Actually they thought of that. Cut/paste/print screen are disabled.
Of course you can take a digital camera to it or write your own screen capture app but the intent is to prevent casual forwarding.
Ummm..the critical ones are on the "Critical Updates" section of the Windows Update page. They're automatically selected for installation after scanning so you don't even have to know what Critical Updates mean.
If there's ANY exploitable buffer overrun, your computer is basically owned. It doesn't matter if it's VBA, the scripting system, the parser, the renderer, the file opening code, a command line switch...they own you.
You're right that the vector of attack is different, they just need a different reason to attack you. In other words, if somoene is after more than just mass annoyance and "gee look, i just screwed 500,000 people" then they will attack any vulnerable system.
Word/Excel/PPT 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 all use the same default file format.
The only features that don't 'round-trip' are the ones that didn't exist in the earlier versions.
In China the reality is that software is considered free (as in beer). The lone exception is the government, who in its quest to join the WTO, look like a good citizen, etc. needs to look like they support international copyright standards to a reasonable degree. That's why they finally started buying licenses just a few years ago.
With this move, they can stop paying Microsoft licenses and look like they're legit. Heck, they even look trendy by supporting open source. Then someone can just go to the any subway station and pick up for $1US a copy of Windows, a copy of VMWare and a copy of Office.
Voila...They no longer need to pay MSFT. gain support from the open source community, and still run the software they're used to using.
You can buy the sipphone devices, then configure them for FWD (fwd.pulver.com). With FWD you get the ability to call regular landline/cell phone numbers over IConnectHere, the ability to call toll free numbers in the US, the ability to call a FWD number from a regular phone (see libretel.com) and an existing use base of 43,000.
I'm no fan of overbroad patents, but it's a bit of blanket statment to say that it's halting innovation. If a skeleton company acquires patents and and tries to profit from it, it's just time shifting the intent of the original inventors. The fact that the original business couldn't stay alive is incidental. If the engineers didn't have the promise of patent protection, they might have never developed it in the first place.
You could always manually enter and store lots of formulas, text, etc. in the 28s.
But my personal favorite would be to program the IR port to control the TV in the classroom. As soon as I walked past the TV it'd magically turn on. Drove the teacher nuts and had him calling facilities that his TV was turning itself on in the middle of exams.
Intellectual property is not only code (covered by copyright) but anything in the patent portfolio, trademarks, or trade secrets. The way that things are coded or the way that features behave can be patented so with the number of patents MS holds, Gates's statement is almost undeniably true.
Also, copyright covers the right to make derivative works. So if there's an icon or other UI element that was a tweaked Windows element then that's technically copyright infringement. It's awefully hard to prove though (given the Apple v. MSFT precedent.
In short, Gates is right but it doesn't mean they'll start firing lawsuits against open source...They didn't previously sue their other competitors unlike how Sun/Oracle lobbied and/or sued MSFT.
I have to call bullshit here. This phone is marketed in Korea not the US or Europe. Phones (up to two years old) in Japan and South Korea routinely have sampled ringtones so that you can have a hi-fidelity pop tune or your kid's voice as the ringtone.
The speakers on these buggers are built strong. On my 3 year old phone, the speaker has a magnet powerful enough to wipe out credit cards if you keep themi n the same pocket as the phone:)
Finally, in Asia, you can't avoid the swamplands--it's all swampland.
The Microsoft campus uses 802.1x (2500 access points) as well as all subsidiaries (1200 APs). It does PKI over Radius and not EAP. From what I've seen it's fine for PCs but mobile clients take a while to support it (Windows CE NICs are mostly up to speed but a lot of the others aren't).
There's a good piece in the June NetworkWorldFusion talking about MSFT, Cisco and few other large installations.
Next time I see a resume like yours I'll be sure to hire you, make you do manual janitorial work and make sure to lower your pay to minimum wage the day after you accept the offer.
While you're lounging, your former teammates are cleaning up after your mess. Oh yeah, and remind me to blacklist you as broadly as possible.
According to Froogle it's $90. So the actual price to a large volume computer manufacturer is roughly half that...that means with the usual retail markup the base cost is $40-50.
no conspiracy here. Just the simple fact that OEMs pay less for Windows than Joe Schmoe would at retail.
