lmao! I used to work for PatchLink as well which is why I asked the question. I am a pretty recent PatchLink alum actually. You and I probably know each other. This is pretty much one of the reasons I left the company.:-)
What does this mean for the other vendors, namely the larger ones? Companies like PatchLink, Shavlik, BigFix? Do they all pay licensing fees to Microsoft to redistribute their content?...or does Microsoft leave them alone because they have large customers with deep pockets?
Why does everyone think Vista requires an ungodly video card? I have a Vista box at home running with onboard video, and it runs just fine. Granted, it's a RAM pig, but it's Windows, what do you expect?
Seriously, what fanboi forums is that guy reading? I was a hardcore AMD enthusiast until Core 2 Duos were released and I saw the light. AMD is getting smacked around in the CPU and GPU market. They have spread themselves too thin perhaps.
If the film has a decent box office, Hollywood will be more willing to continue putting money in to the series. J.J. Abrams being attached to the project at this point is a very good thing for the film's budget and box office potential. I am not sure about Felicity, but MI:III made a boatload of cash so I am sure they could make another one if they wanted to...no matter how bad the reviews were.
I am really looking forward to this flick. J.J. Abrams pretty much has the midas touch when it comes to producing and directing on television. Love it or hate it, Lost and Alias is/was huge successes. Let's see if he can carry that over to this film.
I have a three year old son that is autistic and one of the most misunderstood things about autism is that all kinds of autism are the same. There are so many types/levels of autism that literally no two cases are alike. For instance, my son is not necessarily anti-social, but he becomes over-stimulated very easily.
Too many loud sounds or too many people in a social situation will cause him to introvert and exhibit what some people might consider weird behavior. That is the only time he really becomes anti-social. I am not really sure how a robot with a set pattern will cope with the different types of autism. It would only be effective for certain children....to answer the parent though, not all autistic children have special abilities. That being said, socializing them would not necessarily decrease the abilities of those that have them (a la Rain Man), but it would divert their singular focus from that special ability.
...that the powers that be still do not understand illicit software/warez distribution. 95% of the content originates from the newsgroups, P2P is just a convenient way to disseminate the property. All they are doing by blocking P2P is stopping the "n00bs" who don't know where else to get it, and they are hardly the ones to worry about.
If I am going to spend the time and effort to write a piece of commercial software, then I am probably going to want to make money off of it. Linux users in general don't like to pay for applications so there would be no way I would write a client application for Linux. Windows Administrators are leery of server applications without an installed user base, so I would tend to avoid writing server applications for the Windows platform (as a start-up mind you).
That being said, why limit myself to one platform? It would only be a smart business decision to code for both. Hey, what do you know...I work for a company that currently does that. It's like Windows users that refuse to use Linux "because it's too complicated", or *nix users who refuse to use Windows "because of (monopoly/commercialism/shady business practices/insert random slashdot whine here)".
If you limit your target, you only limit your market and earnings potential. That's just stupid from a business perspective....because guess what, neither of them are going away in the near future so you might as well be proficient at both.
Please...with proper administration, Windows is just as secure as any other OS. Blame the luser, not the tools. Linux and BSD are just as problematic when you have an idiot on the keyboard. It goes back to the old user base argument. If the *nix community had as many users as the Windows community, you would see just as many problems. The ratio of ignorant users would significantly increase.
Name one radio personality who has come back to the same station after a "suspension". Imus is the latest failure, but how many times was Howard Stern suspended and fired from various outlets. Locally in Detroit where I am originally from, it happens all the time. I doubt they're coming back. It just usually doesn't work out that way.
They weren't fired because of their comments. They were fired because they suck. This was just a convenient excuse for XM to release them from their contracts. They had next to no ratings which is evident from the 20K - 40K subscribers canceling. For a nationwide broadcast, that is just pathetic. These guys couldn't pull any ratings on terrestrial radio, how did anyone expect them to get ratings on satellite radio?
I'd like to see the same level of effort put in to catching and prosecuting (executing?) child pornography producers and distributors. If law enforcement put 1% of the effort that the RIAA and MPAA put in to running down kids sharing movies and music, we could clean up the filth that permeates our society. Talk about f'd up priorities...
I can actually confirm this. When I was young and poor I pirated pretty much everything. Now that I am older and making a comfortable living in the software industry, I support the makers of the software I use by paying for it.
I know this sounds like advocacy for piracy, but it's not. I was wrong and I have even paid for licenses of software I don't even use anymore if I used pirated copies for any extended period of time. I am also very much an advocate of OSS. If you don't want to pay for Photoshop, don't pirate it, use GIMP. It's a great tool that will only get better with the more people that use it. That is just one example of the free alternatives to very expensive software.
Do you mean to tell me that Google is doing what every other multinational company in the world is doing? Shut them down!! I simply will not stand for these utterly common business practices.
