And yet you'd probably scream bloody murder if they developed a way in which you COULDN'T see the content unless they could be sure you'd VIEWED the ad (as opposed to downloaded and blocked it), right?
I wonder if there could be a class-action lawsuit by those whose work was stolen (including GNU and WordPerfect and Apple and others) against Microsoft. Go through their code and show that the majority of their work was stolen.
Sure. As long as you're in support of class-action lawsuits against GNU and WordPerfect and Apple and others by Microsoft where and if appropriate, after all, good for the goose, right? After all, only the truly naive would believe that (if indeed true) MSFT alone is guilty of this kind of behavior.
As long as he doesn't pass them on or act on them, he can probably be fired, but not charged with anything.
Act on them like use them to file a lawsuit against Microsoft?
The "evidence of wrongdoing" comment you made is a bit far-reaching. It may be covered by whistleblower legislation, but 'acted improperly in a contract issue' (with subjective perceptions) is not likely to be seen as "wrongdoing".
Assuming, of course, you're content to run a 32 bit memory hungry application on a 64 bit operating system, only using possibly a fraction of your RAM. Yay!
I'll stick with Windows, where Photoshop recognizes and uses the 16GB of RAM on my desktop.
And it's a David Gerard article - the guy is a professional Internet troll (responsible for such classy internet sites as lemonparty.org, yourmom.org, and k-k-k.com - don't visit), and part time Wikipedia admin/Wikimedia UK spokesperson (where his favorite pastimes are blocking entire US states for being sockpuppets of banned user, and so forth, this makes an amusing read). Why am I unsurprised?
And if you're in Europe, just how many mobile video calls did you make this week? (Just looked at your history. Apparently you're not in Europe and as such don't even have secondhand knowledge of what's "mainstream" in Europe.)
Because a person's life is defined by their postings to Slashdot. For the record: I was born in Scotland, and lived there through my childhood. I moved to Australia, and then to Seattle two years ago. Near the entirety of my family is in Europe. I visit them often, and vice versa. My employer has, in addition to this, often sent me to many European cities on business. In the 31 years I have been on this earth, at least 12 of them have been in Europe, and 2 of those have been in the last 6 years, aggregated.
Some limited fashion? It's hard to find a 3G phone in Europe that DOESN'T have a secondary camera at the front, and they've been around for many years, there. There's a danger in your comment about "launching it into the mainstream" - the large majority of people in a lot of places would be wholly surprised to find that they weren't "mainstream"...
Does windows live messenger do aim? How about gtalk? None of the major IM companies support anything other than themselves.
Pardon? MSN and Yahoo have been interoperable for 2.5 years, and Yahoo and AIM have been interoperable for 2, and MSN / AIM is I think in the works, last I checked. The Live Server certainly has support for AIM and Yahoo contacts, so, to quote someone familiar:
By the way.. is any of what has been mentioned actually innovative? It all seems terribly familiar to me...
Yeah, ZOMG! Apple realized that a camera on the back of the phone would suck for video calling!
That's why every phone I've seen for the LAST FOUR YEARS with video calling support, from my N95, and way way back, ALREADY HAS A SECONDARY CAMERA on the front.
But hey, it's Apple doing it! It MUST be innovative!
In other words, "as many as it takes." The fact that Microsoft is planning a specific number of them is kind of irresponsible -- if anyone was wondering that "Release Candidate" is Microsoft's slang for "Beta", this should seal it right here.
No it's not, at all. Planning for a specific number means that internally, you've set a bar high for "what bugs can be classified show stoppers, and what will get through". If you refuse to release the RC until 99.x% of bugs are fixed, then, at least statistically, from previous releases, they can estimate reasonably that only one RC cycle will be needed. And so on and so forth.
If anyone has any doubt that Windows 7 is just Vista rebranded, read here:
Why, cause YOUR blog found that the documentation had yet to be updated? Look through the rest of the product's documentation. Building on Vista isn't a crime - we don't ask Red Hat to rewrite, clean room, every release of Enterprise Linux, nor do we scream and whine "OMG, does anyone have any doubt that FC10 is just a rebrand of FC9 with some updates?!?"
V Entertainment recommends it for... gauging romantic interest.
Because a relationship built on a situation where you knowingly or surreptitiously subject your partner's speech to a voice analysis to determine if they like or love you is bound for success, right?
Most flat panel TV's are glossy as well as well as the displays on many 35mm SLR cameras.
