We just bought our first HDTV, they then knocked the price of a Toshiba HD DVD player down to $169 if we bought it at the same time. I asked about Blu Ray, the salesman said they'd love to, but they aren't getting the incentives from the factories and wholesalers. Plus, Blu Ray has that awful problem that Beta had in the 80's, license fees that keep the price floor artificially high.
If you remember the VHS/Beta wars, the winning factor really wasn't quality, it was price. You could get the VHS machines cheaper, and the tapes were cheaper. Sony keeps biting their own tail.
If it continues down familiar Sony lines, HD DVD will be the dominant one, and Blu Ray will go the way of the Beta and MD.
I've checked with the league and while there are qualifications to rate this as a bad day, the league still has to check on several rulings.
League spokesman, Heilig Gdankazan, has cautioned members to avoid premature declarations of official calls, "We expect to be able to officially rule this as an official bad day in the near future."
Previous bad days that took league intervention were:
The sinking of the Titanic
The burning of the Hindenburg
Moira Gdankazan being caught in bed with Heilig's brother, Worly
Richard M. Stallman's 7th year bath, last occuring on October 1st, 2002, over stressing the Municipal Waste station and causing a boil water order for most of the eastern seaboard
In related news, Nobel Profit Of Doom, Al "The G in my name is for G Star" Gore, blames the brightening of the comet on global warming.
"We are in serious jeopardy of losing all the comets and other galaxy bodies to global warming. I am declaring a Galaxy Emergency," the sometimes robotic, one-time Presidential candidate said."
According to Reg tipster Rob, Window Server Update Services forced Windows Desktop Services 3.01 on the fleet of machines even though admins had configured their system to install updates only for existing programs and the search program wasn't installed on any machines (well, until then, anyway).
Hey, Sparky, I just went through this at work. It was O P T I O N A L. Yes, it was presented, but no, we didn't install.
It may be optional for you, but then again your network might not have automatic network-wide updates configured.
That's my point, and probably why I got modded troll. The basis of the article is that MS is forcing this, and used to indicate further evil on Microsoft's part. No, the problem is the sysadmin who has their WSUS and user profiles set to blindly accept and push the updates, or the users who have thier home systems to blindly accept and install updates. Just because MS put it in up for update doesn't mean you have to use.
But, pardon me for pointing out that this isn't an MS issue, its a USER issue and points out the knee-jerk anti-MS bashing that goes on here. Sure, there are things to bash MS about, but this isn't one of them.
Uh, I just had the update notice. I was able to "deselect" it. So, what part of that is "forcing" the update?
Oh, wait, this is the anti-MS crowd. If the Google toolbar popped up a message and said an update was available, you are given the choice to install it. So, are they "forcing" the update on you?
You install software, there is a window that says, you can also install the Yahoo search bar. Are they forcing the installation on you?
Good freaking gods people. It is O P T I O N A L. Or, are you just so Anti-MS that you'll believe whatever some inexperienced user will tell you because he/she/it noticed they had desktop search because THEY set their settings to automatically download and install without question.
No, it isn't. Certainly they have some results but he's still an arrogant bastard who hasn't brought anything new to the table.
Nor is this 2,3 machine going to revolutionise science.
What say you about the Earth orbitting the Sun? Or, that the Moon is not made of cheese? Or that space is not made up of "ethers"? Or that silly notion of a round planet?
You know what I love about the climate change denial argument? It rests entirely on ad hominem fallacies, without ever addressing what is or is not happening.
Hey, Buckwheat, try clicking a few links. Nowhere in my post or my posts, or my "journal" do I deny that climate change is happening. Fools would. I've just not swallowed the "man caused" kool-aid.
It is not an ad hominen if the writer notes that the subject preaches a change of behavior to avoid calamity, but does not make those changes himself.
As for not providing back up claims, try clicking through to my journal. Got it, Sparky? You're just half a level down from those who don't RTFM.
If by "classified" they mean mean "stuff that makes us look bad". Gotta love politics and public image. Perhaps Bush taught them a few too many unwholesome lessons of corruption?
