It's certainly not a fake as from the pictures in the notebookreview article the Blu-Ray capable laptop was on the right, while the ejected media was on the lefthand machine, the one playing normal DVD content. As you say, bad reporting.
The summary author would have been more correct in linking to the following story rather than attempting to make commentary by selecting the link they did: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14200860
It's not "another take" they link to, but rather "another story". Related, yes, but lets try a little harder (yes, it's slashdot, etc, etc but it doesn't hurt to try)
The problem is that cable vs DSL all has to do with where you live. In my neighborhood, the super highspeed cable service was dog slow compared to 768k DSL. On top of that, the service would drop out for anywhere from five minutes to an hour every night. Around here you get DSL if you want speed and quality. Cable modems are for the unwashed masses.
While there are points to be made about how the shuttle is a bad choice for space flight and science isn't getting the funding that's needed, this author clearly doesn't understand all the benefits of manned space flight. I mean seriously, saying that the moon is only interesting to geology postdocs? That all people do in space is to take each other's blood pressure? He clearly lacks ANY knowledge of the science and innovations we gain by reaching new frontiers. One of his references is to a radical writer's article that thinks Apollo missions stopped off it orbit before going on to the moon and fails to understand the concepts of where to get fuel, where to stage equipment and where to practice somewhere relatively close by. Now, not only are blogs spewing crap but "news" sites are too.
A) Nice try by throwing in the word "Bigfoot" as a way to discredit the argument without any real facts. It seems various people have even allen for your trick, which is sad.
B) "Dismissing the involvment of the Bush Administration by talking about locals" Did I say that? No. In fact in the very quote you included in your post I explain that "It mentions the federal government is only interested in using this to replace existing flights by manned aircraft at over 12,500 feet, with filed flight plans.". So, thanks for mentioning knee jerk reactions, kettle. I didn't ignore the federal government or what they were planning. I explicitly stated it, and you apparently go a little to worked up to notice.
C) Blaming everything on Bush and ignoring the fact that local, state and federal governments are indepenantly elected and that people at various levels actually do make decisions themselves without calling up Bush on the phone and making sure it fits into his evils plans is stupid and naive.
Did I say I liked Bush? No, I said go and deal with the problem in your local area where you actually might have a little more effect than bitching at me on Slashdot. Once again, quite typical.
Did anyone bother to even read TFA? Here's the first paragraph:
A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
It mentions the federal government is only interested in using this to replace existing flights by manned aircraft at over 12,500 feet, with filed flight plans. This is your own local officials doing this backyard surveillance, not "the big evil Bush" that everyone seems to like to blame for everything. But MAN does throwing "the Bush administraion" in the summary really catch eyeballs, regardless of whether it's true or not.
Is the purpose just to get rid of the VPN? Outlook can be setup to connect via HTTPS to an Exchange server with fully functionality, using NTLM authentication, so no VPN required. Also, Exchange can be configured to serve email via IMAP if you don't want to get everyone Outlook (except they already have it according to your question).
Have you considered the fact that web based services are not necessarily going to provide the event notifications or other features users are used to getting? Guess who will be blamed when everyone starts missing meetings or showing up late? As an example, in Exchange's web based Outlook you can't set your delegation settings through it or view multiple calendars at the same time or do a lot of other things. You really need to know the feature set that's required by the users before you could even consider any kind of a move. Have you thought about archive files? If you go web based you'll have to keep all that data on the server and you'll probably have to migrate it there from each user's PC one at a time.
Saying you want to move from Exchange to something Active Directory integrated with the ability to load balance is also a little weird given that Exchange already does all this.
I'd tell your friend to go on record that any major change is probably a bad idea, and instead he should research how to make the existing system work the way they want it to. Your question really doesn't indicate WHY they want to move, which is critical to the choices to be made. Open Source isn't the proper solution to every problem, and yes, you might actually have to spend some money to get the functionality you need! (Ok, send in the slashdot shock troops to mod me into oblivion for not following the party line...)
They'll get patent recognition if they, you know, filed any patents. These teams can do whatever they want with any innovations they make. Many of them, especially the school based teams, operate under grants from other agencies which might have limitations on who owns or can patent what. However, each team makes the choice about where their funding comes from and what strings are attached to it.
A slate style tablet with OneNote can do all these things, and is frankly what every student should be using in college anyway. However, since they don't run FPS games all that well and have smaller screens most people overlook how useful they are.
It's most likely due to the fact that those stars are much, much closer to us in the forground of the shot and therefore are out of focus. Being out of focus means the flaws in the optics are exagerated. Remember, lens, mirrors, beam splitters, etc all need mounting elements and have edges that bounce or block light. That's what you are seeing in the out of focus stars.
