When the next election rolls around, I am going to vote in such a way to either A.Kick Family First senator Steve Fielding out of office or B.Get enough other senators to support the government that they no longer need Fielding to get anything done. (right now its very hard to actually pass anything without the support of Fielding)
I havent heard of any Union in Australia for IT workers. We do have unions for people like teachers, nurses, cops, construction workers and warfies but not for IT workers.
I have a number of apps on my system that embed the IE rendering engine (through the IE ActiveX control and the IE COM interfaces). All of these seem to support IE8 just fine for the things they do.
But I can see that there might be apps out there embedding the IE rendering engine where either the app or the content its displaying via the IE widget will not function with the IE7 or IE8 rendering engine.
I have yet to see any bank here in Australia that restricts you to IE or to Windows. Mine actually mentions both Linux AND Firefox in their "system requirements for online banking" list. And I have no problems using it with SeaMonkey.
If your bank refuses to work with something other than IE, complain loudly to your bank about it. If that doesn't work, switch banks.
I have tested with process explorer 11.33 (latest from the MS site) and the old 8.41 that I had lying around (being unable to find the 10.xx version you mentioned)
I am running Windows XP 32 bit updated with every update Microsoft Update has on its list (including all the optional ones) No change was made by Windows to my 8.41 version of process explorer, nor was it replaced by any newer version. The list of services listed for every instance of svchost.exe is identical for both versions of process explorer. All memory usage numbers match between both copies.
Why cant everyone from the computer camp, the home entertainment camp and elsewhere come together and create one unified set of next generation display standards for everything that both the CE guys and the computer guys could support?
What makes DVI and Display Port and other "computer" technologies better than HDMI for computer use?
So you implement a law allowing online casinos and gambling but only by casinos who are willing to follow appropriate laws on things like taxes, validation that the games are fair etc.
Most legit casinos would have no problems with such things if it meant they could operate legitimately in the US and without the risk of having transactions from Americans denied
Its the casinos that are dodgy in the first place (not making payouts that people are owed, rigged games or whatever) that wont like it.
Unless the NSA has a supercomputer more powerful than anything on the Top 10 list hidden underneath their building somewhere I dont see them being able to crack 2048 bit RSA or 256 bit AES anytime soon.
There are perfectly functional court systems in various countries. Use them and use copyright law the way its written.
If you want to stop illegal file sharers, go sue them in court. If you cant find out who they are, file a John Doe lawsuit (essentially you are suing the IP address), present evidence proving that X IP address at Y time was sharing the content in question and then subpoena the ISP to get the details of which customer that corresponds to.
Stop trying to make the ISPs into copyright cops just so you can save some money on enforcement.
The problem with PayPal being treated as a bank is that they would then be subject to ALL the rules that go with being a bank. Most notably they would be subject to the rules that require a proper identity check before you can sign up for an account. (those rules differ from country to country of course but in Australia you have to show several pieces of ID)
Doing a proper identity check for everyone (and not just those who paypal decides may be doing something suspicious) is expensive for a company based purely online.
If you had an Access database, classic VB was a great way to talk to it, far superior than the Access UI design tools themselves (anyone who proposes designing a database UI in Access should have their head examined)
At least not in all cases. I have a family member (not a computer guru but someone with a fair bit of computer knowledge) who tried OpenOffice and found that it was unusable due to documented being formatted differently in OO.o writer and in Word (and formatted differently in ways that matter). Said family member ended up buying Office 2007 in order to get documents that looked the same as they did on the other machines.
Although I do not advocate terrorist attacks as such, maybe the US needs a "government reboot" similar to what happened in the Tom Clancy book "Executive Orders".
1.A corporate world and big shareholders who only care about the next set of numbers are and refuse to accept that short term flat or negative growth that leads to long term profit can be an acceptable way to do business. 2.The lack of a "middle ground" in games. In the movie industry you have blockbusters that make the big bucks (and cost the big bucks) and then you have lower budget films that dont necessarily need to make big bucks to recover their investment plus you have small niche films made on the cheap outside of the mainstream
In the games industry you have the small casual games (things like PopCap games, some Wii titles, various DS titles, iPhone games etc) and the big expensive "every model has to have more graphical detail than anything the other guy has" blockbuster type games. There are no middle-of-the-road games that are bigger and more engaging than the casual games but not as horrendously expensive as the blockbusters. There are plenty of mods out there for various titles that show the kind of games that can be made if the industry was willing (the kind that dont need thousands of man-hours worth of content)
3.An unwillingness to experiment. In the movie industry you have a lot of films that were green-lit even though they were different from what came before because the industry was willing to take a chance. The games industry doesn't want to experiment anymore in the way pioneers like Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, John Carmack, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, Richard Garriott and others did.
