Language change happens, the English language is a great example of this. How many of you read Beowulf to your kids at night in the original old English?
Do you speak Middle-English or Shakespeare in casual conversation? The language changes. Except for the Tower of Babel incident, people don't just wake up one day and decide "OK, today we're not going to speak Old English anymore, we'll speak Middle English now.".
No problem with PDF creator (search sourceforge for it). It's not as seamless as OSX, but gives print-to-PDF functionality to anything that can print in Windows (not just MS Office).
In audio WAV format, sure. But there are other ways to code audio that take a lot less space, if pure audio and fidelity are not requirements. MIDI for example, or in the case of the article, SID. You don't record the sound, you record information about the sound that you run back through a synthesizer.
I've seen this suggestion several times now, and it raises a question...
If someone has stolen a CC that says "see ID" and can produce a forged ID with their picture and a name that matches the card, isn't this actually LESS secure than putting a signature on the card?
This makes credit card fraud as easy as getting into a bar under-age.
Am I missing something obvious that makes "See ID" a better choice?
Do we love or hate capitalism here this week - I can never tell?
Lucas was a creative guy with an idea that worked. It became a business. I think Lucas is a far better business man than he is a creative man. Judge this by the success of the franchise and merchandising compared to the quality of the written dialog.
Without a moral judgement on purity of art, etc... Lucas is simply doing what any shrewd business owner does... Market the franchise. Find ways to resell an old product in new packaging, and keep the money flowing in.
By the logic of this responses to the article this means either
1) All the article posting is done by contractors in India, OR
2) Articles to view in India are posted by contractors.
Oracle has been a big proponent of Linux as long as it has been feasible. To Oracle the OS is irrelevant, but Uncle Larry would really like your money to come to him and not Bill. IIRC, Oracle has contributed a lot of real programming to the scalability and clustering ability of [Red Hat] linux to advance their own products (such as RAC).
Dell - this one confuses me. Dell sells HARDWARE - who cares what OS is installed, right? <tinfoil> Unless Michael Dell has an incentive for Windows to succeed because they get discounts and kickbacks for the OS??? </tinfoil>
EDS - not enough insight to comment.
CISCO - <tinfoil> Cisco would only care on the assumption that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows, so that would reduce the market for Cisco security products. </tinfoil>.
EMC - You sell storage solutions. Why do you care? Other than once people are in the habit of letting the money flow for high-end hardware and by-the-tush-licensing, they are desensitized to the pain of paying for EMC hardware. With Linux in the equation, EMC becomes a bigger percent of the expense on paper, so its harder for IT to "sell" to accounting.
If you itemize, tax preparation expenses (going to H&RB or buying software) is a deductible expense. It doesn't make it free (as in beer), but you are not paying out any more than you would in taxes anyway (free as in ipod?), and the money goes to an industry to pay a person, rather than the IRS. Begin open debate on whether you prefer your $70 to go to an "Evil Corporation" or the "Evil Government".
Ohio has a law like this - they call it "Use Tax" and it applies to any product purchased by Internet or Mail order. I've never figured out how they detect or enforce it though. (?)
I agree completely. I was ignoring the tax-everybody-for-services-they-don't-use issue, since that is thoroughly discussed here often, and focusing on the competition aspect.
I don't see this stifling any competition, but encouraging it. The City has to buy their bandwidth from somebody, right? And set up the hotspots? No city is going to form a bureau of wi-fi-management (ok, maybe they would) -- they'll contract the whole thing to the lowest bidder. Hence, competition among network suppliers.
Who are the network suppliers? Oh yeah, the big telco's. So they still get their money. They just don't get to set profit margins as high because they have to be low bidder to get the contract. Would this make an interesting alternative to legislating price controls? The city is simply a big customer, and market forces rule.
"...MS Money which ended up dominating the accounting software field in the 32-bit arena."
Hardly dominating. They only started focusing on MS Money when their attempt to buy Intuit/Quicken failed.
Seems to me Quicken would still be considered the big dog... Quicken Interchange Format is ubiquitous. What is MS Money's interchange format?
If you are just looking at installed base, that is different than usage base, since MS did the "give away MS money for free" gimmick like they did with IE. It didn't kill Quicken the way it killed pay-per-license Netscape.
