this would be a good time to download the latest version of essential Windows tools like Process Explorer [CC] before they can go mysteriously missing or be locked up behind the wall of Windows Genuine Advantage."
I'll make no objection if a distribution of any OS restricts supported, distro-funded and distro-specific, downloads to its paying customers. It is, after all, the reason why OEM Linspire has a token presence in big-box retail.
Nor will I object to demanding a show of proof. You are not entitled to a free ride on my dime.
Holy crap. They list most of the worst offenders as "green"
McAfee's automated scans can't and won't red-flag a corporate home page simply because the company is on your personal black list. You might, however, take the time to post a comment.
put a little icon on search results that return an infected site. That way you could at least have a heads up before you clicked on a search result about what you were getting into. It would also be great for Firefox, when everyone gets to see how many sites are exploiting IE.
SiteAdvisor tests e-mail, downloads, and links. Give an e-mail address to Slashdot and you can expect 6.9 e-mails per week. Reports are detailed and comments can be posted.
The scam artist's best weapons are always psychological. The defenses woven into Firefox are to him never more than a minor inconvenience.
Disney has plenty of movies waiting for you at your local video rental outlet.
which is not a bad place to be if you want to generate the money and exposure needed to make Blender a must-have tool for the professional in animation.
the main problem is actually doing creative things once you've mastered it.
You started me thinking about programs like Terragen, Poser, and Pixar's "Universal Man."
Tools which help an artist to remain productive and focused on what he does best. Character animation, for example, is a form of acting and demands a very different set of skills than those needed for the basic construction of the model.
Library computers are not necessarly browser kiosks
This can be particularly true in a small town. Word and Publisher see a lot of use here. It doesn't hurt that the easily navigated MS Office site delivers one-stop shopping for tutorials, templates and clip art.
Sorry doom 3 was creepy as hell (bad pun) when i frirst started.. then again i did start at night with the lights off and hifi audio going - the random people screeming through the walls really got me.
If you want to understand the difference between elemental horror and the fun-house shocks of Doom there is no better place to begin than with H.P. Lovecraft: Tales, in The Library of America series.
Lovecraft's best effects are achieved through suggestion.
You never see anything clearly or fully but you are left with the conviction of having encountered something profoundly alien.
Unless you are receiving less money than last year, or not keeping up with inflation over a period of time longer than a single year you should be beaten if you claim it is a cut / decline.
You are losing ground when the population you serve is growing faster than your resources:
It is for all practical purposes a budget cut when your grandmother is put on a waiting list for assisted living or a nursing home bed.
Just think. If these recordings were digitally transferred and uploaded somewhere like http://archive.org/ (which I believe they belong), then we would have access to these things basically forever in the best quality that they could be.
Forever?
In the right environment, a book can be shelved and neglected for hundreds of years and still remain readable, a digital archive requires constant, expert, maintenance, by a high-tech priesthood.
Every month that goes by without Vista is another month for Linux to improve
If the w3schools numbers are correct, than Linux's share of the (developer?) desktop has grown from 2% to 4% in three years. It is not an imminent threat to Vista.
There is no technical reason why the camera doesn't work in Linux. It's not the job of OSS developers to be on the leading edge of every device on the planet.
Perhaps not.
But when every peripheral device sold through mass market channels comes with a functional Windows driver, users will take the path of least resistance.
Unless it's a bloated bugfest like Windows ME and people refuse to upgrade
In the spring of 2003 XP had 30% of the market. Three years later, XP has 75% of the market. Users upgrade, they do not migrate to the alternative OS. OS Platform Statistics
"Bloat" is strictly a Geek obession. Vista Premium should run just fine on your midline Dell.
I'm still wondering why anyone had to upgrade to XP from 2000.
W2K sales in the consumer market were negligible. I'd not be surprised if its decline elsewhre isn't simply a reflection of the growing versitility and power of the commodity laptop running XP.
Speaking as someone who has run Linux on my desktop since about 1996 (and on my home PC long before that), I can say that Windows is not yet ready for my desktop and most likely never will be.
