Do these defections from the left enrage people on the left? It seems that when someone changes teams the left gets irritated and then tear down a person they once loved. Dennis Miller is a perfect example. It seems once they turn, the left has to rip any creditability they had to shreds. Most don't even discuss their points the just repeat what they have heard or been told.
Don't get me wrong. I think Bush is an idiot and he has handled everything very badly just as the president before him did. I think Mr. Moore is an idiot as well. He has become the people he was trying to expose in Roger and Me. If he feels he has a valid point there is no need to hide the fact that his party did and did not do the same things. Even his lies about Disney make his points ring hollow for many people.
Kerry is pretty much more of the same. The democrats pushed me to the right and the republicans have pushed me back towards the middle. I don't know who I will vote for this year but it won't be for the big two.
Craig Ungers, House of Bush, House of Saud. He mentioned that the Bin Laden family are heavily invested in many US corporations, the biggest being Snapple and Disney. Seems that part of Mikes movie is brought to you by the Bin Ladens.
They have had links off their page for some time now asking the public about what they should do.
I sent mine in weeks ago telling them that since we are picking up the tab for what they are doing, we should be getting the data for free. Currently past data sets for even local areas will cost you money so you can't even do your own weather research for recreational purposes.
Make your voice known! Go to there site and let them know that we want what we paid for.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/fairweather/
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I have been to many a field day and in our part of California it is usually freakin' hot. We used to stay outside and grab sleep when we could.
My last field day a friend and I arrived in an air conditioned motor home with lots of food and cold drinks in the fridge. We also had our Macs hooked up to do digital communications like Packet, RTTY and the like. Good thing, it was the hottest Field day they ever had.
Microsoft should have done this at the XP release many years ago. Their is too much legacy code in XP than their should be. The should have taken yet another clue from Apple and run the old code via emulation or in a protect partition, separate from the XP OS.
Let's face it, for the Windows OS to evolve at one point it is going to have to leave all of DOS behind, starting with DLL. The sooner MS comes to this conclusion the better it will be for them but I am sure they still don't see it that way.
How hard were the Americans fighting in 1940? Depends on how you look at it. There was lend/lease, Americans in England fighting over France and Germany, Americans in China fighting the Japanese. Americans dying to get supplies to said countries. All of this happening in 1940.
Actually a lot of people in the U.S. either funded or supported Nazi Germany. Henry Ford and Charles Lindburg are a few more. Early on Hitler turned his country around during the big depression and he started many projects which put Germans to work and put money in their pockets. FDR did many of the same things Hitler did. Of course this was to further his plans that were to take place latter but at the time he was respected around the world.
There were a lot of people in the U.S. that supported what Japan was doing as well but we never hear much about them. There was also Stalin, who had many supporters in the U.S. and Stalin killed more people than Hitler did.
Microsoft has never been one to do smart moves but with their deep pockets the some how make some of them work.
It will really depend if the Xbox2 will be backwards compatible with the Xbox1 games. Since they are moving to a new processor this may be in question. Since it does not have the selection of titles the PS2 has it is very important that the games that are out now work with the new machine.
As far as releasing it before the next generation of other consoles this really does not matter. If MS can make the Xbox the hot machine and lure players and more important, developers they can beat the others to the punch....and maybe make a profit down the road. So far the Xbox has not made any profit for MS and those undercut prices have help get more machines out there. If the Xbox2 fails that will probably be the last box from MS. MS has many projects that are eating cash and showing no profits. The Xbox, MSN, WebTV, Xbox Live are eating into the MS war chest and with no OS due out for at least two years, income will be slim. Losing the support contracts because of no software releases is not helping either.
MS can weather a few clunkers....and they have. At some point they will have to decide when to pull the plug.
Prop. 13 was a good thing. The problem in California is that the assembly and senate do not know how to control their spending. The often create or raise taxes stating it is only for purpose A but when purpose B needs money they rob from purpose A when purpose A's rates should be dropped.
