If an alert is so important that a pop up is needed, there should not be a default button that causes the dialog to go away without the user making an active choice.
I thought the whole point of Open Office was to make an MS Office clone that is open and people could switch over without needed to relearn a whole lot. Are you suggesting that people would already be switching if they were just willing to learn something new? I'm not a die-hard office user and would gladly switch to something that was free as long as it can still connect to the Exchange server at work. If it can't do that it's not useful to me.
There was part of the agreement near the end where you had to promise that you would not give the game to a terrorist or any national from a country that supports terrorists.
Dang, and that was always my favorite side in CS. Seriously though, did anyone else think that was odd?
The dialog actually says: "Do you want to keep blocking this program?" Then it lists the name of the application and the publisher if there is one. There are three buttons, Keep Blocking, Unblock and Ask Me Later. Note that none of them are 'default' buttons. So hitting Enter does nothing. The user needs to make an active choice.
Using the tcpview tool from SysInternals I can see that it has not yet made a connection.
As another poster pointed out though, once you give the app access it can use any port it likes.
I assume any browser can use port 80 though as I don't recall Firefox or Maxthon being an issue. I don't think that is a big deal though because everyone would have port 80 on the exception list I think.
There must be something wrong with your systems. I have 16 different tablet PCs of different models sitting in my office right now. (I write software for them) In my experience all of them have benefited from the upgrade. Wireless is better. Handwriting is better. The pen interface is better. I've literally upgraded dozens of times and have not had any problems. There is no way I could go back to SP1. Ick.
I don't think this is the case. I installed Steam last night and before I could connect to the Steam network it prompted me to allow it to have access.
"There isn't a way to block outgoing access, as it is an incoming only firewall."
I don't think this is the case. Whenever a new app tries to connect you get the "Allow this connection?" dialog. If you say yes it is added to the exceptions list. If you decline, it is unable to connect. This was the case when I installed Steam last night anyway.
Lol. He has his tin foil hat on about entering an activation key and having it send a small amount of data back to the mothership. How do you think he feels about entering all that real information and sending it off through a 3rd party?
"How is voice over IP any different than having a microphone in yahoo messanger? Except the fact that you get a phone number, and are able to access non voice over IP locations."
Replace Voip with car and yahoo messanger with city transit and you have your answer.
"I'd love to buy a computer that was manufactured in a not-environmentally-hostile manner. However, with our current technology, that is not possible."
I think things are getting a bit better. I work for a company that produces hardware. We've just done a complete redesign across the board to get rid of the parts that contain lead. We had to do this because of a law that will soon be going into effect in Europe but it will help everywhere.
"IMHO: Sex is for reproduction. Marraige is to make legitimate children."
This is the standard hypocritical drivel that these bigots roll out. So a man and a woman that can't have kids for medical reasons should not be able to marry either? Are you sure that you have only ever had sex with the intent of getting the woman pregnant? Yeah right. Oh, and if you don't like Jesus you are not Catholic.
His proposal to amend the constitution to make sure no state allows gay people to marry is purely driven by his warped reading of the bible. Never mind that Jesus never mentions homosexuality one way or the other. If that's not theocratic I don't know what is.
While you are feeling courageous why don't you go ahead a say what you really mean, that we should target people with dark skin and strange names? The answer of coarse is that we are better than that, or so I hope. It's bigoted ideas like this that show how dangerous these people really are.
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"This comes from a guy who believes that *mice are evil*."
Not all mice. Just the round one button ones.
If an alert is so important that a pop up is needed, there should not be a default button that causes the dialog to go away without the user making an active choice.
I thought the whole point of Open Office was to make an MS Office clone that is open and people could switch over without needed to relearn a whole lot. Are you suggesting that people would already be switching if they were just willing to learn something new?
I'm not a die-hard office user and would gladly switch to something that was free as long as it can still connect to the Exchange server at work. If it can't do that it's not useful to me.
