Detecting the adware and setting it to ignore is a far cry from ignoring it altogether. You still have the choice to remove it. The problem is that uneducated users will not know to set it to Remove. They need to be educated that the Microsoft Antispyware setting is not a recommendation, but a choice. Even VNCserver should be removed if the user never purposely installed it.
In other news, I'm suing the entire planet for my moral suffering caused by humans repeatedly setting foot in this planet on a daily basis. It has obviously ruined the planet, needless to say any horoscopes. I demand the population of Australia be pureed as payment.
Speaking from a horoscope wacko point of view (not mine, mind you), what is all that money going to do to improve your horoscope? What, is she checking her horoscope under the sign of the retard? Which comets are significant enough to be part of a horoscope, and why would you base it on such meaningless objects? Does she even have a telescope with which to view the damn comet to form her "predictions" or is she assuming the comet gives a damn about the little pock mark that was regardless going to give way over the next orbit?
Back in 1997/98 when 800.com just popped up on the scene they tried to compete with Amazon by promoting 3 DVDs for $1 each with no strings attached. Good model these days for some not-so-hot movies, but bad in those days where everyone else was selling for normal price. Needless to say, myself and everyone I talked to ordered DVDs but never ordered from them again. They're not competing with Amazon much these days since they went out of business.
Hey everybody! I just heard a rumor that they're putting Dr. Who episodes for free download! Seems like the right thing to do is for you all to put them up on torrent since the BBC is going to make them free anyway. I'll wait while you set up your torrents.
A premelting occurs in spots where atoms within solid crystals are not perfectly aligned, and they begin to move. The changes are seen in pictures taken as the material was heated. The imperfections are much like the differences seen in wood grain, the scientists said.
"These motions then spread into the more ordered parts of the crystal," Alsayed said. "We could see that the amount of premelting depended on the type of crystal defect and on the distance from the defect."
Does this mean that solids that are more crystaline will have a harder time melting, since there is no "pre-melt" in non-imperfect areas of the solid?
Does this also mean that because there are areas that are melting before the melting point is reached in these weak-crystaline areas, that the strong-crystaline areas are acting as insulation?
Regardless of what is put on the drive at install time, there are plenty of alternatives. Someone who doesn't know the alternatives is just going to be a miffed customer when they turn it on and have to assemble their OS from various downloads. Those that do know are going to go looking for something else anyway. Having Windows Media Player on the disk doesn't prevent you from exercising "free choice", so I don't know what you're "in" and "out" about.
Your last statement is pretty dumb, too. Are you saying that when it comes to Microsoft's future, there is only the one choice that you've defined? No others are allowed? Doesn't jive with your little media player philosophy. Try to be more consistent in life.
The sound of you pushing in a button is going to make some sort of a noise. You know, there are other noises in this world besides those produced by computer speakers.
Ever since I started running Adblock on Firefox I was under the impression that advertising on the Internet had collapsed and faded away. Seriously, ads, popups - what are you talking about?
Morse is highly unsecure. You enable people to easily tell what you are coding just by listening to your message being entered. At least with a keypad you can kind of hide the face of the device to provide some semblance of deterrence to getting your message contents. Are we for privacy today, or not?
"dit-dot dat dat..."
Translation: "Phil, I was able to sneak on the bus without paying. Oh wait the bus driver heard my messaging..."
Yes! Thank you! If he's that serious about protecting his equipment he needs to pick up something like a Juniper/Netscreen firewall. The cheapest ones start around $500.
Regardless of who it's aimed at, this would benefit those of us trying to run multiple apps such as Photoshop, email, web, various centralized management apps, vmware, etc, many of which are vying for CPU time. You know, those of us that are trying to do something productive with our time? Ernie
A long way from what? I don't see this phone curing cancer, getting us to Mars, solving world hunger, balancing budgets, or preventing wars. It's a neat gizmo, but it's no milestone of human achievement. Oh, waiter, one order of perspective please!
