Very true. Another hypothesis would be that more small- and medium- sized companies are outsourcing DNS to their domain registrar or hosting service. Small companies almost always use Windows and most registrars use BIND.
I'm not versed in iTunes specs, but could this be one (of many) avenues to make it more difficult to use iTMS? Or at least cause FUD against Apple?
No. It's because there are lots of online stores that sell WMA protected music, each with their own confusing restrictions. This lack of consistency is a big reason why the WMA market is so fragmented and has such low consumer awareness, especially when compared with iTunes.
There is no one official Microsoft-compatible music store, and if you thought URGE was going to be it, you're in for a surprise when you find out that music from URGE won't play on the Zune.
Could you make it work? Sure. But I gotta wonder if it'd be worth it.
One advantage would be that you can revert the user to a pristine image each day. Not that this is the way to do it; it sounds like the OP should investigate something more like Citrix.
Could you tell me which of those modern nations have train networks that allow you to travel, say, the 1300km between NYC and Chicago, or the 4500km between NYC and LA, in a timely fashion that's even remotely competitive with air travel? Or are you suggesting that the U.S. create a new rail system the likes of which the world has never seen?
Huh? Why would we need to have a rail link between New York and LA? We have airplanes for that.
On the other hand, high-speed rail between New York and Boston -- or LA and San Francisco -- would make a lot of sense. For trips of this length it would also be faster, even if the trains were slower, because of the tedious security and boarding procedures at airports.
Windows XP SP2 is the current version of Windows. Has been for almost two years. Aside from Windows XP SP1 all other versions of Windows are no longer supported by Microsoft.
That's fantastic news for Linux! Now that Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows Server companies will have to switch. And I would never have heard this news if it weren't for you, Anonymous Coward.
If they can't even get the name of the company right, I doubt they got the story right. I'll wait until this is covered elsewhere and then pay attention to this story.
It's been a while since I used Amazon's one-click, but as I recall it puts the item in your basket and auto-buys it after a pre-set period of time (30 minutes?). It doesn't instantly purchase the item.
That would only be true if there were no detectable differences between this theory and standard big bang theory. Just because we cannot know what existed before the big bang, doesn't mean there aren't aspects of the universe which can be measured which would vary depending on whether the current universe originated in a big bang or some other way.
The deal is, Microsoft software is designed by programmers run amok. The permissions system is one of those "let's handle every possible scenario that might ever come up, so we don't have to change the specification later" things.
You can do just about anything you can conceive of with NTFS permissions, even bizarre and useless things.
As a result, the permissions system is so complex that most users (and software developers, and system administrators) ignore it, defeating the whole point of having a permissions system in the first place.
I guess "screwing over people who watch a lot of movies" is one of their "improvements" that they've made.
Not at all. They are screwing over kleptos who rip a lot of movies. You know the ones -- they want a collection of "every" CD and DVD ever made and are working their way through the entire inventory of Netflix. These people think that quantity (a large collection of mostly junk; because you never know when you might want to watch Weekend At Bernies 2) is better than a small, high-quality collection built by a connoisseur.
So there's an engineer in charge of Microsoft's TV strategy. No wonder it's going nowhere. Engineers should stick with what they're good at, which is not (usually) product design. Granted, there are some engineers who are also great designers, but in the case of Microsoft, it is one of my pet peeves that their software is often over-engineered and, as a result, unintuitive.
Well, duh. The zones are needed because they are neat-o and they are infinitely extensible. As you probably know, programmers value those two things way more than usability.
Now, the only thing that's missing is hierarchy. Imagine having categories of zones. Corporate network, division, department. Internet, with sub-categories shopping sites, news sites, and so on. Each with their own customizable settings!
The left side of the dialog would be a treeview showing the different zones (there might be hundreds of them). On the right side, you could change settings for each zone.
It would be extensible, hierarchical, and neat-o. And just think how secure it would be. Wow-eee!
A related problem is that most anti-virus programs stop working after a year.
Okay, they call it a "subscription" but what happens is that a year later the user gets a bunch of popups telling them that their anti-virus software is about to expire. Most users will ignore it, since (a) they don't understand the message being presented and (b) they have learned that popup messages are usually advertising or attempts to trick you into loading spyware.
So the net effect is that most anti-virus programs stop working after a year, leaving the user vulnerable.
and of course the plain old short cuts that are really symbolic links in the traditional unix world.
That is the whole point of the FA. Shortcuts are brain-damaged symlinks, at best, because they are a shell feature not a filesystem feature. NTFS already has an equivalent to hard links, but as with Unix, those are not nearly as convenient as symbolic links. Now Microsoft is finally catching up.
