I bought grandma this HP printer this weekend to go with her Ubuntu upgrade. I knew it worked with Linux because it's HP, but went through the steps anyway. Plug it in, turn it on. It was recognized right away. Test print a PDF. There on the menu was "print both sides" so I took it. Flawless the first time. I didn't even know the printer did duplex when I bought it, so this was a nice surprise.
What's wrong with Windows that they can't even get this right?
Re:What? Is 15GB that much for a base OS install?
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Retired? Really? Not a week ago. He may have given the CEO reins over to our favorite chair tosser, but he's still Chairman of Microsoft. No doubt his stock option package is quite good.
That's good for Microsoft, too. Three nines of companies don't long survive the loss of their founders. As Damon Runyon said, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet".
The fall may have even begun before he retired as CEO. When SCO's backstop with Baystardriedup, Microsoft lost all of its credibility in the smoke filled rooms where the real money makes deals. Who knows how much this cost RBC and the other partners? Gates will spend the rest of his life trying to make amends, but those who suffered will neverforget. You can't swing a billion dollars without somebody dies, and the dead stay dead no matter how many soup kitchens you volunteer in afterward.
Eventually, pigeons come home to roost. The devil will have his due.
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Your post can be summarized as: Intel Giveth; Microsoft taketh away. That's been the formula for far too long.
That's what libraries, toolsets and custom compilers are for. If the problem was just silicon we'd have Larrabee by now. What's holding up the train is the software toolchain and software licensing issues.
Don't worry, though. On launch day the tools will be mature enough to use, and game vendors will have new ray tracing games that look fabulous on nothing but this.
I'm hoping the tools will be open but that's a long bet. If they are, Microsoft is done as the game platform for the serious gamer and Intel will make billions as they take the entire graphics market. Intel will make hundreds of millions regardless and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, so they might partner in a way that limits their upside to limit their downside risk. That would be the safe play. We'll see if they still have the appetite for risk that used to be their signature. I'm hoping they still dare enough to reach for the brass ring.
If the patent was some innovative, creative discovery. But it's not. It rehashes technology that was a decade old before the ink hit the paper. Somebody's going to figure out that their claims (Thanks, Tick-tock-atona) are derived from prior art based on cellular packet radio technologies from the late 1970's and then this will be over. Just because you get the clerks at the patent office to sign off on your patent doesn't mean that you've won the golden ticket to jerking everybody around. The whole world knows those clerks have been clueless ever since the best of them invented global thermonuclear war. To think that the average patent clerk is qualified to judge the originality of the concepts presented to him is the pinnacle of the absurd. No thousand of them could know all of the prior art in every field, and there aren't a thousand of them.
Somebody in this group dipped from the well of common knowledge and bottled it as a new beverage. If he's just selling the drink I don't have a problem with that, but that's not the case here. He's trying to claim now that the effort of dipping entitles him to ownership of the concept of wells in general, and assume the power to tell others not to dip and that's not ok. Once an idea is in the commons it cannot be made proprietary again - that's not progress, it's regress. It's not going to hold up in court.
HP paid. That's sad but they probably got a good deal - considerably less than the cost of defending this nonsense. They got that deal because they were the first to settle and the second will have to pay much more and these settlement monies will be what pays the lawyers to pursue the case until they're ultimately defeated. Defeated, though, they must be, because their claims are crap and they're up against some big guns who can afford to fight and dig up the folks with prior art.
So really this whole thing is about wasting the court's time (taxpayer money - that's me!) and earning billable hours for lawyers on both sides, to no useful purpose. That's not the purpose of the section of Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution which says: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; " That part of the Constitution is for ensuring progress. Progress is the goal. There's nothing in that paragraph about supporting the barratry industry.
Look, I get that you have some nationalistic interest, but I don't care. I don't often side with the big corporations on anything, nationalism be damned most of the time they suck. I didn't even know the patent troll was Non-US. It doesn't matter. It's bad in and of itself, and the nationality of its stupidness is irrelevant. By now though you probably get that I don't approve of abuses of the patent system, no matter what flag the patent filer flies.
And yes, I did RTFA. I have personal first hand direct experience that's at odds with the reportage. When you're faced with that problem, "Who are you going to believe? ABC, or your lying eyes?"
You know, I read somewhere that in rural areas they don't have the device density that they have in urban corridors serviced by the standard Cellular tower density, so in practice congestion might not be as much of an issue. Also I hear that cows don't put out a lot of EMR interference and a cornfield doesn't have as many massive obstructions as a city core.
