Perhaps the people making these "blacked out documents" should be taught a little about Vector Graphics and that a black box is not the same as a sharpie. One word for them 'n00b'!!
Sometimes I wonder if these incidents are really "accidents" or somebody's way of feigning ignorance of technology to get the facts out to the public.
(yes, the "HD" stands for nothing, not "High Definition")
Ahh, but it does...
"Hardly Desirable"
"Huge Dungpile"
Any others?
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Now, with greed driving them to 10-12 commercials and breaks every 10 minutes, people have said enough.
Agreed...I'm one of them. I'm this close --> -- to canceling my cable TV subscription because (a) I don't watch it enough to make it worthwhile and (b) I pay for erxtra channels, and yet they have commercials. Wasn't the idea behind paid content (like cable) that you paid for the channels thus no commericals? Now I'm paying for commercials. Am I missing something or has cable TV slowly evolved into a type of commercial TV that gets revenue from ads AND paid subscriptions?
d drive), and replaced it for them. They asked about the old one, and were assured it would be destroyed. Would you have asked to take it home before reading this story?
Yes, without a doubt. *I* may think the drive's gone bad, but some clever techie could take the drive and stick it in a freezer or replace an I/O board from another "failed" unit and wham-o, it's back in action.
This illustrates the need to keep replaced parts, even if they are considered "dead."
Mistake #1: They asked to have a perfectly good hard drive destroyed rather than keep it as a backup unit.
Mistake #2: They trusted a disinterested third party to destroy a perfectly good hard drive containing all sorts of information.
Mistake #3 (maybe): They didn't wipe the drive clean themselves before having it replaced. This may not really be a mistake, if part of the new drive installation was copying the data from the old drive to the new drive, so we'll give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Moral of the story: keep the old drives, whether they work or not, and if it needs to be destroyed, do it yourself.
Though not new in Office 2007, the suite now uses a Zip-compatible XML-based file structure. In Office 2003, this format was available as an option; in Office 2007, it's the default. While you can still open and edit.DOC files in Word, files are automatically saved in DOCX format.
These new file formats are not backward-compatible with earlier versions, though Microsoft has said that a conversion add-in will be available for Office XP and 2003 users.
Note the lack of mention of saving in.doc format (although that doesn't mean it's not there). While I can't recall using a Word file that used features that weren't backwards compatible, I imagine that the "vendor lock-in" and "forced upgrade" arguments will fly far and wide with this one.
I pay $50/month for unlimited voice service. (It's like having free nights and weekends all day long and all week long. As a bonus I pay no additional charge for so-called 'long distance' calls. I can place a call from the east coast to a party on the west coast, talk all month, and not pay any amount beyond my flat monthly use fee.) I pay an additional $15/month for unlimited data usage (to use my phone as a modem -- the normal rate is $0.03/kb! I'll pay the $15 with a smile).
Now that's a sweetheart deal...who did you get that from?
Right, it should, however it doesn't. Actually... their last suggestion is to wipe FF and reinstall it (duh) and even then, a fresh installation of FF with a grand total of 3-4 extensions fails to update.
Try without any extensions, maybe one of them is causing trouble.
I have four extensions and the auto update worked fine: Adblock Plus 0.7 NoScript 1.1.4 FasterFox 1.0.3 Slashdotter 1.5
Some of this you can do already with the use of mail filters. I haven't used Outlook/Exchange in some time, but I can do everything that you have described in MS Entourage--only check email at 8am and 1pm for example (I just set this one to see how well it works out, I get distracted by email quite easily) and raise/lower message priority based on sender/content/etc.
Perhaps this doesn't work with an Exchange account, but I can do this all with POP or IMAP accounts.
When it comes to M$ there really isn't much of a choice for 90% or so of the world.
No, I can't agree with this. I use Windows on one of my laptops, and I rarely use IE for anything other than Microsoft Update. If I was really opposed to running IE, I could probably still download and install updates manually (but I haven't confirmed this recently.) While 90% of the OS market runs Windows, they have just as much choice regarding which browser they use as I do.
Whether they have the basic skills to switch is another story.
Essentially by using MSN as the default for IE M$ is making it the default (search engine) of the default (web browser) of the default (Operating System). Googles lawsuit claims this is antitrust, and judging by the outcome of the other M$ antitrust lawsuits it will be.
I'm not locked into using MSN Search with IE on my Windows machine any more than I am locked into using (whatever is default) with Safari on my OS X machine. (Although from what I understand Google IS in fact hardcoded into Safari, I should check that out.)
For both I use Firefox and Google. What makes Joe Sixpack locked into IE/MSN Search on his Windows machine but I'm not locked into using them on mine?