The tax proposition that passed on cigarettes is a perfect example. It brings millions and millions into the state for the purpose of getting people to stop smoking. Can a person go in and get zyban or nicotine patches paid for by these taxes to help them stop? No, we get commercials that cost all of a few thousand to make. We were supposed to get community programs but that never happened. The state took the money and used it elsewhere, for other programs. The last thing they want is for people to stop smoking...it would cut the funding.
Add to that multi-million dollar studies to find the best ball point pen for state offices. Computer systems that do not work when delivered or are outdated when delivered and the state picks up the bill. The company the delivers the product still gets their money whether it works or not. We lost federal funding for the computer system to track deadbeat dads because the system was not online by the federal deadline. The system would not work with the amount of people it was designed for let alone any new deadbeat dads. The state government also tend to fund programs their is no infrastructure for. The wanted 10 percent of all cars in the state to be electric by 2010 but they refuse to build dams or powerplants to get the power to charge those cars.
Which party has controlled the assembly and senate for decades and decades and caused these problems? The democrats! When Davis was in office he literally open the floodgates to funding and drained Californias biggest surplus of funds into our biggest deficit. How did he want to fix it? Tripling the registration fees on cars. Even before he tripled them we already had one of the highest registration fees out of all 50 states.
I hope the terminator gives this stupid plan with SBC the thumbs down. The democrats have screwed California enough, we need a break.
As long as you rip your own discs you can have full resolution in iTunes. Of course Apple lossless format which cuts the original file size in half and it sounds exactly the same.
Since I no longer buy discs that much anymore the iTMS works for me. I usually just pick out the 1 or 2 songs I want. Since Apple came out with GarageBand, I bought that and a midi keyboard and I have been making my own music. I have Amplitube Live and the plug-in version so now I need to pick up a Fender Stratocaster like I used to have and I should be set....other than picking up my guitar chops I have not used in ten years;-). Propellerheads Reason and Cubase pretty much do all I want and have taken the place of Fruityloops , now Fruitystudio that was on the PC.
I have been doing my own soundtrack music for my videos that I make and burn to DVD, so I don't get around to buying much music unless I happen to catch something on the tube that I like.
I have about the same amount of CDs as well. I ripped all that I listen to, their are some that I have that I may never play again but I keep them around anyway. I too am a liner notes junkie and that is one reason I like Apples iTunes. The cover art, liner notes, CD label etc. can be attached to the file and travel along with it. The artwork is always displayed and can be brought up in a window in a larger size for better viewing.
I have been spending a lot of time setting all this information up and finally have nearly a complete set for all the songs I have. The iPod does not display the artwork but I have given Apple feedback that I want that feature. The Roku SoundBridge M200 does display the artwork of the songs streamed from the computer but that is a little pricey for me. I keep my collection on my Mac but since I also use iTunes on my WindowsXP Pro box I just stream the music to it if I am work on that machine for a while. Since both versions of iTunes use Apples Rendezvous (network auto discovery) technology the are already set up to browse and play each others music via streaming.
Since my iPod has the iTrip FM transmitter attached to it, it will play in my CD-less truck or anyones car or house as long as they have an FM radio. It sure beats toting a load of discs around in a car or on a trip!
Actually you could release a recording in the regular 5.1 format the DVD players already handle. Of course the quality is not there but it is workable.
The market will be captured by the company that makes it easiest to do and the cheapest to buy. It could go either way.
I don't even see a need for redbook CD's anymore. Since I got my iPod and ripped my collection I don't even touch them anymore. The few new tracks I buy I get from the Apple music store. While not audiophile quality the differences are hard to tell. With Apples lossless encoder it sounds exactly like the CD.
This is true, but the DVD is pretty much everywhere now. I have 2 regular set top players and 3 burners. The car I have been looking to purchase also has GPS/DVD built in.
The problem with regular CD players are that they are not set up to play in 5.1. Trends usually follow the path of least resistance and I think that path will be DVD-A. The other thing about trends is that often don't do what you think they will, so I could be wrong.
With my iPod doing most of what my palm can do as far as reading documents and having my calendars and contacts, as well as a few games and a buttload of music, I find that my Palm does not get used as much as it used to.
