Quite right and not a troll. I took the time to read all posts in this story to try to figure out the main argument of Apple defenders (I was quite puzzled after reading a few postings on the Commodore 64 emulator rejection story) and I think the two prominent arguments are:
``Why exactly should an online store be forced to carry merchandise that they don't want to, for whatever reason,,
--arminw
``The majority of people don't give a damn about being able to reprogram a device,,
--anonymous
And both arguments are simply wrong. Apple's is not "an" but "the only" online story for iPhone and the "majority of people" like software freedom -- see how many users prefer XP despite all the "recommends Vista" advice from OEMs.
BTW, the ratio of "lunatic fanatic" postings was about 3/10. In Slashdot! Not bad for Apple.
Unless Apple is preventing NVidia from offering cards for the Mac, that doesn't apply.
When you write "cards for the Mac" you mean "cards with special firmware to allow them to function on a Mac" since the hardware is the same, and this isn't about NVidia, it's about Apple restricting geeks who love upgrading hardware to a limited few options.
"It's funny because you did not provide even one example of how the PC provides more options than your Mac... something rather critical to your premise, no?"
IBM is correct, patent holders find it easier to "open the source" while preventing others from employing the idea. This is exactly what RMS wrote: Open Source and Free Software is not the same.
Now researchers have found the same goes for asking one person to guess about the same thing several times. Accuracy improved when the individual was given longer periods of time between guesses
If you have more time to guess and consider, your answers are more precise. Truly amazing discoveries...
I am not from the US, but I can assure you that your di to buy consumer electronics is a big advantage for your own economy.
At the same time, you sell cheaper to other countries which means more exports for you. In fact it's the first time in my life I saw an advertisement for a Dodge in local TV.
1) gets real table styles 2) stops garbling flowcharts when resized 3) fixes the ancient "hyperlink bar" relic from Star Office 4) stops asking for Java to run a Basic macro
Considering how many copies of the Win95 UI style (bottom task bar, application menu on bottom left, icon tray at bottom right) exist out there and how many users still disable the themes service on XP and Vista, I'd say that Win95 has had a great impact on Windows and non-Windows users.
Quote from the patent ``The method as recited in claim 3, wherein identifying calls that are potentially indicative of malware includes: comparing calls made in the executable with calls that exist in known malware; and if a call matches one that exists in known malware, determining that the call is potentially indicative of malware,,
There was a TSR program for the IBM compatibles called FLU_SHOT which would do the same. It would remain in memory and warn the user whenever a program tried to change a file on the hard disk or diskette, or whenever a program tried to reside in memory.
I wonder if this is sufficient "prior art" to invalidate the Microsoft patent.
By the way, an interesting part in the FLU_SHOT manual which I just downloaded... definition of a virus author by the creator of FLU_SHOT (written in 1988)
``
As for the designer of the virus program: most
likely an impotent adolescent, incapable of
normal social relationships, and attempting to
prove their own worth to themselves through
these type of terrorist attacks.
Never succeeding in that task (or in any
other), since they have no worth, they will one
day take a look at themselves and what they've
done in their past, and kill themselves in
disgust. This is a Good Thing, since it saves
the taxpayers' money which normally would be
wasted on therapy and treatment of this
miscreant.
If they *really* want a challenge, they'll try
to destroy *my* hard disk on my BBS, instead of
the disk of some innocent person. I challenge
them to upload a virus or other Trojan horse to
I'm not sure what problems you see with OpenOffice, but I use it all the time, and it does everything I need. Here's mine:
1) No table styles.
2) Resizing a flowchart (with text boxes) results in total mess.
3) Defaults to some odd object pasting behavior which prevents Smartdraw OLE objects (at least) from opening.
4) Does not have an Access and an Outlook equivalent.
Plus, as more apps become web-deployed, desktop apps become less and less important. That's why you have no problems with OpenOffice. It does compete fairly with online suites.
