So, if someone burns their hands (requiring a skin graft), they will then find that their own passport has now disowned them. This tends to confirm the GP's assertion that fingerprints are not good authentication mechanisms.
I'm not sure what the difference is meant to be between, say, a calculator Widget and a calculator application
Bizarrely, they are actually two different things (unlike the Dictionary widget, which merely calls the Dictionary.app). This can be shown by typing in a simple sum to Calculator.app and the calculator widget:
2+4*6
In the widget, it is evaluated left to right (giving 36 as the answer), whereas in the.app, it is evaluated using standard algebraic rules, so the multiplication takes precedence over the addition, giving a result of 26
(as an aside, the Windows calculator changes depending on the view - the basic view gives 36 as the answer, while the advanced view gives 26 as the answer)
Some years back, Apple was killing its developers trying to get Copeland out of the door. It too was shipping "next year", but they canned it in the end and bought NeXTStep to base their next version on.
Of course, MS always manage to hold to their release schedules, don't they? What's that? They don't?
If the IE7 team pull it off, then it becomes one more potential competitor quashed. If they don't, then it's a good fall back position.
how does underdeveloped countries benefit themselves by sending millions of dollars to the US and feeding the super rich software companies that effectively prevent any small comany in these countries to flourish?
They send viruses instead;) (the original Brain virus was written in Pakistan to spite Westerners who could afford a trip to Pakistan to buy pirated copies of software, but were too cheap to pay full price for software, even though full price software would have cost less than the flight... Pakistanis (who didn't have the money), would get "genuine" pirated copies of Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, WordPerfect or whatever, while the Westerners would get the "infected" version, as a punishment)
Next up, the BSA will attempt to prove that black is white, and then get run down on the next zebra corssing.
Or alternatively, Apple computer should do a deal with Apple records:
Apple R goes out and encourages artists to abandon their current label (say, by giving them a larger cut per track than their current label. Apple C then hosts the music on iTMS
Because the physical costs are reduced, Apple R can afford to pay higher royalties and still make money, while Apple C can still make money as now. Win for Apple R; win for Apple C; win for the artists. Same selection (or larger - Beatles on iTMS anyone?), so at least no loss for consumers
So, having lost the battle over who "owns" the Internet (or at least the DNS system), it seems as though the next step is to challenge the "owner" as a monopoly.
Hmm. Being a monopoly is not a crime. It only becomes so when abuse of monopoly power can be demonstrated. This does not look like it (yet), as there is a big difference between what you are contractually allowed to do, and what you actually end up doing.
"The Protestant Reformation, which had begun in 1517, had reached England some twenty years later. As elsewhere in Europe, it spawned dissenting minorities who were rather more ascetic in the practice of their new faith than the Church of England which was Protestant in name, but was, effectively, Catholicism without the Pope. Of these, the plain-living Puritans who eschewed what they saw as the gaudy, papist show of the English church, were the most overt and became the most oppressed. In 1609, the Puritans found England so inimical that 35 of them left the country and settled at Leyden, in Holland. Holland was much more to their strict religious taste, but after ten years, the Puritans began to seek a better freedom than a patch in a foreign land.
Given that the iPod is successful because of its user experience, rather than the gee-whizz features, it looks as though an iPod killer will have to have gapless playback to even have a chance of competing (that and obviously a really to use UI). The first manufacturer to announce this should clean up the market.
Here in the UK, there are numerous MS adverts with dinosaur headed people telling us that MS Office has evolved, because the new "Information Rights Management" can, apparently, prevent email leaks.
So, when "In the memo, Gates cites an earlier missive...", it clearly shows that Bill G does not use the Rights technology of his own company's software.
Or maybe, it's so complicated to use that not even MS can figure out how to get it to work.
You can buy everything from t-shirts to tea-towels with the London underground map embossed, and many tourists do, so I guess it's a bit of a cash cow.
As far as I know, all the Underground related items are licenced by LT, so they probably enforce copyright issues.
However, since they also licence the use of the map in diaries and such, then the cost of a licence is probably not too high.
The Ordnance Survey in the UK has a full page devoted to copyright issues, which indicates that, for some uses, the cost for reproduction may simply be an acknowledgement of the original copyright owner.
Tech guy: Boss, I've just put all our back catalogue on a room full of these new anti-copy devices.
Boss: That's great. No more piracy! Now we can sell our back catalogue at inflated prices.
[a few weeks later]
Tech guy: er, Boss, our online store isn't doing so well...
Boss: What do you mean?
Tech guy: Well, no track has sold more than 5 times. The anti-copy device won't allow it!
Boss: In that case, remove our stuff from the devices, so that we can continue selling.
Tech guy: er, I can't. The anti-copy device won't allow it.
