// Microsoft is selling HD movies from Warner Brothers. With these new caps in place, Warner Brothers will probably not be able to see HD movies over the internet. Isn't this against their interests right now?
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Creationists believe in speciation (the type of "evolution" that Darwin observed). Just not that everything came from primordial soup (the type of "evolution" that nobody has observed).
When HP was great at making inkjet and laser printers, the motto was, "Let's put ourselves out of business every 6 months because if we don't do it, someone else will."
The best printers in the history of the world came out of that process and HP made megabucks. Then David Packard died and a faceless corporate board took over...
With the Linux desktop, whichever variety you choose, there remains large technological advancements before it is usable by the general public. With Windows, it works, and has been working for over ten years for the majority of people.
Agreed about Windows for the last ten years, but the new Ubuntu just works. And I am a long-time Windows user that has tinkered with Linux since the 300 MHz days, constantly hearing about how it was the "year of the Linux desktop".
But I had a 1GHz laptop with XP that locked up all the time. I could never find the culprit (probably a driver or IRQ issue). I installed Ubuntu, it found all the hardware automatically, asked me my WAP password and away I went. It's fast and usable now, instead of slow and unreliable.
And we all know that hardly anyone installed XP on old computers -- preferring at the time their old Windows 2000, but eventually XP won people over as they upgraded.
I don't know any such thing. I was at three companies where everyone was upgraded to XP. People loved XP. Businesses waited for the correct timing in their budget, but there was little doubt that it WOULD be adopted. Vista is universally reviled and most businesses I know are saying that they will NEVER go to it.
I also value my time and have no problem spending a couple hundred on a new OS. But having dealt with Vista and Ubuntu Hardy Heron I would say that Ubuntu is way more hardware compatible and takes far less time to set up and install. And seeing how difficult it is to get software to run on Vista, it won't be long before Linux is more software-compatible as well.
Fully 40% of my software in my business wouldn't run on it without major work (and many of these were Microsoft titles), about 25% never did run at all. Every software install on the test machine was a pray-and-hack affair. It was exactly as if I was trying to get the software to run on Wine or Mono, instead of Windows.
Linux has easily passed Windows in hardware compatibility. Who ever thought we would see that day? Now the attention will go to software compatibility, and when Wine and Mono improve a little bit more, Linux will have the advantage there as well.
And I predict that it will happen before Windows 7 comes out.
// On a recent trip to Disneyland with relatives, cellphones were used a couple times to check in and coordinate. Very handy if you ask me.
// Personally, any park that says I can't have my phone won't get my business.
We have annual passes to Disneyland and we do this all the time. We only call each other in the park.
That being said, Disneyland has massive portable towers in the corner of the parking lot outside Downtown Disney. They require these to get service inside the park. The cell phone companies actually PAY Disneyland to have those towers there.
Most people I see inside the park are calling other people to coordinate. I see very few on business calls.
May I point you to the Roku Photobridge forums, where a bunch of abandoned users hang out.
Oh, the Roku Photobridge was a great machine back in 2005. It's main purpose was to view pictures from you digital camera at HD resolutions and to play MP3's, but it didn't take long for people to realize that everything you needed to upconvert DVD-quality movies (stored on your network) to HD was there. Or even to play HD video pulled from your TiVo or MythTV. Almost.
They promised a better video player... But never delivered...
They promised a faster connection for HD... But never delivered...
They promised to open up the firmware... But never delivered...
They promised an update to make subtitles and DTS possible (they weren't even going to do it, just stop the accidental prevention of these things by the third-party developers)... They never delivered.
People waited years for these features, which were always "just around the corner".
Basically, once the SoundBridge took off, they just completely abandoned their small but faithful user group. The group wasn't even asking for much, just the source code so they could figure out how to make their own updates and how to interface with the hardware themselves.
But, I got tired of the lack of DTS support, the sound stuttering which got progressively worse, etc. My DirecTV DVR and PS3 now cover all the features that it did and do it much better.
I would be very hesitant to buy things from Roku with the track record they have established. If the "Netflix player" doesn't take off, you might be the next owner of an abandoned product.
And when it came time to build version 2 and make some internal changes we couldn't because the customers had grown accustomed to the schema being a certain way.
That's what Views are for. They keep using the "old table", which is now a view. You put the changes in the "new table". You don't need to change your code either, except in the instances that required you to change it in the first place.
That was the point. Like it or not, people who used to be "gay" in a non-homosexual sense are no longer able to use that word that way. "Dick" was a common name when Batman and Robin came out in the 40s (and Dick Tracy), now nobody would call their child "Dick". Language changes whether we want it to or not.
"Hacker" has become something that benevolent hackers can no longer call themselves, no matter how we feel about it.
Isn't this an Intelligently Designed arms race? I mean, it's not as if random code on one computer suddenly because a self-replicating botnet or anything. Someone did design it.
