Don't use Word as your email editor if you value your data. I had several instances where random words/sentences were dropped out of peoples communications and they couldn't figure it out. It was really pissing off one VP because he was trying to hash out a contract with the corporate lawyers and they kept asking him about edits he never made. We finally figured out that it was Word randomly removing things from the edited text. This was under Outlook 2000 but I saw similar behavior under XP.
OWA in Exchange 2003 is really, really good. It runs under Mozilla just fine despite what MS's docs say (only thing that doesn't work is reminder notifications). I think I would look into that before running something as heavy as terminal services.
Yes I have to say that for many companies email is THE killer app. Want to see lots of screaming users, let the email server be down for more than an hour. Most other services don't get that kind of response. If the file server is down people save files to their local machines, if the print server is down people wait or take them to a machine with a local printer. If the email server is down suddenly all of their routine communications that they rely on to do their job has stopped and there is no good out of band method to make up for it.
God if you think there is no use for active email then you are VERY naive. There are companies with entire vertical apps built around Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. One good example was an insurance company, they had the forms available to the field agents who would fill them out at the scene of an accident or while doing the apraisal. Once they got back to the office they sync their email client and the forms get sent to the server. There some scripts checked things for requirements and spit them back to the agent if they were lacking. Then business logic could decide if they went to accounting for a check to be written or sent to other departments for review, by say fraud investigators, or actuaries, or a VP if the dollar amount was very large, etc. Do I think MS did a terrible job in implementing Outlook, hell yes I do. Do I think their general goal was bad, not at all.
No, I'm saying that they were closer to spec then expected and that spec was something that not even the design engineers thought could be accomplished. To give you an idea of how precise the engineering is on the Duratec, the camshafts don't ride on bearings, they ride in a channel machined in the headers floating on a thin film of oil.
Actually most manufacturers recomend every 5K miles. I trust the guys who designed the engine more then the people who are trying to sell me engine oil and related services!
Just gave a 93 Taurus to my future sister-in-law (tomorrow in fact!) and the only issue I had with it was a gasket on the radiator went at about 80K miles . Current car is a 99 Taurus with 160K miles and I haven't done anything but consumables on it. I expect this one to go to 250K miles at least with one tuneup. Of course the engine is the Duratec one of the best engines in the world, made right here in Cleveland Ohio. Ford had Porsche design the engine and once they got it done the Porsche engineers said here it is but we don't think you will be able to make it. Within 6 weeks of starting production the average deviation from spec was 50% of tollerence!
Hmmm, IANAL but I wonder if this opens up the possibility of IBM suing MS for the same reason they have their countersuit against SCO, interference in business relationships. If MS really did funnel money to SCO for the explicit purpose of proping up a lawsuit which they knew to exist soley for the purpose of disrupting IBM's Linux efforts it might be a makeable case.
You jest but many Farrari's are exactly like that. Typical charge for changing the oil on an Enzo is around $1,000 because the oil is $60 a quart and you need 13 quarts per change. Even the somewhat more normal 360 Modena is expensive:
"Oil changes run in the neighbourhood of $350 and are to be performed every 10,000 km. Why so expensive? Because the Ferrari only sips fine European synthetic oils, and because removing the underbody is required in order to gain access to the drains, and that takes a bit more time and care. "link
Because as the supreme court ruled in Feist vs Rural Telecom:
The "sweat of the brow" doctrine had numerous flaws, the most glaring being that it extended copyright protection in a compilation beyond selection and arrangement - the compiler's original contributions - to the facts themselves. Under the doctrine, the only defense to infringement was independent creation. A subsequent compiler was "not entitled to take one word of information previously published," but rather had to "independently wor[k] out the matter for himself, so as to arrive at the same result from the same common sources of information." Id., at 88-89 (internal quotations omitted). "Sweat of the brow" courts thereby eschewed the most fundamental axiom of copyright law - that no one may copyright facts or ideas.
Most likely this law would be ruled unconstitutional even if it were to pass Congress (which is not likely as another poster pointed out the Commerce Comission ruled unfavorably on it).
