Except using it as PowerPoint. SO takes several minutes to load my 372 pages PP slides. PowerPoint loads faster because it'll display the slides as soon the first few pages are parsed and loaded, and put the loading job to the background. That's something SO must improve....
They made people rediculous offers to lure them away from their universities and other companies.
The story look ridiculous and unbelievable, and I can't justify its truthfulness. However, I can tell you Microsoft would really give unbelievable offer to people when they want to do something. I've seen a couple of this cases.
I have pretty mixed feelings about IBM.. I bought an IBM laptop (390) about a 18 months ago and within 2 months, the hard drive failed.
I've a lot of IBM desktop PC at users site and the harddisk failed miserable from time to time. When we took them out we found that they are not installed with IBM harddisk, but some other brand like 'Carver' something.
In the past Thinkpad has the best line of hardware, we all loved it. However, some boneheads started to cut cost by replacing best parts with sub-quality parts like they've been doing to desktop PCs. Most annoying thing is that same model may have different combination of hardware in it, depends on the shipping.
Don't you bad mouth Elz. He singlehandedly save the face of Australians, in his honorable act of keeping sex.au from being used by any erotic business.
You can see how nasty sex.au would sound and to what extend Australia's image would be damaged if this domain name is being used.
But now I'm sure sex.au would be hitting another high bid in the auction....
(ok, I'm just kidding, but there's really no one owns sex.au)
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. The only advantage of HP buying Compaq is that HP now has one less competitor.
No, it'd be much cheaper to crush your competitors than buy them up. (j/k):)
I'm not sure about US, but HP worldwide has very bad practice of outsourcing their on-going support jobs. Even if the sub-contractor is bad we can't complain, because there's usually only one appointed sub-contractor within one geographical location.
The bad sub-contract support is one thing we would serious consider when making future purchase.
May be HP could take advantage of Compaq's high market penatration to extend its support. Well, in the perfect world it's so, but in reality HP might just fire them for higher gross profit.:)
Ms. Fiorna has pretty much led HP down to ruin since jumping off Lucent just before THEYwent to ruin, so entrusting her to lead this new beast may be a shaky proposition.
I can't agree more. She stayed in her position because she could still keep the revenue high - by massive layoffs and budget cut - but the director board can only see the revenue figure, and ignoring how the CEO ruining the company.
I don't really see how swallowing Compaq will really gain HP anything new
There'd be another massive layoff. Now there's a huge overlapping in the PC suport part, guess which one will be cut?
Standup printer is the next stupid idea after square wheels. It doesn't save much space, and the papers collasped on their own weight, causing a lot of paper jams.
It's even funny when the standup printer is plugged with a scanner....it's bulky, ugly, occupying more space than a flatbed printer+scanner.
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So all we really need to do is give everyone on Earth a unique Chinese name!
Good idea, but...
Not all Chinese words can be used as the family name(first character of a Chinese name is the last name of English name). A single Chinese word might have many meanings but a common family name usually have very little meaning in itself.
Also, Chinese would choose the rest of the name with good meanings in it, or the combination has good meanings. Like 'get rich', 'be famous', 'happy family', 'heathly and strong'. The choices are further limited as you can see.
As a result of the unimaginative and conservative minds of the majority many Chinese have their name duplicated with others.
Tell you what my name is very strange and creative but I can still find eight people with my name in the local phone directory.:/
I've seen a lot of posts bashing on Micosoft. I don't like passport not because I don't like everything from Microsoft, but Microsoft PR tends to boast passport system's security level in such a way that general public wouldn't aware of its risks.
(of course, the fact that these people are unaccountable is one of the major factor; but this just FUD in some people's eyes)
The amount of your personal information to give to passport system depends on the degree of trust you have on a username/password security system over the Internet.
I think Passport is secure to some degree, but it's definitely not absolute secure(nothing is). However, I never hear a Microsoft PR would say 'but' in propaganding their passport system.
E.g. when I apply for a personal certificate I was given a time limit for using it. Not because the certificate issuer is a greedy bastard, but they want me to know the encryption in it can be broken by known technology beyond this period(by brute force attack, computer tech advanced, etc.).
Computer security is not absolute. The claims of its security level is part of the security system itself. No matter how well the Passport system is made, failure to give honest claim would render its useless.
Just my opinion. You can start bashing me by clicking the reply below. Thanks.
One of Passport's greatest security weaknesses may be the single sign-on process,....Microsoft is addressing this by offering additional security features for partner Web sites, such as banks, asking for additional information or a four-digit PIN (personal identification number) as a second level of authentication.
The reasons included a lack of support for SMPng - including a developer fall-off ratio of 15 to 1 - a desire to finish the PowerPC/Sparc64/IA64 architectures, and a general desire to robustly test the additions. The economic downturn even makes an appearance in the announcement."
Failing to take into acount a butterfly flapping its wings in the country called Elbonia could cause the delay of its release up to several month, even a year.
the general consumer isn't making security (or I should the lack of it?:) a big deal.
They do, but...
I got a call today. A tech girl seemed very desperate that she had received return mails with attachment of her own work that she never sent to anybody before.