"From the FSFE's announcement, readers might easily conclude that the FLA is a new document. In fact, what is being announced is version 1.2 of the agreement. An earlier version of the FLA has already been used by the Bacula project to assign its collective copyright to FSFE in November 2006. Moreover, Eben Moglen, chair of the Software Freedom Law Center, describes the FLA as "a three-year-old legal implement that is now being released without substantial revision." Apparently, the news is not the agreement itself, but the fact that the FSFE plans to use it to become the legal guardian of free software projects. This interpretation is supported by Greve's comment that the creation of the Freedom Task Force was "a logical consequence" of his earlier concerns about the issues that the FLA is designed to addressed."
Wow...big news.
Is this your way admitting to being a l337 h4x0r p!r473? If it is, then your rationalizations for not paying for "content" are utterly ridiculous. It takes as much time and effort to produce a piece of software, album, movie, etc. as it does to produce a piece of hardware. Just admit to being a scum-sucking lowlife and get on with it.
If you are not admitting to anything, well then go ahead and just disregard this post.
Here I will attempt to abuse a completely overused cliche:
Production value of a typical Hollywood theatrical blockbuster: ~$150M
DVD distribution production costs: ~$7M
Developing an "unbreakable" security algorithm: ~$1.5M
Having some PERL monkee write a few lines code to make you look foolish: Priceless
This was pretty much a waste of a line on my RSS reader. The corporate enterprise environment is not going to abandon Windows because of DRM and the enthusiasts will crack it....just another wet dream about the demise of Windows that most of us will never see in our lifetimes.
If you think his show is nothing but sex and midget strippers, you are sorely mistaken. That says to me that you have never even listened to the show, or your head is so far up the religious right's ass, you can't think for yourself and everything must be censored. He invented the talk radio entertainment genre and everyone else is just an imitator. Almost 5 million people didn't sign up in less than a year because Stern has no clout or nothing interesting to say like the guy from Montreal commented. But hey, he's a French Canadian, so we know how that goes. As a previous subscriber to XM and a current subscriber to Sirius, XM has a slightly better music offering, but the all-around package for sports, news, political discussion, music and entertainment, goes to Sirius. The only thing XM does better is music. There is a reason that they have had to lower their subscriber forecasts twice this year. The internet stream is not CD quality. It is a 128kbps, but it's above average for an internet stream. Before everyone bashes the service and Stern, try it out. His show is hilarious, Artie Lange is an amazing addition to the show and I gladly listen to the whole show every day.
He always has been and always will be. His articles are practically marketing material for Kaspersky labs. First of all, write an article stating the obvious and then back it up with some arbitrary figures without displaying any real results.
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lmao! I used to work for PatchLink as well which is why I asked the question. I am a pretty recent PatchLink alum actually. You and I probably know each other. This is pretty much one of the reasons I left the company. :-)
What does this mean for the other vendors, namely the larger ones? Companies like PatchLink, Shavlik, BigFix? Do they all pay licensing fees to Microsoft to redistribute their content? ...or does Microsoft leave them alone because they have large customers with deep pockets?
Why does everyone think Vista requires an ungodly video card? I have a Vista box at home running with onboard video, and it runs just fine. Granted, it's a RAM pig, but it's Windows, what do you expect?
Seriously, what fanboi forums is that guy reading? I was a hardcore AMD enthusiast until Core 2 Duos were released and I saw the light. AMD is getting smacked around in the CPU and GPU market. They have spread themselves too thin perhaps.
Speaking of troll and posting as AC... I didn't think anyone really cared what I would get. This just happens to be one of the reasons I would never buy an iPod. ...but since you asked so politely, I own an Archos 604 WiFi:
http://www.archos.com/products/video/archos_604/in dex.html?country=global&lang=en
One of the MANY reasons I would never buy an iPod.
If the film has a decent box office, Hollywood will be more willing to continue putting money in to the series. J.J. Abrams being attached to the project at this point is a very good thing for the film's budget and box office potential. I am not sure about Felicity, but MI:III made a boatload of cash so I am sure they could make another one if they wanted to...no matter how bad the reviews were.
I am really looking forward to this flick. J.J. Abrams pretty much has the midas touch when it comes to producing and directing on television. Love it or hate it, Lost and Alias is/was huge successes. Let's see if he can carry that over to this film.
I have a three year old son that is autistic and one of the most misunderstood things about autism is that all kinds of autism are the same. There are so many types/levels of autism that literally no two cases are alike. For instance, my son is not necessarily anti-social, but he becomes over-stimulated very easily.
...to answer the parent though, not all autistic children have special abilities. That being said, socializing them would not necessarily decrease the abilities of those that have them (a la Rain Man), but it would divert their singular focus from that special ability.
Too many loud sounds or too many people in a social situation will cause him to introvert and exhibit what some people might consider weird behavior. That is the only time he really becomes anti-social. I am not really sure how a robot with a set pattern will cope with the different types of autism. It would only be effective for certain children.
...that the powers that be still do not understand illicit software/warez distribution. 95% of the content originates from the newsgroups, P2P is just a convenient way to disseminate the property. All they are doing by blocking P2P is stopping the "n00bs" who don't know where else to get it, and they are hardly the ones to worry about.
