Please tell me one of those Counsel types discovered the galaxy sized loophole in "Let's recommend a form of copying that my business agency is suing people for using".
New Music that never gets pushed to a mega deal... becomes "lost" music that no one can ever have, because it's locked away as unsellable, yet a fan can't share it.
If you think all old songs deserve to be expensive, you obviously haven't listened to Dave Clark's Time album (with Freddy Mercury!).
Why don't we just write an open source app that compares source code? We don't need the scary overhead of SCO for that. Someone more reputable can do a discreet study.
If he meant this, he'd be busy paying his penalty to break contract. Otherwise it would just lure people into the RIAA clutches. "Trent told me to download it" can't hold up forever if the contractual locks are still in place.
I took some literary license, trying to tap into the mood of times passing that both represent. I do think that the full powers of NeoCon Minions are fading; their time is passing. It may yet be bumpy, but not stable.
The platitude that "Mac Works Well" is a sales point.
Since the entire existence of the two companies Apple has played the hardware game. And their hardware force-lock is absolutely, completely deliberate. So your wish itself is a wee bit off mark, because you're in effect wishing that Apple would reverse its thunderously announced corporate strategy. MS played the "license everywhere" game, to whatever effect.
*Both* companies are trying for Lock-In. That's why I don't see Apple's lock-in that much better than MS's. Their OS is a little cleaner now, but as the feature article and a couple nearby posts show, "all it takes is for senior management to drift a few years" before it all goes to smoke again.
Frankly, Steve Jobs has done a thunderous job to get Apple back this far. There truly were some company-crushing decisions made for about 10 years before he hauled everything back to usability.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite prescient enough to futurecast what the next 7 years will bring.
As I thought I understood things, in Year 1, XP was laughed at a little as "the Fisher Price" OS, but otherwise good enough as it went. Then there was the spectacular Destruction Pack 2, which *took down* many things that were previously working. I myself surveyed some devices that I had to delay purchasing until the factory corrected the firmware to keep them from crashing pretty badly.
Will anyone tolerate that again with Vista? My instinct is to hold out for Windows 7 or beyond.
I've never heard of getting part credit for 2+3=4.
Part Credit and "Not as Correct as it could be" involve multi-step processes. And this is fair, because it also shows that sufficiently large problems are iterative.
Getting too much deeper into this becomes an education theory discussion though.
A bigger question is people who can indeed correctly tell you the third derivative of a function, but then also hold a fundamentalist religious view. Some faiths are in fact flexible enough to allow for newer refinements to older ideas. (Usually Eastern.) However, both Fundamentalist Christian and Fundamentalist Islam depend heavily upon the immutable nature of the scripture. It's basically a religious explosion waiting to happen.
Off-Topic, so don't thrash-mod me, y'all just don't need to waste mod-up points on this.
"God works in mysterious ways" is meant as a controlling statement, such that you are not meant to understand the situation. It is a scriptural mechanics tool as part of a religious debate.
$hit Happens means that natural laws operate, and if your IQ is high enough, you might understand them. If provided sufficient original state data, you can duplicate the $hit-happened result. You still have no one to "yell at", but there is no emotional overlay either.
However, at least their updater is a little smarter these days and doesn't seem to deliver anything that threatens to crash the machine. You can also choose your style of updates, either "smash & grab" and let them all pile into a big heap, or update in stages if you want to reduce some of the bandwidth download. There might be close to 300 megs worth of updates which can sometimes be a lot for one swipe on a managed-load ISP or network.
"Don't take this the wrong way, because you earned that +5 Funny but... man, that's not funny. I'd be torqued into a pretzel if my OS did that to me. "
Than you. Slashdot users settled for "Funny" because there aren't mod codes for "torqued into a pretzel".
But you might have found the next Mac/PC ad.
Mac Gamer: "Quick! Drink the Mountain Dew Game Fuel!" (Click. Character saved.) WinPC Gamer: "Quick! Drink the Nourishing Fountain!..."
(OnMouseOver BeforeClick Popup) "You have won a case of Diet Tab!"
(Frantic Clicking... Ad Maximizes obliterating the game window. Character dies.)
Legitimate media download: 1) Get out your credit card and enter in all those pesky details 2) Enter your address and phone number and then wait for it to verify 3) Card Declined. "Bill Address Does not Match". Call Bank. 4) Bank says "You forgot to change your billing address when you had it delivered here." 5) Change Billing Address, Hang up from Bank. Try again. 6) Card "Accepted". Take Screenshot. Media does not download. Call Bank. 7) Bank says, "The charge is on hold, waiting for the vendor to verify". 8) Tell Bank "Let's do a 3-way call". Bank says "We cannot start it." 9) Call NBC. "Let's do a 3-way call". NBC: "It's not our policy to do that." 10)... Give up in despair because Good Citizens Don't Download. Suffer and LIKE IT!
