Even exporting from MS Office to MS Office is just too risky. With the formatting differences between different versions of MSWord, it's amazing they accept.doc at all. I think that PDF should be the standard for submitting assignments. It's open, and there's no need to worry about formatting errors, or the professor accidentally pressing a key and creating spelling errors.
Depends on what you want to use the Mac for. If you're running in a windows shop, and want to test under Macintosh, then you can split 1 Mac between many users, saving you money. So, while you do need 4 computers, plus the run running the VNC Sessions, you can have 1 Mac, plus 4 windows machines, and end up with 4 users, all with the ability to run both Mac and windows, all with only buying 1 Mac.
Even Windows XP is more than 5 years old. As is Office 2000. If people could get that stuff for free, then I don't think mS would be able to stay in business. Although on the other hand, they could probably do pretty well selling support for these systems to businesses.
However, there's a fair number of people who believe that the current 100 year copyrights last way too long, and that there should be copyright reform. Especially in the case of computer software, it makes no sense for software to have such a long copyright, since it goes out of use so fast. I think that because of copyright, that a lot of software is lost, because the company producing the software loses interest, and the copyright doesn't lapse until much later. Come to think of it, based on current copyright terms, no piece of software has ever gone out of copyright, (except those released to the public domain). Which is pretty sad, since most people don't use sofware beyond 5-10 years old.
Isn't this how it works anyway? Insurance companies are allowed to discriminate. Just had a heart attack? Try getting life insurance. Been in 10 car crashes in the past year? Try getting car insurance. Are you a male? You're going to pay more for car insurance. Does your family have a history of cancer? I bet they'll find a way to charge you more for health and life insurance. I don't see how, at least for insurance companies, this is even an issue. They discriminate all the time, why does adding genetics to the list make things any different.
Which can be really great depending on the problem. If you look at folding at home, the ratio of data : computation is quite low, so you get a good deal. Pass a little bit of data, and have the computers run the process, and send back a little bit of data. However, if you're doing something like parallelized video compression, you need a fairly fast network over which the data is travelling, because of a very high data : computation ratio. Stuff like this can be parallelized over a home network, but doing so over the internet isn't worth most people's times because a single computer can do the computation before it could even be distributed between the other computer(s).
It was a big accident because it was pretty much completely developed into it's current form before any business interests or politicians even knew what it was. Because of this, it was able to evolve into something that was open and free (as in speech) for all it's users. Had it's entire development been overseen by the government and corporations, I think it would have ended up being a huge flop.
If you log 4 users (or however many you want) into a Mac, and have them all run VNC separately, you can have 4 people using the same computer at the same time. They each get their own mouse, keyboard, and a full screen, not just a quarter of the screen. Unfortunately, they each only get 1/4 of the processor and RAM, assuming they are putting equal load on the computer.
Couldn't you just do the same for Firefox under windows or linux. Set up a user account with virtually no rights and run firefox as that user. I'm sure it would work great on linux. Not sure how well it would work on linux, but I'm sure it could be done.
Even if they revoke the 09 key, the hackers can use the same methods to recover whatever new keys they are using. It's an endless battle. They can revoke all the keys they want, but until they are able to stop them from actually recovering the key, they haven't stopped anyone.
People just expect computers to do everything for them, and turn off their brains most of the time. This is why people have so many problems operating computers. Most people when searching for information about Cats (the musical) will probably just type in "cats", and look through all the results. Whereas, a person who understands the concept of feeding the right information to the search engine, will probably type in "cats musical", or if you're looking for something more specific, you may type in "cats musical song list".
If you've seen Babel, then you'll know the other solution. In that movie the deaf people in that movie were using sign language over video messaging to communicate. Of course this was in Japan where it's probably much easier to get a plan that supports this for a reasonable price, but give it a few years, and hopefully america phone companies will warm up to the idea.
