Even water damaged hard drives can have the data recovered from them.
You'd need a Boot and Nuke CDR or Floppy disk that boots and then writes zeroes all over the hard drives to be sure to destroy evidence. You could also remove the hard drives and smash them with hammers so the drive platters are shattered.
But that is worthless if you had backups, if they are magnetic just use a bulk eraser, a giant magnet to delete and scramble them. With is what one of my former employers used as a law firm, when the FBI raided them in 1998 they bulk erased the backup tapes, and every offending email was removed, except for the partner they blamed for the whole violation. The law firm had a policy to delete old emails, and kept getting on our cases to shred memos and delete emails and remove data from shared network drives on various cases. They call it record retention. We were told if anyone told the newspaper or other media, we'd be fired about it. They eventually fired me anyway for getting sick on the job from all of the stress they put on me. They were afraid I'd blow the whistle on them because I didn't like what they forced us to do to delete emails and other data that way. But now, nobody would believe me anyway. I didn't delete the emails or data, someone else did that, I refused to do it and someone else did it instead of me.
Convert all DOCX documents to DOC format to prevent some Microsoft Office update removing the XML features and thus shutting people out of their DOCX documents.
They programmed "E" for evil, but he exceeds the limitations of his program and becomes self aware and then learns that being Evil is wrong and then turns good instead?
Then again if he doesn't he can make a great video game character you can play against, and be in a video game called "Catch the serial killer" or something and you are an FBI agent looking for him before he kills again. He could also play a Terminator or Cylon type robot/cyborg character.
Heck Hollywood could even use him as a virtual actor in their movies.
Yeah I know it is a white guy, but with computers they can make the character any race, gender, color of skin, age, national origin, sexual orientation, etc. Even as an alien or robot if need be.
and I'd like to see more classic 8 bit computers recreated like that.
I'm assuming they copied the Apple I ROM instead of creating one from scratch, and that doing so was authorized from Apple since they don't sell the Apple I anymore and this is a good PR boost for Apple to authorize computer hobysts to recreate their first computer.
I'd like to see the following computers recreated:
Timex/Sinclar 1000 Commodore VIC-20 Commodore 64 Atari 800 TI 99/4A TRS-80 COCO Coleco Adam Apple//e IBM PC IBM AT CP/M systems by Kaypro Sinclar Spectrum BBC Acorn
I signed up for an email when it is ready to test.
I want to see what it is all about. I hope it is innovative and runs fast and uses less memory than Firefox. Safari, Opera, IE, Chrome, and the others.
I got a feeling they will be inventing new HTML tags to be used in HTML 6, as well as enhancing the XML and UML languages. That their cutting edge technology will force other browsers to change to compete with them. It might even lead to Web 3.0 standards.
Netscape was great stuff when it got to version 3.0, but around then Microsoft was bundling IE with Windows and eventually shut Netscape out of the web browser business. I recall Netscape was shareware and needed an optional $35 to register it, but still allowed you to use it for free if you didn't register. It didn't go open source until Netscape 5.0 when AOL bought them out and the Mozilla foundation was being formed to create Seamonkey and then Firefox and Thunderbird.
Firefox 3.0.03 and 3.5.X seem to have HTML problems with Slashdot in the subject line being cut off when submitting and other formatting issues on other web sites. Mozilla somehow bungled up the web browser, as I have problems clicking the mouse on text and have to click on the top of text boxes as it won't click on the bottom for me to edit them. I had hoped that upgrading to 3.5 would fix the problems, but no. Mozilla usually issues a WONTFIX because they claim Slashdot, etc must have not been following HTML 5 standards and refuse to fix it. I hope Rockmelt learns from that and fixes the formatting issues.
with them that states they shouldn't be looking at source code and data, and should only administer the server.
One of the dangers of outsourcing or even offshoring is that people are working for you out of the office at a remote location and you don't know what they are doing as you cannot see them or even monitor remotely what they are doing.
In some cases offshored and/or outsourced work did lead to IP being stolen, especially if it was being done in a third world country.
If you have such trust issues, maybe you should hire a network administrator to work at your office or do it yourself.
It is bad database design to use first and last names as primary keys. You usually want to use something unique like SSN.
Health Insurance companies used to do that as well, I had the same name as my father but a different middle name and different birth date and SSN. But the darned Health Insurance companies used to claim they were double billed when I saw the same doctor as my father and I lived at the same address. I eventually had to see different doctors and get a different insurance company. But even back in the 1980's they did stupid things like use the first and last name as the primary keys and ignored the SSN, policy number, group number, date of birth, and middle name as indexes as well.
