Now, with the introduction of said protein, putting a hundred monkeys into a room with typewriters will indeed produce a work the likes of William Shakespear. Only now the chimps will each sue each other for infringing on each other's intellectual property.
This argument is very tenuous at best. Please re-evaluate the Linux desktop market share. In order, Microsoft's true enemies are:
1) Google 2) Apple 3) European Union 4) Wood seating 5) Linux
They will not abandon Silverlight because a very few Linux elitists want to refuse it entering 'their' domain. I want Silverlight on Linux. And I do not wish for it to be held back by the 'some of us' of which you speak.
To think this would somehow miraculously affect it's adoption in light of the massive market share MS and Apple occupy vs Linux is naive at best. As mIguel stated, the 'head in the sand' approach is a good way to have your ass handed to you.
This is all forgetting that Miguel can do what he damn well pleases. He isn't Jesus and he isn't shafting people either. If you need better tools, acquire them, invest money for people to develop them or build them yourself.
If Lunalight or Lunabeam or Claire-de-la-Lune or whatever he wants to call it offends you, get a girlfriend or simply don't download it.
Simple solution: pay for circuit switched. Make sure you specify circuit switched. Run massive amounts of information at a steady rate through the line to the other end of the agreed circuit. The telltale sign of packet switching is sporadic performance vs leased line. You find out the data is going faster at some time more then others, sue the hell out of the telco and/or go elsewhere.
For leased line T1, your charges are(or rather, should be. if not, there's your sign) based on the distance rather then total upload and download. So the load test shouldn't even cost extra.
The parent is correct. You seem to be the one a little out of it. And snidey at that.
T1s are point-to-point circuit switched connections. The Internet only factors in if one device on that point-to-point connection happens to be a gateway router.
Being point to point, it's isolated, secured, easier to secure, and probably guaranteed via some policy or contract. You don't share with no one.
DSL has a same setup; you don't share your connection like cable internet. However, with DSL, you only have a closed circuit between you and an isp. To reach your office across the state, the connection has to traverse your ISP's routers and distribution systems then to your office's. Do a traceroute one day.
With a T1, the closed circuit is between you and your office cross-state. Your ISP only uses layer 2 switching to make sure the circuit takes the optimal path. Once it's connected, it's locked in. And unlike internet via DSL or cable with your ISP in the mix, TCP/IP doesn't have to factor in at all if you don't want it to. You get your choice of protocols for addressing and transport.
You seem to think because since you saw some guy hooking up what looked like a phone jack to your buddy's computer that you're en expert in the field and have the right to be a pretentious dick about it. Sorry to disappoint you.
In this case, the medium is not quite as important. The cabling is nothing much more then a polished POTS line. However, you still have the other 6 layers of the OSI model to think about.
I've fixed 300Mhz old Dell laptops using freely available service manuals with detailed assembly and disassembly instructions from their support.dell.com site.
I was under the impression larger, more expensive OLEDs were not yet viable due to the plastic not being impermeable enough against moisture. It causes the dots(particularly the blue ones)to 'rot' and gives the display a very short lifespan compared to CRT and even LCD(which has a comparatively short lifespan as is) technologies.
Did they get the watertightness down proper? Also, the worse with this is you probably wouldn't notice the flaw with the panel until sufficient moisture has permeated the seal So make damn sure you get an extended warranty on the sucker.
The key difference here is those who called and insulted the company were not activists. They were fanboys.
Activists lobby, actively promote change or raise awareness for things that will make life better. if not for themselves, for many other people. Fair trade activists wish to preserve ways of life and local economies. Electronic freedom activists lobby against restrictive copyright laws and promote freedom across digital mediums.
These assclowns wanted to belittle a company because the major corporation they were supporting weren't their favorite major corporation. It's not like either Oracle or RedHat are Monsanto or something. Both have done massive contributions and offer a distro of Linux. It was probably a very educated move on their part and would not have negatively affected their lives or the lives of anyone else in any way. For that reason, they disgust me.
I almost would have let up a little had they lobbied against a switch to Windows or Apple(companies who have a reputation for killing all other choices). But only a little. They still have no business doing what they did.
Fanboys should be hung up by their testicles and burned alive by overheated AMD cpus.
PaintShop was bought out by Corel from JASC. Macromedia(no middle capital) created Flash and was subsequently bought out by Adobe.
MetaCreations(middle capital) created Painter, which was also bought out by Corel.
Just wanted to get that cleared out.
As for the 'intellectual property' thing, your argument is ridiculous. Piracy has and will continue to exist. The only solution is to provide more then just the raw binaries with the sale. Linux distros are a prime example of this: You can download them off the web, but you pay if you need ongoing support with them(which is damned handy).
