I agree with much of what you say, but I think this is more akin to punishing someone being sprayed by an over aggressive perfume salesperson than taking a free sample. Taking a sample is a conscious action in which the sample is available and you actively take it and use it for your benefit. Google was driving through the area looking for open access points when some people said "Here, have all of this data we left in the clear and sprayed into the street for you. You wanted it, didn't you?"
I think that's really missing the point. What you are suggesting would be basically giving legitimacy to their method of "doing business" and at the same time admitting that you are doing something wrong. This is the death throes of an outdated business model. Whenever an entity becomes dependant on lawsuits for a mesurable percentage of its income, it no longer has anything to offer and either needs to adapt or die. *cough* *SCO* *cough*
I think that we are forgetting that under most democratic forms of government, the lawmakers are elected (essentially hired by the people) to make laws. The problem is that the "if it ain't broke" rule does not apply in that type of a job. There is no code maintenance, no performance optimization to be performed. Once one law is passed, the need to start the process of making another or they are no longer needed. Add in lobbyists to whisper "we need a new law for this over here" or "We are losing all these potential sales, do something." at the right times, and these types of bans and other ridiculous laws come about.
Another option is to make noise in the system. Use a carosel to play the first track or chapter of a disk 24 hours a day. If enough noise gets introduced, the system will be useless.
There's a format that largely claimed the same thing over VHS as HD/BRD does over DVD. It also had many of the same problems by comparison:Rashella827
limited selection, high priced media and players. It could deliver on its promises as can HD/BRD, but not at a price that a vast majority will be willing to pay. Even at the beginning, DVD was fairly inexpensive to get started, $500 or so for a player and about $30 for movies.
I don't really see HD/BRD taking off unless licensing agreements change to allow multi-format discs. That will future-proof the $1000 players and allow a much wider sellection of movies on the same hardware.
Not true, Vista runs well on VMWare on a P4 2.8 with 512 MB RAM allocated to the VM. At this point I'm not a fan of the interface, but it runs and is only limited as far as I can tell by my slow hard drive and the imposed limit on RAM, I will be installing it on a stronger VMWare box this weekend and expect even better results.
Now you can get Windows (which IMO isn't bloated enough with resource wasting code) to install itself with all your favorite spyware and adware out of the box! (Bonzi Buddy Anyone?)I've been waiting for this, now I can stop responding to all those e-mails and websites! I wonder if they can set a new record for the total number of popup ads that load at startup! I wonder how that will run on my Celeron 500 with 128MB RAM and 3GB HDD! Thanks MicroShaft!
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I think you're a little high in your estimate. 3.1415926 is definitely less than 3.1416.
Or unless you live in WV. I have grandparents there and can't get service at all any farther than a few miles outside of Huntington.
eye find it variably hell full.
Indeed.
I agree with much of what you say, but I think this is more akin to punishing someone being sprayed by an over aggressive perfume salesperson than taking a free sample. Taking a sample is a conscious action in which the sample is available and you actively take it and use it for your benefit. Google was driving through the area looking for open access points when some people said "Here, have all of this data we left in the clear and sprayed into the street for you. You wanted it, didn't you?"
I think that's really missing the point. What you are suggesting would be basically giving legitimacy to their method of "doing business" and at the same time admitting that you are doing something wrong. This is the death throes of an outdated business model. Whenever an entity becomes dependant on lawsuits for a mesurable percentage of its income, it no longer has anything to offer and either needs to adapt or die. *cough* *SCO* *cough*
I think that we are forgetting that under most democratic forms of government, the lawmakers are elected (essentially hired by the people) to make laws. The problem is that the "if it ain't broke" rule does not apply in that type of a job. There is no code maintenance, no performance optimization to be performed. Once one law is passed, the need to start the process of making another or they are no longer needed. Add in lobbyists to whisper "we need a new law for this over here" or "We are losing all these potential sales, do something." at the right times, and these types of bans and other ridiculous laws come about.
I'd say an operating system is very secure when it's dead!
Another option is to make noise in the system. Use a carosel to play the first track or chapter of a disk 24 hours a day. If enough noise gets introduced, the system will be useless.
I think I'll hold off for the Radeon XX1999X XTXXQ Dual Core Deuce2Duo. Then we'll see some performance!
Seriously, do the Marketing people even look at the names they come up with??
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Two words: Laser Disc!
There's a format that largely claimed the same thing over VHS as HD/BRD does over DVD. It also had many of the same problems by comparison:Rashella827
limited selection, high priced media and players. It could deliver on its promises as can HD/BRD, but not at a price that a vast majority will be willing to pay. Even at the beginning, DVD was fairly inexpensive to get started, $500 or so for a player and about $30 for movies.
I don't really see HD/BRD taking off unless licensing agreements change to allow multi-format discs. That will future-proof the $1000 players and allow a much wider sellection of movies on the same hardware.
Not true, Vista runs well on VMWare on a P4 2.8 with 512 MB RAM allocated to the VM. At this point I'm not a fan of the interface, but it runs and is only limited as far as I can tell by my slow hard drive and the imposed limit on RAM, I will be installing it on a stronger VMWare box this weekend and expect even better results.
Now you can get Windows (which IMO isn't bloated enough with resource wasting code) to install itself with all your favorite spyware and adware out of the box! (Bonzi Buddy Anyone?)I've been waiting for this, now I can stop responding to all those e-mails and websites! I wonder if they can set a new record for the total number of popup ads that load at startup! I wonder how that will run on my Celeron 500 with 128MB RAM and 3GB HDD! Thanks MicroShaft!