Microsoft treat all it's customers like they're thieves. There are countless stories of medium businesses on some sort of SA plan or volume licensing where if the business doesn't pony up on whatever MS has to offer, the sales person gets irate and makes the business owner think they are out of compliance and need to have the BSA investigate how many licenses are in use.
This is taking it to the home level where: A) People in the know will know how to bypass it B) Standard consumer doesn't need to worry about it
Microsoft believes (and it has to, like a religion) that it's products are the holy grail and need to be protected by all means necessary. Microsoft said years ago that this Software Assurance plan is THE THING TO HAVE. We (people in the know) saw through this BS and time has proven us right.
My point of all this is that if you are a willing Microsoft customer, you need to agree to all the EULA's they offer and take it as they feed you because they know what is best for you, not you.
Microsoft will eventually work out a way to get that monthly fee for software services for the home user.
I think you're giving a bad rap to a name because it sounds like a real word but is not spelled correctly.
Your argument against "Hobbiest" would work with "Flickr" Both are real sounding words but are misspelled when used in context of the internet.
Postnuke isn't a word either yet is was a popular CMS at one time.
My point always has been that google, hobbiest, flickr, and postnuke are names and are words that don't exist outside of the context of the internet. Lilakatorunib isn't a word either but if I brand it and make a website about it, it becomes a name and a word within it's context. To say one is a word over the other (except maybe postnuke) is preposterous. Yahoo is a word more so than Google.
Google is a name because of a website. Period. It wouldn't exist otherwise. It isn't a series of reference books or directories. Hobbiest is a name most likely because of it's website. http://hobbiest.com/. I'm sure the name wouldn't exist otherwise.
I fail to see you you can say that Google is a name and hobbiest isn't a name when both are names and URI's of websites.
Just beacause Google has more money doesn't invalidate what hobbiest is trying to do.
Zillow isn't a word either but it is the name of a popular real estate website.
Hobbiest is not a word. For fuck's sake, is it that hard to spell HOBBYIST correctly? You don't even need to modify the root word. Just type HOBBY then type IST. Fuck.
and I'll paraphrase:
Google is not a word. For fuck's sake, is it that hard to spell GOOGOL correctly? You don't even need to modify the root word. Just type GOOGOL. Fuck.
Besides being irrelevant in every way, How so? In regards to the parent post, very relevant. The argument is that Hobbiest isn't a word. My defense is that it shouldn't matter.
Google is a name, anyway, and therefore doesn't have to be a word! Exactly. Hobbiest doesn't have to be a word.
I know a teacher that also teaches tennis lessons at night/weekends/summer and would get the occasional invite to teach tennis at an all inclusive resort on [insert island name here] for a week, paid (and free resort stay for only 2 hours a day of tennis lessons). He makes double his teaching salary teaching tennis. It the school teaching that has the benefits (medical/dental/retirement).
So basically you're saying it's crappy Microsoft programming again.
If you have a Win2K3 server and a Linux server side by side and they've been running for 120 hours as measured by an independent timepiece, Linux uptime would report
DSLRs give you exactly the image you're taking TTL and don't have the LCD as an option. The aperture preview is also a good feature that is only available through higher end DSLRs.
I also have a Sony Cybershot (with underwater housing) that I do use the LCD for because it is better in most cases except in bright sunlight where the viewfinder works just as well without distortion.
My guess is the interoperability of forms and digital signatures. I know that those features are big in the real estate business and probably in law as well. I could see MS pulling something where MS/PDF digital signatures aren't compatible with Adobe digital signatures when a contract needs an addenum and you'll have to use Office 2007 to complete the form.
64MB was the minimum for XP. I tried an install at 48MB and it wouldn't go. I'm sure you could install Vista at 256MB but the paging would be horrible.
START >....wait 5 seconds Start menu pops up blank....wait 3 seconds Hover over Outlook....wait 5 seconds Click....wait 30 seconds Spash screen....wait 60 seconds Program Windows pops up - blank....wait 45 seconds New message appears....wait 15 seconds
You get the idea. That's how Windows 95 ran with 24MB ram on a P75 and Outlook 97. Hardly the minimum requirements at the time.
