Why would an editor even accept this story? Be it Macworld or Slashdot. Wow, viruses hiding as warez! What a concept!
It's a delightful change of pace from reading about stupid Windows using pirates to read about stupid Mac using pirates. I mean, there used to be this myth that Mac users were somehow better and more enlightened than the rest of us.
I wonder if he did his/. post from another, unaffected, Mac, or had to lower himself to a WinTel machine to get the MSWord out.
The files are not gone. MSWord 2004 is just converting them all to its native format. Even on a G5 however this will take another 6 days, so simply remain calm and trust to Microsoft.
downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta. The file unzipped, and to my delight the Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy.' However, he added: 'I clicked on the installer file, and to my horror in 10 seconds the attachment had wiped my entire Home folder!
Maybe it did work completely correctly. After all, Microsoft does fiercely fight all competition.
A single chip that contains the cores of two microprocessors need not run at as high a clock speed
1: Megahertz matters!
2: Profit
3: Performance ratings are for wimps (see #1)
3.5: Demean companies using performance ratings instead of real Megahertz.
4: Profit
5: Megahertz creates too much heat (we goofed)
6: Long pipelines good
7: Long pipelines bad
8: Adopt obscure semi-performance based chip rating system (i.e. how can we fool them today)
9: Profit?
10: Insiders start selling short (projected behavior)
11: PROFIT!!
It uses DRAM memory to store data instead of spinning platter
You know, 25+ years ago they had solid state paging drums for the mainframes of the time. Sure they were larger in size, less capacity, slower than this unit, and more expensive -- but so were computers in general. This is hardly a new idea.
By the time Longhorn finally arrives, the AMD64 instruction set should be firmly entrenched at both AMD and Intel. Since from the looks of it everyone is going to have to buy new hardware for Longhorn anyway, Microsoft could save themselves a lot of time, money, and grief, by making Longhorn AMD64 only. It might even run better in that environment.
We've been exclusively Dell SOHO customers for the last 8 years, and every system we've gotten from them starting with a pair of PII-223MHz Dimensions through our current systems are still running daily in the business.
However...
The next system I intend to buy will be an Athlon64 from somebody. Are you really listening, Dell?
So what is it going to take to get to version 1.0? I'm uneasy about software that even the developer labels with what is considered beta release versioning.
Seems to me that Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is not likely to get one whole lot of cooperation from a Republican-controlled Senate, House, and/or White House. Even if they like the idea -- A Lot -- they're still not going to let him have credit for it.
And I wouldn't expect Vermont's other Senator, Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), to have many friends in the majority party either.
Remember this next time you're chanting, "Anybody But Bush!"
Now tell me, really, does anybody truly believe that copyright reform could happen without throwing a few bones -- if not the whole T-Rex -- to the **AA lobby?
This is/., not Fantasyland.
[Fantasyland is believed to be a registered trademark of the Walt Disney Corporation. It is used here without permission, but concurrent with the United States Supreme Court decision regarding Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc (1994) and the copyright laws of the United States protecting parody and satire.]
within 24 hours of downloading iTunes 4.5, has broken the new scheme
He should have waited a couple of weeks until the 4.5 base was firmly established first. Now how long before 4.6 comes out with another tweak to the system? Every time Apple has to update the system, they will piss off more people because of the DRM.
Someone needs to hack the **AA and their stodges and install Peer Guardian with an invented block list (i.e. they're blocked from contact with the rest of the world and can only talk to each other). They'll be happy because they won't see any filesharing any more -- and the rest of us will be happy too!
However, that may have provided only a temporary reprieve. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that is closely following the RIAA's campaign, the Internet address used by "Nycfashiongirl" was included in the batch of lawsuits filed on Tuesday against anonymous individuals, raising the likelihood that she will be drawn back into the courts.
Maybe her ISP has erased their log files by now, given the length of time that has passed, and can no longer identify her. Wouldn't that be a w00t!
