OEM's do a horrible job choosing preloaded software. Dell, HP, Sony it doesn't matter. First day I get such a computer, I spend it removing the crap. I don't want to buy a computer like that. I'd pay a bit more to just have a plain Windows instalation with the drivers preloaded and additional software availible on CD, but not preinstalled. Or I'll just continue to do what I always do and just build my own, I guess its just relitives boxes that I have to deal with.
I mean Flux DVD, not my friend the fluxbox desktop enviornment. It has nothing to do with MS DRM. I should be prevented from posting without previewing.
fluxDVDs use a Microsoft Windows Media compatible DRM scheme that allows easy integration into exiting server- and client side MS DRM environments. Burned DVD-Rs use an updateable, sophisticated DMCA copy protection.
Well, it depends. You never tried to start Netscape 2 on a Pentium 60 running windows nt 3.51 with 40 mb of memmory that had been running all day. Sometimes, it would start up in 30 seconds, other times, it wouldn't start for 10 minutes. Opera running on a floppy would start in 5 seconds. So lets see: 10* 60= 600. So maybe a hundred times is a worst case senario. And thats really comparing apples to oranges, cause I wouldn't have been able to run Opera on the slow 10 minute computer because I couldn't bet the fileman to start in less than 10 minutes. It was just slow all around. But good point none the less. I actually started off with thousands of times faster, but revised it downwards. I guess I got a little carried away. BUt still. It was fast and it really impressed all of the creapy guys that used to hang out in the computer lab late at night( many people didn't know what the internet was used for, so most normal people didn't use the computer except to write reports).Oh the memories. We also had Unix base chat of some kind. At night on the weekends, I used to get random invitations from lonely, desperate girls in the all girls dorm next door. I wonder who actually taught them how to use unix. At least I thought they were girls, never took them up on the offer. If they were girls, they must have been the ugly ones.
I swear they were hundreds of times uglier than Janet Reno. Whoops, there I go again.
Well, you know how it goes: Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, it eats you.
FSecure's posting says that they released a version of their antirootkit software that can defeat this. Date June 21
Symantec says that FSecure's product can't remove this. Date June 29.
Any reason for this discrepency? You'd think they'd continue to moniter what other companies are doing to combat the problem and 8 days would be enough for them to find out about the new release.
corperations? So when XP no longer is supported a coperation will switch to a system thats not 1005 compatabile or very tested and also not supported? Somehow I doubt that.
Back in my day, before the widespread adoption of usb. I had opera 2 or 3 installed on a floppy. And It was great, the university was stuck on netscape 2 and wouldn't update to either IE or Netscape 3. It was hundreds of times faster.
In Win95 microsoft faced even more difficult problems with app compatability. So thats exactly what they did in a few cases, they wrote windows around a few applications taking into account some bugs that the programs had and made specific hacks so they would work in win95's protected memory system. I Hope they've learned their lesson. Xpo to vista should be as easy as 95 to 98 right? Its off the same code base at least. Not like 3.1 to 95 or 98 to xp.
Sorry,but I get tired of people who aren't dealing with the situation to just sit back and say "thats not a problem you don't know what you're doing", "RTFM",... ect. There have been so many times, I've heard this while I've been working on getting n obscure piece of hardware working. It doesn't always work like the documentation says it should. Heck, thats often true even in the windows world. You can't just declare that the problem does not exist. It may not be Linux's fault, but it might be. Its not perfect, but as you said its better now than it was and always gets better. I think part of the problem when people face Linux problems are a combination of the fast lowkey release cycle ( how do I know when linux supports my digital camera ?) , and people who tell them that its their fault when stuff doesn't work.
The problem with that is ego. The people that in the mid to late 90s that created the corperate activex website is still there. He got a promotion for doing it ontime and on budget. Now you're telling him he did it all wrong. Not only are you saying he was stupid, but his boss was stupid for rewarding him for doing it. Plus, right now with IE it "just works"( Translated it means that its horibbly buggy, but everyone already knows about the problems and how to work around them). They don't want to re do the system , disturb the status quo, and retrain everyone for the new app, just because its a better idea in the long run. But stick in there, soon you can claim that the ROI for the previous system was tremendos and further ROI could be achived with an update to standards based AJAX applications or what have you. Then you can change over after the new system is completed, just don't use the Firefox argument to change the application. The application allows firefox, not the other way around.
