works in such a way that it does extensive communication with your app (ie, not just fork,exec or pipes, etc) then it cannot be licensed under the GPL because your app is not licensed under the GPL.
There certainly is a faction of people out there that could find this useful... Many people don't bother with encryption in email simply because they dont regularly need to send anything of importance via email. In fact, I can't think of a single casual email user who uses encryption of any kind. And most of those users share some kind of account with someone-- be it an AOL account with parents or a dialup ISP account with roommates. In these cases-- and trust me, there are many-- having something quick and trivial to distract the wandering eyes of others is nice.
Not everyone considers their e-mail top secret enough bother with actual encryption. It is for those kind of people that this might be useful every now and then.
They altered your preferences, and started sending you unsolicited mail?
No, they altered his preferences and have "given" him about 2 weeks to change them back before they go into effect. Underhanded and wrong, sure. But at least they are giving him the chance to undo it before it goes into effect... The only problem being when he might have to go through this again should he change his preferences back.
Even though delayed, isn't it already on a shortening release cycle? IIRC, there was a little over 2 1/2 years between 2.0 and 2.2 and there was just under 2 years between 2.2 and 2.4. So its not a huge improvement, but still technically, an improvement.
This guy is out of his mind if he thinks MacOS is any order more stable than Win32. I sure as hell wouldn't stake the success of a system like this on a desktop operating system. Did it ever occur to him to use an operating system like QNX or even BSD/Linux if he's really got to have the Cubes? The theory behind his madness sounds straight-forward enough, but something just doesnt seem right about having so much faith in MacOS for this kind of project.
InterVideo has had a Linux DVD player in the works for a little while now (LinDVD, to complement their main product, WinDVD) and is in beta testing at oem's right now. Check out www.intervideo.com for more info.
I have VisStudio.NET installed on my machine and have been testing it pretty vigorously since I received it. It certainly has things left to complete, but it is much farther along in beta than I think you realize. At only Beta 1, roughly 90% of the applications I've tested under it run without a problem (VC++ -- VB apps are a little more problematic). I won't even get into "what the hell is it good for" because if you cant read for yourself the thousands of docs out there about the new functionality in VS.NET, then you wont be able to read my summary either. How about next time, before you spout off at the mouth, you read up a little and do a little of your own evaluation before jumping in and looking like an ass.
I have a Voodoo3 3000 AGP/16MB in my Linux desktop machine right now. The drivers are great, all resolutions supported and great 3D support. Beyond that, I wanna say you can get a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for about $80 now.
But the problem is that a vast majority of spam is sent without a valid return address. So that leaves you with yet another piece of unwanted mail in your Inbox ("Address xggbsgwehgl@sdgsdfgsad.com does not exist!"). The only time I've ever had any luck is with those ones that link you to their website and at least make you think they're removing your address from their list.
Somebody needs to sue their ass and make a nice big deal of it all in front of the media. No big company wants bad publicity like that, especially when its so blatantly obvious that they are clearly at fault.
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MS will NEVER totally move to a subscription-based system. EVER. No matter how much flame food it gives you to say otherwise, you're wrong. The majority of Microsoft's customers (I believe it is around 70%) are OEMs. There is no OEM in the world that is going to get away with saying "Here.. buy our PC but you have to also subscribe to Windows". People would scorn them out of business. It simply doesnt fit their business model to move totally away from sales.
Mandrake has changed ALOT since 6.1... Until 8.0, Mandrake was definitely my Linux distro of choice, but not one I would use regularly on a workstation. Now, with 8.0, everything is there that I need, everything was a piece of cake to get running (easier than Windows, I'd even go so far as to say), and I haven't had to screw with any config files by hand. There's no one that could truthfully say the same for any version of Debian. Maybe Debian is a little more flexible on some things and not quite as desktop-oriented as Mandrake, but it is certainly light years behind Mandrake in the ease and usability department.