Actually the most relevant case is Feist vs Rural Telecom. There the supremes used two branches of logic to overturn the lower courts rulings that the white and yellow pages of Rural were protected by copyright:
"Article I, 8, cl. 8, of the Constitution mandates originality as a prerequisite for copyright protection. The constitutional requirement necessitates independent creation plus a modicum of creativity. Since facts do not owe their origin to an act of authorship, they are not original, and thus are not copyrightable. Although a compilation of facts may possess the requisite originality because the author typically chooses which facts to include, in what order to place them, and how to arrange the data so that readers may use them effectively, copyright protection extends only to those components of the work that are original to the author, not to the facts themselves. This fact/expression dichotomy severely limits the scope of protection in fact-based works. Pp. 344-351
And
The Copyright Act of 1976 and its predecessor, the Copyright Act of 1909, leave no doubt that originality is the touchstone of copyright protection in directories and other fact-based works. The 1976 Act explains that copyright extends to "original works of authorship," 17 U.S.C. 102(a), and that there can be no copyright in facts, 102(b). [499 U.S. 340, 341] A compilation is not copyrightable per se, but is copyrightable only if its facts have been "selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship." 101 (emphasis added). Thus, the statute envisions that some ways of selecting, coordinating, and arranging data are not sufficiently original to trigger copyright protection. Even a compilation that is copyrightable receives only limited protection, for the copyright does not extend to facts contained in the compilation. 103(b). Lower courts that adopted a "sweat of the brow" or "industrious collection" test - which extended a compilation's copyright protection beyond selection and arrangement to the facts themselves - misconstrued the 1909 Act and eschewed the fundamental axiom of copyright law that no one may copyright facts or ideas. Pp. 351-361.
The first point (and to me the more important one since it is based on constitutional law) still stands. However the second one is basically eliminated since Congress is amending the copyright law to include sets of facts.
Hmm, there's some major contradictions going on in Acer's site. Under features is says "Under 7 lb. (heaviest model)" but then under dimensions it says "14.1 lb. (6.4kg) with combo drive, 15.7 lb. (7.1kg) with combo drive and battery". Either way you know it's bad news when the manufacturers claimed battery life is only "up to 1.0 hour life depending on configuration and usage"! Btw for anyone who really wants a desktop replacement and they don't mind the weight they should look at lugables, these are integrated boxes the size of a carry-on suitcase that contain a standard desktop motherboard, an LCD, and a keyboard which is normally positioned to cover the LCD for travel. I've seen em used by RGIS to dump the data from the counters little numeric pads for inventory purposes. It looked like they needed these instead of a laptop because the interface board was PCI.
I believe this is only true for tritrium-deutrium mixed reactors. Of course those are the only type to have beaten break even for energy output vs input.
What kind of computer are you running that Mozilla is too slow? Really I would like to know because until I left my last company it was my daily browser there and my PC's were a P2-300 with 256MB or ram and a P2-233 laptop with 192MB's. Mozilla didn't feel slow on either of those machines, in fact it felt faster then IE for most things and I didn't have to deal with IE's problems. Btw the answer to your question is that it makes the browsers UI extensible and cross platform.
About the only thing I don't use yahoo for is searching. Their search engine is basically worthless and this addition will only make it worse. Then again I had to type the whole URL for yahoo since it wasn't in my 90 day history, I never use the main page so I'm probably not a typical yahoo user =)
SO true, Google and Penny arcade are the only places I click ad links. And for good reason. Both use targeted relevant ads that are likely to lead to something I might actually be interested in.
Once a game is no longer available from the author or an authorized publisher the the fact that a cartridge is still available on the used market has no impact on my feelings about it being abandonware. Copyright is a contract between society and content creators, once the owners no longer wish to profit from old content I have no problem enjoying that work, even if it's not legal under the US's ever extended copyright term. Hell there are few people alive today that have seen anything published in their lifetime released back into the public domain, a far cry from the framers intention.
User mode Linux is similar. It's nearly impossible to break out from the child servers to the main server. I know of several hosting services that use this to give clients "private" servers at a reduced cost.
Most of the GNU toolset started out as Free replacements for standard UNIX tools. Now most sane admin's chuck the toolchain on UNIX distro's and use the GNU tools. It might take time but if there's an itch to be scratched OSS is often the way to go for a good product long term.
You don't have to spend huge amounts of money to get great sounding headphones. I personally own a pair of Sennheiser HD 495's. Only set me back $60 and they blow away almost anything under $150 (check out this graph to see how they perform). I would love to spend $200+ on a great pair of headphones but not in this crappy economy.
No, the watermark is per denomination and the security strips have the denomination printed on them and each denomination flouresces a different color under UV light. Different sizes really only helps for blind or near blind people (German marks were nice in this regard, not only were they different sizes they also had raised print in the corners that differed by denomination, making it easy for blind people).
Because it's different? Surely you aren't saying that waitresses try to stay away from customers who tip at between 20 and 25%. I like to find a waitress who is competent and curteous and then make her my regular server. She gets more tips and I get better service, works well all around.
While it is true that you can only purchase the exact blend used for US currency if you are the treasury department Krane Super White cotton paper feels identical so you can use that if you wish to simply pass the feel test =) You would lack the off color imperfections, watermark, and foil strip but you would probably be sucessfull 99+% of the time. Not that I advocate passing false currency, that's just dumb. The Secret Service WILL have your ass for it.
