The years of engineering and construction required to turn a plant that exists into the doomsday device of your imagination would be difficult for the terrorists to achieve.
A crude way to force more powerful machines to use Vista.
They can't use Vista levels of bloat in the emerging niche of MIDs ( or whatever they're called this week) but they still want to force everyone else to buy Vista.
A big part of the Vista bloat and driver problems is Microsofts dream of DRM controlling our computers so they can make deals with content owners.
Thus Microsoft needs to limit user choice as much as they can because XP may be good enough for your needs but its DRM isn't good enough for Microsoft needs.
I actually sympathize with the poor bastards that have to take such a crappy job.
I assume they lack better choices.
I don't sympathize nearly enough to listen to a spiel but I do try to say f*** off politely.
Microsofts game is not to promote OOXML, it is to delay and confuse the world wide adoption of any standard.
The status quo is worth billions to them yearly as well as being a tool to promote other products. They fight to preserve that.
I also find it hard to imagine anyone supporting OOXML for any reason beyond payment from Microsoft.
It might be a promise of business investment or Gates foundation aid for a country rather than hookers and blow for an individual but it is still all about getting payment from Microsoft.
A 'bit' like 1984? Who in the hell would go for this?
Americans seem to have managed to convince their politicians and corporations that they have no interest in freedom at all.
If the Satellite TV companies needed to protect a library built over years rather than just a current transitory stream, where they are in continuous contact with the player, their task would be much more difficult and conversely the rewards of cracking would be that much greater.
Disk is different than broadcast.
Growing up in the 70's I scoured every library of every place I moved to for Asimov,Clarke and Heinlein and read their books many times over.
Now they're all gone and I feel sad, like the last of a special group of friends is gone.
I think 90+% of people who upgrade office do so because they are worried they won't be able to open files from other people who have newer versions.
It has very little to do with improved functionality and a lot to do with having vast amounts of business data communicate d in a proprietary format.
That sounds good to me. My commute to work is 7 km (14 round trip) and most of my shopping is done within a few miles of my home. Except for the occasional run out to the airport I would never need to burn gas. Depending on the weight, complexity and reliability of the generating sub system this could be a brilliant compromise for me and I doubt that I'm all that unique. What would make it even cooler is if I could use the car as a reasonable efficiency generator when the power was out.
Destriers will make more sense fighting the Ascians then they would now because the House Absolute wont have the large scale manufacturing capability we have today. A basic resource depleted middle ages level of technology sprinklings of high tech from aliens and surviving atifacts from a long lost golden age.
The biggest advantage of a biological system of transport is it doesn't need a vast manufacturing infrastructure.
A lot of research is publicly funded so the solution to the problem should be easy.
Make that funding reflect the interests of the vast majority of people by being contingent on publishing without ridiculous limitations.
Peer review journals have an important filtering,editing,fact checking etc purposes but it is a very small tail wagging a very large dog if they try to support themselves by limiting access to public research in order to gain a perceived advantage in selling paper.
The journals will adapt to what has been the de facto situation for a long time.
I'm not convinced the studios are or should be in a hurry to see a full transition.
They may think taht the slower and more expensive the transition the longer the studios can charge a premium for blue ray and the more disks sold in DVD they can hope to eventually sell a second time in blue ray.
i've been watching dvds on my ps 2 recently (dvd broke) and i hate using the gamepad as a remote. Sure it works but it's awkward compared to any other dvd player I've used. I'll probably get another DVD player just for the remote.
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That was my favorite part - where he uses that old cliche but with the twist that the dastardly deed has already taken place instead of the standard hero preventing it at the last minute.
But I read comics because they're fun not because they're the best of contemporary literature.
In software development the last 10% of a sufficiently complex project takes 90% of the time and effort
The last 5% takes 95% of the time and effort
This pattern continues even after the software ships, unfinished of course like all large projects.
Therefore I doubt windows can be cloned
I have more hope for things like this atom chip to break the microsoft monopoly by creating classes of devices too cheap to be worth paying the microsoft tax on but powerful enough to create a new market and API ecosystem along side the microsoft one with it's endless parade of locked in software.
If you can only afford one computer it may need to run things that are only available for the dominant platform but when you can have a wide variety of cheap devices in various form factors they may only need to do a few useful things. Hopefully this will create a virtuous circle where device drivers and niche software break out of the windows jail.
This seems most useful as a way to help crack DRM and bypassing OS level 'trusted computing' type measures.
Since it requires a machine operating with the key active it isn't much use for things like decrypting a stolen laptop.
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The years of engineering and construction required to turn a plant that exists into the doomsday device of your imagination would be difficult for the terrorists to achieve.
The definition of property is irrelevant. XP is inferior to 2000 from a user perspective due to the activation requirement.
