Does this seem like fishing expeditions by patent trolls?
That was my first thought, and I'm responding appropriately to what is either a.) a data gathering exercise or b.) an indication that the person asking doesn't know how to get out of the bed unless a manual tells them which side to roll over on each morning.
Does this seem like fishing expeditions by patent trolls?
No need to go fishing here.. Just find the torrent tracker and connect... Volia, you have a list of everybody who is distributing the material by IP address. It's all about tracing down the IP's and sending out the collection letters and cashing the checks from there, assuming you actually have the permission of the copyright holder to do so...
...But you don't have the psychological "why" or data to back up your court cases. Data like "We have 1200+ answers to the question 'what do you use torrent for other than pirating' and got nothing other than 'a lot of pirating' or 'I download Linux distros'.
Yes, it's possibly a fishing expedition. Gove 'em some good info!
"Now, how would you like to schedule a service call to have a human come out and repair it? You can:
- Chat online with a RoboChat
- Chat online with a Human-like software chat service
- Go through 1000 hoops to get a phone number to talk to automated systems that probably won't remember any account numbers or company names your devices are associated with
- Get sent to the IBM SignMeUp page, which is only occasionally up and running, to get a $1000/mo minimum service to be able to call off-shore or $3000/mo minimum service to be able to call on-shore representatives to schedule service
- Go back to watching the cool robot find problems so you can be shocked and awed by the new technology that removes Humans from the workplace
Exactly how this will be implemented has not been identified, even to the extent of whether the ISP or the hotspot operator should implement the blocking.
There is no such thing as a Windows Exodus, just a bunch of windows users bitching that OMG, OMG, SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT!!!
Like with every Windows version, there will lots of bitching and complaining, then eventually, they will be good little Windows users and simply accept whatever Microsoft tells them to use.
Stop talking reality. We're in a dream world here in this online arena thingy.
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
The same way you would transfer your Windows (7 or XP)-based data to your new Windows (8) OS: Pay a knowledgeable techie to do it, or try to find all of the places that an application may have squirreled away your data, copy it to some sort of removable media (CD, DVD, or USB) and hope that the new version of the equivalent software can recognize that the data's there.
Gotcha. So the end user wouldn't be able to just switch to Linux easily. A distro, or all of them, need to come up with a migration tool that makes it easy to (with detailed instructions for the end inexperienced user) either save off or migrate during an install. Then more techies could push Linux on those on the fence.
Too much speculation is not a good thing. Legitimate investment in a company can be a good thing. But there is no fundamental difference between stock speculation and gambling, except that the stakes are usually higher.
Could you *PLEASE* take this on with the oil industry?
That depends on his company. Some companies may be wary of a reckless attitude about financial regulations especially with what has happened in the last several years. He may have been fired anyway. Then again some other companies may have promoted him for bold initiative, but they would have had to cover him for his crimes if the SEC investigated.
*rubs hands* Yes... sometimes laundering works veeeery well. Mwahahaha!
Buy $1bn worth of shares in the name of your company. If it works out and the shares go up by one percent, sell them for $1bn and $10 million, take the $10 million, and run. If it doesn't work out, your company goes broke and you go to jail.
Heh. I guess the pleasure his wife was giving him to encourage this behavior was too much - clouded his thought processes. Unprecedented lawsuit against her in 5....4....3...2..
I agree, the only numbers I found were that of tablet share. Which has very little to do with Windows sales. I happen to like Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. I have had an iPhone and Android. I ran a Hackintosh and various flavors of Ubuntu for the past decade. I actually decided to buy Windows 8 when it was released, and am very happy with it. People love to trash Microsoft (I used to be one of them), but in reality MS has shaped the modern culture in a very substantial way. With so many servers and businesses running MS products with license agreements that span decades it is highly unlikely it will fall anytime soon.
In recent months Google has become more like Apple in the worst way. They are walling off their garden, which 15 years ago they would have said, "That is evil. Don't do it." In todays world Micorosoft is becoming the more open company, trying to work with any companies system. This article is BS.
