Are yu trying to tell me that they could not figure out to boot to another hard disk drive, or CD, or floppy, or USB key, and clean the problem up? A Bart PE CD? Ohh, wait a minute, now I am assuming common sense and intelligence, and we all know that there is no sign of that at M$, except in the money making way...
Ballmer has billions of them. Names? Washington ($1), Jefferson ($2), Lincoln ($5), Hamilton ($10), Jackson ($20), Grant ($50), Franklin ($100), McKinley ($500), Cleveland ($1000), Madison ($5,000), Chase ($10,000), Wilson ($100,000). And those are just his American friends...
Actually, the more likely explanation for the presence of the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc, is that they want to buy equipment which will be located in insecure areas (places not completely controlled by the agencies). I am sure that the NSA has far better equipment, just like the Netherlands gov man said they had. But they keep it where a phone company employee will not be able to accidentally stumble accross it. And their kit is much more expensive. So to cut costs, and keep secrets secret, they put the cheap (read comercial) equipment out in many sites, and their extra hot stuff where it is really needed (NY, Washington, Moscow, etc)
Can someone explain where in the web or literature they explain why the posibility that this global warming is not the standard precurser to an Ice Age? As far as I can find out, every ice age is preceeded by a big climg in CO2 and temperature. Just look at wikipedia for a start. So how is this global warming any different?
Hello. Vista is an install DVD. It will not fit on a CD. Will you guys stop saying CD, pay attention, and say DVD when you mean DVD? Sheese, the crap you get on/.
Whoo, there, good buddy. Actually I have seen some pretty entertaining videos of less filling / tastes great cat fights on the internet lately. Now, if someone wants to post videos of supermodels catfighting over microkernel / linus, I would then get pretty excited over the whole debate. Wait a minute, too much information here...
Start an elevated command prompt window, and from that window run secpol.msc.
Find all the policies that start with "User Account Control" (there are only, like, six of them) and set them to either no prompt or disabled. That's all there is to it. You'll never need to "run elevated" and you'll never be bothered by those pop-ups again
You are correct. Sex sells. And, violence sells. Sex and violence are very close relatives. Many, if not most, women prefer their sex at least a little violent. Yes, yes, more, more, harder, harder...
I am an EE at Dell. I appreciate your calling BS on the idiot big time. I work very hard at making our designs the most reliable possible, and so does everyone else at Dell. We actually rarely use Intel reference designs, but instead sometimes modify them, as Intel reference designs are just not reliable enough, etc. Our standards are higher. We are very picky. Most of our designs are done by ourselves, or jointly. We push all segments of the industry to provide components at a higher standard, and write our own standards. We push the industry for standardization. We do not jump into things because we are very risk-reduction oriented. That includes the risk of a dis-satisfied customer or product failure. Have a good day, friend. Hey, what's the deal with being pro-Dell or something. This is slashdot, for God's sake.
If you define most successful as making the most money, then yes, MS is the most successfull. Many tyrants are competing for most successful rulers under that same definition. If you mean most satisfied customer base, then I wouold bet Apple is way ahead of MS, and so is Adobe and many others. Not to speak of value for the buck, which free software wins hands down. Maybe MS wins for most dissatisfied customer base, or most enslaved, or most trapped, or whatever. Real winners, they are.
"As surveillance expands, people become free from danger, free to walk alone at night,..."
We are not any safer now than we were 20 years ago, we are far more in danger. Instead of successfully tracking, capturing, and curing criminals, the government is letting them go in ever-increasing numbers from the over-crowded criminal meeting grounds and training camps commonly referred to as prisons and jails.
Instead of winning wars, the government just makes new laws, making more of us criminals. Remember the war on crime, the war on organized crime, the war on alcohol (prohibition), the war on smuggling, the war on street gangs, the war on gambling, the war on cigarettes, the war on guns, the war on drugs, the war on illegal aliens, the war on pron, the war on child pron, the war on internet pron, etc.
