Oh yes it is. I don't understand this thinking. Why, "harm" has to mean something really tangible, like breaking a leg or something ? I think not. The harm here does not cause some physically concievable defect - yet. But thing is, they did not tell the people what this WGA does (i.e. calling home every so often), they just told it when some people have found it out. Ok, I know how EULAs work, and how they probably could prove in court that they have every right to change their software as they see fit, still, when it is about using our computers to send _any_ information to _anyplace_ without asking us first, or if not asking then at least telling us about it, is just outrageous. I don't care what they send, I don't care how much or how small amount of information is in it, I don't care who they send it to, it just should not happen without asking us and letting us approve of disapprove the action.
I don't think I want to go into the other ones, but do you really think public education is for free ? Do you think internet websites are for free ?
For individuals that means wasting your time re-learning to do something you already know how to do.
No, they don't. They only know how to do it one way on one OS, with one software. And it's not re-learning, it simply learning. And yes, today's people - most of them - are just too lazy to learn, they don't want to hear about anything that needs any bit of effort to achieve.
And what they might call the need to re-learn, I just call stupidity. If they were willing to rely totally on one and single software and one and single OS, etc. then this re-learning is the price you have to pay. MS won't be here forever, you know. No company will be here forever. Eventually people will have to adapt, even if they don't want to.
In my world, intelligence is closely related to this kind of adaptivity, the will and ability to learn and to be open towards new ways of doing things. Be that software, be it anything else.
There is no timetable for a Windows successor right now.
:D:D:D
This is the best joke I've heard in a long while:))
They kept pushing and postponing Vista's dates and continuously dropping features for how long now ? Right. Now what can you read above: no timetable for the one following Vista. Ok.
I can of course understand that for a company it is very important to show that they have long term plans. And they need to tell that convincingly. Right now, I'm not convinced about neither.
Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don't exist largely today
Marketing is one thing, lying is another. Oh, wait, this is MS.
I so hate them when they speak about SW and OSes like there would exist nothing nowhere besides Windows. So, no wonder I don't ever like what they say.
In Ubuntu every package's source is freely available and downloadable. So if you come along and say thing like that then don't expect a friendly welcome. Not from them, not from anywhere else.
Lets say a company like Dodge (auto company) had a monopolistic influence over the auto industry (they dont.. but lets just pretend)
Well, it all depends... make that Bentley and I'm all for it:)) What I mean is, in some cases, monopoly can eventually be good. Well, not in this case, that's for sure.
It's not about remaining in the businness. If you're a shareholder, a company that doesn't grow or throws a bil. a year out in the wind and not spending it with the goal of growing, is just smelling rotten like a long dead dog's head.
I really am not saying this here as an anti-MS, but realistically speaking, you probably could change that company name in that sentence to any other big corp's name. Their goal is not to play "nice", their goal is growth and profit. Sometimes both can be done while playing nice, sometimes not. It's like football, but MS ain't no Brazilian football team for sure.
Losing most or all of its European income would basically kill Microsoft overnight.
That would not be the problem, really. Just imagine those many hundreds of thousands of people who made their entire income and life depend on MS software without further support:) Yes, that's a smiley there, since what I always say is that nobody should ever fully stand on only one leg, and nobody should ever base everything on a single company, no matter how much you "trust" them.
don't really have the teeth to cut into Microsoft's
And this is exactly why no corporation should ever be allowed to have such a huge influence on a specific field like MS has now on the os/sw market, and indirectly on everything else. I hope one day somebody will succeed in kicking MS in the ass - not because I dislike MS, but to show to everybody else that there are limits you should respect, no matter how much money you have.
That's a stand-up man, right there. It's a sign he believes everyone should earn their own fortune, no free rides - even for his own children.