Well I tell friends and relatives not to let their children install file sharing programs like Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
Most of the time I have to clean up their system of malware is when their son or daughter downloaded a bunch of music files and software and then just ran everything they downloaded. Including a trojan infected antivirus software that doesn't find the malware because they downloaded it via a P2P network.
I just get a free AV software like AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, Adware, Avast, BitDefender Free, etc because it is a home system and qualifies for free AV software and boot into Safe Mode and then scan in safe mode, or use MSCONFIG to disable all startup programs but the AV software and then scan using them. Usually I have to uninstall all of the crap their kids installed that they downloaded from P2P networks. I tell them not to let their kids use P2P networks anymore, but few listen to me and they get infected again.
I've tried to show them FOSS alternatives like OpenOffice.Org, GNUCash, GIMP, Paint.Net, etc which some of them end up using instead of downloading commercial versions from P2P networks.
But eventually it gets so bad, that I refuse to support them until their children stop using P2P networks.
Even music files can contain trojans and exploits in them, and most are in self extracting EXE files that contain a virus in them when run, some have ads for other web sites in them, and others require an unlock password for the RAR or ZIP file and they have to get it by a web site that infects them with a virus but gives them the password to the archived file to unzip or unrar it.
Which I monitor and use OpenDNS to block the bad web sites he shouldn't go to either.
From time to time he'll click on an ad, and then I have to remove the adware or spyware that it installed. He uses Opera instead of Firefox, and it still gets exploited.
for the password reset. You enter the Admin's user ID and click on a "Forgot password" button or link and it emails a new password to the email the Admin uses.
Some software like Scoop has it and the new password is only good for a few days or so, in case the user or admin didn't request a new password and it allows the old password to work until the new password is used. Only the new password is emailed to the email address on file.
Now if it showed the new password on the web page, that would be locking out the admin from their account as the exploiter can log in as the admin and then change the email the password is reset back to and lock the admin out. But in this scenario the admin gets an email with a new password and if he or she reads the email, they can log back in. They aren't locked out if they read the email that has the new password.
Actually it is usually the children that install Limewire to get free music and video games. Most parents don't know what Limewire is, and share the computer with their children. When they notice a slow down on the Internet they think it is a virus or just Windows as usual. Not knowing that Limewire is sharing their "MyDocuments" folder including all of their personal documents and files in that folder.
My son, for example, uses a PC different from mine. So mine does not get infected with viruses or get all of the files shared via Limewire or some other program. But then I am Tech Savvy enough to know what Limewire and other file sharing programs are, and take them off of my system.
Apparently next time this happens, please try changing your default search engine to something else besides Bing. Better yet turn off the search option for invalid URLs and "Dummy Proof" IE so you won't get fooled again.
Of course I use Firefox as my main web browser so I don't suffer from stuff like that. I refuse to get fooled again by IE.
When you quit a job it is like a slave running away. Eventually they will end up working as a slave for someone else just like an employee will end up working for a different company, it is like being caught and sold again.
Slaves quit by running away, remember that Underground Railroad? Try to make it to a free state is like trying to find an employer that does not have an employment contract that makes one a wage slave.
The only real freedom from slavery in modern days is to start up one's own business.
should be able to run Windows software as well as use Windows drivers. ReactOS has a better chance of starting that Microsoft death spiral than ChromeOS. People still need to run the OS on legacy hardware and run legacy software with the new OS.
Which is why Windows Vista failed and why Windows 7 Pro and up have that XP virtual machine.
Welcome to the age of the EULA and TOS agreements that limit our freedoms and rights as a consumer.
Ordinarily if they violated the US Constitution they would have been thrown out by our founding fathers. But the USA is no longer a Democracy or Republic but a Corportism where Corporations rule and use lobbyists and lawyers to get away with whatever they want so they can earn more profits.
There exists even Employment Contract Agreements that are basically slavery, and companies can easily get away with them and treat employees as slaves. If the employee refuses to be treated as a slave, there are "No Fault" employment laws that says they can be fired for no reason, and then they are blackballed by other corporations so nobody will want to hire that "troublemaker" and then they become homeless or died from lack of food and health care.
Well the fetus can grow up to be useful to society some day.
