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Trillian 3.0 Released
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Since this morning.
Trillian 3.0 includes a Basic (free) and Pro (not free) version. The basic version feels very much like 1.0 Pro, with the odd feature from 2.0 Pro. They're done a fair amount of updating with useful little features, and they run from the same codebase now.
That's Windows File Protection putting back critical files. If you really want to get rid of it, you can delete it, and then change the permissions on the folder to Deny access to all accounts. This should work (it does with Outlook Express), though it may break things.
No, point 2 is forced by the crummy design of the software running on the OS. A lot of games have to be run at least the first time as an admin, but most productivity software can be run just fine as Users or Power Users. It's frustrating to me when I look at a game support site and see things about running them as admins.
It's not a possibility. It's a veritable certainty. We'll know about the launch from the thermal bloom detected by satellites. We'll be tracking it within seconds of launch from South Korea and Japan. We'll know its rough target area withing a few minutes. The interceptors will be launched, and before they even impact, one or more ICBMs and/or SLBMs will probably be on the way to the source.
I'm a big backer of a strong military, and I don't care for this. It's window dressing. This is designed to deal with inbounds from two countries, namely China and North Korea. Maybe Iran would be able to pull this off. All of those countries know that launching one at the US would probably result in a nuclear blanketing of their nation's military bases. North Korea's Kim may be crazy enough to do this in a last-gasp kind of thing, but the others are probably smart enough to not do it to begin with, rendering this system moot.
I haven't stepped foot in an Old Navy store since they started that ridiculous ad campaign a few years ago, and I won't until they end it. Several other stores have lost my business because their ads are so incredibly stupid. I generally ignore most ads, so it's only those that end up somehow pushed in my face or in possession of extreme lameness that make it through.
One of the things that I've done for fast food places that use canned messages at their drive-throughs ("Welcome to Bob's Burgers! Would you like to try our new Super Burger with Cheese today?") is to consciously avoid buying whatever they bring up (which can be somewhat disappointing if that's what I was planning to buy) and make sure they know what I think about it. It's both annoying that I have to see the ads on the order board and listen to another nearly unintelligible ad, and disconcerting that I hear one voice open the order process and another one carry it through. They're usually pretty understanding about it, and the crew is also almost always sympathetic -- I can see it on their faces that they're not fond of it, either. It's a small victory, but one of the local Taco Bells has stopped doing that because they've gotten so many complaints about them.
On the other hand, stores with clever commercials will garner my attention, and I will strongly consider shopping there, if only to provide them the impetus to continue those commercials. I can think of two cases of radio advertisements where this has worked at a larger level. A local (to Los Angeles) mattress chain, Sit'N'Sleep, had a popular character in it named Irwin, who played the over-worked accountant to the ever-price-cutting company owner. They retired the character a few months ago, but recently brought him back by popular demand. The gruff-voiced telemarketer for Mitsubishi is another one that went away for a few months and was brought back by customer demand.
Good commercials generate their own talk. (Unfortunately, sometimes bad commercials do, too.) This can build an unconscious brand loyalty as they stick in customers' minds and come up when the customer is thinking about buying something from that class of goods.
You were close. It's "ex post facto," and it deals with laws making things criminal after the fact, something expressly forbidden in the Constitution. For example, if someone violated a copyright while it was still covered purely under civil laws, and then later a law came into effect making that copyright infringement a criminal violation, as long as the person were not continuing to commit the violation after the act becomes criminal, he can only be pursued under the original civil law, and cannot be prosecuted criminally.
When laws are blocked by the courts from being enforced, this has the effect of preventing further actions to uphold them, but does not necessarily relieve those who have been convicted of violating them in the past. Except for temporary stays during considerations of constitutionality, this is a fairly rare occurence.
When laws are overturned by the courts, then all those who have been affected by them are relieved of whatever sentences have been applied. The clearest example of this was the overturning of the death penalty by the Supreme Court in 1972. At that time, all death sentences were commuted to life in prison because the death penalty, as it had been enforced until then, was found to be unconstitutional. This is also a good example of the ex post facto concept, as those who had their sentences commuted could not be resentenced under the new death penalty laws, because their crimes were committed before the new penalty laws went into effect.
Hey, I'm not the one in control of things. It took one of the teams nearly a year to roll out a Windows 2003 Active Directory architecture, and there's still another 3-5 months until Exchange 2003 gets rolled out. In the meantime, half of our monitoring software is at least a year out of date, and sometimes much more. Most of the network isn't even on AD yet, instead running on older NT-style domains.
Believe me, I understand planned rollouts, but this place takes the cake on time to do it.
Some companies do, and most of them are fairly large. My employer probably won't have SUS ready for a few more months, and by that time, WUS (Microsoft needs to smack whoever named that) will be getting ready for release. Most companies just let Windows Update handle things.
