As if we don't have enough horrid artist because of all the government funding of such? Good art does not come because it was funded. Paying for NEW art must remain a voluntary action for the public. Otherwise you end up creating a cottage industry that exists only to suck of wealth.
Yes. But what is causing it? A natural cycle, such as increased sunspots? Mankind?
When I went te elementary school (grade school) we were told that the earth has a natural warming/cooling cycle which is quite large, and those cycles have smaller ripples in them. We were told that we are on the edge of a small warming cycle. This was quite a few years ago, and it seems to be happening. The theory was that the earth had mechanisms in place which regulated the temperature (plant life, ocean life, oceans, ice packs, etc). Basically all this acts like a thermostat. You pick a temperature, and the actual house temperature cycles around it.
OS/2 had this as "shadows". The shadow was linked in the background with the original file. This even worked if you renamed the file/directory from the command line.
And making millions of computer monitors obsolete is right up there in terms of gall.
Yup.
But only if you want to watch HDCP on your monitor. Moreover if you also use an affected OS.
I wonder how long before we have a box which sits between your monitor and your video card which reports itself as HDCP compliant, but in reality outputs a digital signal for recording.
Yes, but Microsoft has enough of a grip on the industry that anything it does becomes a defacto standard. The situation with IE and IE only web sites is a good indication of this.
Yes, we, the technical community know better, but the "normal" user just wants to go to a site. If Firefox does not work there, they don't care why, they just want it to work. So they dump Firefox back for IE.
The real challange is to get Web developers to adhere to standards. Then, when IE fails, the average user will scream. THAT will make IE start following the standards, or will drive the Web developer back to IE specific features. But as long as sites work with IE (and IE's quirks), the average user does not care.
This, of course, does not take into account other issues like the "user experience" and security. These may drive users over, but then Microsoft is (or appears to be) fixing them. For instance tabbed browsing in IE 7.
Congress needs to think about what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole, and the future of space lies in the hands of privite industry
Unfortunately both groups are in a serious state of myopia. Politicians only think up to the next election, and private industry only sees the next quarter. No major group is thinking much past that.
We simply have no visionaries (or crisis) which have enough power to influence agendas. Until we do, we are basically in neutral and coasting along.
I still like the idea of publishing spammers home addresses and then sending credit card applications, catalogs and all the rest to their homes.
So you like penalizing non-involved third parties?
You realize that the company sending these catalogs has a reasonable expectation that the adressee will actually use their catalog, since they supposedly requested it in the first place.
Any database which is national or inter-national in scope (and is set up properly), stores its dates/times in GMT, then converts to the user's time zone.
I am not saying that I spend huge amounts of time, but I AM aware of it. Good programmers are.
But you are right that the methods could be made final. But still, reading code where methods have more than 5 parameters, the method should be using an object instead. Which brings me back to my original point.
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As if we don't have enough horrid artist because of all the government funding of such? Good art does not come because it was funded. Paying for NEW art must remain a voluntary action for the public. Otherwise you end up creating a cottage industry that exists only to suck of wealth.
Welcome to the Canadian model of cultural identity:
"Financial support for these programs includes grants and contributions, bursaries, tax credits and other means."
There you go, transparent encrypted directory
Which means it is transparent to the logged in user, which means it is transparent to the virus/ trojan horse/ spyware.
And your point?
Excellent!
global warming is happening
Yes. But what is causing it? A natural cycle, such as increased sunspots? Mankind?
When I went te elementary school (grade school) we were told that the earth has a natural warming/cooling cycle which is quite large, and those cycles have smaller ripples in them. We were told that we are on the edge of a small warming cycle. This was quite a few years ago, and it seems to be happening. The theory was that the earth had mechanisms in place which regulated the temperature (plant life, ocean life, oceans, ice packs, etc). Basically all this acts like a thermostat. You pick a temperature, and the actual house temperature cycles around it.
if there was a tidy profit to be made from it
I agree with your opinion.
