I'm starting to think its time for the next version of the web though. Let the corporations and the censorship people have the current one.. let them charge for it, corrupt it, and bend it to their purposes all they want.
We've already seen how slow most of these corporations adapt to use this new technology. Heck, it can be argued the reason why we're having all of these lawsuits and urges to expand copyright is because they are flat out unwilling to adapt or simply can't. If we come up with a new version of the web, it will probably be another 10 or 15 years before it's threatened significantly in any way.
I realize technology wise it isn't that easy, still, it would be nice to jump to a new ship and let them have the old sinking one... especially since they're the ones who were putting the holes in it in the first place.
Yes. That's how every client with 0% start out....
Yes, true, but the moment you have even one piece of that file you're also sharing. I'm wondering if it is possible to stop or pause a torrent at absolute 0% (no pieces downloaded yet) and still retrieve useful data identifying data about the seeds and peers. I'm not currently sitting at a computer where I can test this unfortunately.
HBO monitors torrents and sends cease and desist letters. A buddy of mine has quite a collection of them:)
I haven't dug into this yet but I've been curious.. is it possible to get a list of clients without actually connecting to the tracker and sharing the material yourself? I've never tried to access a tracker directly to see what information you can get from it and I know that every bittorrent client I've tried so far seems to disconnect you from seeds and peers when you "stop" a torrent download. It would be interesting to see what methods the companies use to get the information on torrrents to send out those letters as it is hardly in their interest to share their own content, even in small bits, to discover who is connecting.
With torrents (and similar), the swarm (rather than individual people) are redistributing. There are seeders, obviously, with a share ratio > 1, but many peers will only upload a small portion of the file and may never upload the entire file. Can the RIAA successfully sue someone for redistributing 20% of a song?
Common sense would tell me no, or even if they can, that they'd only be able to sue for a fraction of the song's value. However, we all know this whole thing with the RIAA, MPAA, and copyright has little to do with common sense and the money they are suing for is massive compared to the value of the song anyways.
I wish I could remember where I read this (maybe one of NYCL's blog posts) but it seems not one court case has been brought regarding illegal downloads via bittorrent. So far, everything has been through the Gnutella and related networks.
For the ISP problem, with most bittorrent clients you can turn on variable levels of encryption. In Vuze (formerly Azureus) for example, you can have no encryption (default) all the way up to making sure you never connect to any peers or seeds that are not also using the same level of encryption.
For that matter, I've wondered lately why encryption isn't turned on by default in most clients after installation. Of course I realize that it may be a performance issue but I've never seen any numbers on the resources used when requiring encryption versus not.
I generally avoid installing toolbars like that but it is indeed nice that they provide that particular feature across browsers like that.
My previous comment wasn't really aimed at the Chrome feature itself (which I do find very useful) but at a previous post that described the IE8 information on the "New Tab" page to be "in your face". Really my point was that it is no more so than Chrome's New Tab and that really Firefox is the only one of these three that doesn't seem to have anything on their New Tab page by default.
Obviously since I got modded as Troll I probably should have found a better way to put it... maybe with a/sarcasm tag at the end of it. Oh well, I'm a Windows users on Slashdot... a Troll mod was probably inevitable:P
First off, I wouldn't assume those links really represent a list of the other "most downloaded". I suspect it is more like a list of what they consider useful related links in case you came to that page when you were really looking for something similar (like IE7).
Second, unless they've changed the functionality, uninstalling a version of IE will revert it back to the previously installed version... no need for an installer.
Indeed, they're not hard to find, because every time you open a tab, IE is up in your face about how you can use ACCELERATORS and WEB SLICES and whatever else.
I don't recommend you try Chrome, upon opening a new tab you're presented with a page showing your most often visited pages and links.... really what are these browsers thinking, giving us some useful information instead of a blank page or a 404... the NERVE!!
Frontpage and.Net have caused immeasurable damage to the web with their completely broken markup
Please, tell me what broken markup.net server controls emit.
I may be mistaken on this but I don't believe.Net server-side page controls, by default, translate into standards compliant HTML and Javascript. That is not to say they can't, with some modification, but just that they don't in a new install of Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio.
