You are assuming that they did destroy evidence. If you lost the right to appeal a decision based on findings in that decision, you'd end up with a catch-22 type situation that could be abused.
They'll get their appeal. If the appelete court finds nothing wrong with the lower courts decision, they'll lose. If the lower court erred, they'll get a do-over, and they'll win or lose on the merits.
TIVO's guide speed is dependent on which guide style you use. But, I could believe that TIVO's guide speed is slower than any other box's. But, remember, one TIVO guide style is much faster than the other.
The TIVO UI in general is "laggy". It often takes several seconds to transition between screens. The live tv guide is probably the worst offender, as paging down twice takes about 15 seconds to populate the information. Not horrible -- just annoying.
The actual speeds are 3x, 20x, and 60x. You did press the fast forward button three times, right?
There is also a way to change these values so that they're faster.
The machines will have to be able to void individual paper ballots if the voter, looking through the viewplate, realizes he didn't vote the right way. All this paper handling adds a lot of mechanical complexity to the machine, making breakdowns more likely.
Just make a void ballet box at the end of the ballet; when printing the ballot, wait on the 'void' line until the user validates the ballot. No complicated paper handling at all.
The Microsoft beta spyware tool is publicly available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displa ylang=en; it seems to work pretty well by all public reports, though I haven't had to fix anyone's computer lately so I can't speak from personal experience.
Another one you can look for is SpyBot Seek & Destroy, availble at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.h tml . The name is cheesy, but it is very effective and catches a lot of stuff that AdAware misses.
You may also have problems with the computer not being able to boot if you have something called "TV Media" installed; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885523 for more information.
Get a good spyware detector/cleaner and remove the 50,000 pieces of spyware that are sitting on your GFs computer. Some of the more 'poorly' written spyware hooks into system DLLs and doesn't interact well (ie: causes system crashes) with some of the changers SP2 has made.
No, they didn't do anything like this to Trillian. They deprecated an old protocol and gave everyone plenty of notice about it. The old protocol sent passwords over the wire insecurly.
You're thinking of AIM and Yahoo!, who have repeatedly attempted to lock out 3rd party IM clients.
To be fair, he started to answer the question from that perspective until Roblimo interrupted him and said he wasn't answering the question being asked...
An icon file isn't just a fancy pants way to store a 16x16 picture. Icon files typically have several different versions of the icon present. "Why, how can you have different versions of an icon?" you say? Primarily because icons aren't just 16x16. They're also 2-4 times larger, and there are typically different versions at different color depths.
You don't have access to just 3 or 4 channels, rather you can receive 3-4 channels of content simultaneously (ex: for different tvs in a house, or your tv + vcr, etc).
All this does is create a standardized process for what it is you're doing. You won't see any improvements with this, because you have to encode the binary data in MIME form.
No wait... let's represent that XML in a more efficeint binary format.
Except that's not what they're doing at all. They're encoding binary data IN an XML document. They're using a principle similar to how one would go about attaching a file to an email.
Spyware doesn't come from just browsing the web. It comes from applications you install as well. That, and spyware detection utilities consider cookies from adserving sites to be "spyware".
The 3rd season has actually been somewhat entertaining; it would be hard for the new writers to do much worse than Berman...
However, I wouldn't say it comes anywhere close to the best scifi ever seen on tv. I would say it is somewhere between the early seasons of Andromeda and the later seasons of Voyager. It isn't in the same league as Farscape, Stargate, TNG, DS9, or Galactica.
The thing about this series which held so much promise is that they could have filled in much of the backstory of the trek universe. Very little is known about what happened before TOS. How did the Federation form? What role did the Vulcans play? Why do the Klingons hate the Federation so much? When did Starfleet form? Who was the first member? How did the prime directive come into being? There is at least 5 seasons worth of content there, and I only thought about it for 30 seconds. Not to mention the generic "we're exploring the universe" filler.
There is a few hundred years worth of story that has been untold in the Trek Universe. But what did Berman do? "Fuck that shit, I'm going to do a bunch of dumbass scripts about time travel." Any time the original series premise got in the way of doing some lame ass stunt, starfleet suddenly invent whatever it was they needed or some timetravel crap was pulled. The technobabble in Voyager was bad enough, but what Berman did was just lame.
People weren't getting their panties in a wad because "continuity" was broken. They got their panties in a wad because it was Star Trek in name only. There was a ship called Enterprise, it had a crew, and it flew through space. Oh, and there was planet Earth. That's about it.
