So why wouldn't the virus authors set the security-related flag?
More importantly, I hope admins are allowed to run Command Prompt and web browsers. And if you can run those, I don't see how you're going to gain much security. And if you don't let admins download from the web and run DOS scripts, I don't know how you plan to accomplish much as a system admin.
One important factor in making security decisions is the tradeoff between preventing access by unauthorized people versus annoying authorized people. You can implement five-stage biometric security to open a lab door, but that increases the chances that lab workers will prop the door open when they go to the bathroom.
The main convenience issue that occurs to me in your situation is what happens when someone opens the document without a network connection? If somebody backhoes the Internet connection to your Omaha office and your access control system can't connect to a server in New York, is the Omaha employee allowed to to read the document? If not, how would you prevent someone annoyed by that fact from using Copy and Paste (when he's got a network connection) to create an OpenOffice version of the document?
Are employees allowed to print the document? If so, how do you plan to prevent them from handing it to an unauthorized party in a manila envelope? If not, how do you deal with annoyed users who like to print specifications so they can use a highlighter and write notes in the margins?
Mines of Moria worked for me! I spent countless hours moving around 20x64 character dungeons when I was 13-16. And it served as good cognitive priming when I started using vi.
You could also prepare the kids for college (circa 1999) by installing Snood with a shortcut called "Run this when you have school work to do."
The main market for commercial radio is people driving around the city where they live, background music in a business, etc. Commercial radio doesn't cover many interests (classical music is generally available on noncommercial stations or not at all) and has few offerings in many part of the country. The other competition for satellite radio is people listening to their own audio; in your demographic, many road trippers will just bring a couple dozen CDs along for the drive. While acquiring those CDs is not free, listening to them is.
But those are all general skills; my knowledge of philosophical theories or history or personalities are, frankly, never a part of my work life.
You could say the same thing about physics. I use neither theories of gravity and electromagnetism nor knowledge of famous physicists as part of my daily programming. But in the process of learning those things, I learned valuable lessons about experimentation and scientific thinking. Physics problems are well suited to the scientific method, philosophy problems are well suited to philosophical methods (well, sometimes).
Writing computer programs and writing analytical philosophy papers are more or less the same thing except computer programs are easier to test and may have better documented assumptions (APIs).
There are also striking personality correlations between computer scientists and philosophers. So if a CS major takes some philosophy courses, he may make some interesting new friends. But there's certainly no reason to merge the departments (unless they're also joined with the math department).
One distinguishing feature of the Bush presidency has been an increase in claimed power for the executive branch from signing statements to bypass legislative decisions to NSA surveillance of Americans without judicial approval. How do you view the role of the executive branch in relation to the legislative and judicial branches? Are there specific ways in which you think executive power should be decreased or increased?
On the plus side, I'm glad Canon hasn't decided to embed a phone in their cameras. I really don't want it to start vibrating when I'm about to get a good shot.
My programming languages class was treated to a talk by a guy who worked some on.Net from a theoretical standpoint. He gave a demonstration of a form-manipulation script running in IE. "What language is this written in? COBOL dot net, the language of the future!"
I don't know what one needs to do to make it work, but scripting the browser (IE, anyway) is presumably already possible.
You could probably get within 200km better than 16% of the time if you always guess the photographer's home city.
I also wonder how well you could do by checking the photo's timestamp, then examining the shadows to determine the sun angle.
I once correctly guessed "Quebec" in a National Geography Bee when asked in which Canadian province a picture of a particular attraction lay. My clue? The sign on the front of the bus was in French.
... and here I thought the ID crowd was claiming a zebra's stripes provide no survival benefit and therefore are clear evidence of an Intelligent Interior Designer.
#2 are probably pretty excited about it, but (as every Slashdotter should know), geeks can display very negative feelings about first impressions of changes to products they love.
#3, while they're restricted regarding the specifics they can share, tend to be in a position of objectivity. They've tried the game and may have sent the authors very specific feedback on what they do and don't like. So while they can't provide enough information for people to evaluate the products, comments like "I think the changes are great, the games run a lot smoother and classes are more balanced" are a decent source of information on the quality of the new rules.
I've had about as much exposure to 4th Edition as I had to 3rd Edition when it came out before my free time switched away from playing D&D. Each edition of AD&D has gotten simpler and addressed common frustrations. The arcane quirks and special exceptions I loved as a teenager playing 2E are gone, but nobody's taken away my old books; if I want to play the old way, I still can. 4E is a good way to have a group of folks sit at a table and pretend to beat up monsters, better in my estimation than WotC/TSR's previous methods of doing that. It's also got an innovative way of handling non-combat, skill-based situations. And it's got about as many degrees of freedom beyond the rules as the editions before had (which is to say, limited primarily by your imagination).