My biggest annoyance with eBooks is that they generally are not available with the release of the hardcopy. You have to wait months (or forever) to see the eBook come out, which is ironic given that the book was almost certainly published from a digital source!
My second issue with them is that I generally would like to get both the hardcopy AND the elecronic version at the same time, but to do this I'd have to pay for the same content twice.
I have plenty of gadgets to view electronic books on, from handheld to desktop. The issue for me is the distribution model. Why is it that I can't get a free electronic version of the book I purchase in the store? Perhaps if they're greedy I'll give them five more cents to cover the cost of exporting the data to an eBook format, but paying full price a second time?
I have to manage three physically separate offices, so remote administration is the only way to go. Almost everyone is on Windows XP so we just use a domain policy to allow us to offer unsolicited remote assistance to the users. They get a request for us to connect and a chat window to talk with us (although I do prefer to call them on the phone first, or have them call me). If it isn't a problem directly related to their session, then we Remote Desktop in for software installs and other administrator level issues after they log out. It's all built right into Windows, which, despite what many people here seem to think, has some very robust enterprise level abilities.
NASA should shitcan the shuttle and get out of this LEO mentality, start thinking big again.
This is exactly what they are doing! The reason there isn't as much money for science is due to the fact that they have to spend money to replace the shuttle.
This title and summary are completely misleading. The study simply found that they could make mice ignore being bullied by breeding out a certain neurotransmitter. Why is this even on slashdot?
What the hell are you even talking about? On the very page you link to it says "Microsoft releases an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month, and as needed to respond to security incidents.". That's exactly what I said, and according to the original story, Microsoft has indicated a special release will not occur.
On the second page you link to, the last update date is January 10th, 2006 at the time I post this. There are two possibilities:
1. The original story is completely wrong and the tool will and has removed the virus before the deadline. 2. The MyWife varient listed isn't the same one that will (would have) deleted files on the 3rd.
I vote for the latter option, but in any case your wrong. No wonder you posted anonymously, you didn't even believe yourself.
Wrong. The entire content of this story is that Microsoft isn't releasing a malicious software removal tool until the 14th, as usual. So, go use any virus checker on the planet instead, including Microsoft's, to solve the problem now.
Come on people. This story is completely wrong. Microsoft is not withholding anything. They simple do not have a Malicioius Software Removal Tool currently ready because the system is built around deploying it on the 14th. The reference to Microsoft's pay services are the same as if you used Symantec or any other virus scanner out that which already detects the worm. It's not extortion, it's not even a story.
Read up on the theory of relativity. Irregardless of the speed at which two objects are moving relative to each other, the speed of light is constant between them. Frequency, however, is another matter...
I'd like Thunderbird with tabbed fullscreen folder, mails, read and edit views.
That sounds like a horrible idea! For one thing, if folders and mail were on separate full screen tabs, you couldn't drag and drop to move messages! Plus, what the heck would be on the read tab, if the messages were on a mails tab? Do you have to select a message in the mails tab and then switch to the read tab to read it?! The same thing goes for edit. What is edit? Are you going to change your existing email messages? What's wrong with the concept of the new window for a new message? This just sounds insane. I'm glad I don't have to read the feature request they get if they're anything like this.
Just turn off the Message Pane and it's perfect as is. If you don't use folders, just drag the right edge of the folder window all the way to the left and you'll just be looking at your messages.
This is a wonderful product that you're hardly ever going to see on a corporate network due to fear of sexual harrassment lawsuits. Nice choice in names morons.
"There is another company that is doing almost the same thing"
That's like saying that auto makers and aircraft manufacturers are "doing almost the same thing" because they both use combustion engines! The invention in the links you provide has pretty much nothing to do with this slashdot article other than it has swirling air. A pulverizer is a long way from a power plant...
In the US, volunteer fire and rescue members are not officially allowed to exceed the speed limit but many do because to poke along at 25mph getting to the station means that someone WILL die if they arrive too late. They take the risk of a ticket or worse every day to save people like you who probably bitch, moan and flip them the finger for passing you.
Can you tell you've hit a sore point with me? So has this short-sighted proposed law. Thankfully it's in Canada and not here.
You know, you can usually install multiple applications without having to reboot until you finish the last one... Heck, XP currently installs 33 critical updates all in a row before rebooting when you plug it in to the net for the first time!
Windows Server Update Services does not just update servers, it is a server that updates both clients and servers with lots of control over when and if updates get installed, along with auditing of existing installed patches.
