> SP1 and SP2 along with all the apps and add-ons that XP users have been getting for nothing since it came out are all things that Apple would charge for. >Why is a point release of the operating system charged for?
SP1 and SP2 are not point releases, they're _patch_ releases. Maybe you'd better ask Microsoft why they charged for NT5.1 (Windows XP). I don't remember any NT5.0 (Windows 2000) customers getting a free upgrade.
The purpose of monopoly laws is not to crush an organisation so it never trades again. It's to stop them from illegally protecting a monopoly.
Where's IBM's monopoly? It seems to have worked in that case. Obviously it did exactly nothing in the Microsoft case, but I don't think you can use IBM as an example of the system failing.
> Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries" Do you even know what he meant by "optimize queries"?
The actual data retrieved by a client is pretty much irrelevant. It mostly doesn't matter which data the user is going to want. It only matters how they get the data. No (sane) web site allows visitors to run custom SQL queries, so therefore there are a limited number of queries that are performed. Each of those can be examined to determine whether or not they are being done in the most efficient way, or in a way that works best with their current load profile.
Expecting your customers to complain to their Anti-Virus companies, and then wait for those companies to give the a fix(Ha!) sounds like an excellent way to not have any more customers.
Here's a simple flow -
1. Introduce new feature. 2. Customers complain feature doesn't work. 3. Try to fix feature. 4. Did fix work? If yes, then go to 6. 5. Fix didn't work, roll back new feature and search for an alternative way to solve the original problem. 6. Profit!
Your flow would be - 1. Introduce new feature 2. Customers complain feature doesn't work. 3. Tell customers they're wrong. 4. Tell customers they're still wrong. 5. LALALALALALALAI CAN'T HEAR YOULALALALALALALA 6. wonder where all the profit went...
> Unless you want to delete cookies every page hit, and use the Web Developer Firefox plugin to remove hidden fields for every form submission, we pretty much have you tracked. This isn't 1995 y'know...
or just completely block *.google-analytics.com because urchin is the single most annoying thing on the internet.
I'm so sick of waiting for pages to load, only to see "contacting google-analytics.com" in the status bar.
It's the one thing that made me install the adblock extension. I don't care if you're tracking me. I do care if you're ruining my browsing experience.
sure, they'll just add a call to setSystemCrashFrequency(0) at the beginning of the code. while they're at it they'll uncomment the goFaster() function call too!
Crashes happen - even on the most stable of operating system (hardware can be buggy too), and one of the best ways to stop them from happening is to capture as much information about them and the circumstance under which they happen, which will then allow someone to fix the problem.
So I don't think it's a waist(sic) of time at all.
but the disc itself plays no part in the quality of the image (assuming of course that it meets the basic requirement that it's possible to pull the data off it fast enough)
In most cases, the only meaningful demo of BluRay is going to be quality based, and therefore the physical media is irrelevant, so I don't see how it's "Rigged" if it's still showing BluRay content.
>The crime angle is obviously spin, the promoters are depending on people wanting to watch other people without their knowledge, and of course prevention of crime is never a good enough reason to remove essential liberties. So if the crime angle is only spin, then what's the real reason they're doing it? The rest of your post makes sense, but that bit sounds a little paranoid to me.
My guess is crime is exactly the reason they're doing it. It's just not necesarily a well thought out idea. The government doesn't have to be an evil big brother trying to restrict your essential liberties for the sake of restricting them. It could just be populated with idiots.
um. No. 100 (reached by rasing ten to the power of two) does not equal 4 in binary, because 4 does not exist in binary. 100 exists in binary as does four, but you cant get 100(binary) - or four - from raising ten (1010 binary) to the power of two (10 binary) And you definitely can't get it by rasing 10(binary) to the power of 2(binary) as 2 also doesn't exist in binary.
All three of the sig, the reply and your reply to the reply are nonsensical as they mix bases without specifying which base is being used where. 10^2 does not equal 4 in any base, neither does 10^10.
The original sig should have said "Binary...the number system where 10^10 = 100 and 10+10 = 100".
I guess I know which of the 10 types of people in the world you three are;)
The difference is that in the USA there is not specific rule that allows format shifting, just that the "Fair Use" law is actually just a set of vague guidelines to allow the courts to decide what is fair use and what is not. Mostly that's a good thing, but sometimes it results in the definition of "Fair Use" in any one case coming down to who has the most money to spend on lawyers.
