2K3 Server does this (except for IE, I'd imagine). By default everything is either not installed, or in the case of services, not turned on.
You go in and just turn on the stuff you need.
I mean, the thing asks you to cite a reason every time you want to reboot, it's a serious server OS.
I'd still prefer Apache on BSD (for a server), and have to contend with running apache on Linux because of some legasy code I run that doesn't quite get along with BSD (something to do with how crypt is seeded, I think) but that's me. Don't bash based on FUD, it's just dumb.
You do realize that Africa is a CONTINENT, right?. It makes up 23% of the total land mass of the earth, and has 13% of it's population (source: Encarta).
The poverty levels are much higher there, and average income much lower, but they don't all live in caves and huts or whatever you have it in your head that they do over there.
Want more proof, click here. Sure africa is dark compared to other places around the world, but there's still plenty of artificial light to be seen.
When's the last time you visited Africa? And if you did, did you visit just one point, or all of it? If you were visiting Iraq, would you come home and be like "Asia is a dump, and it's so violent over there!" Because obviously Iraq and Japan are exactly the same, both being part of Asia and all, right?
Just a small nitpick here, but Franklin at least, exhausted all due process available to the Crown of England before the revolution.
The American Revolution only happend because Colonists were treated like second class citizens who were not given the same rights, nor were their grievances addressed like other subjects of the Crown.
It wasn't a matter of "England sucks, but let's not bother trying to fix it by ASKING. Let's just revolt!"
Franklin was not the only prominent American to bring grievences to the Crown through due process, but I'm not aware if Washington himself did too.
I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that Canadian statute qualified as "most jurisdictions".
Here in the U.S. for instance, there has been a much publicized and landmark series of legal battles (covered many times here on slashdot as well) as to should or should not "simulated" child pornography be considered illegal.
This, in the U.S. is mostly a First Amendment (Freedom of speach) issue. Because although this would cover real child porn, that happens not to use real children, it would also cover many things that are legitimitly under the scope of "art".
For instance, under both the statute you cited and in accordance with the way the anti-simulated-child-porn camp would have it be, the book and movie Lolita would be illegal, because depict "...a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity..."
The Canadian statute does not care if the material is intended to get pedophiles off, or if it has genuine artistic merit. This, being highly subjective, is something that I don't think the state should be deciding anyway. But think about it. How many books have you read, movies have you watched, TV shows have you seen, where there's a couple of under adged 16 or 17 year old kids getting it on in the back seat of a car on some unnamed lover's lane? Or coming of age story where the high school aged hero gets lucky?
Under these statutes, that's depicting a minor engaged sexual activity.
I don't like the idea of simulated child porn. But I don't think that it should be a crime. I think hurting people, and especially hurting children should be a crime. I think when the government starts legislating thought, that's when we've gone too far.
It could be lowered back down again to life of the author + 50 years, but would be inpractical to lower it further.
The reason for this is the Berne Convention, which states that all signed parties had to provide at least a minimum of lifetime + 50. Any nation can provide more but not less.
The U.S. would not only have to pass legislation to change it. But they would have to back out of the Berne convention. Backing out of the Berne convention would (I think) have the side effect of getting the plantifs what they want, and returning the U.S. to an opt-in copyright system.
IANAL, so I very well may be wrong about that, but even if I am, it would at least remove one major hurdle to getting the U.S. back to an opt-in system.
Only about 25% of my gamecube library even supports multiplayer. The ones that do are some of the best times to be had on a console, but there's still a lot of Mario Sunshines and Eternal Darknesses and Splinter Cells that would not happen on what you're drscribing as an essentially multiplayercentric system.
So what if it was some other group? Blacks, or gays?
Would the fact that the Boyscouts "did good" excuse that too?
How much good does one have to do to negate this kind of behavior?
On the other hand, I haven't followed this suit very closley. The BSA is a private organization, no? If they're entirly privatly funded, I don't see any reason to force them to accept anyone. Even if I disagree with it.
On the other, other hand. What do you mean, boys being taught to be good citizens? Exclusion of someone on completly arbitrary matters seems quite contrary to that end to me.