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It's certainly not a fake as from the pictures in the notebookreview article the Blu-Ray capable laptop was on the right, while the ejected media was on the lefthand machine, the one playing normal DVD content. As you say, bad reporting.
The summary author would have been more correct in linking to the following story rather than attempting to make commentary by selecting the link they did: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14200860
It's not "another take" they link to, but rather "another story". Related, yes, but lets try a little harder (yes, it's slashdot, etc, etc but it doesn't hurt to try)
The problem is that cable vs DSL all has to do with where you live. In my neighborhood, the super highspeed cable service was dog slow compared to 768k DSL. On top of that, the service would drop out for anywhere from five minutes to an hour every night. Around here you get DSL if you want speed and quality. Cable modems are for the unwashed masses.
While there are points to be made about how the shuttle is a bad choice for space flight and science isn't getting the funding that's needed, this author clearly doesn't understand all the benefits of manned space flight. I mean seriously, saying that the moon is only interesting to geology postdocs? That all people do in space is to take each other's blood pressure? He clearly lacks ANY knowledge of the science and innovations we gain by reaching new frontiers. One of his references is to a radical writer's article that thinks Apollo missions stopped off it orbit before going on to the moon and fails to understand the concepts of where to get fuel, where to stage equipment and where to practice somewhere relatively close by. Now, not only are blogs spewing crap but "news" sites are too.
A) Nice try by throwing in the word "Bigfoot" as a way to discredit the argument without any real facts. It seems various people have even allen for your trick, which is sad.
B) "Dismissing the involvment of the Bush Administration by talking about locals" Did I say that? No. In fact in the very quote you included in your post I explain that "It mentions the federal government is only interested in using this to replace existing flights by manned aircraft at over 12,500 feet, with filed flight plans.". So, thanks for mentioning knee jerk reactions, kettle. I didn't ignore the federal government or what they were planning. I explicitly stated it, and you apparently go a little to worked up to notice.
C) Blaming everything on Bush and ignoring the fact that local, state and federal governments are indepenantly elected and that people at various levels actually do make decisions themselves without calling up Bush on the phone and making sure it fits into his evils plans is stupid and naive.
Did I say I liked Bush? No, I said go and deal with the problem in your local area where you actually might have a little more effect than bitching at me on Slashdot. Once again, quite typical.
Did anyone bother to even read TFA? Here's the first paragraph:
A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
It mentions the federal government is only interested in using this to replace existing flights by manned aircraft at over 12,500 feet, with filed flight plans. This is your own local officials doing this backyard surveillance, not "the big evil Bush" that everyone seems to like to blame for everything. But MAN does throwing "the Bush administraion" in the summary really catch eyeballs, regardless of whether it's true or not.
*sigh* Typical slashdot.
Is the purpose just to get rid of the VPN? Outlook can be setup to connect via HTTPS to an Exchange server with fully functionality, using NTLM authentication, so no VPN required. Also, Exchange can be configured to serve email via IMAP if you don't want to get everyone Outlook (except they already have it according to your question).
Have you considered the fact that web based services are not necessarily going to provide the event notifications or other features users are used to getting? Guess who will be blamed when everyone starts missing meetings or showing up late? As an example, in Exchange's web based Outlook you can't set your delegation settings through it or view multiple calendars at the same time or do a lot of other things. You really need to know the feature set that's required by the users before you could even consider any kind of a move. Have you thought about archive files? If you go web based you'll have to keep all that data on the server and you'll probably have to migrate it there from each user's PC one at a time.
Saying you want to move from Exchange to something Active Directory integrated with the ability to load balance is also a little weird given that Exchange already does all this.
I'd tell your friend to go on record that any major change is probably a bad idea, and instead he should research how to make the existing system work the way they want it to. Your question really doesn't indicate WHY they want to move, which is critical to the choices to be made. Open Source isn't the proper solution to every problem, and yes, you might actually have to spend some money to get the functionality you need! (Ok, send in the slashdot shock troops to mod me into oblivion for not following the party line...)
They'll get patent recognition if they, you know, filed any patents. These teams can do whatever they want with any innovations they make. Many of them, especially the school based teams, operate under grants from other agencies which might have limitations on who owns or can patent what. However, each team makes the choice about where their funding comes from and what strings are attached to it.
A slate style tablet with OneNote can do all these things, and is frankly what every student should be using in college anyway. However, since they don't run FPS games all that well and have smaller screens most people overlook how useful they are.
It's most likely due to the fact that those stars are much, much closer to us in the forground of the shot and therefore are out of focus. Being out of focus means the flaws in the optics are exagerated. Remember, lens, mirrors, beam splitters, etc all need mounting elements and have edges that bounce or block light. That's what you are seeing in the out of focus stars.
