Umm... that *is* the loss of control. They have the right of refusal for everything that goes up but once Java is on there there's no telling what the JVM will run. Apple can't control what apps the JVM launches or where it gets them.
They attack us with box cutters, we respond with anti-homing-missile lasers.
Just imagine if one of the terrorist had a gun. Mini-nukes on every passenger flight, I say!
I think the part you missed is that in the future he can download a higher resolution torrent and never have to worry about backing up anything or getting a new license from who-knows-who thus, the high road is more trouble for consumers than the low road.
People ask for code samples and snippets all of the time. Have you been to vendor forums? Java, C#, C++, there's miles and miles of code offered up in good will by countless forum members. In fact, if you're doing anything reasonably common, do a search, it's probably posted somewhere.
You're absolutely right. That code *may* be copyright. But if you took the time to search for every snippet of code in your project and then wrote every instance of code similar to something someone posted online? I'd say that falls a bit out of your job description. You aren't the code police.
Now, of course if you happened to stumble across very similar code and what you've seen online is copyright and non-obvious then go ahead and make the change. I see no reason to go searching out copyrighted code and spending your employer's dollar to prove or disprove it's validity, unless that's what you were hired to do.
This is absolute shit. I listened to 5 of these damn things thinking 'hey, maybe they're just getting off to a slow start'. This guy and his friend are a couple of huge goobers that happen to be Microsoft zealots. They have trouble sqeeking out cognizant sentences and make up for their failure to produce a persuasive argument with stupid voices and cursing. I cannot believe this guy is a 23 year old MCSE.
I got some choice quotes for you: On Avalanch: "Honestly, is there even a need for bittorrent even in the enterprise? Isn't that why we have file servers?"
On Vendors: "It's like fucking trying to fuck a monkey that's trying to fuck a football, that's what it's like."
On SGI: "You might as well take this card and shove it up your ass because you're going to be bleeding after you buy it"
I'm pretty sure that the only reason this appeared on Slashdot is because it's now oh-so-edgy and cool to post anti linux crap even if it's a couple of twats that encompass everything wrong with podcasting.
But spammers are making money and therefore capitalists. If we could convince some red staters that they're funding terrorists that you might be on to something.
My Pixma ip5000 uses ink carts that cost ~$4 for non OEM. 4x6 paper is $13 for 100 sheets. I can easily cover the whole 100 in a single fill. That's 17cents or under per print. I guess it's an innovation for HP though. They've been lagging behind the rest of the photo printing inkjets in both price and quality for a couple years now.
That's mostly scaremongering, since unless you're installing a very out-of-date Windows, you're protected.
Great... so the solution to the virus problem is 'buy a new PC.' That's as MS as you get...
My mother bought her home PC 4 years ago with Windows 2000. My wife bought her's two years ago with an original (non-SPed) XP. Our 15 or so development machines are about two years old and came with XP SP1. Co-Workers laptop? 2 years, XP SP1. Wife's office mate, XP SP1. In fact, the only person I know that has an XP SP2 CD is me and it's useless in my hands.
Maybe slipstreaming or ordering the latest XP Service Pack on CD is part of Windows ease of use but for me running a platform that isn't plagued with viruses is just as easy.
That won't break the use of RSS with existing software. RSS is a dialect of XML. XML is designed to be extended without breaking existing uses. This is why XML can be so useful as a data format - software that uses an XML dialect will still work after the dialect is extended.
used to be you loved CS to go into it, now many do just for a quick buck or a job.
I graduated 4 years ago... same story then. Possibly even worse since many of my fellow students started down that path with dot-com era delusions.
The program where I went was C-based and required a semester or 2 of 68k asm so many people kinda got the picture but they still graduated a bunch of shmucks.
If you mean you won't be able to buy a mobo from vendor A and install OS X on it, then yah, sure. But so what? Part of the problem with Windows is that it tries to support everything under the sun, which I think is a bad idea.
