--When will legislators realize that it's time for serious legal reforms to end these types of frivolous, baseless lawsuits that are intended only to intimidate and harass?--
--Great software takes its users interests and expectations into account. Great developers strive to understand users and write software which serves them.--
DVD X Copy Platinum was a perfect example of this anyone could/would like to use it.
--As the mega-rich go, Bill is easily the most charitable. Compare the Walton family (collectively worth more than Bill) and you'll find some real tight-fisted bastards (who've probably crushed 100 times the number of small businesses as Microsoft).--
I wonder how much John Boy Walton makes? Is it more than Grandpa?
No, not unless they have to. We can't run a mail server here because Adelphia is the only broadband option and they will let you VPN with a static IP but no mail server. 35 employees here total with +/- 8 on computers at any given time. Lucky for us most of our business data is very boring w/o credit card numbers and such.
--The fact is that XP, once configured close to Windows 2000's defaults, is actually quite a bit faster than Windows 2000, uses the same amount of memory, and still has all the features built-into XP. (Like Remote Desktop, System Restore, more advanced IE.)--
Themes is a big hog. Here is a link to some services that can be disabled. It doesn't take an hour to do this either.
--In the military, there is a very specific definition of heroism: putting yourself at great personal risk by going above and beyond the call of duty to accomplish the mission.--
--Overuse of the word weakens its meaning, and dishonors those who actually deserve it.--
Man, I wish I had MOD points today because I would mod this up for these two statements alone for sure. There is an over use of the term "hero" much to much.
I think it more to do with the deal they made with IBM. IBM gave them something imortant without realizing it. I think at one time IBM & Microsoft together had the rights to DOS. IBM DOS & MS DOS, I think when IBM decided to let them sell an OS for their PC. I doesn't matter that Microsoft didn't inovate. MS bought into software and of course IBM hardware.
--How can he say FF is not a threat if he hasn't even downloaded and installed it?--
Because they think that even if FireFox is better, it just doesn't matter. Microsoft still has the OS monoply either way it goes, they think.
We'll we all know that IBM didn't consider MS a threat because they didn't understand the market. The same thing could be happening to MS. Who knows, time will tell.
--Gamma rays are extremely hard to generate and near-impossible to focus. To the best of my knowledge, artificial systems have not been able to do either to any useful degree.--
Well one guy down here tried that and it made him big and green every time he got mad.
--I think they should make tobacco totally illegal, the use, sale, growth, purchase, etc.. Get caught using tobacco, go to jail, felony, 1 year 1st offense. Get caught selling tobacco, charge, attempted murder, penalty, DEATH. 1st offense..--
I hate smoking too but this ain't going to work. Look at the war on drugs. Make cigerettes illegal and there will be plenty of people to lock up then. Whoa, what a Mofia that will create.
--I can't imagine anything more vile than the so-called potted meat product that is Spam. It's the multiplicative zero element of food: you add Spam to any other dish and the whole thing tastes like Spam (as opposed to the multiplicative identity element of food, tofu, which when added to any dish takes on the flavor of the whole dish).--
--If some bank gets ripped off because of their insecure ATMs, that's the bank's fault for choosing a poor piece of equipment, and they deserve to pay the price for that decision. And hopefully lots of customers will move their accounts to banks which use better ATMs--
Don't worry about the banks. Our government gives them their money back, I think. Maybe there is an FDIC link on this somewhere.
--When I have a lot of data manipulation to do it is very advantageous to have one document open on each monitor. Copying and pasting is simple, and doesn't involve switching between programs. They are both open and visible at once, just copy from one and paste to the other.--
This is so true. With CAD & engineering people this saves lots of time cutting and pasting between CAD program and spreadsheet. It eliminates much ALT tabbing.
I begining to think that dual monitors would pretty much help everyone if they have the room.
Right now I have a 21" CRT and a 19" LCD. When the CRT's die I will replace with LCD's since I got video cards with dual DVI this should be easy when the time comes.
-Global warming deniers at this point are in the same class as creationists-
Not exactly, even if evolution from species to species can be proved which I'm not so sure that it can, cause and effect can be studied. For every effect there is a cause. So what is the first cause, or the cause without a cause? Where did matter and engery come from? Atheisim is just another religon that says man invented god instead of god invented man. So, for evolution, what was the first cause?
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The broads ain't so hot in the UK from what I hear.
--When will legislators realize that it's time for serious legal reforms to end these types of frivolous, baseless lawsuits that are intended only to intimidate and harass?--
When we quit electing lawyers to office.
You must be an NSA agent or more likeley pretending to be one, No?
I guess I took the bait.
--Great software takes its users interests and expectations into account.
Great developers strive to understand users and write software which serves them.--
DVD X Copy Platinum was a perfect example of this anyone could/would like to use it.
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
shit.
--As the mega-rich go, Bill is easily the most charitable. Compare the Walton family (collectively worth more than Bill) and you'll find some real tight-fisted bastards (who've probably crushed 100 times the number of small businesses as Microsoft).--
I wonder how much John Boy Walton makes? Is it more than Grandpa?