I just can't imagine how you got insightful with this line - well, I can, but I don't want to. What I mean is, the most highest purpose of a man's life is his family, to care for them and to protect them, with body and soul, and that also includes financial matters. I don't want my kids to spend half of their lives gathering money to be able to spend the rest on matters which are more important than gathering money. What I wish for them is that they should be able to make decisions in life and professionally which are not compromises limited by piteous financial problems. I might not become a gazillionaire, still, I'll do what I can to make that happen. That doesn't mean I wouldn't donate, but that's a different question.
I'd very much more prefer my whole life bound up to pieces of hardware that are mine, than "trusting" it to some company whom I cannot influence, can change policies and terms as they see fit, have usually some obscure and ignorant thinking about "Security" and "privacy" as such, and have no control over, thankyouverymuch. Especially if that company has a leader with such a long term "education" in MS's way to see and do things.
Well, they seemingly are stupid like a dumb ducks behind, and still they will get rich. Why ? Because such moves will be backed heavily by US government, since they will be able to get a nationwide fingerprint database in a few months and they don't even have to pay for it.
I'd prefer living without money in a jungle than using my fingerprint as a payment method, that's for sure.
how can using a unique fingerprint for identification be riskier to theft than a plastic card, key chain token, or account number
... my head hurts from even trying to imagine how ignorant dumb*sses these guys must be.
News like this are popping up from time to time, people claiming they have achieved some marveloous mpg rates, and it always turns out that either the car is useless (size, weight, etc limits) or the speed is very low, or a combination of these. All these machines, this one included have proved to be really useful for... nothing at all. Hell, I'm surprised they don't say something like: hey I made a car which goes one million gazillion mpg - which can be true if it runs on something else than usual petrol or diesel fuel. I'm really all for saving and protecting the environment, and against SUVs and H2s, still, one has to be reasonable: time is money and nobody would want a car that goes 20-30 kph, no matter how much fuel it needs. Hell, given good wind, you could go even faster than that with a sail/kite and your roller:) Basically I'd be really much more interested in improvements on the hybrid car front than these not-good-for-anything mpg-based achievements.
Each business entities must use their OWN issued numbers.
Well, this is no news, very many places work like this, but still everybody seems to be following the US in this issue too. And as always, no matter what people say to them before, they will only learn when things start falling apart.
There would probably be a market for such PCs in offices, hospitals, etc etc, still for us this just means hard or impossible to customize, expand, personalize/tweak/mod. So far only Apple managed to sell such hardware to a somewhat considerable average user base, this IMHO should be a sign to care about. And there are also what you would call zealots - and if you wish, I'm also one - who'd never buy a desktop PC for home use pre-built. Of course at work we always order Dells and the like, as any other sane human would do, and this is one of the possible target market - which I was talking about in the beginning - and these places will probably drop really big money for these smaller machines.
What I mean is: a lot of people use cell phones. A lot of them use their phones because of some real reasons, not because of fashion (yes, these are in larger number, I agree), and a lot of them have enough brain tissue to switch their phones to silent mode/vibrate when they sit in a movie/theatre/restaurant/etc. These people - myself included - would be really pissed of if some group of retarded people would manage to block signals wherever they see fit (e.g. the mentioned places, I wouldn't mind blocking in hospitals). For those who can't manage to learn the button combination to set their phones on vibrate/silent when going into such places, well, they should just be given a big friendly kick in their butts, phisically (I'd prefer, but yes, it's fairly unreasonable:) ) or putting out "No loud phones" signs and kicking them in a form of a fine, as they fine you for not collecting your dogs sh*t in decent places.
it's pretty clear now that Linux's niche is, and perhaps always will be, the server market, where that's not as much of a concern (since hardware doesn't change a lot anyway)
There are a lot of us out there who really don't mind comiling a new module when a new hardware finds its way into our computers. On decent hardware that usually doesn't take much time (yes, one could start arguing about what "decent" hardware is). I don't find that nor embarrasing, nor painful, it's something you have to do. On some other OS if you change video cards you have to uninstall the old driver, reboot, install new driver, reboot and almost done. I find this procedure more painful and more embarrasing.