That can be said in fewer words.
peter principle
Move something, the alias will find it.
OS/2 had this as "shadows". The shadow was linked in the background with the original file. This even worked if you renamed the file/directory from the command line.
:-)
And making millions of computer monitors obsolete is right up there in terms of gall.
Yup.
But only if you want to watch HDCP on your monitor. Moreover if you also use an affected OS.
I wonder how long before we have a box which sits between your monitor and your video card which reports itself as HDCP compliant, but in reality outputs a digital signal for recording.
Is this a software or hardware product?
Secure Doc
Install rootkit
To what?
The entire hard drive is encrypted. There IS no OS visible as such until the encryption key (and physical key) are used.
If the machine can access those files, the key is in memory at some point.
Yes, well, then you remove the key of course. See SecureDoc.
Ikea
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That would be iKea
There is no such thing as security if you have physical access to the box. Period.
Which is why you need disk encryptors. The entire disk is encrypted. Go ahead, access it outside the OS environment. All you get is random bits.
Yes, you can try to brute force the password, but that takes many, many CPU cycles, and much time.
Google it
Yes, but Microsoft has enough of a grip on the industry that anything it does becomes a defacto standard. The situation with IE and IE only web sites is a good indication of this.
Yes, we, the technical community know better, but the "normal" user just wants to go to a site. If Firefox does not work there, they don't care why, they just want it to work. So they dump Firefox back for IE.
The real challange is to get Web developers to adhere to standards. Then, when IE fails, the average user will scream. THAT will make IE start following the standards, or will drive the Web developer back to IE specific features. But as long as sites work with IE (and IE's quirks), the average user does not care.
This, of course, does not take into account other issues like the "user experience" and security. These may drive users over, but then Microsoft is (or appears to be) fixing them. For instance tabbed browsing in IE 7.
Yes, but IBM is rife with acronyms.
AMD -> Air Movement Device -> a fan
Joe Sixpack isn't remotely technical enough to give a two shits about this kind of thing, and won't be for another 5-10 years.
Your timeline is optimistic.
The internet, unfortunately, is pretty lawless right now.
Unfortunately?
Let's leave well enough alone. We start introducing the law, and the next thing you know there will be taxes, speed limits, road side checks, etc.
I kind of like the Internet the way it is now. A little wild, but then we protect ourselves. Let's keep the government out of this.
Congress needs to think about what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole,
and
the future of space lies in the hands of privite industry
Unfortunately both groups are in a serious state of myopia. Politicians only think up to the next election, and private industry only sees the next quarter. No major group is thinking much past that.
We simply have no visionaries (or crisis) which have enough power to influence agendas. Until we do, we are basically in neutral and coasting along.
So where should I put my personal website?,/i> .name ?
I receive catalogs I never requested
Which is different from going to a company's Web page and signing someone else up.
I still like the idea of publishing spammers home addresses and then sending credit card applications, catalogs and all the rest to their homes.
So you like penalizing non-involved third parties?
You realize that the company sending these catalogs has a reasonable expectation that the adressee will actually use their catalog, since they supposedly requested it in the first place.
It costs money to send stuff through snale-mail.
More importantly, Windows and OSX both get patched so frequently I can't imagine they won't be able to slip the fix in before then.
But support for Win2K has expired.
<foilhat>Ah HA! This is Microsoft's doing. Now we HAVE to buy into WinXP.</foilhat>
Any database which is national or inter-national in scope (and is set up properly), stores its dates/times in GMT, then converts to the user's time zone.
:-)
All of these also need to be changed.
I smell $$
Um, performance is always in the back of my mind.
I am not saying that I spend huge amounts of time, but I AM aware of it. Good programmers are.
But you are right that the methods could be made final. But still, reading code where methods have more than 5 parameters, the method should be using an object instead. Which brings me back to my original point.
I listen to Rock 101 in Vancouver. Great rock and roll.
You need IE to listen on line though....