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Don't use Word as your email editor if you value your data. I had several instances where random words/sentences were dropped out of peoples communications and they couldn't figure it out. It was really pissing off one VP because he was trying to hash out a contract with the corporate lawyers and they kept asking him about edits he never made. We finally figured out that it was Word randomly removing things from the edited text. This was under Outlook 2000 but I saw similar behavior under XP.
OWA in Exchange 2003 is really, really good. It runs under Mozilla just fine despite what MS's docs say (only thing that doesn't work is reminder notifications). I think I would look into that before running something as heavy as terminal services.
Yes I have to say that for many companies email is THE killer app. Want to see lots of screaming users, let the email server be down for more than an hour. Most other services don't get that kind of response. If the file server is down people save files to their local machines, if the print server is down people wait or take them to a machine with a local printer. If the email server is down suddenly all of their routine communications that they rely on to do their job has stopped and there is no good out of band method to make up for it.
God if you think there is no use for active email then you are VERY naive. There are companies with entire vertical apps built around Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. One good example was an insurance company, they had the forms available to the field agents who would fill them out at the scene of an accident or while doing the apraisal. Once they got back to the office they sync their email client and the forms get sent to the server. There some scripts checked things for requirements and spit them back to the agent if they were lacking. Then business logic could decide if they went to accounting for a check to be written or sent to other departments for review, by say fraud investigators, or actuaries, or a VP if the dollar amount was very large, etc. Do I think MS did a terrible job in implementing Outlook, hell yes I do. Do I think their general goal was bad, not at all.
No, I'm saying that they were closer to spec then expected and that spec was something that not even the design engineers thought could be accomplished. To give you an idea of how precise the engineering is on the Duratec, the camshafts don't ride on bearings, they ride in a channel machined in the headers floating on a thin film of oil.
Actually most manufacturers recomend every 5K miles. I trust the guys who designed the engine more then the people who are trying to sell me engine oil and related services!
Just gave a 93 Taurus to my future sister-in-law (tomorrow in fact!) and the only issue I had with it was a gasket on the radiator went at about 80K miles . Current car is a 99 Taurus with 160K miles and I haven't done anything but consumables on it. I expect this one to go to 250K miles at least with one tuneup. Of course the engine is the Duratec one of the best engines in the world, made right here in Cleveland Ohio. Ford had Porsche design the engine and once they got it done the Porsche engineers said here it is but we don't think you will be able to make it. Within 6 weeks of starting production the average deviation from spec was 50% of tollerence!
Hmmm, IANAL but I wonder if this opens up the possibility of IBM suing MS for the same reason they have their countersuit against SCO, interference in business relationships. If MS really did funnel money to SCO for the explicit purpose of proping up a lawsuit which they knew to exist soley for the purpose of disrupting IBM's Linux efforts it might be a makeable case.
You jest but many Farrari's are exactly like that. Typical charge for changing the oil on an Enzo is around $1,000 because the oil is $60 a quart and you need 13 quarts per change. Even the somewhat more normal 360 Modena is expensive:
"Oil changes run in the neighbourhood of $350 and are to be performed every 10,000 km. Why so expensive? Because the Ferrari only sips fine European synthetic oils, and because removing the underbody is required in order to gain access to the drains, and that takes a bit more time and care. " link
Because as the supreme court ruled in Feist vs Rural Telecom:
The "sweat of the brow" doctrine had numerous flaws, the most glaring being that it extended copyright protection in a compilation beyond selection and arrangement - the compiler's original contributions - to the facts themselves. Under the doctrine, the only defense to infringement was independent creation. A subsequent compiler was "not entitled to take one word of information previously published," but rather had to "independently wor[k] out the matter for himself, so as to arrive at the same result from the same common sources of information." Id., at 88-89 (internal quotations omitted). "Sweat of the brow" courts thereby eschewed the most fundamental axiom of copyright law - that no one may copyright facts or ideas.
Most likely this law would be ruled unconstitutional even if it were to pass Congress (which is not likely as another poster pointed out the Commerce Comission ruled unfavorably on it).
