I followed Groove when it first came out. It is a secure P2P collaboration software. They have some neat concepts implemented in their software. I don't know of any open source software that does what Groove does. I heard there was a linux port that never made the light of day.
If the government is going to keep track of my goings on, I should be able to keep track of what the government is doing. Let us not be one sided. Level the playing field. Fair is fair.
... I would make ActiveX usable in IE7 only by a whitelist. Only the sites found in the whitelist will have the opportunity to run ActiveX. It means that corporate IT can configure IE7 for their legacy programs. If a site tries start up an ActiveX process, a warning alert should pop up warning them about the dangers and with instructions (and more warnings) of how to add the site to the whitelist. I would not have a link on the alert to the whitelist. That would be too easy. Rather I would make them go through a couple of steps to add it to the whitelist. This will give them time to think about what they are doing.
Microsoft is not rotting but it is maturing. It is not as nimble as it use to be. The market has matured along with Microsoft. Microsoft is starting to go through a mid-age crisis. They can not sell more OSs and Office suites than in the past, because everyone already has them and the old versions are good enough. Microsoft is changing into a mature old company that will have a steady income but there will be nothing to get excited about.
a calculated ploy to get more money from Congress? If this popular item was included, other items would have been cut when Congress reduces again the NASA budget. This way this item will be added and perhaps fewer items will be cut. It increases the value of the items in the budget. In the end NASA could end up with more money than if it would have been included.
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It is interesting to see how Santa Claus is becoming more and more a part of Christmas. He has become the icon of secular Christmas. Christmas has religious origins though the celebration of the birth of Jesus for many, if not most, Americans has been pushed aside to the place of irrelevance. The politically correct replacement has been Santa Claus. I find it to be a poor replacement.
You may be surprised to find out that one of the most popular "toys" that young children play with is the big box other toys came in. Year after year those boxes are a favorite.
Here is an account that predicts that Google will leverage its search results to create a Semantic Web. I see this as a distinct possibility. Especially Google leveraging its search results to help people buy and sell stuff.
Thank you I read the article and then its reference and I got confused with this last paragraph shown below (http://bmi.com/news/200408/20040818a.asp):
"Representing more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers with a repertoire of 4.5 million musical works from around the world, BMI licenses more than half the music performed in America. Founded in 1939, BMI operates on a non-profit basis, paying more than 85% of revenue collected to copyright owners."
They don't sound "evil". They are not the record company.
This is all about control. The movie industry wants complete control over the distribution of movies. DVD regions is about controling the distribution of movies. Yes control allows them to maximize profits. They might be able to make even more money with a more open and free distribution, but that is not guaranteed. So to guarantee healthy profits they demand complete control. It is safe and mostly risk free.
Maybe I am not in the know, but I don't know a single person that has downloaded a movie. And considering the majority of Americans have dialup, I find this hard to believe. (I can't say about other countries, but I suspect for most countries that holds true.) It would take a long time on dialup to download a movie. It just does not make sense.
Isn't this what software here on earth can do and are doing? Putting it on the satellite does not change anything. I think you would want the satellite to send all the data it collects, so why not filter it here on earth. If the satellite sends only the data it finds interesting, it will miss some events that it was not programmed for but would be useful to the scientific community. Send all the data and filter it here.
provides some competition and breaks the natural monopoly. In Loveland, CO, the cable company was slow in getting broadband through out the city. In the meantime at least two wireless companies were providing the missing service. Well the cable company woke up and got broadband in the city, and the phone company saw what the cable company was doing and expanded their DSL coverage. Too late for me, I got tired of waiting and went wireless. They lost a customer.
I appreciate Google's attitude and ethics. It makes me proud of them and makes me want to continue to use their products. They are saying you can trust us. This builds loyality. And so far they have been true to their word.
I own a 1992 Honda Civic VX and I get over 50 mpg (during summer and high 40's during winter). Why a 12 year old car gets better mpg than most all the cars in 2004 is a good question. And now I find out that the hybrids that EPA says beat my old car (for a least some people) in reality don't. I want to replace my car sometime, but I want to replace it with a car that gets better mpg but when will I be able to do it.
Interesting! If true, it fits the Christian faith. In the Bible, it says that Jesus being in very nature God emptied himself and was made in human likeness. (Look at Phil. 2:6-7). Paul
"How many of our enhanced biological units have been killed today?"
They need to realize that they are dealing with people, unique individuals, not resources. Programs like this scare me because it is just a short step to treating people as only a resource to improve upon.
I don't think what Dr. Shanks is proposing is as big of a change as that article makes it out to be. Dark energy has always been a kludge of sorts. He is proposing a theory to define this dark energy factor/constant. It does not radically change the Big Bang Theory, rather it adds to it.
I believe that the internet could be used to send the results from overseas military voting places. It would have to be encrypted and verifiable that no tapering took place, and there would be paper audit trail at the voting site that could be sent later. This would get the results in quicker.
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Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0.
Microsoft still wants to be the one to set the standards
I followed Groove when it first came out. It is a secure P2P collaboration software. They have some neat concepts implemented in their software. I don't know of any open source software that does what Groove does. I heard there was a linux port that never made the light of day.
