I have done a quick search on this page for two keywords: "Hotmail" and "MSN" when it had already gathered about a hundred responses. No hits!
Has noone thought about the likelihood that Microsoft has bought multiplatform antivirus software to protect their Hotmail/MSN e-mail services, rather than implement it in a desktop OS? Microsoft has been talking for a long time about rental software services, and not moving the actual software to the desktop system, but implementing it behind the webinterface is actually a rather good solution to fighting e-mail born viruses. I don't expect you'll see this software in Windows, ever.
Well, let's hope then that this time most of those stockbrokers will actually take the time to read through the business plans of the dotcompanies they buy shares of. And maybe check out some of the excellent critical newsites out there on the Web, that blew those whistles long before the bubble burst.
I once read somewhere about an insanely simple and cheap solution: cover the inlets and outlets with pieces of your (wife's / sister's/ grandmother's) tights stretched over the in/outlet between the fan and the perforation in the casing. I've experimented with this myself, and although it is quite cumbersome to actually get it done, and more cumbersome having to remove the cloth periodically to clean it (with water and soap), it does actually keep a lot of dust out.
Hey, as long as they would use just HTML and JavaScript as their materials, they would at least release the source along with the rendered images. How many artists do THAT?
Alas, they do appear to use a lot of GIF stored imagery where it might have been SVG!
Unfortunately, Planet Internet is an awful ISP in every other respect. When I stopped using their services after three years of frustration with their unreliable SMTP, their lack of SPAM wave filtering, and having to put up with their customer service SPAM as well as a completely ignorant help desk service ("You have problems sending large e-mail? OK, let's run through your ISDN hardware configuration first."). They dropped their monthly fee, and then started luring customers with all kinds of add-on services, without improving the quality of the actual connection service. Then they started billing dial-up cost (pay per minute) instead of the telco with no opt-out regulation, so I could not separate Internet use between private and business anymore. And THEN I had just about had it, and switched to an ISP that simply runs a decent service, doesn't offer (too many) entertainment add-ons, and doesn't offer those written out in SPAM.
Interesting is, that this ISP simply *has to* offer these add-on services, as their fee is much too low, but also because they are the daughter company of telco KPN Telecom, and they (need to/ have been ordered to) generate interest in KPN's broadband services this way. You simply wouldn't download a 500MB game over a dial-up connection, so this is just another scheme to drive people's interest in purchasing broadband connections.
That's easy: There's radio beacons in ALL major harbours they can use to pinpoint their position and track a path all the way to the dock, there's human guidance, both on board, using tow boats and by radio, there's radar to check for ships in their immediate vicinity, and all those methods are much more reliable than GPS.
Remember that GPS only gives you a position, whereas many harbours also feature tides and other strong currents, depths, visual beacons, a lot of ship movements, traffic control, and so on. There's no way you could guide yourself into a large seaport safely with only a GPS system and no external help.
I can't agree with the greatness of the job. If you'd care to learn Dutch and gloss over several releases of Microsoft's Dutch translation glossaries long enough, you'll find that a lot of Windows interface strings were changed in newer releases of Windows. Apparently there are no solid guidelines for names of user interface objects, so every new translator on the job of translating a new release of Windows put in his/her own terminological ideas about how for instance the system tray should be called, and if they should be changed at all (a peculiarity of the Dutch language, which has been substituting English terms for perfectly useable Dutch terms since the Second World War).
I can write on pc's as on paper -- even my two year old daughter does it on a regular basis on my wife's, and my wife usually cleans it up after the little one has had her go. I used to put bumper stickers on my earlier machines. I think CM was just trying to point us to the more homely aspects of those otherwise boring gray boxes.
.. trying to easy my curiosity finding out how far down the comment list someone would acknowledge Mundie's mentioning "general public license". The first comment should have been titled: "Who?".
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That's a lot to prove and I doubt SCO will ever do it.
I bet you can remember the US justice system failing similarly before, though.
I have done a quick search on this page for two keywords: "Hotmail" and "MSN" when it had already gathered about a hundred responses. No hits!
