As my reply to myself above says, they are absolutely identical after all, so it's not like this is a.pdf file randomly circulating on the internet, both are certainly from the same scanned-in hardcopy. The origin of the original document is what's curious - I can only assume that the plaintiffs wrangled it out of MS.
My bad, the blog version also has the stamp. They're the same file. So that's what it's from. Comes vs. Microsoft was a class-action antitrust suit about different products entirely ("Windows, MS-DOS, Office, Excel, Word, Works Suite or Home Essentials 97 or 98 products") so it seems unlikely that the Gates memo about Movie Maker was ever actually assessed for its veracity, but it was accepted as evidence.
The file he links to is rather older than that blog article, featuring on this website discussing the case Comes vs. Microsoft. It was one of several thousand files submitted as evidence by the plaintiffs, specifically in this batch (file PX07199). This was a case back in 2007. Seeing as the version from 2007 has an evidence stamp, and the blog version doesn't, I suspect they're both copies of some original pdf found on the internet and therefore the veracity is still unclear.
I imagine if you ask most people why they went into field Z and not fields A through Y, the answer is that they thought they'd be boring, or something along those lines. Especially graduates - you want to be out there doing tree surgery, that's what you're really excited about, and management or high energy physics or engineering sound dull to you.
Here in the UK we had a very similar situation, BT owns the copper phone network so for people outside of cabled areas (which are owned by the borderline monopolistic Virgin Media now, but that's another story) they had a choice between BT ADSL, or other companies' ADSL which used BT's equipment in BT's exchanges over BT's network.
Now something called "local loop unbundling" is providing some power for other telecom firms to install equipment at exchanges, for the last mile IIRC. It's still BT's network and BT's exchanges, but at least we're using other people's equipment now (for ADSL2+).
"(1) England. England practically wrote this play book. They used it to great effect in Ireland, India and amusingly the middle east. They suppressed the media, lied, arrested on mere flimsy suspicion, bribed and bombed. Guess what- it worked. They were very successful at suppressing insurgencies in many many countries."
Uh, you realise that those nations were supposed to be subjects of the British Empire, though, right? Are you seriously suggesting that the US wants to be using strategies in Iraq that were originally aimed at subjugating and ruling smaller nations?
A recall would be, "hey, these are all completely borked, please send them in for replacements", not the RROD situation which is "hey, these are all completely borked, if yours does go wrong we'll honour our warranty period a bit longer than usual and get you a replacement in maybe 4-8 weeks".
Strictly speaking, isn't an SUV (in US terms) a consumer body on a light truck chassis? That would put a lower limit on the weight, I'm sure. I may be totally wrong and/or out of date though.
Actually booting off pirates would be in Virgin's best interests. They're the only people who actually try to use the bandwidth they've paid for. By removing those, they can continue to sell 2MBit connections to email users. Given how much they've whinged about video on demand showing up their shitty infrastructure, I suspect all ISPs to move this way.
RTFA, Poole wasn't talking about piracy. At all. He was talking about how a "pay what you like" business model is only viable for established names, while everyone else has to set a price. Poole doesn't have a problem with eBooks as a concept. Actually, neither is Pogue for about 95% of his article.
Nah. If you pick web sites at random, then sure, most of the bad sites are going to be.coms. That's not useful information though.
However if you're clicking on a link or entering a URL, you know the TLD. If it's a.hk, you now know you've got a 1 in 5 chance that it's going to try to screw you. If it's a.com, you know there's a 1 in 20 chance that it's going to screw you. That lets you choose which sites to avoid or be extra-cautious of.
Actually, New Scientist did a story about this, maybe five years ago, which was worried about the bananas' genetic variation, but didn't have any specific threat attached. They pointed out that although the current banana plants is pretty hardy, they're cultivated by cloning, so there's very little capacity for adaptation there. I forget the details of the story, but it was something like "there may not be any bananas as we know them in 25 years". Now the threat actually exists...
