"I don't know why Ameritech didn't advertise it more"
Because they're loosing money to provide that to you. The second year they might be provitable on you, again might. From the article: "an ISP like AOL or EarthLink must essentially rent space from a phone company or a cable company at rates of between $30 to $35 per user per month"
Lose money on every transaction, but we'll make it up in volume
Careful what you wish for... following is a list of Q and A from the Leisure Suit Larry I Quiz.
Spoiler alert -- contains answers!!!
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was recorded by c Tiny Tim
"Where's the..." c beef?!
A nehru jacket is b out of date
Bourbon Street is in d New Orleans, Louisi
Calvin Klein is c a clothing designer
Captain Kangaroo's sidekick was d Mr. Greenjeans
Charlie McArthy and d Edgar Bergen
Does a pair of queens beat 3 deuces? a Yes, in Blackjack
Herb Alpert and the ____ Brass? a Tijuana
How many molecules are there in a glass of water? d as many as there ar [sic]
I find computer games with adult content b acceptable
If a physician were on an island with Bo Derek, he would thank God
If Bo Derek were here, I'd ask her to d stop playing comput
It's not nice to fool b mother nature
Joe Dimaggio played b Baseball
Lee Harvey killed c John F. Kennedy
Mohammed Ali is c a professional boxe
Peter Piper picked pickled c peppers
Sergent Pepper was c the leader of the l
The largest state is b Alaska
The last name of Annette (on the Mickey Mouse Club) was c Funicello
The most effective form of birth control is a abstinence
The most likely place to find virgins is c St. Mary's Girl's S
The most populous city in the US is c New York
The result of Watergate was c Richard Nixon quit
Utah is full of d none of the above
When playing Monopoly you b must own 4 houses b
Which is non-alcoholic c Perrier
Which is not a car? d Toshiba
Which is not a cheese? d Reisling
Which is not a city in Mexico? c San Diego
Which is not an American armed force? d the national league
Which is not in Hawaii? c Fiji
Who has not been US attourney general? b Sam Shepard
Who is buried in Grants tomb? d Mrs. Grant
Who was not a famous musician? d Tom Garvey
Who was not a politician? c W.C. Fields
Who was not an astronaut? a John Milton
Who was the leader of Nazi Germany? d Adolf Hitler
Who wrote "To be or not to be"? a Will. Shakespeare
My compiments to google (as always) and Ken's cheats?
But with Leisure Suit Larry you had to prove your age by answering questions to prove your age. Answer them correctly, and the blinds would rise all the way
oh, and you had to wait for the '91 remake to get 256 colors. Like you said, not exactly the realism you'd get today
"Our life tenure is all the more reason for us to be able to communicate informally on occasion with a public that must live with our decisions, yet can never vote us out of office,"
From the article it seemed like Jackson was rebuked by the appeals court for the interviews given during the trial. I am 100% for free speech, and I think it should extend to judges as well, but should a judge be able to give instant feedback to the press, and more importantly the lawyers trying the case, as to how the case is proceeding?
It looks like the study (PDF) did take the downtime into effect. They mention that some clients put the cost of downtime at $1M per hour. From the Study:
Survey participants using Windows commented more than once on the continuing requirement to reboot a server after applying a security patch. This affects the system's uptime values, and contributed to poorer performance of Windows in the area of availability as well as security.
And the million dollar quote:
System availability was treated as a soft cost, because the amount of data available regarding uptime figures would not support raw cost calculations. This is unfortunate, as participants quoted well over $1Mil on average for expected revenue loss per hour of system downtime, making this a crucial issue.
So if you're anything like me, and you wouldn't admit it if you were, you clicked on the desktop picture in the review and thought 'Wow, that really does look exactly like windows 2000, Media Player and everything.'
Little did my small friday brain realize, it was a picture of what it looked like inserting the Lindows CD onto a running Windows machine. Here I thought we were getting away from windows machine, but I digress.
The real image on a Lindows desktop is located here
Really nifty utility for dealing with sites that choose the long obfuscated URL approach...
This is cool, I admit. However, how long will these stored tiny URL's exist? For something like this I could email out to clients, and tell them that it would be valid for the next 90 days. This is assuming that tinyurl.com would not store my hundredline URL until the end of time.
If about servers, then why IE?
Because IE is an integral part of the operating system, which would cause errors as far as the eye could see if you disabled it, of course.
Actually, since on every windows server there exists internet explorer, I claim that IE is a part of the server.
