Thing is, though, that MS doesn't have to defend IE... with a marketing campaign or otherwise. The only way to get IE is with Windows. People switching to Firefox does't turn people from Windows, and so MS really has nothing to worry about except maybe a little bit of mindshare.
What the hell more do you want? The individual unmixed tracks ready to load up in Pro Tools (or should they use a more OSS-friendly file format)? The instruments they were played on and sheet music to go with it?
Is that somehow his fault? Hell, read his original announcement on Usenet. He started it as a hobby. Now it runs on practically any architecture I've ever heard of, and then some. There are millions of people around the world developing for it. And one of the biggest corporations in the world sees it as competition.
That's the same thing that was said about Halo originally, but it took a couple years, IIRC, to get Halo ported. And it still ran pretty much like crap. Hopefully they'll do a better job porting Halo 2.
Yea DivX is good, but if people's requirements for online movie purchases are along the same lines of some slashdotter's requirements for music services, it's useless unless the service provides uncompressed HDTV video and Dolby 1000.1 audio.
"Not to mention the fact that you'd have to streamline the entire country's voting process. Everyone would have to vote using the same format with all the same candidates."
Of course MHz matters... it's just not the end-all of differentiating chip capabilities. Just look at some of the P3/P4 comparisions. Hell, even Athalon/P4. Pipeline and cache are clutch. If we could just convince Joe Sixpack of that...
A lot of flaming of this idea, but I don't think it's a bad one.
Suppose the next version of Windows has a little app that will tell the user what level of a computer it is? It could give a rundown:
Processor: 3.2GHz - Level 8
Memory: 2GB - Level 9
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800Pro XT - Level 8
YOUR COMPUTER: Level 8
Your computer can run software certified for Level 8 or below. Click here for information on how to increase your computer's level.
This can kill two birds with one stone. The user sees the essential info about their computer all in one place, it's simplified so that when they go to purchase software they only need to know one number, and they can find out what they need to do to get higher "levels." I don't see how it's a bad thing. Done right, it could make many people's lives a lot easier. The only problem I forsee is that levels would have to go perpetually upward as newer and better technology comes about.
I know this was probably in jest, but what would it take to have KDE/Gnome ported to a Windows shell replacelemt? Or is something like that even possible?
What isn't potentially evil? All your Interntet packets are going through your ISP... maybe they're sending your encrypted packets to government supercomputers and they're cracking the encryption.
What if Google is just a front for Echelon as the government refines its data storage and indexing techniques?
You can only worry about so many "What If's" before it goes from "Tinfoil Hat" to "Tinfoil Fallout Shelter"...
But perhaps if speech processing were more accurate and less resource-heavy to use (thanks to said hardware acceleration), there would be more of a demand for it... I wouldn't mind adding a speech recognition card to my box if it meant clear and quick voice recognition and voice-to-text.
I love Firesomething... it really is fun for those who are moderately easy to amuse. Seeing Mozilla Megachinchilla or Mozilla Powerlemur always cracks me up... you can add your own prefixes and animals, too.
They're stating that they're acting as the owner of"exclusive rights being infringed"... if they're falesly accusing of someone of infringing does that not put them at legal risk?
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"Concessions are just a custom, giving a clue to the rest of us that we can stop bickering."
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Yea, that seems to work real well!
Thing is, though, that MS doesn't have to defend IE ... with a marketing campaign or otherwise. The only way to get IE is with Windows. People switching to Firefox does't turn people from Windows, and so MS really has nothing to worry about except maybe a little bit of mindshare.
If geeks got marketing, OSS would have taken over the world by now...
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There are posts above stating that apparently, Perkins Coie is one of Seattle's oldest firms and Nintendo has been one of thier clients for some time.
It's kind of surprising that they don't have their own in-house lawyers for that kind of thing, but whatever...
" it's still IP, and thus should be more open."
... damn.
What the hell more do you want? The individual unmixed tracks ready to load up in Pro Tools (or should they use a more OSS-friendly file format)? The instruments they were played on and sheet music to go with it?
Some people will never be satisfied
Still Copyright infringement, just more serious.
I meant Linux as a platform rather than the kernel itself...
Is that somehow his fault? Hell, read his original announcement on Usenet. He started it as a hobby. Now it runs on practically any architecture I've ever heard of, and then some. There are millions of people around the world developing for it. And one of the biggest corporations in the world sees it as competition.
I'd say that's pretty amazing.
But it would be cool to dual-boot OSX and a WinOS, perhaps for gaming or whatever...
"set the background image to the book page"
If that's how they do it, then isn't the image in your cache? Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of having any DRM?
That's the same thing that was said about Halo originally, but it took a couple years, IIRC, to get Halo ported. And it still ran pretty much like crap. Hopefully they'll do a better job porting Halo 2.
Yea DivX is good, but if people's requirements for online movie purchases are along the same lines of some slashdotter's requirements for music services, it's useless unless the service provides uncompressed HDTV video and Dolby 1000.1 audio.
"Not to mention the fact that you'd have to streamline the entire country's voting process. Everyone would have to vote using the same format with all the same candidates."
... how?
And this is a bad thing
Of course MHz matters ... it's just not the end-all of differentiating chip capabilities. Just look at some of the P3/P4 comparisions. Hell, even Athalon/P4. Pipeline and cache are clutch. If we could just convince Joe Sixpack of that...
Suppose the next version of Windows has a little app that will tell the user what level of a computer it is? It could give a rundown:
This can kill two birds with one stone. The user sees the essential info about their computer all in one place, it's simplified so that when they go to purchase software they only need to know one number, and they can find out what they need to do to get higher "levels." I don't see how it's a bad thing. Done right, it could make many people's lives a lot easier. The only problem I forsee is that levels would have to go perpetually upward as newer and better technology comes about.
I know this was probably in jest, but what would it take to have KDE/Gnome ported to a Windows shell replacelemt? Or is something like that even possible?
"so potentially evil"
... maybe they're sending your encrypted packets to government supercomputers and they're cracking the encryption.
...
What isn't potentially evil? All your Interntet packets are going through your ISP
What if Google is just a front for Echelon as the government refines its data storage and indexing techniques?
You can only worry about so many "What If's" before it goes from "Tinfoil Hat" to "Tinfoil Fallout Shelter"
"there is less demand for speech processing."
But perhaps if speech processing were more accurate and less resource-heavy to use (thanks to said hardware acceleration), there would be more of a demand for it... I wouldn't mind adding a speech recognition card to my box if it meant clear and quick voice recognition and voice-to-text.
I hear it gets over 30FPS on Doom 3 too!
I love Firesomething ... it really is fun for those who are moderately easy to amuse. Seeing Mozilla Megachinchilla or Mozilla Powerlemur always cracks me up... you can add your own prefixes and animals, too.
You tell us not to knock it, because "it works" despite being closed source and not conforming to "standards."
Then you call AOL IM users "ignorant" for using the AIM software? Pick a side dude...
Well, there are legitimate .info sites...
They're stating that they're acting as the owner of"exclusive rights being infringed" ... if they're falesly accusing of someone of infringing does that not put them at legal risk?
But won't upcoming busses (PCI-X and PCI Express) allow that 2-way transaction to hapen?