"for users who still need or want to be logged on as an admin on their system we make it clear to them when they are about to do something that requires administrator privilege. The user can configure their system to either ask them if they want to escalate, or ask for a password when the system tries to elevate them. We have also gone through all of the system services in Vista to see which ones have admin privilege, verify which ones really need it, and for the ones that don't, remove it. "
Why does this take 5 years? I mean, it's obviously the largest problem with Windows (unless maybe IE-integration), and it took 5 years? I mean, OS X has had this for like 4 years or something, and Linux has Sudo (or something) that does the same thing. Why is it boring and useless when someone else does it, but critical and innovative when MS steals it 5 years later?
The problem is the words "sue them". That implies that you say, have 10 million dollars or so to see the lawsuit throught. I mean, even if they are clearly at fault (which they would be, IMHO but IANAL), and even if they strangle a litter of adorable puppies on live coast-to-coast TV, they still have armies of lawyers to throw up every motion imaginable and 50 counter suits that while baseless, would force you to hire a whole law firm. So unless you had major, major backing, you'd run out of money first.
To me, this is another problem with copyright. I understand their control over the original eps, and they should get to keep those, but copyright needs a "use it or lose it" clause. If Fox is unwilling to use their "copyrighted" story-universe to make programming, they should have to give it up after a few years.
No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student.
And no coursework, no grades, and no degree.
The value of these classes with a few exceptions is to demonstrate your competency to get in the school, complete the courses, get the degree - not to demonstrate that you heard a bunch of lectures.
No, the reason you pay that $30k tuition is to get the student ID card, which lets you into the good parties. Duh.
I don't mean this as a troll, but I was under the impression that USB 1.0 replaced SCSI? Or was that desktop only, and it still has server uses? I mean, I thought USB killed SCSI? Or am I thinking of something different?
If someone's making a business out of selling pirated copies of songs at 3 cents a piece, I can see how that would ruffle some RIAA and Apple feathers.
I don't think this is a viable business strategy. I mean, unless you are on a quest to collect every song ever, this isn't a case of a song for 3 cents. It's a sort of grab bag. If I don't like 10,000 of the 11,000 songs, then it's a whole different ballgame. I mean, I imagine you get an idea of the spread, but the idea behind music is that I don't value one song as much as others. If the seller was collecting Christian rock or country or something, the music isn't worth too much to me (no offense to any fans of those).
I obviously don't know the background but when a guy makes an incidiary movie about the MPAA, makes specific requests of the MPAA, and pays attention to whether or not his instructions were followed it seems to be like he is trying to get a law suit.
Does this logic allow all Republicans to pirate F9/11?
If the MPAA makes a specific request of movie buyers that they not pirate, and pays attention to whether these instructions were followed, aren't they "trying to get a lawsuit"? Your point is irrelevant (no offense)
I'm inclined to agree. I mean, it's possible to confuse a DVD on a high quality projector with the actual movie reel. I've seen it happen. There is no real reason right now to move to HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, and I'm willing to bet the only people with HDTVs don't have HDMI or HDCP or whatever they need on it. It seems like we're all being forced to upgrade between now and 2009, when we don't really need to.
Wrong. There is no warranty-safe user access to the iMac HDs. You can't get past the iSight cable or something. All it allows is memory under warranty, which is actually less than my iBook allows (memory+AirPort)
First of all, Microsoft may well produce a version of Virtual PC for Mactels that does graphics acceleration. A version of Windows is a version of Windows to them. If they can sell VPC + Windows XP or Vista, it'll make them more profit per sale than a sale of Windows at a reduced rate to an OEM.
Well, OS X runs X11, which lets it do some Linux apps. Aside from that, you're looking at the same situation Windows is, unless there is a specially designed Linux that does EFI and the GPT (or whatever the Hard Drive issue is). I'd say dual-booted Linux would beat XP to the Mactels because of the fact that a version of Linux can be engineered to work on the Mactels.
I have a feeling that a virtualization/emulation with hardware graphics support will be available within 6 months that'll make dual booting pointless. I have a feeling that dual-booting OS X with XP or Vista will not work because it's got EFI/BIOS issues and the hard drive formatting issue. And any number of issues that haven't come up yet.
NTP, which has no employees, convinced a jury in Spencer's Richmond, Virginia, courtroom in 2002 that Research In Motion had infringed patents related to wireless e-mail.
"Convinced a jury"? No offense to the layperson, but most people wouldn't understand this stuff, and with laypeople on a jury like this, mistakes are bound to happen. The US needs a system to make sure that in civil trials like this, the jury is educated enough (either by selecting only people who would understand this, or by having a neutral "jury-education" part).
Prices are pretty fair if it's a game you play for weeks or months. But it's harder to know if you'll like a game before you buy it. I mean, a lot of games I've bought were only entertaining for a few days, then I stopped playing them. DVDs you can watch in theatres or rent, and at least a few songs off a potential CD you can hear on the radio or Pandora. But there's no "computer game rental", and I'm less willing to buy computer games at the $60 price. It's almost better to wait for reviews to come out and friends to play the game, by which point the price has probably dropped a bit.
