IE9 is behind, but honestly? I don't think that MS *has* to fail on this. They just need to polish the shit out of everything a whole lot more than they have currently. If they can deliver an experience near-seamless as apple's, they'd have a point for contention here. Basically, they need to actually compete more.
IE9 is still in preview mode, and at best it's "current" with things as they exist today. Given that it's going to be released sometime down the road, it's not expected for it to be up to date when it becomes an RC/officially released. Everyone else basically said that to add hardware acceleration hooks is a non issue - aka firefox, webkit browsers. Which will then run significantly faster than IE still.
I should also add there are temporary warrants that can be issued within a few hours. So timeframe to get warrants is a crock of crap.
The only reason an office cannot get a warrant is because they didn't do their homework and the judge calls them on lack of reasons to obtain one. The fighting of that last part is why this law is such a bad thing, because it puts even less burden on the cop to actually verify information.
Zerth's comment above is dead on - in fact this has nothing to do with that AT&T wiretaps but a legally established policy that has been around for a long time.
what's there to love? They make good games but do a ton of horrible shit. Look back at bnetd, wowglider, these are easy examples of why I will never buy blizzard ever again.
They're still having DRM, as you have to validate the game online. It's considered less onerous, but it's absolutely still trying to fight piracy with DRM.
How do you identify someone when at the same time enforcing ID when you buy the phone guarantees absolutely nothing?
oh right, you do investigative work - you get warrants - you do wiretaps, you do all the shit LE has done for years to identify someone with a cellphone.
Whether or not you require an ID to purchase a phone helps you identify a "potential" individual absolutely 0.
You don't trample over the rights of innocent citizens to catch the "bad guys". That is the example of bad law, such as the proposed law. This would neither a:make it easier to track people nor b:confirm the person registering is who they are. There is no way to enforce as such, as others have mentioned. Fake ID's, phones registered via proxies (such as other people), there are a million ways to get around this that take minimal to no effort.
Instead, you go through this thing which already exists, it's called the court/justice system. It's worked for hundreds of years, last I checked. Especially given that it's assuming this is for law enforcement or another legal entity which should be well versed in following the laws which govern them.
You know, you can track people via those warrant things already. It's called warrants for wiretaps or you can do the pen register thing, if I recall loopholes for that still exist./what a newfangled idea! *facepalm*
There's 0 reason to pay extra for hardware or software. it's a hell of a lot cheaper when you can develop in house and have no legal issues./we basically could laugh out of court any company that goes after us for software related stuff, even with patents.
Your men may be "manly", but so are all men, because you know, man-ly = man like = men.
Meanwhile, our families are not a: retarded, b: conservative (politically), c: fundies, and d: devoid of logic, and we can't say the same about you big trucks folks. Drill baby drill, huh.
We may be liberal but we are financially conservative, something you big truck err big dick wannabes wish you were.
Paying someone outside your company (aka proprietary) to write software is a hell of a lot more stupid than paying someone whom you can hire internally and keep as a developer.
Also, you know the cost of the developer, as you pay him a salary. You also know your risks, because he is employed with a contract. Costs with a proprietary third party are not as static. Lots of companies know exactly what GPL is and release their software deliberately via GPL for plenty of obvious reasons.
Linux is not the restrictive party, MS is. AS you have no guarantee that if you are a competitor to any part of their products that they won't come after you for patents.
apple is very customer centric. They are also, however, completely proprietary. So thus their products are great for the people whom windows products used to be great for. Meanwhile, anyone with a shred of technology understanding wants nothing to do with apple.
The support contracts are a drop in the bucket compared to windows licensing fees which are per-server per-core and per-seat. The bigger a company you have, the cheaper RHEL gets. Not quite with Windows, although they have a bulk pricing, the costs for each CAL still adds up.
You could have 100k employees and still be around the $20grand support costs of RHEL. This on MS would be in the hundreds of thousands range.
