End result: an OS which is not significantly better than Windows XP - just as XP was not significantly better than Windows 2000 - which is why it took three years for XP conversion to overtake 2000 and 98
W2K and Win9x serviced very different markets, a great many markets. Successfully migrating a majority of all Windows users to the XP code base in three years looks pretty damn good from here. OS Platform Stats
If I were in Symantec's shoes, I would be even more concerned about this now.
Symantec should be worrying more about ISPs like Adelphia, which are offering free Internet security packages and weekly updates to all Windows subscribers.
Even in decline, AOL has 26 million subscribers, almost all of which are running Windows, and will likely remain with Windows and IE, even if they migrate.
What strikes me as remarkable is that anyone thinks..."lawsuits" of this nature will...stem the Niagra-like flow of files being shared on computer networks
This Niagara has a tap. Our cable ISP offers a branded version of MusicNet. USENET downloads have been capped. Its parent company is a media giant hostile to P2P. You will not find its DSL competitors any friendlier.
As with the United States' ill-fated experiment with "Prohibition" back in the 1930s or whenever it was, attempts to pressure a legitimate society-wide demand with artifical "legal" constraints simple result in a Newtonian counterforce of equal strength.
Prohibition had its roots in the nineteenth century and was the last reform movement of that era of that era to gain national success. Prohibition failed in cities which were multi-ethnic, multi-racial, with significant religious and class differences from the rural and small-town reformers which had driven the movement for decades.
But to carelessly generalize from the Prohibition experience is dangerous.
Broadband access in the United States is generally limited to an affluent center-right middle class, which knows no geographical bounds, and in which other divisions are muted. Property rights are an issue they do understand and around which they tend to coalesce. No free lunch.
Mark these words it is only a matter of time before the RIAA and company unleash one legal sully too many and the citizenry responds with clandestine acts of violence and possibly even people and/or animals
This is singulary incoherent and fanciful.
The middle class does not break out the guns because Amazon charges $18 for the latest Harry Potter DVD or Blockbuster offers an all-you-can-eat DVD rental buffet for $15 a month.
Nor do they riot whenever some punk kid gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Is this freely available operating system [Linux] a threat to you? Gates: "No, a competitor. That is all." I think theres one way to sum that up: Arrogance.
Linux as a competitor. Not the last Crusade. Takes the wind out of your sails, doesn't it?
The photos were released in the hope that they might provide leads to the man...not as proof of rape.
You do not know what the police are holding back. You do not know the sequence in which the photos were taken. You do not know if the child is still alive.
Source: Popescu, A. C. and H. Farid. 2005. Exposing digital forgeries by detecting traces of re-sampling. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in press).
I still refuse to install SP2 due to some of the things MSFT implemented into the patch.
There is a warning posted on the Windows Update site that future XP updates may require SP1 or higher.
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a legend, the pen was privately funded, and had a legitimate purpose you do not want graphite dust and particles finding lodgement in circuits and wiring and being ignited by chance in an oxygen-rich environment.
I am more than happy to free them from the ignorance of their parents.
That is not your responsibility. The parents would be well within their rights to ask for a restraining order, no more contact with their kids. Your neighbors will then start wondering what else you have been peddling...
I hear Wally world is going to meet that need soon.
Don't you believe it. WalMart hasn't spent a dime adverising Linux at retail. Why should they? There is no prospect of significant after-market sales of Linux software and peripherals. No outlet for WalMart's on-line music store.
There is an old saying that the poor cannot afford to be cheap. A throwaway $500 laptop running an obscure Linux distro is a toy for Geeks with money to burn, not Joe and his kids shopping at WalMart.
WalMart hasn't spent spend a dime marketing Linux at the retail level. The chain has 5200 stores and committed to a trial placement of 1000 units at retail. Priced within $50 of their Windows equivalents, as usual. Big Whoop.
Half-Life has been a steady seller for years. Given HL2's rather demanding hardware requirements, moving 1.7 million units in under a year doesn't look too shabby---and there is still plenty of room in which to grow.
there are people arguing free speech rights only apply when the government is attempting to restrict them, conveniently ignoring the fact that if there were any multinational corporations around when the founders set this place up maybe the Bill of Rights would have been a little tighter.
The colonial experience is all about "multinational" corporations. How do you think trade and settlement were organized and funded in those early days? The Hudson's Bay Company, founded in 1670, is still a going concern.
In the time-tested tradition of writers who tackle risky topics - use a pseudonym.
Theme, style, content, all point to authorship. Bloggers can become careless about seemingly insignificant details only a handful of people would know.
Chances are good, the post that gets you fired won't be the first one that made the rounds at work and pissed off your boss.
