Its time for the record companies to stop fighting the future and adopt a new business model
Is it time for the traditional Heinlein "Life Line" quote?
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped,or turned back, for their private benefit.
Under sudo, if I want Joe to be able to do xxx as root, I authorize him for xxx and xxx only. Plus I don't have to give him the root password.
For runas, Joe gets the admin password, which means he can do whatever the hell he wants to as admin, including logging in. Plus, my admin password is known by Joe, and whoever he decides to tell it to, or whoever reads the little sticky note he taped to his monitor.
Hint to Microsoft: You do not want to get people who own nukes mad at use. You do not want to get people who own large numbers of conventional weapons and know how to use them mad at you.
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Sorry, SHAD0W, it's an Austin Powers reference. All that Dr. Evil wants (besides ONE MILLION DOLLARS -- pinky to mouth) is some sharks with some frickin <FINGERQUOTES>"Lasers"</FINGERQUOTES> attached to their heads.
There are only two comparable situations to MSN taking on Google that I can think of. Netscape and WordPerfect.
And I'm not so sure that the WP example applies. Remember, WP owned somewhere between 80 and 85 percent of the DOS word processing market. The only way MS was able to take them out was with a platform shift (DOS -> Windows) plus FUD (WP got caught up in the OS/2 fallout, IIRC).
Netscape is more problematical as an example. IE was able to overtake NS due to bundling with the OS (Was that part of what was ruled illegal and upheld?). Now, seeing as MSN is the default search in IE (how do you change it in 5.5SP2, anyways?), they have the capability to ramp up that way, similar to the way that they did with IE. However, Netscape took a while to deal with the IE threat, and the result was unimpressive (NS4 sucks). Google seems to be more nimble and technically adept.
Screw McD's! What about Starbucks? A mom&pop coffee bar opened up near where I lived about 6 years ago. Sure enough, 6 months later, Starbucks right across the street. 3 months after that, the mom&pop coffee joint was dead.
Tables with square bent metal and vinyl covered chairs are a bad sign. If you've traveled the east coast of the US, you know the kind of chairs I'm talking about.
Some of the best food I had on the road was in a mom&pop diner like that. It was the lunch "counter" in the back of a diner in Ft. Monmouth, NJ.
Closer to home, there's a little hole-in-the-wall joint in the west San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles) that I've been going to since I was a kid. Inexpensive and good. (Oh, and the Health Department gave it an "A").
I guess this proves the point that "All generalizations (including this one) are crap".
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It's a typing program. Because of sloppy coding, it requires access as Admin. My guess is that it's either modifying HKLM or the program directory.
OK, tell me how to let my kid run "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" without being admin.
Thank you.
Is it time for the traditional Heinlein "Life Line" quote?
Caldera inherited them and won.
When Caldera became SCOX, they tried to blackmail IBM, on the theory that it worked against MS.
The difference? Against MS they really did have a case, and won on the merits. Against IBM, they've got nothing.
Runas is equivalent to su, not to sudo.
Under sudo, if I want Joe to be able to do xxx as root, I authorize him for xxx and xxx only. Plus I don't have to give him the root password.
For runas, Joe gets the admin password, which means he can do whatever the hell he wants to as admin, including logging in. Plus, my admin password is known by Joe, and whoever he decides to tell it to, or whoever reads the little sticky note he taped to his monitor.
Runas is equivalent to su. You have to give out the admin password.
But what about stuff that requires admin, but where you don't want to give out the admin password? What they need is the equivalent of Setuid.
My kids machine is set up with XP. I have set them up as regular users, not admin (to reduce the spyware/worm issue).
A lot of games rely on being admin (The Sims. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (!??!!!?!)).
I don't want to give out the admin password. But for some stuff, it would be nice to setuid to admin, without having to do password check.
The dorms on the South 40 were 63105 when I lived there.
Except it should have been kicked out. MO is a 6xxxx zip code (St. Louis is 631xx, WUSTL is 63105, or at least the dorms were).
TCP/IP is a MIL-STD.
IP is MIL-STD-1777
TCP is MIL-STD-1778.
Hint to Microsoft: You do not want to get people who own nukes mad at use. You do not want to get people who own large numbers of conventional weapons and know how to use them mad at you.
Yeah, they had to move, because they were obstructing his view of Venus! (and its conjunction with Jupiter, I guess).
But I wonder why he didn't just use his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator instead of repowering them?
I thought Jupiter was supposed to align with Mars!
Damn straight! I know that the Constitution contains some of their IP, such as the words, "do", "if", "for", and "void".
Why, those Founding Fathers were nothing but Evil Content Pirates(tm)!
Ah, shit. I'm probably gonna get hit double...
Once for "Scott" and once for "sconeu".
Scott
You're joking, right? You see it all the time.
the poster spins this as though this is going to cause mass hysteria and pandemonium
RTFA. C|Net spun it that way. The poster was simply quoting the article.
And why, exactly would the lack of a good FPU affect compiling?
oops! My bad. Thanks, AC!
Shouldn't they only play 40 songs? :-P
I'm not getting one of those! I ain't no robosexual!
What happens when the robot starts dreaming about killing all humans?
How about the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as a start?
Sorry, SHAD0W, it's an Austin Powers reference. All that Dr. Evil wants (besides ONE MILLION DOLLARS -- pinky to mouth) is some sharks with some frickin <FINGERQUOTES>"Lasers"</FINGERQUOTES> attached to their heads.
There are only two comparable situations to MSN taking on Google that I can think of. Netscape and WordPerfect.
And I'm not so sure that the WP example applies. Remember, WP owned somewhere between 80 and 85 percent of the DOS word processing market. The only way MS was able to take them out was with a platform shift (DOS -> Windows) plus FUD (WP got caught up in the OS/2 fallout, IIRC).
Netscape is more problematical as an example. IE was able to overtake NS due to bundling with the OS (Was that part of what was ruled illegal and upheld?). Now, seeing as MSN is the default search in IE (how do you change it in 5.5SP2, anyways?), they have the capability to ramp up that way, similar to the way that they did with IE. However, Netscape took a while to deal with the IE threat, and the result was unimpressive (NS4 sucks). Google seems to be more nimble and technically adept.
Screw McD's! What about Starbucks? A mom&pop coffee bar opened up near where I lived about 6 years ago. Sure enough, 6 months later, Starbucks right across the street. 3 months after that, the mom&pop coffee joint was dead.
Tables with square bent metal and vinyl covered chairs are a bad sign. If you've traveled the east coast of the US, you know the kind of chairs I'm talking about.
Some of the best food I had on the road was in a mom&pop diner like that. It was the lunch "counter" in the back of a diner in Ft. Monmouth, NJ.
Closer to home, there's a little hole-in-the-wall joint in the west San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles) that I've been going to since I was a kid. Inexpensive and good. (Oh, and the Health Department gave it an "A").
I guess this proves the point that "All generalizations (including this one) are crap".
Beat you by six minutes!