It would cause my company no end to problems. The powers that be have mandated that everyone in the company uses Internet Explorer. Not my personal choice, but it allows us to develop some really interesting internal websites that use all the nifty IE-only features in DHTML. Almost everytime microsoft makes a security fix they fry one of our internal web applications, and we have to spend a few days trying to find a new trick to get it working again.
Once again, giving someone support does NOT mean giving them something physical, like money, or food, or whatever. I can support someone simply by saying, "Go man, you rock!", or "Hey, let's all install linux."
"Yeah, riiiiiight...
and while they're at it why don't they try detecting other tell-tale signs like profuse bleeding and bone fractures that also precede a collision."
I'm going to assume them mean the collision between the rider and the ground, or other object. When the rider is thrown from the bike it would mean that the bike has alrady hit something and the rider is being carried by innertia. The sudden deceleration of the bike triggers the wearable airbag before the rider actually impacts something.
I upgrade *ONLY* when I encounter either a major bug (meaning "uncircumventable") in what I already have, or what I have simply cannot do what I need it to.
That's all well and good until you start dealing with programs like accounting packages. These programs using tax tables and rules that need to be up to date to even function. If you don't update them then the program dies. The problem then comes if the "update" removed functionality that already existed in the old version.
Don't worry, if they have thier way to will be able to insure that you "right to listen" to a piece of music expires long before your computer fails. After all, if you need to buy a new license every 2 weeks to keep listening to a song you will only ever be without it for 2 weeks at most.
I had the same thing happen with my sprint PCS phone. My house was just inside a "dead area". Of course by the time I noticed it I had a 2 year contract. Even though I couldn't use thier service they wouldn't cancel my contract without a $150 fee.
"When you drill through a solid material, you generate "cuttings." Since these cuttingshave voids, their volume is greater than the orginal solid material and must be removed from the bore hole. That's why burying rodents have mounds at the entrance to their holes. How is a robotic inchworm going to remove the cuttings?"
You are thinking that it will leave a tunnel behind it. It doesn't need to do that, it can leave the cuttings behind and plug the hole behind it as it goes. All it needs to do then to get out is to drill a new hole going up.
I just hit over 100,000. Without cheating, I don't know what I did and I havn't been able to recreate it, but I cause him to skip a few steps and land about 1/2 down right on his head.
The thing that bugs me about advertising on the IM clients isn't the ads themselves, it's the space they take up. You may be able to block the image by blocking port 80, but you still have a huge chunck of whitespace polluting an otherwise clean interface.
"Mandrake was a pain requiring me to go out and buy 700MB cds rather than the 650's that I normally use, but installation went without a hitch."
I thought the 700MB ISOs were kind of odd too. They had 3 total images available for download. the first 2 were 700, the last was around 450 if I recall. Wouldn't it have been easy to hack 50MB off the 1st 2 CDs and stick them on the 3rd? That would have made the entire thing fit on the same number of 650MB CDs. I also noticed that RedHat did something almost the same.
"You do realize how much cheaper SWA is than any other airline in their markets, right?"Maby there is a connection there. If they charged more they could probably afford to make a better site. If you want cheap prices you shouldn't expect 5 star service.
"And where is the blind person going to get the number from? And that's not supposed to be a smart-ass comment. I want to know. Are there places you can ring up etc?"
Step 1: go to phone 2: push '0' 3: Say "Hello operator, can you please connect me to ?"
"Assuming this person had contacted Southwest's webmasters (which as I said they should have,) what would you do next?"
I would give my money to another airline that had a more readable website. In the physical world the argument can be made that the disabled person would have to travel a great distance to get to another store, but on the net all you have to do is type in a new address. If companies don't want your business then give it to someone who does.
Nope, it's not like that at all. In your example the person watering the lawn doesn't lose anything because of people walking on the sidewalk. In reality withi WiFi there is a limited amount of bandwidth, people using it on the ouside leave less for those on the inside. If no one was using it on the ouside the full amount of bandwidth would be available to those on the inside.
Ahh, I see, so if I lean my bike against a telephone pole without locking it and someone takes it without my permission there is no theft involved? I don't think so! It may not have been very smart to leave something unprotected, but it is still my property, and it is still theft.
Wirel3ess networks have a set amount of bandwidth. If an unauthorized person uses that bandwidth without permission of the owner then tehre is less bandwidth available for the owner. That is theft, you are taking away something that someone else owns and they no longer have access to it.
"It is a shame that software development companies do not have a legal obligation to fix significant flaws...
This lack of responsibility on the part of proprietary software developers is one of the main selling points of open source software. It's so difficult to define what constitutes a "major" problem, and what the seller should be obligated to fix."
