The "breakage" is the removal of the old-school Excel and WordBasic macro support. I wouldn't consider that a significant loss. VBA based macros still work fine as they have since Office 95. That's a pretty significant degree of backward compatibility. MS has no plans to remove VBA support and any potential.NET based replacements have so far been abortions.
The uncle is right. I received spam a few times from a friend who didn't exercise good password security and used the same password for all her online accounts.
Generally, when a hacker group manages to dump the account info from a website they try to use the passwords against any email addresses linked to that account. All the success cases have the inbox scanned for useful information like bank account data and more online account info. Some subset of these hackers will use the accounts to send spam with malware links to the people in the hacked account's address list.
The lesson from this is to always maintain a unique password for your e-mail accounts.
The FCC only has jurisdiction over RF broadcasts since a governing body is needed to manage the shared spectrum. It can't do anything more without Congressional approval.
For profit television is a perfectly working self-correcting free market so long as you recognize that the market revolves around the sale of attention from viewers. Getting consumers to pay for the privilege is just icing on the cake.
Compresion alone is less of a sin than deliberately clipping the audio so the speaker drivers overshoot for extra volume. That's why the annoyingly loud commercials all sound like they have shitty sound quality.
I don't see the point of this article. It seems to be based on the common conflation of copyright, trademarks, and patents.
Copyright terms have no bearing on innovation. It restricts the creation of unauthorized copies and derivative works to the domain of fair use until the term of the copyright expires. These activities are, by their very nature, not innovative. I fail to see how the continual extension of copyright duration impacts innovation in any way.
Someone signed up for a facebook account with my e-mail address. I let it go for a year or so but then the FB spam became too annoying so I reset the password and deactivated his account for him.
Separated facilities create useless bicycle ghettos that go through a few miles of scenery and rarely anywhere useful. For utility cycling to be practical you need roads designed with enough space to permit motor vehicles to pass without issues. This is done with wider lanes, rideable and clean shoulders, or bike lanes (if executed properly).
The age of the fluid drive automatic is just beginning to wane. I expect that in thirty years double clutch transmissions will be the norm for automatic vehicles. Stricter CAFE standards will help push them in that direction more quickly.
The "same" engine isn't always the same engine. It could be different testing procedures but US cars often have unique valve trains do deal with our stricter emissions requirements that the rest of the world doesn't deal with. That difference could result in reduced fuel efficiency for the sake of reduced emissions. Ignition timing and compression ratios can also be varied by country to suit local requirements.
MS has already done this a number of times and failed (Win3.1 for pen devices, WinCE, XP tablet). Desktop interfaces do not translate to handheld devices. There are issues with button size. Finger occlusion and handedness that don't have to be dealt with on a desktop.
Much of the problems MS has had is the Win32 baggage they've been carrying around in the name of backward compatibility and providing a "universal" platform. Now they've seen the writing on the wall that they need to make a break with something more forward looking. I can't blame them for that. I'm sure the usability issues will be worked out with Windows 9.
I too feel a twinge of guilt for freeloading with my ad-blocker in place. I rationalize it with the following:
1) I cannot control what types of ads are served to me and that puts me at risk of receiving malicious (potentially zero-day) javascript and flash ads. If ad networks had better quality control about what they served this would be less of an issue.
2) I cannot control the volume of ad traffic I receive vis-a-vis the flood of flash ads you get if you go to any major ad supported site without a blocker in place. This consumption of bandwidth and downloading of extra images perceptibly slows down page renders.
3) I mentally block ads out any way and wouldn't click on them if they weren't blocked.
4) If a site really wanted to force the issue they have means to withhold content if ads haven't been retrieved either by monitoring server accesses or DOM inspection. As it stands I just bail out on any site that takes too many tries to get it to render right with temporary white-listing through noscript.
I actually felt bad enough once to unblock/. only to find that I was "grandfathered" in and they wouldn't serve me ads any way.
Many people use the same password for all accounts including their e-mail. You can also assume that the same login and/or e-mail username is used in other places by many people and attempt to access other outside accounts. This creates a huge security threat for those affected.
Harvard architecture parts are still around but largely confined to microcontrollers and the simpler DSPs at this point. The separation doesn't fix the software problem of buffer over/underruns. It just means you can't easily spill over into a code segment and do nasty things as a byproduct of that. You can still do dirty things in the data segment, though.
If it has two lanes it's a traffic circle rather than a roundabout. The latter is intentionally constrained in size/capacity to make it safer for pedestrians.
People used to have to wait months for their mail order to Sears to be processed and shipped out to them by train. Waiting a week or so for most goods is more than reasonable.
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The "breakage" is the removal of the old-school Excel and WordBasic macro support. I wouldn't consider that a significant loss. VBA based macros still work fine as they have since Office 95. That's a pretty significant degree of backward compatibility. MS has no plans to remove VBA support and any potential .NET based replacements have so far been abortions.
I don't know why we ever repealed prohibition!
Because alcohol only does that to alcoholics. The vast majority of users are not harmed by moderate consumption.
