once attended a fancy dress party dressed only in a diaper. Of course, this was almost immediately preceding a long term case of mental illness. Still, math nerds might appreciate a diaper party.
You could have a mystery men themed party, with such lovable characters as our very own Bad Analogy Guy, Captain Obvious,/B/, Anonymous, Twitter, and the like. Bonus points for creativity.
Now that the specification for OOXML is out, and Office 2007 has no implementation, you are not allowed to fill in the checkmark on the list. In fact, if you want a solution now, the only available choice is ODF. Until the next Office service pack, of course.
Er no thanks, I wouldn't trust NASA with money, why would I trust NASA with 'geek points'? 10 years down the road when I finally accrue enough, they shut the program down.
More likely your Office is deployed with customizations (such as automatically dropping in the CD key) using their office resource kit, which for some anal reason requires you to have updates deployed in a similar manner, i.e. either through group policy or downloading the executables. It won't work through microsoft update.
Well actually, nearly every government in the world has that problem, including the USA and of course my country, Singapore. I think it's something about the way people get complacent over time. When you don't have to fight for your rights, they erode away.
What you were probably seeing was an emulation layer provided by your motherboard. HP has that even in it's lower end servers now, except that they use it to provide virtual floppies over the network, through their ILO interface. Also handy for doing remote shutdowns and startups. The idea must not have caught on, that's why they're selling these.
The main purpose for having floppies in servers is because Windows requires them to install mass storage drivers during installation on hardware such as RAID arrays and SATA drives
Leads me to wonder why keep optical storage around, when flash memory is fast looking to supplant it. All that's missing is the write-once memory card. (which is kinda available if you flip the switch on a standard SD card)
The Linux community never cared about porting over Apple applications to Linux, it was basically irrelevant. With Windows, however, the story is different. I don't see Microsoft being able to successfully run a compatibility layer without it being vulnerable to reverse engineering, and a resultant compatibility layer of equivalent capability running on Linux. And that would open up a whole new can of worms.
Of course it won't be ready by then. They'll keep putting the date back. But they hope that if they keep saying it's almost ready, businesses won't get impatient and migrate to Vista. Fixed
So what happens when you find out that it's just Windows and Cygwin? Or maybe even a linux clone that's full of back doors and security issues? with Vista's UAC security model?
I hardly see it as a lost cause, it's that kind of attitude that allows corruption to win. If ISO is compromised to that extent then it is important that people are informed about it. Keep up the pressure, provide evidence that is not anecdotal, discredit ISO in the eyes of governmental and business interests as a last resort.
If this was true, they should have come out straight with their stupidity. Either that or buy the license for Vista, and absorb the loss. That's about the only way to salvage anything out of the situation as it is. In any case, they're not responsible for third party hacks, why are they actively seeking to disable them rather than letting the so-called third parties take their own action? Why be the fall guy for them? And why expect linux drivers to ever come out for a product with hidden cross-licensing deals all over the place again?
We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages for those sound cards. In principle we don't have a problem with you helping users in this way, so long as they understand that any driver packages you supply are not supported by Creative. Where we do have a problem is when technology and IP owned by Creative or other companies that Creative has licensed from, are made to run on other products for which they are not intended. We took action to remove your thread because, like you, Creative and its technology partners think it is only fair to be compensated for goods and services. The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing. By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods. When you solicit donations for providing packages like this, you are profiting from something that you do not own. If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make.
Although you say you have discontinued your practice of distributing unauthorized software packages for Creative sound cards we have seen evidence of them elsewhere along with donation requests from you. We also note in a recent post of yours on these forums, that you appear to be contemplating the release of further packages. To be clear, we are asking you to respect our legal rights in this matter and cease all further unauthorized distribution of our technology and IP. In addition we request that you observe our forum rules and respect our right to enforce those rules. If you are in any doubt as to what we would consider unacceptable then please request clarification through one of our forum moderators before posting.
Phil O'Shaughnessy
VP Corporate Communications
Creative Labs Inc.
The only misunderstanding here is that Creative shoud have hired real business development people, instead of the rats that pass themselves off as human. Disabling working XP features on Vista is tantamount to taking advantage of the consumer and passing the buck to Microsoft for "things that don't work on Vista".
