think that the PC gaming industry has showed that self-regulation can work. It's really in the sites' best interest to let interested adults find them easily,
Exactly like spammers though (and there's a lot of overlap) they don't really care if "uninterested" people find them either. Even kids -- who may well have access to credit cards.
There's no need for a new TLD. If self-regualtion worked, they could just decide to use an xxx. subdomain instead of www. in their addresses, for instance. As it is now, the lowest subdomain (wrong terminology, I'm sure) is almost redundant on websites, most URLs without it just bounce you to the www.domain anyway. I know that this traditionally signifies the protocol (like ftp), but that convention's often broken now already.
What does checking Outlook email have to do with _Basic_ Input or Output? Why don't they keep going and put a spreadsheet in the BIOS while they're at it?
It also means, that they're basically providing an API to the outlook address book. That means, if you can fake that you're really just the BIOS requesting the information, you can make a virus that can access all the information it needs - undetected.
Seems like an excellent way to get your mail out of Outlook files into something more useful. Let Outlook collect mail. readit in somethng else that will shrug off viruses and scripts. But they'll probably encrypt it to make it illegal to decode, not that it'd stop the hackers.
We all want a ton of features, but the question is: where should they reside? Putting application functions in the BIOS (or in the OS) is probably not going to provide the most flexible system.
Apple just dug themselves out of the hole they made by having part of their OS in ROM -- though initially it seemed like a good idea as it made it hard to clone, it also made it inflexible and hard to upgrade.
Exactly! I was so wanting PJ to use his LOTR millions to buy up the rights to the classics like WOTW and HG2G and make versions had had some integrity and imagination.
Since War of the Worlds was published in 1898 it is in the public domain. Anyone who feels the urge can make a movie, comic, tee shirt, concept album, reprint the book, etc (and many have). Only if you based your work on a later adaptation (like Welle's radio version, eg) would you have to buy rights. As for classics, well I'm sure you know PJ is working on King Kong. Personally though I'd rather he did something more original than a remake, no matter how well he does it. Thouhg it would be retreading old ground for him, I hope he can work out a deal to do (or at least produce) The Hobbit. I heard he mothballed some of the Shire sets just in case.
What's next, a remake of Citizen Kane, Casablanca or Blade Runner?
To be fair, they were classic movies. But the earlier film versions of War of the Worlds were fairly mediocre. More worrying is what they'll do to make Cruise into a hero -- there are no heroic roles in the story. Just a narrator who watches the Martians roll over us, until (I hope that revealing the ending of a book over a century old isn't a spoiler) they die from earth bacterial infections.
Coincidentally I was watching the Justice League cartoon last Saturday, and they had a story freely borrowing from WoW, (including giant three-legged war machines) as a way of giving the "secret origin" of the Martian Manhunter and the League.
I don't understand exactly how this will change the way general people use WMP, realplayer, or quicktime.
It might make people think about what format to supply media in, rather than WM with no alternative, which is where it's heading now, in the same way the web is going to "we suggest you download IE if it doesn't work in your browser".
Why not have a single selection at the beginning that says "Install all defaults"? Hit that, let the installer figure out all your hardware settings, and come back an hour later with a fully installed OS.
Or perhaps a screen where you can choose/fill in all the choices it asks you later: language, desktop, browser, accounts, passwords, etc, etc. Maybe two or three "meta selections": server, no gui; single home user, office, gamer, etc. Anyway, instead of having to wait for it to ask each question, get it all over with at once.
"Taiwan is not a country" is a lie repeated by as a matter of policy by certain high-ranking government officials to mollify the Chinese authorities. (Although calling it a "lie" is an exaggeration, because they don't really expect to fool anyone). President Bush got into some trouble once when he forgot to lie and mentioned on TV that Taiwan is a country.
I said that it was a country in practice, but not legally (it doesn't have a seat in the UN, for instance). The KMT (the government in Taiwan till recently) insisted (and still does, at least formally) that it's the legitimate government of "the Republic of China". Taiwan could have formally declared independence in the 60s when the US would have backed them up, but since the US recognised the PRC government and China has become more powerful economically, and acquired nuclear weapons, no one dares to piss them off by supporting Taiwan independence.
In April 1947, the ROC government completed all preparations for the implementation of constitutional rule and made the transition from the stage of political tutelage to that of constitutional government. All ministries, commissions and councils under the Executive Yuan were expanded, and on April 23, the Executive Yuan established the Government Information Office and agencies for health, irrigation and land affairs. The GIO was formally inaugurated in Nanking on May 2, 1947... The further relocation of the central government to Taipei on December 7, 1949, led to another organizational change...
It isn't "officially" a Chinese province
Yes it is, according to both governments. But in reality it's independent.
This was a bit confusing to me that HP would start pushing different distros in different parts of the world.
TurboLinux is an Asian distribution and has better support for Asian languages, especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Also it makes sense for support that you'd use a distro that alrady has a local presence if possible. They all should be able to use the same drivers and any other model-specific hacks.
