Who really is being subversive in totalitarian regimes? The people or the government? The people are practitioners of freedom whilst the government employed by these people are being dissident. I say put a rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man and woman in Myanmar and see how things change.
Sounds like the Pirate Bay's legal troubles a while back. Only this time the whiners got their way. There's more than just music on those sites you know. CRIA idiots...
Please, give me some insight into why sites/programs like Second Life pull such large clientèle numbers. That's the part I don't get. I'm seeking answers and getting nothing but mocked. Help me out here.
I don't understand how virtual realities like this have become popular. Do people's real lives suck so badly that they need to frivolously spend money to create their own little world where things don't suck?
This just underscores problems with society at large. Instead of meeting people the old fashioned way (face to face) many prefer to meet new people by electronic means. When they can do so, they can mask how badly their lives really suck and make them at least virtually interesting. Many people out there just need to get laid. It's a lot cheaper than spending money and getting nothing to show for it.
Mark Zuckerberg is the Steve Jobs of our time! He's 23 years old and worth billions! Same as Jobs back when he was Zuckerberg's age. It just goes to show, if you're enthusiastic and driven, and you have an idea to satisfy a need people don't already know exists, you stand to make billions!
Vista working acceptably on a laptop? Congratulations! I've heard that Vista has issues with Hibernation and Sleep mode with some laptops. Mine in particular had this issue. (Back to XP for this and other performance reasons. [I'm cheap])
Don't feel bad about IE6. We still have some apps where I work that require IE6 to run. Triggering WebDAV folders to open via javascript hasn't played well with IE7 and we haven't re-thought the process yet. That's kinda low on the priority list.
The only difference between Vista now and in the beta stages, besides stability, is the system requirements for a well-running system. I was in no way surprised when businesses balked at the minimum system requirement. I can't tell you how many IT departments I've seen out there that have machines that run XP but only barely. Now, a machine that is a year old can't run the latest OS. Hmmm. If the average company would want to upgrade to Vista, they would have to make some massive capital investment to replace things that haven't completely depreciated in order to have IT just for the sake of IT.
XP is a good operating system. And after SP2 came out, it got even better. My place of employment plans to keep using Windows XP for the next few years. It's not that we don't want to upgrade to Vista. It's that we would have to change the whole computer system for each of our 200 seats in order to run it. If the transition was as painless as the jump from Windows 2000 to XP, I don't doubt that we would be in the middle of implementing it right now.
Our recent feature in Excel is not an annoyance; but the first page in a new chapter in humanity. We have had the best minds from MENSA working on this concept for years. We don't need to rethink Excel as much as we need to rethink numbers.
This forward thinking will usher-in a new dawn for the human race. Numbers between 100,000 and 65,535 are relegated to superfluity. Join us in making this new number system a success!
More like at the end of the day, after working with computers and geeking out, I just want something simple that works. Not something that's obfuscated and no matter how I spin it, still won't get me laid.
Or perhaps instead of having parallel universes, it's all one universe with segments separated by space/time. Of course we are a long way off from truly understanding this universal paradox.
On another note, why are scientists wasting their time with this when Sliders solved this mystery for us over a decade ago?!
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1. Will it connect to CODUS (sp?)
2. Will it run Linux?
Who said we have to do it? Get Nicolas Cage to do it!
New soldier suit + orange visor = Master Chief
Who really is being subversive in totalitarian regimes? The people or the government? The people are practitioners of freedom whilst the government employed by these people are being dissident. I say put a rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man and woman in Myanmar and see how things change.
I believe he more or less falls into the category of a "researcher". You probably could write a master's thesis on the password data/statistics alone!
Damn this Firefox spell-checker!
How much paper machete and duct tape was used in the construction?
Ahh I'm sorry for the ill-informed post my Canadian friend. Perhaps their servers just crapped-out and the CRIA is a scapegoat.
Sounds like the Pirate Bay's legal troubles a while back. Only this time the whiners got their way. There's more than just music on those sites you know. CRIA idiots...
Please, give me some insight into why sites/programs like Second Life pull such large clientèle numbers. That's the part I don't get. I'm seeking answers and getting nothing but mocked. Help me out here.
As someone else pointed-out, every OS has it's quirks with suspended functions. It's all in the hardware its run on.
I don't understand how virtual realities like this have become popular. Do people's real lives suck so badly that they need to frivolously spend money to create their own little world where things don't suck?
This just underscores problems with society at large. Instead of meeting people the old fashioned way (face to face) many prefer to meet new people by electronic means. When they can do so, they can mask how badly their lives really suck and make them at least virtually interesting. Many people out there just need to get laid. It's a lot cheaper than spending money and getting nothing to show for it.
Mark Zuckerberg is the Steve Jobs of our time! He's 23 years old and worth billions! Same as Jobs back when he was Zuckerberg's age. It just goes to show, if you're enthusiastic and driven, and you have an idea to satisfy a need people don't already know exists, you stand to make billions!
Vista working acceptably on a laptop? Congratulations! I've heard that Vista has issues with Hibernation and Sleep mode with some laptops. Mine in particular had this issue. (Back to XP for this and other performance reasons. [I'm cheap])
Don't feel bad about IE6. We still have some apps where I work that require IE6 to run. Triggering WebDAV folders to open via javascript hasn't played well with IE7 and we haven't re-thought the process yet. That's kinda low on the priority list.
The only difference between Vista now and in the beta stages, besides stability, is the system requirements for a well-running system. I was in no way surprised when businesses balked at the minimum system requirement. I can't tell you how many IT departments I've seen out there that have machines that run XP but only barely. Now, a machine that is a year old can't run the latest OS. Hmmm. If the average company would want to upgrade to Vista, they would have to make some massive capital investment to replace things that haven't completely depreciated in order to have IT just for the sake of IT.
XP is a good operating system. And after SP2 came out, it got even better. My place of employment plans to keep using Windows XP for the next few years. It's not that we don't want to upgrade to Vista. It's that we would have to change the whole computer system for each of our 200 seats in order to run it. If the transition was as painless as the jump from Windows 2000 to XP, I don't doubt that we would be in the middle of implementing it right now.
Dear Slashdotters,
Our recent feature in Excel is not an annoyance; but the first page in a new chapter in humanity. We have had the best minds from MENSA working on this concept for years. We don't need to rethink Excel as much as we need to rethink numbers.
This forward thinking will usher-in a new dawn for the human race. Numbers between 100,000 and 65,535 are relegated to superfluity. Join us in making this new number system a success!
Your Friend in Redmond,
William Gates III
The RIAA needs to buy Saddam Hussein's solid gold toilets somehow. I mean, birds of a feather right?
Nope, I meant word. Kind-of the bad joke no one got.
More like at the end of the day, after working with computers and geeking out, I just want something simple that works. Not something that's obfuscated and no matter how I spin it, still won't get me laid.
Three legged self-excited robot? Sounds like R2D2!
The word you are looking for is paradox.
Or perhaps instead of having parallel universes, it's all one universe with segments separated by space/time. Of course we are a long way off from truly understanding this universal paradox.
On another note, why are scientists wasting their time with this when Sliders solved this mystery for us over a decade ago?!
This just wreaks of NSA, CIA, Stazi, KGB...