According to the MS website it appears to have been introduced into 2000 as part of a service pack update (Starting with SP2), and starting with XP Service Pack 1. See KB article: 828028
And, of course, it doesn't affect Windows 98 at all...
Thailand appears to be pretty much going the Linux route so Microsoft wants to compete, but can't drop the prices of their software without violating their own pricing contracts with other nations? (I'm fuzzy on that part)
So they can remove a feature or two from Windows Home (my guess? Windows activation and automatic upgrading), call it crippled and then give it away to combat Linux.
The guy who makes a pro-bush comment gets labeled as flamebait. But the guy who blames America for voting for Bush and for "tax cuts" (which has 0 to do with the topic at hand) gets rated as 5 insightful.
to public information generation is NOT A BAD THING.
What I'm more concerned about it what happens when insurance companies use my genetic data to figure out that I have a genetic flaw which makes my stomach explode and refuse to insure anything dealing with my stomach.
You told me to prove you wrong. Which I did. Some of the biggest innovations in this century came from garage inventors... who in turn went on to become big corporations.. But STARTED due to innovations that EXISTING BIG COMPANIES missed.
More proof? Palm Pilots. Both Microsoft and Apple brought to market several handheld devices that failed in the market. Even with millions in backing. It took ONE guy who sat down and worked out a proper design to develop the Palm Pilot.
Okay, that's 3 companies that started from garages or from one individual.
Now show me YOUR proof of "innovation" by big companies.
They did it last year, they did it the year before that. They stated in their initial company releases that this is what they intended to do.
And you know what?
-DirectTV pay-per-view tracks what I watch... -My ISP knows what web sites I've requested... -My credit card company knows what I spend my money on. -My hospital shares its information with my insurance company, which in turn shares its information with my company. (Because they have to pay their share of the bills)
It's my TV viewing info... I don't care. If anything, if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend... That's a GOOD THING!
It was little more then 50 years ago that people could easily build their own cars.
There's also a very strong community of personal aircraft builders. (I know one, it impresses the hell out of me that he's building this thing and intends to fly it.)
I enjoy building my own PCs because I can pick and choose to my taste.
Where do people think innovation comes from? Big corporations paying for new designs? The majority comes from people PLAYING with ideas and creating new things!
So long as they're wasting their time picking out new fonts, they're not writing new laws restricting freedoms, increasing taxes or wasting money on new boondoggle programs.
Maybe. Methinks that this is more of a "cover your butt" issue so that they can track down people who are using their computers for generating spam, or stalking, rather than what particular porn site you're looking at.
OF course, if everyone's looking at the same porn site that would be good investment information and might constitute insider trading...
From page 2 of the article: "Shelley acknowledged responsibility for the failure of his own office to track what systems were in place and said changes would be made. He said he hoped the statewide review wouldn't result in the decertification of Diebold systems or the systems of other vendors."
The state board of elections did NOT audit these machines BEFORE THE ELECTION and KNOWING that Diebold installed uncertified software in past elections. Shelley also does not want the machines decertified. How can you decertify what you did not certify to begin with? And if Diebold REALLY IS in violation of their agreement (as Shelley claims) they should be cut out of the process IMMEDIATELY because they're NOT CERITIFED But...they're not... Why? (Because, just maybe this is a political witch-hunt? Naaaahhh..)
Lastly, Diebold says the "felon computer programmer" was released when Diebold acquired the company. Which means he never WORKED for Diebold. so there's no need to do a background check on him.
Email is a problem that transcends State's borders (It's an interstate problem, not an intrastate one)... hence, it's a federal issue and transcends State LAw.
We asked 2 people if they had deleted all their files. 1 said yes, the other said no. We factored that in against the population of the US, # of computer users, # of estimated song downloaders, and then against a.5% factor of error...
Voila 1.4 million people have deleted their music drives. That'll be 5 cents please.
Why do you need 5 million for that? How many computers can it possibly take? 50? 100? Let's say 100. That's $100,000 (and that's generous these days) Let's say $200,000 to lease building space and power for 2 years (also generous) and let's pay 3 professors part time, plus 10 students work study wages (Figure $50,000 per professor and $20,000 per student...$350,000)
What do we got? $100,000 parts $200,000 space $350,000 labor -------- $650,000
What's the other ~5 million going for?
Oh wait... they must need Windows licenses and full copies of Outlook to properly test the hacks...
I'll be happy to buy the roms. It's a reasonable price.
But how much money has he donated to the MAME project? Time/Effort? Webspace?
How does he think those ROMS got their value back? Magic?
How much intrinsic value is there in these games? It's nigh impossible to find these games in their native format. And without MAME these games would've been long forgotten and written off. You can't market them by current standards because Atari Football looks pretty sad compared to Madden 2003.