A dog or cat that is unwanted cannot have the same potential as the fetus being aborted, but any sort of life should not be taken away.
Animal shelters euthanize animals because they become too crowded and usually an abandoned animal has a history of hurting people or children and was given to the shelter. I know it is not right to kill animals in this way, but most people don't even bother to think about it. Life is sacred be it animal or human life.
While this article shows a full grown dog can be as intelligence as a 2 year old child, it can never be greater than that, while a real 2 year child can grow up, go to college, get a job, and make a difference in society.
While abortion is legal, and has been done since the 1960's if we didn't have abortion we'd have more of a population and the baby boom would have kept on going. Right now baby boomers are ready to retire and outnumber the working people. If we didn't have abortion we'd have more people working now than are retiring, but because we had abortion we now have more people retiring than are working and it will break the social security system between 2012 to 2017 unless something is done to fix social security.
It is not just abortion that is a factor of our bad economy it is other things as well, people refusing to have children, government spending too much money, foreign wars taking a toll on the economy, people maxing out their credit cards so that they cannot afford house and car payments anymore, jobs being offshored to foreign nations, etc.
As human beings we really don't seem to value the life of animals or even most human beings and are a selfish group of humans who only think about ourselves and not about others. Very few think about others these days. Life today is worth less than life 2000 years ago I should think. We've become too materialistic and selfish, less human, and more inhuman if possible.
Linux just made it into his hit list next to Google.
Will Microsoft buy out SCO and get SCO Unix to compete with Linux? Will they bring back Xenix?
Will Microsoft start releasing more GPLed code to Linux?
Will Windows 7 get a "Linux Compatibility Mode"?
Will Microsoft start developing their own distro of Linux?
Who knows, anything is possible. Maybe if Microsoft can't beat Linux they will join them? Imagine if Microsoft started to write commercial software for Linux like MS-Office, MS-Money, Visual Studio, etc? What would that mean?
It seems like that statement is trying to suggest that a modified XBox 360 or Playstation 3 will explode or shock the consumer when they use it or something. When really it is just soldiering a Mod Chip to a part of the motherboard so that Homebrew games and other unsigned games can be played.
Actually since he is a professional, he'd do a better job than if the consumer tried to modify their game console by themselves and risk bricking it or something worse.
Actually if she wanted to be a manager she should have taken Business Management and not Business Administration. That means she was trained to do the paper work, (administration) but not how to do the Management needed for a management position. She would make a good Administrative Assistant or Supervisor, but not necessarily a manager.
If she was applying for a Manager position, I can see why they didn't hire her, she didn't have the right degree.
I majored in Computer Science, Information Systems, and then later Business Management. I chose the later after computer jobs got scarce, so that I can learn how to manage a business and maybe start up my own, or get hired as a manager at another company. I have classes and degrees in all of them.
Well I guess since documents are basically PDF files or HTML file or Text Files on the Internet we really don't need Word to read them or create them anymore.
Microsoft Word came about late in the game, Word Star, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, Framework, and many others like Lotus Symphony did the same thing as far as word processing would go. Just that hardly anyone would make a Macintosh version in 1984 when Apple released the Macintosh, and Microsoft made Word and Excel for the Macintosh because it lacked software. Thus formed an unholy alliance with Microsoft and Apple that would lead to Mac-Office later. But Word and Excel existed for MS-DOS and then later Windows. Microsoft eventually bundled MS-Office with Windows pre-installs until MS-Office 2007 that is a trial that needs a key to unlock it. Which forced MS-Office on any PC buyer.
There were many competition to MS-Word. IBM/Lotus had Lotus SmartSuite and Lotus Word Pro but each new version of Windows would break it and the current Windows Vista won't run it anymore, and Windows XP runs it but has printing issues and other problems. IBM gave up on SmartSuite and licensed the OpenOffice.Org code to make a new version of Lotus Symphony based on the OO.o code and using the new Open Document Format or ODF.
WordperfectOffice exists, but hardly anyone uses WordPerfect anymore, and they priced themselves out of the market. Some people still use the DOS based Wordperfect 5.1 software because modern Windows Word Processors are too bloated and run too slow for them. Also WordPerfect 5.1 has a reveal codes mode to make editing a document a lot better.
Honestly I stopped using MS-Office since MS-Office 2003 because I didn't need the MS-Office 2007 features and they keep changing the UI and it confuses people. I use OpenOffice.Org 3.1 and am trying to ween myself off of MS-Office.
