Acording to micros~1, an operating system can be made to include almost anything: MSOS= An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a bootstrap program, manages all the other programs in a computer whos functions include, but not limited to:
1) operating the computer
2) frustrating users with BSOD
3) smiling paper clips
4) APIs that shift like quick-sand
5) showing the micros~1 logo during 15 min reboot.
So, like a girlfriend with herpes, an Operating System can be a joy and be defined many ways, but you just can't get rid of it.:)
At my last job, we had a few seats of 'Catia' and 'Unigraphics' that ran on *NIX, but the majority of the small 2D stuff was done on PCs with Autocad.
Today, we're all using 'Pro Engineering' and it's fantastic. There are many many engineers, myself included, that would use ProE 5 days a week, and would love to see it runing on a Linux distro.
With the cost savings of bypassing micros~1, we could spend more money on the hardware.
David Bowie is a publicly traded company. That's right David Bowie had his own IPO and like the rest of the public companies, he's got internet fever.
Why? Not because his 'digi-hip', not because he's ahead of his time, it's just the most cost efective way to reach the masses.
And these children that you spit on as they try to change there world, are a imune to your consultations, they're quite aware what they're going through . .
Imagine, if you will, Bill G and the boys sitting around a Redmond conferance table for an emergeny 'sunday brunch' to discuss the DOJ FOF. Bill is over in a corner littleraly throwing a temper tantrum, whailing around on the floor, asking for his mommy, saying "the DOJ is a big ol' bully, make it stop mommy"
Meanwhile, over at a the Lightning On Demand web site, a very pissed off Marc Andreesen enters the address of the Redmond conferance room into the Electrum 130kW LOD web site and ZAP! Bill G. is struck by lightning.
Now that we live in the age of AHAFP (Everyone Has A Fscking Portal) I'm curious about the terminology used to describe content delivered over HTTP.
In my mind, when I hear 'portal' I think 'link farm'(one domain with links to diverse resources of information of interest to people from many differant walks of life). This aproach has proven usefull in finding information, and has proven valuable to many companies bottom line.
Doubletwist.com appears to have focused one a finite area of interest, and has choosen to "do one thing very well". Does this aproach match your definition of 'Portal'? What does the term mean to you?
A quote from the site: DoubleTwist is the first internet portal to make on-line genetic research fast, easy and free for all life science researchers.
After the Findings of fact were released on Friday, the world seems a little brighter, the truth has a chance, and Computer Science has a new outlook.
This preliminary Finding Of Fact is an interesting devolopment, and has micros~1 crying in it's beer. I, for one, am happy to see Bill gates and micros~1 be exposed for what they trully are. Sneeky, snivling, childish thieves.
Acording to many analysts the DOJ has MS cornered and will push on with the case. While IANAL, I blieve that this case (including apeals) will drag on for years and will keep MSs' hands tied behind there back. They will be forced to sit back and watch as other companies move in on the desktop space. Look for OEMs to start customizing desktops. Look for venture capitol to consider companies "going for the desktop".
My hope is that the DOJ makes this a very very long and painfull process for micros~1. I hope they don't settle for a consent decree that will only end up (when MS violates that agreement) with everybody back in this same place 2 years from now.
33. Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above that which could be charged in a competitive market. Moreover, it could do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable amount of business to competitors. In other words, Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market.
For this of you MS-head dolts, I'll say that last part again. Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market. .
These findings are spot on, and refuting them is futile.
With the proliforation of these kinds of lawsuits, akin to the 'suefest' currently taking place in the tobaco lobby, a counter suit (er um cross suit?) is sure to happen.
One or more of these hardware makers is going to turn there attention toward sueing micros~1 for there poor product quality in the past.
I for one look forward to the day when micros~1 is held liable for the billions they cost buisness across america in lost productivity.
Thus allowing morally justifiable (not necessarily legally justifiable) copyright infringement when the cost of the CD takes a large percentage of my money for a low prospective entertainment value, in comparison to the ratio profit over cost of the CD produced.
Sorry kid, no free lunch.
