Just wait.. They are nearing the bottom of thier bag of tricks... Everyone allways has Naked Ladies someplace in thier bag of tricks... It will be inetersting when they start to Pull them out of thier bag o tricks:)
I am just waiting to hear about them during a press confrence shout "Oh Look Naked Chicks" right before they announce new weak tactics to stay in the news.
How is this truely a step back when it add huge advantages if used properly... Since it eliminates the need of a motor to spin a CD.. this would be a perfect replacement andding countless hours of battery life in portable media devices... Flash cards are costly and have a somewhat limited lifespan.. If this media is sold cheap enough... Who really cares if its rewritable or not... if I have 2 gigs of storage with a media that 1.5 inches square and costs me 2$.. I would gladly replace this media when its full... or what not...
I fail to see How this is a Leap back... Its a good leap forward... After all.. It will be eliminating quite a few problems asociated with CD type media.. No more scratches.. Less moving parts to break in the players.. longer battery life... This is an advancement... It will be hard to get people to start moving from cd's to a new storage medium... MP3 storage and mobility could help break down the barriers.
Well with MS knowladge of secuirty and the ability to secure the OS's.. I am sure it will be hours before the Xbox2 gets hacked and a few weeks/day later till someone has a semi workable linux port running on it:)
MS has been fliiping teh brid to Intel for quite some time... They were alot more intested to support AMD for thier 64 bit processor interal of INTEL's IA-64...
You think that is someone who is overpaid? Try putting on the shoes of someone that is forced not to have any type of social life because they are putting in 18-20 hour days for weeks/months on end... Having the responcibility of keeping things running 24/7 365.. Its not a easy task... it for the most part ends up killing your social life... on the same note.. Do don't see any of them bringing home 6 figures a year... if you know of any that do... let me know when the position is open..:)
Well if its that Web specific one should be able to use the non web specific "one click" technology on the web and not violate the patent.. if it does not qualify as prior art to disqualify the patent then it should not be able to infringe on that patent aswell.
Hollywood and the record industry have way too much focused on money... The product is the end result of marketing surveys and past history...
It has been said that there are no new ideas for hollywood to explore.. Every origonal idea has been explored and now any movie can be descibed as a combination of older movies.
How many times during a movie have you seen scenes that seem to be trown in that have little or nothing to do with plot development and any other aspect of the movie? or Pointless plot elements... This is the result of the Marketing Formula's that degrades the quality of the movie.. Valid elements are being left out to make room for this marketing mess...
Its seems all too common people think money will fix problems... so they trow money at the problem in hope it will go away... or achiving quality...
Saleries of Actor's/Actresses are far too high.. again for the most part Marketing experience says they this actor will attract people to the theater... and if we spend X ammount on advertising we should see this ammount of return on investment as long as the movie doesn't suck too bad... I think maybe somethime in the not too distance future they will start to realise they are brewing thier demise.
Or how about Fix flaws when identified... Theres flaws in IE that will never be fixed. Why offer a bounty when you have no intention of fixing what is pointed out. Right now thier interests are In Security and anything else that is going to lose them money
Its more the Corprate Market they are worried about... You know the Corps that buy preinstalled machines and then change the OS to thier corp standard so they have paid for multiple licences...
If the Corp world switches from MS products people will start learning and wanting to use the same in thier home environment so a migration will start toi occur.. This will take a long time.. but its a threat that needs to be dealt with from MS's perspective...
For the most part... People hear Linux is more secure and is making up alot of ground on MS's products.. But they don't see it first hand... once they are exposed to it.. the likely hood of a user switch is greater once they are exposed.
I am glad MS is starting to feel threats poping out at them from many angles.. I hope it continues as well... They are attacking the the symptoms of the problem.. not the problem itself... I am sure after a while they will realise that its cheaper and easier to fix thier secuirty model than to use the legal system to fix thier problems for them.
