good, i hope microsoft gets sued over it, vista is a stupid name anyway.
plus, if microsoft was really into naming its operating systems after their main attributes, windows 98 would have been called "windows trainwreck", windows xp would have been called "windows swiss cheese", and windows "vista" would be called "windows desparate attempt to keep up with other operating systems because really we'd rather just sell windows swiss cheese for 10 more years"
ususally strange, nonsense patents like this can actually make a company money. like amazon's one click purchasing patents, or even patents on user interface ideas.
but emoticons?? why does microsoft care? they would probably make more money by not paying lawyers to fight for this crap in court then to...like...um...try to make money off emoticons. if that's even possible.
besides, aol instant messanger probably thought of the idea first.
so then the company buys linux to save money, they need more IT guys, and they need to spend time to teach all the employees how to use the dang thing, and everytime someone needs to install something an IT guy is going to need to do it because it's impossible to install linux programs without being pretty well versed in linux.
sure, linux may work in a techie environment, but not all offices make tech products. what about newsrooms, accounting offices, insurance companies, car companies, WHATEVER, these people don't know how to use a difficult OS. these people barely know how to use windows, never mind linux. linux won't work for mainstream anything until it gets more user friendly.
sometimes inventers get less visionary as they get older. thomas edison, for example, made some pretty strange inventions near the end of his life, many of which never worked.
there was one device he tried to make to talk to the dead. didn't really work well...
so why does open firmware need to replace the BIOS again?
seriously, apple can learn a thing or two about legacy ports
#1 people like to have connections that work with their old hardware, it's a nice convenience, especially when the cost of legacy hardware isn't too high.
#2 sometimes, and i really mean sometimes, if something works there's no reason to use it. what's the advantage of a USB keyboard over a PS/2 keyboard??
the first company to abuse the voluntary ESRB rating sytstem definatly got what they deserved. whether or not san andreas really deserves the AO rating, rockstar deserves being punished for all they are worth.
#1 they blatantly lied to the ESRB, saying that that scene was not put in the retail versions of the game. they said that the mod could only be utilized if you used extensive third party code, which WASN'T true, gamespot did it with a freaking action replay.
#2 they abused the ESRB's voluntary rating system. on the questionnaire, they lied about what type of sexual content the game posessed.
#3 now rockstar has screwed over the whole game industry, getting hillary clinton on everyone's ass as usual.
rockstar projects losing $10 million in revenue and losing 45 cents per share instead of 40 (they are currently losing money) due to loss in sales. i hope investors unload all their stock (not sure if these stats apply for rockstar or take two, rockstar's publisher and/or owner)
i don't see how so many people are tricked into phishing scams. it's pretty obvious that when i'm sent a fake email asking to fill out my personal info when my bank's privacy policy says they'll never ask for that in an email.
not only that, but i think it's pretty obvious when the phishing email talks about my visa card expiring when i don't even have a visa card.
didn't god of war already have a similar sex game - and you didn't have to unlock it.
not only that, but again, the game is already rated M for mature. most stores don't allow children under 17 to buy the game the only legislation i would agree with would be to require ID for kids under 17.
let's just hope that the government doesn't take over the actual rating system.
i mean, sorry if this redundant, but this IS Lifetime holding this study here. That's like OSDN running a study finding that 70% of Internet users use Linux.
$30 for a browser is like paying money for a notepad upgrade.
where i work, i have to work 5 hours just to browse the internet. that's BS, i'm not wastingi 5 hours just to get something that my computer already comes with. I'm not being cheap, I have common sense.
how would intel macs not be upgradeable? last i checked PCs were the most upgradeable hardware choices out there.
what type of chip Apple uses has no bearing on upgradeablility. it's whether they decide to use a standard socket.
i've had intel machines for quite some time, and i can't say they've broken more or less than macs. it's all the same stuff, apple has been using standard PC parts for quite some time.
new macs use SATA, which I can't see how you can object to that. As for SCSI vs. IDE, back when apple used SCSI in the G3 days the drives were so slow that it didn't even matter. that's why Apple switched to IDE, because the drives were cheap, you can now switch out your Apple drive with a standard PC drive instead of hunting around for an expensive SCSI drive, and there was NO performance difference back then.
what type of fans, power unit, video hardware doesn't depend AT ALL on whether or not apple uses Intel chips for the processor.
unless portman is starring in "adventures of bob the linux guy" or "fragmented phil", i don't see why her name would even be mentioned on slashdot, never mind getting her own article.