Not to offend, but this comment seems like BS. It makes me want to ask how much MS paid you for this injection.
Windows Me was SHIT. Absolute trash. I'm 100% on board with you there.
I wasn't trying to prove anything; just bringing up old memories of one of the didn't-skip-a-release-and-still-functioned versions of Windows.
Going back to "Me" - I don't know anyone who used that version. The maybe 30-40% of customers at the PC repair shop I worked in at the time that brought in machines running Windows Me were malware AND/OR random crash-laiden. Of that percentage, only about 10% refused to have their machine downgraded to 98 or, hell, just have a new machine built for $599 running XP. The gap between releases was a little over a year, but during that year new PC sales were not forced to be "the newest OS by Microsoft"-loaded like they are today with Windows 8. Not to stray too much from the conversation, but I really don't remember what happened with the introduction of Windows 7 (if all new computers were forced to have it) because I was suffering from post-brain surgery for epilepsy at the time and really, truly, don't remember.
Anyway, after the release of 8, the "every other version sucked" mechanism was repeated enough that it graduated to a general rule in my head. I still maintain that the skip-a-version started in 2000 with "Me", but you're right, as well.
I'm thinking too much here, but I want to say that XP was only really accepted because MS forced people to by having it be the only non-server-based OS they sold for about 6 years. Forced people to adapt. The good ol' Windows 2000 people were all, "Duh, it's about time everyone started using an NT-based OS!"
Now, I'm wondering if the same thing is happening with Windows 8; are they going to stand behind it as the only one they will sell and support with new machines and in stores until people accept it, or will they admit they didn't get it perfect on the first shot and a.) spin it off to touch devices, or b.) adapt the UI to support a defaulted but still customizable "touch is Metro" and "desktop is Explorer" model.
Of course, I never expect Microsoft in a'trillyun years to admit, "come out" or "accept outwardly" that they made a mistake.:)
Serious software vendors support serious Linux distributions.
For the main remaining use case for Windows, that leads to a pair of pretty obvious choices that are already the default choices for non-desktop business software.
The "fragmentation" isn't nearly as bad as the trolls want you to think it is.
Question: what version of Linux would you use on the desktop (or do you use)?
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
Last question: how would you solve the problem that I find to be the biggest pain in the ass with Linux - closing individual windows without having to carefully plot the mouse location? With Windows (since 95 at least), you can just blindly drag your mouse to the upper right corner of the screen and click. The window lining doesn't prevent it from activating the close button. Hey, get past that and I'll consider Linux again. I only use it for servers now because of that annoyance.
Most cell towers have PRI lines that are dedicated for phone calls; it has a separate data connection for Internet and SMS transfers.
SMS, data, and voice all need to deal with the problem of timing - many signals sent to the tower's receivers at once can interfere with one another. Time division can only account for data; SMS and voice both send at random times (meaning the timing of the call or message send).
Having said that, some forms of TDMA have individual phones set up for only certain spots in the send time divisions; this can be overcome by many phones trying at the same time in the same division groups. CDMA has simple collision and overload of collisions per frequency, per coded divisor.
Having said THAT, there are generally (depending on location of course) only 24 (or 23) to 48 (or 46) voice channels allocated in the PRI form. Yes, most mobile phone companies are still using PRI and not channelizing through data connections as most think has happened. Only the busiest locations with many separate towers in the same area use channelized grouping through data connections (fiber or copper); again, most still simple use PRIs because they're CHEAPER.
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Does this seem like fishing expeditions by patent trolls?
That was my first thought, and I'm responding appropriately to what is either a.) a data gathering exercise or b.) an indication that the person asking doesn't know how to get out of the bed unless a manual tells them which side to roll over on each morning.
Does this seem like fishing expeditions by patent trolls?
No need to go fishing here.. Just find the torrent tracker and connect... Volia, you have a list of everybody who is distributing the material by IP address. It's all about tracing down the IP's and sending out the collection letters and cashing the checks from there, assuming you actually have the permission of the copyright holder to do so...
