when you are assaulted, mugged, or your home is broken into and your stuff stolen or your family terrorized, tell me: who will you call?
Yes, please- someone tell me who I call when the police do this? Aqua Teen Hunger Force (whatever that is) apparently. They seem to make both the police and the populace awfully scared.
Truth is, while holding off Vista might be an idea, what guarantee is there that Windows 7 will be any better. Microsoft *did* say that this time, for sure, it would be better. What else do you need ?
Wouldn't an easy resolution for regular virus problems be to lock the OS down for file writing? Then logs won't work, temp files won't work, you'll brake a lot of things on any OS that way.
It could be done but it's difficult and probably not worth the effort since once the machine is compromised, it's usually at root level (in Windows at least) and changing mount options would then be trivial. The only option I see would be to set the disk ro in hardware which you can do on some models I believe. And having only those pieces of the system that would work on a ro FS on that disk. Not sure it's very easy in Windows (don't know enough about how Windows works).
While you're at it, got any waste management software for Linux? Sure, both Gnome and KDE have this little trashcan icon nowadays. It's all gotten very fancy.
> So if I buy 85% of advertising from your newspaper, that means I have an editorial say in what you publish? Bogus. Obviously you've never opened a computing magazine.
I don't know about you but my turnover time can be pretty fast especially if customers call me in the middle of the night. I'll even put my pillow on my head for free.
Pretty much the same thing that makes ZX Spectrum software "too complicatded" to run under today's most sophisticated hardware. i.e. it's not meant for that hardware and therefore won't run. Unless you write an emulator first (like one was written for the Spectrum) and run a binary image of the software on that.
But then we need to find a binary image of the software and we only have the source. Is this a chicken and egg problem ?:)
Wrong: its a stealth-strike fighter, not for carpet bombing. And of course we know those "surgical strikes" never go astray, killing wedding parties or friendly forces, right?</sarcasm> Don't hold your wedding on a carpet, problem solved !
Editing PDFs is hard. Granted it's not as convenient as a random office format (or an open office format for that matter) but it's not exactly *hard* either.
Tried it, doesn't work either. I'm setting my hopes for commuting underground, although I've yet to figure out how to do that. I tried a scheme like that by renting shovels to commuters. Didn't work unfortunately. I don't think the underground idea has much future to it.
Seriously...does anybody really think this can work? As long as some ivestors can be made to believe, whether anybody else does (potential buyers included) isn't really an issue. See Moller for a practical example.
I doubt you'll get to welcome robots responding to vocal commands in the US any time soon with people going f**k and s**t (to use the sanctioned spelling, although I haven't quite figured how "**" is pronounced) all the time, it could be messy.
I read the article and I was sure, to find a GIMP joke here - because the UI of Gimp is really a bad joke;)
There was already a good GUI redesign - but because this guy was ignored by the GIMP developers (which are not really open-minded) he started "GIMPshop" Presumably you've only ever used Gimp in Windows.
You might want to remember that the Gimp is basically an X11 program meant to be run on top of a competent window manager. The Windows port, while certainly nice to have for the Windows users, remains a hack and is probably quite painful to use because Windows doesn't have a decent window manager. There are apparently alternatives as free bitmaps editors go on that platform so you'd probably be better off picking a native one if you want to stick with the MS system.
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Its not a matter of quality, but quantity. You don't feed 6 billion people by hunting for wild boar, since you very soon would run out of wild animals. Interestingly enough, that's exactly what's happening with fish (already happened to several species since the larger specimens of most common palatable fish disapeared in the 1960s) and nobody seems to care much. Other marine species (non fish, mammals, invertebrates, etc.) are concerned as well.
Not to mention the ones that depend on the ones that vanish of course.
We'll run out of all of them soon enough. It will be interesting to see what happens then.
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I'll have to remember remember to wear a tshirt saying "harmless meat popsicle, do not detonate" if I ever go to Boston...
Yes, please- someone tell me who I call when the police do this? Aqua Teen Hunger Force (whatever that is) apparently. They seem to make both the police and the populace awfully scared.
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Come on, you can buy asbestos underwear pretty much anywhere nowadays. Hardly an issue.
It could be done but it's difficult and probably not worth the effort since once the machine is compromised, it's usually at root level (in Windows at least) and changing mount options would then be trivial.
The only option I see would be to set the disk ro in hardware which you can do on some models I believe. And having only those pieces of the system that would work on a ro FS on that disk. Not sure it's very easy in Windows (don't know enough about how Windows works).
It's all gotten very fancy.
I don't know about you but my turnover time can be pretty fast especially if customers call me in the middle of the night. I'll even put my pillow on my head for free.
So what you're saying is that all we *really* need to emulate is some kind of really ancient IBM big iron and there will be an emulator available ?
Is that supposed to be a relief ?
Pretty much the same thing that makes ZX Spectrum software "too complicatded" to run under today's most sophisticated hardware. i.e. it's not meant for that hardware and therefore won't run. Unless you write an emulator first (like one was written for the Spectrum) and run a binary image of the software on that.
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But then we need to find a binary image of the software and we only have the source. Is this a chicken and egg problem ?
The only way to get a cheap 15" is to get a 19" and apply masking tape.
There used to be a RNG based on lava lamps on the web in the olden days.
I don't see what that has to do with editing the document... It's not the document that calculates stuff anyway :)
What part of Lincoln? Numerous scholars seem bo believe that his left knee was especialy worthy of study for some reason.
I don't know about you but I'm investing in automated AA sentry guns.
See Moller for a practical example.
I doubt you'll get to welcome robots responding to vocal commands in the US any time soon with people going f**k and s**t (to use the sanctioned spelling, although I haven't quite figured how "**" is pronounced) all the time, it could be messy.
Aw come on, after all the work they've put into it, it's not "the ribbon"...
It's...
The... (pause) Ribbon ! (note the capital)
There was already a good GUI redesign - but because this guy was ignored by the GIMP developers (which are not really open-minded) he started "GIMPshop" Presumably you've only ever used Gimp in Windows.
You might want to remember that the Gimp is basically an X11 program meant to be run on top of a competent window manager. The Windows port, while certainly nice to have for the Windows users, remains a hack and is probably quite painful to use because Windows doesn't have a decent window manager. There are apparently alternatives as free bitmaps editors go on that platform so you'd probably be better off picking a native one if you want to stick with the MS system.
Not to mention the ones that depend on the ones that vanish of course.
We'll run out of all of them soon enough. It will be interesting to see what happens then.