I think someone did... thats why Napster has perpetually been in beta (Beta 10.3? geeezus). at least they've recognized all this time that their software was barely beta quality and honestly kept calling it that, instead of rushing that sub-par quality software out as a "release" version...
Who's to say the filtering isn't being done client-side? It would make sense if the filtering component was small/simple enough to include with each client. Puts all the load of fingerprinting and filtering all the songs on the client, not only reducing the workload of the server but also the bandwidth used between the client and server. I have no idea how exactly they're doing the filtering. But it would certainly make sense to me to do it at the client level...
I'd definitely agree with this... I've been using it for a couple months now and I can't think of anything I haven't been able to find on there. Even better, it has video and image search just like Scour did plus a couple other categories (documents and software i think).
But... as a matter of ethics, no judge would get away with presiding over a case in which the defendant is the same company that they themselves once sued, particularly when it is for essentially the same reason
Before Cox Cable came to Vegas, the local company Prime Cable offered cable modem access (one of the earliest in the country, if I remember). And god was their service just horrid. Luckily, the most basic modem installation was only $20. The first time they came out, the guy installed everything and nothing worked. Rather than troubleshoot, he claimed "there MUST be a problem at the street!" and told me that another tech would be out soon. A week later some guy in a rusty old van came and dug up my front yard. And then ended up running the line along a fence and the side of the house. STILL not working. Tech #3 shows up just under 2 weeks after the first and replaces the modem. Third time's the charm! Luckily, when Cox Cable came to town and bought out Prime Cable, they really focused on straightening out the problems with the modem division. Granted, it took them a while, but things have gotten much better. When I moved into the place I'm at now, I called on a Monday to order 2 digital tv boxes and a modem. The earliest appointment they had was that afternoon. And instead of doing the regular 8-12 or 1-5 time frames that Prime Cable had, they moved to 7-9,9-11,1-3,3-5,and 5-7. Two hours is a whole lot better than four, especially when the hours extend further in the day. Even better, a couple weeks ago my modem was acting up and I called the tech support around 11am. There was a tech at my door at about 1:15 and my modem was normal again by around 2. Beyond that, they recently raised the basic downstream rate to 1.5mbps from 512kbps with no additional charge (unless more than 1 IP is used-- but thats what NAT routers are for). It seems to me the folks in Vegas are pretty lucky these days (at least from my experience), compared to some of the other shithead cable companies in this country.
My first programming language was C, using a great book I found abandoned in the detention room when I was in high school. It was called Beginning with C, and it was definitely geared towards beginners. It had a whole chapter on the hardware aspects of a PC--cpu, memory, i/o, etc--and then went slowly into the language itself. The book was really good at teaching how the syntax and functionality of C goes almost hand-in-hand with what's actually happening in hardware. And its this point that languages like Python and Java miss when used as a teaching language. I started with C and went on to learn scores of other languages over the years, from VB to Perl to Python and Java. And I guarantee that each was that much easier to learn simply because I had a solid understanding of how things worked internally. I certainly think that OO has to be part of any good CS program, or at least introduced in an AP class, but it definitely shouldn't be the cornerstone of one.
There's a specific provision in 17 USC Section 109 (b) (1) that prohibits renting computer programs (that aren't video games ...
This service is renting video games, right? Or did I miss something?
I mean, so they're video games for a PC and not for a game console. As far as that law is written, I don't see the difference...
Anyone else remember a service delivered by the cable company that brought on-demand games to the Sega Genesis? The cable company out here in Vegas, Prime Cable at the time, had this service for around 2 years if I can remember that only cost $4.95/month on top of the cable subscription that gave you access to like 40 Genesis games on-demand. They had most of the popular games and even if a little slow on updating their system, they usually had the "new" ones in a reasonable amount of time too. As far as hardware, it was just an adapter that plugged in like a game and had a connection to the cable line. If I remember right, they eventually shut down the service because of lack of demand. Talk about a few years too soon... I know I'd easily fork out that 5 or 10 bucks a month now to get on-demand games for my dreamcast or ps2...
What a shitty answer man.
