Certainly there wouldn't be a problem if Mike Rowe set up the domains mikerowesoftware.com or rowesoft, or any other thing like that...
It should be patently obvious to anyone that he chose the name "MikeRoweSoft" to sound like microsoft. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the computer industry, like he does, would immediately think of Microsoft when they heard MikeRoweSoft - if he tried to say otherwise, it would be pretty obviously a lie.
So, in other words, he chose a company name and a domain specifically because it sounded like the name of another company, and in that case you enter a completely different situation. I'm not saying it's wrong, or that Microsoft has a slam dunk, but he did, quite obviously, try to capitalize on the name of another company, for whatever that is worth.
Well, in theory, because of Windows' Hardware Abstraction Layer and the way it's architected, they should be able to put all three on a single disc and install the one you need. All the chips are based on X86, so the differences wouldn't be quite as huge as to make that impossible.
Now that I think of it, if I were Microsoft, I'd make the Professional version of the desktop OS the only one that supports 64 bit CPUs. That would fit in with the current strategy (home=1 cpu, pro=2cpu).
It WILL NOT replace Flash unless it has some kind of scripting functionality in it.
Flash is where it is not because it's a vector animation package (livemotion was that) but because of the quite powerful scripting language built in. With MX and now MX04 it can communicate directly with servers to get data, stream audio and video, and communicate in incredible ways.
And of course, the problem with the storage and disposal of Nuclear waste is that people still have it in their minds that it might actually be useful at some point (read: be able to make bombs out of it)
If you were to break up the waste, mix it with glass, and bury the resultant big frigging block of glass in the desert, you're pretty much golden (or at least that's what the discovery channel told me). You just can't dig it up later and use it to kill people with.
The only place mine shows is on my sites, so I embed my address in a Flash mailto: link. So there's nothing on the HTML page that shows my addy, and not even anything in the HTML that has anything that looks like any kind of address. Just some innocuous images, and a flash file.
For the (2%?-5%?) that don't have the flash player, I have a mail form that goes through PHP.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what this will do.
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Let me know if this is what we're talking about here...
But it would seem to me that something that would allow me to browse to, say, a Flash MX file by either going:
My documents/clients/client 3/source files/flashThing.fla
or
My Documents/Macromedia Files/Flash MX/flashThing.fla
or
My Documents/creative things/Reusable things/swirls/flashThing.fla
or, or, or...
Without having to have a bunch of shortcuts OR multiple copies of a file... Well, I think this would be an extraordinarily cool thing which would save me oodles of time.
" Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this."
Because god forbid you actually read something that you might not like. What on earth is that?
Better to say, "Forewarning: this has viewpoints that right or wrong, run directly contrary to your own. You should read this to see what some people out there think and are reading in an influential magazine."
See, if I were Microsoft... (thinking about that for a moment... ahh) I would be out there trying to hire the guy to head up my security division and give him a free hand.
Kill a few birds with one stone - de-fuse everyone who said they had something to do with his firing, make some friends in the security industry, and have someone in charge of security who will definately push for what he thinks is right...
Which is exactly the same kind of 'innovation' that Henry Ford brought to the automobile industry.
There was nothing special about the Model T as a car, but whoooooo boy, was there any other car in all of history that's been as influential as the Tin Lizzie?
Apparently, and I didn't realise this, it's decided on a case by case basis, with extradition being granted in only extremely exceptional circumstances.
Of course Ng was in 1991, and the Supreme Court decision I referred to was in 1999, so there's a bit more clarity now, but yes, you are right.
Without them, there is absolutely no way for web based applications to maintain state across pages, meaning that there's hardly a web application in the world that would still work.
Sheesh...
There's also some real compelling java applets too - like a Library catalogue I rememeber using once.
And Flash... Well, I tend to mostly agree with you, but oh well.
Once upon a time, cigarette prices in Ontario were around $7.00 a pack, and gray and black market smokes were coming in from the reservations and the states to such an extent that the government was quite concerned. (there were these things called "dks" which were supposed to smoke like Dumaurier King Size...)
So, they cut the prices down to around $4.00 or so, and killed the black market.
And with the black market dead, then they snuck the prices back up to where they are now - around $8.00.
So, who wants to bet that in five years CD prices are back where they are now, or higher?
