By sitting in line for a PS3, you're perhaps creating a slight advantage for yourself, but you are unoptimizing the situation for everyone else. You don't smell nice either, and you look like vagrants standing around in front of Best Buy.
It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers are eaters, here, none are holders).
Whats worse is, from what I've heard, Sony is deliberately providing an inadequate number of tables so that not everyone will be able to sit - thankfully, the nice people at Nintendo are passing out barstools, so only the foolish will wait for a table:)
Wow, you both seem to be trolling. The Microsoft Shared Source Licenses are actually quite simple to read and easy to understand. The GPL is actually far more complex, imho.
Question: Did these groups say anything about Google's AdSense?
Didn't see any mention of them in the article. I'd imagine this is one of two things:
1) FUD - pure and simple: "Oh no, Microsoft steals our personal data!"
2) Since Microsoft is the smaller player in the market, and attacking them is also so much more acceptable, they might just be going after Microsoft first to get more people on board. I'd imagine it would be much easier to stir up support for your agenda if it's anti-Microsoft than if it was anti-Google in the present climate, even if Microsoft and Google are doing essentially the same thing.
I don't know what you're smoking but that's even more true in Google's business than in many others. If they lose the edge in search and someone does it better people will start migrating. Brand loyalty is one thing, but who would continue to use Google if there were (significantly) better competitors? Being number 1 is the only option Google really has.
When you first upgrade to IE 7, the first page that appears is a configuration page. The first item is selecting your search engine. You can either take the current one (which defaults to the Microsoft Live Search) or choose a different one. If you select the second option, you are taken to a page with almost every search engine on it to choose from, or you can put your own selection in if it is not listed. So, you can. Google's complaint is without merit.
This is entirely correct, which I why I was scratching my head as to what Google was talking about. I have to assume that they are referring to the new built in search functionality of Vista coming with an option for Google Desktop (or whatever it's called).
How about the "fair use" dispute ?
You know, as in parody, for instance, to name but just ONE of the legitimate "false positives".
What does fair use have to do with anything? This is MySpace filtering what can and cannot be uploaded to their (free) service. Nobody is getting charged with anything here - they just can't upload their sweet, sweet Britney Spears music to MySpace (or whatever the kids are listening to nowadays).
You do realize that this is MySpace trying to police what is uploaded to their (free) service? I imagine there will also be mechanisms in place to have things that get through removed. So what would courts have to do with this?
Having the machines behind a NAT router should stop a lot of attacks. And if that isnt enough, find a NAT router with a built in firewall (or add an extra firewall appliance such as a old PC with linux on it)
Seems like good advice - no matter what your OS is. Not much to pay for another (solid) layer of security, and the second option is a nice way to recycle old PCs.
Why is it microsoft can't make a gui that doesn't take more screen space than the actual content?
FYI, you can actually minimize WMP to be a set of buttons on the taskbar - it's actually pretty neat. If I didn't have Foobar that's probably what I would use.
I approve of the reference, but no, I do think they know what it means:
free/fri/ adjective, freer, freest, adverb, verb, freed, freeing.-adjective
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11. provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment: free parking; a free sample.
Ubuntu is apt-based. Contrary the the "OS upgrades are typically fraught with trouble" claims of the article, upgrades for debian-like systems are usually flawless -- people do them on a DAILY basis with debian sid and (k)ubuntu's development versions, never mind once every 6 months or so. This article is FUD.
Maybe read the rest of the sentence you quoted: "but previous Ubuntu releases....have done surprisingly well". RTFA is one thing, but Read The Fucking Sentence? Come on.
Also, disagreeing with an article doesn't make it FUD. Perhaps you should tell all the people on the linked to Ubuntu forum that all their upgrades went flawlessly?
If you bust in the door of a McDonalds and start saying "Put that table there, and that chair should be glued to the wall.." you're going to be asked to leave.
So she's broken into Slashdot, has she? I wasn't aware that Slashdot ran on Windows Server.
The only reason people are doing it is to appeal the the paedophile side of their partner.
Shaving one's facial hair is just plain perverted. Women who prefer men who shave their faces are pedophiles too, since only little boys don't have facial hair.
Plaintiffs and defendants can contemn each other all they want, as long as they don't contemn the judge or the court.
You seem to enjoy saying RTFA. From Jack:
If this court in any fashion proceeds toward issuing a show cause order, given its utter baselessness and the bad faith goo in which it slithers, then Thompson will add whatever judge should do so as a defendant in the aforementioned federal civil rights action...