What the blue fuck are you on about? 35mm DSLR displays? Most people I know, don't use the SUB THREE DISPLAY quarter million pixel display on a camera that could cost up to $7000 for the body alone, to preview or edit a 10+ million pixel image.
Talk about comparing apples to oranges.
I personally think that the new Macbook display is the best display I have ever seen on a notebook ever.
His premise is that the laptop is worthless because of the glossy screen. Well, guess what? It's literally a $30 problem, and there will no doubt be at least a couple companies that produce lightweight fancy hoods that weigh next to nothing and shield the screen from glare for photographers who MUST do image adjustment in the field (which nobody does.)
Huh, what? Here's a hint, not one of the demonstration systems on that site is a laptop...
Anyone who is anyone has a team of people sitting back at "HQ", with fast machines, professionally calibrated displays in controlled lighting, etc. Nobody (at least nobody doing it for money) does anything beyond rate/categorize images on laptops...which is what he claims the MBP "is only good for."
I would agree with this, though. I shoot weddings - even if I had the time, the idea of sitting at a reception editing photos in Lightroom would be the last thing that crossed my mind as a good option.
Does is take tens of thousands of engineers to make essentially cosmetic changes to an Operating System or a word-processing application?
MSFT has 50,000 employees worldwide.
If you think that the changes in the last five years to the Office suite amount to "cosmetics", you're demonstrating your cluelessness. Let's see. SQL Server. Exchange Server. Windows Server. Clustering stuff. All the Live suite, Messenger, etc., Office, for both PC and Mac, oh yeah, an entire Search Engine that is second only to Google, MSN, the world's third most visited website (when I worked there - now I do Linux work in healthcare, so don't go calling me an astroturfer or shill - 11,000 page views to the home page alone, let alone child pages, per second), Visual Studio, an entire mapping engine and data collation service, an encyclopedia, a PC hardware division, R&D, oh, that obscure, little known console, the Xbox 360, MSNBC, Windows Mobile.
Cosmetic changes to a word processor and operating system, indeed.
They're typically not forked to create a new community with similar goals but differing means of getting there, but typically as static scrapes to leech ad revenue.
If you think Wikipedia has no hierarchy, you are living in a dream world. Admins, Mediators, Arbitrators, Checkusers, Oversighters, Bureaucrats, Stewards. Wikipedia has a huge problem - it is a phenomenal target for those wishing to defame and libel people they don't like.
So, you say? "People will find and edit, no problem! That's why we have vandalism patrol, RC patrol etc! The system works!" - does it? No, it don't. Apparently, Ms Tavares "preferred color of vibrator" sat, untouched, through such measures, and according to statistics, had over 1,000 visitors. The vandalism was only reverted after being pointed out in Wikipedia Review, a site that goes to great lengths to expose a lot of the more nefarious back-room manoeuvrings that plague "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" (and thus has garnered such a great deal of spite from certain factions at Wikipedia (uncoincidentally, many of whom are exposed for their part in said manoeuvrings), that there have been times when WR was added to spam blacklists to prevent linking to it from WP, and proposals, one called "BADSITES"(!) were raised to curtail any mention of sites which said negative things of WP (and yet, here people are screaming "NO CENSORSHIP! Except for the things WE don't like!"). Even now, if you find yourself caught up in the WP TLA bureacracy, (RFC, RFArb, MED, AN, ANI, etc, etc, et al, et al), or trying to gain, say, Administrator status, it's a nice way to poison the well by having someone point out that "Gasp. Such-and-such is a KNOWN WR CONTRIBUTOR!".
Flagged revisions do no more, and no less, than allow people to tag revisions which have been reviewed to be vandalism-free. They don't prevent anyone editing. They don't censor information.
I find it highly telling that the "anonymous reader" trying to rouse support for the "end of Wikipedia as we know it" has not the courage of their convictions to name themselves.
To comment on the $500 fee.. Well, that is perhaps a good idea.. but I really just see it as money collected for the sake of collecting money. The INS as an enforcement agency is totally ineffective. When people overstay their visas they rarely do squat about it, even when they know where the people are.. and the number of illegal immigrants.. well there you go.
I met my wife when I was living in Australia. We decided that I'd move to the US, and begun going through the proper channels, filing for a fiancee visa (essentially a three month visa - if you marry within the 3 months, you "adjust status" to conditional residency, which then has the conditions removed after two years, if not, you leave).