I would point out that while Frontpage has indeed left us with a rather nasty legacy in the form of many horribly written and horrible looking websites, the software itself has thankfully died and its successor is actually a pretty nice program. I was majorly skeptical when my previous employer wanted me to start using Expression Web but after using it a while I found it to be quite useful and I suspect the next versions of it with SuperPreview and all of that will be as well.
Not really being much of a Linux person myself yet, I was curious about the negative feelings I've read about for Mono, ranging from general dislike to outright hate, as I've had several people tell me that Mono is actually really cool and easy to use if you're used to doing.Net programing in general. Malevolentjelly posted this link a few days back in the Silverlight 3 post and I found it very informative:
Seriously, I've only made it a quarter of the way through this thing and I've already come to the conclusion that they could have held this conference with no new product/feature announcements and it still would have been a huge success as long as they bashed Microsoft and Windows 7 for most of it.
Posting these minute-by-minute conference updates and them appearing on the page backwards?
It seems like I just read some E3 updates laid out in the same manner last week and now I wonder if that article was from Endgadget as well or if this is becoming a common practice.
They forgot to add "My name is Time-Warner Cable, and I approve this message" at the end.
I'm getting serious deja vu here folks... seems to me we already got through a wave of this "the internet is going to burst" stuff years ago. Guess what? The internet is still going, much to the misery of some of the telecom companies that would have loved to have an internet state-of-emergency declared so they could come "rescue us" with filtering, heavy traffic shaping, and metered usage. Instead, they're trying to introduce these things behind closed doors or, when they can't like in the case of metered usage, through public tests which are being met with a lot of negative backlash.
This isn't really a technology limitation. This has nothing to do with dead websites clogging the net (LOL) and it isn't going to freeze anyone's computer.. at least not until every bit of our apps are in the cloud. This is the telecomms refusing to use money they were given for what it was for and balking at using their own profits do to it now. With little competition in most cases, these companies would like nothing better than to convince the general populace that the internet is as good as it can ever get now and that prices will need to be hiked and metered usage added to ration what we have.
And no, I don't think metered service is a good solution. I don't have any faith in these companies not to sorely abuse it. We've seen already how the ones that also manage cell service act... I don't trust them not to put a insanely inflated number on the cost of bandwidth per mb or gig (see cell text message for an example of an insanely overpriced service).
The government can't do anything better than the private sector with the exception of national defense.
In a lot of cases I'd say your right, however, this whole issue has illustrated a situation where government is doing better than the private sector.
The situation is this: the corporation in question has no realistic competition in the area, and therefore has no need to keep prices competitive for the services they offer. The prices need to only be JUST low enough to be in the "acceptable" range by most of the area's consumers. After that, they have no incentive whats-so-ever to decrease prices OR increase service.
When a government entity comes in (and remember, this one was set up by the local people and doesn't use tax money) and manages to undercut the corporation AND make a profit what does that say about the corporation?
Sure, the corporation probably could do a lot better and could probably undercut the government by a significant margin and still make a profit. The problem is, they won't. It won't look good to their share holders to make less profit (even though it still is profit) and they're far too used to working in a no-competition environment. Had this been another corporation, they'd probably attempt to buy them out, but with this being a government entity set up by the people, they'll simply try to eradicate it.
How is it different to an all you can eat restaurant who states that the sitting is a maximum of 2 hours? Unlimited doesn't mean unrestrained, out of control and glutinous.
I see what you're getting at here but by definition, if something is limited then it can't also be unlimited.
If you're sold unlimited service, then it shouldn't have limits on it. Now, I realize for most ISPs thats probably more of a buzzword to get people to pick them, but if they don't state that up-front and spell out the limitations on the not-so-unlimited "unlimited" connection, shouldn't that be false advertising?
Unlicensed investigator? It's a civil trial, "illegal evidence" applies only to criminal cases, and by government agents, not by civil parties.
Yes, but remember, the RIAA and MPAA keep calling it "stealing" which is not a civil offense. Meanwhile, if it actually was classified as "stealing" and "theft" then said investigatory practices wouldn't be allowed in the first place.