My biggest annoyance with eBooks is that they generally are not available with the release of the hardcopy. You have to wait months (or forever) to see the eBook come out, which is ironic given that the book was almost certainly published from a digital source!
My second issue with them is that I generally would like to get both the hardcopy AND the elecronic version at the same time, but to do this I'd have to pay for the same content twice.
I have plenty of gadgets to view electronic books on, from handheld to desktop. The issue for me is the distribution model. Why is it that I can't get a free electronic version of the book I purchase in the store? Perhaps if they're greedy I'll give them five more cents to cover the cost of exporting the data to an eBook format, but paying full price a second time?
I have to manage three physically separate offices, so remote administration is the only way to go. Almost everyone is on Windows XP so we just use a domain policy to allow us to offer unsolicited remote assistance to the users. They get a request for us to connect and a chat window to talk with us (although I do prefer to call them on the phone first, or have them call me). If it isn't a problem directly related to their session, then we Remote Desktop in for software installs and other administrator level issues after they log out. It's all built right into Windows, which, despite what many people here seem to think, has some very robust enterprise level abilities.
NASA should shitcan the shuttle and get out of this LEO mentality, start thinking big again.
This is exactly what they are doing! The reason there isn't as much money for science is due to the fact that they have to spend money to replace the shuttle.
I believe the article source is not directly affiliated with NASA and simply got it wrong.
This title and summary are completely misleading. The study simply found that they could make mice ignore being bullied by breeding out a certain neurotransmitter. Why is this even on slashdot?
What the hell are you even talking about? On the very page you link to it says "Microsoft releases an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month, and as needed to respond to security incidents.". That's exactly what I said, and according to the original story, Microsoft has indicated a special release will not occur.
On the second page you link to, the last update date is January 10th, 2006 at the time I post this. There are two possibilities:
1. The original story is completely wrong and the tool will and has removed the virus before the deadline.
2. The MyWife varient listed isn't the same one that will (would have) deleted files on the 3rd.
I vote for the latter option, but in any case your wrong. No wonder you posted anonymously, you didn't even believe yourself.
Wrong. The entire content of this story is that Microsoft isn't releasing a malicious software removal tool until the 14th, as usual. So, go use any virus checker on the planet instead, including Microsoft's, to solve the problem now.
Come on people. This story is completely wrong. Microsoft is not withholding anything. They simple do not have a Malicioius Software Removal Tool currently ready because the system is built around deploying it on the 14th. The reference to Microsoft's pay services are the same as if you used Symantec or any other virus scanner out that which already detects the worm. It's not extortion, it's not even a story.
Read up on the theory of relativity. Irregardless of the speed at which two objects are moving relative to each other, the speed of light is constant between them. Frequency, however, is another matter...
I'd like Thunderbird with tabbed fullscreen folder, mails, read and edit views.
That sounds like a horrible idea! For one thing, if folders and mail were on separate full screen tabs, you couldn't drag and drop to move messages! Plus, what the heck would be on the read tab, if the messages were on a mails tab? Do you have to select a message in the mails tab and then switch to the read tab to read it?! The same thing goes for edit. What is edit? Are you going to change your existing email messages? What's wrong with the concept of the new window for a new message? This just sounds insane. I'm glad I don't have to read the feature request they get if they're anything like this.
Just turn off the Message Pane and it's perfect as is. If you don't use folders, just drag the right edge of the folder window all the way to the left and you'll just be looking at your messages.
This is a wonderful product that you're hardly ever going to see on a corporate network due to fear of sexual harrassment lawsuits. Nice choice in names morons.
"There is another company that is doing almost the same thing"
That's like saying that auto makers and aircraft manufacturers are "doing almost the same thing" because they both use combustion engines! The invention in the links you provide has pretty much nothing to do with this slashdot article other than it has swirling air. A pulverizer is a long way from a power plant...
In the US, volunteer fire and rescue members are not officially allowed to exceed the speed limit but many do because to poke along at 25mph getting to the station means that someone WILL die if they arrive too late. They take the risk of a ticket or worse every day to save people like you who probably bitch, moan and flip them the finger for passing you.
Can you tell you've hit a sore point with me? So has this short-sighted proposed law. Thankfully it's in Canada and not here.
You know, you can usually install multiple applications without having to reboot until you finish the last one... Heck, XP currently installs 33 critical updates all in a row before rebooting when you plug it in to the net for the first time!
Windows Server Update Services does not just update servers, it is a server that updates both clients and servers with lots of control over when and if updates get installed, along with auditing of existing installed patches.