How much of a market *IS* there for games without OUR (the gamers) effort to keep them alive! And how much intrinsic value is there in OUR effort to maintain a piece of video-game history that would've been happily relegated to the same junk heaps of E.T. 2600 if suits had had their way. (Except for the occasional, hey let's release Tempest again along with some other classics, but not Major Havoc because Nobody remembers that game)
Is Atari going to compensate the developers of MAME out of these ROM sales? I mean, how else am I supposed to play these games?
But no no... keep throwing names like "pirate" around...
"Oh, oh... well uh... we we fully aware that disabling the autorun feature would disable our copy protection!" [Did your customers know that? No.] "We've uh... we've got top plans to fix it in our second generation technology." [Oops, your customers are now pissed and are pulling their contracts.] "And besides, it will also be integrated in third party software so it won't be run off the CD!" [It's your customers fault for using the software "wrong" and if they'd shell out for option B the software works as advertised.] "Theft is theft, no matter how you label it." [My customer's feet are so up my butt right now that if I don't blame it on somebody else, I'll look like a complete failure.]
It's one thing to perpetuate a bad business model (Enron). How are these bozos like SCO and now this company getting money to operate! I want to know! Or is just that legitimate business ideas don't "sell" anymore!?
Copyright law of protected media entitles the owner to ONE backup.
Generally computer users can make MANY backups (for update purposes), so long as you destroy the previous backup.
That's why the language in the EULA is explicit. You agree that the included CDs *are* your backup. Which means you can't make your own backup, which means you can't make a drive image.
Okay, the first sentence refers to software you *ordered* above and beyond the default installed software and is only commentary. Not a legally binding statement.
Every default installed software by Dell will have its own agreement that you will individually have to agree to.
It's the SECOND sentence that's the real kicker and I'm suprised that everyone's missed it. It states that you agree that the CD's you got with your laptop ARE your backups. (Legally, everyone's entitled to ONE backup of their media) Which means you legally CANNOT make a backup image of your harddrive. Because you already have the backup software on the CD's.
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According to the MS website it appears to have been introduced into 2000 as part of a service pack update (Starting with SP2), and starting with XP Service Pack 1. See KB article: 828028
And, of course, it doesn't affect Windows 98 at all...
Thailand appears to be pretty much going the Linux route so Microsoft wants to compete, but can't drop the prices of their software without violating their own pricing contracts with other nations? (I'm fuzzy on that part)
So they can remove a feature or two from Windows Home (my guess? Windows activation and automatic upgrading), call it crippled and then give it away to combat Linux.
The guy who makes a pro-bush comment gets labeled as flamebait. But the guy who blames America for voting for Bush and for "tax cuts" (which has 0 to do with the topic at hand) gets rated as 5 insightful.
to public information generation is NOT A BAD THING.
What I'm more concerned about it what happens when insurance companies use my genetic data to figure out that I have a genetic flaw which makes my stomach explode and refuse to insure anything dealing with my stomach.
You told me to prove you wrong. Which I did. Some of the biggest innovations in this century came from garage inventors... who in turn went on to become big corporations.. But STARTED due to innovations that EXISTING BIG COMPANIES missed.
More proof?
Palm Pilots. Both Microsoft and Apple brought to market several handheld devices that failed in the market. Even with millions in backing. It took ONE guy who sat down and worked out a proper design to develop the Palm Pilot.
Okay, that's 3 companies that started from garages or from one individual.
Now show me YOUR proof of "innovation" by big companies.
They did it last year, they did it the year before that. They stated in their initial company releases that this is what they intended to do.
And you know what?
-DirectTV pay-per-view tracks what I watch...
-My ISP knows what web sites I've requested...
-My credit card company knows what I spend my money on.
-My hospital shares its information with my insurance company, which in turn shares its information with my company. (Because they have to pay their share of the bills)
It's my TV viewing info... I don't care. If anything, if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend... That's a GOOD THING!
Hewlett-Packard.
Apple Computer.
It was little more then 50 years ago that people could easily build their own cars.
There's also a very strong community of personal aircraft builders. (I know one, it impresses the hell out of me that he's building this thing and intends to fly it.)
I enjoy building my own PCs because I can pick and choose to my taste.
Where do people think innovation comes from? Big corporations paying for new designs? The majority comes from people PLAYING with ideas and creating new things!
So long as they're wasting their time picking out new fonts, they're not writing new laws restricting freedoms, increasing taxes or wasting money on new boondoggle programs.
I don't know this for sure, but aren't videocameras required in nightclubs in California as well?
In a public place?
Maybe. Methinks that this is more of a "cover your butt" issue so that they can track down people who are using their computers for generating spam, or stalking, rather than what particular porn site you're looking at.
OF course, if everyone's looking at the same porn site that would be good investment information and might constitute insider trading...
