What good is that going to do? Might as well bail out a boat with a hole the size of your bucket. I suppose the RIAA in the Netherlands is rejoicing and clinking glasses to toast the demise of media piracy and a return to healthy profitability. Heh.
"...we had the pleasure of talking with...members of the Windows 7 product development and planning team:...Cameron Turner, Group Program Manager for Telemetry." He must coordinate the product launches with Houston.
1) The previous commenter is correct (making slashdot incorrect); the EU Commissioner in question is NEELIE KROES, not "Nancy Kroes". 2) Now why would the EU be interested in slowing down the progress of two AMERICAN companies in joining their efforts, hmmmm???
Wikipedia's entry on SCO reads like a novel comprised of cheats, deceits, and betrayals. What a long, strange trip its been. Good thing I ended up NOT working for them, as I had a chance to back in the early nineties. I really wanted to as it would have been my first regular paid gig in OSS. Wow, hindsite, huh?
Frankly I think its a good thing. The BSD code tree is so old parts of it were rotting from the core. This may inject a vigorous new root into the tree. A sort of BSD for the 21st century perhaps.
If it truly is an eReader for $99 that's actually pretty sweet, but otherwise, yeah, a bit of a snoozer. I can jump online with my CDMA phone (YES; I'm going GSM soon) and peruse wp at any time. AND transfer a 4G file to update the thing? Forget that. Makes it useless. Here's a hint guys: INCREMENTAL UPDATE. Hardly cutting-edge technology. Get it together, inventors.
I have to agree. I've been a steam user for years and I find it useful. Anti-competitive is the term for the ones who can't compete quite as successfully as the successful competitor. What a world we live in when its possible to "level" the playground by whining about anti-competitive behavior to legislators.
"I'm reasonably certain it's been shown a number of times that if you build a PC with the exact same hardware as a Mac, you'll end up with a PC that costs about the same."
No, not even close. I build my own rigs and I've never spent as much money on my hardware as it would have cost me to buy a Mac.
I always build my own desktop systems, and not to save money, but to have the best & fastest system possible for my budget. I always get comments on how unbelievably faster my desktop is than anything my friends can get from Dell. That's because I cherry pick the video card(s), the cooling, everything. Plus I tune the os (XP right now, system's primary func is gaming), turning off services (the nttp & web clients for example, gone!) and systems I don't need. If any one component, like the p/s, goes out, I pull out the dead part and replace it. I'm off line only for as long as it takes to replace that part.
@Drunken Buddhist: "Did someone forget to inform this senator that we (the US) no longer own the internets?"
The US didn't "own" the (sic) "internets". The US ran ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is the root level domain server system. Important, but its not ownership. There are talks of alternative domain name root systems, but I don't know how far implemented those are. If you control ICANN, you control the internet to a certain extent, but anyone can set up a root name system, and indeed there are private root name servers for companies and other entities that want to manage private name systems all the time.
By saying that in the context of this article you're implying that Havoc is a more open, less ip/license/business relationship-constrained option, and I don't think that's true. If Intel wants to exert its rights over the technology in the same way we're right back to the same situation with PhysX; Havoc may be better technically but its worthless if no one can get their hands on it.
@rehtonAesoohC: "I have to say that I am excited about the prospects of a chat/im/document/wiki/social network collaboration system all rolled into one..."
I'm not. As I type this (14:45:00pdt 92-9-09) my home page, which has been igoogle since igoogle's inception, looks broken. It appears as though the themes server is down. WTG google.
@wertigon: "A much better question is, why aren't they firing this obviously incompetent person from his job?"
Sounds to me like multiple people should be shown the door. This would never fly in my private company, I'm aware of one person in my 5 year history here that was fired for doing this A LITTLE BIT.
This is what bothers me; this organization is a small part of the same massive entity that some people tell me should be in charge of my health care,that they know best how to handle terrorism, and collects taxes from me at some of the highest rates in the world, because I make too much and its not fair to the people who don't know how to make money. And they have the balls to tell me they know best on a number of topics and this is why they collect that money; for the good of society. Looks to me like a pack of horny, red-assed monkeys are running the asylum and burning my money to light hot foott jokes on each other. And buying porn
@socceroos: "But seriously, what are Microsoft getting at? This is looking more and more like a cult thing than ever."
