Doesn't this violate every corporate network policy on the planet? What about the defense department? What if the one of the computers was monitoring a critical system and the stealth upgrade crashed the system?
Isn't this a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley computer auditing requirements?
Given the involvement of companies like Sun and Netscape in the original DOJ action against MS, perhaps judges should have been skeptical of the DOJ throughout the entire process, not just today.
Either your an MS Partner or just ignorant. The first monopoly trial was in 1991 before Sun/Netscape. The second trial was during the Clinton years (Bill Gates giving a High Five to his lawyer team as he left the DOJ trial is on tape). The third trial was in between the CLinton/Bush transition.
This is all on transcript. Why are you trying to change history?
Interrupt the beginning of the speech. Ask him if he stole his car. When he says no, ignore him and launch into a 5 minute prepared speech about how stealing cars is wrong, and the effects of stolen cars on everyone. Tell him how bad he is for stealing his car, and how he'll be punished when he gets caught. Most importantly, do not let him interrupt you or skip any portion of your speech. When you're finished, ask him how he appreciates being treated to a lecture about being a thief during time that is supposed to be his.
I understand what your point is but this is such a bad analogy I had to comment. Unless you have your own forge, can mine and melt your own iron (etc.), the car analogy doesn't work. The barrier to entry is too great.
Movie and graphic production can be made by anyone with access to a cheap computer. There is no barrier to entry for content creation.
The argument for video/graphic production and creation actually works better with your analogy.
Ask the guy if he has made any home movies. Asked him how he would feel if he shared his LA vacation movie as "Escape from LA.mpeg" and got sued by the MPAA attack lawyers with no proof of copyright violation. Ask how would he feel when his home movie won't play under Vista on his parents computer because of the DRM restrictions.
If you did the car analogy security will escort you out.
Convince the guy to think, not think of us as crackpots.
Why would a sysadmin be interested in articles about "how to cripple the Windows software you're writing by requiring hardware dongles"? Because the majority of Windows Dongles saturate the WAN/LAN network with UDP/NetBios packets.
(For that matter, why would a Windows programmer want to read it? It failed spectacularly some twenty years ago, and good riddance to it.)
Sys Admin was a good magazine. It was targeted for Unix Admins. Your a Windows administrator, you really should get help from MSDN.
that the American magazines have pretty piss poor content.
Um, no. Technical American magazines have pretty good detailed content (Contrary to world belief, were not all that dumb). You must be confusing Dr Dobbs with People magazine.
I've read Linux Format, its great. When are they going to start publishing in the US?
I haven't read User, can you point me to a web site?
I buy games from Tux Games (Nottingham), when are you guys going to export your Linux game sites so I don't pay double?
Is Dr. Dobbs still for sell in the UK? It was the last time I was at Gattwick (two years ago).
It happens when user requirements are satisfied and/or shift.
A better question is: Do you read the issues and throw them away or do read and save them for reference like me (a devout computer publication pack rat)?
My defunct publication list (all of which I still have),
Nibble (one of my favorites), Compute, Compute Apple, Incider, A+, C Users Journal (turned into C/C++ Users Journal), Computist (one of my favorites), Byte (now online, content not worth the fee).
I also subscribed to Omni and Final Frontier, both great magazines, now defunct.
I currently just subscribe to Dr Dobbs Journal (still great after a 20 year subscribtion (damn Im getting old)), and Linux Journal.
I'm curious (because currently there is no file system reason to purchase a Sun/Windows solution over Linux),
I've had drives formatted ext2/ext3/ntfs/reiser/hfs/hpfs/ProDOS/xfs/Fat etc. Why is ZFS any better or worse?
Do you have any benchmarks to share for ZFS or are we just supposed to assume your word is final. Unlike Windows, with Linux/BSD/FreeDOS etc. you can post your ZFS personal benchmarks and opinions and not get sued.
Thats what I told my soon to be Florida Freshman son put on his application.
Seriously, he is in gifted and has no clue what he wants to do. I'm not forcing him to make a decision why should the school. My motto? Give them lots of options and let them make the decision when ready.
Definition: secret cooperation: secret cooperation between people in order to do something illegal or underhanded
I don't think Microsoft helping Novell is illegal, but it may be underhanded.
Is Novell helping Adobe make sure thier media.flashplayer.class/plugin runs just as well under.Net, Mono, WPF?
Does Microsoft lack the programming talent to create a cross-platform browser plugin without depending on a 3rd party? Libflashplayer.so doesn't require any 2nd or 3rd party support.