My experience with OSX is limited, so I'll take your word for it that all these features are present there. Assuming that they are, so what if Apple found a good way of doing something. Good for them. Except for in cases of patents, does that mean Microsoft has to go out of it's way to find a diffrent way of doing things?
Zealotry for it's own sake sucks. Get over it.
I don't like Apple's OS (or the cost of their hardware). So I don't use it. Even if I like a lot of what Apple does.
I recognize that Linux makes a great server (especially with Apache on top). I happen to think that Linus is an arogant king of all tools. But I don't go around badmouthing Linux and everything related to it, just because I don't happen to like Linus. Why is the same true for Microsoft?
Microsoft got where it is today two ways. One was business sense, and there's no denying that. But the other is that they consistanly deliver a product that works better / easier than most of the competition.
Someone else posted a coment in this article about how linux zelots will go on and on about the ease of installing a game with lots of obscure libraries and commands, but will balk at the idea of having to run an program called "setup.exe" and then having to reboot in windows.
Apple on the other hand. They have ease of use down. Good integration. Sure. But their "affordable" Mac? $500? "Affordable" PCs start below that with a Monitor. Granted it'll be a CRT, but so what?
That's what's great about Windows and Windows PCs, it's got all the elements together. Easy enough to use, good market penetration, so everything from software to support is EVERYWHERE, runs on practicly any hardware.
I don't like everything Microsoft does either, but cut them some slack. It's like they can do no right. No matter what they do, they'll catch flack here. Because they are Microsoft. And after all, whatever they do is automaticly evil, right?
Very good point. I hope it is too. (Especially for developers / testers) but I also hope that if it ships and works as I understand it's supposed to, that it's switched on by default.
If you have powerpoint installed, check this out. It's a fairly in depth discussion on Longhorn with emphesis on the new Windows Graphics Foundation.
If not, I'll sumarize. Or you can google for essentially the same info, but this powerpoint file is well done.
One of the goals of longhorn is to further the requirements of signed drivers, and to offload the complexity of drivers into the new WGF. The idea being that it's better to have MS write the code once well, than to have lots of third party vendors wring the same code over and over again, some better than others.
This means:
- Less complex (and therefore more stable) drivers
- Only signed drivers will run (I'm skeptical that they'll keep this requirement)
- Less processor overhead
- Most drivers will run in user-mode pretty much all of the time, which further means that:
- A crash will only take down the current process.
- Beter performance, since there will be one less layer between software and the hardware that's running it.
- Crashes will be much more rare, and when they do happen, will (if executed correctly) be transparent to the user. The system will recover from a crash, and many times the user will not even be aware that an error occured.
No, you don't. And Longhorn will support the legacy APIs as well. If you don't have 3D hardware, you just won't get the eye candy. Simple, no?
Lots of good info on WGF can be found here. Unfortunatly it's in powerpoint format, but if you've got powerpoint, or something that can read it, it's worth a look.
I just read the Wired article that the AC replying to your post linked to.
While I'm not convinced that this is a scam (nor do I want / need an ipod, so I'm not inclined to find out), I am now convinced that it is *possible* that it could be for real.
Basicly, I work for a major retailer. Some of these companies are our affilliates as well. AOL for instance gives us $80 for each free trial membership we sign someone up for. Most cable companies give us $60, etc.
The way the rules work, you sign up for a trial membership from a list, and you get five people to do the same. $80 * 5 = $400. That pays for a $250 ipod easily.
I'm not saying that this offer (or even any of them) are legit. Only that it's possible.
Ditto to that. I like Valve. And I've been anticipating this game since the E3 they showed it at initially.
Valve got my $90 for the "Gold" edition of HL2. And Vevendi will get nothing from me.
I was basicly sold on the idea of Steam when my prchased in 1998 HL1 CD was scratched and wouldn't install any more. The next week, Steam went live. I entered my old key and in minutes was able to play HL1 again. It even let me download games I had never purchased (such as CS, which I still have no interest in playing).
I sell PCs for a living now. What amazes me is that when CD-ROMS came out, people got that they weren't just for music. That you could have music or data on a CD.
People do not make this connection with DVDs.
When I present a computer to someone in my store, 9 times out of 10 when I point out the DVD drive or DVD burner, people ask "Ohh.... is that so I can watch movies?" or "Ohhhh... well what do I need that for, I don't want to record movies..." or similar expressions (sometimes they simply need me to explain what a DVD is, as they seem to not have ever heard of them / have no idea that it's not the same as a CD.).
