Um, are you sure you replied to the right comment. I see that you quoted the word 'stuff'. Well, I never used that word in my comments, so what are you refering to?
And I never said anything about anything being free. So just what are you talking about?
VMWare is already a popular product. It's more popular than all it's competitors. In order to compete with it MS MUST allow compatibility with Linux. Otherwise they might as well write off that product and try something else.
It seems the Linux Cancer is starting to eat away at some of MS's rhetoric. Seems to me this is a pure example of the market dictating terms to the product providers.
It's about time. Corporate lobby groups instigated the DCMA to control market factors, such as competition. It's about time stupid corporate-whore laws like this start hurting corporations that try to use them to control competition.
And they will suffer. My fist thought when I read this was I'm not buying a camera that *can't* work with Photoshop. I mean, there will be plenty of other cameras of similar specs on the market that will work with PS. All Nikon has done is put it's own product at at disadvantage.
My only complaint is that sometimes FF crashes when it encounters some web pages it doesn't like. It's not all that rare either.
I'll be loading up a bunch of tabs from my RSS Reader and *BAM* FF crashes and I have to start over. Some pages I can *NEVER* read because FF crashes every single time I try to load them. And we're not talking about sites like lunixsucks.org, we're talking news sites and such...
And ya, after upgrading you have to reinstall all the extensions you want 1 at a time. That's a pain in the ass as I use a lot of extensions. A mass installer would be cool. Even if you could drag and drop a bunch of.xpi files all at once and have a dialoug come up asking for permission for all of them... that would be nice.
Basically it sites some legitimate studies that say the effect of piracy on music and movies is nil.
This supports what I've always said about this issue: It's not the money they're (distribution industry/RIAA/MPAA) losing, it's the control.
Not only can they no longer control how people use their music (ie you have to buy multiple copies to have the same music in you car, portable player, and home stereo), but with recent innovations on the Internet their business model is becoming obselete.
What innovation am I talking about? I'm talking about the reversal of one of the prime factors in internet distribution of data: supporting high popularity means spending more money on bandwidth or declining access to the service. Well, with innovations like BitTorrent the more popular something is the better the access to it is. Ya sure it's not perfect, but IT DOES reverse the bandwidth vs popularity problem.
This type of technology enables ANYONE to distribute their content effectively. This will eliminate the need for big powerful distribution companies. Ya, I'd be freaking out too if I were them.
Who's rules do you follow on the Internet? The rules of: The country you're in? or the country who's hosting the site/service you're using?
What about conflicting copyright laws, criminal laws, and taxes? And who decides?
How does the physical location of your host affect this? What if you have a web-based retail company in Country[X] but you got a better web hosting package in Country[Y]. Technically the business is done in Country[Y], but the money goes to Country[X]. What taxes do you pay?
These issues are not going to be easy to figure out.
I'm an 'in house' computer tech. It's my sole occupation. I don't work on a helpdesk, not that there's anything wrong with that, I actually bring the machine to my desk and repair it.
For a while I tried to work independantly. I paid for some advertising and got a little work. Do you know what I found out. People (consumers, not businesses) don't want to spend money on computer repairs. And when they do they usually hire the wrong people.
I don't mind saying that I'm very good at what I do. And working for myself I had the freedom to do whatever I had to do to please the customer. That stands in contrast to what most 'store techs' have the freedom to do for the customer. They can only do what the customer is paying for... in other words, no extras, no 'going the extra mile'.
The end result was things like this kindly old lady (my first customer) paying $90/hour for some jerk to format and reinstall her pc. And he didn't update windows or tell her about doing so. WTF is that? 3 Months later she needed more work done....
So when I formatted her machine I made sure to instruct her on how to get updates. I made sure to give her a quick tutorial on security in general. I also told her she could ask me questions in the future via email if she forgot anything. And I did all of that *for free* because I care about the service I provide.
I think that a lot of 'rent a tech' types don't really give a damn about what the customer is going through because they're only getting paid $8/hour. (In Canada thats crappy pay).