Because WPF is largely written in managed code on the common language runtime, it never ran in kernel mode. There are elements of WPF (called the MIL) that are written in unmanaged code, but that code also largely runs (and always has run) in user mode. Insofar as WPF needs to touch kernel mode stuff (e.g., drivers), it interacts with them through the existing DirectX APIs. The user mode and kernel mode aspects of the WPF architecture haven't changed. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051216-5788 .html
So what did Microsoft gain with the Vista GDI changes?
We have Shatner. "It's a step-by-step process. You climb on the backs of giants. Only rarely are there leaps. Scientific advances mostly are incremental. If enough time goes by, a decade goes by, suddenly, that increment, you take year one to year 10, looks like a giant leap. So here we are 30, 40 years after `Star Trek,' and it looks like it was extraordinary, the advances we've made."
Norton is still around, Norton 360 is just about to come out (or is it already out) Yep, theres a lot of demand for diskdoctor for NTFS these days. I'd wager only 2% of slashdot nation knows what a sector editor is.
Norton wasn't even metaphorically killed. It's still a brand that exists today. The Peter Norton group had a resonable upgrade policy for Norton customers. Symantec killed that policy. Symantec killd the Norton brand name. While were at it, what did Symantec do with ThinkC ?
:( At least MS usually buys someone out cause they want something instead of simply to keep you from getting something from the other guys:/ No, and your comment is disturbing. Microsoft has a past history of denying PC Users access to the competition. Spyglass for OS2/MAC/Unix was killed after Microsoft bought them and rebranded it Internet Explorer. So were all the Non-DOS/Windows Sub-Logic games (Flight Sim). Visio used to work perfect under OS2 until Microsoft bought them.
Please remember who your dealing with. The text below is all recorded trial evidence, not speculation.
While DRI and Novell were placing their hopes in DR DOS, IBM tried to end the Microsoft monopoly with OS/2. IBM started selling OS/2 in competition with Windows 3.0 in 1990. Microsoft worked hard to keep Windows applications from running acceptably on OS/2 and to prevent the development of OS/2 applications. Besides holding back technical information needed to make Windows applications work on OS/2, Microsoft prohibited users of its software-development tools and otherwise freely redistributable software modules from using them for any operating system but Windows. The lack of applications alone would have doomed OS/2, but Microsofts attack on IBMs PC business was even more damaging. In October 1994, Microsoft proposed a new Windows license that raised the royalty IBM paid to $75 per machine for Windows 95 from the $9 IBM had paid for Windows 3.1. Because IBM sold between 5 million and 6 million PCs per year, these basic terms would have raised IBMs royalty payments to Microsoft from around $40 million to $330 million a year. IBM could reduce the royalty if it agreed to Microsofts demands to "adopt Windows 95 as the standard operating system for IBM" and ensure that "Windows 95 is the only OS mentioned in advertisement." This meant nothing less than killing OS/2 to get a lower price on Windows. In July, IBM bought Lotus Development. IBM planned to bundle Lotus SmartSuite on its PCs and sell SmartSuite to other manufacturers in competition with Microsoft Office. Three days later, Microsoft completely cut off negotiations for Windows 95. Microsoft later demanded that IBM not ship SmartSuite for six months or a year as a condition to resuming Windows 95 negotiations.
Microsoft was trying to kill OS/2 while Jackson was reviewing the proposed DoJ-Microsoft settlement. On Aug. 8, 1995, the DoJ announced it would not block shipment of Windows 95. On Aug. 21, Jackson approved the settlement. Microsoft was still refusing to license Windows 95 to IBM. With the settlement in place and the prospect of hundreds of millions of dollars in lost PC sales without Windows 95, IBM caved in 15 minutes before Windows 95 was announced. Microsofts Mark Baber had asked IBMs Garry Norris, "Where else are you going to go? This is the only game in town." IBM ended up paying $47 a copy for Windows 95. At the previous rate, IBM would have paid around $120 million to $200 million in royalties from 1996 to 1998, but the new terms exacted a price of $998 million and made IBMs PC prices uncompetitive with other major vendors. Ultimately, IBM had to kill either OS/2 or the PC business it had founded.
Breif by UnderWare Why: Best editor ever. Death: Died with Borland.
Coherent by Mark Williams group Why: Cheap Unix for x386 before Linux. Death: by Linux/FreeBSD.
Banyan Vines by Banyan Why: Easy network resource sharing on a LAN/WAN. Death: by Netbios and TCP/IP.
