I think the RIAA is getting kind of desperate and now they're taking stabs in the dark because universities are a likely and logical place to find file sharing via lots and lots of people. So now universities will be bullied into putting filters up, even though as now they don't have to. So the RIAA wins again using mafia tactics.
" Google goes on to assert that the move "limits consumer choice and is reminiscent of the tactics that got Microsoft into antitrust trouble in the late 1990s".
I like Google, but this does not limit consumer choice. IE7 doesn't *block* google's web site. You can add Google search to their search box....
Antitrust would be if when you go to google.com or altavista.com and what not and it automatically goes to MSN.com. And if you use Google in the search box it doesn't limit the searches. Sorry. Google's wrong this one. And they should be careful now. Backwards steps can cause a giant to fall.
I'd get in a lot less trouble at work because I would just agree. I'm addicted t coffee and caffeine, but I definitely am not a yes-man. I may not be a rebel without a cause, but I will stand up and make my point.
I know alot of other caffeine takers that are the same way. Caffeine does make us more alert, which allows us to be able to catch something that's more persuasive. I would think that people would be more impressionable at the end of the day when they're tired and hungry and want someone to think for them so if someone says that "The sky is green, scientists say it's true, so it must be" then you're more likely to think that. Your defenses are down when you're beat.
I think it's not so much a side quest as it is that they think they've won when the PS3 is released.
Everything I've read about the PS3 makes it sound like a power house. Sony is claiming it's supposed to last double the time of the PS2 (5 years) so this console is meant to last 10 years. So that means that they won't release another console for 10 years. With that much confidence, they think they won the console war.
So, what does this tell us about history of the Egyptians? This is a great find that can explain alot of events. Personally, I wonder who or what is in it. I suppose we'll have to wait til the end of the summer.
If this is the first one to be found in Europe, could this mean they were built due to Egyptian conquering or were they maybe the first ones?
I work with people who are computer literate and yet ask me how to stop pop-ups and spyware and what not and a majority of them never heard of Opera or FireFox.
Sure we know what it is. Especially in the Open Source world. But when you buy a computer, IE comes with it, and that's what people use until some tech friend comes over and says "Hey, this is faster and you won't get much spyware."
But I've been on some web sites where ads are double underscored to tell you it's an ad and if you mouse over it a block of text comes up, but the block never goes away. Ads are a necessary evil. Nothing in the world is free. But ads can't be obtrusive. I find magazines where an article is continued 3 pages later because of a cpl ages of ads or it's continued in the back of a magazine so you have to leaf through ads annoying. I find articles that have an ad in the middle of the text and you have to scroll down equally as annoying.
Ads should also, if possible, be tailored to the current topic. EX: If I'm reading about an embedded Linux project, I wouldn't mind maybe seeing an ad for http://emacinc.com/. However I don't want to see an ad for an enterprise server running a huge version of Linux or MS.
I watched them and definitely Get Me The Soap is the best. The idea of washing the computer to get rid of viruses if funny, only because kids are so litereal now. If I was to see that on TV I would be kinda confused as to what firefox is, because, IMO, the average user just uses IE because they don't know about others, except maybe Netscape. The only thing I would add is on the GetFireFox.com logo @ the end put Get FireFox Interenet Browser to clarify what it is.
To trigger the effect, the loop has to be run millions of time, an AMD customer source told Reg Hardware, potentially for hours at a time with no other operations being introduced during the run.
A flaw is a flaw, no doubt. However how likely is this particular scenario to happen other than a benchmark test? And 3000 CPU'S? In the news lately, this is almost categorizes as an oopsy. Security forms are losing millions of customers SSN's and everything. AMD could probaly tell you how to identify the CPU and afford to setup a program to exchange.
I don't think so really. There are still enough kids interested in it that we don't have to worry about a lack of developers.
Is this a bad thing?
No. I don't think it's as dire as you might think.
Personally, I'll write a script here and there just to do something I need it to do but, no matter how much I love computers, I just can't seem to sit down for 12 hours a day and enter lines and lines of code. But there are people out there that can. I'm not sure the desire to program has declined as much as the desire to pogram for fun has. It's boring and takes a certain type of person (that's a quality not a cut) to do it. We need programmers, if we didn't we wouldn't have linux kernel or even Microsoft (a shame).