The process took 10 months from filing of paperwork (she had to file the paperwork while she was in the US, and while I was -not-, so that there could be no appearance of coercion. $455. Criminal records check: $130. Medical checkup in Australia: $260. Cost of getting documentation sent from the US to Australia: $50. Appointment Fee for interview in Sydney consulate: $160. Flight to Sydney, and accommodation: $350.
Arrival in US. Application for travel document (so I can travel outside of US until residency is granted): $340. After marriage, Application to Adjust Status to Conditional Residency: $930. Biometrics Fee: $80. Application to continue Employment Authorization from Adjustment of Status through to Conditional Residency (your fine for the backlog in USCIS): $340. Application to Remove Conditions on Residency: $465. Biometrics Fee: $80 (although you've had biometrics taken 2 years prior, and these are the same, they take them again, a 5 min process).
We worked out that it would be a CHEAPER, AND FASTER, process, if I had come here as a tourist, breach my visa and marry my wife, apply for permission to stay anyway. What fun.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet you'd probably scream bloody murder if they developed a way in which you COULDN'T see the content unless they could be sure you'd VIEWED the ad (as opposed to downloaded and blocked it), right?
Sure. As long as you're in support of class-action lawsuits against GNU and WordPerfect and Apple and others by Microsoft where and if appropriate, after all, good for the goose, right? After all, only the truly naive would believe that (if indeed true) MSFT alone is guilty of this kind of behavior.
Act on them like use them to file a lawsuit against Microsoft?
The "evidence of wrongdoing" comment you made is a bit far-reaching. It may be covered by whistleblower legislation, but 'acted improperly in a contract issue' (with subjective perceptions) is not likely to be seen as "wrongdoing".
I'll stick with Windows, where Photoshop recognizes and uses the 16GB of RAM on my desktop.
And it's a David Gerard article - the guy is a professional Internet troll (responsible for such classy internet sites as lemonparty.org, yourmom.org, and k-k-k.com - don't visit), and part time Wikipedia admin/Wikimedia UK spokesperson (where his favorite pastimes are blocking entire US states for being sockpuppets of banned user, and so forth, this makes an amusing read). Why am I unsurprised?
Because a person's life is defined by their postings to Slashdot. For the record: I was born in Scotland, and lived there through my childhood. I moved to Australia, and then to Seattle two years ago. Near the entirety of my family is in Europe. I visit them often, and vice versa. My employer has, in addition to this, often sent me to many European cities on business. In the 31 years I have been on this earth, at least 12 of them have been in Europe, and 2 of those have been in the last 6 years, aggregated.
You were saying?
Some limited fashion? It's hard to find a 3G phone in Europe that DOESN'T have a secondary camera at the front, and they've been around for many years, there. There's a danger in your comment about "launching it into the mainstream" - the large majority of people in a lot of places would be wholly surprised to find that they weren't "mainstream"...
Pardon? MSN and Yahoo have been interoperable for 2.5 years, and Yahoo and AIM have been interoperable for 2, and MSN / AIM is I think in the works, last I checked. The Live Server certainly has support for AIM and Yahoo contacts, so, to quote someone familiar:
Yeah, ZOMG! Apple realized that a camera on the back of the phone would suck for video calling!
That's why every phone I've seen for the LAST FOUR YEARS with video calling support, from my N95, and way way back, ALREADY HAS A SECONDARY CAMERA on the front.
But hey, it's Apple doing it! It MUST be innovative!
HD DVD starts pretty quickly... AFTER the player has started up, and you insert the disc. My HD DVD player takes about 45 seconds to boot.
No it's not, at all. Planning for a specific number means that internally, you've set a bar high for "what bugs can be classified show stoppers, and what will get through". If you refuse to release the RC until 99.x% of bugs are fixed, then, at least statistically, from previous releases, they can estimate reasonably that only one RC cycle will be needed. And so on and so forth.
Why, cause YOUR blog found that the documentation had yet to be updated? Look through the rest of the product's documentation. Building on Vista isn't a crime - we don't ask Red Hat to rewrite, clean room, every release of Enterprise Linux, nor do we scream and whine "OMG, does anyone have any doubt that FC10 is just a rebrand of FC9 with some updates?!?"
Don't get excited yet, I just used it as a reference because I'd just pre-ordered for my wife. ;) Feb 16, according to Amazon...
"Hmm, what to download today, the 0day Sims 3, or this article from a professional journal on how speech analysis is a flawed 'lie detection' method?"
Because a relationship built on a situation where you knowingly or surreptitiously subject your partner's speech to a voice analysis to determine if they like or love you is bound for success, right?
