This is not an encrouchment on your right to free speech. This just applies existing election campaign laws to internet communication.
You can still post your political party bashing blog. Now you just can't get paid insane amounts of money to do so with out the backing party acknowledging it.
Nothing to do with your rights. Everything to do with campaign finances.
"If OEMs were free to install whatever software they wanted on PCs they sold then we would see some machines coming with IE, some with Firefox, perhaps some with Opera."
This is a reason to complain about Microsoft's monopolistic marketing. Dell, Gateway, and other OEMs are free(as in speech) to put extra software on their PCs before selling and shipping. But putting FF on Windows before shipping the box would likely result in non-free(as in beer) issues with Microsoft. The issue here is not the bundle, but the use of their power to control what OEMs and other vendors bundle with the final product.
"Congratulations on contradicting TFHD and then restating its basic premise."
I read the introduction. I figured reading the introduction of the guide would give me at least an idea of what the book would cover. I appologize for making that assumption. My bust. </sarcasm>
"On a more serious note, I wonder what the market share ratio would be like if Internet Explorer wasn't part of the windows operating system."
What good would it serve the consumer to get a machine that doesn't include a web browsing application?
People who complain about Microsoft's bundling remind me of people who complain about Wallmart. Wallmart provides an excellent variety of products at an enforced quality level for a very low price. They are giving consumers exactly what the want, and they do it very well. I'm not saying that either company is NOT evil, just that both companies are serving the needs of a large portion of the consumer population extremely effectively.
from TFHD: "There is no magic secret to losing weight and keeping it off"
Incorrect. There is one great key to losing weight and keeping it off. Its called Math. If you take in more calories then you use, you will gain weight. If you burn more calories then you take in, you will lose weight. It is that simple. Eat a healthy blend of foods. Eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Period. Whether you eat nothing but stake, are a vegitarian, a junk food muncher, what ever your gimmic is, you need to burn more calories then you digest.
Go out and drop a few bucks on a quality diet/exercise tracking system. They are simple to use, just plug in what you eat and what type of activities you do during the day. They can spit out graphs of your expected weight changes and make recomendations for how to meet your weight goals over a period of time.
The reason why Apple has always managed to do so well is becuase they have (until tiger) been almost exclusively proprietory. If you build your own hardware, you can build software that works perfectly on it. Since everyone using your software has a precisely defined piece of hardware (that you built) you can eliminate a huge range of issues (drivers, drivers, drivers...)
But at the same time you create a situation where there is one sole provider of the hardware/software for the consumer. Look at the pain you have to go throw to get that iTunes downloaded tune to play on a rio, check out the pain of using non-iTunes software to interact with the iPod. (note: I had an original run iPod, things may have changed significantly since mine passed on)
Its for that reason that I find it ironic that there are so many slashdoters who are fans of Apple/iPod when they are just as controling as Microsoft.
My favorite educational entertainment device was 'Stick'.
Stick was great. I could put a crab able on the end and observe centrifical force and mechanical advantage. I could balance it on my hand to improve coordination. I could throw it and chase my dog to build muscles and stamina. I could charge my evil brother with it like charging into battle like King Arthur like in the stories and legends taught to me. I could share my stick with my friends to learn cooperation. I could combine my stick with my friends' sticks to make a fort.
Diesel's release more Carbons per gallon then Gas. But Diesel engines are a good deal more efficient then and can provide greater power at a lower rate of consumption. So at the end of the day the amount of carbons released from a Golf TDI will be lower then that of a Honda Accord.
I think you have a valid point. And I think it could easily be adapted for use by companies like google. Instead of storing your information on their servers (search history, advertising clicks, etc) they could easily be stored in cookies on your computer. Google could check that data when you submit a search to bring you more targeted results and advertising, and use the anon summary data on their side. This would allow you to control what you want to share. You could delete the cookie, or even clean out parts of it on your own to alter its effect.
I live in a small town outside of Madison, WI now. I get to drive and enjoy flexing my right foot for my commute. Alas mid engine two seaters and video ipods don't mix so well;)
My sentament exactly. I used to live/work in the DC metro area, and sitting on a metro for 40 minutes would be a great time to catch up on last night's news, an episode of Lost, or some of the latest technology video blogs.