Most computer classes in high school teach office applications because that's what needed. High school is to teach you to learn and the basics to function in life. Colleges/Tech Schools are there for further educating in a more specific field. I don't see programming classes going away from colleges any time in the near future.
I used to work for Staples and the two stores I worked in and other I've gone in had, the majority of the time, people who knew what they were talking about.
Staples tried to cross-train all their employess and managers in all departments. Therefore if the Business Machines guy was busy someone from furniture, copy center, office supplies, or even managers could come over and help. I tried to never talk down to a customer (I'm a very bad teacher. I just can't.) but sometimes customers ask stupid questions. But on the other hand if we had a customer with a clue, we were told to fish for what he wants, but let him/her run the conversation. It's just more professional. Customer is always right.
Web mail is great if you want an email where you can filter spam or from those porn site you don't tell your wife about.
It's not nearly as good as an e-mail client where you can organize, flag, set rules, mark certain domains with colors bla bla. Also, who wants to refresh the page every x minutes to check for email, or have it reloading and wasting a IE page or tab in firefox/opera whatever when you can just have a small client open and every x minute goes and checks for messages. And the lack of forwarding sucks. What if you want to forward yesterday's notes to your lab partner(s) because he was out sick? Not supporting POP? I'm not sure that's such a big deal, unless it means it doesn't have a pop server that you can't log into. If that's true then see my above comments.
Biometric has gotten big lately, and personally I like it. Hell, I think I even saw a commercial where a car compant incorporated it into their doors (Lexus?). You can't really get someone's DNA or whatever and crack with it..unless you're a clone I suppose.
I haven't seen too much biometric stuff for Linux though, other than servers/stations that come with it built in out-of-box.
That's partly because, Linux, created in the early 90s by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, is really just the kernel, or core of an operating system. For a Linux computer to perform meaningful tasks, more software needs to be added that does things like presenting a graphical user interface.
I'm sorry, but I thought KDE and Gnome where just that? Personally I like KDE, but that's besides the point.
Also, I would think a big reason that it's not in the desktop market is Windows and Mac had the money to advertise and hire people to work for their company to id the way they want before Linus created the kernel. Linux just kind of came late into the game and now it's playin catch up and this standardization could potentially be a leap forward.
That's encouraging, especially if they'll add that to Linspire. It just kind of scary that they want to roll out as a desktop linux distro and they don't really notify of the danger as being root full time and the founder has argued that the separation of root from normal users is essentially not relevant, given that Linspire PCs are single-user systems, and not multiuser servers. He also claims that once an intruder has gained access to your machine under any account, your data has been compromised and the point is moot. Linspire also claims that this should be the user's choice, not Linspire's. (Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire#Criticisms.)
I don't know about other households, but I do have a differnet accounts on my windows boxen. I don't live alone.
But if you can find a way to remember them (ex: 94FE5spd - 94 Ford Exploer 5spd) or if you must write them down, lock them in a desk drawer or lock box of hide them in that secret compartment in the bookshelf, then it's a little more acceptable..
I still think changing passwords periodically is a great idea. Even just to keep some cracker on his toes or incase you accidentally wrote it down or devulged it or typed it in the wrong field and is in clear text.
You have a more secure system if it's harder to use a password when un-authorized. Especially if the user is an Admin account.
I don't understand how this is just a coincidence.
This confirms stuff we already knew about Earth's geographical lay out back then. It could also lead us to thousands of other information we don't know. It may lead us to what happened to the dinosaurs even or to pre-historic humans and more information about them.
It's not a sign of failure. It's a sign that people want the band width that you can't get with a free service or they run services like a web server or ftp server or what have you.
I agree with this. But also I wonder if some people don't have unrealistic expectations for a free wifi setup. If you're expecting to pull gigs of warez down and hours of porn, you might very well be disappointed. If you're looking just to pull mail, casual internet browsing or passing through and you need to pull e-mail from your company, then it's good and probaly will do fine.
But as Trigun said, let's give it time. It took the plant I work in (just one plant, 5 computers on the production floor, 4 in the foremans office, and 5 upstairs) more than a month to iron out all the wifi issues, and we still have some.
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I think the RIAA is getting kind of desperate and now they're taking stabs in the dark because universities are a likely and logical place to find file sharing via lots and lots of people. So now universities will be bullied into putting filters up, even though as now they don't have to. So the RIAA wins again using mafia tactics.
