This is pure FUD. Palladium was never intended to block competing OS or middleware products. They said this many, many times.
Palladium is about being able to create content and then control who has access to it. That's the stated purpose of Palladium and that's what it's intended to do.
The second part of Palladium is application control by the administrator. An administrator can specify which, if any, certificates to require of an application before running it. The administrator will always be able to choose to be able to run applications without certificates.
It was not a matter of just getting one lucky bet right.
In the Pick-6 scheme, you get a jumbo prize if you pick all 6 winners correctly.
What this guy did was buy a number of bets - each for $12 (that's probably all he had available). In each of the bets, the winners of the first 4 races were the same and he chose every possible combination for the winners of the last 2 races. Sounds like he knew who was winning the first 4 races and bet on every possible outcome for the last 2.
Namibia: Dear Exxon, I need a vehicle I could drive from home to work. Microsoft: Here's some old cars and here's enough gas for a year. Namibia: Umm these cars suck. We're buying new cars. These new Toyotas will look nice. Oh wait, I heard you make the engines for those cars. We want you to pay for the engines since we are poor. Microsoft: Umm.. we sell those engines to Toyota. Toyota sells those cars. We can't interfere in the way Toyota does its business. Namibia: Damn you. You're evil. You should be honored to have the privilege to give me stuff because I'm poor. Register: From my parents basement in Wyoming, I fie on thee, M$.
Yes, and I can afford to give the beggar on the street more than the quarter I'm offering too. But I don't have to and the beggar has no business EXPECTING me to give him $10 just because I can. I don't consider charity to be a privilege and if I hear a beggar insulting someone else who gave him something he's sure as hell not getting anything from me.
The announcement was made after the close of trading today. MSFT is trading down 67 cents in after hours reflecting the general uncertainty about the outcome.
The average truck pays about $20,000 (depending on state) in taxes every year. I know because my father-in-law has a concrete business and operates a few trucks.
Are they simply exerting copyright over the photograph of the document, and not on the contents of the document itself? Is that okay, even?
Yep. And yep.
Their copyright is over the photograph of the document that they took. They are allowed to do that because the original document is not under copyright. Had it been under copyright they would have to get permission from the copyright holder before distributing their content based on that material. The copyright on the photograph means that you are not allowed to distribute the photograph they took without their permission. It doesn't prevent you from taking your own photographs of the original work (which is not under copyright) or even from quoting it verbatim.
It's just like some photographic agency had a copyright on some pictures of Marilyn Monroe. That doesn't mean they owned her or that you couldn't take your own pictures of her - just that those particular photographs were covered by copyright.
Kmart asked the court to overrule Microsoft's objection, saying the licenses the software maker referred to were not part of the sale. Kmart said the sale included one server license and 25 desktop licenses it bought from Microsoft.
It sounds like Kmart and Microsoft agree about what Kmart can or cannot do with the licenses and that it was merely a case of KMart not specifying that the licenses being talked about were not part of the sale.
If you google for it, you'll find that WiMP has had a bit of good spyware in it.
Yes, I have read the allegations. And they can all be dismissed as rampant paranoia. I have no problem with a feature which can be disabled which sends a reference to what you are playing so you can download information about it. I have a really hard time believing that it was put in there so your music habits could be sold for 1c/person. Now, a company like Real on the other hand...
These players are slow, intrusive, proprietary, and often loaded with spyware.
Funny how I'm totally comfortable with Quicktime, Windows Media and Winamp. RealOne is the only one that in my experience has been slow, spammy, flaky and which I fear has spyware.
the stance the candidate takes on important issues is (depressingly) unimportant to most people
Please. CD burning is hardly an important issue when compared to issues like terrorism, a possible War on Iraq, taxes, abortion rights, new roads/environmentalism, etc. And I find it depressing that some people think CD burning is more important than any of those issues.
Paying for maintenance or "subscribing" sucks too. That's why I won't downgrade to XP. They are trying to move people towards the subscription model.
That's just plain misinformed. XP is available now. It is available in the form of an unlimited (by time) license. You can buy it and use it forever and the Service Packs and fixes are free too (I believe that is covered in the license somewhere that MS is supposed to provide SPs, etc. for free).
IIRC, the subscription model is what they want their enterprise customers to move towards.
All that wind already pushing on the boxy front end of my 88 Toyota isn't likely going to increased a lot by adding a few fan-like turbines. At least not the amount I would need to power some low-end electronics?