So, this will be useful right up until the time that the content creators can't copy their own stuff onto even newer technology (in, say 20 years' time). So, everything they had that will be lost.
Very true. The difference is that Chip and PIN now actively encourages shoulder surfing, as the retailer will not worry as long as the PIN is correct. Someone taking the card early on a Saturday will pretty much have all the rest of the day to make valid transactions (at other stores) before the owner notices the loss and gets the card blocked.
After Visi-Calc, though, it was Lotus 1-2-3 that defined the spreadsheet; to ease transition, it could read.vc files. (Version 1 was pretty lame, though, as it couldn't do any string based functions. Version 2, though, was much better)
Lotus, though, was a real pain when it came to graphing - it was a case of "set this; try it out", rather than real-time drawing. So, Excel took over the mantle. Again, it could read.wks and, to some extent.wk3 files to ease transition.
So, the next question is: what is the killer feature that will make people convert from Excel to something else? Or, to put it another way, what feature of Excel is still a bit clunky to use?
7. Government[s] become upset at Microsoft for having so many security holes that viruses and spyware are rife.
8. Microsoft buries the security holes deep inside the OS and its DLLs, purposefully glomming the two together [as Windows Really annoying Edition] so that they cannot be extricated.
9. Microsoft and its apologists announce that it is impossible, unfair and unreasonable to debundle the APIs used by Spyware from their OS, because Spyware is a part of the operating system.
OK, so these days, MS is very likely to leverage the DRM stuff to make a "MS and only MS" computer. Which will work until the "killer app" comes along for the general purpose (=non-MS) computer, and everyone will switch in droves
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So, if someone burns their hands (requiring a skin graft), they will then find that their own passport has now disowned them. This tends to confirm the GP's assertion that fingerprints are not good authentication mechanisms.
I'm not sure what the difference is meant to be between, say, a calculator Widget and a calculator application
.app, it is evaluated using standard algebraic rules, so the multiplication takes precedence over the addition, giving a result of 26
Bizarrely, they are actually two different things (unlike the Dictionary widget, which merely calls the Dictionary.app). This can be shown by typing in a simple sum to Calculator.app and the calculator widget:
2+4*6
In the widget, it is evaluated left to right (giving 36 as the answer), whereas in the
(as an aside, the Windows calculator changes depending on the view - the basic view gives 36 as the answer, while the advanced view gives 26 as the answer)
Stranger things have happened.
Some years back, Apple was killing its developers trying to get Copeland out of the door. It too was shipping "next year", but they canned it in the end and bought NeXTStep to base their next version on.
Of course, MS always manage to hold to their release schedules, don't they? What's that? They don't?
If the IE7 team pull it off, then it becomes one more potential competitor quashed. If they don't, then it's a good fall back position.
how does underdeveloped countries benefit themselves by sending millions of dollars to the US and feeding the super rich software companies that effectively prevent any small comany in these countries to flourish?
;) (the original Brain virus was written in Pakistan to spite Westerners who could afford a trip to Pakistan to buy pirated copies of software, but were too cheap to pay full price for software, even though full price software would have cost less than the flight... Pakistanis (who didn't have the money), would get "genuine" pirated copies of Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, WordPerfect or whatever, while the Westerners would get the "infected" version, as a punishment)
They send viruses instead
Next up, the BSA will attempt to prove that black is white, and then get run down on the next zebra corssing.
The study concluded that countries with high software piracy rates have more to gain economically by protecting intellectual property rights.
Given who conducted the study, the conclusion is hardly surprising.
Or alternatively, Apple computer should do a deal with Apple records:
Apple R goes out and encourages artists to abandon their current label (say, by giving them a larger cut per track than their current label. Apple C then hosts the music on iTMS
Because the physical costs are reduced, Apple R can afford to pay higher royalties and still make money, while Apple C can still make money as now. Win for Apple R; win for Apple C; win for the artists. Same selection (or larger - Beatles on iTMS anyone?), so at least no loss for consumers
I think you need to remember your tags next time, otherwise everyone just takes your post at face value.
So, having lost the battle over who "owns" the Internet (or at least the DNS system), it seems as though the next step is to challenge the "owner" as a monopoly.
Hmm. Being a monopoly is not a crime. It only becomes so when abuse of monopoly power can be demonstrated. This does not look like it (yet), as there is a big difference between what you are contractually allowed to do, and what you actually end up doing.
Exactly when was it that my country decide to abdicate rationality in favor of wanton superstition, reprehensible pseudoscience, and gross ignorance?