Why are record companies allowed to install viruses on Windows PCs?
A program that surreptitiously loads which damages your ability to use your PC, is malware. That is what is being autoloaded when you insert a CD. For some reason anti-virus programs don't pick it up.
Why is Microsoft obsessed with XML? Massachussetts is choosing the OpenOffice format because it's open. The fact that it's based on XML is just one point in its favor.
It would be equally silly if Microsoft were to say that because their file format uses "binary ones and zeroes" which all computers can read, therefore it's open.
Wow, $5 million!! If only Microsoft had that kind of money all the time, imagine how much crime they could fight.
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They didn't even get the eye candy right. Look at those folders, they're sideways. Things fall out of real folders when you put them like that. Is the idea of a folder is to make the abstraction of a filesystem directory more concrete to the user, or is it just supposed to look "neat"?
This is exactly why I started using Privoxy. A web site I visit put up a Flash ad with sound. Until then the ads had never bothered me, but this one was so annoying that I went looking for a way to stop it -- and in the process I found out how easy it is to block all ads.
Attention advertisers: I would still be looking at your ads if you hadn't crossed the line with annoying animated sounds!
Thanks. I didn't realize FileMaker was still a subsidiary of Apple but their web site confirms it. So Apple is very close to having a complete entry-level office suite.
So they are missing a spreadsheet and database then.
I really doubt they intend to compete with Microsoft Office. The iLife suite is more like Microsoft Works. And Mac users generally have a favorable opinion of Office (no really, it's true).
Anyone who has enough dough for a Power Mac or PowerBook has no problem buying Office. But the entry-level users (iBooks and Mac Minis) really need something like this because they are not going to shell out $400 for Office 2004.
There's nothing wrong with OpenOffice on Windows and Linux. It's quite nice, in fact.
The OS X version, on the other hand, sucks. It just does. As far as [F|f]ree software goes, AbiWord is quite nice on OS X. I don't know of any good [F|f]ree OS X spreadsheets though.
Yes, of course. Microsoft was one of the first companies to release Mac software. Some of their Windows products (e.g. Excel) were originally made for the Mac and later came to Windows.
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Very true. Another hypothesis would be that more small- and medium- sized companies are outsourcing DNS to their domain registrar or hosting service. Small companies almost always use Windows and most registrars use BIND.
No. It's because there are lots of online stores that sell WMA protected music, each with their own confusing restrictions. This lack of consistency is a big reason why the WMA market is so fragmented and has such low consumer awareness, especially when compared with iTunes.
There is no one official Microsoft-compatible music store, and if you thought URGE was going to be it, you're in for a surprise when you find out that music from URGE won't play on the Zune.
Could you make it work? Sure. But I gotta wonder if it'd be worth it.
One advantage would be that you can revert the user to a pristine image each day. Not that this is the way to do it; it sounds like the OP should investigate something more like Citrix.
Could you tell me which of those modern nations have train networks that allow you to travel, say, the 1300km between NYC and Chicago, or the 4500km between NYC and LA, in a timely fashion that's even remotely competitive with air travel? Or are you suggesting that the U.S. create a new rail system the likes of which the world has never seen?
Huh? Why would we need to have a rail link between New York and LA? We have airplanes for that.
On the other hand, high-speed rail between New York and Boston -- or LA and San Francisco -- would make a lot of sense. For trips of this length it would also be faster, even if the trains were slower, because of the tedious security and boarding procedures at airports.
Windows XP SP2 is the current version of Windows. Has been for almost two years. Aside from Windows XP SP1 all other versions of Windows are no longer supported by Microsoft.
That's fantastic news for Linux! Now that Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows Server companies will have to switch. And I would never have heard this news if it weren't for you, Anonymous Coward.
It's Forgent, not "Fogent".
If they can't even get the name of the company right, I doubt they got the story right. I'll wait until this is covered elsewhere and then pay attention to this story.
It's been a while since I used Amazon's one-click, but as I recall it puts the item in your basket and auto-buys it after a pre-set period of time (30 minutes?). It doesn't instantly purchase the item.
That would only be true if there were no detectable differences between this theory and standard big bang theory. Just because we cannot know what existed before the big bang, doesn't mean there aren't aspects of the universe which can be measured which would vary depending on whether the current universe originated in a big bang or some other way.
The deal is, Microsoft software is designed by programmers run amok. The permissions system is one of those "let's handle every possible scenario that might ever come up, so we don't have to change the specification later" things.