If those are tax-free prices for the US, then actually we're not doing too badly this time. You have to bear in mind, UK prices include VAT, while US prices frequently don't.
In this instance it's hard to argue that GMail is a loss leader. Free email has always been an ad-subsidised product, and GMail is the same. I'm not sure what high-marging goods you think Google is selling which could be subsidising it.
Nobody's actually integrating secret TPMs into their motherboards. He's just extrapolating. And remember, you can always buy a motherboard without a TPM! Seeing as no gamer is going to buy a motherboard with a TPM if it can be used for game DRM, and and no publisher is going to make TPM mandatory until there's >0% market penetration on TPMs, I can't see this becoming a problem. The mutant chicken and rotten egg question, y'see.
That's how Engadget is describing it, and I'm inclinded to agree. Firstly, it's not a "stealth chip", they tend to be prominently listed as a feature because they're so bloomin' rare and you really need one if you want to be able to use Vista's disk encryption without a dongle. Secondly, nobody has even proposed using them as a DRM measure, presumably because of the aforementioned rarity. Thirdly, this is spectacularly old news - those who follow hardware developments have been chatting about the TPM and its implications since Two Thousand and FIVE.
I'd say the odds of those "add-ons" being features from OOXML are pretty good, too. Gradually, they could turn ODF-via-Word into a format which is conveniently similar to the OOXML spec, except missing a couple of choice features or some compatability. OOXML starts to look just good, and why, there's even back-compatability built into OOXML! Why not switch?
Games. The high-end Windows PC market is driven by the videogame technology arms race. Now, most of that money is spent on components, or on custom-builds off the internet, but I'm sure a decent number of wjole gaming PCs are sold at retail.
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As my reply to myself above says, they are absolutely identical after all, so it's not like this is a .pdf file randomly circulating on the internet, both are certainly from the same scanned-in hardcopy. The origin of the original document is what's curious - I can only assume that the plaintiffs wrangled it out of MS.
My bad, the blog version also has the stamp. They're the same file. So that's what it's from. Comes vs. Microsoft was a class-action antitrust suit about different products entirely ("Windows, MS-DOS, Office, Excel, Word, Works Suite or Home Essentials 97 or 98 products") so it seems unlikely that the Gates memo about Movie Maker was ever actually assessed for its veracity, but it was accepted as evidence.
The file he links to is rather older than that blog article, featuring on this website discussing the case Comes vs. Microsoft. It was one of several thousand files submitted as evidence by the plaintiffs, specifically in this batch (file PX07199). This was a case back in 2007. Seeing as the version from 2007 has an evidence stamp, and the blog version doesn't, I suspect they're both copies of some original pdf found on the internet and therefore the veracity is still unclear.
I imagine if you ask most people why they went into field Z and not fields A through Y, the answer is that they thought they'd be boring, or something along those lines. Especially graduates - you want to be out there doing tree surgery, that's what you're really excited about, and management or high energy physics or engineering sound dull to you.
Here in the UK we had a very similar situation, BT owns the copper phone network so for people outside of cabled areas (which are owned by the borderline monopolistic Virgin Media now, but that's another story) they had a choice between BT ADSL, or other companies' ADSL which used BT's equipment in BT's exchanges over BT's network.
Now something called "local loop unbundling" is providing some power for other telecom firms to install equipment at exchanges, for the last mile IIRC. It's still BT's network and BT's exchanges, but at least we're using other people's equipment now (for ADSL2+).
One of my neighbours did that. I switched on MAC filtering, but not before I wrote down his computer's name. Which was his own name.
Clearly I was dealing with a hacker genius.
(Nations which I should note are now largely independent, but only as a result of revolution: the insurgents won.)
"(1) England. England practically wrote this play book. They used it to great effect in Ireland, India and amusingly the middle east. They suppressed the media, lied, arrested on mere flimsy suspicion, bribed and bombed. Guess what- it worked. They were very successful at suppressing insurgencies in many many countries."
