Even with local access, a bios password should be set to make it less easy to boot from other devices.
This wouldn't be possible without access to the file system from outside of the Vista.
Bios passwords aren't impenetrable but they certainly can help a lot with physical access. Stopping physical access is all very well for servers but for end user desktop systems, that is hardly practical.
Where necessary, boot media devices could be physically restricted such as DVDROM/USB in addition to BIOS settings.
yea so how about when the adverts are stripped out of the website by adblock programs?
How are you gonna ensure the programs aren't going to be stripped of an adverts added in and then
passed around by means other than your website?
Who's going to want to download programs stuffed with adverts when they can leech them from
torrents anyway?
Why not introduce spelling and grammer level moderators. They could trawl through the forum at their leisure and correct typos, gramatical errors etc.
For the sake of where they misunderstand the meaning of a post and mis-diagnose a gramatical error, the original poster could have the option to "uncorrect" and force a post.
That way those who want to be heard a certain way can do so, those who are pissed off about spelling or grammar problems can spend their own time sorting it out for everybody's benefit. Meanwhile the people who are busy posting content and information (who may not be as well educated or as observant of their own errors etc) can get on with what they do.
So far as I can see, that way everybody is happy??
Different frequencies of sound travel further. Deep bass tends to travel particularly well.
There are times i've been out in clubs etc where the bass has been emense - so much that you can feel it thumping in your chest etc, yet you can still have a conversation with somebody standing fairly near you without shouting excessively.
Other times I've been to clubs with poor quality sound systems with music pumping out at around the 1Khz range - to which ears are most senstitive and that can be very unpleasant and even painful on the ears even though its a relatively normal volume. I would presume that different music, freqencies of sounds etc are quite a subjective thing depending on the listeners tastes too. Whether something is unpleasant or grates on your ears may not necessarily cause hearing damage.
Ok so making hydrogen needs some sort of fuel. Why not run the powerstations on biofuels? Ethanol runs cars in Mexico and Bio-diesel etc are gaining more momentum.
They plants that are grown reduce "greenhouse" emissions which are then re-produced when the plants are harvested and made into fuel that is burned. End result is largely neutral. Ok not a perfect solution compared to solar and the like, but certainly a good stop gap solution.
But then why not consider - why bother with hydrogen as a carrier at all? Why not just use biofuels until humanity finds a better fuel source. Most existing cars can be converted to run on biofuels which means this can start to help right now, rather than waiting for the development of new engine technology or fuel cell technology which seems everymore problematic.
In fairness, vinyl still has a substantial following for quite good reasons.
For one I believe the ultimate frequency range of vinyl is greater than that of CD. One theory is the frequencies at the ends of the scale which are inaudible, affect the quality of the audible elements of the music that is heard.
Super Audio CD and its ilk may improve on these factors somewhat, but many modern turntable manufacturers are still innovating and producing products that contain far more technology than the retro stuff that most people think of.
Several companies that continue to produce new designs of turntables using the latest materials and technologies include some of the following examples:
Many audiophile products deliberatly remove many components that are surplus to vital operation. For example most audiophile amplifiers do without tone controls. The theory being that any extra such devices just dirty the sound, albeit quite small. The likes of 'graphic equalisers' have the potential to cause a substantial drop in sound.
So a single LED, whilst may be an inaudible disimprovement in sound quality still may introduce some loos in sound quality.
Assuming they're not breaching any terms of conditions and use of the ISP, its hard to make any case for that action.
However as with all these sorts of stories, its probably a bit more complex than it first seems. For example there may be issues that there are probably issues regarding whether the employer would continue using the services of that ISP should they not comply with their wishes. In otherwords, financial blackmail of sorts.
The other problem was limited FTP space. Many of us were on 14.4 dialup - pretty slow. Also for many of us in Europe, local phone charges to the ISP were pretty expensive probably 1 euro per hour in todays terms so I couldnt afford to be online very long (esp as I was a student at the time)
I can remember my ISP only gave around 5 MB ftp space and often what I would do was look for "incoming" directories on public ftp servers that allowed anonymous download from same directory. Essentially free webspace. Most sites wouldnt notice the files for months - and it was a good way to share rare music at the time.
