I've never understood the whole "switch" mentality. As a computer enthusiast I'm not interested in just one OS, one brand, one vendor - I'm interested in everything I can get a hold of. Right now? Linux server, Windows desktop, MacBook Pro laptop - works for me, and I certainly don't feel the need to convert any of the three to anything other than what they are.
Oh, and for the record, in my limited time with OS X, it has crashed about as much on average as Win XP has for me, and I've certainly had to reboot for pretty much every update it has installed (reboot for a Quicktime update - wtf?). It's definitely nice, but anyone who claims it's perfect is a liar.
What a tard you are.. according to StatsCan there are just over 1 million unemployed in Canada, half a million fewer than your "fact". The unemployment rate has fallen over the last year to a 30-year low. http://www.statcan.ca/english/Subjects/Labour/LFS/ lfs-en.htm [statcan.ca] And almost all the employment growth has come from Western Canada, which mostly votes Conservative.
What's up with the use of the word "tard"? You realize this doesn't make you sound very bright? Of course, that would make sense since you seem to have totally missed the part where those bullet points were quoted from Stephen Harper. Or were you actually calling your apparent hero (Harper) the tard?
Currently any document in the intranet server can be saved to usb thumb drive, cut/paste into emails, or forwarded via emails...
This is the feature side of the DRM abilities that are built into Windows now. You can restrict access to documents so that you literally cannot do the above (unless the DRM is broken, etc).
Our business model is to provide content which is trivially easy for people to duplicate and distribute, but to sue anyone who actually does that. You are next on our hit list.
Actually, their business model is basically the same as youtube - make money via advertisements while distributing content (and both mediums are trivially easy to duplicate to boot). The only difference here is that Viacom made the content. Should they be pissed? Sure, it's their right since it's their content.
Also, did you miss the part where Viacom has already requested that specific content be removed? Court does not appear to be their first choice.
I think this is the first time Ive ever heard of where a company has succesfully been challenged and lost the right to a name while a product was still in "beta".
So it should be OK while in 'beta', but once it's launched and available for the general public, that's a different story? Oh wait....
As TFA states, its if you want to watch an HD-DVD or BluRay at full resolution that the DRM will kick in and deny you any "fair use" rights on anything but the latest kit. Unless, of course, you just downloaded the HD-DVD of bittorrent.
How would you play a Blu-Ray disc on anything but "the latest kit" to begin with? Blu-Ray is itself new, not just the DRM that's placed on it.
Have you tried playing Blu-Ray on said laptop? HD-DVD? If you did, I think you'd find that you can't play it in high definition. It will downgrade the signal if you try to play it on your 2-year old Celeron, and will not play in full 1080p glory.
I doubt that a two year old laptop will have a Blu-Ray drive, so no, I don't think it would be able to play one. People will have to upgrade to enjoy such things, but this has nothing to do with Vista.
The bottom line is we aren't getting what we paid for.
Yes, I would tend to agree, but I don't think this has anything to do with the features in Vista or any other OS for that matter. It is the content producers choice to use DRM on their content and they are rightfully to blame for it.
Or giving Jaer the Wind Mage the Pathfinding spell plus every speed boost you possibly can and using him to ship entire armies across vast oceans in a single turn...
Ahh, Jaer - how I remember you. There were certainly better heroes (death knight anyone?) but nothing beats the air-taxi.
I've actually been playing it again recently and it's still fun, despite the (numerous) flaws. Godbless dosbox and home of the underdogs.
(I have 4 apple laptops of various makes and models, plus two pre-g3 machines that still work -- though their only use is for show-n-tell time when company come over).
Why is this a big deal? If it really is 5-16 hours of battery life, that means that you have to worry about said battery life on a daily basis. Some people out there do have 12 hour work days (especially when you consider commuting, etc) - if it can barely squeak through a day without being tethered to power then that is a big deal. Why is this different than, say, a laptop? Well, a cellphone is essentially only useful if it's constantly on, and if it can barely last a day, that is (again) a big deal.
...and, my roommate has this phone. It's certainly not bad, but Jobs' keynote speech really did hit the nail on the head on the awkwardness of this and similar phones.
I have one and I agree. However, I don't think the iPhone is the problem. The reason why that device sucks as a phone is because it's really a PDA with phone capabilities - I don't see this changing with the iPhone. For one thing, touchscreen sucks for dialing - whether it's this or the iPhone.
Not to mention the fact that the whole 'Games for Windows' platform that microsoft is hyping so badly has a number of mandatory requirements, the FIRST of which is that the game MUST use DirectX as the default renderer for the game.
Unless you can provide a citation, I'd say you're pulling that out of your ass. The wikipedia article makes absolutely no mention of of Direct X. Nor does the official games for windows page. Thanks for the pointless rant.
PC's are not fighting to keep up. They are keeping up just fine if your willing to spend the money.
I agree - though the same argument could be made for consoles. The cost everyone seems to leave out when pricing the console is the HDTV that is required to make the games look good at all. Sure you could play your console on a 10 year old 27" CRT TV, but you can hardly draw the comparison to high end PC gaming at that point. Add in the cost of a $1-2K HDTV and you're getting int the range of apples to apples.
But they broke plenty of laws to keep their monopoly:) And while their actions during their rise to the top may not have been illegal, they could easily be called 'strong-armed'.
What they got in trouble for was actually using their monopoly to get into other markets - i.e. bundling IE with the OS meant that they used their OS monopoly to get into the browser market. There was also doing things like offering Office at a discount if vendors bought Windows. This is the kind of thing that everybody does (think of all the apps that Apple includes) and doesn't become a problem until you have a monopoly.
