Sorry guys I have to side with Microsoft on this one. I like my media player (i prefer to run this over programs like Power DVD which I installed and do not like its functionality), i hate.net and microsoft messenger (i use trillian).
Maybe make all these features an option that by default is set to off and then someone would have to go to the advanced settings during the install? I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the windows features that I do not use (and save hard drive space).
However, I think the ruling stinks to high heaven of "lets make a statement."
It would be nice to see microsoft pull their product "You want to buy it, buy it from the US." But we know that won't happen.
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sco? anyone ? anyone? taking bids? Oh wait they will stay in service due to income from lawsuits (or threats thereof).
Hmm according to the article, companies that are going the way of the do-do bird tend to start sueing first....hopefully he was also thinking of sco:)
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Damn, I almost totally forgot about SLIP.
As long as I still get my porn (free obviously) the internet is still the same blissful holy grail that I have come to love and admire ever since I was a wee lad staring up at my 386 that I didn't even know had a partitioned hard drive (because i had no idea that such things could be done):)
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Go WildCAT and Major BBS
Don't vigilante's get their butts slammed in jail? (no pun intended, though, hmm I am sure their potential fellow inmates probably don't like them either).:)
This is not too far from some of the people who wanted to test airport security by sneaking on knives, guns, etc. Those people got slammed by the law, hopefully these two will also.
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Ok we need to launch that scientist and his idea right to the sun.
Ugh "Hey son, lets go look at the pretty stars, hmm a budweiser add. Ok son, enough of that. Lets try and sleep. Oh wait the sky is filled with ads, now there is no darkness!"
-Avi
P.S. I am feeling a strong case of Highlander 2 coming about
I kind of feel sorry for SCO sales people trying to sell SCO to potential new clients.
SCO Sales:"Would you like to buy our SCO product."
Potiential Client: "Yea, hm, I would like to keep my customer base and good company reputation. Now get out before I set my linux raised programmers loose."
Ya know, I feel sorry for some of these companies. They may not be as large, or cannot afford a lawsuit that SCO is willing to pay out, so they are basically forced to settle and save a few bucks. SCO would probably claim these companies paid for their license as a move toward the righteous path; I at least think it is a move away from the barral of the gun.
But who says SCO cares about agreements and licenses?
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I pay a lot of money for my hard drive. So if Real Player wants to force itself into my hard drive, can I charge them rent?
I think Microsoft should make their player a downloadable option just to get rid of the European nag. (as other have suggested)
Better yet stop supporting the European market (that would be ideal):)
Real player was good a long time ago, then it got crappy. Even when I did have a registered version, the unregistered version would creep onto my computer and then annoy me with spyware, pop up ads, and trying to overbear my windows settings.
If people want it, they will download it, if they don't know any better then why should we use their ignorance against them by forcing them to have a program they may never utilize!
Well they claim the technology is there, and they advertise that price. If they perfected the process, with mass automation it is possible to make it extremely cheap.
I won't argue the technology aspect of it, but why is it so hard to believe that it is possible to make these wafers at less then $5 a pop?
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Well according to those interviewed in the article (one of the people being a retired Navy Admiral who owns one of the two companies with this technology) deBears (sp?) has already implicated threats on his life. Obviously deBears would not be happy about him popping out perfect diamonds!
I do not think the oil companies will go out of business anytime soon, they will still provide us with oil (it will take years to get oil based cars off the market) and all the other oil based products we use. Not to mention they will probably jack up their prices to match the difference. Gas prices would be at $10/gallon...
Definitly one hand scratches the other.
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The article was fairly long and detailed, but it did not go into the full technology aspect of the proposal (for a number of obvious reasons, one being that it wouldn't suit the article for Wired Magazine). If I recall correctly Intel already has the technology to utilize the new material. The only reason the technology has not been in use is because a perfect diamond wafer costs ten's of thousands of dollars and cannot be acquired in mass quantities. Considering that they can make these wafers into any shape desired, with a cost of less then $5.00, there is not much of an excuse on a technology side. On a business side Intel said they will not use it because the ROI for silicon has not been met yet.
