Remember, most car manufacturers would probably give cars away for free if they could have total, iron-fisted control of the sale of replacement parts.
You've probably elevated yet another bit of creationist propaganda to the top of google. Of course, most of the Google results for "bombardier beetle" appear to be creationist tripe... I imagine those guys have never read the story of the Babel fish, or they'd stop looking so hard for "proof".
It would be fabulous not to have to waste the space taken up by monitor borders in my current multimonitor setup:)
I'm pretty sure that such a thing wouldn't be MS only- it looks like a curved triple size flat panel, and probably just appears to the OS as a single 3840x1024 screen or whatever.
The one thing that is dead on is the importance of more immediately visible screen area! Financial companies have used multimonitor for quite a while, with the need for analysis of a great deal of dynamic data being paramount to their work.
Virtual desktops are of dubious use, and are more a matter of personal habit- the point of more desktop space is greater visibility, and multimonitor delivers this.
Matrox has always been aware of this need, and has served it well for years. Recently, nVidia has started to catch up, with all new Geforce chips being equipped with multimonitor capability- what facilities the actual OEM's card has is another matter, but the chip at least can handle it, encouraging more manufacturers to make multimonitor parts without having to take a risk on buying lots of multimonitor specific GPUs- so this sort of thing is bound to arrive in an office near you.
With CRTs getting cheaper and cheaper, multimonitor is within everyone's reach without breaking the bank. When flat panels come into their own, we'll get even more capability.
The one change I made to my PC setup that made my computer use more productive was to get a larger monitor. The next best thing I did was to add a second one. Online documentation is no longer a joke- it now lives on monitor 2. Now, every workstation I own has at least 2 screens.
If you've never done multimonitor before, go dig out an old PCI card (unless it's a Matrox card, you'll need to set it to init before your AGP card in the bios) and a random spare monitor, set them up on your machine, and try it. Both Windows and Linux support multimonitor very well (I've used the binary nvidia drivers under linux, and have had a great deal of success with dualhead on one card, and the recent win2k drivers have resolved their old problem with single card multimonitor.)
What a laugh- analog TV works perfectly well now. Where's the government interest? I wouldn't call just another way to put out TV a technological advance that we are direly in need of. Let the marketplace figure it out- I'd say that the reason we don't have digital TV is that those producing it aren't ready to roll it out. If they can't hash it out, does the government think there will be analog TV forever? Yeah, right. If there's a reason to have it, the manufacturers and broadcasters will figure it out. If there isn't, they won't?
It can use the filter to get any result you want, not just a binary trash/don't trash.
It puts an "X-Text-Classification" header in mails you get saying what category it determined, so that you can just write simple filter rules in whatever program you use to sort it all.
If the spammers have to jack a 75k file onto the end of their spams, suddenly they are sending 75 GB of data per spam run. This is about as stealthy as dancing naked on the piano in the middle of a wedding reception.
Also, it would only work once- the first dictionary spam I got would be marked spam and then all the junk words would get marked in the list.
Actually, I'd consider it a service on the order of the ads in the local City Paper if the banner ads were entirely limited to businesses within the access area for your ISP.
Put restrictions on their design (no flashing, no animation) and size, and I don't see why they couldn't be left on for all subscribers period.
Actually, I'm sure it cuts down on the amount of calls for connectors loosened in shipping. As long as you don't overdo it (one glob on the corner of the plug that can easily be removed with a knife will do it) it should provide protection from jostling.
On the other hand, if the integrator went berserk with the hot glue...
Let's say I'm the tech and you're the customer. The boxes aid both of us in two ways: First, so that we're sure that you've covered all your bases on your end. Second, so that I don't waste the time of the techs one level above me by trying to outguess the simple bullshit that is at the root of most problems.
To use an example from an ISP, if someone's web browser isn't working, it's extremely likely that they didn't remember to dial up to their ISP first. Not asking whether that is so is either being plain sloppy or too smart for your own good. What would you think if you waited 45 minutes for the phone tech to walk a person through checking IP configuration and registry settings and what have you when they just jogged the phone wire in the back, and didn't check that because the tech thought his kung fu was superior?
SafeDisc comes to mind as an example. Safedisc works by encrypting crucial pieces of the application (usually the main executable) and using a decryption key stored in munged sectors on the disk to get at it.
Been cracked many times in many versions, I'm afraid.
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Remember, most car manufacturers would probably give cars away for free if they could have total, iron-fisted control of the sale of replacement parts.
If they look like big gobs of random, evolved circuits, we'd better go looking for fake spaceships in the Taklamakan desert.
You've probably elevated yet another bit of creationist propaganda to the top of google. Of course, most of the Google results for "bombardier beetle" appear to be creationist tripe... I imagine those guys have never read the story of the Babel fish, or they'd stop looking so hard for "proof".
Ho ho.
