I also happen to believe that it bumps up with the uncomfortable fact that the most effective weapon against malaria is DDT, but we (by which I accuse the entire Western first world) have apparently made the decision that when it comes to African humans vs. African birds, well, we've chosen African birds.
He wants to charge web site owners a fee to connect with users; at least that's the implication.
Hmmm. I guess I missed that implication. I agree that that is idiotic; I as a customer have specificly paid for the ability for google to send me bits. Ergo, the pipe is already paid for. If he doesn't feel that the ISP rates are sufficient to cover his costs, he should feel free to raise his rates and get eaten alive in the market.
What am I supposed to be outraged about? Broadband providers have never, as far as I can recall, provided bandwidth free of charge to their customers; nor would I expect them to. What am I missing here?
Subscriptions are good deals if you stay on top of the latest versions of technology. They're not good deals if you sit on a single version for 10 years.
Exactly. In that regard, it's like leasing a car. If you're the type of person who buys a new car every 24 months, you're better off leasing. If you drive a car until it costs more to repair than the value of the car, you're better off owning.
PGP software provides a pretty good example of how subscription licensing vs. perpetual licensing could work. PGP Website
That's cool, thanks. I've been looking for a decent SIP provider for the same reason - this service looks pretty nice. Only thing I can't figure out from their website is what happens when you use up your 500 SIP minutes...
Yeah, but unless you want more than six or so lines, you can't just get SIP service from Vonage, you have to use their crappy adapter to convert digital-->analog, then if you're using Asterisk, an expensive card to convert analog-->digital again. Blah.
Not only can you do this, but you the compiled binary files themselves (which are actually MSIL) run on both platforms. It doesn't have to be real simple, either - but for now, avoiding any GUI other than STDOUT is the key to portability. I've done this plenty of times before - write console app in Visual Studio, compile to.exe, run exe file on slackware...groovy!
A few hours later, I had a full featured PBX system working and soon to be rolled into production for my small business, for free.
Somewhat offtopic: if this is true, I'd love to know how you did it without buying any FXO/FXS hardware. Also, what did you use for phones? Did you buy SIPphones or use standard phones with no features?
The difference is that MS is in a position to license Metro compatibility to hardware manufacturers for next to nothing, while AFAIK Adobe still reaps huge royalties, to the extent that inexpensive printers are rarely native PS interpreters. MS probably sees the opportunity to get "just works" hardware compatibility for Windows (only?), and charge just enough royalties to manufacturers to recoup development costs so they get it for "free".
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I think he's referring more to Windows' trait of moving the data for the most commonly used programs to defragmented sectors on the outer edge of the hard disk platter. The quickstarter may pre-load parts into memory, but it doesn't improve disk performance.
I agree that what's really going on here is Microsoft seeing the value of subscription-based services. I think they'd be willing to sacrifice one-shot licensing (especially given the fairly weak rates of upgrade purchasing) in favor of a steady monthly payment. As you mentioned, there are a lot of advantages for the user in this arrangement as well (including, likely, free upgrades), though of course the big disadvantage is that if you stop paying, Office stops working. But the real $64,000 question:
No need for local installs, just a web browser.
Would this mean the ability to run LiveOffice in any sufficiently advanced browser - on any platform? Would MS be so bold as to enable non-Windows/Mac users to use LiveOffice? On the one hand, they are extremely loathe to undermine the necessity of their flagship product: Windows. On the other hand, they must also realize that getting at least Office revenue from a Linux customer is better than none at all. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
It describes what I believe is the same breakthrough in considerable detail. The Big Deal is that lasers can now be made from standard CMOS silicon fab processes, meaning you can integrate the lasers and optoelectronics directly into the chip without needing radically new chip fab techniques. Really interesting stuff!
And which one will that be? The scope of Google's project is larger, but shallower, in that it only indexes and allows you to search on the index. It doesn't AFAIK give you the full text. The Yahoo! project on the other hand is designed to allow to search and read online the entire work.
Perhaps you are using the wrong tool for the job. If you want a document to look the same on the screen everywhere, use PDF. Or TIFF or SVG or PNG. If you want to do WYSIWYG word processing, use MS Word. For a WYSIWYG word processor to show something on the screen differently than how it will print would be an absolutely retarded idea.
A couple of problems with that.
First, lack of being sued is not proof of lack of liability. It is proof of exactly nothing. Even if you win the suit, it is only proof that what you did is legal if you win on the merits.
Second, there have been suits where the trademark holder did win against parodists.
Third, this issue has nothing whatsoever to do with trademark law. The law regarding the use of national seals is an entirely separate and unique law.
Be reasonable. You're acting like the sending of one C&D letter somehow grinds the workings of the white house to a halt. Realistically, it probably took one anonymous staffer ten minutes to write and a staff attorney 30 seconds to sign off on. It's almost like your searching for something to bitch about.