In Australia and other countries, there are "Fair Dealing" laws, that very precisely set down in law what is allowed and what is not. That means that they don't adapt well to new technologies, but does mean that you know where you stand, and don't have to worry so much about the whim of the court.
> You'd have to pry my mouse and keyboard out of my cold, dead hands. That's exactly why I prefer console gaming;)
I don't want to have to pry the mouse out of my twisted, crippled RSI afflicted hands. Not to say controllers don't have their own RSI issues, but at least then I'm varying the actions I'm performing with my hands between work and gaming.
.....maybe because the only thing the bulk of their audience really cares about is "how fast will this play games?"
However, most review sites do in fact have benchmarks for more than just games - both synthetic and "Real world" (covering media encoding, 3d rendering, and even compilation times).
> except you'll need to spend 2x the money for all the bloated layers j2ee requires.
J2EE doesn't require any layers, it's simply a set of guaranteed-to-be-available APIs and services. You pick the ones that are appropriate for your needs and ignore the rest.
> It's easy. It'll take far longer to start than you expect for your computer (especially if it's RCP based, because then you're loading the Java libraries and then the massive RCP libraries on top of that). Plus it will randomly freeze as Java starts another massive GC cycle that you'd expect wouldn't take so long but, apparently, does. Plus, if you minimize it and then remaximize it, you can expect it to cruch away doing nothing for several seconds while staring at a blank window.
Wow, I didn't know Explorer.exe was written in Java!;)
In a market with 3 main competitors, 20% is not bad at all - and I'm pretty sure that in some markets they have more than that. The XBox is very popular in Australia for instance. The Gamecube was basically a no-show here.
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> SP1 and SP2 along with all the apps and add-ons that XP users have been getting for nothing since it came out are all things that Apple would charge for.
>Why is a point release of the operating system charged for?
SP1 and SP2 are not point releases, they're _patch_ releases.
Maybe you'd better ask Microsoft why they charged for NT5.1 (Windows XP). I don't remember any NT5.0 (Windows 2000) customers getting a free upgrade.
Only if you use the BDB backend. if you use FSFS then it doesn't.
There's nothing illegal about giving something away. What on earth would make you think it would be?
So? You say that like it's a bad thing....
The purpose of monopoly laws is not to crush an organisation so it never trades again. It's to stop them from illegally protecting a monopoly.
Where's IBM's monopoly? It seems to have worked in that case.
Obviously it did exactly nothing in the Microsoft case, but I don't think you can use IBM as an example of the system failing.
"At Least" 8 characters. The FAQ doesn't say that's the maximum, and it very heavily impies you can have longer than 8.
> Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries"
Do you even know what he meant by "optimize queries"?
The actual data retrieved by a client is pretty much irrelevant. It mostly doesn't matter which data the user is going to want. It only matters how they get the data. No (sane) web site allows visitors to run custom SQL queries, so therefore there are a limited number of queries that are performed. Each of those can be examined to determine whether or not they are being done in the most efficient way, or in a way that works best with their current load profile.
Expecting your customers to complain to their Anti-Virus companies, and then wait for those companies to give the a fix(Ha!) sounds like an excellent way to not have any more customers.
Here's a simple flow -
1. Introduce new feature.
2. Customers complain feature doesn't work.
3. Try to fix feature.
4. Did fix work? If yes, then go to 6.
5. Fix didn't work, roll back new feature and search for an alternative way to solve the original problem.
6. Profit!
Your flow would be -
1. Introduce new feature
2. Customers complain feature doesn't work.
3. Tell customers they're wrong.
4. Tell customers they're still wrong.
5. LALALALALALALAI CAN'T HEAR YOULALALALALALALA
6. wonder where all the profit went...
So therefore the two are automatically exactly the same.
Brillant! Why didn't I notice that before!
> Unless you want to delete cookies every page hit, and use the Web Developer Firefox plugin to remove hidden fields for every form submission, we pretty much have you tracked. This isn't 1995 y'know...
or just completely block *.google-analytics.com because urchin is the single most annoying thing on the internet.
I'm so sick of waiting for pages to load, only to see "contacting google-analytics.com" in the status bar.
It's the one thing that made me install the adblock extension. I don't care if you're tracking me. I do care if you're ruining my browsing experience.
sure, they'll just add a call to setSystemCrashFrequency(0) at the beginning of the code.
while they're at it they'll uncomment the goFaster() function call too!
