That's because No and Cancel are basically the same thing to non-geeks (and many geeks too.. I have to think about it sometimes).
There should always be at most 2 options... of course if you can avoid asking the question in the first place it's much better (someone once told me 'people don't want choice, they want what they want').
True story: I was in a major computer store when a perplexed looking man, probably about 60, asked me if I knew anything about the USB keys they had. He wanted to store some letters on it (probably saved from Word.. didn't ask), and his outlook contacts list.
I started with 'well a 16mb is cheap and will do what you need I think' but he looked perplexed.. time for an analogy. '1 megabyte is about 1 floppy, so 16 megabytes is 16 floppies'. It was like watching a light switch on - the analogy had allowed him to make the connection between something he knew (floppy disks) to something he didn't know (what a megabyte was). His next question was, 'ah, so that one is the size of 256 floppies'.. and he was well on his way to making an intelligent buying choice.
Just remove the 'or later' clause... did this on all my projects over a year ago.
If you don't the first time someone submits any code and says 'this is v3' it'll force the entire project v3, and until I see a proper legal breakdown of the final text there's no way in hell that's happening.
Hmm.. so it's now legal to make GPL Java software (v2 only had a restricted version of first part of the clause, and java is *not* shipped OS libraries so didn't count.. not that that stopped anyone).
It seems to be a supremely useless clause - it stops people creating GPL DRM software (as if anyone would be mad enough to try that) but It doesn't stop someone wrapping the GPL code *inside* DRM software. Yes, you'd have to release the code to the GPL bits but you'd never prove in a million years that it was *all* the code.
The next generation of both Intel and AMD processors will support 'true' virtualisation (vanderpool/pacifica) - meaning you could have a Xen server that supports and OS unmodified. In addition I expect it'll be close to 100% speed.
Once these technologies are available on the desktop the PC will IMO have come of age - able to do what the minicomputers and mainframes were doing 10 years ago, but at an affordable price.
It's not the same as music etc. There is good music now and a lot of dross.. there will always be.
OTOH I look at the games available today and can't think of a single one that isn't 100% pretty graphics and 0% gameplay. It wasn't always like that - there used to be games you could pick up and keep playing.
More than that - the Windows firewall opens many ports to those machines it considers to be on the local LAN - Netbios, etc. Since your blackhat machine *would* be on the same subnet then the Windows firewall would be essentially invisible - all that is required is to browse to the network share (assuming it's got passwordless shares, which is not unusual at all if the target is normally connected to a corporate LAN - in fact the last place I worked it was policy to do so so the management could see what you were working on).
Actually it is. It's not hard to write code that associates automatically with any laptops which are switched on but not currently associated to anything. Run that in a public place and you can have a browse around a few people hard drives.
They're probably just being friendly. I always change them anyway because it's a good idea to minimize the jitter between you and the ntp server - find some that are a bit closer.
OTOH by default Avast will scan *every* file that's opened, not just executable ones. Try running a decent size compile with that enabled... If you want your machine back you have to disable that (I just have scan on write plus the standard scan executables/boot sector stuff).
Nice idea but it's centuries too late to make any sense.
The NIV wasn't translated until 1976. If you want to argue any translation change based on the idea of power, you need to go back to the 16th century or thereabouts. By 1976 any hope of religious bodies (inc. the catholic church, which had previously had power and is still the largest individual church by far) having real power had been relegated into history.
Not sure why you brought up excommunication - it's just a pretty word for being thrown out of the club for breaking its rules... you can be 'excommunicated' from the US, your Tennis club, your Video club, whatever.
run-from-cd speed on any of my PCs would probably be a damned sight faster than the Mac Mini speed, which runs like a snail.
I just need to boot OSX to create the OSX binaries of software, then it's off again (just don't like the GUI, sorry zealots). A run from CD that could be run on a reasonably powerful box would be ideal.
It's still easier to use vi under osx... partly because you can't do the right click->Send to->Notepad thing under OSX - easier to use the command line than fart around with having to find the text app in the applications folder and use the open menu.
In some countries when you sign with a label you sign away your rights to perform the track without paying fees too (I believe that Germany is like this, maybe the netherlands).
Technically you still have copyright, but if you gave a copy of your *own song* to someone else the record company could sue you.
That's what itunes is though.. it's a huge advert for their music store. Seems to work too... people pay more for a DRMed compressed copy of a tune than they would by going down to the record shop and buying a proper copy - quite a neat trick, and Apple have pulled it off.
That will still be an improvement in the US as they only have 525 lines over there... add to that the lack of compression artefacts (upconvert->compress-decompress looks better than compress->decompress->upconvert) and it would be worth it.
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That's because No and Cancel are basically the same thing to non-geeks (and many geeks too.. I have to think about it sometimes).
There should always be at most 2 options... of course if you can avoid asking the question in the first place it's much better (someone once told me 'people don't want choice, they want what they want').
White vans are faster.
Or maybe taxis, since they don't have obey any of the rules of the road.
Analogies in general work well.
True story: I was in a major computer store when a perplexed looking man, probably about 60, asked me if I knew anything about the USB keys they had. He wanted to store some letters on it (probably saved from Word.. didn't ask), and his outlook contacts list.