That just begs for the mother of all monopoly suits though.
I make a movie, and plan to distribute it free to increase buzz about my company before moving to the standard "pay for DVDs or theatre showings" on future movies. If the RIAA requires me to use copy protection, it's certainly hard to me to encourage sharing. Thus aren't they impeding a competitor's business in an unlawful way?
Ok, and this logic would apply if Al Qaeda was launching spontaneous border raids from Mexico/Canada. But the "war"s we're in have lasted several years. This is not a case of an executive avoiding red tape in order to protect the country. The War Powers Act pretty much defines a "military action" as different from a war. If the President wanted a "war", I bet he could easily get one from Congress. But he hasn't declared that the "War on Terror" is as critical as the War on Fascism (WWII), or the War Between the States. Personally, I feel like the President can't have it both ways. He says "Everyone go about your normal lives", then proceeds to use emergency powers designed for times of extreme danger to America. Which is it?
Freedom to use your software they way you want, the ability to fix things if you need to, the ability to make sure there's nothing hidden in the code that you may not want... These are things that should be topping that list
That's what counts to you, and to a lot of us/.ers, but really, the general public cares about (in no order):
1) How much does it cost? 2) Does it do what I need? 3) Is it easy? 4) If it breaks, will someone fix it for me?
Monopolies aren't inherently bad, it's the possible results of a monopoly. Apple has shown that even in areas where it dominates, it has no problem innovating anyways. The iPod Mini was the most popular MP3 player, but Apple didn't hesitate to get rid of it in favor of the Nano.
Do I like Apple having a monopoly? No, I'd rather they didn't, but if this unabused monopoly helps them beat an abusing monopoly in a "more important" field (MS in the computer world), then I don't mind as much.
If it costs $10k per kg to get something to LEO, all you have to do is find stuff already in LEO that could work, grab it, and put it to use. I'm sure some of the stuff up there has some practical application.
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"for users who still need or want to be logged on as an admin on their system we make it clear to them when they are about to do something that requires administrator privilege. The user can configure their system to either ask them if they want to escalate, or ask for a password when the system tries to elevate them. We have also gone through all of the system services in Vista to see which ones have admin privilege, verify which ones really need it, and for the ones that don't, remove it. "
Why does this take 5 years? I mean, it's obviously the largest problem with Windows (unless maybe IE-integration), and it took 5 years? I mean, OS X has had this for like 4 years or something, and Linux has Sudo (or something) that does the same thing. Why is it boring and useless when someone else does it, but critical and innovative when MS steals it 5 years later?
The problem is the words "sue them". That implies that you say, have 10 million dollars or so to see the lawsuit throught. I mean, even if they are clearly at fault (which they would be, IMHO but IANAL), and even if they strangle a litter of adorable puppies on live coast-to-coast TV, they still have armies of lawyers to throw up every motion imaginable and 50 counter suits that while baseless, would force you to hire a whole law firm. So unless you had major, major backing, you'd run out of money first.
To me, this is another problem with copyright. I understand their control over the original eps, and they should get to keep those, but copyright needs a "use it or lose it" clause. If Fox is unwilling to use their "copyrighted" story-universe to make programming, they should have to give it up after a few years.
"semantic analysis" and "themes in text"? I see a great context based spell checker.
No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student. And no coursework, no grades, and no degree. The value of these classes with a few exceptions is to demonstrate your competency to get in the school, complete the courses, get the degree - not to demonstrate that you heard a bunch of lectures.
No, the reason you pay that $30k tuition is to get the student ID card, which lets you into the good parties. Duh.
I don't mean this as a troll, but I was under the impression that USB 1.0 replaced SCSI? Or was that desktop only, and it still has server uses? I mean, I thought USB killed SCSI? Or am I thinking of something different?
If someone's making a business out of selling pirated copies of songs at 3 cents a piece, I can see how that would ruffle some RIAA and Apple feathers.
I don't think this is a viable business strategy. I mean, unless you are on a quest to collect every song ever, this isn't a case of a song for 3 cents. It's a sort of grab bag. If I don't like 10,000 of the 11,000 songs, then it's a whole different ballgame. I mean, I imagine you get an idea of the spread, but the idea behind music is that I don't value one song as much as others. If the seller was collecting Christian rock or country or something, the music isn't worth too much to me (no offense to any fans of those).
I obviously don't know the background but when a guy makes an incidiary movie about the MPAA, makes specific requests of the MPAA, and pays attention to whether or not his instructions were followed it seems to be like he is trying to get a law suit.
Does this logic allow all Republicans to pirate F9/11?
