Interoperability is good for consumers, good for device manufacturers, bad for commercial software. Care to guess what the likelihood of an open standard driver interface is? Of course, MS will support something *called* an open device driver interface, except that it will require massive license fees from both the device manufacturer and the operating system developer. You can't expect the master of lock-in/out to promote a standard that doesn't allow them to lock specific competitors out of the market.
If you're only getting 6 figures from your malpractice suits, get a new lawyer. Medical malpractice has suits demanding even more insane things than what copyright suits have managed to demand.
Except that MS would have one less Intellimouse and keyboard. A better analogy would be that you would manufacture Intellimice in your basement and give them away for free (Probably still have a problem, though, if you hit volume comparable to a large Bittorrent leak...)
At some point, we're going to need reusable vehicles. There's no way you can scale building these massive rocjets for every launch. Imagine if you needed to build new airliners for every flight; even if you had the money, you'd eventually run out of steel and aluminum.
The number of people watching your show sans advertising (you can at least sort of spin the TiVo crowd as having received the ads) doesn't really concern the network that much. They produce a show for advertising dollars, and without eyeballs dollars goes down...
I John Lawyer to hereby swear to uphold the traditions of this most honourable order, namely victory and any cost, security of my commission, and a precedent to support future frivolous cases.
I have lag scrolling large PDFs all the time. Of all the improvements mentioned, HW accel for PDFs is probably the only one that actually is needed in some cases. Obviously, if you lack the hardware to enable the acceleration, you'd default back to the previous software rendering (which is fine for text, not so fine for scanned datasheets and the like)
I know that I buy the cheapest, crappiest gas I can find for the mower, whilst the aging car gets mid-grade in hopes that it will keep the engine from completely crapping out anytime soon...
I wonder, though, if one of these counts as an activation for iTunes (I'm thinking you have to auth it in a manner similar to a computer, as otherwise you could just grab music from anyone's iTMS purchases and put them on there)
Microsoft is really all about the profits. If you can get a million in sales with a quarter mill of lobby money, its a smart move. Of course, this goes for any business (even the not-evil ones)
'Fears' of an iTMS killer? iTMS is a wonderful thing, but would it really wreck your world so much if someone else came up with something better (apparently this isn't it, but hypothetically)?
Exactly. If I buy a handsaw from Home Depot, take it home, reverse engineer it and make a copy, then return it, I've stolen nothing. The guy who made the saw probably doesn't even care. Of course, if I made a million copies of the saw and gave them out in the town square, the guy who made the saw is going to be pretty pissed and try to shut me down. Still not stealing though...
Yeah, like that episode of TNG where the runaways left their comm badges (basically the RFID badge we're talking about here) to ride the elevator while they went wherever. Unless you're going to implant these in something important, I can't see them being reliable when you need them (ie, you can tell when johnny innocent is in class, but if johnny is getting his gun from his locker he's probably left his badge somewhere)
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Um... the blog entry is comparing the differences in the way the page is programmed, not the layout/appearance. It is interesting that they chose a completely different technique when programming Maps than GMail.
I want to know why the moon landing is slated for 2015-2020, while the last time we did it a) not really knowing how to do it and b) in like half the time. Repeating a past mission with modern tech should not be this difficult.
Two things. First, could it possibly be under Windows? Try minimising it and tell us again. Well, that's just shite interface programming. Other apps don't suck 60MB to display a window.
Next. To put your question differently "Why does Matlab uses 300Mb just to add two numbers?" Because it is intended for more than that? Matlab is designed to perform complicated calculations and analyses, so simple integer addition is an inappropriate application. iTunes is designed to play media files, so playing an MP3 is an appropriate application. Your point is void.
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Interoperability is good for consumers, good for device manufacturers, bad for commercial software. Care to guess what the likelihood of an open standard driver interface is? Of course, MS will support something *called* an open device driver interface, except that it will require massive license fees from both the device manufacturer and the operating system developer. You can't expect the master of lock-in/out to promote a standard that doesn't allow them to lock specific competitors out of the market.
