"Or should the Fx developers be forced to protect you from your own carelessness?"
Yes. I should not have to know a damn thing about computers in order to protect my information.
Granny buys something online and sees that auto complete can save her time next time. She won't stop to think about how it works if she even stops to read anything at all before clicking "yes" to the "would you like to use auto complete" dialog.
All auto complete information should be encrypted. No excuses.
"End Task" sends the application a WM_QUIT window message, waits a period of time for the applicaiton to quit on its own and then terminates the process if the quit request times out. This gives the program the opertunity to gracefully close.
Right Click a task, choose "Go to process" and then press "End Process". This will instantly terminate the process.
MS crippling their Mp3 encoder doesn't really bother me, while it is truly an unfair business practice, so what, WMAs rock Mp3s. They are smaller in size and there is a noticeable improvement in audio quality over Mp3s (I have not compared to ogg). The new approach is better however: WMP simply defaults to WMA over Mp3. On a side note, I think WMP is an excellent program. When minimized, its memory foot print is smaller than WinAmp's on most systems and the music library is spectacular. My only complaints would be the lack of a search-as-you-type feature and that the "All Music" list is sometimes slow to load causing the program to hang for about 5 seconds.
Aero is not being backported to WinXP. Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS are going to be supported of WinXP; this makes Aero THE reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
As interesting and promising as this is, it is currently useless because it seems to produce low quality renders.
The screenshots on the site all show images that could easily be rendered with much greater quality and efficiancy using shadow maps or stencil shadows and manual matrix transformations with portal rendering for reflections.
When this hardware can render scenes on par with that of a professional software ray tracer in real time, then there will be some serious consumer demand.
I'm confused why this is considered an IE vulnerability? And I am even more confused as to why people pin this on Java.
If a user downloads an untrusted applet and grants it unrestricted security access, EVERY SINGLE THING ON YOUR COMPUTER IS VULNERABLE. Just because this particular exploit attacks IE, doens't mean that the exact same applet couldn't be altered to infect Firefox of even something completely different like Adobe Photoshop.
...a "timeline" or "calender" search might be interesting. Rather than a planner calender, a calender search could be very interesting.
Say I search for "sumpreme court cases" on this theoretical "Google Calender", it could return a time line of all supreme court cases with the more notible cases in larger fonts. Entries could have references and the like. It would fit with the Google mission statement...
Some security (read: pin number) is really important just to protect from charges for stupid stuff if lets say i loose my cell and don't get realize to call and cancel my service for a day or so.
On my phone, I have the web browser (pay per kilobyte) and text message center (pay per outgoing message) require my pin number as well as require a pin number to make international calls.
The editors should be warned if a link in the article matches a link in an article from within the past 4 weeks, it should show "potential dupes" and require a "this is not a dupe" validation before posting.
Maybe something with natural language processing and article summary comparisons could be done also?
that there are still so many infected machines out there with sasser and blaster and other worms/viruses/etc and no one does anything about it!
ISPs should detect infected machines. Whenever these machines attempt to view a web page, show a page to download a removal tool as well as the latest patches. Allow the system to be repaired, and then reallow it on the network. Provide some override (and a number to call to access it) incase someone badly needs the internet and doesn't have time to fix the virus, but keep the machine marked and make sure to follow up on it. ISPs could call make this virus protection mechinism a compedative feature.
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"Or should the Fx developers be forced to protect you from your own carelessness?"
Yes. I should not have to know a damn thing about computers in order to protect my information.
Granny buys something online and sees that auto complete can save her time next time. She won't stop to think about how it works if she even stops to read anything at all before clicking "yes" to the "would you like to use auto complete" dialog.
All auto complete information should be encrypted. No excuses.
"End Task" sends the application a WM_QUIT window message, waits a period of time for the applicaiton to quit on its own and then terminates the process if the quit request times out. This gives the program the opertunity to gracefully close.
Right Click a task, choose "Go to process" and then press "End Process". This will instantly terminate the process.
Oh the irony:
This comment posted just 7 minutes before your comment.
Alyx and Barney never gave me a problem, but the squad mates drove me nuts.