The whole difference between broadcast and cable is broadcast is in the public domain. Anyone with the proper equipment can receive the signal and hear/view the content. What comes over the air is regulated for "the public good".
Cable and Satellite are closed non-public systems. You pay for the ability to receive and/or decode their signals. It is a private transaction, and should not be subject to regulation.
This would be akin to saying p1*yb0y cannot publish material of their choice for their private subscribers.
Now, I try to limit my intake of indecent material, and I certainly screen for my kids. But that is the whole point, to me. My responsibility, My rights to view what I have payed to receive in the form originally produced. I don't need the government babysitting me and my kids.
How do you propose distributing the latest patches to oems to distributors to retailers in a timely manner? A pc can sit in a box for weeks or months from time of packaging to time of purchase. How many patches can MS release during that time?
Say you leave it to the retailer to pass out a free CD with patches with every box. Do they get a fresh shipment of CD's weekly? Who pays for the shipping on those?
Logistically, its not feasible for business.
Best approach I've seen:
Buy a machine. Buy Norton Ghost.
Ghost it to a second HD or external drive before putting it on any network.
Disconnect ghost drive.
Connect to the net to pull down patches/drivers/virus updates/zone alarm.
Disconnect from the network - burn downloads to CD/DVD
Re-install the ghost taken above
Apply patches, etc from CD/DVD
Reconnect to internet with a safe PC.
Slow internet connection - not much you can do about that with any update, these days. Go over to your buddy's house with cable and download the files there. Apply patches to your new PC before connecting to the net.
Umm, please tell me why my understanding is wrong here...
!(x-x) evaluates to !(0)
!(0) evalutes to 1, which is interpreted as true
so.. if(!(x-x)) would always evaluate to TRUE, correct??
Is my C memory THAT far out of whack?
It does note that washing machines are exempt from this particular matter.
Depending on the electronics in your washing machine, there is a good chance it qualifies as a Class B computing device and is subject to FCC interference regulations.
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Do you speak Middle-English or Shakespeare in casual conversation? The language changes. Except for the Tower of Babel incident, people don't just wake up one day and decide "OK, today we're not going to speak Old English anymore, we'll speak Middle English now.".
Language change is inevitable and will continue.
No problem with PDF creator (search sourceforge for it). It's not as seamless as OSX, but gives print-to-PDF functionality to anything that can print in Windows (not just MS Office).
In audio WAV format, sure. But there are other ways to code audio that take a lot less space, if pure audio and fidelity are not requirements. MIDI for example, or in the case of the article, SID. You don't record the sound, you record information about the sound that you run back through a synthesizer.
Those revolutionary days when Windows will run without bogging down the latest 128-bit 1.21THz processor and not crash.
Nanoo, Nanoo!
If someone has stolen a CC that says "see ID" and can produce a forged ID with their picture and a name that matches the card, isn't this actually LESS secure than putting a signature on the card?
This makes credit card fraud as easy as getting into a bar under-age.
Am I missing something obvious that makes "See ID" a better choice?
Lucas was a creative guy with an idea that worked. It became a business. I think Lucas is a far better business man than he is a creative man. Judge this by the success of the franchise and merchandising compared to the quality of the written dialog.
Without a moral judgement on purity of art, etc... Lucas is simply doing what any shrewd business owner does... Market the franchise. Find ways to resell an old product in new packaging, and keep the money flowing in.
I only have to worry about whether I left the coffee pot on.
By the logic of this responses to the article this means either
1) All the article posting is done by contractors in India, OR
2) Articles to view in India are posted by contractors.
MS - Given. Competition
SUN - Given. Competition with a very similar OS
Oracle has been a big proponent of Linux as long as it has been feasible. To Oracle the OS is irrelevant, but Uncle Larry would really like your money to come to him and not Bill. IIRC, Oracle has contributed a lot of real programming to the scalability and clustering ability of [Red Hat] linux to advance their own products (such as RAC).
Dell - this one confuses me. Dell sells HARDWARE - who cares what OS is installed, right? <tinfoil> Unless Michael Dell has an incentive for Windows to succeed because they get discounts and kickbacks for the OS??? </tinfoil>
EDS - not enough insight to comment.
