"Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft". This last comment is disputed by retired Microsoft researcher Karen Jensen, who developed part of the underlying technology; "Only by knowing that 'Gates' probably refers to Bill Gates -- and not to the plural of the movable portion of a fence -- would the program know to suggest using 'does' instead."
So if it thinks "Gates" is a plural form, why doesn't it find fault with the fact that job isn't pluralized in agreement with the noun? ""Gates do good marketing jobs in Microsoft" is grammatically correct, if rather nonsensical
Either way, this guy has found a flaw in the program.
KDE 3.4 made me return to KDE from XFCE. I had converted from using gnome and kde on various systems to everything XFCE for awhile now. KDE 3.4 is just amazing.
So many people have been saying this that I decided to go back and give KDE another try now that 3.4 is out.
I got rid of it ten minutes later when I realized they still hadn't added an option to get rid of that idiotic "Move here, Copy Here, Link Here" dialog that 'helpfully' pops up every time you drag something in the file manager. When I move something, I damn well mean to move it. Doubling the number of clicks required to accomplish such a simple task is not the path to efficiency.
Send them a message asking when they'd like to meet with your lawyer to discuss their fraudulent accusations of illegal activity.
Seeing as they don't have any evidence of such behavior, that ought to remind them that going around accusing people of committing illegal acts sans proof isn't kosher. Suspending an account because of violation of the TOS is one thing, but suspending it with an accusation of criminal behavior is a whole 'nother.
Actually, while a specific instance (ie, a manual) of the rules is copyrightable, the "idea" of the rules of the game is neither copywritable nor patentable.
This guy was just asking for trouble by naming the game eScrabble, though.
I wonder if Sega thought that too, think Dreamcast...
Sega was dumb enough to ship the Dreamcast with the ability to boot from a standard CD-R. This rendered irrelevant any security they might have gained from the GD-ROM format.
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Nokia never thought they could beat the Game Boy
Nokie clearly considered the game boy their primary competitor, and much of the pre-release hype they put out regarding the N-Gage was aimed at touting the N-Gage as a much superior, more mature machine. Just check out this gem of a quote from Ilkka Raiskinen, head of Nokia's entertainment and media arm:
"Game Boy is for 10-year-olds. If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a Game Boy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place."
This might almost make sense if this guy had served in a technical capacity with Claria/Gator, but here's his job description, from a press-release they put out upon hiring him:
Claria Corporation, www.claria.com, today announced that D. Reed Freeman, Jr. will assume the position of Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs for the company. Mr. Freeman, a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, will spearhead Claria's continued commitment to industry-leading online advertising privacy practices. He will also represent Claria's interests both in Washington and internationally, coordinating Claria's efforts on policy matters.
In other words, he's a lobbyist. He knows fuck all about the inner workings of spyware software, and this isn't at all analogous to hiring an ex-hacker to evaluate your security.
Google isn't trying to lock people in. Google isn't trying to crush the competition through anti-competitive actions.
Yes, they may eventually put that data to bad uses, but as long as the above to facts are true, people will be free to switch to any alternative that isn't without putting themselves at a sevre disadvantage when it comes to exchange information with people who still uses Google's services.
That's completely unlike Microsoft, the company to whom the OP's troll compared Google.
Google are the new MS, forming links with good technology and talent, then manipulating it for their own selfish needs.
Trust me Google are the new evil.
Really? Which proprietary formats are they attempting to lock people in to at the expense of open and freely-exchangable standards? Which competitors are they attempting to destroy through anti-competitive contract chicanery which keeps them from getting a toe-hold in the market? What long winded EULAs are they using to deny fundamental consumer rights like resale to the consumers who purchase their products? What DRM platforms are the pushing with the ill-concealed intention of locking all competitors out of the x86 hardware platform? What annoying validation systems are they integrating that limit the purchaser to a certain number of hardware upgrades before they get locked out of their own software?
The first thing I noticed was lack of an analog monitor connection. This automatically drives up the price for most would be buyers looking to replace their PCs. Most users would rather spend $500 on a new PC and use their existing montior, thna be forced to buy a DVI compliant (read: flat screen) monitor.
True. That why the Mini comes with a DVI-to-VGA adaptor, genius.
What X11 applications look like is beyond Apple's control. If you don't like their looks, just don't use them. Most users don't give a damn in my experience.
That's everything that's wrong with OpenOffice (and most other UNIX GUI) software in a nutshell, folks.