I feel I've been completely Bait && Switched by this interview. The first posting treated this as a serious attempt by someone studying and trying to be the first in an emerging profession. I thought that was pretty neat. And people asked some serious questions deserving of serious answers.
If this right existed (to keep other people out of your network on the Internet), then none of the IM clients could legally interoperate with the others until they agreed to licensing terms.
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It's a delightful change of pace from reading about stupid Windows using pirates to read about stupid Mac using pirates. I mean, there used to be this myth that Mac users were somehow better and more enlightened than the rest of us.
I wonder if he did his /. post from another, unaffected, Mac, or had to lower himself to a WinTel machine to get the MSWord out.
The files are not gone. MSWord 2004 is just converting them all to its native format. Even on a G5 however this will take another 6 days, so simply remain calm and trust to Microsoft.
1: I am an pirate!
2: I am a idiot!
Maybe it did work completely correctly. After all, Microsoft does fiercely fight all competition.
Okay, I'm ready to /. Congress. Just tell me where to click.
1: Megahertz matters!
2: Profit
3: Performance ratings are for wimps (see #1)
3.5: Demean companies using performance ratings instead of real Megahertz.
4: Profit
5: Megahertz creates too much heat (we goofed)
6: Long pipelines good
7: Long pipelines bad
8: Adopt obscure semi-performance based chip rating system (i.e. how can we fool them today)
9: Profit?
10: Insiders start selling short (projected behavior)
11: PROFIT!!
So this is Intel's solution to 64-bit computing: two 32-bit cores on the same chip.
Maybe not. How long before someone gets angry and floods the net with bogus subscription services?
You know, 25+ years ago they had solid state paging drums for the mainframes of the time. Sure they were larger in size, less capacity, slower than this unit, and more expensive -- but so were computers in general. This is hardly a new idea.
Opps. I meant, seven.
How about 42?
The real dark matter in the universe is the massive SCO intellectual property rights that no one else has yet seen.
By the time Longhorn finally arrives, the AMD64 instruction set should be firmly entrenched at both AMD and Intel. Since from the looks of it everyone is going to have to buy new hardware for Longhorn anyway, Microsoft could save themselves a lot of time, money, and grief, by making Longhorn AMD64 only. It might even run better in that environment.
However...
The next system I intend to buy will be an Athlon64 from somebody. Are you really listening, Dell?
So what is it going to take to get to version 1.0? I'm uneasy about software that even the developer labels with what is considered beta release versioning.
Boy, you seem to have had this one Locked & Loaded and ready to fire on a moment's notice.
And I wouldn't expect Vermont's other Senator, Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), to have many friends in the majority party either.
Remember this next time you're chanting, "Anybody But Bush!"
This is /., not Fantasyland.
[Fantasyland is believed to be a registered trademark of the Walt Disney Corporation. It is used here without permission, but concurrent with the United States Supreme Court decision regarding Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc (1994) and the copyright laws of the United States protecting parody and satire.]
Once open sourced, it cannot ever be bought out and buried.
We all know who I'm talking about. And frankly, Sun does look pretty weak these days. I wonder if they'll be around in 5 years.
Suing people just doesn't seem to be getting the message across.
He should have waited a couple of weeks until the 4.5 base was firmly established first. Now how long before 4.6 comes out with another tweak to the system? Every time Apple has to update the system, they will piss off more people because of the DRM.
Someone needs to hack the **AA and their stodges and install Peer Guardian with an invented block list (i.e. they're blocked from contact with the rest of the world and can only talk to each other). They'll be happy because they won't see any filesharing any more -- and the rest of us will be happy too!
Maybe her ISP has erased their log files by now, given the length of time that has passed, and can no longer identify her. Wouldn't that be a w00t!
I feel I've been completely Bait && Switched by this interview. The first posting treated this as a serious attempt by someone studying and trying to be the first in an emerging profession. I thought that was pretty neat. And people asked some serious questions deserving of serious answers.
Now it's a fricking joke!
Wouldn't it be funny if KCEasy was a shell company for the **AA, and when Sharman showed up in court to face them...
Wouldn't that be lovely?