If you don't like the existing law, lobby your congressman to change them.
After Wallace and Gromit: The British creator of the Comic figures Wallace and Gromit, nod park, with steven play mountain of four films will turn London - the British creator of the Comic figures Wallace and Gromit, nod park, is with the US director steven play mountain a series of four films to turn. An appropriate contract over 250 million dollar (239 Mill. Euro/3,29 billion S) signed the two film-creative according to specification of Jeffrey cat mountain, a joint founder of play mountain company DreamWorks. The figurefigure figures Wallace and its dog Gromit flew a teuflischen penguin to parks films among other things to the moon, in order to look cheese up there, and fought the jewel thief Feathers McGraw. Play mountain turned checkout hits like " E.T. " and the film " Schindlers list " distinguished with seven Oscars. That three-way OSCAR winner park created his company Aardman animation 1985.
I've noticed the same thing mentioned by other people as well. What's interesting is the install of QT4 *at no time* mentiones that it is going to change the PNG MIME type to the QuickTime 4.0 plug-in.
All this talk about the PNG format got me curious. So, just now, I copied all the topic GIF files from Slashdot and moved them off my Linux box over a my 2nd machine (a win98 PIII 500...it's nickname is 'Crashy')
Once the images were there, I fired up always trusty "Paint Shop Pro v 5.01" to do a Batch conversion. The file sizes seemed about the same size as the original GIF files (which is to be expected given the 1~3K file size).
Then I thought I would throw one of the PNG files back into Netscape v4.7 to see how it handled things. I draged and droped an PNG file into NS 4.7 and saw "Loading plug-in" flash in the status bar...then the apple logo came up for a split second, then the PNG apeared.
I couldn't believe my own eyes, so I did it again just to make sure I wasn't imagining things....and sure enough, the PNG file format (win98/NS4.7) is being opened by a Apple Quicktime 4.0 plug-in!
Imagine, if you will, when a user goes to load your home page (which you diligently converted to PNG images) and starts seeing the apple logo pop up every time a little 1k PNG is loaded on the page. imagine the user watching his resource meter slowly drop as the plug-in consumes the last of his precious resources.
Has anyone else recently installed the QT 4.0 player? Can you confirm it handling the PNG format?
First of all, it's obvious that we share common words (need/want) that have different interpretations. This is ok.
My hope is to shed some light on why a person needs to prioritize and categorize things in life as either a want or a need.
At the risk of over simplfying the issue, let's talk about the basics:
Food. Shelter. Clothing. These items, and the means necessary to attaining them are NEEDS. One common solution to attaining the basic needs is finding a good or service that someone else will pay you money for (a job). In return for that payment, you can obtain your Food, Shelter, and Clothing. These are needs. So often in our culture the word 'Need' is thrown out there and never challanged. It is in the context of this debate (movies/disrobution/piracy/stealing) that many put forth "the service offered by the movie industry is a NEED".
For example you stated:..you need something in your life to entertain you, or you'll go crazy.
I would put forth that you've allowled your feeling to WANT to be entertained to overwelm you. I've got a news flash, you won't go nuts of you don't have Q3 arena, You won't go crazy is you don't have the absolute latest and greatest thing. Try is sometime, and you'll see.
This is good, with the possible problem that there are probably a fair number of redundant story submissions, which the moderating process won't handle terribly well
You bring up an interesting and thought provoking point. I'm sure that a lot of story submissions look like:
Posted by Roblimo on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
Ummm Hey wow, my cat had twins!
Or
Posted by HEMOS on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
So I heard that someones cat had twins!
Or
Posted by CMDTaco on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
So I heard that Linus will be putting twins in the 3.0.2 kernel.
I'm willing to wade through posts like this. For example: When Hotmail was cracked, I'm sure the Story submissions were high. In my view, it gives the reader a good idea on how popular a particular topic might be. That's why I think it would be a valuable source of information.
Someone put it like this: Is it theft, if I steal it and you have nothing less?
A: Yes. It's the law. You may choose to not follow it and that's ok. Just as long as you're willing to suffer the ramifications. If you don't agree with the law, lobby your Congressman and ask to have it changed. Untill then, shut up and sit down.
