I don't think so - if you read the article, this decision was based on very specific issues with the sale of the software to the client, specifically that the seller gave direct advice to the client which the client based their decision to purchase on.
There have been several projects from different countries where engineers have tried to replicate the building of the pyramids using contemporaneous tools.
None have succeeded.
This little 'factoid' comes up often, and you know what it proves? Nothing other than some modern day engineers couldn't do it with techniques assumed to have been used. It doesn't prove that someone with an entire generational line of experience behind them in building ancient structures couldn't do it.
Why not ask, with four options? Do it now, do it at next startup, do it at next shutdown, don't do it.
It pisses me off that randomly my Firefox install will suddenly and without warning install an update when starting up. I have been caught out several times by that until I turned off automatic updates. In my view, automatic updates should be off by default, with a dialog during install asking if you want to turn them on.
At which point they simply purchase a copy of Microsoft Office instead for most use, just as Microsoft hopes they'll do. I don't imagine any business will want their office software tied to internet connectivity.
Microsoft is offering an 'on-premise' version of Office 2010 Web Apps, so no reliance on an internet connection or requirement to have your data on third party servers.
Actually I think its rather a case of the industry members who are getting left behind want a legislative solution to their problem, at the expensive of the industry members who have gained the advantage of a headstart.
You are tarring RDP with the brush that is VNC - it is not even in the same league, performance wise, so I suggest you divorce the two entirely in your mind.
What do you think the economy is made up of? Investors aren't just the evil 'banker' - anyone holding a pension or a savings account is also an investor.
Wow, you are an opinionated little shit aren't you - the law sets it out as a viable defence against a copyright infringement charge, not a right. Its in the same class as fair use - a defined defence against the charge, not a given right.
The law in question is Section 117 of the Copyright Act, and it states:
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117
Note the wording 'it is not an infringement', not 'you have the right to'. If you can make a copy for backup purposes, then that copy is not infringing on copyright law, but if you can't then you haven't lost any perceived 'right' to do so.
Nowhere in 'the law' does it say that content providers must allow you unhindered ability to make a backup copy, it merely states that you are allowed to make a backup copy within the limitations of copyright law - its not illegal to hinder that at all.
Regarding your sig - I'm not sure why you are suggesting that MS Server and MS NTFS are at issue here, its MS Office that is creating the temporary file, failing to set proper permissions and then promoting that temporary file to the master version. Of course neither NTFS nor MS Server is going to apply extra permissions, as they have no concept of a link between the temporary file and the old master file, because one does not exist.
The same behaviour can be seen with MS Office and any file system. Its a fault with the application, not the server or filesystem.
They did actually - Ben Rich concluded in his biography that the Taiwanese U-2 shoot downs were due to the Chinese changing the radar frequencies on their SA-2 surface to air missiles and happened to coincide with the frequency of the U-2s electronic warfare unit in the tail of the aircraft. All of the aircraft were at operational altitude. No sabotage was needed, or even proven.
Because you can't see it doesn't make it impossible or unlikely.
Look, the weight of fuel needed to get the shuttle up to the altitude where the white knight drops spaceship one exceeds the weight for the rest of the trip to orbit.
The rockets are expended and jettisoned, and the external tank is half empty.
For you to state that it fundamentally won't cut it with no credentials, no studies, no NOTHING, that, my friend, is what won't cut it.
By the time the Shuttle reaches the altitude at which the White Knight launches Space Ship 1, its already well past Mach 3 and rapidly accelerating - and its speed that counts when achieving orbit.
Most Forward Air Controllers do not use a standard radio, but a directional satellite transmitter to a military communications satellite, which relays to a ground station, which in turn relays to the pilot. The only things involved in the process that you can triangulate are the broadcasts from the ground station to the aircraft (and the ground station is likely to be well out of harms way, or even not a ground station at all but a E-3 Sentry), the transmissions from the aircraft (if it doesn't use the same system), and the return signal from the satellite to the FAC.
And whenever you have governmental control over communication (such as the BBC) smaller viewpoints get left out even more than with our current system. Look at the debates that were publicly funded and left out major parties such as the Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Camru.
When the Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Cymru enter the national race, then they should be considered for inclusion in those debates - but they are not, so having their views aired to the nation when they only apply to 5% of the voting public is a little pointless. They get to kick the major party leaders for little risk in return - thats typically called grandstanding.
(I currently hate defending Apple as I hate their iPhone SDK license changes, to the point where I switched from the iPhone 3G to a Nokia N900, but in this case...)
As a European (British), I have yet to see or know of one person make or receive a video call, its just not that widespread and plenty of new phones on the market don't have front facing cameras.
Secondly, the Nokia N900 doesn't have MMS either, and that was released at the end of 2009! Again, received about 5 MMS messages in my lifetime - perhaps its something for the younger crowd, but its not something that my friend group uses.
Thats one significant exclusion in 4 major iterations of hte OS - yup, certainly signifies a major difficulty in developing for the highly fragmented iPhone market...
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I don't think so - if you read the article, this decision was based on very specific issues with the sale of the software to the client, specifically that the seller gave direct advice to the client which the client based their decision to purchase on.
There have been several projects from different countries where engineers have tried to replicate the building of the pyramids using contemporaneous tools.
None have succeeded.