There used to be a utility from Microsoft for Windows 3.1 that allowed the internal PC speaker play wav files and other such sounds. Handy if you didnt have speakers or a soundcard. Quality was obviously rubbish, but better than nothing...
One serious problem for me back then (I had a 486 DX2 66 Mhz) was also a severe lack of disk space. I think my disk was just over 100 MB but generally speaking I would only have space to encode one track at a time from an album. I was running Windows 3.11 for workgroups which had win32s which luckily allowed me run some 32bit versions of various software of the day.
There's lots of nostalgia flooding back to many of us in this thread!
I spent many many hours using Fast Tracker 2.. I've seen nothing since thats as quick and easy to put together your own electronic music than the old trackers.
Buy your phone seperate to any network, directly from the phone manufacturer or phone retail outlet that will sell you a phone unbiased towards any network.
These phones are crippled because they probably should be more expensive but the handset's cost has been subsidised by the network operator to make them more affordable and more attractive to consumers.
So in some respects its fair game - if they provide a subsidy towards the phone's cost that they will need to reclaim that expendature back via call/data charges through their network.
the carbon dioxide is pumped into deposits under the North Sea
So they pump the CO2 into a hole in the ground instead of in the air to sidestep pollution laws. How does that really help overall? What happens to this gas long term?
Whats the point of this devlopment apart from temporarily reducing air emmissions in the direct surrounding?
Maybe i'm being cynical but it seems very much in Apple's interests to ensure that a vast quantity of popular software will work on their OS on the Intel platform.
It says more about basic commerce than support for Open Source software or the Mozilla Foundation etc.
Some organisms and some extinctions - I didn't say mass extinctions. In the context of the article, I don't think the occasional loss of something that isn't significant in the overall 'pyramid' will do us much harm in the long term.
I can appreciate the importance of animals that dont directly affect us in the food chain and nature in general etc, but the loss of the Dodo hasn't managed to topple humanity just yet. So I wouldn't get all apocalyptic about the loss of one particular sub specicies of a large rare fish that hasn't adapted well to its ever changing environment. I also do appreciate that these changes are often far slower than what humanity can throw at nature, thats where environmentalism is somewhat more important.
[i]Why type "google.com" when "google" is sufficient?[/i]
Well here's some examples. Taking google first, Google already has tld's customized to various countries around the world. I use google.ie because it has features that relate to me.
Also what about words like "government". I'm pretty sure that has a different meaning depending on where you are in the world. As it stands, most.com's and other earlier tld's related/default to USA-centric sites. I just tried government.com and guess what greets me - an American flag. The world is a bigger place and TLD's are needed to reflect those differences.
Ok whilst there probably does have to be some element of balance as humans are slightly different. there is also to consider that perhaps we should put some extinctions down to natural selection. Some organisms just don't fit with our way of life.
The catfish that remain small will perhaps survive much longer. Maybe in time they'll develop feet and crawl onto land.
The internal combustion engine will run on much more than just gasoline - it'll run on many forms of other oils, ethanol and BMW have long been pioneers in the development of Hydrogen power for the internal combustion engine.
Realistically the internal combustion engine is gonna be with us a long time yet... for all its (undeniable) deficiencies some of us still quite like it too!
I have one of those potato clocks, you can use many things - lemons for example.
The other main problem is everytime I need to change the food (which is pretty often) i have to re-set the time and date. That can get pretty annoying after a while.
So for this technology to ever be usable it would have to have a secondary power source. Maybe 2 sets of foods at different stages of composition.