Uh, you realise that those nations were supposed to be subjects of the British Empire, though, right? Are you seriously suggesting that the US wants to be using strategies in Iraq that were originally aimed at subjugating and ruling smaller nations?
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"Finally they will see the folly in using cheapest software, in the cheapest platform". Linux?
A recall would be, "hey, these are all completely borked, please send them in for replacements", not the RROD situation which is "hey, these are all completely borked, if yours does go wrong we'll honour our warranty period a bit longer than usual and get you a replacement in maybe 4-8 weeks".
I don't even want to think about where that arms race could go. Except periscopes, bring them on.
Strictly speaking, isn't an SUV (in US terms) a consumer body on a light truck chassis? That would put a lower limit on the weight, I'm sure. I may be totally wrong and/or out of date though.
Actually booting off pirates would be in Virgin's best interests. They're the only people who actually try to use the bandwidth they've paid for. By removing those, they can continue to sell 2MBit connections to email users. Given how much they've whinged about video on demand showing up their shitty infrastructure, I suspect all ISPs to move this way.
RTFA, Poole wasn't talking about piracy. At all. He was talking about how a "pay what you like" business model is only viable for established names, while everyone else has to set a price. Poole doesn't have a problem with eBooks as a concept. Actually, neither is Pogue for about 95% of his article.
Nah. If you pick web sites at random, then sure, most of the bad sites are going to be .coms. That's not useful information though.
.hk, you now know you've got a 1 in 5 chance that it's going to try to screw you. If it's a .com, you know there's a 1 in 20 chance that it's going to screw you. That lets you choose which sites to avoid or be extra-cautious of.
However if you're clicking on a link or entering a URL, you know the TLD. If it's a
Actually, New Scientist did a story about this, maybe five years ago, which was worried about the bananas' genetic variation, but didn't have any specific threat attached. They pointed out that although the current banana plants is pretty hardy, they're cultivated by cloning, so there's very little capacity for adaptation there. I forget the details of the story, but it was something like "there may not be any bananas as we know them in 25 years". Now the threat actually exists...
If those are tax-free prices for the US, then actually we're not doing too badly this time. You have to bear in mind, UK prices include VAT, while US prices frequently don't.
In this instance it's hard to argue that GMail is a loss leader. Free email has always been an ad-subsidised product, and GMail is the same. I'm not sure what high-marging goods you think Google is selling which could be subsidising it.
No, it's optional, and even then it's only being pushed at enterprise.
And unlike the sun, all of our boron reserves are tied up in Turkey (well, ~70%). At least, I think the sun's not getting its boron there.
Nobody's actually integrating secret TPMs into their motherboards. He's just extrapolating. And remember, you can always buy a motherboard without a TPM! Seeing as no gamer is going to buy a motherboard with a TPM if it can be used for game DRM, and and no publisher is going to make TPM mandatory until there's >0% market penetration on TPMs, I can't see this becoming a problem. The mutant chicken and rotten egg question, y'see.
That's how Engadget is describing it, and I'm inclinded to agree. Firstly, it's not a "stealth chip", they tend to be prominently listed as a feature because they're so bloomin' rare and you really need one if you want to be able to use Vista's disk encryption without a dongle. Secondly, nobody has even proposed using them as a DRM measure, presumably because of the aforementioned rarity. Thirdly, this is spectacularly old news - those who follow hardware developments have been chatting about the TPM and its implications since Two Thousand and FIVE.
I'd say the odds of those "add-ons" being features from OOXML are pretty good, too. Gradually, they could turn ODF-via-Word into a format which is conveniently similar to the OOXML spec, except missing a couple of choice features or some compatability. OOXML starts to look just good, and why, there's even back-compatability built into OOXML! Why not switch?
Games. The high-end Windows PC market is driven by the videogame technology arms race. Now, most of that money is spent on components, or on custom-builds off the internet, but I'm sure a decent number of wjole gaming PCs are sold at retail.