Web-based interfaces are the only way RSS should be done, unless you use one computer everywhere to access your feeds. Otherwise you're just spending time syncing your list between computers and trying to figure out which stories you read last out of each feed. When you're talking about 50+ feeds, this is a major pain. I use FeedOnFeeds for my web based reader, preferring the slim interface that FoF provides over Bloglines. You can even add a republish patch to check off select articles to instantly roll into a feed of your own.
The point, however, is that with such an interface it doesn't matter what web browser or OS you are using, similar to when you access Gmail.
Seriously, the preservation of electronic data is a juggling act consisting of having multiple copies on tape or disk and moving the data around to new drives as reliability of the older drives diminish with age and as size increases are warranted. Disk dies? You should be able to reconstruct the data quickly from a recent full tape backup and its corresponding incrementals.
Not sure it's meant to withstand the test of time. Are we really producing works in this age that deserve to be preserved for millenia? If so, they are few and far between.
If you're going to recommend something that expensive, you might as well push LTO3 with up to 800GB of storage per tape. Veryu fast transfer rates, too. If you're producing that much quality data, you shouldn't have a problem justifying this along with clones of the weekly full backups for offsite storage.
It only shows that *most* governments, not just the EU, are out of touch with what their citizens would like out of tech. For them to actually think that people want to have to go through more hoops to get their computer to be their multimedia portal is laughable. What next, Linux must have cdparanoia and all video players solely available as source that everyone must compile if they want it to work? Just as stupid.
Let Microsoft go back to bundling their player - everyone has a music player for download these days so Real Player and all others should just do some real innovation if they want to stand out and not just rely on the government crutch to get them off their laurels. The Internet is open and free - if people find something unlikeable about the MS player, they'll find it through their friends the same way they all did with Kazaa. There's a lesson to be learned there. There are alternatives, but people don't always want them if the alternatives aren really just doing the same old thing as the next dozen "alternatives".
It's a fact that the majority of crimes are committed against people by those they are familiar with. This seems likely when you consider celebrities make themselves so well known that people practically identify with them as if they were family - thus why they go to such lengths to secure themselves. Sort of negates the whole "stranger danger" philosophy that is always pushed and boost the idea of "keeping your enemies closer".
I agree with some of the other posters in that my friends have terrible taste and I'm more likely to get good advice from someone I don't know.
Unfortunately you van also make the case that without R2D2 stopping the trash compactor or reversing the elevator in the Invisible Hand, Vader and the Emperor also would not have been stopped. Is R2D2 the "chosen one"?
It is Vader alone who made the choice to extend his artificial arms and throw the emperor over the edge. Luke was only on the verge of dying at that point. Vader could have easily turned away with a "meh" and let Luke die.
Questionable is whether any of that mattered with respect to what happened next. Depends on whether you believe the Emperor was using battle meditation to keep the whole thing knitted together. If so, Luke dies and the rebellion ends on that day. If not, the shield generator may still have been knocked out and the Death Star II still blown up.
In that case could the ghosts of Obi-Wan and Yoda have roamed the galaxy looking for another with high midichlorean count? After all, the Republic was no longer around with their identification program and many force sensitives could have been born and ignored in the years between EpIII and EpIV. A few generations of directed breeding programs, a la Dune, and you might again have a force pupil to rival Sidious and Vader.
Hear, hear! That way the Chinese and Russians will have a great new shuttle system at their disposal while we Americans lament scrapping those defense systems.
So we shouldn't expect to see any patches for any of those over the next few months? Is that what you're saying? Everything has been tested to perfection? Because that's not the reality that we all know and love. They must have really done some bitchin work in FC4 in order to make Perfection a feature. They must have "texted" the hell out of it, eh?
Seriously, give CentOS a try for a community driven RHEL equivalent with fast patch releases: http://www.centos.org.
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Detecting the adware and setting it to ignore is a far cry from ignoring it altogether. You still have the choice to remove it. The problem is that uneducated users will not know to set it to Remove. They need to be educated that the Microsoft Antispyware setting is not a recommendation, but a choice. Even VNCserver should be removed if the user never purposely installed it.