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Even with local access, a bios password should be set to make it less easy to boot from other devices. This wouldn't be possible without access to the file system from outside of the Vista. Bios passwords aren't impenetrable but they certainly can help a lot with physical access. Stopping physical access is all very well for servers but for end user desktop systems, that is hardly practical. Where necessary, boot media devices could be physically restricted such as DVDROM/USB in addition to BIOS settings.
yea so how about when the adverts are stripped out of the website by adblock programs? How are you gonna ensure the programs aren't going to be stripped of an adverts added in and then passed around by means other than your website? Who's going to want to download programs stuffed with adverts when they can leech them from torrents anyway?
Why not introduce spelling and grammer level moderators. They could trawl through the forum at their leisure and correct typos, gramatical errors etc.
For the sake of where they misunderstand the meaning of a post and mis-diagnose a gramatical error, the original poster could have the option to "uncorrect" and force a post.
That way those who want to be heard a certain way can do so, those who are pissed off about spelling or grammar problems can spend their own time sorting it out for everybody's benefit. Meanwhile the people who are busy posting content and information (who may not be as well educated or as observant of their own errors etc) can get on with what they do.
So far as I can see, that way everybody is happy??
Different frequencies of sound travel further. Deep bass tends to travel particularly well.
There are times i've been out in clubs etc where the bass has been emense - so much that you can feel it thumping in your chest etc, yet you can still have a conversation with somebody standing fairly near you without shouting excessively.
Other times I've been to clubs with poor quality sound systems with music pumping out at around the 1Khz range - to which ears are most senstitive and that can be very unpleasant and even painful on the ears even though its a relatively normal volume. I would presume that different music, freqencies of sounds etc are quite a subjective thing depending on the listeners tastes too. Whether something is unpleasant or grates on your ears may not necessarily cause hearing damage.
Ok so making hydrogen needs some sort of fuel. Why not run the powerstations on biofuels? Ethanol runs cars in Mexico and Bio-diesel etc are gaining more momentum.
They plants that are grown reduce "greenhouse" emissions which are then re-produced when the plants are harvested and made into fuel that is burned. End result is largely neutral. Ok not a perfect solution compared to solar and the like, but certainly a good stop gap solution.
But then why not consider - why bother with hydrogen as a carrier at all? Why not just use biofuels until humanity finds a better fuel source. Most existing cars can be converted to run on biofuels which means this can start to help right now, rather than waiting for the development of new engine technology or fuel cell technology which seems everymore problematic.
Easily overcome with some tape over the gap, just like in an audio cassette...
In fairness, vinyl still has a substantial following for quite good reasons.
For one I believe the ultimate frequency range of vinyl is greater than that of CD. One theory is the frequencies at the ends of the scale which are inaudible, affect the quality of the audible elements of the music that is heard.
Super Audio CD and its ilk may improve on these factors somewhat, but many modern turntable manufacturers are still innovating and producing products that contain far more technology than the retro stuff that most people think of.
Several companies that continue to produce new designs of turntables using the latest materials and technologies include some of the following examples:
http://www.clearaudio.de/
http://www.project-audio.com/
http://www.rega.co.uk/
http://www.thorens.ch/
Many audiophile products deliberatly remove many components that are surplus to vital operation. For example most audiophile amplifiers do without tone controls. The theory being that any extra such devices just dirty the sound, albeit quite small.
The likes of 'graphic equalisers' have the potential to cause a substantial drop in sound.
So a single LED, whilst may be an inaudible disimprovement in sound quality still may introduce some loos in sound quality.
Assuming they're not breaching any terms of conditions and use of the ISP, its hard to make any case for that action.
However as with all these sorts of stories, its probably a bit more complex than it first seems. For example there may be issues that there are probably issues regarding whether the employer would continue using the services of that ISP should they not comply with their wishes. In otherwords, financial blackmail of sorts.
What about this one or this ?
The other problem was limited FTP space. Many of us were on 14.4 dialup - pretty slow. Also for many of us in Europe, local phone charges to the ISP were pretty expensive probably 1 euro per hour in todays terms so I couldnt afford to be online very long (esp as I was a student at the time)
I can remember my ISP only gave around 5 MB ftp space and often what I would do was look for "incoming" directories on public ftp servers that allowed anonymous download from same directory. Essentially free webspace. Most sites wouldnt notice the files for months - and it was a good way to share rare music at the time.