Are you saying that if, oh, Windows 3.11 was "stable, bug free and secure", you'd be happy using it? (Or, even that dog of a system, NT3.1)
I wouldn't. This summer just for shits and giggles I set up virtual PC and installed every OS since Windows 2. Hoooo boy do they suck (even though at the time I thought they were the best thing since sliced bread)
I know that at the time it didn't seem like there were great usability and functional improvements, but when you look back, they hit you in the face.
Even just nicking the wire with your stripper can cause problems like that.
You can have a piece of 4 guage wire, and take a nick out of the wire all the way around when you're taking the insulation off, and all of a sudden, you've turned it into 8 guage in that spot.
It'll work great for a month, or a year, or whatever, but eventually, you're going to overload that particular spot a little, which will heat it up, which will increase the resistance, which will make it heat up more, and so on, and so on, until you have lots of smoke coming out...
But you'll probably be gone by that point, so what's the problem, right?
They'll sell the printers for a hundred and fifty bucks a pop, and the cartridges will cost you $300.00.
If you're lucky they'll run out after printing up two blenders and a frypan, and if you're not, they'll just clog into uselessness after doing one pair of scissors.
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Well, yes and no.
Certainly there wouldn't be a problem if Mike Rowe set up the domains mikerowesoftware.com or rowesoft, or any other thing like that...
It should be patently obvious to anyone that he chose the name "MikeRoweSoft" to sound like microsoft. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the computer industry, like he does, would immediately think of Microsoft when they heard MikeRoweSoft - if he tried to say otherwise, it would be pretty obviously a lie.
So, in other words, he chose a company name and a domain specifically because it sounded like the name of another company, and in that case you enter a completely different situation. I'm not saying it's wrong, or that Microsoft has a slam dunk, but he did, quite obviously, try to capitalize on the name of another company, for whatever that is worth.
Well, in theory, because of Windows' Hardware Abstraction Layer and the way it's architected, they should be able to put all three on a single disc and install the one you need. All the chips are based on X86, so the differences wouldn't be quite as huge as to make that impossible.
Now that I think of it, if I were Microsoft, I'd make the Professional version of the desktop OS the only one that supports 64 bit CPUs. That would fit in with the current strategy (home=1 cpu, pro=2cpu).
Give it a year or so, the SCO debacle will be over, and people will be back to having MS on the top of their hate lists.
It WILL NOT replace Flash unless it has some kind of scripting functionality in it.
Flash is where it is not because it's a vector animation package (livemotion was that) but because of the quite powerful scripting language built in. With MX and now MX04 it can communicate directly with servers to get data, stream audio and video, and communicate in incredible ways.
True, true... Which is why code audits are important, so you know that all it stores is:
personzzz = pin xxx & has voted.
candidate fff = candidate fff + 1
Plus, they may get people interested in their work, and what they do. Or even interested in science in general.
From a PR perspective, even ignoring the "fun" part, it's anything but a bad thing. Kudos.
And of course, the problem with the storage and disposal of Nuclear waste is that people still have it in their minds that it might actually be useful at some point (read: be able to make bombs out of it)
If you were to break up the waste, mix it with glass, and bury the resultant big frigging block of glass in the desert, you're pretty much golden (or at least that's what the discovery channel told me). You just can't dig it up later and use it to kill people with.
The only place mine shows is on my sites, so I embed my address in a Flash mailto: link. So there's nothing on the HTML page that shows my addy, and not even anything in the HTML that has anything that looks like any kind of address. Just some innocuous images, and a flash file.
For the (2%?-5%?) that don't have the flash player, I have a mail form that goes through PHP.
Let me know if this is what we're talking about here...
But it would seem to me that something that would allow me to browse to, say, a Flash MX file by either going:
My documents/clients/client 3/source files/flashThing.fla
or
My Documents/Macromedia Files/Flash MX/flashThing.fla
or
My Documents/creative things/Reusable things/swirls/flashThing.fla
or, or, or...
Without having to have a bunch of shortcuts OR multiple copies of a file... Well, I think this would be an extraordinarily cool thing which would save me oodles of time.
That would be a killer app.
" Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this."
Because god forbid you actually read something that you might not like. What on earth is that?
Better to say, "Forewarning: this has viewpoints that right or wrong, run directly contrary to your own. You should read this to see what some people out there think and are reading in an influential magazine."
