As a rule spying on users shouldn't be a security concern as long as the person/corporation spying is honest, just and only concerned on improving their software and the user experience...
So... As a rule spying on users is always a security concern =P (name it WordPress or Windows Update).
It shows that English isn't my native language, but at least I know to speak it well enough to be understood. I can say the same for 3 different languages. Now what's your point?
Are you an idiot or what!) We scientist don't have any problem making theories of stuff we can't see, and we are quite happy testing their validity using mathematics, robotics, optics and all the tools we have at our disposal.
The problem with the God theory is that we can't test it and it requires faith without asking any why or trying to come with a better explanation than that. THE GOD THEORY IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH SCIENCE! The multi-verse theory is.
Your comment only shows your lack of intelligence.
Because that 10% knows to edit XML... Or maybe because they want to sell Office 14 with the new feature of a customizable ribbon! =P
Either way, I have to say is the best product Microsoft has released in a while, I like the ribbon. In the other hand Vista left much to desire.
They didn't decide anything by their own, the ribbon was designed using hundreds of gigabytes of collected user behavior. Office 2003 had an improvement participation program that if accepted would send UI usage to Microsoft, and after collecting enough information they discovered less than 10% of the users actually customized their toolbars. Also 70% of the features requested by business were already built in 2003 but most people couldn't find them, so Microsoft took the decision to redesign the UI to benefit most of the users, and they did a great job in fact, beta versions of Office collected the number of mouse click a user made in a day, and the amount of clicks with the new UI dropped by a 50%.
You are assuming that users want to customize their toolbars, maybe because you do, but Microsoft with real user data determinated that 90% of the users don't customize the toolbars and can't find many of the things they wanted to do. I'm glad you are not in charge of a UI used by millions of persons, you would screw them up and create a useless, overgeeked crap of UI.
The ones that replied are interns, not FTE, you can tell it by their childish behavior. This doesn't really reflects the Microsoft working environment.
Is a shame Occident is supporting and sponsoring an oppressive regime, we are the ones that are doing business with them betraying ourselves, freedom, democracy and our occidental roots and values. We are the ones blame, not China; they just found is easy to play with us using their own rules because now days Occident only cares about saving some bucks.
I wonder what happened to Occident, great promises of freedom and equality are fading away in our old and corrupt society.
[i]Isnt the world going to run out of oil any day now, though? When that happens, what threat would the middle east be? They have absolutely nothing else[/i]
They have youth, and that's probably the most powerful resource in the world. You can claim to have all kinds of natural resources and technological industry in Europe but if there is no one to press the button, to trade goods and to make economy works sooner or later the middle east will become the big player, and not necessarily in their homeland, have you seen how many muslims have gone to Europe recently? The government allows it, discretely, there's really no choice when the country economy and workforce depends on it.
"It's good to learn a programming language, but it's a far better thing to learn to write programs in that language. What the world needs are less programming language books and more books on programming with the language of your choice"
Not really, I agree with Steve McConnell when in his book "Code Complete" (2nd edition) says that you shouldn't programm in a language but INTO a language.
Most of the important programming principles not on an specific language but on the way one use them. Don't limit your programming thinking only on the concepts that are supported automatically by your language. The best programmers think of what they want to do, and then they assess how to accomplish their objectives with the programming tools at their disposal. (McConnell 843)
You are absolutly right, I'm still amazed how MSN feeds you an outdate version of messenger (called SetupNT) if you use Windows 2000. Yet the installer of the new XP only version can be easly hacked to run on Windows 2000 without a problem.
More than anything seems than Microsoft is forcing OS update.
I don't care what anyone says, C# is way better than Java. And I have ~5 years experience with Java, 6 months experience with C#. It converted me in no time. C# is very pleasant and the language just seems to get out of your way when you want to do something, largely because of the.Net framework.
I agree C# is better than Java but I don't like both, I know you don't need to cover your traces when dealing with memory and dynamic allocation, but you are sacrificing quite a bit of processor time and system memory in the process. Garbage collectors and every other tool meant to make programming easy costs heavily in time and hardware. Most probably you are going to say that now days computers are fast enough to pay the toll but that is true only for certain cases. Think about AI, speech recognition (even an OS) and many other processor demanding tasks, you would like to use wisely every tick of the clock... As always the method to solve the problem is in the problem itself, but I personally would like to spend my days developing something more significant than a monthly savings report for McDonalds so I'm glad to take my time, use my brain and continue developing on C++.
So we may not always like Microsoft's products in every way, and we may downright hate some of their business practices. Does that make Visual Studio and C# any worse of a product? Does that make Microsoft Word a worse word processor? NO.
No, it doesn't, but as business practices go you can be damn sure they are going to struggle to suck your money up with incompatibilities, upgrades and what else.