It's obvious in context - but single articles from the Onion regularly get picked up and passed along as "real" news stories. It gets harder to tell when context is removed.
Besides, they definitely aren't satirizing the seal itself. If they were, they'd probably be okay. But they're using the real seal.
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You don't really know what price fixing is.
I also happen to believe that it bumps up with the uncomfortable fact that the most effective weapon against malaria is DDT, but we (by which I accuse the entire Western first world) have apparently made the decision that when it comes to African humans vs. African birds, well, we've chosen African birds.
Hmmm. I guess I missed that implication. I agree that that is idiotic; I as a customer have specificly paid for the ability for google to send me bits. Ergo, the pipe is already paid for. If he doesn't feel that the ISP rates are sufficient to cover his costs, he should feel free to raise his rates and get eaten alive in the market.
What am I supposed to be outraged about? Broadband providers have never, as far as I can recall, provided bandwidth free of charge to their customers; nor would I expect them to. What am I missing here?
Exactly. In that regard, it's like leasing a car. If you're the type of person who buys a new car every 24 months, you're better off leasing. If you drive a car until it costs more to repair than the value of the car, you're better off owning.
PGP software provides a pretty good example of how subscription licensing vs. perpetual licensing could work. PGP Website
That's cool, thanks. I've been looking for a decent SIP provider for the same reason - this service looks pretty nice. Only thing I can't figure out from their website is what happens when you use up your 500 SIP minutes...
Yeah, but unless you want more than six or so lines, you can't just get SIP service from Vonage, you have to use their crappy adapter to convert digital-->analog, then if you're using Asterisk, an expensive card to convert analog-->digital again. Blah.
Not only can you do this, but you the compiled binary files themselves (which are actually MSIL) run on both platforms. It doesn't have to be real simple, either - but for now, avoiding any GUI other than STDOUT is the key to portability. I've done this plenty of times before - write console app in Visual Studio, compile to .exe, run exe file on slackware...groovy!
"Ding, dong, the witch is dead" was edited out of The Wizard of Oz? I don't get it. Why?
Somewhat offtopic: if this is true, I'd love to know how you did it without buying any FXO/FXS hardware. Also, what did you use for phones? Did you buy SIPphones or use standard phones with no features?
The difference is that MS is in a position to license Metro compatibility to hardware manufacturers for next to nothing, while AFAIK Adobe still reaps huge royalties, to the extent that inexpensive printers are rarely native PS interpreters. MS probably sees the opportunity to get "just works" hardware compatibility for Windows (only?), and charge just enough royalties to manufacturers to recoup development costs so they get it for "free".
I think he's referring more to Windows' trait of moving the data for the most commonly used programs to defragmented sectors on the outer edge of the hard disk platter. The quickstarter may pre-load parts into memory, but it doesn't improve disk performance.
No need for local installs, just a web browser.
Would this mean the ability to run LiveOffice in any sufficiently advanced browser - on any platform? Would MS be so bold as to enable non-Windows/Mac users to use LiveOffice? On the one hand, they are extremely loathe to undermine the necessity of their flagship product: Windows. On the other hand, they must also realize that getting at least Office revenue from a Linux customer is better than none at all. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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It describes what I believe is the same breakthrough in considerable detail. The Big Deal is that lasers can now be made from standard CMOS silicon fab processes, meaning you can integrate the lasers and optoelectronics directly into the chip without needing radically new chip fab techniques. Really interesting stuff!
And which one will that be? The scope of Google's project is larger, but shallower, in that it only indexes and allows you to search on the index. It doesn't AFAIK give you the full text. The Yahoo! project on the other hand is designed to allow to search and read online the entire work.
Check out slapt-get. It works pretty much like it sounds.
Perhaps you are using the wrong tool for the job. If you want a document to look the same on the screen everywhere, use PDF. Or TIFF or SVG or PNG. If you want to do WYSIWYG word processing, use MS Word. For a WYSIWYG word processor to show something on the screen differently than how it will print would be an absolutely retarded idea.
Second, there have been suits where the trademark holder did win against parodists.
Third, this issue has nothing whatsoever to do with trademark law. The law regarding the use of national seals is an entirely separate and unique law.
It's not. But the Onion isn't using a mock presidential seal, they're using the real seal. That's the problem.
Be reasonable. You're acting like the sending of one C&D letter somehow grinds the workings of the white house to a halt. Realistically, it probably took one anonymous staffer ten minutes to write and a staff attorney 30 seconds to sign off on. It's almost like your searching for something to bitch about.
Besides, they definitely aren't satirizing the seal itself. If they were, they'd probably be okay. But they're using the real seal.
Imagine that - what you see (on the screen) is what you get (when you print). The horror!
It doesn't require Media Center unless you want to use it for TV time-shifting. For normal video, Windows XP is sufficient.
Does your N64 controller comply with open standards (specifically, the USB HID standard?)