Equally true for many FPS games where very little protection is applied to the single player game, but checks are done while using the online system. Steam does it very well in terms of anti-piracy, though I imagine they lose many players who would like something more lan-party-friendly(as it is difficult to get everyone synced up in terms of software and sometimes it's just easier to temporarily, at least, loan your CD to your buddy).
iTunes/iPods work because they provide a mechanism that's quick and easy, while not denying you the ability to use your device for other things. You could go torrent or Gnutella a song, but iTunes guarantees a clean sound, quick download and automatic sorting and integration with your library. And now, finally, you get to do it without DRM too.
Is Pirate Bay doing that which the spirit of the law wishes? No. But the law was not necessarily written by the little guy. And the little guy is getting pissed at what the big guy's been cramming up his anal sphincter so rogue groups like TPG get popular. People side with the rogues in the presence of the bully. And there are generally more people then bullies.
And tell me why, after more then a decade and a half, PS still costs over 700$ for new versions come out when only a handful of features get added? Simple: nothing out there is as good yet. So they tabulate the value of the product based on the fact that no project has been able to keep up, or use strongarm tactics to keep the cheap or free ones down(CMYK legal issues, lawsuits against Macromedia pre-buyout, etc...). This applies double to Windows. So the consumer doesn't feel as 'wrong' about screwing them over in return.
Nice guys who have the money to spend will spend it. The assclowns won't. It's naive to think that you can get every single penny from your product without some piracy bleeding.
Ideal capitalism is based that if two farmers have two crops of the same type of wheat, one will find a way to make their farm better or sell things cheaper to gain an edge on the other guy and the consumer wins.
Unfortunately, present day capitalism involves one farmer poisoning the other farmer's field instead, as poison is cheaper then a new combine harvester, and then charging more for their wheat due to supply and demand.
I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic. Lotus? What is this: 1995?
Say what you want about MS(personally, I don't much like em' and Vista is the most horrid thing to happen to the OS world since ME), but Exchange works and works well. And yes, most companies use it. Maybe a couple of holdouts or diehards use Lotus. But Exchange is definitely the dominant platform and is the great majority of MS's piggy bank.
Your statement would be like saying, "Most computer users I know run BeOS".
Have you factored in the much lighter weight of the vehicle and the efficiency of the engine vs your typical gasoline engine?
Given at least the first point, consider it would take far less energy to move the vehicle as air is quite a bit lighter then gas. Equally, there are less parts required as you are not dealing with a controlled explosion but rather the controlled release of an already pressurized, non-volatile air source.
I'm ain't qualified to argue much. Just wondering if those factors were factored into your equation.
I must call shenanigans on this one. Photoshop's tools, especially the use of vector masks and blending effects, are damned handy in the graphics biz and is thought first thing in many graphics design courses. I used them myself quite often. I tried the Gimp. It ain't there yet. It's damned awesome for a free app. But:
"For professional graphic artists, I guess can see a need for Photoshop, but those are the extreme minority of users. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using GIMP"
Is like saying, "For professional cycle racers, I guess can see a need for sports bikes, but those are the extreme minority of bikers. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using a kid's BMX."
Currently, nothing holds a candle to PS.
Now, using it as an excuse to get away from Linux? Well with virtualization software as it is and Wine's ever increasing compatibility with it, I don't see PS as being a major reason(if I remember correctly, the movie Sinbad was done entirely with Linux stations running Wine for compatibility with PS).
After numerous backtracks, things not delivered, statements that were inaccurate(to put it politely) and the horrible treatment(once again, backtracked after the bad press hit the fan) of a popular gamer blog, why should we believe any other word coming from your mouth?
Mr. Harrison, prove to me that you don't just throw random cool buzzwords into a word processor, pad it with none-to-likely idealisms and falsities and throw it out into the press to attempt to drown out the accomplishments of the competition so that your company doesn't have to actually compete with them.
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Mr. Thompson,
Bring it.
Your friend with the solid gold swimming pool,
William Gates
Actually, most of the time, right clicking produces an annoying pop-up but still shows the context menu in FF. No extra config required.
Now, with the introduction of said protein, putting a hundred monkeys into a room with typewriters will indeed produce a work the likes of William Shakespear. Only now the chimps will each sue each other for infringing on each other's intellectual property.
This argument is very tenuous at best. Please re-evaluate the Linux desktop market share. In order, Microsoft's true enemies are:
1) Google
2) Apple
3) European Union
4) Wood seating
5) Linux
They will not abandon Silverlight because a very few Linux elitists want to refuse it entering 'their' domain. I want Silverlight on Linux. And I do not wish for it to be held back by the 'some of us' of which you speak.