You can do just about anything you can conceive of with NTFS permissions, even bizarre and useless things.
As a result, the permissions system is so complex that most users (and software developers, and system administrators) ignore it, defeating the whole point of having a permissions system in the first place.
Not only that, there are many Linux server admins -- like myself -- who use OS X at their desktop (or laptop). It is a good fit for client side Unix.
Does anyone know how Dirvish compares to rsnapshot?
Not at all. They are screwing over kleptos who rip a lot of movies. You know the ones -- they want a collection of "every" CD and DVD ever made and are working their way through the entire inventory of Netflix. These people think that quantity (a large collection of mostly junk; because you never know when you might want to watch Weekend At Bernies 2) is better than a small, high-quality collection built by a connoisseur.
So there's an engineer in charge of Microsoft's TV strategy. No wonder it's going nowhere. Engineers should stick with what they're good at, which is not (usually) product design. Granted, there are some engineers who are also great designers, but in the case of Microsoft, it is one of my pet peeves that their software is often over-engineered and, as a result, unintuitive.
Well, duh. The zones are needed because they are neat-o and they are infinitely extensible. As you probably know, programmers value those two things way more than usability.
Now, the only thing that's missing is hierarchy. Imagine having categories of zones. Corporate network, division, department. Internet, with sub-categories shopping sites, news sites, and so on. Each with their own customizable settings!
The left side of the dialog would be a treeview showing the different zones (there might be hundreds of them). On the right side, you could change settings for each zone.
It would be extensible, hierarchical, and neat-o. And just think how secure it would be. Wow-eee!
A related problem is that most anti-virus programs stop working after a year.
Okay, they call it a "subscription" but what happens is that a year later the user gets a bunch of popups telling them that their anti-virus software is about to expire. Most users will ignore it, since (a) they don't understand the message being presented and (b) they have learned that popup messages are usually advertising or attempts to trick you into loading spyware.
So the net effect is that most anti-virus programs stop working after a year, leaving the user vulnerable.
and of course the plain old short cuts that are really symbolic links in the traditional unix world.
That is the whole point of the FA. Shortcuts are brain-damaged symlinks, at best, because they are a shell feature not a filesystem feature. NTFS already has an equivalent to hard links, but as with Unix, those are not nearly as convenient as symbolic links. Now Microsoft is finally catching up.
Why are record companies allowed to install viruses on Windows PCs?
A program that surreptitiously loads which damages your ability to use your PC, is malware. That is what is being autoloaded when you insert a CD. For some reason anti-virus programs don't pick it up.
Why is Microsoft obsessed with XML? Massachussetts is choosing the OpenOffice format because it's open. The fact that it's based on XML is just one point in its favor.
It would be equally silly if Microsoft were to say that because their file format uses "binary ones and zeroes" which all computers can read, therefore it's open.
Wow, $5 million!! If only Microsoft had that kind of money all the time, imagine how much crime they could fight.
They didn't even get the eye candy right. Look at those folders, they're sideways. Things fall out of real folders when you put them like that. Is the idea of a folder is to make the abstraction of a filesystem directory more concrete to the user, or is it just supposed to look "neat"?
This is exactly why I started using Privoxy. A web site I visit put up a Flash ad with sound. Until then the ads had never bothered me, but this one was so annoying that I went looking for a way to stop it -- and in the process I found out how easy it is to block all ads.
Attention advertisers: I would still be looking at your ads if you hadn't crossed the line with annoying animated sounds!
Thanks. I didn't realize FileMaker was still a subsidiary of Apple but their web site confirms it. So Apple is very close to having a complete entry-level office suite.
So they are missing a spreadsheet and database then.
I really doubt they intend to compete with Microsoft Office. The iLife suite is more like Microsoft Works. And Mac users generally have a favorable opinion of Office (no really, it's true).
Anyone who has enough dough for a Power Mac or PowerBook has no problem buying Office. But the entry-level users (iBooks and Mac Minis) really need something like this because they are not going to shell out $400 for Office 2004.
"There is nothing wrong with OpenOffice."
There's nothing wrong with OpenOffice on Windows and Linux. It's quite nice, in fact.
The OS X version, on the other hand, sucks. It just does. As far as [F|f]ree software goes, AbiWord is quite nice on OS X. I don't know of any good [F|f]ree OS X spreadsheets though.
Any truth to that?
Yes, of course. Microsoft was one of the first companies to release Mac software. Some of their Windows products (e.g. Excel) were originally made for the Mac and later came to Windows.