Actually, the sunspot history seem to tell a wholly different picture compared to the temperature history on Earth, so I would *really* not suggest making a notable connection here.
I agree... That's what first came to mind after having watched this incident unfold live. What he fails to mention is that the Russian engineers were always open to suggestions and they cooperated pretty well when they needed to discuss the problems. The Russians were also working nearly 24/7 on trying to find and resolve the problems and come up with theories before they were running out of time. The article makes it sound like they early on got locked into "blaming the Americans" or something. It was merely one theory that was tossed around and discussed, and diagnosed early on. If there seem to be a power failure (which it ended up being all about), surely one logically suspected culprit could be a power feed problem?
Does anyone else have a problem with the justification of: "yes, this shipment of cigarettes just arrived at our doorstep, we figured we'd keep 'em". No no, according to this article, the analogy would be:
"yes, we were given this shipment of cigarettes, so we figured we'd keep 'em"
The presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an 'Outlook replacement.'
That doesn't sound like Outlook at all. Well, maybe an Outlook Lite. MS Outlook tiest into a custom mail server (Exchange) to offer many many features not really available by just using a random mail client like Thunderbird with an Office suite.
myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB I've had an account since it was launched, and it's my primary address, and I use about 45 MB.:p
So yes, this whole cap thing has become more like a marketing gimmick. In that case, I think I value Gmail's still rather unique 20 MB file attachement limit (up from 10 MB) more. Or other features. And I'd also like to see other features added than increasing the rate of storage increases. But sure, it's easy to see which of these takes more developer effort.
Damn Microsoft for doing a 180 and making ShellExecute() be more strict about URI's. Damn you Microsoft for fixing that bug now, when you didn't fix it before. You should have kept with this and not fixed it. Or something.:-)
In addition to snapping its first lunar images, the probe jettisoned one of two 110-pound (50-kilogram) "baby" satellites that will help create a detailed gravity map of the moon. This is the precursor to a Protoss-like Carrier in World War IV. I'm just saying.
I couldn't tell from the article, but which intellectual property is MS saying open source solutions are infringing on? Or am I misunderstanding the issue? I'm not sure, but it's actually possible Ballmer is misunderstanding the issue, because having intellectual properties, requires it to be produced by an intellect, no? Sometimes, especially when Ballmer is speaking up, I start to doubt they fulfill that requirement. Perhaps he can clarify on this issue later.
I hate gmail, and webmail interfaces in general. Webmail is just a subset of the Gmail services, though.
1) Decent integration with -other- applications is non-existent. (even simple stuff like sending an attachment from the windows desktop, or the iphoto / mail.app link on OSX) webmail doesn't compare. I'd say that Gmail's free POP3 support works pretty well with other applications, along with its various POP3 delivery settings.
2) When I decide to just quit all windows of my web-browser to clean up my desktop I hate that the mail gets closed too. Don't close the tab you run Gmail in...? What are you "cleaning up your desktop" for if you want some stuff to remain open? Sorry, I must simply not get this part.
4) Large Attachments have to be 'downloaded' when I need them. I often leave stuff as email attachments, and then just open the attachment when I need to look at it. On my 'heavy' mail client its a fraction of a second to open it. Well, but that's because your mail client downloads them in the background. Again, you can do either this with Gmail by using POP3, or by saving the large attachements you don't want to wait for to download if you need the mail again.
Anyway, one big advantage for me with webmail is that it has the environment independence going for it. Not just platform or software independence, but usually not even dependent on your OS configuration or software installs. That's a pretty big one for me.
I, like another commenter, think it's because of OEM's so often shipping AV trials that expire and they misunderstanding and think "having antivirus included" meant having it all along. Users would probably be less confused if OEM's didn't include any antivirus at all, or offered a lifetime subscription for some extra cost.
Besides, Windows haven't had any nasty heavily media-publicized security problems lately, especially after Windows XP got its much needed SP2. Yes, obviously there's been the typical virus scares in media, but nothing out of the ordinary, and they've been taken care of pretty well by regular antivirus tools, and nothing I can really blame Microsoft for more than their users. No pure design flaws that led to the Sasser outbreaks of the past or such things.
This is often something I feel is kind of "old" when Linux users keep standing on security as the tallest pillar of Linux. That may be true, and it may be among the best reasons to use Linux besides its price and open licenses, but the thing is that Windows is nowadays not horrible in comparison. 2007 has actually been a good year for Windows in the security area. I use to turn a blind eye towards threats eminating from users double-clicking on e-mail attachements and bypassing warning dialogs from Windows in that they will run tools as an administrator, and what's then left isn't actually so much.
Nobody looks at video on the site but family of people who submit stuff. Uhh...
The more neutral stance on this is that: Not everyone looks at all videos much on YouTube, despite having a lot of users. Much like not everyone scrutinize the code in Linux equally, although some parts are more than others, depending on their use.
Your aggressive comment on a dupe, that was a much more common phenomenon on Slashdot a few years ago and almost got to routine right before the Firehose got in, has to mean that Slashdot is posting less dupes nowadays, which is a good thing.:-)
as a web designer you probably appreciate firefox, opera and pretty much every other browser follwing the standards better than IE. there isn't really a technical reason why IE doesn't follow the standards, it seems to be solely to lock out the competition. look how many webpages have been written for IE and to hell with other browsers... the bast thing MS could do in the situation would be to remove any roadblocks, artificial or technical to adopting their browser and by extension any standards, OSes etc. that tie in with that. it's in their best interests to get people accustomed to using their software, pirated or otherwise. at least in that case they aren't using anyone else's browser. Heh, it's like you didn't even read what you commented on. IE7 isn't perfect so yes, some of what you say still apply, but it's much better off than IE6, so they're at least lesser problems than before.