The industry needs to start making games that dont cost huge sums of money to make, dont require thousands of dollars of computer gear to run with all the options set to "max" and dont require an always-on internet connection just to play the single player. I am sure many people would play such games if the gameplay was good enough (I would)
There are a few simple ways they can improve the system (and answer some of the criticism) without compromising national security one bit.
The easiest step they could take would be that anytime they take an item, they have to give you a receipt for it. A simple bit of paper that lists all the items they are taking, doesn't need to say why, just that it was taken by customs and which agent took it and the date and time it was taken.
There do exist packages that can handle the encryption of at least fixed disks without the user needing to do anything more than the usual login. BitLocker for one (and BitLocker can plug into Active Directory easily)
With the right software, it is possible to protect the fixed disks of all PCs in the enterprise (including laptops that may only connect to the network through a VPN or may be used in places where there is no network access at all such as airplanes) and the only thing the users have to do is to log in just like they normally do. Mobile devices like Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices also have options for encryption that IT can enable. Even email can be encrypted without the users doing anything special using modern versions of Exchange (at least from what I read with Google)
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When the next election rolls around, I am going to vote in such a way to either A.Kick Family First senator Steve Fielding out of office or B.Get enough other senators to support the government that they no longer need Fielding to get anything done. (right now its very hard to actually pass anything without the support of Fielding)
You cant convert Windows to ASM because of x86-64 and Itanium.
Both of which have different instruction sets to plain x86.
I havent heard of any Union in Australia for IT workers.
We do have unions for people like teachers, nurses, cops, construction workers and warfies but not for IT workers.
This is the Australian Public Service. Sacking people is all but impossible based on my experience.
I updated from IE6 to IE8 simply by downloading everything from Microsoft Update (which uses HTTP for everything AFAIK)
I have a number of apps on my system that embed the IE rendering engine (through the IE ActiveX control and the IE COM interfaces). All of these seem to support IE8 just fine for the things they do.
But I can see that there might be apps out there embedding the IE rendering engine where either the app or the content its displaying via the IE widget will not function with the IE7 or IE8 rendering engine.
I have yet to see any bank here in Australia that restricts you to IE or to Windows.
Mine actually mentions both Linux AND Firefox in their "system requirements for online banking" list.
And I have no problems using it with SeaMonkey.
If your bank refuses to work with something other than IE, complain loudly to your bank about it. If that doesn't work, switch banks.
The EULA for the 10.2 version (the one on FileHippo) clearly indicates that its a post-Microsoft release.
I have tested with process explorer 11.33 (latest from the MS site) and the old 8.41 that I had lying around (being unable to find the 10.xx version you mentioned)
I am running Windows XP 32 bit updated with every update Microsoft Update has on its list (including all the optional ones)
No change was made by Windows to my 8.41 version of process explorer, nor was it replaced by any newer version.
The list of services listed for every instance of svchost.exe is identical for both versions of process explorer. All memory usage numbers match between both copies.
Maybe if you posted proof (i.e. details of the items being hidden from MS releases of Process Explorer) people might care.
Why cant everyone from the computer camp, the home entertainment camp and elsewhere come together and create one unified set of next generation display standards for everything that both the CE guys and the computer guys could support?
What makes DVI and Display Port and other "computer" technologies better than HDMI for computer use?
Is there a phone that Stalman would be happy to use?
Or is even the OpenMoko project too proprietary for his taste?
So you implement a law allowing online casinos and gambling but only by casinos who are willing to follow appropriate laws on things like taxes, validation that the games are fair etc.
Most legit casinos would have no problems with such things if it meant they could operate legitimately in the US and without the risk of having transactions from Americans denied
Its the casinos that are dodgy in the first place (not making payouts that people are owed, rigged games or whatever) that wont like it.