What the blue fuck are you on about? 35mm DSLR displays? Most people I know, don't use the SUB THREE DISPLAY quarter million pixel display on a camera that could cost up to $7000 for the body alone, to preview or edit a 10+ million pixel image.
Talk about comparing apples to oranges.
Personally, I think it's not.
Yup, they do. That's why your 24" LCD from Best Buy costs $350 and mine costs $1100, plus $300 for a calibrator.
Huh, what? Here's a hint, not one of the demonstration systems on that site is a laptop...
I would agree with this, though. I shoot weddings - even if I had the time, the idea of sitting at a reception editing photos in Lightroom would be the last thing that crossed my mind as a good option.
Kinda similar to offering a 'black, not white plastic' option for $200? What a joke.
Yes you are.
MSFT has 50,000 employees worldwide.
If you think that the changes in the last five years to the Office suite amount to "cosmetics", you're demonstrating your cluelessness. Let's see. SQL Server. Exchange Server. Windows Server. Clustering stuff. All the Live suite, Messenger, etc., Office, for both PC and Mac, oh yeah, an entire Search Engine that is second only to Google, MSN, the world's third most visited website (when I worked there - now I do Linux work in healthcare, so don't go calling me an astroturfer or shill - 11,000 page views to the home page alone, let alone child pages, per second), Visual Studio, an entire mapping engine and data collation service, an encyclopedia, a PC hardware division, R&D, oh, that obscure, little known console, the Xbox 360, MSNBC, Windows Mobile.
Cosmetic changes to a word processor and operating system, indeed.
Come on, the iPod is as "locked up and proprietary" as the Zune, if not moreso.
At the bottom:
They're typically not forked to create a new community with similar goals but differing means of getting there, but typically as static scrapes to leech ad revenue.
So, you say? "People will find and edit, no problem! That's why we have vandalism patrol, RC patrol etc! The system works!" - does it? No, it don't. Apparently, Ms Tavares "preferred color of vibrator" sat, untouched, through such measures, and according to statistics, had over 1,000 visitors. The vandalism was only reverted after being pointed out in Wikipedia Review, a site that goes to great lengths to expose a lot of the more nefarious back-room manoeuvrings that plague "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" (and thus has garnered such a great deal of spite from certain factions at Wikipedia (uncoincidentally, many of whom are exposed for their part in said manoeuvrings), that there have been times when WR was added to spam blacklists to prevent linking to it from WP, and proposals, one called "BADSITES"(!) were raised to curtail any mention of sites which said negative things of WP (and yet, here people are screaming "NO CENSORSHIP! Except for the things WE don't like!"). Even now, if you find yourself caught up in the WP TLA bureacracy, (RFC, RFArb, MED, AN, ANI, etc, etc, et al, et al), or trying to gain, say, Administrator status, it's a nice way to poison the well by having someone point out that "Gasp. Such-and-such is a KNOWN WR CONTRIBUTOR!".
Flagged revisions do no more, and no less, than allow people to tag revisions which have been reviewed to be vandalism-free. They don't prevent anyone editing. They don't censor information.
I find it highly telling that the "anonymous reader" trying to rouse support for the "end of Wikipedia as we know it" has not the courage of their convictions to name themselves.
I met my wife when I was living in Australia. We decided that I'd move to the US, and begun going through the proper channels, filing for a fiancee visa (essentially a three month visa - if you marry within the 3 months, you "adjust status" to conditional residency, which then has the conditions removed after two years, if not, you leave).
The process took 10 months from filing of paperwork (she had to file the paperwork while she was in the US, and while I was -not-, so that there could be no appearance of coercion. $455. Criminal records check: $130. Medical checkup in Australia: $260. Cost of getting documentation sent from the US to Australia: $50. Appointment Fee for interview in Sydney consulate: $160. Flight to Sydney, and accommodation: $350.
Arrival in US. Application for travel document (so I can travel outside of US until residency is granted): $340. After marriage, Application to Adjust Status to Conditional Residency: $930. Biometrics Fee: $80. Application to continue Employment Authorization from Adjustment of Status through to Conditional Residency (your fine for the backlog in USCIS): $340. Application to Remove Conditions on Residency: $465. Biometrics Fee: $80 (although you've had biometrics taken 2 years prior, and these are the same, they take them again, a 5 min process).
We worked out that it would be a CHEAPER, AND FASTER, process, if I had come here as a tourist, breach my visa and marry my wife, apply for permission to stay anyway. What fun.