All of my lego sets came with instructions, they were great for the first 2 days. Then I tried building all sorts of different machines. I had a lego motor and a bunch of gears and stuff and I was forever trying to build a decent 4 wheel drive vehicle to try and climb up steep hills. Back in those days with the 4.5volt low tourqe motor you had to have major geardown to even move a vehicle let alone propel it up a hill. Unfortunately, until I got a worm gear in a set I was doomed to things that would hardly go because the friction added up far faster than your tourqe from gearing down. Oh well that was lots of fun.
Recently I spent about $3000 on out of production lego sets that I had drooled over on the shelves when I was young but my parents wouldn't purchase for me. I only buy the Technic ones of course, because building models is no fun unless the models do something cool.
I've found that convincing the participants to set thier computers up the previous day to the party at whatever time they have time and making sure they have the "software list" smooths things out a great deal the next day. Also get thier computer set up on the lan and all the hardware tested and running. It should be like 30 minutes to an hour for each person the night before.
Getting all the patches for CS or Unreal or something on your box when everyone wants to play is a real drag. That sort of thing needs to be done ahead.
I haven't done this but I think planning ahead a bit for what games to play at what times helps as well. Especially those games that need like 2-8person teams or something organized like that. You can fill the time with deathmatching or whatever other sort of fun you want.
The movies are a good idea as is buffet style food of some sort.
Actually early in the life of the Mac OS there were many viruses in the executable files. Heck because of the Mac file structure there were even viruses that could reside in plain old data files on the Mac. This was virtually solved by #1 SAM (go symantec) and #2 by Macs being as popular as having all your hairs burned out.
You CAN install IIS on win2k pro. It doesn't however install by default. You can also install FTP and SMTP on win2k pro because those come in the IIS package.
If I remember right its limited to 1 domain (no virtual domains like its big brother) has a lower limit on the number of vroots and I think it even has a lower limit on the number of threads it gets to use. So its like IIS--
To make your analogy relevant to this discussion the scientist would be more like a person that gave guns to the army to keep outside enemies from stealing all the food and raping the women and later finds out that the army sold the guns to the criminals for lollipops.
The people that developed the encryption algorithms mostly did it for legitimate purposes and later the tool was taken and used for devious purposes. That doesn't make the creator bad nor does it make the creation bad. Its the people that use it for evil that are wrong.
The terrorists wanted to take our freedom and it looks like no matter which way we go from here we will lose it. Lets fight to keep our freedoms. Encryption is no more evil than my toothbrush and probably hurts fewer people.
Its a shortened sentence which is ok in speaking english. The verb is "is" but its implied by the context. Correctly written it would be something like "The EULA is not only a stunning example of..." but the part that bothers me worse comes near the end and breaks up the flow, he needs a Second verb after the but, something like "...but shows very poor....". Anyways I am not one to talk, in casual conversation (and a good portion of work conversation) as long as the meaning gets through thats good enough. On the other hand, poor grammer or spelling is a sure way to look stupid.
And then the terrorists have won. Thats exactly what they want is to steal the power of the US by fear.
I don't advocate random attacks or large scale retaliation but I also know that we must continue to live our lives or we lost because we are controled by the people that perpetrated this attack.
Actually MS is moving the other way totally, not give you any software at all:) Thats the goal of.NET, the software itself all resided on servers owned by the various service providers. No longer do there have to be software lincences but instead user agreements.
"I won't use the services!" you say? Well why use the MS software under licence either? The govt doesn't need to step in, people just need to excercise thier economic right NOT to buy something.
Oh, you can't play your games without an MS product? Tough, thats call free market, to get the benifit you want you pay the cost that the person offering that benifit charges. If its too much don't pay.
I agree that MS shouldn't be allowed to make illegal contracts with OEM's (that will be stopped in the remedy) and they shouldn't be allowed to do any of the illegal stuff with pricing (which is stopped by the lawsuit as well). I don't think that the contents of the OS should be limited in any way. Maybe its sucks that you have to buy Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer as part of the OS but that should be MS's right to decide. Its your right to decide if you want to pay the price to get those things.
I think that the OS allocates some ram that is availible to apps so the initial usage numbers is actually showing more allocated ram than is being used and its given up to apps as apps are started. Memory management on NT is not terrible straight forward (at least to me) so the numbers reported by task manager need to be taken with a grain of salt.
I don't know what the problem is in the first place. I get nearly 1000 e-mail messages a day at work and maybe 50 or so at my home e-mail. I spend less than an hour a day doing e-mail.
I think my key is knowing how to filter e-mail by priority. I check my mail once every half our or so but I only spend like 30 seconds. Use your inbox rules (if you don't have a client that allows you to set rules on recieving mail change clients) to put fluff in a separate directory from the real mail and only read the fluff once a day.
As far as replying goes reply when something needs to be replied to and don't if it doesn't need a reply. If you as a sender need to know that the person read the mail send it with a read receipt (yes I know this is an MS Exchange thing but its really useful) and you will be notified when the mail is read and you can not worry about the reply.