Are you saying that open source software developers are any more legally responsable for fixing thier bugs then closed source?
"I am sure I can prevent my computer from being infected just by using common sense (don't open unexpected attachments, download only from trustworthy sites, etc). Even if I did get infected, I could just re-ghost my drive and be done with it. Sure I have to make current ghost images, but I do that anyway and storage is cheap these days. On the up side, I don't have to take the performance hit of running AV software, and I don't have to deal with constant updates."
They key is that the virus scan software tells you when you have a virus. What if you somehow get infected with a virus that gives no outright signs of infection? You could be making your backups for months without relizing that you data was compimized. The virus could have gotten in though some buffer overflow attack, or something that was no fault of your own. Without the anti-voris software you have no idea how far back you need to go for a good backup, or if any of your backups are even good.
The point I was trying to make is that it was your choice to subsidise the high bandwidth users by choosing to pay for broadband. I'm not saying you shouldn't have it, but you are not using it to it's full potential. You are paying for highspeed, unlimited useage, if you choose not to use it don't expect me to pay more because I use what I paid for.
"Why should I have to pay extra so you can download mp3s, movies and iso files when all I ever use my connection for is web browsing, irc, email and SSH?"
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It would cause my company no end to problems. The powers that be have mandated that everyone in the company uses Internet Explorer. Not my personal choice, but it allows us to develop some really interesting internal websites that use all the nifty IE-only features in DHTML. Almost everytime microsoft makes a security fix they fry one of our internal web applications, and we have to spend a few days trying to find a new trick to get it working again.
Once again, giving someone support does NOT mean giving them something physical, like money, or food, or whatever. I can support someone simply by saying, "Go man, you rock!", or "Hey, let's all install linux."
Support != Money.
Open source software can be supported by someone by the mere word of mouth that it is being used.
Ohh yeah? I bet they have Anti-Anti-Jammers that will Jam your Anti-Jammers!
Those little fiber optic Christmass Trees that fade from color to color using an internal light.
Don't worry, if they have thier way to will be able to insure that you "right to listen" to a piece of music expires long before your computer fails. After all, if you need to buy a new license every 2 weeks to keep listening to a song you will only ever be without it for 2 weeks at most.
I had the same thing happen with my sprint PCS phone. My house was just inside a "dead area". Of course by the time I noticed it I had a 2 year contract. Even though I couldn't use thier service they wouldn't cancel my contract without a $150 fee.
I just hit over 100,000. Without cheating, I don't know what I did and I havn't been able to recreate it, but I cause him to skip a few steps and land about 1/2 down right on his head.
The thing that bugs me about advertising on the IM clients isn't the ads themselves, it's the space they take up. You may be able to block the image by blocking port 80, but you still have a huge chunck of whitespace polluting an otherwise clean interface.
"You do realize how much cheaper SWA is than any other airline in their markets, right?"Maby there is a connection there. If they charged more they could probably afford to make a better site. If you want cheap prices you shouldn't expect 5 star service.
Step 1: go to phone
2: push '0'
3: Say "Hello operator, can you please connect me to ?"
This from the company who's motto is "Think Different". How can we think different if they are forcing us to all be the same?
Nope, it's not like that at all. In your example the person watering the lawn doesn't lose anything because of people walking on the sidewalk. In reality withi WiFi there is a limited amount of bandwidth, people using it on the ouside leave less for those on the inside. If no one was using it on the ouside the full amount of bandwidth would be available to those on the inside.
Ahh, I see, so if I lean my bike against a telephone pole without locking it and someone takes it without my permission there is no theft involved? I don't think so! It may not have been very smart to leave something unprotected, but it is still my property, and it is still theft.
Wirel3ess networks have a set amount of bandwidth. If an unauthorized person uses that bandwidth without permission of the owner then tehre is less bandwidth available for the owner. That is theft, you are taking away something that someone else owns and they no longer have access to it.
Are you saying that open source software developers are any more legally responsable for fixing thier bugs then closed source?
Actually I think it said it uses *2* DVI ports. My guess is that it's a special video card.
They key is that the virus scan software tells you when you have a virus. What if you somehow get infected with a virus that gives no outright signs of infection? You could be making your backups for months without relizing that you data was compimized. The virus could have gotten in though some buffer overflow attack, or something that was no fault of your own. Without the anti-voris software you have no idea how far back you need to go for a good backup, or if any of your backups are even good.
The point I was trying to make is that it was your choice to subsidise the high bandwidth users by choosing to pay for broadband. I'm not saying you shouldn't have it, but you are not using it to it's full potential. You are paying for highspeed, unlimited useage, if you choose not to use it don't expect me to pay more because I use what I paid for.
Well then, you probably don't need broadband.