For the life of me, I can't figure out why people accepted CDs as vessles for data so easily, and yet they don't get that DVDs are the same thing. I think that if I tried to explain the concept of DVD audio, that it would cause some kind of brain hemorrhaging.
We've got a whole palette of Half-Life 2 boxed (with gordon, the G-Man and Alyx on the boxes) in work today. It's sitting in our warehouse waiting to go out Monday night after we close. I'll see if I can get a picture of it and post the URL here tomorrow when I get home.
Incorrect. They're calling the strategy "customer centricity" and individual stores that are part of the "customercentric" program are called "segmented" stores.
The trick is to use the reward zone program to gather purchase information based on geography. You figure out that your store in Springfield has 90% Jills that shop there. Or that your Masonville store is almost all Barrys.
Then you cater these stores entirly to the demographic that they are strong in. Some of these stores (The Jills I think, but I forget) even have personal shoppers.
It all depends on what demographic a segmented store is in, but some of them are aiming to be rather up-scale.
The problem lies in what happens to you if you're a Buzz living near a Jill store (or similarly out of your demographic). I don't think anyone's quite figgured that out yet.
I know for a fact that most laptops do this when you put them into safe mode, having worked for a while as a repair tech. In fact, the only ones that I can think of that *don't* do this are some Sonys. And at least one of those sonys goes to a non standard for safe mode (1024 x 768?) resolution at 32 bit color in "safe mode" which makes me wonder if Sony isn't just modifying windows on some of it's laptops.
I think this is through software though, of course ideally this feature would be an option in hardware. Right in the OSD, to just border nonnative resolutions. Maybe even give it a quick access button.
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Yes it is.
Out of curiosity, what exactly did you want to change?
2K3 Server does this (except for IE, I'd imagine). By default everything is either not installed, or in the case of services, not turned on.
You go in and just turn on the stuff you need.
I mean, the thing asks you to cite a reason every time you want to reboot, it's a serious server OS.
I'd still prefer Apache on BSD (for a server), and have to contend with running apache on Linux because of some legasy code I run that doesn't quite get along with BSD (something to do with how crypt is seeded, I think) but that's me. Don't bash based on FUD, it's just dumb.
Actually, yes they most certainly do.
You do realize that Africa is a CONTINENT, right?. It makes up 23% of the total land mass of the earth, and has 13% of it's population (source: Encarta).
The poverty levels are much higher there, and average income much lower, but they don't all live in caves and huts or whatever you have it in your head that they do over there.
Want more proof, click here. Sure africa is dark compared to other places around the world, but there's still plenty of artificial light to be seen.
When's the last time you visited Africa? And if you did, did you visit just one point, or all of it? If you were visiting Iraq, would you come home and be like "Asia is a dump, and it's so violent over there!" Because obviously Iraq and Japan are exactly the same, both being part of Asia and all, right?
Yes, that had everything to do with Cuba, and absolutely nothing to do wiht SRBMS being within easy disance of the entire Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.
Just a small nitpick here, but Franklin at least, exhausted all due process available to the Crown of England before the revolution.
The American Revolution only happend because Colonists were treated like second class citizens who were not given the same rights, nor were their grievances addressed like other subjects of the Crown.
It wasn't a matter of "England sucks, but let's not bother trying to fix it by ASKING. Let's just revolt!"
Franklin was not the only prominent American to bring grievences to the Crown through due process, but I'm not aware if Washington himself did too.
I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that Canadian statute qualified as "most jurisdictions".
Here in the U.S. for instance, there has been a much publicized and landmark series of legal battles (covered many times here on slashdot as well) as to should or should not "simulated" child pornography be considered illegal.
This, in the U.S. is mostly a First Amendment (Freedom of speach) issue. Because although this would cover real child porn, that happens not to use real children, it would also cover many things that are legitimitly under the scope of "art".
For instance, under both the statute you cited and in accordance with the way the anti-simulated-child-porn camp would have it be, the book and movie Lolita would be illegal, because depict "...a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity..."