So If I wrote the virii but never realeased it into the wild... I turn myself in.. Do I get the 250k? Because maybe after all... I left the virii inactive on my default windows installation and some cracker came into my computer took my Virii and put into the wild.:)
So I guess by default it was MS's Fault that the virii was released into the wild... Wonder how that would hold up:)
Its good to see Finical Accountability for MS's business practices. I hope to see alot more of this as MS's lawyers and Marketing machine will have a very hard time to overcome dimishing profits from not playing nice and for the most part telling the public what should be expected rather than meeting expectations of the consumers.
Well in a sense it could be 100% correct... To some Hackers writing Virii could be what tickles thier fancy... Its the crackers and what not that release the virii.. There are blured lines when it comes to media's use of the term Hacker... But hacking in general does not mean any ill harm to the masses...
You hitting on a correct term... What you think of as a hacker is not of the same definition of what has been hyped in the media... The media has not been corrected in the improper use of the term Hacker... Maybe Bloggers should start to equate journalists the improperly use the term Hacker as to thier cousins "tabloid journalists"... get them to reconize the Diffrence between hackers and those who hack and write Virii..
I think stone and cave walls are the best Mediums for long term storage.....
It would be funny to see people study my MP3 collection etched in stone in 1000 years from now trying to figure out what it is:)
As i am sure if the recording industry has it way once people 1000 years from now are able to decode and play my MP3 collection they will either have to pay royalty fees or face a law suit under the DCMA:)
People are confusing the Term Quality... Digital Video is not Better Quality... Its for the most part Better Clarity...
Analog signals are succeptable to Analog interferance and will quickly show degradation of Video Clarity...
Digital Video Clarity is fixed due to digitization. analog interferance into the digital signal will not degrade Clairity of the Picture Quality... Being in a digital format (data)... only a highly affected signal will have data loss which will result is corruption of the picture(small blovk appear oin the screen).. Which the methods used to transport the data are highly resilliant to analog interferance.
Meanwhile... The Video compression used has Dropped Tonnes of Quality of the Video... Instead of colors ranging in the millions its cut down to mere thousands if not less.. Portions of Video Frames are dropped as well to reach high levels of compression. If you look at the background (not the foreground) you will notice a Jumping in the background a lack of detail... Is this Higher Quality? No it is not...This is a Compromise made for everyone... Loss of detail for increased Clarity. and We are Told its better Quality.. when they should be telling us Clairty.
I get a laugh about these new HDTV's touting they are capable of displaying billions of colors.. when in reality color palettes have been drastically reduced... Not to mention the human eye can't distinguish that many colors aswell... There is just a certain feldelity that we percive about seeing that many colours.
Really... some legal group should get a cease and desist order put on SCO and their frivolous claims to IP infringement until 1 of two conditions are met..
They show the linux community offending code so that it maybe remedied.
Or the courts rule on their claims. In which case if their IP rights have been violated the linux community will be able to remedy the situation and life will go on without SCO making news every other day.
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Well making Internal changes should do nothing but Demonstrate Prices are far too high for Voice services... When they can impliment something that does the job for less money...
After all Not much can Stop IBM unless they start to see services on the VOIP system they are putting in.
Typically for the largest part MS tends to utilize some sort of strong arm tactics to achive significant penatration of a market.. I am interested to see what MS is gonan come up with to get people to use thier search engine.
Well actually what they are really doing is driving thier customer base away for the most part...
Look at whats been happening in the music world... Sales are being driven down and down by the actions of the recording industry... They continue to point the finger at P2P filesharing for reasons of decling sales. when in reality quality of new music is gone... portability is important and when that is taken away... It becomes a hassel...
Over all this could be good for society in general once we aren't slaves to the TV anymore we could start to see changes in our social structure.
Apache doesn't seem to suffer from the Monoculture problems that MS has... But I guess apache hasn't reached a true monoculture yet... But it would seem to \me that IIS could be a dying horse..
I would not be shocked to see underhanded practices being used to circumvent the NDC... It needs to be established that the NDC is priority over any other agreement so that we don't get "tricked" into allowing them to ignore the NDC... if it was Due to a pruchase... I would ask them what contract was signed that allows them to violate teh NDC.. or just start questing them about how they obtained your number... Don't answer any of thier questions.. But before you start inform them that the phone is being recored to provide a context for accuracy on thier answers because you will be taking the matter up with the FCC using the recording as proof...