There are probably a few more that would take me all night to list... Origin, Accolade, Norton (Symantec Killed), Sub-Logic (Microsoft assimulated), InterPlay, Applied Engineering, etc.
Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bought transparent tape.
Back in 2002/2003 my son used graphite (pencil-lead) to power an 16 light-bulb saltwater contraption for the science fair.
Is Graphene the same as graphite? If yes then why in the hell am I not getting paid by the government for the chemistry lab I set up in my computer room?
Oops, chemistry is fun. We don't need anyone to fund it.
Get with the program people. The copper network is a dinosaur and cutting it off slowly as people willingly convert is the least disruptive way to let it die. Sooner or later everyone will have to convert.
No, copper in some cases provides a better voice service than fiber. When the power went out here three years ago (4 hurricanes within eight weeks), we were without power for over 80 hours. I never lost my phone service (yes, I have an analog phone).
Even if I have power the local exchange may not. Copper switches work without power, fiber won't. Per the FIOS tech, the UPS on the voice fiber will only last about sixty hours. Cell phones? Forget it, cell serivce was down for two months in some areas.
Copper is not a dinosaur, its a cockroach and will be around for a while. Enjoy.
Linux is cheaper now than XP/Vista and its less of a hassle setting up.
These days I use Linux over windows not because of crashes. Its because Tux doesn't accuse me of being a thief. The Loki games I bought back in 2000 still work(4). No Microsoft/WGA telling me that my software won't work because I didn't spend $300 on the latest version. A valid Windows computer will get you a WGA warning box saying your a thief while installing directX 9c.
Drivers my ass. Windows XP doesn't recognize my new Sandisk cruzer whereas Ubuntu does.
Yes, I spend real money on Linux games. I'd also spend money on adobe if they had a Linux product(please give me an upgrade price).
He said AT&T is spending about $18 billion on network maintenance, a significant chunk of which is required just to keep up with tremendous growth of traffic on its backbone. "And a sizable chunk is traffic that is illegal," he said.
Verizon said it expects to invest $18.0 billion in net capital from 2004 through 2010 in deploying the nation's largest network that brings the broadband capacity of fiber optics all the way to customers' homes and businesses. http://www.tvover.net/Verizon+FiOS+Profitable+In+4 +Years.aspx
Agreed. My ancestors used to put on skirts, paint themselves blue, and attack Roman patrols. If tried doing that and attacking some Italian tourists, I suspect there would be no legal protection for my culture.
I think there was a UN Mandate that said you could attack French tourist to preserver you culture. Maybe it was the Irish. I may be mistaken.
Consumers spurned DivX, why shouldn't they spurn Vista?
Maybe end users aren't that dumb. Maybe they recognize the value of DRM and WGA? Of course Microsoft will view this as a PR problem and throw a billion dollars at a Vista advertising campaign. Microsoft won't recognize the fact that legitimate users don't want to be treated like criminals.
All Windows users I know dislike WGA. Who wants to called a thief after purchasing a computer? Are there any slashdot Windows users that actually like the fact that WGA is running?
As evidence that absolutely means nothing, this year I've upgraded two desktops and a laptop to XP from Vista (speed issues). I upgraded four different XP desktops and a Vista laptop to Kubuntu (laptop owned by me). So far, no requests to go back to Windows. I wasted four hours of my life fixing the printer problems caused by a Microsoft/HP automated update to a XP Media Center Edition computer (Both companies blamed the other). If Ubuntu had better HP All-In-One support I probably could have upgraded that family as well.
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Doesn't this violate every corporate network policy on the planet? What about the defense department?
What if the one of the computers was monitoring a critical system and the stealth upgrade crashed the system?
Isn't this a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley computer auditing requirements?
Food for thought.
Enjoy,
Actually, the 1991 action was instigated by the FTC, not the DOJ.
Your right, I stand corrected.
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Given the involvement of companies like Sun and Netscape in the original DOJ action against MS, perhaps judges should have been skeptical of the DOJ throughout the entire process, not just today.
Either your an MS Partner or just ignorant. The first monopoly trial was in 1991 before Sun/Netscape. The second trial was during the Clinton years (Bill Gates giving a High Five to his lawyer team as he left the DOJ trial is on tape). The third trial was in between the CLinton/Bush transition.
This is all on transcript. Why are you trying to change history?
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Has a conflict of interest in the case with Thomas Barnett involved.
c les/2007/06/10/microsoft_finds_defender_in_us_just ice_department/
Judge Kollar-Kotelly needs to view any DOJ testimony with skepticism.