I think Microsoft wants desperately to hit that zompbie/cool/following thing that Apple has. Maybe. I dunno. But for real schlock value check out that Songsmith demo on YT. Wow. Seriously bad. Cindy Perman's article on the CNBC site said it best: "Others expressed thanks that Microsoft isn't responsible for anything that actually involves life and death."
Let me put it another way: Israel and Iran are babysitters, and I need a baby sitter tonight, and all I have are either of these two idiots. I'd pick Israel over Iran any time. My kid might get black eye or a split lip for spilling the chicken soup, but I'll deal with that when I get home. Much better that than put to the crescent sword for being an infidel, or killed for some kind of "honor" crime. Your continued condemnation of Israel without explaining why is irrational. At least I have some rational thought as to the reason I feel the way I do.
Israel isn't blameless, I know this. But that's your stand on Iran? You've been saying Israel this and Israel that, I don't give a fuck about Israel, I know what they will do. What I care about is Iran. See the difference?
@Cyberax: "Israel had already:
1) Fought offensive wars.
2) Fought wars for purely mercantile reasons.
3) Committed crimes against humanity (de-facto apartheid).
4) Generally behaves like a regional bully."
Then she's no different from any of the other local powers, and she'd be a fool to be. But so what, lets say Israel didn't exist. You want to tell me that everything would be roses with Iran, as it currently exits, with no Israel? You're dreamin' pal. And a fool.
@pete-wilko: "The tesco one isn't so bad in fairness. The rep could well have been thinking of NOTEbook - rather than NETbook."
When I think of Tesco I think of Food Market, but they can sell whatever they want, so that's fine. But the problem I have with your statement is right on its face, when I go to a vendor who sells something, anything, I expect them to know what it is they're selling, period. If the Tesco's computer salae sperson is on break and the Mgr asked the cosmetics girl to pinch-hit, that's not my problem. There's way too much getting by, faking it, and out and out ripping off of the consumer out there. I'm so embittered by the service I've gotten lately that I avoid sales clowns altogether. I buy as much as I can online and have it delivered to my work. No mess, no hassles. Rarely.
@Cyberax: "I don't care if you're pro-Iran or not, its sheer madness to believe that Israel is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. It works both ways..."
No, not in this case. I'll put trust in rational thought and nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel (which has been the case for 40 years anyway) any day over Iran who are just chomping at the bit for nukes. Simply saying "...it works both ways" is dismissive and doesn't really explain your position. HOW do you believe that Iran is a more mature, a more rational, and a more peaceful nation than Israel? Explain that to me, then start waving around easy slogans that don't really mean anything just because your liberal bias tells you regurgitate some stupid sentence.
"Iran maintains that it nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and that it's not fair for the US to be criticizing them in this way while having thousands of nuclear warheads."
Not FAIR? FAIR? A country who's stated political objective, time and time again is "Death to Israel"?
I don't care if you're pro-Israel or not, its sheer madness to believe that Iran is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. Their leaders have stated again and again that the West (meaning Israel, the US, and capitalism) are sick and on the way out, that Jihad is the duty of every Muslim, and martyrdom is the highest calling. These people glorify death and war, and are looking to put every one on earth under the yoke of their twisted Islamic law. Its ridiculous to compare the US, faults and all, with Iran as a pair of equals with apposing viewpoints. These people are twisted, evil, and not worth such recognition, and I really don't understand your idiotic viewpoint. It always amazes me when people want to point fingers at past US injustices yet turn some strange, myopic eye to plain murderers and give them a pass. Whatever your view point, I ask this; lets see how your view looks to you as soon as Iran has a nuclear weapon, and they will, unless Israel takes care of the situation.
Some of the code in BSD family of code streams is so old its growing fungus. Still, when I set up a server I usually reach for OpenBSD, its proven rock-stable to me after years of trouble-free mail, firewall/NAT, and web server service. But Ubuntu's my desktop.
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What good is that going to do? Might as well bail out a boat with a hole the size of your bucket.
I suppose the RIAA in the Netherlands is rejoicing and clinking glasses to toast the demise of media piracy and a return to healthy profitability. Heh.
