This isn't how it looks to the retailer who has to decide how much shelf space to give the Chromium netbook.
How much he can afford to spend on advertising, service and support for another entry at the low end of the market.
Near the end of its last flirtation with Linux, Walmart.com found it necessary to black flag each Linux netbook it offered with a yellow-bordered bold-faced warning that your Windows software wouldn't run.
The best evidence that returns had become a problem.
Using bandwidth that you have PAID for is not abuse. A company overselling their capacity or promising more bandwidth than they provide is fraud however.
You might want to read your contract and TOS.
If you are paying the mass market price for broadband you are paying for speeds "up to" some limit.
When and as available.
Western Union - a century or so back - printed a disclaimer on the top of every ordinary telegraph form that promised nothing more than a good faith attempt at prompt and accurate delivery.
It'd be pretty easy for somebody with some letterhead and a paralegal's knowledge of the terminology to just do a snailmail spam campaign against a broad swath of demographically suitable addresses.
This is mail fraud.
It can put you away in a federal pen for twenty years.
"The most interesting part for me will be Microsoft's response."
The WalMart shopper has spelled doom for every web appliance introduced to date.
His big expenses are in Internet services and consumables. Inks and papers. The thin client doesn't save him a lot of money.
His mobile Internet service options can be very limited and unreliable.
There are an increasing number of relatively low-cost gadgets competing for his attention:
E-book readers GPS Hand-held video game players The iPod and and its competitors Pocket camcorders and point-and-shoot digital cameras Prepaid cell phones The budget Windows netbook, laptop and desktop PC.
Which will run pretty much every Windows app he owns that was published in the last fifteen years.
I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze. I'm looking at a tech management job at a content company that is trying to become a software company
You can tell a lot about a man by the way he looks at the hired help. Elite-speak like "windoze" does not inspire confidence that I am hiring a grown-up.
Let's call this rival OS something suitably generic, like, "windows". By sheer numbers alone, it will totally crush Apple and their puny OS X! Except it hasn't.
In its corporate identity Apple Computer becomes Apple. Its focus shifts from the computer to the music store and the mobile device.
The Mac is assembled from a sub-set of commodity - Windows x86 - based PC hardware.
Apple markets the Mac with Boot Camp or virtualization as the perfect Windows PC. The Mac offers a rich secondary market for the Windows OS and Windows software.
These alleged rivals have stilled the antitrust beast and held their respective market shares for the better part of thirty years.
With open-source rendering images already well established...that only leaves the content areas under-developed. Throw in some voice-synthesis software, some directing software, and a million monkeys hammering away at plots then Hollywood as an institution is dead.
The geek needs a million monkeys.
Hollywood gets by with a handful of men men like John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Brad Bird. In sound design, a Ben Burtt.
Digitizing the prop is trivial.
Knowing which prop to use - and how to use it is not.
There are around 400 individually designed objects in the "bubble wrap" scene in Wall-E.
For 10% of your final grade, your mission is to explain how these props are used to create a mood, comic or tragic, advance the story, reveal character.
Region 1 DVDs might not play in DVD players sold in the country where this order is being shipped.
There are only three Blu-Ray regions. The B/2 disk is available for £18 in the U.K. WALL-E (Blu-ray)
Hmm. It also seems the DRM on the disc won't let me make a backup in case of the kids wrecking it either. What was that you were saying about Disney's confidence in its customers?
Disney's trust in its customers begins and ends at the same point as everyone else in this business: where the geek gets his opportunity to upload the file.
How is he going to get a fair trial,he will not have a jury of his peers, they all live in the UK. Are we going to extradite them as well?
No we are not:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.The Sixth Amendment
Juries must be drawn from a panel that is representative of the citizens of the district in which the crime was committed.
Individual jurors must be free of bias.
The jury of your peers isn't a mirror reflection of your own self-image.
It's a richer sampling of the community in which you have been charged with a crime.
To a geek, this passage should sound familiar:
When you're in the government's sights, your best friend would seem to be a jury, that lovable amalgam of ordinary Americans with a simple, if sometimes mistaken, sense of justice. Did nothing wrong? Don't worry, jurors will sniff out the truth. Cheated a bit? No problem -- prosecutors would rather cut a deal than risk their case before a fickle jury. And if you do end up at trial, there's a good chance that jurors will be so sympathetic, confused or hostile to the government that they'll disagree on a verdict or let you off the hook.
Similar to safe harbor protections when it comes to ISPs, if you 'fly the flag' of a specific country on the Internet, you are bound by that country's laws.
You are also bound by the laws of the country in which you do business.
The Italian client expects to see an Italian presence in sales and development when he speaks to Google or he will take his money elsewhere.
that those Italian prosecutors are going after the really guilty parties instead of the little, misguided tykes who perpetrated the incident.
What makes you think that the prosecutors aren't going after everyone involved?
