Seems none of you remembers the usenet oracle, more's the pity.
Aside from that, Microsoft has burnt zillions of people zillions of times. It is their corporate culture. Anyone who doubts that is beyond belief and beyond relief. Anyone who asks why this particular action, or any action, by Microsoft is seen in a less than favourable light is either so wet behind the ears as to be drowning, or a troll; when was the last announcement by Microsoft that was anything but disingenuous? Since drowning people are seldom found pecking away naive questions on keyboards, it is a pretty safe bet that we are dealing with a troll.
Remember DIVX? DVDs which cost more, self destruct so you don't have to take them back to the rental store and so the rental store owner has every incentive in the world to not stock them, and the payers cost more so that you can add a phone line to them so they are registered to the first player that plays them.
Consumers avoided it like the plague.
This sounds like a replay of DIVX, and consumers will avoid it like the plague. If it is forced down their throats by monopoly legislation, even one percent of consumers raising a stink will sink it.
DRM is useless unless totally in control from disc to brain, and anything that bad is doomed.
They keep finding more toes to shoot off, antagonizing their customers one segment at a time, hoping the remaining customers will be oblivious. Bang at the early adopters, bang at the mass market, bang at the computer users, bang bang bang... pretty soon they won't have a leg to stand on.
I am way rusty on space elevator facts, but I believe it must go thru the geostationary point, which is 23K miles up, and far enough beyond to counterbalance it. I couldn't even tell you now if that 23K miles is from earth's surface or center.
I just can't quite imagine many banks paying to send alerts and reminders and ads to their existing customers. Sure as shooting they'd pass it on if they had to, but they'd rather just ignore it altogether and let the customer complain to the ISP if mail doesn't arrive.
If no bank or any legitimate emailer is going to pay it, who will?
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is also being put to use. NTT East, the local telephone carrier in Tokyo, has developed an IPv6-based system (top) that uses multicasting technology to broadcast the data to cut down on internet delays.
Pictures of 17 year olds in lingerie is not what gives child porn the bad name. That's a strawman you've set up to ignore the evil child porn, which is intercourse with 3 year olds. Puritans like to lump it all together so they can raise a bigger stink, but what offends almost everybody about child porn is not the tame stuff that you could find on any beach or at any high school football game, but the stuff where babies are raped. I have no idea how much real child porn is out there, but I'm certain it does exist in some quantity, and is truly evil.
It's the principle of the thing. Yes, child porn is one of the most evil things there are, but if the judge can make bad decisions in a good case, what is to prevent him from making equally bad decisions in less good cases? I suppose the rationale for punishing customers of child porn is to reduce the market; if no one bought any, there'd be a lot less made. I doubt that is true, simply because I suspect most makers do it for themselves. But that's not your argument, is it?
How about we extend that philosophy to reporting on child porn? After all, if no one knows about it, there'd be a lot less made.
OK, and now, extend that to reading about it. After all, if no one reads about it, reporters won't have any incentive to write about it, and by the chain we've established, a lot fewer people would learn about it, and it's at least arguable that it could reduce the market for child porn.
Congratulations! If you said "good idea" to that, then you should volunteer yourself for a stay at the local jail. But if you said "ridiculous", then you have just refuted your comment. Either way, your comment loses.
I think Microsoft is one of the most evil companies around, most devious, most deserving of spit up the nose... but I wonder, could it simply be that their code is so poorly written (turned into spaghetti by years of quick and dirty fixes, by backward compatibility nightmares, and by forced marriages between unrelated pieces of code so they can claim IE is part of the OS) that they simply can't come up with a valid API, that there is no such beast, and that Microsoft's own programmers have the devil of a time making things work?
Maybe there is no concrete API which they can document. I have worked on many systems which had so much legacy cruft that it was a miracle they worked at all, such as subroutines being called with different parameter lists which worked because they were only called under the right magical conditions.
It might also explain why they have such buggy code and why it takes them so long to develop patches.
If you have a limited system and need more RAM, your dollars are better spent on upgrading the motherboard etc rather than adding klutzy peripherals which kluge around it.
