Why is there a warning that the press release is a Word document? It's a frickin' document format, not some evil-doer conspiracy! Plenty of word processing programs can open Word documents. What about PDF? I'd prefer a word document over PDF any-day because I can edit it, annotate it, and open it faster than a PDF. Just because something is from Microsoft doesn't mean it's bad.
Note: I'm writing this on Ubuntu, and running Open Office in the background.
Because people are required to memorize multiple passwords, between many different systems, that have different password construction requirements, require differing expiration dates on passwords. Not to mention each different system has a different login username and sequence. Then you wonder why people write their login information down on a post-it-note on their desk. Too many passwords and usernames lead to greater insecurity. Don't blame them for forgetting a password amongst so many.
So what? There have been Wireless-N products out now for quite a long time. Who gives a flippin' **** about the official approval of the format? It's not like the manufacturers will go back and update the firmware on the older devices. They'll just put out new products, brand them as "Official Wireless-N", and drop support for older equipment which may or not work as well.
With all of the money wasted on protecting kids from JUNK SCIENCE...we could be improving their health, providing meals to kids who aren't getting proper nutrition, immunization....geeze...our priorities are all screwed up.
Back in the early days of RedHat, they used to be located in a non-descript office park in the Raleigh-Durham area. I remember working for an obscure Sales Automation company and our office was located upstairs, where if you turned to the left you'd head into our office and if you turned right you'd enter the small RedHat Software offices. I used to pop my head in occasionally to this company that was making this stuff called "Linux", and even asked for help when I was secretly setting up a Linux server at my company's office to replace our Windows NT 3.51 server.
If I had only turned right when heading into work instead of turning left when walking up those stairs, I'd today be a millionaire.:(
Every few months, another prediction comes out that IPv4 is doomed and that we are going to run out of addresses. Those dire predictions never come true, and the predicted date keeps getting extended. When are we truly going to run out? Nobody knows. What will happen is that IPv6 won't become a priority until things start breaking. That's just how it goes.
In future news, Apple announces the release of their new, sleek iCar! With touch-screen capabilities, smooth acceleration, and lots of eye candy. Better Place, however has been stymied by the fact that the iCar's batter is sealed and hidden inside of the frame of the car, and cannot be swapped out. Millions of iCar fans can only hope to travel 250 miles and struggle to find their lost iCar charging adapters, while Microsoft and PC-maker made Windows-Roadsters take advantage of the Better Place swapping program.
gCar and kCar enthusists, while having the first electric cars out there can be seen at the side of the road, can be seen hand-wiring in their own D-cell battery replacements every 100 feet, soldering gun in hand.
She's concerned that a child might have put the phone in their mouth? It's huge! I'd be more concerned about smaller stuff that might get lodged in their throat, than them sucking on a giant cellphone.
This will only result in hurting the disabled who rely on text-to-speech to enable them to read books and print publications.
Nobody in their right mind would want to listen to text-to-speech generated audio versus human-read books. I tried listening to a PDF once while in the car, and I couldn't stand it. I would have gladly paid for an audio-book of the same material. This would not have impacted their "business" as much as they thought.
What will happen now is that publishers will make their material inaccessible to the disabled because not every book is available in audio-book format.
Just shows you how far business goes to further greed instead of producing quality products, and being a part of a profession. Thumbs down to those in the author's guild. Very unprofessional IMHO.
I had the same thing happen when I signed up for a VOIP call-in number. Immediately, I started getting constant phone calls, every minute or two, nonstop, from very angry folks who were getting phone calls from telemarketers that were faking my number! I tried contacting the VOIP service, but they said there was nothing they could do about it until next week, or I could just eat the charge of setting up another line.
After a day of the phone constantly ringing off the hook, and my voicemail quickly filling up...I was angry, so I rerouted my phone number to their technical support telephone. The problem was resolved that night! I was given a new phone number and life was good again.
It makes perfect sense for a company to care about short term cost savings, that's what companies do...eek out the most profit at any cost. They could care less about the blight they inflict upon the neighborhoods they sell to. This is why we need to have regulations of companies, because if they aren't regulated they would destroy the environment or inflict situations like this on the landscape as long as it helps the bottom line. It is up to us to fight back against company control of our laws and government for their own purposes, and make it work for us.
We hear about so many "breakthroughs" that turn into vapors that you really can't believe any of them anymore. Try sticking to solutions that we can implement today, especially conservation initiatives that are guaranteed to produce cheap, green fuel by simply not using them.
Just stop trying to make things more complicated. Enter a 4 or 10 digit, or whatever string of numbers....easy...done! Don't make it more complicated to make a secure connection just "cuz".
Congress has shown that it will do jack shit about the Bush Administration's trampling of our laws, and will do jack in the future about it. They are all crooks. Period.