Plus, you don't anything for RHEL server. If you want to DIY with in-house trained RHEL developers, do it.
you can enter any link with or without http and it will still open just fine, since we have that good ole dns thing.
Meanwhile, people don't even understand "slash slash" because they're computer retarded. this just makes it a little easier. You say "go to google", they type in google and hit enter.
I am in the same ownership situation as you, however to say that android is less polished than iphone at this point is the joke itself.
Give it 2 years, and iphone won't even be in people's interest at the rate we're going.
Linux on the desktop has not been dying, it's just people are so fucking shortsighted they don't even realize how big the market share is.
Linux on the desktop? Larger market share than you think. Linux in enterprise? Have you ever even heard of an enterprise that doesn't use some form of linux? I'll give you a clue: most use windows and linux.
fragmentation spells out one thing for Android: FUD.
it's called: we don't have anything else to complain about, so lets imply the shit is weak (when it's running quite strong and becoming way more polished than iphone).
But yeah, linux is uh, dying too! I mean, fragmentation!
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IE9 is behind, but honestly? I don't think that MS *has* to fail on this. They just need to polish the shit out of everything a whole lot more than they have currently. If they can deliver an experience near-seamless as apple's, they'd have a point for contention here. Basically, they need to actually compete more.
IE9 is still in preview mode, and at best it's "current" with things as they exist today. Given that it's going to be released sometime down the road, it's not expected for it to be up to date when it becomes an RC/officially released. Everyone else basically said that to add hardware acceleration hooks is a non issue - aka firefox, webkit browsers. Which will then run significantly faster than IE still.
for once, quite accurate by the anon. Reviews about these have been inconsistent, some citing bad overclocking potential and generally being not for enthusiasts.
Meanwhile, others seem to state it's a full sweep and/or basically great .
I'm wondering if this is another scenario of handpicked engineering samples or not.
I'm not at all convinced that this is great, or horrible. Anyone care to weigh in with better comments than kdawson?
I should also add there are temporary warrants that can be issued within a few hours. So timeframe to get warrants is a crock of crap.
The only reason an office cannot get a warrant is because they didn't do their homework and the judge calls them on lack of reasons to obtain one. The fighting of that last part is why this law is such a bad thing, because it puts even less burden on the cop to actually verify information.
hahaha what? Is this a troll?
Are you really trying to base things off a TV show?
It's incredibly easy for police to track people - see here, and this is exactly it: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1667176&cid=32368692
Zerth's comment above is dead on - in fact this has nothing to do with that AT&T wiretaps but a legally established policy that has been around for a long time.
It's called: use the legal system, as it works.
what's there to love? They make good games but do a ton of horrible shit. Look back at bnetd, wowglider, these are easy examples of why I will never buy blizzard ever again.
They're still having DRM, as you have to validate the game online. It's considered less onerous, but it's absolutely still trying to fight piracy with DRM.
rocket surgeons? Do they operate on explosives or fuel?
I should add that since all cellphones have ways to be tracked with a warrant enough to determine who someone is.
In fact, assuming an ID is correct, when it cannot be verified, leads to situations where you have police raiding the wrong house or the wrong place.
How do you identify someone when at the same time enforcing ID when you buy the phone guarantees absolutely nothing?
oh right, you do investigative work - you get warrants - you do wiretaps, you do all the shit LE has done for years to identify someone with a cellphone.
Whether or not you require an ID to purchase a phone helps you identify a "potential" individual absolutely 0.
Uh, hello?
You don't trample over the rights of innocent citizens to catch the "bad guys". That is the example of bad law, such as the proposed law. This would neither a:make it easier to track people nor b:confirm the person registering is who they are. There is no way to enforce as such, as others have mentioned. Fake ID's, phones registered via proxies (such as other people), there are a million ways to get around this that take minimal to no effort.
Instead, you go through this thing which already exists, it's called the court/justice system. It's worked for hundreds of years, last I checked. Especially given that it's assuming this is for law enforcement or another legal entity which should be well versed in following the laws which govern them.
