I don't know if this is a common practice everywhere but rental video's always seem to be better quality. Some video's you buy in a store are only good for a few viewings without significant quality degradation. So better quality tape might be some of the price difference. Can anyone confirm this ?
So XP professional (NT 5.1 as it identifies itself) wasn't meant to replace 2000 Professional (NT 5)? And I suppose 2003 won't replace the 2000 server versions.....
I thought most ship navigation (professional) relied not just on gps but also on radio beacons, buoys, whatever, always more than one source to prevent errors.
In some countries the legality of this clause in the EULA is questionable. In some of those countries courts have ruled that it is ok to (re)sell OEM versions separately even if Microsoft says you can't. You are even free to modify versions that come on a "restore" disk so that they can be used on other PCs.
Please note that I said "in some countries" so seeking advice as suggested above might be a good thing. Seeking advice from Microsoft might not, because even though courts in those countries have ruled otherwise, MS stills tells everyone that it's illegal to sell OEM versions separately.
Your response gives me an interesting new and helpful strategy to use in our biweekly shopping row: "I need those pants; No honey, according to my PDA you don't but it does say you could do with some more of those 'Get dirty' pants".
I want to install this into my home, no more "This bag ? Oh that's just groceries honey" from my wife. Maybe I can keep inventory for her as well, so I can bring my PDA with her closet inventory with me when we go shopping: "See darling, you already have fourteen of those, now let's go buy some books"
Or easily disabled when the lazy support staff get sick of all the password calls. Believe me from my experienc with clients networks (Fortune 500 and government among them) , sloppy security is 70% admin laziness or stupidity, maybe more.
If you think of this in a positive way: Maybe the record companies will be more willing to give new artists that try something new a chance if this tells them it might be a hit. Ofcourse this is all dependant on how well this works, and the music alone is not always enough to make hit.
Maybe there's another application: I have been playing the same old cds for years, and prolly will do so for years to come, maybe they can make a version that can be trained to predict whether I will like it and recommend new songs/artists to me.
In a networked organisation, data is generally stored on servers, not on workstations. Servers are usually reasonably secure physically (I know this isn't always the case, but they are generally more secure than workstations), so I don't see your point. (You did realise that this would only give you access to the local machine, not the entire domain or forest did you ?)
Only some places store important data on workstations: - Small businesses with peer to peer networks (I guess this would be bad for them) - High security places where data cannot be shared on a network (These places generally don't believe in electronic security so they take their physical security to a very high level) - Places where users are either poorly trained or incredibly stubborn (These places have only themselves or the lusers to blame)
Courts in Germany ruled that apart from those parts of the EULA that are illegal to begin with, only those parts of it apply that can be seen before purchasing. So that means anything not on the outside of the box is not legally binding.
My nav system uses the data collected all over Europe to show me traffic jams and other things that might be handy for me to know while driving. It's been around for years and it's called TMC. In The Netherlands the data for these systems is captured by a similar system as mentioned in the article. It's just that it has been around here for about 5 years, maybe even longer.
Believe it or not, people actually steal computers because they are worth money.
Isn't it more probable these computers were just stolen by some lowlife to sell them to make some money. The fact that it took a cpl of days to even realise that computers were missing makes it reasonable to assume that the hardware wasn't very well protected.
It seems like everything these days has to be about terrorism and national security to give the likes of Bush etc. more ammunition to do stupid things. Why is Slashdot participating ?
Funny how A Clockwork Orange is always described as a (insert some phrase here) film instead of as a very good and equally disturbing book by Anthony Burgess.
I agree with the replies above and would like to add that in this market the standard on Microsoft phones is meaningless even to Microsoft as they have a market share that is well 1% so they don't have the clout to set standards.
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I don't know if this is a common practice everywhere but rental video's always seem to be better quality. Some video's you buy in a store are only good for a few viewings without significant quality degradation. So better quality tape might be some of the price difference. Can anyone confirm this ?
I didn't think ppl made those butt-ugly webpages anymore.
The content might be just fine, it's just a little hard on the eyes. These pages should have a tag.
So XP professional (NT 5.1 as it identifies itself) wasn't meant to replace 2000 Professional (NT 5)? And I suppose 2003 won't replace the 2000 server versions.....