Not so fast. This is Sprint's long distance network. If your local telco's still using tin cans, it's not going to enable any of this.
What it does mean is that the next time there's a SQL Slammer or other bug clogging the web, you're phone service is down too.
I bet they're getting funded by corporate IT and helpdesk staff.
This is not a good thing. All it allows is for cab companies to serve more customers in the center of the action and not in the outskirts where it's already way to hard to hail a cab.
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Except for office 2003 which disables copy/paste/prtsc/print for DRM locked documents. whaddya expect. they wrote the OS.
just tried it. copy/paste/prtsc are disabled. guess you need to break out the digital camera or run something like vmware.
Actually they thought of that. Cut/paste/print screen are disabled. Of course you can take a digital camera to it or write your own screen capture app but the intent is to prevent casual forwarding.
Ummm..the critical ones are on the "Critical Updates" section of the Windows Update page. They're automatically selected for installation after scanning so you don't even have to know what Critical Updates mean.
Ummm...Office is _application software_
You're right that the vector of attack is different, they just need a different reason to attack you. In other words, if somoene is after more than just mass annoyance and "gee look, i just screwed 500,000 people" then they will attack any vulnerable system.
Word/Excel/PPT 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 all use the same default file format. The only features that don't 'round-trip' are the ones that didn't exist in the earlier versions.
With this move, they can stop paying Microsoft licenses and look like they're legit. Heck, they even look trendy by supporting open source. Then someone can just go to the any subway station and pick up for $1US a copy of Windows, a copy of VMWare and a copy of Office.
Voila...They no longer need to pay MSFT. gain support from the open source community, and still run the software they're used to using.
And yes, FWD is free.
Actually Netmeeting uses H.323, but Windows Messenger has SIP support.
In other words, if you're a small inventor and can't afford the legal fees to search out infringements and sue over it, you should just bend over.
I'm no fan of overbroad patents, but it's a bit of blanket statment to say that it's halting innovation. If a skeleton company acquires patents and and tries to profit from it, it's just time shifting the intent of the original inventors. The fact that the original business couldn't stay alive is incidental. If the engineers didn't have the promise of patent protection, they might have never developed it in the first place.
But my personal favorite would be to program the IR port to control the TV in the classroom. As soon as I walked past the TV it'd magically turn on. Drove the teacher nuts and had him calling facilities that his TV was turning itself on in the middle of exams.
Also, copyright covers the right to make derivative works. So if there's an icon or other UI element that was a tweaked Windows element then that's technically copyright infringement. It's awefully hard to prove though (given the Apple v. MSFT precedent.
In short, Gates is right but it doesn't mean they'll start firing lawsuits against open source...They didn't previously sue their other competitors unlike how Sun/Oracle lobbied and/or sued MSFT.
The speakers on these buggers are built strong. On my 3 year old phone, the speaker has a magnet powerful enough to wipe out credit cards if you keep themi n the same pocket as the phone :)
Finally, in Asia, you can't avoid the swamplands--it's all swampland.
There's a good piece in the June NetworkWorldFusion talking about MSFT, Cisco and few other large installations.
While you're lounging, your former teammates are cleaning up after your mess. Oh yeah, and remind me to blacklist you as broadly as possible.
no conspiracy here. Just the simple fact that OEMs pay less for Windows than Joe Schmoe would at retail.
dumping statues assume that the company loses money by dumping. Microsoft doesn't lose any money by selling at $50 because the costs are sunk.
to be dumping the cost must be less than the marginal cost (production). It must be shown to be unsustainable in the long run.
Wow, must be a tough program if you lost you're now unemployed, divorced and childless. But hey, congrats on the degree!
Not so fast. This is Sprint's long distance network. If your local telco's still using tin cans, it's not going to enable any of this. What it does mean is that the next time there's a SQL Slammer or other bug clogging the web, you're phone service is down too. I bet they're getting funded by corporate IT and helpdesk staff.
Sprint with packet switching. So clear, you can hear a pin drop...twice.
No....the seahawks are owned by paul allen
UCC is a United States law. What do the south koreans have?
This is not a good thing. All it allows is for cab companies to serve more customers in the center of the action and not in the outskirts where it's already way to hard to hail a cab.