I'm glad you agree that we need to freely exchange a standard document "architecture" that's readable by all.
If you understand that, then you should also see why it's obvious that either Microsoft should open their Office formats to public use or NO ONE should use them for public use...(Internal use is fine.)
There is certainly no reason that a world-wide standard document architecture should be owned by a single company. They very thought is ludicrous, but look at where we are today. 20 years from now THESE will be the bad days!
That's great and all, but I am pretty sure there were some critical updates released in the 2 months that required rebooting. I'm too lazy to check, but I'm pretty sure my XP desktop needed to be rebooted for critical updates.
I'll respond to this even though it's an obvious troll...
So if alcohol was declared an illegal substance tomorrow (it has happened before), then you would root for those of us who choose to have a beer to go to jail with a felony for illegal possession? Even though this was perfectly fine yesterday?
You sir, are an idiot.
Laws are created for the safety of society, but in this case, what he has done has affected NO ONE therefore any punishment should be minimum/nothing.
I feel the same way about office, but have found the "open and repair" option in Word/Excel 2003 to be extremely useful.
People always seem to be getting corrupt documents in Word/Excel 97, so I just take the file into Word/Excel 2003, do an open and repair, save, then have them try it again in Word/Excel 97. This almost always corrects the problem. The only other option is usually to hope we can restore a working copy (if stored on a file server) or hope they have an other copy, which is never the case.
Blame Windows for that. It's a well-known OS bug that happens for more applications than just Firefox. Yes, there are ways around it, and it will have to be fixed by Firefox because MS apparently won't fix it.
The upcoming Zelda is probably *the* most anticipated game for ANY console, not just the cube.
Resident Evil 4 for the GC is already being considered as game of the year by many for 2005. Read a review of that game once. They all rate it so highly that you'd think Capcom was paying these people.
But I don't forsee the cable companies ever doing it. What is in it for them?
That is indeed, the problem. Hopefully it gets forced on them. I doubt it could make the situation worse.
What I am waiting for, now that telcos and others are getting into the television game, is for someone to come out with a $20/mo rate that completely undercuts everyone else. Sadly, they'll probably price it at $34.99 or something $2 cheaper...
How people can believe that paying $20 to the Labels that digitally duplicate said music MILLIONS of times is honestly priced, is beyond my comprehension.
You don't see the why these people are saying that if you have sex with someone 15 years and 11 months old, you can Go To Jail in the US, but be ok in Canada? It's the same person in two different locations!
I don't think anyone is arguing this with 6 year olds, but that's the point. How can you draw a sharp and brutal line on something that isn't clearly defined? You can't just say "exploiting children is wrong." Some people would be of the opinion that someone 19 or 20 is still a child...
When you open a new explorer window, does it open in the background, leaving you free to read the page you're currently reading? No it doesn't.
When you open a new explorer window, does it open in EXACTLY the same size and position? No it doesn't.
I normally have 20+ tabs open. Do I really want to mix 20+ explorer windows in my task bar with the other 5 active applications? No I don't. (Don't tell me about task grouping. I don't want TWO clicks to access a window. That would be 50% more clicks than needed, each time I change windows.)
Though you may still prefer tasks as opposed to tabs, I would like to know how you can not consider those to be valid points.
SymSvc.exe is added to the dependency list for the DHCP service. The uninstaller conveniently forgets to remove this dependency, but removes the symsvc file. So after you reboot, the DHCP service fails to start, because the symsvc dependency cannot be found.
You would think someone at Symantec, at some time, would have TESTED the uninstaller before the product shipped.
This happened to me. Last time any version of Norton Antivirus will be installed by my onto any of my computers, or my friends and family for that matter.
What happens is SymSvc.exe makes itself registers itself as a dependency for the DHCP service. This works fine when it's installed and working. The problem happens when you uninstall and the uninstaller removes the SymSvc.exe but NOT the dependency from the DHCP service! There is no way that this could have been missed in any soft of testing. I'd be willing to bet you can reproduce this every time with NAV 2004.
Incidentally, I just purchased a year subscriptiong to Eset's super-fast NOD32. First virus scanner software I've paid for in many years, and it's actually worth it.
State of the art search technologies. Longhorn is the mother of the technology also used for Gnome's Beagle and Dashboard, and it will ship with an excellent interface for their search tools (probably much better than Apple's Spotlight).