If extremists felt their lifestyle was threatened by the proliferation of western/American values, then yes, it might have been a contributing factor. How about saying that ordinary people were turned into extremists because of the policies imposed upon them in order to maintain the proliferation of western/American values in America? Because they found that turning into terrorists was the better option over bending over and getting reamed? Those are the actions America have taken, and these are the consequences. In an ordinary society extremists are few and far between, and generally considered as madmen. What kind of situation would make a large section of society listen to them and treat their diatribes seriously? They may be halfway around the world from you, but why not try to see them as people like you and me for a change?
Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet - people, cities, shops, a normal world. Except that on the high streets of these cities there were slightly more shoe shops than one might have thought necessary. And slowly, insidiously, the number of the shoe shops were increasing. It's a well-known economic phenomenon but tragic to see it in operation, for the more shoe shops there were, the more shoes they had to make and the worse and more unwearable they became. And the worse they were to wear, the more people had to buy to keep themselves shod, and the more the shops proliferated, until the whole economy of the place passed what I believe is termed the Shoe Event Horizon, and it became no longer economically possible to build anything other than shoe shops. Result - collapse, ruin and famine. Most of the population died out. Those few who had the right kind of genetic instability mutated into birds who cursed their feet, cursed the ground and vowed that no one should walk on it again.
Credit to Douglas Adams
People take issue with Obama supporting this man. I take issue with Obama not defending him in his time of need. You attend his church, and now that the heat is on, you're trying to disown your spiritual guide?
We blame Microsoft for changing the operating system at the very last minute, even after the last release candidate, causing maybe well written 3rd party software to become badly written 3rd party software.
The way I see it is that for once, His Steveness had lost faith in his ability to sell his product at their actual price. The deals made with the various telcos were mainly cost-cutting measures, to be made up by the profit-sharing model, leading to the locking of phones, and to the current situation. Who knows, if he had tried to sell a $1000 iPhone, and people still bought it up, and installed whatever software they wanted, then maybe the production cost of iPhone 2.0 might have gone down by now, and an iPhone would be in everyone's pocket.
What I want to know is where is zTunes or the zMedia music store? They've had 9 years to develop their own competing product, and have shown no intention of ever doing so! That's the real meaning of being a patent troll, when you're just patenting ideas for the sake of patenting (or making money, same thing), and not making anything useful out of it for the benefit of humanity.
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once attended a fancy dress party dressed only in a diaper. Of course, this was almost immediately preceding a long term case of mental illness. Still, math nerds might appreciate a diaper party.
You could have a mystery men themed party, with such lovable characters as our very own Bad Analogy Guy, Captain Obvious, /B/, Anonymous, Twitter, and the like. Bonus points for creativity.
Is it Patentable?
Refresh my memory. Was Blade 2 the one with the blatant IPod advertising?
Now that the specification for OOXML is out, and Office 2007 has no implementation, you are not allowed to fill in the checkmark on the list. In fact, if you want a solution now, the only available choice is ODF. Until the next Office service pack, of course.
Er no thanks, I wouldn't trust NASA with money, why would I trust NASA with 'geek points'? 10 years down the road when I finally accrue enough, they shut the program down.
More likely your Office is deployed with customizations (such as automatically dropping in the CD key) using their office resource kit, which for some anal reason requires you to have updates deployed in a similar manner, i.e. either through group policy or downloading the executables. It won't work through microsoft update.
Well actually, nearly every government in the world has that problem, including the USA and of course my country, Singapore. I think it's something about the way people get complacent over time. When you don't have to fight for your rights, they erode away.
What you were probably seeing was an emulation layer provided by your motherboard. HP has that even in it's lower end servers now, except that they use it to provide virtual floppies over the network, through their ILO interface. Also handy for doing remote shutdowns and startups. The idea must not have caught on, that's why they're selling these.
The main purpose for having floppies in servers is because Windows requires them to install mass storage drivers during installation on hardware such as RAID arrays and SATA drives
Leads me to wonder why keep optical storage around, when flash memory is fast looking to supplant it. All that's missing is the write-once memory card. (which is kinda available if you flip the switch on a standard SD card)
The Linux community never cared about porting over Apple applications to Linux, it was basically irrelevant. With Windows, however, the story is different. I don't see Microsoft being able to successfully run a compatibility layer without it being vulnerable to reverse engineering, and a resultant compatibility layer of equivalent capability running on Linux. And that would open up a whole new can of worms.
