I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of computer users would not be willing to use a terminal-based email system.
You know, that's a bunch of bull... users are capable of doing it if they weren't ignorant. 10 years ago when GUI mail readers barely existed, I knew dozens of fellow students that would telnet into a UNIX box and read their mail with pine or elm (and later mutt) without any problem at all. Usually their history would show them alternating between pine and logging into a MUD to game for hours. These weren't all Computer Science students either, they just happened to have grown up with DOS and were quite familiar with actually typing characters into the big glowing screen thing using the keyboard thingy. Windows is to blame for dumbing down our computer users to the point of being completely incompetent when it comes to dealing with a non-clicky-clicky interface.
It seems to be strong evidence that parasites can control the behavior of a host in fairly complex ways, which opens up alot of sci-fi movies for a real life encore.
Cancer can influence the behavior of your body in similar ways depending on where it develops. A tumor in your brain can cause some pretty odd results.
Luckily, they're not the only game in town. Though I would probably feel dirty renting movies through them.
On the scale of evil companies, from 1 to 10, Netflix is a 2 and Blockbuster is an 11. Face it, they're just trying to slow down the DVD pirates and I don't see anything incredibly wrong with that. It does look damn suspicious for a guy to turn around 3-5 movies a day and honestly claim he's NOT pirating them and just shipping them back as soon as his DVD ripper is done grabbing the movie. I'm sure there's a small percentage of legitimate people out there that really do nothing else all day but watch movies from sun up to sun down and they don't have cable or satellite, but they're few and far between. If you look at more legitimate users they most likely see patterns like people holding onto DVDs for several weeks at a time until they find a chance to watch them whereas the DVD pirates are turning around 10-15 discs a week (or more).
I think the selling point of the crackberry has always been that it works out of the box.
But how many companies were executives are using Blackberries *don't* have an existing e-mail infrastructure in place? I imagine it's probably not very many. I guess I just don't understand the big deal between getting your mail "pushed" to you vs. just having your PDA/phone/whatever periodically polling for new mail from your company's mail server. This all seems to be much ado about nothing.
There really is no competitor to the BlackBerry when it comes to a complete solution. I realize that its trendy to be dismissive, but if you haven't at least played around with one, don't knock it until you do. If there was a true OSS or even standards-based alternative, that would be one thing - but there isn't.
Of course there is. What does a Blackberry do that something like a Treo with an IMAP client and web browser built into it can't do? I've seen my coworker's Blackberry and I'm not very impressed with it. He has to have his mail pulled by RIM from his IMAP servers and then pushed to his device. That seems like an unnecessary extra step IMHO. I'd rather just have a device that could talk directly to my IMAP servers and download the mail to my device when I want to check my mail. People seem to have Blackberry on the brain and think it's some kind of unique communications device when in reality it's nothing but a glorified PDA with push-based e-mail.
It's to open up or die eventually. Will Microsoft ever get this?
Probably not, and look at the results: Microsoft is hurting today more than ever! Profits are down enormously due to software piracy by Homebrew Computer Club members and the Harvard IT department just busted them for using their computer time for doing rebuilds of Windows Vista. If this continues Microsoft is going to head into a death-spiral and be out of business within the year. Microsoft needs to desperately find some product of theirs that they can market profitably. Until then I'm afraid it is only a matter of time before Red Hat and others in the Open Source community overtake them in the marketplace and hammer the final nail into the coffin of the dying proprietary software industry.
Seriously though, the US has horrible internet access, even in college.
That's your opinion and probably true for some people, but my 6 Mbps ADSL is more than fast enough for my needs. I've even considered downgrading to 1.5Mbps. Other people I know are even less interested in fast speeds. If given the choice between 1.5Mbps ADSL at $20 a month or 56K dialup at $10 a month, they'd go with dialup because they're cheapskates.
Hmmm, 1000 watt microwave vs. 700 milliwatt cell phone. In the month it'd take to "cook" the egg with your phone it'd more likely be devoured by bacteria.
My machines have accounts for myself (unpriviledged, of course), my girlfriend, my friends that come over on a regular basis, and one extra generic account for people who don't have specific ones. This isolation is something that I could never achieve with Microsoft, and I have had times where a friend has nuked his home directory or the generic one, but left the rest of the box intact, including my stuff.
What are you talking about? Windows has had the ability to have separate user accounts and home directories along with strong filesystem ACLs (MUCH more powerful than UNIX's simple read-write-execute permission model) since at least Windows NT 4.0 and probably earlier. A non-privileged account has no more access to muck with the system, install applications, or go browsing around other people's files than you give them access to. Maybe this isn't the case with Windows XP Home, but I know for certain that it is in Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro since these are the only versions I use.