But if someone is going to bitch about setting a default without asking, the same standard should apply to Firefox/Google.
I have to agree with that. If you want IE to ask for a default search engine on the first run, then you should support such a feature for other browsers as well, for your "user choice is paramount" argument to hold water.
Would Google complain about Firefox if Firefox defaulted to a (fictional) Mozilla search engine?
Also, what did I read recently about Google actively supporting the development/adoption of Firefox? Could this be an argument in favor of what MS is doing with IE? IIRC, Google has developers that actively work on Firefox, and provide some sort of referral fee to Mozilla for each search originated from the Firefox/Mozilla search window. Feel free to clarify my thinking on this.
Now, considering IE, what do you expect MS to set as the default search engine? Why would a company set a default option in their software to point to a competitor? That's like going to a tire selector web page operated by Goodyear, enter in the vehicle, and get back the type of tires for your car made by Pirelli or Michelin.
Wouldn't the mass adoption of this product just shift the peak usage time - therefore negating some of the benefits of using it?
I wouldn't think so, since it is not likely to replace completely the grid power during the day.
It probably shares the load between the unit and the main grid, carrying a fraction of the load all day. If your data center needs 5kVA, this unit will carry 3.6 kVA for 10 hours, pulling the rest from the grid. At night, the data center pulls from the grid entirely at the lower rate and recharges the batteries, also at the lower rate.
There are a lot of loads that won't be helped by a device such as this, like air conditioners and 3-phase manufacturing machinery. At least, I wouldn't want to run A/C on a box like this; my little apartment A/C unit pulls about 650 VA, and it's pretty small. I'd bet a datacenter uses A/C units with a little more cooling capacity:)
As has been pointed out, it wouldn't move the peak time, but it would help to smooth it out somewhat.
What I would be interested in seeing is if it does power correction, bringing the current and voltage into phase, reducing reactive power. Big manufacturing plants do this with banks of giant capacitors to counter the massive inductive loads of the electric motors and get a break in their electric bills since (useless) reactive power isn't generated.
The other problem which may arise is that a hydro company aware of such devices may charge a premium in order to offset "lost revenue".
I don't think this would be a concern; I've seen plenty of times where the electric company will offer a rebate to purchasers of newer, energy-efficient appliances (and sometimes will haul the old unit away for free.)
I'm not saying that motorists are any better--running stop signs/stop lights while gabbing on cell phones, U-turns in front of traffic (both of which I have seen up close and personal in the last two days), the aforementioned speeding, etc. You're right, motorists aren't much better.
I guess it is the attitude of cyclists that I was focused on--"I'm not a motorist, therefore I don't have to obey the rules of the road."
And the spiel is not a crock at all--it's the truth. Replace "cyclists" with "motorists" and it is also the truth. Before cyclists start bitching about motorists not respecting bikes on the road, maybe the bikes need to respect the rules of the road. Before motorists start bitching about cyclists not respecting the rules of the road, maybe they shoud hang up the phone and focus on the road themselves more.
It works both ways. I say that as a motorist and a cyclist.
When Windows Vista is released early next year its firewall will be set to only block incoming traffic even though it will be capable of blocking outgoing traffic.
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Microsoft claims that configuring the Vista firewall to block outgoing connections from rogue applications and malware will require a varying degree of technical knowledge, depending on each user's security requirements.
So it's not really crippled, it can be configured for outbound protection. Maybe the "varying degree of technical knowledge" implies that it's not as straightforward as a nice GUI configuration window and hence "crippled" in that respect.
Saying it is "crippled" would imply that the outbound protection code exists, but it is permanently disabled, i.e. not configurable at all.
The 'solution' is for everyone to just obey the traffic laws, and to pay more attention the bigger the vehicle you're driving.
I sure hope you include cyclists in your "everybody." At least you seem to put yourself in that category, which is a good thing.
No matter where I have lived, it seems that a majority of cyclists don't feel the need to follow the rules of the road--zipping in and out of traffic and running full speed through stop signs or red lights are the biggest offenses I see.
To all you cyclists out there: If you ride on the road, you are expected to follow the SAME RULES OF THE ROAD as motorists are! Hell, as a cyclist, I've nearly been run down several times by other cyclists because they didn't expect me to stop at that red traffic light.
The other day I saw a cyclist blow right through a red light, at a fairly busy intersection, WITH A CHILD TRAILER IN TOW. Scary.
Let's be fair and pin the blame on bicycle-motorists collisions (they're not accidents, they can be avoided) on idiot cyclists too, not just idiot motorists.
Eventually my students won't have to write papers and I won't have to grade them! Think of the potential application of this technology towards education!
