Current *.doc documents are not proprietary. You don't have to have Word (or any Word plugin) to open them. It's just that most people have *.doc set to open with Word. That's your choice.
Microsoft would make a IE plugin to read the documents
First off, where is this mentioned?
Secondly, due to the monopoly suit against Microsoft, I would imagine this means that Open Office can create a plugin if they want as well.
Or hell, Mozilla can create a plugin for Open Office for their browser. However I don't see this happening for another 2 years.
Is microsoft supposed to stop creating software, or if they do then should they also modify Open Office and all the other word processors so that they can use the features as well?
This feature is meant for internal operations of big businesses. If they publish something to the outside world, it will most likely be in the standard compatible format.
They aren't going to publish something to the outside world in a propietary format that requires a $500 product. That would be utterly stupid.
This is for businesses that a)are colaborating on building a document b)need it restricted to certain people within the company.
Since this is the case, most *smart* companies will have these documents on internal servers that are behind atleast a couple firewalls.
If you work for a company that keeps documents that should be considered confidential on public servers, then i sure hope they don't get hacked for your sake.
If you create a standard Word document you will still be able to open it in any word compatible program.
ONLY if you use IRM will it be restricted to Office 2003 because it's the only one that supports it. This is mainly a feature that many corporations want (rights management) and it's finally here. This won't affect the average user.
..who have $300 million dollar arenas that are partly paid for by the state. Most rural people will never even see your damn arenas/stadiums/fields and they have to fork out money to pay for your entertainment.
This also applies to all the tax that has to pay for government workers that demand higher salieries to live in your city because of the cost of living.
And don't even get me started on trash. Do you realize how much trash a large city produces. Do you know where it winds up going?? Rural areas.
So don't be so conceited as to think that this is a one way street. We have to smell your shit and give you money for entertainment at the same time.
Is there another assosiation out there besides being an independent??? It seems to me they are a monopoly and that the government should look into the price gouging.
By the way, does anyone know the breakdown of a Cd's price? Like: RIAA:25% Label:25% Production & Distribution:25% Band:25%
Who said the machine had physical attributes like a human? It probably has 1 "arm" for each "handle" (6-8?). Although they probably made it so that only 2 handles move at any one time.
I'm pretty sure that in just about every Licence Agreement there is a clause in there that says if you break their code you could be punished.
Here is AIM's:
2. Restrictions on Use. You may not redistribute the Software or provide others with access to the Service (including, without limitation, providing third parties with access to the proprietary Instant Messenger namespace database). You may not create or use any software other than the Software provided by AOL to access the Service, without the express written authorization of AOL. You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software or in any way ascertain, decipher, or obtain the communications protocol for accessing the Service. You may not adapt, alter, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Software (including without limitation the communications protocols for the Service) without the express written authorization of AOL. Because AOL's ability to offer the Service free of charge is dependent, on whole or in part, on generating advertising revenues from the Service, you may not block, disable or otherwise affect any advertising, advertisement banner window, links to other sites and services, or other features that constitute an integral part of this Software and Service. You may not register with and log on and off the Service, send and receive instant messages via the Service or identify when other Service members are online except through use of this Software and Service and in conformance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may not collect or solicit screen names or password information. Finally, you may not authorize or assist any third party to do any of the things described in this paragraph.
You lost a few $$ so you think its of equal value to ruin the future of one person because we cost you money?
We have but one lifetime to live. Often our punishment for the loss of property do not fit the crime.
Time is valuable. And some of these dorks spent hundreds of hours creating something (a player) that in one short night was ruined. You may not see that but others do and the jury is the one to decide. By the way, it's not like these guys will go to jail for 2-3 years. They will probably get a coulpe weeks in jail or even community service. Big Whoop!
Similarly, do you think it'd be alright for someone to destroy some artists paintings and just give them paper and paint in compensation? What about all the time to create those paintings? Is that worth nothing?
What about if some hacker erased your hard drive? Would you just say, "oh don't do anything to him", i can redownload those 10,000 mp3s and movies and all the other crap that's on my computer. It's just bits of data that can be replaced free of charge.
This shows that nVidia is back on top with thier new card. Yes the 5800 was flop, but this new one fixes most of the glaring problems with the 5800.
As far as image quality, this explains why it has poor quality and how the new driver comes with preferences that will fix that.