You know, this story is appalling, for several reasons: 1. Some information gets classified, that probably shouldn't be, and the fact that 2. The horse is out of the barn and shows that data, once posted, is impossible to recall, and then they further heighten interest in it by classifying it and raising a stink about it. Their actions have almost ensured world-wide dissemination.
What is worse is that their reaction to this will mostly likely make reasonable public access to information, rulings, testimony, almost impossible to get to.
On a side note, and dealing with my subject line: Guys, you can't have it both ways. Reading/. and listening to Air America, George Bush is either an evil genius able to mastermind these great conspiracies, or, he's dumb as a rock. How about not inserting him into the situation at all. It would serve not to marginalize the discussion and keep blame where it needs to be, the beureaucrats that make these decisions.
Now the Profit of Doom, Al Gore, Scientific Fraud, Scare Mongerer, and Nobel Laureate, doesn't have to feel guilty about being a hypocrit, flying around in a G Star.
Of course, Chinese students who get party approval to post will be outed by Google to the Chinese People Security Bureau, and their parents will have to pay for a 9mm bullet.
I think you'll realize that believing in the Jewish Scriptures are the only option available to an honest, investigating individual.
Or not.
Why don't you explain yourself?
I think you'll realize that believing in the Jewish Scriptures are NOT the only option available to an honest, investigating individual.
See, more choices. Everyone is happy. I'd prefer and Opened Source God, but that would make him GNU/God, GPL3 and would give control of creation to Richard M. Stallman. Bad, bad, BAD idea.
This discussion has gone way far afield.
And, a Jew not named Brian, get back to work.
I prefer Heinlein's explanation of Godhood from the character "Valentine Michael Smith", "That which groks is God."
Having studied Judaism, and attended seminary, and having worked as a minister and missionary, I have to point out that writing a document in which God supports my culture's supremecy, and then use it as the proof of claim, is not the best method of argument. Now, if God would bother to show up and tell us that He did indeed write those scriptures, I'm not going to have a problem believing it. The age of the text is no proof. If it were, then we'd have a lot of problems everytime some damned Indiana Jones opened up a old crypt.
The account of the creation of man, in the bible, is not that much different from the Nordic account of a great cosmic cow licking the first man and woman out of the ice, if you take both accounts as figurative accounts meant to fit the understanding of the people of the time.
I think Buddha, Christ, Jehovah, Eloi, Odin, Jupiter, and a whole host of others are sitting back, playing a cosmic game of Texas Hold 'em and could really give a rat's ass about what we are doing.
When we are getting peppered with ads during games, I fell pretty cheated that there wasn't a discount on the price.
You live in a free society, where you enjoy rights and freedoms your ancestors could only dream of, some even gave their lives for you. And you complain that an advertisement from a government (yours or an ally of yours) for people to help keep you free, doesn't reduce the cost of your video game?
Look up "perspective" and "petty" and "whiney assed ingrate", then post again.
If I were a deep-pockets-legal-department-with-gold-plated-business-cards type of company, I'd try it.
Buy it.
Fork it.
Version it, keep the old version as gpl 3.
New version, translated into, say C# is now non-GPL.
Stop distributing the old version.
Wait for suit.
I'd be willing to bet that a judge will look at it and say, "Well this part is GPL'd, but you own it, so you can still enforce your GPL rights. This part is not, and because the project is yours, you can do with it what you want."
So, who of you want to cough up the funds to defend against that kind of legal team?
...sound of crickets heard...Daffy mutters to himself.
First, I'm amazed that my tongue-in-cheek post caused so much controversy. It does point out a few things though, that most Bible Thumpers, as a class, have no sense of humor. Christians are a different matter.
Also, one modded "overrated". I'm trying to figure out if it was an RMS, Gore, or God fan that didn't like it. I do know that RMS acolytes have no sense of humor when it comes to their smelly prophet. And the OBFG, Order of the Blind Followers of Gore (this is a Jesuit-like sect of the Holy Church of Global Warming who lead the Inquisition), have absolutely no sense of humor, and for some reason, the God Fans don't have a bit of the humor that their Creator, Who Created Them In His Own Image, has an abundance of. Who else would have had the sense of humor to create the Bible Thumpers?
