I call FUD. Exchange supports POP3, IMAP, etc. Enabling/disabling it is trivial.
With versions of Exchange prior to 2007, it was trivial to export an entire mailbox directly from the Exchange store (and reimport it later). I don't know why it would be necessary to delete an Exchange mailbox like that to fix a problem, but at the very least you could have copied everything from within Outlook to a local.PST. This would have saved everything except your rules.
There are, and have always been, many good ways to backup an Exchange server. (Restoring was a bit tricky in the past, but is simple now.) The built in windows backup program MSBackup will backup/restore an entire Exchange store. Probably 10 clicks total from sitting at the desktop, or can be done from the command line. If you're using a real backup program, these will typically let you restore individual emails back into the Exchange store.
Exchange has issues, but they aren't anything you list.
California also has multiple mandatory appeals for the death sentence. Even if you're covered in blood, confess, and show a tape of the murder. Here in Texas we let people fry themselves if they really want.
I was responding solely to the quote, which seemed to indicate that use of deadly force is not ever allowed in defense of property (this is incorrect). The quote isn't even particularly clear on the point within the second linked article. I suppose I could have just quoted this section from the first link:
some states, such as Texas, allow deadly force to be used to protect property
Strange, the concealed handgun class I took in Texas last year was pretty clear that Texas law states you can shoot someone if they are stealing your property, you call out to them, AND you do not expect to be able to recover the property. There also didn't seem to be any lower limit on the value of the property being stolen. Of course, will have to face a grand jury, and you could face murder charges if they find your actions unreasonable.
(It is worth noting that I have never owned a gun.)
It's advantage is existing infrastructure. Heck, I could take a Cat6 cable from our current building and plug it into a 10GbE switch and be just fine. I could do that to connect it to one of our 1GbE switches and instantly expand our network. The supporting infrastructure is everywhere, and just about everyone understands it.
It may not be anywhere near the technical best, but it has too much inertia at this point to be stopped, and the economies of scale with keep it cheap enough for people to keep using it.
I guess it depends on the quality of your iSCSI initiator. If you were going to use VMware ESX, then you would want to go NFS as the VMware iSCSI driver is terrible and slow. If your host environment is Windows and you are using the Windows iSCSI initiator, and then providing that storage to VMware Server, then you are probably better off with iSCSI. I don't know about the speed of current open source iSCSI initiators.
First of all, the specification and the reference implementation to produce and read back a valid stream were just finished. A month ago. After a few years of development. And it still doesn't even use all of the features, let alone efficiently.
The reason the BBC isn't using Dirac yet is that it isn't anywhere close to being ready, so it isn't actually usable in any meaningful way. Give it another year of development to get the obvious optimizations done and then the BBC may have a reason to switch to it entirely in the iPlayer. And once the millions of people that use the iPlayer to watch BBC's content prove the value of Dirac, other companies will have an incentive to use it.
Chances are that it will be used in many ways that people won't realize. For instance, Vorbis isn't well known at all in the public, but many game developers use it for audio in games. Game developers love having an open source and royalty free audio decoder with top of the line performance. When Dirac matures, they will love having an open source and royalty free video decoder with top of the line performance too.
Even though our eyes pick up less of a percentage of blue light, they are a bit more sensitive to it. This makes for an odd situation though as we have few blue receptors (meaning very low resolution). So we can spot a blue light easily, but we can't make out any details by it.
I'm with arkhan_jg and Chandon Seldon on this one. If email is rejected during the initial handshake, then the sender (if legitimate) will know that he recipient will not see the email. If it is flagged afterwards and sent to a spam box, then the sender has no idea that the recipient will likely NOT ever see the email.
I know I would rather be notified of a rejection than have an email go to a spam box.
Every driver safety course I've ever taken shows a video where they take a bunch of regular people and have them run through a closed course. Then they give them have their selection of a few drinks. They interview them to ask them how well they think they will do and essentially everyone says they could drive about as well. Once on the course, however, they do absolutely terrible, knocking down a significant number of cones. They showed the video to the people of their before and after through the course, and all of them expressed surprise at how badly they had done.
The sample size was only about 10 people, but I think it's safe to say that generally people aren't nearly as good at driving after a few drinks as they think they are.
I worked for a guy that had worked installing employee tracking for casinos back in the 90's. The employee badges had an IR transmitter that would periodically pulse out a unique identifying number, which would be picked up by receivers placed all around the casinos. This let casinos see just where all of it's employees where at a given time, and if they stood in an odd place for too long (suspicious activity).
