Except for all the calls to the helpdesk this looks very good. Wait a minute lets make the dialog a form where you have to enter your address and you get a disk in the post containing the application you have to install.....
Ok, I may sound a bit cynical but the function of these installers is to install applications without having the users do much. The hard part is the balance between the easy installation of usefull/wanted applications and preventing abuse.
Maybe the code signing companies should be less gready and have trusted certificates (YES/NO) only for legitimate companies and certs requiring more user intervention for the rest. They should then use an active revocation list that is actually checked every time and an abuse department. The extravagant prices of these certificates should cover for the extra bandwith already.
At work we are still able to use an already expired code signing certificate registered to our old company name (the name changed nearly two years ago!) and I find this pathetic.
1979 SCO founded as The Santa Cruz Operation by Doug and Larry Michels as a UNIX® system porting and consulting company.
1983 SCO delivers the first packaged UNIX System (called SCO® XENIX® System V) for Intel® 8086 and 8088 processor-based PCs. It provides small businesses with the first affordable business-critical computing system.
1.5 million was an estimate I found but did not verify. After some more investigation I am also convinced this figure is taken from the air. But there is research to support a number quite a bit higher. It's the same problem as with nearly all statistics. It's always the way how you calculate it.:
Gofman's criticisms of "dose rate effectiveness factors" (reducing risk estimates to bring them in line with the results of animal studies) and his suggestion that the risk of cancer may be relatively greater in the low-dose range than in moderate and high-dose ranges have sparked controversy in the past and will continue to do so in the future. For instance, Gofman predicts that approximately 400,000 Europeans and Soviets may die of cancer due to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, a figure far higher than "official" estimates. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/BoAS.html
Bottom Line from Our September 1986 Estimate of
Chernobyl's Cancer Consequences
EUROPEAN USSR: 212,150 fatal + 212,150 non-fatal.
NON-USSR EUROPE: 244,786 fatal + 244,786 non-fatal.
OTHER: 18,512 fatal + 18,512 non-fatal.
My original point is that while it's not an easy way to kill a lot of people it's pretty scary when you stuff it in a plane and drop it in the center of a major city...
The food in the UK is getting better by the day (must be all those cooking programms the BBC broadcasts) and even 20 years ago I've eaten pretty good meals in several pubs. I've had weeks of perfect weather as well.
I'm just poking fun of the british by using a stereotype and stereotypes are always based on truth IMHO. We Dutch always get the remark that we must be on dope but everybody knows that you'r not allowed to smoke at the office here:-)
I've been to lots of different parts in the world but find the food in the UK to be very exotic.......
Yes I've been to the UK lots of times as I live in Holland.
I must say the food is getting better compared to 20 years ago (at least in London) and I prepare several English dishes myself that I quite like. I never tried a fucktart however:->
Maybe the extreme green peas that appear in every dish, the vinegar, Liver & Onions and pies with dubious ingredients are acquired tasts when you live on an Island.
Simple to clean up? Tell that to people still working at Chernobyl! The amount of material released was 27kg of caesium-137.
I realize it's not very effective as a weapon with direct results but should be enough to make a point.
The total cancer deaths added to the world over time with the Chernobyl disaster is estimated at 1.5 milion. After some googling it appears Caesium and Plutonium have similar effects:
These novel man-made radioactive isotopes like Strontium-90, Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239, become inhaled as fine particles and trapped in lung tissue. They are then absorbed into the lymphatic system of the body where they cause cancer by irradiating local cells and attacking the immune system. Recent research undertaken by Green Audit in Wales and funded by the Irish government has shown that excess cancer risk exists in those populations of towns on the north Wales coast which are adjacent to mud banks and estuaries where high levels of such radioactive isotopes are found.
Yes but know the MPAA can claim you could have known because they supplied a free tool to detect it. I don't know if this argument will work in court but that never stopped them before.
Renaming them doesn't work as you can read in the forum linked in the article. The application appears to classify every media file as suspect even the default wav files installed with windows xp.
IBM uses the cloudscape database as backend to a lot of products like Worksphere Portal.
They normally recomend DB2 for production but one of the latest products "Workplace Services Express" can only be used with the embedded Cloudscape.
Dream on! Most consumers only care about price, size and quantity.
When a company starts using "less damage to your eyes" a selling point they'll probably get sued by all the owners of their old tech who'll say "we were never told our tv causes damage to our eyes!"
And in the states they'll probably win, settlement is what you call it I believe. (please note that I'm not anti american, I just find the legal system a bit flawed..)
Well as Wired is a pretty mainstream magazine, most readers only care how fast the downloads are on their own pc.
When they currently download X MB in a certain amount of time the same download at with BitTorrent will almost always be a lot faster.