As someone who has actually done this, let me assure you the costs of retraining are not the same between winxp and some crazy linux version( you have to custom configure a distro to work on older hardware, so many of the apps and guis will not be kde or Gnome perfection that you have on your newer systems). Windows is going to be more familiar to what they know, the training costs are not going to be 2X that of moving to new xp dells. You'd be lucky to have 4X training costs.
That is true, but I would argue simply that an encyclepedia that is 100% correct cannot exist, even if you exclued the recent and controversial. I think thats a true statement. Or rather, I think it could be made, but most people wouldn't agree that it was 100% correct. Most people simply disagree on the truth, although that does not mean that objective truth doesn't exist. Do you see what I'm saying? It gets really complex, just trying to talk about it.
Autocomplete via Tab key was only made avilible wint winxo's cmd.exe. Prior to that the tildas were the way to go for command line, for boxes that I didn't just install Freedos command.exe which allowed tab completion.
I realise that its dangerous replying to trolls, but everyone who really wants to has already cracked the US GPS high precision code. I don't know how much of a secreat that is, but I've been told by people who know that its been done. The government is aware, but I think they still retain the posibility of switching it if they need to and having all of the military GPS work without modification. No, the US doesn't like the Euro Gallileo, because as far as we know, they lack the ability to block, or change the signal. But, I haven't heard any complaints recently. I wonder if they've figured out a compramise.
Without the "financial industry" Apple never would have left the garage. it would behoove you to study economic theory a bit. They want in to help their clients, large pension funds mostly.
The are offering an amnesty program where you can buy a legal licence from microsoft at a discounted price, if you fail the authentacation. Win XP home is $99, Pro for $150. Now, if they actually offered them for that price to consumers, I think they would have less of a piracy problem. Obviously, with the varied price/feature structure they are going to offer in Vista they need to figure out the optimal prices people are willing to pay for the product in the absence of real competition. I think thats what this whole thing is about: a large scale real world focus group.
I don't understand exactly. Do you mean that the user actually uses yahoo and just calls the action of making a search a "google"? Or do you mean that most people just use msn cause thats the Dell default? Or do you mean they're being secretly brainwashed by butterfies that come out of the sewer each night to sprinkle mind altering drugs on our lips as we sleep? Cause, thats what my mashed potatoes told me this morning.
Thats some bad moderation going on there. It was midly funny, but what insight does it bring? If anything, as all posters that have replied to the post indicate, he completely misunderstood the GP post. I don't have mod points otherwise I'd mod it down myself.
There was/is a Open source flash player. Its legalities are a bit questinable as it was based upon a flash 3.0 parsing document that Macrodmedai released. I was working on it for my company, but we ended the project when it became obvious that we couldn't leagly include it in our prodcut with out releasing the other soruce code. Its a shame. I found and fixed a few bugs, but no one was really interested in it at the time. Once the linux player became available even the original author just let it sit. still hasn't been modified.
UPDATE! Before posting I found the reincarnation of the project. Looks like some people care after all. Go here to the GPL FLash Web page I know I will do what I can.
How many people do you know that use MSN search that do not use Internet Explorer?
Zero? Pretty close to it.
You know people that use MSN Search?!? Seriously? Maybe I need to make more friends, but all of my imaganary ones and my not-made-up dogs swear they use Google.
Your pointing out differences not reasons. Its like saying I'm not the richest person in the world because my last name isn't gates. Dells come with Musicmatch as the default. Others come with realplayer. So Media Player can't be removed. So what? Is that the reason? If it was removable would that be ok? I think everyone who's responded to my post is just dancing around the issue I brought up. If you have the majority share of a market then you must behave differently. Maybe the next part is a bit rhetorical, but answer it if you can. Where is the limit between just trying to keep up withthe other competitors in a different,but related field and not abusing the existing monopoly? I thought at some point someone would mention Apple. Itunes is by far the msot popular form of DRM Store and format, despite everything Microsoft has done to try and corner that market. So does this mean that antitrust laws should not be applied to such a fast changing industry? Disscus amoungst your friends.
Strange thing I was in wally world myself today, when lo and behold they have music cds again. Well, heck they weren't there the last time I checked. I guess either some people buy them not knowing that data cds also work, or peole still use those standalones.
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OEM's do a horrible job choosing preloaded software. Dell, HP, Sony it doesn't matter. First day I get such a computer, I spend it removing the crap. I don't want to buy a computer like that. I'd pay a bit more to just have a plain Windows instalation with the drivers preloaded and additional software availible on CD, but not preinstalled. Or I'll just continue to do what I always do and just build my own, I guess its just relitives boxes that I have to deal with.