Microsoft "Stuff I've Seen" interface will probably deprecate the current hierarchical filesystem for most end users, and integrated desktop + internet search will fight Google the same way than IExplorer fought Netscape.
Ok, I call BS.
Look at the default XP file search, complete with a freaking time wasting dog animation. Almost as useful as Clippy. This really shows me that Microsoft has a clue what their doing when it comes to search interfaces. Yep, they really improved that over previous Windows searches... NOT!
Saying they are going to take on Google is completely laughable when you look at that example.
Sorry, that topic of built-in guides from Charter and TimeWarner really gets me going. They are just terrible.
No, I wasn't talking about the program guide channel (I don't think). This is the regular guide you get when you press the Guide button on these systems.
Apparently you don't have this same Guide, which is a GREAT THING for you. I think the guide is actually part of the software on the Motorolla cable box, so they may be to blame. I had a Pioneer digital cable box at a previous residence that had an awesome guide. The Motorolla box seems to be the standard issue for Charter and TimeWarner, which is where my disgust comes from.
The college I went to (part of the University of Wisconsin) was sued about this. After that, everyone was given unique numbers that had nothing to do with their SSN.
Is this the same Charter Cable native menu system that shows a grand total of 30 minutes of programming at any time and has advertisements that take up a full 1/3 of the screen?
No thanks!
It's worth paying $12.95 a month JUST to get the TiVo live TV guide as opposed to the utterly useless built in garbage!
It is not perfectly simple. There are many games and applications that simply REQUIRE elevated rights to run!
Places I've worked at handle this problem in different ways. Some jump through various hoops to modify the software to work without elevated priveleges. Some put people with admin rights on a seperate subnet with retrictions. Some use "close but not quite" elevated rights like Power User.
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I'm glad you agree that we need to freely exchange a standard document "architecture" that's readable by all.
If you understand that, then you should also see why it's obvious that either Microsoft should open their Office formats to public use or NO ONE should use them for public use...(Internal use is fine.)
There is certainly no reason that a world-wide standard document architecture should be owned by a single company. They very thought is ludicrous, but look at where we are today. 20 years from now THESE will be the bad days!
That's great and all, but I am pretty sure there were some critical updates released in the 2 months that required rebooting. I'm too lazy to check, but I'm pretty sure my XP desktop needed to be rebooted for critical updates.
I'll respond to this even though it's an obvious troll...
So if alcohol was declared an illegal substance tomorrow (it has happened before), then you would root for those of us who choose to have a beer to go to jail with a felony for illegal possession? Even though this was perfectly fine yesterday?
You sir, are an idiot.
Laws are created for the safety of society, but in this case, what he has done has affected NO ONE therefore any punishment should be minimum/nothing.
I feel the same way about office, but have found the "open and repair" option in Word/Excel 2003 to be extremely useful.
People always seem to be getting corrupt documents in Word/Excel 97, so I just take the file into Word/Excel 2003, do an open and repair, save, then have them try it again in Word/Excel 97. This almost always corrects the problem. The only other option is usually to hope we can restore a working copy (if stored on a file server) or hope they have an other copy, which is never the case.
Blame Windows for that. It's a well-known OS bug that happens for more applications than just Firefox. Yes, there are ways around it, and it will have to be fixed by Firefox because MS apparently won't fix it.
Um, widescreen is ALL they offer. It's not even a choice!
The upcoming Zelda is probably *the* most anticipated game for ANY console, not just the cube.
Resident Evil 4 for the GC is already being considered as game of the year by many for 2005. Read a review of that game once. They all rate it so highly that you'd think Capcom was paying these people.
But I don't forsee the cable companies ever doing it. What is in it for them?
That is indeed, the problem. Hopefully it gets forced on them. I doubt it could make the situation worse.
What I am waiting for, now that telcos and others are getting into the television game, is for someone to come out with a $20/mo rate that completely undercuts everyone else. Sadly, they'll probably price it at $34.99 or something $2 cheaper...
How people can believe that paying $20 to the Labels that digitally duplicate said music MILLIONS of times is honestly priced, is beyond my comprehension.
Not anymore they don't. That service has been disabled.
You don't see the why these people are saying that if you have sex with someone 15 years and 11 months old, you can Go To Jail in the US, but be ok in Canada? It's the same person in two different locations!