I believe that the good movies are not there to make money, and the satisfaction that their movies are appreciated would justify their work. This says nothing about movies produced to make money, however.
They are ALL MADE TO RECOUP THE MONEY SPENT!
And with a little luck make a little money to compensate the risk taken in making it in the first place. Under current IP law, thay have the right to recoup there investment in a fair marketplace. Nobody is in the industry of making films "for the love of the art form" and if they're telling you that, they are just trying to sell you on there property.
Motivation for creating content is not as important as my freedom to use a cd burner in the privacy of my home. It is exactly the same as child sex and recreational drugs. The part about motivation and payment is completely irrelevant. [snip].... The issue is morals.
I hope this was a typo. I really do. and if it isn't a typo, you have absolutly no right what so ever to use the word Morals as you obviously don't have the first clue as to it's meaning.
You say we should just do without. How does this benefit anyone? How does my not seeing a movie help anyone more than if i choose to see it without paying? What's the difference?
It's the contract of the offer that you're violating. Allow me to put forth one little example to make my point.
Lets say I'm the Producer of "The Matrix" and I line up financing to make a great movie and I want to sell it. There are many ways to try and sell the movie.
1) Stand on the street corner yelling "get your Matrix here".
Your Price? $1.00
2) Sell volume copies to video stores and take out some adds to create demand in those stores.
Your Price? $3.00
3) Sell copies to movie theaters and buy advertising to create demand in those theaters.
Your Price? $6.00
The decision for how I want to distro *my* movie is *my decision* not yours. It's an offer. It's a contract. It's speculation and risk managment that leads me to a decision for how to best recoup investment, and make some profit for the risk *I* am taking. If you like the offer, you pay what I demand. It's that simple.
If I'm making a movie, and piracy has closed down distrobution chanels 2 and 3 (making them finacialy a higher risk), I'll be forced to stand on a street corner and sell the movie myself for a buck. This means that The Matrix would never get made.
And another thing, many people are talking about how they need to see a movie and I find this quite laughable. Your demand is purchased. Your demand is payed for. Your demand is a fixed cost of distro channels 2 and 3. Like so many sheep to the sheerer.
Document Not Found The page you are seeking cannot be found. Sorry, but we could not find the document you were looking for. If you were referred to it by a hyperlink on the website, try asking the site's webmaster to fix the link. If you are the site's webmaster and believe that the document does exist on your site, take note of the following: Filenames and subdirectories on BizLand are case sensitive, i.e., MyPage.html is not the same as mypage.html Filenames and subdirectories on BizLand can only contain alphanumeric, dot (.), dash (-), and underscore (_) characters. All other characters may result in the file not being retrievable by web browsers. In particular, spaces are not allowed.
This is where the foundation of your argument starts to woble a bit. Nobody needs entertainment. I'm sorry if this comes as a shock, but you don't.
My Girlfriend wanted to go shopping this past weekend, saying she needed some red pumps. It's imporant to clarify, red pumps are not a need, they are a want. She wanted the latest design from the best designer, she needed a stylish and functional pair of shoes. Are these the same things? Not at all, and it's important to clarify the differance.
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1) operating the computer
2) frustrating users with BSOD
3) smiling paper clips
4) APIs that shift like quick-sand
5) showing the micros~1 logo during 15 min reboot.
So, like a girlfriend with herpes, an Operating System can be a joy and be defined many ways, but you just can't get rid of it. :)
Today, we're all using 'Pro Engineering' and it's fantastic. There are many many engineers, myself included, that would use ProE 5 days a week, and would love to see it runing on a Linux distro.
With the cost savings of bypassing micros~1, we could spend more money on the hardware.
David Bowie is a publicly traded company. That's right David Bowie had his own IPO and like the rest of the public companies, he's got internet fever.
Why? Not because his 'digi-hip', not because he's ahead of his time, it's just the most cost efective way to reach the masses.