I started with 'well a 16mb is cheap and will do what you need I think' but he looked perplexed.. time for an analogy. '1 megabyte is about 1 floppy, so 16 megabytes is 16 floppies'. It was like watching a light switch on - the analogy had allowed him to make the connection between something he knew (floppy disks) to something he didn't know (what a megabyte was). His next question was, 'ah, so that one is the size of 256 floppies'.. and he was well on his way to making an intelligent buying choice.
It's also overcomplex and (in places) ambiguous. I fear good lawyer would rip it to pieces.
Just remove the 'or later' clause... did this on all my projects over a year ago.
If you don't the first time someone submits any code and says 'this is v3' it'll force the entire project v3, and until I see a proper legal breakdown of the final text there's no way in hell that's happening.
Hmm.. so it's now legal to make GPL Java software (v2 only had a restricted version of first part of the clause, and java is *not* shipped OS libraries so didn't count.. not that that stopped anyone).
It seems to be a supremely useless clause - it stops people creating GPL DRM software (as if anyone would be mad enough to try that) but It doesn't stop someone wrapping the GPL code *inside* DRM software. Yes, you'd have to release the code to the GPL bits but you'd never prove in a million years that it was *all* the code.
The next generation of both Intel and AMD processors will support 'true' virtualisation (vanderpool/pacifica) - meaning you could have a Xen server that supports and OS unmodified. In addition I expect it'll be close to 100% speed.
Once these technologies are available on the desktop the PC will IMO have come of age - able to do what the minicomputers and mainframes were doing 10 years ago, but at an affordable price.
It's not the same as music etc. There is good music now and a lot of dross.. there will always be.
OTOH I look at the games available today and can't think of a single one that isn't 100% pretty graphics and 0% gameplay. It wasn't always like that - there used to be games you could pick up and keep playing.
North Korea actually *does* have WMD. No politician would want to start a war with them as it'd be too unpopular when the first US city got wiped out.
It's cheaper/easier to pick on countries that can't fight back - Iraq, and soon Iran (with possibly a stopover in Syria).
Ever seen the plagarism of the year awards? http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/2005/12/and-winner -is.html
The winner was the Daily Mail which made a two page spread of someones blog and passed it off as their own work.
More than that - the Windows firewall opens many ports to those machines it considers to be on the local LAN - Netbios, etc. Since your blackhat machine *would* be on the same subnet then the Windows firewall would be essentially invisible - all that is required is to browse to the network share (assuming it's got passwordless shares, which is not unusual at all if the target is normally connected to a corporate LAN - in fact the last place I worked it was policy to do so so the management could see what you were working on).
Actually it is. It's not hard to write code that associates automatically with any laptops which are switched on but not currently associated to anything. Run that in a public place and you can have a browse around a few people hard drives.
They're probably just being friendly. I always change them anyway because it's a good idea to minimize the jitter between you and the ntp server - find some that are a bit closer.
OTOH by default Avast will scan *every* file that's opened, not just executable ones. Try running a decent size compile with that enabled... If you want your machine back you have to disable that (I just have scan on write plus the standard scan executables/boot sector stuff).
Nice idea but it's centuries too late to make any sense.
The NIV wasn't translated until 1976. If you want to argue any translation change based on the idea of power, you need to go back to the 16th century or thereabouts. By 1976 any hope of religious bodies (inc. the catholic church, which had previously had power and is still the largest individual church by far) having real power had been relegated into history.
Not sure why you brought up excommunication - it's just a pretty word for being thrown out of the club for breaking its rules... you can be 'excommunicated' from the US, your Tennis club, your Video club, whatever.
run-from-cd speed on any of my PCs would probably be a damned sight faster than the Mac Mini speed, which runs like a snail.
I just need to boot OSX to create the OSX binaries of software, then it's off again (just don't like the GUI, sorry zealots). A run from CD that could be run on a reasonably powerful box would be ideal.
It's still easier to use vi under osx... partly because you can't do the right click->Send to->Notepad thing under OSX - easier to use the command line than fart around with having to find the text app in the applications folder and use the open menu.
That's really not unusual. I've done it myself.
You estimate the porting time... if it's less than a couple of weeks you just say 'yes, we support that'.
Since Websphere is mostly Java I suspect IBM thought that, but hit problems on a platform specific part.
This would instantly kill Google News and Google Images. Quite possibly Google itself.
The Wayback machine would be dead too.
In some countries when you sign with a label you sign away your rights to perform the track without paying fees too (I believe that Germany is like this, maybe the netherlands).
Technically you still have copyright, but if you gave a copy of your *own song* to someone else the record company could sue you.
That's what itunes is though.. it's a huge advert for their music store. Seems to work too... people pay more for a DRMed compressed copy of a tune than they would by going down to the record shop and buying a proper copy - quite a neat trick, and Apple have pulled it off.
That will still be an improvement in the US as they only have 525 lines over there... add to that the lack of compression artefacts (upconvert->compress-decompress looks better than compress->decompress->upconvert) and it would be worth it.
I dunno I like Atlantis - it's taking off after the first series was a bit flat (OTOH I find BSG unwatchable).
SG-1 however has gone so far downhill it's digging a large pit for itself. This last series was a big mistake.
Ditching exchange is good. Replacing it with gmail??? Bloody stupid.
I for one would not do business with a company that used something like gmail for its address.