That's exactly was gp was saying and I don't think it's a bad idea. That's why you buy Mac, I buy i386 and run Linux and exactly the reason GP believes Max won't be a threat. I'd like the ability to buy a range of hardware for whatever use I desire. As for hardware support being a problem for Windows, under Linux I've had no problem using the exact same hardware I used in Windows and my system is amazingly stable.
2. Too much for accessories. True, but you don't have to buy RAM from Apple. Nor do you have to buy a mouse, keyboard, or even display from them. So besides the replacable parts that come with a Mac, most of the other stuff can be bought at the same price as Windows/Linux stuff. And again, lower end junk might not be supported for that reason - it's junk!
OO.o doesn't always open.ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
Maybe you need to turn off the improbability drive of your laptop.
VR is with us already, its just not looking like Tron.
That's because Tron wasn't virtual... he was actually inside the computer. Now if we could all shrink ourselves down and beam into our computers you can't honestly tell me you don't think that would look just like Tron. In fact, I hear the MCP voice is just Bill Gates with one of those Darth Vader head voice changers.
The Lawnmower Man on the other hand was actually VR and I'm confident the some day we'll all have the ability to be sucked into our virtual environment through our immersion suit.
Personally, the last time my DSL broke and I called support I got a guy named "Bob" with a mysteriously foreign accent. They insisted I remove the router and install their shitty PC-eating Yahoo PPPoE crap before actually believing we had a line problem.
My last visit to the DMV however (replacing an expiring license) was a quick and painless 15 minute process. Only problem I had is that they wouldn't accept cash... only a CC or personal check (or vice versa, I forget).
Maybe linux distros could learn a thing or two about shipping 1/4th of the applications they ship now.
Eh? There are linux distros small enough to fit on a floppy and large enough to require multiple DVDs to install. The popular ones ofent ship a ton of fodder with them but then maybe that's why they're popular.
If Best Buy changes their policies and drops MIRs there's no way they can offer all items for the rebated price. That price depends on a decent percentage of people not claiming their rebates and may often be under cost.
If someone opens up their weekly pile of flyers and sees BB selling widget X for $190 and Circuit City selling it for $200 - $30 MIR many (including myself) would gladly spend the requisite 5 minutes to save $20 (in a few months). I have a feeling a number of people would be with me on that and the extremely uneducated or unobservant consumer would just see the lower price in CC ad and bite it hook, line, and sinker.
I like CC stores more and more anyway. They're building a ton of new places that are all clean, decently organized (BB is starting to feel like WalMart), and the people are usually on par with BBs.
I'm right with you... In the past year or two I've filed rebates on:
A few CD-R and DVD-R packs (very little) Epson Photo820 Printer (30 IIRC?) WD 120gb HDD (20 IIRC?) WD 200gb HDD (20 IIRC?) SE T-710 Phones (200) Samsung Syncmaster 712N (70 IIRC)
With the 712N I could've actually gotten it online a little cheaper but online places are sticklers with their dead pixel policy whereas Circuit City will take back anything.
Going back further there was a ~200 rebate on a laptop, a ~20 rebate on a video card. I got a Canon ip5000 coming soon with a $20 MIR ($133 shipped AR... that's a steal!)... and that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
I can't recall getting screwed a single time. The Photo820 rebate was reject because I actually did sent it in after the 'postmark by' date and I had to call Amazon because I only recieved 1 of the T-Mobile rebates but they were friendly and efficient -- in fact they cut me a check directly which arrived a few days later.
I like rebates. If one can get it cheaper online or at another retailler, great. Please tell me where. Until then, I'll happily use the rebates to save $20 over the next guy.
Sybase is still a major database player. How'd they sell off their database and still manage to sell an enterprise database themselves? I'm not doubting you or anything just want to learn some history.
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Umm... that *is* the loss of control. They have the right of refusal for everything that goes up but once Java is on there there's no telling what the JVM will run. Apple can't control what apps the JVM launches or where it gets them.
They attack us with box cutters, we respond with anti-homing-missile lasers. Just imagine if one of the terrorist had a gun. Mini-nukes on every passenger flight, I say!
