I always found the the trackball was so small that either I couldn't control the mouse accurately enough to click the X or was spinning it like a bad bar-football player to move across the screen at any reasonable speed.
I think he has referring to the MySpace banner-ad which would use the WMF vulnerability to download ad-ware to the user, the 0.0000001% being those not vulnerable.
Maybe a propriety client which has to be used (enforced e.g. by using encryption) which will add the DRM after the file is downloaded. The client would also be able to extract the original file from the DRM'd version and so be able to send it on. I believe iTMS works (or worked) like this which was why SharpMusique could download tracks without DRM.
If this is indeed the case, I look forward to it failing dismally.
BBC has brief adverts for its own programs (and sometimes website and radios stations) but it has no adverts for other products.
The BBC is good, not necessarily because they have the best programmes, but because they set a reasonable bar which other independant channels have to reach to get a sizeable number of viewers.
if P2P doesn't exist all those customers would go out and buy those CDs and DVDs they pirated?
This isn't the same at all, windows is one product, it would be more like saying, if P2P didn't exist, then most pirates would buy at least one more CD. In addition to this, people who pirate windows will never buy it, a cracked copy of WinXP is as good as a real one, which usually isn't the case with pirated music.
I don't think fingerprinting is necessarily required.
According to the Freedb.org FAQ the discid kinda sucks and is dependant on the total length in seconds and the number of tracks on the disc. If you're taking the tracks from an LP then I guess you were really lucky and got the total album length correct to within a second after you burnt the tracks to cd.
Powerlines use a very high voltage and low current so that less power is lost over the long power lines. This is possible because the lines are a long way from the ground and insulated by lots of air.
Under the ground, much thicker insulation is needed to use the same voltage, or if a lower voltage is used, a much thicker cable is required to keep power losses to a minimum.
Underground cables are much more difficult to repair and it is harder to locate exactly where the fault is (important if you're going to be digging up roads to repair it). Even if burying cables underground did lead to less problems, I would doubt that any money saved by this would offset the huge additional costs of maintaining underground cables.
Did anyone else misread that last sentance as: 'Windows Live OneCare works continuously, automatically, and quietly in the background on your PC, ever vigilant against threats but never, in any way, allowing you to have fun and be more productive:'
I was just thinking that would be about par for MS...
People will say that it's too complicated, that the old paint was better, that they liked working for ages with lines and filling in pixels individually to get their picture just right.
And if they sold systems with no OS, they'd sell like hotcakes.
I doubt it. Anyone capable of installing an OS is probably capable of finding a computer store that will sell you a blank box. (example) Besides that, with a blank box, you won't get support, so that rules it out as an option for many people, and MS may just have a problem with their retailers selling other OSs preinstalled.
Someone who knows what they're doing with a pc won't buy it from PC World (or local equivalent).
If it became possible for anyone to run a dedicated server on a pc for xbox live games then jolt et al. would be queueing up to offer dedicated clan-servers at $$$ per month.
Apart from the potential extra work of producing pc dedicated server software, I can't really see why this isn't already a reality.
The correct comparison to your SUV example would be if I said, "DRM is going to become the norm so I might as well get used to it and buy sony cds anyway"
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He said technology leader, not market leader
Even among MySpace users?
Nipples all the way
I think he has referring to the MySpace banner-ad which would use the WMF vulnerability to download ad-ware to the user, the 0.0000001% being those not vulnerable.
They don't need to, they'll just get the boy scouts to do it for them
I believe the crackdown on hoodies was due to people using them to appear more intimidating.
If this is indeed the case, I look forward to it failing dismally.
The BBC is good, not necessarily because they have the best programmes, but because they set a reasonable bar which other independant channels have to reach to get a sizeable number of viewers.
According to the Freedb.org FAQ the discid kinda sucks and is dependant on the total length in seconds and the number of tracks on the disc. If you're taking the tracks from an LP then I guess you were really lucky and got the total album length correct to within a second after you burnt the tracks to cd.
Powerlines use a very high voltage and low current so that less power is lost over the long power lines. This is possible because the lines are a long way from the ground and insulated by lots of air.
Under the ground, much thicker insulation is needed to use the same voltage, or if a lower voltage is used, a much thicker cable is required to keep power losses to a minimum.
Underground cables are much more difficult to repair and it is harder to locate exactly where the fault is (important if you're going to be digging up roads to repair it). Even if burying cables underground did lead to less problems, I would doubt that any money saved by this would offset the huge additional costs of maintaining underground cables.
Arrgh, I spen half a year sitting next to a guy who got progressively more like that. Eventually I moved.
No .ods?
No he's not. Buying the CD does not permit you to download another copy of it from p2p after your CD got scratched to hell by your two year old.
I was just thinking that would be about par for MS...
Possibly, people will see the pop-up as an anti-virus advert and click "Install Virus" in an attempt to second guess it and make it go away...
A friend of mine had his PS2 connected through his VCR (by scart I think, not entirely sure). It refused to play encrypted DVDs.
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Light and resonably featureful.
If news isn't new, then it's just olds.
People will still moan about it.
People will say that it's too complicated, that the old paint was better, that they liked working for ages with lines and filling in pixels individually to get their picture just right.
I doubt it. Anyone capable of installing an OS is probably capable of finding a computer store that will sell you a blank box. (example) Besides that, with a blank box, you won't get support, so that rules it out as an option for many people, and MS may just have a problem with their retailers selling other OSs preinstalled.
Someone who knows what they're doing with a pc won't buy it from PC World (or local equivalent).
OEM operating system licences live and die with each pc - they are not transferable
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/licensing/howt ouse.mspx
I would say the lisa actor is too old, but the bart actor is about right.
Apart from the potential extra work of producing pc dedicated server software, I can't really see why this isn't already a reality.
The correct comparison to your SUV example would be if I said, "DRM is going to become the norm so I might as well get used to it and buy sony cds anyway"