If you don't write all your own software then you are already letting other people 'control' your computer.
You trust the linux developers with the kernel code, you trust microsoft with IE code; is it a reasonable expectation on the part of the browser developer that you are not going to trust the code writen by the webpage author?
What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists
Hands up those who believe the artist gets a say in whether their CDs are rendered unusable or not?
Their whole "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music" argument is nonsense; it doesn't benefit them.
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Because there are a million people that don't even know they're running a webserver.
When you log attempts on port 80 from infected boxes go and have a look with a browser.
The majority will show the default "this site is under construction" page, the rest show the Code Red defacement page.
You need the volume of users.
You can write your own file sharing app, but if no one else uses it then you're sharing with yourself.
Napster must be hoping that the brand name will lead to enough people using the service that they will find what they want.
My judging of colour is off sometimes (because of the lighting, say) does that mean I don't have truecolour vision?
My perception of width is off sometimes (optical illusion).
My perception of height is off sometimes (e.g. more optical illusions).
Damn... I'm blind.
I don't KNOW how wide something is, I don't KNOW how tall something is and I don't KNOW how something smells or tastes or feels or sounds.
I have organs which sense depth - they're called my eyes and my brain. They've worked for me and other creatures for millions of years.
This means that you would see the entirety of whatever you were looking at.
No it doesn't. Perceiving something in 3D means I perceive it in 3 dimensions, not from 3 dimensions. I perceive a width, a height and a depth. Count them : 3.
Ehhh???? How the hell have you have you lived as long as you have if you can't see in 3D?
Don't bother answering, I don't really care... just promise me that the next time you go for a drive in your car you phone me up and warn me first so I can get well out of your way...
How many people in the world know anything about the geography of Antartica? Just the few scientists who live there... that's who.
And what has mapping the net onto a map of Antartica got to do with anything??? I'm looking for information about carbohydrates, say;
Am I going to type "carbohydrates" into google, or am suddenly going to realise that all my answers are to be found on Filchner Island on the North coast(*) of Antartica ???
(*) and how does the geography of Antartica work anyway?? Every coast is the bloody north coast.
Quality is the responsibility of everyone. Do you think you can write whatever and however you want and expect the QA department to magically instill quality into the product?
change the quality of his workday, not necessarily the quality of the software
They can be very much related - apart from the "pride in work" factor, it tends to be more fun to add functionality to well maintained, high quality code than it is to fix bugs in crappy code under the pressure of customers demanding fix after fix after fix.
With a large customer base, once the complaints start coming in management (and everybody else) starts to realise that it is no fun supporting a low-quality product.
I'm not guarenteeing that everything will magically change overnight, but if you can propose a chunk of work that can be done which doesn't visibly add value; but will help keep a large number of customers off the phone, then you might be listened to more than now.
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This security utility is directed at ease of use.
For example, the qchains utility applies all the required hotfixes in the right order to minimise the number of server reboots required.
If you don't write all your own software then you are already letting other people 'control' your computer.
You trust the linux developers with the kernel code, you trust microsoft with IE code; is it a reasonable expectation on the part of the browser developer that you are not going to trust the code writen by the webpage author?
Yes, that's their argument.
But they're not reducing theft. The 1% of customers that are, allegedly, thieves can, by the interviewee's own admission, break the copy protection.
They're not reducing prices; again, the interviewee's own comment is that they are getting 5 cents per CD - the consumer is going to pay that 5 cents.
What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists
Hands up those who believe the artist gets a say in whether their CDs are rendered unusable or not?
Their whole "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music" argument is nonsense; it doesn't benefit them.
Because there are a million people that don't even know they're running a webserver.
When you log attempts on port 80 from infected boxes go and have a look with a browser.
The majority will show the default "this site is under construction" page, the rest show the Code Red defacement page.
No version of NT requires a multi processor machine.
The CKUA Radio Network has been operating in Alberta, Canada ... over a network of 16 FM transmitters, one AM transmitter and one satelite.
Not exactly an option for someone living in Florida.
Can a college/isp/company/etc fire/kick off/expell someone for downloading MP3's anymore if they're doing it through this system?
... I believe the main complaints from colleges etc. about Napster were the amount of data being transferred, not the legality of the data.
Yes
You need the volume of users.
You can write your own file sharing app, but if no one else uses it then you're sharing with yourself.
Napster must be hoping that the brand name will lead to enough people using the service that they will find what they want.
There is already plenty of alcohol in space.
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Henry VIII was the 3rd Henry who was the son of a Henry.
Henry IV begat Henry V
Henry V begat Henry VI
Henry VII begat Henry VIII
My judging of colour is off sometimes (because of the lighting, say) does that mean I don't have truecolour vision?
... I'm blind.
My perception of width is off sometimes (optical illusion).
My perception of height is off sometimes (e.g. more optical illusions).
Damn
I don't KNOW how wide something is, I don't KNOW how tall something is and I don't KNOW how something smells or tastes or feels or sounds.
I have organs which sense depth - they're called my eyes and my brain. They've worked for me and other creatures for millions of years.
This means that you would see the entirety of whatever you were looking at.
No it doesn't. Perceiving something in 3D means I perceive it in 3 dimensions, not from 3 dimensions. I perceive a width, a height and a depth. Count them : 3.
Ehhh???? How the hell have you have you lived as long as you have if you can't see in 3D?
Don't bother answering, I don't really care
Thanks....
How many people in the world know anything about the geography of Antartica? Just the few scientists who live there ... that's who.
And what has mapping the net onto a map of Antartica got to do with anything??? I'm looking for information about carbohydrates, say;
Am I going to type "carbohydrates" into google, or am suddenly going to realise that all my answers are to be found on Filchner Island on the North coast(*) of Antartica ???
(*) and how does the geography of Antartica work anyway?? Every coast is the bloody north coast.
Your eyes view the world in 2D (plus depth),
.... if our own sense aren't 3D, then nothing is.
Or, in other words, 3D.
Come on
But when you get to 50 ... aahhhh ... it's all over and you can sleep peacefully for the first time in days.
"I can tell because when you read a webpage, you do one of a couple of things. You either shovel the mouse off to the right ..."
I guess I shall just have to become left handed then.
You're paid to program, you're not QA.
Quality is the responsibility of everyone. Do you think you can write whatever and however you want and expect the QA department to magically instill quality into the product?
QA assure quality, they don't create it.
change the quality of his workday, not necessarily the quality of the software
They can be very much related - apart from the "pride in work" factor, it tends to be more fun to add functionality to well maintained, high quality code than it is to fix bugs in crappy code under the pressure of customers demanding fix after fix after fix.
With a large customer base, once the complaints start coming in management (and everybody else) starts to realise that it is no fun supporting a low-quality product.
I'm not guarenteeing that everything will magically change overnight, but if you can propose a chunk of work that can be done which doesn't visibly add value; but will help keep a large number of customers off the phone, then you might be listened to more than now.
Makes one wonder how it was all done before Calculus or calculators.
Trial and error - they had several hundred years to practice.
They were CEOs of dotcoms.
Most of the money was virtual and the stock options weren't worth the paper they were printed on.
Sorry, but so what?
They were doing something, did something else for a while, and now they're doing the first thing again.
There's nothing at all special about that.
with a bit more depth than the press release at pdabuzz
looks pretty.