Amid all these ads I thought I would throw mine up: Softhome
I have been using them for several years now I find them a good provider. The only drag is that they limit the number of times that you can access your mailbox per hour but they have web & stmp access in both free and non-free accounts
They also use greylisting to limit spam which involves only letting email through that makes several attempts. I find it very effective
This reminds me of a similar story from a few weeks ago about hard drive size not being reported properly
In some ways this seems like to have more weight behind it - the hard drive story is about units interchanged (Gi -> G) while this one is about actual speeds being lied about
This really does not seem like a big deal to me (except the possibility of DRM which in itself seems remote). It reminds me of Winmodems: a piece of hardware made to work with and only with windows. They have been around for a long time. There are alternatives and those of us who support other companies besides ms can voice are dissent by purchasing these alternative products.
We don't need to run around yelling that the sky is falling for every little thing ms does
But say we see this asteroid while it is very far away and know it is coming. We would not be able to "intercept" it until it was very close to us. If we can intercept it at all. If it is big enough to have enough gravity that we can walk on it (per other reply) when it is close enough for use to fly to it it will be impossible to change its course
What I was sayng is that once we detect it changinging its course will be impossible
If a big asteroid is heading straight towards the Earth there is nothing, nadda, not anything anyone could do to stop it.
Movies like Armageddon are somewhat entertaining but absolute nonsense in a physics sense. By the time we see an asteroid coming for us it will aleady be trapped by gravity and altering its course will be impossible. Even if we could land on it (like it has its own gravity) or somehow shoot a rocket and try to blow up the combined impact of the big bits would be the same as the origional asteroid
Unfortunatly that will probably be mankind's demise one day...
I don't really blame @Stake for firing him at all. While he is free to have whatever view he wants and to express it in any way he wants that doesn't mean there can't be consequences for doing it. If I ran a company I would not be adverse to firing someone who made dispariging remarks about one of my biggest partners / supppliers / competitors
Making comments like that just increaces workplace hostility and makes workers less loyal to their firms.
Maybe he should have published it as an Anonymous Coward
Why should the government have the responsibility of cleaning up ms?! MS should clean themselves up or people should switch to alternatives for critical systems
My experience (working in tech support) is that searching the internet is a mystery to many users of windows machines. I have often said to users "just try searching" and they give me a vauge "...uhhh". If msn does develop a search that is inter-wolven into windows people will use it just because they don't know how to use anything else.
Joe User on his computer follows the path of least resistance. If outlook express is on his (or her) desktop the first time he boots up he will use outlook express just because he doesn't know anything else.
I see that as long as ms dominates the desktop platform they will be able to dominate (to an extent) any other platform they want. Look how popular visual studio and office are. They integrate tightly into windows. This makes them intuitive and easy to use for the average user.
I'm pretty sure that through court orders they would be able to track you down through your isp or through some other means. Being truely hidden is very hard and the isp would probably eventually have to give you up
a lot of the reason that firms stick with ms is the huge cost associated with moving away from ms and retraining your whole staff
if you already have loads resources using windows and office and moving them to linux and teaching all you staff to use it takes time. i feel it is worth it in the long run though. a school district here (canada) did started that migration a few years ago and there was a huge fight at first and still is (i know teachers and many don't like it) but people are learning to use it and the district is saving major coin
ms is just trying to prevent firms from realizing that savings
i heard that ms was changing the eula when they released patches
so basically if you agree to the first eula and then install a patch you may be unwittingly agreeing to another eula that is more restrictive / limited / allowing more intrusions then the first one
that is what made me nervous about applying too many ms patches
If we really believe in open source we should trust it to be able to stand on it's own two feet. My local school district uses open source extensivly and we have no law requiring it. They just use it because it is a better, not because there is a law
Is the next step to pass a law that non-open source must also be considered? Let open source stand on its own two feet
i bought a promise ide card to add another ide channel to my system and it just shut everything down. i could not boot into anything and removing the device made things no better
caused so many problems that i eventually just removed the card and reinstalled my os
i made sure that my newest mb had the multiple channels for raid built in:)
The difference in most computer products (software atleast) is that they can be duplicated with little cost or effort on the part of the duplicator
With other types of copying the cost to duplicate is higher so it acts as a deterent in a way
Not that I am fully supporting copying restrictions but there is two sides to the story
The reason that most big companies do not want to ship linux is they do not want to have to support joe computer user trying to use it. I wonder if Wal-Mart will have problems trying to support and help their customers use a product like linux (although Mandrake uses kde which is pretty user friendly)
Their "satisfaction garunteed" policy could run them into trouble
That's a very good point. It's hard to see anyome holding Linux people to financially responsible for their product when they give them away.
That is one of the things I like about the GPL that it lets people experiment and have others work with them to put out a truly quality product that they can take pride in
That's a good idea but changing all the servers and structures all over the internet would take a long time
Kind of like forcing all cars to stop using gas
Low power consumption is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as chips become smaller, denser, and faster. This design may be an indication of the type of chip to expect in the future
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Amid all these ads I thought I would throw mine up: Softhome
I have been using them for several years now I find them a good provider. The only drag is that they limit the number of times that you can access your mailbox per hour but they have web & stmp access in both free and non-free accounts
They also use greylisting to limit spam which involves only letting email through that makes several attempts. I find it very effective
This reminds me of a similar story from a few weeks ago about hard drive size not being reported properly
In some ways this seems like to have more weight behind it - the hard drive story is about units interchanged (Gi -> G) while this one is about actual speeds being lied about
This really does not seem like a big deal to me (except the possibility of DRM which in itself seems remote). It reminds me of Winmodems: a piece of hardware made to work with and only with windows. They have been around for a long time. There are alternatives and those of us who support other companies besides ms can voice are dissent by purchasing these alternative products.
