Read about this on my Wii last night. What I found odd is they said MS "hadn't done anything illegal" just they were investigating anticompetitive
practices, which I dont see how a raid can help that kind of investigation. Think they'd more likely to suponea emails and such.
In all of these articles that pop up the same thing pops in mind. Why are people allowed to take anything of value home with them? Information like this needs to have some kind of cvs/subversion system with it. If you need to check it out, there is a trail showing who has what, and people shouldn't be allowed to take things home, and all sensitive information needs to be encrypted whether internally or not.
Wasn't this the same company that called the GPL a virus, and spread FUD about FOSS being communist and undermining the whole industry?
Guess even the giants can change and adapt when pushed by something more pure than profits.
Would be nifty if the bot's had access to environmental sensors like a camera so it could do facial recognition on the people to detect twitching, detect very little sweating, excess heat coming off body, things to interpret lying. Just an idea, and not *that* far fetched.
Not sure why I was marked Flamebait, I have written a poke playing program, and spent the last 6 years developing a chess engine. (Though lately I've been migrating to Go) meant what I said for better or worse, wasn't flaming.
In poker you have a finite number of cards, that are a lot smaller than the permutation of moves in chess or checkers. Just the ability to count cards and do statistical analysis makes poker, blackjack, etc easier to compute in my opinion. Then again, if you had a deck of random cards and not a standard deck, that would make it a bit harder but that's not how it's really played. That would be like comparing it to chess with all queens.
Serial ports are still useful if you're into EE. Anyone else have a serial PIC burner? Know even they are going USB now, but still a lot of homebrew electronics that use serial for computer -> project i/o
It's pathetic IMO. "Converting" normal, non-technical people to using Linux is pointless. They want something that "just works,"
Nope, not at all and for the very reason you said. My girlfriend, and some of my friends were sick and tired of having Windows crap out on them, having to reload every couple months, and various other problems. They just wanted to be able to use email, search the web, im, etc.
When I loaded up Ubuntu everything "just works" and doesn't break nearly as often if at all.
That is a fairly rare occurrence, and sounds to be more hardware specific and not software. I'd bet that if you used windows you'd probably have the same problems. If the MB was acting that screwy maybe look into a BIOS update.
Been using it as a desktop since 96, and have several friends who've been using it as a desktop for more than 5 years. Even my girlfriend uses it as a desktop now, and had only 1 day to "convert" to the usage, and she's not that computer savvy.
Now it's all in the marketing and politics, but on the software side it's there.
Anyone know what kind of system they're using for connectivity? Guessing some sort of satellite system. Though I've heard they have a horrible uplink for obvious reasons. How can such a system handle requests from 50-100+ users and not freeze up because of request packet overflow.
..really isn't fair in some respects. You really should take into account land mass. Wiring an entire country the size of New York I'll bet is a lot easier than wiring an entire country the size of Europe! Which more or less the US is.
When I hear stats like that I prefer to compare Germany broadband to New York, or France to California. If you take size into matter there are going to be countries like Yugoslavia which would equate to Kentucky in the US. I wont argue there is a monopoly here, but it would be very hard for a startup to wire the whole US of A. That's a lot of mileage for laying cable. That's why I had such strong interest in how Google is going to do it. They bought up a lot of dark fiber and now the airwaves. They might be the 3rd party hopefully not corrupted by a 100 year monopoly and can pull us ahead.
If these numbers are true, for me these are the best statistic for actual Vista growth. I tend not to believe the MS numbers, as I'm sure there is a decent port of people who bought a PC with Vista pre-loaded only to wipe it and put XP on.
Since people are being pretty harse. From a lot of references I've read over the years most refer to Mexico as a 3rd world country. As for africa, I was referring to it as a continent since pretty much every country (except for Egypt) seems to be at the developmental state. Besides the nit picking, the point is more important.
I'm glad they're doing this, as other have posted, it'll give a kid some way to break behind their social barrier. But we should allow kids in the US the same opportunity.
Understand your feeling. It's kinda sad, pharm companies are like any company are are trying to make a profit. There's not profit in a cure, but a lot in treatments. Why sell a single shot cure, when you can people to pay monthly for the rest of their life, just to keep them living. Sad..sad.. sad
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Read about this on my Wii last night. What I found odd is they said MS "hadn't done anything illegal" just they were investigating anticompetitive practices, which I dont see how a raid can help that kind of investigation. Think they'd more likely to suponea emails and such.
