Microsoft's WMA technology included DRM long time ago, still nobody was able to touch it up to now... Apple releases the same kind of tehnology and gets busted in LESS THAN 24 HOURS!... and not for the first time!
and consequently, what's everybody on/. doing?
bitching the whole day about the bad-quality software released by MS and the great, secure, stable and so on stuff that Apple makes... simply amazing!
people ALWAYS want more free stuff.. doesn't matter how much they get, they just demand more... and even more, it looks like the bigger the free-stuff-basket gets, the stronger is the demand for more free-stuff!
and i think my comparison was 100% relevant... people have OS-es like Windows for 1/1000(or so) from an OS price 40 years ago, people have Linux for free, people have almost EVERY needed piece of software for free, but they still ask for more free software and for lower prices for comercial OS-es... and the same is valid for ANY product out there... i chose this OS comparison, because the price reduction scale is quite similar to that of airline tickets(if not bigger)... and i can't see anything irrelevant about it!
I honestly can't think of a single (modern) piece of software that hasn't been stagnant, at least in terms of core features, for a good chunk of that time
you wanna say that MS Windows pretty much stagnated between Windows1.0 and Windows2003 ?!?!?... btw, that's also (a bit) longer that your 10 years... same about MAC OS in the last 10 years... and probably tens of other products
i expected a lot from this Sony device, especially in terms of design... but after seeing the mini-Vaio, one thing is clear : iPod is still alone in his category - which is at least 2 levels above everything else... at least in design
and don't get me started about the name... just try boasting to your friends that you own a "Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1".. they'll fell asleep before you finish spelling the damn thing!
You can cross the country for ~$200. That's cheap by any standard. Seriously. how can you say that airlines are overcharging and should be adding services for free. The idea that you can get from New York to LA in 6 hours. That is madness. Tell that to the pioneers that took 6 months and spent hundreds of dollars (in 1850's money) and they would shit a brick.
that's a totally irrelevant comparison... i don't know exact prices, but OS-es probably costed hundreds of thousands of dollars just 40-50 years ago... now Windows costs 1-200 $ and/. people still bitch about the price the whole day!!!
special dedication for the moron which moderated the above as a "troll"
i agree it could have been moderated as a "flamebait", but it's far from a "troll"... just read that stupidity called "press release" again... and if this is too much for you, only read the first line: "Based on the information we have seen"
what's this bullshit supposed to mean? what "information" they have seen? when? who? how? This line sounds like a poor relative of the good old "as seen on tv" line, that everybody trusts and accepts as a decisive evidence.
and btw, this message is at least 50% "offtopic", don't miss it!
i heard almost one-in-two americans were wrong four years ago... especially the guys in florida
i also heard 70% of the americans supported war in irak some years ago... and now only 30% of them remember that oppinion... that makes an awfull lot of americans being wrong
oh finally... it's been such a long time since i had this feeling that something's missing from my life.. poor me, i always thought that would be some million $ from my bank account.. or lately, some/. karma
btw, when they find this wimps i plan to sue them and get some compensation for the years of stress they made me endure!
dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.
this whole thread is a waste of time... everybody is laughing at MS just because is cool to do so on/.
when longhorn will appear in 2006(optimistically speaking) this would be a LESS_THAN_AVERAGE computer
let's see:
dual-core CPU - average to high end market TODAY.. in 2006 this will be way under-average stuff
CPU running at 4 to 6GHz - today's high-end is 3,4ghz... 4ghz is supposed to come by the end of THIS year... by 2006 this will be less than average
a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; average new computers of today come with 512MB... it's quite sure by 2006 2GB will be the average
a terabyte of storage; high-end today is 300GB... and the storage doubles(or more) every year => 1TB could easily be average in 2006
1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port ; that's high-end today... by 2006 it will surely be low-end
802.11g wireless link; same as above
a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today ; the new generation of graphic chips, schedulled for this summer/fall, already runs with almost double speed compared with the today high end... 3X by 2006 will be less than average!
"normal" users won't be able to take advantage of it for purposes like hosting a warez repository.
since when do "normal" users host warez repositories ?
and about handling attachments, i doubt they will get into such pains about them... it's not doing any good for them and i bet there are more interesting things to do around there
I hope the Red Cross sues the dude and demands blood for repayment.
better get a restriction order, so he won't be able to get closer than 500m to any red-cross sign... than send all rabid-dogs in town to his courtyard... it's just incredible how greedy people could be!
and btw, being a biiig fan of advertising myself, I think the above "human threatment" could be easily marketed as the "lad of the free package" and spammed all over the world... after all, the "stupid" human-rights activists clearly asked for it!
Listen, I'm all for fighting for privacy, security, and equal rights, but can we please keep the knee-jerk paranoid comparisons out of the discourse?
oh yeah, there is a huuuge difference... as an US citizen you'll only suffer the following "human threatment" if you speak against the goverment policy :
being labeled as comunist
being labeled as un-patriotic
being banned from all mainstream media channels
not being allowed to speak in public
being boycoted by furious redneck mobs
being fired instantly from your job
just check again the tons of crap leashed upon all "mainstream people" that spoke against irak war!
when they say USA it's a free country, they probably point at the fact that you are still free to leave it!
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Microsoft's WMA technology included DRM long time ago, still nobody was able to touch it up to now ... Apple releases the same kind of tehnology and gets busted in LESS THAN 24 HOURS! ... and not for the first time!
/. doing?
