Microsoft has addressed most of the pitfalls of Windows Vista on a netbook by increasing battery life and performance to be very close to that of the lighter-weight Windows XP.
What a fracking joke! That the new product is almost as good as the 7 year old one that it replaces.
Paging New York County Lawyer. Here's another brick for the wall you're building on how the recording industry lies and lies and lies about all the harm that evil filesharing perverts are causing them.
The real question of DRM is who owns it? You want to suppress books, can you afford to buy out Amazon and just erase them wholesale? That is the real question of DRM - Can you own the provider of it?
This is the same reason that spam blockers have so much trouble going up against rich spammers and the dumbass court system that makes you spend tens to hundreds of thousands to prove your innocence against harassment lawsuits. Why hasn't the RIAA just purchased Peer Guardian and killed it?
It's hard to fight money with idealism when the system is tilted against you.
You show yourself as a snob, Sir. Probably most any serious geek - including this one - will understand Fortran just fine. And given a little bit of time and money it can be rewritten into pretty much anything else since most other languages are supersets of Fortran.
The ultimate SHA should have a hash space as large as the count of atoms in the universe - then you can just select the atom involved and use its assigned number. Of course, collisions between atoms might be an issue.
I despise the implication that you aren't part of the world of technology until you have your own Twitter account. This sounds more like viral marketing for Twitter than for the game.
Don't forget tethering and VOIP restrictions and very low data caps on supposedly all-you-can-eat plans. When I pay for data bits to be transported then I should be able to use those bits in any way I desire -- despite what you want to say it does to your completely outrageous business model!
Besides the fact that you ultimately have full control over accepting cookies anyway
Yeah, right. Granny knows about cookies, privacy, and how to disable one to protect the other, while she's out there reading e-mail from the kids, checking up on the latest on Martha Stewart's site, and going to the political discussion that her smart, college-educated son directed her to on the.gov site. Sure she can just pop in and selectively disable cookies as required.
1: Find trusted friend working on same document.
2: WinDiff Document A against Document B.
3: Create Document C containing none of the mismatches in Document A+B.
4: PROFIT!
Overall this reminds me of the SDMI system several years ago that claimed that it could hide unique identifying data in an audio recording that couldn't be detected or removed and the developers of it issued a challenge to break the system. When it was quickly broken by Edward W. Felten the music industry responded not with a reward, but with lawsuit attempting to prohibit him from speaking about his methods. Talk about sore losers!
The real question is whether or not you should be storing sensitive material on your iPhone in the first place?
If the answer is: What kind of idiot are you? Of course my iPhone is the center of my universe and the repository of everything that will ever matter to me right at my finger tips, then there's a huge opportunity just waiting for some programmer at the Apps Store who can code faster than I can to supply a cheap App that actually provides true security...
...provided that Apple and the government will let them.
Don't patents require disclosure of any prior art as part of the application? Certainly millions of Lotus e-mail users saw and used these once upon a time. Did this appear on the application?
It's really stupid of Apple to try and block the Pre from the iTMS eco-system. Apple sells non-DRM music through that store and makes a little bit (most goes to the record companies, but Apple still makes something and enhances their standing as the world's biggest digital music store) music through iTMS that can be played on the Pre - so why throw out this market and hope that you can force them into an iPod only to make more money now? Be nice and they might buy an iPod later because of a good experience with iTunes.
It has offered to adopt the European Union's preferred solution
Excuse me, but...how is this different than caving in -- except that they also didn't write the EU a huge check for being such huge jerks to start with?
Sounds like Guggenheimer is betting on nostalgia. It's not uncommon for the mind's eye to view the past with rose-colored glasses. People forget past hardships and latch on to fond memories. Given enough time, I'm sure the same will happen with Vista.
You mean you'll remember Aero Glass while forgetting all the crashes, hangs, slow booting, bad drivers, incompatible programs, huge memory footprint, extra cost, lower performances, and best of all -- built-in DRM?
Yeah, sure.
Is he really saying that Vista is better than Windows 7? That was my first impression of his statement.
Or maybe he means that all the great Vista features that you'll finally discover in Windows 7 you could have been enjoying in Vista for the last two years. But then why hasn't anybody been able to discover them during these last 2 years and only now will they be magically revealed in Windows 7?
Conclusion: the guy is either a Microsoft Moron, or a Microsoft Troll--you choose.
This court decision is just plain stupid! How much privacy should you expect about your age when the laws require you to be of a minimum age to enter the establishment? The scanning box should simply have 2 lights -- green to enter and red to be barred -- and that's all the information the bar needs to know. Once we establish what they need to know and what they don't need to know then there shouldn't be a privacy issue because if you want to protect your privacy about your age then just don't enter.
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Sounds like NUMB3RS for the big screen.
What a fracking joke! That the new product is almost as good as the 7 year old one that it replaces.