Unlikely, as even Microsoft wouldn't consider this a critical update, which is the only thing that AutoUpdate downloads. If they tried that, they'd have thousands of large corporate customers ticked off that this had been dropped onto their systems without their consent.
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USB Key Multitool?
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You'd wear it out pretty fast. Flash drives only support a certain number of writes (100,000 per sector, IIRC), which sounds like a lot -- and it is for most uses of the devices. But when used as a hard drive, temp files can eat up those writes very quickly. If you could ensure that you were avoiding unnecessary writing, you might be able to pull it off, but it might not be worth it in the long run.
Does it update as files or e-mails are removed? This is an issue that I have with the current Google tool, and one that may well get all of the newer desktop search tools banned from my employer's network.
The idea is nominally good, but California especially (and probably other states) have a problem in that the deserts are home to numerous endangered species. Of particular note is the Mojave desert tortoise, though I'm not sure why they're endangered because it's a rare time I've gone to the desert (been going for almost 25 years) and not seen several. Because of this, major projects are extremely difficult to get pushed through, and projects that cover a total of hundreds of square miles would be almost impossible because of the damage that would be done to the ecology of the area.
Note: Some experts have suggested that a theoretical 100-mile-square (10,000 square mile) solar plant would provide all of the energy needed to power the US. Total desert area across the three main deserts in the southwest US is somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 square miles. For the cost of 4% to 5% of the desert area, we could stop virtually all of the direct power-related pollution, although this would mean ramping up the solar industry to unheard-of levels.
I'm on my third phone with Nextel, and not once have the chips been movable to the new phone. There are ways to transfer the data, but swapping chips does not seem to be one of them, unless it's the same model, or perhaps very nearly so.
This is a minority of users. I've used Nextels at two jobs now, and experienced it at two where others used them, and they can be extremely convenient when in places where it's difficult to get a phone set up, and inconvenient to run an earpiece.
In addition, Nextel's PTT (dunno about Verizon's) can be used for group communication, where one person sends a message to multiple people, which can be used to get a response from first available, or just to get a message out to many scattered workers. This is especially useful on construction sites, where, for example, all of the foremen can be contacted in one shot.
I did address that in another post, but that particular market is even smaller -- an eighth the size of the PV market. And the company that set up the solar plants in California's Mojave desert using variations on this went bankrupt in 1992 (although at least some of the plants continue to produce power). However, we're talking about 150MW in 1000 acres -- a very low area efficiency compared to other methods (San Onofre generates 2000MW in 84 acres using two nuclear reactors). To achieve comparable output, even at double the efficiency, would require a station covering 6700 acres, or more than ten square miles.
Bill Hicks sometimes reminded me of a lower-volume version of Sam Kinison. Go back and re-read that, but put Kinison's voice (and about two dozen more expletives) in your mind instead.
No offense, but this exactly the same rhetoric that has been bandied about for more than 30 years. The pipeline has operated since 1977 with a pretty good overall record for safety and reliability. There have been some incidents, but they have been relatively minor and have been cleaned up soon after they happened.
The harshness that would come down would not be from the federal government, but from the state of Alaska. Even the Republicans there are fiercely protective of that environment, and the last thing one of the oil companies there wants is to lose their drilling permits because of state complaints. You seem to be suggesting that the Republican -- not solely neo-conservative -- rise to power would result in all kinds of wanton waste and spillage due to the lifting of regulations, when the reality is that even in the earlier ANWR vote, there were some misgivings among numerous Republicans, though most of them voted for it. They're not all evil, money-grubbing profiteers eager to exploit every possible dollar.
Your mention of stockholders brings up another point. Stockholders are beginning to wield much more influence on major corporations. Ethics are slowly becoming a major focus, and those that are unethical are often faced with stockholders grumbling about revolt and changing the board, or else selling off in favor of supporting those companies of whose ethics they do approve.
The world isn't hungry because there's not enough food. It's hungry because that food doesn't get to where it's needed, either because of a lack of infrastructure or corrupt governments (which often lead to the former anyway).
While Bhopal was certainly an clear example of corporate negligence, it is a very extreme one. The oil companies involved in Alaska (largely Unocal and BP, IIRC) are, as companies, quite protective of the area. Most of the executives who had been at the company where I worked for at least a couple of years had been up there at least once and marveled at the beauty of the landscape. The pipeline, the pipeline's pumping stations, and the wellsites are very, very well maintained, and leaks and spills are cleaned up by the company in charge of the site, or by the cooperative that runs the pipeline.
The oil industry has a good relationship with the state, and any negligence would almost certainly be dealt with harshly.
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Trillian 3.0 includes a Basic (free) and Pro (not free) version. The basic version feels very much like 1.0 Pro, with the odd feature from 2.0 Pro. They're done a fair amount of updating with useful little features, and they run from the same codebase now.