"SirCam" I responded calmly.
"What does it mean? My pc is infected?"
"You bet."
"NO! It can't be! I'm no computer illiterate and I did whatever I can! GOD! I've so many important document...."
"Your base is lost, resistance is futile. FDISK and give your pc a new life."
"Why are you so mean? Is there nothing I can save it?"
"I told you million times plus one that you shouldn't use Outlook. I told everybody I know, No Outlook. I told my boss, No Outlook. I told my users, No Outlook. I told my dog, No Outlook; but turn out they all come back to me yelling they got problem with Outlook. Now it's time to take the fruit of your harvest."
"I DON'T use Outlook!!! You told me not to use so I don't use it!"
"You don't? Look like the Outlook installs itself and open a mail attachment for you. Tell me how many people in your family share your pc?"
"Me, my sisters, my brothers...."
"What do they use to check mail?"
"I don't know.....oh wait"
I know I should be nicer, but I tend to lost my sanity when it comes to Outlook.
The intensive training seminars that Ball-mer (CEO of Microsoft) did for his employees pays off. The employees know, by showing enough idiocy, they could be one day promoted to upper management. Keep up the good work.
write a letter to Utah's Attorney General expressing my view that Microsoft deserves eternal damnation. Also I'll produce enough evidence that I'm not dead at time of writing, e.g. my photo with today's newspaper.
(I understand some of you might have sentimental thought against MS* and swear not clicking on any of their site for eternality. I appreciate if you can provide me with an alternatives bandwidth testing site. Thanks. ^_^)
Balls! NASA shows us their balls! That's it! Can't they think of our children?! What'd they think when they see that?! We have enough trouble with all the kidnapping, rape, torture, and child p0rns caused by Yahoo!, now NASA show our children their BALLS!
What would become of our children! Oh my God, oh my God.....
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Except using it as PowerPoint. SO takes several minutes to load my 372 pages PP slides. PowerPoint loads faster because it'll display the slides as soon the first few pages are parsed and loaded, and put the loading job to the background. That's something SO must improve....
They made people rediculous offers to lure them away from their universities and other companies.
The story look ridiculous and unbelievable, and I can't justify its truthfulness. However, I can tell you Microsoft would really give unbelievable offer to people when they want to do something. I've seen a couple of this cases.
Can you tell me the patent no.? We are working on streaming over network and I'm afraid we are walking into their domain....
I have pretty mixed feelings about IBM.. I bought an IBM laptop (390) about a 18 months ago and within 2 months, the hard drive failed.
I've a lot of IBM desktop PC at users site and the harddisk failed miserable from time to time. When we took them out we found that they are not installed with IBM harddisk, but some other brand like 'Carver' something.
In the past Thinkpad has the best line of hardware, we all loved it. However, some boneheads started to cut cost by replacing best parts with sub-quality parts like they've been doing to desktop PCs. Most annoying thing is that same model may have different combination of hardware in it, depends on the shipping.
Don't you bad mouth Elz. He singlehandedly save the face of Australians, in his honorable act of keeping sex.au from being used by any erotic business.
You can see how nasty sex.au would sound and to what extend Australia's image would be damaged if this domain name is being used.
But now I'm sure sex.au would be hitting another high bid in the auction....
(ok, I'm just kidding, but there's really no one owns sex.au)
. The only advantage of HP buying Compaq is that HP now has one less competitor.
:)
:)
No, it'd be much cheaper to crush your competitors than buy them up. (j/k)
I'm not sure about US, but HP worldwide has very bad practice of outsourcing their on-going support jobs. Even if the sub-contractor is bad we can't complain, because there's usually only one appointed sub-contractor within one geographical location.
The bad sub-contract support is one thing we would serious consider when making future purchase.
May be HP could take advantage of Compaq's high market penatration to extend its support. Well, in the perfect world it's so, but in reality HP might just fire them for higher gross profit.
200 commonly-used Chinese surnames.
:P
There are more than 7000 in fact, but only tens are being commonly used.
"stinky fjord" or "rabbit bowl" to people who don't know the difference.
Hahaha...that's how we help new foreign professors in choosing good Chinese names.
Ms. Fiorna has pretty much led HP down to ruin since jumping off Lucent just before THEYwent to ruin, so entrusting her to lead this new beast may be a shaky proposition.
I can't agree more. She stayed in her position because she could still keep the revenue high - by massive layoffs and budget cut - but the director board can only see the revenue figure, and ignoring how the CEO ruining the company.
I don't really see how swallowing Compaq will really gain HP anything new
There'd be another massive layoff. Now there's a huge overlapping in the PC suport part, guess which one will be cut?
(other than printers, which are the best)
Not after they've made standup printers after 4L.
Standup printer is the next stupid idea after square wheels. It doesn't save much space, and the papers collasped on their own weight, causing a lot of paper jams.
It's even funny when the standup printer is plugged with a scanner....it's bulky, ugly, occupying more space than a flatbed printer+scanner.
Direct link to the article is here.
(due to lameness filter I must insert something here. Stupid lameness filter)
So all we really need to do is give everyone on Earth a unique Chinese name!