If the MPAA makes a specific request of movie buyers that they not pirate, and pays attention to whether these instructions were followed, aren't they "trying to get a lawsuit"? Your point is irrelevant (no offense)
Well, we have pretty low HD-TV penetration in the US really. And we still buy Xbox 360s. I mean, people may buy it, then later get HDTVs.
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I mean, if they release it, they may well be keeping an eye on those methods, and hopefully include ways that are mostly patched.
I'm inclined to agree. I mean, it's possible to confuse a DVD on a high quality projector with the actual movie reel. I've seen it happen. There is no real reason right now to move to HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, and I'm willing to bet the only people with HDTVs don't have HDMI or HDCP or whatever they need on it. It seems like we're all being forced to upgrade between now and 2009, when we don't really need to.
Wrong. There is no warranty-safe user access to the iMac HDs. You can't get past the iSight cable or something. All it allows is memory under warranty, which is actually less than my iBook allows (memory+AirPort)
I meant if we had caved on negoiations.
Hey - if history had turned out slightly different, then Seattle would have been in Canada, back around 1842 or so.
First of all, Microsoft may well produce a version of Virtual PC for Mactels that does graphics acceleration. A version of Windows is a version of Windows to them. If they can sell VPC + Windows XP or Vista, it'll make them more profit per sale than a sale of Windows at a reduced rate to an OEM.
Well, OS X runs X11, which lets it do some Linux apps. Aside from that, you're looking at the same situation Windows is, unless there is a specially designed Linux that does EFI and the GPT (or whatever the Hard Drive issue is). I'd say dual-booted Linux would beat XP to the Mactels because of the fact that a version of Linux can be engineered to work on the Mactels.
I have a feeling that a virtualization/emulation with hardware graphics support will be available within 6 months that'll make dual booting pointless. I have a feeling that dual-booting OS X with XP or Vista will not work because it's got EFI/BIOS issues and the hard drive formatting issue. And any number of issues that haven't come up yet.
NTP, which has no employees, convinced a jury in Spencer's Richmond, Virginia, courtroom in 2002 that Research In Motion had infringed patents related to wireless e-mail.
"Convinced a jury"? No offense to the layperson, but most people wouldn't understand this stuff, and with laypeople on a jury like this, mistakes are bound to happen. The US needs a system to make sure that in civil trials like this, the jury is educated enough (either by selecting only people who would understand this, or by having a neutral "jury-education" part).
Prices are pretty fair if it's a game you play for weeks or months. But it's harder to know if you'll like a game before you buy it. I mean, a lot of games I've bought were only entertaining for a few days, then I stopped playing them. DVDs you can watch in theatres or rent, and at least a few songs off a potential CD you can hear on the radio or Pandora. But there's no "computer game rental", and I'm less willing to buy computer games at the $60 price. It's almost better to wait for reviews to come out and friends to play the game, by which point the price has probably dropped a bit.
That just begs for the mother of all monopoly suits though.
I make a movie, and plan to distribute it free to increase buzz about my company before moving to the standard "pay for DVDs or theatre showings" on future movies. If the RIAA requires me to use copy protection, it's certainly hard to me to encourage sharing. Thus aren't they impeding a competitor's business in an unlawful way?
Ok, and this logic would apply if Al Qaeda was launching spontaneous border raids from Mexico/Canada. But the "war"s we're in have lasted several years. This is not a case of an executive avoiding red tape in order to protect the country. The War Powers Act pretty much defines a "military action" as different from a war. If the President wanted a "war", I bet he could easily get one from Congress. But he hasn't declared that the "War on Terror" is as critical as the War on Fascism (WWII), or the War Between the States. Personally, I feel like the President can't have it both ways. He says "Everyone go about your normal lives", then proceeds to use emergency powers designed for times of extreme danger to America. Which is it?
Freedom to use your software they way you want, the ability to fix things if you need to, the ability to make sure there's nothing hidden in the code that you may not want... These are things that should be topping that list
/.ers, but really, the general public cares about (in no order):
That's what counts to you, and to a lot of us
1) How much does it cost?
2) Does it do what I need?
3) Is it easy?
4) If it breaks, will someone fix it for me?
Monopolies aren't inherently bad, it's the possible results of a monopoly. Apple has shown that even in areas where it dominates, it has no problem innovating anyways. The iPod Mini was the most popular MP3 player, but Apple didn't hesitate to get rid of it in favor of the Nano.
Do I like Apple having a monopoly? No, I'd rather they didn't, but if this unabused monopoly helps them beat an abusing monopoly in a "more important" field (MS in the computer world), then I don't mind as much.
If it costs $10k per kg to get something to LEO, all you have to do is find stuff already in LEO that could work, grab it, and put it to use. I'm sure some of the stuff up there has some practical application.
A perl script to automatically surf pages on a spare machine and fill this thing up with valid-looking but nonetheless phony data, in 5... 4... 3...
Even better: Get poor people in foreign countries hooked up to cheap windoze boxes, and have them surf at high speed with tabs 8 hours a day.