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I still recall reading the article in Wired magazine a few months back. A company approached them with an offer to provide them perfect diamond wafers (produced at less then $5/wafer) and Intel did not take the offer because they have not gotten their full investment back on the silicon. So given that they refused to have an easy method of increasing their processor spead by a very big number, it is not surprising that they still haven't gotten 64 bit over AMD... Shame, Intel used to be the best.
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I agree that comcast customer service is poor, and you had better watch their techs like a hawk and do a QA test on everything before they leave. However, barring having any technical problems I find cable TV far superior to dish tv. I have had both (I live in Philadelphia). Dish TV would go out on numerous occasions (bad weather or good weather) it would just go. Sometimes it would go out in one room, sometimes in both, sometimes for a few minutes and sometimes for days. When the service was brand new Dish network's first answer was to charge us (literally) and we didn't even have the service for a month. They will not install any wiring in your home (they will lay the cord in the middle of your hallway).
I prefer comcast. I hate their service reps, but as long as i do not have to deal with their CSR's (generally i do not once the service is setup) it is a beautiful thing. The highspeed also beats DSL by far:)
Hope that helps,
Avi
Netflix rules:) I average a paltry 15 movies a month (could do it better if i didnt have a social life). I hate late fees. I had an instance where i rented two movies, only had the time to see one of them, and paid $20.00 in late fees.
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Well lets see what the choices are. $7.00 rental that lasts for two days, or pay $10.00 and keep it forever.
I will wait for buying it online at a low price of $10.00 and keep it forever (or until DVD's go out of style for something else):)
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Who needs to buy the book, i read the whole thing in the article :)
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Sorry guys I have to side with Microsoft on this one. I like my media player (i prefer to run this over programs like Power DVD which I installed and do not like its functionality), i hate .net and microsoft messenger (i use trillian).
Maybe make all these features an option that by default is set to off and then someone would have to go to the advanced settings during the install? I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the windows features that I do not use (and save hard drive space).
However, I think the ruling stinks to high heaven of "lets make a statement."
It would be nice to see microsoft pull their product "You want to buy it, buy it from the US." But we know that won't happen.
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Only if it utilizes software like Qmodem and Qmodem Pro :)
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I guess. But this begs the question, do they know what GUI means :)
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GUI is a corporate buzzword? How many corporate slaves, who aren't semi-techies, know what GUI means - other then "I've been slimed" :)
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I'll buy it, but only if the girl with the t-shirt comes with it :)
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liquid water eh? Where can i get some? Is it being auctioned on eBay?
I need to use your xerox machine :)
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P.s. i have a friend who works for HP, and they hate when people refer to copiers as xerox machines.
sco? anyone ? anyone? taking bids? Oh wait they will stay in service due to income from lawsuits (or threats thereof). Hmm according to the article, companies that are going the way of the do-do bird tend to start sueing first....hopefully he was also thinking of sco :)
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Damn, I almost totally forgot about SLIP. As long as I still get my porn (free obviously) the internet is still the same blissful holy grail that I have come to love and admire ever since I was a wee lad staring up at my 386 that I didn't even know had a partitioned hard drive (because i had no idea that such things could be done) :)
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Go WildCAT and Major BBS
The real question is, these passionate vigilantes - have they ever gotten warez? My money says yes; and if I am right, we know what that makes them.
Don't vigilante's get their butts slammed in jail? (no pun intended, though, hmm I am sure their potential fellow inmates probably don't like them either). :)
This is not too far from some of the people who wanted to test airport security by sneaking on knives, guns, etc. Those people got slammed by the law, hopefully these two will also.
-A
Ok we need to launch that scientist and his idea right to the sun. Ugh "Hey son, lets go look at the pretty stars, hmm a budweiser add. Ok son, enough of that. Lets try and sleep. Oh wait the sky is filled with ads, now there is no darkness!" -Avi P.S. I am feeling a strong case of Highlander 2 coming about
I kind of feel sorry for SCO sales people trying to sell SCO to potential new clients. SCO Sales:"Would you like to buy our SCO product." Potiential Client: "Yea, hm, I would like to keep my customer base and good company reputation. Now get out before I set my linux raised programmers loose."
