You are also dependent on the applications registering the types with the same name.
I think what he's suggesting is instead of a two dimentional table (extension/program to handle it), you end up with each entry for an 'extension' containing a list of all the programs that register their ability to handle that extention type.
If 42 programs want to register their ability to handle GIFs, fine, you have 42 entries.
You can still mark down a "Default" program that is activated when you double click on an Icon, but by keeping all the other info you can:
1) Browse what programs are assigned what extensions, and which ones they want but are not the default, or even create a utility to go through the catalogue and make a particular programs settings the default (again, preserving the current defaults as alternatives).
2) Preserve alternative choices in case the default application is un-installed.
3) Turn the current windows "Open" option when you right click on an Icon into a expanding menubox (ala the "Program" menu) listing all the currently registered options.
Okay. I wish I could take credit for this, but the poster above did. I think this would be a really good idea for a desktop to do. Lets beat Windows to the punch and get this into Gnome and KDE:)
Actually I remember hearing talk of Russia possibly joining NATO (talk about changing times). Anyone else hear anything about this? (or any progress that has been made?)
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This section appears to be an explicite forbidding of running a VNC server. I wonder how many people know that. I guess they're trying to 'promote' Win2K, but this is a bit excessive.
It also affects Lotus Sametime (their Instant Message/Collaboration software), as well as PC-Anywhere.
Gee... I wonder what they will "innovate"* next?
* Innovate : (verb) To steal features from competitors while using ones Monopoly market position to bar those same competitors from the market (from MS-DIC 2002, previously a Merriam-Webster property)
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These are conditions that have only existed in states under seige such as Israel (it is stardard policy for all ElAl flights to include at least one trained marksman).
Oh yes. It is much better to support the Palestinians, who dance in the street celebrate the death of thousands of people, and threaten the death of several foreign news correspondents that if footage of the celebrations is released, they will be executed. Or perhaps you ment we should support the ones whos nationals attacked us (with the terrorists holding United Arab Emerates and Egyptian passports). Or perhaps you ment we should support the ones who called for our death, like Saudi Arabian national Osama Bin Ladin, or Iraq president Sadam Husein.
Or perhaps you ment that if we don't deal with the rest of the world we wouldn't have to deal with this. Oh yes, I'm sure there isn't a world economy or marketplace. Sticking our head in the sand worked so nicely for the Ostrich.
Nice troll. Grow up.
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If the federal government could get advanced warning of future attacks, and save lives-- why not enforce Carnivores permanently on ISPs?
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Carnivore, and Echelon were first predicated on fears of terrorist activity-- fears that were dismissed by civil libertarians as somewhat vacuous in the past.
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For one, I believe that the arguments against Carnivore and Echelon were less predicated on the lack of a threat, but on how they were being used (or could be used in the absence of any oversight and surpervision). Carnivore, for instance (leaving Echelon, in whatever degree it actually exists aside), has problems in its wide reaching grasp, and I believe that less people have a problem with it existing as a properly implimented "wire tapping device" (needing to get a court order, etc.), than with the fact that it seemed to collect data outside the scope of what it should be looking for (ie. collecting data on people outside the scope of the court order neccessary for a Wiretap to be put in place).
As far as physical barriers, yes it is a sad fact that more of them will probably be created. That is unfortunately the case when you have the sad reality of what happened to contend with.
I am also willing to be that we will return to the 70's when there was an armed U.S. Marshal on all commerical airflights. Surprise, we aren't safe. These are conditions that have only existed in states under seige such as Israel (it is stardard policy for all ElAl flights to include at least one trained marksman).
If you caught most of the news coverage on the first day (and I think most people did), you might remember pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets and celebrating the attack. Iraq also had people dancing in the streets, and the latest reports from the FBI are that the terrorists had passports from the United Arab Emerates, and Egypt, and that the rogue Saudi financer Osama Bin Ladin, who is still being hiddin in Afghanistan is behind this, and people wonder why there is no stability in the Middle-East and why there is no peace?
