There is no real reason to fly that particular ship. SS1 could probably be recreated at a small percentage of the money they've spent so far. R&D soaked up the largest part by far.
The actual question is why? What mission can SS1 really fly, other than tourism? It has far more value in a museum, because it is the first.
Why try to squish a TV size signal over the existing crappy copper? Why not spend that same money putting the phone over the other existing pipe, the existing cable line?
Oh....I know. Because the telephone companies are scared spitless. They have but one product, which is rapidly becoming obsolete. The cable/cell/internet companies are taking over the phone service, so the phone company has to try to take over the tv business.
I used to take tech support phone calls for an ISP, and a father called in wanting the password to his daughter's email account because she died in a car accident.
Social engineering at its best. Kevin Mitnick would love you.
Banks require a death certificate to access a deceased person's account, impressed with the official seal. An internet/email acct, which may allow access to that bank acct, etc, should require the same.
is a pretty good shield. Your 'boys', however, are not. I'd suggest those of you who carry your phone in your front pocket think about carrying it somewhere else.
Now you need the forms/reports (and associative macros) that that other 99% Access users will need.
Check the Wizards included in this prerelease. They do that as well. Forms, subforms, reports...all using standard OOo file formats. No, it does not open the mdb and its internal objects as such. But quite similar functionality. And for most users (your 99%), this just might be similar enough to replace what they do in Access.
The one who makes an Access alternative that can CRUD an MDB will win
This version of OOo Base can do exactly that. The only parts of an MDB it doesn't work with are the forms/reports/macros. Tables (internal and linked) and queries are opened seamlessly.
The Access clone doesn't appear to open access mdb files.
No, it doesn't open an mdb natively with all the forms & reports. But you can ODBC in, and CRUD all the tables, data, and queries.
useless to companies that already have bunch of access stuff already.
Those wishing to move their inhouse apps off Access can use this to create new OOo front ends, using their current data, in its current location in the MDB. Then, later, move the data out of Access, and retain the new, OOo based, frontend.
Remodeling/rebuilding a database is only a nightmare if the first one was built shoddily. Neither OOo, Access, Oracle, MySQL, or any other db tool can prevent that.
1. edit/etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3, 2. this means find the line
id:3:initdefault:
which will normally read 5 and change it to 3 (like mine is), Fedora inittab files are well commented and explain what to do, others are probably similar. 3.
To go into X (the windowing system) you type startx after logging in, this gives you your regular desktop, gnome, kde, xfce, whatever.
4. When you are bored with email quit out of X and run your game with (I think)
xinit/usr/local/games/doom3/doom3
You expect Joe Sixpack to do all that to play a game? Not a chance. You might as well be speaking Mandarin.
I think GIMP compares more to PaintshopPro instead of Photoshop. GIMP and PSP are more of a very compenent second rank tool, with Photoshop being the first rank.
And for most peoples needs, GIMP or PSP is more than enough.
I'd guess that most of the people using Photoshop do so just because a) they got/pirated it for free, and b) it's popular. Pros use it because there is no viable alternative. And then there are the non-pro fools that actually shelled out all that money for it.
Printing a list can never be an illegal act. At least not in a free country it cant.
"Hey guys. Come to my site for a list of illegal arms dealers! Addresses, phone numbers, websites! Get your AK-47 today!"
Now..illegal arms dealers are vastly more dangerous than unauthorized movies, but still 'not legal'.
How can posting a list of files possibly be illegal?By helping to provide the means to actually get the file in the list. Clickable links to actually get the file is far different from a text file.
...does he take the spyware distributors and virus writers to task. Yes, MS could and should make Windows more secure. But the chuckleheads create all this spyware and virus crap are at least as much to blame for the problem.
I've often wondered myself why someone couldn't do just this sort of thing for the independent artists, just a really straightforward service that charges reasonable fees, doesn't try to screw the customer and rewards the artists.
emusic.com, before they got bought out. And still, but to a lesser degree.
It's probably an image parser that just checks images for a large number of skin-tone pixels, and if it's above x% of the image, it's deemed pornographic.
That would either miss a lot, or cough up a lot of false positives.
Picure of a girl, in a skimpy bikini, sitting next to her boyfriend, his hand on her knee, on the beach. Typical vacation shot. Not pornographic (unless you live in Saudi Arabia).
Picture of the same girl, same beach, same boyfriend, same bikini. Except her head is thrown back, glazed look in her eyes, his hand down the front of her bikini. Probably pornographic.
Basically the same picture, but different intent. It's easy to differentiate a picture of a secretary sitting at a desk, and a money shot in Hustler, but there's a wide grey area in the middle, that you cannot do in code.
Is that a school in Japan, or a Japanese language school in the US (or elsewhere), or a school where all the classes are taught in Japanese? I 'think' youre talking about a school where Japanese is taught as a second language (spoken? written?), but it's not entirely clear. Define 'small'. 10 students? 50, 100?
small but not tiny budget
Define 'small' budget. $500, $500, $50,000?
What about online lessons via webcam?
What kind of classes? Some types work better, some don't. Teaching Japanese might fit into the "don't" category (resolution and frame rate).
It's not entirely clear what you are trying to teach, or what problem the 'high tech' solution is supposed to fix.
what this really is trying to do is to set up a legal basis for pursuing some kind of monetary "damages" from game manufacturers for failure to enforce the law.
Really? Has any state sued WarnerBros of Fox for allowing an under 17 into an R-rated movie? No...if anything happens, it would be the retailer who gets it. Not EA, id, Valve, or whoever.