This reminds me of a movie where a few students started sending tape-recorders to class instead of themselves. Gradually the scene had the professor lecturing to a room full of tape recorders. The last step in this scenario was a tape of the lecture being played to a room full of machines taping it.
(Dammit if I can't recall which movie that is though.)
Maybe where you come from, but in California, it is 3.
Recent discoveries in the legal profession have left scientists, many of whom still linger romantically in the Newtonian world, scrambling to catch up in the field of New Causality. In a case last month, a judge in Sacramento ruled in favor of changing the value of pi, thus acquitting a tire manufacturer of making tires that were not fully round. An appeal by scientists was thrown out for lack of evidence when the small courtroom could not physically accommodate a fully expressed representation of pi. The oblong tires in question were produced at the retrial, the judge said they looked round to him, the defense played the race card, and the value of pi was changed to 2.0.
After Reagan (god bless him) deregulated TV so that we could have as many commercials as we could stand, more people opted for cable and pay services...
This is related to something I've been wondering about for a while now. Why is it that I pay for cable, yet still get commercials on such channels as The History Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, etc.? Aren't I already paying for the content in the form of my cable bill?
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Sometimes I wonder if these incidents are really "accidents" or somebody's way of feigning ignorance of technology to get the facts out to the public.
Ahh, but it does...
"Hardly Desirable"
"Huge Dungpile"
Any others?
Agreed...I'm one of them. I'm this close --> -- to canceling my cable TV subscription because (a) I don't watch it enough to make it worthwhile and (b) I pay for erxtra channels, and yet they have commercials. Wasn't the idea behind paid content (like cable) that you paid for the channels thus no commericals? Now I'm paying for commercials. Am I missing something or has cable TV slowly evolved into a type of commercial TV that gets revenue from ads AND paid subscriptions?
Was it the screen captures? Maybe all that cutting and pasting took 500 hours.
Yes, without a doubt. *I* may think the drive's gone bad, but some clever techie could take the drive and stick it in a freezer or replace an I/O board from another "failed" unit and wham-o, it's back in action.
This illustrates the need to keep replaced parts, even if they are considered "dead."
Mistake #1: They asked to have a perfectly good hard drive destroyed rather than keep it as a backup unit.
Mistake #2: They trusted a disinterested third party to destroy a perfectly good hard drive containing all sorts of information.
Mistake #3 (maybe): They didn't wipe the drive clean themselves before having it replaced. This may not really be a mistake, if part of the new drive installation was copying the data from the old drive to the new drive, so we'll give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Moral of the story: keep the old drives, whether they work or not, and if it needs to be destroyed, do it yourself.
Perhaps you also hit your head at the same time?
I pointed that out already, as the article did NOT say that the .doc file tpe wasn't available. The lack of mention was conspicuous.
Note the lack of mention of saving in
Interesting comparison...and seems to be quite true.
I read in my latest IEEE Spectrum about the makeup of the FCC and the French equivalent. (NO, this isn't going to be a French-bashing rip.)
The French equivalent is made up of about eight members, all with experience in telecommunications from a managerial and/or engineering viewpoint.
The FCC board is made up of four members: two trained as lawyers and two as historians.
Draw your own conclusions. When I get home I'll find the details.
Now that's a sweetheart deal...who did you get that from?
Try without any extensions, maybe one of them is causing trouble.
I have four extensions and the auto update worked fine:
Adblock Plus 0.7
NoScript 1.1.4
FasterFox 1.0.3
Slashdotter 1.5
Some of this you can do already with the use of mail filters. I haven't used Outlook/Exchange in some time, but I can do everything that you have described in MS Entourage--only check email at 8am and 1pm for example (I just set this one to see how well it works out, I get distracted by email quite easily) and raise/lower message priority based on sender/content/etc.
Perhaps this doesn't work with an Exchange account, but I can do this all with POP or IMAP accounts.
No, what I find interesting is this:
NTP owns a stake in Visto, Bloomberg News reported.
I can't place it, but something just doesn't seem right...why does the idea of NTP using RIM's money to go after RIM again come to mind?
No, I can't agree with this. I use Windows on one of my laptops, and I rarely use IE for anything other than Microsoft Update. If I was really opposed to running IE, I could probably still download and install updates manually (but I haven't confirmed this recently.) While 90% of the OS market runs Windows, they have just as much choice regarding which browser they use as I do.
Whether they have the basic skills to switch is another story.
I'm not locked into using MSN Search with IE on my Windows machine any more than I am locked into using (whatever is default) with Safari on my OS X machine. (Although from what I understand Google IS in fact hardcoded into Safari, I should check that out.)
For both I use Firefox and Google. What makes Joe Sixpack locked into IE/MSN Search on his Windows machine but I'm not locked into using them on mine?