They are, essentially, trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Now, there are those that may argue that this whole debate on word usage is semantics, however it is very important in law, like so many other things, to use the correct word for what you mean. From what I understand (standard IANAL disclaimer here) "stealing" and "theft" in US law can only be applied with the original owner no longer has the property that was taken from them and therefore can no longer use it. This applies if you were to take someone's computer or, I suppose, even cut their mp3 and paste it onto your usb key and take it with you. In each case, the original owner now has property that was taken from them, without any form of compensation and that they can no longer make use of.
Copying copyrighted digital files is not "stealing" or "theft" but is actually "Copyright Infringement" which, as you pointed out, is a civil matter.
A lot of people don't understand these distinctions (part of the annoying part of US law... much of it is seems to be no longer easily understandable by the average joe) which Hollywood is at least partially to blame for since both the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe that copyright infringement is "stealing" and that ALL "file sharing" is both illegal and evil in nature.
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It can't have anything to do with the quality of the media right?
Granted, I've never been much of a Playstation person, normally I tend to enjoy more of Nintendo's lineups, but I can't recall the last time I read about a PSP game that I had even the slightest interest in.
Putting that aside for a moment, do they actually have data to support this or are they just using piracy as an excuse to explain low sales numbers?
This is just another example of how the citizens have completely lost control of their government. Elected officials no longer see themselves as being responsible to the electorate but to the corporations that fund their campaigns and posh trips. This crap needs to end. Is there anyone outside of CEOs that really agrees with the sort of copyright policy we currently have? The laws need to reflect the people's wishes rather than the politician's corporate sponsors.
Well said! The question though is: how do we change things?
There is a saying about how you don't change Washington, it changes you. Now, I'm not sure how much of Obama's campaign was about truth and how much of it was just lies he just said to get elected. I'd very much like to think he is actually going to be an instrument of change, however, he IS a politician after all. Assuming for a moment he was sincere with his campaign promises, is it even possible for one man, even the president, to change how Washington works?
The problem, I think, is that the Federal government has grown to the point where it's almost a living organism in that you can't just change small parts of it. The rest of it will eventually just exert it's influence over the changed parts or simply reject it and cut it loose.
Is it affordable? Is there a line to where I want to go? If not, will there be one in the near future or is there at least connecting services?
It's certainly an interesting idea for connecting cities. Once in a city, I think there are better transit methods (there are still lots of places that don't have these yet) like bus service, taxis, subways, or monorails. I could see these services combined with high speed rail making a change in how people travel IF it's more affordable than flying and less of a hassle.
The other thing is the current rail service in between these proposed lines. I don't know how it is now, but I know the Amtrak train that goes between Texas and Southern California used to be late constantly, up to a day in some cases, due to being considered lower priority rail traffic by Union Pacific who owns the rail. High speed may get you to one city but if the existing rail lines from there are slow or even cause you to come in late then theres a problem.
Unless you're using an absolutely ancient version of Deep Freeze, there should be an option to update the Maintenance Config file on each machine. In this config file, which is configured and deployed through the management console, you can set times for updates and even what you want the computer to do when finished (restart, shut down, etc).
What will happen is, 5 minutes or so before the scheduled update time a message will appear on each frozen PC that warns of the approaching restart. The computers will then reboot into maintenance mode which basically just means they are set to the "thawed" state (all changes will be saved). The computers do their business and then restart again back into frozen state at the designated time, this time saving all of the downloaded and updated information.
You can also have Deep Freeze talk to a server set up with WSUS. WSUS slowly downloads updates from Microsoft, and come time for the PCs to update, they can be set to talk to it instead of going out to the internet. This can decrease your time to update and network load depending on what your internet backbone is like.
All that being said, Deep Freeze can be somewhat of a pain in the butt, at least the version I've used can be. Microsoft has a similar solution to Deep Freeze now called SteadyState that does disk protection as well as fires off Automatic Updates and AV updates (with some tweaking) at specified times. It's also free, assuming you have a validated genuine copy of Windows.
Ok...so which state will the taxes be going to? The state in which the business operates out of, or the state in which the purchase was made in, or both?