MSRP is the worst case scenario; you won't pay more than MSRP for the software. In this particular case, everyone is saying that the prices have gone up. Even if you just look at MSRP, you can see such a statement is false.
While the volume has increased, the number of full time employees working on it has also increased, cost of living in the region Microsoft is based has gone up, the value of the dollar has gone down (both in a worldwide sense and an inflationary sense), employees are payed more than they used to, and taxes have increased. This, of course, implies that it is more expensive to produce software than it was before.
Obviously, we're both taking very simplistic approaches in our analasys. There are a lot of factors involved in determining how much it costs to produce a given piece of software.
But, at the end of the day, anyone asserting that Microsoft is charging more now than they used to is incorrect in that assertion.
Back in the 80s, you used to have to pay over $500 for just a word processor (WP 4.2 for example). So yes, Office is cheap.
The list price for the standard edition of Office is $399 (the version that has Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint). Contrast that with the first office bundle which included three applications and cost just under $500.
The price for the version you quoted would be the Professional Edition which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Business Contact Manager, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Access.
Your pricing information is incorrect, as is your recollection of "historical" prices. I have never seen the MSRP of Word fall under $100.
The MSRP of Microsoft Word 2003 is $229. Your number is off by more than 20%. It is trivial to find the standalone application available for a cost drastically lower than MSRP.
In 1986, Wordperfect 4.2 sold for $500. Microsoft Office (which had 3 applications at the time) came out at cost slightly less than that. Today the MSRP of Microsoft Office Standard Edition (which has 4 applications bundled) is $400.
Excluding inflation, the Office Suite produced by Microsoft is cheaper than it was 15 years ago (and you get more with it). If you take inflation into account, the cost of software has dropped significantly.
I never said they were CPU bound. Most processes are limited by IO or memory bandwidth. Traditional XML parsing is bound by the latter. Compressing the text stream results in more hits to memory, not less. Binary XML does not incur this hit. It has the added benefit of reducing the processing power required to use it, which in general increases the scalability of your server.
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I would submit that Rambus probably has the least amount of money to spend on lawyers among the parties involved in the suit ...
You are assuming that they did destroy evidence. If you lost the right to appeal a decision based on findings in that decision, you'd end up with a catch-22 type situation that could be abused.
They'll get their appeal. If the appelete court finds nothing wrong with the lower courts decision, they'll lose. If the lower court erred, they'll get a do-over, and they'll win or lose on the merits.
TIVO's guide speed is dependent on which guide style you use. But, I could believe that TIVO's guide speed is slower than any other box's. But, remember, one TIVO guide style is much faster than the other.
The TIVO UI in general is "laggy". It often takes several seconds to transition between screens. The live tv guide is probably the worst offender, as paging down twice takes about 15 seconds to populate the information. Not horrible -- just annoying.
The actual speeds are 3x, 20x, and 60x. You did press the fast forward button three times, right?
There is also a way to change these values so that they're faster.
Then by your logic an older version of Rehat should have been used as well.
Install stock XP
Microsoft doesn't sell SP1 versions of WinXP anymore.
The machines will have to be able to void individual paper ballots if the voter, looking through the viewplate, realizes he didn't vote the right way. All this paper handling adds a lot of mechanical complexity to the machine, making breakdowns more likely.
Just make a void ballet box at the end of the ballet; when printing the ballot, wait on the 'void' line until the user validates the ballot. No complicated paper handling at all.
The Microsoft beta spyware tool is publicly available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displa ylang=en; it seems to work pretty well by all public reports, though I haven't had to fix anyone's computer lately so I can't speak from personal experience.
h tml . The name is cheesy, but it is very effective and catches a lot of stuff that AdAware misses.
Another one you can look for is SpyBot Seek & Destroy, availble at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.
You may also have problems with the computer not being able to boot if you have something called "TV Media" installed; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885523 for more information.
Get a good spyware detector/cleaner and remove the 50,000 pieces of spyware that are sitting on your GFs computer. Some of the more 'poorly' written spyware hooks into system DLLs and doesn't interact well (ie: causes system crashes) with some of the changers SP2 has made.
No, they didn't do anything like this to Trillian. They deprecated an old protocol and gave everyone plenty of notice about it. The old protocol sent passwords over the wire insecurly.
You're thinking of AIM and Yahoo!, who have repeatedly attempted to lock out 3rd party IM clients.
To be fair, he started to answer the question from that perspective until Roblimo interrupted him and said he wasn't answering the question being asked ...