If the iPod had a way to enter contact and calendar information with using a computer, then I would find little use for my palm other than having my Filemaker databases, word files and few cool games. Syncing the iPod is certainly much faster than syncing my palm.
When CD's first came out they were 11.99. Back then I often had a bigger CD collection than music stores did. They had a little display at the end of he aisle.
They raised the price saying they need to pay for new pressing facilities to meet demand, there were only two in the world at that time. When supply caught up with demand and the vast catalogs of the record companies were on CD the prices did not go down. Why not, the public was used to paying it by then.
Back to the topic, I think that DVD-A should be the standard. It's 192kHz more than enough for sound quality and its support of the 5.1 standard ties in nicely with all the 5.1 systems that are already out there. Hopefully it will be artfully used like many of the old Quad records were. I really don't see much of a use for 5.1 192kHz Brittany Spears disc.
If the record companies overprice them then they will run into the same problem they have now, piracy. At least the DVD-A format will require more bandwidth to pirate than current CD's do and that may help the record companies in the long run. Of course with the RIAA behind them they are usually never at a loss for stupid business decisions.
Shortly after the tour started the computers on the bus were infected with a worm and they had to be shut down while several Microsoft professionals were flown in from Redmond to get them up and running again.
The above is not true but it is easily believable and that is the said part.
Is it just me but wouldn't it be better if Microsoft released updates to the OS on a regular basis instead of patches after the horse has left the barn? It would much more effective than a propaganda tour, trying to convince someone who lost all their business records that Windows is secure.
Of course it is the spammers fault, there is no question in that. You also have to give Microsoft a little bit of that credit too. There is absolutely no reason that it should be so easy to place a program on a persons computer without their knowledge.
Also instead of just placing a little band-aid on the problem after the fact, MS should have released a major update to Windows to close these holes once and for all a long time ago. SP2 is due out soon as supposedly will fix all these problems.
Microsoft has had the chance to step up and do the right thing each time this has happened but has failed to do it yet. They almost did the right thing by releasing the SP2 update to all users, even pirates, but yet again they blew it. Let's see how they fair when the update comes out. If they close all the holes and put security over their being able to let others into users computer I will be surprised.
I actually do use windows and build my own boxes...have for years. I will name a few of my dislikes about windows.
1. Stability. Contrary to what a lot of Windows fanatics preach WindowsXP is far from a stable OS.
2. Quality. Since I build my own units I put in the best I can since I have seen so many cheap systems over the years. However the OS itself is not up to snuff. I recently tried to install Easy CD Creator 7 on my XP pro box and had problems with the install. Even after cleaning up the problems and fixing the registery the program hangs before it even starts to install. Another problem with the platform is that the company you by from might not be around tomorrow. So it is best to stick to big names. Usually those big names offer the same things on both Mac and PC. I spend way too much time keeping my XP box running. Computer are supposed to work for me not the other way around.
3. Security. Hands down OS X is better than Windows.
4. Business practices. Microsoft is no sweetheart here. If they have the better product as they claim then why do they have to resort to lies, strong-arm tactics and questionable business practices?
5. Behind the tech curve. Again MS always seems to be behind the curve when it comes to inventive, easy to use applications. Their "copies" of iMovie, iPhoto and the like are a joke. No one can touch apple in these areas. I have put off buying an MP3 player until this month. I checked out many of the ones available and even considered MP3 based CD players. I wound up with an iPod. You can say they are over priced and you would be right but they are worth every extra penny you pay for them. The iTunes, iTunes Music Store and the Pod cannot be beat.
6. Ease of use. Actually with MS wizards you think that MS would be easier to get running and keep running. Not! Their are times when the wizards are not the way to do things and take longer and cause more problems than doing it the "hard" way.
7. Elderly OS. Say what you will XP is just a prettier DOS. It relies way to much on the old DOS conventions like DLLs. Until MS moves on and develops are truly modern OS without the 20 year old DOS parts then they are just contributing to a larger and larger mess of an OS.
That said I still use my PC but not as much as I used to. I may even dump windows and move it over to linux. The only thing stopping me is that I will soon be taking an MSCE course and may need it for a study aid.