Of course now their are web applications for Word Processing like Google Docs and Zoho, etc that provide a free web based Word processor in the Cloud, and they save and read MS-Word formats, so basically one doesn't need MS-Word if they have an Internet connection and don't mind storing documents in the Cloud.
MS-Office and MS-Word jumped the shark when Microsoft added in the Clippit and other Office Assistants that become more annoying that useful, and when I install MS-Office I usually disable them. It was a good idea but poorly executed and poorly coded.
I remember the 8-Bit days when people jokingly called their computers as Trash-80's when they were TRS-80. Tandy Radio Shack, and then they developed the TRS Coco or Color Computer to replace the TRS-80, and then later the Tandy 1000 IBM PCjr type PC Clone, et all. The Tandy 1000 IIRC used the PCJr sound and video chips but ran Tandy-DOS and Deskmate and used special expansion slots that weren't ISA compatible because of pinout changes. Gee I wonder why it failed?:)
Radio Shack was named after the part of a Navy Ship that had the Radio equipment in it. Those not in the Navy won't get the reference.
They should have called it eShack or Electronics Shack or something that sounds better than Shack or The Shack.
I recall every time I went to a Radio Shack they didn't have the part I needed in stock, and the catalog price was way expensive and I ended up finding a cheaper part somewhere else. The only thing neat about Radio Shack were their wireless controlled cars and toys that I would buy for my son, and hand held video games. I remember a friend of mine applied for a Radio Shack credit card and got a free hand held Black Jack game for signing up. I used to be a member of their "Battery Club" when I was a teenager, and every month I would get a free battery. I remember buying magnets from Radio Shack for science experiments and parts to make stereo speakers, etc.
Thank you. I finally got a SuSE Studio account but when I started to add in games, it told me I had a conflict of libraries that needed to be resolved.
I'll try the Linux Gamers CD/DVD and see what happens.
someone can now develop their own Linux application and use SuSE Studio to create a LiveCD for it. They can pick only the things they need to run their program to create a demo CD or use it as a Live Distro that installs their Linux application with it.
I would like to see someone use it to create a Linux gaming CD with popular open source games on it, to help convert the GameHeads to Linux from Windows. At the very least they can boot the SuSE Studio LiveCD to play the games, if not run it in a Virtual Machine.
When my father's Windows XP computer had problems, I gave him a Linspire 5.0 LiveCD of mine and he was able to use the Internet for email and web access until I could get back to fix his Windows XP problems. But now I can build an SuSE Studio LiveCD with applications he may want to use as well with it, for example he likes card games and plays virtual pool, I could include those on a LiveCD as well as an OpenOffice.Org to work with his documents and a Scanner program to use his All in One Inkjet Printer, Scanner, and Fax machine. Giving him a LiveCD to use when his computer is down until I can come over there to fix it is a good idea, and I might even dual boot Linux and Windows for him as well if he likes it enough.
I am thinking of developing business applications for Linux, and this would be a good way to create a Demo CD or LiveCD with the software on it to promote it. It would have to include a database like MySQL or PostgresSQL with data in it to run the Demo, and then when it gets installed on the system the Database would be read/write and work as an actual install. Doing things that way might help a company decide to migrate away from Windows and consider a few Linux workstations to see how well they run next to the Windows versions. I was trying to figure out a way to make the server end with the database easy enough to install for non-technical people and the LiveCD route may be the way to go.
is that the number of planets that can host life forms is so low in number, that some sort of Terraforming technology would have to be made to make the Mars and Venus type planets more like Earth.
Right now we cannot even control the pollution on Earth that is making Earth less hospitable to current lifeforms.
If there is more advanced life in the universe, they'd have to find a solution to their own pollution as well as invent Terraforming technology. If they don't, eventually they will go extinct.
There is also a good chance that Earth is the most advanced life forms in our galaxy and if other life exists, it hasn't even invented radio devices yet so we can detect them, or they are too far away that radio waves from their planet has not reached Earth yet.
There is also another possibility that maybe life on other planets skipped radio if they are advanced enough and use some other way to communicate that we cannot detect, or they use radio and use an encryption that makes it look like natural random signals to less advanced life forms.
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Even water damaged hard drives can have the data recovered from them.
You'd need a Boot and Nuke CDR or Floppy disk that boots and then writes zeroes all over the hard drives to be sure to destroy evidence. You could also remove the hard drives and smash them with hammers so the drive platters are shattered.