The Canadian statute does not care if the material is intended to get pedophiles off, or if it has genuine artistic merit. This, being highly subjective, is something that I don't think the state should be deciding anyway. But think about it. How many books have you read, movies have you watched, TV shows have you seen, where there's a couple of under adged 16 or 17 year old kids getting it on in the back seat of a car on some unnamed lover's lane? Or coming of age story where the high school aged hero gets lucky?
Under these statutes, that's depicting a minor engaged sexual activity.
I don't like the idea of simulated child porn. But I don't think that it should be a crime. I think hurting people, and especially hurting children should be a crime. I think when the government starts legislating thought, that's when we've gone too far.
It could be lowered back down again to life of the author + 50 years, but would be inpractical to lower it further.
The reason for this is the Berne Convention, which states that all signed parties had to provide at least a minimum of lifetime + 50. Any nation can provide more but not less.
The U.S. would not only have to pass legislation to change it. But they would have to back out of the Berne convention. Backing out of the Berne convention would (I think) have the side effect of getting the plantifs what they want, and returning the U.S. to an opt-in copyright system.
IANAL, so I very well may be wrong about that, but even if I am, it would at least remove one major hurdle to getting the U.S. back to an opt-in system.
Yeah, sounds great for single player titles.
Only about 25% of my gamecube library even supports multiplayer. The ones that do are some of the best times to be had on a console, but there's still a lot of Mario Sunshines and Eternal Darknesses and Splinter Cells that would not happen on what you're drscribing as an essentially multiplayercentric system.
So what if it was some other group? Blacks, or gays?
Would the fact that the Boyscouts "did good" excuse that too?
How much good does one have to do to negate this kind of behavior?
On the other hand, I haven't followed this suit very closley. The BSA is a private organization, no? If they're entirly privatly funded, I don't see any reason to force them to accept anyone. Even if I disagree with it.
On the other, other hand. What do you mean, boys being taught to be good citizens? Exclusion of someone on completly arbitrary matters seems quite contrary to that end to me.
"...Comic sans is a good font..."
That's where you lost me. ( ;
I don't think that would work. Wouldn't the Paris convention prevent that anyway?
My experience with OSX is limited, so I'll take your word for it that all these features are present there. Assuming that they are, so what if Apple found a good way of doing something. Good for them. Except for in cases of patents, does that mean Microsoft has to go out of it's way to find a diffrent way of doing things?
Zealotry for it's own sake sucks. Get over it.
I don't like Apple's OS (or the cost of their hardware). So I don't use it. Even if I like a lot of what Apple does.
I recognize that Linux makes a great server (especially with Apache on top). I happen to think that Linus is an arogant king of all tools. But I don't go around badmouthing Linux and everything related to it, just because I don't happen to like Linus. Why is the same true for Microsoft?
Microsoft got where it is today two ways. One was business sense, and there's no denying that. But the other is that they consistanly deliver a product that works better / easier than most of the competition.
Someone else posted a coment in this article about how linux zelots will go on and on about the ease of installing a game with lots of obscure libraries and commands, but will balk at the idea of having to run an program called "setup.exe" and then having to reboot in windows.
Apple on the other hand. They have ease of use down. Good integration. Sure. But their "affordable" Mac? $500? "Affordable" PCs start below that with a Monitor. Granted it'll be a CRT, but so what?
That's what's great about Windows and Windows PCs, it's got all the elements together. Easy enough to use, good market penetration, so everything from software to support is EVERYWHERE, runs on practicly any hardware.
I don't like everything Microsoft does either, but cut them some slack. It's like they can do no right. No matter what they do, they'll catch flack here. Because they are Microsoft. And after all, whatever they do is automaticly evil, right?
Very good point. I hope it is too. (Especially for developers / testers) but I also hope that if it ships and works as I understand it's supposed to, that it's switched on by default.
If you have powerpoint installed, check this out. It's a fairly in depth discussion on Longhorn with emphesis on the new Windows Graphics Foundation.
If not, I'll sumarize. Or you can google for essentially the same info, but this powerpoint file is well done.
One of the goals of longhorn is to further the requirements of signed drivers, and to offload the complexity of drivers into the new WGF. The idea being that it's better to have MS write the code once well, than to have lots of third party vendors wring the same code over and over again, some better than others.