Probably round about the time of the Pilgrim Fathers
From the link:
"The Protestant Reformation, which had begun in 1517, had reached England some twenty years later. As elsewhere in Europe, it spawned dissenting minorities who were rather more ascetic in the practice of their new faith than the Church of England which was Protestant in name, but was, effectively, Catholicism without the Pope. Of these, the plain-living Puritans who eschewed what they saw as the gaudy, papist show of the English church, were the most overt and became the most oppressed. In 1609, the Puritans found England so inimical that 35 of them left the country and settled at Leyden, in Holland. Holland was much more to their strict religious taste, but after ten years, the Puritans began to seek a better freedom than a patch in a foreign land.
The Puritans looked, therefore, to America"
we're becoming a remarkably litigious society. Not that I have any idea how to cure the problem.
The obvious, if paradoxical, solution is to sue anyone prepared to resort to litigation....
Um...
I'll get my coat
Do any of these support gapless playback
Given that the iPod is successful because of its user experience, rather than the gee-whizz features, it looks as though an iPod killer will have to have gapless playback to even have a chance of competing (that and obviously a really to use UI). The first manufacturer to announce this should clean up the market.
Here in the UK, there are numerous MS adverts with dinosaur headed people telling us that MS Office has evolved, because the new "Information Rights Management" can, apparently, prevent email leaks.
So, when "In the memo, Gates cites an earlier missive...", it clearly shows that Bill G does not use the Rights technology of his own company's software.
Or maybe, it's so complicated to use that not even MS can figure out how to get it to work.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
-- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
Although I'm sure he didn't realise its curiosity value.
... is my friend. For now. Maybe.
Or at least until my new friend becomes my enemy.
... is also my enemy.
BTW, to which label do I need to make my check out to for using Imagine in a parody?
Err, that would be these guys
(Kind of ironic, really. More info here)
You can buy everything from t-shirts to tea-towels with the London underground map embossed, and many tourists do, so I guess it's a bit of a cash cow.
As far as I know, all the Underground related items are licenced by LT, so they probably enforce copyright issues.
However, since they also licence the use of the map in diaries and such, then the cost of a licence is probably not too high.
The Ordnance Survey in the UK has a full page devoted to copyright issues, which indicates that, for some uses, the cost for reproduction may simply be an acknowledgement of the original copyright owner.
Tech guy: Boss, I've just put all our back catalogue on a room full of these new anti-copy devices.
Boss: That's great. No more piracy! Now we can sell our back catalogue at inflated prices.
[a few weeks later]
Tech guy: er, Boss, our online store isn't doing so well...
Boss: What do you mean?
Tech guy: Well, no track has sold more than 5 times. The anti-copy device won't allow it!
Boss: In that case, remove our stuff from the devices, so that we can continue selling.
Tech guy: er, I can't. The anti-copy device won't allow it.
So, this will be useful right up until the time that the content creators can't copy their own stuff onto even newer technology (in, say 20 years' time). So, everything they had that will be lost.
Probably when someone tells him what a Diddy is
(scroll down to find it)
It's called shoulder surfing, hardly new.
Very true. The difference is that Chip and PIN now actively encourages shoulder surfing, as the retailer will not worry as long as the PIN is correct. Someone taking the card early on a Saturday will pretty much have all the rest of the day to make valid transactions (at other stores) before the owner notices the loss and gets the card blocked.
After Visi-Calc, though, it was Lotus 1-2-3 that defined the spreadsheet; to ease transition, it could read .vc files. (Version 1 was pretty lame, though, as it couldn't do any string based functions. Version 2, though, was much better)
.wks and, to some extent .wk3 files to ease transition.
Lotus, though, was a real pain when it came to graphing - it was a case of "set this; try it out", rather than real-time drawing. So, Excel took over the mantle. Again, it could read
So, the next question is: what is the killer feature that will make people convert from Excel to something else? Or, to put it another way, what feature of Excel is still a bit clunky to use?
Except, of course, that you need a pretty good grasp of English to be able to put so many errors into your response :)
I've also read in the Register that the Twin Towers from WTC are still there.
Yup, still visible in the picture
7. Government[s] become upset at Microsoft for having so many security holes that viruses and spyware are rife.
8. Microsoft buries the security holes deep inside the OS and its DLLs, purposefully glomming the two together [as Windows Really annoying Edition] so that they cannot be extricated.
9. Microsoft and its apologists announce that it is impossible, unfair and unreasonable to debundle the APIs used by Spyware from their OS, because Spyware is a part of the operating system.
But that would never happen, wouldn't it?
the idea of OS in a ROM on the computer sounds dodgy. I mean in that it forced you to always use the operating system that comes with the computer.
What if microsoft do the same.
Been Done already
OK, so these days, MS is very likely to leverage the DRM stuff to make a "MS and only MS" computer. Which will work until the "killer app" comes along for the general purpose (=non-MS) computer, and everyone will switch in droves