That in itself should provide a significant enough red flag for thier records for them not to call you back.. and if they do then you have something to go by.. (if you actually recorded the conversation.)... But typically when someone knows they are being recorded all thier underhanded sneaky tactics are useless.. Also make requests that they remove your number from and Affiliated company and do not pass on your number or any information aswell.
SMTP as it is today has been "Broken" by spammers long enough... Laws are for the large part ineffective and unenforcable and highly costly.
All the major ISP's should team up and create a new Open Source mail protocol that deals with SMTP's flaws that make it such a good tool to send UCE.
The money being spent on Prevention is large enough for cost savings to take place on funding a project like this.. when you really get down to it once 80%+ (Taking a wild guess of the %age of email addresses under the top 10 ISP's "control") are utilizing a protocol that inhibits UCE... general demand from customers will increase and force the stragglers to switch to the new system. But this would require MS to be a highly active participant in the effort to make it fly.
MS has seen to been spouting off that its ready to make efforts to embrace the Open Source Community.. This would be a great place to start.. as Spam Strikes a coard deep in most OS Developers and supporters... This could be a saving grace for MS to show thier new "Clothes" and start to sway the opinion of Anti-MS movment that seems to be nipping at thier heels.
As it sits now... with Instant Messaging comming along as it has.. Has replaced email for me as a virtually spam free environment to communicate with friends and family. There are a few situations left where I am limited to using email still. Such as Listserv's and similar activities. But disposable email accounts suit quite well for those purposes. It would be interesting to see a few projects take off that allow for Instant Message notification or instant message forwarding abilities to replace email as the only option for notification. But this could to be infected by spammers and thier underhanded practices..
Spammers will be around for a long time.. Thier mediums will change..But hopefully we will see enough mediums to communicate on the internet that are safe heavens from Spammers and thier underhanded tactics that I am forced to resort back the telephone to comminucate with distant people.
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Just wait.. They are nearing the bottom of thier bag of tricks... Everyone allways has Naked Ladies someplace in thier bag of tricks... It will be inetersting when they start to Pull them out of thier bag o tricks :)
I am just waiting to hear about them during a press confrence shout "Oh Look Naked Chicks" right before they announce new weak tactics to stay in the news.
How is this truely a step back when it add huge advantages if used properly... Since it eliminates the need of a motor to spin a CD.. this would be a perfect replacement andding countless hours of battery life in portable media devices... Flash cards are costly and have a somewhat limited lifespan.. If this media is sold cheap enough... Who really cares if its rewritable or not... if I have 2 gigs of storage with a media that 1.5 inches square and costs me 2$.. I would gladly replace this media when its full... or what not...
I fail to see How this is a Leap back... Its a good leap forward... After all.. It will be eliminating quite a few problems asociated with CD type media.. No more scratches.. Less moving parts to break in the players.. longer battery life... This is an advancement... It will be hard to get people to start moving from cd's to a new storage medium... MP3 storage and mobility could help break down the barriers.
Its aparent that a revolution is needed in that department... Look at what the IC did for the Vacum Tube :)...
What about Microsofts Claim to Patch Faster than Linux/OS or be more secure?
Or thier commitment to security the say that it is the job of a fireall to secure your computer.
Well with MS knowladge of secuirty and the ability to secure the OS's.. I am sure it will be hours before the Xbox2 gets hacked and a few weeks/day later till someone has a semi workable linux port running on it :)
MS has been fliiping teh brid to Intel for quite some time... They were alot more intested to support AMD for thier 64 bit processor interal of INTEL's IA-64...
You think that is someone who is overpaid? Try putting on the shoes of someone that is forced not to have any type of social life because they are putting in 18-20 hour days for weeks/months on end... Having the responcibility of keeping things running 24/7 365.. Its not a easy task... it for the most part ends up killing your social life... on the same note.. Do don't see any of them bringing home 6 figures a year... if you know of any that do... let me know when the position is open.. :)
Well if its that Web specific one should be able to use the non web specific "one click" technology on the web and not violate the patent.. if it does not qualify as prior art to disqualify the patent then it should not be able to infringe on that patent aswell.