To think this would somehow miraculously affect it's adoption in light of the massive market share MS and Apple occupy vs Linux is naive at best. As mIguel stated, the 'head in the sand' approach is a good way to have your ass handed to you.
This is all forgetting that Miguel can do what he damn well pleases. He isn't Jesus and he isn't shafting people either. If you need better tools, acquire them, invest money for people to develop them or build them yourself.
If Lunalight or Lunabeam or Claire-de-la-Lune or whatever he wants to call it offends you, get a girlfriend or simply don't download it.
A member of the MPAA and RIAA putting up a site claiming to be the new YouTube, and inviting people to upload content.....
:|
"Here are the keys to the slaughterhouse, cow."
Frankly, I sincerely hope they do sue anyone dumb enough to upload anything to that site
Simple solution: pay for circuit switched. Make sure you specify circuit switched. Run massive amounts of information at a steady rate through the line to the other end of the agreed circuit. The telltale sign of packet switching is sporadic performance vs leased line. You find out the data is going faster at some time more then others, sue the hell out of the telco and/or go elsewhere.
For leased line T1, your charges are(or rather, should be. if not, there's your sign) based on the distance rather then total upload and download. So the load test shouldn't even cost extra.
The parent is correct. You seem to be the one a little out of it. And snidey at that.
T1s are point-to-point circuit switched connections. The Internet only factors in if one device on that point-to-point connection happens to be a gateway router.
Being point to point, it's isolated, secured, easier to secure, and probably guaranteed via some policy or contract. You don't share with no one.
DSL has a same setup; you don't share your connection like cable internet. However, with DSL, you only have a closed circuit between you and an isp. To reach your office across the state, the connection has to traverse your ISP's routers and distribution systems then to your office's. Do a traceroute one day.
With a T1, the closed circuit is between you and your office cross-state. Your ISP only uses layer 2 switching to make sure the circuit takes the optimal path. Once it's connected, it's locked in. And unlike internet via DSL or cable with your ISP in the mix, TCP/IP doesn't have to factor in at all if you don't want it to. You get your choice of protocols for addressing and transport.
You seem to think because since you saw some guy hooking up what looked like a phone jack to your buddy's computer that you're en expert in the field and have the right to be a pretentious dick about it. Sorry to disappoint you.
In this case, the medium is not quite as important. The cabling is nothing much more then a polished POTS line. However, you still have the other 6 layers of the OSI model to think about.
To be agnostic is to know that the existence of a god is, in itself, unknowable.
But, why did a religious debate spark up in the middle of a Windows Vista is failing story?
Creep O_o
Ah yes, irony.
But that's pretty damn cool:) Here's to hoping it actually works and makes it to market.
Oh come on. That was funny.
Yup. All part of their plan to scrap DVD players in favor of more costly Blu-Rays.
To be fair: Dell
I've fixed 300Mhz old Dell laptops using freely available service manuals with detailed assembly and disassembly instructions from their support.dell.com site.
But it's good Toshiba does it too.
Bill Gibson is probably having himself a nice drink right about now.
I was under the impression larger, more expensive OLEDs were not yet viable due to the plastic not being impermeable enough against moisture. It causes the dots(particularly the blue ones)to 'rot' and gives the display a very short lifespan compared to CRT and even LCD(which has a comparatively short lifespan as is) technologies.
Did they get the watertightness down proper? Also, the worse with this is you probably wouldn't notice the flaw with the panel until sufficient moisture has permeated the seal So make damn sure you get an extended warranty on the sucker.
Crap, you're right. Misread that un'
Technically, to keep it to spec, you'd need three 100' cables and two repeaters to avoid too much packet loss. And each of those with a power source.
;)
So, "Dragging three 100' ends of cable, two repeaters and a pair of battery packs around your house to use your laptop anywhere you want: hilarious"
The key difference here is those who called and insulted the company were not activists. They were fanboys.
Activists lobby, actively promote change or raise awareness for things that will make life better. if not for themselves, for many other people. Fair trade activists wish to preserve ways of life and local economies. Electronic freedom activists lobby against restrictive copyright laws and promote freedom across digital mediums.
These assclowns wanted to belittle a company because the major corporation they were supporting weren't their favorite major corporation. It's not like either Oracle or RedHat are Monsanto or something. Both have done massive contributions and offer a distro of Linux. It was probably a very educated move on their part and would not have negatively affected their lives or the lives of anyone else in any way. For that reason, they disgust me.
I almost would have let up a little had they lobbied against a switch to Windows or Apple(companies who have a reputation for killing all other choices). But only a little. They still have no business doing what they did.