Antivirus - we'll keep the current ecosystem status quo. Viruses will be allowed to run rampant as soon as users click the 5 dialog boxes that will allow the virus to install itself as a service. OneCare will remove the threat for you.
Antispyware - means that we won't fix our OS and will allow 3rd parties to install key logging software on your system. With our OneCare package, you will be protected.
Firewall - if you have to remotely connect to OneCare, then the firewall isn't working is it? (Unless you have a rule setup)
Performance tune-up - with NTFS?, ha. The page file will be bloated being that you'll need 1 gig to run the OS (512 is the minimum as we know how that goes). I read that as "let me check to see if your installed software meets our license requirements." How much you want to bet that defrag isn't included in the tune-up? Dies Windows still require defragging?
Data backup and restore - where is it going to backup to? Are there going to be systems uploading gigs of videos, pictures, and music to a Microsoft remote location hogging the bandwidth of the internet or will the backup be local so that when the hard drive crashes, the backup protection the customers are paying for doesn't work?
I'll be first in line to say that XP is nothing but an ugly skin on top of Windows 2000.
Vista is a different OS in my eyes as there is the DRM issue that is as tied to the OS as Internet Explorer was tied to Windows 98-XP. Good luck with that.
What technical reasons? They write the software AND have the source code.
Ever since Apple did the OSX switch and STILL provided legacy support through the Intel switch (which is a 6 year cycle EOL cycle), I've gained the utmost respect for Apple's developers and have lost faith in Microsoft (Yes, I was an MCSE card holder at one time).
Their reasons are purely profit, shareholder, and market driven. - nothing wrong with that though in my book.
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You should compare oranges to oranges.
Minimum requirments for XP to run is 64MB on a 233Mhz processor. Vista's minimum requirements are 512MB on an 800Mhz processor.
Microsoft recommended 128MB minimum for XP but we all know that 512MB is really what you need to use it effectively.
I'd say Vista would need 2Gig to run as a workstation as we know that their filesystem performance degrades with that pagefile problem they have.
If you are a resident and you gamble online, they'd have to monitor your internet access. If you aren't a resident and you gamble online, did you commit a felony just because you're in the state? Like giving a tattoo in Oklahoma?
Are they going to force ISP's to track gambling sites and resident customers traffic so they can bust'em? They don't do it now with child porn which actually infringes on personal rights. Will this open up false 'sting type' of gambling sites to bust residents in the state?
It seems to me that the motivator here is tax money. No rights are infringed nor is any property taken (gambled, but that is an agreement between 2 consenting parties) but the state isn't getting their payola.
I just learned about it back in '82. I bought a non-fiction book about Trek and it mentioned KS ladies and I thought that it was made up. There was a convention that I went to (the only one I ever went to) in '85 and they had a 'special' exhibit on the top floor of the hotel. As a friend and I gained entrance, we were bombarded with images of Kirk and Spock in tight leather outfits and other similar oil paintings, water colors, sketches, etc... just like the link I provided earlier.
My reaction at the time mirrored JudgeFurious' comment to me earlier.
At the time, there was only the original series and the first 3 movies. There was no Borg or Ferengi or Next Generation. There was a costume contest and I remember that I was unimpressed but I admired the fan's devotion for creating this stuff. The one costume that stuck out that I think even won (I could be wrong) was some mesh-type sheets that were see-through and had spray painted spots of blue, yellow, pink, red, green to resemble the creature from Metamorphosis. Uh, yeah.
There were episode and movie viewings in other rooms and we sat through some of ST:TMP when we just couldn't take it anymore. ST:TMP isn't 2001:ASO nor is it Star Wars. We snickered at some scenes that were funny to us, not out loud laugh, just a little snicker, and it was like we were blaspheming a sacred religious artifact in public.