How do you think it is that *anyone* gets into the game business? Obviously the folks that are already there had to do a lot of question asking to get where they are. Beyond that, this is about the same for *any* profession.
People aren't born knowing everything. The only way anyone would get anywhere is by asking questions. Unfortunately, it is the jackasses like you that end up discouraging someone who wants to learn, simply by criticizing their question.
The old adage "if you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything at all" certainly holds true in this case. If you don't have the maturity and foresight to do this for your own good, do it for the good of the rest of the Slashdot population.
You can release your code any way you want to. It matters to a plugin developer who wants to release his plugin for your app under the GPL. If the plugin works in such a way that it does extensive communication with your app (ie, not just fork,exec or pipes, etc) then it cannot be licensed under the GPL because your app is not licensed under the GPL.
There certainly is a faction of people out there that could find this useful... Many people don't bother with encryption in email simply because they dont regularly need to send anything of importance via email. In fact, I can't think of a single casual email user who uses encryption of any kind. And most of those users share some kind of account with someone-- be it an AOL account with parents or a dialup ISP account with roommates. In these cases-- and trust me, there are many-- having something quick and trivial to distract the wandering eyes of others is nice.
Not everyone considers their e-mail top secret enough bother with actual encryption. It is for those kind of people that this might be useful every now and then.
They altered your preferences, and started sending you unsolicited mail?
No, they altered his preferences and have "given" him about 2 weeks to change them back before they go into effect. Underhanded and wrong, sure. But at least they are giving him the chance to undo it before it goes into effect... The only problem being when he might have to go through this again should he change his preferences back.
Even though delayed, isn't it already on a shortening release cycle? IIRC, there was a little over 2 1/2 years between 2.0 and 2.2 and there was just under 2 years between 2.2 and 2.4. So its not a huge improvement, but still technically, an improvement.
This guy is out of his mind if he thinks MacOS is any order more stable than Win32. I sure as hell wouldn't stake the success of a system like this on a desktop operating system. Did it ever occur to him to use an operating system like QNX or even BSD/Linux if he's really got to have the Cubes? The theory behind his madness sounds straight-forward enough, but something just doesnt seem right about having so much faith in MacOS for this kind of project.
InterVideo has had a Linux DVD player in the works for a little while now (LinDVD, to complement their main product, WinDVD) and is in beta testing at oem's right now. Check out www.intervideo.com for more info.
I have VisStudio.NET installed on my machine and have been testing it pretty vigorously since I received it. It certainly has things left to complete, but it is much farther along in beta than I think you realize. At only Beta 1, roughly 90% of the applications I've tested under it run without a problem (VC++ -- VB apps are a little more problematic). I won't even get into "what the hell is it good for" because if you cant read for yourself the thousands of docs out there about the new functionality in VS.NET, then you wont be able to read my summary either. How about next time, before you spout off at the mouth, you read up a little and do a little of your own evaluation before jumping in and looking like an ass.
I have a Voodoo3 3000 AGP/16MB in my Linux desktop machine right now. The drivers are great, all resolutions supported and great 3D support. Beyond that, I wanna say you can get a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for about $80 now.
I've had problems with IR wireless keyboards before, but haven't ever had a problem with the FM wireless ones.
But the problem is that a vast majority of spam is sent without a valid return address. So that leaves you with yet another piece of unwanted mail in your Inbox ("Address xggbsgwehgl@sdgsdfgsad.com does not exist!"). The only time I've ever had any luck is with those ones that link you to their website and at least make you think they're removing your address from their list.
Why didn't you just figure out how to hit the Submit button once instead of three times? :)
Somebody needs to sue their ass and make a nice big deal of it all in front of the media. No big company wants bad publicity like that, especially when its so blatantly obvious that they are clearly at fault.
rhnsd is the new daemon shipping with RH7 that is basically Red Hat's version of Windows Update-- automatic system updates, etc
Am I the only one that picked up on the sarcasm/attempt at humor? Or do you guys just take everything seriously?