Crashes happen - even on the most stable of operating system (hardware can be buggy too), and one of the best ways to stop them from happening is to capture as much information about them and the circumstance under which they happen, which will then allow someone to fix the problem.
So I don't think it's a waist(sic) of time at all.
It's based on WebKit, which is in turn based on KHTML.
WebKit / KHTML is the HTML rendering layer, not a web browser. I'm not sure how KHTML is licensed, but as it's a KDE library, it's probably LGPL.
> What if its the plaintiff that screams frivilous lawsuit just to get more money?
Now that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Seriously....stop and think about it for a minute.
so what's your point?
but the disc itself plays no part in the quality of the image (assuming of course that it meets the basic requirement that it's possible to pull the data off it fast enough)
In most cases, the only meaningful demo of BluRay is going to be quality based, and therefore the physical media is irrelevant, so I don't see how it's "Rigged" if it's still showing BluRay content.
the depressing thing is that compared to a lot of other media players, WMP really is clean, spartan and non bloated.
he's obviously never even seen a child.
>The crime angle is obviously spin, the promoters are depending on people wanting to watch other people without their knowledge, and of course prevention of crime is never a good enough reason to remove essential liberties.
So if the crime angle is only spin, then what's the real reason they're doing it?
The rest of your post makes sense, but that bit sounds a little paranoid to me.
My guess is crime is exactly the reason they're doing it. It's just not necesarily a well thought out idea. The government doesn't have to be an evil big brother trying to restrict your essential liberties for the sake of restricting them. It could just be populated with idiots.
um. No. 100 (reached by rasing ten to the power of two) does not equal 4 in binary, because 4 does not exist in binary. 100 exists in binary as does four, but you cant get 100(binary) - or four - from raising ten (1010 binary) to the power of two (10 binary) And you definitely can't get it by rasing 10(binary) to the power of 2(binary) as 2 also doesn't exist in binary.
;)
All three of the sig, the reply and your reply to the reply are nonsensical as they mix bases without specifying which base is being used where.
10^2 does not equal 4 in any base, neither does 10^10.
The original sig should have said "Binary...the number system where 10^10 = 100 and 10+10 = 100".
I guess I know which of the 10 types of people in the world you three are
The difference is that in the USA there is not specific rule that allows format shifting, just that the "Fair Use" law is actually just a set of vague guidelines to allow the courts to decide what is fair use and what is not.
Mostly that's a good thing, but sometimes it results in the definition of "Fair Use" in any one case coming down to who has the most money to spend on lawyers.
In Australia and other countries, there are "Fair Dealing" laws, that very precisely set down in law what is allowed and what is not. That means that they don't adapt well to new technologies, but does mean that you know where you stand, and don't have to worry so much about the whim of the court.
> You'd have to pry my mouse and keyboard out of my cold, dead hands. ;)
That's exactly why I prefer console gaming
I don't want to have to pry the mouse out of my twisted, crippled RSI afflicted hands.
Not to say controllers don't have their own RSI issues, but at least then I'm varying the actions I'm performing with my hands between work and gaming.
.....maybe because the only thing the bulk of their audience really cares about is "how fast will this play games?"
However, most review sites do in fact have benchmarks for more than just games - both synthetic and "Real world" (covering media encoding, 3d rendering, and even compilation times).
> except you'll need to spend 2x the money for all the bloated layers j2ee requires.
J2EE doesn't require any layers, it's simply a set of guaranteed-to-be-available APIs and services. You pick the ones that are appropriate for your needs and ignore the rest.
If you have no idea, then you don't know, therefore when you allege that he is, you know that you are lying, therefore it is libel.
If you thought you had evidence that he was, then you'd merely be wrong.
> It's easy. It'll take far longer to start than you expect for your computer (especially if it's RCP based, because then you're loading the Java libraries and then the massive RCP libraries on top of that). Plus it will randomly freeze as Java starts another massive GC cycle that you'd expect wouldn't take so long but, apparently, does. Plus, if you minimize it and then remaximize it, you can expect it to cruch away doing nothing for several seconds while staring at a blank window.
;)
Wow, I didn't know Explorer.exe was written in Java!
In a market with 3 main competitors, 20% is not bad at all - and I'm pretty sure that in some markets they have more than that.
The XBox is very popular in Australia for instance. The Gamecube was basically a no-show here.