NEWSWEEK: If one of our readers confronted you in a CompUSA and said, "Bill, why upgrade to Vista?" what would be your elevator pitch?
Bill Gates: The most effective thing would be if I could sit down with them and just take them through the new look for a couple of minutes, show them the Sidebar...
Sidebar is delivered on a single floppy disk, takes up less than 1 megabyte (MB) of hard disk storage space, and less than 300 kilobytes (K) of random access memory (RAM). It also fits on the right edge of the computer's display to take up as little screen space as possible.
Quarterdeck has exclusive license of Sidebar from Paper Software of Woodstock, New York. Paper Software originally distributed the product on a try-before-you-buy basis as shareware, then Quarterdeck licensed it, made significant changes, and is now shipping the product. The suggested list price is $59.95.
Windows is not secure......Bad Microsoft Security (a.k.a, User Account Control (UAC) for Trigger-Click-Happy People who click "Yes" no matter what).....Bad Microsoft
You aren't paying attention.
Now that Vista has shipped and my review work is finished, I'll admit it: I turn off UAC on my machines. But here's the most important point: I've never even looked to find the off button for a similar feature on the Macintosh. Why? Because Apple smartly reserved the prompts for the most dangerous things, not everything.
Bottom line: UAC and a few other somewhat invasive security measures are not about protecting customers; they're about protecting Microsoft from negative publicity.
The criticism is directed at the poor implementation, not the fact that it was implemented.
And what happens if the retailers refuse to stop selling the bulbs and refuse to pay the fines?
I am pretty sure they'd rather keep selling all the other things they sell and remain in business.
All laws, at their core, are enforced with the threat of imprisonment or violence.
Most laws are enforced because people agree that they are a good idea whether they are on the books or not. You didn't address the merits of the law (or lack thereof) at all, you just launched into an anti-government rant and now here you accuse the populace of being so ethically and morally debased that only the threat of incarceration or violence keeps them from looting and murdering. That is a depraved view of humanity that usually comes from the right. Forgive me for associating you with the views you espouse.
I love it that distrust and skepticism about the government is now "Right Wing".
You critiqued it from that perspective, so I responded to that.
But where the law could make a difference is in the prohibition against turning over users' personal data to law enforcement in censoring countries. Section 201 says that servers located in a censoring country cannot contain personally identifiable user information (so that the local police cannot simply storm in and seize the data).
Working for a company that is doing business online, and is entering the Chinese market, I can confirm that China has laws that prohibits personal information on their citizens from being stored on servers outside their country. Therefore we are opening a data center in Beijing, even though we will be duplicating much of our hosting environment that is perfectly capable of serving the Chinese market right now. All to comply with China's version of Section 201.
All you Democrats who complain about the administration's wiretapping, warrantless searches, and other invasions of our privacy, what do you think of this?
I find it disturbing how quick many people resort to coercion to accomplish their goals. CFLs so clearly out perform incandescents that their eventual triumph in the free market is assured. Why do we need to hold a gun to people's head to drive their adoption?
Why do you need to resort to such a hysterical characterization as "holding a gun to people's heads" when the market-based reasoning you cited is so very much more convincing? Your post is a great argument against this act if you just leave out the anti-government rhetoric. With it left in, not so much.
If doing something is good (installing energy saving bulbs), then it is only logical that the government throwing anyone who doesn't do the good thing in jail is also good!
Anti-government hysteria for the lose. Nothing in the proposed legislation calls for jail time for those who don't comply. It would be retailers who would be fined for selling them once they are banned, like they would be fined for selling other banned items like freon.
One of the problems with parodying right-wingers is that the parody is often indistingushable from actual right -wing positions. Such is the case with your post. I'm sure the anti-anything-government blogs are awash in posts that are just like yours, except the poster is seriously advancing the ridiculous FUD as fact.
My ISP tells me that I can't play them because Google hasn't paid their bandwidth charges. I tell my ISP to go fuck themselves and switch to a provider that honours net neutrality.
Yeah, but does your provider's provider honor net neutrality? There are few sources of bandwidth outside the existing telco infrastructure, and very few companies that control all that. Everyone else is a reseller.
These spacecraft are probably incapable of tracking celestial objects even with a remote software update (if that's even possible), because they lack the fine guidance sensors Hubble uses to lock onto stars and track the target accurately over the course of a long exposure, which may last many orbits.
So uh, WTF? Who is right? Will this camera be replaced in 2008, or not?
The new WFC3 will be installed in place of the now-inoperative Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. The ACS was never scheduled or expected to be replaced.
Looks to me like the new results for "santorum" do just what Google says, it links to sites discussing the Googlebomb, or to sites discussing the Senator. I don't see any links to fecal matter and lube.
In the end really, both sides are too stuck up to take the high road and fix the problem.
But movie downloaders don't think there's a problem. They got the movie they wanted, no problem.