Unless the NSA has a supercomputer more powerful than anything on the Top 10 list hidden underneath their building somewhere I dont see them being able to crack 2048 bit RSA or 256 bit AES anytime soon.
Yes, access has its place if you need (as it seems in your case) minimal or no UI.
But if you need a full database UI (to enter data, generate reports etc) use a REAL tool for the job.
There are perfectly functional court systems in various countries. Use them and use copyright law the way its written.
If you want to stop illegal file sharers, go sue them in court. If you cant find out who they are, file a John Doe lawsuit (essentially you are suing the IP address), present evidence proving that X IP address at Y time was sharing the content in question and then subpoena the ISP to get the details of which customer that corresponds to.
Stop trying to make the ISPs into copyright cops just so you can save some money on enforcement.
The problem with PayPal being treated as a bank is that they would then be subject to ALL the rules that go with being a bank. Most notably they would be subject to the rules that require a proper identity check before you can sign up for an account. (those rules differ from country to country of course but in Australia you have to show several pieces of ID)
Doing a proper identity check for everyone (and not just those who paypal decides may be doing something suspicious) is expensive for a company based purely online.
If you had an Access database, classic VB was a great way to talk to it, far superior than the Access UI design tools themselves (anyone who proposes designing a database UI in Access should have their head examined)
At least not in all cases.
I have a family member (not a computer guru but someone with a fair bit of computer knowledge) who tried OpenOffice and found that it was unusable due to documented being formatted differently in OO.o writer and in Word (and formatted differently in ways that matter). Said family member ended up buying Office 2007 in order to get documents that looked the same as they did on the other machines.
Although I do not advocate terrorist attacks as such, maybe the US needs a "government reboot" similar to what happened in the Tom Clancy book "Executive Orders".
OGG Theora is based on On2 VP3.
On2 VP8 is a much better codec than VP3 ever was.
1.A corporate world and big shareholders who only care about the next set of numbers are and refuse to accept that short term flat or negative growth that leads to long term profit can be an acceptable way to do business.
2.The lack of a "middle ground" in games. In the movie industry you have blockbusters that make the big bucks (and cost the big bucks) and then you have lower budget films that dont necessarily need to make big bucks to recover their investment plus you have small niche films made on the cheap outside of the mainstream
In the games industry you have the small casual games (things like PopCap games, some Wii titles, various DS titles, iPhone games etc) and the big expensive "every model has to have more graphical detail than anything the other guy has" blockbuster type games. There are no middle-of-the-road games that are bigger and more engaging than the casual games but not as horrendously expensive as the blockbusters. There are plenty of mods out there for various titles that show the kind of games that can be made if the industry was willing (the kind that dont need thousands of man-hours worth of content)
3.An unwillingness to experiment. In the movie industry you have a lot of films that were green-lit even though they were different from what came before because the industry was willing to take a chance. The games industry doesn't want to experiment anymore in the way pioneers like Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, John Carmack, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, Richard Garriott and others did.
The industry needs to start making games that dont cost huge sums of money to make, dont require thousands of dollars of computer gear to run with all the options set to "max" and dont require an always-on internet connection just to play the single player. I am sure many people would play such games if the gameplay was good enough (I would)
There are a few simple ways they can improve the system (and answer some of the criticism) without compromising national security one bit.
The easiest step they could take would be that anytime they take an item, they have to give you a receipt for it. A simple bit of paper that lists all the items they are taking, doesn't need to say why, just that it was taken by customs and which agent took it and the date and time it was taken.
Does BitLocker have the limitations you refer to?
There do exist packages that can handle the encryption of at least fixed disks without the user needing to do anything more than the usual login. BitLocker for one (and BitLocker can plug into Active Directory easily)
With the right software, it is possible to protect the fixed disks of all PCs in the enterprise (including laptops that may only connect to the network through a VPN or may be used in places where there is no network access at all such as airplanes) and the only thing the users have to do is to log in just like they normally do. Mobile devices like Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices also have options for encryption that IT can enable. Even email can be encrypted without the users doing anything special using modern versions of Exchange (at least from what I read with Google)