The consumer survey was conducted in October 2006. Respondents were provided a photo and description of the Microsoft Zune device before being asked about their likelihood to choose it over a competitive MP3 player..
The respondents were not even able to see the Microsoft player, just a picture of it. And who knows what the description said.
The EULA will tell you what is and is not allowed. The articles only present the spin that Microsoft wants you to hear. When push comes to shove, the EULA, not the articles, will govern.
...Just by way of example, what about a security researcher who a year or so from now wants to compare the buffer overflow vulnerabilities of the original version of Vista with the inevitable SP1? Under Microsoft's rules, the researcher could not make public the results of the older version of the software. And if you think it highly unlikely Microsoft would actually object to the benchmarks in such circumstances, think again. In 2001 Microsoft came down on an independent lab that was about to go public with performance benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Windows 2000 (). Since neither the NT or Win 2000 EULAs had censorship clauses at the time, Redmond even went to the extreme of invoking the clause in SQL Server, since it was used in the lab's tests.
All it will do is make people not trust the phishing stuff, and turn it off.
I am less than happy about Microsoft monitoring my surfing habits under the guise of phishing prevention. I wonder how long before that information will be used against me by the MPAA or the RIAA, since Microsoft is in bed with those associations already.
The real reason for the kernel DRM is to lock down the media content as much as possible. Microsoft doesn't care about its users getting infected by adware and viruses, Microsoft cares about the media content providers forking over royalty payments for using Windows Media.
When the Windows DRM was cracked, how long did it take for Microsoft to issue a fix? A couple of days.
When there is an IE security issue, how long does it take for Microsoft to issue a fix? Weeks, months, sometimes not at all.
An even easier solution - significantly improve the quality of the existing commercial stations. All I listen to nowadays are college and non-commercial stations (usually below 92MHz on the FM dial). That's the only place in the airwaves that you can hear any manner of free-form radio, radio with creativity.
The author trieds to come across as an authority on security. He should have been more specific, and not leave his opinion open to such a wide interpretation.
My statement is not only valid in theory, it is also valid based upon the erronous information the author asserted.
When the author makes statements like, Character length means little if your passwords dont have upper and lower case letters.?
The author is saying that a 20 character all lower-case password is no better than a 5 character password that has both upper and lower case characters. That is just plain wrong.
What other significant fallacies are there in the article?
Beautiful use of statistics and just the sort of thing that the Flickr board of directors can take to their marketing meetings.
In actuality, it is horrible use of statistics. The numbers are little more than a popularity contest, showing the more popular cameras, not necessarily the better cameras. If you want to use a camera that a lot of other people are using, then follow what the numbers show. However, that will not guarantee that you will get a camera that actually meets you needs.
To the point of your message, accuracy has never stood in the way of marketing in the past, no reason to change that now.
... a means to determine your suitability for a job.
The interview process is the means to determine your non-suitability for a job. During the interview process, employers are looking for some reason, any reason, not to hire you. A credit check is just another way for the employer to find a reason why you should not be hired.
I never understood this MS terminology. From my point of view a Release Candidate is in a shape that I could just recompile the software without the debugging symbols if no major bugs are reported.
You are not desperately trying to get a laughingly late and buggy product out the door more than three years after it was due to ship.
The thing I like about the Thinkpads (aside from their ruggedness) is the system software update ability. It's like a Windows Update that is tailored to the software you have on your ThinkPad, and (unlike Windows Update) it works!:)
I run Windows 2000 on my ThinkPad and the drivers and programs for that OS are still being kept up to date. When I did a reinstall of Windows 2000 a few months ago, I just installed vanilla Windows 2000, loaded the ThinkPad update program from my archive, ran it, and all the drivers necessary to support the ThinkPad hardware features were downloaded and installed.
It seems the National Cable & Telecommunications Association is spreading a blatant lie in the form of a commercial claiming that the net neutrality act will cost the consumer more and that it is "bad" for the consumer.
Just look how the BP petroleum company runs all those corporate image advertisements that say how much BP cares about the environment.
But good articles are a resource that the people is available to protect and restore (the "single click"). It is in their interest to do so.
Bad articles are not a resource for the people, so they have no interest in protect or restore them. No[t] even the people that write them.
It is not "good articles" vs. "bad articles" per se. It is more that any topic where there is an intent to present an opinion, will have that opinion maintained - regardless of whether it is a correct or incorrect opinion.
So then it becomes an issue of what articles are being maintained by those whose opinions reflect the correctness of the topic. A determined person with an incorrect opinion will win out over a less-determined person with the correct opinion.
Yahoo's financials have not been that great lately. They recently overhauled their message boards, and the result is so bad that their message board traffic plummeted.
Yahoo has a problem - not enough traffic to their content sites. This lame ploy is some marketing person's failed attempt to drive up traffic.