If you're only getting 6 figures from your malpractice suits, get a new lawyer. Medical malpractice has suits demanding even more insane things than what copyright suits have managed to demand.
Um ... yes. The commons tend to be overutilized in the free market. That's just the way markets are ...
Except that MS would have one less Intellimouse and keyboard. A better analogy would be that you would manufacture Intellimice in your basement and give them away for free (Probably still have a problem, though, if you hit volume comparable to a large Bittorrent leak ...)
At some point, we're going to need reusable vehicles. There's no way you can scale building these massive rocjets for every launch. Imagine if you needed to build new airliners for every flight; even if you had the money, you'd eventually run out of steel and aluminum.
Some people want to live forever, some people just want to understand the universe. Its really a matter of personal preference.
We're talking about the immediate problems you have inhaling it, not the cancer effects from radiation exposure.
The number of people watching your show sans advertising (you can at least sort of spin the TiVo crowd as having received the ads) doesn't really concern the network that much. They produce a show for advertising dollars, and without eyeballs dollars goes down ...
And here I thought that it took a red state hick farmer to have real skill at constructing a straw man ...
I John Lawyer to hereby swear to uphold the traditions of this most honourable order, namely victory and any cost, security of my commission, and a precedent to support future frivolous cases.
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And then we just have to reconfigure the deflector dish to emit tenacious tachyons and the Borg will be defeated!
I have lag scrolling large PDFs all the time. Of all the improvements mentioned, HW accel for PDFs is probably the only one that actually is needed in some cases. Obviously, if you lack the hardware to enable the acceleration, you'd default back to the previous software rendering (which is fine for text, not so fine for scanned datasheets and the like)
When you but this many at once, you can get it any way you want. Painted bright pink, some bizarre packaging, whatever.
I know that I buy the cheapest, crappiest gas I can find for the mower, whilst the aging car gets mid-grade in hopes that it will keep the engine from completely crapping out anytime soon ...
I wonder, though, if one of these counts as an activation for iTunes (I'm thinking you have to auth it in a manner similar to a computer, as otherwise you could just grab music from anyone's iTMS purchases and put them on there)
Microsoft is really all about the profits. If you can get a million in sales with a quarter mill of lobby money, its a smart move. Of course, this goes for any business (even the not-evil ones)
'Fears' of an iTMS killer? iTMS is a wonderful thing, but would it really wreck your world so much if someone else came up with something better (apparently this isn't it, but hypothetically)?
Exactly. If I buy a handsaw from Home Depot, take it home, reverse engineer it and make a copy, then return it, I've stolen nothing. The guy who made the saw probably doesn't even care. Of course, if I made a million copies of the saw and gave them out in the town square, the guy who made the saw is going to be pretty pissed and try to shut me down. Still not stealing though ...
Yeah, like that episode of TNG where the runaways left their comm badges (basically the RFID badge we're talking about here) to ride the elevator while they went wherever. Unless you're going to implant these in something important, I can't see them being reliable when you need them (ie, you can tell when johnny innocent is in class, but if johnny is getting his gun from his locker he's probably left his badge somewhere)
Um ... the blog entry is comparing the differences in the way the page is programmed, not the layout/appearance. It is interesting that they chose a completely different technique when programming Maps than GMail.
That which is written on product labels, sounds profound.
No, you see, the phone system *is* the webserver. Who says 56K over cell isn't fast enough to handle web services?
Well, apart from the way the page doesn't load.
I want to know why the moon landing is slated for 2015-2020, while the last time we did it a) not really knowing how to do it and b) in like half the time. Repeating a past mission with modern tech should not be this difficult.
Two things. First, could it possibly be under Windows? Try minimising it and tell us again.
Well, that's just shite interface programming. Other apps don't suck 60MB to display a window.
Next. To put your question differently "Why does Matlab uses 300Mb just to add two numbers?" Because it is intended for more than that?
Matlab is designed to perform complicated calculations and analyses, so simple integer addition is an inappropriate application. iTunes is designed to play media files, so playing an MP3 is an appropriate application. Your point is void.
No no, there's a chance that that would taste better than Gollum's breakfast ...