I will admit that what worries me more is that to far too many Slashdot posters the "really guilty party" can't be the geek, no matter what the charge.
Linux can be the one environment that caters to users who are technically inclined, know what they're doing, and either already know how to handle desktop resolutions and printers or are willing to combine basic literacy with Google in order to inform themselves.
Two words: Pulse Audio.
It shouldn't be necessary to Google for solutions to problems that haven't existed for the OSX and Windows user since the dinosaurs last walked the earth.
Slashdot Mirror
The more the merrier!
This isn't how it looks to the retailer who has to decide how much shelf space to give the Chromium netbook.
How much he can afford to spend on advertising, service and support for another entry at the low end of the market.
Near the end of its last flirtation with Linux, Walmart.com found it necessary to black flag each Linux netbook it offered with a yellow-bordered bold-faced warning that your Windows software wouldn't run.
The best evidence that returns had become a problem.
Isn't moving to Windows, by definition, a downgrade?
No it's not - and it is this kind of thinking that keeps Linux in the single digit.
I wonder how many of those are people who bought Windows 7 and how many are just people who bought a computer that came with Windows 7?
The Win 7 Beta/RC broke 1% in September.
Windows 7 was released on October 22nd. On November 30 it had a 4% share in monthly tracking and was averaging 5% in daily tracking.
You could argue that a 5% global desktop share was achieved in one month of retail system sales.
But to do that, you have to chop off the low end.
The Win 7 netbook is only beginning to make its presence felt in places like Walmart.
To my eyes, these numbers simply don't make sense unless you assume very strong pre-sales of Windows 7.
The upgrade coupon and the retail box.
The upgrade implies confidence in a DIY Windows system install or upgrade. It's an unmistakable vote for Windows.
You Mods do realize that the differences in Office 2010 and Office 2k8 are interface differences?
Nothing is more likely to have a direct impact on the productivity of the office worker than the UI.
You do realize the differences in Vista and Windows 7 are mere "bug fixes", much like Win 95 and Win98 were.
These "bug fixes" have been enough to give Win 7 5% of the global market one month after its official release.
Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking - Mac Share Drops .15% in November
Using bandwidth that you have PAID for is not abuse. A company overselling their capacity or promising more bandwidth than they provide is fraud however.
You might want to read your contract and TOS.
If you are paying the mass market price for broadband you are paying for speeds "up to" some limit.
When and as available.
Western Union - a century or so back - printed a disclaimer on the top of every ordinary telegraph form that promised nothing more than a good faith attempt at prompt and accurate delivery.
The more things change...
It'd be pretty easy for somebody with some letterhead and a paralegal's knowledge of the terminology to just do a snailmail spam campaign against a broad swath of demographically suitable addresses.
This is mail fraud.
It can put you away in a federal pen for twenty years.
Title 18 - Part 1 - Chapter 63-- Mail Fraud and Other Fraud Offenses - 1341 Frauds and swindles
Prosecution Policy Relating to Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud
You can get victimized by something that you HAVE TO CHOOSE TO RUN MANUALLY!
Of course you can.
The simplest and most productive line of attack on any OS will always be to play on the weaknesses of the user and not the tech.
Also, Copyright Act exempts the transport
I can't make any sense of this post.
In American law the profit motive is irrelevant in cases of copyright infringement.
"The most interesting part for me will be Microsoft's response."
The WalMart shopper has spelled doom for every web appliance introduced to date.
His big expenses are in Internet services and consumables. Inks and papers. The thin client doesn't save him a lot of money.
His mobile Internet service options can be very limited and unreliable.
There are an increasing number of relatively low-cost gadgets competing for his attention:
E-book readers
GPS
Hand-held video game players
The iPod and and its competitors
Pocket camcorders and point-and-shoot digital cameras
Prepaid cell phones
The budget Windows netbook, laptop and desktop PC.
Which will run pretty much every Windows app he owns that was published in the last fifteen years.
WiFi radios
Etc.
What's worse is that the thief, having stolen your netbook, has all the time in the world to perform a brute force attack against your encrypted file.
Why brute force the file when you brute force the password?
I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze. I'm looking at a tech management job at a content company that is trying to become a software company
You can tell a lot about a man by the way he looks at the hired help. Elite-speak like "windoze" does not inspire confidence that I am hiring a grown-up.
Let's call this rival OS something suitably generic, like, "windows". By sheer numbers alone, it will totally crush Apple and their puny OS X! Except it hasn't.
In its corporate identity Apple Computer becomes Apple. Its focus shifts from the computer to the music store and the mobile device.
The Mac is assembled from a sub-set of commodity - Windows x86 - based PC hardware.
Apple markets the Mac with Boot Camp or virtualization as the perfect Windows PC. The Mac offers a rich secondary market for the Windows OS and Windows software.