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W2K and Win9x serviced very different markets, a great many markets. Successfully migrating a majority of all Windows users to the XP code base in three years looks pretty damn good from here. OS Platform Stats
You were expecting a beta release to be fine-tuned for performance?
Symantec should be worrying more about ISPs like Adelphia, which are offering free Internet security packages and weekly updates to all Windows subscribers.
Even in decline, AOL has 26 million subscribers, almost all of which are running Windows, and will likely remain with Windows and IE, even if they migrate.
This Niagara has a tap. Our cable ISP offers a branded version of MusicNet. USENET downloads have been capped. Its parent company is a media giant hostile to P2P. You will not find its DSL competitors any friendlier.
As with the United States' ill-fated experiment with "Prohibition" back in the 1930s or whenever it was, attempts to pressure a legitimate society-wide demand with artifical "legal" constraints simple result in a Newtonian counterforce of equal strength.
Prohibition had its roots in the nineteenth century and was the last reform movement of that era of that era to gain national success. Prohibition failed in cities which were multi-ethnic, multi-racial, with significant religious and class differences from the rural and small-town reformers which had driven the movement for decades.
But to carelessly generalize from the Prohibition experience is dangerous.
Broadband access in the United States is generally limited to an affluent center-right middle class, which knows no geographical bounds, and in which other divisions are muted. Property rights are an issue they do understand and around which they tend to coalesce. No free lunch.
Mark these words it is only a matter of time before the RIAA and company unleash one legal sully too many and the citizenry responds with clandestine acts of violence and possibly even people and/or animals
This is singulary incoherent and fanciful.
The middle class does not break out the guns because Amazon charges $18 for the latest Harry Potter DVD or Blockbuster offers an all-you-can-eat DVD rental buffet for $15 a month.
Nor do they riot whenever some punk kid gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
I think there is nothing in this world more unlikely than a successful gamer-geek boycott launched from Slashdot.
It's like trying to herd cats.
Linux as a competitor. Not the last Crusade. Takes the wind out of your sails, doesn't it?
I think "kiddy fiddlers" crosses the line. Ignorant and careless words, thoughtless, even for Slashdot.
But none of these posters are in a stressful situation, which is what makes their jokes so ghoulish.
The photos were released in the hope that they might provide leads to the man...not as proof of rape.
You do not know what the police are holding back. You do not know the sequence in which the photos were taken. You do not know if the child is still alive.
Fully-clothed doesn't matter. Consent doesn't matter.
Not when you are talking about the abduction and abuse of a nine year old child.
Photoshop Sleuths
Source: Popescu, A. C. and H. Farid. 2005. Exposing digital forgeries by detecting traces of re-sampling. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in press).
There is a warning posted on the Windows Update site that future XP updates may require SP1 or higher.
a legend, the pen was privately funded, and had a legitimate purpose
you do not want graphite dust and particles finding lodgement in circuits and wiring and being ignited by chance in an oxygen-rich environment.
That is not your responsibility.
The parents would be well within their rights to ask for a restraining order, no more contact with their kids.
Your neighbors will then start wondering what else you have been peddling...
Don't you believe it. WalMart hasn't spent a dime adverising Linux at retail. Why should they? There is no prospect of significant after-market sales of Linux software and peripherals. No outlet for WalMart's on-line music store.
There is an old saying that the poor cannot afford to be cheap. A throwaway $500 laptop running an obscure Linux distro is a toy for Geeks with money to burn, not Joe and his kids shopping at WalMart.
You can "demand" all you want. But without money in hand you can't expect much in the way of "supply."
That also seems to be an iron law of nature.
WalMart hasn't spent spend a dime marketing Linux at the retail level. The chain has 5200 stores and committed to a trial placement of 1000 units at retail. Priced within $50 of their Windows equivalents, as usual. Big Whoop.
SP2 has been the default OEM install since last August.
Name a PC that had even the faintest whisper of success in the mass consumer market that was not ready-to-run out of the box.
No. Franco had the sense to remain neutral and was the lone fascist of the big three to survive the war.
Half-Life has been a steady seller for years. Given HL2's rather demanding hardware requirements, moving 1.7 million units in under a year doesn't look too shabby---and there is still plenty of room in which to grow.
The provider with a strong backlist and the most wanted artists and titles.
Provider A is not Pixar or Warner Brothers, which means that it won't be shipping The Incredibles or the next Harry Potter.
The colonial experience is all about "multinational" corporations. How do you think trade and settlement were organized and funded in those early days? The Hudson's Bay Company, founded in 1670, is still a going concern.
Theme, style, content, all point to authorship.
Bloggers can become careless about seemingly insignificant details only a handful of people would know.
Chances are good, the post that gets you fired won't be the first one that made the rounds at work and pissed off your boss.
Sure sounds like it, though.