Developers generally don't care about Look & Feel, and when you're developing a package that primarily targets Linux, an OS whose desktop use is primarily confined to tinkerers, devs, or people making an ideological statement, most of the people you interact with aren't going to care, either. They've got bigger things on their mind.
But, and this is a big but, there is a reason that people who only use Windows or MacOS feel that OpenOffice is a clunky, user-unfriendly piece of software. It's because for the vast majority of GUI users (who overwhelmingly use Windows or the Mac), being able to use their software, and use it easily is much more important than whether or not it's interface cruftiness allows it to be ported to some developer's NetBSD toaster. Regularity of interface and ease of use matters to ordinary users.
Sure, the people you interact with on a daily basis don't share these concerns, but guess what: These people are not typical. As long as the OpenOffice developers basic attitude it "Hey, just install X11 and run OpenOffice with it. Users can either put up with it's idiosyncracies or fuck off", it's destined to be a distant also ran in most people's minds.
Indeed, just look at those cases. I mean, who could forget the high-profile highjinks of the OJ Simpson fiduciary misconduct suit against Lawrence Schiller, Robert Kardashian, Project 95 Production Inc., and Does 1-40?
Surely the unforgettable tale of the Republic of Cuba and its agencies and instrumentalities in their desperate struggle to avoid garnishment by Marlene Alejandre over debts owed to a Cuban telecommunications company will live on in the hearts and minds of the millions who followed it for years to come?
And certainly few cases have dominated headlines and generated as much publicity as the brave fight of Susie Carter and AlaskaMen magazine in their brave struggle to avoid editorial domination by Media Mix Marketing of Hollywood.
Cleary the law firm of Gross & Belsky LLP is nothing but a pack of publicity crazed attention whores, moving from one incredibly well known, high profile case to the next. The only wonder that is he hasn't yet made Time's list of the 50 most influential people in America.
It is a reliable PSU, right? Not some $10 taiwanese job that's going to blow out and fry your mobo in 6 months?
What processor and mobo?
Are they as fast as the Mac Mini's?
Does your hypothetical miniPC have a graphics card equivalent to the Mini's Radeon 9200, or is this some Intel Integrated piece of crap that leeches off of system RAM?
Why do you consider a system that's $26 cheaper than the Mini but includes neither an operating system nor software equivalent to the iLife suite to be comparable to the Mini?
As this case illustrates, you can be sued for anything. Sure, you probably won't lose, but can you afford to take the case far enough to be sure? Most people can't.
So, when asked "When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)", your suggestion is a box that's significantly larger and heavier and costs nearly 4x as much?
Apple's draw with the powerbooks and iBooks has always been form factor and battery life. 39W max dissipation might be acceptable in one of those space-heating monster laptops that gets 90 minutes off a charge, but it's not going to fly with Apple.
Yes. It apparently thought my PC speaker was a soundcard, or some such, and proceeded to pipe high pitched screeching through it nonstop. I've been using Linux for years, and I couldn't figure out what the fuck was wrong with it, so I wiped it and when back to gentoo.
Other than that, it looked OK, but like all Linux desktop solutions thus far it comes off as very amateurish and incomplete in the face of truly mom-friendly offerings like Mac OS X.
It's used extensively in 10.2 and later version to implement all that lovely real transparency you see, because such transparency demands speedy image compositing and your GPU is much better at that sort of work than your CPU.
That's what the requirements were, but with all mention of them removed from the site, there's some speculation that the CoreImage requirements are being tonned down in favor of higher compatibility (half their lineup, the iBook, the eMac, and the Mac mini, make use of the Radeon 9200 32 Meg card). A review of the list will reveal that the Radeon 9200 isn't significantly less powerful than some of the cards on it (the FX 5200 Go is about the equivalent in graphics power).
The unifying factor among them all seems to be that they all shipped in Apple comps with at least 64 Megs of video RAM, which is a pretty steep requirement for desktop rendering. It's quite possible that they've found a way to knock that down in order to work with 32 Meg cards like the 9200.
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"Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft". This last comment is disputed by retired Microsoft researcher Karen Jensen, who developed part of the underlying technology; "Only by knowing that 'Gates' probably refers to Bill Gates -- and not to the plural of the movable portion of a fence -- would the program know to suggest using 'does' instead."
So if it thinks "Gates" is a plural form, why doesn't it find fault with the fact that job isn't pluralized in agreement with the noun? ""Gates do good marketing jobs in Microsoft" is grammatically correct, if rather nonsensical
Either way, this guy has found a flaw in the program.