But that is worthless if you had backups, if they are magnetic just use a bulk eraser, a giant magnet to delete and scramble them. With is what one of my former employers used as a law firm, when the FBI raided them in 1998 they bulk erased the backup tapes, and every offending email was removed, except for the partner they blamed for the whole violation. The law firm had a policy to delete old emails, and kept getting on our cases to shred memos and delete emails and remove data from shared network drives on various cases. They call it record retention. We were told if anyone told the newspaper or other media, we'd be fired about it. They eventually fired me anyway for getting sick on the job from all of the stress they put on me. They were afraid I'd blow the whistle on them because I didn't like what they forced us to do to delete emails and other data that way. But now, nobody would believe me anyway. I didn't delete the emails or data, someone else did that, I refused to do it and someone else did it instead of me.
Convert all DOCX documents to DOC format to prevent some Microsoft Office update removing the XML features and thus shutting people out of their DOCX documents.
What does the judge think of this ODF plug-in converter for MS-Office? Does it violate the XML patent as well as Sun Office and OpenOffice.Org and IBM Lotus Symphony?
They programmed "E" for evil, but he exceeds the limitations of his program and becomes self aware and then learns that being Evil is wrong and then turns good instead?
Then again if he doesn't he can make a great video game character you can play against, and be in a video game called "Catch the serial killer" or something and you are an FBI agent looking for him before he kills again. He could also play a Terminator or Cylon type robot/cyborg character.
Heck Hollywood could even use him as a virtual actor in their movies.
Yeah I know it is a white guy, but with computers they can make the character any race, gender, color of skin, age, national origin, sexual orientation, etc. Even as an alien or robot if need be.
and I'd like to see more classic 8 bit computers recreated like that.
I'm assuming they copied the Apple I ROM instead of creating one from scratch, and that doing so was authorized from Apple since they don't sell the Apple I anymore and this is a good PR boost for Apple to authorize computer hobysts to recreate their first computer.
I'd like to see the following computers recreated:
Timex/Sinclar 1000 //e
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Atari 800
TI 99/4A
TRS-80 COCO
Coleco Adam
Apple
IBM PC
IBM AT
CP/M systems by Kaypro
Sinclar Spectrum
BBC Acorn
I signed up for an email when it is ready to test.
I want to see what it is all about. I hope it is innovative and runs fast and uses less memory than Firefox. Safari, Opera, IE, Chrome, and the others.
I got a feeling they will be inventing new HTML tags to be used in HTML 6, as well as enhancing the XML and UML languages. That their cutting edge technology will force other browsers to change to compete with them. It might even lead to Web 3.0 standards.
Netscape was great stuff when it got to version 3.0, but around then Microsoft was bundling IE with Windows and eventually shut Netscape out of the web browser business. I recall Netscape was shareware and needed an optional $35 to register it, but still allowed you to use it for free if you didn't register. It didn't go open source until Netscape 5.0 when AOL bought them out and the Mozilla foundation was being formed to create Seamonkey and then Firefox and Thunderbird.
Firefox 3.0.03 and 3.5.X seem to have HTML problems with Slashdot in the subject line being cut off when submitting and other formatting issues on other web sites. Mozilla somehow bungled up the web browser, as I have problems clicking the mouse on text and have to click on the top of text boxes as it won't click on the bottom for me to edit them. I had hoped that upgrading to 3.5 would fix the problems, but no. Mozilla usually issues a WONTFIX because they claim Slashdot, etc must have not been following HTML 5 standards and refuse to fix it. I hope Rockmelt learns from that and fixes the formatting issues.
with them that states they shouldn't be looking at source code and data, and should only administer the server.
One of the dangers of outsourcing or even offshoring is that people are working for you out of the office at a remote location and you don't know what they are doing as you cannot see them or even monitor remotely what they are doing.
In some cases offshored and/or outsourced work did lead to IP being stolen, especially if it was being done in a third world country.
If you have such trust issues, maybe you should hire a network administrator to work at your office or do it yourself.
It is bad database design to use first and last names as primary keys. You usually want to use something unique like SSN.
Health Insurance companies used to do that as well, I had the same name as my father but a different middle name and different birth date and SSN. But the darned Health Insurance companies used to claim they were double billed when I saw the same doctor as my father and I lived at the same address. I eventually had to see different doctors and get a different insurance company. But even back in the 1980's they did stupid things like use the first and last name as the primary keys and ignored the SSN, policy number, group number, date of birth, and middle name as indexes as well.