Not only can we blame MS for the rash of Trojans and Worms but now all the spam in my inbox! When will someone get the cahones to sue Microsoft for the amount of lost data, time and money that they have cost us?
I love the term "Microsoft Zombies", it works on so many levels!
Modern broadcast techniques may be all that but most devices that put out an RF signal don't make use of those, they could but they don't, so it already shows that without guidance it would not work. You might not like losing your wireless connection whenever someone used a garage door opener. You might not like the fire department never arriving at your house because they never received a signal due to radio interference.
Well, what can I say, they DID know they rules before doing what they did. If you kill someone you can expect something bad to happen to you...unless you are O.J. I agree that the government should take a backseat when it comes to broadcasting. I also believe people should be responsible for their actions. Seems like that people have problems dealing with both of those.
You are correct without the FCC the interference by these on tested devices would not only cause interference to the end users but could cause interference to public safety radios and communication networks as well.
As far as Janet Jacksons boob shot well, I don't like the government telling me what I can watch but MTV knew the rules before putting the show on, so they should not be too surprised by the reaction. At least they could have stepped up and taken the blame for it instead of lying their way out and blaming everyone except themselves.....that pisses me off more than government interference.
Which brings up another point. I love football but what in thee hell are this stupid bands doing at the halftime shows? Football and nsync or Justin Timberlake do not mix. Stick with hard rock groups or country and western. Boy band pop has no place at a football game.....or in public in general for that matter.
Sounds like MAC (Microsoft Ass Covering). The reason is two fold.
1. Since all those people who have software update contracts with MS have basically gotten squat from them in the way of software this may pacify those business who purchased the plans. Better yet it may cover the ass of the IT department who said purchasing those plans would pay for itself in the long run.
2. It provides a band-aid, even though it would not help that much, for the glut of worms and viri that have cost businesses money, data, lost employee hours and customers. More than likely if a system administrator was stupid enough to let his system get infected in the first place he would probably infect the backup server when he went to recover the files.
Even though both of these things would really help MS in the long run, at least in the PR department, they still have to add a bunch of stipulations to getting the software. I think Microsoft would be happier if they got the PR and the stipulations meant that only 1 or 2 people were eligible to get the free software. They also blew a really good chance of helping to dispel the truth that their OS is full of security holes by allowing those with pirated copies to download the "more secure" SP2, but they quickly jerked that back and gave about the lamest statement to come from a software company to the press about it. Who knows, it could be a smart move if SP2 is not as secure as MS has been claiming it is.....they can just blame the pirates or linux or both.
Microsoft is used to shooting itself in the foot but lately they seem to like emptying the whole clip into instead of just a single shot. It makes me wonder who is behind all this, Gates or Ballmer?
Seems Microsoft is spending more and more time trying to cover up or explain what some of their spokespeople are saying.
Not only that but the virus writers who are more likely to be running a pirated copy of windows should be really happy with Microsoft going back on its word to make this update available even to pirated copies. This should cut down on the number of viruses and Trojans they write. I am sure the holes in SP2 will be exploited within hours or days of its release.
They seem to code better and faster than Microsofts own people. Plus they know something about security, which seems to be lacking in Redmond.
If SP2 does not fix these holes like Microsoft claims it will then they should be libel for the money that business lose due to badly written software. Microsoft needs to change the way it updates its software. Instead of releasing a service pack and charging for it when it does come out they should step to releases every month or two, like the way OS X does.
As a matter of fact Microsoft seems to be in the same state Apple was in before Jobs came back. Lost and clueless developing products that they were not good at and had a directionless system software development. This far into WindowsXP MS should have had nearly all of the framework for longhorn laid out and most of the coding done, yet we hear of announced features being dropped because it won't meet their deadline which is two years off. Something is wrong in Redmond and now is the time for Linux and OS X take advantage of it, if they don't do it now they may not have another chance. Unless of course longhorn is the worst mistake they have ever made.
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Do these defections from the left enrage people on the left? It seems that when someone changes teams the left gets irritated and then tear down a person they once loved. Dennis Miller is a perfect example. It seems once they turn, the left has to rip any creditability they had to shreds. Most don't even discuss their points the just repeat what they have heard or been told.