Which leaves holes. And if you're in a hole in the ground and you're expecting good cellular reception, it doesn't matter whether the hole is in the city or in the country, you're going to be disappointed.
I just tested my cable broadband at 10.9Mbps down, 3285Kbps up. Usually it's much faster, but tonight 5 other users in the house are dinging it pretty heavy with games and downloads and such. I've seen 20Mbps down, 10Mbps up but to do that I have to kick everybody else off and use my best box and the Java benchmark because the flash one isn't reliable that high up. Cross-country latency can be as low as 27ms. At work I'm sharing a couple T1's with a crew of tech geeks, so if I need to download a DVD ISO sometimes it's faster to RDP to my desktop at home and download it there and make the round trip in the car, than it is to download it at my desk at work.
You must have some awesome DSL connection. Back when I had it we were cruising at 1Mbps max.
So you've never heard of Rambus? What about the GIF patents? There is no new technology ever that doesn't have some obstructionist jerk trying to overmilk the obvious by getting getting broad patents on every possible course of development. If we don't stop this hopelessly broken patent system the pace of progress will grind to a halt.
Solve problems... like "How do we prevent the wireless revolution by patent-trolling the standards committees"?
Gee, that's a useful skill. They should probably get with the DRAM committees and see if they can extend their work to the innovation of preventing new memory technologies, or partner with Intel on the prevention of higher resolution lithography. You know, for the social good that would arise from bringing a screaming halt to technological progress.
Government offices do not upgrade the operating systems on their desktops by running some upgrade installer from the vendor. That's not even remotely how they do that.
You forget the part where half of them are upgraded, and the other half discover that they both need to interop with the Vista adopters to keep the government running, but utterly rely on some critical apps that are not Vista compatible and can't be migrated. At that point they suddenly find that rolling back the Vista adopters to XP is impossible because their new critical app is absolutely dependent on aero.
The government collapses. Anarchy erupts. The entire economy evaporates except for canned goods, lawyers and guns.
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of the legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial.
I'm gonna say that your reach exceeds your grasp here. Microsoft Vista is not a person, nor does the bill make this nonperson guilty of a crime after the fact.
Just say you're opposed to the rule. Don't go making up fictional constitutional defenses against the perfectly normal process of the legislature telling government employees not to buy crap they don't need.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
The lesson is that wishes aren't fishes, and they're not horses either. Also, some Linux Distro doesn't have 80% of the desktop market and what the world might be like if that happened is irrelevant. We live in the world we're in and what-ifs aren't worth anything against known threats. In the here-and-now world if you run Windows you're subjecting yourself to the monoculture that bred Conficker, Koobface, Torpig, Storm, Antivirus 2009, Bitfrost, Sasser, MyDoom, Sober, Sobig, Welchia, Blaster, Nimda and Code Red. If you're not, then you're not. It's really that simple.
Also, you guys usually post this template crap AC. Are you tiring of this 'turf account?
What idiot thought mixing people from different cultures (historically hostile ones, too) and then adding alcohol, for months at a time, was a good idea?
That was me. Was that wrong?
We're growing a generation of weenies. Lots of folks can get rowdy drunk and practice their drunk-jitsu and get up in the morning and be the best of friends. Especially people who are trapped in a capsule far from home. Maybe they just need to sample poor volunteers. A truly poor person isn't going to let a little thing like needing to be choked out keep him from being friends. He has much bigger issues.
Back in the day Vern hanging you over a balcony by your ankle while he chugged a beer was just a test of Vern's strength and your sense of humor - amd a sign of affection. It was no cause to ask for help, or some reason to have issues with Vern. It was how Vern reminded us that even though he was dumb as a box of rocks, he still could contribute something by not dropping us. We exploited that by getting Vern to disassociate our targets from their baggage in the club, so in the end it mathed out.
BTW: Only one hot Canadian chick? I think I found the problem unless she was insatiable. But she was a Canadian chick, so now I'm confused.
If they're trying for a crew that can't make alcohol from food in 500 days they must be filtering for the dumb. You can do that with any container, any starchy or fruity food, and spit in two weeks.
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I bought grandma this HP printer this weekend to go with her Ubuntu upgrade. I knew it worked with Linux because it's HP, but went through the steps anyway. Plug it in, turn it on. It was recognized right away. Test print a PDF. There on the menu was "print both sides" so I took it. Flawless the first time. I didn't even know the printer did duplex when I bought it, so this was a nice surprise.
What's wrong with Windows that they can't even get this right?
