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From the Article:
Extended Support: June 30, 2002 - January 16, 2004 (Extended hotfix support ends June 30, 2003. After January 16, 2004, this product will be obsolete and assisted support will no longer be available from Microsoft. Online self-help support will continue to be available until at least June 30, 2006.)
Does "online self-help support" include security fixes? Who knows, there's certainly no useful contextual information.
We've had a very good year for the music industry in the UK. CD prices have dropped, which has lead to record sales.
On several occasions, the BPI (UK's RIAA) have politely told the RIAA to piss off when they've tried to convince them to start suing customers. Not only are the BPI just generally much nicer people, but they also realise the futility of suing their customers while their sales are at record highs.
The big studios won't give up without a fight, even though it benefits them in no way to keep the rest of the world waiting.
It's never made sense to me just why they make us (The UK) wait so long for movies after their release in the US, when no changes are required (except maybe a couple of censorship issues). All it means is that if the movie is crap, we hear about it well in advance and then don't go and see it.
NTL's service has reached such amazing levels of unreliability that I'm glad I only have to use it when I come home from uni for the holidays. Throughout the whole '1Gb/day' cap debarcle, they changed tac so many times that I realised they were never going to enforce it - the very fact that they had to try and slip it into the TOS without telling anyone means that they knew exactly how people would react. When you also consider that at the same time as this was going on they were still advertising "unlimited use" makes it all the more ludicrous - 1Gb/day on their 1MBit cable constitutes 2.3 hours per day of use, hardly "unlimited".
At uni I have Telewest 1MBit cable sharing amongst 6 of us. We regularly download around 150Gb/month between us yet Telewest have never so much as raised the issue. Their tech support and news servers are a damn sight better than NTL too.
The fastest passenger planes only just do 1100kph (Ignoring Concorde, which is no longer in service).
Besides, this is about launching spacecraft using a maglev or railgun system. The ability to launch a spacecraft at above Mach 1 with no fuel cost would be immensly useful.
Except in this case Intuit decided that it would be a great idea to implement their product activation by writing information to the boot sector of the hard disk without bothering to warn the customer first.
As a result, many bootloaders ceased to operate because they were being overwritten by the activation. There is no justification at all for using the boot sector as a casual data storage area.
It doesn't matter whether you download music or not. The RIAA doesn't actually have any quantitative data about how many songs are downloaded, they just make the assumption that every $1 that their profits decrease by is someone downloading a song off the net.
If nobody downloaded music, but they all boycotted CDs, the RIAA would still blame P2P piracy for the drop in sales - you know they would.
Well the upside is that in general, with the current exception of El Presidente Blair, Europe doesn't like blindly following the US in everything they do.
With any luck they'll look at the whole story here and not just what the big businesses are saying. I'm not sure if US politicians are more susceptible to 'bribary' or whether it's simply more prevenlant in the US, but I'm delighted that the MEP's actually seem to potentially care more about their constituants than their wallets.
True to an extent, but I for one don't have WMP9. I installed it a while back but I couldn't stand it - even compared to WMP8 it's a bastard to use and doesn't let you do half the things you could with WMP8, simple things like remembering to automatically stretch movies to fill the screen.
Also, selling albums for 7.99 is all well and good, but I can get the real thing from Play.com for 8.99 (inc p&p) and in all honesty I'd rather pay the extra pound for a real CD that isn't restricted by Microsoft's definition of 'reasonable use'.
Because the service requires the user to 'accept' the request for triangulation.
Yes, in the future, blah, blah, blah, etc. However, you can already triangulate mobile phone signals without having to sign up for commercial services - I somehow doubt this will "open the doors" for snooping. Those who want to are already doing it - those who don't aren't going to be suddenly inspired to.
I'd argue that is damn well is my business if my ISP's servers are being compromised by a 3rd party, which could result in the interception of any information I transmit online.
I assume it would be none of your business if you found out that someone was embezzling money from your bank too.
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From the Article:
Extended Support: June 30, 2002 - January 16, 2004 (Extended hotfix support ends June 30, 2003. After January 16, 2004, this product will be obsolete and assisted support will no longer be available from Microsoft. Online self-help support will continue to be available until at least June 30, 2006.)
Does "online self-help support" include security fixes? Who knows, there's certainly no useful contextual information.
We've had a very good year for the music industry in the UK. CD prices have dropped, which has lead to record sales.
On several occasions, the BPI (UK's RIAA) have politely told the RIAA to piss off when they've tried to convince them to start suing customers. Not only are the BPI just generally much nicer people, but they also realise the futility of suing their customers while their sales are at record highs.