Has noone thought about the likelihood that Microsoft has bought multiplatform antivirus software to protect their Hotmail/MSN e-mail services, rather than implement it in a desktop OS? Microsoft has been talking for a long time about rental software services, and not moving the actual software to the desktop system, but implementing it behind the webinterface is actually a rather good solution to fighting e-mail born viruses. I don't expect you'll see this software in Windows, ever.
Well, let's hope then that this time most of those stockbrokers will actually take the time to read through the business plans of the dotcompanies they buy shares of. And maybe check out some of the excellent critical newsites out there on the Web, that blew those whistles long before the bubble burst.
I once read somewhere about an insanely simple and cheap solution: cover the inlets and outlets with pieces of your (wife's / sister's/ grandmother's) tights stretched over the in/outlet between the fan and the perforation in the casing. I've experimented with this myself, and although it is quite cumbersome to actually get it done, and more cumbersome having to remove the cloth periodically to clean it (with water and soap), it does actually keep a lot of dust out.
Hey, as long as they would use just HTML and JavaScript as their materials, they would at least release the source along with the rendered images. How many artists do THAT?
Alas, they do appear to use a lot of GIF stored imagery where it might have been SVG!
Unfortunately, Planet Internet is an awful ISP in every other respect. When I stopped using their services after three years of frustration with their unreliable SMTP, their lack of SPAM wave filtering, and having to put up with their customer service SPAM as well as a completely ignorant help desk service ("You have problems sending large e-mail? OK, let's run through your ISDN hardware configuration first."). They dropped their monthly fee, and then started luring customers with all kinds of add-on services, without improving the quality of the actual connection service. Then they started billing dial-up cost (pay per minute) instead of the telco with no opt-out regulation, so I could not separate Internet use between private and business anymore. And THEN I had just about had it, and switched to an ISP that simply runs a decent service, doesn't offer (too many) entertainment add-ons, and doesn't offer those written out in SPAM.
Interesting is, that this ISP simply *has to* offer these add-on services, as their fee is much too low, but also because they are the daughter company of telco KPN Telecom, and they (need to/ have been ordered to) generate interest in KPN's broadband services this way. You simply wouldn't download a 500MB game over a dial-up connection, so this is just another scheme to drive people's interest in purchasing broadband connections.
That's easy: There's radio beacons in ALL major harbours they can use to pinpoint their position and track a path all the way to the dock, there's human guidance, both on board, using tow boats and by radio, there's radar to check for ships in their immediate vicinity, and all those methods are much more reliable than GPS.
Remember that GPS only gives you a position, whereas many harbours also feature tides and other strong currents, depths, visual beacons, a lot of ship movements, traffic control, and so on. There's no way you could guide yourself into a large seaport safely with only a GPS system and no external help.
How come that Sony Corp keeps shooting itself in the foot this way?
I suddenly remembered one of many translation mistakes in Windows 98 SE Dutch Edition: AMD, the chip maker, as anyone will know short for
Advanced Micro Devices,
was actually translated as
Geavanceerde micro-apparaten
Now please!
I can't agree with the greatness of the job. If you'd care to learn Dutch and gloss over several releases of Microsoft's Dutch translation glossaries long enough, you'll find that a lot of Windows interface strings were changed in newer releases of Windows. Apparently there are no solid guidelines for names of user interface objects, so every new translator on the job of translating a new release of Windows put in his/her own terminological ideas about how for instance the system tray should be called, and if they should be changed at all (a peculiarity of the Dutch language, which has been substituting English terms for perfectly useable Dutch terms since the Second World War).
I can write on pc's as on paper -- even my two year old daughter does it on a regular basis on my wife's, and my wife usually cleans it up after the little one has had her go. I used to put bumper stickers on my earlier machines. I think CM was just trying to point us to the more homely aspects of those otherwise boring gray boxes.
.. trying to easy my curiosity finding out how far down the comment list someone would acknowledge Mundie's mentioning "general public license". The first comment should have been titled: "Who?".