Paging New York County Lawyer. Here's another brick for the wall you're building on how the recording industry lies and lies and lies about all the harm that evil filesharing perverts are causing them.
Do "ordinary vacuum" tubes even exist any more?
Isn't true of every "new" material?
Oh wait, I forgot superconductivity.
The real question of DRM is who owns it? You want to suppress books, can you afford to buy out Amazon and just erase them wholesale? That is the real question of DRM - Can you own the provider of it?
This is the same reason that spam blockers have so much trouble going up against rich spammers and the dumbass court system that makes you spend tens to hundreds of thousands to prove your innocence against harassment lawsuits. Why hasn't the RIAA just purchased Peer Guardian and killed it?
It's hard to fight money with idealism when the system is tilted against you.
You show yourself as a snob, Sir. Probably most any serious geek - including this one - will understand Fortran just fine. And given a little bit of time and money it can be rewritten into pretty much anything else since most other languages are supersets of Fortran.
The ultimate SHA should have a hash space as large as the count of atoms in the universe - then you can just select the atom involved and use its assigned number. Of course, collisions between atoms might be an issue.
I despise the implication that you aren't part of the world of technology until you have your own Twitter account. This sounds more like viral marketing for Twitter than for the game.
Don't forget tethering and VOIP restrictions and very low data caps on supposedly all-you-can-eat plans. When I pay for data bits to be transported then I should be able to use those bits in any way I desire -- despite what you want to say it does to your completely outrageous business model!
That is clearly The Most Important Cookie Commandment of all!
I'd give you Insightful+1 if I had mod points today.
Yeah, right. Granny knows about cookies, privacy, and how to disable one to protect the other, while she's out there reading e-mail from the kids, checking up on the latest on Martha Stewart's site, and going to the political discussion that her smart, college-educated son directed her to on the .gov site. Sure she can just pop in and selectively disable cookies as required.
NOT!
How about NO!
1: Find trusted friend working on same document.
2: WinDiff Document A against Document B.
3: Create Document C containing none of the mismatches in Document A+B.
4: PROFIT!
Overall this reminds me of the SDMI system several years ago that claimed that it could hide unique identifying data in an audio recording that couldn't be detected or removed and the developers of it issued a challenge to break the system. When it was quickly broken by Edward W. Felten the music industry responded not with a reward, but with lawsuit attempting to prohibit him from speaking about his methods. Talk about sore losers!
How many changes can it make before it either changes the meaning of the e-mail, or makes you look like a moron for sending such an malformed message?
Do we now have to go back to straight text e-mails just to ensure that nobody is hiding tracking bugs in it?
The real question is whether or not you should be storing sensitive material on your iPhone in the first place?
If the answer is: What kind of idiot are you? Of course my iPhone is the center of my universe and the repository of everything that will ever matter to me right at my finger tips, then there's a huge opportunity just waiting for some programmer at the Apps Store who can code faster than I can to supply a cheap App that actually provides true security...
...provided that Apple and the government will let them.
Do I care that Google knows I searched on a 200 year old book? Am I harmed that they know this?
OTOH, perhaps protections as stringent as those that libraries where I might have checked out that 200 year old book already have would be sufficient.
Don't patents require disclosure of any prior art as part of the application? Certainly millions of Lotus e-mail users saw and used these once upon a time. Did this appear on the application?
It's really stupid of Apple to try and block the Pre from the iTMS eco-system. Apple sells non-DRM music through that store and makes a little bit (most goes to the record companies, but Apple still makes something and enhances their standing as the world's biggest digital music store) music through iTMS that can be played on the Pre - so why throw out this market and hope that you can force them into an iPod only to make more money now? Be nice and they might buy an iPod later because of a good experience with iTunes.
No doubt that IE will have that magical Recommended description next to it.
Excuse me, but...how is this different than caving in -- except that they also didn't write the EU a huge check for being such huge jerks to start with?
You mean you'll remember Aero Glass while forgetting all the crashes, hangs, slow booting, bad drivers, incompatible programs, huge memory footprint, extra cost, lower performances, and best of all -- built-in DRM? Yeah, sure.
Is he really saying that Vista is better than Windows 7? That was my first impression of his statement.
Or maybe he means that all the great Vista features that you'll finally discover in Windows 7 you could have been enjoying in Vista for the last two years. But then why hasn't anybody been able to discover them during these last 2 years and only now will they be magically revealed in Windows 7?
Conclusion: the guy is either a Microsoft Moron, or a Microsoft Troll--you choose.
This court decision is just plain stupid! How much privacy should you expect about your age when the laws require you to be of a minimum age to enter the establishment? The scanning box should simply have 2 lights -- green to enter and red to be barred -- and that's all the information the bar needs to know. Once we establish what they need to know and what they don't need to know then there shouldn't be a privacy issue because if you want to protect your privacy about your age then just don't enter.
Does it cause cancer yet? If it doesn't, it will because somebody will figure out some way to claim it happens.