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We just bought our first HDTV, they then knocked the price of a Toshiba HD DVD player down to $169 if we bought it at the same time. I asked about Blu Ray, the salesman said they'd love to, but they aren't getting the incentives from the factories and wholesalers. Plus, Blu Ray has that awful problem that Beta had in the 80's, license fees that keep the price floor artificially high.
If you remember the VHS/Beta wars, the winning factor really wasn't quality, it was price. You could get the VHS machines cheaper, and the tapes were cheaper. Sony keeps biting their own tail.
If it continues down familiar Sony lines, HD DVD will be the dominant one, and Blu Ray will go the way of the Beta and MD.
Worse than CNET doing these infoverts/advarticles is raising them to the level of a /. post.
Can't beat Slashvertising to raise that page count and further validate CNET's business model.
At 4Mhz, imagine a Beowulf cluster of a Beowulf cluster of these.
Seriously, why would you be curious about something as mundane...oh, wait, geek, /., anal retentive...nevermind.
Sorry, just my kettle and pot moment. Ooops.
We are already working on:
I've checked with the league and while there are qualifications to rate this as a bad day, the league still has to check on several rulings.
League spokesman, Heilig Gdankazan, has cautioned members to avoid premature declarations of official calls, "We expect to be able to officially rule this as an official bad day in the near future."
Previous bad days that took league intervention were:
In related news, Nobel Profit Of Doom, Al "The G in my name is for G Star" Gore, blames the brightening of the comet on global warming.
"We are in serious jeopardy of losing all the comets and other galaxy bodies to global warming. I am declaring a Galaxy Emergency," the sometimes robotic, one-time Presidential candidate said."
Hey, another comet doing extraordinary things. Time for Art Bell to kill another cult of whackos-in-purple-shrouds.
Hey, Sparky, I just went through this at work. It was O P T I O N A L. Yes, it was presented, but no, we didn't install.
Did you really say...
I think they mean that their WSUS downloaded and installed it without any prior notice, which is the way any MS shop should have it set up.Wrong, wrong, WRONG, wrong, wrooooOOONNNNGGG!
We review every patch and update that comes in. Any sysadmin who blindly accepts and pushes deserves what they get.
But, don't blame that on MS.
That's my point, and probably why I got modded troll. The basis of the article is that MS is forcing this, and used to indicate further evil on Microsoft's part. No, the problem is the sysadmin who has their WSUS and user profiles set to blindly accept and push the updates, or the users who have thier home systems to blindly accept and install updates. Just because MS put it in up for update doesn't mean you have to use.
But, pardon me for pointing out that this isn't an MS issue, its a USER issue and points out the knee-jerk anti-MS bashing that goes on here. Sure, there are things to bash MS about, but this isn't one of them.
Uh, I just had the update notice. I was able to "deselect" it. So, what part of that is "forcing" the update?
Oh, wait, this is the anti-MS crowd. If the Google toolbar popped up a message and said an update was available, you are given the choice to install it. So, are they "forcing" the update on you?
You install software, there is a window that says, you can also install the Yahoo search bar. Are they forcing the installation on you?
Good freaking gods people. It is O P T I O N A L. Or, are you just so Anti-MS that you'll believe whatever some inexperienced user will tell you because he/she/it noticed they had desktop search because THEY set their settings to automatically download and install without question.
I think I could do it, using the tumbler from a cement truck and some off the shelf hardware.
What say you about the Earth orbitting the Sun? Or, that the Moon is not made of cheese? Or that space is not made up of "ethers"? Or that silly notion of a round planet?
You arrogant little pr...Nevermind.
Hey, Buckwheat, try clicking a few links. Nowhere in my post or my posts, or my "journal" do I deny that climate change is happening. Fools would. I've just not swallowed the "man caused" kool-aid.
It is not an ad hominen if the writer notes that the subject preaches a change of behavior to avoid calamity, but does not make those changes himself.
As for not providing back up claims, try clicking through to my journal. Got it, Sparky? You're just half a level down from those who don't RTFM.
But, try this, while you are spinning.
