What do you mean they don't base grades on presentation? I started typing stuff up in grade 7 because my handwriting was so terrible that I would often lose marks because my handwriting was illegible. and in high school, we had certain formats that had to be followed with typed papers. Title 1/3 of the way down the cover page, with name, date, and teacher's name in the lower right. Then pages were double spaced. Things had to look neat, or you would lose marks. Not everything was required to be typed, but most major papers were.
All this means is that, if people buy Office 2007 and they have problems with it, they can talk to Microsoft
Yeah, right. Like you can actually call Microsoft and have the work through your problems with you. Buying the $150 version of office does not entitle you to very much support. See this link for more information on Microsoft's support. I find it odd that for just about any other product you buy, you can call them up, and get free support, no matter how long ago you bought the product, or how many questions you have, but with software, they offer very little or no support at all.
They created a loop in the NTFS file system. To me, this sounds just like creating a hardlink from a lower level directory up to one of it's parent/grandparent directories. A stupid searching algorithm would just follow the links indefinitely, but it would be pretty trivial to program something that wouldn't follow these kinds of links. Maybe It's just done to make it easier to navigate the terrible windows file system. If you have a folder located at/documents and setting/UserName/My Documents/Projects/Work/Project A/Documentation/Images, and you want to create an easy way to jump from there up to the "My Documents" folder, you could just create a folder that loops back up to the top. Just because you create a loop, doesn't mean you did it to hide something.
I'm 27 and we used Mimeographs (Ditto Machines). There were really good because the teachers could make cheap handouts with them, much cheaper than using a photocopier. Granted they didn't look quite as nice as a photocopier, but they sure smelled a lot better.
Personally I think it would be nice to have everything in 1 cable, running to the monitor, and then everything just plugs into that. Even if the cable is 1 inch thick, I'd still be happier, Instead, I have to have a spider web of cables going from my desk to my tower. Also, all devices should come with cables that detach at bother ends so I can buy a cable that is the right lenght. I just bought a pair of headphones, and the cable is 3.5 Metres long. They are home theatre headphones, so the length is understandable, but I'd rather just have a 1 metre cable, and hook up an extension cable if I wanted something longer. 3.5 metres of cable makes it a pain to use them for a portable device. If they just had a removable cable, with a minijack attaching to the headphones, then I could switch cables to the proper length for what I was doing.
If they really wanted to make things safe for the astronauts, they would have designed a ship specifically to carry people, and only people. Then, launch them into space, and launch the cargo on a separate cargo/heavy lifter rocket. Instead they designed the shuttle which isn't optimal for carrying people, or cargo, and hence, is terrible at both.
However, if the odds are 1 in 100,000, and you do 56 missions, what are the odds that one of those will crash. It's about 1 in 1800 if my calculations are correct. That's.05%. Now, that's not highly likely, but it's not like it requires the Heart of Gold to obtain that kind of probability.
Do you know what's slow? Waiting in line for 5 hours to vote because they don't have enough machines because you happen to live in a poor neighbourhood. That's slow. I live in Canada, and I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes to vote. Last time I voted, I think I just walked right in and voted, there was no line. That's because we use paper. Even the booths are just cardboard barriers that just sit there on a table. Can't beat the cost of that. We also have the result by the end of the night. Actually, the results come in so fast, that they made a law against reporting the results until everyone had finished voting, because the people on the west coast knew the results of the easter provinces before they even left work, and they figured that corrupted the vote.
Also, I don't even know what the whole speed issue is about in the United States. You vote in November, but the guy doesn't take office until January. Why does the counting need to be done so fast?
However, if they're using rubber hose cryptanalysis to get the information out of you, don't expect them to stop when they've found the embarrassing data. Once they find that, they'll probably continue until they find the stuff they were really looking for.
But the article was talking about "cloaking" of data. So if I stored my documents in some esoteric word processor format (wordstar?), and then obfuscated it more by using some weird compression format than almost nobody uses like Ark or something, then would that be sufficient to call it cloaking? It would stop most people from reading the files, so it could be argued that it was cloaking.
The project (solution actually) only takes about 45 seconds to compile. It's not a monster behemoth. However, the background compiler in VS.Net is so slow (I'm talking vs.net 2003 here), that it's unusable for a project of any significant size.
And on the fly compiling is terrible in VB.Net if you have really large projects. I wonder if the Java IDEs are faster. I've used them, but never on a large project. I have a PIV 3.0 GHz, and it pauses for about 5 seconds every time I change something at the class level. Wnen the project gets too big, VS.Net becomes unusable.
Wow, you can use.Net code in the database? While it's a welcome feature, most other databases have supported other languages for stored procedures for a while, and a lot more than just extra. For instance, check out this excerpt from the PostgreSQL website. Makes SQL servers capabilities a bit of a joke.