:/
Good idea, but...
Not all Chinese words can be used as the family name(first character of a Chinese name is the last name of English name). A single Chinese word might have many meanings but a common family name usually have very little meaning in itself.
Also, Chinese would choose the rest of the name with good meanings in it, or the combination has good meanings. Like 'get rich', 'be famous', 'happy family', 'heathly and strong'. The choices are further limited as you can see.
As a result of the unimaginative and conservative minds of the majority many Chinese have their name duplicated with others.
Tell you what my name is very strange and creative but I can still find eight people with my name in the local phone directory.
I've seen a lot of posts bashing on Micosoft. I don't like passport not because I don't like everything from Microsoft, but Microsoft PR tends to boast passport system's security level in such a way that general public wouldn't aware of its risks.
(of course, the fact that these people are unaccountable is one of the major factor; but this just FUD in some people's eyes)
The amount of your personal information to give to passport system depends on the degree of trust you have on a username/password security system over the Internet.
I think Passport is secure to some degree, but it's definitely not absolute secure(nothing is). However, I never hear a Microsoft PR would say 'but' in propaganding their passport system.
E.g. when I apply for a personal certificate I was given a time limit for using it. Not because the certificate issuer is a greedy bastard, but they want me to know the encryption in it can be broken by known technology beyond this period(by brute force attack, computer tech advanced, etc.).
Computer security is not absolute. The claims of its security level is part of the security system itself. No matter how well the Passport system is made, failure to give honest claim would render its useless.
Just my opinion. You can start bashing me by clicking the reply below. Thanks.
One of Passport's greatest security weaknesses may be the single sign-on process,....Microsoft is addressing this by offering additional security features for partner Web sites, such as banks, asking for additional information or a four-digit PIN (personal identification number) as a second level of authentication.
Microsoft addressed this problem long time ago! People have been using MID(Message ID Number) for reading hotmail.
So stop questioning their security awareness.
2. Instead of fdisking to remove SirCam why aren't you telling users to use the tool available from Symantec (www.sarc.com) to remove it
Norton is from Symantec right? She has the latest Norton update but still got it. So I wonder if Norton could really stop Sircam.
I don't know, really.
The reasons included a lack of support for SMPng - including a developer fall-off ratio of 15 to 1 - a desire to finish the PowerPC/Sparc64/IA64 architectures, and a general desire to robustly test the additions. The economic downturn even makes an appearance in the announcement."
You didn't take Butterfly Effect into account.
Failing to take into acount a butterfly flapping its wings in the country called Elbonia could cause the delay of its release up to several month, even a year.
the general consumer isn't making security (or I should the lack of it? :) a big deal.
They do, but...
I got a call today. A tech girl seemed very desperate that she had received return mails with attachment of her own work that she never sent to anybody before.
"SirCam" I responded calmly.
"What does it mean? My pc is infected?"
"You bet."
"NO! It can't be! I'm no computer illiterate and I did whatever I can! GOD! I've so many important document...."
"Your base is lost, resistance is futile. FDISK and give your pc a new life."
"Why are you so mean? Is there nothing I can save it?"
"I told you million times plus one that you shouldn't use Outlook. I told everybody I know, No Outlook. I told my boss, No Outlook. I told my users, No Outlook. I told my dog, No Outlook; but turn out they all come back to me yelling they got problem with Outlook. Now it's time to take the fruit of your harvest."
"I DON'T use Outlook!!! You told me not to use so I don't use it!"
"You don't? Look like the Outlook installs itself and open a mail attachment for you. Tell me how many people in your family share your pc?"
"Me, my sisters, my brothers...."
"What do they use to check mail?"
"I don't know.....oh wait"
I know I should be nicer, but I tend to lost my sanity when it comes to Outlook.
don't get to the bootloader aniti-competition issue?
Amazingly, in the article Hans Reiser quoted another benchmark tests which show Reiserfs is superior.
The results too perfect to believe.......may be I'm thinking too much....
THIS is what we call Ultimate Cubicle.
The intensive training seminars that Ball-mer (CEO of Microsoft) did for his employees pays off. The employees know, by showing enough idiocy, they could be one day promoted to upper management. Keep up the good work.
write a letter to Utah's Attorney General expressing my view that Microsoft deserves eternal damnation. Also I'll produce enough evidence that I'm not dead at time of writing, e.g. my photo with today's newspaper.
Anyone with me?
but fortunately reboot can help.
This is the coolest and most accurate bandwidth test site. Thanks a lot!
because your so-called super-broadband might behave no better than a 56K modem line.
You may test your line by clicking here.
(I understand some of you might have sentimental thought against MS* and swear not clicking on any of their site for eternality. I appreciate if you can provide me with an alternatives bandwidth testing site. Thanks. ^_^)
Balls! NASA shows us their balls! That's it! Can't they think of our children?! What'd they think when they see that?! We have enough trouble with all the kidnapping, rape, torture, and child p0rns caused by Yahoo!, now NASA show our children their BALLS!
What would become of our children! Oh my God, oh my God.....