So we'll just end up with 40% of people stealing music before the studios just give in. After which we'll be flooded with 5 years of low-quality movies until people start anteing up again.
This is easy math, compute XP Cost from 2001 with all the service packs, hell even add in the virus scanning software you had to buy, then compare this to your OSX prices in the same amount of time. So which company seems to be milking their customers?
People who use OSX like it and the Apple way of computing, and seek it out. People who use Windows do so because some other app they need requires it. Big difference.
It is a mistake to warp economics so that all customers pay the same price even though some customers cost far more to serve than others. If the telco company has to run and service two miles of cable to provide service to you but only has to run and service 100 feet of cable to provide service to me, you should pay more than I do.
And if the community where the phone company gets an easement for their lines doesn't like that policy, they can withdraw the use of public land for the private lines.
The scheme described in TFA could only be realized by having a copyright expert monitor my use of the media. No technological product could conceivably meet the requirements set forth. Since I would not accept having a representative of the RIAA/MPAA observe my use of the media, I would not accept this DRM scheme.
I have received no support from communities like Slashdot, or the EFF because of my typical conservative political affiliation.
Can you point out the pages on your Apple fanboy blog that indicate your "typical conservative political affiliation" that is the cause of your being shunned? All I can find is typical non-political Apple fanboy stuff. Maybe the EFF wants a case that serves their needs, and yours isn't it. Your "typical conservative political affiliation" doesn't have a problem with organizations serving their own best interest, does it?
You might have a legitimate grievance if the new UI is worse than the old one, but complaining just because it's different is annoying and stupid.
Nevertheless, I don't have to learn anything new when changing from a 2003 model car, to a 2007 model car of the same make. No new driving test, no having to remember which foot operates which pedal, or which way to turn the wheel to go in the direction I desire. In this case, changes to the UI are a very big deal, and they are a big deal simply because they are changes.
Did you think that you'd never have to learn another UI, ever? Get over it.
Ideally, I shouldn't even have to think about the UI. Computer software in general is far too primitive for that just yet. Software still needs to work over the user, before the user is able to work the software. Microsoft is largely responsible for the stagnation in commercially available UI design over the past decade.
Not bad at all. I had only tried it on an original G4 Mac Mini, and it took 12 hours or more. Got to get a newer one with the Core 2 Duo. Thanks for the info.
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[i]t's not like Microsoft is forcing customers to accept DRM in order to get other stuff they actually want.
Of course. That's why Microsoft is releasing DirectX 10 for Vista and XP.
Oh wait... that was a bad example. Maybe Office 2007 is a better one. Ummm.... maybe not.
But they're not forcing Vista on anyone. They're just forcing people off of XP. Yeah, that's the ticket.
New Poll: Who plays "Linux" in the commercial?
Pastor Deacon Fred
"You can fry an egg on the devil's hiney, but it ain't never no-how gonna come out sunny-side up."
Newsbytes News Network, April 6, 1994 Yeah, cool new idea there, Bill.
Security (a.k.a, User Account Control (UAC) for Trigger-Click-Happy People who click "Yes" no matter what).....Bad Microsoft
You aren't paying attention. The criticism is directed at the poor implementation, not the fact that it was implemented.
And what happens if the retailers refuse to stop selling the bulbs and refuse to pay the fines?
I am pretty sure they'd rather keep selling all the other things they sell and remain in business.
All laws, at their core, are enforced with the threat of imprisonment or violence.
Most laws are enforced because people agree that they are a good idea whether they are on the books or not. You didn't address the merits of the law (or lack thereof) at all, you just launched into an anti-government rant and now here you accuse the populace of being so ethically and morally debased that only the threat of incarceration or violence keeps them from looting and murdering. That is a depraved view of humanity that usually comes from the right. Forgive me for associating you with the views you espouse.
I love it that distrust and skepticism about the government is now "Right Wing".
You critiqued it from that perspective, so I responded to that.
But where the law could make a difference is in the prohibition against turning over users' personal data to law enforcement in censoring countries. Section 201 says that servers located in a censoring country cannot contain personally identifiable user information (so that the local police cannot simply storm in and seize the data).
Working for a company that is doing business online, and is entering the Chinese market, I can confirm that China has laws that prohibits personal information on their citizens from being stored on servers outside their country. Therefore we are opening a data center in Beijing, even though we will be duplicating much of our hosting environment that is perfectly capable of serving the Chinese market right now. All to comply with China's version of Section 201.
All you Democrats who complain about the administration's wiretapping, warrantless searches, and other invasions of our privacy, what do you think of this?
You're a hysterical boob, and a wingnut.
I find it disturbing how quick many people resort to coercion to accomplish their goals. CFLs so clearly out perform incandescents that their eventual triumph in the free market is assured. Why do we need to hold a gun to people's head to drive their adoption?