From page 2 of the article:
"Shelley acknowledged responsibility for the failure of his own office to track what systems were in place and said changes would be made. He said he hoped the statewide review wouldn't result in the decertification of Diebold systems or the systems of other vendors."
The state board of elections did NOT audit these machines BEFORE THE ELECTION and KNOWING that Diebold installed uncertified software in past elections. Shelley also does not want the machines decertified. How can you decertify what you did not certify to begin with? And if Diebold REALLY IS in violation of their agreement (as Shelley claims) they should be cut out of the process IMMEDIATELY because they're NOT CERITIFED But...they're not... Why? (Because, just maybe this is a political witch-hunt? Naaaahhh..)
Lastly, Diebold says the "felon computer programmer" was released when Diebold acquired the company. Which means he never WORKED for Diebold. so there's no need to do a background check on him.
Email is a problem that transcends State's borders (It's an interstate problem, not an intrastate one)... hence, it's a federal issue and transcends State LAw.
Yes, much easier for left-wingers to believe that right-wingers "stole" the election than that people don't like their position.
We asked 2 people if they had deleted all their files. 1 said yes, the other said no. We factored that in against the population of the US, # of computer users, # of estimated song downloaders, and then against a .5% factor of error...
Voila 1.4 million people have deleted their music drives. That'll be 5 cents please.
Why do you need 5 million for that? How many computers can it possibly take? 50? 100? Let's say 100. That's $100,000 (and that's generous these days) Let's say $200,000 to lease building space and power for 2 years (also generous) and let's pay 3 professors part time, plus 10 students work study wages (Figure $50,000 per professor and $20,000 per student...$350,000)
What do we got?
$100,000 parts
$200,000 space
$350,000 labor
--------
$650,000
What's the other ~5 million going for?
Oh wait... they must need Windows licenses and full copies of Outlook to properly test the hacks...
Correction, were powered by Linux, Lisa, were.
hmmm... Googles of donuts... auauguuuggghhh
You need to test the old round nacelles along with the newer flat nacelle styles.
Sheesh...
I'll be happy to buy the roms. It's a reasonable price.
But how much money has he donated to the MAME project? Time/Effort? Webspace?
How does he think those ROMS got their value back? Magic?
How much intrinsic value is there in these games? It's nigh impossible to find these games in their native format. And without MAME these games would've been long forgotten and written off. You can't market them by current standards because Atari Football looks pretty sad compared to Madden 2003.
How much of a market *IS* there for games without OUR (the gamers) effort to keep them alive! And how much intrinsic value is there in OUR effort to maintain a piece of video-game history that would've been happily relegated to the same junk heaps of E.T. 2600 if suits had had their way. (Except for the occasional, hey let's release Tempest again along with some other classics, but not Major Havoc because Nobody remembers that game)
Is Atari going to compensate the developers of MAME out of these ROM sales? I mean, how else am I supposed to play these games?
But no no... keep throwing names like "pirate" around...
"Oh, oh... well uh... we we fully aware that disabling the autorun feature would disable our copy protection!"
[Did your customers know that? No.]
"We've uh... we've got top plans to fix it in our second generation technology."
[Oops, your customers are now pissed and are pulling their contracts.]
"And besides, it will also be integrated in third party software so it won't be run off the CD!"
[It's your customers fault for using the software "wrong" and if they'd shell out for option B the software works as advertised.]
"Theft is theft, no matter how you label it."
[My customer's feet are so up my butt right now that if I don't blame it on somebody else, I'll look like a complete failure.]
It's one thing to perpetuate a bad business model (Enron). How are these bozos like SCO and now this company getting money to operate! I want to know! Or is just that legitimate business ideas don't "sell" anymore!?
Anyplace I can download this video without having to go through Gamespot's spyware?
Our management bought a bunch of copies of a book and put it on our (engineers) desks.
The book?
"The inmates are running the asylum"
A book which basically says that engineers don't know squat about schedules and "real world" concerns and need to be managed.
I'm not working on software that's of a life and death nature, but still...
Copyright law of protected media entitles the owner to ONE backup.
Generally computer users can make MANY backups (for update purposes), so long as you destroy the previous backup.
That's why the language in the EULA is explicit. You agree that the included CDs *are* your backup. Which means you can't make your own backup, which means you can't make a drive image.
Okay, the first sentence refers to software you *ordered* above and beyond the default installed software and is only commentary. Not a legally binding statement.
Every default installed software by Dell will have its own agreement that you will individually have to agree to.
It's the SECOND sentence that's the real kicker and I'm suprised that everyone's missed it. It states that you agree that the CD's you got with your laptop ARE your backups. (Legally, everyone's entitled to ONE backup of their media) Which means you legally CANNOT make a backup image of your harddrive. Because you already have the backup software on the CD's.