The latest estimates from the FBI are that the attacks may have been in the planning for up to 18 months. I'm still waiting for a second attack as I sit in the shadow of the Empire State Building writing this, and will probably go home soon since while we have a Net link, we have no phones (my wife slightly further up town has phones but no net), and we aren't expected to get service till Monday since there are so many other priorities and emergencies being taken care of.
I apologize for the ranting but I'll try to get back to topic...
Opposition to the growth of surveillance should pursist. It is sad that we may have a growing need for more invasive options, but there must (or at least SHOULD) be ways to balance even that against the current justifiable (as you say and I agree) fears.
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Living in NYC, working in Manhattan and living through whats happened recently, just what the hell do you expect?
I would be much more surprised if they didn't deploy Carnivore.
I will also be surprised if the boxes don't go away when they are done.
Right now I think we should save our criticism for when and IF they don't take the boxes away afterward.
For now I'm going to write your article up as merely "Misguided" instead of a Troll.
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Neat!!! How long until someone writes the first PostScript viruses?:)
Actually, the article implied that the Aliens From The Future(tm) actually could be (or is) an alternate future humanity that's pushing for a more aggressive Federation that won't get stepped on by the Klingons and Borg and Dominion and so on.
Hmmm that was my take on it.
Possibly extended to the "Damn! Unless we change enough key events, the future we came from won't exist to go home to!"
It could (theoretically), also be used as a way to "modify" existing Trek continuity (is Trek-Continuity an oxymoron?), slightly in order to create a different (or subtly altered) "present" for the next series (or perhaps movie?) to take place in.
The worst thing for AMD would be for Intel to start spinning it as:
"They can't keep up, so they HAVE to change the numbering. We're actually leading the way."
as opposed to AMD's take of:
"We want you to know that our chip X is comprable to intel chip Y."
They thought the same thing about the DVD-CCA case in California (with the California Supremes deciding that anyone could be brought suit against in California's jurisdiction).
Now the neat thing would be for someone named in one lawsuit to demand a change of venue to Australia:)
Man, do you guys even read the articles anymore? If you did, you might notice the guy specifically says that we won't notice any significant impact for at least 100 years.
Is that 100 years in calander time, or internet time?:)
True, Apple doesn't charge you separately for the OS that comes with the machine, because Apple is selling you a "Unit". One working Apple machine.
By the same token Gateway (or Dell, etc.) is selling you a Unit of one working MS machine. The price difference is what it (theoretically) costs them differently to bundle it with NT/9x/ME/W2k/etc.
The only real difference is that if you want to build your own Intel machine you can buy the parts and assemble it yourself (because the industry commoditized) which also entails the OS, versus PowerPC machines which have much few choices, and include an OS bundled. Of course the higher prices you pay for a Mac can be justified by a stable PC, good support, compatability, etc....
But you're right, Comparing Windows to Mac licensing isn't very useful (g-d help for saying this, but...) with Windows, you have a choice.
;)
(lots of different flavors of MS-OS, build your own, buy a 'naked' PC and install BeOS/Linux/Solaris x86/etc)
But in this case, the glove not only fits, but it comes bundled with the bloody knife and bodies.
Yes... but in order to actually open the bundle and see the contents you have to agree to the EULA which requires you to find in favor of MS for all criminal and civil cases.
True... there are too few really good games out there to avoid purchasing one because of the publisher... but there are enough mediocre games out there to while away the time between publishers. (I recently got 'Lego: Alpha Team' which is a lot of fun as an "Incredible Machine" in 3D type game, and "MindRover: The Europa Project" which is great for frustrated programmer types::grin::)
After two bad experiances getting games from Sierra (as publishers) I decided to pass on by.
One of the two was Lords of Magic. Quite honestly the game was buggy, features were missing (like the note in the Readme file that going to the World map would crash the game). This was nothing but Beta at best and I was very anoyed after 2 months waiting for patches, to the point that I just gave up.