This is probably the biggest problem with searching. Google can return really good results if you know what to search for. Most people I know just type in the first word that pops into their head, and make the search way too generalized, and don't get good results. Knowing what words to type in can save you a lot of time in searching.
I really don't like the UI on GAIM, at least last time I tried it. I prefer Kopete much better. And trying to move somebody who isn't a geek from the pretty colours of MSN to the look of GAIM can be pretty hard. But what other choices are available for windows users who want to use a multi-protocol instant messenger. I just hope Kopete for KDE4 is available for windows. That would be a really nice replacement for msn, and all the other instant messengers I need to use.
It is a key distribution crack, but as long as you can copy the disc, it doesn't really matter about the details. The actual encryption used in AACS is too powerful to bother trying to brute force, so you have to find the key to have any hope of cracking it. Luckily, they provide you with all the necessary information when you buy the HDDVD, you just have to know where to look.
And apart from a small minority of the security problems, they mostly do exploit the human factor. Even when it's something like outlook automatically executing files, it's still the human factor, a human decides to run that software. As soon as any knowledgeable person learned how insecure outlook was, they should have stopped using it. Why would anybody use such insecure software. You don't see any exceptions being made for people who buy $600 used cars and then complaining that it breaks down. If you knew the car was so bad, why did you buy it in the first place?
They just lost the will to crack the encryption. Then encryption can be cracked. Everybody thought that AACS was very powerful, and that it would take quite a long time to crack. However, it's been cracked, and I don't even know anybody who's bought a HD-DVD player yet. It took much longer to break CSS encryption. Or at least DVD was more popular before it got cracked. There's things like minidisc players that use DRM to try to enforce what music you can play on them (NetMD). Currently there is no crack as far as I've seen, but I think that's just because of the lack of demand for a crack, not the lack of people actually being able to crack it if they tried hard enough.
What I'm saying is that for power users, Windows sucks because it doesn't provide any features geared towards them. I'm also saying that for non-power users it sucks, because you can't just put an image on your desktop, and have it resize to fit the screen automatically. You have to open it up in an image editor, resize it to your desktop, then put it on your desktop. I don't see what any particular person likes about windows, power user or not.
Wrong. 90% of users don't need the old windows/msdos shell. If people had a shell that was as good as bash, then they would use it. As it is now, using the shell in windows doesn't provide any benefit, so nobody bothers to use it. You can't say people don't need a shell when they don't have one. It's like saying people didn't need macros in word processors before the existed. Nobody used macros because the option wasn't available to them. Now that macros are available, many people do use them, and not just the power users. MS assumes that everybody is an idiot, and therefore doesn't provide tools that people with the right skills would actually use. Therefore, nobody has the opportunity to develop skills with these tools. Take a look at some of the stuff in XP, like that search dog, and the dumbed-down control panel and management options. With features like that it's no wonder people don't learn anything about computers, when the computer assumes they don't.
Every time I use Windows, I find it amazing that people still pay for and use MS software. It's pretty good, but it seems to be missing a lot of key features. Things like the shell are decades behind unix. I can't even take a picture and scale it to fit on the desktop without the aspect ratio being messed up. I can't stand using IE, even IE7 because it's behind where firefox was 2 years ago. given the current rate that Linux/Open source is catching up to MS, I give them another 10 years before linux has 20% of the PC market.
They'd probably have to adjust the amount you win/lose to make it a little more fair. If you do it the way it's described, you only have to kill 1 guy for every time you're killed to break even. In most FPS games, that's extremely easy, especially when you're playing against a lot of people.
The problem with poker (from my understanding) is that while you can create a bot that plays the odds, and probably win a little bit of money, there's a lot of people who can easily beat the bots. You could just as easily have people play the odds, and you wouldn't technically be using a bot. But this tends not to work out so well, because the bots can only do so good. But with counterstrike, and other FPS games, it's hard if not impossible to beat someone who has an aimbot.