This little 'factoid' comes up often, and you know what it proves? Nothing other than some modern day engineers couldn't do it with techniques assumed to have been used. It doesn't prove that someone with an entire generational line of experience behind them in building ancient structures couldn't do it.
No, autoupdates should not be on by default - my installed software should not be changing itself without my explicit (not implicit) say so.
Why not ask, with four options? Do it now, do it at next startup, do it at next shutdown, don't do it.
It pisses me off that randomly my Firefox install will suddenly and without warning install an update when starting up. I have been caught out several times by that until I turned off automatic updates. In my view, automatic updates should be off by default, with a dialog during install asking if you want to turn them on.
Stephen King tried this - purchase a book chapter by chapter as an experiment. It failed, and the book was never finished.
At which point they simply purchase a copy of Microsoft Office instead for most use, just as Microsoft hopes they'll do. I don't imagine any business will want their office software tied to internet connectivity.
Microsoft is offering an 'on-premise' version of Office 2010 Web Apps, so no reliance on an internet connection or requirement to have your data on third party servers.
I think a lot of people have missed this point.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/ee815687.aspx
Actually I think its rather a case of the industry members who are getting left behind want a legislative solution to their problem, at the expensive of the industry members who have gained the advantage of a headstart.
You are tarring RDP with the brush that is VNC - it is not even in the same league, performance wise, so I suggest you divorce the two entirely in your mind.
What do you think the economy is made up of? Investors aren't just the evil 'banker' - anyone holding a pension or a savings account is also an investor.
Wow, you are an opinionated little shit aren't you - the law sets it out as a viable defence against a copyright infringement charge, not a right. Its in the same class as fair use - a defined defence against the charge, not a given right.
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117
Note the wording 'it is not an infringement', not 'you have the right to'. If you can make a copy for backup purposes, then that copy is not infringing on copyright law, but if you can't then you haven't lost any perceived 'right' to do so.
Nowhere in 'the law' does it say that content providers must allow you unhindered ability to make a backup copy, it merely states that you are allowed to make a backup copy within the limitations of copyright law - its not illegal to hinder that at all.
Can't you go without? Seriously?
Regarding your sig - I'm not sure why you are suggesting that MS Server and MS NTFS are at issue here, its MS Office that is creating the temporary file, failing to set proper permissions and then promoting that temporary file to the master version. Of course neither NTFS nor MS Server is going to apply extra permissions, as they have no concept of a link between the temporary file and the old master file, because one does not exist.
The same behaviour can be seen with MS Office and any file system. Its a fault with the application, not the server or filesystem.
They did actually - Ben Rich concluded in his biography that the Taiwanese U-2 shoot downs were due to the Chinese changing the radar frequencies on their SA-2 surface to air missiles and happened to coincide with the frequency of the U-2s electronic warfare unit in the tail of the aircraft. All of the aircraft were at operational altitude. No sabotage was needed, or even proven.
Because you can't see it doesn't make it impossible or unlikely.
Look, the weight of fuel needed to get the shuttle up to the altitude where the white knight drops spaceship one exceeds the weight for the rest of the trip to orbit.
The rockets are expended and jettisoned, and the external tank is half empty.
For you to state that it fundamentally won't cut it with no credentials, no studies, no NOTHING, that, my friend, is what won't cut it.
By the time the Shuttle reaches the altitude at which the White Knight launches Space Ship 1, its already well past Mach 3 and rapidly accelerating - and its speed that counts when achieving orbit.
You should visit a French motorway facility then - squat toilets can be seen in a modern western civilisation there.
Red Dwarf: Return To Earth was a three part revival done for the TV channel 'Dave' last year (2009).
Most Forward Air Controllers do not use a standard radio, but a directional satellite transmitter to a military communications satellite, which relays to a ground station, which in turn relays to the pilot. The only things involved in the process that you can triangulate are the broadcasts from the ground station to the aircraft (and the ground station is likely to be well out of harms way, or even not a ground station at all but a E-3 Sentry), the transmissions from the aircraft (if it doesn't use the same system), and the return signal from the satellite to the FAC.
And whenever you have governmental control over communication (such as the BBC) smaller viewpoints get left out even more than with our current system. Look at the debates that were publicly funded and left out major parties such as the Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Camru.
When the Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Cymru enter the national race, then they should be considered for inclusion in those debates - but they are not, so having their views aired to the nation when they only apply to 5% of the voting public is a little pointless. They get to kick the major party leaders for little risk in return - thats typically called grandstanding.
Stability and reliability? Have you actually used apps from the app store?
I don't know about Sony, but with the Xbox developer program you can use whatever you want.
And yet time and again there have been examples of Apple holding major changes close to their chest, and surprising the market with them.
(I currently hate defending Apple as I hate their iPhone SDK license changes, to the point where I switched from the iPhone 3G to a Nokia N900, but in this case...)
As a European (British), I have yet to see or know of one person make or receive a video call, its just not that widespread and plenty of new phones on the market don't have front facing cameras.
Secondly, the Nokia N900 doesn't have MMS either, and that was released at the end of 2009! Again, received about 5 MMS messages in my lifetime - perhaps its something for the younger crowd, but its not something that my friend group uses.
Thats one significant exclusion in 4 major iterations of hte OS - yup, certainly signifies a major difficulty in developing for the highly fragmented iPhone market...