right because your typical business users would never say want to change the extention of some think like report.txt they get mailed to them from a host system to something like report.csv so they can open it in Excel. Stuff like the never happens....
I typical business user isn't ging to be storing "report.txt" in a protected system path. They are going to save it in My Documents or a subfolder, the default location presented by Vista.
Maby he started getting calls from all those people who shared his number and he called Verizon to complain. Accessing the call records at that point may have been legitimate by those initiating the investigation.
The problem, which has been popularized by Microsoft's Windows Explorer and gets worse with every new OS they create, is making the default directories *look* like roots, even though they aren't. You can't navigate upwards from the "My Foo" folders in the GUI, and therefore you usually have no earthly idea where the files actually reside in relation to everything else
I have no idea where you got this idea, because it's dead wrong. Explorer lets you easily navigate to parent directories. In XP and earlier there was a toolbar button to go up one level, and in vista you click on the path to get access to previous folders, complete with drop downs to navigate to sibling folders. The standard open and save dialogs have the exact same interface, with a quick link to display the entire tree if needed. I just did a quick test by opening the "My Music" folder from the start menu in vista, I was easily able to navigate up the directory tree all the way to the c: drive just by clicking button, no keys needed.
I have a hard time seeing how sensors are going to protect a satalite from an attack by lasers. Once the sensor detects the beam (somehow), it's too late to move the satalite, isnt it?
Thats a lot of mass to first get into orbit, and then accellerate up to speed, and decelerate at the other end. I would also think that taking water up to the ship would count as "refuling", it would be just as much work and accomplish the same results.
Indeed. We have nuclear submarines that last 30+ years on a single fuel loading. There is no reason why we can't build re-usable Mars ships that will last as long.
The only reason the subs can go that long on a single fueling is that they have a massive amount of water all around them that they can break down into hydrogen and oxygen. A spaceship would lack that resource.
I fail to understand why people moved away from systems that just worked and replaced them with boxes that did so much but are used for exactly the same tasks and do it just that little bit worse.
Because people are not machines, no matter how reppetative thier work is. A fluffy kitten as thier wallpaper, or a nice gui will improve morale, which goes a long way to increasing productivity. There is always a human element involved that doesnt quite "make sense" when looked at from a purly numbers perspective. Some people will argue that "I don't pay people to be happy"... unfortunatly they hired a person, not an OCR data entry scanner, so it's something they will have to deal with.
So Linux fans can blame hardware manufacturers who don't release Linux drivers?
Umm... yeah. Who else would they blame? If my "Fubar Super Widget 2000" doesn't work in Linux I'm not going to blame RedHat, that would be pointless, they didn't build it, it's not thier responsibility to make drivers for it. I'm going to be mad at whoever build the widged, especially if thier box says "Linux compatable".
Blame HP, not microsoft. The driver for my all in one Brother laser installed perfectly in Vista x64. If it's possible for one company to do it correctly and make it easy for the user then it's possible for any company to do it. It sounds like HP dropped the ball. What is your logic for blaming it on Vista?
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Actually, that isn't right either. Microsoft.VisualBasic isn't the compatability layer, it's the VB runtime. It just provides a few extra function that *look* like VB6, some of them don't even behave the same. The actual computability layer is in Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatability, It's the library that is responsible for doing the weird stuff like giving you collections that start at 1 instead of 0 and other strange stuff. Microsoft.VisualBasic follows all the standards that any other.NET library uses.
Once songs are placed on the ipod in such a way that they can be played, they can not be copied back off without using "hacks". this was explained as preventing people from using the ipod to share songs.
Thats jsut the first example that popped into my head.
You assume the only use for a patent is to exploit it, or use it to sue people. There are several reason they could want a patent. 1. The normal standard intended use of a patent. 2. Self defense, they want to patent it before someone else does and uses it against them. See the Eolas patent for how MS got burned by this in the recent past. 3. They may not intent to do anything with it. They may feel they have a truly new method of implementing page up and page down, and the culture of MS is to patent new discoveries. 4. The number of patents a company holds can increase teh perceived value of the company to it's shareholders.
My personal guess is that it's a mix of 2,3, and 4.
I'm well aware that the particular line of logic doesn't scale to nuclear weapons. I'm also aware that patents are nowhere near the scale of nuclear weapons, so it's OK to use that line of logic on them. Pointing out that it doesnt scale proves nothing.
I've always heard the opposite... That dark matter isnt any different at all from normal matter, it's just that we don't know where it is. We know it's out there someplace because the mathmatical models rely on there being "extra" mass out there still work when compared to reality.
I can't remember too many actual real examples of microsoft trying to scare anyone with thier patents. What I do remember is every linuxite freaking out about the fact that Microsoft COULD try to scare people if they felt like it someday. So far I havent actually seen Microsoft make any moves against big projects like Mono or Samba.
maby $50 wouldn't have magically shown up in your pocket, but what about $.50, or even $.01? Yes it's unrealistic, but would you have been willing to pay pennies to buy the game? If yes, than that is something a company could do to convert you the pirate, into you the buyer. Thats what the guy is trying to find out.. what would it take?
It also doesnt mean they would not have bought it either. There are some people among the total number of people prating the game that actually would have bought it if there was no pirated version available. Those people might have the reasoning of "I would have paid $5, but I'm not going to pay $10". I would consider people in that boat to be people who could be converted into buyers by lowering the price. THAT is the type of information he is trying to get, "What would I have had to do to get that person who pirated the game to have bought it instead?". It could range from Lowing the price, to better graphics, to Including a free pony in every box.
My understanding is that the game takes place on static backgrounds. Basicly they loaded thief, took a screenshot of the game when looking in the library, and used the entire screenshot as the background for the adventure game screen. They didn't directly rip the levels and textures to have the same 3d world. This is just what I've heard in other discussions, I haven't actually seen any videos, jsut screenshots, so I can't really tell if the world is static art.