These aren't mere stamp machines. The new ones are self contained post offices. You can mail (anthrax filled)packages and letter (bombs), buy stamps, etc., without interfacing with a human
I'm sure Ted Kazinski, or the post-9/11 anthrax guy would have loved a machine like this.
1. Somebody emails you a file
2 You, apparently without ever looking at it, run that file through something like jpeg2avi or nasm
3 Gasp! You've been 0wned!
Which is precisely how many Win boxes get compromised.
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The actual question is why? What mission can SS1 really fly, other than tourism? It has far more value in a museum, because it is the first.
Oh....I know. Because the telephone companies are scared spitless. They have but one product, which is rapidly becoming obsolete. The cable/cell/internet companies are taking over the phone service, so the phone company has to try to take over the tv business.
Fools.
What the judge did was, IMHO, right, in the same way that bank robbery doesn't meet the specifics of the traffic laws.
Charge him with what he actually did, and let him plead guilty to that.
Social engineering at its best. Kevin Mitnick would love you.
Banks require a death certificate to access a deceased person's account, impressed with the official seal. An internet/email acct, which may allow access to that bank acct, etc, should require the same.
is a pretty good shield. Your 'boys', however, are not. I'd suggest those of you who carry your phone in your front pocket think about carrying it somewhere else.
Already done, except for putting the URL on the box.
Check the Wizards included in this prerelease. They do that as well. Forms, subforms, reports...all using standard OOo file formats.
No, it does not open the mdb and its internal objects as such. But quite similar functionality. And for most users (your 99%), this just might be similar enough to replace what they do in Access.
Read on, grasshopper:
Yourde and Peachy
This version of OOo Base can do exactly that. The only parts of an MDB it doesn't work with are the forms/reports/macros. Tables (internal and linked) and queries are opened seamlessly.
No, it doesn't open an mdb natively with all the forms & reports. But you can ODBC in, and CRUD all the tables, data, and queries.
useless to companies that already have bunch of access stuff already.
Those wishing to move their inhouse apps off Access can use this to create new OOo front ends, using their current data, in its current location in the MDB.
Then, later, move the data out of Access, and retain the new, OOo based, frontend.
Remodeling/rebuilding a database is only a nightmare if the first one was built shoddily. Neither OOo, Access, Oracle, MySQL, or any other db tool can prevent that.
2. this means find the line id:3:initdefault: which will normally read 5 and change it to 3 (like mine is), Fedora inittab files are well commented and explain what to do, others are probably similar.
3. To go into X (the windowing system) you type startx after logging in, this gives you your regular desktop, gnome, kde, xfce, whatever.
4. When you are bored with email quit out of X and run your game with (I think) xinit
You expect Joe Sixpack to do all that to play a game? Not a chance. You might as well be speaking Mandarin.
And for most peoples needs, GIMP or PSP is more than enough.
I'd guess that most of the people using Photoshop do so just because a) they got/pirated it for free, and b) it's popular. Pros use it because there is no viable alternative. And then there are the non-pro fools that actually shelled out all that money for it.
And the same can be said for most torrent/P2P sites. More goods(files) = more more vistors = more ad revenue for the website.
And both may be illegal
"Conspiracy to commit..."
"Hey guys. Come to my site for a list of illegal arms dealers! Addresses, phone numbers, websites! Get your AK-47 today!"
Now..illegal arms dealers are vastly more dangerous than unauthorized movies, but still 'not legal'.
How can posting a list of files possibly be illegal?By helping to provide the means to actually get the file in the list. Clickable links to actually get the file is far different from a text file.
...does he take the spyware distributors and virus writers to task. Yes, MS could and should make Windows more secure. But the chuckleheads create all this spyware and virus crap are at least as much to blame for the problem.
emusic.com, before they got bought out. And still, but to a lesser degree.
That would either miss a lot, or cough up a lot of false positives.
Picure of a girl, in a skimpy bikini, sitting next to her boyfriend, his hand on her knee, on the beach. Typical vacation shot.
Not pornographic (unless you live in Saudi Arabia).
Picture of the same girl, same beach, same boyfriend, same bikini. Except her head is thrown back, glazed look in her eyes, his hand down the front of her bikini.
Probably pornographic.
Basically the same picture, but different intent. It's easy to differentiate a picture of a secretary sitting at a desk, and a money shot in Hustler, but there's a wide grey area in the middle, that you cannot do in code.
MS charges a fee for a necessary tool: "Charging for this? What a ripoff!" (even though their major competitors charge a fee for similar tools)
Yes, that money may have been better spent in actually fixing the items that need these security tools, but it seems like they can't win either way.
Is that a school in Japan, or a Japanese language school in the US (or elsewhere), or a school where all the classes are taught in Japanese?
I 'think' youre talking about a school where Japanese is taught as a second language (spoken? written?), but it's not entirely clear.
Define 'small'. 10 students? 50, 100?
small but not tiny budget
Define 'small' budget. $500, $500, $50,000?
What about online lessons via webcam?
What kind of classes? Some types work better, some don't. Teaching Japanese might fit into the "don't" category (resolution and frame rate).
It's not entirely clear what you are trying to teach, or what problem the 'high tech' solution is supposed to fix.
Is restricting the sale of Hustler or 'Anal Action' to over 18's 'censorship, in your eyes?
Really? Has any state sued WarnerBros of Fox for allowing an under 17 into an R-rated movie? No...if anything happens, it would be the retailer who gets it. Not EA, id, Valve, or whoever.
I'm sure Ted Kazinski, or the post-9/11 anthrax guy would have loved a machine like this.
2 You, apparently without ever looking at it, run that file through something like jpeg2avi or nasm
3 Gasp! You've been 0wned!
Which is precisely how many Win boxes get compromised.