...But you don't have the psychological "why" or data to back up your court cases. Data like "We have 1200+ answers to the question 'what do you use torrent for other than pirating' and got nothing other than 'a lot of pirating' or 'I download Linux distros'.
Yes, it's possibly a fishing expedition. Gove 'em some good info!
Probably the same guys that never upgrade from their 486DX120 because it's fast enough to run Lynx.
bah dump bump, tsssing!
If the 10 people are in the same collision domain, torrenting won't make things faster. Actually it can slow things down with unneccesary collisions.
Is this 1994?
Amateur electronica, generated in Garageband?
Nah nah, Amateur Garageband, generated in electronica. Way more transfers.
China's works mainly on the principle not that it is hard to get around, but because of the consequences of getting caught doing so ...
There's a start ;)
"Now, how would you like to schedule a service call to have a human come out and repair it? You can:
- Chat online with a RoboChat
- Chat online with a Human-like software chat service
- Go through 1000 hoops to get a phone number to talk to automated systems that probably won't remember any account numbers or company names your devices are associated with
- Get sent to the IBM SignMeUp page, which is only occasionally up and running, to get a $1000/mo minimum service to be able to call off-shore or $3000/mo minimum service to be able to call on-shore representatives to schedule service
- Go back to watching the cool robot find problems so you can be shocked and awed by the new technology that removes Humans from the workplace
Exactly how this will be implemented has not been identified, even to the extent of whether the ISP or the hotspot operator should implement the blocking.
Just ask China.
In 6th grade science class today, the teacher said that egg farts help plants grow so we should stop 'dissing' him, whatever that means.
There is no such thing as a Windows Exodus, just a bunch of windows users bitching that OMG, OMG, SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT!!!
Like with every Windows version, there will lots of bitching and complaining, then eventually, they will be good little Windows users and simply accept whatever Microsoft tells them to use.
Stop talking reality. We're in a dream world here in this online arena thingy.
But what about the children? /snark :)
(and their damn smart phone addictions)
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
The same way you would transfer your Windows (7 or XP)-based data to your new Windows (8) OS: Pay a knowledgeable techie to do it, or try to find all of the places that an application may have squirreled away your data, copy it to some sort of removable media (CD, DVD, or USB) and hope that the new version of the equivalent software can recognize that the data's there.
Gotcha. So the end user wouldn't be able to just switch to Linux easily. A distro, or all of them, need to come up with a migration tool that makes it easy to (with detailed instructions for the end inexperienced user) either save off or migrate during an install. Then more techies could push Linux on those on the fence.
Too much speculation is not a good thing. Legitimate investment in a company can be a good thing. But there is no fundamental difference between stock speculation and gambling, except that the stakes are usually higher.
Could you *PLEASE* take this on with the oil industry?
That depends on his company. Some companies may be wary of a reckless attitude about financial regulations especially with what has happened in the last several years. He may have been fired anyway. Then again some other companies may have promoted him for bold initiative, but they would have had to cover him for his crimes if the SEC investigated.
*rubs hands* Yes... sometimes laundering works veeeery well. Mwahahaha!
Buy $1bn worth of shares in the name of your company. If it works out and the shares go up by one percent, sell them for $1bn and $10 million, take the $10 million, and run. If it doesn't work out, your company goes broke and you go to jail.
Heh. I guess the pleasure his wife was giving him to encourage this behavior was too much - clouded his thought processes. Unprecedented lawsuit against her in 5....4....3...2..
You keep telling yourself that. It might make you feel better.
Congratulations. You just made yourself feel better. Want a cookie?
Don't forget Windows 2000 - game changer. Windows NT wasn't really home user based, but it still was considered good.
I agree, the only numbers I found were that of tablet share. Which has very little to do with Windows sales. I happen to like Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. I have had an iPhone and Android. I ran a Hackintosh and various flavors of Ubuntu for the past decade. I actually decided to buy Windows 8 when it was released, and am very happy with it. People love to trash Microsoft (I used to be one of them), but in reality MS has shaped the modern culture in a very substantial way. With so many servers and businesses running MS products with license agreements that span decades it is highly unlikely it will fall anytime soon.
