I understand the value. But you really think that Google will not be offering all the features of Xmarks in the next 3-6 months? For free(in exchange for data mining your bookmarks and tracking the use of them of course.)
Fade away is the wrong term. This was overwhelmed by increasing volume of missing ad revenue for there own TVs. Can't kill the item that markets your own product.
Xmarks had a great idea but it doomed from the start. Syncing bookmarks isn't a product. It is a feature like spellcheck in a Word Processor. It can't stand alone and can't be protected from others doing the same thing. Thus it can't be marketed as the only place to get this feature. Google or Firefox will have it built in at some point because they can recreate it without paying the original creators for the idea. Had they patented the idea they might have had a chance. IF they could patent it. As it stands this never had a chance and anybody that pays now for it is a fool for the company will go bust.
OpenOffice.org never had good names. They should have dropped the.org part which I always thought was dumb to have on the software product. It should have always been called "OpenOffice" written/supported/produced by OpenOffice.Org.
Right keep the system that cost us 14 lives and two expensive launch vehicles. Keep the system that never could do what is was originally advertised to do. It was a waste of money and resources that could have been better used for unmanned missions or even maned ones with better equipment and real goals.
One cool scene does not a good show make. It was cool to see the battle at New Caprica but the entire plot line was telegraphed in big huge letters. It was fun to watch but no surprise about how it turned out.
And they failed to expand and even undid much of the Cylon backstory. Leoben Conoy was simply turned into a sick nut case. Why the cylons came to N.C. and enslaved the humans never got answered. We get to see the inside of a Baseship but other then seeing that Cylons have no problems with nudity and threesomes we get no real insight into them.
You must of missed the killer doctor episode, the we are stuck in the airlock episode, the boxing episode, or the lets let our spy escape and hope he can manage to kill Adama while everyone forgets the military realities of a spy mission episode. Yeah, it got better.
I have to agree. IMO Season One was almost perfect. Season Two bounced back and forth some good and some bad and then they hit New Caprica and the whole show collapsed.
The entire "New Caprica" plot line was pointless if you asked me. Everything in it was predictable with no real insight into the characters and avoiding any real issues. For Example, We never got to see Baltar act as the President on his own. For all the Cylons actions we never really got any insight on WHY they are doing what they are doing. They turned the cylons "with a plan" into simple thugs being brutal just to be brutal.
Frankly for me the show has never lived up to what Season One produced. The show had direction then, to me it lacks it now.
Well I see you point, to a point. If lardtech needs the time to test then how are they going to be fast enough to react no matter when the patch is released? It might take two weeks for them to test and roll out an update. This is the era of the zero day exploit. How is this any better? Sure they might be unlucky and have a patch come out on the 1st and they wait until the 31st to begin to roll it out. Or they might get the patch on the 28th and still get screwed over by a zero-day event.
One wonders if it might be better if large companies got advanced secret issues of the patch, but then who can keep a secret eh?
If MS comes out with a patch, the company starts testing it out, then 3 days later MS comes out with another patch, the big corp now has multiple cycles of testing trying to go on at the same time, using up tons of IT resources, backing things up in the pipeline. If their testing cycle is 2 weeks, and MS releases 6 patches during those two weeks, the pipeline is now filled up with 12 weeks worth of throughput. Not fun.
Why is that a M$ problem? Why can't your company just have an internal regular patch schedule? Any patch issued in the past 30 days is put on that end of the month test schedule. If the patch is super-critical then you'll have to break your schedule which is what M$ does anyway when a emergency patch is released. I'm not a large company I can keep up with such updates why must I wait because Lardtech, INC. isn't as fast?
1. Don't call dell. Use the online chat. It's faster and you don't have to strain with accents that you can't understand.
2. Before you begin the chat pull the Hard drive from the laptop and then run a hard drive diagnostic. Obviously it will fail. You'll have a nice hard drive not found error code to give to the dell tech. That will get you a replacement hard drive shipped. When they ship the drive they will ship the software to reinstall.
The legal method to handle this is to purchase an OEM version of Windows Xp.
You then perform what is known as a "repair" install. The cdkey change tools will not work. You must do the repair install. That method will not change any of the settings or loose programs.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall. htm
Most all the damage to the shuttle's tiles is caused by foam shedded during launch. Once in orbit any debris they might encounter would strike them at such a high speed that tile damage would be the least of their worries.
