That's not what a project manager does - if anything, that's a subset of what a lead programmer or technical lead would do. Project managers generally know nothing about code.
I don't believe that the services that iTunes install phone home (although I could be wrong), but iTunes does indeed install a service that runs all the time (ie whether you're using iTunes or not). This is the "iPodService", that is described as being "iPod hardware management services". If you stop it, iTunes restarts it. If you set it to disabled then run iTunes as an admin, it sets it back to manual and starts it. At install time, it's set to automatic - ie it runs when Windows starts.
I wouldn't mind, but I don't own an iPod and so for me this is just a pointless waste of resources. Imho there ought to be a config option to allow you to specify that you don't have an iPod and so won't be needing the service, but it appears that that was too much to ask for.
Strictly speaking, win-d is "show desktop", not "go to desktop" - the difference being obvious when you try it in an explorer or file chooser window which, as you mention, disappears, rather than navigating to the desktop.
So I say go ahead, Microsoft, take your ball and go home (or at least don't let them play with it a little while) so that these power-tripping politicians can understand the consquences on their actions.
And what exactly would those consequences be, other than MS locking itself out of a huge and growing market? Were this to happen, we'd just keep on using XP. If MS went all the way and refused to sell any copies of any of their software, there's a real chance that affected EU member states would simply (temporarily) revoke MS's copyrights - remember that these are granted by the government for the good of society as a whole. If society is better served by ignoring a particular copyright, then it should be ignored.
By burning the files to CD, or copying them across the network.
If they're protected, you have to contact iTMS to authorise the target machine to play the tune, but that takes a click or two and does not involve downloading the entire song again.
I hate spam because some lowlife scum-sucking excuse for a human being decided to use my domain in the forged From: header of their spam. I now get in excess of 1500 spams, viruses, bounces and various other crap every single day. It takes me time to deal with it all, and there is a small but real chance that my spam filters will falsely tag a mail I want as spam and I'll miss it.
Before this shit-eating moron did this, I got maybe a couple of dozen spams a week, and I couldn't care less about them.
That's my issue with spam; other people's mileage may vary.
That's a rather poor analogy - the dealer is actually on US soil at the time, after all.
Now, if US citizens were, say, flying to Amsterdam, buying pot, and bringing it back into the country, I'd be in favour of leaving the dealers alone and arresting the users for possession, yes.
50 years ago kids did stuff they shouldn't, 1000 years ago they did, even today they do. That's because it's what kids do.
I agree, but with one slight correction - doing things they shouldn't is what people do. Kids just do it in more obvious, blatant ways that annoy more people and put themselves in more danger.
Please tell me you don't seriously think that there are 2.5billion mobiles in the US alone. You do realise that that's almost enough for half the planet's population, or about 10 for every single person in the US, right?
You forgot to mention that you also have the right to request/demand a copy of all information held about you, and that the company must provide it for a reasonable fee; I *think* that there is a limit on that charge of £10 or £20 or so, to cover administrative costs, although I'm not 100% certain.
are often properly configured with a local caching DNS server
I don't know about Vista, but one of the services that runs by default in XP is the "DNS Client" service. This is actually rather poorly named, as it is in fact a DNS caching service.
So, while I can't speak for Vista, XP definitely ships with a DNS caching service enabled by default in both Home and Pro; I can't imagine that Vista would be any different.
That's a really bad analogy. The facebook issue makes certain information more obvious on facebook; your issue moves the information from one place (the records office) to another (the front of your house).
A better analogy would be if, in the records office, they put up a list of recent DUI convictions on a notice board.
Except of course that if it is your API/library, you own the copyright and are perfectly free to release it under more than one licence. That is, you can release a GPLed version, and a non-GPLed version that you incorporate into similarly closed code.
While that won't set it permanently, if he modifies the shortcut that might be an acceptable workaround, providing he always uses the shortcut to launch the program (so no double-clicking on associated files).
Of course, this is ignoring the fact that "promoting hate" should not be a crime in the country Google hails from.
While that's true, it doesn't prevent google from providing the requested information if they wish to, it merely means that they (presumably) cannot be compelled to do so.
