If you can access it you can assume you're allowed to access it. It is not customary to be required to ask permission for looking at things in plain view.
Try that out next time you see a house with only the screen door closed. It's pretty likely that in at least some instances the screen door isn't locked.
Then, try explaining your clever approach to ethics to the police officer. If you're not located in a state like Texas, that is.
AMD has nothing to win but a lot to lose by producing only DRM chips.
The way you phrase that makes AMD look weaker than they are. They risk losing their cult of fanbois over this. Is that really all they have?? Consider rephrasing your comment, which belittles AMD badly.
IE actually deserved to win the last browser war because guess what, it was a better browser than Netscape
Only for certain meanings of the term 'better.'
IE is pathetically bad on platforms not running Microsoft's Windows Operating System (or certain versions of MacOS). The emulation cruft you have to tack on to make it play well on even another Intel-based platform make it a non-starter.
I guess I could nod and pat my trusty Dell Optiplex GX1 that runs NetBSD, but it's not anywhere near as fashionable, and it only cost me $0.40 (I got two skids of them for $40 at an auction).
I'm not very cool, and 'Industrial Design' always makes me think of people who design wing-nuts and the gray crackle paint finish on 1940's military electronics enclosures.
Apple could roll out a design with an Intel processor that was completely nothing like a PC. And they likely would, because if it evolved from their architecture, it wouldn't have the Pee-Cee BIOS and all the legacy cruft. It would have nothing resembling an ISA bus, etc. It could and would be just as impossible for a clone vendor to produce as their current PPC-based line.
Yes, he probably _can_ be more sparing, but doesn't need to. With handwriting he writes at a good pace to be thoughtful, hence his position that writing by hand is entirely adequate.
An alternative, although it has a small keyboard, would be an HP-95LX portable. They're small and run MS-DOS, and have a built in text editor, and Lotus Spreadsheet. And it's an MS-DOS machine so you can drag in whatever smaller editor suits your needs.
There's also the HP-100LX and the HP200LX, which have better connectivity, real PCMCIA, better screen, etc. But the 100 and 200 sell for a lot on eBay, while you can get a 95LX for under $40 if you shop aggressively.
And these palmtops were made by HP when it was a good company, and by the Corvalis Division, which is the part of HP that also made the legendary HP Calculators. These palmtops have the same build-quality as the HP Calculators, too.
I've heard more than once from people fighting with their school campuses' IT so they can get BT access to download Linux ISOs or trailers from Blizzard,
Their time would be better spent getting someone in charge on the campus network to allow local caching of Linux ISOs, legal trailers, etc. The IT staff can and should be pleased to reduce expensive external traffic.
Although this tends to let the air out of the arguement of the people who 'claim' that torrent should be unconditionally allowed because they only have 'legitimate' uses in mind.
But even today, Apple fans still cringe when they see their "resistence fighter" being chummy with one of the leaders of the "Microsoft establishment".
That's probably because Apple survived in spite of their rabid userbase, not because of it.
When I programmed in BASIC in uppercase, it was because in high school all we had to do anything computer-related with were upper-case-only ASR-33 teletypes connected by phone at 110 baud to the HP minicomputer-based timesharing system.
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It's good to know that you read his comment closely enough to find the ONLY inaccuracy in it.
Netscape was out-weaseled by Microsoft. Which makes them the lesser weasel. But still a weasel.
'Nuff said.
Stanford is in for some hard education,
I doubt it. A pack of contrarians and information-libbertardians on a few web logs will sputter and fume. And life will go on.
Why would the Stanford Business School be worried about becoming the laughingstock of Computer Science?
If you can access it you can assume you're allowed to access it. It is not customary to be required to ask permission for looking at things in plain view.
Try that out next time you see a house with only the screen door closed. It's pretty likely that in at least some instances the screen door isn't locked.
Then, try explaining your clever approach to ethics to the police officer. If you're not located in a state like Texas, that is.
Your cartoon world of parody opponents is laughable.
It's a 'troll' to make the point that IE is 'pathetically bad' on non-Windows platforms?