All in all e-mail only becomes a problem if you let it. Its a tool so use it as one, don't let it use you.
You have failed to point out that linux comes with probably 30 times as many programs on those cd's as well as source for most if not all of them. A perfectly resonable linux distro would easily fit on 1 cd.
Not really spyware because its all done in the local installation. MS Never sees the hardware configuration of your computer nor do they know when you change it. They just know when you request reactivation over the phone. As far as what info that MS does get to see, its just a number calculated from your hardware that cannot be reversed to say what your hardware is. This key is paired with your product serial number (the cd key) in a database. The two numbers are matched when you need to check the activation for a NEW installation. For an existing installation the match is done locally.
It takes 30 seconds to change the 3 or so settings to make the winXP interface look like win2k. Believe me I think it looks too cartoonish as well but after flipping 3 switches I am very happy with the extra features, stability and compatability that it offers.
Probably the most compelling reason to upgrade to windows XP is remote desktop connections. It is somewhat like x-windows for unix users (though honestly not near as good in many ways). It comes in very useful for a whole host of tasks, not the least of which is fixing software configuration problems for that parent or friend who is not as computer savy without having to leave your comfortable spot in front of your own perfectly tuned computer.
Distilled water is not a great conductor true. However rain water and pool water both have a great number of ions floating around in them that make them a better conductor.
The easiest way to think of these two properties of electricity (and they are not necessarily fully conceptually accurate) is to think of voltage as similar to water pressure and think of current as similar to water flow. The higher the voltage the harder the electricity is willing to push and the higher the current the faster its willing to flow. Resistance fits into this silly little model as well, its effectively like the size of the pipe. Make the pipe bigger (reduce resistance) and the pressure (voltage) goes down or the flow (current) increases.
Another huge problem is the drying up of dry lines. If there is suddenly a huge demand for them in order to split internet accounts or something like that either the cost for DSL will rise or the cost of a dry line or both.
Actually because most people don't connect at the same time you can resonably serve "broadband" to 30 people from 1 T-1 line. Thats why there are "no web server" and "excessive use" clauses in most broadband providers contracts. Its because they jam up to 60 people on a T1 and make it seem like broadband for everyone. If there is a complaint they will split the node onto a couple T1's but they won't do this until there is a need.
I think the only interesting use for this articles technology is a local WAN (ok there is an oxymoron) where you and all your friends are connected directly instead of running through a number of routers. The problem is at $600 per line for the encoder and decoder we are talking major startup cost for even a small number of people.
IANAL but I can't see any reason why a person couldn't put the same terms on his code as MS puts on its code that it releases under the shared source licence. Don't expect MS legal to back you up if there is a problem with the license but they can't really stop you from using those terms in a contract.
Without the PC there would be no linux or OOS revolution either. You would be at the mall with your friends (if you were lucky) or at home watching paint dry doing nothing because most people would not have computers in thier home because really they only played games or did business stuff that was unecsarry.
Whether we like it or not, MS took all sorts of nifty innovations that people made and turned them into something that everyone in the world wanted. We should thank them for that much.
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Recently I spent about $3000 on out of production lego sets that I had drooled over on the shelves when I was young but my parents wouldn't purchase for me. I only buy the Technic ones of course, because building models is no fun unless the models do something cool.
I've found that convincing the participants to set thier computers up the previous day to the party at whatever time they have time and making sure they have the "software list" smooths things out a great deal the next day. Also get thier computer set up on the lan and all the hardware tested and running. It should be like 30 minutes to an hour for each person the night before.
Getting all the patches for CS or Unreal or something on your box when everyone wants to play is a real drag. That sort of thing needs to be done ahead.
I haven't done this but I think planning ahead a bit for what games to play at what times helps as well. Especially those games that need like 2-8person teams or something organized like that. You can fill the time with deathmatching or whatever other sort of fun you want.
The movies are a good idea as is buffet style food of some sort.
Man now I'm itching to throw a party.
They terroist organization believed to have organized this sent encrypted messages on the internet or so the media has claimed in its newcasts.
Its things like this that make me fail to believe the free (as in speech) software arguments in favor of free (as in beer) software arguments.
Actually early in the life of the Mac OS there were many viruses in the executable files. Heck because of the Mac file structure there were even viruses that could reside in plain old data files on the Mac. This was virtually solved by #1 SAM (go symantec) and #2 by Macs being as popular as having all your hairs burned out.
If I remember right its limited to 1 domain (no virtual domains like its big brother) has a lower limit on the number of vroots and I think it even has a lower limit on the number of threads it gets to use. So its like IIS--
The people that developed the encryption algorithms mostly did it for legitimate purposes and later the tool was taken and used for devious purposes. That doesn't make the creator bad nor does it make the creation bad. Its the people that use it for evil that are wrong.