After all, it's no work to "scroll by the Dawson story", is it?
But I'd call these stories "narrow beam". Slashdot has a slightly broader audience than the mega-experts who can change a broken Vista box into Gentoo in 12 minutes.
At my glacial pace of development I don't have problems with live data being lost. I have switched free host providers a couple times after each began going seriously south. (And this guy was a paid provider! The free hosts have even less barrier for new customers, and with a less direct revenue model, even less incentive to be dedicated.) I develop my data locally, then upload it.
But my primary link is through a redirector, whose basic server seems pretty solid. Thus no matter if my provider goes down - I'd switch to a backup that goes live pretty quick. I haven't tested the speed of my redirector, but I think it's even faster than "2 hours".
Focused companies can have a senior executive order their devs to get something Out The Door. Apple at its best the last few years has done this. Microsoft DID do this for 8 years from 1993-2001 until their code imploded for Vista.
Open Source projects with good leadership can deliver efficiently with a "soft" approach. I think Mozilla has done some great work. But when a "Bazaar" project splinters too much, then Open Source loses its advantage.
IBM must be angry at Microsoft's previous moves. So this announcement says they're committing about a million dollars into Microsoft's direct competitor. I'm not sneezing at 35 extra devs.
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Please tell me one of those Counsel types discovered the galaxy sized loophole in "Let's recommend a form of copying that my business agency is suing people for using".
Okay.
... the gigantic building?
So they have this huge stockpile of music, and they're incapable of simply posting it and running a credit-card outsourced solution?
The artists get the 8 cents per sale, right? So the rest pays for
I heartily disagree.
... becomes "lost" music that no one can ever have, because it's locked away as unsellable, yet a fan can't share it.
New Music that never gets pushed to a mega deal
If you think all old songs deserve to be expensive, you obviously haven't listened to Dave Clark's Time album (with Freddy Mercury!).
Incredible and grand news if it's on target, and doesn't dissolve into vapor.
Cue the Media Copying Discussions.
(Someone fast on their math: How long would that take to copy a new 0.90 Terabyte drive?)
Bingo. This is the post I want to remember.
Let's assume that this operation is a "subsidiary" of Microsoft.
After all, all it takes is a meeting between Ballmer & McBride, right?
So: They can spin Microsoft's monopoly position as Linux's fault? That's like 4 birds with one ricocheting stone.
Why don't we just write an open source app that compares source code?
We don't need the scary overhead of SCO for that. Someone more reputable can do a discreet study.
Right down his alley.
If he meant this, he'd be busy paying his penalty to break contract. Otherwise it would just lure people into the RIAA clutches. "Trent told me to download it" can't hold up forever if the contractual locks are still in place.
You mean the WOW Starts Now?
And read it I have.
I took some literary license, trying to tap into the mood of times passing that both represent. I do think that the full powers of NeoCon Minions are fading; their time is passing. It may yet be bumpy, but not stable.
In the snap of the chilly evening,
My face frozen like a thrull,
The roaring of the howling wind
Is deafening to all.
House minions roam out in force,
Trying to fathom thoughts
Of Citizens within their homes,
Whose actions they know naught.
Fahrenheit Four Fifty One, and
Huxley's Brave New World
Form siren lures to power lords
Elected and unfurled.
The weak attempts must duly fail
Of the Bretheren of Cain;
Cordwainer Smith declared it best -
Scanners Live In Vain
100 Gigabytes eh?
So
Suddenly someone who downloads more than a movie a day might want to think a little.
The platitude that "Mac Works Well" is a sales point.
Since the entire existence of the two companies Apple has played the hardware game. And their hardware force-lock is absolutely, completely deliberate. So your wish itself is a wee bit off mark, because you're in effect wishing that Apple would reverse its thunderously announced corporate strategy. MS played the "license everywhere" game, to whatever effect.
*Both* companies are trying for Lock-In. That's why I don't see Apple's lock-in that much better than MS's. Their OS is a little cleaner now, but as the feature article and a couple nearby posts show, "all it takes is for senior management to drift a few years" before it all goes to smoke again.
Frankly, Steve Jobs has done a thunderous job to get Apple back this far. There truly were some company-crushing decisions made for about 10 years before he hauled everything back to usability.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite prescient enough to futurecast what the next 7 years will bring.
As I thought I understood things, in Year 1, XP was laughed at a little as "the Fisher Price" OS, but otherwise good enough as it went. Then there was the spectacular Destruction Pack 2, which *took down* many things that were previously working. I myself surveyed some devices that I had to delay purchasing until the factory corrected the firmware to keep them from crashing pretty badly.
Will anyone tolerate that again with Vista? My instinct is to hold out for Windows 7 or beyond.