95% of people outside the United States probably don't even know what the Super Bowl is.
Hell, I bet 50% of Americans don't even know who is playing in the Super Bowl or when it is being played. I only found out it was this weekend because they were playing Super Bowl commercials on the news (sad when commercials are considered a news item). I still have no idea who is playing in it though. I THINK the Steelers and somebody else (Detroit Lions maybe?), but I'm only guessing that because they showed a shot of downtown Detroit when they did a piece of the security for the Super Bowl and there were a lot of fat drunken Steelers fans roaming around in their costumes.
GSX on the other hand runs the systems as services, and gives you a neat littile control panel.
GSX also includes a vmware-console application that you use to connect to the GSX server to view your consoles. So yes, you technically could replace VMWare workstation on a Linux box with GSX server and probably be fine.
Why do proprietary fanatics think they need to be apologists for commercial software?
Because VMWare produces some fantastic products. I couldn't care less if software is commercial or not as long as it fits my needs and my budget. There is simply no open source alternative to VMWare right now that even comes close to what it does at the speeds it does it. Quit being a blind open source fanatic and look around the world sometime. The vast majority of people have no problem paying for software if it fits their needs.
If I sell my used Taurus, have I stolen $20,000 from Ford Motor Company?
Are you asking me or Ford? IMHO you're not stealing anything, in Ford's mind they lost a $20k new car sale and are pissed. Obviously intellectual property is a whole different world than physical property. The person you bought the game from probably kept a copy before passing it on so technically the publishers are getting screwed in some cases (not all of them of course).
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If a Verizon FIOS "hub" has a total of 1G bandwidth, and verizon is taking 800M of it, then all the other internet traffic can only use 200M split over who-knows-how-many end users. Furthermore, the POP to POP links may be allocated the same way.
That's an incredibly stupid way to setup your network though when there are better ways like QoS to prioritize your "premium" traffic over the commodity Internet traffic without carving out arbitrary bandwidth limitations. Basically they'd be far more likely to configure their routers to prioritize Verizon's VoIP (if they do that) or video-on-demand service over general non-tagged web traffic for instance. The way you're describing it is that they're carving out fixed-size PVCs which may or may not be utilized efficiently. That's just a silly way to do it.
Personally I'm sick of having to pay over $80 per game. This alone has largely stopped me buying.
The problem with buying used games is it is akin to stealing from the game publisher. They don't get a dime of that revenue from the second or third sale of a game, only the first, so by you buying a $20 copy of a game, you're essentially stealing an $80 sale from them. Hopefully Congress will shore up this loophole and outlaw the resale of intellectual property by anyone other than the copyright owner.
Welcome to the game. If you build a better mousetrap, someone will come up with a better mouse. This will then force someone to come up with an even better mousetrap, and so repeats the cycle.
Clearly the only way to win is not to play. Either that or take a pre-emptive strike on Moscow before they can retaliate. Maybe we can hit them while they're asleep at the wheel and take out most of their population. Damn Russians. I hate those communist bastards.
I thought Microsoft patches only fixed problems? To get new features, you have to buy the next version...
That's not true. Windows XP SP2 introduced a ton of new features including a firewall and the security center along with other security enhancements and a pop-up blocker in IE.
As 's elections show, there's an unlimited supply of stupid people in the world.
No kidding, what's with the nutbags voting for Hamas by the way? I hope Israel stomps them into the ground for voting for a terrorist group to run their government.
I got about 20% of the way through and lost interest in this even though I've seriously been wondering what this whole Blackberry lawsuit is about. How can someone have a patent on something like "wireless e-mail"? Tons of phones can read e-mail and even my Motorola pager can send and receive e-mail. If NTP sat on this submarine patent just waiting for people to start using their technology without sending out cease and desist orders then their patent should be invalidated.
Personally I feel companies that buy and sell patents as if they're some kind of property are a disgrace to everything the patent and trademark system was founded to uphold. They're not using the patents to innovate, they're just using the patents to extort money out of other companies. NTP should have all its patents stripped because it's quite clear they're nothing but a patent squatter.
Someone says Best Buy's rebate system is crap, and you counter by saying that someone else's is OK?
No, I said he's being unfair to Best Buy by pre-emptively saying their online rebate system is going to suck as much as their mail-in system. The only company I have experience with that has an online rebate system similar to what Best Buy wants to introduce is Staples, thus I used them as an example of a system that works well with online rebates. I, personally, have never had an issue with mail-in rebates with Best Buy (when I remember to send them in before the postmark date!) but I much prefer a system where I don't have to juggle paper and send in my original barcodes while waiting 8 weeks for a check that I've forgotten about to come for $10.
