I think Microsoft is missing a serious opportunity here. It's called branching.
If they are forced to fix vulnerabilities for an old piece of software without getting paid I can see how that doesn't make sense. But I cannot imagine that there is NOBODY who will pay for vulnerability fixes to their old line instead of upgrading.
Why? Because some software runs on 98 and not on 2000 or XP. Some software will probably run on XP and not Vista in the future. If they dealt with the branch constructively, this could represent another revenue stream for them.
I don't believe it's cannabilistic because the people who would stay on a branch have to because of other software, not because they are cheap. Eventually, they will spend the same amount of money on security updates that it takes to purchase XP but won't have to upgrade their custom software for the new environment.
Companies sell items that cost $3 to make for $90, and you're suggesting that consumers are leeches? The entire call center industry is tuned to deal with most troubles in a single, short call. It's called a one-and-done. This is where most calls end. The few that go beyond this to a case or commitment or call transfer and analyzed ad nauseum until they can be made one and dones.
Just because you are personally high maintenance doesn't mean most are leeches. May I remind you that you are a lawyer? Haven't you seen all the jokes?
So, you are suggesting that I have to tell you that fixing the security of a bookmarks file by publicizing your secret key is a joke, yet I'm the stupid one?
Assuming your American, your government is spending money gathering data in the name of terrorism from MySpace?
Look, they are spending money You gave to them. Your comment is like saying you can't get fired up at government workers for playing solitaire all day because the computer they were provided has it pre-installed.
There. Now the bookmarks.html is encrypted on the site. Simply add your private key to ~/public_html/secret and you can unencrypt from any of your computers.
yeah, but the girl who lost the phone isn't a he. "When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. "
Also, I just sent her back access to a google spreadsheet to track costs of lossed time, legal fees, hardware, bandwidth, etc. Hopefully she will use it along with something indicating how much money she's collected so her effort keeps it's integrity.
look again, notice the paypal link, then come back and apologize. She just emailed me to say most of the donations are under $1 and the bandwidth/loss of work is what she is taking donations for.
1. Find some partners to "steal" your sidekick. 2. Create a story about how they are ethically challenged. 3. Crow about how you had to buy another one and these people are bad. 4. Reluctantly put up a Paypal account to collect money for "incurred costs". 5. wait for the naive techno fans to queue up to "help the cause". 6. Profit!!!
Assuming 2000 people give her $1 and 6 other people involved, now everybody has free sidekicks!
Hey, that's better than most mid 90's internet startups!
Never underestimate the power of pharmaceutical companies in a christo-fascist nation. The fact is, US politicians tought the Christianity standard only 4 months every 2 years. For all other months, they are corporate puppets yielding only lip-service to their religious brotherin.
Look for the funding issue to revert in some omnibus bill or by some other back-door.
So John still wears clothes from the 1920's? I'm imagining that someone from that era wouldn't get passed the way we are all dressed (or not dressed - send them to a beach!).
Why do we still get submissions of articles from this guy? He misses so much in his writings it's getting to be his standard.
They need to start a competition around this to really boost participation. Make it something like folding@home or seti@home. Then geeks can run several images diff'ing processes on the images, get an alert when one of the threads picks up on something.
The spotter can call it in (old school bottleneck, why not a jabber server?) with a user name and get credit for the spot.
Then the authorities can send out a patrol to nab the crossers.... What's that you say? Not enough authorities or probably too far away to intercept? Helicopters or other intercept aircraft to spot until someone on the land can get to them.
They don't seriosly expect people to watch shrubs, sand and tumbleweeds in real time do they?
He added in that regard that he is hopeful that the planning authorities will enable the company to operate in alternate areas in order to help preserve the scientific site.
Alternate area to operate in, under sketchy pretenses of aiding science? In Israel? Of course we do! How about a lovely river bank?
What you are describing is a source control system applied to documents instead of code. By design any files in the subversion repo are accessible via url. And you can restrict access using apache httpd access controls.
notice you only needed a browser to get to it. If you use TortoiseSVN as your client, you can grab a copy using Window Explorer as a file-friendly client.
What I don't understand is how billions of dollars can be spent on Tokamaks. I mean, their buffalo wings are okay, but they are loud and the service isn't consistent.
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His analysis is viable. His advice can be used in conjunction with an e-ticket you print from your computer. It's a boarding pass.
I think Microsoft is missing a serious opportunity here. It's called branching.
If they are forced to fix vulnerabilities for an old piece of software without getting paid I can see how that doesn't make sense. But I cannot imagine that there is NOBODY who will pay for vulnerability fixes to their old line instead of upgrading.
Why? Because some software runs on 98 and not on 2000 or XP. Some software will probably run on XP and not Vista in the future. If they dealt with the branch constructively, this could represent another revenue stream for them.
I don't believe it's cannabilistic because the people who would stay on a branch have to because of other software, not because they are cheap. Eventually, they will spend the same amount of money on security updates that it takes to purchase XP but won't have to upgrade their custom software for the new environment.