Hollywood and the record industry have way too much focused on money... The product is the end result of marketing surveys and past history...
It has been said that there are no new ideas for hollywood to explore.. Every origonal idea has been explored and now any movie can be descibed as a combination of older movies.
How many times during a movie have you seen scenes that seem to be trown in that have little or nothing to do with plot development and any other aspect of the movie? or Pointless plot elements... This is the result of the Marketing Formula's that degrades the quality of the movie.. Valid elements are being left out to make room for this marketing mess...
Its seems all too common people think money will fix problems... so they trow money at the problem in hope it will go away... or achiving quality...
Saleries of Actor's/Actresses are far too high.. again for the most part Marketing experience says they this actor will attract people to the theater... and if we spend X ammount on advertising we should see this ammount of return on investment as long as the movie doesn't suck too bad... I think maybe somethime in the not too distance future they will start to realise they are brewing thier demise.
Or how about Fix flaws when identified... Theres flaws in IE that will never be fixed. Why offer a bounty when you have no intention of fixing what is pointed out. Right now thier interests are In Security and anything else that is going to lose them money
Its more the Corprate Market they are worried about... You know the Corps that buy preinstalled machines and then change the OS to thier corp standard so they have paid for multiple licences...
If the Corp world switches from MS products people will start learning and wanting to use the same in thier home environment so a migration will start toi occur.. This will take a long time.. but its a threat that needs to be dealt with from MS's perspective...
For the most part... People hear Linux is more secure and is making up alot of ground on MS's products.. But they don't see it first hand... once they are exposed to it.. the likely hood of a user switch is greater once they are exposed.
I am glad MS is starting to feel threats poping out at them from many angles.. I hope it continues as well... They are attacking the the symptoms of the problem.. not the problem itself... I am sure after a while they will realise that its cheaper and easier to fix thier secuirty model than to use the legal system to fix thier problems for them.
So If I wrote the virii but never realeased it into the wild... I turn myself in .. Do I get the 250k? Because maybe after all... I left the virii inactive on my default windows installation and some cracker came into my computer took my Virii and put into the wild. :)
:)
So I guess by default it was MS's Fault that the virii was released into the wild... Wonder how that would hold up
Its good to see Finical Accountability for MS's business practices. I hope to see alot more of this as MS's lawyers and Marketing machine will have a very hard time to overcome dimishing profits from not playing nice and for the most part telling the public what should be expected rather than meeting expectations of the consumers.
Well in a sense it could be 100% correct... To some Hackers writing Virii could be what tickles thier fancy... Its the crackers and what not that release the virii.. There are blured lines when it comes to media's use of the term Hacker... But hacking in general does not mean any ill harm to the masses...
You hitting on a correct term... What you think of as a hacker is not of the same definition of what has been hyped in the media... The media has not been corrected in the improper use of the term Hacker... Maybe Bloggers should start to equate journalists the improperly use the term Hacker as to thier cousins "tabloid journalists"... get them to reconize the Diffrence between hackers and those who hack and write Virii..
I think stone and cave walls are the best Mediums for long term storage.....
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It would be funny to see people study my MP3 collection etched in stone in 1000 years from now trying to figure out what it is
As i am sure if the recording industry has it way once people 1000 years from now are able to decode and play my MP3 collection they will either have to pay royalty fees or face a law suit under the DCMA
public reaction: "great picture quality"
People are confusing the Term Quality... Digital Video is not Better Quality... Its for the most part Better Clarity...
Analog signals are succeptable to Analog interferance and will quickly show degradation of Video Clarity...
Digital Video Clarity is fixed due to digitization. analog interferance into the digital signal will not degrade Clairity of the Picture Quality... Being in a digital format (data)... only a highly affected signal will have data loss which will result is corruption of the picture(small blovk appear oin the screen).. Which the methods used to transport the data are highly resilliant to analog interferance.