" Google goes on to assert that the move "limits consumer choice and is reminiscent of the tactics that got Microsoft into antitrust trouble in the late 1990s".
I like Google, but this does not limit consumer choice. IE7 doesn't *block* google's web site. You can add Google search to their search box....
Antitrust would be if when you go to google.com or altavista.com and what not and it automatically goes to MSN.com. And if you use Google in the search box it doesn't limit the searches. Sorry. Google's wrong this one. And they should be careful now. Backwards steps can cause a giant to fall.
I'd get in a lot less trouble at work because I would just agree. I'm addicted t coffee and caffeine, but I definitely am not a yes-man. I may not be a rebel without a cause, but I will stand up and make my point.
I know alot of other caffeine takers that are the same way. Caffeine does make us more alert, which allows us to be able to catch something that's more persuasive. I would think that people would be more impressionable at the end of the day when they're tired and hungry and want someone to think for them so if someone says that "The sky is green, scientists say it's true, so it must be" then you're more likely to think that. Your defenses are down when you're beat.
I think it's not so much a side quest as it is that they think they've won when the PS3 is released.
Everything I've read about the PS3 makes it sound like a power house. Sony is claiming it's supposed to last double the time of the PS2 (5 years) so this console is meant to last 10 years. So that means that they won't release another console for 10 years. With that much confidence, they think they won the console war.
So, what does this tell us about history of the Egyptians? This is a great find that can explain alot of events. Personally, I wonder who or what is in it. I suppose we'll have to wait til the end of the summer.
If this is the first one to be found in Europe, could this mean they were built due to Egyptian conquering or were they maybe the first ones?
Well, that makes my point. If I'm a computer enthusiast and I call Fire Fox an internet browser imagine what a non-geek thinks.
I work with people who are computer literate and yet ask me how to stop pop-ups and spyware and what not and a majority of them never heard of Opera or FireFox.
Sure we know what it is. Especially in the Open Source world. But when you buy a computer, IE comes with it, and that's what people use until some tech friend comes over and says "Hey, this is faster and you won't get much spyware."
But I've been on some web sites where ads are double underscored to tell you it's an ad and if you mouse over it a block of text comes up, but the block never goes away. Ads are a necessary evil. Nothing in the world is free. But ads can't be obtrusive. I find magazines where an article is continued 3 pages later because of a cpl ages of ads or it's continued in the back of a magazine so you have to leaf through ads annoying. I find articles that have an ad in the middle of the text and you have to scroll down equally as annoying.
Ads should also, if possible, be tailored to the current topic. EX: If I'm reading about an embedded Linux project, I wouldn't mind maybe seeing an ad for http://emacinc.com/. However I don't want to see an ad for an enterprise server running a huge version of Linux or MS.
I watched them and definitely Get Me The Soap is the best. The idea of washing the computer to get rid of viruses if funny, only because kids are so litereal now. If I was to see that on TV I would be kinda confused as to what firefox is, because, IMO, the average user just uses IE because they don't know about others, except maybe Netscape. The only thing I would add is on the GetFireFox.com logo @ the end put Get FireFox Interenet Browser to clarify what it is.
To trigger the effect, the loop has to be run millions of time, an AMD customer source told Reg Hardware, potentially for hours at a time with no other operations being introduced during the run.
A flaw is a flaw, no doubt. However how likely is this particular scenario to happen other than a benchmark test? And 3000 CPU'S? In the news lately, this is almost categorizes as an oopsy. Security forms are losing millions of customers SSN's and everything. AMD could probaly tell you how to identify the CPU and afford to setup a program to exchange.
Should we care?
I don't think so really. There are still enough kids interested in it that we don't have to worry about a lack of developers.
Is this a bad thing?
No. I don't think it's as dire as you might think.
Personally, I'll write a script here and there just to do something I need it to do but, no matter how much I love computers, I just can't seem to sit down for 12 hours a day and enter lines and lines of code. But there are people out there that can. I'm not sure the desire to program has declined as much as the desire to pogram for fun has. It's boring and takes a certain type of person (that's a quality not a cut) to do it. We need programmers, if we didn't we wouldn't have linux kernel or even Microsoft (a shame).
Most computer classes in high school teach office applications because that's what needed. High school is to teach you to learn and the basics to function in life. Colleges/Tech Schools are there for further educating in a more specific field. I don't see programming classes going away from colleges any time in the near future.