But do you know what the funny part is? I worked for about half to a third of what my competitors charged. But they were from the big computer stores so I could charge less and make more... but that's irrelevent to the customer. But I found that most people didn't want to pay me, they would wait until it was so bad they couldn't do anything and then they'd take it to a 'store tech' and get crappy service.
So ya, no wonder people think the 'average' tech is a dumbass. It's because the tech is from Big O'l Retail Store and doesn't really give a damn.
You want good computer work, then find someone that does it exclusively. Ask for references. Shop around. But whatever you do don't pay $90/hour for an $8/hour tech to give you $8/hour-quality service.
Something I've worked with is a VMWare Server. You can serve out a windows image, to linux or whatever else, and make the VMWare image run in a temporary space. I don't remember what the setting is called but it doesn't keep any changes you make, as soon as you kill the session you have to start over.
You can also use this with AFS so that your files are always available to you when you boot the virtual windows.
If you get a problem, just restart the VMWare session. Within minutes you have a brand new windows box (virtual) to play with.
Security is also centralized as the admin only has to update the master image on the server.
I've seen this done. It works great. Or at least it did with Windows 98. I've never seen it done with NT 5+ (2k/XP).
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But, like I've said before:
If this movie doesn't live up to my obsessive, hyper-critical standards I'm going to kill myself!!one1
I think a bazillion jedi-robe wearing, still a virgin SW fans would disagree with you.
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And... "I find your lack of faith, disturbing."
I for one welcome our new pinko-commie liberal linux loving douchebag overlords.
Are you saying most everyone is basically a whore to Walmart?
I feel... I feel so dirty.
Sir, I challenge you to a duel!
*smacks you insultingly with my gloves*
Gee, I thought most linux users were members of Slashdot.
Wow, I've never been impressed by France before today.
LMAO
Um, are you sure you replied to the right comment. I see that you quoted the word 'stuff'. Well, I never used that word in my comments, so what are you refering to?
And I never said anything about anything being free. So just what are you talking about?
VMWare is already a popular product. It's more popular than all it's competitors. In order to compete with it MS MUST allow compatibility with Linux. Otherwise they might as well write off that product and try something else.
It seems the Linux Cancer is starting to eat away at some of MS's rhetoric. Seems to me this is a pure example of the market dictating terms to the product providers.
Nice.
Someday the term 'Internet access' will be replaced with 'Google access'.
Google is the idea Pinky and The Brain should have had.
Another example of how Evil Microsoft is?
*yawn*
Next...
It's about time. Corporate lobby groups instigated the DCMA to control market factors, such as competition. It's about time stupid corporate-whore laws like this start hurting corporations that try to use them to control competition.
And they will suffer. My fist thought when I read this was I'm not buying a camera that *can't* work with Photoshop. I mean, there will be plenty of other cameras of similar specs on the market that will work with PS. All Nikon has done is put it's own product at at disadvantage.
Way to go Nikon, you did it to yourself.
OMFG if episode 3 doesn't live up to my ultra critical, obsessive standards I'm going to kill myself!!!
My only complaint is that sometimes FF crashes when it encounters some web pages it doesn't like. It's not all that rare either.
.xpi files all at once and have a dialoug come up asking for permission for all of them... that would be nice.
I'll be loading up a bunch of tabs from my RSS Reader and *BAM* FF crashes and I have to start over. Some pages I can *NEVER* read because FF crashes every single time I try to load them. And we're not talking about sites like lunixsucks.org, we're talking news sites and such...
And ya, after upgrading you have to reinstall all the extensions you want 1 at a time. That's a pain in the ass as I use a lot of extensions. A mass installer would be cool. Even if you could drag and drop a bunch of
Oh, I guess that's two complaints...
I purchased, yes I said purchased, this game on Saturday afternoon and basically did nothing else until I had to go to work this morning.
I LOVE THIS GAME. It's sooooo good. 10/10.
Yoda says: "A mathalete you are not".
They couldn't beat Dell in the PC products market so they think "products suck, services are the way!"
Well just because YOU (IBM) can't make your products business profitable doesn't mean the products business is not profitable.
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/03/ 28/the_revenge_of_sapirwhorf.php
Basically it sites some legitimate studies that say the effect of piracy on music and movies is nil.