I've got no stake in how well 4E does financially, if that improves my value as a metric. Fundamentally, I think it does a good job at what it sets out to do. And if its goals are the same as yours, it's a good choice. If balanced abilities based on class and level and straightforward rules focused on beating up monsters aren't your goals, there are plenty of other good systems to choose from.
With moderation. That way a company can proclaim its product, past consumers can point out its flaws, and administrators can arbitrate disputes of false advertising and libel.
While I had the same joke come to mind, I think the idea has serious merit.
I wager this technology has been near perfected sometime ago, but as with all things, it was probably kept back to be used in case of sagging sales due to rights abuses at airports (Atlas has Shrugged, and it is visible in that people are avoiding airports now because of the downright abusive behaviors of the TSA and federal shock troops there to protect us from incompetent unshaven twits with box cutters and toothpaste.
Ayn Rand fanboyism aside, if the technology were perfected and there was a sufficient market of travelers willing to pay top dollar* to fly from New York to Tokyo in two hours, I'm sure someone would be offering such a service. The people who want to go from New York to Tokyo in less time than it would take to drive from New York to Washington, DC probably aren't going to let prohibitions against "too much toothpaste" be a deal breaker.
Especially since just last month you could pay about $400 to get one and support the production of one to a kid in the developing country. That's got to be cheaper than a trip to Nigeria...
Unless you've got an awesome bugfree version, "Evolution Exchange Great" should not appear in the same sentence. If I tally each time I hit a bug in an installed application over the course of a month, evolution-exchange would have at least 40% of them. This is particularly frustrating because Exchange support is the only reason I use Evolution. I know Microsoft's lack of open standards is the real culprit, but when evolution-exchange decides to download all my mail for the last two weeks even though it's already got it all, the monkey on the screen takes the blame.
The whole point of shareware is that the program announces how to pay its maker. Those who choose to pay, pay. Those who choose not to can continue to use the program (perhaps with less functionality). You can't pirate shareware because it wants to be copied to as many people as it can. You can, however, pirate a serial number.
6. We've already been to the moon and collected data. There's lots we still don't know about the moon, but there's even more we don't know about Mars, Io, Titan, Alpha Centauri...
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They should tax porn downloads, so the state gets a piece of each ass.
So why wouldn't the virus authors set the security-related flag?
More importantly, I hope admins are allowed to run Command Prompt and web browsers. And if you can run those, I don't see how you're going to gain much security. And if you don't let admins download from the web and run DOS scripts, I don't know how you plan to accomplish much as a system admin.
Actually, they're reverting back to the numbering scheme from 95 and 98. The new Windows is just very late to market.
Oh, it's not a Superbra? I'm no longer interested in this article.
Just buy a coffee machine and some beans. You'll have an Internet Café without leaving the house!
One important factor in making security decisions is the tradeoff between preventing access by unauthorized people versus annoying authorized people. You can implement five-stage biometric security to open a lab door, but that increases the chances that lab workers will prop the door open when they go to the bathroom.
The main convenience issue that occurs to me in your situation is what happens when someone opens the document without a network connection? If somebody backhoes the Internet connection to your Omaha office and your access control system can't connect to a server in New York, is the Omaha employee allowed to to read the document? If not, how would you prevent someone annoyed by that fact from using Copy and Paste (when he's got a network connection) to create an OpenOffice version of the document?
Are employees allowed to print the document? If so, how do you plan to prevent them from handing it to an unauthorized party in a manila envelope? If not, how do you deal with annoyed users who like to print specifications so they can use a highlighter and write notes in the margins?
Mines of Moria worked for me! I spent countless hours moving around 20x64 character dungeons when I was 13-16. And it served as good cognitive priming when I started using vi.
You could also prepare the kids for college (circa 1999) by installing Snood with a shortcut called "Run this when you have school work to do."
The main market for commercial radio is people driving around the city where they live, background music in a business, etc. Commercial radio doesn't cover many interests (classical music is generally available on noncommercial stations or not at all) and has few offerings in many part of the country. The other competition for satellite radio is people listening to their own audio; in your demographic, many road trippers will just bring a couple dozen CDs along for the drive. While acquiring those CDs is not free, listening to them is.
But those are all general skills; my knowledge of philosophical theories or history or personalities are, frankly, never a part of my work life.
You could say the same thing about physics. I use neither theories of gravity and electromagnetism nor knowledge of famous physicists as part of my daily programming. But in the process of learning those things, I learned valuable lessons about experimentation and scientific thinking. Physics problems are well suited to the scientific method, philosophy problems are well suited to philosophical methods (well, sometimes).
Writing computer programs and writing analytical philosophy papers are more or less the same thing except computer programs are easier to test and may have better documented assumptions (APIs).
There are also striking personality correlations between computer scientists and philosophers. So if a CS major takes some philosophy courses, he may make some interesting new friends. But there's certainly no reason to merge the departments (unless they're also joined with the math department).
