This is exactly why Canada's political system is so screwed up now. Shelia made a campaign promise that the GST would be repealed if the Liberals won the 1993 election. They did, and the GST was not repealed. She had to be strong-armed into keeping her promise to resign. Then she ran in the by-election and won (what's with Canadian voters?).
It sounds like you're ready to vote Liberal in the next election again, depite your complaint about this issue. Why?
You also pay a levy (not a tax) when you buy tires for you car to pay for its eventual recycling. That money just ends up added to the federal tax coffers and your tires get dumped in a landfill.
What text books did you use? The ones we used at the University of Waterloo in the late 90's barely recognized that MS existed except as an occasionaly case study in how not to do something (winNT memory management comes to mind).
What about real RPGs with dice and game masters? You do know the computer versions were based on traditional game, right? Besides, haven't you heard of LARPs?
Marconi was a business man, he took the work of real geniuses and introduced it to the world as his own. That's the way it works most of the time, even today.
Bill didn't come along and see the stupidity. IBM handed it to him on a silver platter. IBM went to Bill to ask him to write DOS after DR turned them down (in what has got to be one of the stupidest decisions of the 20th century).
Bill bought DOS from a small Seattle software company for $50k and licensed DOS to IBM with decent terms, but since it was only licensed, he could turn around and make a killing licensing it to the clonemakers.
Historically, they don't know the meaning of the word open, and that's why they're a niche market now. When the IBM-PC was taking over the whole market because of clonemakers, apple tightly guarded both their hardware and software.
MS is the company who cleaned up on IBM's openness because they made DOS, but in Apple's case, they should have opened the hardware and make their money on Mac OS. If they had, they'd be a much more dominant player in the market today.
It's the same thing with their codec, they should license it because it's in their best interest, but they won't.
This is what's great about TV. I don't mind commercials so much, it's just that most are so horrible. Maybe with a lot of people having TiVo's, commercials will become more entertaining.
Then again, it's much more likely they'll be replaced with product placements or ads taking up half the screen during content. As it is, I find the pop-up station logos so invasive I cancelled everything but the basic channels. If the commercials become invasive, I'll just cancel everything and buy the DVDs of the shows I like.
It probably is time for a standard, it will need a group to oversee it and make sure the CPU makers post fair speed ratings. Maybe we should let ICANN handle it since they're doing such a great job with domain names:)
If it sucks as much of the movie version of the positronic man, it will be much worse than the matrix...and the positionic man was a great book, especially after the refererrences to it in earlier asimov works.
Sure it's worth the $13 a month; I never complained about the price. To me though, it's worth a lot more than that to avoid dealing with a company with a warped producting design. A PVR is a piece of hardware, not a service (unless you *want* to pay for the program data). So for the TiVo to have any value to me, it has to have all the features functional except the program data with no connection back home. Right now, it can't even match the functionality of a VCR on its own.
RLL is not a compression technology. It has more tracks per inch than MFM. Saying it's compression is like saying a High Density floppy gets more storage than a single or double density because it uses compression.
Then what kind of disks did you use? I did that to literally hundreds of disks more than 10 years ago, and they still work perfectly today; I've used some in the past week.
If it's retail box, it phones home doesn't it? I don't use XP, but I thought only the enterprise licensed version didn't.
In any case, my point is not having to re-install on the same machine, but if you bought XP, you should be able to use XP on a new machine. If you buy a new computer in 5 years, you should be able to run XP on that computer if you want to.
One of my computers is a K6-3-500 running DOS 6.22; it installs perfectly.
If you use XP, you've already bought into a subscription. The product activation will prevent you from re-installing XP once MS decides it's obsolete, so all you have is a subscription to use XP until then.
You are right about the unnecessary maintenance. Most companies I know of wait at least a year before upgrade. It lets them see if there will be any major disasters with the new software, take all the time they want evaluating it, and then roll it out on their schedule. My company is still using win2k on the desktops and we have no intention of switching to XP. Right now, we're evaluating Linux vs Mac for our next upgrade but that probably won't be in 2004 (unless MS pulls the plug on win2k updates).
DirecTv is a horrible company to deal with. They've sued people who bought ISO7816 smart card readers (A lot of legitimate businesses use them in the US, includng doctors securing patient files. In Hong Kong, the smart cards are used as cash cards and instead of bus tickets. In canada, a few credit cards are available as smart cards, and payphones accept payment by smartcard.) However, DirecTv has said anyone using the technology must be using it to hack their systems, and sued a lot of innocent people.
So many were sold because of Microsoft's agressive sales schemes. Their enterprise customers were basically given a choice of signing up for the plan to get an enterprise license or buying a retail copy for every machine. In that case, there is no choice.
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Yep, I was referring to the federal Liberal party, not people who have "liberal" viewpoints. Sorry for the confusion.
This is exactly why Canada's political system is so screwed up now. Shelia made a campaign promise that the GST would be repealed if the Liberals won the 1993 election. They did, and the GST was not repealed. She had to be strong-armed into keeping her promise to resign. Then she ran in the by-election and won (what's with Canadian voters?).