I didn't care a bit for the prequels, so I wouldn't care if they made a mess of it. Hell, it might actually improve the storyline.
So what happens when you find out that it's just Windows and Cygwin? Or maybe even a linux clone that's full of back doors and security issues? with Vista's UAC security model?
I hardly see it as a lost cause, it's that kind of attitude that allows corruption to win. If ISO is compromised to that extent then it is important that people are informed about it. Keep up the pressure, provide evidence that is not anecdotal, discredit ISO in the eyes of governmental and business interests as a last resort.
If this was true, they should have come out straight with their stupidity. Either that or buy the license for Vista, and absorb the loss. That's about the only way to salvage anything out of the situation as it is. In any case, they're not responsible for third party hacks, why are they actively seeking to disable them rather than letting the so-called third parties take their own action? Why be the fall guy for them? And why expect linux drivers to ever come out for a product with hidden cross-licensing deals all over the place again?
We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages for those sound cards. In principle we don't have a problem with you helping users in this way, so long as they understand that any driver packages you supply are not supported by Creative. Where we do have a problem is when technology and IP owned by Creative or other companies that Creative has licensed from, are made to run on other products for which they are not intended. We took action to remove your thread because, like you, Creative and its technology partners think it is only fair to be compensated for goods and services. The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing. By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods. When you solicit donations for providing packages like this, you are profiting from something that you do not own. If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make.
Although you say you have discontinued your practice of distributing unauthorized software packages for Creative sound cards we have seen evidence of them elsewhere along with donation requests from you. We also note in a recent post of yours on these forums, that you appear to be contemplating the release of further packages. To be clear, we are asking you to respect our legal rights in this matter and cease all further unauthorized distribution of our technology and IP. In addition we request that you observe our forum rules and respect our right to enforce those rules. If you are in any doubt as to what we would consider unacceptable then please request clarification through one of our forum moderators before posting.
Phil O'Shaughnessy
VP Corporate Communications
Creative Labs Inc.
The only misunderstanding here is that Creative shoud have hired real business development people, instead of the rats that pass themselves off as human. Disabling working XP features on Vista is tantamount to taking advantage of the consumer and passing the buck to Microsoft for "things that don't work on Vista".
Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet - people, cities, shops, a normal world. Except that on the high streets of these cities there were slightly more shoe shops than one might have thought necessary. And slowly, insidiously, the number of the shoe shops were increasing. It's a well-known economic phenomenon but tragic to see it in operation, for the more shoe shops there were, the more shoes they had to make and the worse and more unwearable they became. And the worse they were to wear, the more people had to buy to keep themselves shod, and the more the shops proliferated, until the whole economy of the place passed what I believe is termed the Shoe Event Horizon, and it became no longer economically possible to build anything other than shoe shops. Result - collapse, ruin and famine. Most of the population died out. Those few who had the right kind of genetic instability mutated into birds who cursed their feet, cursed the ground and vowed that no one should walk on it again.
Credit to Douglas Adams
For non-networked machines, is there a need for a newer operating system? Software doesn't age you know.
People take issue with Obama supporting this man. I take issue with Obama not defending him in his time of need. You attend his church, and now that the heat is on, you're trying to disown your spiritual guide?
We blame Microsoft for changing the operating system at the very last minute, even after the last release candidate, causing maybe well written 3rd party software to become badly written 3rd party software.
The way I see it is that for once, His Steveness had lost faith in his ability to sell his product at their actual price. The deals made with the various telcos were mainly cost-cutting measures, to be made up by the profit-sharing model, leading to the locking of phones, and to the current situation. Who knows, if he had tried to sell a $1000 iPhone, and people still bought it up, and installed whatever software they wanted, then maybe the production cost of iPhone 2.0 might have gone down by now, and an iPhone would be in everyone's pocket.
What I want to know is where is zTunes or the zMedia music store? They've had 9 years to develop their own competing product, and have shown no intention of ever doing so! That's the real meaning of being a patent troll, when you're just patenting ideas for the sake of patenting (or making money, same thing), and not making anything useful out of it for the benefit of humanity.