KDE 3.4 made me return to KDE from XFCE. I had converted from using gnome and kde on various systems to everything XFCE for awhile now. KDE 3.4 is just amazing.
So many people have been saying this that I decided to go back and give KDE another try now that 3.4 is out.
I got rid of it ten minutes later when I realized they still hadn't added an option to get rid of that idiotic "Move here, Copy Here, Link Here" dialog that 'helpfully' pops up every time you drag something in the file manager. When I move something, I damn well mean to move it. Doubling the number of clicks required to accomplish such a simple task is not the path to efficiency.
It's just a matter of finding the right crack-head after the fences are closed. $20 iPods, $50 notebooks... not free market, but liberated.
It just gets more far fetched all the time, doesn't it folks?
OMG Apple is teh expensive. Other players are waayyy cheaper!
- Really, how can I find a player that's comparable and cheaper?
It's easy! Step one: Find a crack-head...
Send them a message asking when they'd like to meet with your lawyer to discuss their fraudulent accusations of illegal activity.
Seeing as they don't have any evidence of such behavior, that ought to remind them that going around accusing people of committing illegal acts sans proof isn't kosher. Suspending an account because of violation of the TOS is one thing, but suspending it with an accusation of criminal behavior is a whole 'nother.
Actually, while a specific instance (ie, a manual) of the rules is copyrightable, the "idea" of the rules of the game is neither copywritable nor patentable.
This guy was just asking for trouble by naming the game eScrabble, though.
I wonder if Sega thought that too, think Dreamcast...
Sega was dumb enough to ship the Dreamcast with the ability to boot from a standard CD-R. This rendered irrelevant any security they might have gained from the GD-ROM format.
Nokia never thought they could beat the Game Boy
Nokie clearly considered the game boy their primary competitor, and much of the pre-release hype they put out regarding the N-Gage was aimed at touting the N-Gage as a much superior, more mature machine. Just check out this gem of a quote from Ilkka Raiskinen, head of Nokia's entertainment and media arm:
"Game Boy is for 10-year-olds. If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a Game Boy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place."
This might almost make sense if this guy had served in a technical capacity with Claria/Gator, but here's his job description, from a press-release they put out upon hiring him:
Claria Corporation, www.claria.com, today announced that D. Reed Freeman, Jr. will assume the position of Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President of Regulatory and Legislative Affairs for the company. Mr. Freeman, a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, will spearhead Claria's continued commitment to industry-leading online advertising privacy practices. He will also represent Claria's interests both in Washington and internationally, coordinating Claria's efforts on policy matters.
In other words, he's a lobbyist. He knows fuck all about the inner workings of spyware software, and this isn't at all analogous to hiring an ex-hacker to evaluate your security.
Is "not faster" a euphemism for slower?
Is "not greater" the equivalent of "less than"?
In case you failed math, the answer is no. "not greater" is equivalent to "less than or equal"
It's a smaller version that mere mortals can actually afford.
Google isn't trying to lock people in. Google isn't trying to crush the competition through anti-competitive actions.
Yes, they may eventually put that data to bad uses, but as long as the above to facts are true, people will be free to switch to any alternative that isn't without putting themselves at a sevre disadvantage when it comes to exchange information with people who still uses Google's services.
That's completely unlike Microsoft, the company to whom the OP's troll compared Google.
Google are the new MS, forming links with good technology and talent, then manipulating it for their own selfish needs.
Trust me Google are the new evil.
Really? Which proprietary formats are they attempting to lock people in to at the expense of open and freely-exchangable standards? Which competitors are they attempting to destroy through anti-competitive contract chicanery which keeps them from getting a toe-hold in the market? What long winded EULAs are they using to deny fundamental consumer rights like resale to the consumers who purchase their products? What DRM platforms are the pushing with the ill-concealed intention of locking all competitors out of the x86 hardware platform? What annoying validation systems are they integrating that limit the purchaser to a certain number of hardware upgrades before they get locked out of their own software?
I'm waiting.
They'll skip options one and two and head straight to Option Three:
Declare the weather a matter of national security, and order that it be classified as sensitive material immediately.
It's just an old troll that the slashbots like to upload.
The first thing I noticed was lack of an analog monitor connection. This automatically drives up the price for most would be buyers looking to replace their PCs. Most users would rather spend $500 on a new PC and use their existing montior, thna be forced to buy a DVI compliant (read: flat screen) monitor.
True. That why the Mini comes with a DVI-to-VGA adaptor, genius.
