They just aren't adding enough new value to make it worth breaking a 5 year long habit of typing google.com
It took me almost a year after Google came out to quit typing av.com... I hate changing search engines. I refused to change until I repeatedly couldn't find what I wanted on AV and kept finding what it on Google.
But the problem is vendors all want to develop their own DRM solution so they don't have to pay royalties. Thus, we have 50 ba-jillion DRM formats.
Format wars are nothing new, (read VHS, CD, DVD...) The REAL issue is Apple is the leader in the format war, thus far and they refuse to license their technology to the other hardware vendors. If Phillps had refused to licensed the Compact Disc to other vendors, it would never be the de-facto standard audio format.
While I don't know if this kind of lock in is illegal, it is stupid and could become a reason for another format to win this war and watch Fairplay fade into memory...
All the states west of New Mexico, including Alaska and Hawaii, and now a separate country.
Living in Utah, I read this and thought: "Woohoo, that's almost all blue states. Now I'll finally be out from under the rule of those Morm^H^H^H^Hmorons...."
Maybe they should use less intrusive text ads. I see/. does this sometimes. I don't mind them because they are not "in your face". I would much rather click on a text ad than an obnoxious image ad. This is just backlash from the way internet advertisers have been abusing the system to force us to see the ads.
While NIPLAC has been around since the early 1990s, it has never done anything, and appropriators hope that giving the organization $2 million and a new charter will make the office effective.
Boss: Johnson, you've been with the company for 14 years now...
Johnson: Yeah...
Boss: Well, we can't seem to find any record of one singal thing you've done, the entire time you've been with us. Not one.
Johnson: Yeah...
Boss: Well, great job Johnson! Diligence like yours should be rewarded, which is why we're promoting you with a big fat raise.
Johnson: Yeah?
Boss: And, we're giving you a $2,000,000 bonus. We thought that this would help make you more effective.
I loved the Big trak when I was a kid. It was great fun to program it to go through the house and stop and shoot the parents/pets/siblings. Nothing better than a light bulb "laser....
You know this used to be true and I was looking over it again when the other article came out yesterday.
It is no longer true!
OT pay exclusions for IT people (basically anyone who programs, tests or maintains computers or software), have changed radically in the last few years.
It used to be you had to make more than 53K a year, hourly or salary to be excluded from OT pay.
Now it is much different. Now they are not required to pay OT on a salaried position if you make more than $455/week a low $23K/year. Shit, they don't even have to pay OT if you make more than $27.63 hourly.
To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet certain tests regarding their job duties and be paid on a salary basis at not less than $455 per week. Job titles do not determine exempt status.
(17)71any employee who is a computer systems
analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or
other similarly skilled worker, whose primary duty is --
(A) the application of systems analysis techniques
and procedures, including consulting with
users, to determine hardware, software, or system
functional specifications;
(B) the design, development, documentation,
analysis, creation, testing, or modification of
computer systems or programs, including prototypes,
based on and related to user or system
design specifications;
(C) the design, documentation, testing, creation,
or modification of computer programs related
to machine operating systems; or
(D) a combination of duties described in
sub-paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) the performance
of which requires the same level of skills, and
who, in the case of an employee who is compensated
on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not
less than $27.63 an hour.
Microsoft may own the market and are the Mega Monopoly. But that will eventually change.
FOSS will eventually win.
It just takes longer, FOSS is the inexorable machine. It has no required capital, no market expectations. It will keep going as long as people are different. MS has to worry about market share and profits, FOSS does not. FOSS has the upper hand, you know this because no matter how much they try, MS can't make FOSS go away.
I actually have. One of our local government cable stations here in Utah used a W2K system and a PP presentation to herald local events and such. I just happened to flip past it one day and there it was, BSOD. It stayed that way for hours and it was the middle of a weekday.
Slashdot Mirror
XP SP3 -- "When it's done."
Actually, the word God does not appear anywhere in the US Constitution.
Just when you thought MS GUIs couldn't get harder to use, they up change the rules:
Outlook, now just as lousy as the competition!
I tried to read the article. I really did.
...I got to the end of the second paragraph...
:)
You must be new here.
...clicked the window's close box
But, you'll get along just fine.
Here you go, I can never avoid clicking the linkies:
$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$
Payment in full.
Wang will be around forever.
:)
"Whoo wanta some wang?!" -Lo Wang
Sorry, couldn't resist...
They just aren't adding enough new value to make it worth breaking a 5 year long habit of typing google.com
It took me almost a year after Google came out to quit typing av.com... I hate changing search engines. I refused to change until I repeatedly couldn't find what I wanted on AV and kept finding what it on Google.
ANYONE with a .08 BAC is going to drive poorly
If this were true, there would be no need for field sobriety and breathalizer tests.
which made my third pass (with a debugger and hex-editor) a bit interresting... for an added evening's entertainment.
Sounds like you know how to have a really good time...Have you ever left your house?
