Wrong. Not only was it "you can't use any other OS", it was "you can't even dual-boot Windows and some other OS". Hitachi tried offering dual-boot systems with both Win98 and BeOS. Microsoft apparently told Hitachi that they would have to pay more than other OEMs for Windows if they sold dual-boot systems, Hitachi stopped offering BeOS, and Be went out of the OS business soon after. Though they "admitted no wrong-doing", Microsoft paid $23 million to settle Be's antitrust suit over that deal...
The problem is they aren't making a new widget. They're turning a widget that a few million people already bought into a slightly different widget. If someone from the Honda dealership dropped by one night while I wasn't home and put a chrome muffler, spinners, and a big goofy spoiler on my Civic I would be pissed off, too...
How many Weird Al Yankovic albums do you own? [ ] none [ ] I downloaded a few songs [ ] 1-3 [ ] 4-6 [ ] more than 6 [ ] all of them, and I could explain all the jokes in "White and Nerdy" and "All About the Pentiums"
I can't be the only one here who would have to check the last option...
Simple. The telco starts offering IPTV for only $95 a month on top of whatever you pay for a local loop and their broadband service. You decide that's a ridiculous price, and choose to buy the 4 TV programs you watch regularly from iTMS instead. The telco notices that nobody is buying their overpriced TV offering, and that they're carrying a lot of traffic from iTMS, YouTube, Unbox, and other video services. They use their shiny new traffic-shaping routers to limit that traffic to a trickle. Even though you have a 15 megabit downstream connection and iTunes videos are hosted on Akami (so they have essentially unlimited bandwidth), it takes hours to download each episode. Frustrated, you relent and sign up for the telco's ridiculous $95 TV service. Thus the tiered internet model that these telcos are lobbying for has helped them deliver TV to you.
Ususally they say "It's not X Windows, dammit, read the effing FAQ!! It's 'X' or 'The X Windowing System', but never 'X Windows'!" They're pedantic like that...
But if you do have some spare time, give it a try. You will learn something. Gentoo is a gearhead's distro.
Yes, I know. I used Gentoo on my desktop for about 3 years, and still have it on my file/print server. Once you get past the temptation to do silly things with CFLAGS (-ffast-math -mfpmath=sse,387 -frename-registers) it's a good distro.
Television in it's twilight years. Major networks airing complete and utter crap in prime time. "High Definition" broadcasts that are badly upscaled from an NTSC source. Cable and satellite operators that charge $100+ a month for a token HD offering. Huge $2000+ HDTVs that are nearly useless until you buy a $400-600 game console, or a $1k Blu-Ray player, or a $900 HTPC, or the $100+ per month satellite/cable package.
When I can get all the local affilliates, ESPN, FSN, Sci-Fi, and Discovery in HD for less than $40/month, I'll buy in. Until then, a 23" CRT is better than most of the stuff on the air and basic cable deserves.
If you don't believe me, get a 200 MHz computer, run a GTK+ 1.2 app from back then (e.g. X-chat), then run the same app that has been ported to GTK+ 2.0. You [i]will[/i] notice a difference!
You mean there's a price to be paid for having anti-aliased text, real unicode support, and using resolution-independant vectors to draw the widgets and icons? Say it ain't so!
No street date, no pricing, no list of retailers, no public demos, no music store, no anything but photos and a press release. Whether they call it "launched" or not, Zune is still vaporware.
This is exactly what the people who discovered the alleged Apple airport exploit did, ("We can pwn this Macbook with one click. Stop using WiFi on Apple machines") and look what it got them. Without a real, independantly verified exploit to show the world, they've been accused of rigging the demo and engaging in OS fanboyism.
If they had printed the exploit code on a T-shirt and handed it out at BlackHat, either the driver would be fixed or their specious accusations would be debunked by now. Instead, it's a month later and I've got an iMac (and probably other machines too, they say it's not specific to OSX) that may or may not be wide open to attack from any clown within WiFi range, and there's no pressure on Apple or Intel or anyone else to fix a flaw that may not be a real-world threat or may be the worst thing to happen to computer security since Redhat 5.0. Yay.
Sony's repair service sucks, but it's the sensor noise that's really turned me off their digital cameras. Photos taken in anything less than daylight look like a poorly tuned analog TV. Ick. Next time I'm getting a Canon...
A reputation system is open to the same class of karma whoring attacks as slasdot, but with less limitation. Pander to the site groupthink for a few weeks to get your relation weight with a few influential members up to near the maximum, and you can post lies, damn lies, and goatse links at +5 until a sufficient number of users figure out what you're doing. Register a new account, lather, rinse, and repeat as necessary.
If you can game real-life interpersonal relations, you can game any mathematical abstraction of the same thing.
...so if it turns out that they then retain the right to publish the information to all, then that is something to be worried about.
Gentlemen, start your worrying.
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If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be trolling.