The express version is free. Which is really a stripped down version meant to students and small business that, according to the plan, will later on need to buy the costly standard version. Another strategy to suck up money... Sadly is very likely going to work.
There are a lot of places where your statement is false. In my university the IT department spend a LOT of time fixing the computers and errors produced by heavy network traffic produced by this virus. You can't help that the laptop of rich daddy princess isn't up to date.
Paradox confirmed that Dynarox used a dumper they made to get the games binaries. Since Paradox is located in Europe they couldn't easily find UMD's to dump so gave their dumper to an USA guy. This person lend the dumper to a friend and the friend released the games under Dynarox to steal the glory
I really don't know if this is going to work or not, I never said I was sure, but if Paradox is really behind this I bet a loader will come soon... But I'm not really sure, never said I was, all is speculation =)
Sony isn't killing their own system, in fact are struggling to keep it alive. Right now Sony is making no money from selling the system, the real cash flow comes from licensing every game anyone wants to release for their product. If the firmware is opened piracy would hit big time since the PSP is equipped with a Memory Stick slot which is faster than the UMD drive... oddly copied games would run faster than original ones:S that would scare away developers and the PSP would be another failure pretty much like the dreamcast
Seems like 1.5.x will soon run homebrew applications, the warez group Dynarox did dump UMD games and released promising a loader soon... Wouldn't like if piracy hit the PSP market but homebrew is way cool, can't wait until someone makes a Linux diestrum that runs from the memory stick:)
Dreams are used by the unconscious to express its inner preoccupations, I dont think forcing dreams to be something is a good idea for human psyche health.
And I dont know about you but I find strange chaotic dreams way funnier then dreaming about a girl I can dream of while awake. That is if you like to find the meaning of your dreams (or are in therapy).
You CAN do that in Windows 2000 and XP, just download Microsoft TeakUI from here (Is the one for Windows 2000 but works on XP as well and is way better).
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As a rule spying on users shouldn't be a security concern as long as the person/corporation spying is honest, just and only concerned on improving their software and the user experience...
So... As a rule spying on users is always a security concern =P (name it WordPress or Windows Update).
It shows that English isn't my native language, but at least I know to speak it well enough to be understood. I can say the same for 3 different languages. Now what's your point?
Are you an idiot or what!) We scientist don't have any problem making theories of stuff we can't see, and we are quite happy testing their validity using mathematics, robotics, optics and all the tools we have at our disposal.
The problem with the God theory is that we can't test it and it requires faith without asking any why or trying to come with a better explanation than that. THE GOD THEORY IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH SCIENCE! The multi-verse theory is.
Your comment only shows your lack of intelligence.
Because that 10% knows to edit XML... Or maybe because they want to sell Office 14 with the new feature of a customizable ribbon! =P Either way, I have to say is the best product Microsoft has released in a while, I like the ribbon. In the other hand Vista left much to desire.
Cartman, is that you?
They didn't decide anything by their own, the ribbon was designed using hundreds of gigabytes of collected user behavior. Office 2003 had an improvement participation program that if accepted would send UI usage to Microsoft, and after collecting enough information they discovered less than 10% of the users actually customized their toolbars. Also 70% of the features requested by business were already built in 2003 but most people couldn't find them, so Microsoft took the decision to redesign the UI to benefit most of the users, and they did a great job in fact, beta versions of Office collected the number of mouse click a user made in a day, and the amount of clicks with the new UI dropped by a 50%.
You are assuming that users want to customize their toolbars, maybe because you do, but Microsoft with real user data determinated that 90% of the users don't customize the toolbars and can't find many of the things they wanted to do. I'm glad you are not in charge of a UI used by millions of persons, you would screw them up and create a useless, overgeeked crap of UI.
The ones that replied are interns, not FTE, you can tell it by their childish behavior. This doesn't really reflects the Microsoft working environment.
The ones that replied are interns, not FTE, you can tell it by their childish behavior. This doesn't really reflects the Microsoft environment.
Is a shame Occident is supporting and sponsoring an oppressive regime, we are the ones that are doing business with them betraying ourselves, freedom, democracy and our occidental roots and values. We are the ones blame, not China; they just found is easy to play with us using their own rules because now days Occident only cares about saving some bucks.
I wonder what happened to Occident, great promises of freedom and equality are fading away in our old and corrupt society.
[i]Isnt the world going to run out of oil any day now, though? When that happens, what threat would the middle east be? They have absolutely nothing else[/i]
They have youth, and that's probably the most powerful resource in the world. You can claim to have all kinds of natural resources and technological industry in Europe but if there is no one to press the button, to trade goods and to make economy works sooner or later the middle east will become the big player, and not necessarily in their homeland, have you seen how many muslims have gone to Europe recently? The government allows it, discretely, there's really no choice when the country economy and workforce depends on it.