I'll bet they don't sanitize their data inputs either.
Well I tell friends and relatives not to let their children install file sharing programs like Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
Most of the time I have to clean up their system of malware is when their son or daughter downloaded a bunch of music files and software and then just ran everything they downloaded. Including a trojan infected antivirus software that doesn't find the malware because they downloaded it via a P2P network.
I just get a free AV software like AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, Adware, Avast, BitDefender Free, etc because it is a home system and qualifies for free AV software and boot into Safe Mode and then scan in safe mode, or use MSCONFIG to disable all startup programs but the AV software and then scan using them. Usually I have to uninstall all of the crap their kids installed that they downloaded from P2P networks. I tell them not to let their kids use P2P networks anymore, but few listen to me and they get infected again.
I've tried to show them FOSS alternatives like OpenOffice.Org, GNUCash, GIMP, Paint.Net, etc which some of them end up using instead of downloading commercial versions from P2P networks.
But eventually it gets so bad, that I refuse to support them until their children stop using P2P networks.
Even music files can contain trojans and exploits in them, and most are in self extracting EXE files that contain a virus in them when run, some have ads for other web sites in them, and others require an unlock password for the RAR or ZIP file and they have to get it by a web site that infects them with a virus but gives them the password to the archived file to unzip or unrar it.
Which I monitor and use OpenDNS to block the bad web sites he shouldn't go to either.
From time to time he'll click on an ad, and then I have to remove the adware or spyware that it installed. He uses Opera instead of Firefox, and it still gets exploited.
for the password reset. You enter the Admin's user ID and click on a "Forgot password" button or link and it emails a new password to the email the Admin uses.
Some software like Scoop has it and the new password is only good for a few days or so, in case the user or admin didn't request a new password and it allows the old password to work until the new password is used. Only the new password is emailed to the email address on file.
Now if it showed the new password on the web page, that would be locking out the admin from their account as the exploiter can log in as the admin and then change the email the password is reset back to and lock the admin out. But in this scenario the admin gets an email with a new password and if he or she reads the email, they can log back in. They aren't locked out if they read the email that has the new password.
Actually it is usually the children that install Limewire to get free music and video games. Most parents don't know what Limewire is, and share the computer with their children. When they notice a slow down on the Internet they think it is a virus or just Windows as usual. Not knowing that Limewire is sharing their "MyDocuments" folder including all of their personal documents and files in that folder.
My son, for example, uses a PC different from mine. So mine does not get infected with viruses or get all of the files shared via Limewire or some other program. But then I am Tech Savvy enough to know what Limewire and other file sharing programs are, and take them off of my system.
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
Apparently next time this happens, please try changing your default search engine to something else besides Bing. Better yet turn off the search option for invalid URLs and "Dummy Proof" IE so you won't get fooled again.
Of course I use Firefox as my main web browser so I don't suffer from stuff like that. I refuse to get fooled again by IE.
When you quit a job it is like a slave running away. Eventually they will end up working as a slave for someone else just like an employee will end up working for a different company, it is like being caught and sold again.
Slaves quit by running away, remember that Underground Railroad? Try to make it to a free state is like trying to find an employer that does not have an employment contract that makes one a wage slave.
The only real freedom from slavery in modern days is to start up one's own business.
should be able to run Windows software as well as use Windows drivers. ReactOS has a better chance of starting that Microsoft death spiral than ChromeOS. People still need to run the OS on legacy hardware and run legacy software with the new OS.
Which is why Windows Vista failed and why Windows 7 Pro and up have that XP virtual machine.
Welcome to the age of the EULA and TOS agreements that limit our freedoms and rights as a consumer.
Ordinarily if they violated the US Constitution they would have been thrown out by our founding fathers. But the USA is no longer a Democracy or Republic but a Corportism where Corporations rule and use lobbyists and lawyers to get away with whatever they want so they can earn more profits.
There exists even Employment Contract Agreements that are basically slavery, and companies can easily get away with them and treat employees as slaves. If the employee refuses to be treated as a slave, there are "No Fault" employment laws that says they can be fired for no reason, and then they are blackballed by other corporations so nobody will want to hire that "troublemaker" and then they become homeless or died from lack of food and health care.
Well the fetus can grow up to be useful to society some day.