Read this exchange and try to understand that sometimes it really is justified to dismiss a bug report as trolling. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18222 1 (you'll have to cut and paste, bugzilla blocks links from slashdot)
What new features? Home Basic (the only upgrade version that's a cheaper upgrade than OS X) doesn't do Aero, it doesn't include any of the new media center stuff, and doesn't support more than one CPU! Now that IE7, WMP11, Defender, and Monad are available for XP, buying Vista Home Basic is pretty much spending $99 for a new logo on the boot screen. If you want new features you have to buy Home Premium, which at $199 is significantly more than an OS X upgrade. If you want a "massive" upgrade from XP SP2, you better be prepared to drop $249 for a Vista Business upgrade.
I don't think it's fair to call a $120 OSX upgrade "full price" when the cheapest version of Vista will be $233 (almost twice the price of Leopard), and useful versions will cost even more.
The problem with that assessment is that the DaringFireball guy has *already* won. He gets ad impressions from gazillions of slashdotters and diggers visiting his blog, he gets to look like a hero to his readers for standing up to the mean anti-mac bile spewing hacker, and he gets to make Johnny Cache look like a blowhard with code that only works on one flaky USB adapter (if it works at all), all while knowing that his $1000 is reasonably safe for the reasons you already listed.
At BlackHat Johnny Cache claimed this alleged exploit is not platform-specific, he only picked a Macbook for the demo to piss off Apple fanboys. If that's so, and the exploit really works, why not demonstrate rooting Linux or Windows or if you really want to stir up security trolls on slashdot, NetBSD?
Is the exploit real? Who knows, I've seen video of someone cracking a Mac through a wireless driver. Then again I've also seen video of a virus written on a Mac taking down a fleet of invading alien spaceships...
Unfortunately, such an argument probably wouldn't hold up legally, even if it does philosophically.
And it doesn't. It's an accepted part of the game that another player can "kill" your character, depriving you of the time and labor it takes to wait for your character to respawn, travel back to the place where you were killed, and possibly start the quest you were working on over again. If a person is willing to take the risk of being deprived of time and labor by virtual violence, they don't have any right to complain to the real-world police about other players depriving them of time and labor by virtual theft. Whatever labor you put into the game is at risk of going away by PvP killing, Ponzi scams, server crashes, rules revisions, etc. People who can't accept that risk shouldn't be allowed to play.
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Wrong. Not only was it "you can't use any other OS", it was "you can't even dual-boot Windows and some other OS". Hitachi tried offering dual-boot systems with both Win98 and BeOS. Microsoft apparently told Hitachi that they would have to pay more than other OEMs for Windows if they sold dual-boot systems, Hitachi stopped offering BeOS, and Be went out of the OS business soon after. Though they "admitted no wrong-doing", Microsoft paid $23 million to settle Be's antitrust suit over that deal...
The problem is they aren't making a new widget. They're turning a widget that a few million people already bought into a slightly different widget. If someone from the Honda dealership dropped by one night while I wasn't home and put a chrome muffler, spinners, and a big goofy spoiler on my Civic I would be pissed off, too...
How many Weird Al Yankovic albums do you own?
[ ] none
[ ] I downloaded a few songs
[ ] 1-3
[ ] 4-6
[ ] more than 6
[ ] all of them, and I could explain all the jokes in "White and Nerdy" and "All About the Pentiums"
I can't be the only one here who would have to check the last option...
Simple. The telco starts offering IPTV for only $95 a month on top of whatever you pay for a local loop and their broadband service. You decide that's a ridiculous price, and choose to buy the 4 TV programs you watch regularly from iTMS instead. The telco notices that nobody is buying their overpriced TV offering, and that they're carrying a lot of traffic from iTMS, YouTube, Unbox, and other video services. They use their shiny new traffic-shaping routers to limit that traffic to a trickle. Even though you have a 15 megabit downstream connection and iTunes videos are hosted on Akami (so they have essentially unlimited bandwidth), it takes hours to download each episode. Frustrated, you relent and sign up for the telco's ridiculous $95 TV service. Thus the tiered internet model that these telcos are lobbying for has helped them deliver TV to you.
Ususally they say "It's not X Windows, dammit, read the effing FAQ!! It's 'X' or 'The X Windowing System', but never 'X Windows'!" They're pedantic like that...
Yes, I know. I used Gentoo on my desktop for about 3 years, and still have it on my file/print server. Once you get past the temptation to do silly things with CFLAGS (-ffast-math -mfpmath=sse,387 -frename-registers) it's a good distro.
So it's just like posting linux disto flames on slashdot, then?
Shift focus to today and what do you see?
Television in it's twilight years. Major networks airing complete and utter crap in prime time. "High Definition" broadcasts that are badly upscaled from an NTSC source. Cable and satellite operators that charge $100+ a month for a token HD offering. Huge $2000+ HDTVs that are nearly useless until you buy a $400-600 game console, or a $1k Blu-Ray player, or a $900 HTPC, or the $100+ per month satellite/cable package.