Most people don't take screen shots of a video game they are playing. Nvidia came preconfigured to display moving animations better instead of focusing on making still images better like ATI.
I have a P4 1.7GHz with win2000 at work and this computer sucks. At home I have a P4 1.3GHz and it is much quicker even with winXP.
The differences are too many to name but I can guess why the one at work responds slower.
1. Other hardware (motherboard, ram, hard drive (5400 vs 7200), video card)
2. Running software (networking applications, virus software(mcafee at work vs Norton at home), etc, etc)
In all you shouldn't compare processors of 2 totally different machines that have completely different hardware and software differences.
Heck, just compare the differences of a computer you've used for 2 years and the exact same computer with a clean install of the OS. The performance differences are like night and day.
Although I haven't updated it in 5 years. It still lists many of the search engines out there. I used to love engines like Metacrawler and such, but they began to be ad-bloated as well.
The reason i made this was because I hated pictures on the initial search page with a 28.8 modem. All i wanted was a box to type in and a button to push. Is that hard to accomplish or something?:/
There really needs to be a better way of blocking email besides by subject line or sender, but that's really the only way unless something is done on the server side. But the filters could be much better than what is available today.
Here's what I propose. The blocker would have a list of valid senders. When you get mail, the blocker would check the list. if it's there, fine the mail passes, otherwise an email is sent back to the sender with a verification code. The sender would then have to reply back with the code and then the original message would go through. That would eliminate the ficticious email addresses that many bots use. And if it was a valid email the bot would have to be much more intuitive.
Of course you could always add your own senders and preapprove certain email addresses that are created by good bots (an amazon.com tracking number email)
There needs to be a tiered structure with filters. The main one would be at the ISP level. It would only filter out obvious spam(like spam going to 2000 users at that ISP). The second tier would be at the client side and would have a certain level of intelligence in identifying spam.
One feature that I'd like (it might already be available) is if it could automatically send an email back to the sender saying the email address doesn't exist. This should be done at the server level and/or client level. This could possibly help in removing your email from such lists.
As far as what to do with the spam at the client level, I think that it should be sent to your main inbox but just marked as spam (maybe greyed out or something). Like new mail is always bold and once you read it it goes to a regular font. Well, spam could be just greyed out. That way you would ever miss something that the spam filter had a false hit on.
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Current *.doc documents are not proprietary. You don't have to have Word (or any Word plugin) to open them. It's just that most people have *.doc set to open with Word. That's your choice.
Microsoft would make a IE plugin to read the documents
First off, where is this mentioned?
Secondly, due to the monopoly suit against Microsoft, I would imagine this means that Open Office can create a plugin if they want as well. Or hell, Mozilla can create a plugin for Open Office for their browser. However I don't see this happening for another 2 years.
Is microsoft supposed to stop creating software, or if they do then should they also modify Open Office and all the other word processors so that they can use the features as well?
This feature is meant for internal operations of big businesses. If they publish something to the outside world, it will most likely be in the standard compatible format.
They aren't going to publish something to the outside world in a propietary format that requires a $500 product. That would be utterly stupid.
This is for businesses that a)are colaborating on building a document b)need it restricted to certain people within the company.
Since this is the case, most *smart* companies will have these documents on internal servers that are behind atleast a couple firewalls.
If you work for a company that keeps documents that should be considered confidential on public servers, then i sure hope they don't get hacked for your sake.
If you create a standard Word document you will still be able to open it in any word compatible program.
ONLY if you use IRM will it be restricted to Office 2003 because it's the only one that supports it. This is mainly a feature that many corporations want (rights management) and it's finally here. This won't affect the average user.
This is not the end of the world people.
oh wait, nevermind.
..who have $300 million dollar arenas that are partly paid for by the state. Most rural people will never even see your damn arenas/stadiums/fields and they have to fork out money to pay for your entertainment.
This also applies to all the tax that has to pay for government workers that demand higher salieries to live in your city because of the cost of living.
And don't even get me started on trash. Do you realize how much trash a large city produces. Do you know where it winds up going?? Rural areas.
So don't be so conceited as to think that this is a one way street. We have to smell your shit and give you money for entertainment at the same time.
Is there another assosiation out there besides being an independent??? It seems to me they are a monopoly and that the government should look into the price gouging.
By the way, does anyone know the breakdown of a Cd's price? Like:
RIAA:25%
Label:25%
Production & Distribution:25%
Band:25%
If you purchased a virtual thing for "real" money off of ebay or whatever, then it has a "real" value.