Vista's maturing, and as it does it'll become a better operating system Vista is beyond repair because
1) it is not compatible with 2K/XP device drivers
2) it's much slower than XP while XP was a bit faster than 2000 (due to prefetch).
3) due to disk space, pixel shader and memory requirements it's a bad choice for cheap or ultra-portable laptops.
Vista will never mature, just as MS DOS 4 never did. Microsoft worked their asses out to make MS DOS 5 that was a real improvement to MS DOS 4 and more importantly MS DOS 3.3 which everyone was using at the time. The situation is exactly the same: DOS 4 was the hated memory hog (and slow to boot from diskettes) while DOS 3.3 was a refined and perfected version with low footprint.
It remains to be seen whether Windows 7 will be what DOS 5 was.
I have enabled Gigabyte's on-demand FSB overclocking BIOS option which allows the CPU & memory to work in low FSB (233 Mhz) on most tasks and high FSB (280 Mhz) at high usage.
I have also used RivaTuner to reduce my graphics card's GPU core and shader clocks as well as memory clocks to very low levels when the memory of the card is at low usage levels and to get it back to normal when more than 128MB of video memory is being used. This is better than nVidia's automatic clock adjustments because nVidia relies on whether GPU accelerators are being used which is not a good measure: the GPU accelerators are used even when you play a movie or an old game.
I never lose any FPS and performance but I do gain a lot of energy savings and my noise levels are really low.
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Informative? Of yes highly informative as a typical example of FUD against Theora.
Example: "The chances of it not violating some patent somewhere is minimal to non-existent"
You seem to be a bit personally affected by this kind of speech. Do you feel that your job is in danger because of a "new talent" prospect ?
Quite right and not a troll. I took the time to read all posts in this story to try to figure out the main argument of Apple defenders (I was quite puzzled after reading a few postings on the Commodore 64 emulator rejection story) and I think the two prominent arguments are:
``Why exactly should an online store be forced to carry merchandise that they don't want to, for whatever reason,,
--arminw
``The majority of people don't give a damn about being able to reprogram a device,,
--anonymous
And both arguments are simply wrong. Apple's is not "an" but "the only" online story for iPhone and the "majority of people" like software freedom -- see how many users prefer XP despite all the "recommends Vista" advice from OEMs.
BTW, the ratio of "lunatic fanatic" postings was about 3/10. In Slashdot! Not bad for Apple.
Is this bug fixed in Symphony?
Unless Apple is preventing NVidia from offering cards for the Mac, that doesn't apply.
When you write "cards for the Mac" you mean "cards with special firmware to allow them to function on a Mac" since the hardware is the same, and this isn't about NVidia, it's about Apple restricting geeks who love upgrading hardware to a limited few options.
And that was the topic, right?
I love it when Apple fanboys ask for examples!
"It's funny because you did not provide even one example of how the PC provides more options than your Mac... something rather critical to your premise, no?"
Take a look at this:
Download.com > Educational Software > Science Software for windows
http://download.cnet.com/windows/educational-software/?tag=ltcol;nav
Download.com > Educational Software > Science Software for mac
http://download.cnet.com/mac/science-software/3150-2054_4-0.html
Look at the number of titles on the left. Compare the number of PC titles to Mac titles.
Then have a look here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html
How many options for Mac can you find?
"I won't complain about Apple making it harder for ignorant people to do stupid things."
It makes sense. It also makes it harder for you.
I am not American either, but wake up and face the reality...
IBM is correct, patent holders find it easier to "open the source" while preventing others from employing the idea. This is exactly what RMS wrote: Open Source and Free Software is not the same.
Read here http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
Actually you do see a message that your experience will improve with Chrome if you access Gmail with IE6.
I use it on my virtual machines for the same reason. Much faster than Firefox to boot, highly compatible with the published W3C specifications.
As a personal browser I still prefer Firefox though; the variety of its add-ons is unbeatable.
> Death would have been kinder
For your son?
Now researchers have found the same goes for asking one person to guess about the same thing several times. Accuracy improved when the individual was given longer periods of time between guesses
If you have more time to guess and consider, your answers are more precise. Truly amazing discoveries...