And what ever happened to the alleged impending crisis of the world running out of IP addresses? If phantom companies, operating out of P.O. boxes, and lacking any real existence whatsoever... except on paper... can get their own/16s and/18s every day of the week, then it's no wonder the world is running out of IP addresses.
If you believe that, you obviously haven't seen what Dell does to their vendors.
They all sit in Dell's parking lot with giant trucks and Dell picks parts one case at a time. Don't want to park a truck in Dell's parking lot? That's OK, somebody else does.
Trust me, if Dell, HP AND Lenovo are all saying together that they are going to start encouraging open source drivers, it's happening...
mentions that the fracturing attack does not work. The Storm botnet currently only 2 things.
1. It sends spam e-mails if it receives a file in a spam template format with another file containing a list of addresses.
2. It commits a denial-of-service attack against a host if it receives a different templated file.
What the researchers are proposing is to become a sender and to send out floods of blank files faster than the actual operators can send out their real files. As a result, the hosts are too busy downloading the 2200 phony files to get around to the 1 real one.
The time it takes for all the network nodes to get around to the real file eliminates the power of the botnet, reducing its effectiveness to that of a few machines even if it contains tens of thousands.
Unfortunately I don't have the answer, but that doesn't mean my point is invalid. Surely there has to be a solution, someone somewhere will think of something.
Simple. Because only Linux geeks will say that GIMP=Photoshop. The rest of us have tried both and know better.
That's not saying that it will never get there (or get close enough, like OpenOffice, that it won't matter to 70% of people.
But right now, it's just delusional to say GIMP=Photoshop. Those applications DON'T exist on Linux.
Plus, companies have decades worth of Access, C++,.NET, etc. apps on every desktop that they are not about to switch. So until it runs all of those, they're not switching. Windows licenses are cheaper and the support costs are lower (because their staffs know Windows really well).
Remember when you and your geeky friends were the only ones talking about computers when you went to a fast food restaurant? Do you realize that almost everyone does now? 90% of Windows users could not make a boot disk if their life depended on it.
In real businesses, until Linux can seamlessly run VB6,.NET and Access applications as well as Word and Excel macros, it's not ready. For better or worse, every business I have consulted for already has so much code in these closed Microsoft environments that it's not cost-effective to switch otherwise.
Now, that being said, virtualization may solve the problem if it's only 1-2 applications, but not all of them.
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Creationists believe in speciation (the type of "evolution" that Darwin observed). Just not that everything came from primordial soup (the type of "evolution" that nobody has observed).
Another example:
When HP was great at making inkjet and laser printers, the motto was, "Let's put ourselves out of business every 6 months because if we don't do it, someone else will."
The best printers in the history of the world came out of that process and HP made megabucks. Then David Packard died and a faceless corporate board took over...
Agreed about Windows for the last ten years, but the new Ubuntu just works. And I am a long-time Windows user that has tinkered with Linux since the 300 MHz days, constantly hearing about how it was the "year of the Linux desktop".
But I had a 1GHz laptop with XP that locked up all the time. I could never find the culprit (probably a driver or IRQ issue). I installed Ubuntu, it found all the hardware automatically, asked me my WAP password and away I went. It's fast and usable now, instead of slow and unreliable.
And we all know that hardly anyone installed XP on old computers -- preferring at the time their old Windows 2000, but eventually XP won people over as they upgraded.I don't know any such thing. I was at three companies where everyone was upgraded to XP. People loved XP. Businesses waited for the correct timing in their budget, but there was little doubt that it WOULD be adopted. Vista is universally reviled and most businesses I know are saying that they will NEVER go to it.
I also value my time and have no problem spending a couple hundred on a new OS. But having dealt with Vista and Ubuntu Hardy Heron I would say that Ubuntu is way more hardware compatible and takes far less time to set up and install. And seeing how difficult it is to get software to run on Vista, it won't be long before Linux is more software-compatible as well.
Fully 40% of my software in my business wouldn't run on it without major work (and many of these were Microsoft titles), about 25% never did run at all. Every software install on the test machine was a pray-and-hack affair. It was exactly as if I was trying to get the software to run on Wine or Mono, instead of Windows.
Linux has easily passed Windows in hardware compatibility. Who ever thought we would see that day? Now the attention will go to software compatibility, and when Wine and Mono improve a little bit more, Linux will have the advantage there as well.
And I predict that it will happen before Windows 7 comes out.
// On a recent trip to Disneyland with relatives, cellphones were used a couple times to check in and coordinate. Very handy if you ask me.
// Personally, any park that says I can't have my phone won't get my business.
We have annual passes to Disneyland and we do this all the time. We only call each other in the park.
That being said, Disneyland has massive portable towers in the corner of the parking lot outside Downtown Disney. They require these to get service inside the park. The cell phone companies actually PAY Disneyland to have those towers there.
Most people I see inside the park are calling other people to coordinate. I see very few on business calls.