"...we had the pleasure of talking with...members of the Windows 7 product development and planning team: ...Cameron Turner, Group Program Manager for Telemetry."
He must coordinate the product launches with Houston.
1) The previous commenter is correct (making slashdot incorrect); the EU Commissioner in question is NEELIE KROES, not "Nancy Kroes".
2) Now why would the EU be interested in slowing down the progress of two AMERICAN companies in joining their efforts, hmmmm???
Wikipedia's entry on SCO reads like a novel comprised of cheats, deceits, and betrayals. What a long, strange trip its been. Good thing I ended up NOT working for them, as I had a chance to back in the early nineties. I really wanted to as it would have been my first regular paid gig in OSS. Wow, hindsite, huh?
Frankly I think its a good thing. The BSD code tree is so old parts of it were rotting from the core. This may inject a vigorous new root into the tree. A sort of BSD for the 21st century perhaps.
And it makes use of a primary cache. "That's hot."
If it truly is an eReader for $99 that's actually pretty sweet, but otherwise, yeah, a bit of a snoozer. I can jump online with my CDMA phone (YES; I'm going GSM soon) and peruse wp at any time. AND transfer a 4G file to update the thing? Forget that. Makes it useless. Here's a hint guys: INCREMENTAL UPDATE. Hardly cutting-edge technology. Get it together, inventors.
I have to agree. I've been a steam user for years and I find it useful. Anti-competitive is the term for the ones who can't compete quite as successfully as the successful competitor. What a world we live in when its possible to "level" the playground by whining about anti-competitive behavior to legislators.
"I'm reasonably certain it's been shown a number of times that if you build a PC with the exact same hardware as a Mac, you'll end up with a PC that costs about the same."
No, not even close. I build my own rigs and I've never spent as much money on my hardware as it would have cost me to buy a Mac.
I always build my own desktop systems, and not to save money, but to have the best & fastest system possible for my budget. I always get comments on how unbelievably faster my desktop is than anything my friends can get from Dell. That's because I cherry pick the video card(s), the cooling, everything. Plus I tune the os (XP right now, system's primary func is gaming), turning off services (the nttp & web clients for example, gone!) and systems I don't need. If any one component, like the p/s, goes out, I pull out the dead part and replace it. I'm off line only for as long as it takes to replace that part.
Its as though any developer who doesn't work directly for Microsoft is an enemy of the state (Of Microsoft).
@Drunken Buddhist: "Did someone forget to inform this senator that we (the US) no longer own the internets?"
The US didn't "own" the (sic) "internets". The US ran ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is the root level domain server system. Important, but its not ownership. There are talks of alternative domain name root systems, but I don't know how far implemented those are. If you control ICANN, you control the internet to a certain extent, but anyone can set up a root name system, and indeed there are private root name servers for companies and other entities that want to manage private name systems all the time.
Diphthongs.
@sopssa: "Havok is a better engine anyway."
By saying that in the context of this article you're implying that Havoc is a more open, less ip/license/business relationship-constrained option, and I don't think that's true. If Intel wants to exert its rights over the technology in the same way we're right back to the same situation with PhysX; Havoc may be better technically but its worthless if no one can get their hands on it.
@rehtonAesoohC: "I have to say that I am excited about the prospects of a chat/im/document/wiki/social network collaboration system all rolled into one..."
I'm not. As I type this (14:45:00pdt 92-9-09) my home page, which has been igoogle since igoogle's inception, looks broken. It appears as though the themes server is down. WTG google.
@wertigon: "A much better question is, why aren't they firing this obviously incompetent person from his job?"
Sounds to me like multiple people should be shown the door. This would never fly in my private company, I'm aware of one person in my 5 year history here that was fired for doing this A LITTLE BIT.
This is what bothers me; this organization is a small part of the same massive entity that some people tell me should be in charge of my health care,that they know best how to handle terrorism, and collects taxes from me at some of the highest rates in the world, because I make too much and its not fair to the people who don't know how to make money. And they have the balls to tell me they know best on a number of topics and this is why they collect that money; for the good of society. Looks to me like a pack of horny, red-assed monkeys are running the asylum and burning my money to light hot foott jokes on each other. And buying porn
@socceroos: "But seriously, what are Microsoft getting at? This is looking more and more like a cult thing than ever."