Before your brain had developed sufficiently, you didn't exist.
Why?
And maybe not MovieMaker specifically but the Microsoft site and windows update in particular.
Twitter is an anti-MS, pro-GNU Slashdot regular.
Some of his posts are quite interesting to read.
Some consider him a troll.
You be the judge: http://slashdot.org/~twitter
Why should I care where the car is being made or designed ? As long as I get safety and economy, German, French, Japanese or US makes no difference.
I am not from the US, but I can assure you that your di to buy consumer electronics is a big advantage for your own economy.
At the same time, you sell cheaper to other countries which means more exports for you. In fact it's the first time in my life I saw an advertisement for a Dodge in local TV.
Unless OOo
1) gets real table styles
2) stops garbling flowcharts when resized
3) fixes the ancient "hyperlink bar" relic from Star Office
4) stops asking for Java to run a Basic macro
I am not using it again.
Excellent comment alexhmit01
Considering how many copies of the Win95 UI style (bottom task bar, application menu on bottom left, icon tray at bottom right) exist out there and how many users still disable the themes service on XP and Vista, I'd say that Win95 has had a great impact on Windows and non-Windows users.
What are you talking about? Where did you find this?
There was a TSR program for the IBM compatibles called FLU_SHOT which would do the same. It would remain in memory and warn the user whenever a program tried to change a file on the hard disk or diskette, or whenever a program tried to reside in memory.
I wonder if this is sufficient "prior art" to invalidate the Microsoft patent.
By the way, an interesting part in the FLU_SHOT manual which I just downloaded... definition of a virus author by the creator of FLU_SHOT (written in 1988)
``
As for the designer of the virus program: most
likely an impotent adolescent, incapable of
normal social relationships, and attempting to
prove their own worth to themselves through
these type of terrorist attacks.
Never succeeding in that task (or in any
other), since they have no worth, they will one
day take a look at themselves and what they've
done in their past, and kill themselves in
disgust. This is a Good Thing, since it saves
the taxpayers' money which normally would be
wasted on therapy and treatment of this
miscreant.
If they *really* want a challenge, they'll try
to destroy *my* hard disk on my BBS, instead of
the disk of some innocent person. I challenge
them to upload a virus or other Trojan horse to
1) No table styles.
2) Resizing a flowchart (with text boxes) results in total mess.
3) Defaults to some odd object pasting behavior which prevents Smartdraw OLE objects (at least) from opening.
4) Does not have an Access and an Outlook equivalent. Plus, as more apps become web-deployed, desktop apps become less and less important. That's why you have no problems with OpenOffice. It does compete fairly with online suites.
1) it is not compatible with 2K/XP device drivers
2) it's much slower than XP while XP was a bit faster than 2000 (due to prefetch).
3) due to disk space, pixel shader and memory requirements it's a bad choice for cheap or ultra-portable laptops.
Vista will never mature, just as MS DOS 4 never did. Microsoft worked their asses out to make MS DOS 5 that was a real improvement to MS DOS 4 and more importantly MS DOS 3.3 which everyone was using at the time. The situation is exactly the same: DOS 4 was the hated memory hog (and slow to boot from diskettes) while DOS 3.3 was a refined and perfected version with low footprint.
It remains to be seen whether Windows 7 will be what DOS 5 was.
I have enabled Gigabyte's on-demand FSB overclocking BIOS option which allows the CPU & memory to work in low FSB (233 Mhz) on most tasks and high FSB (280 Mhz) at high usage.
I have also used RivaTuner to reduce my graphics card's GPU core and shader clocks as well as memory clocks to very low levels when the memory of the card is at low usage levels and to get it back to normal when more than 128MB of video memory is being used. This is better than nVidia's automatic clock adjustments because nVidia relies on whether GPU accelerators are being used which is not a good measure: the GPU accelerators are used even when you play a movie or an old game.
I never lose any FPS and performance but I do gain a lot of energy savings and my noise levels are really low.