Because, as a user I might not know which of the 47 different domains that CNN pulls scripts from are *supposed* to be serving scripts and which are some guy trying to get my facebook account details (not that I have one or read the CNN site regularly; largely because of the number of bloody domains they pull scripts from), whereas the owners of the CNN site *will* know which domains they're supposed to be pulling scripts from and can state so to the browser.
The EU as an entity has a yearly budget of around 140 billion Euros (~$200 billion) and that's not counting any of the individual states. I hardly think that a couple of hundred million from Microsoft is going to make such a huge impact financially that the EU is picking on them as a money-making exercise.
Everyone who buys a Blu Ray player does so because they want to play Blu Ray discs. Not everyone who buys a PS3 does so because they want to play Blu Ray discs (In fact, one would assume that a minority do).
Thus it would be disingenuous to claim that all PS3 purchases equate to a Blu Ray player purchase when measuring the "popularity" of the format.
On the other hand, a 360 HDDVD drive purchase *does* equate to an HD-DVD player purchase as that is its sole purpose.
I happily share my knowledge with anyone who has a genuine interest and appears to be capable of retaining the information.
That's not to say that I want to be bugged 24/7, but as those who came before did for me, I like to help the smart, driven members of the support team when I can so that they have a chance to escape and do something more interesting with their careers.
Beta, but available and you can run it in a VM on top of ESX so you don't have any additional costs other than the hit of running one extra (fairly low impact) guest OS in your ESX environment.
The Beta probably came from a QA tester or maybe review code sent to magazines. The "current" release is almost certainly from a retailer - the game goes on sale Tuesday next week so it'll almost certainly have shipped out to stores late last week or early this week.
No, I "pirate" games that I've bought because of DRM - most notably Bioshock and Mass Effect because of their asinine restrictions on running things like Process Explorer while playing - though to be fair, even the cracked version of Bioshock wouldn't run if Process Explorer had been used since the last reboot.
Actually, the original release (referred to in TFS, which was beta code) was propered earlier this week - the "current" pirated release is the RTM code.
Actually, the European Parliament seems to be pretty resistant to bribary compared to the rest of the Western world.
The problem is usually with the EU Council of Ministers who are the 'unelected' representatives of each member state and tend to ignore the Parliament if they don't like their decisions (As they did with the software patents issue.)
Thankfully the Parliament can overturn CoM decisions with a 2/3 majority and often do if they feel they've been screwed.
Simple. While most web-based "radio" services have revenue, the majority don't make a profit and if they do it's generally a fairly small profit, so taxing their net revenue wouldn't make the PRS much, if any, money.
Comparitively, most over the air radio services have to make a profit to keep operating if they're commercial and if they're non- or not-for-profit such as student or hospital radio then they tend to come under fixed-rate tarrifs that are independent of their revenues.
It's mostly an age thing IMHO. Windows "power users" that never used anything pre-95 often don't know anything about the good old command prompt; even basic stuff like copying or renaming files.
This is why when I'm forced to have a secret question / answer I always use gibberish.
I reason that in the unlikely event I forget my password I'd rather have the hassle of going through a more long-winded retrieval process than having random people able to reset my password.
We did this to a friend when I was still at school - "Forgot" his Yahoo Mail password, guessed his secret answer and reset his password. No malicious intent, we just enjoyed winding him up, but I reckon a good 15 or 20 people that I knew could have guessed his answer correctly.
Linux is a problem for users that fall between "Uses the internets to twitter their facebook" and "Has an interest in *how* their computer works, rather than just that it does" - that is, those who want to do more than the basics but don't have the knowledge, time and/or wherewithal to figure out anything that's too complex or time consuming.
Personal example; I recently battled to get Civ 4 + Expansions working on my Ubuntu Laptop. Even with a rough guide from someone's blog it was still a pain in the arse to do; finding out how to mount non-ISO disk images (Straightforward but not obvious), using Winetricks to "install" directx & msxml, waiting for ages with my fingers crossed because a graphical glitch made it look like the installer for Beyond The Sword had just hung. Now in the end I got it all working, but it took me over an hour (Including the actual install time) and I can easily see how somebody who didn't want to spend that time and/or learn the ins and outs of WINE would have given up after 5 minutes and gone back to playing Civ on XP where it just works.