"It's good to learn a programming language, but it's a far better thing to learn to write programs in that language. What the world needs are less programming language books and more books on programming with the language of your choice"
Not really, I agree with Steve McConnell when in his book "Code Complete" (2nd edition) says that you shouldn't programm in a language but INTO a language.
Most of the important programming principles not on an specific language but on the way one use them. Don't limit your programming thinking only on the concepts that are supported automatically by your language. The best programmers think of what they want to do, and then they assess how to accomplish their objectives with the programming tools at their disposal. (McConnell 843)
You are absolutly right, I'm still amazed how MSN feeds you an outdate version of messenger (called SetupNT) if you use Windows 2000. Yet the installer of the new XP only version can be easly hacked to run on Windows 2000 without a problem.
More than anything seems than Microsoft is forcing OS update.
I don't see how this has anything to do with technology being used to protect intellectual property.
The RIAA is behaving just like Microsoft did with SCO, taking advantage of the situation and feeding FUD supporting stupidity.
No wonder everyone hates the RIAA.
I don't care what anyone says, C# is way better than Java. And I have ~5 years experience with Java, 6 months experience with C#. It converted me in no time. C# is very pleasant and the language just seems to get out of your way when you want to do something, largely because of the .Net framework.
I agree C# is better than Java but I don't like both, I know you don't need to cover your traces when dealing with memory and dynamic allocation, but you are sacrificing quite a bit of processor time and system memory in the process. Garbage collectors and every other tool meant to make programming easy costs heavily in time and hardware. Most probably you are going to say that now days computers are fast enough to pay the toll but that is true only for certain cases. Think about AI, speech recognition (even an OS) and many other processor demanding tasks, you would like to use wisely every tick of the clock... As always the method to solve the problem is in the problem itself, but I personally would like to spend my days developing something more significant than a monthly savings report for McDonalds so I'm glad to take my time, use my brain and continue developing on C++.
So we may not always like Microsoft's products in every way, and we may downright hate some of their business practices. Does that make Visual Studio and C# any worse of a product? Does that make Microsoft Word a worse word processor? NO.
No, it doesn't, but as business practices go you can be damn sure they are going to struggle to suck your money up with incompatibilities, upgrades and what else.
The express version is free. Which is really a stripped down version meant to students and small business that, according to the plan, will later on need to buy the costly standard version. Another strategy to suck up money... Sadly is very likely going to work.
I see it now, my mistake.
A loss of amplitude, or an attenuation, means a change in the content of the signal
FM is frequency modulated so most probably a loss of amplitude won't distort the analog data being transmitted.
There are a lot of places where your statement is false. In my university the IT department spend a LOT of time fixing the computers and errors produced by heavy network traffic produced by this virus. You can't help that the laptop of rich daddy princess isn't up to date.
;)
You are just elitist
I think you are missing many form of matter already discovered, this should be the seventh.
One year ago scientists created the sixth one, look at this previous slashot news story.
Paradox confirmed that Dynarox used a dumper they made to get the games binaries. Since Paradox is located in Europe they couldn't easily find UMD's to dump so gave their dumper to an USA guy. This person lend the dumper to a friend and the friend released the games under Dynarox to steal the glory
I really don't know if this is going to work or not, I never said I was sure, but if Paradox is really behind this I bet a loader will come soon... But I'm not really sure, never said I was, all is speculation =)
Sony isn't killing their own system, in fact are struggling to keep it alive. Right now Sony is making no money from selling the system, the real cash flow comes from licensing every game anyone wants to release for their product. If the firmware is opened piracy would hit big time since the PSP is equipped with a Memory Stick slot which is faster than the UMD drive... oddly copied games would run faster than original ones :S that would scare away developers and the PSP would be another failure pretty much like the dreamcast
Seems like 1.5.x will soon run homebrew applications, the warez group Dynarox did dump UMD games and released promising a loader soon... Wouldn't like if piracy hit the PSP market but homebrew is way cool, can't wait until someone makes a Linux diestrum that runs from the memory stick :)
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More info: http://www.psphacker.com/2005/05/loader-in-near-f
Dreams are used by the unconscious to express its inner preoccupations, I dont think forcing dreams to be something is a good idea for human psyche health.
And I dont know about you but I find strange chaotic dreams way funnier then dreaming about a girl I can dream of while awake. That is if you like to find the meaning of your dreams (or are in therapy).
As an average Internet addict i must say... Please tell me where can I download social life!!!
You CAN do that in Windows 2000 and XP, just download Microsoft TeakUI from here (Is the one for Windows 2000 but works on XP as well and is way better).
Is fun how always someone bitches to Microsoft.