This boilerplate response gets its predictable mod up to +5.
While Microsoft maintains its 95% share of the home and SOHO markets. with most of the remainder going to Apple.
I'd like to see some major PC maker offer a Linux line of Destop and Laptop PC's
You can't sell OEM Linux unless it can handle DRM'd media out-of-the-box. DVD and High Definition. Subscription radio and download services like iTunes.
You can't sell OEM Linux MPC and gaming systems to home users that are cheaper than their Windows equivelents.
You can't sell retailers on a platform with insignificant after-market sales.
Walmart.com suggests you can't make a go of OEM Linux at all. The chain has tried every coceiveable combination of distro and manufactuer. Not one has caught fire.
I think you fail to take into account the suggestions of those of us who are called on to help friends and family when they are buying new PCs or are having problems with their existing systems.
The Mac users in our family are outnumbered 20 to 1. Linux isn't in the picture at all. I'm inclined to put the break on talk of migration when users have a ten to twenty year investment in the MSDOS and Windows platform.
i don't see the point in having an integrated spellchecker
I have wasted too much time trying to make sense of posts with spelling and grammatical errors that would embarrass a fourth grader not to think that the need is there.
The other good news is that you generally need to run Firefox for several days before the leaks become noticeable, if you monitor the memory use number closely.
Tell me why a non-technical end user should have to monitor memeory use at all.
Way to go... let's marginalize every single attempt to seek out alternative power sources. This way we can be married to oil for that much longer. Look on the bright side.. your kids get to see the middle east.
If I were the cynical Yankee, I'd be asking why, if Vermont Power really believes in Cow Power, it isn't bulding economical centralized facilites for waste collection and processing under more controlled comditions.
The lack of games is still the number one barrier to MACS taking more of the home pc market.
The number one barrier to entry in the home market is the 25 year dominance of MSDOS and Windows in the home market. The backlist of Windows titles of interest to home users is enormous. It isn't just about the games.
The Geek may look forward to the dubious pleasures of maintaining two (expensive) operating systems, two skill sets. two distinct program libraries. But almost everyone will take a pass.
Because copyright law in the US is constitutional only insofar as a work is protected for a "limited time." DRM violates the limited-time clause, so the DMCA and any other DRM-promoting legislation is prima facie unconstitutional.
To begin.
The term limit for copyrights will be defined by Congress either through legislation or the ratification of a treaties like the Berne Convention. The Supreme Court is long out of the business of making policy decisions like these.
It is naive to assume that copyright is the only legal protection afforded to a work of art
In any event, copyright, or the expiration of copyright, was never a quarantee of physical access to anything.
You want to see Steamboat Willy you go to Disney or to the handful of museums and private collectors who have the original nitrate stock and phonographic disks or restorations for loan or sale.
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or remain as visible as Windows Defender
I'll make no objection if a distribution of any OS restricts supported, distro-funded and distro-specific, downloads to its paying customers.
It is, after all, the reason why OEM Linspire has a token presence in big-box retail.
Nor will I object to demanding a show of proof. You are not entitled to a free ride on my dime.
McAfee's automated scans can't and won't red-flag a corporate home page simply because the company is on your personal black list. You might, however, take the time to post a comment.
Sounds rather like McAfee SiteAdvisor for IE and Firefox.
SiteAdvisor tests e-mail, downloads, and links. Give an e-mail address to Slashdot and you can expect 6.9 e-mails per week. Reports are detailed and comments can be posted.
The scam artist's best weapons are always psychological. The defenses woven into Firefox are to him never more than a minor inconvenience.
which is not a bad place to be if you want to generate the money and exposure needed to make Blender a must-have tool for the professional in animation.
You started me thinking about programs like Terragen, Poser, and Pixar's "Universal Man."
Tools which help an artist to remain productive and focused on what he does best. Character animation, for example, is a form of acting and demands a very different set of skills than those needed for the basic construction of the model.
This can be particularly true in a small town. Word and Publisher see a lot of use here. It doesn't hurt that the easily navigated MS Office site delivers one-stop shopping for tutorials, templates and clip art.