Exactly.
Plus, it's a survey of people who read "Internet Week" and care enough to submit their choice to the poll... Plus the inevitable pollbox stuffers.
I would like to see a proper controlled poll run by an actual polling agency, but who would pay for it?
No, I guess I wasn't...
But nevertheless, I say Pft.
Any problem can be fixed with enough resources thrown at it. Hire the guy, and tell him to figure out how MS can get as good as it can get.
Even if he never comes up with an answer, all they've done is spent a couple hundred grand and gained what I said as my other points.
See, if I were Microsoft... (thinking about that for a moment... ahh) I would be out there trying to hire the guy to head up my security division and give him a free hand.
Kill a few birds with one stone - de-fuse everyone who said they had something to do with his firing, make some friends in the security industry, and have someone in charge of security who will definately push for what he thinks is right...
Right. Gotcha. Score -1 for reading comprehension.
I guess it all depends on how well the chip performs in all other respects... Which we'll have to wait until the chip launches to find out.
Yeah... Talk to me when someone, anyone, has seen a box in real life.
"For example, how many here actually ever bought a math co-processor after there were processors with this built in?
"
Everyone who used CAD programs... I.E. Everyone who needed a Math CoPro.
Which is exactly the same kind of 'innovation' that Henry Ford brought to the automobile industry.
There was nothing special about the Model T as a car, but whoooooo boy, was there any other car in all of history that's been as influential as the Tin Lizzie?
Hmmm... Interesting.
Apparently, and I didn't realise this, it's decided on a case by case basis, with extradition being granted in only extremely exceptional circumstances.
Of course Ng was in 1991, and the Supreme Court decision I referred to was in 1999, so there's a bit more clarity now, but yes, you are right.
Also, they won't extradite if the punishment they're facing is unconstitutional in Canada... Specifically death penalty cases:
Here's the supreme court decision on it
Basically, they won't extradite until the jurisdiction takes the death penalty off the table.
Especially the Cookies thing.
Without them, there is absolutely no way for web based applications to maintain state across pages, meaning that there's hardly a web application in the world that would still work.
Sheesh...
There's also some real compelling java applets too - like a Library catalogue I rememeber using once.
And Flash... Well, I tend to mostly agree with you, but oh well.
Once upon a time, cigarette prices in Ontario were around $7.00 a pack, and gray and black market smokes were coming in from the reservations and the states to such an extent that the government was quite concerned. (there were these things called "dks" which were supposed to smoke like Dumaurier King Size...)
So, they cut the prices down to around $4.00 or so, and killed the black market.
And with the black market dead, then they snuck the prices back up to where they are now - around $8.00.
So, who wants to bet that in five years CD prices are back where they are now, or higher?
Are you saying that if, oh, Windows 3.11 was "stable, bug free and secure", you'd be happy using it? (Or, even that dog of a system, NT3.1)
I wouldn't. This summer just for shits and giggles I set up virtual PC and installed every OS since Windows 2. Hoooo boy do they suck (even though at the time I thought they were the best thing since sliced bread)
I know that at the time it didn't seem like there were great usability and functional improvements, but when you look back, they hit you in the face.
Even just nicking the wire with your stripper can cause problems like that.
You can have a piece of 4 guage wire, and take a nick out of the wire all the way around when you're taking the insulation off, and all of a sudden, you've turned it into 8 guage in that spot.
It'll work great for a month, or a year, or whatever, but eventually, you're going to overload that particular spot a little, which will heat it up, which will increase the resistance, which will make it heat up more, and so on, and so on, until you have lots of smoke coming out...
But you'll probably be gone by that point, so what's the problem, right?
For consumer batteries in conventional form factors (AA, AAA, C, D & whatever a 9-volt is called)
They're called 9v batteries. And the other ones on your list aren't batteries, they're cells. A battery is a collection of cells.
So a 9v battery has 6 1.5v cells in it.
Is it any wonder my wife calls me Mr. Pedantic?
Wow, that'll be great!
They'll sell the printers for a hundred and fifty bucks a pop, and the cartridges will cost you $300.00.
If you're lucky they'll run out after printing up two blenders and a frypan, and if you're not, they'll just clog into uselessness after doing one pair of scissors.