I think the part you missed is that in the future he can download a higher resolution torrent and never have to worry about backing up anything or getting a new license from who-knows-who thus, the high road is more trouble for consumers than the low road.
People ask for code samples and snippets all of the time. Have you been to vendor forums? Java, C#, C++, there's miles and miles of code offered up in good will by countless forum members. In fact, if you're doing anything reasonably common, do a search, it's probably posted somewhere. You're absolutely right. That code *may* be copyright. But if you took the time to search for every snippet of code in your project and then wrote every instance of code similar to something someone posted online? I'd say that falls a bit out of your job description. You aren't the code police. Now, of course if you happened to stumble across very similar code and what you've seen online is copyright and non-obvious then go ahead and make the change. I see no reason to go searching out copyrighted code and spending your employer's dollar to prove or disprove it's validity, unless that's what you were hired to do.
This is absolute shit. I listened to 5 of these damn things thinking 'hey, maybe they're just getting off to a slow start'. This guy and his friend are a couple of huge goobers that happen to be Microsoft zealots. They have trouble sqeeking out cognizant sentences and make up for their failure to produce a persuasive argument with stupid voices and cursing. I cannot believe this guy is a 23 year old MCSE.
I got some choice quotes for you:
On Avalanch: "Honestly, is there even a need for bittorrent even in the enterprise? Isn't that why we have file servers?"
On Vendors: "It's like fucking trying to fuck a monkey that's trying to fuck a football, that's what it's like."
On SGI: "You might as well take this card and shove it up your ass because you're going to be bleeding after you buy it"
I'm pretty sure that the only reason this appeared on Slashdot is because it's now oh-so-edgy and cool to post anti linux crap even if it's a couple of twats that encompass everything wrong with podcasting.
You're looking for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction... but no multi.
But spammers are making money and therefore capitalists. If we could convince some red staters that they're funding terrorists that you might be on to something.
My Pixma ip5000 uses ink carts that cost ~$4 for non OEM. 4x6 paper is $13 for 100 sheets. I can easily cover the whole 100 in a single fill. That's 17cents or under per print. I guess it's an innovation for HP though. They've been lagging behind the rest of the photo printing inkjets in both price and quality for a couple years now.
That's mostly scaremongering, since unless you're installing a very out-of-date Windows, you're protected.
Great... so the solution to the virus problem is 'buy a new PC.' That's as MS as you get...
My mother bought her home PC 4 years ago with Windows 2000. My wife bought her's two years ago with an original (non-SPed) XP. Our 15 or so development machines are about two years old and came with XP SP1. Co-Workers laptop? 2 years, XP SP1. Wife's office mate, XP SP1. In fact, the only person I know that has an XP SP2 CD is me and it's useless in my hands.
Maybe slipstreaming or ordering the latest XP Service Pack on CD is part of Windows ease of use but for me running a platform that isn't plagued with viruses is just as easy.
That won't break the use of RSS with existing software. RSS is a dialect of XML. XML is designed to be extended without breaking existing uses. This is why XML can be so useful as a data format - software that uses an XML dialect will still work after the dialect is extended.
Yes, and HTML should work in any browser.
used to be you loved CS to go into it, now many do just for a quick buck or a job.
I graduated 4 years ago... same story then. Possibly even worse since many of my fellow students started down that path with dot-com era delusions.
The program where I went was C-based and required a semester or 2 of 68k asm so many people kinda got the picture but they still graduated a bunch of shmucks.
If you mean you won't be able to buy a mobo from vendor A and install OS X on it, then yah, sure. But so what? Part of the problem with Windows is that it tries to support everything under the sun, which I think is a bad idea.
That's exactly was gp was saying and I don't think it's a bad idea. That's why you buy Mac, I buy i386 and run Linux and exactly the reason GP believes Max won't be a threat. I'd like the ability to buy a range of hardware for whatever use I desire. As for hardware support being a problem for Windows, under Linux I've had no problem using the exact same hardware I used in Windows and my system is amazingly stable.