Probably both. Everyone that really matters (i.e. NOT the consumer) is happy and retail stores use the "double" online sales tax as a marketing point for you to buy at their physical stores.
I can almost hear what they're thinking right now and it kinda sounds like "CHA-CHING CHA-CHING CHA-CHING".
You know, option E, where the ISPs actually upgrade their network to handle what they're selling people which they were supposed to have done years ago. I mean, weren't they provided with tax breaks and such for that?
Which reminds me, if thats true where exactly was the government/civilian oversight on that when the ISPs basically took the money and ran?
About the content, why would any IT person ever have to resort to "trust" anyone for their software compatibility? You'd almost think they can't grab a VM image of Windows7 and test their software to see if there are compatibility issues.
If I were a CIT and someone came up to me with this dribble, I would tell them to build a testbed and actually report on compatibility issues, possible savings, and so forth. Windows 7 probably won't be worth the money but deciding that before you actual evaluate it is madness.
Well said.
This is actually exactly what I'm doing now for my university campus... I'm typing this on a Windows 7 32-bit beta 7000 install right now and I've had very few compatibility problems with any of the software. A few crashes with Adobe Reader when used in pdf-in-browser mode and some stuff with Chrome (I'm using a beta version of that too).
I've used Vista at a previous job and at home... I've actually had more compatibility issues while using 2008 as a desktop os than I did with Vista Ultimate. The compatibility issues have, for the most part, long since past and any competent techie can simply load a VM of Windows 7 and test out their apps. If they don't work, fix them so they will.. it's not Microsoft's job to give you an OS that never advances or changes so that your 10 year old apps will continue to work.
Also, who wants to do upgrades instead of a clean install? You're just asking for trouble... format and a clean install generally seems to perform a lot better. If you're in a situation with a lot of computers, well, thats what Ghost or Windows Deployment Services is for.
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Agreed.
I'm starting to think its time for the next version of the web though. Let the corporations and the censorship people have the current one.. let them charge for it, corrupt it, and bend it to their purposes all they want.
We've already seen how slow most of these corporations adapt to use this new technology. Heck, it can be argued the reason why we're having all of these lawsuits and urges to expand copyright is because they are flat out unwilling to adapt or simply can't. If we come up with a new version of the web, it will probably be another 10 or 15 years before it's threatened significantly in any way.
I realize technology wise it isn't that easy, still, it would be nice to jump to a new ship and let them have the old sinking one... especially since they're the ones who were putting the holes in it in the first place.
Yes. That's how every client with 0% start out....
Yes, true, but the moment you have even one piece of that file you're also sharing. I'm wondering if it is possible to stop or pause a torrent at absolute 0% (no pieces downloaded yet) and still retrieve useful data identifying data about the seeds and peers. I'm not currently sitting at a computer where I can test this unfortunately.
HBO monitors torrents and sends cease and desist letters. A buddy of mine has quite a collection of them :)
I haven't dug into this yet but I've been curious.. is it possible to get a list of clients without actually connecting to the tracker and sharing the material yourself? I've never tried to access a tracker directly to see what information you can get from it and I know that every bittorrent client I've tried so far seems to disconnect you from seeds and peers when you "stop" a torrent download. It would be interesting to see what methods the companies use to get the information on torrrents to send out those letters as it is hardly in their interest to share their own content, even in small bits, to discover who is connecting.
With torrents (and similar), the swarm (rather than individual people) are redistributing. There are seeders, obviously, with a share ratio > 1, but many peers will only upload a small portion of the file and may never upload the entire file. Can the RIAA successfully sue someone for redistributing 20% of a song?
Common sense would tell me no, or even if they can, that they'd only be able to sue for a fraction of the song's value. However, we all know this whole thing with the RIAA, MPAA, and copyright has little to do with common sense and the money they are suing for is massive compared to the value of the song anyways.
I wish I could remember where I read this (maybe one of NYCL's blog posts) but it seems not one court case has been brought regarding illegal downloads via bittorrent. So far, everything has been through the Gnutella and related networks.
For the ISP problem, with most bittorrent clients you can turn on variable levels of encryption. In Vuze (formerly Azureus) for example, you can have no encryption (default) all the way up to making sure you never connect to any peers or seeds that are not also using the same level of encryption.