24's season 5 is scheduled some time this fall on no less than two channels I receive
Good for you. But there are many countries out there that have to wait years (and by that I mean year in plural form, with a value usually being bigger than 1) to see even the first episodes on tv, and sometimes with more than a year pause between the seasons.
For such places torrenting their favourite shows is about the only way to see them before they celebrate their grandchildrens' birthdays.
Yet, that doesn't mean they won't watch them on tv when they arrive finally. Hell, there are some series I'm watching repeatedly on tv when they are repeatedly aired, even if I already have some of them on dvd.
If the shows were available online for a reasonable price tag, and not just for a certain country (i.e. abc online shows, itunes, etc.) most of this wouldn't happen. The torrenting of dozens of tv series episodes is probably a huge portion of the torrent-based traffic these days.
I used to hear a lot about such "memory management" issues, and a lot of them turned out to be lack of knowledge about configuration options regarding firefox's memory cache and page history cache sizes. Some issues are there besides these easily manageble ones, no debate about that, but most of them only come up after firefox running continuously for days (for me that is sometimes 1-2 weeks), which makes them unnoticable for most home users. Still, it would be good to solve these issues someday.
I mean ok, it's nice, and it's an L4-kernel based os running faster on embedded platforms on ARM cpus than Linux kernel+os can. Yes, it's nice indeed. But neither the/. article title nor the summary does tell that.
Well, maybe if you could train people to breath rocket exhaust gases, then they won't have to care about atmospheric pollution, and also if you can use greenhouse effects to heat the Moon, you'll get a new habitat thriving on rubbish:P:D
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the actual harm done is less concrete
Oh yes it is. I don't understand this thinking. Why, "harm" has to mean something really tangible, like breaking a leg or something ? I think not. The harm here does not cause some physically concievable defect - yet. But thing is, they did not tell the people what this WGA does (i.e. calling home every so often), they just told it when some people have found it out. Ok, I know how EULAs work, and how they probably could prove in court that they have every right to change their software as they see fit, still, when it is about using our computers to send _any_ information to _anyplace_ without asking us first, or if not asking then at least telling us about it, is just outrageous. I don't care what they send, I don't care how much or how small amount of information is in it, I don't care who they send it to, it just should not happen without asking us and letting us approve of disapprove the action.
Public Education that was offered for free
I don't think I want to go into the other ones, but do you really think public education is for free ? Do you think internet websites are for free ?
For individuals that means wasting your time re-learning to do something you already know how to do.
No, they don't. They only know how to do it one way on one OS, with one software. And it's not re-learning, it simply learning. And yes, today's people - most of them - are just too lazy to learn, they don't want to hear about anything that needs any bit of effort to achieve.
And what they might call the need to re-learn, I just call stupidity. If they were willing to rely totally on one and single software and one and single OS, etc. then this re-learning is the price you have to pay. MS won't be here forever, you know. No company will be here forever. Eventually people will have to adapt, even if they don't want to.
In my world, intelligence is closely related to this kind of adaptivity, the will and ability to learn and to be open towards new ways of doing things. Be that software, be it anything else.
There is no timetable for a Windows successor right now.
:D :D :D
:))
This is the best joke I've heard in a long while
They kept pushing and postponing Vista's dates and continuously dropping features for how long now ? Right. Now what can you read above: no timetable for the one following Vista. Ok.
I can of course understand that for a company it is very important to show that they have long term plans. And they need to tell that convincingly. Right now, I'm not convinced about neither.
Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don't exist largely today
Marketing is one thing, lying is another. Oh, wait, this is MS.
I so hate them when they speak about SW and OSes like there would exist nothing nowhere besides Windows. So, no wonder I don't ever like what they say.