But who would teach the user how to allow outgoing traffic? Imagine how much the local tech guy would make making house calls.
I used to work for Staples and the two stores I worked in and other I've gone in had, the majority of the time, people who knew what they were talking about.
Staples tried to cross-train all their employess and managers in all departments. Therefore if the Business Machines guy was busy someone from furniture, copy center, office supplies, or even managers could come over and help. I tried to never talk down to a customer (I'm a very bad teacher. I just can't.) but sometimes customers ask stupid questions. But on the other hand if we had a customer with a clue, we were told to fish for what he wants, but let him/her run the conversation. It's just more professional. Customer is always right.
some systems have a dictionary of used words that yuo can't use for x amount of times or in a certaion time slot
Web mail is great if you want an email where you can filter spam or from those porn site you don't tell your wife about.
It's not nearly as good as an e-mail client where you can organize, flag, set rules, mark certain domains with colors bla bla. Also, who wants to refresh the page every x minutes to check for email, or have it reloading and wasting a IE page or tab in firefox/opera whatever when you can just have a small client open and every x minute goes and checks for messages. And the lack of forwarding sucks. What if you want to forward yesterday's notes to your lab partner(s) because he was out sick? Not supporting POP? I'm not sure that's such a big deal, unless it means it doesn't have a pop server that you can't log into. If that's true then see my above comments.
Right, but how many people password a BIOS?
The bio read before the computer boots up is great, but what about timed logouts during ssh sessions?
Biometric has gotten big lately, and personally I like it. Hell, I think I even saw a commercial where a car compant incorporated it into their doors (Lexus?). You can't really get someone's DNA or whatever and crack with it..unless you're a clone I suppose.
I haven't seen too much biometric stuff for Linux though, other than servers/stations that come with it built in out-of-box.
That's partly because, Linux, created in the early 90s by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, is really just the kernel, or core of an operating system. For a Linux computer to perform meaningful tasks, more software needs to be added that does things like presenting a graphical user interface.
I'm sorry, but I thought KDE and Gnome where just that? Personally I like KDE, but that's besides the point.
Also, I would think a big reason that it's not in the desktop market is Windows and Mac had the money to advertise and hire people to work for their company to id the way they want before Linus created the kernel. Linux just kind of came late into the game and now it's playin catch up and this standardization could potentially be a leap forward.
That's encouraging, especially if they'll add that to Linspire. It just kind of scary that they want to roll out as a desktop linux distro and they don't really notify of the danger as being root full time and the founder has argued that the separation of root from normal users is essentially not relevant, given that Linspire PCs are single-user systems, and not multiuser servers. He also claims that once an intruder has gained access to your machine under any account, your data has been compromised and the point is moot. Linspire also claims that this should be the user's choice, not Linspire's. (Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire#Criticisms.)
I don't know about other households, but I do have a differnet accounts on my windows boxen. I don't live alone.
But if you can find a way to remember them (ex: 94FE5spd - 94 Ford Exploer 5spd) or if you must write them down, lock them in a desk drawer or lock box of hide them in that secret compartment in the bookshelf, then it's a little more acceptable..
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No 94FE5spd is NOT my password for
I still think changing passwords periodically is a great idea. Even just to keep some cracker on his toes or incase you accidentally wrote it down or devulged it or typed it in the wrong field and is in clear text.
You have a more secure system if it's harder to use a password when un-authorized. Especially if the user is an Admin account.
I don't understand how this is just a coincidence.
This confirms stuff we already knew about Earth's geographical lay out back then. It could also lead us to thousands of other information we don't know. It may lead us to what happened to the dinosaurs even or to pre-historic humans and more information about them.
Will it encourage people to add users or encourage to just have a root user as it is now?
It's not a sign of failure. It's a sign that people want the band width that you can't get with a free service or they run services like a web server or ftp server or what have you.
I agree with this. But also I wonder if some people don't have unrealistic expectations for a free wifi setup. If you're expecting to pull gigs of warez down and hours of porn, you might very well be disappointed. If you're looking just to pull mail, casual internet browsing or passing through and you need to pull e-mail from your company, then it's good and probaly will do fine.
But as Trigun said, let's give it time. It took the plant I work in (just one plant, 5 computers on the production floor, 4 in the foremans office, and 5 upstairs) more than a month to iron out all the wifi issues, and we still have some.