Windows 2000 was not sold as being on the upgrade path from Windows 98/ME, but from NT4. Since Windows 2000 was not designed for home users, but for business desktops, I think it's more likely that Grandma was using Windows 98/ME.
You and everyone else are missing the point. While Sparkle can be used to make apps that run in IE, it is primarily for developing apps. It is not an plugin for IE. It is not intended to sweep the internet. It is for Windows. Sparkle is the designer for the main presentation layer for all of Vista. Microsoft has not to my knowledge ever even called it a "flash killer." It is not really competing with flash.
I believe if you want any sort of other functionality, like voicemail, or any sort of menu system, it would be required.
No, I don't think you do need one at all. All of the digital signal processing is handled in software. Digital/analog conversion is either done in the FXS/FXO cards, for traditional phones, or in the phone itself if you are using VOIP phones (that's why it matters what codecs the phone supports).
Generally, though, for services like Vonage or Phone Over Cable, you must use the supplied analog telephone adapter. So despite the fact that the VOIP is coming in over the internet, you actually can't just handle them with an Asterisk server. You would need to instead get a second analog-to-digital converter, and use your VOIP line as though it were an ordinary analog telephone line.
They just don't like the content and want to enforce their preferences on everyone else. Shameful.
If you RTFA, you'll find that despite the headline and the protestations of the author, the group is actually just encouraging people to exercise their freedom not to buy this game. They don't appear to be trying to enforce anything.
Both the summary and TFA seem to confuse a boycott with a ban. But they're not the same. The NLEOMF only seems to be calling for a boycott, or for what might be called "discretionary purchasing." I didn't see anywhere in their statement where they called for it to be illegal or impossible to buy the game. So TFA's complaint that "they shouldn't be able to dictate what I play. What's next, a ban on all movies depicting violence against police?" and the summary are pretty unfair to the organization, and are probably just flamebait.
That's actually a hilarious mental image.
BALLMER: (sits at table)
See if you can guess what I am now.
(stuffs mouth full of blue jello and punches cheeks together,
spraying jello over the other students seated at the table)
I'm a blue screen of death! Get it?
That's really the billion-dollar question. In fact, Microsoft would probably be willing to produce a player destined for failure, if the result was to force the opening up of FairPlay. I haven't seen anything, though, that says that Apple is even considering this.
I'm slightly intrigued by this. Who doesn't pay sales tax?
It varies state by state, but generally purchases for the purpose of reselling are not assessed with sales tax, the idea being that the good and materials should only be subject to sales tax once. So, for example, if I go and buy pencils and paper from Kmart so that I can put together pencil/paper bundles and sell them in my shop, my purchases of pencil and paper are exempt from sales tax. Also, many states have exemptions for government purchases, and some also have exemptions for charities and churches.
Why "uses lots of electricity"? Is a cable pulled elevator somehow the paragon of efficiency?
Just about. A properly balanced cable-pulled system with a counterweight, on its average run, only needs to overcome friction and inertia - NOT gravity. It's about the most efficient way I can think of to make something go up and down over and over again.
If power were to fail and the car start falling, the magnets would induce eddy currents in the conductors, which would create an opposing magnetic field, slowing the motion of the car.
Wouldn't this also induce considerable resistance to motion when the elevator was in normal operation?
It shouldn't use as much electricity as a normal elevator since friction should be reduced. It's all magnetics which means there is little in the way of parts to break and no need for counter-weights,
Do I read this right? There is no counterweight? That would make it VASTLY more inefficient. Elevator cabs are typically counterweighted with a weight equal to the cab plus an average-sized load. So at the peak of the distribution curves, with a normal elevator, the only force to overcome is friction, plus or minus a couple hundred pounds of cable, which, in a decently maintained system with functional bearings, is not very much. So now you replace that with an elevator that has to overcome less friction, but now 100% of gravity - for the passenger plus the cab? I wouldn't be surprised if that was literally orders of magnitude less efficient.
For the love of all that is good and decent, mod parent up.
What this all seems like to me is a severe case of utopianism/"why can't someone else do it." When it comes to our role in extending our values, it always seems to come down to: Will it make other people like us? Which party will benefit politically (domestically)? Does somebody else - better, someone I don't like - have to bear the cost? And can we do it without getting our hands dirty?
Well honestly, how is it reasonable? You damn the USA for failing to act when:
This has not actually happened yet
It's not clear what the effects would be if it does happen
It's arguable that this is not a responsibility of government in any case
So you take an unreasonable position, act as though there can be no legitimate disagreement with your position, then condemn the entire country (and no others) because your position is not adopted. Seems rather - trollish.
In a normal country, regulators would put a swift end to this kind of silliness, but we live in the USA...
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So, should I be adding you to my foe list? Is that how this works?