A large part of journalism is about writing for your target audience... The quote: "Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time" doesn't apply.
Posted by michael on Friday November 19, @08:17AM
from the less-lower-back-pain dept.
bigtangringo writes "First Samsung and now LG.Phillips have worked out a way to create thin CRT displays. Thin CRTs offer the best of both worlds -- superior picture quality with a slim size. Thin CRTs are expected to be more expensive than current CRTs, however they are also expected to drop in price rapidly. Both companies plan on releasing Thin CRTs in late 2005."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/19/131722 6&tid=129&tid=126
Well it may not be on the frontpage(except for http://nu.nl the main dutch news portal) but I can find articles about it in all major dutch newspapers. There is more important news in the world but it doesn't get wiped under the carpet.
Ahh, the "that was fixed in the latest version" cop-out that is so often blasted by/.ers...unless it bolsters their own arguments. As for the problem at hand, since Notes' rules don't seem to work (at least here, I'm sure they must for someone), my inbox is the only place I receive mail. I've seen the same problem, and we're on 5.06a. The stupid piece of shit will tell me I have mail, I hit "Open Mail" and there isn't any. Then, I hit refresh, because, god forbid, Notes has to be told I want to look at new stuff, rather than just assuming I do, and there's STILL nothing there. That's ok, though, I'll take your word on the "fix" 'cause our Notes admins give us the same "That's just Notes" excuse, too. In other words, they know it's a piece of shit, too.
Well if you are a decent Admin of any system, you should check the Technotes....
The result from a search on lotus support: TN #1088172 a fix has been known for years.........
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And that will invalidate your insurance, no problem for them anymore....
Except for all the calls to the helpdesk this looks very good. Wait a minute lets make the dialog a form where you have to enter your address and you get a disk in the post containing the application you have to install.....
Ok, I may sound a bit cynical but the function of these installers is to install applications without having the users do much.
The hard part is the balance between the easy installation of usefull/wanted applications and preventing abuse.
Maybe the code signing companies should be less gready and have trusted certificates (YES/NO) only for legitimate companies and certs requiring more user intervention for the rest.
They should then use an active revocation list that is actually checked every time and an abuse department.
The extravagant prices of these certificates should cover for the extra bandwith already.
At work we are still able to use an already expired code signing certificate registered to our old company name (the name changed nearly two years ago!) and I find this pathetic.
Argh they tricked me!
SCO is not just IP litigation company, they started out as a UNIX porting and consulting company.
The analogy is very similar IMHO.
From the site of the devil himself: http://www.sco.com/company/history.html
1979 SCO founded as The Santa Cruz Operation by Doug and Larry Michels as a UNIX® system porting and consulting company.
1983 SCO delivers the first packaged UNIX System (called SCO® XENIX® System V) for Intel® 8086 and 8088 processor-based PCs. It provides small businesses with the first affordable business-critical computing system.
Vaderland security! They don't want you to notice the Death Star..
So what happens when you drop the same amount with an airplane in the center of a major city...
1.5 million was an estimate I found but did not verify. After some more investigation I am also convinced this figure is taken from the air. But there is research to support a number quite a bit higher. It's the same problem as with nearly all statistics. It's always the way how you calculate it.:
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Gofman's criticisms of "dose rate effectiveness factors" (reducing risk estimates to bring them in line with the results of animal studies) and his suggestion that the risk of cancer may be relatively greater in the low-dose range than in moderate and high-dose ranges have sparked controversy in the past and will continue to do so in the future. For instance, Gofman predicts that approximately 400,000 Europeans and Soviets may die of cancer due to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, a figure far higher than "official" estimates.
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/BoAS.htm
Or the original text:
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/chp24F.h
Bottom Line from Our September 1986 Estimate of Chernobyl's Cancer Consequences
EUROPEAN USSR: 212,150 fatal + 212,150 non-fatal.
NON-USSR EUROPE: 244,786 fatal + 244,786 non-fatal.
OTHER: 18,512 fatal + 18,512 non-fatal.
My original point is that while it's not an easy way to kill a lot of people it's pretty scary when you stuff it in a plane and drop it in the center of a major city...
The food in the UK is getting better by the day (must be all those cooking programms the BBC broadcasts) and even 20 years ago I've eaten pretty good meals in several pubs. I've had weeks of perfect weather as well.
:-)
I'm just poking fun of the british by using a stereotype and stereotypes are always based on truth IMHO. We Dutch always get the remark that we must be on dope but everybody knows that you'r not allowed to smoke at the office here
I've been to lots of different parts in the world but find the food in the UK to be very exotic.......
Yes I've been to the UK lots of times as I live in Holland.