Now some of you might say that playing games under WINE is a bad example, but it's *exactly* the sort of thing that mid-range users want to do with their machines and will usually struggle.
Now netbooks are a slightly better bet because they're less likely to be used for overly sophisticated tasks due to their hardware limitations, but doubtless that will change as the specs improve. Sadly, people are willing to pay that extra $50-$100 if it means getting something that a) They're used to and b) Works with their games and apps without fiddling.
It's been big news in the UK today (Slow news day, obviously) that we've got our first case of human to human transmission of Colbert Flu; I'm not entirely sure that we can classify it as "romping" quite yet.
No, but a judge who is a member of a group that lobbies for tougher penalties for murder would be biased when overseeing a murder trial, as would one who was a member of a group that lobbies for more lenient penalties for murder.
It's not about the "subject" of the organisation, but their aims and objectives.
Adding command line functionality for automation and scripting = Good
Removing existing functionality from the GUI, adding it to the command line and making it *horrible* to work with = Bad
Message Tracking in Exchange 2003 was very good & GUI based, especially if you had a lot of servers. Message Tracking in Exchange 2007 is virtually a lost cause if you have a lot of servers unless you want to write Powershell essays to gather, filter, process and output the tracking logs from disparate servers in a usable format.
It's a stupid idea by people who are trying to appear "down with the kids". I can't think of anything worse to teach children than to use Wikipedia as a primary source of research and to use Twitter as a primary means of communication.
IT teaching in schools needs to improve, but from a technical perspective, not by letting kids spend a couple of hours a week in school doing what they do at home every night anyway. Far more would be gained by teaching kids how to use and administer computers than simply jumping on whatever the current internet bandwagon is and letting kids arse around with it.
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Because, as a user I might not know which of the 47 different domains that CNN pulls scripts from are *supposed* to be serving scripts and which are some guy trying to get my facebook account details (not that I have one or read the CNN site regularly; largely because of the number of bloody domains they pull scripts from), whereas the owners of the CNN site *will* know which domains they're supposed to be pulling scripts from and can state so to the browser.
The EU as an entity has a yearly budget of around 140 billion Euros (~$200 billion) and that's not counting any of the individual states. I hardly think that a couple of hundred million from Microsoft is going to make such a huge impact financially that the EU is picking on them as a money-making exercise.
...someone with some bandwidth to spare...
Not any more, it would appear...
Everyone who buys a Blu Ray player does so because they want to play Blu Ray discs.
Not everyone who buys a PS3 does so because they want to play Blu Ray discs (In fact, one would assume that a minority do).
Thus it would be disingenuous to claim that all PS3 purchases equate to a Blu Ray player purchase when measuring the "popularity" of the format.
On the other hand, a 360 HDDVD drive purchase *does* equate to an HD-DVD player purchase as that is its sole purpose.
I happily share my knowledge with anyone who has a genuine interest and appears to be capable of retaining the information.
That's not to say that I want to be bugged 24/7, but as those who came before did for me, I like to help the smart, driven members of the support team when I can so that they have a chance to escape and do something more interesting with their careers.
Have you *seen* Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy?
I lost the will to live after about 5 minutes of terrible attempts at humour.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcserver_linux
Beta, but available and you can run it in a VM on top of ESX so you don't have any additional costs other than the hit of running one extra (fairly low impact) guest OS in your ESX environment.
The Beta probably came from a QA tester or maybe review code sent to magazines. The "current" release is almost certainly from a retailer - the game goes on sale Tuesday next week so it'll almost certainly have shipped out to stores late last week or early this week.
No, I "pirate" games that I've bought because of DRM - most notably Bioshock and Mass Effect because of their asinine restrictions on running things like Process Explorer while playing - though to be fair, even the cracked version of Bioshock wouldn't run if Process Explorer had been used since the last reboot.
Actually, the original release (referred to in TFS, which was beta code) was propered earlier this week - the "current" pirated release is the RTM code.
Actually, the European Parliament seems to be pretty resistant to bribary compared to the rest of the Western world.
The problem is usually with the EU Council of Ministers who are the 'unelected' representatives of each member state and tend to ignore the Parliament if they don't like their decisions (As they did with the software patents issue.)