I've never heard of getting part credit for 2+3=4.
Part Credit and "Not as Correct as it could be" involve multi-step processes. And this is fair, because it also shows that sufficiently large problems are iterative.
Getting too much deeper into this becomes an education theory discussion though.
A bigger question is people who can indeed correctly tell you the third derivative of a function, but then also hold a fundamentalist religious view. Some faiths are in fact flexible enough to allow for newer refinements to older ideas. (Usually Eastern.) However, both Fundamentalist Christian and Fundamentalist Islam depend heavily upon the immutable nature of the scripture. It's basically a religious explosion waiting to happen.
Off-Topic, so don't thrash-mod me, y'all just don't need to waste mod-up points on this.
"God works in mysterious ways" is meant as a controlling statement, such that you are not meant to understand the situation. It is a scriptural mechanics tool as part of a religious debate.
$hit Happens means that natural laws operate, and if your IQ is high enough, you might understand them. If provided sufficient original state data, you can duplicate the $hit-happened result. You still have no one to "yell at", but there is no emotional overlay either.
All 80-100 Windows updates are still there.
However, at least their updater is a little smarter these days and doesn't seem to deliver anything that threatens to crash the machine. You can also choose your style of updates, either "smash & grab" and let them all pile into a big heap, or update in stages if you want to reduce some of the bandwidth download. There might be close to 300 megs worth of updates which can sometimes be a lot for one swipe on a managed-load ISP or network.
"Won't Someone Think of the Children??"
"Don't take this the wrong way, because you earned that +5 Funny but ... man, that's not funny. I'd be torqued into a pretzel if my OS did that to me. "
..."
Than you. Slashdot users settled for "Funny" because there aren't mod codes for "torqued into a pretzel".
But you might have found the next Mac/PC ad.
Mac Gamer: "Quick! Drink the Mountain Dew Game Fuel!" (Click. Character saved.)
WinPC Gamer: "Quick! Drink the Nourishing Fountain!
(OnMouseOver BeforeClick Popup) "You have won a case of Diet Tab!"
(Frantic Clicking... Ad Maximizes obliterating the game window. Character dies.)
You have this all wrong.
... Give up in despair because Good Citizens Don't Download. Suffer and LIKE IT!
Legitimate media download:
1) Get out your credit card and enter in all those pesky details
2) Enter your address and phone number and then wait for it to verify
3) Card Declined. "Bill Address Does not Match". Call Bank.
4) Bank says "You forgot to change your billing address when you had it delivered here."
5) Change Billing Address, Hang up from Bank. Try again.
6) Card "Accepted". Take Screenshot. Media does not download. Call Bank.
7) Bank says, "The charge is on hold, waiting for the vendor to verify".
8) Tell Bank "Let's do a 3-way call". Bank says "We cannot start it."
9) Call NBC. "Let's do a 3-way call". NBC: "It's not our policy to do that."
10)
I'm dying to see the reaction to this.
"Quick, get to the health fountain.... What the.. My character DIED so I can learn about Diet Caffeine Free Tab??"
Thanks, I was looking for this "noise reducer" post.
This article has one THE worst noise overheads I have ever seen.
Yep!
After all, it's no work to "scroll by the Dawson story", is it?
But I'd call these stories "narrow beam". Slashdot has a slightly broader audience than the mega-experts who can change a broken Vista box into Gentoo in 12 minutes.
At my glacial pace of development I don't have problems with live data being lost. I have switched free host providers a couple times after each began going seriously south. (And this guy was a paid provider! The free hosts have even less barrier for new customers, and with a less direct revenue model, even less incentive to be dedicated.) I develop my data locally, then upload it.
But my primary link is through a redirector, whose basic server seems pretty solid. Thus no matter if my provider goes down - I'd switch to a backup that goes live pretty quick. I haven't tested the speed of my redirector, but I think it's even faster than "2 hours".
Dotters read an article only 53 % of the time.
39% of the time they begin posting comments without reading the article at all.
8% of the time they read the wrong article entirely and post anyway.
Focused companies can have a senior executive order their devs to get something Out The Door. Apple at its best the last few years has done this. Microsoft DID do this for 8 years from 1993-2001 until their code imploded for Vista.
Open Source projects with good leadership can deliver efficiently with a "soft" approach. I think Mozilla has done some great work. But when a "Bazaar" project splinters too much, then Open Source loses its advantage.
IBM must be angry at Microsoft's previous moves. So this announcement says they're committing about a million dollars into Microsoft's direct competitor. I'm not sneezing at 35 extra devs.
WinAmp. I got out of the habit of that, for zero good reason.
Fun skins, no-nonsense operation, didn't seem too excessive. (Go away, RealPlayer).
I'll put it back on my list of stuff to do.
Meanwhile, Mirrorshades is great.