Not. IE is tied heavily into the OS, but it's entirely possible to have the browser as the only interface to the PC. System policy's can keep users out ot the control panel, start menu,..ect..... That having been said, IE is just an app running on top of the os. you can remove it and windows still works fine.
What the Library is doing is covering their butts in case some kid gets in there and catches sight of something he shoulden't. I can understand it, to a point. The best answer right now may be a key type system that allows adults to turn off the filters when they need to, but leaves them for the kids. If the kids are smart 'nuf to bypass the filters, they are probly old 'nuf to know better, and thus not need them.
"Black holes are so dense they create gravity so strong that even light cannot escape their surface, making them nearly impossible to see. Kormendy said the black hole at the center of the galaxy is not pulling in other stars.
Even if it's not pulling in other stars yet, I'll bet it'l suck the fillings out of my great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,gr eat,great,great,great,grandkids teeth... Wonder why it's not eating stars yet, the density there should be high enough for some motion..
Quote from the linked article.: "We are an organized resistance to the subjugation of the Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth SoulBlighter game servers by Microsoft. We don't mind Microsoft running them as long as they don't attempt to make any stupid changes to their mode of operation, performance, free status, or existence Ummm....
Microsoft purchased the whole company, servers and all. That kinda gives them the right to do whatever they want. If Bungi was smart, they would have put a clause in the sale contract providing for the maintinance and status of these games in their curent configuration. If they didn't, I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to make a profit off this some day. Why else would they buy the company???
1. He could get fired and sued.
2. He could get promoted and told to "lay off" the special projects
3. He could get "talked to" and fold like a napkin.
"Program creators expect their digital content over cable systems to be protected, or they won't make it available"
If this falls under copyright, how come they have not tried to defend it until now? shure VCR quality isn't the same as digital, but Mpeg is crap compared to VHS and they are going after that in a big way.....
Note to studios, get your story straight...
"There's no way my girlfriend would choose her low paying secretarial job over a high-paying programming job if she'd felt she had the opportunity to train for the latter And just how has she been denied this? There are book stores everywhere with extensive libraries of training materials, Schools with classes. Our INTERNS get paid more than a lot of the "administrative assistants" around here and are learning the trade. People are triping over oportunities and picking stuff up through osmosis, Yet your girlfriend has been "denied" this? come on....
The filtering companies have a contract clause saying in effect "we are not responsible for content beond our control, or mesures that have been used to circumvent our software.. blablabla.." Letting them off the hook for little Johny getting into National Geographic (African section) or porn sites that have not been listed yet ectera....
Has anyone actualy tried to find out how much porno/whatnot these kids are actualy looking at? Performed a study, gathered data? Or has some jackass just figured there is a lot of porno on the net, and library's have access to the internet, so.... I mean, when I was a minor, the Library was about the LAST place we would go to look at naughtie things. yes, the access is easier now, but it's easier all over, not making the library (of all places) a house of porn. Do we even need filtering, would it realy be filtering anything? For hevens sake, steal your dads Playboys like we had too..
Recently, there was an attempt to rip me a new one here when I implied it was a good thing AIM may be forced to open up. The argument was that it was a proprietary database, so why should others be granted access blablabla..
Isn't this somewhat similar? Shouldn't Apple be able to defend proprietary information and prevent it from being released until they chose? Isn't that their RIGHT? The premature release of this data takes the edge off their advertising campaigns and "hurts" their market strategy. I know there is a difference between a database, that could be considered an asset, and rumors/leaked advertising data, but they both have a dollar value that can be attached. Let the flame begin.
"Looks like this could spell big trouble for Intel & Rambus" Wasn't there a story recently, either here or ZDnet, where Intell is now offering manufacturers rebates for their rambus stuff??
in a company of over 100,000 people and I-dont- know-how-many departments, developing and roling out a new service with no inter-operability with curently used systems is imposible, politicaly and phisicaly
Didn't answer that part 'cause I never said it. Despite the tone of my remarks, I agree with the principle of AOL being able to control their own database. As far as being forced to license to you, or be forced to help you? I never asked for someone to be "forced" to do anything. My original point was that the tech involved has mushroomed to the point where it is becoming a critical need in some areas and AOL is just being a dick. They have put all their effort into closing off other services instead of working with them in SOME way. It seems an irational decision when you consider the merits, to them, of a strategic partnership with Microsoft and the others. basicaly, a bunch of my users got started using this and now it's MY problem to KEEP it working somehow. Anyone hiring?