A crude way to force more powerful machines to use Vista. They can't use Vista levels of bloat in the emerging niche of MIDs ( or whatever they're called this week) but they still want to force everyone else to buy Vista. A big part of the Vista bloat and driver problems is Microsofts dream of DRM controlling our computers so they can make deals with content owners. Thus Microsoft needs to limit user choice as much as they can because XP may be good enough for your needs but its DRM isn't good enough for Microsoft needs.
I actually sympathize with the poor bastards that have to take such a crappy job. I assume they lack better choices. I don't sympathize nearly enough to listen to a spiel but I do try to say f*** off politely.
Microsofts game is not to promote OOXML, it is to delay and confuse the world wide adoption of any standard. The status quo is worth billions to them yearly as well as being a tool to promote other products. They fight to preserve that. I also find it hard to imagine anyone supporting OOXML for any reason beyond payment from Microsoft. It might be a promise of business investment or Gates foundation aid for a country rather than hookers and blow for an individual but it is still all about getting payment from Microsoft.
A 'bit' like 1984? Who in the hell would go for this? Americans seem to have managed to convince their politicians and corporations that they have no interest in freedom at all.
If the Satellite TV companies needed to protect a library built over years rather than just a current transitory stream, where they are in continuous contact with the player, their task would be much more difficult and conversely the rewards of cracking would be that much greater. Disk is different than broadcast.
Sorry, Missed that or I would have been slightly less dismissive.
Vonnegut came a lot later for me, I think I was in grade 9 before I discovered Cats Cradle. Another sad loss all the same.
My rule of thumb is, unless the details of the methodology used are available and convincing, study means lie.
Or maybe this study is a steaming pile of platypus dung. See that there? Platypus Dung? that's creativity baby!
Growing up in the 70's I scoured every library of every place I moved to for Asimov,Clarke and Heinlein and read their books many times over. Now they're all gone and I feel sad, like the last of a special group of friends is gone.
I think 90+% of people who upgrade office do so because they are worried they won't be able to open files from other people who have newer versions. It has very little to do with improved functionality and a lot to do with having vast amounts of business data communicate d in a proprietary format.
That sounds good to me. My commute to work is 7 km (14 round trip) and most of my shopping is done within a few miles of my home. Except for the occasional run out to the airport I would never need to burn gas. Depending on the weight, complexity and reliability of the generating sub system this could be a brilliant compromise for me and I doubt that I'm all that unique. What would make it even cooler is if I could use the car as a reasonable efficiency generator when the power was out.
Destriers will make more sense fighting the Ascians then they would now because the House Absolute wont have the large scale manufacturing capability we have today. A basic resource depleted middle ages level of technology sprinklings of high tech from aliens and surviving atifacts from a long lost golden age. The biggest advantage of a biological system of transport is it doesn't need a vast manufacturing infrastructure.
A lot of research is publicly funded so the solution to the problem should be easy. Make that funding reflect the interests of the vast majority of people by being contingent on publishing without ridiculous limitations. Peer review journals have an important filtering,editing,fact checking etc purposes but it is a very small tail wagging a very large dog if they try to support themselves by limiting access to public research in order to gain a perceived advantage in selling paper. The journals will adapt to what has been the de facto situation for a long time.
I'm not convinced the studios are or should be in a hurry to see a full transition. They may think taht the slower and more expensive the transition the longer the studios can charge a premium for blue ray and the more disks sold in DVD they can hope to eventually sell a second time in blue ray.
i've been watching dvds on my ps 2 recently (dvd broke) and i hate using the gamepad as a remote.
Sure it works but it's awkward compared to any other dvd player I've used.
I'll probably get another DVD player just for the remote.
That was my favorite part - where he uses that old cliche but with the twist that the dastardly deed has already taken place instead of the standard hero preventing it at the last minute. But I read comics because they're fun not because they're the best of contemporary literature.
In software development the last 10% of a sufficiently complex project takes 90% of the time and effort
The last 5% takes 95% of the time and effort
This pattern continues even after the software ships, unfinished of course like all large projects.
Therefore I doubt windows can be cloned
I have more hope for things like this atom chip to break the microsoft monopoly by creating classes of devices too cheap to be worth paying the microsoft tax on but powerful enough to create a new market and API ecosystem along side the microsoft one with it's endless parade of locked in software.
If you can only afford one computer it may need to run things that are only available for the dominant platform but when you can have a wide variety of cheap devices in various form factors they may only need to do a few useful things. Hopefully this will create a virtuous circle where device drivers and niche software break out of the windows jail.
There are only two kinds of software: released too early and never released at all.
This seems most useful as a way to help crack DRM and bypassing OS level 'trusted computing' type measures. Since it requires a machine operating with the key active it isn't much use for things like decrypting a stolen laptop.
from their diseased monopoly fronting corpse.
This should make it harder for the mafiaa to buy blatently anti-canadian legislation.
When this happens in Ireland it will be a surprise.