Yes. Sometimes the best technical solution to a problem is to write software to enable a human to work on it, rather than attacking it with software directly. This is one of those cases.
It would be trivial to set this sort of thing up - simply have a page enabling people to sign up for their free porn (or whatever), and display the captcha image from the target site. When the person submits their answer, use it as part of your response to the target site.
So MP3 may become AS free as Ogg, but Ogg is already available under the most liberal conditions possible. Licensing restrictions are not an excuse for not using it.
No, they're not - but for me, 16+GB of music in mp3 format and ~300MB in ogg is an excuse. I have a player capable of playing both, but simply don't have the time or the inclination to convert my library from mp3 to ogg.
As far as I know, IE still keeps the browsing history in index.dat which cannot be deleted because it is locked by Windows.
It's locked by Explorer, and Browzar *is* Explorer. Besides which, you don't want to delete it, just save an empty version.
Quite apart from that, if I were writing something like this, my first attempt would just involve telling IE not to save history in the first place (assuming that's possible).
As someone else already said, it depends on the council. Mine provides orange plastic bin bags for recyclable waste, and will collect paper, card, most plastics, cans, etc. They won't take glass, but there are large metal "bins" (roughly 6 feet cubed) a short walk away for glass. (Luckily for me, they're on the way to the station - I literally pass them twice a day every week day)
No I've not. First of all, the seller is not a victim at all. He's a crook.
I can only think that the OP meant the (rightful) owner - clearly the seller is a crook, but he's right, there are definitely two victims in this. More, if the purchaser has a family.
But that requires that someone occupy (possess) the property adversely, exclusively and openly for several years without any action taken by the rightful owner.
I believe that here in the UK (at least), the colloquial name for that Squatter's Rights. A quick google suggests that the required period is around 12 years.
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That's not what a project manager does - if anything, that's a subset of what a lead programmer or technical lead would do. Project managers generally know nothing about code.
I don't believe that the services that iTunes install phone home (although I could be wrong), but iTunes does indeed install a service that runs all the time (ie whether you're using iTunes or not). This is the "iPodService", that is described as being "iPod hardware management services". If you stop it, iTunes restarts it. If you set it to disabled then run iTunes as an admin, it sets it back to manual and starts it. At install time, it's set to automatic - ie it runs when Windows starts.
I wouldn't mind, but I don't own an iPod and so for me this is just a pointless waste of resources. Imho there ought to be a config option to allow you to specify that you don't have an iPod and so won't be needing the service, but it appears that that was too much to ask for.
Strictly speaking, win-d is "show desktop", not "go to desktop" - the difference being obvious when you try it in an explorer or file chooser window which, as you mention, disappears, rather than navigating to the desktop.
So I say go ahead, Microsoft, take your ball and go home (or at least don't let them play with it a little while) so that these power-tripping politicians can understand the consquences on their actions.
And what exactly would those consequences be, other than MS locking itself out of a huge and growing market? Were this to happen, we'd just keep on using XP. If MS went all the way and refused to sell any copies of any of their software, there's a real chance that affected EU member states would simply (temporarily) revoke MS's copyrights - remember that these are granted by the government for the good of society as a whole. If society is better served by ignoring a particular copyright, then it should be ignored.
So that means you only get to "own" it for the 6 months before your windows tanks and you have to reinstall?
If your Windows install tanks every 6 months, you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer as you're clearly a danger to them...
By burning the files to CD, or copying them across the network.
If they're protected, you have to contact iTMS to authorise the target machine to play the tune, but that takes a click or two and does not involve downloading the entire song again.
I hate spam because some lowlife scum-sucking excuse for a human being decided to use my domain in the forged From: header of their spam. I now get in excess of 1500 spams, viruses, bounces and various other crap every single day. It takes me time to deal with it all, and there is a small but real chance that my spam filters will falsely tag a mail I want as spam and I'll miss it.
Before this shit-eating moron did this, I got maybe a couple of dozen spams a week, and I couldn't care less about them.
That's my issue with spam; other people's mileage may vary.
People have been saying that since at least the 60s - ie, 40 years ago.
It should've happened twice over by now.
That's a rather poor analogy - the dealer is actually on US soil at the time, after all.
