Your absolutely right. There are other very simple things, very cheap things - for example, insulative lining around your windows and doors, double paned windows, etc - that will save you so much more. $4 a person is a piss in the lake in comparison. My take? its a marketing scheme to get us to replace our existing appliances.
Copy protection is a form of product defect, and I do not purchase products I know to be defective.
Do you consider your car to be defunct? Because it employes a form of protection - a key and lock. Very similarly, the video files employ a key and a lock... the files have a DRM lock and the video player can act as a key to a legitimate user for legitimate purposes. Its not broken, it does exactly what it claims to do - it plays in the media players described for the time period advertized.
But your selling other people's products. Your 'product' is 'joe's sports equiptment store' or whatever. Now if another store comes in town called 'joe's sports equiptment store', then you've got a case. Again, the difference is, you are not creating you are reselling. Very distinct from this case where you have MegaBlocks making bricks with bumps, and Legos making bricks with bumps, and the question being if the bumps infringe on the image. (go back to my second sentance, your parallel would be another company called joe's...)
Depends on what you are doing... I do 6DOF analysis and you get this list of tabular data... gee, makes sense to analyze it in a program laid out to handle tabular data, huh? Now the in depth stuff... we use some in-house tools you can't get your hands on, but for the simple stuff, Excel does quite a bit; you'd be suprised.
But try this sometime with Calc: Load a comma seperated value file. Calculate the root-mean-squared of a few values. Now export the comma seperated value file. Heres a hint: with 1.9 you can't export CSV files.
In C++ we use Doxygen. Basically as you write comments inline you use a few shorthand markers (kinda like HTML tags, sorta, not really) to tell Doxygen what to pick up. Generates pretty good documentation and graphical class charts, etc. Works pretty slick, Doxygen is then pure HTML + png documentation of your code.
Yes, I have seen windows severs with uptimes in excess of 100 days. One I explicitly remember is the primary domain controller at my former place of employment back in the Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 days...
Wow. Learn how to admin your f***ing windows servers. My work machine and home machine both have better uptimes. And I've seen (laid my hands upon) windows servers with uptimes orders of magnitudes higher...
If you have a windows admin worth his salt, the overhead of the GUI is negligible, and the benefit of the GUI (being able to remote desktop in or switch the KVM to use good graphical tools that help you solve problems quicker. Like it or not there are good graphical tools when used with good console tools that can help you solve problems quickly) is irreplaceable.
A fast computer that isnt usable is useless. Like a fast car that isn't street legal.
If Microsoft can make inroads into newer supercomputing arenas with newer people who don't want to learn Linux, etc... they may have a market. I say it half sarcastically because I agree with you, yet I can see where Microsoft is taking this.
The difference is where supercomputing matters - areas of science and engineering - are dominated mostly by Linux but also have contendors in Windows.
(Engineering is highlighted because that is my area of expertise - company I work for does high fidelity simulation in both Linux and Windows... but few if any companies in the engineering world work under OS X)
Apple knew they would be declined; its not a concern what chipset it is running on. It's all a publicity stunt. If they hadn't done it now, Microsoft would have done it later.
Besides, it would void the spirit of the project, giving kids a chance to do development and stuff... Newton (or prettymuch any PDA interface, barring Zarus or WinCE) is too light for dev work
The overwhelming tone is that they should take up Steve Jobs on his offer - for whatever reason. If Microsoft had made the same offer, dollars to donuts the same people here on slashdot would be saying "f*ck you and the horse you rode in on."
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Your absolutely right. There are other very simple things, very cheap things - for example, insulative lining around your windows and doors, double paned windows, etc - that will save you so much more. $4 a person is a piss in the lake in comparison. My take? its a marketing scheme to get us to replace our existing appliances.
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Copy protection is a form of product defect, and I do not purchase products I know to be defective.
Do you consider your car to be defunct? Because it employes a form of protection - a key and lock. Very similarly, the video files employ a key and a lock... the files have a DRM lock and the video player can act as a key to a legitimate user for legitimate purposes. Its not broken, it does exactly what it claims to do - it plays in the media players described for the time period advertized.
