Also, the DEP setting is opt-in on workstation SKUs (your app has to say that it wants it) -- for compatibility, and opt-out for server SKUs (your app has to say that it doesn't want it) -- for security.
Depends on your IDE. If you're using a bunch of terminal windows running vi, then I might agree with you, although I prefer to have a couple of windows side-by-side.
If, on the other hand, you're using Eclipse or Visual Studio, which have a bunch of toolboxes and other panels docked to the left- and right-side of the IDE, widescreen starts to look attractive.
I have a similar problem -- I went to Universal Studios theme park, and some of the "rides" have the polarized 3D thing. And more recently, the MPH Show. Both times I got a mild headache (not a migraine) from about 10-20 minutes exposure.
I don't think I could handle a feature-length session of this, so I'm glad that the movies will also be available in 2D.
I think it might be because I'm slightly short-sighted in one eye, but the other eye is normal.
I'm a C++/C# developer and I've been running in a normal account for over two years now. It's no biggy. I do need to elevate to local admin occasionally: I keep another session open (either with Remote Desktop or Fast User Switching).
Granted, we're specifically discussing locking down the local admin account entirely. My point is that if more developers took the time to run without admin privileges, we'd see a lot more programs that didn't ask for admin rights unnecessarily.
It might be easy to code the fix, but it's (at least) an order of magnitude more work to actually test it. Windows supports thousands of different hardware configurations, in hundreds of different languages.
Yeah, Microsoft could release this as a hotfix. For any customer that screams loud enough (and pays enough), they may well do.
To be honest, I'd rather see Microsoft focus their efforts on XP SP3, Vista SP1 and 2008 RTM (2003 SP2 only just came out, so I'll let that slide). I can't say that I'm fussed about seeing Windows 2000 SP5, and I'm sure that the vast majority of Microsoft's customers aren't either.
On a personal note, I'm fed up with supporting Windows 2000 (it's 7 years old, for FSM's sake!), so I've gotta come down on Microsoft's side on this one.
However, it's still a matter of who meets the magic numbers. I submit that the first company to develop an all electric car that will travel 300 miles on one charge, can recharge in less than 30 minutes plugged in, will recharge slowly in the sun on its own and costs less than $40,000 will sell like hot cakes
My car (2002 UK Ford Focus) does about 320 miles on a tank (yeah, I don't drive economically), so I agree with you there. But it only takes 2-3 minutes (or less) to fill the tank at the gas station. Unless motor manufacturers can get the recharge time down to 5 minutes or less, that's a major headache.
Yeah, you could just charge it at home, but a lot of people live in apartments, or otherwise have to park a distance away. For example, at my last abode, I had to park my car about 150 feet from the door. It's not just a question of running an extension lead out to the car.
Fun mixture - Titinate/Titinol acid inhibited/water catalized reaction occuring in an anhydrous methanol solution printed onto a film. All the benefits of glass vapor deposition (refractive index/scratchresistance) at about $0.05/1000SI as opposed to $1/1000SI.
"Blah Rover blah blah blah food."
With apologies to Gary Larson, and also to tinkerghost.
To do this you have a shared secret in both the chip and the reader. The reader then sends a random challenge to the chip, which encrypts it with the secret and send the result back.
Firstly, I want to see mutual authentication, so that my chip doesn't give up its contents to just any reader.
Secondly, there's going to be several million chips and several thousand readers -- one at each passport control desk at every airport in the world, probably. How am I supposed to trust these? If more than one person knows it, it's not a secret any more, as the saying goes.
Your suggested solution either requires that every reader know every chip's secret (neither scalable nor secure) or that every chip use the same secret (scalable, but not even vaguely secure).
What does Google actually have (other than search) that isn't in beta? There comes a point when you just have to release something (as much as you can do in web apps). How long has Google Groups been in 'beta' now?
What's the difference between some guy selling a tonic via SPAM and a tonic at the state fair? At the end of the day, not much, just that the spammer reaches more people.
Er, the fact that I didn't go to the state fair, because it's full of shysters attempting to sell tonics? I don't get the same option when it comes to spam.
Spam is more like a door-to-door salesman, except that the economy of scale makes it worthwhile to have someone knocking on your door every five minutes.
...and he won't tell you his name, just that you can call this number to get hold of what he's selling. In fact, sometime's he's just playing knock-down-ginger and leaving a business card on your mat.
...and that your residents' association charges you every time someone rings your doorbell.
(Though releasing NT straight at v3.0 instead of v1.0 was really close...)
It was released at v3.1 (not v3.0), because the Novell Netware cross-licensing terms only extended to "Windows 3.1". Once WfWg (Win16 v3.11) came out, Netware support kinda became a non-issue, so the next version was v3.5.
Who would people suggest as an alternative UK ISP if Plus.net's quality is dropping?
Pipex. I've been using them since I was on dial-up. They're not the cheapest, but I've had two outages in the three years since I moved to DSL, and both of those were BT's fault. Both of them were solved within hours.
On the other hand, I only rely on them for connectivity. Email, web space, etc. are handled separately.
"Ribbons" sound to me as though they are merely replacing menus. Perhaps they have more flexible layout.
Did you actually read any of the other entries on Jensen Harris's blog?
He goes into quite a lot of detail about how they're doing extensive usability testing, and using the feedback from the Customer Experience tool that shipped in Office 2003 to work out which features people use the most, and how they use them.
Now, I'm not saying that you (or I) are going to be happy with how Office 2007 turns out -- I've not had a chance to play with any of the previews yet, but to disparage what they're doing as "merely lip service" misses the mark by a mile.
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Also, the DEP setting is opt-in on workstation SKUs (your app has to say that it wants it) -- for compatibility, and opt-out for server SKUs (your app has to say that it doesn't want it) -- for security.