"Does anyone trust a company that gives a product away?
No, and thus the reason we wanted to tap into the user database instead of rolling out AIM itself. Rock--me--hard place
Wow.. take a pill. Use Napster recently? I will respond as this is the politest of the negative responses. Anyhow, I never said I wanted something for free, just that I (We in the support department) have had the door slamed in our face in terms of ANY interoperability between something we might develop and AIM. We would, I'm certain, be happy to pay licencing fees for the privelage of connecting to the database. If you had been paying attention, it's dificult to squeese ANY kind of a licence out of them, even if you offer to pay. They want AIM and only AIM to use this database. thats it. period. You will also note that the users at our company in question have done this behind our backs and now stuck us with the problem. The weight limit on my ass has now been exceded. please get off.
Speaking from a corporate enviorment... We have been trying to lock down the workstations configuration so people stop f***ing them up with screensavers and whatnot. Recently we released the list of "approved" aplications and recieved a ship storm that AIM was not on there. it seems that several folks have taken to using this as their primary form of interstate comunication between departments/facilities. This forced our upper management to look into creating our own "chat thingie" without the file transfer (this is buisness after all). AOL is a closed standard, preventing us from acomplishing that. The point is, management was taken compleetly by suprise by the fact that this "toy" had sudenly become a buisness critical aplication and the failure of AOL to open it's standard has actualy impacted our buisness. Go DOJ go DOJ!!
Here ya go The best thing is it's free. as in freeware. I have herd good things about it, but wonder how good it is. We are running it now on 5 or so boxes, and routinely get 30-40 hits a night. wonder if it's missing anything.
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Not.
IE is tied heavily into the OS, but it's entirely possible to have the browser as the only interface to the PC. System policy's can keep users out ot the control panel, start menu,..ect.....
That having been said, IE is just an app running on top of the os. you can remove it and windows still works fine.
What the Library is doing is covering their butts in case some kid gets in there and catches sight of something he shoulden't. I can understand it, to a point. The best answer right now may be a key type system that allows adults to turn off the filters when they need to, but leaves them for the kids. If the kids are smart 'nuf to bypass the filters, they are probly old 'nuf to know better, and thus not need them.
"Black holes are so dense they create gravity so strong that even light cannot escape their surface, making them nearly impossible to see. Kormendy said the black hole at the center of the galaxy is not pulling in other stars.
r eat,great,great,great,grandkids teeth...
Even if it's not pulling in other stars yet, I'll bet it'l suck the fillings out of my great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,g
Wonder why it's not eating stars yet, the density there should be high enough for some motion..
Quote from the linked article. :
"We are an organized resistance to the subjugation of the Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth SoulBlighter game servers by Microsoft. We don't mind Microsoft running them as long as they don't attempt to make any stupid changes to their mode of operation, performance, free status, or existence
Ummm.... Microsoft purchased the whole company, servers and all. That kinda gives them the right to do whatever they want. If Bungi was smart, they would have put a clause in the sale contract providing for the maintinance and status of these games in their curent configuration. If they didn't, I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to make a profit off this some day. Why else would they buy the company???
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1. He could get fired and sued.
2. He could get promoted and told to "lay off" the special projects
3. He could get "talked to" and fold like a napkin.
Me, I'm guessing he gets promoted.
"Program creators expect their digital content over cable systems to be protected, or they won't make it available"
If this falls under copyright, how come they have not tried to defend it until now? shure VCR quality isn't the same as digital, but Mpeg is crap compared to VHS and they are going after that in a big way.....
Note to studios, get your story straight...
Pardon,.. please explain the significance of the Scooby Snacks? Munchies?
Yahoo had This news story earlier about the whole thing.
Dose it SAY it's compatable with CDR, CDWR discs? it may not have multi read compatability.
"There's no way my girlfriend would choose her low paying secretarial job over a high-paying programming job if she'd felt she had the opportunity to train for the latter
And just how has she been denied this? There are book stores everywhere with extensive libraries of training materials, Schools with classes. Our INTERNS get paid more than a lot of the "administrative assistants" around here and are learning the trade. People are triping over oportunities and picking stuff up through osmosis, Yet your girlfriend has been "denied" this? come on....