For that matter, I've wondered lately why encryption isn't turned on by default in most clients after installation. Of course I realize that it may be a performance issue but I've never seen any numbers on the resources used when requiring encryption versus not.
I generally avoid installing toolbars like that but it is indeed nice that they provide that particular feature across browsers like that.
My previous comment wasn't really aimed at the Chrome feature itself (which I do find very useful) but at a previous post that described the IE8 information on the "New Tab" page to be "in your face". Really my point was that it is no more so than Chrome's New Tab and that really Firefox is the only one of these three that doesn't seem to have anything on their New Tab page by default.
Obviously since I got modded as Troll I probably should have found a better way to put it... maybe with a /sarcasm tag at the end of it. Oh well, I'm a Windows users on Slashdot... a Troll mod was probably inevitable :P
First off, I wouldn't assume those links really represent a list of the other "most downloaded". I suspect it is more like a list of what they consider useful related links in case you came to that page when you were really looking for something similar (like IE7).
Second, unless they've changed the functionality, uninstalling a version of IE will revert it back to the previously installed version... no need for an installer.
Indeed, they're not hard to find, because every time you open a tab, IE is up in your face about how you can use ACCELERATORS and WEB SLICES and whatever else.
I don't recommend you try Chrome, upon opening a new tab you're presented with a page showing your most often visited pages and links.... really what are these browsers thinking, giving us some useful information instead of a blank page or a 404... the NERVE!!
Frontpage and .Net have caused immeasurable damage to the web with their completely broken markup
Please, tell me what broken markup .net server controls emit.
I may be mistaken on this but I don't believe .Net server-side page controls, by default, translate into standards compliant HTML and Javascript. That is not to say they can't, with some modification, but just that they don't in a new install of Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio.
I would point out that while Frontpage has indeed left us with a rather nasty legacy in the form of many horribly written and horrible looking websites, the software itself has thankfully died and its successor is actually a pretty nice program. I was majorly skeptical when my previous employer wanted me to start using Expression Web but after using it a while I found it to be quite useful and I suspect the next versions of it with SuperPreview and all of that will be as well.
Not really being much of a Linux person myself yet, I was curious about the negative feelings I've read about for Mono, ranging from general dislike to outright hate, as I've had several people tell me that Mono is actually really cool and easy to use if you're used to doing .Net programing in general. Malevolentjelly posted this link a few days back in the Silverlight 3 post and I found it very informative:
http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/rants/124/
Seriously, I've only made it a quarter of the way through this thing and I've already come to the conclusion that they could have held this conference with no new product/feature announcements and it still would have been a huge success as long as they bashed Microsoft and Windows 7 for most of it.
Apple is hip, and its hip to hate PC!
Posting these minute-by-minute conference updates and them appearing on the page backwards?
It seems like I just read some E3 updates laid out in the same manner last week and now I wonder if that article was from Endgadget as well or if this is becoming a common practice.
Damn you! Now the rest of us have to wait for a respawn!
They forgot to add "My name is Time-Warner Cable, and I approve this message" at the end.
I'm getting serious deja vu here folks... seems to me we already got through a wave of this "the internet is going to burst" stuff years ago. Guess what? The internet is still going, much to the misery of some of the telecom companies that would have loved to have an internet state-of-emergency declared so they could come "rescue us" with filtering, heavy traffic shaping, and metered usage. Instead, they're trying to introduce these things behind closed doors or, when they can't like in the case of metered usage, through public tests which are being met with a lot of negative backlash.
This isn't really a technology limitation. This has nothing to do with dead websites clogging the net (LOL) and it isn't going to freeze anyone's computer.. at least not until every bit of our apps are in the cloud. This is the telecomms refusing to use money they were given for what it was for and balking at using their own profits do to it now. With little competition in most cases, these companies would like nothing better than to convince the general populace that the internet is as good as it can ever get now and that prices will need to be hiked and metered usage added to ration what we have.