It will cost you at least as much in drag as you will generate from those turbines. You will be much better off just sticking a dynamo somewhere along the transmission. It will still cost you in power but won't be as inefficient as those turbines.
That's because national socialism got criminalized after World War II (by the Allies, btw.), and this is good. Extreme forces are publically dispised, thus leading to less violence on the streets.
Did you go to the John Ashcroft school of thought police? "We're going to stop you from saying or thinking some things but that's just for your own good."
In the US, you're not allowed to swear or be sexually explicit on public channels but it's not because those thoughts or acts are illegal. There's a big difference. All those things are still allowed on cable, btw.
You're wrong. Any power you can generate from this will cause at least as much drag - probably more because of the inevitable inefficiencies of generating and distributing power.
Considering that Best Buy was/is the first retailer to sell iPods (Target having been recently announced as the second), I'd think they'd not want to risk slighting Apple with something like this.
Considering that Best Buy was/is the first retailer to sell iPods, I'd think Apple would not want to risk getting slighted by something trivial like this.
Nope. Tetris has nothing to do with bin packing. Bin packing is about putting numbers in buckets such that no bucket has a total more than so much. Tetris looks like a bin you're packing but there is no similarity between tetris and the bin packing they are refering to.
You're a fucking idiot. I have a Masters with a focus on databases and storage technology.
And yes, you blooming idiot, you need authority over the tables and presumably you are a frigging sysadmin and therefore automatically have that authority. There isn't a database out there (barring storing encrypted data in the database which is decrypted OUTSIDE the database) which bars an admin from doing anything they want to with the data.
You obviously understand nothing about databases so butt out.
And there is still no such thing as Kernel level SQL data. That is just techno-babble used to fool idiots who don't understand what is being talked about - like yourself.
I'd just like to make one thing clear. There is no relationship between Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation beyond the fact that Bill Gates started both organizations and practically runs both.
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Not Active Desktop
Big Difference!
MS must also release any communication protocol necessary to communicate with a MS server OS.
(emphasis mine)
Are you sure of that? I thought it was very specific in saying client, rather than server.
Stupid Slashdot filter thinks I should need longer to make a comment so I'm just typing some junk here to while away the time.
This is pure FUD. Palladium was never intended to block competing OS or middleware products. They said this many, many times.
Palladium is about being able to create content and then control who has access to it. That's the stated purpose of Palladium and that's what it's intended to do.
The second part of Palladium is application control by the administrator. An administrator can specify which, if any, certificates to require of an application before running it. The administrator will always be able to choose to be able to run applications without certificates.
It was not a matter of just getting one lucky bet right.
In the Pick-6 scheme, you get a jumbo prize if you pick all 6 winners correctly.
What this guy did was buy a number of bets - each for $12 (that's probably all he had available). In each of the bets, the winners of the first 4 races were the same and he chose every possible combination for the winners of the last 2 races. Sounds like he knew who was winning the first 4 races and bet on every possible outcome for the last 2.
More like:
Namibia: Dear Exxon, I need a vehicle I could drive from home to work.
Microsoft: Here's some old cars and here's enough gas for a year.
Namibia: Umm these cars suck. We're buying new cars. These new Toyotas will look nice. Oh wait, I heard you make the engines for those cars. We want you to pay for the engines since we are poor.
Microsoft: Umm.. we sell those engines to Toyota. Toyota sells those cars. We can't interfere in the way Toyota does its business.
Namibia: Damn you. You're evil. You should be honored to have the privilege to give me stuff because I'm poor.
Register: From my parents basement in Wyoming, I fie on thee, M$.
Deserved to be insulted because he didn't give the beggar as much as the beggar felt he "deserved"?
Yes, and I can afford to give the beggar on the street more than the quarter I'm offering too. But I don't have to and the beggar has no business EXPECTING me to give him $10 just because I can. I don't consider charity to be a privilege and if I hear a beggar insulting someone else who gave him something he's sure as hell not getting anything from me.
Wow! These people think that Microsoft didn't give up enough for the "privilege" of making a donation to them.
I wouldn't donate a cent to them either.
The announcement was made after the close of trading today. MSFT is trading down 67 cents in after hours reflecting the general uncertainty about the outcome.
... to "slanderdot.com", or "org" (ha, yeah right VA Software Corporation is a not-for-profit).
.org is fine since they're not going to be making a profit anytime soon.
Have you taken a look at their financials lately? I think
The average truck pays about $20,000 (depending on state) in taxes every year. I know because my father-in-law has a concrete business and operates a few trucks.