The only wars we "win" are the military wars, and some of them we do not win. Remember Korea, Viet Nam? Wars are now run by the politicians, who are influenced by their particular version of political correctness for that particular war, and controlled by big business, instead of being run by those who know how to win them, the generals.
The other wars the government does not even figure out how to fight, much less win. Making more things illegal makes more money for lawyers, while winning wars against crimes would cut income for the lawyers. How many politicians are lawyers? Yes, the government puts departments in place to fight these things, but did you ever notice how ineffective they are? Is the stream of illegal aliens slowing down? No. Is the stream of illegal drugs slowing down? No. Is any crime rate slowing down? No, except for murder rates, and I suspect that is only because more people are illegal, and afraid to report crimes.
Why do they want to legalize illegal aliens right now? Because most of them would vote republican, thanking those who made them legal?
How much of a war are we fighting in Columbia, Venezuela, etc against cocaine? In Afghanistan, Turkey, Mexico, etc against opium, heroin? We appear to have given up?
"When one maniac can wipe out a city of twenty million with a microbe developed in his basement..."
Maniacs do not have to develop diseases to destroy a city. All they have to do is blow up a couple of chemical plants. And the plants are not beefing up their security, nor are they required to. Maniacs can destroy the economy by blowing up a single building, like the New York Stock Exchange. They do not have to make a nuclear bomb. How big a building did that one idiot blow up by himself with a truckload of fertilizer? It is a little harder to buy that much fertilizer, but there are plenty of farms, fertilizer stores and factories with many times that much fertilizer laying around, and absolutely no security at all. All you have to do is get a job there, or get a trucking job, and you have your truck bomb(s).
It is just as easy today to shoot down an airplane. Maniacs could steal missiles from the Army, Air Force, or National Guard, or (easier and safer) buy them on the black market. It happens all the time. Or they could use missiles to blow up the White House. Not that we would loose any good people in that case. That would shut down the country for quite a while.
Or they could blow up the main concourse of a major airport.
The only ones who are happy about the increasing threats to our safety and security are the major corporations who stand to make more and more money for their top people and owners. And that is all that is important today. Can you say military-industrial complex? Because if you can, you are wrong. It is the military-industrial-big government complex, and nobody is going to rock that boat.
And we are loosing whatever freedoms we thought we had to make sure that complex stays in power, and grows. We do not have to wait for intelligent computers to destroy mankind, we can depend on our government to do that for us sooner.
I for one welcome our new Cyberdyne Skynet overlords.
addresses for slashdotters to try out, now that they know about them: nul, null, root, administrator, president, ceo, cio, cfo, none, unknown, lost&found, hotty...
No, That is the 5299th version of IE 7. Some versions fix several exploits. And some versions create many new exploits. So number of exploits >> number of fixed exploits >> number of IE7 versions. Silly boy.
Are they effective enough to get people over the trauma of Bill and Hillary Clinton, or George W. Bush? We are talking serious trauma here, I know. Is this the pink pill, as opposed to the blue pill?
First, Intel's primary market is not the consumer, It is the big corps who buy the procs to ship with systems. Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc. If the big guys think their marketing spins better with new names (it does, I am sure, because hering the same old name repeated makes it fade into background noise), then they will love it. Second, the desktop retail market has been shrinking as a percentage of total desktop sales for years. Yes, it is growing in numbers, but the total market is growing faster. So it sounds great to say that AMD is gaining ground on Intel, but it is not as much ground if yu look at total desktop sales, which is all that counts. Looking at just retail sales is lying with statistics. Tell the whole story, or shut up. Both Intel and AMD sales grow each year, a lot, but are limited solely by their production ability, which is always maxed out. And since Intel has so much more production capability already, their growth rate, although huge, is still going to be a smaller percentage of their overall volume than AMD's. Why? because AMD is forced to put more effort and money into growing. They are playing catchup.