One distinguishing feature of the Bush presidency has been an increase in claimed power for the executive branch from signing statements to bypass legislative decisions to NSA surveillance of Americans without judicial approval. How do you view the role of the executive branch in relation to the legislative and judicial branches? Are there specific ways in which you think executive power should be decreased or increased?
On the plus side, I'm glad Canon hasn't decided to embed a phone in their cameras. I really don't want it to start vibrating when I'm about to get a good shot.
I've yet to figure out why that dialog lets me select Yes or No. It only (vaguely) protects my computer from itself, not from other humans.
Or perhaps Microsoft decided to start listening to Richard Stallman. First step, don't require passwords.
My programming languages class was treated to a talk by a guy who worked some on .Net from a theoretical standpoint. He gave a demonstration of a form-manipulation script running in IE. "What language is this written in? COBOL dot net, the language of the future!"
I don't know what one needs to do to make it work, but scripting the browser (IE, anyway) is presumably already possible.
You could probably get within 200km better than 16% of the time if you always guess the photographer's home city.
I also wonder how well you could do by checking the photo's timestamp, then examining the shadows to determine the sun angle.
I once correctly guessed "Quebec" in a National Geography Bee when asked in which Canadian province a picture of a particular attraction lay. My clue? The sign on the front of the bus was in French.
... and here I thought the ID crowd was claiming a zebra's stripes provide no survival benefit and therefore are clear evidence of an Intelligent Interior Designer.
#1 are obviously biased.
#2 are probably pretty excited about it, but (as every Slashdotter should know), geeks can display very negative feelings about first impressions of changes to products they love.
#3, while they're restricted regarding the specifics they can share, tend to be in a position of objectivity. They've tried the game and may have sent the authors very specific feedback on what they do and don't like. So while they can't provide enough information for people to evaluate the products, comments like "I think the changes are great, the games run a lot smoother and classes are more balanced" are a decent source of information on the quality of the new rules.
I've had about as much exposure to 4th Edition as I had to 3rd Edition when it came out before my free time switched away from playing D&D. Each edition of AD&D has gotten simpler and addressed common frustrations. The arcane quirks and special exceptions I loved as a teenager playing 2E are gone, but nobody's taken away my old books; if I want to play the old way, I still can. 4E is a good way to have a group of folks sit at a table and pretend to beat up monsters, better in my estimation than WotC/TSR's previous methods of doing that. It's also got an innovative way of handling non-combat, skill-based situations. And it's got about as many degrees of freedom beyond the rules as the editions before had (which is to say, limited primarily by your imagination).
I've got no stake in how well 4E does financially, if that improves my value as a metric. Fundamentally, I think it does a good job at what it sets out to do. And if its goals are the same as yours, it's a good choice. If balanced abilities based on class and level and straightforward rules focused on beating up monsters aren't your goals, there are plenty of other good systems to choose from.
I would think a crappy casino would be the best place to play craps.
Also, depending on the players involved, the odds can be in your favor when playing poker because you stand to receive other players' money.
With moderation. That way a company can proclaim its product, past consumers can point out its flaws, and administrators can arbitrate disputes of false advertising and libel.
While I had the same joke come to mind, I think the idea has serious merit.
I wager this technology has been near perfected sometime ago, but as with all things, it was probably kept back to be used in case of sagging sales due to rights abuses at airports (Atlas has Shrugged, and it is visible in that people are avoiding airports now because of the downright abusive behaviors of the TSA and federal shock troops there to protect us from incompetent unshaven twits with box cutters and toothpaste.
Ayn Rand fanboyism aside, if the technology were perfected and there was a sufficient market of travelers willing to pay top dollar* to fly from New York to Tokyo in two hours, I'm sure someone would be offering such a service. The people who want to go from New York to Tokyo in less time than it would take to drive from New York to Washington, DC probably aren't going to let prohibitions against "too much toothpaste" be a deal breaker.
Especially since just last month you could pay about $400 to get one and support the production of one to a kid in the developing country. That's got to be cheaper than a trip to Nigeria...
They moved the crater because the Falun Gong led exercises at the original location.
Unless you've got an awesome bugfree version, "Evolution Exchange Great" should not appear in the same sentence. If I tally each time I hit a bug in an installed application over the course of a month, evolution-exchange would have at least 40% of them. This is particularly frustrating because Exchange support is the only reason I use Evolution. I know Microsoft's lack of open standards is the real culprit, but when evolution-exchange decides to download all my mail for the last two weeks even though it's already got it all, the monkey on the screen takes the blame.
Places I have USB connections are mostly places I have land line access.
Which, I suppose, is why I don't have a mobile phone.
The whole point of shareware is that the program announces how to pay its maker. Those who choose to pay, pay. Those who choose not to can continue to use the program (perhaps with less functionality). You can't pirate shareware because it wants to be copied to as many people as it can. You can, however, pirate a serial number.
6. We've already been to the moon and collected data. There's lots we still don't know about the moon, but there's even more we don't know about Mars, Io, Titan, Alpha Centauri...