Is it just me who finds it amusing that the Register always abbreviates "Association"?
Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) President Jack Valenti....
...the industry Ass. President alludes to the need for the PC to be transformed into a secure content-distrbution device along the lines of a set-top box.
Blizzard is ultimately doing the right thing in going after people cracking the Beta, IMHO.
Unfortunately, Blizzard is not going after people cracking the Beta. They're going after people creating a tool which was used by legitimate customers before the beta was even released.
Is it a surprise to anyone that this movie is coming out in an election year, and that people are making a fuss about health coverage again? That was the first thought I had when I saw the preview months ago.
Also, in real life, a TV news station would broadcast the situation and there'd be money streaming in from all across the US to help the little boy. Americans have proven that they don't want things like this to happen. Oh well--it's just so hard to suspend disbelief when the movie is trying so hard to hand it back to you...
If they weren't a monopoly, they wouldn't be able to charge $100. MS can use the inflated prices to gather enough cash to roll other features into the OS.
As for the examples you cite, they're laughable. CD recording software comes with CD-R drives (and besides, XP is the first MS OS to come with that software). Browsers are free (see Opera). Who doesn't have Winzip already? etc. etc. etc.
With all your information in one place, you'll be able to buy anything on the Web with a single click, or check your schedule from any Net- connected device.
They should have stated it as follows: With all your eggs in one basket...
It has been revived. Get an Atari 800 or C64 emulator, and get M.U.L.E. I got it a few months back, and was stunned to hear the theme music and see the opening sequence on my PC. Just do a google search, you'll find it.
So, a friend of mine did this as an EE project at Berkeley in 1990 (it used ram only to store the feed, and had a limit of 10-15 seconds I think, just enough for a, "oh, what was that," replay).
28.8 = 3600 bytes / second (yes, it's 8 bits, not 10 bits)
Actually, the divide-by-ten practice is a rule of thumb to account for CRC on packets, etc--that is, the overhead that you have to transfer to make sure that you get the signal bits.
The popular mp3 players must be able to play the new format (winamp, musicmatch, etc.) and there absolutely must be an automated utility to convert mp3 to ogg vorbis. Then it shouldn't be a problem.
Oh, and a good.3 extension would be good too--ovb anyone?
Actually you need to check your grammar. An apostrophe is commonly used to denote plural for acronyms and such, hence it is perfectly correct to write "GUI's" to mean the plural of GUI. I think you need to slap yourself in the face.
An apparatus for the enforcement of express shopping lines:
All items in the store are equipped with unique identifying marks (e.g. "bar code" labels, or UID transmitters). Upon entering a checkout line, the shopping cart is scanned, and the number of items in the cart are tallied. If the number of items exceeds the maximum allowed for said line, the store's management is notified.
That simply doesn't work. There are legitimate concerns that people might want to investigate that they don't want others to see. What about an abused child looking for resources to protect him from abusive parents? A man looking up information about prostate cancer or impotence? There are many reasons people should be able to access the internet without broadcasting the contents to the whole world.
In all fairness some history about Dinkumware is important. The previous publisher of the library took them to court attempting to appropriate the code, and after a long legal battle, they managed to retain rights for their own code. (I'm surprised this battle hasn't been posted to/.)
The current Dinkumware library is excellent, but it doesn't ship with MSVC++ because of the time delay involved in the legal battle for the code. (Side note, P.J. Plauger, founder of Dinkumware, is a Senior Editor at C/C++ Users Journal, an excellent magazing--he knows his stuff!) You can purchase it, and I hope it will be included in future releases of MSVC++. But don't knock the libraries simply because you're looking at very old versions of the libraries.
Now we can predict the future? Didn't see that...
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The findings changed little in the short term, and probably even less in the long run.
So no one saw the impact of the Internet and Open Source/GNU/Linux and how it would affect the world, but suddenly Jon can claim to know that the ruling won't affect the future? Does anyone else see the problem with this logic?
The ruling matters because a company with X Billion dollars to burn is strong-arming companies out of the business.
I'm guessing that if this doesn't get resolved, the next big "innovation" will be welding voice-recognition software into the OS. There are only a few competing companies (Dragon just got snapped up), and where MS can't compete technically, they'll throw FUD around.
Personally, I wish MS would just improve its products instead of crushing its competitors. Hopefully the ruling will affect that (or provide real alternatives to Windows).
By the way, did you hear why they are using Intel chips rather than Athlons? Intel is giving MS the chips for free. AMD wouldn't give the chips away.
You've got to be kidding me. (First the disclaimer: I currently work for Intel, however, I do not represent Intel, and my comments are my opinion only.) Processors cost money to manufacture (remember, they are a physical product). You can't just make copy after copy like software.
The most likely real reason for MS' decision for Intel over AMD is production capacity and stability. AMD has a rocky past, and has a long way to go before they can erase that past. They also can only deliver about 1% of the number of chips that Intel can. By Q3-4 of next year, 600MHz chips will be dirt cheap, small, and manufacturing will likely be able to churn them out in huge volume without a problem. MS is probably betting on Intel's ability to produce more than anything else.