Meanwhile... The Video compression used has Dropped Tonnes of Quality of the Video... Instead of colors ranging in the millions its cut down to mere thousands if not less.. Portions of Video Frames are dropped as well to reach high levels of compression. If you look at the background (not the foreground) you will notice a Jumping in the background a lack of detail... Is this Higher Quality? No it is not...This is a Compromise made for everyone... Loss of detail for increased Clarity. and We are Told its better Quality.. when they should be telling us Clairty.
I get a laugh about these new HDTV's touting they are capable of displaying billions of colors.. when in reality color palettes have been drastically reduced... Not to mention the human eye can't distinguish that many colors aswell... There is just a certain feldelity that we percive about seeing that many colours.
Really... some legal group should get a cease and desist order put on SCO and their frivolous claims to IP infringement until 1 of two conditions are met..
They show the linux community offending code so that it maybe remedied.
Or the courts rule on their claims. In which case if their IP rights have been violated the linux community will be able to remedy the situation and life will go on without SCO making news every other day.
Well making Internal changes should do nothing but Demonstrate Prices are far too high for Voice services... When they can impliment something that does the job for less money...
After all Not much can Stop IBM unless they start to see services on the VOIP system they are putting in.
Typically for the largest part MS tends to utilize some sort of strong arm tactics to achive significant penatration of a market.. I am interested to see what MS is gonan come up with to get people to use thier search engine.
Well actually what they are really doing is driving thier customer base away for the most part... Look at whats been happening in the music world... Sales are being driven down and down by the actions of the recording industry... They continue to point the finger at P2P filesharing for reasons of decling sales. when in reality quality of new music is gone... portability is important and when that is taken away... It becomes a hassel... Over all this could be good for society in general once we aren't slaves to the TV anymore we could start to see changes in our social structure.
Apache doesn't seem to suffer from the Monoculture problems that MS has... But I guess apache hasn't reached a true monoculture yet... But it would seem to \me that IIS could be a dying horse..
I would not be shocked to see underhanded practices being used to circumvent the NDC... It needs to be established that the NDC is priority over any other agreement so that we don't get "tricked" into allowing them to ignore the NDC... if it was Due to a pruchase... I would ask them what contract was signed that allows them to violate teh NDC.. or just start questing them about how they obtained your number... Don't answer any of thier questions.. But before you start inform them that the phone is being recored to provide a context for accuracy on thier answers because you will be taking the matter up with the FCC using the recording as proof... That in itself should provide a significant enough red flag for thier records for them not to call you back.. and if they do then you have something to go by.. (if you actually recorded the conversation.)... But typically when someone knows they are being recorded all thier underhanded sneaky tactics are useless.. Also make requests that they remove your number from and Affiliated company and do not pass on your number or any information aswell.
SMTP as it is today has been "Broken" by spammers long enough... Laws are for the large part ineffective and unenforcable and highly costly.
All the major ISP's should team up and create a new Open Source mail protocol that deals with SMTP's flaws that make it such a good tool to send UCE.
The money being spent on Prevention is large enough for cost savings to take place on funding a project like this.. when you really get down to it once 80%+ (Taking a wild guess of the %age of email addresses under the top 10 ISP's "control") are utilizing a protocol that inhibits UCE... general demand from customers will increase and force the stragglers to switch to the new system. But this would require MS to be a highly active participant in the effort to make it fly.
MS has seen to been spouting off that its ready to make efforts to embrace the Open Source Community.. This would be a great place to start.. as Spam Strikes a coard deep in most OS Developers and supporters... This could be a saving grace for MS to show thier new "Clothes" and start to sway the opinion of Anti-MS movment that seems to be nipping at thier heels.
As it sits now... with Instant Messaging comming along as it has.. Has replaced email for me as a virtually spam free environment to communicate with friends and family. There are a few situations left where I am limited to using email still. Such as Listserv's and similar activities. But disposable email accounts suit quite well for those purposes. It would be interesting to see a few projects take off that allow for Instant Message notification or instant message forwarding abilities to replace email as the only option for notification. But this could to be infected by spammers and thier underhanded practices..
Spammers will be around for a long time.. Thier mediums will change..But hopefully we will see enough mediums to communicate on the internet that are safe heavens from Spammers and thier underhanded tactics that I am forced to resort back the telephone to comminucate with distant people.