I don't care so much about the format war. I now have 2 HD-DVD players (1st gen Toshiba & XBOX 360 add-on). The picture and sound that is possible with HD-DVD really is pretty awesome. If you have a decent setup, it really is worth the extra $$$$, IMHO.
All I want is a "Universal" player that plays HD-DVD, DVD-A, BLU-RAY, and SACD. Now is that SO hard to do? Well, I guess maybe it is....sigh.
Yeah, why spend the money to develop your own drivers when there is a massive pools of free labor out there that WANTS to work, for free, to do it for you?! BRILLIANT! (in my best Orbit chewing gum girl voice)
I'm no OS master, but it seems to me that the root of all Window's virus problems stems from COM and DCOM. (OLE Automation, ActiveX...whatever you want to call it..)
IIRC, you could install a DCOM component on some machine on your network, connect to it from some other machine via straight-up tcp/ip and you could pretty much do whatever you wanted with the machine running the DCOM component. I mean, you could have the DCOM component do whatever you wanted it to do...delete files...format stuff..whatever you could do with any other Windows program. All it has to do is just sit there waiting for a connection and a command from your "master" application to start it's nasty-not-niceness.
Just the IDEA that you could install an ActiveX control(when you get down to it, is just a small application that just needs a container), which has full access to your machine, just by visiting a website or opening an e-mail just seems incredibly stupid to me.
If you need to put people's personal information on a laptop so you can telecommute and watch the Price is Right simultaneously, you have no business telecommuting.
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I don't care so much about the format war. I now have 2 HD-DVD players (1st gen Toshiba & XBOX 360 add-on). The picture and sound that is possible with HD-DVD really is pretty awesome. If you have a decent setup, it really is worth the extra $$$$, IMHO. All I want is a "Universal" player that plays HD-DVD, DVD-A, BLU-RAY, and SACD. Now is that SO hard to do? Well, I guess maybe it is....sigh.
Delphi started to die when Anders left....
Does 3000 year old ice make a good margarita?
The only COBOL program written from scratch was the first one.
Yeah, why spend the money to develop your own drivers when there is a massive pools of free labor out there that WANTS to work, for free, to do it for you?! BRILLIANT! (in my best Orbit chewing gum girl voice)
I always thought that Freelancer was the successor to the Elite series?
I'm no OS master, but it seems to me that the root of all Window's virus problems stems from COM and DCOM. (OLE Automation, ActiveX...whatever you want to call it..) IIRC, you could install a DCOM component on some machine on your network, connect to it from some other machine via straight-up tcp/ip and you could pretty much do whatever you wanted with the machine running the DCOM component. I mean, you could have the DCOM component do whatever you wanted it to do...delete files...format stuff..whatever you could do with any other Windows program. All it has to do is just sit there waiting for a connection and a command from your "master" application to start it's nasty-not-niceness. Just the IDEA that you could install an ActiveX control(when you get down to it, is just a small application that just needs a container), which has full access to your machine, just by visiting a website or opening an e-mail just seems incredibly stupid to me.
Great, now my face can resemble Nicholas Cage's from Face/Off when I shave with the new Gilette 10-bladed razor made from this stuff.
If you need to put people's personal information on a laptop so you can telecommute and watch the Price is Right simultaneously, you have no business telecommuting.