THe other (whose name eludes me), looked nice, I say looked nice because I never got to play it. It had a bug where it couldn't handle your CD-Rom drive being anything besides D. I had two Hard-Drives in the machine. They offered to let me send it in and they would replace the media for a nominal cost (realise I just spent $20 on the game).
At that point I wrote off Sierra for good and have actually been excited about a product, and have forced myself to put it back on the shelf and walk away when I see the Sierra logo on the side.
Which brings us back to the present. They are acting as publishers for a rather intersting new game thats due out in about two weeks Arcanum The music they have on-line is wonderful. The demo I downloaded is intreging enough that I just might buy it even though it has a kiss of death from them. It also looks like it is designed to have other games plug into it to expand the universe (ala modules in D&D). I would recomend any fan of games like Baldur's Gate or Septera Core to take a look at it.
ISA is effectively dead (I know some people still use it, but more and more motherboards simply don't have a slot).
PCI 2.x is the current "legacy"
Between PCI 3.0 and HyperTransport... If PCI 3.0 is not backwardly compatible then I would expect a motherboard to probably support PCI 2.x and ONE of the other standards (most likely dependant on whose CPU the MoBo supports).
Bah! Real "technophiles" just squeal the apropriate tones into their phones and translate the incoming 'noise' as needed.
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Has anyone also noticed that Win2K comes with (and installs as part of the IIS "Group") an SMTP server... gee... any bets what the next round of expoits might target?:)
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So... has anyone spoken to RedHat to find out if either they are already a member, or if they have any interest in joining? Also, any universities care to join to give us an "Inside View" into whats going on (although non-profit members also have non-voting status).
Adobe should donate a VERY LARGE sum of money to the EFF to help cover the costs they are incuring to handle this mess that Adobe caused... if they are really so apologetic and resentful.
I didn't say they should pay for his defense, since I don't know if I would trust whomever they bought.
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You are also dependent on the applications registering the types with the same name.
:)
I think what he's suggesting is instead of a two dimentional table (extension/program to handle it), you end up with each entry for an 'extension' containing a list of all the programs that register their ability to handle that extention type.
If 42 programs want to register their ability to handle GIFs, fine, you have 42 entries.
You can still mark down a "Default" program that is activated when you double click on an Icon, but by keeping all the other info you can:
1) Browse what programs are assigned what extensions, and which ones they want but are not the default, or even create a utility to go through the catalogue and make a particular programs settings the default (again, preserving the current defaults as alternatives).
2) Preserve alternative choices in case the default application is un-installed.
3) Turn the current windows "Open" option when you right click on an Icon into a expanding menubox (ala the "Program" menu) listing all the currently registered options.
Okay. I wish I could take credit for this, but the poster above did. I think this would be a really good idea for a desktop to do. Lets beat Windows to the punch and get this into Gnome and KDE
Actually I remember hearing talk of Russia possibly joining NATO (talk about changing times). Anyone else hear anything about this? (or any progress that has been made?)
Don't forget... a number of the terrorists booked their tickets on Expedia from a MS Windows computer at Kinkos (according to the NY Times)
It also affects Lotus Sametime (their Instant Message/Collaboration software), as well as PC-Anywhere.
Gee
* Innovate : (verb) To steal features from competitors while using ones Monopoly market position to bar those same competitors from the market (from MS-DIC 2002, previously a Merriam-Webster property)
These are conditions that have only existed in states under seige such as Israel (it is stardard policy for all ElAl flights to include at least one trained marksman).
Oh yes. It is much better to support the Palestinians, who dance in the street celebrate the death of thousands of people, and threaten the death of several foreign news correspondents that if footage of the celebrations is released, they will be executed. Or perhaps you ment we should support the ones whos nationals attacked us (with the terrorists holding United Arab Emerates and Egyptian passports). Or perhaps you ment we should support the ones who called for our death, like Saudi Arabian national Osama Bin Ladin, or Iraq president Sadam Husein.