Who gave Melinda Gates mod points??
Again?
I still only saw 'Star Wars' in the theatre in 1977, and have avoided the whole mess ever since. (it was a good movie in 1977, btw.)
So you're saying you'll just get drunk and stare at the BASH prompt to pass the time?
AMD has nothing to win but a lot to lose by producing only DRM chips.
The way you phrase that makes AMD look weaker than they are. They risk losing their cult of fanbois over this. Is that really all they have?? Consider rephrasing your comment, which belittles AMD badly.
Be honest. You're a contrarian and would have bought an AMD solution no matter what.
IE actually deserved to win the last browser war because guess what, it was a better browser than Netscape
Only for certain meanings of the term 'better.'
IE is pathetically bad on platforms not running Microsoft's Windows Operating System (or certain versions of MacOS). The emulation cruft you have to tack on to make it play well on even another Intel-based platform make it a non-starter.
You've been this resentful since the last Gopher servers went down, eh?
I guess I could nod and pat my trusty Dell Optiplex GX1 that runs NetBSD, but it's not anywhere near as fashionable, and it only cost me $0.40 (I got two skids of them for $40 at an auction).
I'm not very cool, and 'Industrial Design' always makes me think of people who design wing-nuts and the gray crackle paint finish on 1940's military electronics enclosures.
Oh well.
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No they wouldn't.
Apple could roll out a design with an Intel processor that was completely nothing like a PC. And they likely would, because if it evolved from their architecture, it wouldn't have the Pee-Cee BIOS and all the legacy cruft. It would have nothing resembling an ISA bus, etc. It could and would be just as impossible for a clone vendor to produce as their current PPC-based line.
I now despise Steve Jobs himself. If you haven't gone out and gotten your copy of iCon, the new biography of Jobs, you need to.
A deadbeat dad with $250M in the bank? One who himself was an adopted orphan? The man's pathos is deep and rich.
There are StrongARM ATX motherboards on the market, ya know.
Or you can get a _mature_ 64 bit platform like an UltraSparc.
Yes, he probably _can_ be more sparing, but doesn't need to. With handwriting he writes at a good pace to be thoughtful, hence his position that writing by hand is entirely adequate.
Or did you miss that point?
An alternative, although it has a small keyboard, would be an HP-95LX portable. They're small and run MS-DOS, and have a built in text editor, and Lotus Spreadsheet. And it's an MS-DOS machine so you can drag in whatever smaller editor suits your needs.
There's also the HP-100LX and the HP200LX, which have better connectivity, real PCMCIA, better screen, etc. But the 100 and 200 sell for a lot on eBay, while you can get a 95LX for under $40 if you shop aggressively.
And these palmtops were made by HP when it was a good company, and by the Corvalis Division, which is the part of HP that also made the legendary HP Calculators. These palmtops have the same build-quality as the HP Calculators, too.
I've heard more than once from people fighting with their school campuses' IT so they can get BT access to download Linux ISOs or trailers from Blizzard,
Their time would be better spent getting someone in charge on the campus network to allow local caching of Linux ISOs, legal trailers, etc. The IT staff can and should be pleased to reduce expensive external traffic.
Although this tends to let the air out of the arguement of the people who 'claim' that torrent should be unconditionally allowed because they only have 'legitimate' uses in mind.
Well, instead, the **AA's can use this as a tool themselves. In effect, to extend your analogy a bit, use his search tool as a gunsight.
Which should have a lot of 'underground piratez' types a bit worried.
By completely eliminating the need for their former channels of distribution? Is that necessarily good for the indies?
They're killing off their own culture.
It would worry me more if I liked SF television programs more.
But even today, Apple fans still cringe when they see their "resistence fighter" being chummy with one of the leaders of the "Microsoft establishment".
That's probably because Apple survived in spite of their rabid userbase, not because of it.
When I programmed in BASIC in uppercase, it was because in high school all we had to do anything computer-related with were upper-case-only ASR-33 teletypes connected by phone at 110 baud to the HP minicomputer-based timesharing system.