Franklin would also be at home with the FOSS crowd, I think:
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
Benajmin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Windows 2000 was not sold as being on the upgrade path from Windows 98/ME, but from NT4. Since Windows 2000 was not designed for home users, but for business desktops, I think it's more likely that Grandma was using Windows 98/ME.
You're probably thinking of the (now-defunct?) Information Awareness Office.
You and everyone else are missing the point. While Sparkle can be used to make apps that run in IE, it is primarily for developing apps. It is not an plugin for IE. It is not intended to sweep the internet. It is for Windows. Sparkle is the designer for the main presentation layer for all of Vista. Microsoft has not to my knowledge ever even called it a "flash killer." It is not really competing with flash.
No, I don't think you do need one at all. All of the digital signal processing is handled in software. Digital/analog conversion is either done in the FXS/FXO cards, for traditional phones, or in the phone itself if you are using VOIP phones (that's why it matters what codecs the phone supports).
Generally, though, for services like Vonage or Phone Over Cable, you must use the supplied analog telephone adapter. So despite the fact that the VOIP is coming in over the internet, you actually can't just handle them with an Asterisk server. You would need to instead get a second analog-to-digital converter, and use your VOIP line as though it were an ordinary analog telephone line.
If you RTFA, you'll find that despite the headline and the protestations of the author, the group is actually just encouraging people to exercise their freedom not to buy this game. They don't appear to be trying to enforce anything.
Both the summary and TFA seem to confuse a boycott with a ban. But they're not the same. The NLEOMF only seems to be calling for a boycott, or for what might be called "discretionary purchasing." I didn't see anywhere in their statement where they called for it to be illegal or impossible to buy the game. So TFA's complaint that "they shouldn't be able to dictate what I play. What's next, a ban on all movies depicting violence against police?" and the summary are pretty unfair to the organization, and are probably just flamebait.
The little sub-headings frequently count the comments wrong, saying things like "15 of 1 comment".
That's actually a hilarious mental image. BALLMER: (sits at table) See if you can guess what I am now. (stuffs mouth full of blue jello and punches cheeks together, spraying jello over the other students seated at the table) I'm a blue screen of death! Get it?
Right, but, um...don't those all fit easily on a single DVD?
That's really the billion-dollar question. In fact, Microsoft would probably be willing to produce a player destined for failure, if the result was to force the opening up of FairPlay. I haven't seen anything, though, that says that Apple is even considering this.
You mean like the Creative Commons license? And which free software license is Apple using?
D'oh! For a second there, I thought you said "the Commander Data system." Pity. Ah, well...engage!
I also recall playing that exact game on an Apple II. Pretty intense graphics for the day.
Perhaps s/he was responding to the "where-aren't-we-slipping-these-days dept." dig by the "editor".
It varies state by state, but generally purchases for the purpose of reselling are not assessed with sales tax, the idea being that the good and materials should only be subject to sales tax once. So, for example, if I go and buy pencils and paper from Kmart so that I can put together pencil/paper bundles and sell them in my shop, my purchases of pencil and paper are exempt from sales tax. Also, many states have exemptions for government purchases, and some also have exemptions for charities and churches.
Are you sure you wouldn't rather demur?
Nitpicking aside, I hope this means more Asterisk integration.
Just about. A properly balanced cable-pulled system with a counterweight, on its average run, only needs to overcome friction and inertia - NOT gravity. It's about the most efficient way I can think of to make something go up and down over and over again.
Wouldn't this also induce considerable resistance to motion when the elevator was in normal operation?
Do I read this right? There is no counterweight? That would make it VASTLY more inefficient. Elevator cabs are typically counterweighted with a weight equal to the cab plus an average-sized load. So at the peak of the distribution curves, with a normal elevator, the only force to overcome is friction, plus or minus a couple hundred pounds of cable, which, in a decently maintained system with functional bearings, is not very much. So now you replace that with an elevator that has to overcome less friction, but now 100% of gravity - for the passenger plus the cab? I wouldn't be surprised if that was literally orders of magnitude less efficient.
Why do you care what other people spend their money on?
What this all seems like to me is a severe case of utopianism/"why can't someone else do it." When it comes to our role in extending our values, it always seems to come down to: Will it make other people like us? Which party will benefit politically (domestically)? Does somebody else - better, someone I don't like - have to bear the cost? And can we do it without getting our hands dirty?
- This has not actually happened yet
- It's not clear what the effects would be if it does happen
- It's arguable that this is not a responsibility of government in any case
So you take an unreasonable position, act as though there can be no legitimate disagreement with your position, then condemn the entire country (and no others) because your position is not adopted. Seems rather - trollish.--
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So, should I be adding you to my foe list? Is that how this works?