An icon file isn't just a fancy pants way to store a 16x16 picture. Icon files typically have several different versions of the icon present. "Why, how can you have different versions of an icon?" you say? Primarily because icons aren't just 16x16. They're also 2-4 times larger, and there are typically different versions at different color depths.
You don't have access to just 3 or 4 channels, rather you can receive 3-4 channels of content simultaneously (ex: for different tvs in a house, or your tv + vcr, etc).
The iPod is the blade, while the iPod battery is the razor. :p
Microsoft doesn't receive $50 per sale. The retailers take a good cut of that.
All this does is create a standardized process for what it is you're doing. You won't see any improvements with this, because you have to encode the binary data in MIME form.
No wait... let's represent that XML in a more efficeint binary format.
Except that's not what they're doing at all. They're encoding binary data IN an XML document. They're using a principle similar to how one would go about attaching a file to an email.
The referenced "exploit" in SQL Server was nicknamed slammer.
Spyware doesn't come from just browsing the web. It comes from applications you install as well. That, and spyware detection utilities consider cookies from adserving sites to be "spyware".
The 3rd season has actually been somewhat entertaining; it would be hard for the new writers to do much worse than Berman...
However, I wouldn't say it comes anywhere close to the best scifi ever seen on tv. I would say it is somewhere between the early seasons of Andromeda and the later seasons of Voyager. It isn't in the same league as Farscape, Stargate, TNG, DS9, or Galactica.
The thing about this series which held so much promise is that they could have filled in much of the backstory of the trek universe. Very little is known about what happened before TOS. How did the Federation form? What role did the Vulcans play? Why do the Klingons hate the Federation so much? When did Starfleet form? Who was the first member? How did the prime directive come into being? There is at least 5 seasons worth of content there, and I only thought about it for 30 seconds. Not to mention the generic "we're exploring the universe" filler.
There is a few hundred years worth of story that has been untold in the Trek Universe. But what did Berman do? "Fuck that shit, I'm going to do a bunch of dumbass scripts about time travel." Any time the original series premise got in the way of doing some lame ass stunt, starfleet suddenly invent whatever it was they needed or some timetravel crap was pulled. The technobabble in Voyager was bad enough, but what Berman did was just lame.
People weren't getting their panties in a wad because "continuity" was broken. They got their panties in a wad because it was Star Trek in name only. There was a ship called Enterprise, it had a crew, and it flew through space. Oh, and there was planet Earth. That's about it.
MSRP is the worst case scenario; you won't pay more than MSRP for the software. In this particular case, everyone is saying that the prices have gone up. Even if you just look at MSRP, you can see such a statement is false.
While the volume has increased, the number of full time employees working on it has also increased, cost of living in the region Microsoft is based has gone up, the value of the dollar has gone down (both in a worldwide sense and an inflationary sense), employees are payed more than they used to, and taxes have increased. This, of course, implies that it is more expensive to produce software than it was before.
Obviously, we're both taking very simplistic approaches in our analasys. There are a lot of factors involved in determining how much it costs to produce a given piece of software.
But, at the end of the day, anyone asserting that Microsoft is charging more now than they used to is incorrect in that assertion.
Back in the 80s, you used to have to pay over $500 for just a word processor (WP 4.2 for example). So yes, Office is cheap.
The list price for the standard edition of Office is $399 (the version that has Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint). Contrast that with the first office bundle which included three applications and cost just under $500.
The price for the version you quoted would be the Professional Edition which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Business Contact Manager, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Access.
Your pricing information is incorrect, as is your recollection of "historical" prices. I have never seen the MSRP of Word fall under $100.
The MSRP of Microsoft Word 2003 is $229. Your number is off by more than 20%. It is trivial to find the standalone application available for a cost drastically lower than MSRP.
In 1986, Wordperfect 4.2 sold for $500. Microsoft Office (which had 3 applications at the time) came out at cost slightly less than that. Today the MSRP of Microsoft Office Standard Edition (which has 4 applications bundled) is $400.
Excluding inflation, the Office Suite produced by Microsoft is cheaper than it was 15 years ago (and you get more with it). If you take inflation into account, the cost of software has dropped significantly.
TiVo, the new Apple.
I never said they were CPU bound. Most processes are limited by IO or memory bandwidth. Traditional XML parsing is bound by the latter. Compressing the text stream results in more hits to memory, not less. Binary XML does not incur this hit. It has the added benefit of reducing the processing power required to use it, which in general increases the scalability of your server.