And these children that you spit on as they try to change there world, are a imune to your consultations, they're quite aware what they're going through . .
awwww wham bam thank you mame'
Meanwhile, over at a the Lightning On Demand web site, a very pissed off Marc Andreesen enters the address of the Redmond conferance room into the Electrum 130kW LOD web site and ZAP! Bill G. is struck by lightning.
I can dream, can't I? :)
In my mind, when I hear 'portal' I think 'link farm'(one domain with links to diverse resources of information of interest to people from many differant walks of life). This aproach has proven usefull in finding information, and has proven valuable to many companies bottom line.
Doubletwist.com appears to have focused one a finite area of interest, and has choosen to "do one thing very well". Does this aproach match your definition of 'Portal'? What does the term mean to you?
A quote from the site: DoubleTwist is the first internet portal to make on-line genetic research fast, easy and free for all life science researchers.
This preliminary Finding Of Fact is an interesting devolopment, and has micros~1 crying in it's beer. I, for one, am happy to see Bill gates and micros~1 be exposed for what they trully are. Sneeky, snivling, childish thieves.
Acording to many analysts the DOJ has MS cornered and will push on with the case. While IANAL, I blieve that this case (including apeals) will drag on for years and will keep MSs' hands tied behind there back. They will be forced to sit back and watch as other companies move in on the desktop space. Look for OEMs to start customizing desktops. Look for venture capitol to consider companies "going for the desktop".
My hope is that the DOJ makes this a very very long and painfull process for micros~1. I hope they don't settle for a consent decree that will only end up (when MS violates that agreement) with everybody back in this same place 2 years from now.
For this of you MS-head dolts, I'll say that last part again. Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market. .
These findings are spot on, and refuting them is futile.
One or more of these hardware makers is going to turn there attention toward sueing micros~1 for there poor product quality in the past.
I for one look forward to the day when micros~1 is held liable for the billions they cost buisness across america in lost productivity.
Sorry kid, no free lunch.
If you don't like the existing law, lobby your congressman to change them.
Untill Then, shut up and sit down.
I agree totaly with your previous post.
washed through:http://babelfish.altavista.com/
After Wallace and Gromit: The British creator of the Comic figures Wallace and Gromit, nod park, with steven play mountain of four films will turn London - the British creator of the Comic figures Wallace and Gromit, nod park, is with the US director steven play mountain a series of four films to turn. An appropriate contract over 250 million dollar (239 Mill. Euro/3,29 billion S) signed the two film-creative according to specification of Jeffrey cat mountain, a joint founder of play mountain company DreamWorks. The figurefigure figures Wallace and its dog Gromit flew a teuflischen penguin to parks films among other things to the moon, in order to look cheese up there, and fought the jewel thief Feathers McGraw. Play mountain turned checkout hits like " E.T. " and the film " Schindlers list " distinguished with seven Oscars. That three-way OSCAR winner park created his company Aardman animation 1985.
I've noticed the same thing mentioned by other people as well. What's interesting is the install of QT4 *at no time* mentiones that it is going to change the PNG MIME type to the QuickTime 4.0 plug-in.
Once the images were there, I fired up always trusty "Paint Shop Pro v 5.01" to do a Batch conversion. The file sizes seemed about the same size as the original GIF files (which is to be expected given the 1~3K file size).
Then I thought I would throw one of the PNG files back into Netscape v4.7 to see how it handled things. I draged and droped an PNG file into NS 4.7 and saw "Loading plug-in" flash in the status bar ...then the apple logo came up for a split second, then the PNG apeared.
I couldn't believe my own eyes, so I did it again just to make sure I wasn't imagining things....and sure enough, the PNG file format (win98/NS4.7) is being opened by a Apple Quicktime 4.0 plug-in!
Imagine, if you will, when a user goes to load your home page (which you diligently converted to PNG images) and starts seeing the apple logo pop up every time a little 1k PNG is loaded on the page. imagine the user watching his resource meter slowly drop as the plug-in consumes the last of his precious resources.
Has anyone else recently installed the QT 4.0 player? Can you confirm it handling the PNG format?