Only 1G? Keerist in a bucket, why not just add 1G to the motherboard? Why add all the overhead of pretending to be a disk drive, all the extra components and the connectors and extra power supply and all that crap, just for 1G of swap?
Put it on the motherboard.
If you have a slow slow system which can't take 1G on the motherboard, you have other problems. 1G swap isn't going to be that much help, and for the expense, just upgrade your motherboard and get it over with.
No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity.
I wonder how much of your precious diversity you have preserved.
Have you restored your parents' car, or did you buy a new one? Or perhaps back to the horse and buggy, or perhaps a more historical item such as bare feet?
How did you enter your slashdot article, using an old typewriter, or one of them new fangled punch card systems?
Does your abode have oil lamps?
Do you get your heat from wood, or perhaps electricity or natural gas?
For that matter, I notice you have extinguished your ancestors' form of language. Your usage looks remarkably modern, and full of words taken from other languages. Come to think of it, what IS your natural language? Surely preserving your precious diversity means rejecting foreign influences in language, one of the most basic parts of any culture.
Come on, get with it! I don't want you to extinguish your precious diversity.
Geez. It isn't lost, it is copied. Maybe you don't want it copied, great, but it is not lost, not misplaced, not missing. Some people will quibble about it being stolen or pirated, but it is not lost.
"We recognise the secondhand housing market is part of the revenue mix, for real estate agents at least," said a spokesman. "However, if it continues to grow, it could potentially starve us of the funds necessary for research and development, and therefore, builders will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying styles. It's this creative diversity that makes the housing industry so popular, and without sustained funding from new home sales, this could be at risk."
Thanks, that's better than books. I know book publishers hate used book sales, but cars are much better for making it look silly. Or homes, there ya go! I think I'll add that too:-)
"We recognise the secondhand book market is part of the revenue mix, for retailers at least," said a spokesman. "However, if it continues to grow, it could potentially starve us of the funds necessary for research and development, and therefore, authors will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying titles. It's this creative diversity that makes the book industry so popular, and without sustained funding from new book sales, this could be at risk."
Keep ALL your damn facts private. Make EVERYONE pay for the SLIGHTEST most trivial statistic, like most broken shoelaces in spring training.
And guess how many people will actually give a flying rat's ass about your damned monopoly game then.
You guys are so damned stupid. Entertainment THRIVES on the fans talking about things. You stop them from talking about major league baseball, they'll talk about softball, or semi-pro, or college, or anything but your stupid monopoly. You selfish twits must have left your brains behind with the placenta at birth, and the doctors flushed it down the drain.
Do you really think fantasy baseball DETRACTS from major league baseball? Are you really that stupid? Do you realize how much money those nuts spend on baseball? They're the ones that Hollywood made that movie about (Fever Pitch, I think). They decorate their rooms with baseball posters and go to spring training camps.
You guys are so short sighted you make the RIAA look like a bunch of visionaries.
The 210/211 are as nice as they come, except you can't set up the motion detection unless you use Internet Exploder. It flatly refuses to work with Firefox.
An amazing sucky for such a nice camera which runs Linux internally. I tried to get answers from Axis about why and what workaround existed, such as tell me the format of the motion detection files and how to upload them, I would edit manually if I could, but their response was vague and did not answer the question.
The old 2100 has an ftp option, so I had my own motion detection software which simply downloaded pictures and did its own analysis. There is no ftp option with the 210/211.
A targeted ad will have better return per viewing than a broadcast ad. Furthermore, a targeted ad can be more detailed and specific, not the usual brand awareness pablum which can't say much at all useful. Why would anyone voluntarily choose to pay, say, ten times more for an ad which generates harly any more revenue?
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Seems none of you remembers the usenet oracle, more's the pity.
Aside from that, Microsoft has burnt zillions of people zillions of times. It is their corporate culture. Anyone who doubts that is beyond belief and beyond relief. Anyone who asks why this particular action, or any action, by Microsoft is seen in a less than favourable light is either so wet behind the ears as to be drowning, or a troll; when was the last announcement by Microsoft that was anything but disingenuous? Since drowning people are seldom found pecking away naive questions on keyboards, it is a pretty safe bet that we are dealing with a troll.
