Windows update stopped using the browser for updates in Vista - the website just directs you to the control panel. Even in XP, automatic updates happen without using the browser at all.
Windows already has a package-manager sort of thing build in with windows update. I won't argue about how it compares to the various linux offerings, but it would certainly work for this. They've already removed IE from the Windows Update process - why not put IE and third party browsers up there and let people decide for themselves. Third party drivers are available there, so the process to decide what gets on there is already in place.
I'd like to see how Server 2003 and 2008 stand up - since longer, less interactive processing is what they are tuned for. XP, Vista and 7 are tuned for quick user response.
But at least Vista now keeps track of when users install stuff - this has made my life easier several times:
Family member: "My computer is getting pop-ups all the time" Me: "Did you install anything recently?" fm: "No." Me: "It says here you installed on , just before you started complaining about things" fm: "Well, yes, there was that. But that was supposed to make things better." me: "...."
Yet none of those are the sort of thing you're going to say to your computer. The only one that is in the 2nd person singular imperative is carpe diem (which I suppose could be a dangerous command to give to a computer).
The bigger issue would be anyone speaking Italian or Spanish anywhere near the computer, since Latin is still very much alive in the romance languages.
That's what Canada's doing (kind-of) through its recordable media levy. If you buy a recordable CD, it's assumed that you'll use a portion of it for copying music - some you pay something like $0.25 per cd to compensate the artists of that music.
In some ways its nice not to have to worry about the CRIA suing you, and since we're already paying for it, it's perfectly legal to make private copies of music in Canada. It does seem ridiculous, though, that to buy cds to back up your computer, over half the cost of the media is the levy.
Forgot to mention that when I hit the emergency break, the cable snapped. This was an old automatic van, so the emergency brake was almost never used, and when I did try, it didn't hold up.
I had ABS nearly cause an accident on dry pavement in the middle of summer a few years back. I was pulling up to a stop light and when I hit the brakes to stop, the ABS kicked in immediately and would let the brakes do anything - I ended up weaving my way between the lanes of cars and slowly rolling through the red light (right past a cop car). I towed the car in and we traced it to some electrical problem that essentially tricked the ABS into thinking the brakes were locked when they weren't.
Where does one get pizzaz? Are those where you go out and buy a pizza from a restaurant, only the cheese is so thick that you can't see the other toppings inside, so a pizza 'cracker' breaks through the cheese and makes an illegal copy of the pizza using transparent cheese that anyone can copy and posts it up on an ftp site?
No need to browse the web from a microwave, but why not give it a network connection so it can look up bar codes and automatically sets the time. I've seen non-networked versions of these, but the internal list they have quickly gets stale, and they're limited to a certain number of listings.
I'd be happy to watch ads if it meant I could get the same speed/selection/quality as bittorrent. A big issue with current online offerings from networks is that either you can't play them outside of the US. Often they use some proprietary client, or a terrible quality flash version, or they won't let you view in full-screen mode. Or you have to individually queue up 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 to actually watch a full episode. That's all assuming they have enough bandwidth to actually stream it to you in the first place.
The problem with bittorrent, is that it's MORE convenient than watching TV the old fashioned way. All the benefits of TIVO, except that I can use my computer (and keyboard) to specify which shows I want. I don't care which channels are broadcasting them, they just appear in the downloaded folder. I can watch from any computer in the house (or outside with a laptop). There are no DRM restrictions.
They could be way better, since you can stress the muscles to exact amounts to create the ideal fat percentages and tenderness. With real cows they have the whole issue of actually having to support the infrastructure of a 1000 lb walking/breathing/eating animal.
Or also possible, fewer and fewer people will end up paying income taxes and the "temporary" income tax will finally be killed. (Wishful thinking, I know.)
Also not a math pro, but the problem comes in that we have two things that are defined by the word "ten" - the abstract point on the number line that is eqivalent is also represented by the symbols: '0x0A' in hex; '012' in octal; '10' in dec; and '1010' in binary. But it's also a name for the symbol '10' itself, just as one hundred is a name for the symbol '100', as well as a name for the abstract value represented by the symbol '100'.
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Windows update stopped using the browser for updates in Vista - the website just directs you to the control panel. Even in XP, automatic updates happen without using the browser at all.
Windows already has a package-manager sort of thing build in with windows update. I won't argue about how it compares to the various linux offerings, but it would certainly work for this.