Microsoft plans to use the same transaction system as Xbox Live, its video game console's online service, which will allow consumers to pay for music using prepaid cards they can buy in retail stores -- saving some the hassle of needing to use a credit card.
So driving/walking to a store to purchase a prepaid card is less of a hassle than typing your credit card # into a form? What are they thinking?
Yawn! Yet another case mod...
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Who give a rat's ass who changes their case? Nothing interesting here but some minor modification to the outside of an ipod. Big deal.
Now modding a computer, retro-fitted into the back of your car, that automatically synchronized cool sound-tracks from your desktop computer would be something to post on Slashdot. Not just another mod of a case. Get real people.
You are quite right. Second Life is expanding 20% each week! New land masses are added all the time. 11 New Sims (Servers) were added just a day or so ago.
If you want to try out Second Life on a trial basis, click here
Maybe it is time to ditch older computing technology (that appears to be riddled with both old, out-dated code and "liability") and start on a new operating system from scratch. Linus and other kernel hackers (plus all of the other open source application developers) are you listening?
As I write this, someone put up a "Let Freedom Ring...", saying they are a patriot. It disguists me when someone tries and say they support freedom, when they squelch someone else's freedom of speech.
We spent considerable effort in converting our site to follow the W3C standards and validating our pages, but still had to keep SOME (maybe 0.1%) hacks in place to make sure that our site was at least usable by older browsers.
You can't be 100% compliant without alienating some of your customers. I guess the take-home from the article would really be that you should try to follow standards everywhere you can.
Suprisingly, the Time Warner Cable outfit in the Orlando area actually provides very high quality service...
> Many digital (480i format) channels such as multiple Showtime, HBO, Discovery, etc. channels > All local HDTV (1080i format) television stations via cable > On Demand Video, not just pay per view (iControl)
However, there could be some improvements...
1. Force all customers that use channels above 13 to use the new digital setop boxes 2. Get rid of all the older, grainy analog channels that are chewing up bandwidth. There is no excuse to still have to deal with analog channels on cable. The noise (even though it's a good signal) really shows on an HDTV set. 3. Provide a flat rate for the settop boxes, just like some of the satellite customers. This would entice people to upgrade. 4. Work with FCC to integrate the boxes into the TVs and work on standards.
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Why is there a warning that the press release is a Word document? It's a frickin' document format, not some evil-doer conspiracy! Plenty of word processing programs can open Word documents. What about PDF? I'd prefer a word document over PDF any-day because I can edit it, annotate it, and open it faster than a PDF. Just because something is from Microsoft doesn't mean it's bad.
Note: I'm writing this on Ubuntu, and running Open Office in the background.
Because people are required to memorize multiple passwords, between many different systems, that have different password construction requirements, require differing expiration dates on passwords. Not to mention each different system has a different login username and sequence. Then you wonder why people write their login information down on a post-it-note on their desk. Too many passwords and usernames lead to greater insecurity. Don't blame them for forgetting a password amongst so many.
So what? There have been Wireless-N products out now for quite a long time. Who gives a flippin' **** about the official approval of the format? It's not like the manufacturers will go back and update the firmware on the older devices. They'll just put out new products, brand them as "Official Wireless-N", and drop support for older equipment which may or not work as well.
With all of the money wasted on protecting kids from JUNK SCIENCE...we could be improving their health, providing meals to kids who aren't getting proper nutrition, immunization....geeze...our priorities are all screwed up.
Back in the early days of RedHat, they used to be located in a non-descript office park in the Raleigh-Durham area. I remember working for an obscure Sales Automation company and our office was located upstairs, where if you turned to the left you'd head into our office and if you turned right you'd enter the small RedHat Software offices. I used to pop my head in occasionally to this company that was making this stuff called "Linux", and even asked for help when I was secretly setting up a Linux server at my company's office to replace our Windows NT 3.51 server.
If I had only turned right when heading into work instead of turning left when walking up those stairs, I'd today be a millionaire. :(
Every few months, another prediction comes out that IPv4 is doomed and that we are going to run out of addresses. Those dire predictions never come true, and the predicted date keeps getting extended. When are we truly going to run out? Nobody knows. What will happen is that IPv6 won't become a priority until things start breaking. That's just how it goes.
In future news, Apple announces the release of their new, sleek iCar! With touch-screen capabilities, smooth acceleration, and lots of eye candy. Better Place, however has been stymied by the fact that the iCar's batter is sealed and hidden inside of the frame of the car, and cannot be swapped out. Millions of iCar fans can only hope to travel 250 miles and struggle to find their lost iCar charging adapters, while Microsoft and PC-maker made Windows-Roadsters take advantage of the Better Place swapping program.
gCar and kCar enthusists, while having the first electric cars out there can be seen at the side of the road, can be seen hand-wiring in their own D-cell battery replacements every 100 feet, soldering gun in hand.