Are they simply exerting copyright over the photograph of the document, and not on the contents of the document itself? Is that okay, even?
Yep. And yep.
Their copyright is over the photograph of the document that they took. They are allowed to do that because the original document is not under copyright. Had it been under copyright they would have to get permission from the copyright holder before distributing their content based on that material. The copyright on the photograph means that you are not allowed to distribute the photograph they took without their permission. It doesn't prevent you from taking your own photographs of the original work (which is not under copyright) or even from quoting it verbatim.
It's just like some photographic agency had a copyright on some pictures of Marilyn Monroe. That doesn't mean they owned her or that you couldn't take your own pictures of her - just that those particular photographs were covered by copyright.
Kmart asked the court to overrule Microsoft's objection, saying the licenses the software maker referred to were not part of the sale. Kmart said the sale included one server license and 25 desktop licenses it bought from Microsoft.
It sounds like Kmart and Microsoft agree about what Kmart can or cannot do with the licenses and that it was merely a case of KMart not specifying that the licenses being talked about were not part of the sale.
If you google for it, you'll find that WiMP has had a bit of good spyware in it.
Yes, I have read the allegations. And they can all be dismissed as rampant paranoia. I have no problem with a feature which can be disabled which sends a reference to what you are playing so you can download information about it. I have a really hard time believing that it was put in there so your music habits could be sold for 1c/person. Now, a company like Real on the other hand...
These players are slow, intrusive, proprietary, and often loaded with spyware.
Funny how I'm totally comfortable with Quicktime, Windows Media and Winamp. RealOne is the only one that in my experience has been slow, spammy, flaky and which I fear has spyware.
the stance the candidate takes on important issues is (depressingly) unimportant to most people
Please. CD burning is hardly an important issue when compared to issues like terrorism, a possible War on Iraq, taxes, abortion rights, new roads/environmentalism, etc. And I find it depressing that some people think CD burning is more important than any of those issues.
Paying for maintenance or "subscribing" sucks too. That's why I won't downgrade to XP. They are trying to move people towards the subscription model.
That's just plain misinformed. XP is available now. It is available in the form of an unlimited (by time) license. You can buy it and use it forever and the Service Packs and fixes are free too (I believe that is covered in the license somewhere that MS is supposed to provide SPs, etc. for free).
IIRC, the subscription model is what they want their enterprise customers to move towards.
All that wind already pushing on the boxy front end of my 88 Toyota isn't likely going to increased a lot by adding a few fan-like turbines. At least not the amount I would need to power some low-end electronics?
It will cost you at least as much in drag as you will generate from those turbines. You will be much better off just sticking a dynamo somewhere along the transmission. It will still cost you in power but won't be as inefficient as those turbines.
That's because national socialism got criminalized after World War II (by the Allies, btw.), and this is good. Extreme forces are publically dispised, thus leading to less violence on the streets.
Did you go to the John Ashcroft school of thought police? "We're going to stop you from saying or thinking some things but that's just for your own good."
In the US, you're not allowed to swear or be sexually explicit on public channels but it's not because those thoughts or acts are illegal. There's a big difference. All those things are still allowed on cable, btw.
You're wrong. Any power you can generate from this will cause at least as much drag - probably more because of the inevitable inefficiencies of generating and distributing power.
Considering that Best Buy was/is the first retailer to sell iPods (Target having been recently announced as the second), I'd think they'd not want to risk slighting Apple with something like this.
Considering that Best Buy was/is the first retailer to sell iPods, I'd think Apple would not want to risk getting slighted by something trivial like this.
Nope. Tetris has nothing to do with bin packing. Bin packing is about putting numbers in buckets such that no bucket has a total more than so much. Tetris looks like a bin you're packing but there is no similarity between tetris and the bin packing they are refering to.
You're a fucking idiot. I have a Masters with a focus on databases and storage technology.
And yes, you blooming idiot, you need authority over the tables and presumably you are a frigging sysadmin and therefore automatically have that authority. There isn't a database out there (barring storing encrypted data in the database which is decrypted OUTSIDE the database) which bars an admin from doing anything they want to with the data.
You obviously understand nothing about databases so butt out.
And there is still no such thing as Kernel level SQL data. That is just techno-babble used to fool idiots who don't understand what is being talked about - like yourself.
I'd just like to make one thing clear. There is no relationship between Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation beyond the fact that Bill Gates started both organizations and practically runs both.
What makes you think the Green party or the Libertarian party don't have Microsoft amongst their biggest supporters?