I'll continue buying CDs as long as they are rippable and available for a fair price. I do only listen to those that I have as MP3 now either on my homegrown jukebox at home or from my iPod in the car. I've never and will never do the P2P thing. I immediately rip and put new CDs in a storage box. Losing a hard disk or accidently deleting data could mean repurchasing a digitally-purchased collection. I'd just rerip at no additional cost if this happened to me. I could also rerip to a better format down the road. There's already so many reasons for buying CDs. I also like getting something concrete when I spend money.
I'm so tired of studies like this, because they accomplish nothing but to scare people into believing that one thing causes another. Perhaps, parents with right genes, lifestyle, parenting behavior, and environmental factors to have Autistic children are more likely to like TV. So, it's just a coincidence, not a cause and effect connection.
A better study would be one based in science, not statistics, that finds that specificly when A, B, C, and D factors exist, an Autistic child will be born.
RFID seems to get nothing but bad press. Security is a huge problem with RFID, and it use in retail for price tags seems to be a huge problem as well. I'd like to know where it's being used or could be use where it's apparent flaws have not impact.
Is what you described not what what hibernation does? Today's hibernation feature restores what had been RAM during the previous session from a file on the hard disk. Doing so makes "startup" significantly faster. It happens to also create problems by allowing users to avoid rebooting, and we all know that rebooting Windows is very often a good thing.
8GB and 12GB is absolutely rediculous for a base OS to use. For that matter, it's also rediculous for any end user system without hard disk hogs like modern games, video editing apps, graphics collections, etc installed. I actually long for the days of hard disk and RAM constraints. Developers and dev tools built with this in mind yester-year and could even today even if the constraint was artificial. At 8GB and 12GB, it sounds like Vista is going to throw in not only the kitchen sink but also the whole kitchen and probably part of the living room as well.
Although I don't know for sure, I suspect that the IP sharing was limited to specific technology covered in court. If the sharing was across-the-board, it would be hard for either party to gain a competitive edge over the other.
The kids are allowed and even encouraged to use profanity in school
Although I know that schools vary considerably on many levels from one another and from what I experienced as kid, I was shocked to read that your kid's particular school encourages the use of profanity. I can imagine that it is allowed as long as it remains nonexcessive. I'm just surprised that anyone other than other kids would encourage it.
At least in my area(Charlotte, NC), all new residential developments get buried power lines. This is easier and cheaper to do when building on undeveloped land than it would be when existing infrastructure and structures would be a major factor. I ask why existing lines are buried each winter when the ice storms roll through.
Assuming that they aren't linking your toolbar install to a unique ID, how would searching by their toolbar provide any better data than through the webpage? Does the toolbar not simply query the same backend processes via API just as the browser interface does by HTTP?
Don't deliver multimedia content over the web, especially when nonmultimedia content composed of text, images, and HTML-formatting will be sufficient. I never liked the plug-in hell during the Netscape days and still hate Flash to this day. I actually long for a return of the simple webpage of yester-year. I do not want the web to become TV, and this is where it is heading.
Are you sure about that? Acrobat Reader 7.x has prompted for(bundled) the Yahoo Toolbar each time that I've installed it. According to the article summary, Shockwave will be bundling the Google Toolbar. Either way, it's strange that Adobe/Macromedia would bundle both.
In my opinion neither should be. Also in my opinion, there's way too much crap apps on the net these days, and both toolbars qualify as such in my book.
I too wonder why people believe every freekin' message that hits their inbox. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is. Although you and I may not be, people in general are very naive.
Before IM came to the office, people did actually use the phone and their feet. Both are still well suited. Implement both will cost nothing more assuming an existing phone system is in place. Another reader noted that phones don't show who's "online". My response to this is that even if the other party is "online", this doesn't mean they will respond to the IM sent.
My advice to you is keep it simple and more secure by not implement IM at all. Tell you user base to let their fingers and/feet do the walking. The exercise is good for people sitting for most of the day anyway.
I'm certain that your considering an all-WiFi network or a wired one as a possible cost saver. What the cost of supporting 100-200 simutaneous VPN connections with client licensing and VPN server hardware? How does this compare with implementing a wired network?
Your also never going to get the throughput that a wired connection can provide. Another thing to consider is the cost of going wireless will be wasted money just as soon as your company realizes that doing so was a big mistake. I'd bet that they would eventually come to this conclusion.