The official, Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett, had until 2004 been a top antitrust partner at Covington & Burlington, the law firm that has represented Microsoft in several antitrust disputes.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/arti
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Interrupt the beginning of the speech. Ask him if he stole his car. When he says no, ignore him and launch into a 5 minute prepared speech about how stealing cars is wrong, and the effects of stolen cars on everyone. Tell him how bad he is for stealing his car, and how he'll be punished when he gets caught. Most importantly, do not let him interrupt you or skip any portion of your speech. When you're finished, ask him how he appreciates being treated to a lecture about being a thief during time that is supposed to be his.
I understand what your point is but this is such a bad analogy I had to comment. Unless you have your own forge, can mine and melt your own iron (etc.), the car analogy doesn't work. The barrier to entry is too great.
Movie and graphic production can be made by anyone with access to a cheap computer. There is no barrier to entry for content creation.
The argument for video/graphic production and creation actually works better with your analogy.
Ask the guy if he has made any home movies. Asked him how he would feel if he shared his LA vacation movie as "Escape from LA.mpeg" and got sued by the MPAA attack lawyers with no proof of copyright violation. Ask how would he feel when his home movie won't play under Vista on his parents computer because of the DRM restrictions.
If you did the car analogy security will escort you out.
Convince the guy to think, not think of us as crackpots.
My two cents,
Enjoy.
Why would a sysadmin be interested in articles about "how to cripple the Windows software you're writing by requiring hardware dongles"?
Because the majority of Windows Dongles saturate the WAN/LAN network with UDP/NetBios packets.
(For that matter, why would a Windows programmer want to read it? It failed spectacularly some twenty years ago, and good riddance to it.)
Sys Admin was a good magazine. It was targeted for Unix Admins. Your a Windows administrator, you really should get help from MSDN.
Enjoy,
that the American magazines have pretty piss poor content.
Um, no. Technical American magazines have pretty good detailed content (Contrary to world belief, were not all that dumb). You must be confusing Dr Dobbs with People magazine.
I've read Linux Format, its great. When are they going to start publishing in the US?
I haven't read User, can you point me to a web site?
I buy games from Tux Games (Nottingham), when are you guys going to export your Linux game sites so I don't pay double?
Is Dr. Dobbs still for sell in the UK? It was the last time I was at Gattwick (two years ago).
Enjoy,
It happens when user requirements are satisfied and/or shift.
A better question is:
Do you read the issues and throw them away or do read and save them for reference like me (a devout computer publication pack rat)?
My defunct publication list (all of which I still have),
Nibble (one of my favorites),
Compute,
Compute Apple,
Incider,
A+,
C Users Journal (turned into C/C++ Users Journal),
Computist (one of my favorites),
Byte (now online, content not worth the fee).
I also subscribed to Omni and Final Frontier, both great magazines, now defunct.
I currently just subscribe to Dr Dobbs Journal (still great after a 20 year subscribtion (damn Im getting old)), and Linux Journal.
Enjoy,
I'm curious (because currently there is no file system reason to purchase a Sun/Windows solution over Linux),
I've had drives formatted ext2/ext3/ntfs/reiser/hfs/hpfs/ProDOS/xfs/Fat etc. Why is ZFS any better or worse?
Do you have any benchmarks to share for ZFS or are we just supposed to assume your word is final. Unlike Windows, with Linux/BSD/FreeDOS etc. you can post your ZFS personal benchmarks and opinions and not get sued.
I'm not trying to start a fight, thanks.
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owns this domain. http://whois.domaintools.com/whyfirefoxisblocked.c om
Apparently he runs some sort of blogads company.
The followup story on Slashdot in a few weeks will be:
Danny Carlton accuses communist firefox users of destroying his reputation and business.
Enjoy,
Thats what I told my soon to be Florida Freshman son put on his application.
Seriously, he is in gifted and has no clue what he wants to do. I'm not forcing him to make a decision why should the school. My motto? Give them lots of options and let them make the decision when ready.
Enjoy,
First, thanks for the Linux support.
.Net, Mono, WPF?
Second, from Microsofts own web site http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/collusion.html
collusion
noun
Definition:
secret cooperation: secret cooperation between people in order to do something illegal or underhanded
I don't think Microsoft helping Novell is illegal, but it may be underhanded.