Silly remark indeed.
It's the other way round, IIRC in the early days the civilian system was always low precision, the randomization was always on.
I thought most ship navigation (professional) relied not just on gps but also on radio beacons, buoys, whatever, always more than one source to prevent errors.
I ain't sticking nothing there, no sir
These babies: http://www.spartamet.nl/ (sorry dutch only) have been around for ages. They are mainly sold to older ppl.
In some countries the legality of this clause in the EULA is questionable. In some of those countries courts have ruled that it is ok to (re)sell OEM versions separately even if Microsoft says you can't. You are even free to modify versions that come on a "restore" disk so that they can be used on other PCs.
Please note that I said "in some countries" so seeking advice as suggested above might be a good thing. Seeking advice from Microsoft might not, because even though courts in those countries have ruled otherwise, MS stills tells everyone that it's illegal to sell OEM versions separately.
Your response gives me an interesting new and helpful strategy to use in our biweekly shopping row: "I need those pants; No honey, according to my PDA you don't but it does say you could do with some more of those 'Get dirty' pants".
I want to install this into my home, no more "This bag ? Oh that's just groceries honey" from my wife. Maybe I can keep inventory for her as well, so I can bring my PDA with her closet inventory with me when we go shopping: "See darling, you already have fourteen of those, now let's go buy some books"
Or easily disabled when the lazy support staff get sick of all the password calls. Believe me from my experienc with clients networks (Fortune 500 and government among them) , sloppy security is 70% admin laziness or stupidity, maybe more.
Why would you ask us to post the article for you if you can't read it anyway ? Tsk tsk, trolls these days...
Some things are so rare they will always be valuable :-)
If you think of this in a positive way: Maybe the record companies will be more willing to give new artists that try something new a chance if this tells them it might be a hit. Ofcourse this is all dependant on how well this works, and the music alone is not always enough to make hit.
Maybe there's another application: I have been playing the same old cds for years, and prolly will do so for years to come, maybe they can make a version that can be trained to predict whether I will like it and recommend new songs/artists to me.
In a networked organisation, data is generally stored on servers, not on workstations. Servers are usually reasonably secure physically (I know this isn't always the case, but they are generally more secure than workstations), so I don't see your point. (You did realise that this would only give you access to the local machine, not the entire domain or forest did you ?)
Only some places store important data on workstations:
- Small businesses with peer to peer networks (I guess this would be bad for them)
- High security places where data cannot be shared on a network (These places generally don't believe in electronic security so they take their physical security to a very high level)
- Places where users are either poorly trained or incredibly stubborn (These places have only themselves or the lusers to blame)
So you're saying we don't need to worry about an asteroid wiping out all life, because we will all be killed in air crashes before that ?
Good, they had me worried there for a bit....
Courts in Germany ruled that apart from those parts of the EULA that are illegal to begin with, only those parts of it apply that can be seen before purchasing. So that means anything not on the outside of the box is not legally binding.
Once a month ? This is slashdot you lucky bastard !
My nav system uses the data collected all over Europe to show me traffic jams and other things that might be handy for me to know while driving. It's been around for years and it's called TMC. In The Netherlands the data for these systems is captured by a similar system as mentioned in the article. It's just that it has been around here for about 5 years, maybe even longer.
I think the extension wires would give you away
How the proper use of beta software can lead to immense data loss is beyond me.....
We all have been waiting for 4 pound notebooks, or a little over 6 euros in my case. Unfortunately I don't think we'll see that anytime soon.
Believe it or not, people actually steal computers because they are worth money.
Isn't it more probable these computers were just stolen by some lowlife to sell them to make some money. The fact that it took a cpl of days to even realise that computers were missing makes it reasonable to assume that the hardware wasn't very well protected.
It seems like everything these days has to be about terrorism and national security to give the likes of Bush etc. more ammunition to do stupid things. Why is Slashdot participating ?
Funny how A Clockwork Orange is always described as a (insert some phrase here) film instead of as a very good and equally disturbing book by Anthony Burgess.
I agree with the replies above and would like to add that in this market the standard on Microsoft phones is meaningless even to Microsoft as they have a market share that is well 1% so they don't have the clout to set standards.