So if you can put it into either of these 2 categories, then yes you have a right. JMHO
Who said the machine had physical attributes like a human? It probably has 1 "arm" for each "handle" (6-8?). Although they probably made it so that only 2 handles move at any one time.
Here is AIM's:
2. Restrictions on Use. You may not redistribute the Software or provide others with access to the Service (including, without limitation, providing third parties with access to the proprietary Instant Messenger namespace database). You may not create or use any software other than the Software provided by AOL to access the Service, without the express written authorization of AOL. You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software or in any way ascertain, decipher, or obtain the communications protocol for accessing the Service. You may not adapt, alter, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Software (including without limitation the communications protocols for the Service) without the express written authorization of AOL. Because AOL's ability to offer the Service free of charge is dependent, on whole or in part, on generating advertising revenues from the Service, you may not block, disable or otherwise affect any advertising, advertisement banner window, links to other sites and services, or other features that constitute an integral part of this Software and Service. You may not register with and log on and off the Service, send and receive instant messages via the Service or identify when other Service members are online except through use of this Software and Service and in conformance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may not collect or solicit screen names or password information. Finally, you may not authorize or assist any third party to do any of the things described in this paragraph.
We have but one lifetime to live. Often our punishment for the loss of property do not fit the crime.
Time is valuable. And some of these dorks spent hundreds of hours creating something (a player) that in one short night was ruined. You may not see that but others do and the jury is the one to decide. By the way, it's not like these guys will go to jail for 2-3 years. They will probably get a coulpe weeks in jail or even community service. Big Whoop!
Similarly, do you think it'd be alright for someone to destroy some artists paintings and just give them paper and paint in compensation? What about all the time to create those paintings? Is that worth nothing?
What about if some hacker erased your hard drive? Would you just say, "oh don't do anything to him", i can redownload those 10,000 mp3s and movies and all the other crap that's on my computer. It's just bits of data that can be replaced free of charge.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030512/inde x.html
This shows that nVidia is back on top with thier new card. Yes the 5800 was flop, but this new one fixes most of the glaring problems with the 5800.
As far as image quality, this explains why it has poor quality and how the new driver comes with preferences that will fix that.
Most people don't take screen shots of a video game they are playing. Nvidia came preconfigured to display moving animations better instead of focusing on making still images better like ATI.
Does this mean i have to get my house up to 88 MPH to use fiber?
The differences are too many to name but I can guess why the one at work responds slower.
1. Other hardware (motherboard, ram, hard drive (5400 vs 7200), video card)
2. Running software (networking applications, virus software(mcafee at work vs Norton at home), etc, etc)
In all you shouldn't compare processors of 2 totally different machines that have completely different hardware and software differences.
Heck, just compare the differences of a computer you've used for 2 years and the exact same computer with a clean install of the OS. The performance differences are like night and day.
The reason i made this was because I hated pictures on the initial search page with a 28.8 modem. All i wanted was a box to type in and a button to push. Is that hard to accomplish or something? :/
http://search.wickens.ws
End of discussion.
There really needs to be a better way of blocking email besides by subject line or sender, but that's really the only way unless something is done on the server side. But the filters could be much better than what is available today. Here's what I propose. The blocker would have a list of valid senders. When you get mail, the blocker would check the list. if it's there, fine the mail passes, otherwise an email is sent back to the sender with a verification code. The sender would then have to reply back with the code and then the original message would go through. That would eliminate the ficticious email addresses that many bots use. And if it was a valid email the bot would have to be much more intuitive. Of course you could always add your own senders and preapprove certain email addresses that are created by good bots (an amazon.com tracking number email)
There needs to be a tiered structure with filters. The main one would be at the ISP level. It would only filter out obvious spam(like spam going to 2000 users at that ISP). The second tier would be at the client side and would have a certain level of intelligence in identifying spam. One feature that I'd like (it might already be available) is if it could automatically send an email back to the sender saying the email address doesn't exist. This should be done at the server level and/or client level. This could possibly help in removing your email from such lists. As far as what to do with the spam at the client level, I think that it should be sent to your main inbox but just marked as spam (maybe greyed out or something). Like new mail is always bold and once you read it it goes to a regular font. Well, spam could be just greyed out. That way you would ever miss something that the spam filter had a false hit on.