Apple figured they needed these laptop chips, their OS is already cross platform, Intel has a more complete chipset/processor solution, and intel chips are faster for the money, why wouldn't you switch in this situation? it's a really obvious choice, there isn't some super secret motive behind it.
1. last i checked, to send something up in space still costs thousands of dollars per pound. so to send up a human with liveable quarters, food, water, oxygen, etc is about 150 pounds, or you can send up a computer to do experiments for you weighing in at about 30 pounds. subtract the salary of the astronaut, the risk of loss of human life, and it is a better deal.
2. The U.S.A. sent their manned missions back in the 60s and 70s. The fact that China is sending manned missions may even be an indicator that they are still far behind.
And aside from all this, the U.S.A. still sends more manned missions into space than anyone else. our space program is the largest in the world, so we send tons of unmanned missions in addition to the manned ones.
sorry if this is redundant, but if the per-CPU license went away, than in essence a company could license a big expensive piece of software, run it on a big multi CPU mainframe which would be considered "1 computer", and then have everyone in the office building run multiple instances of that program remotely off the server.
there has to be some kind of change with the per-CPU licensing model, not that I have a clue what it should be.
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good, i hope microsoft gets sued over it, vista is a stupid name anyway. plus, if microsoft was really into naming its operating systems after their main attributes, windows 98 would have been called "windows trainwreck", windows xp would have been called "windows swiss cheese", and windows "vista" would be called "windows desparate attempt to keep up with other operating systems because really we'd rather just sell windows swiss cheese for 10 more years"
i thought we already knew this a pretty long time ago...
ususally strange, nonsense patents like this can actually make a company money. like amazon's one click purchasing patents, or even patents on user interface ideas.
but emoticons?? why does microsoft care? they would probably make more money by not paying lawyers to fight for this crap in court then to...like...um...try to make money off emoticons. if that's even possible.
besides, aol instant messanger probably thought of the idea first.
so then the company buys linux to save money, they need more IT guys, and they need to spend time to teach all the employees how to use the dang thing, and everytime someone needs to install something an IT guy is going to need to do it because it's impossible to install linux programs without being pretty well versed in linux.
sure, linux may work in a techie environment, but not all offices make tech products. what about newsrooms, accounting offices, insurance companies, car companies, WHATEVER, these people don't know how to use a difficult OS. these people barely know how to use windows, never mind linux. linux won't work for mainstream anything until it gets more user friendly.
in unrelated news, morse code version 2.0 will now feature "slash" in addition to "dot" and "dash"
sometimes inventers get less visionary as they get older. thomas edison, for example, made some pretty strange inventions near the end of his life, many of which never worked.
there was one device he tried to make to talk to the dead. didn't really work well...
use it
I meant replace it
so why does open firmware need to replace the BIOS again?
seriously, apple can learn a thing or two about legacy ports
#1 people like to have connections that work with their old hardware, it's a nice convenience, especially when the cost of legacy hardware isn't too high.
#2 sometimes, and i really mean sometimes, if something works there's no reason to use it. what's the advantage of a USB keyboard over a PS/2 keyboard??
how do you know this much about CAR AIR CONDITIONERS?
/. were just linux and computer geeks!
i thought people on
the first company to abuse the voluntary ESRB rating sytstem definatly got what they deserved. whether or not san andreas really deserves the AO rating, rockstar deserves being punished for all they are worth.
