This is precisely why I stopped bothering with power schemes for the network I manage: we don't pay for our power, and neither I personally nor my department stands to gain anything by the extra effort put forth to put that in place.
Microsoft does not provide support for OEM versions of Windows XP, anyway -- you have to deal with whoever made your PC.
Thus, the actual level of support will not change for the vast majority of XP users. Only customers who purchased the OS retail, and customers who license directly from Microsoft, are impacted.
The Police are generally immune to lawsuit for damages based on their actions during the course of a lawful investigation.
A friend of mine had the police tear the shit out of the interior of his late-model Volvo because he had taken his injured dog to the vet in the back seat, it bled on the upholstery, and during an unrelated traffic stop his vehicle was seized under suspicion of being connected to a murder.
They returned the car with huge chunks removed from all the upholstery and no apology. He had no recourse under the law because the police were immune by statute from being sued for the damage when it turned out he had done nothing wrong at all.
Makes perfect sense to me, actually. The frontal lobes (the part of your brain that lets you effectively plan in the present and the future, among many other things) are basically the last part of a human's brain to develop. Sure they might be all there, but they're not really well-connected enough until puberty hits and those neurons mylinate.
A toddler, doesn't even have all of the equipment in place yet let alone have it hooked up. So, they do about the only thing their brain can handle -- file it away immediately. Then, something will trigger that memory, and it kicks in.
Once the higher cognitive functions develop further, this happens less and less as the brain gradually ramps up its functioning as new connections are made. And that's why children get smarter as they get older.
TrueCrypt + TCGINA to provide an encrypted user profile. Although, this might not be supported by the newest version, which already offers transparent whole-drive encryption for Windows now.
What I want to know: is an OEM allowed to sell a Windows machine with Firefox installed and still get normal OEM discounts on the price of Windows? Obfuscating this question with stuff about users installing/uninstalling is just a way of hiding the real question.
Well, that depends on the OEM and their individual contract they have with Microsoft. I'd hazard a guess that some can, some can't, but almost all don't because they don't want to offend anyone.
Isn't there an open-source, blessed-by-Microsoft implementation of Silverlight for Linux, released through Novell? (Or was it part of the Mono project?)
Technically non-challenging music arranged to be played in such a way as to minimize the musician's individual artistry (what I assume to be a terribly boring task, to someone with skill in the matter) in an environment where they have to fully attend to the boring task for a rather long uninterrupted interval?
One of my best friends is a drummer for a major-label band, he loves to talk about what goes on behind the scenes of pretty much anything involving music. It's fascinating.
A guy I knew in college, was stopped by the Border Patrol on a random check in Arizona. They found a few grams of marijuana he had for personal use, and had a huge legal hassle when he wasn't even breaking the law they suspected him of breaking.
I'm somewhat curious, since I don't have any Linux clients, and the only Linux servers I "manage" are vendor boxes that I only have root on because I refused to have it any other way.
Does Linux offer any actual framework for the application of what would, in AD, be Group Policies?
Pretty much every single setting you can access through the GUI + thousands more you can only access via policy, as well as publishing new software installations, printers, and automatically redirecting home directories can be done on Windows clients via Active Directory. It's really nice.
Does Netflix have anything good on VOD yet? Last time I checked, it was nothing but movies that flopped at the box office, were > 10 years old, or were direct-to-video releases or niche films in the first place.
I canceled my subscription to Netflix after I stopped watching DVDs (Blockbuster is much easier, and my movie-renting tends to be spontaneous rather than planned) and their VOD service had nothing at all of interest on it.
What if there is life under there, but it's never been exposed to radiation before? We've basically dropped a pile of deadly toxic waste onto another planet that might have life on it.
Weren't shrink-wrap/click-through licenses ruled valid provided the consumer is allowed some other way to access the terms before purchase?
Best Buy had stickers to the effect of "The use of this product is governed by a license agreement. Please see a store associate for a copy of this agreement before purchase" on a few products.
The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user."
Better absolute performance, perhaps. Better value? Value is a personal judgment. I "like" Linux well enough, but I won't use it because I feel it to be, in fact, a rather poor value. But that's just because my priorities are different.
Even with faster "absolute performance", it's entirely possible due to other reasons that the actual time it takes for a given end-user to complete a task increases. Who cares if your disk I/O is twice as fast, if it takes you twice as long to navigate the user interface to perform a disk operation?
It basically lets you establish hunt groups for all of your phone numbers. Call the GrandCentral number, and based on rules you set regarding caller and time of day, it will ring on some combination of the devices you specify -- mobile, land-line, and Gizmo SIP numbers.
Whichever one you pick up first, is where the call gets connected to. You can press key combinations to start recording the call (it will play an announcement), transfer the call to one of your other extensions, add someone else from one of your other extensions to the call, etc. And you can listen in as voicemail is being left, and then it e-mails you an MP3 of it.
Lots of neat features designed for reducing to 1, the number of different points of contact you have.
Likely means we'll be seeing something similar on U.S. phones. Mainly because they're all made in China, and there's no way the companies would maintain two different production lines. (After all, both board layout and the casing would be different for a different charger.)
The fine print on some of the DTV Transition ads I've seen run on TV specifically says "Low Power TV stations will not be impacted." or something along those lines.
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I think Miro uses BitTorrent? That's fairly CPU-intensive depending on the implementation.
Python, may be a CPU-intensive implementation.
This is precisely why I stopped bothering with power schemes for the network I manage: we don't pay for our power, and neither I personally nor my department stands to gain anything by the extra effort put forth to put that in place.
Microsoft does not provide support for OEM versions of Windows XP, anyway -- you have to deal with whoever made your PC.