Or perhaps you ment that if we don't deal with the rest of the world we wouldn't have to deal with this. Oh yes, I'm sure there isn't a world economy or marketplace. Sticking our head in the sand worked so nicely for the Ostrich.
Nice troll. Grow up.
If the federal government could get advanced warning of future attacks, and save lives-- why not enforce Carnivores permanently on ISPs?
...
Carnivore, and Echelon were first predicated on fears of terrorist activity-- fears that were dismissed by civil libertarians as somewhat vacuous in the past.
...
For one, I believe that the arguments against Carnivore and Echelon were less predicated on the lack of a threat, but on how they were being used (or could be used in the absence of any oversight and surpervision). Carnivore, for instance (leaving Echelon, in whatever degree it actually exists aside), has problems in its wide reaching grasp, and I believe that less people have a problem with it existing as a properly implimented "wire tapping device" (needing to get a court order, etc.), than with the fact that it seemed to collect data outside the scope of what it should be looking for (ie. collecting data on people outside the scope of the court order neccessary for a Wiretap to be put in place).
As far as physical barriers, yes it is a sad fact that more of them will probably be created. That is unfortunately the case when you have the sad reality of what happened to contend with.
I am also willing to be that we will return to the 70's when there was an armed U.S. Marshal on all commerical airflights. Surprise, we aren't safe. These are conditions that have only existed in states under seige such as Israel (it is stardard policy for all ElAl flights to include at least one trained marksman).
If you caught most of the news coverage on the first day (and I think most people did), you might remember pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets and celebrating the attack. Iraq also had people dancing in the streets, and the latest reports from the FBI are that the terrorists had passports from the United Arab Emerates, and Egypt, and that the rogue Saudi financer Osama Bin Ladin, who is still being hiddin in Afghanistan is behind this, and people wonder why there is no stability in the Middle-East and why there is no peace?
The latest estimates from the FBI are that the attacks may have been in the planning for up to 18 months. I'm still waiting for a second attack as I sit in the shadow of the Empire State Building writing this, and will probably go home soon since while we have a Net link, we have no phones (my wife slightly further up town has phones but no net), and we aren't expected to get service till Monday since there are so many other priorities and emergencies being taken care of.
I apologize for the ranting but I'll try to get back to topic...
Opposition to the growth of surveillance should pursist. It is sad that we may have a growing need for more invasive options, but there must (or at least SHOULD) be ways to balance even that against the current justifiable (as you say and I agree) fears.
Living in NYC, working in Manhattan and living through whats happened recently, just what the hell do you expect?
I would be much more surprised if they didn't deploy Carnivore.
I will also be surprised if the boxes don't go away when they are done.
Right now I think we should save our criticism for when and IF they don't take the boxes away afterward.
For now I'm going to write your article up as merely "Misguided" instead of a Troll.
Neat!!! How long until someone writes the first PostScript viruses? :)
Actually, the article implied that the Aliens From The Future(tm) actually could be (or is) an alternate future humanity that's pushing for a more aggressive Federation that won't get stepped on by the Klingons and Borg and Dominion and so on.
Hmmm that was my take on it.
Possibly extended to the "Damn! Unless we change enough key events, the future we came from won't exist to go home to!"
It could (theoretically), also be used as a way to "modify" existing Trek continuity (is Trek-Continuity an oxymoron?), slightly in order to create a different (or subtly altered) "present" for the next series (or perhaps movie?) to take place in.
Um... this is Microsoft we're talking about... Taking over everything is probably part of their official buisness plan.
The worst thing for AMD would be for Intel to start spinning it as:
"They can't keep up, so they HAVE to change the numbering. We're actually leading the way."
as opposed to AMD's take of:
"We want you to know that our chip X is comprable to intel chip Y."
They thought the same thing about the DVD-CCA case in California (with the California Supremes deciding that anyone could be brought suit against in California's jurisdiction).
:)
Now the neat thing would be for someone named in one lawsuit to demand a change of venue to Australia
Is that 100 years in calander time, or internet time?