You know, you can track people via those warrant things already. It's called warrants for wiretaps or you can do the pen register thing, if I recall loopholes for that still exist. /what a newfangled idea! *facepalm*
read the other reply.
There's 0 reason to pay extra for hardware or software. it's a hell of a lot cheaper when you can develop in house and have no legal issues. /we basically could laugh out of court any company that goes after us for software related stuff, even with patents.
I don't get it. are you saying you can't do it now??
Here's how you do it: it's called go through the court system as you should.
wow. what an argument. I work with a company that would dissolve themselves and the CEO would commit seppeku before we consider OSX.
We have people who are not computer-retarded, so they do tend to understand that open source, especially for enterprise, is the way to go.
"GSK will publish details of 13,500 chemical compounds from its own library" doesn't sound like it's incomplete data.
Your men may be "manly", but so are all men, because you know, man-ly = man like = men.
Meanwhile, our families are not a: retarded, b: conservative (politically), c: fundies, and d: devoid of logic, and we can't say the same about you big trucks folks. Drill baby drill, huh.
We may be liberal but we are financially conservative, something you big truck err big dick wannabes wish you were.
yes, sorry, per CPU. Meanwhile, that doesn't happen with redhat.
Paying someone outside your company (aka proprietary) to write software is a hell of a lot more stupid than paying someone whom you can hire internally and keep as a developer.
Also, you know the cost of the developer, as you pay him a salary. You also know your risks, because he is employed with a contract. Costs with a proprietary third party are not as static. Lots of companies know exactly what GPL is and release their software deliberately via GPL for plenty of obvious reasons.
Linux is not the restrictive party, MS is. AS you have no guarantee that if you are a competitor to any part of their products that they won't come after you for patents.
apple is very customer centric. They are also, however, completely proprietary. So thus their products are great for the people whom windows products used to be great for. Meanwhile, anyone with a shred of technology understanding wants nothing to do with apple.
The support contracts are a drop in the bucket compared to windows licensing fees which are per-server per-core and per-seat. The bigger a company you have, the cheaper RHEL gets. Not quite with Windows, although they have a bulk pricing, the costs for each CAL still adds up.
You could have 100k employees and still be around the $20grand support costs of RHEL. This on MS would be in the hundreds of thousands range.
Plus, you don't anything for RHEL server. If you want to DIY with in-house trained RHEL developers, do it.
Wha? There are blizzards, snow storms, ice storms, hail and excessive temperature and pressure changes in the midwest (which lead to tornadoes).
no need to make it sound like all they have is tornadoes. Tornadoes just hit the trailer parks.
so? You still have to type in the protocol for anything other than http. again, so what?
this is legit why, exactly?
you can enter any link with or without http and it will still open just fine, since we have that good ole dns thing.
Meanwhile, people don't even understand "slash slash" because they're computer retarded. this just makes it a little easier. You say "go to google", they type in google and hit enter.
please. IE8 isn't about options. That's why bing is set as the default search engine.
see? It makes your job easier!
as a separate note,. if the technology/image quality was so amazing, the resolution would keep going up.
As is, the resolution for the technology hasn't increased significantly in probably 10 years. 5760x~2000 is the highest you can get.
I am in the same ownership situation as you, however to say that android is less polished than iphone at this point is the joke itself.
Give it 2 years, and iphone won't even be in people's interest at the rate we're going.
Linux on the desktop has not been dying, it's just people are so fucking shortsighted they don't even realize how big the market share is.
Linux on the desktop? Larger market share than you think. Linux in enterprise? Have you ever even heard of an enterprise that doesn't use some form of linux? I'll give you a clue: most use windows and linux.
fragmentation spells out one thing for Android: FUD.
it's called: we don't have anything else to complain about, so lets imply the shit is weak (when it's running quite strong and becoming way more polished than iphone).
But yeah, linux is uh, dying too! I mean, fragmentation!
Give me a break.