It's not contrived at all. My father's machine had a specialist speech recognition package complete with special hardware to handle the digitization offload. This was back in the days of win 3.1. His machine gave perfect service for several years until 1999 when it went belly up big time. He found his speech recognition package was not supported by the manufacturer on win 95 or win 98. He was expected to purchase the latest and greatest version and go through the hassle of retraining the new system. My father has no hands, and the speech recognition package performed a heck of a lot of his automation in recognizing windows commands in addition to actually inputting text.
To put it politely, he was fucking pissed off that a professional hardware/software package that cost him some £900 back in 1993 was now redundant.
"and this leaves anyone locked in to a Microsoft system vunerable."
Vulnerable to what? Give me a real world scenario. I just don't see it.
to being forced to upgrade when they want you to upgrade rather than when you want to upgrade... to having your business critical data locked into a proprietary binary blob that can only be read/written by their software and leaves you beholden to them for the ability to access your data.
say your system currently runs XP and all your software is XP compatible. One day, the box on your desk fails badly and the replacement is only available with Vista. Now you find your accounting package won't run on Vista and you need to go and purchase the latest version for your box. Hey, what do you know, they just changed the file format... what a surprise, now your other boxes can't read data saved on your machine so you have the ugly workaround of having to remember to save in the old format every time (because as sure as eggs is eggs, you won't be able to make it the default) or else upgrade all the other machines to the new software... which surprise surprise only runs on Vista so you now have to upgrade everything else in your company
Personally, I think the Feds ought to focus more on people skills (i.e., well-trained, well-paid security forces with an effective organization to back them) and less on failure-prone, unproven technology.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... sorry... just had to laugh... you owe me a new keyboard...
they are wondrously imprecise... barring actually going everywhere and penning them all and then counting them out of the pens, you could say anything you like about the total numbers...
just think of all the fudge factors they use as it is... x% assumed to be underwater catching fish, we've only counted them here and we'll assume things are the same over there...
the only thing you can say with certainty is that the scientists are earnestly trying to count them and they haven't found as many of them as previous guesstimation figured there would be
and it has now squarely put the burden on those who purchase Suse from Novell... with this very limited "get-out-of-jail-free" card thing from microsoft, if they accept the terms, they cannot themselves distribute Suse to anyone else. fscking idiots... the minute the deal was announced I knew it was a trap... and it was confirmed when Ballmer then went on to talk about the "undisclosed balance sheet liability" that other Linux providers and users had.
NSA rep to his chief "bummocks, now we'll have to find some other way to filch stuff from everybody.... First it was the jpeg hole, now this. OK what holes have we got left?"
It is a shame that people have to resort of abusing email to store/share files.
well sourcesafe is next to useless at actually doing what it should be good at... holding the important files and emails for a project. It's crap and dangerously flaky when the database is larger than a few gig, not to mention the fact that your critical data gets locked into a proprietary format. I'd have us using CVS at my place of work if I had any say in the matter, but they're a stick in the mud microsoft only shop... if it doesn't have microsoft on the box, then it doesn't exist as far as they're concerned.
As always, and tell your family and friends, only buy music directly from the artist or secondhand. It's the only way to win.
or else make it yourself... but then again you've got to pay the nickel for the bl00dy sheet music or tabs... and they don't half try to rip you off there as well... it's that or write your own... and then try and stop them from ripping you off...
Reading something does not violate its copyright. If they distribute copies of robots.txt you might have a case of some sort.
how can you read it on the web then without having made a copy of it somewhere on your computer... you've pulled in a copy of it using your browser, there is now a copy of it in ram and also maybe in the cache... so you've made at least two unauthorised copies.
As for games, it is a more similar issue than you probably realize, because the same people are meddling with the market. If game studios would stop developing against DirectX and start using OpenGL instead, it would be much easier for them to support platforms other than Windows.
that would explain why Microsoft have gone out of their way to make OpenGL on Vista a "jarring" experience. Basically, the only way you'll get good performance games graphics wise on Vista is to use DX10. And this means that anyone wanting to code for multiple platforms will now have to use two codebases instead of just using OpenGL... which means they have a business decision to make... and you know how those usually go, they'll take the greater market.
oh how apt... Sky One in the UK are showing part one of their adaptation on Sunday evening 8 pm GMT followed by the final part on Christmas Eve. Hopefully someone will have the decency to put up torrents...
perhaps Microsoft or Sony? Who gains by all this news of Wii remotes smashing televisions then? perhaps some of these breakages are not true accidents? tin foil hat time
by patenting the processing and display of a custom header in the email header, they are trying to get an arm lock on preventing any Linux email client from using this header field to display the emoticon or to put it there in the first place...
this is basically a stripped down usage of X-Face, using just an "emoticon" to make it less obviously so.
I'd like to see the GPL upheld in court once and for all. A valid license is a valid license, and it'd be nice to see at least some of the FUD surrounding it smacked down via a court ruling.
surely the answer is to block the clients from making the initial connection to the skype server? surely someone must have a blocklist available of the skype servers.