What X11 applications look like is beyond Apple's control. If you don't like their looks, just don't use them. Most users don't give a damn in my experience.
That's everything that's wrong with OpenOffice (and most other UNIX GUI) software in a nutshell, folks.
Developers generally don't care about Look & Feel, and when you're developing a package that primarily targets Linux, an OS whose desktop use is primarily confined to tinkerers, devs, or people making an ideological statement, most of the people you interact with aren't going to care, either. They've got bigger things on their mind.
But, and this is a big but, there is a reason that people who only use Windows or MacOS feel that OpenOffice is a clunky, user-unfriendly piece of software. It's because for the vast majority of GUI users (who overwhelmingly use Windows or the Mac), being able to use their software, and use it easily is much more important than whether or not it's interface cruftiness allows it to be ported to some developer's NetBSD toaster. Regularity of interface and ease of use matters to ordinary users.
Sure, the people you interact with on a daily basis don't share these concerns, but guess what: These people are not typical. As long as the OpenOffice developers basic attitude it "Hey, just install X11 and run OpenOffice with it. Users can either put up with it's idiosyncracies or fuck off", it's destined to be a distant also ran in most people's minds.
Ah. A publicity hound. That explains it.
Indeed, just look at those cases. I mean, who could forget the high-profile highjinks of the OJ Simpson fiduciary misconduct suit against Lawrence Schiller, Robert Kardashian, Project 95 Production Inc., and Does 1-40?
Surely the unforgettable tale of the Republic of Cuba and its agencies and instrumentalities in their desperate struggle to avoid garnishment by Marlene Alejandre over debts owed to a Cuban telecommunications company will live on in the hearts and minds of the millions who followed it for years to come?
And certainly few cases have dominated headlines and generated as much publicity as the brave fight of Susie Carter and AlaskaMen magazine in their brave struggle to avoid editorial domination by Media Mix Marketing of Hollywood.
Cleary the law firm of Gross & Belsky LLP is nothing but a pack of publicity crazed attention whores, moving from one incredibly well known, high profile case to the next. The only wonder that is he hasn't yet made Time's list of the 50 most influential people in America.
What case are you basing this on?
Is it equivalent in size to the Mac Mini's?
It is a reliable PSU, right? Not some $10 taiwanese job that's going to blow out and fry your mobo in 6 months?
What processor and mobo?
Are they as fast as the Mac Mini's?
Does your hypothetical miniPC have a graphics card equivalent to the Mini's Radeon 9200, or is this some Intel Integrated piece of crap that leeches off of system RAM?
Why do you consider a system that's $26 cheaper than the Mini but includes neither an operating system nor software equivalent to the iLife suite to be comparable to the Mini?
And finally:
Who are you trying to kid?
You cannot get sued for complaining.
As this case illustrates, you can be sued for anything. Sure, you probably won't lose, but can you afford to take the case far enough to be sure? Most people can't.
So, when asked "When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)", your suggestion is a box that's significantly larger and heavier and costs nearly 4x as much?
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use XML!"
Now they have two problems.
Apple's draw with the powerbooks and iBooks has always been form factor and battery life. 39W max dissipation might be acceptable in one of those space-heating monster laptops that gets 90 minutes off a charge, but it's not going to fly with Apple.
Have you installed Mandrake 10.1 lateley?
Yes. It apparently thought my PC speaker was a soundcard, or some such, and proceeded to pipe high pitched screeching through it nonstop. I've been using Linux for years, and I couldn't figure out what the fuck was wrong with it, so I wiped it and when back to gentoo.
Other than that, it looked OK, but like all Linux desktop solutions thus far it comes off as very amateurish and incomplete in the face of truly mom-friendly offerings like Mac OS X.
It's used extensively in 10.2 and later version to implement all that lovely real transparency you see, because such transparency demands speedy image compositing and your GPU is much better at that sort of work than your CPU.
That's what the requirements were, but with all mention of them removed from the site, there's some speculation that the CoreImage requirements are being tonned down in favor of higher compatibility (half their lineup, the iBook, the eMac, and the Mac mini, make use of the Radeon 9200 32 Meg card). A review of the list will reveal that the Radeon 9200 isn't significantly less powerful than some of the cards on it (the FX 5200 Go is about the equivalent in graphics power).
The unifying factor among them all seems to be that they all shipped in Apple comps with at least 64 Megs of video RAM, which is a pretty steep requirement for desktop rendering. It's quite possible that they've found a way to knock that down in order to work with 32 Meg cards like the 9200.