So we have a religious reverence for a lackluster film, obsessive costume contests, and to top it off, KS ladies. Kind of puts a bad taste on Star Trek for me. Star Trek is neat for what it represents and it's vision of the future, but it's not religion. It's fiction.
So I sold/threw away my 'fan' stuff as I didn't really think I was a fan anymore nor did I want to be associated with people like that. That level of fandom just isn't for me.
The only 'fan' stuff I still have is an unopened Spock Mego doll, the original first edition of Enterprise blueprints, and for the life of me - I don't know why I still have it - a Star Trek 3 3D poster.
At this point I feel that the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray debate is going to go the way of laserdisc.
Everyone will know that the quailty is better but most people won't care, at least common people who buy the large flat panel TVs and watch content with the wrong aspect ratio on it. Videophiles will buy it along with the $80 HDMI cables but I don't ever seem to remember Wal*mart carring any title on laserdisc in their stores.
I thought I was going to buy into the HD formats but it is a mess right now to the point that I just don't care anymore about it. As somewhat of a purist, I was waiting for SED units with 1080p but at this point, if I have to buy a new TV (because my color is starting to fade), I will settle for 720p and stick with regular DVD's.
I'd like to have the BSA negotiate a raise for me.
Here, I'm not in debt, but I sure could use an extra, say, $50,000 a year. I could file my taxes at a $50,000 a year loss and claim it on wages not paid.
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Microsoft treat all it's customers like they're thieves.
There are countless stories of medium businesses on some sort of SA plan or volume licensing where if the business doesn't pony up on whatever MS has to offer, the sales person gets irate and makes the business owner think they are out of compliance and need to have the BSA investigate how many licenses are in use.
This is taking it to the home level where:
A) People in the know will know how to bypass it
B) Standard consumer doesn't need to worry about it
Microsoft believes (and it has to, like a religion) that it's products are the holy grail and need to be protected by all means necessary.
Microsoft said years ago that this Software Assurance plan is THE THING TO HAVE. We (people in the know) saw through this BS and time has proven us right.
My point of all this is that if you are a willing Microsoft customer, you need to agree to all the EULA's they offer and take it as they feed you because they know what is best for you, not you.
Microsoft will eventually work out a way to get that monthly fee for software services for the home user.
I think you're giving a bad rap to a name because it sounds like a real word but is not spelled correctly.
Your argument against "Hobbiest" would work with "Flickr"
Both are real sounding words but are misspelled when used in context of the internet.
Postnuke isn't a word either yet is was a popular CMS at one time.
My point always has been that google, hobbiest, flickr, and postnuke are names and are words that don't exist outside of the context of the internet.
Lilakatorunib isn't a word either but if I brand it and make a website about it, it becomes a name and a word within it's context.
To say one is a word over the other (except maybe postnuke) is preposterous. Yahoo is a word more so than Google.
Google is a name because of a website. Period. It wouldn't exist otherwise. It isn't a series of reference books or directories.
Hobbiest is a name most likely because of it's website. http://hobbiest.com/. I'm sure the name wouldn't exist otherwise.
I fail to see you you can say that Google is a name and hobbiest isn't a name when both are names and URI's of websites.
Just beacause Google has more money doesn't invalidate what hobbiest is trying to do.
Zillow isn't a word either but it is the name of a popular real estate website.
The parent post and I'll quote:
and I'll paraphrase:
Besides being irrelevant in every way,
How so? In regards to the parent post, very relevant. The argument is that Hobbiest isn't a word. My defense is that it shouldn't matter.
Google is a name, anyway, and therefore doesn't have to be a word!
Exactly. Hobbiest doesn't have to be a word.
I know a teacher that also teaches tennis lessons at night/weekends/summer and would get the occasional invite to teach tennis at an all inclusive resort on [insert island name here] for a week, paid (and free resort stay for only 2 hours a day of tennis lessons).
He makes double his teaching salary teaching tennis. It the school teaching that has the benefits (medical/dental/retirement).
Hobbiest is not a word.
Google isn't a word either according to Merriam-Webster.