Retired? Really? Not a week ago. He may have given the CEO reins over to our favorite chair tosser, but he's still Chairman of Microsoft. No doubt his stock option package is quite good.
That's good for Microsoft, too. Three nines of companies don't long survive the loss of their founders. As Damon Runyon said, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet".
The fall may have even begun before he retired as CEO. When SCO's backstop with Baystar dried up, Microsoft lost all of its credibility in the smoke filled rooms where the real money makes deals. Who knows how much this cost RBC and the other partners? Gates will spend the rest of his life trying to make amends, but those who suffered will never forget. You can't swing a billion dollars without somebody dies, and the dead stay dead no matter how many soup kitchens you volunteer in afterward.
Eventually, pigeons come home to roost. The devil will have his due.
Your post can be summarized as: Intel Giveth; Microsoft taketh away. That's been the formula for far too long.
And that period is almost over.
That's what libraries, toolsets and custom compilers are for. If the problem was just silicon we'd have Larrabee by now. What's holding up the train is the software toolchain and software licensing issues.
Don't worry, though. On launch day the tools will be mature enough to use, and game vendors will have new ray tracing games that look fabulous on nothing but this.
I'm hoping the tools will be open but that's a long bet. If they are, Microsoft is done as the game platform for the serious gamer and Intel will make billions as they take the entire graphics market. Intel will make hundreds of millions regardless and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, so they might partner in a way that limits their upside to limit their downside risk. That would be the safe play. We'll see if they still have the appetite for risk that used to be their signature. I'm hoping they still dare enough to reach for the brass ring.
If the patent was some innovative, creative discovery. But it's not. It rehashes technology that was a decade old before the ink hit the paper. Somebody's going to figure out that their claims (Thanks, Tick-tock-atona) are derived from prior art based on cellular packet radio technologies from the late 1970's and then this will be over. Just because you get the clerks at the patent office to sign off on your patent doesn't mean that you've won the golden ticket to jerking everybody around. The whole world knows those clerks have been clueless ever since the best of them invented global thermonuclear war. To think that the average patent clerk is qualified to judge the originality of the concepts presented to him is the pinnacle of the absurd. No thousand of them could know all of the prior art in every field, and there aren't a thousand of them.
Somebody in this group dipped from the well of common knowledge and bottled it as a new beverage. If he's just selling the drink I don't have a problem with that, but that's not the case here. He's trying to claim now that the effort of dipping entitles him to ownership of the concept of wells in general, and assume the power to tell others not to dip and that's not ok. Once an idea is in the commons it cannot be made proprietary again - that's not progress, it's regress. It's not going to hold up in court.
HP paid. That's sad but they probably got a good deal - considerably less than the cost of defending this nonsense. They got that deal because they were the first to settle and the second will have to pay much more and these settlement monies will be what pays the lawyers to pursue the case until they're ultimately defeated. Defeated, though, they must be, because their claims are crap and they're up against some big guns who can afford to fight and dig up the folks with prior art.
So really this whole thing is about wasting the court's time (taxpayer money - that's me!) and earning billable hours for lawyers on both sides, to no useful purpose. That's not the purpose of the section of Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution which says: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; " That part of the Constitution is for ensuring progress. Progress is the goal. There's nothing in that paragraph about supporting the barratry industry.
Look, I get that you have some nationalistic interest, but I don't care. I don't often side with the big corporations on anything, nationalism be damned most of the time they suck. I didn't even know the patent troll was Non-US. It doesn't matter. It's bad in and of itself, and the nationality of its stupidness is irrelevant. By now though you probably get that I don't approve of abuses of the patent system, no matter what flag the patent filer flies.
And yes, I did RTFA. I have personal first hand direct experience that's at odds with the reportage. When you're faced with that problem, "Who are you going to believe? ABC, or your lying eyes?"
You know, I read somewhere that in rural areas they don't have the device density that they have in urban corridors serviced by the standard Cellular tower density, so in practice congestion might not be as much of an issue. Also I hear that cows don't put out a lot of EMR interference and a cornfield doesn't have as many massive obstructions as a city core.
Which leaves holes. And if you're in a hole in the ground and you're expecting good cellular reception, it doesn't matter whether the hole is in the city or in the country, you're going to be disappointed.