Last updated July 14. About 45 MB with optional add-ons like WMP 10. You'll see a full list of what's included on the front page.
If you want to understand the difference between elemental horror and the fun-house shocks of Doom there is no better place to begin than with H.P. Lovecraft: Tales, in The Library of America series.
Lovecraft's best effects are achieved through suggestion.
You never see anything clearly or fully but you are left with the conviction of having encountered something profoundly alien.
You are losing ground when the population you serve is growing faster than your resources:
It is for all practical purposes a budget cut when your grandmother is put on a waiting list for assisted living or a nursing home bed.
Forever?
In the right environment, a book can be shelved and neglected for hundreds of years and still remain readable, a digital archive requires constant, expert, maintenance, by a high-tech priesthood.
I know the computer Geek is supposed to lead a somewhat insular existence but this is ridiculous.
If the w3schools numbers are correct, than Linux's share of the (developer?) desktop has grown from 2% to 4% in three years. It is not an imminent threat to Vista.
Perhaps not.
But when every peripheral device sold through mass market channels comes with a functional Windows driver, users will take the path of least resistance.
In the spring of 2003 XP had 30% of the market. Three years later, XP has 75% of the market. Users upgrade, they do not migrate to the alternative OS. OS Platform Statistics
"Bloat" is strictly a Geek obession. Vista Premium should run just fine on your midline Dell.
W2K sales in the consumer market were negligible. I'd not be surprised if its decline elsewhre isn't simply a reflection of the growing versitility and power of the commodity laptop running XP.
It happens all too often in manure pits and silos. To sewer workers as well. Request for Assistance in Preventing Deaths of Farm Workers in Manure Pits, Sewer Gas
This boilerplate response gets its predictable mod up to +5.
While Microsoft maintains its 95% share of the home and SOHO markets. with most of the remainder going to Apple.
You can't sell OEM Linux unless it can handle DRM'd media out-of-the-box. DVD and High Definition. Subscription radio and download services like iTunes.
You can't sell OEM Linux MPC and gaming systems to home users that are cheaper than their Windows equivelents.
You can't sell retailers on a platform with insignificant after-market sales.
Walmart.com suggests you can't make a go of OEM Linux at all. The chain has tried every coceiveable combination of distro and manufactuer. Not one has caught fire.
The Mac users in our family are outnumbered 20 to 1. Linux isn't in the picture at all. I'm inclined to put the break on talk of migration when users have a ten to twenty year investment in the MSDOS and Windows platform.
I have wasted too much time trying to make sense of posts with spelling and grammatical errors that would embarrass a fourth grader not to think that the need is there.
Tell me why a non-technical end user should have to monitor memeory use at all.
It counta for users in markets where IE is still the dominant browser snd the baseline OEM install.
All the same...
There are questions worth asking:
Methane gas has been killing american farmers for generations. Fatalities Attributed to Methane Asphyxiain (in) Manure Waste Pits -- Ohio, Michigan, 1989
The up-front costs for the farmer can be huge. From Waste to Profit (1988)
If I were the cynical Yankee, I'd be asking why, if Vermont Power really believes in Cow Power, it isn't bulding economical centralized facilites for waste collection and processing under more controlled comditions.
The number one barrier to entry in the home market is the 25 year dominance of MSDOS and Windows in the home market. The backlist of Windows titles of interest to home users is enormous. It isn't just about the games.
The Geek may look forward to the dubious pleasures of maintaining two (expensive) operating systems, two skill sets. two distinct program libraries. But almost everyone will take a pass.
To begin.
The term limit for copyrights will be defined by Congress either through legislation or the ratification of a treaties like the Berne Convention. The Supreme Court is long out of the business of making policy decisions like these.
It is naive to assume that copyright is the only legal protection afforded to a work of art
In any event, copyright, or the expiration of copyright, was never a quarantee of physical access to anything.
You want to see Steamboat Willy you go to Disney or to the handful of museums and private collectors who have the original nitrate stock and phonographic disks or restorations for loan or sale.