Fanboys should be hung up by their testicles and burned alive by overheated AMD cpus.
PaintShop was bought out by Corel from JASC. Macromedia(no middle capital) created Flash and was subsequently bought out by Adobe.
MetaCreations(middle capital) created Painter, which was also bought out by Corel.
Just wanted to get that cleared out.
As for the 'intellectual property' thing, your argument is ridiculous. Piracy has and will continue to exist. The only solution is to provide more then just the raw binaries with the sale. Linux distros are a prime example of this: You can download them off the web, but you pay if you need ongoing support with them(which is damned handy).
Equally true for many FPS games where very little protection is applied to the single player game, but checks are done while using the online system. Steam does it very well in terms of anti-piracy, though I imagine they lose many players who would like something more lan-party-friendly(as it is difficult to get everyone synced up in terms of software and sometimes it's just easier to temporarily, at least, loan your CD to your buddy).
iTunes/iPods work because they provide a mechanism that's quick and easy, while not denying you the ability to use your device for other things. You could go torrent or Gnutella a song, but iTunes guarantees a clean sound, quick download and automatic sorting and integration with your library. And now, finally, you get to do it without DRM too.
Is Pirate Bay doing that which the spirit of the law wishes? No. But the law was not necessarily written by the little guy. And the little guy is getting pissed at what the big guy's been cramming up his anal sphincter so rogue groups like TPG get popular. People side with the rogues in the presence of the bully. And there are generally more people then bullies.
And tell me why, after more then a decade and a half, PS still costs over 700$ for new versions come out when only a handful of features get added? Simple: nothing out there is as good yet. So they tabulate the value of the product based on the fact that no project has been able to keep up, or use strongarm tactics to keep the cheap or free ones down(CMYK legal issues, lawsuits against Macromedia pre-buyout, etc...). This applies double to Windows. So the consumer doesn't feel as 'wrong' about screwing them over in return.
Nice guys who have the money to spend will spend it. The assclowns won't. It's naive to think that you can get every single penny from your product without some piracy bleeding.
Ideal capitalism is based that if two farmers have two crops of the same type of wheat, one will find a way to make their farm better or sell things cheaper to gain an edge on the other guy and the consumer wins.
Unfortunately, present day capitalism involves one farmer poisoning the other farmer's field instead, as poison is cheaper then a new combine harvester, and then charging more for their wheat due to supply and demand.
I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic. Lotus? What is this: 1995?
Say what you want about MS(personally, I don't much like em' and Vista is the most horrid thing to happen to the OS world since ME), but Exchange works and works well. And yes, most companies use it. Maybe a couple of holdouts or diehards use Lotus. But Exchange is definitely the dominant platform and is the great majority of MS's piggy bank.
Your statement would be like saying, "Most computer users I know run BeOS".
Have you factored in the much lighter weight of the vehicle and the efficiency of the engine vs your typical gasoline engine?
Given at least the first point, consider it would take far less energy to move the vehicle as air is quite a bit lighter then gas. Equally, there are less parts required as you are not dealing with a controlled explosion but rather the controlled release of an already pressurized, non-volatile air source.
I'm ain't qualified to argue much. Just wondering if those factors were factored into your equation.
I must call shenanigans on this one. Photoshop's tools, especially the use of vector masks and blending effects, are damned handy in the graphics biz and is thought first thing in many graphics design courses. I used them myself quite often. I tried the Gimp. It ain't there yet. It's damned awesome for a free app. But:
"For professional graphic artists, I guess can see a need for Photoshop, but those are the extreme minority of users. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using GIMP"
Is like saying, "For professional cycle racers, I guess can see a need for sports bikes, but those are the extreme minority of bikers. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using a kid's BMX."
Currently, nothing holds a candle to PS.
Now, using it as an excuse to get away from Linux? Well with virtualization software as it is and Wine's ever increasing compatibility with it, I don't see PS as being a major reason(if I remember correctly, the movie Sinbad was done entirely with Linux stations running Wine for compatibility with PS).
After numerous backtracks, things not delivered, statements that were inaccurate(to put it politely) and the horrible treatment(once again, backtracked after the bad press hit the fan) of a popular gamer blog, why should we believe any other word coming from your mouth?
Mr. Harrison, prove to me that you don't just throw random cool buzzwords into a word processor, pad it with none-to-likely idealisms and falsities and throw it out into the press to attempt to drown out the accomplishments of the competition so that your company doesn't have to actually compete with them.
Those things reminded me too much of the super boots in the Super Mario Bros movie. Please tell me I'm not alone in this.
Very awesome news for quadriplegics or those suffering full blown paralysis.
That actually ain't a bad idea...Sorta nifty, really:P