My Wacom tablet came with a wireless mouse years ago.
How many hours would you guess it took you?
Just curious.
You only have to be online to activate the game. Once activated you can play while offline.
I played the first halflife for a few weeks. Then I played Team Fortress for several months. Then I played Counter Strike for much longer than that.
There was part of the agreement near the end where you had to promise that you would not give the game to a terrorist or any national from a country that supports terrorists.
Dang, and that was always my favorite side in CS.
Seriously though, did anyone else think that was odd?
You are wrong Sir, but you made me check myself.
The dialog actually says:
"Do you want to keep blocking this program?"
Then it lists the name of the application and the publisher if there is one.
There are three buttons, Keep Blocking, Unblock and Ask Me Later. Note that none of them are 'default' buttons. So hitting Enter does nothing. The user needs to make an active choice.
Using the tcpview tool from SysInternals I can see that it has not yet made a connection.
As another poster pointed out though, once you give the app access it can use any port it likes.
I assume any browser can use port 80 though as I don't recall Firefox or Maxthon being an issue. I don't think that is a big deal though because everyone would have port 80 on the exception list I think.
I see. I think you are right about that as far as port access goes.
Once you grant an app access it can use any port it needs to as far as I know.
There must be something wrong with your systems. I have 16 different tablet PCs of different models sitting in my office right now. (I write software for them)
In my experience all of them have benefited from the upgrade. Wireless is better. Handwriting is better. The pen interface is better. I've literally upgraded dozens of times and have not had any problems.
There is no way I could go back to SP1. Ick.
I don't think this is the case. I installed Steam last night and before I could connect to the Steam network it prompted me to allow it to have access.
"There isn't a way to block outgoing access, as it is an incoming only firewall."
I don't think this is the case. Whenever a new app tries to connect you get the "Allow this connection?" dialog. If you say yes it is added to the exceptions list. If you decline, it is unable to connect.
This was the case when I installed Steam last night anyway.
Lol. He has his tin foil hat on about entering an activation key and having it send a small amount of data back to the mothership. How do you think he feels about entering all that real information and sending it off through a 3rd party?
"How is voice over IP any different than having a microphone in yahoo messanger? Except the fact that you get a phone number, and are able to access non voice over IP locations."
Replace Voip with car and yahoo messanger with city transit and you have your answer.
Yes. But there are girls I can call while I fantasize about them. Too bad they always want credit card numbers first :(
Lol. Yes. You need to dump that dialup connection first or voip won't do you much good!
"I'd love to buy a computer that was manufactured in a not-environmentally-hostile manner. However, with our current technology, that is not possible."
I think things are getting a bit better. I work for a company that produces hardware. We've just done a complete redesign across the board to get rid of the parts that contain lead. We had to do this because of a law that will soon be going into effect in Europe but it will help everywhere.
You need to find some smarter friends.
"I'm going to commit crimes just to spite him."
I can top that. I'm going to have gay sex just to spite him.
You said "Plus, fuck what Jesus said."
Yeah. That's real admiration and respect.
"IMHO: Sex is for reproduction. Marraige is to make legitimate children."
This is the standard hypocritical drivel that these bigots roll out. So a man and a woman that can't have kids for medical reasons should not be able to marry either? Are you sure that you have only ever had sex with the intent of getting the woman pregnant? Yeah right. Oh, and if you don't like Jesus you are not Catholic.
To heck with the Stargate. Without dylithium we are never going to go anywhere. We need warp capability!
His proposal to amend the constitution to make sure no state allows gay people to marry is purely driven by his warped reading of the bible. Never mind that Jesus never mentions homosexuality one way or the other.
If that's not theocratic I don't know what is.
While you are feeling courageous why don't you go ahead a say what you really mean, that we should target people with dark skin and strange names?
The answer of coarse is that we are better than that, or so I hope. It's bigoted ideas like this that show how dangerous these people really are.