This means:
- Less complex (and therefore more stable) drivers
- Only signed drivers will run (I'm skeptical that they'll keep this requirement)
- Less processor overhead
- Most drivers will run in user-mode pretty much all of the time, which further means that:
- A crash will only take down the current process.
- Beter performance, since there will be one less layer between software and the hardware that's running it.
- Crashes will be much more rare, and when they do happen, will (if executed correctly) be transparent to the user. The system will recover from a crash, and many times the user will not even be aware that an error occured.
No, you don't. And Longhorn will support the legacy APIs as well. If you don't have 3D hardware, you just won't get the eye candy. Simple, no?
Lots of good info on WGF can be found here. Unfortunatly it's in powerpoint format, but if you've got powerpoint, or something that can read it, it's worth a look.
No, they said almost
I just read the Wired article that the AC replying to your post linked to.
While I'm not convinced that this is a scam (nor do I want / need an ipod, so I'm not inclined to find out), I am now convinced that it is *possible* that it could be for real.
Basicly, I work for a major retailer. Some of these companies are our affilliates as well. AOL for instance gives us $80 for each free trial membership we sign someone up for. Most cable companies give us $60, etc.
The way the rules work, you sign up for a trial membership from a list, and you get five people to do the same. $80 * 5 = $400. That pays for a $250 ipod easily.
I'm not saying that this offer (or even any of them) are legit. Only that it's possible.
Turn off SafeSearch.
Ditto to that. I like Valve. And I've been anticipating this game since the E3 they showed it at initially.
Valve got my $90 for the "Gold" edition of HL2. And Vevendi will get nothing from me.
I was basicly sold on the idea of Steam when my prchased in 1998 HL1 CD was scratched and wouldn't install any more. The next week, Steam went live. I entered my old key and in minutes was able to play HL1 again. It even let me download games I had never purchased (such as CS, which I still have no interest in playing).
I'm a believer.
I sell PCs for a living now. What amazes me is that when CD-ROMS came out, people got that they weren't just for music. That you could have music or data on a CD.
People do not make this connection with DVDs.
When I present a computer to someone in my store, 9 times out of 10 when I point out the DVD drive or DVD burner, people ask "Ohh.... is that so I can watch movies?" or "Ohhhh... well what do I need that for, I don't want to record movies..." or similar expressions (sometimes they simply need me to explain what a DVD is, as they seem to not have ever heard of them / have no idea that it's not the same as a CD.).
For the life of me, I can't figure out why people accepted CDs as vessles for data so easily, and yet they don't get that DVDs are the same thing. I think that if I tried to explain the concept of DVD audio, that it would cause some kind of brain hemorrhaging.
We've got a whole palette of Half-Life 2 boxed (with gordon, the G-Man and Alyx on the boxes) in work today. It's sitting in our warehouse waiting to go out Monday night after we close. I'll see if I can get a picture of it and post the URL here tomorrow when I get home.
Incorrect. They're calling the strategy "customer centricity" and individual stores that are part of the "customercentric" program are called "segmented" stores.
The trick is to use the reward zone program to gather purchase information based on geography. You figure out that your store in Springfield has 90% Jills that shop there. Or that your Masonville store is almost all Barrys.
Then you cater these stores entirly to the demographic that they are strong in. Some of these stores (The Jills I think, but I forget) even have personal shoppers.
It all depends on what demographic a segmented store is in, but some of them are aiming to be rather up-scale.
The problem lies in what happens to you if you're a Buzz living near a Jill store (or similarly out of your demographic). I don't think anyone's quite figgured that out yet.
$5 for every $150, not $1 for every $150.
Also, whoever thinks that it's now after rebates, please proove this. Last I checked (Thursday) this was not the case.
That's an excelent question.
I know for a fact that most laptops do this when you put them into safe mode, having worked for a while as a repair tech. In fact, the only ones that I can think of that *don't* do this are some Sonys. And at least one of those sonys goes to a non standard for safe mode (1024 x 768?) resolution at 32 bit color in "safe mode" which makes me wonder if Sony isn't just modifying windows on some of it's laptops.
I think this is through software though, of course ideally this feature would be an option in hardware. Right in the OSD, to just border nonnative resolutions. Maybe even give it a quick access button.