I mean Flux DVD, not my friend the fluxbox desktop enviornment. It has nothing to do with MS DRM. I should be prevented from posting without previewing.
fluxDVDs use a Microsoft Windows Media compatible DRM scheme that allows easy integration into exiting server- and client side MS DRM environments. Burned DVD-Rs use an updateable, sophisticated DMCA copy protection.
You can use any DVD +-R discs in your own burner.
Well, it depends. You never tried to start Netscape 2 on a Pentium 60 running windows nt 3.51 with 40 mb of memmory that had been running all day. Sometimes, it would start up in 30 seconds, other times, it wouldn't start for 10 minutes. Opera running on a floppy would start in 5 seconds. So lets see: 10* 60= 600. So maybe a hundred times is a worst case senario. And thats really comparing apples to oranges, cause I wouldn't have been able to run Opera on the slow 10 minute computer because I couldn't bet the fileman to start in less than 10 minutes. It was just slow all around. But good point none the less. I actually started off with thousands of times faster, but revised it downwards. I guess I got a little carried away. BUt still. It was fast and it really impressed all of the creapy guys that used to hang out in the computer lab late at night( many people didn't know what the internet was used for, so most normal people didn't use the computer except to write reports).Oh the memories. We also had Unix base chat of some kind. At night on the weekends, I used to get random invitations from lonely, desperate girls in the all girls dorm next door. I wonder who actually taught them how to use unix. At least I thought they were girls, never took them up on the offer. If they were girls, they must have been the ugly ones.
I swear they were hundreds of times uglier than Janet Reno. Whoops, there I go again.
Well, you know how it goes: Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, it eats you.
FSecure's posting says that they released a version of their antirootkit software that can defeat this. Date June 21
Symantec says that FSecure's product can't remove this. Date June 29.
Any reason for this discrepency? You'd think they'd continue to moniter what other companies are doing to combat the problem and 8 days would be enough for them to find out about the new release.
corperations? So when XP no longer is supported a coperation will switch to a system thats not 1005 compatabile or very tested and also not supported? Somehow I doubt that.
Back in my day, before the widespread adoption of usb. I had opera 2 or 3 installed on a floppy. And It was great, the university was stuck on netscape 2 and wouldn't update to either IE or Netscape 3. It was hundreds of times faster.
In Win95 microsoft faced even more difficult problems with app compatability. So thats exactly what they did in a few cases, they wrote windows around a few applications taking into account some bugs that the programs had and made specific hacks so they would work in win95's protected memory system. I Hope they've learned their lesson. Xpo to vista should be as easy as 95 to 98 right? Its off the same code base at least. Not like 3.1 to 95 or 98 to xp.
Sorry,but I get tired of people who aren't dealing with the situation to just sit back and say "thats not a problem you don't know what you're doing", "RTFM",... ect. There have been so many times, I've heard this while I've been working on getting n obscure piece of hardware working. It doesn't always work like the documentation says it should. Heck, thats often true even in the windows world. You can't just declare that the problem does not exist. It may not be Linux's fault, but it might be. Its not perfect, but as you said its better now than it was and always gets better. I think part of the problem when people face Linux problems are a combination of the fast lowkey release cycle ( how do I know when linux supports my digital camera ?) , and people who tell them that its their fault when stuff doesn't work.
The problem with that is ego. The people that in the mid to late 90s that created the corperate activex website is still there. He got a promotion for doing it ontime and on budget. Now you're telling him he did it all wrong. Not only are you saying he was stupid, but his boss was stupid for rewarding him for doing it. Plus, right now with IE it "just works"( Translated it means that its horibbly buggy, but everyone already knows about the problems and how to work around them). They don't want to re do the system , disturb the status quo, and retrain everyone for the new app, just because its a better idea in the long run. But stick in there, soon you can claim that the ROI for the previous system was tremendos and further ROI could be achived with an update to standards based AJAX applications or what have you. Then you can change over after the new system is completed, just don't use the Firefox argument to change the application. The application allows firefox, not the other way around.
Hmm... Integrated spell checker huh?