#1 they blatantly lied to the ESRB, saying that that scene was not put in the retail versions of the game. they said that the mod could only be utilized if you used extensive third party code, which WASN'T true, gamespot did it with a freaking action replay. #2 they abused the ESRB's voluntary rating system. on the questionnaire, they lied about what type of sexual content the game posessed. #3 now rockstar has screwed over the whole game industry, getting hillary clinton on everyone's ass as usual.
rockstar projects losing $10 million in revenue and losing 45 cents per share instead of 40 (they are currently losing money) due to loss in sales. i hope investors unload all their stock (not sure if these stats apply for rockstar or take two, rockstar's publisher and/or owner)
if it's not DATA, then what's the point?
i don't see how so many people are tricked into phishing scams. it's pretty obvious that when i'm sent a fake email asking to fill out my personal info when my bank's privacy policy says they'll never ask for that in an email.
not only that, but i think it's pretty obvious when the phishing email talks about my visa card expiring when i don't even have a visa card.
anything with a chipset or processor of some kind can be programmed to play chess.
didn't god of war already have a similar sex game - and you didn't have to unlock it.
not only that, but again, the game is already rated M for mature. most stores don't allow children under 17 to buy the game the only legislation i would agree with would be to require ID for kids under 17.
let's just hope that the government doesn't take over the actual rating system.
you know what, if you don't like the wages, if you don't like the lack of benefits, than don't work there. there are plenty of other places to work.
nobody's forcing you to work at walmart. it isn't illegal to pay low wages and not to give benefits.
there are plenty of small businesses out there that pay the same and don't give any benefits. i would know, i work at one.
pepsi won the pepsi challenge because it's the PEPSI challenge, not the Coke challenge.
study shows that 1/3 of studies are nonsense
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i mean, sorry if this redundant, but this IS Lifetime holding this study here. That's like OSDN running a study finding that 70% of Internet users use Linux.
i'm glad that mississippi girl is the 500 millionth song.
i like country music. i think the 100 millionth song was some U2 crap.
cheap fuck
$30 for a browser is like paying money for a notepad upgrade.
where i work, i have to work 5 hours just to browse the internet. that's BS, i'm not wastingi 5 hours just to get something that my computer already comes with. I'm not being cheap, I have common sense.
how would intel macs not be upgradeable? last i checked PCs were the most upgradeable hardware choices out there.
what type of chip Apple uses has no bearing on upgradeablility. it's whether they decide to use a standard socket.
i've had intel machines for quite some time, and i can't say they've broken more or less than macs. it's all the same stuff, apple has been using standard PC parts for quite some time.
new macs use SATA, which I can't see how you can object to that. As for SCSI vs. IDE, back when apple used SCSI in the G3 days the drives were so slow that it didn't even matter. that's why Apple switched to IDE, because the drives were cheap, you can now switch out your Apple drive with a standard PC drive instead of hunting around for an expensive SCSI drive, and there was NO performance difference back then.
what type of fans, power unit, video hardware doesn't depend AT ALL on whether or not apple uses Intel chips for the processor.
i bet web developers are going to screw IE 7 and code sites that work on ALL browsers like they should be.
we don't want a netscape vs IE situation where you need both browsers to do anything on the internet.
unless portman is starring in "adventures of bob the linux guy" or "fragmented phil", i don't see why her name would even be mentioned on slashdot, never mind getting her own article.
Apple figured they needed these laptop chips, their OS is already cross platform, Intel has a more complete chipset/processor solution, and intel chips are faster for the money, why wouldn't you switch in this situation? it's a really obvious choice, there isn't some super secret motive behind it.
unmanned missions are the result of two things
1. last i checked, to send something up in space still costs thousands of dollars per pound. so to send up a human with liveable quarters, food, water, oxygen, etc is about 150 pounds, or you can send up a computer to do experiments for you weighing in at about 30 pounds. subtract the salary of the astronaut, the risk of loss of human life, and it is a better deal.
2. The U.S.A. sent their manned missions back in the 60s and 70s. The fact that China is sending manned missions may even be an indicator that they are still far behind.
And aside from all this, the U.S.A. still sends more manned missions into space than anyone else. our space program is the largest in the world, so we send tons of unmanned missions in addition to the manned ones.
sorry if this is redundant, but if the per-CPU license went away, than in essence a company could license a big expensive piece of software, run it on a big multi CPU mainframe which would be considered "1 computer", and then have everyone in the office building run multiple instances of that program remotely off the server. there has to be some kind of change with the per-CPU licensing model, not that I have a clue what it should be.