"the largest of all will be the publisher output, pretty much everytime"
But hand-coded HTML is so old-fashioned, now that Microsoft Word has interweb features built-in! It's really easy to publish things, and the files come out at about 30-40 times the size of the equivalent 'basic' html, so they must be better.
"Given that we were intrigued by what looked like a face on the surface of mars, maybe we should create some face-like formation on earth. This way, passer-by aliens may see the creation and send a probe of their own"
"This article claims that time wasted will cost businesses tens on millions of dollars. It seems to me that no matter how much spam/virus flooding/crap you get in your inbox, you only do so much work everyday"
Yep, this $20 million wasted from the virus just came out of the $800 million "sysadmins playing Doom" budget, it's not some new money that needs be spent.
"When watching the scene in "The Abyss" when Lindsey Brigman tells the crew the alien craft "glided", am I the only one who yells "GLODE!" at the screen?"
"especially one that trained and will perhaps continue to train our bright young electronic engineering types to think hard and make duct tape work in new ways;)"
I would post a URL, but it's probably not suitable for work;-)
Some say (article: ) that Unicode isn't as suitable for multi-lingual use as the hype claims it to be, for example, munging different glyphs into the same code which mean you can use it for chinese or for japanese but not both without it looking weird. 16 bits apparently is too small to represent everything they want to represent.
Oh, and did I mention it doesn't support the copyleft symbol. It has the entire klingon, ancient egyptian, ancient norse, and elvish alphabets, but no copyleft symbol.
If you have Wine installed, just right-click on it in Nautilus, and select "open with... wine". Wine will display a green/black window telling you it's *trying* to open the file, then visual studio will launch.
Wine is included as standard in most Mandrake/Debian/whatever distros, or you may need to ask your computer to install it (rpmdrake, or some similar program).
"WindowsUpdate needs to become MicrosoftUpdate. This would scan and offer patches for all MS software (OS, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Office, Visual Studio,....). Also extend SUS to do the same."
Wouldn't help those of us who run MS Visual Studio in Linux...
Read the letters page of any issue of 2600 for what the kids think about it: learning off your own back is considered disorderly and threatening in many schools.
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"the largest of all will be the publisher output, pretty much everytime"
But hand-coded HTML is so old-fashioned, now that Microsoft Word has interweb features built-in! It's really easy to publish things, and the files come out at about 30-40 times the size of the equivalent 'basic' html, so they must be better.
"What happens when the user is a sick, twisted and sadistic person. Will the computer adapt to that kind of user?"
Computer: "We don't say those kinds of words"
" Needs a beer, Red Lizard Ale sounds nice to me."
Wychwood brewery might be better people to write to - they have a history of weird names, and make nicer beers than Miller, Coors, etc.
"Given that we were intrigued by what looked like a face on the surface of mars, maybe we should create some face-like formation on earth. This way, passer-by aliens may see the creation and send a probe of their own"
Bigger than these?
"along with information that will identify where the stolen property is."
Uhh, stolen property? What does this have to do with computer programs?
"Many new vehicles have gps: Not an issue for most vehicle owners"
What makes you think this isn't an issue for most owners?
$500 - $1000 per computer
Hot backup PCs on your desktop?
"right, this one's infected, bin it and switch over to the next PC"
"And the federal goverment has huge pipes."
Didn't they sell those to Iraq for making missiles with?
"This article claims that time wasted will cost businesses tens on millions of dollars. It seems to me that no matter how much spam/virus flooding/crap you get in your inbox, you only do so much work everyday"
Yep, this $20 million wasted from the virus just came out of the $800 million "sysadmins playing Doom" budget, it's not some new money that needs be spent.
"You may want to consider purchasing a $60 upgrade ...
You may want to consider installing Linux"
$60 isn't such a bad estimate
"should it do the easy and intelligent thing and just stop working?"
In a similar manner, you could argue that bridges be designed to fall down if someone is detected crossing without paying the toll.
"Who isn't already doing this?"
Indeed.
"When watching the scene in "The Abyss" when Lindsey Brigman tells the crew the alien craft "glided", am I the only one who yells "GLODE!" at the screen?"
Glid?
slide -> slid, glide -> glid
"especially one that trained and will perhaps continue to train our bright young electronic engineering types to think hard and make duct tape work in new ways ;)"
;-)
I would post a URL, but it's probably not suitable for work
Some say (article: ) that Unicode isn't as suitable for multi-lingual use as the hype claims it to be, for example, munging different glyphs into the same code which mean you can use it for chinese or for japanese but not both without it looking weird. 16 bits apparently is too small to represent everything they want to represent.
Oh, and did I mention it doesn't support the copyleft symbol. It has the entire klingon, ancient egyptian, ancient norse, and elvish alphabets, but no copyleft symbol.
Yahoo lets users request the virus-check manually, but it seems to be working fine at Yahoo Mail:
If you have Wine installed, just right-click on it in Nautilus, and select "open with... wine". Wine will display a green/black window telling you it's *trying* to open the file, then visual studio will launch.
Wine is included as standard in most Mandrake/Debian/whatever distros, or you may need to ask your computer to install it (rpmdrake, or some similar program).
Command line is like:Help files don't seem to work (use msdn.microsoft.com), but most other stuff seems to.
"WindowsUpdate needs to become MicrosoftUpdate. This would scan and offer patches for all MS software (OS, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Office, Visual Studio, ....). Also extend SUS to do the same."
Wouldn't help those of us who run MS Visual Studio in Linux...
"I guess its time to start looking into non-electric cooking systems. Gas? Wood? Coal?"
Camping gas, or petrol-powered camping stove. You only need it during a power-cut anyway.
Trangia stoves can burn almost anything, but they take an age to do anything. Some stoves can even burn diesel if you clean them often enough.
"how are you supposed to "put on" some music without ELECTRICITY"
Battery powered speakers and walkman?
So whose coffee-machine is plugged into the UPS?
"the campaign was duped into thinking that company they contracted with would only send mails to people who opted-in"
And how large did they think this list of "please send me emails asking for my support on a presidential campaign" would be?
Honest, and "opt-in" email techniques are hardly words that you'd associate with each other.
"I have just realized that the entire world is just a collection of Nigerian 419 scams."
Is it Turing-complete?
"Why should my child work on a Mac in class when most people use PCs at home and in the office?"
Why should my child read French and German in class when most people use English at home and in the office?
Schools have slight differences to the office. Is that a problem?
"Anyone else experienced anything similar?"
Read the letters page of any issue of 2600 for what the kids think about it: learning off your own back is considered disorderly and threatening in many schools.
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