They left Outlook and it's derivatives off the Windows list. Nevermind the root VBS cause
IANDM (I am not defending ms), but Outlook is an application, and this was a look at the top Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. To me, that means servers. Not many servers have outlook. As far as the root VBS cause, I believe the SANS study did address it. In #10 - WHS the article says:
This worm, and others which have followed it, took advantage of Windows Scripting Host (WSH), which permits any text file with a ".vbs" extension to be executed as a Visual Basic script. With WSH enabled, a typical worm propagates by including a VBScript as the contents of another file and executes when that file is viewed or in some cases previewed.
This article was a fair look at securing both Windows and Unix servers.
Finally! I know that I can rest easy, because once a company settles with the government that they must, and will, stop their monopolistic acts and price fixing. Right?
On another note (from the article)
Former FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said at the time that consumers had been overcharged by $480 million since 1997 and that CD prices would soon drop by as much as $5 a CD as a result.
I would settle for $67 million with $480 in actual damages 7 days a week. Even if you count the $75 million worth of CD's they said they'll distribute to public and non-profit gourps, that's still $.29 on the dollar. What a fleece.
didn't Congress pass a bill that would give blank checks to allow p2p networks to be hacked by record companies, ie. distributing fake-hashed files to corrupt everything on the network and so forth?
To a consumer, 3.0 sounds like a better product than 2.6
My vote would be to make it Linux 10.0 to make it compatible with the SuSe & mandrake number systems.:-)
In my opinion a consumer will never notice the kernel version number. They'll see the distribution version numbers, but won't bother to check which kernel the system is using -- because to do so would mean they'd have to understand that a kernel existed in the first place.
no it wont. theres a helluva lot of jobless admins and programmers out there -- waay more than necessary to fill demand for a loong time.
As long as you're not being vague about it and are backing up your claims with numbers. I mean, if there are waay more -- well, wow, I better pack up for a loong time
The register (us)'s version of this article says that Simony was the creator of Word and Excel, which were developed to overthrow VisiCalc and Wordstar.
From the article: Richard Brodie's mission under Simony was to "write the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface. It took five years to repair the damage."
Which operating system will my Sims character install when I have him sit down, connect to the information superhighway and create a Sims Online world of his own? If we start letting in advertisers, I'm sure that our choices will expand rather than contract.
If we can't create real AI, maybe my Sims character can, circa Lisa Simpson and her coke-enhanced tooth. (real artificial intelligence - did I really just write that?)
Unfortunately, it saw no reason to consider the merits of Bowers' copyright infringement case.
Not knowing those facts, we can't really say who deserves to win this case.
So as I see it (IANAL), this case did nothing to further or hinder the supposed legality of click-thru licenses -- because the license may or may not have been a click thru.
We don't know why the Federal Court did not review the reverse-engineering section of this case.
I would like to point out that by not reviewing that portion, because "the shrink-wrap agreements in this case are far broader than the protection afforded by copyright law" a dangerous precedence could be set. Is it so obvious that license agreements are enforceable that the court did not need to tell us that they are? I sincerely hope not.
can I create a word processing document is Star and email it to a client and have them open it?
err.. I meant to say that let's assume my clients have ms office - can they open my Open Office documents?
I shall continue to ignore that I assumed that you would assume the client would have ms office.
I desperately want to deploy Open/Star office in my company. My one drawback was that in a 10 minute evaluation I could not figure out if I can I create a word processing document is Star and email it to a client and have them open it?
If not, how can I deploy this and expect my users to use it?
Could be slightly offtopic, but I want to make two points:
1) ASP is not IIS's version of PHP
2) ASP is not what most IIS development is in
opinion - ASP has the lowest learning curve of any web programming language
opinion - Most websites will not use ASP, even if they are using IIS on win2K. The site will create a COM object and give it control. ASP is a horrid environment for internet sites: it's interpreted and all variables are variants - even integers.
scary fact - There are no permissions to set in ASP. each page can execute anything that the server can. And if you're generating your SQL statements (rather than stored procs) based on user input it can easily be stolen and replaced with a drop all command.
So don't consider using asp, seriously - you get no gains whatsoever.
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"I don't know why Ameritech didn't advertise it more"
Because they're loosing money to provide that to you. The second year they might be provitable on you, again might. From the article: "an ISP like AOL or EarthLink must essentially rent space from a phone company or a cable company at rates of between $30 to $35 per user per month"
Lose money on every transaction, but we'll make it up in volume
Spoiler alert -- contains answers!!!
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was recorded by c Tiny Tim
"Where's the..." c beef?!