Yeah, as root kits are becoming more popular, you'll see more antivirus companies looking into detecting and repairing the damage. Hopfully the writer of that article is employed by such a company, a lot of the steps he took manually could be automated, but if those processes were combined with the symantic/mcafee data stores it could drasticly improve our ability to detect and remove root kits quickly.
Being a root kit just means that the program works at the OS level, USUALLY in such a way that the end user will not notice it, nor will virus detectors flag it. It changes something about "Windows" as opposed to adding something to it. (over simplified)
The arbitrary code in this case is installed when you hit 'OK'.
And that is a great option. One that I intend on using if and when it is appropriate.
"...and if he's clever enough to do that in your own house without getting caught, and has enough willpower to only play the game when it's "safe" to, then he's probably mature enough to handle the game's content anyway."
Exactly:) Providing limits encourages creative thinking to get arround those limits. Gotta love teenagers. If my son grows up to be creative and smart enough to pull it off, he's entitled, untill I find out, then see the above;)
"Can you cite an example of a place selling modern unrated or AO-rated games over the counter?"
I can't say I can beyond a shadow of a doubt. But the question I have is, is this law for AO games? Or M games as well? Or does it define a new standard? Me personally, I would have a hard time selling GTA to a 12 year old kid.
"(*) Legislation seeking to keep minors away from sexual content on the web say requiring the use of a credit card before access is sufficient to prove the remote user's adulthood, so why would Amazon need to pull GTA:SA?"
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This is not an encrouchment on your right to free speech. This just applies existing election campaign laws to internet communication.
You can still post your political party bashing blog. Now you just can't get paid insane amounts of money to do so with out the backing party acknowledging it.
Nothing to do with your rights. Everything to do with campaign finances.
-Rick
"If OEMs were free to install whatever software they wanted on PCs they sold then we would see some machines coming with IE, some with Firefox, perhaps some with Opera."
This is a reason to complain about Microsoft's monopolistic marketing. Dell, Gateway, and other OEMs are free(as in speech) to put extra software on their PCs before selling and shipping. But putting FF on Windows before shipping the box would likely result in non-free(as in beer) issues with Microsoft. The issue here is not the bundle, but the use of their power to control what OEMs and other vendors bundle with the final product.
-Rick
i ttyp goid.
;)
That should have been Lose, not Loose
-Rick
"Congratulations on contradicting TFHD and then restating its basic premise."
I read the introduction. I figured reading the introduction of the guide would give me at least an idea of what the book would cover. I appologize for making that assumption. My bust. </sarcasm>
-Rick
My wife picked up Fitday PC by Cyser from http://www.fitday.com/
Its $29 for a download copy. Its extremely easy to use and has helped my wife loose and keep of 25 pounds.
-Rick
"On a more serious note, I wonder what the market share ratio would be like if Internet Explorer wasn't part of the windows operating system."
What good would it serve the consumer to get a machine that doesn't include a web browsing application?
People who complain about Microsoft's bundling remind me of people who complain about Wallmart. Wallmart provides an excellent variety of products at an enforced quality level for a very low price. They are giving consumers exactly what the want, and they do it very well. I'm not saying that either company is NOT evil, just that both companies are serving the needs of a large portion of the consumer population extremely effectively.
-Rick
from TFHD: "There is no magic secret to losing weight and keeping it off"
Incorrect. There is one great key to losing weight and keeping it off. Its called Math. If you take in more calories then you use, you will gain weight. If you burn more calories then you take in, you will lose weight. It is that simple. Eat a healthy blend of foods. Eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Period. Whether you eat nothing but stake, are a vegitarian, a junk food muncher, what ever your gimmic is, you need to burn more calories then you digest.
Go out and drop a few bucks on a quality diet/exercise tracking system. They are simple to use, just plug in what you eat and what type of activities you do during the day. They can spit out graphs of your expected weight changes and make recomendations for how to meet your weight goals over a period of time.
-Rick
The reason why Apple has always managed to do so well is becuase they have (until tiger) been almost exclusively proprietory. If you build your own hardware, you can build software that works perfectly on it. Since everyone using your software has a precisely defined piece of hardware (that you built) you can eliminate a huge range of issues (drivers, drivers, drivers...)