:->
I must say the food is getting better compared to 20 years ago (at least in London) and I prepare several English dishes myself that I quite like. I never tried a fucktart however
Maybe the extreme green peas that appear in every dish, the vinegar, Liver & Onions and pies with dubious ingredients are acquired tasts when you live on an Island.
Nobody that has ever eaten in an english pub and survived will ever claim that the UK is known for it's great food.
The fish & chips with vinegar are not bad compared to the rest, go figure.
It's just strange that governments can exactly calculate how much tax you owe them, can't just add up some numbers in a highly contained environment.
I don't think they would say "oh, it's just an accounting problem" when they are missing a couple of billion in received taxes.
Simple to clean up? Tell that to people still working at Chernobyl! The amount of material released was 27kg of caesium-137.
I realize it's not very effective as a weapon with direct results but should be enough to make a point.
The total cancer deaths added to the world over time with the Chernobyl disaster is estimated at 1.5 milion. After some googling it appears Caesium and Plutonium have similar effects:
These novel man-made radioactive isotopes like Strontium-90, Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239, become inhaled as fine particles and trapped in lung tissue. They are then absorbed into the lymphatic system of the body where they cause cancer by irradiating local cells and attacking the immune system. Recent research undertaken by Green Audit in Wales and funded by the Irish government has shown that excess cancer risk exists in those populations of towns on the north Wales coast which are adjacent to mud banks and estuaries where high levels of such radioactive isotopes are found.
Ok it sounds cool... but what is the intended purpose of this breakthrough?
Already done, check http://www.grouper.com/
:-)
The thing they have to implement to make it more usefull is multi-source downloading.
That way people with lots of online friends have an advantage
Yes but know the MPAA can claim you could have known because they supplied a free tool to detect it. I don't know if this argument will work in court but that never stopped them before.
Renaming them doesn't work as you can read in the forum linked in the article. The application appears to classify every media file as suspect even the default wav files installed with windows xp.
IBM uses the cloudscape database as backend to a lot of products like Worksphere Portal.
w orkplaceservicesexpresshome/
They normally recomend DB2 for production but one of the latest products "Workplace Services Express" can only be used with the embedded Cloudscape.
The product is intended for SMB and scales upto 1000 users. And this is for Groupware/Document storage etc. http://www.lotus.com/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/
A patch to make it appear more like real life it seems to me
I tried it a while ago but quit imediatly when the game started nagging to me about getting a job.
:-)
I wish I could do the reverse though...work in the sims during my spare time and blast everyone to pieces at the office
A couple of girls I know like it though and there are far worse girl things I faked having an interest in
Dream on! Most consumers only care about price, size and quantity.
When a company starts using "less damage to your eyes" a selling point they'll probably get sued by all the owners of their old tech who'll say "we were never told our tv causes damage to our eyes!"
And in the states they'll probably win, settlement is what you call it I believe. (please note that I'm not anti american, I just find the legal system a bit flawed..)
Well as Wired is a pretty mainstream magazine, most readers only care how fast the downloads are on their own pc.
When they currently download X MB in a certain amount of time the same download at with BitTorrent will almost always be a lot faster.
A large part of journalism is about writing for your target audience... The quote: "Being
right half the time beats being half-right all the time" doesn't apply.
Thin CRTs to Challenge LCDs in 2005
2 6&tid=129&tid=126
Posted by michael on Friday November 19, @08:17AM from the less-lower-back-pain dept.
bigtangringo writes "First Samsung and now LG.Phillips have worked out a way to create thin CRT displays. Thin CRTs offer the best of both worlds -- superior picture quality with a slim size. Thin CRTs are expected to be more expensive than current CRTs, however they are also expected to drop in price rapidly. Both companies plan on releasing Thin CRTs in late 2005."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/19/13172
Well it may not be on the frontpage(except for http://nu.nl the main dutch news portal) but I can find articles about it in all major dutch newspapers. There is more important news in the world but it doesn't get wiped under the carpet.
Put a rabid rabbit in his pants.
Ahh, the "that was fixed in the latest version" cop-out that is so often blasted by /.ers...unless it bolsters their own arguments. As for the problem at hand, since Notes' rules don't seem to work (at least here, I'm sure they must for someone), my inbox is the only place I receive mail. I've seen the same problem, and we're on 5.06a. The stupid piece of shit will tell me I have mail, I hit "Open Mail" and there isn't any. Then, I hit refresh, because, god forbid, Notes has to be told I want to look at new stuff, rather than just assuming I do, and there's STILL nothing there. That's ok, though, I'll take your word on the "fix" 'cause our Notes admins give us the same "That's just Notes" excuse, too. In other words, they know it's a piece of shit, too.
Well if you are a decent Admin of any system, you should check the Technotes....
The result from a search on lotus support: TN #1088172
a fix has been known for years.........