A nehru jacket is b out of date
Bourbon Street is in d New Orleans, Louisi
Calvin Klein is c a clothing designer
Captain Kangaroo's sidekick was d Mr. Greenjeans
Charlie McArthy and d Edgar Bergen
Does a pair of queens beat 3 deuces? a Yes, in Blackjack
Herb Alpert and the ____ Brass? a Tijuana
How many molecules are there in a glass of water? d as many as there ar [sic]
I find computer games with adult content b acceptable
If a physician were on an island with Bo Derek, he would thank God If Bo Derek were here, I'd ask her to d stop playing comput
It's not nice to fool b mother nature
Joe Dimaggio played b Baseball
Lee Harvey killed c John F. Kennedy
Mohammed Ali is c a professional boxe
Peter Piper picked pickled c peppers
Sergent Pepper was c the leader of the l
The largest state is b Alaska
The last name of Annette (on the Mickey Mouse Club) was c Funicello
The most effective form of birth control is a abstinence
The most likely place to find virgins is c St. Mary's Girl's S
The most populous city in the US is c New York
The result of Watergate was c Richard Nixon quit
Utah is full of d none of the above
When playing Monopoly you b must own 4 houses b
Which is non-alcoholic c Perrier
Which is not a car? d Toshiba
Which is not a cheese? d Reisling
Which is not a city in Mexico? c San Diego
Which is not an American armed force? d the national league
Which is not in Hawaii? c Fiji
Who has not been US attourney general? b Sam Shepard
Who is buried in Grants tomb? d Mrs. Grant
Who was not a famous musician? d Tom Garvey
Who was not a politician? c W.C. Fields
Who was not an astronaut? a John Milton
Who was the leader of Nazi Germany? d Adolf Hitler
Who wrote "To be or not to be"? a Will. Shakespeare
My compiments to google (as always) and Ken's cheats?
oh, and you had to wait for the '91 remake to get 256 colors. Like you said, not exactly the realism you'd get today
So if you're anything like me, and you wouldn't admit it if you were, you clicked on the desktop picture in the review and thought 'Wow, that really does look exactly like windows 2000, Media Player and everything.'
Little did my small friday brain realize, it was a picture of what it looked like inserting the Lindows CD onto a running Windows machine. Here I thought we were getting away from windows machine, but I digress.
The real image on a Lindows desktop is located hereThis is cool, I admit. However, how long will these stored tiny URL's exist? For something like this I could email out to clients, and tell them that it would be valid for the next 90 days. This is assuming that tinyurl.com would not store my hundredline URL until the end of time.
If about servers, then why IE?
Because IE is an integral part of the operating system, which would cause errors as far as the eye could see if you disabled it, of course.
Actually, since on every windows server there exists internet explorer, I claim that IE is a part of the server.
On another note (from the article) I would settle for $67 million with $480 in actual damages 7 days a week. Even if you count the $75 million worth of CD's they said they'll distribute to public and non-profit gourps, that's still $.29 on the dollar. What a fleece.
WinCE? no, wait, it's now called powerPC... The difference is, well.. the difference is...I concede the point.
The register (us)'s version of this article says that Simony was the creator of Word and Excel, which were developed to overthrow VisiCalc and Wordstar.
From the article: Richard Brodie's mission under Simony was to "write the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface. It took five years to repair the damage."
5 years? First rate clean up guys. First rate.
Which operating system will my Sims character install when I have him sit down, connect to the information superhighway and create a Sims Online world of his own? If we start letting in advertisers, I'm sure that our choices will expand rather than contract.
If we can't create real AI, maybe my Sims character can, circa Lisa Simpson and her coke-enhanced tooth. (real artificial intelligence - did I really just write that?)
So as I see it (IANAL), this case did nothing to further or hinder the supposed legality of click-thru licenses -- because the license may or may not have been a click thru.
We don't know why the Federal Court did not review the reverse-engineering section of this case.
I would like to point out that by not reviewing that portion, because "the shrink-wrap agreements in this case are far broader than the protection afforded by copyright law" a dangerous precedence could be set. Is it so obvious that license agreements are enforceable that the court did not need to tell us that they are? I sincerely hope not.I shall continue to ignore that I assumed that you would assume the client would have ms office.
I desperately want to deploy Open/Star office in my company. My one drawback was that in a 10 minute evaluation I could not figure out if I can I create a word processing document is Star and email it to a client and have them open it?
If not, how can I deploy this and expect my users to use it?
Could be slightly offtopic, but I want to make two points:
1) ASP is not IIS's version of PHP
2) ASP is not what most IIS development is in
opinion - ASP has the lowest learning curve of any web programming language
opinion - Most websites will not use ASP, even if they are using IIS on win2K. The site will create a COM object and give it control. ASP is a horrid environment for internet sites: it's interpreted and all variables are variants - even integers.
scary fact - There are no permissions to set in ASP. each page can execute anything that the server can. And if you're generating your SQL statements (rather than stored procs) based on user input it can easily be stolen and replaced with a drop all command.
So don't consider using asp, seriously - you get no gains whatsoever.
I appreciate the effort, but I think we should all know google's capabilities.