HP has always been the complete opposite. The fact that HP was one of the last platforms to have a linux port...
But they do support most of their printers. Their PCL and PostScript clone ones work perfectly with well documented PDLs.
See linuxprinting.org and their offically supported HP Linux Inkjet Driver Project. Unfortunately cost-cutting and outsourcing of some product development and resulting patent issues has made this less than perfect; but they are trying.
Desktop PCs in 12 Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
This was copied from the linked article, but it's still wrong. There are 12 regions listed, however only 10 are "countries". Hong Kong certainly isn't (it was a British colony, now it's a "Special Administrative Region" of China). Taiwan officially is a province of China (though in practice it is independent).
Then we can all go out and laugh at the Australian Dollar, or Pacific Peso as it will shortly be renamed.
Really? It's been going up pretty steadily the last year. Of course, most of that is due to the USD going down generally as you pay for the invasion by borrowing from the rest of the world.
I'd prefer that. In an extreme situation, where the object would be fragmented to a bunch of dust & powder, everything would get burned up in the atmosphere. I could be wrong, but that's where I'm placing my bets.
This was the Biggest Baddest Astronomy in the movie. Blowing up a comet does no good at all, and might even make matters worse. Just because the pieces are smaller doesn't mean you have changed anything. If every piece still impacts the Earth (by that I mean actually is stopped by the Earth or its atmosphere) you are still dumping all the kinetic energy of The Comet into the Earth's atmosphere! That's a HUGE amount of energy, dumped in practically all at once. It would still create a massive explosion, dwarfing all of our nuclear bombs combined. Even if you could somehow soften the blow, all that heat would wreak havoc with our weather. Some people actually think it might be better to simply let a big one hit rather than blow it up, because the Earth itself can absorb the energy of impact better than the atmosphere can. This is still argued, though. I'd prefer not to try any experiments!
But how is this functionally different than the Skylarov case?
Elcomsoft had sold 7 (IIRC) copies of its software for cracking PDF protection in the US. Griffiths didn't sell anything to anyone. I realise that's not a defence in itself, but it makes it much harder to say where his "offence" occurred. Also of course the feds arrested Sklyarov when he visited to the US, so extradition wasn't the issue, Russia would not have extradited him.
The problem is this: for whatever reason, there are errors that aren't caught before submission- even with the preview function available. It just happens. While most might not care, I tend to care about errors, and would prefer that there was a way to fix them.
I can envisage a Wikipedia-style of editing, where all earlier versions are available. However, this is an ephemeral discussion board, not the proceedings of Congress. I make dumb typos and wish I could fix them. But I realise that would require a big increase in complexity of the system, and would be mostly used by trolls.
If I say something that I later wish to retract, I just follw myself up and say so. I think that's sufficient.
RealOne will simply wiped out because nobody will go through the trouble of downloading it if windows media is already available.
So why is it that people will happily download and install any number of spyware and virus ridden apps? (Of course, one might argue that Real was in that category too...)
I remember when Real 3 or 4 was bundled with Navigator, a tiny utility that let me stream sudio on my 486 under Win 3.1. And I'd be happy if I could still do that except they changed the fucking codecs so they're incompatible.
an encyclopedia published in Gallileo's time would be subject to similar pressures and would probably also claim the earth is flat.
No. But it would claim that the sun went around the Earth. Educated people since the Ancient Greeks have known that the Earth is round. (And don't start on Columbus -- he thought the world was much smaller than it really is and that's why he was thought foolish -- just his luck to run into the America, which he thought was India.)
He's paid for *3* licenses, to use on *3* PCs, not 4.
Is he using all 4 PCs simultaneously? He doesn't say, but I rather doubt so. Unless he's running a data centre out of his basement, I think he's morally, if not legally, justified to think he's paid for what he's using.
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archive of teslamania.com, which DOES have images.
Exactly like spammers though (and there's a lot of overlap) they don't really care if "uninterested" people find them either. Even kids -- who may well have access to credit cards.
There's no need for a new TLD. If self-regualtion worked, they could just decide to use an xxx. subdomain instead of www. in their addresses, for instance. As it is now, the lowest subdomain (wrong terminology, I'm sure) is almost redundant on websites, most URLs without it just bounce you to the www.domain anyway. I know that this traditionally signifies the protocol (like ftp), but that convention's often broken now already.
And the spreadsheet will have a flight simulator.
Seems like an excellent way to get your mail out of Outlook files into something more useful. Let Outlook collect mail. readit in somethng else that will shrug off viruses and scripts. But they'll probably encrypt it to make it illegal to decode, not that it'd stop the hackers.
Apple just dug themselves out of the hole they made by having part of their OS in ROM -- though initially it seemed like a good idea as it made it hard to clone, it also made it inflexible and hard to upgrade.
Just turn the monitor off. Especially if it's a big CRT one. Saves wear and tear on starting and stopping the disks too.