Isn't a release candidate supposed to be the hey, this is what we plan to release, tell us how it works, not we're not done yet, we are still adding features.
This quickly attracted many thousands of visitors, some of whom contacted me to share similar stories with me.
Talking to a few people associated with some Apple Authorized Resellers & Service Providers found they had seen this failure many times before.
"some of whom", "many times" ???
How many millions of these things were sold, how many had problems? Until we know those numbers, this is nothing more than someone sitting in a room by himself and starting a fight so he has something to blog.
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Let's see, what other companies has Microsoft partnered with in order to improve Windows interoperability? 3Com, Sybase....
That conclusion has already been shown to be biased by the survey's poor methodology.
Comparing a paper description of Microsoft's player to other real-world players is yet another example of the survey's poor methodology.
This whole thing smacks of a typical Microsoft attempt to create a positive buzz for a product relsase.
The consumer survey was conducted in October 2006. Respondents were provided a photo and description of the Microsoft Zune device before being asked about their likelihood to choose it over a competitive MP3 player..
The respondents were not even able to see the Microsoft player, just a picture of it. And who knows what the description said.
I wonder if Microsoft paid for this survey?
The EULA will tell you what is and is not allowed. The articles only present the spin that Microsoft wants you to hear. When push comes to shove, the EULA, not the articles, will govern.
I am less than happy about Microsoft monitoring my surfing habits under the guise of phishing prevention. I wonder how long before that information will be used against me by the MPAA or the RIAA, since Microsoft is in bed with those associations already.
When the Windows DRM was cracked, how long did it take for Microsoft to issue a fix? A couple of days.
When there is an IE security issue, how long does it take for Microsoft to issue a fix? Weeks, months, sometimes not at all.
Security requires control and restriction of physical access. Unless and until you can secure those drill bits, security will always be an issue.
Looks like Windows 2003 servers at the Department of Commerce.
My statement is not only valid in theory, it is also valid based upon the erronous information the author asserted.
The author is saying that a 20 character all lower-case password is no better than a 5 character password that has both upper and lower case characters. That is just plain wrong.
What other significant fallacies are there in the article?
In actuality, it is horrible use of statistics. The numbers are little more than a popularity contest, showing the more popular cameras, not necessarily the better cameras. If you want to use a camera that a lot of other people are using, then follow what the numbers show. However, that will not guarantee that you will get a camera that actually meets you needs.
To the point of your message, accuracy has never stood in the way of marketing in the past, no reason to change that now.
Leap to conclusions much? I was not describing myself nor my current employer, but the trends I've seen in the employment marketplace.
The interview process is the means to determine your non-suitability for a job. During the interview process, employers are looking for some reason, any reason, not to hire you. A credit check is just another way for the employer to find a reason why you should not be hired.
You are not desperately trying to get a laughingly late and buggy product out the door more than three years after it was due to ship.
I run Windows 2000 on my ThinkPad and the drivers and programs for that OS are still being kept up to date. When I did a reinstall of Windows 2000 a few months ago, I just installed vanilla Windows 2000, loaded the ThinkPad update program from my archive, ran it, and all the drivers necessary to support the ThinkPad hardware features were downloaded and installed.
Nice, very nice.
Just look how the BP petroleum company runs all those corporate image advertisements that say how much BP cares about the environment.
It is not "good articles" vs. "bad articles" per se. It is more that any topic where there is an intent to present an opinion, will have that opinion maintained - regardless of whether it is a correct or incorrect opinion.
So then it becomes an issue of what articles are being maintained by those whose opinions reflect the correctness of the topic. A determined person with an incorrect opinion will win out over a less-determined person with the correct opinion.
Yahoo's financials have not been that great lately. They recently overhauled their message boards, and the result is so bad that their message board traffic plummeted.
Yahoo has a problem - not enough traffic to their content sites. This lame ploy is some marketing person's failed attempt to drive up traffic.
Isn't a release candidate supposed to be the hey, this is what we plan to release, tell us how it works, not we're not done yet, we are still adding features.
You can return to any bad state with a click as well. :)
You still have not substantiated why the dynamics are in favor of good articles, you merely asserted it.
What makes us such experts? How does more people changing things make the WikiPedia a more reliable source?
Last I read, the entropy of the universe is increasing. Why is WikiPedia exempt from universal laws?
Microsoft has always said one thing and done another. No one will know whether or not IE7 is standards compliant until it is released.
This quickly attracted many thousands of visitors, some of whom contacted me to share similar stories with me.
Talking to a few people associated with some Apple Authorized Resellers & Service Providers found they had seen this failure many times before.
"some of whom", "many times" ???
How many millions of these things were sold, how many had problems? Until we know those numbers, this is nothing more than someone sitting in a room by himself and starting a fight so he has something to blog.