When I can get all the local affilliates, ESPN, FSN, Sci-Fi, and Discovery in HD for less than $40/month, I'll buy in. Until then, a 23" CRT is better than most of the stuff on the air and basic cable deserves.
If you don't believe me, get a 200 MHz computer, run a GTK+ 1.2 app from back then (e.g. X-chat), then run the same app that has been ported to GTK+ 2.0. You [i]will[/i] notice a difference!
You mean there's a price to be paid for having anti-aliased text, real unicode support, and using resolution-independant vectors to draw the widgets and icons? Say it ain't so!
No street date, no pricing, no list of retailers, no public demos, no music store, no anything but photos and a press release. Whether they call it "launched" or not, Zune is still vaporware.
This is exactly what the people who discovered the alleged Apple airport exploit did, ("We can pwn this Macbook with one click. Stop using WiFi on Apple machines") and look what it got them. Without a real, independantly verified exploit to show the world, they've been accused of rigging the demo and engaging in OS fanboyism.
If they had printed the exploit code on a T-shirt and handed it out at BlackHat, either the driver would be fixed or their specious accusations would be debunked by now. Instead, it's a month later and I've got an iMac (and probably other machines too, they say it's not specific to OSX) that may or may not be wide open to attack from any clown within WiFi range, and there's no pressure on Apple or Intel or anyone else to fix a flaw that may not be a real-world threat or may be the worst thing to happen to computer security since Redhat 5.0. Yay.
Sony's repair service sucks, but it's the sensor noise that's really turned me off their digital cameras. Photos taken in anything less than daylight look like a poorly tuned analog TV. Ick. Next time I'm getting a Canon...
A reputation system is open to the same class of karma whoring attacks as slasdot, but with less limitation. Pander to the site groupthink for a few weeks to get your relation weight with a few influential members up to near the maximum, and you can post lies, damn lies, and goatse links at +5 until a sufficient number of users figure out what you're doing. Register a new account, lather, rinse, and repeat as necessary.
If you can game real-life interpersonal relations, you can game any mathematical abstraction of the same thing.
With a 5-digit UID you should be old enough to get that reference. No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
I wonder how many iPods were engraved with that quote on the back. Probably more than the total number of Nomads ever made...
Gentlemen, start your worrying.
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Read this exchange and try to understand that sometimes it really is justified to dismiss a bug report as trolling. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1822
"Whoring" is such a judgemental word. I would call it "generating buzz"... :D
What new features? Home Basic (the only upgrade version that's a cheaper upgrade than OS X) doesn't do Aero, it doesn't include any of the new media center stuff, and doesn't support more than one CPU! Now that IE7, WMP11, Defender, and Monad are available for XP, buying Vista Home Basic is pretty much spending $99 for a new logo on the boot screen. If you want new features you have to buy Home Premium, which at $199 is significantly more than an OS X upgrade. If you want a "massive" upgrade from XP SP2, you better be prepared to drop $249 for a Vista Business upgrade.
Just a guess, but maybe steveb wouldn't give her the "windows@microsoft.com" email alias...
I don't think it's fair to call a $120 OSX upgrade "full price" when the cheapest version of Vista will be $233 (almost twice the price of Leopard), and useful versions will cost even more.
The problem with that assessment is that the DaringFireball guy has *already* won. He gets ad impressions from gazillions of slashdotters and diggers visiting his blog, he gets to look like a hero to his readers for standing up to the mean anti-mac bile spewing hacker, and he gets to make Johnny Cache look like a blowhard with code that only works on one flaky USB adapter (if it works at all), all while knowing that his $1000 is reasonably safe for the reasons you already listed.
At BlackHat Johnny Cache claimed this alleged exploit is not platform-specific, he only picked a Macbook for the demo to piss off Apple fanboys. If that's so, and the exploit really works, why not demonstrate rooting Linux or Windows or if you really want to stir up security trolls on slashdot, NetBSD?
Is the exploit real? Who knows, I've seen video of someone cracking a Mac through a wireless driver. Then again I've also seen video of a virus written on a Mac taking down a fleet of invading alien spaceships...
Unfortunately, such an argument probably wouldn't hold up legally, even if it does philosophically.
And it doesn't. It's an accepted part of the game that another player can "kill" your character, depriving you of the time and labor it takes to wait for your character to respawn, travel back to the place where you were killed, and possibly start the quest you were working on over again. If a person is willing to take the risk of being deprived of time and labor by virtual violence, they don't have any right to complain to the real-world police about other players depriving them of time and labor by virtual theft. Whatever labor you put into the game is at risk of going away by PvP killing, Ponzi scams, server crashes, rules revisions, etc. People who can't accept that risk shouldn't be allowed to play.
"It may not be perfect, but there is a huge process behind things."
The same is true of federal tax regulations. That doesn't make them (or Debian) good, logical, or pleasant to deal with...
McMansions for people from the lower 48 once the island was joined to the airport
This is southeast Alaska we're talking about here; that water they're building a bridge over *is* an airport!