In terms of 'strong-armed' tactics, I don't think the Simpsons were being literal with Bill Gates breaking pencils and messing the place up when 'buying him out':)
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I tend to agree with that assessment. In this case, however, it's not the Bluetooth protocol that's infringing, it's the hardware implementation (i.e. the chips) that are apparently infringing. Realizing that said chips were infringing your patents would probably be a non-trivial thing to discover. From the article:
He said a number of the Bluetooth chipset manufacturers appeared to be infringing on the patent. One company, Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom, agreed to license the technology. Another company CSR of Cambridge, United Kingdom, did not, Reagh said.
The second company, CSR, sells their chips to the cell phone makers who are being sued.
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I've never understood the whole "switch" mentality. As a computer enthusiast I'm not interested in just one OS, one brand, one vendor - I'm interested in everything I can get a hold of. Right now? Linux server, Windows desktop, MacBook Pro laptop - works for me, and I certainly don't feel the need to convert any of the three to anything other than what they are.
Oh, and for the record, in my limited time with OS X, it has crashed about as much on average as Win XP has for me, and I've certainly had to reboot for pretty much every update it has installed (reboot for a Quicktime update - wtf?). It's definitely nice, but anyone who claims it's perfect is a liar.
What's up with the use of the word "tard"? You realize this doesn't make you sound very bright? Of course, that would make sense since you seem to have totally missed the part where those bullet points were quoted from Stephen Harper. Or were you actually calling your apparent hero (Harper) the tard?
This is the feature side of the DRM abilities that are built into Windows now. You can restrict access to documents so that you literally cannot do the above (unless the DRM is broken, etc).
Maybe if your favorite uses DRM to protect their video content you should find a new favorite website. What does that even have to do with "M$"?
Could you tell those CSS folks that Geocities called and they want their website back? Thanks.
Sold.
Actually, their business model is basically the same as youtube - make money via advertisements while distributing content (and both mediums are trivially easy to duplicate to boot). The only difference here is that Viacom made the content. Should they be pissed? Sure, it's their right since it's their content.
Also, did you miss the part where Viacom has already requested that specific content be removed? Court does not appear to be their first choice.
So it should be OK while in 'beta', but once it's launched and available for the general public, that's a different story? Oh wait....
How would you play a Blu-Ray disc on anything but "the latest kit" to begin with? Blu-Ray is itself new, not just the DRM that's placed on it.
I doubt that a two year old laptop will have a Blu-Ray drive, so no, I don't think it would be able to play one. People will have to upgrade to enjoy such things, but this has nothing to do with Vista.
Yes, I would tend to agree, but I don't think this has anything to do with the features in Vista or any other OS for that matter. It is the content producers choice to use DRM on their content and they are rightfully to blame for it.
Fair enough - and when Mac users stop saying things like that, I'll stop saying they're pretentious.
Though, I do actually have a macbook pro, so I guess that includes me too.
..and you used "oh dear" as if you're retired and like to knit for your grandchildren. Judging people based on a word or two is fun!
Where's the list of the world's dumbest cities? I'd like to move to one of them and use my moderate intelligence to take over.
Most of the opposition to this seems to revolve around the above notion. However, since when did registering as a lobbyist force someone to shutup?
Ahh, Jaer - how I remember you. There were certainly better heroes (death knight anyone?) but nothing beats the air-taxi.
I've actually been playing it again recently and it's still fun, despite the (numerous) flaws. Godbless dosbox and home of the underdogs.
Yeah, hence the TIE Fighter. That game was amazing, though the Freespaces were quite good as well.
That must be one crazy party.
That is obviously not the case. If it was primarily a phone, it wouldn't have a touchscreen at all, but rather a keypad.
Why is this a big deal? If it really is 5-16 hours of battery life, that means that you have to worry about said battery life on a daily basis. Some people out there do have 12 hour work days (especially when you consider commuting, etc) - if it can barely squeak through a day without being tethered to power then that is a big deal. Why is this different than, say, a laptop? Well, a cellphone is essentially only useful if it's constantly on, and if it can barely last a day, that is (again) a big deal.
I have one and I agree. However, I don't think the iPhone is the problem. The reason why that device sucks as a phone is because it's really a PDA with phone capabilities - I don't see this changing with the iPhone. For one thing, touchscreen sucks for dialing - whether it's this or the iPhone.
Unless you can provide a citation, I'd say you're pulling that out of your ass. The wikipedia article makes absolutely no mention of of Direct X. Nor does the official games for windows page. Thanks for the pointless rant.
You've clearly never been married or else you'd realize that the need for a dead man's switch rises dramatically in the years following ;)
I agree - though the same argument could be made for consoles. The cost everyone seems to leave out when pricing the console is the HDTV that is required to make the games look good at all. Sure you could play your console on a 10 year old 27" CRT TV, but you can hardly draw the comparison to high end PC gaming at that point. Add in the cost of a $1-2K HDTV and you're getting int the range of apples to apples.
What they got in trouble for was actually using their monopoly to get into other markets - i.e. bundling IE with the OS meant that they used their OS monopoly to get into the browser market. There was also doing things like offering Office at a discount if vendors bought Windows. This is the kind of thing that everybody does (think of all the apps that Apple includes) and doesn't become a problem until you have a monopoly.
In terms of 'strong-armed' tactics, I don't think the Simpsons were being literal with Bill Gates breaking pencils and messing the place up when 'buying him out' :)
I tend to agree with that assessment. In this case, however, it's not the Bluetooth protocol that's infringing, it's the hardware implementation (i.e. the chips) that are apparently infringing. Realizing that said chips were infringing your patents would probably be a non-trivial thing to discover. From the article:
The second company, CSR, sells their chips to the cell phone makers who are being sued.