... simply amazing!
and consequently, what's everybody on
bitching the whole day about the bad-quality software released by MS and the great, secure, stable and so on stuff that Apple makes
people ALWAYS want more free stuff .. doesn't matter how much they get, they just demand more ... and even more, it looks like the bigger the free-stuff-basket gets, the stronger is the demand for more free-stuff!
... people have OS-es like Windows for 1/1000(or so) from an OS price 40 years ago, people have Linux for free, people have almost EVERY needed piece of software for free, but they still ask for more free software and for lower prices for comercial OS-es ... and the same is valid for ANY product out there ... i chose this OS comparison, because the price reduction scale is quite similar to that of airline tickets(if not bigger) ... and i can't see anything irrelevant about it!
and i think my comparison was 100% relevant
I honestly can't think of a single (modern) piece of software that hasn't been stagnant, at least in terms of core features, for a good chunk of that time
... btw, that's also (a bit) longer that your 10 years... same about MAC OS in the last 10 years ... and probably tens of other products
you wanna say that MS Windows pretty much stagnated between Windows1.0 and Windows2003 ?!?!?
i expected a lot from this Sony device, especially in terms of design ... but after seeing the mini-Vaio, one thing is clear : iPod is still alone in his category - which is at least 2 levels above everything else ... at least in design
... just try boasting to your friends that you own a "Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1" .. they'll fell asleep before you finish spelling the damn thing!
and don't get me started about the name
You can cross the country for ~$200. That's cheap by any standard. Seriously. how can you say that airlines are overcharging and should be adding services for free. The idea that you can get from New York to LA in 6 hours. That is madness. Tell that to the pioneers that took 6 months and spent hundreds of dollars (in 1850's money) and they would shit a brick.
... i don't know exact prices, but OS-es probably costed hundreds of thousands of dollars just 40-50 years ago ... now Windows costs 1-200 $ and /. people still bitch about the price the whole day!!!
that's a totally irrelevant comparison
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no funny comment for this story! ... one more proof that engineering is dull and boring
i won't worry if i were you ... at least you people have the BIGGEST of everything!
i wonder what kind of altgorithm they'll be using to knot the laces
special dedication for the moron which moderated the above as a "troll"
... just read that stupidity called "press release" again ... and if this is too much for you, only read the first line :
i agree it could have been moderated as a "flamebait", but it's far from a "troll"
"Based on the information we have seen"
what's this bullshit supposed to mean? what "information" they have seen? when? who? how?
This line sounds like a poor relative of the good old "as seen on tv" line, that everybody trusts and accepts as a decisive evidence.
and btw, this message is at least 50% "offtopic", don't miss it!
i heard almost one-in-two americans were wrong four years ago
i also heard 70% of the americans supported war in irak some years ago
it's sooo fancy this days to claim SCO are bad ... i mean how else you could make hordes of /.ters fall in love with you?
... i wonder why /. is not mentioning them!?
btw, i heard the biggest "walrus hunters association" also found SCO to be really bad
oh finally ... it's been such a long time since i had this feeling that something's missing from my life .. poor me, i always thought that would be some million $ from my bank account .. or lately, some /. karma
btw, when they find this wimps i plan to sue them and get some compensation for the years of stress they made me endure!
this whole thread is a waste of time ... everybody is laughing at MS just because is cool to do so on /.
when longhorn will appear in 2006(optimistically speaking) this would be a LESS_THAN_AVERAGE computer
let's see:
dual-core CPU - average to high end market TODAY .. in 2006 this will be way under-average stuff
CPU running at 4 to 6GHz - today's high-end is 3,4ghz ... 4ghz is supposed to come by the end of THIS year... by 2006 this will be less than average
a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; average new computers of today come with 512MB ... it's quite sure by 2006 2GB will be the average
a terabyte of storage; high-end today is 300GB ... and the storage doubles(or more) every year => 1TB could easily be average in 2006
1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port ; that's high-end today ... by 2006 it will surely be low-end
802.11g wireless link; same as above
a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today ; the new generation of graphic chips, schedulled for this summer/fall, already runs with almost double speed compared with the today high end ... 3X by 2006 will be less than average!
since when do "normal" users host warez repositories ?
and about handling attachments, i doubt they will get into such pains about them ... it's not doing any good for them and i bet there are more interesting things to do around there
"Today, the Swedish site Piratbyrån organised demonstrations in several Swedish towns, demanding more bandwith"
adapted quote :
" in Sweden they get 10/10 Mbit line capacity for 15$/month"
anyone else who sees a problem here? ..
i don't understand why did they stop just short of asking for subventioned Porsche's from the government ?!
better get a restriction order, so he won't be able to get closer than 500m to any red-cross sign ... than send all rabid-dogs in town to his courtyard ... it's just incredible how greedy people could be!
1. change that .exe extension to a non-executable one
2. zip/rar/arj/jar/tar with a good password
3. send it
i bet it works with ANY email server/client out there
and btw, being a biiig fan of advertising myself, I think the above "human threatment" could be easily marketed as the "lad of the free package" and spammed all over the world ... after all, the "stupid" human-rights activists clearly asked for it!
oh yeah, there is a huuuge difference ... as an US citizen you'll only suffer the following "human threatment" if you speak against the goverment policy :
being labeled as comunist
being labeled as un-patriotic
being banned from all mainstream media channels
not being allowed to speak in public
being boycoted by furious redneck mobs
being fired instantly from your job
just check again the tons of crap leashed upon all "mainstream people" that spoke against irak war!
when they say USA it's a free country, they probably point at the fact that you are still free to leave it!
poor me ... i thought the original modded-up-comment only lacked logic and meaning