Just use wireless where it makes sense like conference rooms and common areas and then secure the hell out of it.
In this case, an immigrant would be "marked" by the chip and once in the US, "unmarked" by having the chip illegally and often unsafely removed. With it removed, they are just like Mr. and Ms. Joe Citizen, thus "legal" as far as the scanners are concerned.
This type of marking will only "work" if the citizens have chips. Of course, then we are back to where illegal steps are taken to get a noncitizen over the border and offiially documented.
Hello companies of the world, ADAPT!!! I'm getting more and more tired of hearing companies complaining about competition eating at their fat cow revenue model. If Adobe did file a suit against M$, it would be because they fear losing significant revenue from their Acrobat product line. Companies should diversify their revenue sources and be more adaptable to a changing market.
If Microsoft and eBay are indeed talking, it is proof that Microsoft has way too much money just sitting around. Microsoft will ruin eBay if they were too aquire it. I don't want everything to be either Google this and MSN that.
Regulation or not... It seems like a DIY hack waiting to happen. I could see a friend with an antenna allowing his neighbor across the street or friend on the other side of town to use it. It would be open to the public, of course.
Not being able to put up an apartment was referred to above. This got me thinking. Does equipment and services exist that would allow a HAM to use a remotely located antenna over the internet? For example, they would have all the typical gear at home and just not have the antenna. A bridge-like device would packetize the signal and transmit it to the antenna location where a like device would convert it back for broadcast.
In my experience, the command RUNAS wouldn't be useful unless the user knows the password for the admin account being used to execute. It prompts for the password and doesn't seem to allow for it to be passed as an argument. Supporting this might allow the person managing the PC(parent) to provide admin access to a particular app while somewhat-hiding the password being used.
I'd say that it depends on the definition of "Microsoft" in the context of "The Microsoft of Linux". The answer is yes and no, depending on what's being asked.
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I'll continue buying CDs as long as they are rippable and available for a fair price. I do only listen to those that I have as MP3 now either on my homegrown jukebox at home or from my iPod in the car. I've never and will never do the P2P thing. I immediately rip and put new CDs in a storage box. Losing a hard disk or accidently deleting data could mean repurchasing a digitally-purchased collection. I'd just rerip at no additional cost if this happened to me. I could also rerip to a better format down the road. There's already so many reasons for buying CDs. I also like getting something concrete when I spend money.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
I'm so tired of studies like this, because they accomplish nothing but to scare people into believing that one thing causes another. Perhaps, parents with right genes, lifestyle, parenting behavior, and environmental factors to have Autistic children are more likely to like TV. So, it's just a coincidence, not a cause and effect connection.
A better study would be one based in science, not statistics, that finds that specificly when A, B, C, and D factors exist, an Autistic child will be born.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hey,
RFID seems to get nothing but bad press. Security is a huge problem with RFID, and it use in retail for price tags seems to be a huge problem as well. I'd like to know where it's being used or could be use where it's apparent flaws have not impact.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Is what you described not what what hibernation does? Today's hibernation feature restores what had been RAM during the previous session from a file on the hard disk. Doing so makes "startup" significantly faster. It happens to also create problems by allowing users to avoid rebooting, and we all know that rebooting Windows is very often a good thing.
-Slashdot Junky
8GB and 12GB is absolutely rediculous for a base OS to use. For that matter, it's also rediculous for any end user system without hard disk hogs like modern games, video editing apps, graphics collections, etc installed. I actually long for the days of hard disk and RAM constraints. Developers and dev tools built with this in mind yester-year and could even today even if the constraint was artificial. At 8GB and 12GB, it sounds like Vista is going to throw in not only the kitchen sink but also the whole kitchen and probably part of the living room as well.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Although I don't know for sure, I suspect that the IP sharing was limited to specific technology covered in court. If the sharing was across-the-board, it would be hard for either party to gain a competitive edge over the other.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
The kids are allowed and even encouraged to use profanity in school
Although I know that schools vary considerably on many levels from one another and from what I experienced as kid, I was shocked to read that your kid's particular school encourages the use of profanity. I can imagine that it is allowed as long as it remains nonexcessive. I'm just surprised that anyone other than other kids would encourage it.
Later,
-Slashdot Junk
Blocking the sun on a planet scale would be a typical human response by addressing the symptom, not the contributing causes within our control.