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Even exporting from MS Office to MS Office is just too risky. With the formatting differences between different versions of MSWord, it's amazing they accept .doc at all. I think that PDF should be the standard for submitting assignments. It's open, and there's no need to worry about formatting errors, or the professor accidentally pressing a key and creating spelling errors.
Depends on what you want to use the Mac for. If you're running in a windows shop, and want to test under Macintosh, then you can split 1 Mac between many users, saving you money. So, while you do need 4 computers, plus the run running the VNC Sessions, you can have 1 Mac, plus 4 windows machines, and end up with 4 users, all with the ability to run both Mac and windows, all with only buying 1 Mac.
Even Windows XP is more than 5 years old. As is Office 2000. If people could get that stuff for free, then I don't think mS would be able to stay in business. Although on the other hand, they could probably do pretty well selling support for these systems to businesses.
However, there's a fair number of people who believe that the current 100 year copyrights last way too long, and that there should be copyright reform. Especially in the case of computer software, it makes no sense for software to have such a long copyright, since it goes out of use so fast. I think that because of copyright, that a lot of software is lost, because the company producing the software loses interest, and the copyright doesn't lapse until much later. Come to think of it, based on current copyright terms, no piece of software has ever gone out of copyright, (except those released to the public domain). Which is pretty sad, since most people don't use sofware beyond 5-10 years old.
Isn't this how it works anyway? Insurance companies are allowed to discriminate. Just had a heart attack? Try getting life insurance. Been in 10 car crashes in the past year? Try getting car insurance. Are you a male? You're going to pay more for car insurance. Does your family have a history of cancer? I bet they'll find a way to charge you more for health and life insurance. I don't see how, at least for insurance companies, this is even an issue. They discriminate all the time, why does adding genetics to the list make things any different.
Which can be really great depending on the problem. If you look at folding at home, the ratio of data : computation is quite low, so you get a good deal. Pass a little bit of data, and have the computers run the process, and send back a little bit of data. However, if you're doing something like parallelized video compression, you need a fairly fast network over which the data is travelling, because of a very high data : computation ratio. Stuff like this can be parallelized over a home network, but doing so over the internet isn't worth most people's times because a single computer can do the computation before it could even be distributed between the other computer(s).
It was a big accident because it was pretty much completely developed into it's current form before any business interests or politicians even knew what it was. Because of this, it was able to evolve into something that was open and free (as in speech) for all it's users. Had it's entire development been overseen by the government and corporations, I think it would have ended up being a huge flop.
If you log 4 users (or however many you want) into a Mac, and have them all run VNC separately, you can have 4 people using the same computer at the same time. They each get their own mouse, keyboard, and a full screen, not just a quarter of the screen. Unfortunately, they each only get 1/4 of the processor and RAM, assuming they are putting equal load on the computer.
Couldn't you just do the same for Firefox under windows or linux. Set up a user account with virtually no rights and run firefox as that user. I'm sure it would work great on linux. Not sure how well it would work on linux, but I'm sure it could be done.
Even if they revoke the 09 key, the hackers can use the same methods to recover whatever new keys they are using. It's an endless battle. They can revoke all the keys they want, but until they are able to stop them from actually recovering the key, they haven't stopped anyone.
What good is the Chinese EDVD system if none of the studios release disks in that format?
People just expect computers to do everything for them, and turn off their brains most of the time. This is why people have so many problems operating computers. Most people when searching for information about Cats (the musical) will probably just type in "cats", and look through all the results. Whereas, a person who understands the concept of feeding the right information to the search engine, will probably type in "cats musical", or if you're looking for something more specific, you may type in "cats musical song list".
If you've seen Babel, then you'll know the other solution. In that movie the deaf people in that movie were using sign language over video messaging to communicate. Of course this was in Japan where it's probably much easier to get a plan that supports this for a reasonable price, but give it a few years, and hopefully america phone companies will warm up to the idea.
This is probably the biggest problem with searching. Google can return really good results if you know what to search for. Most people I know just type in the first word that pops into their head, and make the search way too generalized, and don't get good results. Knowing what words to type in can save you a lot of time in searching.