And no, I don't think metered service is a good solution. I don't have any faith in these companies not to sorely abuse it. We've seen already how the ones that also manage cell service act... I don't trust them not to put a insanely inflated number on the cost of bandwidth per mb or gig (see cell text message for an example of an insanely overpriced service).
The government can't do anything better than the private sector with the exception of national defense.
In a lot of cases I'd say your right, however, this whole issue has illustrated a situation where government is doing better than the private sector.
The situation is this: the corporation in question has no realistic competition in the area, and therefore has no need to keep prices competitive for the services they offer. The prices need to only be JUST low enough to be in the "acceptable" range by most of the area's consumers. After that, they have no incentive whats-so-ever to decrease prices OR increase service.
When a government entity comes in (and remember, this one was set up by the local people and doesn't use tax money) and manages to undercut the corporation AND make a profit what does that say about the corporation?
Sure, the corporation probably could do a lot better and could probably undercut the government by a significant margin and still make a profit. The problem is, they won't. It won't look good to their share holders to make less profit (even though it still is profit) and they're far too used to working in a no-competition environment. Had this been another corporation, they'd probably attempt to buy them out, but with this being a government entity set up by the people, they'll simply try to eradicate it.
How is it different to an all you can eat restaurant who states that the sitting is a maximum of 2 hours? Unlimited doesn't mean unrestrained, out of control and glutinous.
I see what you're getting at here but by definition, if something is limited then it can't also be unlimited.
If you're sold unlimited service, then it shouldn't have limits on it. Now, I realize for most ISPs thats probably more of a buzzword to get people to pick them, but if they don't state that up-front and spell out the limitations on the not-so-unlimited "unlimited" connection, shouldn't that be false advertising?
Just my two cents.
Unlicensed investigator? It's a civil trial, "illegal evidence" applies only to criminal cases, and by government agents, not by civil parties.
Yes, but remember, the RIAA and MPAA keep calling it "stealing" which is not a civil offense. Meanwhile, if it actually was classified as "stealing" and "theft" then said investigatory practices wouldn't be allowed in the first place.
They are, essentially, trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Now, there are those that may argue that this whole debate on word usage is semantics, however it is very important in law, like so many other things, to use the correct word for what you mean. From what I understand (standard IANAL disclaimer here) "stealing" and "theft" in US law can only be applied with the original owner no longer has the property that was taken from them and therefore can no longer use it. This applies if you were to take someone's computer or, I suppose, even cut their mp3 and paste it onto your usb key and take it with you. In each case, the original owner now has property that was taken from them, without any form of compensation and that they can no longer make use of.
Copying copyrighted digital files is not "stealing" or "theft" but is actually "Copyright Infringement" which, as you pointed out, is a civil matter.
A lot of people don't understand these distinctions (part of the annoying part of US law... much of it is seems to be no longer easily understandable by the average joe) which Hollywood is at least partially to blame for since both the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe that copyright infringement is "stealing" and that ALL "file sharing" is both illegal and evil in nature.
It can't have anything to do with the quality of the media right?
Granted, I've never been much of a Playstation person, normally I tend to enjoy more of Nintendo's lineups, but I can't recall the last time I read about a PSP game that I had even the slightest interest in.
Putting that aside for a moment, do they actually have data to support this or are they just using piracy as an excuse to explain low sales numbers?
Remember kids: Only Microsoft monopolies are bad monopolies!
/sarcasm
This is just another example of how the citizens have completely lost control of their government. Elected officials no longer see themselves as being responsible to the electorate but to the corporations that fund their campaigns and posh trips. This crap needs to end. Is there anyone outside of CEOs that really agrees with the sort of copyright policy we currently have? The laws need to reflect the people's wishes rather than the politician's corporate sponsors.
Well said! The question though is: how do we change things?
There is a saying about how you don't change Washington, it changes you. Now, I'm not sure how much of Obama's campaign was about truth and how much of it was just lies he just said to get elected. I'd very much like to think he is actually going to be an instrument of change, however, he IS a politician after all. Assuming for a moment he was sincere with his campaign promises, is it even possible for one man, even the president, to change how Washington works?
The problem, I think, is that the Federal government has grown to the point where it's almost a living organism in that you can't just change small parts of it. The rest of it will eventually just exert it's influence over the changed parts or simply reject it and cut it loose.