Actually the most relevant case is Feist vs Rural Telecom. There the supremes used two branches of logic to overturn the lower courts rulings that the white and yellow pages of Rural were protected by copyright:
"Article I, 8, cl. 8, of the Constitution mandates originality as a prerequisite for copyright protection. The constitutional requirement necessitates independent creation plus a modicum of creativity. Since facts do not owe their origin to an act of authorship, they are not original, and thus are not copyrightable. Although a compilation of facts may possess the requisite originality because the author typically chooses which facts to include, in what order to place them, and how to arrange the data so that readers may use them effectively, copyright protection extends only to those components of the work that are original to the author, not to the facts themselves. This fact/expression dichotomy severely limits the scope of protection in fact-based works. Pp. 344-351
And
The Copyright Act of 1976 and its predecessor, the Copyright Act of 1909, leave no doubt that originality is the touchstone of copyright protection in directories and other fact-based works. The 1976 Act explains that copyright extends to "original works of authorship," 17 U.S.C. 102(a), and that there can be no copyright in facts, 102(b). [499 U.S. 340, 341] A compilation is not copyrightable per se, but is copyrightable only if its facts have been "selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship." 101 (emphasis added). Thus, the statute envisions that some ways of selecting, coordinating, and arranging data are not sufficiently original to trigger copyright protection. Even a compilation that is copyrightable receives only limited protection, for the copyright does not extend to facts contained in the compilation. 103(b). Lower courts that adopted a "sweat of the brow" or "industrious collection" test - which extended a compilation's copyright protection beyond selection and arrangement to the facts themselves - misconstrued the 1909 Act and eschewed the fundamental axiom of copyright law that no one may copyright facts or ideas. Pp. 351-361.
The first point (and to me the more important one since it is based on constitutional law) still stands. However the second one is basically eliminated since Congress is amending the copyright law to include sets of facts.
IBM X Series, although not 1.5lbs they are around 3.5lbs and have a full sized screen. Not only that but they are cheap.
Hmm, there's some major contradictions going on in Acer's site. Under features is says "Under 7 lb. (heaviest model)" but then under dimensions it says "14.1 lb. (6.4kg) with combo drive, 15.7 lb. (7.1kg) with combo drive and battery". Either way you know it's bad news when the manufacturers claimed battery life is only "up to 1.0 hour life depending on configuration and usage"! Btw for anyone who really wants a desktop replacement and they don't mind the weight they should look at lugables, these are integrated boxes the size of a carry-on suitcase that contain a standard desktop motherboard, an LCD, and a keyboard which is normally positioned to cover the LCD for travel. I've seen em used by RGIS to dump the data from the counters little numeric pads for inventory purposes. It looked like they needed these instead of a laptop because the interface board was PCI.
I believe this is only true for tritrium-deutrium mixed reactors. Of course those are the only type to have beaten break even for energy output vs input.
What kind of computer are you running that Mozilla is too slow? Really I would like to know because until I left my last company it was my daily browser there and my PC's were a P2-300 with 256MB or ram and a P2-233 laptop with 192MB's. Mozilla didn't feel slow on either of those machines, in fact it felt faster then IE for most things and I didn't have to deal with IE's problems. Btw the answer to your question is that it makes the browsers UI extensible and cross platform.
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About the only thing I don't use yahoo for is searching. Their search engine is basically worthless and this addition will only make it worse. Then again I had to type the whole URL for yahoo since it wasn't in my 90 day history, I never use the main page so I'm probably not a typical yahoo user =)
SO true, Google and Penny arcade are the only places I click ad links. And for good reason. Both use targeted relevant ads that are likely to lead to something I might actually be interested in.
Once a game is no longer available from the author or an authorized publisher the the fact that a cartridge is still available on the used market has no impact on my feelings about it being abandonware. Copyright is a contract between society and content creators, once the owners no longer wish to profit from old content I have no problem enjoying that work, even if it's not legal under the US's ever extended copyright term. Hell there are few people alive today that have seen anything published in their lifetime released back into the public domain, a far cry from the framers intention.
VxWorks would probably be the best choice. It's very minimal and doesn't share an API with the second most common OS.
User mode Linux is similar. It's nearly impossible to break out from the child servers to the main server. I know of several hosting services that use this to give clients "private" servers at a reduced cost.
Most of the GNU toolset started out as Free replacements for standard UNIX tools. Now most sane admin's chuck the toolchain on UNIX distro's and use the GNU tools. It might take time but if there's an itch to be scratched OSS is often the way to go for a good product long term.
You don't have to spend huge amounts of money to get great sounding headphones. I personally own a pair of Sennheiser HD 495's. Only set me back $60 and they blow away almost anything under $150 (check out this graph to see how they perform). I would love to spend $200+ on a great pair of headphones but not in this crappy economy.
No, the watermark is per denomination and the security strips have the denomination printed on them and each denomination flouresces a different color under UV light. Different sizes really only helps for blind or near blind people (German marks were nice in this regard, not only were they different sizes they also had raised print in the corners that differed by denomination, making it easy for blind people).
Because it's different? Surely you aren't saying that waitresses try to stay away from customers who tip at between 20 and 25%. I like to find a waitress who is competent and curteous and then make her my regular server. She gets more tips and I get better service, works well all around.
While it is true that you can only purchase the exact blend used for US currency if you are the treasury department Krane Super White cotton paper feels identical so you can use that if you wish to simply pass the feel test =) You would lack the off color imperfections, watermark, and foil strip but you would probably be sucessfull 99+% of the time. Not that I advocate passing false currency, that's just dumb. The Secret Service WILL have your ass for it.