That knock on the door is the FBI wanting to know why you want to know, and why you didn't RTFA?
Yes and some dipwad with mod points blew his modding wad on moderating an AC. Waste.
You know, this story is appalling, for several reasons: 1. Some information gets classified, that probably shouldn't be, and the fact that 2. The horse is out of the barn and shows that data, once posted, is impossible to recall, and then they further heighten interest in it by classifying it and raising a stink about it. Their actions have almost ensured world-wide dissemination.
What is worse is that their reaction to this will mostly likely make reasonable public access to information, rulings, testimony, almost impossible to get to.
On a side note, and dealing with my subject line: Guys, you can't have it both ways. Reading /. and listening to Air America, George Bush is either an evil genius able to mastermind these great conspiracies, or, he's dumb as a rock. How about not inserting him into the situation at all. It would serve not to marginalize the discussion and keep blame where it needs to be, the beureaucrats that make these decisions.
Now the Profit of Doom, Al Gore, Scientific Fraud, Scare Mongerer, and Nobel Laureate, doesn't have to feel guilty about being a hypocrit, flying around in a G Star.
Of course, Chinese students who get party approval to post will be outed by Google to the Chinese People Security Bureau, and their parents will have to pay for a 9mm bullet.
I think you'll realize that believing in the Jewish Scriptures are NOT the only option available to an honest, investigating individual.
See, more choices. Everyone is happy. I'd prefer and Opened Source God, but that would make him GNU/God, GPL3 and would give control of creation to Richard M. Stallman. Bad, bad, BAD idea.
This discussion has gone way far afield.
And, a Jew not named Brian, get back to work.
I prefer Heinlein's explanation of Godhood from the character "Valentine Michael Smith", "That which groks is God."
Having studied Judaism, and attended seminary, and having worked as a minister and missionary, I have to point out that writing a document in which God supports my culture's supremecy, and then use it as the proof of claim, is not the best method of argument. Now, if God would bother to show up and tell us that He did indeed write those scriptures, I'm not going to have a problem believing it. The age of the text is no proof. If it were, then we'd have a lot of problems everytime some damned Indiana Jones opened up a old crypt.
The account of the creation of man, in the bible, is not that much different from the Nordic account of a great cosmic cow licking the first man and woman out of the ice, if you take both accounts as figurative accounts meant to fit the understanding of the people of the time.
I think Buddha, Christ, Jehovah, Eloi, Odin, Jupiter, and a whole host of others are sitting back, playing a cosmic game of Texas Hold 'em and could really give a rat's ass about what we are doing.
Explanation enough?
You live in a free society, where you enjoy rights and freedoms your ancestors could only dream of, some even gave their lives for you. And you complain that an advertisement from a government (yours or an ally of yours) for people to help keep you free, doesn't reduce the cost of your video game?
Look up "perspective" and "petty" and "whiney assed ingrate", then post again.
If I were a deep-pockets-legal-department-with-gold-plated-business-cards type of company, I'd try it.
I'd be willing to bet that a judge will look at it and say, "Well this part is GPL'd, but you own it, so you can still enforce your GPL rights. This part is not, and because the project is yours, you can do with it what you want."
So, who of you want to cough up the funds to defend against that kind of legal team?
...sound of crickets heard...Daffy mutters to himself.
Or not.
Brian, is that you? Get back to work.
First, I'm amazed that my tongue-in-cheek post caused so much controversy. It does point out a few things though, that most Bible Thumpers, as a class, have no sense of humor. Christians are a different matter.
Also, one modded "overrated". I'm trying to figure out if it was an RMS, Gore, or God fan that didn't like it. I do know that RMS acolytes have no sense of humor when it comes to their smelly prophet. And the OBFG, Order of the Blind Followers of Gore (this is a Jesuit-like sect of the Holy Church of Global Warming who lead the Inquisition), have absolutely no sense of humor, and for some reason, the God Fans don't have a bit of the humor that their Creator, Who Created Them In His Own Image, has an abundance of. Who else would have had the sense of humor to create the Bible Thumpers?
I doubt you grok "Grok". Thou Art God.