What is this ID protection that keeps coming up in here? I haven't heard anything about it.
In all of these articles that pop up the same thing pops in mind. Why are people allowed to take anything of value home with them? Information like this needs to have some kind of cvs/subversion system with it. If you need to check it out, there is a trail showing who has what, and people shouldn't be allowed to take things home, and all sensitive information needs to be encrypted whether internally or not.
Wasn't this the same company that called the GPL a virus, and spread FUD about FOSS being communist and undermining the whole industry? Guess even the giants can change and adapt when pushed by something more pure than profits.
Would be nifty if the bot's had access to environmental sensors like a camera so it could do facial recognition on the people to detect twitching, detect very little sweating, excess heat coming off body, things to interpret lying. Just an idea, and not *that* far fetched.
Not sure why I was marked Flamebait, I have written a poke playing program, and spent the last 6 years developing a chess engine. (Though lately I've been migrating to Go) meant what I said for better or worse, wasn't flaming.
In poker you have a finite number of cards, that are a lot smaller than the permutation of moves in chess or checkers. Just the ability to count cards and do statistical analysis makes poker, blackjack, etc easier to compute in my opinion. Then again, if you had a deck of random cards and not a standard deck, that would make it a bit harder but that's not how it's really played. That would be like comparing it to chess with all queens.
here just a couple days ago. Not sure how much better they are, but they are making some efforts.
Serial ports are still useful if you're into EE. Anyone else have a serial PIC burner? Know even they are going USB now, but still a lot of homebrew electronics that use serial for computer -> project i/o
Orwell must be looking down and shaking his head.
If it's as smooth as the Intel C compilers this ought to be a treat. Now if only they'd release the icc under a similiar license.
Can also check out this link for more info here
Nope, not at all and for the very reason you said. My girlfriend, and some of my friends were sick and tired of having Windows crap out on them, having to reload every couple months, and various other problems. They just wanted to be able to use email, search the web, im, etc.
When I loaded up Ubuntu everything "just works" and doesn't break nearly as often if at all.
That is a fairly rare occurrence, and sounds to be more hardware specific and not software. I'd bet that if you used windows you'd probably have the same problems. If the MB was acting that screwy maybe look into a BIOS update.
Really? does it run under vanilla wine, or does it require some proprietary version like the one used for games (forget that is called).
Photoshop, everything else I need is available under the GPL just an apt-get away.
Now it's all in the marketing and politics, but on the software side it's there.
Anyone know what kind of system they're using for connectivity? Guessing some sort of satellite system. Though I've heard they have a horrible uplink for obvious reasons. How can such a system handle requests from 50-100+ users and not freeze up because of request packet overflow.
When I hear stats like that I prefer to compare Germany broadband to New York, or France to California. If you take size into matter there are going to be countries like Yugoslavia which would equate to Kentucky in the US. I wont argue there is a monopoly here, but it would be very hard for a startup to wire the whole US of A. That's a lot of mileage for laying cable. That's why I had such strong interest in how Google is going to do it. They bought up a lot of dark fiber and now the airwaves. They might be the 3rd party hopefully not corrupted by a 100 year monopoly and can pull us ahead.
egcs was a fork of the gcc tree, and had some nice pentium optimization back in the day. See link.
How will this impact Apple given that Safari uses it. Also after the unfork they decide to go the GPL3 route.
I don't see Myspace being a threat to TV as much as YouTube.
If these numbers are true, for me these are the best statistic for actual Vista growth. I tend not to believe the MS numbers, as I'm sure there is a decent port of people who bought a PC with Vista pre-loaded only to wipe it and put XP on.
Since people are being pretty harse. From a lot of references I've read over the years most refer to Mexico as a 3rd world country. As for africa, I was referring to it as a continent since pretty much every country (except for Egypt) seems to be at the developmental state. Besides the nit picking, the point is more important. I'm glad they're doing this, as other have posted, it'll give a kid some way to break behind their social barrier. But we should allow kids in the US the same opportunity.
Understand your feeling. It's kinda sad, pharm companies are like any company are are trying to make a profit. There's not profit in a cure, but a lot in treatments. Why sell a single shot cure, when you can people to pay monthly for the rest of their life, just to keep them living. Sad..sad.. sad