2. Too much for accessories. True, but you don't have to buy RAM from Apple. Nor do you have to buy a mouse, keyboard, or even display from them. So besides the replacable parts that come with a Mac, most of the other stuff can be bought at the same price as Windows/Linux stuff. And again, lower end junk might not be supported for that reason - it's junk!
Every non-Mac compatible accessory is junk?
3. 2 button mouse. Ho hum...
Amen... tired argument.
OO.o doesn't always open .ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
Maybe you need to turn off the improbability drive of your laptop.
VR is with us already, its just not looking like Tron.
That's because Tron wasn't virtual... he was actually inside the computer. Now if we could all shrink ourselves down and beam into our computers you can't honestly tell me you don't think that would look just like Tron. In fact, I hear the MCP voice is just Bill Gates with one of those Darth Vader head voice changers.
The Lawnmower Man on the other hand was actually VR and I'm confident the some day we'll all have the ability to be sucked into our virtual environment through our immersion suit.
Personally, the last time my DSL broke and I called support I got a guy named "Bob" with a mysteriously foreign accent. They insisted I remove the router and install their shitty PC-eating Yahoo PPPoE crap before actually believing we had a line problem.
My last visit to the DMV however (replacing an expiring license) was a quick and painless 15 minute process. Only problem I had is that they wouldn't accept cash... only a CC or personal check (or vice versa, I forget).
or can only cruise at 35MPH or less comfortably.
Well, Chevy/Geo stopped selling the Metro a couple years back but I think you can still pick up a Ford Festiva.
Maybe linux distros could learn a thing or two about shipping 1/4th of the applications they ship now.
Eh? There are linux distros small enough to fit on a floppy and large enough to require multiple DVDs to install. The popular ones ofent ship a ton of fodder with them but then maybe that's why they're popular.
The hat icon...
Of course, configuring it properly requires an advanced degree in hyperbolic geometry with a minor in "Being God" studies.
Great! I'm fantastic with hyperbole and have significant real-world experience in the 'Being God' department.
Dude, Red Dwarf's been around for years!
If Best Buy changes their policies and drops MIRs there's no way they can offer all items for the rebated price. That price depends on a decent percentage of people not claiming their rebates and may often be under cost.
If someone opens up their weekly pile of flyers and sees BB selling widget X for $190 and Circuit City selling it for $200 - $30 MIR many (including myself) would gladly spend the requisite 5 minutes to save $20 (in a few months). I have a feeling a number of people would be with me on that and the extremely uneducated or unobservant consumer would just see the lower price in CC ad and bite it hook, line, and sinker.
I like CC stores more and more anyway. They're building a ton of new places that are all clean, decently organized (BB is starting to feel like WalMart), and the people are usually on par with BBs.
I'm right with you... In the past year or two I've filed rebates on:
A few CD-R and DVD-R packs (very little)
Epson Photo820 Printer (30 IIRC?)
WD 120gb HDD (20 IIRC?)
WD 200gb HDD (20 IIRC?)
SE T-710 Phones (200)
Samsung Syncmaster 712N (70 IIRC)
With the 712N I could've actually gotten it online a little cheaper but online places are sticklers with their dead pixel policy whereas Circuit City will take back anything.
Going back further there was a ~200 rebate on a laptop, a ~20 rebate on a video card. I got a Canon ip5000 coming soon with a $20 MIR ($133 shipped AR... that's a steal!)... and that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
I can't recall getting screwed a single time. The Photo820 rebate was reject because I actually did sent it in after the 'postmark by' date and I had to call Amazon because I only recieved 1 of the T-Mobile rebates but they were friendly and efficient -- in fact they cut me a check directly which arrived a few days later.
I like rebates. If one can get it cheaper online or at another retailler, great. Please tell me where. Until then, I'll happily use the rebates to save $20 over the next guy.
Sybase is still a major database player. How'd they sell off their database and still manage to sell an enterprise database themselves? I'm not doubting you or anything just want to learn some history.
Careful, now. You don't want to be crushed under the weight of your tin foil hat :)