Don't get me wrong. I think Bush is an idiot and he has handled everything very badly just as the president before him did. I think Mr. Moore is an idiot as well. He has become the people he was trying to expose in Roger and Me. If he feels he has a valid point there is no need to hide the fact that his party did and did not do the same things. Even his lies about Disney make his points ring hollow for many people.
Kerry is pretty much more of the same. The democrats pushed me to the right and the republicans have pushed me back towards the middle. I don't know who I will vote for this year but it won't be for the big two.
Yeah, it is getting kinda weird! Seems they are all making money from sources they dislike.
Check out Christopher Hitchens' article about the film. Hitchens is a liberal but the article is very fair and very balanced.
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I was also watching the history channel today and they had the author of a book critical of the bushes.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
Craig Ungers, House of Bush, House of Saud. He mentioned that the Bin Laden family are heavily invested in many US corporations, the biggest being Snapple and Disney. Seems that part of Mikes movie is brought to you by the Bin Ladens.
They have had links off their page for some time now asking the public about what they should do.
I sent mine in weeks ago telling them that since we are picking up the tab for what they are doing, we should be getting the data for free. Currently past data sets for even local areas will cost you money so you can't even do your own weather research for recreational purposes.
Make your voice known! Go to there site and let them know that we want what we paid for.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/fairweather/
I have been to many a field day and in our part of California it is usually freakin' hot. We used to stay outside and grab sleep when we could.
My last field day a friend and I arrived in an air conditioned motor home with lots of food and cold drinks in the fridge. We also had our Macs hooked up to do digital communications like Packet, RTTY and the like. Good thing, it was the hottest Field day they ever had.
Microsoft should have done this at the XP release many years ago. Their is too much legacy code in XP than their should be. The should have taken yet another clue from Apple and run the old code via emulation or in a protect partition, separate from the XP OS.
Let's face it, for the Windows OS to evolve at one point it is going to have to leave all of DOS behind, starting with DLL. The sooner MS comes to this conclusion the better it will be for them but I am sure they still don't see it that way.
How hard were the Americans fighting in 1940? Depends on how you look at it. There was lend/lease, Americans in England fighting over France and Germany, Americans in China fighting the Japanese. Americans dying to get supplies to said countries. All of this happening in 1940.
Actually a lot of people in the U.S. either funded or supported Nazi Germany. Henry Ford and Charles Lindburg are a few more. Early on Hitler turned his country around during the big depression and he started many projects which put Germans to work and put money in their pockets. FDR did many of the same things Hitler did. Of course this was to further his plans that were to take place latter but at the time he was respected around the world.
There were a lot of people in the U.S. that supported what Japan was doing as well but we never hear much about them. There was also Stalin, who had many supporters in the U.S. and Stalin killed more people than Hitler did.
Microsoft has never been one to do smart moves but with their deep pockets the some how make some of them work.
It will really depend if the Xbox2 will be backwards compatible with the Xbox1 games. Since they are moving to a new processor this may be in question. Since it does not have the selection of titles the PS2 has it is very important that the games that are out now work with the new machine.
As far as releasing it before the next generation of other consoles this really does not matter. If MS can make the Xbox the hot machine and lure players and more important, developers they can beat the others to the punch....and maybe make a profit down the road. So far the Xbox has not made any profit for MS and those undercut prices have help get more machines out there. If the Xbox2 fails that will probably be the last box from MS. MS has many projects that are eating cash and showing no profits. The Xbox, MSN, WebTV, Xbox Live are eating into the MS war chest and with no OS due out for at least two years, income will be slim. Losing the support contracts because of no software releases is not helping either.
MS can weather a few clunkers....and they have. At some point they will have to decide when to pull the plug.
Prop. 13 was a good thing. The problem in California is that the assembly and senate do not know how to control their spending. The often create or raise taxes stating it is only for purpose A but when purpose B needs money they rob from purpose A when purpose A's rates should be dropped.
