Feedly aggregates the news sources I care about through RSS- it's just as great as it was years ago, and I'm happy to be a paying customer to ensure that it continues to work for years to come!
In response to the lawsuit, studios will begin overlaying legal weasel-phrases like "scheduled to appear" and "no similarity to actual movies, created or uncreated, is implied".
Only thing that makes Facebook remotely tolerable is being able to quickly scroll/skim - same reason I love blogs and dislike podcasts. If I can't skim the content quickly, I'll be looking elsewhere for it.
Ultimately, it's nearly impossible to predict market forces and corporate decisions. You made a good choice in both cases based on the information available. There were good communities and significant momentum behind both frameworks at the time. You could post-mortem the decisions endlessly and surely find "signs" that you could use when evaluating for next time, but guaranteed there will be different forces in play when (not if) it happens again. Don't beat yourself up about it, and don't let anyone else, either.
Hmm, sounds like the logical next step is a dating service to match those traits. Who's doing the cyber-squatting for 23harmony.com and eugenicsmingle.com?
I've never found overclocking to be worth the trouble. Anytime there's a stability issue with an overclocked PC, there's always that nagging doubt that all my troubleshooting is for naught, because it was a fluke bit fail due to the overclocking. Life's too short- skip the anxiety and run your processor at it's rated speed.
Nice thought, but a majority of the Metro UI has been around since at least 2007 on Windows Media Center/Vista (including the fonts, a proto-version of the tiles, and many other familiar elements).
Multi-monitor Remote Desktop (which kicks the hell out of anything else for performance), PPTP/L2TP/SSTP VPN in the box, fast-user switching- what more do you need to make an OS "conducive for telecommuting"? Works fantastically for me...
Except for those that are *part* of the "dying media industry" (think Comcast/NBC Universal and TimeWarner). Same kinds of internal conflict that Sony has for being a provider of devices that can infringe on copyright and a producer of copyrighted content. Guess which side wins (have a look at Sony's crippled devices)?
"Insightful?".NET's not interpreted- get your facts straight. People can write crap in every environment- give.NET to a skilled dev that understands where its power lies, and he'll build you something incredible, performant, and do it quickly. Give it to an idiot, and you'll see the same crap the idiot would write in C++ or any other language, you'll just probably see the end result a little sooner.
"If someone alters your password not through the normal password change process (i.e. an Administrator uses 'reset password'), you lose access to your private keys, and thus your encrypted files."
This is only true for local (eg, non-domain) accounts. Domain account passwords can be changed administratively without affecting the keys.
As an Oregon resident, I first got wind of this about six months ago... Privacy was my first thought as well. Thankfully, the system they're looking at can't track vehicles in realtime, as it's a GPS receiver unit only. There is no transmitter.
My guess is that, no matter how well designed, this system is doomed from the start- it's just too complex for John Q. Taxpayer to understand. People in Oregon, just like the rest of the country, don't like new taxes. That's why we've managed to be one of the last holdouts for no sales tax, and we just soundly defeated a Canadian-style universal healthcare bill that would have laid ruin to the state's economy.
I'm assuming that's the same Kermit Woodall of SIDPlayer fame? For the C64-challenged, SIDPlayer was pretty much the 80's equivalent of WinAmp. Amazing what you could do with 3 voices. I always wondered what he'd been up to...
Actually, maybe this will push some companies to create a Windows flasher- there's been support for the "Microcode update device" in Windows for some time for doing firmware updates of many kinds. I've only seen a couple of devices that took advantage of it (my CD-R for one).
-M
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Feedly aggregates the news sources I care about through RSS- it's just as great as it was years ago, and I'm happy to be a paying customer to ensure that it continues to work for years to come!
In response to the lawsuit, studios will begin overlaying legal weasel-phrases like "scheduled to appear" and "no similarity to actual movies, created or uncreated, is implied".
Only thing that makes Facebook remotely tolerable is being able to quickly scroll/skim - same reason I love blogs and dislike podcasts. If I can't skim the content quickly, I'll be looking elsewhere for it.
Yawn. MMO spies figured prominently in Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" in 2008.
Ultimately, it's nearly impossible to predict market forces and corporate decisions. You made a good choice in both cases based on the information available. There were good communities and significant momentum behind both frameworks at the time. You could post-mortem the decisions endlessly and surely find "signs" that you could use when evaluating for next time, but guaranteed there will be different forces in play when (not if) it happens again. Don't beat yourself up about it, and don't let anyone else, either.
Hmm, sounds like the logical next step is a dating service to match those traits. Who's doing the cyber-squatting for 23harmony.com and eugenicsmingle.com?
I've never found overclocking to be worth the trouble. Anytime there's a stability issue with an overclocked PC, there's always that nagging doubt that all my troubleshooting is for naught, because it was a fluke bit fail due to the overclocking. Life's too short- skip the anxiety and run your processor at it's rated speed.
Nice thought, but a majority of the Metro UI has been around since at least 2007 on Windows Media Center/Vista (including the fonts, a proto-version of the tiles, and many other familiar elements).
Multi-monitor Remote Desktop (which kicks the hell out of anything else for performance), PPTP/L2TP/SSTP VPN in the box, fast-user switching- what more do you need to make an OS "conducive for telecommuting"? Works fantastically for me...
Except for those that are *part* of the "dying media industry" (think Comcast/NBC Universal and TimeWarner). Same kinds of internal conflict that Sony has for being a provider of devices that can infringe on copyright and a producer of copyrighted content. Guess which side wins (have a look at Sony's crippled devices)?
If it's not already clear, darn tootin' the next version of the volume license agreement will contain the "OnLive" clause that expressly forbids it...
"Insightful?" .NET's not interpreted- get your facts straight. People can write crap in every environment- give .NET to a skilled dev that understands where its power lies, and he'll build you something incredible, performant, and do it quickly. Give it to an idiot, and you'll see the same crap the idiot would write in C++ or any other language, you'll just probably see the end result a little sooner.
Stop the violator!
"If someone alters your password not through the normal password change process (i.e. an Administrator uses 'reset password'), you lose access to your private keys, and thus your encrypted files."
This is only true for local (eg, non-domain) accounts. Domain account passwords can be changed administratively without affecting the keys.
As an Oregon resident, I first got wind of this about six months ago... Privacy was my first thought as well. Thankfully, the system they're looking at can't track vehicles in realtime, as it's a GPS receiver unit only. There is no transmitter.
My guess is that, no matter how well designed, this system is doomed from the start- it's just too complex for John Q. Taxpayer to understand. People in Oregon, just like the rest of the country, don't like new taxes. That's why we've managed to be one of the last holdouts for no sales tax, and we just soundly defeated a Canadian-style universal healthcare bill that would have laid ruin to the state's economy.
-M
I'm assuming that's the same Kermit Woodall of SIDPlayer fame? For the C64-challenged, SIDPlayer was pretty much the 80's equivalent of WinAmp. Amazing what you could do with 3 voices. I always wondered what he'd been up to...
Actually, maybe this will push some companies to create a Windows flasher- there's been support for the "Microcode update device" in Windows for some time for doing firmware updates of many kinds. I've only seen a couple of devices that took advantage of it (my CD-R for one). -M