There used to be a utility from Microsoft for Windows 3.1 that allowed the internal PC speaker play wav files and other such sounds. Handy if you didnt have speakers or a soundcard. Quality was obviously rubbish, but better than nothing...
One serious problem for me back then (I had a 486 DX2 66 Mhz) was also a severe lack of disk space. I think my disk was just over 100 MB but generally speaking I would only have space to encode one track at a time from an album. I was running Windows 3.11 for workgroups which had win32s which luckily allowed me run some 32bit versions of various software of the day.
There's lots of nostalgia flooding back to many of us in this thread!
I spent many many hours using Fast Tracker 2..
I've seen nothing since thats as quick and easy to put together your own electronic music than the old trackers.
Buy your phone seperate to any network, directly from the phone manufacturer or phone retail outlet that will sell you a phone unbiased towards any network.
These phones are crippled because they probably should be more expensive but the handset's cost has been subsidised by the network operator to make them more affordable and more attractive to consumers.
So in some respects its fair game - if they provide a subsidy towards the phone's cost that they will need to reclaim that expendature back via call/data charges through their network.
the carbon dioxide is pumped into deposits under the North Sea
So they pump the CO2 into a hole in the ground instead of in the air to sidestep pollution laws. How does that really help overall? What happens to this gas long term?
Whats the point of this devlopment apart from temporarily reducing air emmissions in the direct surrounding?
Maybe i'm being cynical but it seems very much in Apple's interests to ensure that a vast quantity of popular software will work on their OS on the Intel platform.
It says more about basic commerce than support for Open Source software or the Mozilla Foundation etc.
Some organisms and some extinctions - I didn't say mass extinctions. In the context of the article, I don't think the occasional loss of something that isn't significant in the overall 'pyramid' will do us much harm in the long term.
I can appreciate the importance of animals that dont directly affect us in the food chain and nature in general etc, but the loss of the Dodo hasn't managed to topple humanity just yet. So I wouldn't get all apocalyptic about the loss of one particular sub specicies of a large rare fish that hasn't adapted well to its ever changing environment. I also do appreciate that these changes are often far slower than what humanity can throw at nature, thats where environmentalism is somewhat more important.
ah what I mean is the smaller ones will suvive through time in terms of future generations, not specifically ones that have a long life span.
I'm talking more about evolutionary survival of the fittest..
[i]Why type "google.com" when "google" is sufficient?[/i]
.com's and other earlier tld's related/default to USA-centric sites. I just tried government.com and guess what greets me - an American flag. The world is a bigger place and TLD's are needed to reflect those differences.
Well here's some examples. Taking google first, Google already has tld's customized to various countries around the world. I use google.ie because it has features that relate to me.
Also what about words like "government". I'm pretty sure that has a different meaning depending on where you are in the world. As it stands, most
Ok whilst there probably does have to be some element of balance as humans are slightly different. there is also to consider that perhaps we should put some extinctions down to natural selection. Some organisms just don't fit with our way of life.
The catfish that remain small will perhaps survive much longer. Maybe in time they'll develop feet and crawl onto land.
Who cares about the electronics condition though? They're useless now that the batteries are dead
so its just a floating monument...
G.
What about the programmer Lady Ada Lovelace
(as in the programming language that Ada was named after her)
G.
The internal combustion engine will run on much more than just gasoline - it'll run on many forms of other oils, ethanol and BMW have long been pioneers in the development of Hydrogen power for the internal combustion engine.
Realistically the internal combustion engine is gonna be with us a long time yet... for all its (undeniable) deficiencies some of us still quite like it too!
I have one of those potato clocks, you can use many things - lemons for example.
The other main problem is everytime I need to change the food (which is pretty often) i have to re-set the time and date. That can get pretty annoying after a while.
So for this technology to ever be usable it would have to have a secondary power source. Maybe 2 sets of foods at different stages of composition.