Companies like Barereiter have been playing tricks with copyright for a long time, for example, by slightly modifying sheet music every few years with meaningless (and often, erroneous) "interpretations".
that's what Disney do with their films every few years, do a little cleaning here, a little tarting up there... issue it as a "digitally remastered" special edition DVD... anything to "reset" the copyright clock
apart from providing some "security" measures, is to lock Linux out of the corporate network. As soon as a Longhorn server goes into a network, then Linux boxes will have all sorts of problems. And there won't be any way to legally get around it as Microsoft will have all the required patents to wave in the faces of anyone who attempts to do so.
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second life... just like The Sims... but boring as fsck and filled with saddoes...
Jacko getting short of cash again???
To put it politely, he was fucking pissed off that a professional hardware/software package that cost him some £900 back in 1993 was now redundant.
to being forced to upgrade when they want you to upgrade rather than when you want to upgrade... to having your business critical data locked into a proprietary binary blob that can only be read/written by their software and leaves you beholden to them for the ability to access your data.
say your system currently runs XP and all your software is XP compatible. One day, the box on your desk fails badly and the replacement is only available with Vista. Now you find your accounting package won't run on Vista and you need to go and purchase the latest version for your box. Hey, what do you know, they just changed the file format... what a surprise, now your other boxes can't read data saved on your machine so you have the ugly workaround of having to remember to save in the old format every time (because as sure as eggs is eggs, you won't be able to make it the default) or else upgrade all the other machines to the new software... which surprise surprise only runs on Vista so you now have to upgrade everything else in your company
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... sorry... just had to laugh... you owe me a new keyboard...
the bl00dy great fishing fleets hoovering up the fish... and there's a whole sorry saga here... corrupt officials effectively condoning it.
they are wondrously imprecise... barring actually going everywhere and penning them all and then counting them out of the pens, you could say anything you like about the total numbers...
just think of all the fudge factors they use as it is... x% assumed to be underwater catching fish, we've only counted them here and we'll assume things are the same over there...
the only thing you can say with certainty is that the scientists are earnestly trying to count them and they haven't found as many of them as previous guesstimation figured there would be
and it has now squarely put the burden on those who purchase Suse from Novell... with this very limited "get-out-of-jail-free" card thing from microsoft, if they accept the terms, they cannot themselves distribute Suse to anyone else. fscking idiots... the minute the deal was announced I knew it was a trap... and it was confirmed when Ballmer then went on to talk about the "undisclosed balance sheet liability" that other Linux providers and users had.
NSA rep to his chief "bummocks, now we'll have to find some other way to filch stuff from everybody.... First it was the jpeg hole, now this. OK what holes have we got left?"
you type it right... oh see what you get for only being one letter out...
well sourcesafe is next to useless at actually doing what it should be good at... holding the important files and emails for a project. It's crap and dangerously flaky when the database is larger than a few gig, not to mention the fact that your critical data gets locked into a proprietary format. I'd have us using CVS at my place of work if I had any say in the matter, but they're a stick in the mud microsoft only shop... if it doesn't have microsoft on the box, then it doesn't exist as far as they're concerned.
or else make it yourself... but then again you've got to pay the nickel for the bl00dy sheet music or tabs... and they don't half try to rip you off there as well... it's that or write your own... and then try and stop them from ripping you off...
how can you read it on the web then without having made a copy of it somewhere on your computer... you've pulled in a copy of it using your browser, there is now a copy of it in ram and also maybe in the cache... so you've made at least two unauthorised copies.
that would explain why Microsoft have gone out of their way to make OpenGL on Vista a "jarring" experience. Basically, the only way you'll get good performance games graphics wise on Vista is to use DX10. And this means that anyone wanting to code for multiple platforms will now have to use two codebases instead of just using OpenGL... which means they have a business decision to make... and you know how those usually go, they'll take the greater market.
"Toe the party line" not "Tow the party line"...
oh how apt... Sky One in the UK are showing part one of their adaptation on Sunday evening 8 pm GMT followed by the final part on Christmas Eve. Hopefully someone will have the decency to put up torrents...
perhaps Microsoft or Sony? Who gains by all this news of Wii remotes smashing televisions then? perhaps some of these breakages are not true accidents? tin foil hat time
this is basically a stripped down usage of X-Face, using just an "emoticon" to make it less obviously so.
It has been... several times in several countries... most recently is was the fool Wallace who got told where to go by an American court
surely the answer is to block the clients from making the initial connection to the skype server? surely someone must have a blocklist available of the skype servers.
if this thing is done in the BIOS? will it make it extra hard to do duel boot?
that's what Disney do with their films every few years, do a little cleaning here, a little tarting up there... issue it as a "digitally remastered" special edition DVD... anything to "reset" the copyright clock
apart from providing some "security" measures, is to lock Linux out of the corporate network. As soon as a Longhorn server goes into a network, then Linux boxes will have all sorts of problems. And there won't be any way to legally get around it as Microsoft will have all the required patents to wave in the faces of anyone who attempts to do so.