Is there some reason this wouldn't work?
Companies sell items that cost $3 to make for $90, and you're suggesting that consumers are leeches? The entire call center industry is tuned to deal with most troubles in a single, short call. It's called a one-and-done. This is where most calls end. The few that go beyond this to a case or commitment or call transfer and analyzed ad nauseum until they can be made one and dones.
Just because you are personally high maintenance doesn't mean most are leeches. May I remind you that you are a lawyer? Haven't you seen all the jokes?
So, you are suggesting that I have to tell you that fixing the security of a bookmarks file by publicizing your secret key is a joke, yet I'm the stupid one?
Interesting....
Assuming your American, your government is spending money gathering data in the name of terrorism from MySpace?
Look, they are spending money You gave to them. Your comment is like saying you can't get fired up at government workers for playing solitaire all day because the computer they were provided has it pre-installed.
Of course you can!!!!
pgp
scp
wget
pgp
There. Now the bookmarks.html is encrypted on the site. Simply add your private key to ~/public_html/secret and you can unencrypt from any of your computers.
An augmented version of chipmark.com? This is funny, because I just sent a suggestion to buy out chipmark.com to google labs.
I don't think they are as unpredictable as the trade and financial journals are suggesting....
yeah, but the girl who lost the phone isn't a he.
"When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. "
Also, I just sent her back access to a google spreadsheet to track costs of lossed time, legal fees, hardware, bandwidth, etc. Hopefully she will use it along with something indicating how much money she's collected so her effort keeps it's integrity.
I think he just put the donations link up.
Did you notice that the rest of his "site" is a skeleton with no content?
look again, notice the paypal link, then come back and apologize. She just emailed me to say most of the donations are under $1 and the bandwidth/loss of work is what she is taking donations for.
1. Find some partners to "steal" your sidekick.
2. Create a story about how they are ethically challenged.
3. Crow about how you had to buy another one and these people are bad.
4. Reluctantly put up a Paypal account to collect money for "incurred costs".
5. wait for the naive techno fans to queue up to "help the cause".
6. Profit!!!
Assuming 2000 people give her $1 and 6 other people involved, now everybody has free sidekicks!
Hey, that's better than most mid 90's internet startups!
- The malware industry cannot be trusted to report when things are improving or a better alternative to their bread and butter os exists.
- Doctors poor at telling hypochondriac when there is nothing wrong with them.
- Car companies not reliable source of information about bicycles and public transit.
- Lawyers cannot be trusted to create legislation that doesn't criminalize everything.
- Politicians appear to be lying or misleading to get elected.
- Wolves unwilling to notify sheep in advance of attack.
Well, most of the time anyway:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=530165475
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-22978900
Never underestimate the power of pharmaceutical companies in a christo-fascist nation. The fact is, US politicians tought the Christianity standard only 4 months every 2 years. For all other months, they are corporate puppets yielding only lip-service to their religious brotherin.
Look for the funding issue to revert in some omnibus bill or by some other back-door.
So John still wears clothes from the 1920's? I'm imagining that someone from that era wouldn't get passed the way we are all dressed (or not dressed - send them to a beach!).
Why do we still get submissions of articles from this guy? He misses so much in his writings it's getting to be his standard.
Regarding the some applications which only installed for one user - Did you submit a bug report to them?
They need to start a competition around this to really boost participation. Make it something like folding@home or seti@home. Then geeks can run several images diff'ing processes on the images, get an alert when one of the threads picks up on something.
The spotter can call it in (old school bottleneck, why not a jabber server?) with a user name and get credit for the spot.
Then the authorities can send out a patrol to nab the crossers.... What's that you say? Not enough authorities or probably too far away to intercept? Helicopters or other intercept aircraft to spot until someone on the land can get to them.
They don't seriosly expect people to watch shrubs, sand and tumbleweeds in real time do they?
He added in that regard that he is hopeful that the planning authorities will enable the company to operate in alternate areas in order to help preserve the scientific site.
Alternate area to operate in, under sketchy pretenses of aiding science? In Israel? Of course we do! How about a lovely river bank?
nah, aqua is water. Hydraulic systems work on oil.
This conversation is unreal. Trademarking Pi?
I moved my office admin machine to OOO during version 1.x, and that thing is a 633Mhz P3. These guys are fools throwing poo. Nothing more...
Subversion. http://subversion.tigris.org/
What you are describing is a source control system applied to documents instead of code. By design any files in the subversion repo are accessible via url. And you can restrict access using apache httpd access controls.
For example, here is a subversion repo: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/
notice you only needed a browser to get to it. If you use TortoiseSVN as your client, you can grab a copy using Window Explorer as a file-friendly client.
Here's a screen shot of TortoiseSVN:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
Access via apache httpd is through web DAV, so you can put it in your network share list as well.
two words: automobile accidents
What I don't understand is how billions of dollars can be spent on Tokamaks. I mean, their buffalo wings are okay, but they are loud and the service isn't consistent.
http://www.tacomac.com/