As someone who has actually done this, let me assure you the costs of retraining are not the same between winxp and some crazy linux version( you have to custom configure a distro to work on older hardware, so many of the apps and guis will not be kde or Gnome perfection that you have on your newer systems). Windows is going to be more familiar to what they know, the training costs are not going to be 2X that of moving to new xp dells. You'd be lucky to have 4X training costs.
That is true, but I would argue simply that an encyclepedia that is 100% correct cannot exist, even if you exclued the recent and controversial. I think thats a true statement. Or rather, I think it could be made, but most people wouldn't agree that it was 100% correct. Most people simply disagree on the truth, although that does not mean that objective truth doesn't exist. Do you see what I'm saying? It gets really complex, just trying to talk about it.
Now you tell me. Where where you in 2000? oh well FreeDos' Command.com did other things well too.
Autocomplete via Tab key was only made avilible wint winxo's cmd.exe. Prior to that the tildas were the way to go for command line, for boxes that I didn't just install Freedos command.exe which allowed tab completion.
I realise that its dangerous replying to trolls, but everyone who really wants to has already cracked the US GPS high precision code. I don't know how much of a secreat that is, but I've been told by people who know that its been done. The government is aware, but I think they still retain the posibility of switching it if they need to and having all of the military GPS work without modification. No, the US doesn't like the Euro Gallileo, because as far as we know, they lack the ability to block, or change the signal. But, I haven't heard any complaints recently. I wonder if they've figured out a compramise.
I don't think anybody thinks it's legal for somebody to set up an AllOfMP3 in the UK that pays license fees in accordance with Russian law.
I think that is the very issue that is before the court. You might also want to resarch the definition of nobody.
Without the "financial industry" Apple never would have left the garage. it would behoove you to study economic theory a bit. They want in to help their clients, large pension funds mostly.
The are offering an amnesty program where you can buy a legal licence from microsoft at a discounted price, if you fail the authentacation. Win XP home is $99, Pro for $150. Now, if they actually offered them for that price to consumers, I think they would have less of a piracy problem. Obviously, with the varied price/feature structure they are going to offer in Vista they need to figure out the optimal prices people are willing to pay for the product in the absence of real competition. I think thats what this whole thing is about: a large scale real world focus group.
*Think* they use google?
I don't understand exactly. Do you mean that the user actually uses yahoo and just calls the action of making a search a "google"? Or do you mean that most people just use msn cause thats the Dell default? Or do you mean they're being secretly brainwashed by butterfies that come out of the sewer each night to sprinkle mind altering drugs on our lips as we sleep? Cause, thats what my mashed potatoes told me this morning.
Thats some bad moderation going on there. It was midly funny, but what insight does it bring? If anything, as all posters that have replied to the post indicate, he completely misunderstood the GP post. I don't have mod points otherwise I'd mod it down myself.
There was/is a Open source flash player. Its legalities are a bit questinable as it was based upon a flash 3.0 parsing document that Macrodmedai released. I was working on it for my company, but we ended the project when it became obvious that we couldn't leagly include it in our prodcut with out releasing the other soruce code. Its a shame. I found and fixed a few bugs, but no one was really interested in it at the time. Once the linux player became available even the original author just let it sit. still hasn't been modified.
UPDATE! Before posting I found the reincarnation of the project. Looks like some people care after all. Go here to the GPL FLash Web page I know I will do what I can.
How many people do you know that use MSN search that do not use Internet Explorer?
Zero? Pretty close to it.
You know people that use MSN Search?!? Seriously? Maybe I need to make more friends, but all of my imaganary ones and my not-made-up dogs swear they use Google.
Your pointing out differences not reasons. Its like saying I'm not the richest person in the world because my last name isn't gates. Dells come with Musicmatch as the default. Others come with realplayer. So Media Player can't be removed. So what? Is that the reason? If it was removable would that be ok? I think everyone who's responded to my post is just dancing around the issue I brought up. If you have the majority share of a market then you must behave differently. Maybe the next part is a bit rhetorical, but answer it if you can. Where is the limit between just trying to keep up withthe other competitors in a different,but related field and not abusing the existing monopoly? I thought at some point someone would mention Apple. Itunes is by far the msot popular form of DRM Store and format, despite everything Microsoft has done to try and corner that market. So does this mean that antitrust laws should not be applied to such a fast changing industry? Disscus amoungst your friends.
Strange thing I was in wally world myself today, when lo and behold they have music cds again. Well, heck they weren't there the last time I checked. I guess either some people buy them not knowing that data cds also work, or peole still use those standalones.