In other news, I'm suing the entire planet for my moral suffering caused by humans repeatedly setting foot in this planet on a daily basis. It has obviously ruined the planet, needless to say any horoscopes. I demand the population of Australia be pureed as payment.
Speaking from a horoscope wacko point of view (not mine, mind you), what is all that money going to do to improve your horoscope? What, is she checking her horoscope under the sign of the retard? Which comets are significant enough to be part of a horoscope, and why would you base it on such meaningless objects? Does she even have a telescope with which to view the damn comet to form her "predictions" or is she assuming the comet gives a damn about the little pock mark that was regardless going to give way over the next orbit?
Back in 1997/98 when 800.com just popped up on the scene they tried to compete with Amazon by promoting 3 DVDs for $1 each with no strings attached. Good model these days for some not-so-hot movies, but bad in those days where everyone else was selling for normal price. Needless to say, myself and everyone I talked to ordered DVDs but never ordered from them again. They're not competing with Amazon much these days since they went out of business.
Hey everybody! I just heard a rumor that they're putting Dr. Who episodes for free download! Seems like the right thing to do is for you all to put them up on torrent since the BBC is going to make them free anyway. I'll wait while you set up your torrents.
Are they ready yet?
A premelting occurs in spots where atoms within solid crystals are not perfectly aligned, and they begin to move. The changes are seen in pictures taken as the material was heated. The imperfections are much like the differences seen in wood grain, the scientists said.
"These motions then spread into the more ordered parts of the crystal," Alsayed said. "We could see that the amount of premelting depended on the type of crystal defect and on the distance from the defect."
Does this mean that solids that are more crystaline will have a harder time melting, since there is no "pre-melt" in non-imperfect areas of the solid?
Does this also mean that because there are areas that are melting before the melting point is reached in these weak-crystaline areas, that the strong-crystaline areas are acting as insulation?
Regardless of what is put on the drive at install time, there are plenty of alternatives. Someone who doesn't know the alternatives is just going to be a miffed customer when they turn it on and have to assemble their OS from various downloads. Those that do know are going to go looking for something else anyway. Having Windows Media Player on the disk doesn't prevent you from exercising "free choice", so I don't know what you're "in" and "out" about.
Your last statement is pretty dumb, too. Are you saying that when it comes to Microsoft's future, there is only the one choice that you've defined? No others are allowed? Doesn't jive with your little media player philosophy. Try to be more consistent in life.
The sound of you pushing in a button is going to make some sort of a noise. You know, there are other noises in this world besides those produced by computer speakers.
Ever since I started running Adblock on Firefox I was under the impression that advertising on the Internet had collapsed and faded away. Seriously, ads, popups - what are you talking about?
Morse is highly unsecure. You enable people to easily tell what you are coding just by listening to your message being entered. At least with a keypad you can kind of hide the face of the device to provide some semblance of deterrence to getting your message contents. Are we for privacy today, or not?
"dit-dot dat dat..."
Translation: "Phil, I was able to sneak on the bus without paying. Oh wait the bus driver heard my messaging..."
Yes! Thank you!
If he's that serious about protecting his equipment he needs to pick up something like a Juniper/Netscreen firewall. The cheapest ones start around $500.
Regardless of who it's aimed at, this would benefit those of us trying to run multiple apps such as Photoshop, email, web, various centralized management apps, vmware, etc, many of which are vying for CPU time. You know, those of us that are trying to do something productive with our time?
Ernie
Because you're willing to pay for it, even while complaining about it. Welcome to a market economy.
A long way from what? I don't see this phone curing cancer, getting us to Mars, solving world hunger, balancing budgets, or preventing wars. It's a neat gizmo, but it's no milestone of human achievement. Oh, waiter, one order of perspective please!
Web-based interfaces are the only way RSS should be done, unless you use one computer everywhere to access your feeds. Otherwise you're just spending time syncing your list between computers and trying to figure out which stories you read last out of each feed. When you're talking about 50+ feeds, this is a major pain. I use FeedOnFeeds for my web based reader, preferring the slim interface that FoF provides over Bloglines. You can even add a republish patch to check off select articles to instantly roll into a feed of your own.