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As for the freekin' blipvert, well..that's another story. ;)
My hope is to shed some light on why a person needs to prioritize and categorize things in life as either a want or a need.
At the risk of over simplfying the issue, let's talk about the basics:
Food. Shelter. Clothing. These items, and the means necessary to attaining them are NEEDS. One common solution to attaining the basic needs is finding a good or service that someone else will pay you money for (a job). In return for that payment, you can obtain your Food, Shelter, and Clothing. These are needs. So often in our culture the word 'Need' is thrown out there and never challanged. It is in the context of this debate (movies/disrobution/piracy/stealing) that many put forth "the service offered by the movie industry is a NEED".
For example you stated:..you need something in your life to entertain you, or you'll go crazy.
I would put forth that you've allowled your feeling to WANT to be entertained to overwelm you. I've got a news flash, you won't go nuts of you don't have Q3 arena, You won't go crazy is you don't have the absolute latest and greatest thing. Try is sometime, and you'll see.
You bring up an interesting and thought provoking point. I'm sure that a lot of story submissions look like:
Posted by Roblimo on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
Ummm Hey wow, my cat had twins!
Or
Posted by HEMOS on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
So I heard that someones cat had twins!
Or
Posted by CMDTaco on 11:00 AM -- Sunday October 31 1999 CDT from the I-can't-believe-it-dept.
So I heard that Linus will be putting twins in the 3.0.2 kernel.
I'm willing to wade through posts like this. For example: When Hotmail was cracked, I'm sure the Story submissions were high. In my view, it gives the reader a good idea on how popular a particular topic might be. That's why I think it would be a valuable source of information.
A: Yes. It's the law. You may choose to not follow it and that's ok. Just as long as you're willing to suffer the ramifications. If you don't agree with the law, lobby your Congressman and ask to have it changed. Untill then, shut up and sit down.
I believe that the good movies are not there to make money, and the satisfaction that their movies are appreciated would justify their work. This says nothing about movies produced to make money, however.
They are ALL MADE TO RECOUP THE MONEY SPENT!
And with a little luck make a little money to compensate the risk taken in making it in the first place. Under current IP law, thay have the right to recoup there investment in a fair marketplace. Nobody is in the industry of making films "for the love of the art form" and if they're telling you that, they are just trying to sell you on there property.
I hope this was a typo. I really do. and if it isn't a typo, you have absolutly no right what so ever to use the word Morals as you obviously don't have the first clue as to it's meaning.
I hope that was a typo.
It's the contract of the offer that you're violating. Allow me to put forth one little example to make my point.
Lets say I'm the Producer of "The Matrix" and I line up financing to make a great movie and I want to sell it. There are many ways to try and sell the movie.
1) Stand on the street corner yelling "get your Matrix here".
Your Price? $1.00
2) Sell volume copies to video stores and take out some adds to create demand in those stores.
Your Price? $3.00
3) Sell copies to movie theaters and buy advertising to create demand in those theaters.
Your Price? $6.00
The decision for how I want to distro *my* movie is *my decision* not yours. It's an offer. It's a contract. It's speculation and risk managment that leads me to a decision for how to best recoup investment, and make some profit for the risk *I* am taking. If you like the offer, you pay what I demand. It's that simple.
If I'm making a movie, and piracy has closed down distrobution chanels 2 and 3 (making them finacialy a higher risk), I'll be forced to stand on a street corner and sell the movie myself for a buck. This means that The Matrix would never get made.
And another thing, many people are talking about how they need to see a movie and I find this quite laughable. Your demand is purchased. Your demand is payed for. Your demand is a fixed cost of distro channels 2 and 3. Like so many sheep to the sheerer.
This is where the foundation of your argument starts to woble a bit. Nobody needs entertainment. I'm sorry if this comes as a shock, but you don't.
My Girlfriend wanted to go shopping this past weekend, saying she needed some red pumps. It's imporant to clarify, red pumps are not a need, they are a want. She wanted the latest design from the best designer, she needed a stylish and functional pair of shoes. Are these the same things? Not at all, and it's important to clarify the differance.