Now, if US citizens were, say, flying to Amsterdam, buying pot, and bringing it back into the country, I'd be in favour of leaving the dealers alone and arresting the users for possession, yes.
50 years ago kids did stuff they shouldn't, 1000 years ago they did, even today they do. That's because it's what kids do.
I agree, but with one slight correction - doing things they shouldn't is what people do. Kids just do it in more obvious, blatant ways that annoy more people and put themselves in more danger.
40Mb?! That's only 5MB - my phone has more RAM than that!
Please tell me you don't seriously think that there are 2.5billion mobiles in the US alone. You do realise that that's almost enough for half the planet's population, or about 10 for every single person in the US, right?
You forgot to mention that you also have the right to request/demand a copy of all information held about you, and that the company must provide it for a reasonable fee; I *think* that there is a limit on that charge of £10 or £20 or so, to cover administrative costs, although I'm not 100% certain.
are often properly configured with a local caching DNS server
I don't know about Vista, but one of the services that runs by default in XP is the "DNS Client" service. This is actually rather poorly named, as it is in fact a DNS caching service.
So, while I can't speak for Vista, XP definitely ships with a DNS caching service enabled by default in both Home and Pro; I can't imagine that Vista would be any different.
[XP is] still no where near Linux for server stability
If you want to run Windows on a server, choose a version with Server in the name. XP (both flavours) is a desktop OS.
This is, of course, accomplished by EOLing past versions
Not to sound like an MS fanboi, but I'm not aware of any company that doesn't EOL its old products at some point.
That's a really bad analogy. The facebook issue makes certain information more obvious on facebook; your issue moves the information from one place (the records office) to another (the front of your house).
A better analogy would be if, in the records office, they put up a list of recent DUI convictions on a notice board.
own API or library = not okay
Except of course that if it is your API/library, you own the copyright and are perfectly free to release it under more than one licence. That is, you can release a GPLed version, and a non-GPLed version that you incorporate into similarly closed code.
While that won't set it permanently, if he modifies the shortcut that might be an acceptable workaround, providing he always uses the shortcut to launch the program (so no double-clicking on associated files).
Of course, this is ignoring the fact that "promoting hate" should not be a crime in the country Google hails from.
While that's true, it doesn't prevent google from providing the requested information if they wish to, it merely means that they (presumably) cannot be compelled to do so.
Yes. Sometimes the best technical solution to a problem is to write software to enable a human to work on it, rather than attacking it with software directly. This is one of those cases.
It would be trivial to set this sort of thing up - simply have a page enabling people to sign up for their free porn (or whatever), and display the captcha image from the target site. When the person submits their answer, use it as part of your response to the target site.
So MP3 may become AS free as Ogg, but Ogg is already available under the most liberal conditions possible. Licensing restrictions are not an excuse for not using it.
No, they're not - but for me, 16+GB of music in mp3 format and ~300MB in ogg is an excuse. I have a player capable of playing both, but simply don't have the time or the inclination to convert my library from mp3 to ogg.
As far as I know, IE still keeps the browsing history in index.dat which cannot be deleted because it is locked by Windows.
It's locked by Explorer, and Browzar *is* Explorer. Besides which, you don't want to delete it, just save an empty version.
Quite apart from that, if I were writing something like this, my first attempt would just involve telling IE not to save history in the first place (assuming that's possible).
As someone else already said, it depends on the council. Mine provides orange plastic bin bags for recyclable waste, and will collect paper, card, most plastics, cans, etc. They won't take glass, but there are large metal "bins" (roughly 6 feet cubed) a short walk away for glass. (Luckily for me, they're on the way to the station - I literally pass them twice a day every week day)
No I've not. First of all, the seller is not a victim at all. He's a crook.
I can only think that the OP meant the (rightful) owner - clearly the seller is a crook, but he's right, there are definitely two victims in this. More, if the purchaser has a family.
But that requires that someone occupy (possess) the property adversely, exclusively and openly for several years without any action taken by the rightful owner.
I believe that here in the UK (at least), the colloquial name for that Squatter's Rights. A quick google suggests that the required period is around 12 years.