Will this be the Dorthy I or the Dorthy II?
She's concerned that a child might have put the phone in their mouth? It's huge! I'd be more concerned about smaller stuff that might get lodged in their throat, than them sucking on a giant cellphone.
This will only result in hurting the disabled who rely on text-to-speech to enable them to read books and print publications.
Nobody in their right mind would want to listen to text-to-speech generated audio versus human-read books. I tried listening to a PDF once while in the car, and I couldn't stand it. I would have gladly paid for an audio-book of the same material. This would not have impacted their "business" as much as they thought.
What will happen now is that publishers will make their material inaccessible to the disabled because not every book is available in audio-book format.
Just shows you how far business goes to further greed instead of producing quality products, and being a part of a profession. Thumbs down to those in the author's guild. Very unprofessional IMHO.
I had the same thing happen when I signed up for a VOIP call-in number. Immediately, I started getting constant phone calls, every minute or two, nonstop, from very angry folks who were getting phone calls from telemarketers that were faking my number! I tried contacting the VOIP service, but they said there was nothing they could do about it until next week, or I could just eat the charge of setting up another line.
After a day of the phone constantly ringing off the hook, and my voicemail quickly filling up...I was angry, so I rerouted my phone number to their technical support telephone. The problem was resolved that night! I was given a new phone number and life was good again.
It makes perfect sense for a company to care about short term cost savings, that's what companies do...eek out the most profit at any cost. They could care less about the blight they inflict upon the neighborhoods they sell to. This is why we need to have regulations of companies, because if they aren't regulated they would destroy the environment or inflict situations like this on the landscape as long as it helps the bottom line. It is up to us to fight back against company control of our laws and government for their own purposes, and make it work for us.
yawn...
We hear about so many "breakthroughs" that turn into vapors that you really can't believe any of them anymore. Try sticking to solutions that we can implement today, especially conservation initiatives that are guaranteed to produce cheap, green fuel by simply not using them.
Now, if they would just make the punishment castration for creating these botnets, spam would grind to a halt.
Just stop trying to make things more complicated. Enter a 4 or 10 digit, or whatever string of numbers....easy...done! Don't make it more complicated to make a secure connection just "cuz".
Congress has shown that it will do jack shit about the Bush Administration's trampling of our laws, and will do jack in the future about it. They are all crooks. Period.
So driving/walking to a store to purchase a prepaid card is less of a hassle than typing your credit card # into a form? What are they thinking?
Who give a rat's ass who changes their case? Nothing interesting here but some minor modification to the outside of an ipod. Big deal.
Now modding a computer, retro-fitted into the back of your car, that automatically synchronized cool sound-tracks from your desktop computer would be something to post on Slashdot. Not just another mod of a case. Get real people.
You are quite right. Second Life is expanding 20% each week! New land masses are added all the time. 11 New Sims (Servers) were added just a day or so ago.
If you want to try out Second Life on a trial basis, click here
Maybe it is time to ditch older computing technology (that appears to be riddled with both old, out-dated code and "liability") and start on a new operating system from scratch. Linus and other kernel hackers (plus all of the other open source application developers) are you listening?
The english domain name for Aljazeera have now been redirected to someone else.
Goto either http://english.aljazeera.net or http://www.aljazeera.net and you will get "Under Construction" pages. The english page says "This Page has Been Taken Over By Saimoon Bhuiyan".
As I write this, someone put up a "Let Freedom Ring...", saying they are a patriot. It disguists me when someone tries and say they support freedom, when they squelch someone else's freedom of speech.
We spent considerable effort in converting our site to follow the W3C standards and validating our pages, but still had to keep SOME (maybe 0.1%) hacks in place to make sure that our site was at least usable by older browsers.
You can't be 100% compliant without alienating some of your customers. I guess the take-home from the article would really be that you should try to follow standards everywhere you can.
Patrick Carroll
Iocomp Software
http://www.iocomp.com
Suprisingly, the Time Warner Cable outfit in the Orlando area actually provides very high quality service...
> Many digital (480i format) channels such as multiple Showtime, HBO, Discovery, etc. channels
> All local HDTV (1080i format) television stations via cable
> On Demand Video, not just pay per view (iControl)
However, there could be some improvements...
1. Force all customers that use channels above 13 to use the new digital setop boxes
2. Get rid of all the older, grainy analog channels that are chewing up bandwidth. There is no excuse to still have to deal with analog channels on cable. The noise (even though it's a good signal) really shows on an HDTV set.
3. Provide a flat rate for the settop boxes, just like some of the satellite customers. This would entice people to upgrade.
4. Work with FCC to integrate the boxes into the TVs and work on standards.
If this goes through and they manufacture these cool, efficint bulbs, how will I get get my Easy Bake Oven to work?
johndoe and johndoe works as well.