May I point you to the Roku Photobridge forums, where a bunch of abandoned users hang out.
Oh, the Roku Photobridge was a great machine back in 2005. It's main purpose was to view pictures from you digital camera at HD resolutions and to play MP3's, but it didn't take long for people to realize that everything you needed to upconvert DVD-quality movies (stored on your network) to HD was there. Or even to play HD video pulled from your TiVo or MythTV. Almost.
They promised a better video player... But never delivered...
They promised a faster connection for HD... But never delivered...
They promised to open up the firmware... But never delivered...
They promised an update to make subtitles and DTS possible (they weren't even going to do it, just stop the accidental prevention of these things by the third-party developers)... They never delivered.
People waited years for these features, which were always "just around the corner".
Basically, once the SoundBridge took off, they just completely abandoned their small but faithful user group. The group wasn't even asking for much, just the source code so they could figure out how to make their own updates and how to interface with the hardware themselves.
But, I got tired of the lack of DTS support, the sound stuttering which got progressively worse, etc. My DirecTV DVR and PS3 now cover all the features that it did and do it much better.
I would be very hesitant to buy things from Roku with the track record they have established. If the "Netflix player" doesn't take off, you might be the next owner of an abandoned product.
And when it came time to build version 2 and make some internal changes we couldn't because the customers had grown accustomed to the schema being a certain way.
That's what Views are for. They keep using the "old table", which is now a view. You put the changes in the "new table". You don't need to change your code either, except in the instances that required you to change it in the first place.
That was the point. Like it or not, people who used to be "gay" in a non-homosexual sense are no longer able to use that word that way. "Dick" was a common name when Batman and Robin came out in the 40s (and Dick Tracy), now nobody would call their child "Dick". Language changes whether we want it to or not.
"Hacker" has become something that benevolent hackers can no longer call themselves, no matter how we feel about it.
If we can actually bring ourselves to praise Microsoft for something they did right.
Isn't this an Intelligently Designed arms race? I mean, it's not as if random code on one computer suddenly because a self-replicating botnet or anything. Someone did design it.
And what ever happened to the alleged impending crisis of the world running out of IP addresses? If phantom companies, operating out of P.O. boxes, and lacking any real existence whatsoever... except on paper... can get their own /16s and /18s every day of the week, then it's no wonder the world is running out of IP addresses.
Seriously.
If you believe that, you obviously haven't seen what Dell does to their vendors.
They all sit in Dell's parking lot with giant trucks and Dell picks parts one case at a time. Don't want to park a truck in Dell's parking lot? That's OK, somebody else does.
Trust me, if Dell, HP AND Lenovo are all saying together that they are going to start encouraging open source drivers, it's happening...
Isn't MediaSentry a contractor with permission to make copies?
No, we thought you gave your outlaws green bologna and pink underwear.
It's abysmally slow running Python to do everything.
PowerShell is its own .NET language.
Actually, the paper presented at the conference
http://www.usenix.org/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/holz/holz_html/mentions that the fracturing attack does not work. The Storm botnet currently only 2 things.
1. It sends spam e-mails if it receives a file in a spam template format with another file containing a list of addresses.
2. It commits a denial-of-service attack against a host if it receives a different templated file.
What the researchers are proposing is to become a sender and to send out floods of blank files faster than the actual operators can send out their real files. As a result, the hosts are too busy downloading the 2200 phony files to get around to the 1 real one.
The time it takes for all the network nodes to get around to the real file eliminates the power of the botnet, reducing its effectiveness to that of a few machines even if it contains tens of thousands.
That's got to be some sort of record...
Unfortunately I don't have the answer, but that doesn't mean my point is invalid. Surely there has to be a solution, someone somewhere will think of something.
Large bounties for the severed head of a spammer?
That's because you're not using your...imagination.
I think American Standard should send their lawyers after Sony for using their sound without permission.
Be careful, you might end up proving the existence of God...
Simple. Because only Linux geeks will say that GIMP=Photoshop. The rest of us have tried both and know better.
That's not saying that it will never get there (or get close enough, like OpenOffice, that it won't matter to 70% of people.
But right now, it's just delusional to say GIMP=Photoshop. Those applications DON'T exist on Linux.
Plus, companies have decades worth of Access, C++, .NET, etc. apps on every desktop that they are not about to switch. So until it runs all of those, they're not switching. Windows licenses are cheaper and the support costs are lower (because their staffs know Windows really well).
Remember when you and your geeky friends were the only ones talking about computers when you went to a fast food restaurant? Do you realize that almost everyone does now? 90% of Windows users could not make a boot disk if their life depended on it.
In real businesses, until Linux can seamlessly run VB6, .NET and Access applications as well as Word and Excel macros, it's not ready. For better or worse, every business I have consulted for already has so much code in these closed Microsoft environments that it's not cost-effective to switch otherwise.
Now, that being said, virtualization may solve the problem if it's only 1-2 applications, but not all of them.