I think Microsoft wants desperately to hit that zompbie/cool/following thing that Apple has. Maybe. I dunno. But for real schlock value check out that Songsmith demo on YT. Wow. Seriously bad. Cindy Perman's article on the CNBC site said it best: "Others expressed thanks that Microsoft isn't responsible for anything that actually involves life and death."
Let me put it another way: Israel and Iran are babysitters, and I need a baby sitter tonight, and all I have are either of these two idiots. I'd pick Israel over Iran any time. My kid might get black eye or a split lip for spilling the chicken soup, but I'll deal with that when I get home. Much better that than put to the crescent sword for being an infidel, or killed for some kind of "honor" crime. Your continued condemnation of Israel without explaining why is irrational. At least I have some rational thought as to the reason I feel the way I do.
Israel isn't blameless, I know this. But that's your stand on Iran? You've been saying Israel this and Israel that, I don't give a fuck about Israel, I know what they will do. What I care about is Iran. See the difference?
@Cyberax: "Israel had already: 1) Fought offensive wars. 2) Fought wars for purely mercantile reasons. 3) Committed crimes against humanity (de-facto apartheid). 4) Generally behaves like a regional bully."
Then she's no different from any of the other local powers, and she'd be a fool to be. But so what, lets say Israel didn't exist. You want to tell me that everything would be roses with Iran, as it currently exits, with no Israel? You're dreamin' pal. And a fool.
@pete-wilko: "The tesco one isn't so bad in fairness. The rep could well have been thinking of NOTEbook - rather than NETbook."
When I think of Tesco I think of Food Market, but they can sell whatever they want, so that's fine. But the problem I have with your statement is right on its face, when I go to a vendor who sells something, anything, I expect them to know what it is they're selling, period. If the Tesco's computer salae sperson is on break and the Mgr asked the cosmetics girl to pinch-hit, that's not my problem. There's way too much getting by, faking it, and out and out ripping off of the consumer out there. I'm so embittered by the service I've gotten lately that I avoid sales clowns altogether. I buy as much as I can online and have it delivered to my work. No mess, no hassles. Rarely.
@Cyberax: "I don't care if you're pro-Iran or not, its sheer madness to believe that Israel is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. It works both ways..."
No, not in this case. I'll put trust in rational thought and nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel (which has been the case for 40 years anyway) any day over Iran who are just chomping at the bit for nukes. Simply saying "...it works both ways" is dismissive and doesn't really explain your position. HOW do you believe that Iran is a more mature, a more rational, and a more peaceful nation than Israel? Explain that to me, then start waving around easy slogans that don't really mean anything just because your liberal bias tells you regurgitate some stupid sentence.
Here's a little demonstration Iran's peaceful intentions; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/middleeast/29tehran.html?bl.
"Iran maintains that it nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and that it's not fair for the US to be criticizing them in this way while having thousands of nuclear warheads."
Not FAIR? FAIR? A country who's stated political objective, time and time again is "Death to Israel"?
I don't care if you're pro-Israel or not, its sheer madness to believe that Iran is really a peaceful country out to defend itself. Their leaders have stated again and again that the West (meaning Israel, the US, and capitalism) are sick and on the way out, that Jihad is the duty of every Muslim, and martyrdom is the highest calling. These people glorify death and war, and are looking to put every one on earth under the yoke of their twisted Islamic law. Its ridiculous to compare the US, faults and all, with Iran as a pair of equals with apposing viewpoints. These people are twisted, evil, and not worth such recognition, and I really don't understand your idiotic viewpoint. It always amazes me when people want to point fingers at past US injustices yet turn some strange, myopic eye to plain murderers and give them a pass.
Whatever your view point, I ask this; lets see how your view looks to you as soon as Iran has a nuclear weapon, and they will, unless Israel takes care of the situation.
Some of the code in BSD family of code streams is so old its growing fungus. Still, when I set up a server I usually reach for OpenBSD, its proven rock-stable to me after years of trouble-free mail, firewall/NAT, and web server service. But Ubuntu's my desktop.