Fool me a zillion times, shame on me. People have been burned by Microsoft many many times.
Is that the answer you seek, Troll?
You owe me three oreo cookies and a session of answering trolls.
Remember DIVX? DVDs which cost more, self destruct so you don't have to take them back to the rental store and so the rental store owner has every incentive in the world to not stock them, and the payers cost more so that you can add a phone line to them so they are registered to the first player that plays them.
Consumers avoided it like the plague.
This sounds like a replay of DIVX, and consumers will avoid it like the plague. If it is forced down their throats by monopoly legislation, even one percent of consumers raising a stink will sink it.
DRM is useless unless totally in control from disc to brain, and anything that bad is doomed.
They keep finding more toes to shoot off, antagonizing their customers one segment at a time, hoping the remaining customers will be oblivious. Bang at the early adopters, bang at the mass market, bang at the computer users, bang bang bang ... pretty soon they won't have a leg to stand on.
Someone (not I) would say, "That's just fucking brilliant!"
The idea is to build it from orbit. You build in both directions simultaneously to keep it balanced.
I am way rusty on space elevator facts, but I believe it must go thru the geostationary point, which is 23K miles up, and far enough beyond to counterbalance it. I couldn't even tell you now if that 23K miles is from earth's surface or center.
I just can't quite imagine many banks paying to send alerts and reminders and ads to their existing customers. Sure as shooting they'd pass it on if they had to, but they'd rather just ignore it altogether and let the customer complain to the ISP if mail doesn't arrive.
If no bank or any legitimate emailer is going to pay it, who will?
I just can't see anybody paying this.
It is relevant.
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is also being put to use. NTT East, the local telephone carrier in Tokyo, has developed an IPv6-based system (top) that uses multicasting technology to broadcast the data to cut down on internet delays.
Pictures of 17 year olds in lingerie is not what gives child porn the bad name. That's a strawman you've set up to ignore the evil child porn, which is intercourse with 3 year olds. Puritans like to lump it all together so they can raise a bigger stink, but what offends almost everybody about child porn is not the tame stuff that you could find on any beach or at any high school football game, but the stuff where babies are raped. I have no idea how much real child porn is out there, but I'm certain it does exist in some quantity, and is truly evil.
Here you go: Martin_Niemoller
It's the principle of the thing. Yes, child porn is one of the most evil things there are, but if the judge can make bad decisions in a good case, what is to prevent him from making equally bad decisions in less good cases? I suppose the rationale for punishing customers of child porn is to reduce the market; if no one bought any, there'd be a lot less made. I doubt that is true, simply because I suspect most makers do it for themselves. But that's not your argument, is it?
How about we extend that philosophy to reporting on child porn? After all, if no one knows about it, there'd be a lot less made.
OK, and now, extend that to reading about it. After all, if no one reads about it, reporters won't have any incentive to write about it, and by the chain we've established, a lot fewer people would learn about it, and it's at least arguable that it could reduce the market for child porn.
Congratulations! If you said "good idea" to that, then you should volunteer yourself for a stay at the local jail. But if you said "ridiculous", then you have just refuted your comment. Either way, your comment loses.
They want to continue to develop the spaghetti mess they have been working so hard on :-)
I think Microsoft is one of the most evil companies around, most devious, most deserving of spit up the nose ... but I wonder, could it simply be that their code is so poorly written (turned into spaghetti by years of quick and dirty fixes, by backward compatibility nightmares, and by forced marriages between unrelated pieces of code so they can claim IE is part of the OS) that they simply can't come up with a valid API, that there is no such beast, and that Microsoft's own programmers have the devil of a time making things work?
Maybe there is no concrete API which they can document. I have worked on many systems which had so much legacy cruft that it was a miracle they worked at all, such as subroutines being called with different parameter lists which worked because they were only called under the right magical conditions.
It might also explain why they have such buggy code and why it takes them so long to develop patches.