No, not unless they have to. We can't run a mail server here because Adelphia is the only broadband option and they will let you VPN with a static IP but no mail server. 35 employees here total with +/- 8 on computers at any given time. Lucky for us most of our business data is very boring w/o credit card numbers and such.
Actually the answer is 42gig. This is called "Bud's Law", cause ole Bud will be dead by time you need more than that fellas.
Maybe the comment about being a republican lackey might be a troll but there is some other valid arguments here, espesially the one about radio.
OTOH dosen't he want to keep VOIP free from taxiation?
--The fact is that XP, once configured close to Windows 2000's defaults, is actually quite a bit faster than Windows 2000, uses the same amount of memory, and still has all the features built-into XP. (Like Remote Desktop, System Restore, more advanced IE.)--
Themes is a big hog. Here is a link to some services that can be disabled. It doesn't take an hour to do this either.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
--In the military, there is a very specific definition of heroism: putting yourself at great personal risk by going above and beyond the call of duty to accomplish the mission.--
--Overuse of the word weakens its meaning, and dishonors those who actually deserve it.--
Man, I wish I had MOD points today because I would mod this up for these two statements alone for sure. There is an over use of the term "hero" much to much.
--I always tell the truth. I'm too lazy to lie--
Another one...
If you lie you have to write it down to remember it.
Wasn't skipping commercials commercials eqaul to the death penalty or something watching Max Headroom?
I think it more to do with the deal they made with IBM. IBM gave them something imortant without realizing it. I think at one time IBM & Microsoft together had the rights to DOS. IBM DOS & MS DOS, I think when IBM decided to let them sell an OS for their PC. I doesn't matter that Microsoft didn't inovate. MS bought into software and of course IBM hardware.
--How can he say FF is not a threat if he hasn't even downloaded and installed it?--
Because they think that even if FireFox is better, it just doesn't matter. Microsoft still has the OS monoply either way it goes, they think.
We'll we all know that IBM didn't consider MS a threat because they didn't understand the market. The same thing could be happening to MS. Who knows, time will tell.
and I would like to add..
Introduction to Microcomputers
Adam Osborne
was written in 1979 and can still teach some things. I wish I new who I loaned my old copy out to.
--Gamma rays are extremely hard to generate and near-impossible to focus. To the best of my knowledge, artificial systems have not been able to do either to any useful degree.--
Well one guy down here tried that and it made him big and green every time he got mad.
--Therefore, from a certain point of view, when Anakin "died" he looked like Hayden Christiansen, hence the ghost of Hayden.--
It's just to get you ready for "Episode III The Return of Darth Vader" or is it "Episode III Revenge of the Sith".
--I think they should make tobacco totally illegal, the use, sale, growth, purchase, etc.. Get caught using tobacco, go to jail, felony, 1 year 1st offense.
Get caught selling tobacco, charge, attempted murder, penalty, DEATH. 1st offense..--
I hate smoking too but this ain't going to work. Look at the war on drugs. Make cigerettes illegal and there will be plenty of people to lock up then. Whoa, what a Mofia that will create.
--I can't imagine anything more vile than the so-called potted meat product that is Spam. It's the multiplicative zero element of food: you add Spam to any other dish and the whole thing tastes like Spam (as opposed to the multiplicative identity element of food, tofu, which when added to any dish takes on the flavor of the whole dish).--
You sir, have never heard of SOUSE meat.
--If some bank gets ripped off because of their insecure ATMs, that's the bank's fault for choosing a poor piece of equipment, and they deserve to pay the price for that decision. And hopefully lots of customers will move their accounts to banks which use better ATMs--
Don't worry about the banks. Our government gives them their money back, I think. Maybe there is an FDIC link on this somewhere.
They are in fact legal in Russia so therefore there is a grey area there as far as the US is concerned. The US doesn't make the laws in Russia.
--When I have a lot of data manipulation to do it is very advantageous to have one document open on each monitor. Copying and pasting is simple, and doesn't involve switching between programs. They are both open and visible at once, just copy from one and paste to the other.--
This is so true. With CAD & engineering people this saves lots of time cutting and pasting between CAD program and spreadsheet. It eliminates much ALT tabbing.
I begining to think that dual monitors would pretty much help everyone if they have the room.
Right now I have a 21" CRT and a 19" LCD. When the CRT's die I will replace with LCD's since I got video cards with dual DVI this should be easy when the time comes.
-Global warming deniers at this point are in the same class as creationists-
Not exactly, even if evolution from species to species can be proved which I'm not so sure that it can, cause and effect can be studied. For every effect there is a cause. So what is the first cause, or the cause without a cause? Where did matter and engery come from? Atheisim is just another religon that says man invented god instead of god invented man. So, for evolution, what was the first cause?
--In either case, primates aren't discovered every day, making this a rare find indeed--
I see lots of new ones in the office daily.