So far, AmigaOS 4 is a bit like OS X being built for special hardware, just that this one lacks the hardware.:-p
I can understand if Apple doesn't want to let go of OS X like that, because they after all sell a lot of hardware this way, but isn't AmigaOS 4 is in such a horribly sorry state that Amiga Inc would only win on having it support other hardware platforms better?
So that means the dinosaurs (huge cold blooded reptiles) were an evolutionary dead end? Actually, there's a theory that if it wasn't for a possibly pretty huge meteroite impact that destroyed the environment, dinosaurs like the Troodon could have evolved further into a form of humanoid reptiles.
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Actually, the sunspot history seem to tell a wholly different picture compared to the temperature history on Earth, so I would *really* not suggest making a notable connection here.
I agree... That's what first came to mind after having watched this incident unfold live. What he fails to mention is that the Russian engineers were always open to suggestions and they cooperated pretty well when they needed to discuss the problems. The Russians were also working nearly 24/7 on trying to find and resolve the problems and come up with theories before they were running out of time. The article makes it sound like they early on got locked into "blaming the Americans" or something. It was merely one theory that was tossed around and discussed, and diagnosed early on. If there seem to be a power failure (which it ended up being all about), surely one logically suspected culprit could be a power feed problem?
How do one "kill" a law, really? Bah -- surely, Arnold must have terminated this law.
Methane rain drizzling down to form lakes and rivers? :-(
Is that the celestial equivalent of wet farts?
That must be proof of an Intelligent Evil Designer if any.
"yes, this shipment of cigarettes just arrived at our doorstep, we figured we'd keep 'em". No no, according to this article, the analogy would be:
"yes, we were given this shipment of cigarettes, so we figured we'd keep 'em"
The domain was transferred to them.
The presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an 'Outlook replacement.'
That doesn't sound like Outlook at all. Well, maybe an Outlook Lite. MS Outlook tiest into a custom mail server (Exchange) to offer many many features not really available by just using a random mail client like Thunderbird with an Office suite.
LOL. Funny post history there.
Poor clippy. But I'm happy to at least hear you are no longer restrained to Microsoft Office.
So yes, this whole cap thing has become more like a marketing gimmick. In that case, I think I value Gmail's still rather unique 20 MB file attachement limit (up from 10 MB) more. Or other features. And I'd also like to see other features added than increasing the rate of storage increases. But sure, it's easy to see which of these takes more developer effort.
Damn Microsoft for doing a 180 and making ShellExecute() be more strict about URI's. Damn you Microsoft for fixing that bug now, when you didn't fix it before. You should have kept with this and not fixed it. Or something. :-)
Yes, made me think "OK, let humanity cancel God if they want, I don't care, but WTF, don't cancel Heroes!"
That would be .aq. :-)
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:aq
Anyway, one big advantage for me with webmail is that it has the environment independence going for it. Not just platform or software independence, but usually not even dependent on your OS configuration or software installs. That's a pretty big one for me.
Bah, carving runes on stones and sending them by horse carriage have you beat as for stability and maturity!
I think it's really just what you choose to call it.
Obviously, since SP3 is included as part of it, it is really a Vista SP1 / Server 2008 / XP SP3 beta program.
I, like another commenter, think it's because of OEM's so often shipping AV trials that expire and they misunderstanding and think "having antivirus included" meant having it all along. Users would probably be less confused if OEM's didn't include any antivirus at all, or offered a lifetime subscription for some extra cost.
Besides, Windows haven't had any nasty heavily media-publicized security problems lately, especially after Windows XP got its much needed SP2. Yes, obviously there's been the typical virus scares in media, but nothing out of the ordinary, and they've been taken care of pretty well by regular antivirus tools, and nothing I can really blame Microsoft for more than their users. No pure design flaws that led to the Sasser outbreaks of the past or such things.
This is often something I feel is kind of "old" when Linux users keep standing on security as the tallest pillar of Linux. That may be true, and it may be among the best reasons to use Linux besides its price and open licenses, but the thing is that Windows is nowadays not horrible in comparison. 2007 has actually been a good year for Windows in the security area. I use to turn a blind eye towards threats eminating from users double-clicking on e-mail attachements and bypassing warning dialogs from Windows in that they will run tools as an administrator, and what's then left isn't actually so much.
The more neutral stance on this is that: Not everyone looks at all videos much on YouTube, despite having a lot of users.
Much like not everyone scrutinize the code in Linux equally, although some parts are more than others, depending on their use.
Your aggressive comment on a dupe, that was a much more common phenomenon on Slashdot a few years ago and almost got to routine right before the Firehose got in, has to mean that Slashdot is posting less dupes nowadays, which is a good thing. :-)
Improved hardware independence?
:-p
So far, AmigaOS 4 is a bit like OS X being built for special hardware, just that this one lacks the hardware.
I can understand if Apple doesn't want to let go of OS X like that, because they after all sell a lot of hardware this way, but isn't AmigaOS 4 is in such a horribly sorry state that Amiga Inc would only win on having it support other hardware platforms better?
IE already have a dominant place, but yeah.
Finally proof that politicians and world leaders are shape shifting alien reptiles!
I just knew David Icke was on to something with George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II.