True, Apple doesn't charge you separately for the OS that comes with the machine, because Apple is selling you a "Unit". One working Apple machine.
By the same token Gateway (or Dell, etc.) is selling you a Unit of one working MS machine. The price difference is what it (theoretically) costs them differently to bundle it with NT/9x/ME/W2k/etc.
The only real difference is that if you want to build your own Intel machine you can buy the parts and assemble it yourself (because the industry commoditized) which also entails the OS, versus PowerPC machines which have much few choices, and include an OS bundled. Of course the higher prices you pay for a Mac can be justified by a stable PC, good support, compatability, etc....
But you're right, Comparing Windows to Mac licensing isn't very useful (g-d help for saying this, but...) with Windows, you have a choice.
;)
(lots of different flavors of MS-OS, build your own, buy a 'naked' PC and install BeOS/Linux/Solaris x86/etc)
I'll be amused when enough people are using Linux on Mac hardware that they start to complain about not being able to buy a Mac without an OS.
should not wait for the Supremes to make up their mind.
Why? Are the Supremes talking about a tour?
Personally I've always been more partial to "Gladys Night and Pips".
Yes... but in order to actually open the bundle and see the contents you have to agree to the EULA which requires you to find in favor of MS for all criminal and civil cases.
True... there are too few really good games out there to avoid purchasing one because of the publisher... but there are enough mediocre games out there to while away the time between publishers. (I recently got 'Lego: Alpha Team' which is a lot of fun as an "Incredible Machine" in 3D type game, and "MindRover: The Europa Project" which is great for frustrated programmer types ::grin::)
After two bad experiances getting games from Sierra (as publishers) I decided to pass on by.
One of the two was Lords of Magic. Quite honestly the game was buggy, features were missing (like the note in the Readme file that going to the World map would crash the game). This was nothing but Beta at best and I was very anoyed after 2 months waiting for patches, to the point that I just gave up.
THe other (whose name eludes me), looked nice, I say looked nice because I never got to play it. It had a bug where it couldn't handle your CD-Rom drive being anything besides D. I had two Hard-Drives in the machine. They offered to let me send it in and they would replace the media for a nominal cost (realise I just spent $20 on the game).
At that point I wrote off Sierra for good and have actually been excited about a product, and have forced myself to put it back on the shelf and walk away when I see the Sierra logo on the side.
Which brings us back to the present. They are acting as publishers for a rather intersting new game thats due out in about two weeks Arcanum The music they have on-line is wonderful. The demo I downloaded is intreging enough that I just might buy it even though it has a kiss of death from them. It also looks like it is designed to have other games plug into it to expand the universe (ala modules in D&D). I would recomend any fan of games like Baldur's Gate or Septera Core to take a look at it.
Which 3?
ISA is effectively dead (I know some people still use it, but more and more motherboards simply don't have a slot).
PCI 2.x is the current "legacy"
Between PCI 3.0 and HyperTransport... If PCI 3.0 is not backwardly compatible then I would expect a motherboard to probably support PCI 2.x and ONE of the other standards (most likely dependant on whose CPU the MoBo supports).
Bah! Real "technophiles" just squeal the apropriate tones into their phones and translate the incoming 'noise' as needed.
Has anyone also noticed that Win2K comes with (and installs as part of the IIS "Group") an SMTP server ... gee ... any bets what the next round of expoits might target? :)
(Emphasis mine)
So... has anyone spoken to RedHat to find out if either they are already a member, or if they have any interest in joining? Also, any universities care to join to give us an "Inside View" into whats going on (although non-profit members also have non-voting status).
I would write to my senator(s) but being in NY they are both about as corrupt as they come, and already in the pockets of the Media companies.
Adobe should donate a VERY LARGE sum of money to the EFF to help cover the costs they are incuring to handle this mess that Adobe caused... if they are really so apologetic and resentful.
I didn't say they should pay for his defense, since I don't know if I would trust whomever they bought.