Apparently they managed to catch quite a bit of minor employee theft (chips/coins/etc, I don't know), but the casinos didn't seem to care much. The minor stuff was essentially expected and was a drop in the bucket compared to profits.
Anyway, their system sounded pretty high tech for the 90's.
(They used the same system in a few hospitals to track infants and small children.)
Indeed. Using Apache config files as an example of good config file structuring is like describing limb amputation as a good weight loss method. It works, but there are much better ways. One of the biggest drawbacks of Linux config files is that they all have their own particular syntax, so knowing one tells you little about the syntax of other config files you encounter.
XML shares some of the same benefits and drawbacks of the Windows registry. The big drawback is you can't easily edit it by hand or output simple text. On the plus side is using a program that understands the file's structure, you always have the syntax correct.
For us, it was layout things that broke. IE7 completely changed the way that fieldset/legend is displayed (as well as little bits of forms), and there didn't seem to be a way to revert so we just made it look as best we could. There is also a table on every page that went all wacky. The way to fix the table was to add this line of CSS in every page: TABLE {MARGIN-TOP: auto; MARGIN-TOP: 1px; MARGIN-TOP: auto; }
Yes, obviously it should do nothing, but for whatever reason it fixes the bug in IE7. There were also a lot of little places where it suddenly added a line or two of space on either the top/bottom/left/right.
The webpages were originally all coded for Firefox, and then had small additions made to make it render correctly in IE5/6. Other browsers all rendered correctly initially.
"w3c width is stupid, I'll just add a new tag, exwidth which does it the way we think makes sense."
Actually, that's pretty brilliant. The correct box model is actually pretty difficult to work with using the options we have, and just adding an extra CSS attribute to do things the way that everyone wants to would solve all of those problems. IE5 implementing it would have been a good thing for the world.
Anyone saying they've done a listening test of different codecs must be able to say they did a full ABX test. This is a blind test that allows a person to blindly compare two different audio files and select which they think sounds better, or more 'right'. If you say you can detect a difference, and you didn't use a blind test, your results must be taken with a rather large amount of salt.
When trying to encode audio books from CD for listening on my CD player, this allowed to find the absolute lowest bitrate settings I could use for encoding so that I couldn't tell the difference between the encoding and the CD. And I know that none of it was in my head because I can point to numbers from a blind test showing.
Seriously, I was wearing mesh flip flops to the air port that I had to remove to have scanned. Flips flops? I would have questioned this except that I didn't want to have my internals inspected with a latex glove too. I also let them take my tiny keychain nail clippers. What was I going to do with those, clip somebody's nails to death?
These people obviously have no idea how sharp a ceramic or plastic knife can be. Heck, it wouldn't take much effort to replace the end of a pen with a solid hardened piece of metal that would go pretty cleanly between your ribs or into your neck, and that someone could stare right at and not see.
Personally I would just line my checked luggage with explosives (or place them inside of a plastic back inside of a shampoo bottle) that used an air pressure sensor. Reach a certain altitude and the boom in the cargo hold make sure the plane didn't land anywhere in one piece.
The only reason terrorists aren't taking out planes is that they aren't bothering to try.
I agree. We have an HD DVR here in our house with a 65" DLP, and you can usually tell walking in through the door, at 20'+ away, if the content is HD or not. (Some content where there are no details anyway, such as the Simpsons, is usually indistinguishable.) It's pretty common for me or one of my roommates to walk in and ask why the picture looks so bad when someone is watching something in SD.
There is also a difference between the upscaled 480p image from DVDs and the same movies being broadcast on HD channels. A lot of things are just more sharp.
That said, I've never done any direct comparisons between watching a movie in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. However, I did read about a informal study that someone conducted a blind test between the three formats. Essentially everyone thought that the 720p was as good or sometimes better than the 1080i image, and the 1080p image was always remarkably better. I'm guessing people were pretty close to the display, but it was still an interesting observation.
Pretty much everyone except for consumers are excited about using DisplayPort. The reason is that there are lots of licensing fees assorted with DVI, whereas DisplayPort was basically designed as DVI without licensing fees. So in theory, if everyone adopts DisplayPort, displays become cheaper to produce and to buy, volume goes up, and people make more money. At least, that's the theory.
Personally, I wish they would have designed a standard that can transmit reliably over 15ft.
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I call FUD. Exchange supports POP3, IMAP, etc. Enabling/disabling it is trivial.
.PST. This would have saved everything except your rules.
With versions of Exchange prior to 2007, it was trivial to export an entire mailbox directly from the Exchange store (and reimport it later). I don't know why it would be necessary to delete an Exchange mailbox like that to fix a problem, but at the very least you could have copied everything from within Outlook to a local
There are, and have always been, many good ways to backup an Exchange server. (Restoring was a bit tricky in the past, but is simple now.) The built in windows backup program MSBackup will backup/restore an entire Exchange store. Probably 10 clicks total from sitting at the desktop, or can be done from the command line. If you're using a real backup program, these will typically let you restore individual emails back into the Exchange store.
Exchange has issues, but they aren't anything you list.
California also has multiple mandatory appeals for the death sentence. Even if you're covered in blood, confess, and show a tape of the murder. Here in Texas we let people fry themselves if they really want.
I should mention that I don't think there is any state out there where "booby traps" are legal.
I was responding solely to the quote, which seemed to indicate that use of deadly force is not ever allowed in defense of property (this is incorrect). The quote isn't even particularly clear on the point within the second linked article. I suppose I could have just quoted this section from the first link:
Strange, the concealed handgun class I took in Texas last year was pretty clear that Texas law states you can shoot someone if they are stealing your property, you call out to them, AND you do not expect to be able to recover the property. There also didn't seem to be any lower limit on the value of the property being stolen. Of course, will have to face a grand jury, and you could face murder charges if they find your actions unreasonable.
(It is worth noting that I have never owned a gun.)
It's advantage is existing infrastructure. Heck, I could take a Cat6 cable from our current building and plug it into a 10GbE switch and be just fine. I could do that to connect it to one of our 1GbE switches and instantly expand our network. The supporting infrastructure is everywhere, and just about everyone understands it.
It may not be anywhere near the technical best, but it has too much inertia at this point to be stopped, and the economies of scale with keep it cheap enough for people to keep using it.
I guess it depends on the quality of your iSCSI initiator. If you were going to use VMware ESX, then you would want to go NFS as the VMware iSCSI driver is terrible and slow. If your host environment is Windows and you are using the Windows iSCSI initiator, and then providing that storage to VMware Server, then you are probably better off with iSCSI. I don't know about the speed of current open source iSCSI initiators.
First of all, the specification and the reference implementation to produce and read back a valid stream were just finished. A month ago. After a few years of development. And it still doesn't even use all of the features, let alone efficiently.
The reason the BBC isn't using Dirac yet is that it isn't anywhere close to being ready, so it isn't actually usable in any meaningful way. Give it another year of development to get the obvious optimizations done and then the BBC may have a reason to switch to it entirely in the iPlayer. And once the millions of people that use the iPlayer to watch BBC's content prove the value of Dirac, other companies will have an incentive to use it.
Chances are that it will be used in many ways that people won't realize. For instance, Vorbis isn't well known at all in the public, but many game developers use it for audio in games. Game developers love having an open source and royalty free audio decoder with top of the line performance. When Dirac matures, they will love having an open source and royalty free video decoder with top of the line performance too.
Even though our eyes pick up less of a percentage of blue light, they are a bit more sensitive to it. This makes for an odd situation though as we have few blue receptors (meaning very low resolution). So we can spot a blue light easily, but we can't make out any details by it.
I'm with arkhan_jg and Chandon Seldon on this one. If email is rejected during the initial handshake, then the sender (if legitimate) will know that he recipient will not see the email. If it is flagged afterwards and sent to a spam box, then the sender has no idea that the recipient will likely NOT ever see the email.
I know I would rather be notified of a rejection than have an email go to a spam box.
Every driver safety course I've ever taken shows a video where they take a bunch of regular people and have them run through a closed course. Then they give them have their selection of a few drinks. They interview them to ask them how well they think they will do and essentially everyone says they could drive about as well. Once on the course, however, they do absolutely terrible, knocking down a significant number of cones. They showed the video to the people of their before and after through the course, and all of them expressed surprise at how badly they had done.
The sample size was only about 10 people, but I think it's safe to say that generally people aren't nearly as good at driving after a few drinks as they think they are.
I worked for a guy that had worked installing employee tracking for casinos back in the 90's. The employee badges had an IR transmitter that would periodically pulse out a unique identifying number, which would be picked up by receivers placed all around the casinos. This let casinos see just where all of it's employees where at a given time, and if they stood in an odd place for too long (suspicious activity).
Apparently they managed to catch quite a bit of minor employee theft (chips/coins/etc, I don't know), but the casinos didn't seem to care much. The minor stuff was essentially expected and was a drop in the bucket compared to profits.
Anyway, their system sounded pretty high tech for the 90's.
(They used the same system in a few hospitals to track infants and small children.)
Indeed. Using Apache config files as an example of good config file structuring is like describing limb amputation as a good weight loss method. It works, but there are much better ways. One of the biggest drawbacks of Linux config files is that they all have their own particular syntax, so knowing one tells you little about the syntax of other config files you encounter.
XML shares some of the same benefits and drawbacks of the Windows registry. The big drawback is you can't easily edit it by hand or output simple text. On the plus side is using a program that understands the file's structure, you always have the syntax correct.
You should be a very proud parent indeed for a child that shows such intelligence.
"Those who have severe medical problems that a doctor says mandate smoking pot have a right that the rest of us 300 million people do not have."
Isn't this how all prescription drugs work?
Seriously though, medical marijuana doesn't rank anywhere near the 100 most important issues to keep this country from tanking.
Ah, nevermind. It looks like it's in the CSS3 spec right now.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#box-sizing
For us, it was layout things that broke. IE7 completely changed the way that fieldset/legend is displayed (as well as little bits of forms), and there didn't seem to be a way to revert so we just made it look as best we could. There is also a table on every page that went all wacky. The way to fix the table was to add this line of CSS in every page:
TABLE {MARGIN-TOP: auto; MARGIN-TOP: 1px; MARGIN-TOP: auto; }
Yes, obviously it should do nothing, but for whatever reason it fixes the bug in IE7. There were also a lot of little places where it suddenly added a line or two of space on either the top/bottom/left/right.
The webpages were originally all coded for Firefox, and then had small additions made to make it render correctly in IE5/6. Other browsers all rendered correctly initially.
"w3c width is stupid, I'll just add a new tag, exwidth which does it the way we think makes sense."
Actually, that's pretty brilliant. The correct box model is actually pretty difficult to work with using the options we have, and just adding an extra CSS attribute to do things the way that everyone wants to would solve all of those problems. IE5 implementing it would have been a good thing for the world.
Anyone saying they've done a listening test of different codecs must be able to say they did a full ABX test. This is a blind test that allows a person to blindly compare two different audio files and select which they think sounds better, or more 'right'. If you say you can detect a difference, and you didn't use a blind test, your results must be taken with a rather large amount of salt.
When trying to encode audio books from CD for listening on my CD player, this allowed to find the absolute lowest bitrate settings I could use for encoding so that I couldn't tell the difference between the encoding and the CD. And I know that none of it was in my head because I can point to numbers from a blind test showing.
I must have some pretty serious karma issues because I had a number of flights this year and none of them had security lines as short as 5-10 minutes.
If I only had mod points...
Seriously, I was wearing mesh flip flops to the air port that I had to remove to have scanned. Flips flops? I would have questioned this except that I didn't want to have my internals inspected with a latex glove too. I also let them take my tiny keychain nail clippers. What was I going to do with those, clip somebody's nails to death?
These people obviously have no idea how sharp a ceramic or plastic knife can be. Heck, it wouldn't take much effort to replace the end of a pen with a solid hardened piece of metal that would go pretty cleanly between your ribs or into your neck, and that someone could stare right at and not see.
Personally I would just line my checked luggage with explosives (or place them inside of a plastic back inside of a shampoo bottle) that used an air pressure sensor. Reach a certain altitude and the boom in the cargo hold make sure the plane didn't land anywhere in one piece.
The only reason terrorists aren't taking out planes is that they aren't bothering to try.
I agree. We have an HD DVR here in our house with a 65" DLP, and you can usually tell walking in through the door, at 20'+ away, if the content is HD or not. (Some content where there are no details anyway, such as the Simpsons, is usually indistinguishable.) It's pretty common for me or one of my roommates to walk in and ask why the picture looks so bad when someone is watching something in SD.
There is also a difference between the upscaled 480p image from DVDs and the same movies being broadcast on HD channels. A lot of things are just more sharp.
That said, I've never done any direct comparisons between watching a movie in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. However, I did read about a informal study that someone conducted a blind test between the three formats. Essentially everyone thought that the 720p was as good or sometimes better than the 1080i image, and the 1080p image was always remarkably better. I'm guessing people were pretty close to the display, but it was still an interesting observation.
Pretty much everyone except for consumers are excited about using DisplayPort. The reason is that there are lots of licensing fees assorted with DVI, whereas DisplayPort was basically designed as DVI without licensing fees. So in theory, if everyone adopts DisplayPort, displays become cheaper to produce and to buy, volume goes up, and people make more money. At least, that's the theory.
Personally, I wish they would have designed a standard that can transmit reliably over 15ft.
You must be referring to this:
Reliant Robin as Space Shuttle Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwVnfo_3Sk
There is no way this car would meet American federal safety standards, or the California smog standards that are required on any car sold here.