Until Hillary's elected, of course Then they will suddenly get religious about observing the constitutional niceties.
If you have a limited system and need more RAM, your dollars are better spent on upgrading the motherboard etc rather than adding klutzy peripherals which kluge around it.
Only 1G? Keerist in a bucket, why not just add 1G to the motherboard? Why add all the overhead of pretending to be a disk drive, all the extra components and the connectors and extra power supply and all that crap, just for 1G of swap?
Put it on the motherboard.
If you have a slow slow system which can't take 1G on the motherboard, you have other problems. 1G swap isn't going to be that much help, and for the expense, just upgrade your motherboard and get it over with.
This is a useless product.
No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity.
I wonder how much of your precious diversity you have preserved.
Have you restored your parents' car, or did you buy a new one? Or perhaps back to the horse and buggy, or perhaps a more historical item such as bare feet?
How did you enter your slashdot article, using an old typewriter, or one of them new fangled punch card systems?
Does your abode have oil lamps?
Do you get your heat from wood, or perhaps electricity or natural gas?
For that matter, I notice you have extinguished your ancestors' form of language. Your usage looks remarkably modern, and full of words taken from other languages. Come to think of it, what IS your natural language? Surely preserving your precious diversity means rejecting foreign influences in language, one of the most basic parts of any culture.
Come on, get with it! I don't want you to extinguish your precious diversity.
Geez. It isn't lost, it is copied. Maybe you don't want it copied, great, but it is not lost, not misplaced, not missing. Some people will quibble about it being stolen or pirated, but it is not lost.
"We recognise the secondhand housing market is part of the revenue mix, for real estate agents at least," said a spokesman. "However, if it continues to grow, it could potentially starve us of the funds necessary for research and development, and therefore, builders will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying styles. It's this creative diversity that makes the housing industry so popular, and without sustained funding from new home sales, this could be at risk."
Thanks to dhaines for the improvement.
Thanks, that's better than books. I know book publishers hate used book sales, but cars are much better for making it look silly. Or homes, there ya go! I think I'll add that too :-)
Thanks for the idea.
"We recognise the secondhand book market is part of the revenue mix, for retailers at least," said a spokesman. "However, if it continues to grow, it could potentially starve us of the funds necessary for research and development, and therefore, authors will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying titles. It's this creative diversity that makes the book industry so popular, and without sustained funding from new book sales, this could be at risk."
Keep ALL your damn facts private. Make EVERYONE pay for the SLIGHTEST most trivial statistic, like most broken shoelaces in spring training.
And guess how many people will actually give a flying rat's ass about your damned monopoly game then.
You guys are so damned stupid. Entertainment THRIVES on the fans talking about things. You stop them from talking about major league baseball, they'll talk about softball, or semi-pro, or college, or anything but your stupid monopoly. You selfish twits must have left your brains behind with the placenta at birth, and the doctors flushed it down the drain.
Do you really think fantasy baseball DETRACTS from major league baseball? Are you really that stupid? Do you realize how much money those nuts spend on baseball? They're the ones that Hollywood made that movie about (Fever Pitch, I think). They decorate their rooms with baseball posters and go to spring training camps.
You guys are so short sighted you make the RIAA look like a bunch of visionaries.
The 210/211 are as nice as they come, except you can't set up the motion detection unless you use Internet Exploder. It flatly refuses to work with Firefox.
An amazing sucky for such a nice camera which runs Linux internally. I tried to get answers from Axis about why and what workaround existed, such as tell me the format of the motion detection files and how to upload them, I would edit manually if I could, but their response was vague and did not answer the question.
The old 2100 has an ftp option, so I had my own motion detection software which simply downloaded pictures and did its own analysis. There is no ftp option with the 210/211.
... is obviously not in a state of humor this morning.
A targeted ad will have better return per viewing than a broadcast ad. Furthermore, a targeted ad can be more detailed and specific, not the usual brand awareness pablum which can't say much at all useful. Why would anyone voluntarily choose to pay, say, ten times more for an ad which generates harly any more revenue?