The terrorists wanted to take our freedom and it looks like no matter which way we go from here we will lose it. Lets fight to keep our freedoms. Encryption is no more evil than my toothbrush and probably hurts fewer people.
Its a shortened sentence which is ok in speaking english. The verb is "is" but its implied by the context. Correctly written it would be something like "The EULA is not only a stunning example of..." but the part that bothers me worse comes near the end and breaks up the flow, he needs a Second verb after the but, something like "...but shows very poor....". Anyways I am not one to talk, in casual conversation (and a good portion of work conversation) as long as the meaning gets through thats good enough. On the other hand, poor grammer or spelling is a sure way to look stupid.
I don't advocate random attacks or large scale retaliation but I also know that we must continue to live our lives or we lost because we are controled by the people that perpetrated this attack.
What this does prove is that Radio, TV and other broadcast media are not going to go away. Are any of the Radio stations down due to too much traffic?
"I won't use the services!" you say? Well why use the MS software under licence either? The govt doesn't need to step in, people just need to excercise thier economic right NOT to buy something.
Oh, you can't play your games without an MS product? Tough, thats call free market, to get the benifit you want you pay the cost that the person offering that benifit charges. If its too much don't pay.
I agree that MS shouldn't be allowed to make illegal contracts with OEM's (that will be stopped in the remedy) and they shouldn't be allowed to do any of the illegal stuff with pricing (which is stopped by the lawsuit as well). I don't think that the contents of the OS should be limited in any way. Maybe its sucks that you have to buy Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer as part of the OS but that should be MS's right to decide. Its your right to decide if you want to pay the price to get those things.
I think that the OS allocates some ram that is availible to apps so the initial usage numbers is actually showing more allocated ram than is being used and its given up to apps as apps are started. Memory management on NT is not terrible straight forward (at least to me) so the numbers reported by task manager need to be taken with a grain of salt.
I think my key is knowing how to filter e-mail by priority. I check my mail once every half our or so but I only spend like 30 seconds. Use your inbox rules (if you don't have a client that allows you to set rules on recieving mail change clients) to put fluff in a separate directory from the real mail and only read the fluff once a day.
As far as replying goes reply when something needs to be replied to and don't if it doesn't need a reply. If you as a sender need to know that the person read the mail send it with a read receipt (yes I know this is an MS Exchange thing but its really useful) and you will be notified when the mail is read and you can not worry about the reply.
All in all e-mail only becomes a problem if you let it. Its a tool so use it as one, don't let it use you.
You have failed to point out that linux comes with probably 30 times as many programs on those cd's as well as source for most if not all of them. A perfectly resonable linux distro would easily fit on 1 cd.
Not really spyware because its all done in the local installation. MS Never sees the hardware configuration of your computer nor do they know when you change it. They just know when you request reactivation over the phone. As far as what info that MS does get to see, its just a number calculated from your hardware that cannot be reversed to say what your hardware is. This key is paired with your product serial number (the cd key) in a database. The two numbers are matched when you need to check the activation for a NEW installation. For an existing installation the match is done locally.
No you won't, product activation will keep you from doing that :)
It takes 30 seconds to change the 3 or so settings to make the winXP interface look like win2k. Believe me I think it looks too cartoonish as well but after flipping 3 switches I am very happy with the extra features, stability and compatability that it offers.
Probably the most compelling reason to upgrade to windows XP is remote desktop connections. It is somewhat like x-windows for unix users (though honestly not near as good in many ways). It comes in very useful for a whole host of tasks, not the least of which is fixing software configuration problems for that parent or friend who is not as computer savy without having to leave your comfortable spot in front of your own perfectly tuned computer.
Distilled water is not a great conductor true. However rain water and pool water both have a great number of ions floating around in them that make them a better conductor.
The easiest way to think of these two properties of electricity (and they are not necessarily fully conceptually accurate) is to think of voltage as similar to water pressure and think of current as similar to water flow. The higher the voltage the harder the electricity is willing to push and the higher the current the faster its willing to flow. Resistance fits into this silly little model as well, its effectively like the size of the pipe. Make the pipe bigger (reduce resistance) and the pressure (voltage) goes down or the flow (current) increases.
Another huge problem is the drying up of dry lines. If there is suddenly a huge demand for them in order to split internet accounts or something like that either the cost for DSL will rise or the cost of a dry line or both.
I think the only interesting use for this articles technology is a local WAN (ok there is an oxymoron) where you and all your friends are connected directly instead of running through a number of routers. The problem is at $600 per line for the encoder and decoder we are talking major startup cost for even a small number of people.
IANAL but I can't see any reason why a person couldn't put the same terms on his code as MS puts on its code that it releases under the shared source licence. Don't expect MS legal to back you up if there is a problem with the license but they can't really stop you from using those terms in a contract.
Whether we like it or not, MS took all sorts of nifty innovations that people made and turned them into something that everyone in the world wanted. We should thank them for that much.
aren't they require to distribute the source publicly? it is linux so that is GPL.