Why do you need to resort to such a hysterical characterization as "holding a gun to people's heads" when the market-based reasoning you cited is so very much more convincing? Your post is a great argument against this act if you just leave out the anti-government rhetoric. With it left in, not so much.
If doing something is good (installing energy saving bulbs), then it is only logical that the government throwing anyone who doesn't do the good thing in jail is also good!
Anti-government hysteria for the lose. Nothing in the proposed legislation calls for jail time for those who don't comply. It would be retailers who would be fined for selling them once they are banned, like they would be fined for selling other banned items like freon.
One of the problems with parodying right-wingers is that the parody is often indistingushable from actual right -wing positions. Such is the case with your post. I'm sure the anti-anything-government blogs are awash in posts that are just like yours, except the poster is seriously advancing the ridiculous FUD as fact.
My ISP tells me that I can't play them because Google hasn't paid their bandwidth charges.
I tell my ISP to go fuck themselves and switch to a provider that honours net neutrality.
Yeah, but does your provider's provider honor net neutrality? There are few sources of bandwidth outside the existing telco infrastructure, and very few companies that control all that. Everyone else is a reseller.
These spacecraft are probably incapable of tracking celestial objects even with a remote software update (if that's even possible), because they lack the fine guidance sensors Hubble uses to lock onto stars and track the target accurately over the course of a long exposure, which may last many orbits.
So uh, WTF? Who is right? Will this camera be replaced in 2008, or not?
The new WFC3 will be installed in place of the now-inoperative Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. The ACS was never scheduled or expected to be replaced.
Like I said, that's a site about the Googlebomb, not a site about felching.
Looks to me like the new results for "santorum" do just what Google says, it links to sites discussing the Googlebomb, or to sites discussing the Senator. I don't see any links to fecal matter and lube.
In the end really, both sides are too stuck up to take the high road and fix the problem.
But movie downloaders don't think there's a problem. They got the movie they wanted, no problem.
So we'll just end up with 40% of people stealing music before the studios just give in. After which we'll be flooded with 5 years of low-quality movies until people start anteing up again.
And that would be different from today, how?
This is easy math, compute XP Cost from 2001 with all the service packs, hell even add in the virus scanning software you had to buy, then compare this to your OSX prices in the same amount of time. So which company seems to be milking their customers?
People who use OSX like it and the Apple way of computing, and seek it out. People who use Windows do so because some other app they need requires it. Big difference.
Sitting on the toilet too long can lead to hemorrhoids. Reading software testing documentation on the toilet can't be any better for your bunghole.
Game Over. Good Bye.
It is a mistake to warp economics so that all customers pay the same price even though some customers cost far more to serve than others. If the telco company has to run and service two miles of cable to provide service to you but only has to run and service 100 feet of cable to provide service to me, you should pay more than I do.
And if the community where the phone company gets an easement for their lines doesn't like that policy, they can withdraw the use of public land for the private lines.
RIGHT?
The scheme described in TFA could only be realized by having a copyright expert monitor my use of the media. No technological product could conceivably meet the requirements set forth. Since I would not accept having a representative of the RIAA/MPAA observe my use of the media, I would not accept this DRM scheme.
After reading through approximately 60 posts out of 150 posted, it is obvious that since the program being criticized was of the conservative view,
Really? All that rot is considered conservative? Whatever dude. Weird party you got there.
I have received no support from communities like Slashdot, or the EFF because of my typical conservative political affiliation.
Can you point out the pages on your Apple fanboy blog that indicate your "typical conservative political affiliation" that is the cause of your being shunned? All I can find is typical non-political Apple fanboy stuff. Maybe the EFF wants a case that serves their needs, and yours isn't it. Your "typical conservative political affiliation" doesn't have a problem with organizations serving their own best interest, does it?
You might have a legitimate grievance if the new UI is worse than the old one, but complaining just because it's different is annoying and stupid.
Nevertheless, I don't have to learn anything new when changing from a 2003 model car, to a 2007 model car of the same make. No new driving test, no having to remember which foot operates which pedal, or which way to turn the wheel to go in the direction I desire. In this case, changes to the UI are a very big deal, and they are a big deal simply because they are changes.
Did you think that you'd never have to learn another UI, ever? Get over it.
Ideally, I shouldn't even have to think about the UI. Computer software in general is far too primitive for that just yet. Software still needs to work over the user, before the user is able to work the software. Microsoft is largely responsible for the stagnation in commercially available UI design over the past decade.
Not bad at all. I had only tried it on an original G4 Mac Mini, and it took 12 hours or more. Got to get a newer one with the Core 2 Duo. Thanks for the info.
** I rip them with HandBrake on Mac OS X to ~1500kbps, deinterlaced, 2-pass H264 MP4s.
Six hours encoding time for a 100 minute movie (give or take depending on content), is that about right?
Disk space is cheaper than my time. I just rip the VIDEO_TS and watch with a DVD player a few minutes later.