A dog or cat that is unwanted cannot have the same potential as the fetus being aborted, but any sort of life should not be taken away.
Animal shelters euthanize animals because they become too crowded and usually an abandoned animal has a history of hurting people or children and was given to the shelter. I know it is not right to kill animals in this way, but most people don't even bother to think about it. Life is sacred be it animal or human life.
While this article shows a full grown dog can be as intelligence as a 2 year old child, it can never be greater than that, while a real 2 year child can grow up, go to college, get a job, and make a difference in society.
While abortion is legal, and has been done since the 1960's if we didn't have abortion we'd have more of a population and the baby boom would have kept on going. Right now baby boomers are ready to retire and outnumber the working people. If we didn't have abortion we'd have more people working now than are retiring, but because we had abortion we now have more people retiring than are working and it will break the social security system between 2012 to 2017 unless something is done to fix social security.
It is not just abortion that is a factor of our bad economy it is other things as well, people refusing to have children, government spending too much money, foreign wars taking a toll on the economy, people maxing out their credit cards so that they cannot afford house and car payments anymore, jobs being offshored to foreign nations, etc.
As human beings we really don't seem to value the life of animals or even most human beings and are a selfish group of humans who only think about ourselves and not about others. Very few think about others these days. Life today is worth less than life 2000 years ago I should think. We've become too materialistic and selfish, less human, and more inhuman if possible.
Linux just made it into his hit list next to Google.
Will Microsoft buy out SCO and get SCO Unix to compete with Linux? Will they bring back Xenix?
Will Microsoft start releasing more GPLed code to Linux?
Will Windows 7 get a "Linux Compatibility Mode"?
Will Microsoft start developing their own distro of Linux?
Who knows, anything is possible. Maybe if Microsoft can't beat Linux they will join them? Imagine if Microsoft started to write commercial software for Linux like MS-Office, MS-Money, Visual Studio, etc? What would that mean?
It seems like that statement is trying to suggest that a modified XBox 360 or Playstation 3 will explode or shock the consumer when they use it or something. When really it is just soldiering a Mod Chip to a part of the motherboard so that Homebrew games and other unsigned games can be played.
Actually since he is a professional, he'd do a better job than if the consumer tried to modify their game console by themselves and risk bricking it or something worse.
Actually if she wanted to be a manager she should have taken Business Management and not Business Administration. That means she was trained to do the paper work, (administration) but not how to do the Management needed for a management position. She would make a good Administrative Assistant or Supervisor, but not necessarily a manager.
If she was applying for a Manager position, I can see why they didn't hire her, she didn't have the right degree.
I majored in Computer Science, Information Systems, and then later Business Management. I chose the later after computer jobs got scarce, so that I can learn how to manage a business and maybe start up my own, or get hired as a manager at another company. I have classes and degrees in all of them.
Well I guess since documents are basically PDF files or HTML file or Text Files on the Internet we really don't need Word to read them or create them anymore.
Microsoft Word came about late in the game, Word Star, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, Framework, and many others like Lotus Symphony did the same thing as far as word processing would go. Just that hardly anyone would make a Macintosh version in 1984 when Apple released the Macintosh, and Microsoft made Word and Excel for the Macintosh because it lacked software. Thus formed an unholy alliance with Microsoft and Apple that would lead to Mac-Office later. But Word and Excel existed for MS-DOS and then later Windows. Microsoft eventually bundled MS-Office with Windows pre-installs until MS-Office 2007 that is a trial that needs a key to unlock it. Which forced MS-Office on any PC buyer.
There were many competition to MS-Word. IBM/Lotus had Lotus SmartSuite and Lotus Word Pro but each new version of Windows would break it and the current Windows Vista won't run it anymore, and Windows XP runs it but has printing issues and other problems. IBM gave up on SmartSuite and licensed the OpenOffice.Org code to make a new version of Lotus Symphony based on the OO.o code and using the new Open Document Format or ODF.
WordperfectOffice exists, but hardly anyone uses WordPerfect anymore, and they priced themselves out of the market. Some people still use the DOS based Wordperfect 5.1 software because modern Windows Word Processors are too bloated and run too slow for them. Also WordPerfect 5.1 has a reveal codes mode to make editing a document a lot better.
Honestly I stopped using MS-Office since MS-Office 2003 because I didn't need the MS-Office 2007 features and they keep changing the UI and it confuses people. I use OpenOffice.Org 3.1 and am trying to ween myself off of MS-Office.