What you are trying to say is that windows is dumbed down to the most inexpert user, and on top of that, there is no expert user mode to switch to. In addition, there are no terminals, networking, usb key support, just stupid obsolete floppy support. Anotherwords, Microsoft fails to listen to expert users, and has no competition to force them to pay more attention. Where is the new news in this?
Elements heavier than iron consume more energy in their creation than their fusion process gives off. But that does not mean that they are not formed in a normal star's process. It just means that only a little of them are formed in a star's normal process. Stars do not fuse elements that produce energy in fusion, they fuse elements. The primary star energy is from hydrogen and helium fusion. The neutron flux, as well as the rest of the atoms hitting one another, can result in fusion. if two atoms hit each other in a way that will result in fusion, then they fuse. There are not a lot of iron atoms moving around fast enough to fuse with neutrons, hydrogen or helium, and some of the isotopes formed are radioactive. Since this is all going on in the core of the star, we will not see much evidence of it.
Debian Hurd / Mach microkernel, Gnu, not Linux, would have been interesting. or Solaris Would they mind giving us their benchmark software so we could do it? and a copy of singularity?
I fI were IBM, I'd print up a truckload of paper with the header linux 2.7 Put in a few pages of Daryl sucks, sco's a joke, etc, and maybe a whole lot of dirt they dig up on the clowns. Carefully hidden. Send the truckload to sco. When sco says in court, these pages are all blank, IBM could pull out the non-blank pages, introducing them as evidence. Heh heh
yes, just put the box on a broadband connection and wait a few minutes. Someone will port scan you and fix your spyware challenged machine for you. apparently ms does not put their boxes on broadband networks.
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Are yu trying to tell me that they could not figure out to boot to another hard disk drive, or CD, or floppy, or USB key, and clean the problem up? A Bart PE CD?
Ohh, wait a minute, now I am assuming common sense and intelligence, and we all know that there is no sign of that at M$, except in the money making way...
Ballmer has billions of them. Names? Washington ($1), Jefferson ($2), Lincoln ($5),
Hamilton ($10), Jackson ($20), Grant ($50), Franklin ($100), McKinley ($500),
Cleveland ($1000), Madison ($5,000), Chase ($10,000), Wilson ($100,000).
And those are just his American friends...
Actually, the more likely explanation for the presence of the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc, is that they want to buy equipment which will be located in insecure areas (places not completely controlled by the agencies).
I am sure that the NSA has far better equipment, just like the Netherlands gov man said they had.
But they keep it where a phone company employee will not be able to accidentally stumble accross it.
And their kit is much more expensive.
So to cut costs, and keep secrets secret, they put the cheap (read comercial) equipment out in many sites, and their extra hot stuff where it is really needed (NY, Washington, Moscow, etc)
Can someone explain where in the web or literature they explain why the posibility that this global warming is not the standard precurser to an Ice Age? As far as I can find out, every ice age is preceeded by a big climg in CO2 and temperature. Just look at wikipedia for a start. So how is this global warming any different?
Hello. Vista is an install DVD. It will not fit on a CD. Will you guys stop saying CD, pay attention, and say DVD when you mean DVD? /.
Sheese, the crap you get on
Whoo, there, good buddy. Actually I have seen some pretty entertaining videos of less filling / tastes great cat fights on the internet lately. Now, if someone wants to post videos of supermodels catfighting over microkernel / linus, I would then get pretty excited over the whole debate.
Wait a minute, too much information here...
I got this from somewhere:
Start an elevated command prompt window, and from that window run secpol.msc.
Find all the policies that start with "User Account Control" (there are only, like, six of them) and set them to either no prompt or disabled.
That's all there is to it. You'll never need to "run elevated" and you'll never be bothered by those pop-ups again
Thank you, whoever posted this fix.
You are correct. Sex sells. And, violence sells. Sex and violence are very close relatives. Many, if not most, women prefer their sex at least a little violent. Yes, yes, more, more, harder, harder...