I said Ubuntu wasn't being compliant
In Ubuntu every package's source is freely available and downloadable. So if you come along and say thing like that then don't expect a friendly welcome. Not from them, not from anywhere else.
Lets say a company like Dodge (auto company) had a monopolistic influence over the auto industry (they dont .. but lets just pretend)
:)) What I mean is, in some cases, monopoly can eventually be good. Well, not in this case, that's for sure.
Well, it all depends... make that Bentley and I'm all for it
wouldn't put them out of business
It's not about remaining in the businness. If you're a shareholder, a company that doesn't grow or throws a bil. a year out in the wind and not spending it with the goal of growing, is just smelling rotten like a long dead dog's head.
Microsoft will never play nice.
I really am not saying this here as an anti-MS, but realistically speaking, you probably could change that company name in that sentence to any other big corp's name. Their goal is not to play "nice", their goal is growth and profit. Sometimes both can be done while playing nice, sometimes not. It's like football, but MS ain't no Brazilian football team for sure.
Losing most or all of its European income would basically kill Microsoft overnight.
:) Yes, that's a smiley there, since what I always say is that nobody should ever fully stand on only one leg, and nobody should ever base everything on a single company, no matter how much you "trust" them.
That would not be the problem, really. Just imagine those many hundreds of thousands of people who made their entire income and life depend on MS software without further support
I'm honestly amazed that the EU hasn't been bought off yet or bribed into submission
Just give it some more time. One more thing is sure on this planet besides death and taxes: politicians are the same everywhere.
don't really have the teeth to cut into Microsoft's
And this is exactly why no corporation should ever be allowed to have such a huge influence on a specific field like MS has now on the os/sw market, and indirectly on everything else. I hope one day somebody will succeed in kicking MS in the ass - not because I dislike MS, but to show to everybody else that there are limits you should respect, no matter how much money you have.
That's a stand-up man, right there. It's a sign he believes everyone should earn their own fortune, no free rides - even for his own children.
I just can't imagine how you got insightful with this line - well, I can, but I don't want to. What I mean is, the most highest purpose of a man's life is his family, to care for them and to protect them, with body and soul, and that also includes financial matters. I don't want my kids to spend half of their lives gathering money to be able to spend the rest on matters which are more important than gathering money. What I wish for them is that they should be able to make decisions in life and professionally which are not compromises limited by piteous financial problems. I might not become a gazillionaire, still, I'll do what I can to make that happen. That doesn't mean I wouldn't donate, but that's a different question.
whole lives bound up
I'd very much more prefer my whole life bound up to pieces of hardware that are mine, than "trusting" it to some company whom I cannot influence, can change policies and terms as they see fit, have usually some obscure and ignorant thinking about "Security" and "privacy" as such, and have no control over, thankyouverymuch. Especially if that company has a leader with such a long term "education" in MS's way to see and do things.
bit puzzled by customer privacy fears
... my head hurts from even trying to imagine how ignorant dumb*sses these guys must be.
Well, they seemingly are stupid like a dumb ducks behind, and still they will get rich. Why ? Because such moves will be backed heavily by US government, since they will be able to get a nationwide fingerprint database in a few months and they don't even have to pay for it.
I'd prefer living without money in a jungle than using my fingerprint as a payment method, that's for sure.
how can using a unique fingerprint for identification be riskier to theft than a plastic card, key chain token, or account number
News like this are popping up from time to time, people claiming they have achieved some marveloous mpg rates, and it always turns out that either the car is useless (size, weight, etc limits) or the speed is very low, or a combination of these. All these machines, this one included have proved to be really useful for ... nothing at all. Hell, I'm surprised they don't say something like: hey I made a car which goes one million gazillion mpg - which can be true if it runs on something else than usual petrol or diesel fuel. I'm really all for saving and protecting the environment, and against SUVs and H2s, still, one has to be reasonable: time is money and nobody would want a car that goes 20-30 kph, no matter how much fuel it needs. Hell, given good wind, you could go even faster than that with a sail/kite and your roller :) Basically I'd be really much more interested in improvements on the hybrid car front than these not-good-for-anything mpg-based achievements.