The BPI also believes that offering singles for download will help revive the crippled singles chart.
For the moment, at least, we're much better off than the US is.
Java too!
The big studios won't give up without a fight, even though it benefits them in no way to keep the rest of the world waiting.
It's never made sense to me just why they make us (The UK) wait so long for movies after their release in the US, when no changes are required (except maybe a couple of censorship issues). All it means is that if the movie is crap, we hear about it well in advance and then don't go and see it.
Nice plan!
NTL's service has reached such amazing levels of unreliability that I'm glad I only have to use it when I come home from uni for the holidays. Throughout the whole '1Gb/day' cap debarcle, they changed tac so many times that I realised they were never going to enforce it - the very fact that they had to try and slip it into the TOS without telling anyone means that they knew exactly how people would react. When you also consider that at the same time as this was going on they were still advertising "unlimited use" makes it all the more ludicrous - 1Gb/day on their 1MBit cable constitutes 2.3 hours per day of use, hardly "unlimited".
At uni I have Telewest 1MBit cable sharing amongst 6 of us. We regularly download around 150Gb/month between us yet Telewest have never so much as raised the issue. Their tech support and news servers are a damn sight better than NTL too.
The fastest passenger planes only just do 1100kph (Ignoring Concorde, which is no longer in service).
Besides, this is about launching spacecraft using a maglev or railgun system. The ability to launch a spacecraft at above Mach 1 with no fuel cost would be immensly useful.
We already have a tuberculosis vaccine - the BCG - which is given to all schoolchildren in the UK at around age 14.
The effect is far more impressive over 6 months
Now what exactly happened to my pound sign?
Available for 70, which is only $118.
Now the question is, does Amazon.com charge more than $25 to ship it to the UK.
The Real IRA != the IRA
Apparently the use of Windows Device Manager is also now a violation of the DMCA.
Except in this case Intuit decided that it would be a great idea to implement their product activation by writing information to the boot sector of the hard disk without bothering to warn the customer first.
As a result, many bootloaders ceased to operate because they were being overwritten by the activation. There is no justification at all for using the boot sector as a casual data storage area.
Yes, because a single mother living in public housing is going to be able to afford to take on the legal might of the RIAA in court.
It doesn't matter whether you download music or not. The RIAA doesn't actually have any quantitative data about how many songs are downloaded, they just make the assumption that every $1 that their profits decrease by is someone downloading a song off the net.
If nobody downloaded music, but they all boycotted CDs, the RIAA would still blame P2P piracy for the drop in sales - you know they would.
If it's so important to you and you're not just trolling then why are you posting as AC?
People care, they just know the US won't listen to them.
Well the upside is that in general, with the current exception of El Presidente Blair, Europe doesn't like blindly following the US in everything they do.
With any luck they'll look at the whole story here and not just what the big businesses are saying. I'm not sure if US politicians are more susceptible to 'bribary' or whether it's simply more prevenlant in the US, but I'm delighted that the MEP's actually seem to potentially care more about their constituants than their wallets.
It's run as a seperate entity with a seperate editor, but it's still 'the same paper'.
A lot of 'Sunday' papers in the UK are handled seperately from their daily counterparts.
True to an extent, but I for one don't have WMP9. I installed it a while back but I couldn't stand it - even compared to WMP8 it's a bastard to use and doesn't let you do half the things you could with WMP8, simple things like remembering to automatically stretch movies to fill the screen.
Also, selling albums for 7.99 is all well and good, but I can get the real thing from Play.com for 8.99 (inc p&p) and in all honesty I'd rather pay the extra pound for a real CD that isn't restricted by Microsoft's definition of 'reasonable use'.
Because the service requires the user to 'accept' the request for triangulation.
Yes, in the future, blah, blah, blah, etc. However, you can already triangulate mobile phone signals without having to sign up for commercial services - I somehow doubt this will "open the doors" for snooping. Those who want to are already doing it - those who don't aren't going to be suddenly inspired to.
I'd argue that is damn well is my business if my ISP's servers are being compromised by a 3rd party, which could result in the interception of any information I transmit online.
I assume it would be none of your business if you found out that someone was embezzling money from your bank too.
SIMP offers IM encryption for AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo - either individually for free or SIMP Pro which supports all four IM systems and costs $25.
I was part of the beta program for SIMP Pro and I have to say it's an excellent little program, it even supports encrypted file transfers.
Experienced people shouldn't be contracting the worm in the first place.
It's Robert Llewellyn