I dont know if that legally applies, but that sounds like fightin' words to me.
Pick neither. If you can, try to find an interesting small company to work for. Having worked for both large and small companies I much prefer the atmosphere that you can only get in a more intimate work environment. It's only a matter of time before bureaucracy and HR catch up with Google, and I'm sure Microsoft is already there.
Looks interesting - I'll have to try it. I'm curious how well it performs though. The only real complaint I have for the powertoy is that it's a little slow. If virtual dimension is noticeably faster then that's good enough for me (especially with that apparent transparency affect).
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It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers are eaters, here, none are holders).
Whats worse is, from what I've heard, Sony is deliberately providing an inadequate number of tables so that not everyone will be able to sit - thankfully, the nice people at Nintendo are passing out barstools, so only the foolish will wait for a table :)
Just because the GPL isn't terribly restrictive doesn't mean there aren't alternatives that are less restrictive. The BSD license comes to mind.
This raises an interesting question: would Google delete logs on you if you asked them to?
Wow, you both seem to be trolling. The Microsoft Shared Source Licenses are actually quite simple to read and easy to understand. The GPL is actually far more complex, imho.
Didn't see any mention of them in the article. I'd imagine this is one of two things:
1) FUD - pure and simple: "Oh no, Microsoft steals our personal data!"
2) Since Microsoft is the smaller player in the market, and attacking them is also so much more acceptable, they might just be going after Microsoft first to get more people on board. I'd imagine it would be much easier to stir up support for your agenda if it's anti-Microsoft than if it was anti-Google in the present climate, even if Microsoft and Google are doing essentially the same thing.
Sweet, do you have a search engine I could use?
I don't know what you're smoking but that's even more true in Google's business than in many others. If they lose the edge in search and someone does it better people will start migrating. Brand loyalty is one thing, but who would continue to use Google if there were (significantly) better competitors? Being number 1 is the only option Google really has.
If voting machines were tested as rigorously as avionics I don't think there would be as much of a problem.
This is entirely correct, which I why I was scratching my head as to what Google was talking about. I have to assume that they are referring to the new built in search functionality of Vista coming with an option for Google Desktop (or whatever it's called).
What does fair use have to do with anything? This is MySpace filtering what can and cannot be uploaded to their (free) service. Nobody is getting charged with anything here - they just can't upload their sweet, sweet Britney Spears music to MySpace (or whatever the kids are listening to nowadays).
You do realize that this is MySpace trying to police what is uploaded to their (free) service? I imagine there will also be mechanisms in place to have things that get through removed. So what would courts have to do with this?
Apparently +1 Insightful crack.
Seems like good advice - no matter what your OS is. Not much to pay for another (solid) layer of security, and the second option is a nice way to recycle old PCs.
Windows has a firewall?
....sorry, please continue :)
FYI, you can actually minimize WMP to be a set of buttons on the taskbar - it's actually pretty neat. If I didn't have Foobar that's probably what I would use.
I approve of the reference, but no, I do think they know what it means:
free /fri/ adjective, freer, freest, adverb, verb, freed, freeing.-adjective
...
11. provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment: free parking; a free sample.
(dictionary.com)
Maybe read the rest of the sentence you quoted: "but previous Ubuntu releases....have done surprisingly well". RTFA is one thing, but Read The Fucking Sentence? Come on.
Also, disagreeing with an article doesn't make it FUD. Perhaps you should tell all the people on the linked to Ubuntu forum that all their upgrades went flawlessly?
Yes, I would tend to agree
So she's broken into Slashdot, has she? I wasn't aware that Slashdot ran on Windows Server.
Shaving one's facial hair is just plain perverted. Women who prefer men who shave their faces are pedophiles too, since only little boys don't have facial hair.
It's hard to be a good kid when your older brother is a thug - and yes, I believe this applies to the original point as well.
You seem to enjoy saying RTFA. From Jack:
I dont know if that legally applies, but that sounds like fightin' words to me.
Pick neither. If you can, try to find an interesting small company to work for. Having worked for both large and small companies I much prefer the atmosphere that you can only get in a more intimate work environment. It's only a matter of time before bureaucracy and HR catch up with Google, and I'm sure Microsoft is already there.
Obviously, utube.com will be Google's next aquisition - just look at how much traffic they get!
Looks interesting - I'll have to try it. I'm curious how well it performs though. The only real complaint I have for the powertoy is that it's a little slow. If virtual dimension is noticeably faster then that's good enough for me (especially with that apparent transparency affect).