¥ahoo would work a lot better. Lets just hope slashdot doesn't remove the Yen sign.
I really don't like the UI on GAIM, at least last time I tried it. I prefer Kopete much better. And trying to move somebody who isn't a geek from the pretty colours of MSN to the look of GAIM can be pretty hard. But what other choices are available for windows users who want to use a multi-protocol instant messenger. I just hope Kopete for KDE4 is available for windows. That would be a really nice replacement for msn, and all the other instant messengers I need to use.
It is a key distribution crack, but as long as you can copy the disc, it doesn't really matter about the details. The actual encryption used in AACS is too powerful to bother trying to brute force, so you have to find the key to have any hope of cracking it. Luckily, they provide you with all the necessary information when you buy the HDDVD, you just have to know where to look.
And apart from a small minority of the security problems, they mostly do exploit the human factor. Even when it's something like outlook automatically executing files, it's still the human factor, a human decides to run that software. As soon as any knowledgeable person learned how insecure outlook was, they should have stopped using it. Why would anybody use such insecure software. You don't see any exceptions being made for people who buy $600 used cars and then complaining that it breaks down. If you knew the car was so bad, why did you buy it in the first place?
They just lost the will to crack the encryption. Then encryption can be cracked. Everybody thought that AACS was very powerful, and that it would take quite a long time to crack. However, it's been cracked, and I don't even know anybody who's bought a HD-DVD player yet. It took much longer to break CSS encryption. Or at least DVD was more popular before it got cracked. There's things like minidisc players that use DRM to try to enforce what music you can play on them (NetMD). Currently there is no crack as far as I've seen, but I think that's just because of the lack of demand for a crack, not the lack of people actually being able to crack it if they tried hard enough.
Who shot who in the when what now?
What I'm saying is that for power users, Windows sucks because it doesn't provide any features geared towards them. I'm also saying that for non-power users it sucks, because you can't just put an image on your desktop, and have it resize to fit the screen automatically. You have to open it up in an image editor, resize it to your desktop, then put it on your desktop. I don't see what any particular person likes about windows, power user or not.
Wrong. 90% of users don't need the old windows/msdos shell. If people had a shell that was as good as bash, then they would use it. As it is now, using the shell in windows doesn't provide any benefit, so nobody bothers to use it. You can't say people don't need a shell when they don't have one. It's like saying people didn't need macros in word processors before the existed. Nobody used macros because the option wasn't available to them. Now that macros are available, many people do use them, and not just the power users. MS assumes that everybody is an idiot, and therefore doesn't provide tools that people with the right skills would actually use. Therefore, nobody has the opportunity to develop skills with these tools. Take a look at some of the stuff in XP, like that search dog, and the dumbed-down control panel and management options. With features like that it's no wonder people don't learn anything about computers, when the computer assumes they don't.
Every time I use Windows, I find it amazing that people still pay for and use MS software. It's pretty good, but it seems to be missing a lot of key features. Things like the shell are decades behind unix. I can't even take a picture and scale it to fit on the desktop without the aspect ratio being messed up. I can't stand using IE, even IE7 because it's behind where firefox was 2 years ago. given the current rate that Linux/Open source is catching up to MS, I give them another 10 years before linux has 20% of the PC market.
They'd probably have to adjust the amount you win/lose to make it a little more fair. If you do it the way it's described, you only have to kill 1 guy for every time you're killed to break even. In most FPS games, that's extremely easy, especially when you're playing against a lot of people.
The problem with poker (from my understanding) is that while you can create a bot that plays the odds, and probably win a little bit of money, there's a lot of people who can easily beat the bots. You could just as easily have people play the odds, and you wouldn't technically be using a bot. But this tends not to work out so well, because the bots can only do so good. But with counterstrike, and other FPS games, it's hard if not impossible to beat someone who has an aimbot.