It would be fabulous not to have to waste the space taken up by monitor borders in my current multimonitor setup :)
I'm pretty sure that such a thing wouldn't be MS only- it looks like a curved triple size flat panel, and probably just appears to the OS as a single 3840x1024 screen or whatever.
The one thing that is dead on is the importance of more immediately visible screen area! Financial companies have used multimonitor for quite a while, with the need for analysis of a great deal of dynamic data being paramount to their work.
Virtual desktops are of dubious use, and are more a matter of personal habit- the point of more desktop space is greater visibility, and multimonitor delivers this.
Matrox has always been aware of this need, and has served it well for years. Recently, nVidia has started to catch up, with all new Geforce chips being equipped with multimonitor capability- what facilities the actual OEM's card has is another matter, but the chip at least can handle it, encouraging more manufacturers to make multimonitor parts without having to take a risk on buying lots of multimonitor specific GPUs- so this sort of thing is bound to arrive in an office near you.
With CRTs getting cheaper and cheaper, multimonitor is within everyone's reach without breaking the bank. When flat panels come into their own, we'll get even more capability.
The one change I made to my PC setup that made my computer use more productive was to get a larger monitor. The next best thing I did was to add a second one. Online documentation is no longer a joke- it now lives on monitor 2. Now, every workstation I own has at least 2 screens.
If you've never done multimonitor before, go dig out an old PCI card (unless it's a Matrox card, you'll need to set it to init before your AGP card in the bios) and a random spare monitor, set them up on your machine, and try it. Both Windows and Linux support multimonitor very well (I've used the binary nvidia drivers under linux, and have had a great deal of success with dualhead on one card, and the recent win2k drivers have resolved their old problem with single card multimonitor.)
Everyone knows that Engineer in a Box 2 is crap. It always takes until the third release to get anything right.
No, see, the bizarro version of Clean Flicks would obviously be a company that splices frames from pornography into "family" films.
What a laugh- analog TV works perfectly well now. Where's the government interest? I wouldn't call just another way to put out TV a technological advance that we are direly in need of. Let the marketplace figure it out- I'd say that the reason we don't have digital TV is that those producing it aren't ready to roll it out. If they can't hash it out, does the government think there will be analog TV forever? Yeah, right. If there's a reason to have it, the manufacturers and broadcasters will figure it out. If there isn't, they won't?
According to opensecrets.org, they don't go for more than $7 million each. You could buy a few key states' worth and not have to worry.
Luckily, all of them are made out of plastic.
So, if someone sends you mail about which UDP ports to unblock on a firewall to play a game, you've just lost communication.
Single word "zero-tolerance" rules are unwise, to say the least.
It can use the filter to get any result you want, not just a binary trash/don't trash.
It puts an "X-Text-Classification" header in mails you get saying what category it determined, so that you can just write simple filter rules in whatever program you use to sort it all.
If the spammers have to jack a 75k file onto the end of their spams, suddenly they are sending 75 GB of data per spam run. This is about as stealthy as dancing naked on the piano in the middle of a wedding reception.
Also, it would only work once- the first dictionary spam I got would be marked spam and then all the junk words would get marked in the list.
So, if they own the damn thing, why can't they sit down and make a real implementation of it for Hotmail? I'm sure everyone involved would be happier.
Actually, I'd consider it a service on the order of the ads in the local City Paper if the banner ads were entirely limited to businesses within the access area for your ISP.
Put restrictions on their design (no flashing, no animation) and size, and I don't see why they couldn't be left on for all subscribers period.
Actually, I'm sure it cuts down on the amount of calls for connectors loosened in shipping. As long as you don't overdo it (one glob on the corner of the plug that can easily be removed with a knife will do it) it should provide protection from jostling.
On the other hand, if the integrator went berserk with the hot glue...
I happen to think the PGP identifiers are sexy.
Now that I think of it, yes, all of them.
Does that exclude Kenny G?
Unfortunately, various biotech companies would have it another way- if there's anything interesting in me, they'd like it to belong to them.
Let's say I'm the tech and you're the customer. The boxes aid both of us in two ways: First, so that we're sure that you've covered all your bases on your end. Second, so that I don't waste the time of the techs one level above me by trying to outguess the simple bullshit that is at the root of most problems.
To use an example from an ISP, if someone's web browser isn't working, it's extremely likely that they didn't remember to dial up to their ISP first. Not asking whether that is so is either being plain sloppy or too smart for your own good. What would you think if you waited 45 minutes for the phone tech to walk a person through checking IP configuration and registry settings and what have you when they just jogged the phone wire in the back, and didn't check that because the tech thought his kung fu was superior?
Corporations call you consumer, fascists call you citizen. Take your pick (neither is a fine answer.)
Look in your basement, at where your washer and dryer are plugged in. Very different.
I'm sure you did your part and warned them away, though... right?
SafeDisc comes to mind as an example. Safedisc works by encrypting crucial pieces of the application (usually the main executable) and using a decryption key stored in munged sectors on the disk to get at it.
Been cracked many times in many versions, I'm afraid.