Since War of the Worlds was published in 1898 it is in the public domain. Anyone who feels the urge can make a movie, comic, tee shirt, concept album, reprint the book, etc (and many have). Only if you based your work on a later adaptation (like Welle's radio version, eg) would you have to buy rights. As for classics, well I'm sure you know PJ is working on King Kong. Personally though I'd rather he did something more original than a remake, no matter how well he does it. Thouhg it would be retreading old ground for him, I hope he can work out a deal to do (or at least produce) The Hobbit. I heard he mothballed some of the Shire sets just in case.
To be fair, they were classic movies. But the earlier film versions of War of the Worlds were fairly mediocre. More worrying is what they'll do to make Cruise into a hero -- there are no heroic roles in the story. Just a narrator who watches the Martians roll over us, until (I hope that revealing the ending of a book over a century old isn't a spoiler) they die from earth bacterial infections.
Coincidentally I was watching the Justice League cartoon last Saturday, and they had a story freely borrowing from WoW, (including giant three-legged war machines) as a way of giving the "secret origin" of the Martian Manhunter and the League.
It might make people think about what format to supply media in, rather than WM with no alternative, which is where it's heading now, in the same way the web is going to "we suggest you download IE if it doesn't work in your browser".
Hey moderators: how di these "Dragonlance" posts get "insightful"? Just ignore it or mod it "offtopic". It's got nothing to do with the topic.
Or perhaps a screen where you can choose/fill in all the choices it asks you later: language, desktop, browser, accounts, passwords, etc, etc. Maybe two or three "meta selections": server, no gui; single home user, office, gamer, etc. Anyway, instead of having to wait for it to ask each question, get it all over with at once.
I said that it was a country in practice, but not legally (it doesn't have a seat in the UN, for instance). The KMT (the government in Taiwan till recently) insisted (and still does, at least formally) that it's the legitimate government of "the Republic of China". Taiwan could have formally declared independence in the 60s when the US would have backed them up, but since the US recognised the PRC government and China has become more powerful economically, and acquired nuclear weapons, no one dares to piss them off by supporting Taiwan independence.
Look at a random Taiwanese government website, for instance: Government Information Office, Republic of China:
It isn't "officially" a Chinese provinceYes it is, according to both governments. But in reality it's independent.
TurboLinux is an Asian distribution and has better support for Asian languages, especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Also it makes sense for support that you'd use a distro that alrady has a local presence if possible. They all should be able to use the same drivers and any other model-specific hacks.
But they do support most of their printers. Their PCL and PostScript clone ones work perfectly with well documented PDLs.
See linuxprinting.org and their offically supported HP Linux Inkjet Driver Project. Unfortunately cost-cutting and outsourcing of some product development and resulting patent issues has made this less than perfect; but they are trying.
This was copied from the linked article, but it's still wrong. There are 12 regions listed, however only 10 are "countries". Hong Kong certainly isn't (it was a British colony, now it's a "Special Administrative Region" of China). Taiwan officially is a province of China (though in practice it is independent).
Really? It's been going up pretty steadily the last year. Of course, most of that is due to the USD going down generally as you pay for the invasion by borrowing from the rest of the world.
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From Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Review of Deep Impact:
Elcomsoft had sold 7 (IIRC) copies of its software for cracking PDF protection in the US. Griffiths didn't sell anything to anyone. I realise that's not a defence in itself, but it makes it much harder to say where his "offence" occurred. Also of course the feds arrested Sklyarov when he visited to the US, so extradition wasn't the issue, Russia would not have extradited him.
I can envisage a Wikipedia-style of editing, where all earlier versions are available. However, this is an ephemeral discussion board, not the proceedings of Congress. I make dumb typos and wish I could fix them. But I realise that would require a big increase in complexity of the system, and would be mostly used by trolls.
If I say something that I later wish to retract, I just follw myself up and say so. I think that's sufficient.
Why can't you listen to it on your radio at home?
If it's reception, try connection ot to an external antenna -- a TV one works for FM, a simple loop for AM.
So why is it that people will happily download and install any number of spyware and virus ridden apps? (Of course, one might argue that Real was in that category too...)
I remember when Real 3 or 4 was bundled with Navigator, a tiny utility that let me stream sudio on my 486 under Win 3.1. And I'd be happy if I could still do that except they changed the fucking codecs so they're incompatible.
I'd try Bali: 1 in US dollars (noon) equals 8,561.29 Indonesian rupiahs.
No. But it would claim that the sun went around the Earth. Educated people since the Ancient Greeks have known that the Earth is round. (And don't start on Columbus -- he thought the world was much smaller than it really is and that's why he was thought foolish -- just his luck to run into the America, which he thought was India.)
Is he using all 4 PCs simultaneously? He doesn't say, but I rather doubt so. Unless he's running a data centre out of his basement, I think he's morally, if not legally, justified to think he's paid for what he's using.