But at the same time you create a situation where there is one sole provider of the hardware/software for the consumer. Look at the pain you have to go throw to get that iTunes downloaded tune to play on a rio, check out the pain of using non-iTunes software to interact with the iPod. (note: I had an original run iPod, things may have changed significantly since mine passed on)
Its for that reason that I find it ironic that there are so many slashdoters who are fans of Apple/iPod when they are just as controling as Microsoft.
Ahh well, just my little rant.
-Rick
bleh, edit first, then post. "crab able" should be "crab apple"
-Rick
My favorite educational entertainment device was 'Stick'.
Stick was great. I could put a crab able on the end and observe centrifical force and mechanical advantage. I could balance it on my hand to improve coordination. I could throw it and chase my dog to build muscles and stamina. I could charge my evil brother with it like charging into battle like King Arthur like in the stories and legends taught to me. I could share my stick with my friends to learn cooperation. I could combine my stick with my friends' sticks to make a fort.
Ahhh, the simple joys of Stick.
-Rick
Me personally, I will bitch and moan about any short coming when money is at stake.
Speaking of which, I need to call my cable company and chew someone out, thanks for reminding me.
-Rick
Diesel's release more Carbons per gallon then Gas. But Diesel engines are a good deal more efficient then and can provide greater power at a lower rate of consumption. So at the end of the day the amount of carbons released from a Golf TDI will be lower then that of a Honda Accord.
-Rick
I think you have a valid point. And I think it could easily be adapted for use by companies like google. Instead of storing your information on their servers (search history, advertising clicks, etc) they could easily be stored in cookies on your computer. Google could check that data when you submit a search to bring you more targeted results and advertising, and use the anon summary data on their side. This would allow you to control what you want to share. You could delete the cookie, or even clean out parts of it on your own to alter its effect.
-Rick
I live in a small town outside of Madison, WI now. I get to drive and enjoy flexing my right foot for my commute. Alas mid engine two seaters and video ipods don't mix so well ;)
-Rick
My sentament exactly. I used to live/work in the DC metro area, and sitting on a metro for 40 minutes would be a great time to catch up on last night's news, an episode of Lost, or some of the latest technology video blogs.
-Rick
Yeah, as root kits are becoming more popular, you'll see more antivirus companies looking into detecting and repairing the damage. Hopfully the writer of that article is employed by such a company, a lot of the steps he took manually could be automated, but if those processes were combined with the symantic/mcafee data stores it could drasticly improve our ability to detect and remove root kits quickly.
-Rick
Being a root kit just means that the program works at the OS level, USUALLY in such a way that the end user will not notice it, nor will virus detectors flag it. It changes something about "Windows" as opposed to adding something to it. (over simplified)
The arbitrary code in this case is installed when you hit 'OK'.
-Rick
Are you going to buy the Lost DVD or not?
-Rick
I have developed and supported custom business applications used by hundreds, and very few of the users have been admins.
I also have a few AD tools that only admins can run.
-Rick
That way maybe we can track these dupists ;)
-Rick
-Rick
"2. Punish your kid for buying the game."
:) Providing limits encourages creative thinking to get arround those limits. Gotta love teenagers. If my son grows up to be creative and smart enough to pull it off, he's entitled, untill I find out, then see the above ;)
And that is a great option. One that I intend on using if and when it is appropriate.
"...and if he's clever enough to do that in your own house without getting caught, and has enough willpower to only play the game when it's "safe" to, then he's probably mature enough to handle the game's content anyway."
Exactly
-Rick
"Can you cite an example of a place selling modern unrated or AO-rated games over the counter?"
I can't say I can beyond a shadow of a doubt. But the question I have is, is this law for AO games? Or M games as well? Or does it define a new standard? Me personally, I would have a hard time selling GTA to a 12 year old kid.
"(*) Legislation seeking to keep minors away from sexual content on the web say requiring the use of a credit card before access is sufficient to prove the remote user's adulthood, so why would Amazon need to pull GTA:SA?"
Publicity.
-Rick
Err yeah, I'm sure the richest man in the world has learned all about how his 'beat the competition' business plans are doomed to fail yet again ;)
-Rick
Competition is good. Even you anti-Microsoft pundints will have to admit, this will only make Google have to work harder ;)
-Rick