These alleged rivals have stilled the antitrust beast and held their respective market shares for the better part of thirty years.
I can not say Microsoft pays him money
Then don't.
The geek drags his conspiracy theories around like Linus and his blanket. It becomes a substitute for thought. It becomes a substutute for proof.
That's an interesting link, but it doesn't point to more information about Leipold's paper.
The point is that the geek naively - and stubbornly - expects the jury to share his beliefs and follow his lead in court.
He'll fantasize about his prospects for "jury nullification."
With open-source rendering images already well established...that only leaves the content areas under-developed.
Throw in some voice-synthesis software, some directing software, and a million monkeys hammering away at plots then Hollywood as an institution is dead.
The geek needs a million monkeys.
Hollywood gets by with a handful of men men like John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Brad Bird. In sound design, a Ben Burtt.
Digitizing the prop is trivial.
Knowing which prop to use - and how to use it is not.
There are around 400 individually designed objects in the "bubble wrap" scene in Wall-E.
For 10% of your final grade, your mission is to explain how these props are used to create a mood, comic or tragic, advance the story, reveal character.
Ah but in the near future you will need to get a copyright license to make a picture with a model taken from a real object.
Try using a glass Coke bottle, a Rubik's Cube or an Igloo cooler in your flick and see what happens.
Region 1 DVDs might not play in DVD players sold in the country where this order is being shipped.
There are only three Blu-Ray regions. The B/2 disk is available for £18 in the U.K. WALL-E (Blu-ray)
Hmm. It also seems the DRM on the disc won't let me make a backup in case of the kids wrecking it either. What was that you were saying about Disney's confidence in its customers?
Disney's trust in its customers begins and ends at the same point as everyone else in this business: where the geek gets his opportunity to upload the file.
Here's the thing. The government really doesn't like going to court.
Requesting extradition means that the Feds are dead serious about prosecution.
Plea bargains are much less common - and much less generous - in the federal system.
Foreign based intrusions on US military networks do not get the kid glove treatment - no matter how trivial.
Yes but the idea/propaganda was the same... make it easier for "normal" people to make software.
COBOL was designed to make business software easy to read and audit by accountants and other professionals familiar with traditional methods.
That's important in the first generation. It builds confidence in automation at a time when it is most needed.
How is he going to get a fair trial,he will not have a jury of his peers, they all live in the UK. Are we going to extradite them as well?
No we are not:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. The Sixth Amendment
Juries must be drawn from a panel that is representative of the citizens of the district in which the crime was committed.
Individual jurors must be free of bias.
The jury of your peers isn't a mirror reflection of your own self-image.
It's a richer sampling of the community in which you have been charged with a crime.
To a geek, this passage should sound familiar:
When you're in the government's sights, your best friend would seem to be a jury, that lovable amalgam of ordinary Americans with a simple, if sometimes mistaken, sense of justice. Did nothing wrong? Don't worry, jurors will sniff out the truth. Cheated a bit? No problem -- prosecutors would rather cut a deal than risk their case before a fickle jury. And if you do end up at trial, there's a good chance that jurors will be so sympathetic, confused or hostile to the government that they'll disagree on a verdict or let you off the hook.
It almost never works out that way.
Why to Fear a Jury of Your Peers
People are stealing because they know intuitively in their gut that they are being ripped off.
The two disk Blu-Ray release of a $180 million production like Wall-E costs $18 when purchased from Amazon.com. All extras in 1080p.
Wall-E in standard definition is an instant download for your Netflix subscriber.
Disney returns to lush 2D animation and the animated musical feature with The Princess and the Frog.
Black heroine. New Orleans jazz ca. 1925.
Tell me what other studio would have the confidence and resources to take such a risk.
Who is being ripped off?
The biggest barrier to mainstream Linux adoption is Corporate email, messaging, and calendars.
The server is not the desktop. The office is not the home.
There are many barriers to "mainstreaming" Linux. Not the least of which is that Microsoft has a thirty year head start.
Similar to safe harbor protections when it comes to ISPs, if you 'fly the flag' of a specific country on the Internet, you are bound by that country's laws.
You are also bound by the laws of the country in which you do business.
The Italian client expects to see an Italian presence in sales and development when he speaks to Google or he will take his money elsewhere.
that those Italian prosecutors are going after the really guilty parties instead of the little, misguided tykes who perpetrated the incident.
What makes you think that the prosecutors aren't going after everyone involved?
I will admit that what worries me more is that to far too many Slashdot posters the "really guilty party" can't be the geek, no matter what the charge.
Linux can be the one environment that caters to users who are technically inclined, know what they're doing, and either already know how to handle desktop resolutions and printers or are willing to combine basic literacy with Google in order to inform themselves.
Two words: Pulse Audio.
It shouldn't be necessary to Google for solutions to problems that haven't existed for the OSX and Windows user since the dinosaurs last walked the earth.