PostgreSQL runs stored procedures in more than a dozen programming languages, including Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, C/C++, and its own PL/pgSQL, which is similar to Oracle's PL/SQL. Included with its standard function library are hundreds of built-in functions that range from basic math and string operations to cryptography and Oracle compatibility. Triggers and stored procedures can be written in C and loaded into the database as a library, allowing great flexibility in extending its capabilities. Similarly, PostgreSQL includes a framework that allows developers to define and create their own custom data types along with supporting functions and operators that define their behavior. As a result, a host of advanced data types have been created that range from geometric and spatial primitives to network addresses to even ISBN/ISSN (International Standard Book Number/International Standard Serial Number) data types, all of which can be optionally added to the system.
Is blinding people really worse than shooting bullets at people and killing them. Seems to me like I'd rather be blind than dead. Not to say that being blind would be all that great, but given the option....
2) I keep changing it because I have yet to get it right such that multiple monitors has ever worked. And I keep changing it wrong, so I have to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg because X won't start when I reboot due to configuration being wrong.
Do people buying cars only buy Ford, and get confused if you show them a GM? No, because they are both cars, and they drive on the same roads, and you can compare them on features, and price. Same goes for differing Linux distros. The only reason Linux has had trouble breaking into the home computer market is because MS designs windows specifically so it won't drive on the same road as everything else.
Sure MS has lots of money in the bank, and I'm sure that their shareholders want it to stay that way. Remember when Nortel crashed. From $120 a share down to $3 a share. It didn't take long. Not to say that MS is headed that way for sure, but if they have any more projects like the Vista death march, where they spent 6 years building a product that nobody wants to buy, then they are going to have quite a few questions to answer.
My boss just bought a new laptop for the guy we hired and we had the same rebooting issue. Reading the screen, it said it was testing system performance, probably to tell whether or not it can run Aero. But that should have been done at the factory. When you get a computer, all you should have to do is enter your name, and everything should be working. My brother bought a Mac Mini last year, after my recommendation, because he wanted a small unobtrusive computer that didn't have so many security problems like the windows machines he's had before. He loves it. Says it's the easiest to use computer he's ever had, and will never go back to windows.
The one advantage of Bob and Jimbos is that you can get "exactly" what you want. And all you have to do is ask for it. With Dell and others, it's often very hard to configure a computer that has everything you want, and only what you want. They insist on shipping every computer with a keyboard and mouse. Even if I never plan on using them. Then they go and install a bunch of crapware. I still buy my computers from Bob and Jimbo, because it means I can get a clean computer, with just windows, an actual windows install CD, and no crapware included. The crapware that they do include (DVD burning etc.) come on separate CDs, and can be uninstalled, or if you do a system format when you get the machine, not installed at all if you like.
I remember using CentreICQ for my instant messaging a couple years back. It was pretty slick. Most stuff could be done at least as quick if not quicker than what you could do with the windowed setup. The only reason I stopped using it was because MSN stopped working once they made the switch to SSL/TLS.
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What do you mean they don't base grades on presentation? I started typing stuff up in grade 7 because my handwriting was so terrible that I would often lose marks because my handwriting was illegible. and in high school, we had certain formats that had to be followed with typed papers. Title 1/3 of the way down the cover page, with name, date, and teacher's name in the lower right. Then pages were double spaced. Things had to look neat, or you would lose marks. Not everything was required to be typed, but most major papers were.
They created a loop in the NTFS file system. To me, this sounds just like creating a hardlink from a lower level directory up to one of it's parent/grandparent directories. A stupid searching algorithm would just follow the links indefinitely, but it would be pretty trivial to program something that wouldn't follow these kinds of links. Maybe It's just done to make it easier to navigate the terrible windows file system. If you have a folder located at /documents and setting/UserName/My Documents/Projects/Work/Project A/Documentation/Images, and you want to create an easy way to jump from there up to the "My Documents" folder, you could just create a folder that loops back up to the top. Just because you create a loop, doesn't mean you did it to hide something.
I'm 27 and we used Mimeographs (Ditto Machines). There were really good because the teachers could make cheap handouts with them, much cheaper than using a photocopier. Granted they didn't look quite as nice as a photocopier, but they sure smelled a lot better.
Personally I think it would be nice to have everything in 1 cable, running to the monitor, and then everything just plugs into that. Even if the cable is 1 inch thick, I'd still be happier, Instead, I have to have a spider web of cables going from my desk to my tower. Also, all devices should come with cables that detach at bother ends so I can buy a cable that is the right lenght. I just bought a pair of headphones, and the cable is 3.5 Metres long. They are home theatre headphones, so the length is understandable, but I'd rather just have a 1 metre cable, and hook up an extension cable if I wanted something longer. 3.5 metres of cable makes it a pain to use them for a portable device. If they just had a removable cable, with a minijack attaching to the headphones, then I could switch cables to the proper length for what I was doing.
If they really wanted to make things safe for the astronauts, they would have designed a ship specifically to carry people, and only people. Then, launch them into space, and launch the cargo on a separate cargo/heavy lifter rocket. Instead they designed the shuttle which isn't optimal for carrying people, or cargo, and hence, is terrible at both.
However, if the odds are 1 in 100,000, and you do 56 missions, what are the odds that one of those will crash. It's about 1 in 1800 if my calculations are correct. That's .05%. Now, that's not highly likely, but it's not like it requires the Heart of Gold to obtain that kind of probability.