Mix up a rebate tracker number (or whatever it's called), or make a typo in your receipt number- and your rebate is invalid.
I think you're being just a little bit unfair to Best Buy here. Staples has had "Easy Rebates" for awhile now and they really are a hell of a lot easier. Go to their website, type in the number on your receipt, and receive your rebate check two weeks later. Simple. If you can't type in a stupid number on a receipt then something is really wrong with you. I'd rather check a number a few times on a receipt than home some minimum wage monkey can read my chicken scratch when I hand-write a rebate onto those little receipt rebate forms.
How secure are these transmissions? Wouldn't high tech companies in Silicon Valley need extreme security?
How secure do you think the Internet is? Do you trust companies like Level3, XO, and AT&T with your communications? You shouldn't... use a VPN or encrypt your traffic through some other mechanism.
It wasn't until rev. A13, maybe A14, of their BIOS that these ports were enabled. The D800 that I was privy to shipped with BIOS rev. A11.
So, wouldn't the better solution be for manufacturers to not ship broken hardware as production units? This has become a bad situation in the software industry, but when it extends to the hardware industry to rely on consumers installing patches to get functionality then it makes me wonder where the Q&A process failed.
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You know, that's a bunch of bull... users are capable of doing it if they weren't ignorant. 10 years ago when GUI mail readers barely existed, I knew dozens of fellow students that would telnet into a UNIX box and read their mail with pine or elm (and later mutt) without any problem at all. Usually their history would show them alternating between pine and logging into a MUD to game for hours. These weren't all Computer Science students either, they just happened to have grown up with DOS and were quite familiar with actually typing characters into the big glowing screen thing using the keyboard thingy. Windows is to blame for dumbing down our computer users to the point of being completely incompetent when it comes to dealing with a non-clicky-clicky interface.
Cancer can influence the behavior of your body in similar ways depending on where it develops. A tumor in your brain can cause some pretty odd results.
On the scale of evil companies, from 1 to 10, Netflix is a 2 and Blockbuster is an 11. Face it, they're just trying to slow down the DVD pirates and I don't see anything incredibly wrong with that. It does look damn suspicious for a guy to turn around 3-5 movies a day and honestly claim he's NOT pirating them and just shipping them back as soon as his DVD ripper is done grabbing the movie. I'm sure there's a small percentage of legitimate people out there that really do nothing else all day but watch movies from sun up to sun down and they don't have cable or satellite, but they're few and far between. If you look at more legitimate users they most likely see patterns like people holding onto DVDs for several weeks at a time until they find a chance to watch them whereas the DVD pirates are turning around 10-15 discs a week (or more).
But how many companies were executives are using Blackberries *don't* have an existing e-mail infrastructure in place? I imagine it's probably not very many. I guess I just don't understand the big deal between getting your mail "pushed" to you vs. just having your PDA/phone/whatever periodically polling for new mail from your company's mail server. This all seems to be much ado about nothing.
Of course there is. What does a Blackberry do that something like a Treo with an IMAP client and web browser built into it can't do? I've seen my coworker's Blackberry and I'm not very impressed with it. He has to have his mail pulled by RIM from his IMAP servers and then pushed to his device. That seems like an unnecessary extra step IMHO. I'd rather just have a device that could talk directly to my IMAP servers and download the mail to my device when I want to check my mail. People seem to have Blackberry on the brain and think it's some kind of unique communications device when in reality it's nothing but a glorified PDA with push-based e-mail.
Probably not, and look at the results: Microsoft is hurting today more than ever! Profits are down enormously due to software piracy by Homebrew Computer Club members and the Harvard IT department just busted them for using their computer time for doing rebuilds of Windows Vista. If this continues Microsoft is going to head into a death-spiral and be out of business within the year. Microsoft needs to desperately find some product of theirs that they can market profitably. Until then I'm afraid it is only a matter of time before Red Hat and others in the Open Source community overtake them in the marketplace and hammer the final nail into the coffin of the dying proprietary software industry.
That's your opinion and probably true for some people, but my 6 Mbps ADSL is more than fast enough for my needs. I've even considered downgrading to 1.5Mbps. Other people I know are even less interested in fast speeds. If given the choice between 1.5Mbps ADSL at $20 a month or 56K dialup at $10 a month, they'd go with dialup because they're cheapskates.
Hmmm, 1000 watt microwave vs. 700 milliwatt cell phone. In the month it'd take to "cook" the egg with your phone it'd more likely be devoured by bacteria.