It does appear here and is obviously a branding reference.
Anchor tags don't seem to work today. References:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/google
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=google
...what would have happened if Microsoft tried to force a proprietary networking protocol on you
Like WINS was supposed to replace DNS
If you have a Win2K3 server and a Linux server side by side and they've been running for 120 hours as measured by an independent timepiece,
Linux uptime would report
Windows uptime would report
DSLRs give you exactly the image you're taking TTL and don't have the LCD as an option. The aperture preview is also a good feature that is only available through higher end DSLRs.
I also have a Sony Cybershot (with underwater housing) that I do use the LCD for because it is better in most cases except in bright sunlight where the viewfinder works just as well without distortion.
My guess is the interoperability of forms and digital signatures. I know that those features are big in the real estate business and probably in law as well.
I could see MS pulling something where MS/PDF digital signatures aren't compatible with Adobe digital signatures when a contract needs an addenum and you'll have to use Office 2007 to complete the form.
My favorite game music titles:
Ultima III for Commodore 64
Ultima IV for Commodore 64
Unreal - the first one for Windows
American McGees Alice for Windows
And for some reason, Bubble Bobble and Dr. Mario are highly infectious and addictive.
What about forms. Did the forms work?
How about secure signatures? Are secure signatures created in MS Office viewable in any PDF reader?
For the real estate market, this is their new lifeblood as it ties into their email and fax subsystem.
Not trying to knock your 'devils advocate' remark but being a 'devils advocate,' this IS from Microsoft.
64MB was the minimum for XP. I tried an install at 48MB and it wouldn't go. I'm sure you could install Vista at 256MB but the paging would be horrible.
....wait 5 seconds ....wait 3 seconds ....wait 5 seconds ....wait 30 seconds ....wait 60 seconds ....wait 45 seconds ....wait 15 seconds
START >
Start menu pops up blank
Hover over Outlook
Click
Spash screen
Program Windows pops up - blank
New message appears
You get the idea.
That's how Windows 95 ran with 24MB ram on a P75 and Outlook 97. Hardly the minimum requirements at the time.
Antivirus - we'll keep the current ecosystem status quo. Viruses will be allowed to run rampant as soon as users click the 5 dialog boxes that will allow the virus to install itself as a service. OneCare will remove the threat for you.
Antispyware - means that we won't fix our OS and will allow 3rd parties to install key logging software on your system. With our OneCare package, you will be protected.
Firewall - if you have to remotely connect to OneCare, then the firewall isn't working is it? (Unless you have a rule setup)
Performance tune-up - with NTFS?, ha. The page file will be bloated being that you'll need 1 gig to run the OS (512 is the minimum as we know how that goes). I read that as "let me check to see if your installed software meets our license requirements." How much you want to bet that defrag isn't included in the tune-up? Dies Windows still require defragging?
Data backup and restore - where is it going to backup to? Are there going to be systems uploading gigs of videos, pictures, and music to a Microsoft remote location hogging the bandwidth of the internet or will the backup be local so that when the hard drive crashes, the backup protection the customers are paying for doesn't work?
I'll be first in line to say that XP is nothing but an ugly skin on top of Windows 2000.
Vista is a different OS in my eyes as there is the DRM issue that is as tied to the OS as Internet Explorer was tied to Windows 98-XP.
Good luck with that.
What technical reasons? They write the software AND have the source code.
Ever since Apple did the OSX switch and STILL provided legacy support through the Intel switch (which is a 6 year cycle EOL cycle), I've gained the utmost respect for Apple's developers and have lost faith in Microsoft (Yes, I was an MCSE card holder at one time).
Their reasons are purely profit, shareholder, and market driven. - nothing wrong with that though in my book.
You should compare oranges to oranges.
Minimum requirments for XP to run is 64MB on a 233Mhz processor.
Vista's minimum requirements are 512MB on an 800Mhz processor.
Microsoft recommended 128MB minimum for XP but we all know that 512MB is really what you need to use it effectively.