It sounds like you're ready to vote Liberal in the next election again, depite your complaint about this issue. Why?
I've already emailed my MP to say just that. You can go here and enter your postal code to get your MP's email address.
You also pay a levy (not a tax) when you buy tires for you car to pay for its eventual recycling. That money just ends up added to the federal tax coffers and your tires get dumped in a landfill.
The sick thing is the liberals will still win.
What text books did you use? The ones we used at the University of Waterloo in the late 90's barely recognized that MS existed except as an occasionaly case study in how not to do something (winNT memory management comes to mind).
What about real RPGs with dice and game masters? You do know the computer versions were based on traditional game, right? Besides, haven't you heard of LARPs?
Marconi was a business man, he took the work of real geniuses and introduced it to the world as his own. That's the way it works most of the time, even today.
Bill didn't come along and see the stupidity. IBM handed it to him on a silver platter. IBM went to Bill to ask him to write DOS after DR turned them down (in what has got to be one of the stupidest decisions of the 20th century).
Bill bought DOS from a small Seattle software company for $50k and licensed DOS to IBM with decent terms, but since it was only licensed, he could turn around and make a killing licensing it to the clonemakers.
Historically, they don't know the meaning of the word open, and that's why they're a niche market now. When the IBM-PC was taking over the whole market because of clonemakers, apple tightly guarded both their hardware and software.
MS is the company who cleaned up on IBM's openness because they made DOS, but in Apple's case, they should have opened the hardware and make their money on Mac OS. If they had, they'd be a much more dominant player in the market today.
It's the same thing with their codec, they should license it because it's in their best interest, but they won't.
This is what's great about TV. I don't mind commercials so much, it's just that most are so horrible. Maybe with a lot of people having TiVo's, commercials will become more entertaining.
Then again, it's much more likely they'll be replaced with product placements or ads taking up half the screen during content. As it is, I find the pop-up station logos so invasive I cancelled everything but the basic channels. If the commercials become invasive, I'll just cancel everything and buy the DVDs of the shows I like.
Okay then, the way of the whooping crane (endangered instead of extinct)
That mightnot be a bad marketing strategy for sco :)
It probably is time for a standard, it will need a group to oversee it and make sure the CPU makers post fair speed ratings. Maybe we should let ICANN handle it since they're doing such a great job with domain names :)
If it sucks as much of the movie version of the positronic man, it will be much worse than the matrix...and the positionic man was a great book, especially after the refererrences to it in earlier asimov works.
Sure it's worth the $13 a month; I never complained about the price. To me though, it's worth a lot more than that to avoid dealing with a company with a warped producting design. A PVR is a piece of hardware, not a service (unless you *want* to pay for the program data). So for the TiVo to have any value to me, it has to have all the features functional except the program data with no connection back home. Right now, it can't even match the functionality of a VCR on its own.
It's already years beyond TiVo. It doesn't tie you into a subscription model where when the company dies the hardware becomes an overpriced doorstop.
For that reason alone, I'd pay more for this box than the TiVo+lifetime subscription.
Saying C is dead is such a stupid comment, it invalidates anything else he might say.
and Linux has never released a security patch..or two patches in 24 hours?
RLL is not a compression technology. It has more tracks per inch than MFM. Saying it's compression is like saying a High Density floppy gets more storage than a single or double density because it uses compression.
Then what kind of disks did you use? I did that to literally hundreds of disks more than 10 years ago, and they still work perfectly today; I've used some in the past week.
If it's retail box, it phones home doesn't it? I don't use XP, but I thought only the enterprise licensed version didn't.
In any case, my point is not having to re-install on the same machine, but if you bought XP, you should be able to use XP on a new machine. If you buy a new computer in 5 years, you should be able to run XP on that computer if you want to.
One of my computers is a K6-3-500 running DOS 6.22; it installs perfectly.
If you use XP, you've already bought into a subscription. The product activation will prevent you from re-installing XP once MS decides it's obsolete, so all you have is a subscription to use XP until then.
You are right about the unnecessary maintenance. Most companies I know of wait at least a year before upgrade. It lets them see if there will be any major disasters with the new software, take all the time they want evaluating it, and then roll it out on their schedule. My company is still using win2k on the desktops and we have no intention of switching to XP. Right now, we're evaluating Linux vs Mac for our next upgrade but that probably won't be in 2004 (unless MS pulls the plug on win2k updates).
DirecTv is a horrible company to deal with. They've sued people who bought ISO7816 smart card readers (A lot of legitimate businesses use them in the US, includng doctors securing patient files. In Hong Kong, the smart cards are used as cash cards and instead of bus tickets. In canada, a few credit cards are available as smart cards, and payphones accept payment by smartcard.) However, DirecTv has said anyone using the technology must be using it to hack their systems, and sued a lot of innocent people.
So many were sold because of Microsoft's agressive sales schemes. Their enterprise customers were basically given a choice of signing up for the plan to get an enterprise license or buying a retail copy for every machine. In that case, there is no choice.