You forgot small, sweet, Scrapy Doo. Perpetuating violence and the image or America as a country spoiling for a fight.
Somone needs to lay down for a nap.
The filtering companies have a contract clause saying in effect "we are not responsible for content beond our control, or mesures that have been used to circumvent our software.. blablabla.." Letting them off the hook for little Johny getting into National Geographic (African section) or porn sites that have not been listed yet ectera....
Has anyone actualy tried to find out how much porno/whatnot these kids are actualy looking at? Performed a study, gathered data? Or has some jackass just figured there is a lot of porno on the net, and library's have access to the internet, so.... I mean, when I was a minor, the Library was about the LAST place we would go to look at naughtie things. yes, the access is easier now, but it's easier all over, not making the library (of all places) a house of porn. Do we even need filtering, would it realy be filtering anything? For hevens sake, steal your dads Playboys like we had too..
Recently, there was an attempt to rip me a new one here when I implied it was a good thing AIM may be forced to open up. The argument was that it was a proprietary database, so why should others be granted access blablabla.. Isn't this somewhat similar? Shouldn't Apple be able to defend proprietary information and prevent it from being released until they chose? Isn't that their RIGHT? The premature release of this data takes the edge off their advertising campaigns and "hurts" their market strategy. I know there is a difference between a database, that could be considered an asset, and rumors/leaked advertising data, but they both have a dollar value that can be attached. Let the flame begin.
"Looks like this could spell big trouble for Intel & Rambus"
Wasn't there a story recently, either here or ZDnet, where Intell is now offering manufacturers rebates for their rambus stuff??
what about printing the whole movie frame-by-frame, seapling the while thing together and making flip books?
in a company of over 100,000 people and I-dont- know-how-many departments, developing and roling out a new service with no inter-operability with curently used systems is imposible, politicaly and phisicaly
Didn't answer that part 'cause I never said it. Despite the tone of my remarks, I agree with the principle of AOL being able to control their own database. As far as being forced to license to you, or be forced to help you? I never asked for someone to be "forced" to do anything. My original point was that the tech involved has mushroomed to the point where it is becoming a critical need in some areas and AOL is just being a dick. They have put all their effort into closing off other services instead of working with them in SOME way. It seems an irational decision when you consider the merits, to them, of a strategic partnership with Microsoft and the others. basicaly, a bunch of my users got started using this and now it's MY problem to KEEP it working somehow. Anyone hiring?
"Does anyone trust a company that gives a product away?
No, and thus the reason we wanted to tap into the user database instead of rolling out AIM itself. Rock--me--hard place
Wow.. take a pill.
Use Napster recently?
I will respond as this is the politest of the negative responses.
Anyhow, I never said I wanted something for free, just that I (We in the support department) have had the door slamed in our face in terms of ANY interoperability between something we might develop and AIM. We would, I'm certain, be happy to pay licencing fees for the privelage of connecting to the database. If you had been paying attention, it's dificult to squeese ANY kind of a licence out of them, even if you offer to pay. They want AIM and only AIM to use this database. thats it. period. You will also note that the users at our company in question have done this behind our backs and now stuck us with the problem. The weight limit on my ass has now been exceded. please get off.
Speaking from a corporate enviorment...
We have been trying to lock down the workstations configuration so people stop f***ing them up with screensavers and whatnot. Recently we released the list of "approved" aplications and recieved a ship storm that AIM was not on there. it seems that several folks have taken to using this as their primary form of interstate comunication between departments/facilities. This forced our upper management to look into creating our own "chat thingie" without the file transfer (this is buisness after all). AOL is a closed standard, preventing us from acomplishing that. The point is, management was taken compleetly by suprise by the fact that this "toy" had sudenly become a buisness critical aplication and the failure of AOL to open it's standard has actualy impacted our buisness. Go DOJ go DOJ!!
Here ya go
The best thing is it's free. as in freeware. I have herd good things about it, but wonder how good it is. We are running it now on 5 or so boxes, and routinely get 30-40 hits a night. wonder if it's missing anything.
Confrence call. please. welcome back.