That's Windows File Protection putting back critical files. If you really want to get rid of it, you can delete it, and then change the permissions on the folder to Deny access to all accounts. This should work (it does with Outlook Express), though it may break things.
No, point 2 is forced by the crummy design of the software running on the OS. A lot of games have to be run at least the first time as an admin, but most productivity software can be run just fine as Users or Power Users. It's frustrating to me when I look at a game support site and see things about running them as admins.
It's not a possibility. It's a veritable certainty. We'll know about the launch from the thermal bloom detected by satellites. We'll be tracking it within seconds of launch from South Korea and Japan. We'll know its rough target area withing a few minutes. The interceptors will be launched, and before they even impact, one or more ICBMs and/or SLBMs will probably be on the way to the source.
I'm a big backer of a strong military, and I don't care for this. It's window dressing. This is designed to deal with inbounds from two countries, namely China and North Korea. Maybe Iran would be able to pull this off. All of those countries know that launching one at the US would probably result in a nuclear blanketing of their nation's military bases. North Korea's Kim may be crazy enough to do this in a last-gasp kind of thing, but the others are probably smart enough to not do it to begin with, rendering this system moot.
I thought it was "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Or at least, Teddy Roosevelt's original version was.
You can also get a 256MB embedded flash version for $140.
I said "continuing to commit the violation," which could be things like playing songs in a commercial setting without paying royalties.
Stop thinking in such narrow terms.
I haven't stepped foot in an Old Navy store since they started that ridiculous ad campaign a few years ago, and I won't until they end it. Several other stores have lost my business because their ads are so incredibly stupid. I generally ignore most ads, so it's only those that end up somehow pushed in my face or in possession of extreme lameness that make it through.
One of the things that I've done for fast food places that use canned messages at their drive-throughs ("Welcome to Bob's Burgers! Would you like to try our new Super Burger with Cheese today?") is to consciously avoid buying whatever they bring up (which can be somewhat disappointing if that's what I was planning to buy) and make sure they know what I think about it. It's both annoying that I have to see the ads on the order board and listen to another nearly unintelligible ad, and disconcerting that I hear one voice open the order process and another one carry it through. They're usually pretty understanding about it, and the crew is also almost always sympathetic -- I can see it on their faces that they're not fond of it, either. It's a small victory, but one of the local Taco Bells has stopped doing that because they've gotten so many complaints about them.
On the other hand, stores with clever commercials will garner my attention, and I will strongly consider shopping there, if only to provide them the impetus to continue those commercials. I can think of two cases of radio advertisements where this has worked at a larger level. A local (to Los Angeles) mattress chain, Sit'N'Sleep, had a popular character in it named Irwin, who played the over-worked accountant to the ever-price-cutting company owner. They retired the character a few months ago, but recently brought him back by popular demand. The gruff-voiced telemarketer for Mitsubishi is another one that went away for a few months and was brought back by customer demand.
Good commercials generate their own talk. (Unfortunately, sometimes bad commercials do, too.) This can build an unconscious brand loyalty as they stick in customers' minds and come up when the customer is thinking about buying something from that class of goods.
You were close. It's "ex post facto," and it deals with laws making things criminal after the fact, something expressly forbidden in the Constitution. For example, if someone violated a copyright while it was still covered purely under civil laws, and then later a law came into effect making that copyright infringement a criminal violation, as long as the person were not continuing to commit the violation after the act becomes criminal, he can only be pursued under the original civil law, and cannot be prosecuted criminally.
When laws are blocked by the courts from being enforced, this has the effect of preventing further actions to uphold them, but does not necessarily relieve those who have been convicted of violating them in the past. Except for temporary stays during considerations of constitutionality, this is a fairly rare occurence.
When laws are overturned by the courts, then all those who have been affected by them are relieved of whatever sentences have been applied. The clearest example of this was the overturning of the death penalty by the Supreme Court in 1972. At that time, all death sentences were commuted to life in prison because the death penalty, as it had been enforced until then, was found to be unconstitutional. This is also a good example of the ex post facto concept, as those who had their sentences commuted could not be resentenced under the new death penalty laws, because their crimes were committed before the new penalty laws went into effect.
Hey, I'm not the one in control of things. It took one of the teams nearly a year to roll out a Windows 2003 Active Directory architecture, and there's still another 3-5 months until Exchange 2003 gets rolled out. In the meantime, half of our monitoring software is at least a year out of date, and sometimes much more. Most of the network isn't even on AD yet, instead running on older NT-style domains.
Believe me, I understand planned rollouts, but this place takes the cake on time to do it.
Some companies do, and most of them are fairly large. My employer probably won't have SUS ready for a few more months, and by that time, WUS (Microsoft needs to smack whoever named that) will be getting ready for release. Most companies just let Windows Update handle things.