Is it affordable? Is there a line to where I want to go? If not, will there be one in the near future or is there at least connecting services?
It's certainly an interesting idea for connecting cities. Once in a city, I think there are better transit methods (there are still lots of places that don't have these yet) like bus service, taxis, subways, or monorails. I could see these services combined with high speed rail making a change in how people travel IF it's more affordable than flying and less of a hassle.
The other thing is the current rail service in between these proposed lines. I don't know how it is now, but I know the Amtrak train that goes between Texas and Southern California used to be late constantly, up to a day in some cases, due to being considered lower priority rail traffic by Union Pacific who owns the rail. High speed may get you to one city but if the existing rail lines from there are slow or even cause you to come in late then theres a problem.
Unless you're using an absolutely ancient version of Deep Freeze, there should be an option to update the Maintenance Config file on each machine. In this config file, which is configured and deployed through the management console, you can set times for updates and even what you want the computer to do when finished (restart, shut down, etc).
What will happen is, 5 minutes or so before the scheduled update time a message will appear on each frozen PC that warns of the approaching restart. The computers will then reboot into maintenance mode which basically just means they are set to the "thawed" state (all changes will be saved). The computers do their business and then restart again back into frozen state at the designated time, this time saving all of the downloaded and updated information.
You can also have Deep Freeze talk to a server set up with WSUS. WSUS slowly downloads updates from Microsoft, and come time for the PCs to update, they can be set to talk to it instead of going out to the internet. This can decrease your time to update and network load depending on what your internet backbone is like.
All that being said, Deep Freeze can be somewhat of a pain in the butt, at least the version I've used can be. Microsoft has a similar solution to Deep Freeze now called SteadyState that does disk protection as well as fires off Automatic Updates and AV updates (with some tweaking) at specified times. It's also free, assuming you have a validated genuine copy of Windows.
Ok...so which state will the taxes be going to? The state in which the business operates out of, or the state in which the purchase was made in, or both?
Probably both. Everyone that really matters (i.e. NOT the consumer) is happy and retail stores use the "double" online sales tax as a marketing point for you to buy at their physical stores.
I can almost hear what they're thinking right now and it kinda sounds like "CHA-CHING CHA-CHING CHA-CHING".
You know, option E, where the ISPs actually upgrade their network to handle what they're selling people which they were supposed to have done years ago. I mean, weren't they provided with tax breaks and such for that?
Which reminds me, if thats true where exactly was the government/civilian oversight on that when the ISPs basically took the money and ran?
Windows Update does not use IE and hasn't since XP. You need to get information that isn't many years out of date.
Where are my mod points when I need them? Mod parent up informative please!
He is correct.. Vista and beyond use an interface in the Control Panel which is vastly superior to the IE Windows Update. Read up here: Windows Update
About the content, why would any IT person ever have to resort to "trust" anyone for their software compatibility? You'd almost think they can't grab a VM image of Windows7 and test their software to see if there are compatibility issues.
If I were a CIT and someone came up to me with this dribble, I would tell them to build a testbed and actually report on compatibility issues, possible savings, and so forth. Windows 7 probably won't be worth the money but deciding that before you actual evaluate it is madness.
Well said.
This is actually exactly what I'm doing now for my university campus... I'm typing this on a Windows 7 32-bit beta 7000 install right now and I've had very few compatibility problems with any of the software. A few crashes with Adobe Reader when used in pdf-in-browser mode and some stuff with Chrome (I'm using a beta version of that too).
I've used Vista at a previous job and at home... I've actually had more compatibility issues while using 2008 as a desktop os than I did with Vista Ultimate. The compatibility issues have, for the most part, long since past and any competent techie can simply load a VM of Windows 7 and test out their apps. If they don't work, fix them so they will.. it's not Microsoft's job to give you an OS that never advances or changes so that your 10 year old apps will continue to work.
Also, who wants to do upgrades instead of a clean install? You're just asking for trouble... format and a clean install generally seems to perform a lot better. If you're in a situation with a lot of computers, well, thats what Ghost or Windows Deployment Services is for.