...curing Viruses? Most viruses are the most minor change in code yet that is all it takes for the new version of TRJ_Worse_Virus_ever.BA3 and then BA4, and BA5, to infect the next PC. If they did there job as good as they could do it they would put themselves out of business.
I know 800 slashdotters are going to mod me troll and describe how wrong I am but I can't fully believe it.
Course I'm into JFK and 9-11 conspiracies as well....
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I run my own computer business and supporting idiot users is something I must do everyday. I prefer KDE but I think many users can benefit from gnome. I think many can use a Mac easier then Windows. There is merit to having a GUI that is KISS.
Yes I'm serious. I personally don't interact with anyone in a third world nation. I am hard pressed to think of but a small handful, perhaps 3 people, that I personally know that DO deal with people in third world nations. And they maintain their contact via email. Perhaps YOU have the jaundiced viewpoint of everyone in Africa is living in thatch roof huts and trying to plow fields of wheat with an ox.
Yes I'm sure that they do exist in the world but from my small world view, the view I have to deal with everyday, beyond a grocery list, and I often put them on my PDA, I just do not put pencil to paper. Not to print or write in cursive. Most people I know are in the same boat. It's a skill that modern society has for the most part orphaned.
Perhaps you can argue that handwritten print needs to still be taught but cursive is a waste of time to teach IMO.
This could be really good news for the future of penmanship, or really bad.
Would that really be so awful. My penmanship was never good to begin with but I find that I so rarely sit down and write with a pen that the skill has badly deteriorated. More so with cursive then printing. I'm not sure that it is a skill we badly need any more in modern society.
Thanks. What about the two issued I mentioned? The icons tend to get mucked up and you can only click on them if you know what they are from memory. And how to you update? My version is 2002(about to be dropped - damn greedy Intuit pigs) and the update program is seperate from QB. I never could get it to work.
Does it have support for Quickbooks? That is my make or break app for dropping Windows all together. I've tried it in the past but menus would get mucked up and you can't run the updater which is required if you are going to download tax tables.
Tried to check out site for info but it's slashdotted.
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I'm so happy I could throw a chair!
I understand the value. But you really think that Google will not be offering all the features of Xmarks in the next 3-6 months? For free(in exchange for data mining your bookmarks and tracking the use of them of course.)
Fade away is the wrong term. This was overwhelmed by increasing volume of missing ad revenue for there own TVs. Can't kill the item that markets your own product.
Xmarks had a great idea but it doomed from the start. Syncing bookmarks isn't a product. It is a feature like spellcheck in a Word Processor. It can't stand alone and can't be protected from others doing the same thing. Thus it can't be marketed as the only place to get this feature. Google or Firefox will have it built in at some point because they can recreate it without paying the original creators for the idea. Had they patented the idea they might have had a chance. IF they could patent it. As it stands this never had a chance and anybody that pays now for it is a fool for the company will go bust.
Just call it OpenDocs.
OpenOffice.org never had good names. They should have dropped the .org part which I always thought was dumb to have on the software product. It should have always been called "OpenOffice" written/supported/produced by OpenOffice.Org.
The Document Foundation is also a dumb name.
Right keep the system that cost us 14 lives and two expensive launch vehicles. Keep the system that never could do what is was originally advertised to do. It was a waste of money and resources that could have been better used for unmanned missions or even maned ones with better equipment and real goals.
Mod this guy up. There are lots of issues like this that keep me using a usb floppy drive. Some software still use floppies for license disks.
All your svchost belong to us.
And you dare to imply that Slashdot isn't permanent? Never have I witnessed a more true blasphemy.
We are permanent. We are one. We are +5 Karmawhores and can afford to burn. You promote a false God. There is only one root.
One cool scene does not a good show make. It was cool to see the battle at New Caprica but the entire plot line was telegraphed in big huge letters. It was fun to watch but no surprise about how it turned out.
And they failed to expand and even undid much of the Cylon backstory. Leoben Conoy was simply turned into a sick nut case. Why the cylons came to N.C. and enslaved the humans never got answered. We get to see the inside of a Baseship but other then seeing that Cylons have no problems with nudity and threesomes we get no real insight into them.
Really?
You must of missed the killer doctor episode, the we are stuck in the airlock episode, the boxing episode, or the lets let our spy escape and hope he can manage to kill Adama while everyone forgets the military realities of a spy mission episode. Yeah, it got better.