CISCO - <tinfoil> Cisco would only care on the assumption that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows, so that would reduce the market for Cisco security products. </tinfoil>.
EMC - You sell storage solutions. Why do you care? Other than once people are in the habit of letting the money flow for high-end hardware and by-the-tush-licensing, they are desensitized to the pain of paying for EMC hardware. With Linux in the equation, EMC becomes a bigger percent of the expense on paper, so its harder for IT to "sell" to accounting.
+1 Informative, -1 Flamebait = My $0.02
If you itemize, tax preparation expenses (going to H&RB or buying software) is a deductible expense. It doesn't make it free (as in beer), but you are not paying out any more than you would in taxes anyway (free as in ipod?), and the money goes to an industry to pay a person, rather than the IRS. Begin open debate on whether you prefer your $70 to go to an "Evil Corporation" or the "Evil Government".
Ohio has a law like this - they call it "Use Tax" and it applies to any product purchased by Internet or Mail order. I've never figured out how they detect or enforce it though. (?)
I agree completely. I was ignoring the tax-everybody-for-services-they-don't-use issue, since that is thoroughly discussed here often, and focusing on the competition aspect.
Who are the network suppliers? Oh yeah, the big telco's. So they still get their money. They just don't get to set profit margins as high because they have to be low bidder to get the contract. Would this make an interesting alternative to legislating price controls? The city is simply a big customer, and market forces rule.
Hardly dominating. They only started focusing on MS Money when their attempt to buy Intuit/Quicken failed.
Seems to me Quicken would still be considered the big dog... Quicken Interchange Format is ubiquitous. What is MS Money's interchange format?
If you are just looking at installed base, that is different than usage base, since MS did the "give away MS money for free" gimmick like they did with IE. It didn't kill Quicken the way it killed pay-per-license Netscape.
And then thanks to cel quality, you often have to shout anyway.
If I recall, they tried this several years ago with an interactive Barney the Dinosaur. Anyone remember "Actimates"?
No, we have replaced the Red Swingline and it will be taken from you now.
The whole difference between broadcast and cable is broadcast is in the public domain. Anyone with the proper equipment can receive the signal and hear/view the content. What comes over the air is regulated for "the public good". Cable and Satellite are closed non-public systems. You pay for the ability to receive and/or decode their signals. It is a private transaction, and should not be subject to regulation. This would be akin to saying p1*yb0y cannot publish material of their choice for their private subscribers. Now, I try to limit my intake of indecent material, and I certainly screen for my kids. But that is the whole point, to me. My responsibility, My rights to view what I have payed to receive in the form originally produced. I don't need the government babysitting me and my kids.
How do you propose distributing the latest patches to oems to distributors to retailers in a timely manner? A pc can sit in a box for weeks or months from time of packaging to time of purchase. How many patches can MS release during that time?
Say you leave it to the retailer to pass out a free CD with patches with every box. Do they get a fresh shipment of CD's weekly? Who pays for the shipping on those?
Logistically, its not feasible for business.
Best approach I've seen:
Buy a machine. Buy Norton Ghost.
Ghost it to a second HD or external drive before putting it on any network.
Disconnect ghost drive.
Connect to the net to pull down patches/drivers/virus updates/zone alarm.
Disconnect from the network - burn downloads to CD/DVD
Re-install the ghost taken above
Apply patches, etc from CD/DVD
Reconnect to internet with a safe PC.
Slow internet connection - not much you can do about that with any update, these days. Go over to your buddy's house with cable and download the files there. Apply patches to your new PC before connecting to the net.
All right!! I've always wanted human-readable object code!
Umm, please tell me why my understanding is wrong here...
!(x-x) evaluates to !(0)
!(0) evalutes to 1, which is interpreted as true
so.. if(!(x-x)) would always evaluate to TRUE, correct??
Is my C memory THAT far out of whack?
TiVo .... iTV ... what do I do with the O??? Maybe take a bite out of it and look like the apple logog?
FCC Docket 98-80
It does note that washing machines are exempt from this particular matter.
Depending on the electronics in your washing machine, there is a good chance it qualifies as a Class B computing device and is subject to FCC interference regulations.
Is this how they implemented the easy-bake oven in a drive bay? (slashdot article from April 1, 2004 or was it 2003?) [too lame to link]