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I typical business user isn't ging to be storing "report.txt" in a protected system path. They are going to save it in My Documents or a subfolder, the default location presented by Vista.
Maby he started getting calls from all those people who shared his number and he called Verizon to complain. Accessing the call records at that point may have been legitimate by those initiating the investigation.
I have no idea where you got this idea, because it's dead wrong. Explorer lets you easily navigate to parent directories. In XP and earlier there was a toolbar button to go up one level, and in vista you click on the path to get access to previous folders, complete with drop downs to navigate to sibling folders. The standard open and save dialogs have the exact same interface, with a quick link to display the entire tree if needed. I just did a quick test by opening the "My Music" folder from the start menu in vista, I was easily able to navigate up the directory tree all the way to the c: drive just by clicking button, no keys needed.
I have a hard time seeing how sensors are going to protect a satalite from an attack by lasers. Once the sensor detects the beam (somehow), it's too late to move the satalite, isnt it?
Thats a lot of mass to first get into orbit, and then accellerate up to speed, and decelerate at the other end. I would also think that taking water up to the ship would count as "refuling", it would be just as much work and accomplish the same results.
The only reason the subs can go that long on a single fueling is that they have a massive amount of water all around them that they can break down into hydrogen and oxygen. A spaceship would lack that resource.
Because people are not machines, no matter how reppetative thier work is. A fluffy kitten as thier wallpaper, or a nice gui will improve morale, which goes a long way to increasing productivity. There is always a human element involved that doesnt quite "make sense" when looked at from a purly numbers perspective. Some people will argue that "I don't pay people to be happy"... unfortunatly they hired a person, not an OCR data entry scanner, so it's something they will have to deal with.
Umm... yeah. Who else would they blame? If my "Fubar Super Widget 2000" doesn't work in Linux I'm not going to blame RedHat, that would be pointless, they didn't build it, it's not thier responsibility to make drivers for it. I'm going to be mad at whoever build the widged, especially if thier box says "Linux compatable".
Blame HP, not microsoft. The driver for my all in one Brother laser installed perfectly in Vista x64. If it's possible for one company to do it correctly and make it easy for the user then it's possible for any company to do it. It sounds like HP dropped the ball. What is your logic for blaming it on Vista?
Actually, that isn't right either. Microsoft.VisualBasic isn't the compatability layer, it's the VB runtime. It just provides a few extra function that *look* like VB6, some of them don't even behave the same. The actual computability layer is in Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatability, It's the library that is responsible for doing the weird stuff like giving you collections that start at 1 instead of 0 and other strange stuff. Microsoft.VisualBasic follows all the standards that any other .NET library uses.
Once songs are placed on the ipod in such a way that they can be played, they can not be copied back off without using "hacks". this was explained as preventing people from using the ipod to share songs.
Thats jsut the first example that popped into my head.
You assume the only use for a patent is to exploit it, or use it to sue people. There are several reason they could want a patent.
1. The normal standard intended use of a patent.
2. Self defense, they want to patent it before someone else does and uses it against them. See the Eolas patent for how MS got burned by this in the recent past.
3. They may not intent to do anything with it. They may feel they have a truly new method of implementing page up and page down, and the culture of MS is to patent new discoveries.
4. The number of patents a company holds can increase teh perceived value of the company to it's shareholders.
My personal guess is that it's a mix of 2,3, and 4.
I'm well aware that the particular line of logic doesn't scale to nuclear weapons. I'm also aware that patents are nowhere near the scale of nuclear weapons, so it's OK to use that line of logic on them. Pointing out that it doesnt scale proves nothing.
It takes a strange kind of mind to take interpret and agreement not to sue over patents, as a threat to sue over patents.
You are comparing a patent to a nuclear weapon? I don't even know how to respond to that....
I've always heard the opposite... That dark matter isnt any different at all from normal matter, it's just that we don't know where it is. We know it's out there someplace because the mathmatical models rely on there being "extra" mass out there still work when compared to reality.
I can't remember too many actual real examples of microsoft trying to scare anyone with thier patents. What I do remember is every linuxite freaking out about the fact that Microsoft COULD try to scare people if they felt like it someday. So far I havent actually seen Microsoft make any moves against big projects like Mono or Samba.
everytime you connect comcast will automatically send you a 13gb highdef movie explaining the bandwidth cap.
maby $50 wouldn't have magically shown up in your pocket, but what about $.50, or even $.01? Yes it's unrealistic, but would you have been willing to pay pennies to buy the game? If yes, than that is something a company could do to convert you the pirate, into you the buyer. Thats what the guy is trying to find out.. what would it take?
It also doesnt mean they would not have bought it either. There are some people among the total number of people prating the game that actually would have bought it if there was no pirated version available. Those people might have the reasoning of "I would have paid $5, but I'm not going to pay $10". I would consider people in that boat to be people who could be converted into buyers by lowering the price. THAT is the type of information he is trying to get, "What would I have had to do to get that person who pirated the game to have bought it instead?". It could range from Lowing the price, to better graphics, to Including a free pony in every box.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it is moved to be orbiting the moon, wouldn't it then be spending half it's orbit on the dark side of the moon?
There is an option in the group policy manager you can apply locally by running gpedit.
My understanding is that the game takes place on static backgrounds. Basicly they loaded thief, took a screenshot of the game when looking in the library, and used the entire screenshot as the background for the adventure game screen. They didn't directly rip the levels and textures to have the same 3d world. This is just what I've heard in other discussions, I haven't actually seen any videos, jsut screenshots, so I can't really tell if the world is static art.
ha! awesome. I had no idea that was there, thanks!
This is the whole point behind driver and executable signing in windows.