The tax proposition that passed on cigarettes is a perfect example. It brings millions and millions into the state for the purpose of getting people to stop smoking. Can a person go in and get zyban or nicotine patches paid for by these taxes to help them stop? No, we get commercials that cost all of a few thousand to make. We were supposed to get community programs but that never happened. The state took the money and used it elsewhere, for other programs. The last thing they want is for people to stop smoking...it would cut the funding.
Add to that multi-million dollar studies to find the best ball point pen for state offices. Computer systems that do not work when delivered or are outdated when delivered and the state picks up the bill. The company the delivers the product still gets their money whether it works or not. We lost federal funding for the computer system to track deadbeat dads because the system was not online by the federal deadline. The system would not work with the amount of people it was designed for let alone any new deadbeat dads. The state government also tend to fund programs their is no infrastructure for. The wanted 10 percent of all cars in the state to be electric by 2010 but they refuse to build dams or powerplants to get the power to charge those cars.
Which party has controlled the assembly and senate for decades and decades and caused these problems? The democrats! When Davis was in office he literally open the floodgates to funding and drained Californias biggest surplus of funds into our biggest deficit. How did he want to fix it? Tripling the registration fees on cars. Even before he tripled them we already had one of the highest registration fees out of all 50 states.
I hope the terminator gives this stupid plan with SBC the thumbs down. The democrats have screwed California enough, we need a break.
As long as you rip your own discs you can have full resolution in iTunes. Of course Apple lossless format which cuts the original file size in half and it sounds exactly the same.
;-). Propellerheads Reason and Cubase pretty much do all I want and have taken the place of Fruityloops , now Fruitystudio that was on the PC.
Since I no longer buy discs that much anymore the iTMS works for me. I usually just pick out the 1 or 2 songs I want. Since Apple came out with GarageBand, I bought that and a midi keyboard and I have been making my own music. I have Amplitube Live and the plug-in version so now I need to pick up a Fender Stratocaster like I used to have and I should be set....other than picking up my guitar chops I have not used in ten years
I have been doing my own soundtrack music for my videos that I make and burn to DVD, so I don't get around to buying much music unless I happen to catch something on the tube that I like.
I have about the same amount of CDs as well. I ripped all that I listen to, their are some that I have that I may never play again but I keep them around anyway. I too am a liner notes junkie and that is one reason I like Apples iTunes. The cover art, liner notes, CD label etc. can be attached to the file and travel along with it. The artwork is always displayed and can be brought up in a window in a larger size for better viewing.
I have been spending a lot of time setting all this information up and finally have nearly a complete set for all the songs I have. The iPod does not display the artwork but I have given Apple feedback that I want that feature. The Roku SoundBridge M200 does display the artwork of the songs streamed from the computer but that is a little pricey for me. I keep my collection on my Mac but since I also use iTunes on my WindowsXP Pro box I just stream the music to it if I am work on that machine for a while. Since both versions of iTunes use Apples Rendezvous (network auto discovery) technology the are already set up to browse and play each others music via streaming.
Since my iPod has the iTrip FM transmitter attached to it, it will play in my CD-less truck or anyones car or house as long as they have an FM radio. It sure beats toting a load of discs around in a car or on a trip!
Actually you could release a recording in the regular 5.1 format the DVD players already handle. Of course the quality is not there but it is workable.
The market will be captured by the company that makes it easiest to do and the cheapest to buy. It could go either way.
I don't even see a need for redbook CD's anymore. Since I got my iPod and ripped my collection I don't even touch them anymore. The few new tracks I buy I get from the Apple music store. While not audiophile quality the differences are hard to tell. With Apples lossless encoder it sounds exactly like the CD.
This is true, but the DVD is pretty much everywhere now. I have 2 regular set top players and 3 burners. The car I have been looking to purchase also has GPS/DVD built in.
The problem with regular CD players are that they are not set up to play in 5.1. Trends usually follow the path of least resistance and I think that path will be DVD-A. The other thing about trends is that often don't do what you think they will, so I could be wrong.
With my iPod doing most of what my palm can do as far as reading documents and having my calendars and contacts, as well as a few games and a buttload of music, I find that my Palm does not get used as much as it used to.