If the government is going to keep track of my goings on, I should be able to keep track of what the government is doing. Let us not be one sided. Level the playing field. Fair is fair.
E17 is a window manager. Can it replace metacity and run in the Gnome Desktop Environment?
From the report card, the Department of Homeland Security got an 'F' this year and last.
... I would make ActiveX usable in IE7 only by a whitelist. Only the sites found in the whitelist will have the opportunity to run ActiveX. It means that corporate IT can configure IE7 for their legacy programs. If a site tries start up an ActiveX process, a warning alert should pop up warning them about the dangers and with instructions (and more warnings) of how to add the site to the whitelist. I would not have a link on the alert to the whitelist. That would be too easy. Rather I would make them go through a couple of steps to add it to the whitelist. This will give them time to think about what they are doing.
Microsoft is not rotting but it is maturing. It is not as nimble as it use to be. The market has matured along with Microsoft. Microsoft is starting to go through a mid-age crisis. They can not sell more OSs and Office suites than in the past, because everyone already has them and the old versions are good enough. Microsoft is changing into a mature old company that will have a steady income but there will be nothing to get excited about.
a calculated ploy to get more money from Congress? If this popular item was included, other items would have been cut when Congress reduces again the NASA budget. This way this item will be added and perhaps fewer items will be cut. It increases the value of the items in the budget. In the end NASA could end up with more money than if it would have been included.
It is interesting to see how Santa Claus is becoming more and more a part of Christmas. He has become the icon of secular Christmas. Christmas has religious origins though the celebration of the birth of Jesus for many, if not most, Americans has been pushed aside to the place of irrelevance. The politically correct replacement has been Santa Claus. I find it to be a poor replacement.
You may be surprised to find out that one of the most popular "toys" that young children play with is the big box other toys came in. Year after year those boxes are a favorite.
Here is an account that predicts that Google will leverage its search results to create a Semantic Web. I see this as a distinct possibility. Especially Google leveraging its search results to help people buy and sell stuff.
Thank you I read the article and then its reference and I got confused with this last paragraph shown below (http://bmi.com/news/200408/20040818a.asp):
"Representing more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers with a repertoire of 4.5 million musical works from around the world, BMI licenses more than half the music performed in America. Founded in 1939, BMI operates on a non-profit basis, paying more than 85% of revenue collected to copyright owners."
They don't sound "evil". They are not the record company.
This is all about control. The movie industry wants complete control over the distribution of movies. DVD regions is about controling the distribution of movies. Yes control allows them to maximize profits. They might be able to make even more money with a more open and free distribution, but that is not guaranteed. So to guarantee healthy profits they demand complete control. It is safe and mostly risk free.
Maybe I am not in the know, but I don't know a single person that has downloaded a movie. And considering the majority of Americans have dialup, I find this hard to believe. (I can't say about other countries, but I suspect for most countries that holds true.) It would take a long time on dialup to download a movie. It just does not make sense.
Isn't this what software here on earth can do and are doing? Putting it on the satellite does not change anything. I think you would want the satellite to send all the data it collects, so why not filter it here on earth. If the satellite sends only the data it finds interesting, it will miss some events that it was not programmed for but would be useful to the scientific community. Send all the data and filter it here.
provides some competition and breaks the natural monopoly. In Loveland, CO, the cable company was slow in getting broadband through out the city. In the meantime at least two wireless companies were providing the missing service. Well the cable company woke up and got broadband in the city, and the phone company saw what the cable company was doing and expanded their DSL coverage. Too late for me, I got tired of waiting and went wireless. They lost a customer.
I appreciate Google's attitude and ethics. It makes me proud of them and makes me want to continue to use their products. They are saying you can trust us. This builds loyality. And so far they have been true to their word.
I own a 1992 Honda Civic VX and I get over 50 mpg (during summer and high 40's during winter). Why a 12 year old car gets better mpg than most all the cars in 2004 is a good question. And now I find out that the hybrids that EPA says beat my old car (for a least some people) in reality don't. I want to replace my car sometime, but I want to replace it with a car that gets better mpg but when will I be able to do it.
A live Linux CDs, like Knoppix, will become popular in China. Opps the computer rebooted.
Interesting! If true, it fits the Christian faith. In the Bible, it says that Jesus being in very nature God emptied himself and was made in human likeness. (Look at Phil. 2:6-7).
Paul
How is this different from Red Hat's Bluecurve?
And will there be a big outcry as there was when Red Hat combined looks and features?
"How many of our enhanced biological units have been killed today?"
They need to realize that they are dealing with people, unique individuals, not resources. Programs like this scare me because it is just a short step to treating people as only a resource to improve upon.
Will this have the Security Enhanced Linux? RedHat is suppose to be moving in that direction
I don't think what Dr. Shanks is proposing is as big of a change as that article makes it out to be. Dark energy has always been a kludge of sorts. He is proposing a theory to define this dark energy factor/constant. It does not radically change the Big Bang Theory, rather it adds to it.
I believe that the internet could be used to send the results from overseas military voting places. It would have to be encrypted and verifiable that no tapering took place, and there would be paper audit trail at the voting site that could be sent later. This would get the results in quicker.