We don't need to run around yelling that the sky is falling for every little thing ms does
That is correct I think.
But say we see this asteroid while it is very far away and know it is coming. We would not be able to "intercept" it until it was very close to us. If we can intercept it at all. If it is big enough to have enough gravity that we can walk on it (per other reply) when it is close enough for use to fly to it it will be impossible to change its course
What I was sayng is that once we detect it changinging its course will be impossible
If a big asteroid is heading straight towards the Earth there is nothing, nadda, not anything anyone could do to stop it.
Movies like Armageddon are somewhat entertaining but absolute nonsense in a physics sense. By the time we see an asteroid coming for us it will aleady be trapped by gravity and altering its course will be impossible. Even if we could land on it (like it has its own gravity) or somehow shoot a rocket and try to blow up the combined impact of the big bits would be the same as the origional asteroid
Unfortunatly that will probably be mankind's demise one day...
I don't really blame @Stake for firing him at all. While he is free to have whatever view he wants and to express it in any way he wants that doesn't mean there can't be consequences for doing it. If I ran a company I would not be adverse to firing someone who made dispariging remarks about one of my biggest partners / supppliers / competitors
Making comments like that just increaces workplace hostility and makes workers less loyal to their firms.
Maybe he should have published it as an Anonymous Coward
Why should the government have the responsibility of cleaning up ms?! MS should clean themselves up or people should switch to alternatives for critical systems
If you've entered 250 pages and have not saved, I'm sorry but you deserve to loose whatever you were working on.
One of the first things I learned in school was save early and save often!!!
Meshach
Saturday - ???
Sunday - Profit!!
As long as windows has the "roll back" (or system restore) you will be able to uninstall anything
As long as you know how t ouse system restore and have some restore points created...
mmmmm
obscure simpsons reference
My experience (working in tech support) is that searching the internet is a mystery to many users of windows machines. I have often said to users "just try searching" and they give me a vauge "...uhhh". If msn does develop a search that is inter-wolven into windows people will use it just because they don't know how to use anything else.
Joe User on his computer follows the path of least resistance. If outlook express is on his (or her) desktop the first time he boots up he will use outlook express just because he doesn't know anything else.
I see that as long as ms dominates the desktop platform they will be able to dominate (to an extent) any other platform they want. Look how popular visual studio and office are. They integrate tightly into windows. This makes them intuitive and easy to use for the average user.
I'm pretty sure that through court orders they would be able to track you down through your isp or through some other means. Being truely hidden is very hard and the isp would probably eventually have to give you up
If they are able to make university students pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines they must have some power
meshach
a lot of the reason that firms stick with ms is the huge cost associated with moving away from ms and retraining your whole staff
if you already have loads resources using windows and office and moving them to linux and teaching all you staff to use it takes time. i feel it is worth it in the long run though. a school district here (canada) did started that migration a few years ago and there was a huge fight at first and still is (i know teachers and many don't like it) but people are learning to use it and the district is saving major coin
ms is just trying to prevent firms from realizing that savings
i heard that ms was changing the eula when they released patches
so basically if you agree to the first eula and then install a patch you may be unwittingly agreeing to another eula that is more restrictive / limited / allowing more intrusions then the first one
that is what made me nervous about applying too many ms patches
If we really believe in open source we should trust it to be able to stand on it's own two feet. My local school district uses open source extensivly and we have no law requiring it. They just use it because it is a better, not because there is a law
Is the next step to pass a law that non-open source must also be considered? Let open source stand on its own two feet
the globe and mail is another good canadian based news site
i bought a promise ide card to add another ide channel to my system and it just shut everything down. i could not boot into anything and removing the device made things no better
:)
caused so many problems that i eventually just removed the card and reinstalled my os
i made sure that my newest mb had the multiple channels for raid built in
The difference in most computer products (software atleast) is that they can be duplicated with little cost or effort on the part of the duplicator
With other types of copying the cost to duplicate is higher so it acts as a deterent in a way
Not that I am fully supporting copying restrictions but there is two sides to the story
The reason that most big companies do not want to ship linux is they do not want to have to support joe computer user trying to use it. I wonder if Wal-Mart will have problems trying to support and help their customers use a product like linux (although Mandrake uses kde which is pretty user friendly)
Their "satisfaction garunteed" policy could run them into trouble
That's a very good point. It's hard to see anyome holding Linux people to financially responsible for their product when they give them away.
That is one of the things I like about the GPL that it lets people experiment and have others work with them to put out a truly quality product that they can take pride in
That's a good idea but changing all the servers and structures all over the internet would take a long time
Kind of like forcing all cars to stop using gas
It will serve to reduce the current price on Windows systems (heck all systems) if a huge discount retailor like Wal-Mart starts seling them.
My only hope is that they don't put many smaller computer shops out of business by underselling with a cheap PC (albeit low grade)
It has to be "only if you get caught" I think. THey can;t just go and monitor everyone all the time.
Low power consumption is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as chips become smaller, denser, and faster. This design may be an indication of the type of chip to expect in the future