What are you talking about? Windows has had the ability to have separate user accounts and home directories along with strong filesystem ACLs (MUCH more powerful than UNIX's simple read-write-execute permission model) since at least Windows NT 4.0 and probably earlier. A non-privileged account has no more access to muck with the system, install applications, or go browsing around other people's files than you give them access to. Maybe this isn't the case with Windows XP Home, but I know for certain that it is in Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro since these are the only versions I use.
Hell, I bet 50% of Americans don't even know who is playing in the Super Bowl or when it is being played. I only found out it was this weekend because they were playing Super Bowl commercials on the news (sad when commercials are considered a news item). I still have no idea who is playing in it though. I THINK the Steelers and somebody else (Detroit Lions maybe?), but I'm only guessing that because they showed a shot of downtown Detroit when they did a piece of the security for the Super Bowl and there were a lot of fat drunken Steelers fans roaming around in their costumes.
GSX also includes a vmware-console application that you use to connect to the GSX server to view your consoles. So yes, you technically could replace VMWare workstation on a Linux box with GSX server and probably be fine.
Why do proprietary fanatics think they need to be apologists for commercial software? Because VMWare produces some fantastic products. I couldn't care less if software is commercial or not as long as it fits my needs and my budget. There is simply no open source alternative to VMWare right now that even comes close to what it does at the speeds it does it. Quit being a blind open source fanatic and look around the world sometime. The vast majority of people have no problem paying for software if it fits their needs.
Are you asking me or Ford? IMHO you're not stealing anything, in Ford's mind they lost a $20k new car sale and are pissed. Obviously intellectual property is a whole different world than physical property. The person you bought the game from probably kept a copy before passing it on so technically the publishers are getting screwed in some cases (not all of them of course).
That's an incredibly stupid way to setup your network though when there are better ways like QoS to prioritize your "premium" traffic over the commodity Internet traffic without carving out arbitrary bandwidth limitations. Basically they'd be far more likely to configure their routers to prioritize Verizon's VoIP (if they do that) or video-on-demand service over general non-tagged web traffic for instance. The way you're describing it is that they're carving out fixed-size PVCs which may or may not be utilized efficiently. That's just a silly way to do it.
The problem with buying used games is it is akin to stealing from the game publisher. They don't get a dime of that revenue from the second or third sale of a game, only the first, so by you buying a $20 copy of a game, you're essentially stealing an $80 sale from them. Hopefully Congress will shore up this loophole and outlaw the resale of intellectual property by anyone other than the copyright owner.
Clearly the only way to win is not to play. Either that or take a pre-emptive strike on Moscow before they can retaliate. Maybe we can hit them while they're asleep at the wheel and take out most of their population. Damn Russians. I hate those communist bastards.
That's not true. Windows XP SP2 introduced a ton of new features including a firewall and the security center along with other security enhancements and a pop-up blocker in IE.
Yet more fuel for the fire of ISPs blocking outbound port 25/tcp connections because of spammers and worms.
No kidding, what's with the nutbags voting for Hamas by the way? I hope Israel stomps them into the ground for voting for a terrorist group to run their government.
Personally I feel companies that buy and sell patents as if they're some kind of property are a disgrace to everything the patent and trademark system was founded to uphold. They're not using the patents to innovate, they're just using the patents to extort money out of other companies. NTP should have all its patents stripped because it's quite clear they're nothing but a patent squatter.
No, I said he's being unfair to Best Buy by pre-emptively saying their online rebate system is going to suck as much as their mail-in system. The only company I have experience with that has an online rebate system similar to what Best Buy wants to introduce is Staples, thus I used them as an example of a system that works well with online rebates. I, personally, have never had an issue with mail-in rebates with Best Buy (when I remember to send them in before the postmark date!) but I much prefer a system where I don't have to juggle paper and send in my original barcodes while waiting 8 weeks for a check that I've forgotten about to come for $10.
I think the grandparent is looking for the FTC, not the SEC.
I think you're being just a little bit unfair to Best Buy here. Staples has had "Easy Rebates" for awhile now and they really are a hell of a lot easier. Go to their website, type in the number on your receipt, and receive your rebate check two weeks later. Simple. If you can't type in a stupid number on a receipt then something is really wrong with you. I'd rather check a number a few times on a receipt than home some minimum wage monkey can read my chicken scratch when I hand-write a rebate onto those little receipt rebate forms.
How secure do you think the Internet is? Do you trust companies like Level3, XO, and AT&T with your communications? You shouldn't... use a VPN or encrypt your traffic through some other mechanism.
So, wouldn't the better solution be for manufacturers to not ship broken hardware as production units? This has become a bad situation in the software industry, but when it extends to the hardware industry to rely on consumers installing patches to get functionality then it makes me wonder where the Q&A process failed.