I don't think anyone is arguing this with 6 year olds, but that's the point. How can you draw a sharp and brutal line on something that isn't clearly defined? You can't just say "exploiting children is wrong." Some people would be of the opinion that someone 19 or 20 is still a child...
This will be fixed if the cable companies every stop dragging their feet on CableCard.
When we got tivo, our cable box was replaced by the Tivo. Tivo connects just fine to Coax.
Um, not if Microsoft doesn't release a patch for 6 months! And you cannot write one yourself, because you don't have access to the source.
When you open a new explorer window, does it open in the background, leaving you free to read the page you're currently reading? No it doesn't.
When you open a new explorer window, does it open in EXACTLY the same size and position? No it doesn't.
I normally have 20+ tabs open. Do I really want to mix 20+ explorer windows in my task bar with the other 5 active applications? No I don't. (Don't tell me about task grouping. I don't want TWO clicks to access a window. That would be 50% more clicks than needed, each time I change windows.)
Though you may still prefer tasks as opposed to tabs, I would like to know how you can not consider those to be valid points.
SymSvc.exe is added to the dependency list for the DHCP service. The uninstaller conveniently forgets to remove this dependency, but removes the symsvc file. So after you reboot, the DHCP service fails to start, because the symsvc dependency cannot be found.
You would think someone at Symantec, at some time, would have TESTED the uninstaller before the product shipped.
This happened to me. Last time any version of Norton Antivirus will be installed by my onto any of my computers, or my friends and family for that matter.
What happens is SymSvc.exe makes itself registers itself as a dependency for the DHCP service. This works fine when it's installed and working. The problem happens when you uninstall and the uninstaller removes the SymSvc.exe but NOT the dependency from the DHCP service! There is no way that this could have been missed in any soft of testing. I'd be willing to bet you can reproduce this every time with NAV 2004.
Incidentally, I just purchased a year subscriptiong to Eset's super-fast NOD32. First virus scanner software I've paid for in many years, and it's actually worth it.
Do you often copy and paste your own responses in order to spread your opinion around more?
I'm calling fanboy now...
State of the art search technologies. Longhorn is the mother of the technology also used for Gnome's Beagle and Dashboard, and it will ship with an excellent interface for their search tools (probably much better than Apple's Spotlight).
Microsoft "Stuff I've Seen" interface will probably deprecate the current hierarchical filesystem for most end users, and integrated desktop + internet search will fight Google the same way than IExplorer fought Netscape.
Ok, I call BS.
Look at the default XP file search, complete with a freaking time wasting dog animation. Almost as useful as Clippy. This really shows me that Microsoft has a clue what their doing when it comes to search interfaces. Yep, they really improved that over previous Windows searches... NOT!
Saying they are going to take on Google is completely laughable when you look at that example.
It is not open-source crap, meaning it 1. does not look like complete shit assembled by a three-year old and 2. it actually works.
Heh. That FireFox browser really sucks!
Sorry, that topic of built-in guides from Charter and TimeWarner really gets me going. They are just terrible.
No, I wasn't talking about the program guide channel (I don't think). This is the regular guide you get when you press the Guide button on these systems.
Apparently you don't have this same Guide, which is a GREAT THING for you. I think the guide is actually part of the software on the Motorolla cable box, so they may be to blame. I had a Pioneer digital cable box at a previous residence that had an awesome guide. The Motorolla box seems to be the standard issue for Charter and TimeWarner, which is where my disgust comes from.
The college I went to (part of the University of Wisconsin) was sued about this. After that, everyone was given unique numbers that had nothing to do with their SSN.
This happened during the time I was there.
How are you connecting the iPod shuffle to the car stereo? Is there a jack on the front of your stereo ? I am considering this for my car as well.
Please don't tell me you use an awful cassette adapter...
Is this the same Charter Cable native menu system that shows a grand total of 30 minutes of programming at any time and has advertisements that take up a full 1/3 of the screen?
No thanks!
It's worth paying $12.95 a month JUST to get the TiVo live TV guide as opposed to the utterly useless built in garbage!
You make yourself look like a raving lunatic everytime you post a comment with "whe" in it.
How about a visit to dictionary.com?
It is not perfectly simple. There are many games and applications that simply REQUIRE elevated rights to run!
Places I've worked at handle this problem in different ways. Some jump through various hoops to modify the software to work without elevated priveleges. Some put people with admin rights on a seperate subnet with retrictions. Some use "close but not quite" elevated rights like Power User.