It took about 10 seconds of being stuck in a narrow hallway before I riddled them full of bullet holes.
Personally, I'm waiting for the version that interfaces with your brain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4396387.stm
It seems Microsoft is really bad at naming things... .net, c#, me, word, and I am sure there are a dosen others, but now THE FRIGGING LETTER N??
Do they have no respect for the ability to search for anything??
You can be damn sure that if you query for "iWhatever" you will find it, but not so with Microsoft's products.
more than the minimum...
MS crippling their Mp3 encoder doesn't really bother me, while it is truly an unfair business practice, so what, WMAs rock Mp3s. They are smaller in size and there is a noticeable improvement in audio quality over Mp3s (I have not compared to ogg). The new approach is better however: WMP simply defaults to WMA over Mp3. On a side note, I think WMP is an excellent program. When minimized, its memory foot print is smaller than WinAmp's on most systems and the music library is spectacular. My only complaints would be the lack of a search-as-you-type feature and that the "All Music" list is sometimes slow to load causing the program to hang for about 5 seconds.
All of these reasons are why I use C#
It's all the good stuff from VB with a C-style syntax, a far superior class library, better performance, etc, etc, etc
Everyone is forgetting about Aero
Alvon is to Quartz as Aero is to Aqua
Aero is not being backported to WinXP. Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS are going to be supported of WinXP; this makes Aero THE reason to upgrade to Longhorn.No, mod parent down...
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OK, now how long before it is no longer considered beta?
As interesting and promising as this is, it is currently useless because it seems to produce low quality renders.
The screenshots on the site all show images that could easily be rendered with much greater quality and efficiancy using shadow maps or stencil shadows and manual matrix transformations with portal rendering for reflections.
When this hardware can render scenes on par with that of a professional software ray tracer in real time, then there will be some serious consumer demand.
I'm confused why this is considered an IE vulnerability? And I am even more confused as to why people pin this on Java.
If a user downloads an untrusted applet and grants it unrestricted security access, EVERY SINGLE THING ON YOUR COMPUTER IS VULNERABLE. Just because this particular exploit attacks IE, doens't mean that the exact same applet couldn't be altered to infect Firefox of even something completely different like Adobe Photoshop.
Unfortunately this requires both users on either end of the instant message to have strong encryption enabled.
Also, if I am not mistaken, it only works once a direct connection has been established.
Unfortunatly this requires both users on either end of the instant message to have strong encryption enabled.
Also, if I am not mistaken, it only works once a direct connection has been established.
The vast majority of universities provide students with legal copies of office.
Well excellent... put this in the Google FAQ for webmasters:
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http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#toofa
Why not enhance the robots.txt format to include a max crawl rate variable? Let the webmaster specify how often a robot is allowed to crawl a page.
Now, also available in a "pleasure model" ...damn I love south park...
...a "timeline" or "calender" search might be interesting. Rather than a planner calender, a calender search could be very interesting.
Say I search for "sumpreme court cases" on this theoretical "Google Calender", it could return a time line of all supreme court cases with the more notible cases in larger fonts. Entries could have references and the like. It would fit with the Google mission statement...
Some security (read: pin number) is really important just to protect from charges for stupid stuff if lets say i loose my cell and don't get realize to call and cancel my service for a day or so.
On my phone, I have the web browser (pay per kilobyte) and text message center (pay per outgoing message) require my pin number as well as require a pin number to make international calls.
I personally loved networked games of GTA2 with my co-workers to be "productive" with low end video cards
The editors should be warned if a link in the article matches a link in an article from within the past 4 weeks, it should show "potential dupes" and require a "this is not a dupe" validation before posting.
Maybe something with natural language processing and article summary comparisons could be done also?
that there are still so many infected machines out there with sasser and blaster and other worms/viruses/etc and no one does anything about it!
ISPs should detect infected machines. Whenever these machines attempt to view a web page, show a page to download a removal tool as well as the latest patches. Allow the system to be repaired, and then reallow it on the network. Provide some override (and a number to call to access it) incase someone badly needs the internet and doesn't have time to fix the virus, but keep the machine marked and make sure to follow up on it. ISPs could call make this virus protection mechinism a compedative feature.