Especially since most of them have icons for all 168 programs and 2978 files they've made sitting right there...
Unlikely, as even Microsoft wouldn't consider this a critical update, which is the only thing that AutoUpdate downloads. If they tried that, they'd have thousands of large corporate customers ticked off that this had been dropped onto their systems without their consent.
You'd wear it out pretty fast. Flash drives only support a certain number of writes (100,000 per sector, IIRC), which sounds like a lot -- and it is for most uses of the devices. But when used as a hard drive, temp files can eat up those writes very quickly. If you could ensure that you were avoiding unnecessary writing, you might be able to pull it off, but it might not be worth it in the long run.
Does it update as files or e-mails are removed? This is an issue that I have with the current Google tool, and one that may well get all of the newer desktop search tools banned from my employer's network.
The idea is nominally good, but California especially (and probably other states) have a problem in that the deserts are home to numerous endangered species. Of particular note is the Mojave desert tortoise, though I'm not sure why they're endangered because it's a rare time I've gone to the desert (been going for almost 25 years) and not seen several. Because of this, major projects are extremely difficult to get pushed through, and projects that cover a total of hundreds of square miles would be almost impossible because of the damage that would be done to the ecology of the area.
Note: Some experts have suggested that a theoretical 100-mile-square (10,000 square mile) solar plant would provide all of the energy needed to power the US. Total desert area across the three main deserts in the southwest US is somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 square miles. For the cost of 4% to 5% of the desert area, we could stop virtually all of the direct power-related pollution, although this would mean ramping up the solar industry to unheard-of levels.
I'm on my third phone with Nextel, and not once have the chips been movable to the new phone. There are ways to transfer the data, but swapping chips does not seem to be one of them, unless it's the same model, or perhaps very nearly so.
This is a minority of users. I've used Nextels at two jobs now, and experienced it at two where others used them, and they can be extremely convenient when in places where it's difficult to get a phone set up, and inconvenient to run an earpiece.
In addition, Nextel's PTT (dunno about Verizon's) can be used for group communication, where one person sends a message to multiple people, which can be used to get a response from first available, or just to get a message out to many scattered workers. This is especially useful on construction sites, where, for example, all of the foremen can be contacted in one shot.
It's going to peak around nine billion, and then start sliding back (source).
I did address that in another post, but that particular market is even smaller -- an eighth the size of the PV market. And the company that set up the solar plants in California's Mojave desert using variations on this went bankrupt in 1992 (although at least some of the plants continue to produce power). However, we're talking about 150MW in 1000 acres -- a very low area efficiency compared to other methods (San Onofre generates 2000MW in 84 acres using two nuclear reactors). To achieve comparable output, even at double the efficiency, would require a station covering 6700 acres, or more than ten square miles.
Bill Hicks sometimes reminded me of a lower-volume version of Sam Kinison. Go back and re-read that, but put Kinison's voice (and about two dozen more expletives) in your mind instead.
We miss Sam, too.
No offense, but this exactly the same rhetoric that has been bandied about for more than 30 years. The pipeline has operated since 1977 with a pretty good overall record for safety and reliability. There have been some incidents, but they have been relatively minor and have been cleaned up soon after they happened.
The harshness that would come down would not be from the federal government, but from the state of Alaska. Even the Republicans there are fiercely protective of that environment, and the last thing one of the oil companies there wants is to lose their drilling permits because of state complaints. You seem to be suggesting that the Republican -- not solely neo-conservative -- rise to power would result in all kinds of wanton waste and spillage due to the lifting of regulations, when the reality is that even in the earlier ANWR vote, there were some misgivings among numerous Republicans, though most of them voted for it. They're not all evil, money-grubbing profiteers eager to exploit every possible dollar.
Your mention of stockholders brings up another point. Stockholders are beginning to wield much more influence on major corporations. Ethics are slowly becoming a major focus, and those that are unethical are often faced with stockholders grumbling about revolt and changing the board, or else selling off in favor of supporting those companies of whose ethics they do approve.
The world isn't hungry because there's not enough food. It's hungry because that food doesn't get to where it's needed, either because of a lack of infrastructure or corrupt governments (which often lead to the former anyway).
While Bhopal was certainly an clear example of corporate negligence, it is a very extreme one. The oil companies involved in Alaska (largely Unocal and BP, IIRC) are, as companies, quite protective of the area. Most of the executives who had been at the company where I worked for at least a couple of years had been up there at least once and marveled at the beauty of the landscape. The pipeline, the pipeline's pumping stations, and the wellsites are very, very well maintained, and leaks and spills are cleaned up by the company in charge of the site, or by the cooperative that runs the pipeline.
The oil industry has a good relationship with the state, and any negligence would almost certainly be dealt with harshly.
He saved them from vermicious knids and wangdoodles. This is Wonka 101.
Now go to your room until you can properly recite the facts!