Is Novell helping Adobe make sure thier media.flashplayer.class/plugin runs just as well under
Does Microsoft lack the programming talent to create a cross-platform browser plugin without depending on a 3rd party? Libflashplayer.so doesn't require any 2nd or 3rd party support.
Just curious,
Enjoy.
Oops, I guess not....
8 .html
Because WPF is largely written in managed code on the common language runtime, it never ran in kernel mode. There are elements of WPF (called the MIL) that are written in unmanaged code, but that code also largely runs (and always has run) in user mode. Insofar as WPF needs to touch kernel mode stuff (e.g., drivers), it interacts with them through the existing DirectX APIs. The user mode and kernel mode aspects of the WPF architecture haven't changed.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051216-578
So what did Microsoft gain with the Vista GDI changes?
Enjoy,
We have Shatner.
o res-world-of-trek-tech.htm
"It's a step-by-step process. You climb on the backs of giants. Only rarely are there leaps. Scientific advances mostly are incremental. If enough time goes by, a decade goes by, suddenly, that increment, you take year one to year 10, looks like a giant leap. So here we are 30, 40 years after `Star Trek,' and it looks like it was extraordinary, the advances we've made."
http://www.happynews.com/news/392006/shatner-expl
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Norton is still around, Norton 360 is just about to come out (or is it already out)
Yep, theres a lot of demand for diskdoctor for NTFS these days. I'd wager only 2% of slashdot nation knows what a sector editor is.
Norton wasn't even metaphorically killed. It's still a brand that exists today.
The Peter Norton group had a resonable upgrade policy for Norton customers. Symantec killed that policy. Symantec killd the Norton brand name. While were at it, what did Symantec do with ThinkC ?
My opinion,
Enjoy.
No, and your comment is disturbing. Microsoft has a past history of denying PC Users access to the competition. Spyglass for OS2/MAC/Unix was killed after Microsoft bought them and rebranded it Internet Explorer. So were all the Non-DOS/Windows Sub-Logic games (Flight Sim). Visio used to work perfect under OS2 until Microsoft bought them.
Please remember who your dealing with. The text below is all recorded trial evidence, not speculation.
While DRI and Novell were placing their hopes in DR DOS, IBM tried to end the Microsoft monopoly with OS/2. IBM started selling OS/2 in competition with Windows 3.0 in 1990. Microsoft worked hard to keep Windows applications from running acceptably on OS/2 and to prevent the development of OS/2 applications. Besides holding back technical information needed to make Windows applications work on OS/2, Microsoft prohibited users of its software-development tools and otherwise freely redistributable software modules from using them for any operating system but Windows. The lack of applications alone would have doomed OS/2, but Microsofts attack on IBMs PC business was even more damaging. In October 1994, Microsoft proposed a new Windows license that raised the royalty IBM paid to $75 per machine for Windows 95 from the $9 IBM had paid for Windows 3.1. Because IBM sold between 5 million and 6 million PCs per year, these basic terms would have raised IBMs royalty payments to Microsoft from around $40 million to $330 million a year. IBM could reduce the royalty if it agreed to Microsofts demands to "adopt Windows 95 as the standard operating system for IBM" and ensure that "Windows 95 is the only OS mentioned in advertisement." This meant nothing less than killing OS/2 to get a lower price on Windows. In July, IBM bought Lotus Development. IBM planned to bundle Lotus SmartSuite on its PCs and sell SmartSuite to other manufacturers in competition with Microsoft Office. Three days later, Microsoft completely cut off negotiations for Windows 95. Microsoft later demanded that IBM not ship SmartSuite for six months or a year as a condition to resuming Windows 95 negotiations.
Microsoft was trying to kill OS/2 while Jackson was reviewing the proposed DoJ-Microsoft settlement. On Aug. 8, 1995, the DoJ announced it would not block shipment of Windows 95. On Aug. 21, Jackson approved the settlement. Microsoft was still refusing to license Windows 95 to IBM. With the settlement in place and the prospect of hundreds of millions of dollars in lost PC sales without Windows 95, IBM caved in 15 minutes before Windows 95 was announced. Microsofts Mark Baber had asked IBMs Garry Norris, "Where else are you going to go? This is the only game in town." IBM ended up paying $47 a copy for Windows 95. At the previous rate, IBM would have paid around $120 million to $200 million in royalties from 1996 to 1998, but the new terms exacted a price of $998 million and made IBMs PC prices uncompetitive with other major vendors. Ultimately, IBM had to kill either OS/2 or the PC business it had founded.
Full text, http://reactor-core.org/in-microsoft-we-trust.htm
Enjoy,
Breif by UnderWare Why: Best editor ever. Death: Died with Borland.