In recent months Google has become more like Apple in the worst way. They are walling off their garden, which 15 years ago they would have said, "That is evil. Don't do it." In todays world Micorosoft is becoming the more open company, trying to work with any companies system. This article is BS.
Not to offend, but this comment seems like BS. It makes me want to ask how much MS paid you for this injection.
connections that are sold at consumer/small buiness prices
*cough*throttling*coughcough* :)
Windows Me was SHIT. Absolute trash. I'm 100% on board with you there.
I wasn't trying to prove anything; just bringing up old memories of one of the didn't-skip-a-release-and-still-functioned versions of Windows.
Going back to "Me" - I don't know anyone who used that version. The maybe 30-40% of customers at the PC repair shop I worked in at the time that brought in machines running Windows Me were malware AND/OR random crash-laiden. Of that percentage, only about 10% refused to have their machine downgraded to 98 or, hell, just have a new machine built for $599 running XP. The gap between releases was a little over a year, but during that year new PC sales were not forced to be "the newest OS by Microsoft"-loaded like they are today with Windows 8. Not to stray too much from the conversation, but I really don't remember what happened with the introduction of Windows 7 (if all new computers were forced to have it) because I was suffering from post-brain surgery for epilepsy at the time and really, truly, don't remember.
Anyway, after the release of 8, the "every other version sucked" mechanism was repeated enough that it graduated to a general rule in my head. I still maintain that the skip-a-version started in 2000 with "Me", but you're right, as well.
I'm thinking too much here, but I want to say that XP was only really accepted because MS forced people to by having it be the only non-server-based OS they sold for about 6 years. Forced people to adapt. The good ol' Windows 2000 people were all, "Duh, it's about time everyone started using an NT-based OS!"
Now, I'm wondering if the same thing is happening with Windows 8; are they going to stand behind it as the only one they will sell and support with new machines and in stores until people accept it, or will they admit they didn't get it perfect on the first shot and
a.) spin it off to touch devices, or
b.) adapt the UI to support a defaulted but still customizable "touch is Metro" and "desktop is Explorer" model.
Of course, I never expect Microsoft in a'trillyun years to admit, "come out" or "accept outwardly" that they made a mistake. :)
Slow news day, eh?
Yep. Not enough OS bombings to... oh, wait.
Serious software vendors support serious Linux distributions.
For the main remaining use case for Windows, that leads to a pair of pretty obvious choices that are already the default choices for non-desktop business software.
The "fragmentation" isn't nearly as bad as the trolls want you to think it is.
Question: what version of Linux would you use on the desktop (or do you use)?
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
Last question: how would you solve the problem that I find to be the biggest pain in the ass with Linux - closing individual windows without having to carefully plot the mouse location? With Windows (since 95 at least), you can just blindly drag your mouse to the upper right corner of the screen and click. The window lining doesn't prevent it from activating the close button. Hey, get past that and I'll consider Linux again. I only use it for servers now because of that annoyance.
Is it true, or have most people forgotten Windows 2000, the predecessor to Windows XP, child of NT 4?
Windows 2000 was a big deal and most power users were using it...
Most cell towers have PRI lines that are dedicated for phone calls; it has a separate data connection for Internet and SMS transfers.
SMS, data, and voice all need to deal with the problem of timing - many signals sent to the tower's receivers at once can interfere with one another. Time division can only account for data; SMS and voice both send at random times (meaning the timing of the call or message send).
Having said that, some forms of TDMA have individual phones set up for only certain spots in the send time divisions; this can be overcome by many phones trying at the same time in the same division groups. CDMA has simple collision and overload of collisions per frequency, per coded divisor.
Having said THAT, there are generally (depending on location of course) only 24 (or 23) to 48 (or 46) voice channels allocated in the PRI form. Yes, most mobile phone companies are still using PRI and not channelizing through data connections as most think has happened. Only the busiest locations with many separate towers in the same area use channelized grouping through data connections (fiber or copper); again, most still simple use PRIs because they're CHEAPER.