Ya know, I feel sorry for some of these companies. They may not be as large, or cannot afford a lawsuit that SCO is willing to pay out, so they are basically forced to settle and save a few bucks. SCO would probably claim these companies paid for their license as a move toward the righteous path; I at least think it is a move away from the barral of the gun. But who says SCO cares about agreements and licenses? -A
LOL! Sad thing is, thats about as much competition as WP can give; to rival notepad ;)
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I pay a lot of money for my hard drive. So if Real Player wants to force itself into my hard drive, can I charge them rent? I think Microsoft should make their player a downloadable option just to get rid of the European nag. (as other have suggested) Better yet stop supporting the European market (that would be ideal) :)
Real player was good a long time ago, then it got crappy. Even when I did have a registered version, the unregistered version would creep onto my computer and then annoy me with spyware, pop up ads, and trying to overbear my windows settings.
If people want it, they will download it, if they don't know any better then why should we use their ignorance against them by forcing them to have a program they may never utilize!
Well they claim the technology is there, and they advertise that price. If they perfected the process, with mass automation it is possible to make it extremely cheap. I won't argue the technology aspect of it, but why is it so hard to believe that it is possible to make these wafers at less then $5 a pop? -A
Ok, educate me as to why the article is wrong. I wouldn't mind getting an expert opinion on the subject.
Well according to those interviewed in the article (one of the people being a retired Navy Admiral who owns one of the two companies with this technology) deBears (sp?) has already implicated threats on his life. Obviously deBears would not be happy about him popping out perfect diamonds! I do not think the oil companies will go out of business anytime soon, they will still provide us with oil (it will take years to get oil based cars off the market) and all the other oil based products we use. Not to mention they will probably jack up their prices to match the difference. Gas prices would be at $10/gallon... Definitly one hand scratches the other. -A
The article was fairly long and detailed, but it did not go into the full technology aspect of the proposal (for a number of obvious reasons, one being that it wouldn't suit the article for Wired Magazine). If I recall correctly Intel already has the technology to utilize the new material. The only reason the technology has not been in use is because a perfect diamond wafer costs ten's of thousands of dollars and cannot be acquired in mass quantities. Considering that they can make these wafers into any shape desired, with a cost of less then $5.00, there is not much of an excuse on a technology side. On a business side Intel said they will not use it because the ROI for silicon has not been met yet. -A
I still recall reading the article in Wired magazine a few months back. A company approached them with an offer to provide them perfect diamond wafers (produced at less then $5/wafer) and Intel did not take the offer because they have not gotten their full investment back on the silicon. So given that they refused to have an easy method of increasing their processor spead by a very big number, it is not surprising that they still haven't gotten 64 bit over AMD... Shame, Intel used to be the best. -A
I agree that comcast customer service is poor, and you had better watch their techs like a hawk and do a QA test on everything before they leave. However, barring having any technical problems I find cable TV far superior to dish tv. I have had both (I live in Philadelphia). Dish TV would go out on numerous occasions (bad weather or good weather) it would just go. Sometimes it would go out in one room, sometimes in both, sometimes for a few minutes and sometimes for days. When the service was brand new Dish network's first answer was to charge us (literally) and we didn't even have the service for a month. They will not install any wiring in your home (they will lay the cord in the middle of your hallway). I prefer comcast. I hate their service reps, but as long as i do not have to deal with their CSR's (generally i do not once the service is setup) it is a beautiful thing. The highspeed also beats DSL by far :)
Hope that helps,
Avi
Netflix rules :) I average a paltry 15 movies a month (could do it better if i didnt have a social life). I hate late fees. I had an instance where i rented two movies, only had the time to see one of them, and paid $20.00 in late fees.
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Well lets see what the choices are. $7.00 rental that lasts for two days, or pay $10.00 and keep it forever. I will wait for buying it online at a low price of $10.00 and keep it forever (or until DVD's go out of style for something else) :)
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