Do you know what's slow? Waiting in line for 5 hours to vote because they don't have enough machines because you happen to live in a poor neighbourhood. That's slow. I live in Canada, and I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes to vote. Last time I voted, I think I just walked right in and voted, there was no line. That's because we use paper. Even the booths are just cardboard barriers that just sit there on a table. Can't beat the cost of that. We also have the result by the end of the night. Actually, the results come in so fast, that they made a law against reporting the results until everyone had finished voting, because the people on the west coast knew the results of the easter provinces before they even left work, and they figured that corrupted the vote.
Also, I don't even know what the whole speed issue is about in the United States. You vote in November, but the guy doesn't take office until January. Why does the counting need to be done so fast?
My favourite is when they started calling motherboards, mainboards.
However, if they're using rubber hose cryptanalysis to get the information out of you, don't expect them to stop when they've found the embarrassing data. Once they find that, they'll probably continue until they find the stuff they were really looking for.
But the article was talking about "cloaking" of data. So if I stored my documents in some esoteric word processor format (wordstar?), and then obfuscated it more by using some weird compression format than almost nobody uses like Ark or something, then would that be sufficient to call it cloaking? It would stop most people from reading the files, so it could be argued that it was cloaking.
The project (solution actually) only takes about 45 seconds to compile. It's not a monster behemoth. However, the background compiler in VS.Net is so slow (I'm talking vs.net 2003 here), that it's unusable for a project of any significant size.
Yeah, too bad we're talking about MS Office.
And on the fly compiling is terrible in VB.Net if you have really large projects. I wonder if the Java IDEs are faster. I've used them, but never on a large project. I have a PIV 3.0 GHz, and it pauses for about 5 seconds every time I change something at the class level. Wnen the project gets too big, VS.Net becomes unusable.
Wow, you can use .Net code in the database? While it's a welcome feature, most other databases have supported other languages for stored procedures for a while, and a lot more than just extra. For instance, check out this excerpt from the PostgreSQL website. Makes SQL servers capabilities a bit of a joke.
PostgreSQL runs stored procedures in more than a dozen programming languages, including Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, C/C++, and its own PL/pgSQL, which is similar to Oracle's PL/SQL. Included with its standard function library are hundreds of built-in functions that range from basic math and string operations to cryptography and Oracle compatibility. Triggers and stored procedures can be written in C and loaded into the database as a library, allowing great flexibility in extending its capabilities. Similarly, PostgreSQL includes a framework that allows developers to define and create their own custom data types along with supporting functions and operators that define their behavior. As a result, a host of advanced data types have been created that range from geometric and spatial primitives to network addresses to even ISBN/ISSN (International Standard Book Number/International Standard Serial Number) data types, all of which can be optionally added to the system.
If only they could fix the problem where links show up in blue also, making them just about impossible to see.
Is blinding people really worse than shooting bullets at people and killing them. Seems to me like I'd rather be blind than dead. Not to say that being blind would be all that great, but given the option....
Do people buying cars only buy Ford, and get confused if you show them a GM? No, because they are both cars, and they drive on the same roads, and you can compare them on features, and price. Same goes for differing Linux distros. The only reason Linux has had trouble breaking into the home computer market is because MS designs windows specifically so it won't drive on the same road as everything else.
Sure MS has lots of money in the bank, and I'm sure that their shareholders want it to stay that way. Remember when Nortel crashed. From $120 a share down to $3 a share. It didn't take long. Not to say that MS is headed that way for sure, but if they have any more projects like the Vista death march, where they spent 6 years building a product that nobody wants to buy, then they are going to have quite a few questions to answer.
My boss just bought a new laptop for the guy we hired and we had the same rebooting issue. Reading the screen, it said it was testing system performance, probably to tell whether or not it can run Aero. But that should have been done at the factory. When you get a computer, all you should have to do is enter your name, and everything should be working. My brother bought a Mac Mini last year, after my recommendation, because he wanted a small unobtrusive computer that didn't have so many security problems like the windows machines he's had before. He loves it. Says it's the easiest to use computer he's ever had, and will never go back to windows.
The one advantage of Bob and Jimbos is that you can get "exactly" what you want. And all you have to do is ask for it. With Dell and others, it's often very hard to configure a computer that has everything you want, and only what you want. They insist on shipping every computer with a keyboard and mouse. Even if I never plan on using them. Then they go and install a bunch of crapware. I still buy my computers from Bob and Jimbo, because it means I can get a clean computer, with just windows, an actual windows install CD, and no crapware included. The crapware that they do include (DVD burning etc.) come on separate CDs, and can be uninstalled, or if you do a system format when you get the machine, not installed at all if you like.
I remember using CentreICQ for my instant messaging a couple years back. It was pretty slick. Most stuff could be done at least as quick if not quicker than what you could do with the windowed setup. The only reason I stopped using it was because MSN stopped working once they made the switch to SSL/TLS.
More like Google goes jaundice.