Of course now their are web applications for Word Processing like Google Docs and Zoho, etc that provide a free web based Word processor in the Cloud, and they save and read MS-Word formats, so basically one doesn't need MS-Word if they have an Internet connection and don't mind storing documents in the Cloud.
MS-Office and MS-Word jumped the shark when Microsoft added in the Clippit and other Office Assistants that become more annoying that useful, and when I install MS-Office I usually disable them. It was a good idea but poorly executed and poorly coded.
I remember the 8-Bit days when people jokingly called their computers as Trash-80's when they were TRS-80. Tandy Radio Shack, and then they developed the TRS Coco or Color Computer to replace the TRS-80, and then later the Tandy 1000 IBM PCjr type PC Clone, et all. The Tandy 1000 IIRC used the PCJr sound and video chips but ran Tandy-DOS and Deskmate and used special expansion slots that weren't ISA compatible because of pinout changes. Gee I wonder why it failed? :)
Radio Shack was named after the part of a Navy Ship that had the Radio equipment in it. Those not in the Navy won't get the reference.
They should have called it eShack or Electronics Shack or something that sounds better than Shack or The Shack.
I recall every time I went to a Radio Shack they didn't have the part I needed in stock, and the catalog price was way expensive and I ended up finding a cheaper part somewhere else. The only thing neat about Radio Shack were their wireless controlled cars and toys that I would buy for my son, and hand held video games. I remember a friend of mine applied for a Radio Shack credit card and got a free hand held Black Jack game for signing up. I used to be a member of their "Battery Club" when I was a teenager, and every month I would get a free battery. I remember buying magnets from Radio Shack for science experiments and parts to make stereo speakers, etc.
Thank you. I finally got a SuSE Studio account but when I started to add in games, it told me I had a conflict of libraries that needed to be resolved.
I'll try the Linux Gamers CD/DVD and see what happens.
someone can now develop their own Linux application and use SuSE Studio to create a LiveCD for it. They can pick only the things they need to run their program to create a demo CD or use it as a Live Distro that installs their Linux application with it.
I would like to see someone use it to create a Linux gaming CD with popular open source games on it, to help convert the GameHeads to Linux from Windows. At the very least they can boot the SuSE Studio LiveCD to play the games, if not run it in a Virtual Machine.
When my father's Windows XP computer had problems, I gave him a Linspire 5.0 LiveCD of mine and he was able to use the Internet for email and web access until I could get back to fix his Windows XP problems. But now I can build an SuSE Studio LiveCD with applications he may want to use as well with it, for example he likes card games and plays virtual pool, I could include those on a LiveCD as well as an OpenOffice.Org to work with his documents and a Scanner program to use his All in One Inkjet Printer, Scanner, and Fax machine. Giving him a LiveCD to use when his computer is down until I can come over there to fix it is a good idea, and I might even dual boot Linux and Windows for him as well if he likes it enough.
I am thinking of developing business applications for Linux, and this would be a good way to create a Demo CD or LiveCD with the software on it to promote it. It would have to include a database like MySQL or PostgresSQL with data in it to run the Demo, and then when it gets installed on the system the Database would be read/write and work as an actual install. Doing things that way might help a company decide to migrate away from Windows and consider a few Linux workstations to see how well they run next to the Windows versions. I was trying to figure out a way to make the server end with the database easy enough to install for non-technical people and the LiveCD route may be the way to go.
Just for the record, VirtualBox can use VMWare images. I am running a VMWare HaikuOS with VirtualBox.
If you want to convert a VMWare image to VirtualBox format, you need QEMU and follow these instructions.
is that the number of planets that can host life forms is so low in number, that some sort of Terraforming technology would have to be made to make the Mars and Venus type planets more like Earth.
Right now we cannot even control the pollution on Earth that is making Earth less hospitable to current lifeforms.
If there is more advanced life in the universe, they'd have to find a solution to their own pollution as well as invent Terraforming technology. If they don't, eventually they will go extinct.
There is also a good chance that Earth is the most advanced life forms in our galaxy and if other life exists, it hasn't even invented radio devices yet so we can detect them, or they are too far away that radio waves from their planet has not reached Earth yet.
There is also another possibility that maybe life on other planets skipped radio if they are advanced enough and use some other way to communicate that we cannot detect, or they use radio and use an encryption that makes it look like natural random signals to less advanced life forms.