I have to agree with that. If you want IE to ask for a default search engine on the first run, then you should support such a feature for other browsers as well, for your "user choice is paramount" argument to hold water.
Would Google complain about Firefox if Firefox defaulted to a (fictional) Mozilla search engine?
Also, what did I read recently about Google actively supporting the development/adoption of Firefox? Could this be an argument in favor of what MS is doing with IE? IIRC, Google has developers that actively work on Firefox, and provide some sort of referral fee to Mozilla for each search originated from the Firefox/Mozilla search window. Feel free to clarify my thinking on this.
Now, considering IE, what do you expect MS to set as the default search engine? Why would a company set a default option in their software to point to a competitor? That's like going to a tire selector web page operated by Goodyear, enter in the vehicle, and get back the type of tires for your car made by Pirelli or Michelin.
(It's a loose analogy but it makes the point.)
I wouldn't think so, since it is not likely to replace completely the grid power during the day.
It probably shares the load between the unit and the main grid, carrying a fraction of the load all day. If your data center needs 5kVA, this unit will carry 3.6 kVA for 10 hours, pulling the rest from the grid. At night, the data center pulls from the grid entirely at the lower rate and recharges the batteries, also at the lower rate.
There are a lot of loads that won't be helped by a device such as this, like air conditioners and 3-phase manufacturing machinery. At least, I wouldn't want to run A/C on a box like this; my little apartment A/C unit pulls about 650 VA, and it's pretty small. I'd bet a datacenter uses A/C units with a little more cooling capacity
As has been pointed out, it wouldn't move the peak time, but it would help to smooth it out somewhat.
What I would be interested in seeing is if it does power correction, bringing the current and voltage into phase, reducing reactive power. Big manufacturing plants do this with banks of giant capacitors to counter the massive inductive loads of the electric motors and get a break in their electric bills since (useless) reactive power isn't generated.
I don't think this would be a concern; I've seen plenty of times where the electric company will offer a rebate to purchasers of newer, energy-efficient appliances (and sometimes will haul the old unit away for free.)
I'm not saying that motorists are any better--running stop signs/stop lights while gabbing on cell phones, U-turns in front of traffic (both of which I have seen up close and personal in the last two days), the aforementioned speeding, etc. You're right, motorists aren't much better.
I guess it is the attitude of cyclists that I was focused on--"I'm not a motorist, therefore I don't have to obey the rules of the road."
And the spiel is not a crock at all--it's the truth. Replace "cyclists" with "motorists" and it is also the truth. Before cyclists start bitching about motorists not respecting bikes on the road, maybe the bikes need to respect the rules of the road. Before motorists start bitching about cyclists not respecting the rules of the road, maybe they shoud hang up the phone and focus on the road themselves more.
It works both ways. I say that as a motorist and a cyclist.
So it's not really crippled, it can be configured for outbound protection. Maybe the "varying degree of technical knowledge" implies that it's not as straightforward as a nice GUI configuration window and hence "crippled" in that respect.
Saying it is "crippled" would imply that the outbound protection code exists, but it is permanently disabled, i.e. not configurable at all.
I sure hope you include cyclists in your "everybody." At least you seem to put yourself in that category, which is a good thing.
No matter where I have lived, it seems that a majority of cyclists don't feel the need to follow the rules of the road--zipping in and out of traffic and running full speed through stop signs or red lights are the biggest offenses I see.
To all you cyclists out there: If you ride on the road, you are expected to follow the SAME RULES OF THE ROAD as motorists are! Hell, as a cyclist, I've nearly been run down several times by other cyclists because they didn't expect me to stop at that red traffic light.
The other day I saw a cyclist blow right through a red light, at a fairly busy intersection, WITH A CHILD TRAILER IN TOW. Scary.
Let's be fair and pin the blame on bicycle-motorists collisions (they're not accidents, they can be avoided) on idiot cyclists too, not just idiot motorists.
This reminds me of a movie where a few students started sending tape-recorders to class instead of themselves. Gradually the scene had the professor lecturing to a room full of tape recorders. The last step in this scenario was a tape of the lecture being played to a room full of machines taping it.
(Dammit if I can't recall which movie that is though.)
Maybe where you come from, but in California, it is 3.
From "Studies in the New Causality" by Steve Martin, http://www.compleatsteve.com/essays/causality.htm
This is related to something I've been wondering about for a while now. Why is it that I pay for cable, yet still get commercials on such channels as The History Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, etc.? Aren't I already paying for the content in the form of my cable bill?
I ask, simply because I don't know the answer.
I guess when you run Windows, failures are routine...
You're thinking silicone. C'mon, I'd expect better than that.