If the iPod had a way to enter contact and calendar information with using a computer, then I would find little use for my palm other than having my Filemaker databases, word files and few cool games. Syncing the iPod is certainly much faster than syncing my palm.
When CD's first came out they were 11.99. Back then I often had a bigger CD collection than music stores did. They had a little display at the end of he aisle.
They raised the price saying they need to pay for new pressing facilities to meet demand, there were only two in the world at that time. When supply caught up with demand and the vast catalogs of the record companies were on CD the prices did not go down. Why not, the public was used to paying it by then.
Back to the topic, I think that DVD-A should be the standard. It's 192kHz more than enough for sound quality and its support of the 5.1 standard ties in nicely with all the 5.1 systems that are already out there. Hopefully it will be artfully used like many of the old Quad records were. I really don't see much of a use for 5.1 192kHz Brittany Spears disc.
If the record companies overprice them then they will run into the same problem they have now, piracy. At least the DVD-A format will require more bandwidth to pirate than current CD's do and that may help the record companies in the long run. Of course with the RIAA behind them they are usually never at a loss for stupid business decisions.
Shortly after the tour started the computers on the bus were infected with a worm and they had to be shut down while several Microsoft professionals were flown in from Redmond to get them up and running again.
The above is not true but it is easily believable and that is the said part.
Is it just me but wouldn't it be better if Microsoft released updates to the OS on a regular basis instead of patches after the horse has left the barn? It would much more effective than a propaganda tour, trying to convince someone who lost all their business records that Windows is secure.
Of course it is the spammers fault, there is no question in that. You also have to give Microsoft a little bit of that credit too. There is absolutely no reason that it should be so easy to place a program on a persons computer without their knowledge.
Also instead of just placing a little band-aid on the problem after the fact, MS should have released a major update to Windows to close these holes once and for all a long time ago. SP2 is due out soon as supposedly will fix all these problems.
Microsoft has had the chance to step up and do the right thing each time this has happened but has failed to do it yet. They almost did the right thing by releasing the SP2 update to all users, even pirates, but yet again they blew it. Let's see how they fair when the update comes out. If they close all the holes and put security over their being able to let others into users computer I will be surprised.
I actually do use windows and build my own boxes...have for years. I will name a few of my dislikes about windows.
1. Stability. Contrary to what a lot of Windows fanatics preach WindowsXP is far from a stable OS.
2. Quality. Since I build my own units I put in the best I can since I have seen so many cheap systems over the years. However the OS itself is not up to snuff. I recently tried to install Easy CD Creator 7 on my XP pro box and had problems with the install. Even after cleaning up the problems and fixing the registery the program hangs before it even starts to install. Another problem with the platform is that the company you by from might not be around tomorrow. So it is best to stick to big names. Usually those big names offer the same things on both Mac and PC. I spend way too much time keeping my XP box running. Computer are supposed to work for me not the other way around.
3. Security. Hands down OS X is better than Windows.
4. Business practices. Microsoft is no sweetheart here. If they have the better product as they claim then why do they have to resort to lies, strong-arm tactics and questionable business practices?
5. Behind the tech curve. Again MS always seems to be behind the curve when it comes to inventive, easy to use applications. Their "copies" of iMovie, iPhoto and the like are a joke. No one can touch apple in these areas. I have put off buying an MP3 player until this month. I checked out many of the ones available and even considered MP3 based CD players. I wound up with an iPod. You can say they are over priced and you would be right but they are worth every extra penny you pay for them. The iTunes, iTunes Music Store and the Pod cannot be beat.
6. Ease of use. Actually with MS wizards you think that MS would be easier to get running and keep running. Not! Their are times when the wizards are not the way to do things and take longer and cause more problems than doing it the "hard" way.
7. Elderly OS. Say what you will XP is just a prettier DOS. It relies way to much on the old DOS conventions like DLLs. Until MS moves on and develops are truly modern OS without the 20 year old DOS parts then they are just contributing to a larger and larger mess of an OS.
That said I still use my PC but not as much as I used to. I may even dump windows and move it over to linux. The only thing stopping me is that I will soon be taking an MSCE course and may need it for a study aid.