But the problem is vendors all want to develop their own DRM solution so they don't have to pay royalties. Thus, we have 50 ba-jillion DRM formats.
Format wars are nothing new, (read VHS, CD, DVD...) The REAL issue is Apple is the leader in the format war, thus far and they refuse to license their technology to the other hardware vendors. If Phillps had refused to licensed the Compact Disc to other vendors, it would never be the de-facto standard audio format.
While I don't know if this kind of lock in is illegal, it is stupid and could become a reason for another format to win this war and watch Fairplay fade into memory...
...the air frees you?
/* ducks
Slashdot is crawling with Windows users, wannabes and such...
w00t, we have wannabes?!
I feel cool now!
All the states west of New Mexico, including Alaska and Hawaii, and now a separate country.
Living in Utah, I read this and thought:
"Woohoo, that's almost all blue states. Now I'll finally be out from under the rule of those Morm^H^H^H^Hmorons...."
Maybe they should use less intrusive text ads. I see /. does this sometimes. I don't mind them because they are not "in your face". I would much rather click on a text ad than an obnoxious image ad.
This is just backlash from the way internet advertisers have been abusing the system to force us to see the ads.
In Soviet Russia, old Korean people excite your bike!
:)
When I was in grade school we were told, and subsequently believed, "bike" was the Chinese word for "penis".
It just sounds sick and wrong to have old Korean people excite your "bike"...
So you can make everyone you hate live forever?
While NIPLAC has been around since the early 1990s, it has never done anything, and appropriators hope that giving the organization $2 million and a new charter will make the office effective.
Boss: Johnson, you've been with the company for 14 years now...
Johnson: Yeah...
Boss: Well, we can't seem to find any record of one singal thing you've done, the entire time you've been with us. Not one.
Johnson: Yeah...
Boss: Well, great job Johnson! Diligence like yours should be rewarded, which is why we're promoting you with a big fat raise.
Johnson: Yeah?
Boss: And, we're giving you a $2,000,000 bonus. We thought that this would help make you more effective.
Johnson: Yeah!
Boss: Keep up the good work....
a DVD featuring Roblimo's 6-part narrated video guide for getting started with Linux, Mepis and KDE.
A 6-part narrative is hardly Point-n-Click...
I can usually make it through the first 2 minutes of an instructional video, before I want to kill whoever is boring the shit out of me.
/*sound of DVD getting snapped in half
Can I run two GeForce6800 Ultras in a single VESA Local Bus slot on my 486 DX266?
I'm sure some geek somewhere has made an adapter for it...They get bored just making costumes, atomic watches and chess sets.
You're living in a fucking van out by the ocean
/Chris Farley voice
Chris Farley voice
When all your software gets pirated, you'll be livin' in a van down by the river!
I loved the Big trak when I was a kid. It was great fun to program it to go through the house and stop and shoot the parents/pets/siblings. Nothing better than a light bulb "laser....
You know this used to be true and I was looking over it again when the other article came out yesterday.
It is no longer true!
OT pay exclusions for IT people (basically anyone who programs, tests or maintains computers or software), have changed radically in the last few years.
It used to be you had to make more than 53K a year, hourly or salary to be excluded from OT pay.
Now it is much different. Now they are not required to pay OT on a salaried position if you make more than $455/week a low $23K/year. Shit, they don't even have to pay OT if you make more than $27.63 hourly.
This from FairPay Fact Sheet by Exemption Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA):
To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet certain tests regarding their job duties and be paid on a salary basis at not less than $455 per week. Job titles do not determine exempt status.
And this from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA):
(17)71any employee who is a computer systems
analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or
other similarly skilled worker, whose primary duty is --
(A) the application of systems analysis techniques
and procedures, including consulting with
users, to determine hardware, software, or system
functional specifications;
(B) the design, development, documentation,
analysis, creation, testing, or modification of
computer systems or programs, including prototypes,
based on and related to user or system
design specifications;
(C) the design, documentation, testing, creation,
or modification of computer programs related
to machine operating systems; or
(D) a combination of duties described in
sub-paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) the performance
of which requires the same level of skills, and
who, in the case of an employee who is compensated
on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not
less than $27.63 an hour.
I could use one.
dbryanw at netzero.net
Thanks.
Microsoft may own the market and are the Mega Monopoly. But that will eventually change.
FOSS will eventually win.
It just takes longer, FOSS is the inexorable machine. It has no required capital, no market expectations. It will keep going as long as people are different. MS has to worry about market share and profits, FOSS does not. FOSS has the upper hand, you know this because no matter how much they try, MS can't make FOSS go away.
I've never seen a BSOD on a TV before.
I actually have. One of our local government cable stations here in Utah used a W2K system and a PP presentation to herald local events and such. I just happened to flip past it one day and there it was, BSOD. It stayed that way for hours and it was the middle of a weekday.
It was really funny to watch a TV channel reboot.