I just tested my cable broadband at 10.9Mbps down, 3285Kbps up. Usually it's much faster, but tonight 5 other users in the house are dinging it pretty heavy with games and downloads and such. I've seen 20Mbps down, 10Mbps up but to do that I have to kick everybody else off and use my best box and the Java benchmark because the flash one isn't reliable that high up. Cross-country latency can be as low as 27ms. At work I'm sharing a couple T1's with a crew of tech geeks, so if I need to download a DVD ISO sometimes it's faster to RDP to my desktop at home and download it there and make the round trip in the car, than it is to download it at my desk at work.
You must have some awesome DSL connection. Back when I had it we were cruising at 1Mbps max.
AT&T is no longer the phone company. They're a phone company now. They have to care at least a little. For now.
There are five lights!
Not far. Not far at all.
So you've never heard of Rambus? What about the GIF patents? There is no new technology ever that doesn't have some obstructionist jerk trying to overmilk the obvious by getting getting broad patents on every possible course of development. If we don't stop this hopelessly broken patent system the pace of progress will grind to a halt.
Bzzt.
A lot of people don't know that long before cellular phone technology was adapted for voice it was originally a data network.
Which sort of makes Apple's "No tethering app" rule a little ironic.
I'm not claiming I invented this stuff, but I definitely used it.
Oh, my... I do believe I violated this patent in 1985.
Groundbreaking research my ass.
Solve problems... like "How do we prevent the wireless revolution by patent-trolling the standards committees"?
Gee, that's a useful skill. They should probably get with the DRAM committees and see if they can extend their work to the innovation of preventing new memory technologies, or partner with Intel on the prevention of higher resolution lithography. You know, for the social good that would arise from bringing a screaming halt to technological progress.
Government offices do not upgrade the operating systems on their desktops by running some upgrade installer from the vendor. That's not even remotely how they do that.
If pigs had wings, they'd be pigeons.
You forget the part where half of them are upgraded, and the other half discover that they both need to interop with the Vista adopters to keep the government running, but utterly rely on some critical apps that are not Vista compatible and can't be migrated. At that point they suddenly find that rolling back the Vista adopters to XP is impossible because their new critical app is absolutely dependent on aero.
The government collapses. Anarchy erupts. The entire economy evaporates except for canned goods, lawyers and guns.
A bill of attainder:
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of the legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial.
I'm gonna say that your reach exceeds your grasp here. Microsoft Vista is not a person, nor does the bill make this nonperson guilty of a crime after the fact.
Just say you're opposed to the rule. Don't go making up fictional constitutional defenses against the perfectly normal process of the legislature telling government employees not to buy crap they don't need.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
The lesson is that wishes aren't fishes, and they're not horses either. Also, some Linux Distro doesn't have 80% of the desktop market and what the world might be like if that happened is irrelevant. We live in the world we're in and what-ifs aren't worth anything against known threats. In the here-and-now world if you run Windows you're subjecting yourself to the monoculture that bred Conficker, Koobface, Torpig, Storm, Antivirus 2009, Bitfrost, Sasser, MyDoom, Sober, Sobig, Welchia, Blaster, Nimda and Code Red. If you're not, then you're not. It's really that simple.
Also, you guys usually post this template crap AC. Are you tiring of this 'turf account?
Don't need to be so pompous about it.
Really? You do know that Windows Vista isn't Linux, right? I'm detecting some botnet-free envy here.
Don't mess with my flow. I'm on a roll.
What idiot thought mixing people from different cultures (historically hostile ones, too) and then adding alcohol, for months at a time, was a good idea?
That was me. Was that wrong?
We're growing a generation of weenies. Lots of folks can get rowdy drunk and practice their drunk-jitsu and get up in the morning and be the best of friends. Especially people who are trapped in a capsule far from home. Maybe they just need to sample poor volunteers. A truly poor person isn't going to let a little thing like needing to be choked out keep him from being friends. He has much bigger issues.
Back in the day Vern hanging you over a balcony by your ankle while he chugged a beer was just a test of Vern's strength and your sense of humor - amd a sign of affection. It was no cause to ask for help, or some reason to have issues with Vern. It was how Vern reminded us that even though he was dumb as a box of rocks, he still could contribute something by not dropping us. We exploited that by getting Vern to disassociate our targets from their baggage in the club, so in the end it mathed out.
BTW: Only one hot Canadian chick? I think I found the problem unless she was insatiable. But she was a Canadian chick, so now I'm confused.
Is this like brainwashing?
Yes. Do You have a problem with parents guiding the development of their offspring? That would make you avante-garde for the 1984 movement.
If they're trying for a crew that can't make alcohol from food in 500 days they must be filtering for the dumb. You can do that with any container, any starchy or fruity food, and spit in two weeks.