If I am going to spend the time and effort to write a piece of commercial software, then I am probably going to want to make money off of it. Linux users in general don't like to pay for applications so there would be no way I would write a client application for Linux. Windows Administrators are leery of server applications without an installed user base, so I would tend to avoid writing server applications for the Windows platform (as a start-up mind you).
...because guess what, neither of them are going away in the near future so you might as well be proficient at both.
That being said, why limit myself to one platform? It would only be a smart business decision to code for both. Hey, what do you know...I work for a company that currently does that. It's like Windows users that refuse to use Linux "because it's too complicated", or *nix users who refuse to use Windows "because of (monopoly/commercialism/shady business practices/insert random slashdot whine here)".
If you limit your target, you only limit your market and earnings potential. That's just stupid from a business perspective.
Please...with proper administration, Windows is just as secure as any other OS. Blame the luser, not the tools. Linux and BSD are just as problematic when you have an idiot on the keyboard. It goes back to the old user base argument. If the *nix community had as many users as the Windows community, you would see just as many problems. The ratio of ignorant users would significantly increase.
Name one radio personality who has come back to the same station after a "suspension". Imus is the latest failure, but how many times was Howard Stern suspended and fired from various outlets. Locally in Detroit where I am originally from, it happens all the time. I doubt they're coming back. It just usually doesn't work out that way.
They weren't fired because of their comments. They were fired because they suck. This was just a convenient excuse for XM to release them from their contracts. They had next to no ratings which is evident from the 20K - 40K subscribers canceling. For a nationwide broadcast, that is just pathetic. These guys couldn't pull any ratings on terrestrial radio, how did anyone expect them to get ratings on satellite radio?
I'd like to see the same level of effort put in to catching and prosecuting (executing?) child pornography producers and distributors. If law enforcement put 1% of the effort that the RIAA and MPAA put in to running down kids sharing movies and music, we could clean up the filth that permeates our society. Talk about f'd up priorities...
I can actually confirm this. When I was young and poor I pirated pretty much everything. Now that I am older and making a comfortable living in the software industry, I support the makers of the software I use by paying for it.
I know this sounds like advocacy for piracy, but it's not. I was wrong and I have even paid for licenses of software I don't even use anymore if I used pirated copies for any extended period of time. I am also very much an advocate of OSS. If you don't want to pay for Photoshop, don't pirate it, use GIMP. It's a great tool that will only get better with the more people that use it. That is just one example of the free alternatives to very expensive software.
Do you mean to tell me that Google is doing what every other multinational company in the world is doing? Shut them down!! I simply will not stand for these utterly common business practices.
Wow...big news.
Is this your way admitting to being a l337 h4x0r p!r473? If it is, then your rationalizations for not paying for "content" are utterly ridiculous. It takes as much time and effort to produce a piece of software, album, movie, etc. as it does to produce a piece of hardware. Just admit to being a scum-sucking lowlife and get on with it.
If you are not admitting to anything, well then go ahead and just disregard this post.
Vista was released over a week ago. The download version is the version they are releasing in two days.
Here I will attempt to abuse a completely overused cliche:
Production value of a typical Hollywood theatrical blockbuster: ~$150M
DVD distribution production costs: ~$7M
Developing an "unbreakable" security algorithm: ~$1.5M
Having some PERL monkee write a few lines code to make you look foolish: Priceless
Some things money can't buy, for everything else, there are retards to spend frivolously on the next big "THING".
This was pretty much a waste of a line on my RSS reader. The corporate enterprise environment is not going to abandon Windows because of DRM and the enthusiasts will crack it. ...just another wet dream about the demise of Windows that most of us will never see in our lifetimes.
If you think his show is nothing but sex and midget strippers, you are sorely mistaken. That says to me that you have never even listened to the show, or your head is so far up the religious right's ass, you can't think for yourself and everything must be censored. He invented the talk radio entertainment genre and everyone else is just an imitator. Almost 5 million people didn't sign up in less than a year because Stern has no clout or nothing interesting to say like the guy from Montreal commented. But hey, he's a French Canadian, so we know how that goes. As a previous subscriber to XM and a current subscriber to Sirius, XM has a slightly better music offering, but the all-around package for sports, news, political discussion, music and entertainment, goes to Sirius. The only thing XM does better is music. There is a reason that they have had to lower their subscriber forecasts twice this year. The internet stream is not CD quality. It is a 128kbps, but it's above average for an internet stream. Before everyone bashes the service and Stern, try it out. His show is hilarious, Artie Lange is an amazing addition to the show and I gladly listen to the whole show every day.
He always has been and always will be. His articles are practically marketing material for Kaspersky labs. First of all, write an article stating the obvious and then back it up with some arbitrary figures without displaying any real results.
For your reference (I made sure to use the Google cache so you can see the highlighting):
Hmmmm...what sole vendor was interviewed for this article?
I wonder who the focus of this article is...
My goodness! Another article from Munir which focuses on Kaspersky. Who would have guessed?
Which company did Munir get a virus analyst from to comment on this article?
Now that is some quality, unbiased reporting for you. Don't believe Munir's BS, it's a load of crap.
MS would no more withdraw from Europe than they would from the USA.
I guess witty sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet, but I thought that would have been obvious.