Depends on your IDE. If you're using a bunch of terminal windows running vi, then I might agree with you, although I prefer to have a couple of windows side-by-side.
If, on the other hand, you're using Eclipse or Visual Studio, which have a bunch of toolboxes and other panels docked to the left- and right-side of the IDE, widescreen starts to look attractive.
I have a similar problem -- I went to Universal Studios theme park, and some of the "rides" have the polarized 3D thing. And more recently, the MPH Show. Both times I got a mild headache (not a migraine) from about 10-20 minutes exposure.
I don't think I could handle a feature-length session of this, so I'm glad that the movies will also be available in 2D.
I think it might be because I'm slightly short-sighted in one eye, but the other eye is normal.
I'm a C++/C# developer and I've been running in a normal account for over two years now. It's no biggy. I do need to elevate to local admin occasionally: I keep another session open (either with Remote Desktop or Fast User Switching).
Granted, we're specifically discussing locking down the local admin account entirely. My point is that if more developers took the time to run without admin privileges, we'd see a lot more programs that didn't ask for admin rights unnecessarily.
The word "moot" has a strict meaning in this context, there is a dictionary for that kind of thing.
Or, to quote The Princess Bride, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It might be easy to code the fix, but it's (at least) an order of magnitude more work to actually test it. Windows supports thousands of different hardware configurations, in hundreds of different languages.
Yeah, Microsoft could release this as a hotfix. For any customer that screams loud enough (and pays enough), they may well do.
To be honest, I'd rather see Microsoft focus their efforts on XP SP3, Vista SP1 and 2008 RTM (2003 SP2 only just came out, so I'll let that slide). I can't say that I'm fussed about seeing Windows 2000 SP5, and I'm sure that the vast majority of Microsoft's customers aren't either.
On a personal note, I'm fed up with supporting Windows 2000 (it's 7 years old, for FSM's sake!), so I've gotta come down on Microsoft's side on this one.
My car (2002 UK Ford Focus) does about 320 miles on a tank (yeah, I don't drive economically), so I agree with you there. But it only takes 2-3 minutes (or less) to fill the tank at the gas station. Unless motor manufacturers can get the recharge time down to 5 minutes or less, that's a major headache.
Yeah, you could just charge it at home, but a lot of people live in apartments, or otherwise have to park a distance away. For example, at my last abode, I had to park my car about 150 feet from the door. It's not just a question of running an extension lead out to the car.
The military can't simply pull over for gas when they're on operations. They have to take it along with them in tanker trucks.
This logistic "tail" also needs guarding against counter-attack, diverting troops from the main operation.
Thus, the more fuel-efficient the tanks and APCs, the fewer tanker trucks required. Meaning that the logistics are less vulnerable.
I love this; I'm trying to think how to distill it down to something snappy enough for a T-Shirt.
...does it run Windows?
Sorry.
"Blah Rover blah blah blah food."
With apologies to Gary Larson, and also to tinkerghost.
The graphics part of S3 was sold to VIA at about the same time as it transformed to SONIC|blue. So the Chapter 11 thing is irrelevant.
The problem with this is that (according to some sources) we don't have enough water suitable for irrigation. See this for example.
Firstly, I want to see mutual authentication, so that my chip doesn't give up its contents to just any reader.
Secondly, there's going to be several million chips and several thousand readers -- one at each passport control desk at every airport in the world, probably. How am I supposed to trust these? If more than one person knows it, it's not a secret any more, as the saying goes.
Your suggested solution either requires that every reader know every chip's secret (neither scalable nor secure) or that every chip use the same secret (scalable, but not even vaguely secure).
Yeah, but only because Paris gets trashed in Deep Impact.
Of course it doesn't. I'm using Firefox, but I've not dropped IE. I'm using both.
How about a WoW-branded credit card? Instead of cashback, you get in-game points for real-world spending.
Which is what Chunked Transfer Coding is for. See Section 3.6 of RFC 2616.
While I agree, in broad strokes, with what you're saying, I've got two minor points:
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What does Google actually have (other than search) that isn't in beta? There comes a point when you just have to release something (as much as you can do in web apps). How long has Google Groups been in 'beta' now?
Er, the fact that I didn't go to the state fair, because it's full of shysters attempting to sell tonics? I don't get the same option when it comes to spam.
Spam is more like a door-to-door salesman, except that the economy of scale makes it worthwhile to have someone knocking on your door every five minutes.
...and he won't tell you his name, just that you can call this number to get hold of what he's selling. In fact, sometime's he's just playing knock-down-ginger and leaving a business card on your mat.
...and that your residents' association charges you every time someone rings your doorbell.
It was released at v3.1 (not v3.0), because the Novell Netware cross-licensing terms only extended to "Windows 3.1". Once WfWg (Win16 v3.11) came out, Netware support kinda became a non-issue, so the next version was v3.5.
Who would people suggest as an alternative UK ISP if Plus.net's quality is dropping?
Pipex. I've been using them since I was on dial-up. They're not the cheapest, but I've had two outages in the three years since I moved to DSL, and both of those were BT's fault. Both of them were solved within hours.
On the other hand, I only rely on them for connectivity. Email, web space, etc. are handled separately.
Yeah, because the performance hit between my machine and the DNS server is the DNS server's disk...
Did you actually read any of the other entries on Jensen Harris's blog?
He goes into quite a lot of detail about how they're doing extensive usability testing, and using the feedback from the Customer Experience tool that shipped in Office 2003 to work out which features people use the most, and how they use them.
Now, I'm not saying that you (or I) are going to be happy with how Office 2007 turns out -- I've not had a chance to play with any of the previews yet, but to disparage what they're doing as "merely lip service" misses the mark by a mile.