Each business entities must use their OWN issued numbers.
Well, this is no news, very many places work like this, but still everybody seems to be following the US in this issue too. And as always, no matter what people say to them before, they will only learn when things start falling apart.
There would probably be a market for such PCs in offices, hospitals, etc etc, still for us this just means hard or impossible to customize, expand, personalize/tweak/mod. So far only Apple managed to sell such hardware to a somewhat considerable average user base, this IMHO should be a sign to care about. And there are also what you would call zealots - and if you wish, I'm also one - who'd never buy a desktop PC for home use pre-built. Of course at work we always order Dells and the like, as any other sane human would do, and this is one of the possible target market - which I was talking about in the beginning - and these places will probably drop really big money for these smaller machines.
What I mean is: a lot of people use cell phones. A lot of them use their phones because of some real reasons, not because of fashion (yes, these are in larger number, I agree), and a lot of them have enough brain tissue to switch their phones to silent mode/vibrate when they sit in a movie/theatre/restaurant/etc. These people - myself included - would be really pissed of if some group of retarded people would manage to block signals wherever they see fit (e.g. the mentioned places, I wouldn't mind blocking in hospitals). For those who can't manage to learn the button combination to set their phones on vibrate/silent when going into such places, well, they should just be given a big friendly kick in their butts, phisically (I'd prefer, but yes, it's fairly unreasonable :) ) or putting out "No loud phones" signs and kicking them in a form of a fine, as they fine you for not collecting your dogs sh*t in decent places.
it's pretty clear now that Linux's niche is, and perhaps always will be, the server market, where that's not as much of a concern (since hardware doesn't change a lot anyway)
There are a lot of us out there who really don't mind comiling a new module when a new hardware finds its way into our computers. On decent hardware that usually doesn't take much time (yes, one could start arguing about what "decent" hardware is). I don't find that nor embarrasing, nor painful, it's something you have to do. On some other OS if you change video cards you have to uninstall the old driver, reboot, install new driver, reboot and almost done. I find this procedure more painful and more embarrasing.
24's season 5 is scheduled some time this fall on no less than two channels I receive
Good for you. But there are many countries out there that have to wait years (and by that I mean year in plural form, with a value usually being bigger than 1) to see even the first episodes on tv, and sometimes with more than a year pause between the seasons.
For such places torrenting their favourite shows is about the only way to see them before they celebrate their grandchildrens' birthdays.
Yet, that doesn't mean they won't watch them on tv when they arrive finally. Hell, there are some series I'm watching repeatedly on tv when they are repeatedly aired, even if I already have some of them on dvd.
If the shows were available online for a reasonable price tag, and not just for a certain country (i.e. abc online shows, itunes, etc.) most of this wouldn't happen. The torrenting of dozens of tv series episodes is probably a huge portion of the torrent-based traffic these days.
I used to hear a lot about such "memory management" issues, and a lot of them turned out to be lack of knowledge about configuration options regarding firefox's memory cache and page history cache sizes. Some issues are there besides these easily manageble ones, no debate about that, but most of them only come up after firefox running continuously for days (for me that is sometimes 1-2 weeks), which makes them unnoticable for most home users. Still, it would be good to solve these issues someday.
I mean ok, it's nice, and it's an L4-kernel based os running faster on embedded platforms on ARM cpus than Linux kernel+os can. Yes, it's nice indeed. But neither the /. article title nor the summary does tell that.
Well, maybe if you could train people to breath rocket exhaust gases, then they won't have to care about atmospheric pollution, and also if you can use greenhouse effects to heat the Moon, you'll get a new habitat thriving on rubbish :P :D
...so the news today is that sand contains silica...or that moonsand itself contains it...well, I'd better read the papers this morning.
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