Not only can we blame MS for the rash of Trojans and Worms but now all the spam in my inbox! When will someone get the cahones to sue Microsoft for the amount of lost data, time and money that they have cost us?
I love the term "Microsoft Zombies", it works on so many levels!
Modern broadcast techniques may be all that but most devices that put out an RF signal don't make use of those, they could but they don't, so it already shows that without guidance it would not work. You might not like losing your wireless connection whenever someone used a garage door opener. You might not like the fire department never arriving at your house because they never received a signal due to radio interference.
Well, what can I say, they DID know they rules before doing what they did. If you kill someone you can expect something bad to happen to you...unless you are O.J. I agree that the government should take a backseat when it comes to broadcasting. I also believe people should be responsible for their actions. Seems like that people have problems dealing with both of those.
You are correct without the FCC the interference by these on tested devices would not only cause interference to the end users but could cause interference to public safety radios and communication networks as well.
As far as Janet Jacksons boob shot well, I don't like the government telling me what I can watch but MTV knew the rules before putting the show on, so they should not be too surprised by the reaction. At least they could have stepped up and taken the blame for it instead of lying their way out and blaming everyone except themselves.....that pisses me off more than government interference.
Which brings up another point. I love football but what in thee hell are this stupid bands doing at the halftime shows? Football and nsync or Justin Timberlake do not mix. Stick with hard rock groups or country and western. Boy band pop has no place at a football game.....or in public in general for that matter.
Sounds like MAC (Microsoft Ass Covering). The reason is two fold.
1. Since all those people who have software update contracts with MS have basically gotten squat from them in the way of software this may pacify those business who purchased the plans. Better yet it may cover the ass of the IT department who said purchasing those plans would pay for itself in the long run.
2. It provides a band-aid, even though it would not help that much, for the glut of worms and viri that have cost businesses money, data, lost employee hours and customers. More than likely if a system administrator was stupid enough to let his system get infected in the first place he would probably infect the backup server when he went to recover the files.
Even though both of these things would really help MS in the long run, at least in the PR department, they still have to add a bunch of stipulations to getting the software. I think Microsoft would be happier if they got the PR and the stipulations meant that only 1 or 2 people were eligible to get the free software. They also blew a really good chance of helping to dispel the truth that their OS is full of security holes by allowing those with pirated copies to download the "more secure" SP2, but they quickly jerked that back and gave about the lamest statement to come from a software company to the press about it. Who knows, it could be a smart move if SP2 is not as secure as MS has been claiming it is.....they can just blame the pirates or linux or both.
Microsoft is used to shooting itself in the foot but lately they seem to like emptying the whole clip into instead of just a single shot. It makes me wonder who is behind all this, Gates or Ballmer?
Microsoft lied back on...uh I mean clarified their position back on May 10th.
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Seems Microsoft is spending more and more time trying to cover up or explain what some of their spokespeople are saying.
Not only that but the virus writers who are more likely to be running a pirated copy of windows should be really happy with Microsoft going back on its word to make this update available even to pirated copies. This should cut down on the number of viruses and Trojans they write. I am sure the holes in SP2 will be exploited within hours or days of its release.
They seem to code better and faster than Microsofts own people. Plus they know something about security, which seems to be lacking in Redmond.
If SP2 does not fix these holes like Microsoft claims it will then they should be libel for the money that business lose due to badly written software. Microsoft needs to change the way it updates its software. Instead of releasing a service pack and charging for it when it does come out they should step to releases every month or two, like the way OS X does.
As a matter of fact Microsoft seems to be in the same state Apple was in before Jobs came back. Lost and clueless developing products that they were not good at and had a directionless system software development. This far into WindowsXP MS should have had nearly all of the framework for longhorn laid out and most of the coding done, yet we hear of announced features being dropped because it won't meet their deadline which is two years off. Something is wrong in Redmond and now is the time for Linux and OS X take advantage of it, if they don't do it now they may not have another chance. Unless of course longhorn is the worst mistake they have ever made.
If it is they are probably going after Apple for the transparent window patent.
Problem is that if challenged they will lose. Apple had it first.