Coherent by Mark Williams group Why: Cheap Unix for x386 before Linux. Death: by Linux/FreeBSD.
Banyan Vines by Banyan Why: Easy network resource sharing on a LAN/WAN. Death: by Netbios and TCP/IP.
There are probably a few more that would take me all night to list...
Origin, Accolade, Norton (Symantec Killed), Sub-Logic (Microsoft assimulated), InterPlay, Applied Engineering, etc.
Enjoy,
Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bought transparent tape.
Back in 2002/2003 my son used graphite (pencil-lead) to power an 16 light-bulb saltwater contraption for the science fair.
Is Graphene the same as graphite? If yes then why in the hell am I not getting paid by the government for the chemistry lab I set up in my computer room?
Oops, chemistry is fun. We don't need anyone to fund it.
Enjoy,
Get with the program people. The copper network is a dinosaur and cutting it off slowly as people willingly convert is the least disruptive way to let it die. Sooner or later everyone will have to convert.
No, copper in some cases provides a better voice service than fiber. When the power went out here three years ago (4 hurricanes within eight weeks), we were without power for over 80 hours. I never lost my phone service (yes, I have an analog phone).
Even if I have power the local exchange may not. Copper switches work without power, fiber won't. Per the FIOS tech, the UPS on the voice fiber will only last about sixty hours. Cell phones? Forget it, cell serivce was down for two months in some areas.
Copper is not a dinosaur, its a cockroach and will be around for a while.
Enjoy.
Because it was cheaper, not better.
Linux is cheaper now than XP/Vista and its less of a hassle setting up.
These days I use Linux over windows not because of crashes. Its because Tux doesn't accuse me of being a thief. The Loki games I bought back in 2000 still work(4). No Microsoft/WGA telling me that my software won't work because I didn't spend $300 on the latest version. A valid Windows computer will get you a WGA warning box saying your a thief while installing directX 9c.
Drivers my ass. Windows XP doesn't recognize my new Sandisk cruzer whereas Ubuntu does.
Yes, I spend real money on Linux games. I'd also spend money on adobe if they had a Linux product(please give me an upgrade price).
My opinion
Enjoy.
Yes,
e nel/systemsoftware.html
http://www.llnl.gov/asc/computing_resources/blueg
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running a farm in New York? Do the tax paying Brits know about this? Is the New York Times running a look at a multi-level Pub in London?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Enjoy,
He said AT&T is spending about $18 billion on network maintenance, a significant chunk of which is required just to keep up with tremendous growth of traffic on its backbone. "And a sizable chunk is traffic that is illegal," he said.
4 +Years.aspx
c le/2006/03/08/AR2006030802326.html
Verizon said it expects to invest $18.0 billion in net capital from 2004 through 2010 in deploying the nation's largest network that brings the broadband capacity of fiber optics all the way to customers' homes and businesses. http://www.tvover.net/Verizon+FiOS+Profitable+In+
So AT&T says it costs them $18 billion for maintenance while Verizon spends $18 billion on a whole new network infrastructure? I call bullshit. This is the same company that said they expect to be paid to by web sites for traffic over thier network.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
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Agreed. My ancestors used to put on skirts, paint themselves blue, and attack Roman patrols. If tried doing that and attacking some Italian tourists, I suspect there would be no legal protection for my culture.
I think there was a UN Mandate that said you could attack French tourist to preserver you culture. Maybe it was the Irish. I may be mistaken.
Enjoy,
Consumers spurned DivX, why shouldn't they spurn Vista?
Maybe end users aren't that dumb. Maybe they recognize the value of DRM and WGA? Of course Microsoft will view this as a PR problem and throw a billion dollars at a Vista advertising campaign. Microsoft won't recognize the fact that legitimate users don't want to be treated like criminals.
All Windows users I know dislike WGA. Who wants to called a thief after purchasing a computer? Are there any slashdot Windows users that actually like the fact that WGA is running?
As evidence that absolutely means nothing, this year I've upgraded two desktops and a laptop to XP from Vista (speed issues). I upgraded four different XP desktops and a Vista laptop to Kubuntu (laptop owned by me). So far, no requests to go back to Windows. I wasted four hours of my life fixing the printer problems caused by a Microsoft/HP automated update to a XP Media Center Edition computer (Both companies blamed the other). If Ubuntu had better HP All-In-One support I probably could have upgraded that family as well.
Food for thought,
Enjoy.