The point, however, is that with such an interface it doesn't matter what web browser or OS you are using, similar to when you access Gmail.
Seriously, the preservation of electronic data is a juggling act consisting of having multiple copies on tape or disk and moving the data around to new drives as reliability of the older drives diminish with age and as size increases are warranted. Disk dies? You should be able to reconstruct the data quickly from a recent full tape backup and its corresponding incrementals.
Not sure it's meant to withstand the test of time. Are we really producing works in this age that deserve to be preserved for millenia? If so, they are few and far between.
If you're going to recommend something that expensive, you might as well push LTO3 with up to 800GB of storage per tape. Veryu fast transfer rates, too. If you're producing that much quality data, you shouldn't have a problem justifying this along with clones of the weekly full backups for offsite storage.
It only shows that *most* governments, not just the EU, are out of touch with what their citizens would like out of tech. For them to actually think that people want to have to go through more hoops to get their computer to be their multimedia portal is laughable. What next, Linux must have cdparanoia and all video players solely available as source that everyone must compile if they want it to work? Just as stupid.
Let Microsoft go back to bundling their player - everyone has a music player for download these days so Real Player and all others should just do some real innovation if they want to stand out and not just rely on the government crutch to get them off their laurels. The Internet is open and free - if people find something unlikeable about the MS player, they'll find it through their friends the same way they all did with Kazaa. There's a lesson to be learned there. There are alternatives, but people don't always want them if the alternatives aren really just doing the same old thing as the next dozen "alternatives".
It's a fact that the majority of crimes are committed against people by those they are familiar with. This seems likely when you consider celebrities make themselves so well known that people practically identify with them as if they were family - thus why they go to such lengths to secure themselves. Sort of negates the whole "stranger danger" philosophy that is always pushed and boost the idea of "keeping your enemies closer".
I agree with some of the other posters in that my friends have terrible taste and I'm more likely to get good advice from someone I don't know.
Once upon a time, Arthur C Clark's communication satellites were science fiction. Perhaps something similarly fictional is just around the corner.
Right, like all those Jedi that were killed by clone troopers obeying Order 66. Right? Right?
Unfortunately you van also make the case that without R2D2 stopping the trash compactor or reversing the elevator in the Invisible Hand, Vader and the Emperor also would not have been stopped. Is R2D2 the "chosen one"?
It is Vader alone who made the choice to extend his artificial arms and throw the emperor over the edge. Luke was only on the verge of dying at that point. Vader could have easily turned away with a "meh" and let Luke die.
Questionable is whether any of that mattered with respect to what happened next. Depends on whether you believe the Emperor was using battle meditation to keep the whole thing knitted together. If so, Luke dies and the rebellion ends on that day. If not, the shield generator may still have been knocked out and the Death Star II still blown up.
In that case could the ghosts of Obi-Wan and Yoda have roamed the galaxy looking for another with high midichlorean count? After all, the Republic was no longer around with their identification program and many force sensitives could have been born and ignored in the years between EpIII and EpIV. A few generations of directed breeding programs, a la Dune, and you might again have a force pupil to rival Sidious and Vader.
And isn't it known that Neanderthals had bigger brains than other species of homo sapiens at that time? Didn't help them any.
Rather than looking at size alone, we should count it as one factor among many, including cervical hemispheres and substance enhancement/abuse.
Hear, hear! That way the Chinese and Russians will have a great new shuttle system at their disposal while we Americans lament scrapping those defense systems.
So we shouldn't expect to see any patches for any of those over the next few months? Is that what you're saying? Everything has been tested to perfection? Because that's not the reality that we all know and love. They must have really done some bitchin work in FC4 in order to make Perfection a feature. They must have "texted" the hell out of it, eh?
Seriously, give CentOS a try for a community driven RHEL equivalent with fast patch releases: http://www.centos.org.
This brings up the chinese menu of the tech world:
cheap, reliable, fast - pick two.