Sorry about that.
Good luck.
I am an EE at Dell. I appreciate your calling BS on the idiot big time. I work very hard at making our designs the most reliable possible, and so does everyone else at Dell. We actually rarely use Intel reference designs, but instead sometimes modify them, as Intel reference designs are just not reliable enough, etc. Our standards are higher. We are very picky. Most of our designs are done by ourselves, or jointly.
We push all segments of the industry to provide components at a higher standard, and write our own standards.
We push the industry for standardization.
We do not jump into things because we are very risk-reduction oriented. That includes the risk of a dis-satisfied customer or product failure.
Have a good day, friend.
Hey, what's the deal with being pro-Dell or something. This is slashdot, for God's sake.
If you define most successful as making the most money, then yes, MS is the most successfull. Many tyrants are competing for most successful rulers under that same definition.
If you mean most satisfied customer base, then I wouold bet Apple is way ahead of MS, and so is Adobe and many others.
Not to speak of value for the buck, which free software wins hands down.
Maybe MS wins for most dissatisfied customer base, or most enslaved, or most trapped, or whatever. Real winners, they are.
When I saw 666, the evil bit and Hilarity, I immediately thought Hillary (Clinton)???
"As surveillance expands, people become free from danger, free to walk alone at night,..."
We are not any safer now than we were 20 years ago, we are far more in danger. Instead of successfully tracking, capturing, and curing criminals, the government is letting them go in ever-increasing numbers from the over-crowded criminal meeting grounds and training camps commonly referred to as prisons and jails.
Instead of winning wars, the government just makes new laws, making more of us criminals. Remember the war on crime, the war on organized crime, the war on alcohol (prohibition), the war on smuggling, the war on street gangs, the war on gambling, the war on cigarettes, the war on guns, the war on drugs, the war on illegal aliens, the war on pron, the war on child pron, the war on internet pron, etc.
The only wars we "win" are the military wars, and some of them we do not win. Remember Korea, Viet Nam? Wars are now run by the politicians, who are influenced by their particular version of political correctness for that particular war, and controlled by big business, instead of being run by those who know how to win them, the generals.
The other wars the government does not even figure out how to fight, much less win.
Making more things illegal makes more money for lawyers, while winning wars against
crimes would cut income for the lawyers. How many politicians are lawyers? Yes, the government puts departments in place to fight these things, but did you ever notice how ineffective they are? Is the stream of illegal aliens slowing down? No. Is the stream of illegal drugs slowing down? No. Is any crime rate slowing down? No, except for murder rates, and I suspect that is only because more people are illegal, and afraid to report crimes.
Why do they want to legalize illegal aliens right now? Because most of them would vote republican, thanking those who made them legal?
How much of a war are we fighting in Columbia, Venezuela, etc against cocaine? In Afghanistan, Turkey, Mexico, etc against opium, heroin? We appear to have given up?
"When one maniac can wipe out a city of twenty million with a microbe developed in his basement..."
Maniacs do not have to develop diseases to destroy a city. All they have to do is blow up a couple of chemical plants. And the plants are not beefing up their security, nor are they required to.
Maniacs can destroy the economy by blowing up a single building, like the New York Stock Exchange.
They do not have to make a nuclear bomb. How big a building did that one idiot blow up by himself with a truckload of fertilizer? It is a little harder to buy that much fertilizer, but there are plenty of farms, fertilizer stores and factories with many times that much fertilizer laying around, and absolutely no security at all. All you have to do is get a job there, or get a trucking job, and you have your truck bomb(s).
It is just as easy today to shoot down an airplane.
Maniacs could steal missiles from the Army, Air Force, or National Guard, or (easier and safer) buy them on the black market. It happens all the time.
Or they could use missiles to blow up the White House. Not that we would loose any good people in that case. That would shut down the country for quite a while.
Or they could blow up the main concourse of a major airport.