Thus, the actual level of support will not change for the vast majority of XP users. Only customers who purchased the OS retail, and customers who license directly from Microsoft, are impacted.
The Police are generally immune to lawsuit for damages based on their actions during the course of a lawful investigation.
A friend of mine had the police tear the shit out of the interior of his late-model Volvo because he had taken his injured dog to the vet in the back seat, it bled on the upholstery, and during an unrelated traffic stop his vehicle was seized under suspicion of being connected to a murder.
They returned the car with huge chunks removed from all the upholstery and no apology. He had no recourse under the law because the police were immune by statute from being sued for the damage when it turned out he had done nothing wrong at all.
Windows XP and later does, supposedly, support user-mode filesystems and user-mode drivers.
I don't know if there's a single driver that is, actually -- but the framework is there.
Makes perfect sense to me, actually. The frontal lobes (the part of your brain that lets you effectively plan in the present and the future, among many other things) are basically the last part of a human's brain to develop. Sure they might be all there, but they're not really well-connected enough until puberty hits and those neurons mylinate.
A toddler, doesn't even have all of the equipment in place yet let alone have it hooked up. So, they do about the only thing their brain can handle -- file it away immediately. Then, something will trigger that memory, and it kicks in.
Once the higher cognitive functions develop further, this happens less and less as the brain gradually ramps up its functioning as new connections are made. And that's why children get smarter as they get older.
TrueCrypt + TCGINA to provide an encrypted user profile. Although, this might not be supported by the newest version, which already offers transparent whole-drive encryption for Windows now.
Well, that depends on the OEM and their individual contract they have with Microsoft. I'd hazard a guess that some can, some can't, but almost all don't because they don't want to offend anyone.
Isn't there an open-source, blessed-by-Microsoft implementation of Silverlight for Linux, released through Novell? (Or was it part of the Mono project?)
Moonlight?
Technically non-challenging music arranged to be played in such a way as to minimize the musician's individual artistry (what I assume to be a terribly boring task, to someone with skill in the matter) in an environment where they have to fully attend to the boring task for a rather long uninterrupted interval?
One of my best friends is a drummer for a major-label band, he loves to talk about what goes on behind the scenes of pretty much anything involving music. It's fascinating.
A guy I knew in college, was stopped by the Border Patrol on a random check in Arizona. They found a few grams of marijuana he had for personal use, and had a huge legal hassle when he wasn't even breaking the law they suspected him of breaking.
Could you find the citation for the article about homosexual men having more sexually active mothers?
My degree is in Psychology, I still like to get into it from time to time.
I'm somewhat curious, since I don't have any Linux clients, and the only Linux servers I "manage" are vendor boxes that I only have root on because I refused to have it any other way.
Does Linux offer any actual framework for the application of what would, in AD, be Group Policies?
Pretty much every single setting you can access through the GUI + thousands more you can only access via policy, as well as publishing new software installations, printers, and automatically redirecting home directories can be done on Windows clients via Active Directory. It's really nice.
Does Linux even have that framework in place?
Does Netflix have anything good on VOD yet? Last time I checked, it was nothing but movies that flopped at the box office, were > 10 years old, or were direct-to-video releases or niche films in the first place.
I canceled my subscription to Netflix after I stopped watching DVDs (Blockbuster is much easier, and my movie-renting tends to be spontaneous rather than planned) and their VOD service had nothing at all of interest on it.
What if there is life under there, but it's never been exposed to radiation before? We've basically dropped a pile of deadly toxic waste onto another planet that might have life on it.
Weren't shrink-wrap/click-through licenses ruled valid provided the consumer is allowed some other way to access the terms before purchase?
Best Buy had stickers to the effect of "The use of this product is governed by a license agreement. Please see a store associate for a copy of this agreement before purchase" on a few products.
Possible, yes. But incredibly costly. From what I understand, the electric bill for each transmitter and amplifier can be over $10,000 per month.
I was lucky enough to get a private tour of the Surface group from one of the developers.
If I could afford it, I would instantly replace my coffee table with one and never use my desktop or laptops again.
IIRC, WinZip uses AES now. Although it might be vulnerable to a side-channel attack since the volume meta-data is not encrypted, just the payload.
Better absolute performance, perhaps. Better value? Value is a personal judgment. I "like" Linux well enough, but I won't use it because I feel it to be, in fact, a rather poor value. But that's just because my priorities are different.
Even with faster "absolute performance", it's entirely possible due to other reasons that the actual time it takes for a given end-user to complete a task increases. Who cares if your disk I/O is twice as fast, if it takes you twice as long to navigate the user interface to perform a disk operation?
Vista has this, with the Windows Anytime Upgrade. Windows 7 most likely will, also.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-overview.aspx
You can upgrade from any of the lower versions to Ultimate, and also from Home Basic to Home Premium.
Yes. They're about $100, and they even had three different brands of them when I was at Best Buy.
It basically lets you establish hunt groups for all of your phone numbers. Call the GrandCentral number, and based on rules you set regarding caller and time of day, it will ring on some combination of the devices you specify -- mobile, land-line, and Gizmo SIP numbers.
Whichever one you pick up first, is where the call gets connected to. You can press key combinations to start recording the call (it will play an announcement), transfer the call to one of your other extensions, add someone else from one of your other extensions to the call, etc. And you can listen in as voicemail is being left, and then it e-mails you an MP3 of it.
Lots of neat features designed for reducing to 1, the number of different points of contact you have.
Likely means we'll be seeing something similar on U.S. phones. Mainly because they're all made in China, and there's no way the companies would maintain two different production lines. (After all, both board layout and the casing would be different for a different charger.)
The fine print on some of the DTV Transition ads I've seen run on TV specifically says "Low Power TV stations will not be impacted." or something along those lines.
What's that about?