This supports what I've always said about this issue: It's not the money they're (distribution industry/RIAA/MPAA) losing, it's the control.
Not only can they no longer control how people use their music (ie you have to buy multiple copies to have the same music in you car, portable player, and home stereo), but with recent innovations on the Internet their business model is becoming obselete.
What innovation am I talking about? I'm talking about the reversal of one of the prime factors in internet distribution of data: supporting high popularity means spending more money on bandwidth or declining access to the service. Well, with innovations like BitTorrent the more popular something is the better the access to it is. Ya sure it's not perfect, but IT DOES reverse the bandwidth vs popularity problem.
This type of technology enables ANYONE to distribute their content effectively. This will eliminate the need for big powerful distribution companies. Ya, I'd be freaking out too if I were them.
Who's rules do you follow on the Internet? The rules of: The country you're in? or the country who's hosting the site/service you're using?
What about conflicting copyright laws, criminal laws, and taxes? And who decides?
How does the physical location of your host affect this? What if you have a web-based retail company in Country[X] but you got a better web hosting package in Country[Y]. Technically the business is done in Country[Y], but the money goes to Country[X]. What taxes do you pay?
These issues are not going to be easy to figure out.
I'm an 'in house' computer tech. It's my sole occupation. I don't work on a helpdesk, not that there's anything wrong with that, I actually bring the machine to my desk and repair it.
For a while I tried to work independantly. I paid for some advertising and got a little work. Do you know what I found out. People (consumers, not businesses) don't want to spend money on computer repairs. And when they do they usually hire the wrong people.
I don't mind saying that I'm very good at what I do. And working for myself I had the freedom to do whatever I had to do to please the customer. That stands in contrast to what most 'store techs' have the freedom to do for the customer. They can only do what the customer is paying for... in other words, no extras, no 'going the extra mile'.
The end result was things like this kindly old lady (my first customer) paying $90/hour for some jerk to format and reinstall her pc. And he didn't update windows or tell her about doing so. WTF is that? 3 Months later she needed more work done....
So when I formatted her machine I made sure to instruct her on how to get updates. I made sure to give her a quick tutorial on security in general. I also told her she could ask me questions in the future via email if she forgot anything. And I did all of that *for free* because I care about the service I provide.
I think that a lot of 'rent a tech' types don't really give a damn about what the customer is going through because they're only getting paid $8/hour. (In Canada thats crappy pay).
But do you know what the funny part is? I worked for about half to a third of what my competitors charged. But they were from the big computer stores so I could charge less and make more... but that's irrelevent to the customer. But I found that most people didn't want to pay me, they would wait until it was so bad they couldn't do anything and then they'd take it to a 'store tech' and get crappy service.
So ya, no wonder people think the 'average' tech is a dumbass. It's because the tech is from Big O'l Retail Store and doesn't really give a damn.
You want good computer work, then find someone that does it exclusively. Ask for references. Shop around. But whatever you do don't pay $90/hour for an $8/hour tech to give you $8/hour-quality service.
Something I've worked with is a VMWare Server. You can serve out a windows image, to linux or whatever else, and make the VMWare image run in a temporary space. I don't remember what the setting is called but it doesn't keep any changes you make, as soon as you kill the session you have to start over.
You can also use this with AFS so that your files are always available to you when you boot the virtual windows.
If you get a problem, just restart the VMWare session. Within minutes you have a brand new windows box (virtual) to play with.
Security is also centralized as the admin only has to update the master image on the server.
I've seen this done. It works great. Or at least it did with Windows 98. I've never seen it done with NT 5+ (2k/XP).
OMG! Do you know what this means!?!?!
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No really, please tell me. I haven't a clue...
I think they've morphed into some sort of wierd cult.
First they delisted themselves from reality, now from NASDAQ. What's next, are they all going to kill themselves when the next comet passes by?
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(sits and waits for the obligitory: "I for one welcome our new comet overlords..." joke.)
I just finished playing a pacman marathon. Now I want to run around taking bites out of everything I see!
ARRRRGGGGGG!