The only ones who are happy about the increasing threats to our safety and security are the major corporations who stand to make more and more money for their top people and owners. And that is all that is important today. Can you say military-industrial complex? Because if you can, you are wrong. It is the military-industrial-big government complex, and nobody is going to rock that boat.
And we are loosing whatever freedoms we thought we had to make sure that complex stays in power, and grows. We do not have to wait for intelligent computers to destroy mankind, we can depend on our government to do that for us sooner.
I for one welcome our new Cyberdyne Skynet overlords.
I am pretty sure they did not realize a politician was in the lab. Politician? Hot air? Get it?
Actually, the way people are recovering the text supposedly marked out, maybe we will be able to read the whole documents?
addresses for slashdotters to try out, now that they know about them:
nul, null, root, administrator, president, ceo, cio, cfo, none, unknown, lost&found, hotty...
No, That is the 5299th version of IE 7.
Some versions fix several exploits.
And some versions create many new exploits.
So number of exploits >> number of fixed exploits >> number of IE7 versions.
Silly boy.
Are they effective enough to get people over the trauma of Bill and Hillary Clinton, or George W. Bush?
We are talking serious trauma here, I know.
Is this the pink pill, as opposed to the blue pill?
First, Intel's primary market is not the consumer, It is the big corps who buy the procs to ship with systems. Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc.
If the big guys think their marketing spins better with new names (it does, I am sure, because hering the same old name repeated makes it fade into background noise), then they will love it.
Second, the desktop retail market has been shrinking as a percentage of total desktop sales for years. Yes, it is growing in numbers, but the total market is growing faster. So it sounds great to say that AMD is gaining ground on Intel, but it is not as much ground if yu look at total desktop sales, which is all that counts. Looking at just retail sales is lying with statistics. Tell the whole story, or shut up.
Both Intel and AMD sales grow each year, a lot, but are limited solely by their production ability, which is always maxed out. And since Intel has so much more production capability already, their growth rate, although huge, is still going to be a smaller percentage of their overall volume than AMD's. Why? because AMD is forced to put more effort and money into growing. They are playing catchup.
Nearly 1/3, not 1/2 of Dell's. apple 20 billion vs dell 60 billion.
do the math
What you are trying to say is that windows is dumbed down to the most inexpert user, and on top of that, there is no expert user mode to switch to.
In addition, there are no terminals, networking, usb key support, just stupid obsolete floppy support.
Anotherwords, Microsoft fails to listen to expert users, and has no competition to force them to pay more attention.
Where is the new news in this?
Elements heavier than iron consume more energy in their creation than their fusion process gives off. But that does not mean that they are not formed in a normal star's process. It just means that only a little of them are formed in a star's normal process. Stars do not fuse elements that produce energy in fusion, they fuse elements. The primary star energy is from hydrogen and helium fusion. The neutron flux, as well as the rest of the atoms hitting one another, can result in fusion. if two atoms hit each other in a way that will result in fusion, then they fuse. There are not a lot of iron atoms moving around fast enough to fuse with neutrons, hydrogen or helium, and some of the isotopes formed are radioactive. Since this is all going on in the core of the star, we will not see much evidence of it.
Debian Hurd / Mach microkernel, Gnu, not Linux, would have been interesting.
or Solaris
Would they mind giving us their benchmark software so we could do it?
and a copy of singularity?
I fI were IBM, I'd print up a truckload of paper with the header linux 2.7
Put in a few pages of Daryl sucks, sco's a joke, etc, and maybe a whole lot of dirt they dig up on the clowns.
Carefully hidden.
Send the truckload to sco.
When sco says in court, these pages are all blank, IBM could pull out the non-blank pages, introducing them as evidence.
Heh heh
yes, just put the box on a broadband connection and wait a few minutes.
Someone will port scan you and fix your spyware challenged machine for you.
apparently ms does not put their boxes on broadband networks.