I'd say Vista would need 2Gig to run as a workstation as we know that their filesystem performance degrades with that pagefile problem they have.
Yet another American icon: http://www.indygear.com/gear/fedora.shtml
I don't see how they can enforce it.
If you are a resident and you gamble online, they'd have to monitor your internet access.
If you aren't a resident and you gamble online, did you commit a felony just because you're in the state? Like giving a tattoo in Oklahoma?
Are they going to force ISP's to track gambling sites and resident customers traffic so they can bust'em? They don't do it now with child porn which actually infringes on personal rights.
Will this open up false 'sting type' of gambling sites to bust residents in the state?
It seems to me that the motivator here is tax money. No rights are infringed nor is any property taken (gambled, but that is an agreement between 2 consenting parties) but the state isn't getting their payola.
It seems to me that this law is unconstitutional.
I just learned about it back in '82. I bought a non-fiction book about Trek and it mentioned KS ladies and I thought that it was made up. There was a convention that I went to (the only one I ever went to) in '85 and they had a 'special' exhibit on the top floor of the hotel. As a friend and I gained entrance, we were bombarded with images of Kirk and Spock in tight leather outfits and other similar oil paintings, water colors, sketches, etc... just like the link I provided earlier.
My reaction at the time mirrored JudgeFurious' comment to me earlier.
At the time, there was only the original series and the first 3 movies. There was no Borg or Ferengi or Next Generation.
There was a costume contest and I remember that I was unimpressed but I admired the fan's devotion for creating this stuff. The one costume that stuck out that I think even won (I could be wrong) was some mesh-type sheets that were see-through and had spray painted spots of blue, yellow, pink, red, green to resemble the creature from Metamorphosis. Uh, yeah.
There were episode and movie viewings in other rooms and we sat through some of ST:TMP when we just couldn't take it anymore. ST:TMP isn't 2001:ASO nor is it Star Wars. We snickered at some scenes that were funny to us, not out loud laugh, just a little snicker, and it was like we were blaspheming a sacred religious artifact in public.
So we have a religious reverence for a lackluster film, obsessive costume contests, and to top it off, KS ladies. Kind of puts a bad taste on Star Trek for me. Star Trek is neat for what it represents and it's vision of the future, but it's not religion. It's fiction.
So I sold/threw away my 'fan' stuff as I didn't really think I was a fan anymore nor did I want to be associated with people like that. That level of fandom just isn't for me.
The only 'fan' stuff I still have is an unopened Spock Mego doll, the original first edition of Enterprise blueprints, and for the life of me - I don't know why I still have it - a Star Trek 3 3D poster.
I used to like Star Trek until I read about the ladies that are into this: http://www.thyla.com/fan-art.html
What choice? If you are an iTunes consumer
You can have an iPod and not use iTunes. In fact, you can use Rhapsody and use your iPod.
In fact, you can use iTunes and use any other MP3 player for that fact. It just won't sync up as nice.
At this point I feel that the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray debate is going to go the way of laserdisc.
Everyone will know that the quailty is better but most people won't care, at least common people who buy the large flat panel TVs and watch content with the wrong aspect ratio on it.
Videophiles will buy it along with the $80 HDMI cables but I don't ever seem to remember Wal*mart carring any title on laserdisc in their stores.
I thought I was going to buy into the HD formats but it is a mess right now to the point that I just don't care anymore about it.
As somewhat of a purist, I was waiting for SED units with 1080p but at this point, if I have to buy a new TV (because my color is starting to fade), I will settle for 720p and stick with regular DVD's.
The iTunes Music Store is a terrible deal
How is it a terrible deal?
Beign able to download tracks you want and keep for as long as you want for under a buck seems like a good deal to me.
None of the other stores has the quality nor the quantity of commercial mainstream content for that price or longetivity.
I'd like to have the BSA negotiate a raise for me.
Here, I'm not in debt, but I sure could use an extra, say, $50,000 a year.
I could file my taxes at a $50,000 a year loss and claim it on wages not paid.
Isn't that the same thing they're doing?