They've already removed IE from the Windows Update process - why not put IE and third party browsers up there and let people decide for themselves. Third party drivers are available there, so the process to decide what gets on there is already in place.
I'd like to see how Server 2003 and 2008 stand up - since longer, less interactive processing is what they are tuned for. XP, Vista and 7 are tuned for quick user response.
But at least Vista now keeps track of when users install stuff - this has made my life easier several times:
Family member: "My computer is getting pop-ups all the time"
Me: "Did you install anything recently?"
fm: "No."
Me: "It says here you installed on , just before you started complaining about things"
fm: "Well, yes, there was that. But that was supposed to make things better."
me: "...."
Yet none of those are the sort of thing you're going to say to your computer. The only one that is in the 2nd person singular imperative is carpe diem (which I suppose could be a dangerous command to give to a computer).
The bigger issue would be anyone speaking Italian or Spanish anywhere near the computer, since Latin is still very much alive in the romance languages.
That's what Canada's doing (kind-of) through its recordable media levy. If you buy a recordable CD, it's assumed that you'll use a portion of it for copying music - some you pay something like $0.25 per cd to compensate the artists of that music.
In some ways its nice not to have to worry about the CRIA suing you, and since we're already paying for it, it's perfectly legal to make private copies of music in Canada. It does seem ridiculous, though, that to buy cds to back up your computer, over half the cost of the media is the levy.
It was a foot-pedal emergency break and the cable snapped.
Forgot to mention that when I hit the emergency break, the cable snapped. This was an old automatic van, so the emergency brake was almost never used, and when I did try, it didn't hold up.
I had ABS nearly cause an accident on dry pavement in the middle of summer a few years back. I was pulling up to a stop light and when I hit the brakes to stop, the ABS kicked in immediately and would let the brakes do anything - I ended up weaving my way between the lanes of cars and slowly rolling through the red light (right past a cop car). I towed the car in and we traced it to some electrical problem that essentially tricked the ABS into thinking the brakes were locked when they weren't.
Where does one get pizzaz? Are those where you go out and buy a pizza from a restaurant, only the cheese is so thick that you can't see the other toppings inside, so a pizza 'cracker' breaks through the cheese and makes an illegal copy of the pizza using transparent cheese that anyone can copy and posts it up on an ftp site?
No need to browse the web from a microwave, but why not give it a network connection so it can look up bar codes and automatically sets the time. I've seen non-networked versions of these, but the internal list they have quickly gets stale, and they're limited to a certain number of listings.
I'd be happy to watch ads if it meant I could get the same speed/selection/quality as bittorrent. A big issue with current online offerings from networks is that either you can't play them outside of the US.
Often they use some proprietary client, or a terrible quality flash version, or they won't let you view in full-screen mode. Or you have to individually queue up 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 to actually watch a full episode. That's all assuming they have enough bandwidth to actually stream it to you in the first place.
The problem with bittorrent, is that it's MORE convenient than watching TV the old fashioned way. All the benefits of TIVO, except that I can use my computer (and keyboard) to specify which shows I want. I don't care which channels are broadcasting them, they just appear in the downloaded folder. I can watch from any computer in the house (or outside with a laptop). There are no DRM restrictions.
At 600 watt-hours per liter, you're going to be losing more energy to sweat and breathing than you could possibly get close to generating by hand.
Ouch!
Slashdot readership plummets to an all-time low as programmers actually have to work.
It's easy enough to get webcam with efficient infrared LEDs that light up a small area.
I've met Phil - he's the sort of guy to go out to his back and throw an extra gallon of engine oil on his tire fire just to spite the Maldivians.
Or try it as a single number: 2130706433
Especially when they've been frozen instead of fossilized.
They could be way better, since you can stress the muscles to exact amounts to create the ideal fat percentages and tenderness. With real cows they have the whole issue of actually having to support the infrastructure of a 1000 lb walking/breathing/eating animal.
I think he's stressing the point between being engineered (i.e. created) vs. evolving.
Or also possible, fewer and fewer people will end up paying income taxes and the "temporary" income tax will finally be killed. (Wishful thinking, I know.)
Also not a math pro, but the problem comes in that we have two things that are defined by the word "ten" - the abstract point on the number line that is eqivalent is also represented by the symbols: '0x0A' in hex; '012' in octal; '10' in dec; and '1010' in binary.
But it's also a name for the symbol '10' itself, just as one hundred is a name for the symbol '100', as well as a name for the abstract value represented by the symbol '100'.
Clearly the best solution yet.