Thankfully the Parliament can overturn CoM decisions with a 2/3 majority and often do if they feel they've been screwed.
What I don't understand is that PRS asks for 3-5% of your Net Broadcasting Revenue yet if you're an online radio they ask for 6-8% of your total revenue. Why aren't these figures closer?
Simple. While most web-based "radio" services have revenue, the majority don't make a profit and if they do it's generally a fairly small profit, so taxing their net revenue wouldn't make the PRS much, if any, money.
Comparitively, most over the air radio services have to make a profit to keep operating if they're commercial and if they're non- or not-for-profit such as student or hospital radio then they tend to come under fixed-rate tarrifs that are independent of their revenues.
It's mostly an age thing IMHO. Windows "power users" that never used anything pre-95 often don't know anything about the good old command prompt; even basic stuff like copying or renaming files.
Well of course; you're far too focused on not spilling your pint to tense up as you fall, so you're less likely to seriously hurt yourself.
According to Sophos, this particular exploit seems to be a hell of a lot more "popular" than other previous web-based malware.
This is why when I'm forced to have a secret question / answer I always use gibberish.
I reason that in the unlikely event I forget my password I'd rather have the hassle of going through a more long-winded retrieval process than having random people able to reset my password.
We did this to a friend when I was still at school - "Forgot" his Yahoo Mail password, guessed his secret answer and reset his password. No malicious intent, we just enjoyed winding him up, but I reckon a good 15 or 20 people that I knew could have guessed his answer correctly.
Linux is a problem for users that fall between "Uses the internets to twitter their facebook" and "Has an interest in *how* their computer works, rather than just that it does" - that is, those who want to do more than the basics but don't have the knowledge, time and/or wherewithal to figure out anything that's too complex or time consuming.
Personal example; I recently battled to get Civ 4 + Expansions working on my Ubuntu Laptop. Even with a rough guide from someone's blog it was still a pain in the arse to do; finding out how to mount non-ISO disk images (Straightforward but not obvious), using Winetricks to "install" directx & msxml, waiting for ages with my fingers crossed because a graphical glitch made it look like the installer for Beyond The Sword had just hung. Now in the end I got it all working, but it took me over an hour (Including the actual install time) and I can easily see how somebody who didn't want to spend that time and/or learn the ins and outs of WINE would have given up after 5 minutes and gone back to playing Civ on XP where it just works.
Now some of you might say that playing games under WINE is a bad example, but it's *exactly* the sort of thing that mid-range users want to do with their machines and will usually struggle.
Now netbooks are a slightly better bet because they're less likely to be used for overly sophisticated tasks due to their hardware limitations, but doubtless that will change as the specs improve. Sadly, people are willing to pay that extra $50-$100 if it means getting something that a) They're used to and b) Works with their games and apps without fiddling.
It's been big news in the UK today (Slow news day, obviously) that we've got our first case of human to human transmission of Colbert Flu; I'm not entirely sure that we can classify it as "romping" quite yet.
No, but a judge who is a member of a group that lobbies for tougher penalties for murder would be biased when overseeing a murder trial, as would one who was a member of a group that lobbies for more lenient penalties for murder.
It's not about the "subject" of the organisation, but their aims and objectives.
I must have missed that 'iTunes for Linux' release announcement...
Adding command line functionality for automation and scripting = Good
Removing existing functionality from the GUI, adding it to the command line and making it *horrible* to work with = Bad
Message Tracking in Exchange 2003 was very good & GUI based, especially if you had a lot of servers. Message Tracking in Exchange 2007 is virtually a lost cause if you have a lot of servers unless you want to write Powershell essays to gather, filter, process and output the tracking logs from disparate servers in a usable format.
stop the fish
My favoured typo is .copm
So? If Microsoft doesn't want to support XP any more then fine, but that doesn't mean I have to switch from it.
It's a stupid idea by people who are trying to appear "down with the kids". I can't think of anything worse to teach children than to use Wikipedia as a primary source of research and to use Twitter as a primary means of communication.
IT teaching in schools needs to improve, but from a technical perspective, not by letting kids spend a couple of hours a week in school doing what they do at home every night anyway. Far more would be gained by teaching kids how to use and administer computers than simply jumping on whatever the current internet bandwagon is and letting kids arse around with it.