It's a shame really that in the crossfire a good product is getting hammered. VJ++ is a much better development environment than the ridiculous JDK Sun puts out. Ever try to use the debugger in Sun's JDK? It's completely useless.
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Unfortunately, Blizzard is not going after people cracking the Beta. They're going after people creating a tool which was used by legitimate customers before the beta was even released.
Is it a surprise to anyone that this movie is coming out in an election year, and that people are making a fuss about health coverage again? That was the first thought I had when I saw the preview months ago.
Also, in real life, a TV news station would broadcast the situation and there'd be money streaming in from all across the US to help the little boy. Americans have proven that they don't want things like this to happen. Oh well--it's just so hard to suspend disbelief when the movie is trying so hard to hand it back to you...
If they weren't a monopoly, they wouldn't be able to charge $100. MS can use the inflated prices to gather enough cash to roll other features into the OS.
As for the examples you cite, they're laughable. CD recording software comes with CD-R drives (and besides, XP is the first MS OS to come with that software). Browsers are free (see Opera). Who doesn't have Winzip already? etc. etc. etc.
They should have stated it as follows: With all your eggs in one basket...
It has been revived. Get an Atari 800 or C64 emulator, and get M.U.L.E. I got it a few months back, and was stunned to hear the theme music and see the opening sequence on my PC. Just do a google search, you'll find it.
So, a friend of mine did this as an EE project at Berkeley in 1990 (it used ram only to store the feed, and had a limit of 10-15 seconds I think, just enough for a, "oh, what was that," replay).
Note for the sarcasm-impaired: Please reread my comment and focus on the "Wait a minute...." part.
Yeah, penicillin helps out the enemy too, I'm sure.
Of course, the difference between penicillin and encryption is that private citizens have a legitimate need for penicillin.
Wait a minute....
Actually, the divide-by-ten practice is a rule of thumb to account for CRC on packets, etc--that is, the overhead that you have to transfer to make sure that you get the signal bits.
The popular mp3 players must be able to play the new format (winamp, musicmatch, etc.) and there absolutely must be an automated utility to convert mp3 to ogg vorbis. Then it shouldn't be a problem. Oh, and a good .3 extension would be good too--ovb anyone?
Sigh. At least get it right. It's "two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do."
But the way they approached us at first, coming in with gun ports wide open, cost them any sympathy we might have had for them
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You know, some cultures show their respect by coming in, gun ports open.
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Actually you need to check your grammar. An apostrophe is commonly used to denote plural for acronyms and such, hence it is perfectly correct to write "GUI's" to mean the plural of GUI. I think you need to slap yourself in the face.
An apparatus for the enforcement of express shopping lines:
All items in the store are equipped with unique identifying marks (e.g. "bar code" labels, or UID transmitters). Upon entering a checkout line, the shopping cart is scanned, and the number of items in the cart are tallied. If the number of items exceeds the maximum allowed for said line, the store's management is notified.
Sigh. The sad thing is that it will come to pass.
That simply doesn't work. There are legitimate concerns that people might want to investigate that they don't want others to see. What about an abused child looking for resources to protect him from abusive parents? A man looking up information about prostate cancer or impotence? There are many reasons people should be able to access the internet without broadcasting the contents to the whole world.
The current Dinkumware library is excellent, but it doesn't ship with MSVC++ because of the time delay involved in the legal battle for the code. (Side note, P.J. Plauger, founder of Dinkumware, is a Senior Editor at C/C++ Users Journal, an excellent magazing--he knows his stuff!) You can purchase it, and I hope it will be included in future releases of MSVC++. But don't knock the libraries simply because you're looking at very old versions of the libraries.
So no one saw the impact of the Internet and Open Source/GNU/Linux and how it would affect the world, but suddenly Jon can claim to know that the ruling won't affect the future? Does anyone else see the problem with this logic?
The ruling matters because a company with X Billion dollars to burn is strong-arming companies out of the business.
I'm guessing that if this doesn't get resolved, the next big "innovation" will be welding voice-recognition software into the OS. There are only a few competing companies (Dragon just got snapped up), and where MS can't compete technically, they'll throw FUD around.
Personally, I wish MS would just improve its products instead of crushing its competitors. Hopefully the ruling will affect that (or provide real alternatives to Windows).
You've got to be kidding me. (First the disclaimer: I currently work for Intel, however, I do not represent Intel, and my comments are my opinion only.) Processors cost money to manufacture (remember, they are a physical product). You can't just make copy after copy like software.
The most likely real reason for MS' decision for Intel over AMD is production capacity and stability. AMD has a rocky past, and has a long way to go before they can erase that past. They also can only deliver about 1% of the number of chips that Intel can. By Q3-4 of next year, 600MHz chips will be dirt cheap, small, and manufacturing will likely be able to churn them out in huge volume without a problem. MS is probably betting on Intel's ability to produce more than anything else.
It's a shame really that in the crossfire a good product is getting hammered. VJ++ is a much better development environment than the ridiculous JDK Sun puts out. Ever try to use the debugger in Sun's JDK? It's completely useless.