The uncle is right. I received spam a few times from a friend who didn't exercise good password security and used the same password for all her online accounts.
Generally, when a hacker group manages to dump the account info from a website they try to use the passwords against any email addresses linked to that account. All the success cases have the inbox scanned for useful information like bank account data and more online account info. Some subset of these hackers will use the accounts to send spam with malware links to the people in the hacked account's address list.
The lesson from this is to always maintain a unique password for your e-mail accounts.
The FCC only has jurisdiction over RF broadcasts since a governing body is needed to manage the shared spectrum. It can't do anything more without Congressional approval.
For profit television is a perfectly working self-correcting free market so long as you recognize that the market revolves around the sale of attention from viewers. Getting consumers to pay for the privilege is just icing on the cake.
Compresion alone is less of a sin than deliberately clipping the audio so the speaker drivers overshoot for extra volume. That's why the annoyingly loud commercials all sound like they have shitty sound quality.
I don't see the point of this article. It seems to be based on the common conflation of copyright, trademarks, and patents.
Copyright terms have no bearing on innovation. It restricts the creation of unauthorized copies and derivative works to the domain of fair use until the term of the copyright expires. These activities are, by their very nature, not innovative. I fail to see how the continual extension of copyright duration impacts innovation in any way.
Sounds a lot like the old Computer Shopper. Mostly ads with a few articles sprinkled about.
Someone signed up for a facebook account with my e-mail address. I let it go for a year or so but then the FB spam became too annoying so I reset the password and deactivated his account for him.
Why not just by an older, normal mouse of acceptable size that runs on standard drivers and be done with the whole mess?
The Japanese factories in the US are largely non-union shops unlike the domestic brand ones.
Separated facilities create useless bicycle ghettos that go through a few miles of scenery and rarely anywhere useful. For utility cycling to be practical you need roads designed with enough space to permit motor vehicles to pass without issues. This is done with wider lanes, rideable and clean shoulders, or bike lanes (if executed properly).
Makes you wonder how much this company is scrimping on maintenance too.
The age of the fluid drive automatic is just beginning to wane. I expect that in thirty years double clutch transmissions will be the norm for automatic vehicles. Stricter CAFE standards will help push them in that direction more quickly.
The "same" engine isn't always the same engine. It could be different testing procedures but US cars often have unique valve trains do deal with our stricter emissions requirements that the rest of the world doesn't deal with. That difference could result in reduced fuel efficiency for the sake of reduced emissions. Ignition timing and compression ratios can also be varied by country to suit local requirements.
Hopefully Agilent will snap up HPs trademark and associated IP when it finally goes up for sale.
It's too bad they didn't stick to their original mission and reign in the loudness wars that have ruined modern era recordings.
MS has already done this a number of times and failed (Win3.1 for pen devices, WinCE, XP tablet). Desktop interfaces do not translate to handheld devices. There are issues with button size. Finger occlusion and handedness that don't have to be dealt with on a desktop.
Much of the problems MS has had is the Win32 baggage they've been carrying around in the name of backward compatibility and providing a "universal" platform. Now they've seen the writing on the wall that they need to make a break with something more forward looking. I can't blame them for that. I'm sure the usability issues will be worked out with Windows 9.
I too feel a twinge of guilt for freeloading with my ad-blocker in place. I rationalize it with the following:
1) I cannot control what types of ads are served to me and that puts me at risk of receiving malicious (potentially zero-day) javascript and flash ads. If ad networks had better quality control about what they served this would be less of an issue.
2) I cannot control the volume of ad traffic I receive vis-a-vis the flood of flash ads you get if you go to any major ad supported site without a blocker in place. This consumption of bandwidth and downloading of extra images perceptibly slows down page renders.
3) I mentally block ads out any way and wouldn't click on them if they weren't blocked.
4) If a site really wanted to force the issue they have means to withhold content if ads haven't been retrieved either by monitoring server accesses or DOM inspection. As it stands I just bail out on any site that takes too many tries to get it to render right with temporary white-listing through noscript.
I actually felt bad enough once to unblock /. only to find that I was "grandfathered" in and they wouldn't serve me ads any way.
Many people use the same password for all accounts including their e-mail. You can also assume that the same login and/or e-mail username is used in other places by many people and attempt to access other outside accounts. This creates a huge security threat for those affected.
They're probably acting as paid Apple shills to push adoption of ML.
Harvard architecture parts are still around but largely confined to microcontrollers and the simpler DSPs at this point. The separation doesn't fix the software problem of buffer over/underruns. It just means you can't easily spill over into a code segment and do nasty things as a byproduct of that. You can still do dirty things in the data segment, though.
If it has two lanes it's a traffic circle rather than a roundabout. The latter is intentionally constrained in size/capacity to make it safer for pedestrians.
an almost 10% savings for those consumers who violate state sales and use tax laws
You mean those state laws that violate the federal ban on taxing interstate trade?
People used to have to wait months for their mail order to Sears to be processed and shipped out to them by train. Waiting a week or so for most goods is more than reasonable.