I have to agree. IMO Season One was almost perfect. Season Two bounced back and forth some good and some bad and then they hit New Caprica and the whole show collapsed.
The entire "New Caprica" plot line was pointless if you asked me. Everything in it was predictable with no real insight into the characters and avoiding any real issues. For Example, We never got to see Baltar act as the President on his own. For all the Cylons actions we never really got any insight on WHY they are doing what they are doing. They turned the cylons "with a plan" into simple thugs being brutal just to be brutal.
Frankly for me the show has never lived up to what Season One produced. The show had direction then, to me it lacks it now.
Well I see you point, to a point. If lardtech needs the time to test then how are they going to be fast enough to react no matter when the patch is released? It might take two weeks for them to test and roll out an update. This is the era of the zero day exploit. How is this any better? Sure they might be unlucky and have a patch come out on the 1st and they wait until the 31st to begin to roll it out. Or they might get the patch on the 28th and still get screwed over by a zero-day event.
One wonders if it might be better if large companies got advanced secret issues of the patch, but then who can keep a secret eh?
Why is that a M$ problem? Why can't your company just have an internal regular patch schedule? Any patch issued in the past 30 days is put on that end of the month test schedule. If the patch is super-critical then you'll have to break your schedule which is what M$ does anyway when a emergency patch is released. I'm not a large company I can keep up with such updates why must I wait because Lardtech, INC. isn't as fast?
1. Don't call dell. Use the online chat. It's faster and you don't have to strain with accents that you can't understand.
2. Before you begin the chat pull the Hard drive from the laptop and then run a hard drive diagnostic. Obviously it will fail. You'll have a nice hard drive not found error code to give to the dell tech. That will get you a replacement hard drive shipped. When they ship the drive they will ship the software to reinstall.
The legal method to handle this is to purchase an OEM version of Windows Xp. You then perform what is known as a "repair" install. The cdkey change tools will not work. You must do the repair install. That method will not change any of the settings or loose programs. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall. htm
Most all the damage to the shuttle's tiles is caused by foam shedded during launch. Once in orbit any debris they might encounter would strike them at such a high speed that tile damage would be the least of their worries.
...curing Viruses? Most viruses are the most minor change in code yet that is all it takes for the new version of TRJ_Worse_Virus_ever.BA3 and then BA4, and BA5, to infect the next PC. If they did there job as good as they could do it they would put themselves out of business.
I know 800 slashdotters are going to mod me troll and describe how wrong I am but I can't fully believe it.
Course I'm into JFK and 9-11 conspiracies as well....
I run my own computer business and supporting idiot users is something I must do everyday. I prefer KDE but I think many users can benefit from gnome. I think many can use a Mac easier then Windows. There is merit to having a GUI that is KISS.
Yes I'm serious. I personally don't interact with anyone in a third world nation. I am hard pressed to think of but a small handful, perhaps 3 people, that I personally know that DO deal with people in third world nations. And they maintain their contact via email. Perhaps YOU have the jaundiced viewpoint of everyone in Africa is living in thatch roof huts and trying to plow fields of wheat with an ox.
Yes I'm sure that they do exist in the world but from my small world view, the view I have to deal with everyday, beyond a grocery list, and I often put them on my PDA, I just do not put pencil to paper. Not to print or write in cursive. Most people I know are in the same boat. It's a skill that modern society has for the most part orphaned.
Perhaps you can argue that handwritten print needs to still be taught but cursive is a waste of time to teach IMO.
Would that really be so awful. My penmanship was never good to begin with but I find that I so rarely sit down and write with a pen that the skill has badly deteriorated. More so with cursive then printing. I'm not sure that it is a skill we badly need any more in modern society.
Thanks. Once the slashdotting slows down abit I'll take another look. :-)
Thanks. What about the two issued I mentioned? The icons tend to get mucked up and you can only click on them if you know what they are from memory. And how to you update? My version is 2002(about to be dropped - damn greedy Intuit pigs) and the update program is seperate from QB. I never could get it to work.
Does it have support for Quickbooks? That is my make or break app for dropping Windows all together. I've tried it in the past but menus would get mucked up and you can't run the updater which is required if you are going to download tax tables.
Tried to check out site for info but it's slashdotted.