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Gavin Rossdale of Bush drew only 40 people in Milwaukee two weeks ago
Wow. Cake drew a full house when I saw them in Birmingham...
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(Perhaps you slept through Laplace transforms?)
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I mean, come on, how many times have you seen "x"
or "cos()" "sin()"
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The end is near...
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But your selling other people's products. Your 'product' is 'joe's sports equiptment store' or whatever. Now if another store comes in town called 'joe's sports equiptment store', then you've got a case. Again, the difference is, you are not creating you are reselling. Very distinct from this case where you have MegaBlocks making bricks with bumps, and Legos making bricks with bumps, and the question being if the bumps infringe on the image. (go back to my second sentance, your parallel would be another company called joe's...)
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no workie workie.
at least not on the build that ships with FC4. I shit you not.
-everphilski-
Depends on what you are doing... I do 6DOF analysis and you get this list of tabular data... gee, makes sense to analyze it in a program laid out to handle tabular data, huh? Now the in depth stuff... we use some in-house tools you can't get your hands on, but for the simple stuff, Excel does quite a bit; you'd be suprised.
But try this sometime with Calc: Load a comma seperated value file. Calculate the root-mean-squared of a few values. Now export the comma seperated value file. Heres a hint: with 1.9 you can't export CSV files.
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As an engineer, calc sucks. If youre doing anything more than tracking your budget at home, chances are Calc isn't going to cut it.
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Not sure if that's the legacy we wanted to leave, giving the third world l33t sp33k, but I think we all know that's whats gonna happen...
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In C++ we use Doxygen. Basically as you write comments inline you use a few shorthand markers (kinda like HTML tags, sorta, not really) to tell Doxygen what to pick up. Generates pretty good documentation and graphical class charts, etc. Works pretty slick, Doxygen is then pure HTML + png documentation of your code.
-everphilski-
Magnitude of 9 is 1.
1 order of magnitude is 10
Two orders of magnitude is 100
Yes, I have seen windows severs with uptimes in excess of 100 days. One I explicitly remember is the primary domain controller at my former place of employment back in the Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 days...
-everphilski-
Wow. Learn how to admin your f***ing windows servers. My work machine and home machine both have better uptimes. And I've seen (laid my hands upon) windows servers with uptimes orders of magnitudes higher...
-everphilski-
Because if the UN had control of it who knows what would happen. The UN can barely function itself, much less manage the internet...
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If you have a windows admin worth his salt, the overhead of the GUI is negligible, and the benefit of the GUI (being able to remote desktop in or switch the KVM to use good graphical tools that help you solve problems quicker. Like it or not there are good graphical tools when used with good console tools that can help you solve problems quickly) is irreplaceable.
-everphilski-
A fast computer that isnt usable is useless. Like a fast car that isn't street legal.
If Microsoft can make inroads into newer supercomputing arenas with newer people who don't want to learn Linux, etc... they may have a market. I say it half sarcastically because I agree with you, yet I can see where Microsoft is taking this.
-everphilski-
The difference is where supercomputing matters - areas of science and engineering - are dominated mostly by Linux but also have contendors in Windows.
(Engineering is highlighted because that is my area of expertise - company I work for does high fidelity simulation in both Linux and Windows... but few if any companies in the engineering world work under OS X)
-everphilski-
Apple knew they would be declined; its not a concern what chipset it is running on. It's all a publicity stunt. If they hadn't done it now, Microsoft would have done it later.
-everphilski-
Not on a $100 laptop with 1 gig of flash hard disk space. At least not with much room to spare.
-everphilski-
Duuuuuhhhh...
Besides, it would void the spirit of the project, giving kids a chance to do development and stuff... Newton (or prettymuch any PDA interface, barring Zarus or WinCE) is too light for dev work
-everphilski-
The overwhelming tone is that they should take up Steve Jobs on his offer - for whatever reason. If Microsoft had made the same offer, dollars to donuts the same people here on slashdot would be saying "f*ck you and the horse you rode in on."
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Red Hat has contributed money to the project.
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Guess I should have been clearer. Don't buy cheap NiCad's. But LiOh's (Lithium Ion). As much or more power than alkalines. Problem solved.