-Slashdot Junky
At least in my area(Charlotte, NC), all new residential developments get buried power lines. This is easier and cheaper to do when building on undeveloped land than it would be when existing infrastructure and structures would be a major factor. I ask why existing lines are buried each winter when the ice storms roll through.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Assuming that they aren't linking your toolbar install to a unique ID, how would searching by their toolbar provide any better data than through the webpage? Does the toolbar not simply query the same backend processes via API just as the browser interface does by HTTP?
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Don't deliver multimedia content over the web, especially when nonmultimedia content composed of text, images, and HTML-formatting will be sufficient. I never liked the plug-in hell during the Netscape days and still hate Flash to this day. I actually long for a return of the simple webpage of yester-year. I do not want the web to become TV, and this is where it is heading.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Are you sure about that? Acrobat Reader 7.x has prompted for(bundled) the Yahoo Toolbar each time that I've installed it. According to the article summary, Shockwave will be bundling the Google Toolbar. Either way, it's strange that Adobe/Macromedia would bundle both.
In my opinion neither should be. Also in my opinion, there's way too much crap apps on the net these days, and both toolbars qualify as such in my book.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I too wonder why people believe every freekin' message that hits their inbox. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is. Although you and I may not be, people in general are very naive.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Before IM came to the office, people did actually use the phone and their feet. Both are still well suited. Implement both will cost nothing more assuming an existing phone system is in place. Another reader noted that phones don't show who's "online". My response to this is that even if the other party is "online", this doesn't mean they will respond to the IM sent.
My advice to you is keep it simple and more secure by not implement IM at all. Tell you user base to let their fingers and/feet do the walking. The exercise is good for people sitting for most of the day anyway.
Later,
-Slashdot Junkly
The lawyers should pay all court costs associated with judge's order if there are any.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Devil horns...Why's it not running one of the demon-mascotted BSD distros? : )
I'm certain that your considering an all-WiFi network or a wired one as a possible cost saver. What the cost of supporting 100-200 simutaneous VPN connections with client licensing and VPN server hardware? How does this compare with implementing a wired network?
Your also never going to get the throughput that a wired connection can provide. Another thing to consider is the cost of going wireless will be wasted money just as soon as your company realizes that doing so was a big mistake. I'd bet that they would eventually come to this conclusion.
Just use wireless where it makes sense like conference rooms and common areas and then secure the hell out of it.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Oh Infocom... The early Zork games are by far my favorite games of all time!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
In this case, an immigrant would be "marked" by the chip and once in the US, "unmarked" by having the chip illegally and often unsafely removed. With it removed, they are just like Mr. and Ms. Joe Citizen, thus "legal" as far as the scanners are concerned.
This type of marking will only "work" if the citizens have chips. Of course, then we are back to where illegal steps are taken to get a noncitizen over the border and offiially documented.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hello companies of the world, ADAPT!!! I'm getting more and more tired of hearing companies complaining about competition eating at their fat cow revenue model. If Adobe did file a suit against M$, it would be because they fear losing significant revenue from their Acrobat product line. Companies should diversify their revenue sources and be more adaptable to a changing market.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
If Microsoft and eBay are indeed talking, it is proof that Microsoft has way too much money just sitting around. Microsoft will ruin eBay if they were too aquire it. I don't want everything to be either Google this and MSN that.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Regulation or not... It seems like a DIY hack waiting to happen. I could see a friend with an antenna allowing his neighbor across the street or friend on the other side of town to use it. It would be open to the public, of course.
-Slashdot Junky
Hey,
Not being able to put up an apartment was referred to above. This got me thinking. Does equipment and services exist that would allow a HAM to use a remotely located antenna over the internet? For example, they would have all the typical gear at home and just not have the antenna. A bridge-like device would packetize the signal and transmit it to the antenna location where a like device would convert it back for broadcast.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
In my experience, the command RUNAS wouldn't be useful unless the user knows the password for the admin account being used to execute. It prompts for the password and doesn't seem to allow for it to be passed as an argument. Supporting this might allow the person managing the PC(parent) to provide admin access to a particular app while somewhat-hiding the password being used.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I'd say that it depends on the definition of "Microsoft" in the context of "The Microsoft of Linux". The answer is yes and no, depending on what's being asked.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky