The Microsoft search box comes with inbuilt Balmer power conduit! This revolutionary interface will fire off your search responses as accurately as a plastic chair bouncing around the room.
I am a developer and just had a similar discussion with somebody in a p2p hub. He was looking for upgrades to his already pirated and cracked software.
I outlined my stance and got a positive reaction from the other users in that hub.
It was as follows, I don't mind if people download and play or use my software or others, but if it becomes enough to want to play online with friends every day, or enough to become a business asset, then that person SHOULD become a customer. Expecting upgrades for something you haven't paid for steps way over the line.
I would be proud to see my software listed on p2p, mainly for the fact of more eyes seeing it.
I just don't like the scrotes that take it too far.
ps, when I read about your national list of pirates, I couldn't help but think of the Flying Spaghetti monster.
I don't mind going over old articles every now and then, and in the case of the dupe you found, I doubt most people will even remember the slash article, and lots of people weren't even here then.
Dupes on the same day or even page are the ones that really show them up though...
Office does offer saving in many open formats, however these formats lose some of the formatting that word uses.
For instance, you can choose to use soimething like.txt for all your documents. You can get the data out in a sharable manner, but it will look like shite to people at the other end;)
Winrar is cool, and its amusing whenever my missus makes the "Rarrrrrrrrr!" lion noise everytime I say I'm unpacking something with it, BUT your right, because its not standard, most people can't extract them.
At least Winxp includes zip compression by default which has removed lots of support issues.
The GP poster was suggesting that using Linux was secure by default.
I was pointing out that its not the case, and that viruses and problems can still occur even in Linux.
Many eyes looking at a system does not mean that every problem will be solved and that bugs do not occur.
Firefox is a prime example, since bugs and errors are still embedded deep within and are as yet unclean.
Also remember that just because bugs can be fixed overnight does NOT mean that bugs will be removed from existance overnight. From the minute you release software there will be people who run unpatched until the day they drop that software, and to my knowledge there hasn't been a single bug free software release ever.
What happens in a few years time when a Linux based virus spreads and all those "security by obscurity" factories and workshops are compromised?
Understand that Linux is not a shining light that will be 100% watertight, if market share increases, more eyes will be on it and the potential for a major virus outbreak grows (tbh, I think the entry points will come from an application rather than the kernel but thats just the way it is)
Any operating system can be made secure by following proper procedure and keeping ontop of security announcements.
The whole point of the article is that the trained workers currently occupying these jobs are becoming extinct. There is a skills gap where nobody can replace them.
The letter had already been partially broken on one side due to handling, and I could see the PIN in the sunlight through the thin sheet even though that thin sheet is meant to let you know if someone has tampered with your information.
Dude, that wasn't a problem with handling, the piece of paper really is telling you it has been tampered with, and from your description its happened more than once. Inform the bank, and consider suing your post office for negligence at the very least.
Tamper evident packaging is effective in telling you something has been tampered with, you wouldn't drink from a new bottle with a pre-opened lid would you?
Actually, you can't just generically say google searches are automatically good.
I have been unimpressed by the searching functionality inside their maps tool.
Whenever I enter a place name to goto it fails horribly and tries to list business locations within the displayed area. A lot of the time I end up back on my old mapping site until I find the location and then drill down from a country view to where I am looking for.
Other map software finds addresses and locations using single keywords MUCH better than google.
Try going onto maps.google.com and entering "Hollywood" to see the effect. I do note however it is getting better and can now finally find my hometown at the first attempt.
Other search problems I have noticed were bugs in gmail, but those have been fixed now, so all is good again.
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Imagine the technologies that are honed with this project being released to the mainstream public down the road
Paparazzi camera lenses that can snapshot celebrities indiscretions from another continent?
The Microsoft search box comes with inbuilt Balmer power conduit!
This revolutionary interface will fire off your search responses as accurately as a plastic chair bouncing around the room.
Thats exactly what the GP is saying.
Plain text does not preserve formatting, nor can it handle embedded audio/video, but MS still still allows you to export and import it.
Their reasoning is just bullshit and trying to make sure they don't lose ground.
I feel for you, I really, do.
I am a developer and just had a similar discussion with somebody in a p2p hub.
He was looking for upgrades to his already pirated and cracked software.
I outlined my stance and got a positive reaction from the other users in that hub.
It was as follows, I don't mind if people download and play or use my software or others, but if it becomes enough to want to play online with friends every day, or enough to become a business asset, then that person SHOULD become a customer. Expecting upgrades for something you haven't paid for steps way over the line.
I would be proud to see my software listed on p2p, mainly for the fact of more eyes seeing it.
I just don't like the scrotes that take it too far.
ps, when I read about your national list of pirates, I couldn't help but think of the Flying Spaghetti monster.
The Sky is blue.
Microsoft are convicted monopolists.
Geek groupies exist.
(Ok, so I made the last one up, we can't expect a totally perfect day now can we)
Yes, the game is "GIMP forever".
:P
This is level 1 you are playing. Further levels will be posted in future which maybe make use of random OpenOffice xml documents
But that was 2 years ago.
I don't mind going over old articles every now and then, and in the case of the dupe you found, I doubt most people will even remember the slash article, and lots of people weren't even here then.
Dupes on the same day or even page are the ones that really show them up though...
It doesn't make any difference which OS you watch it in nowadays, in this version Greedo still shoots first :(
In 90 or so years no one will care about Britney Spears' latest single or another MPAA flop.
What is the mechanism by which genes fade?
Isn't that process called stonewashing?
But by posting here indicating that aren't you risking self incrimination?
Office does offer saving in many open formats, however these formats lose some of the formatting that word uses.
.txt for all your documents. ;)
For instance, you can choose to use soimething like
You can get the data out in a sharable manner, but it will look like shite to people at the other end
PDF
;)
and
Open Office XML
Strangely, both say you need Adobe reader to read them
Winrar is cool, and its amusing whenever my missus makes the "Rarrrrrrrrr!" lion noise everytime I say I'm unpacking something with it, BUT your right, because its not standard, most people can't extract them.
At least Winxp includes zip compression by default which has removed lots of support issues.
Your just being pedantic.
Not many people had room in their homes for a mainframe three decades ago.
Up until very recently, there wasn't the push to go multicore *in the home*.
Its the same kind of multitasking my computer has been doing for years.
Its only now with multiple cores that real multitasking can occur.
Now I can talk to my tv at 100mpbs I can change channels much quicker and theoretically watch more channels at once.
(for all those people who flick backwards and forewards between 2 channels watching both programs - TV watching for the multitasking generation)
Looks like your business plan has already been tested.
Spaceballs!
The GP poster was suggesting that using Linux was secure by default.
I was pointing out that its not the case, and that viruses and problems can still occur even in Linux.
Many eyes looking at a system does not mean that every problem will be solved and that bugs do not occur.
Firefox is a prime example, since bugs and errors are still embedded deep within and are as yet unclean.
Also remember that just because bugs can be fixed overnight does NOT mean that bugs will be removed from existance overnight. From the minute you release software there will be people who run unpatched until the day they drop that software, and to my knowledge there hasn't been a single bug free software release ever.
What happens in a few years time when a Linux based virus spreads and all those "security by obscurity" factories and workshops are compromised?
Understand that Linux is not a shining light that will be 100% watertight, if market share increases, more eyes will be on it and the potential for a major virus outbreak grows (tbh, I think the entry points will come from an application rather than the kernel but thats just the way it is)
Any operating system can be made secure by following proper procedure and keeping ontop of security announcements.
The jobs that are out there are filled.
The whole point of the article is that the trained workers currently occupying these jobs are becoming extinct.
There is a skills gap where nobody can replace them.
Maybe they will start using email now then.
Old Koreans will have more pen pals.
The letter had already been partially broken on one side due to handling, and I could see the PIN in the sunlight through the thin sheet even though that thin sheet is meant to let you know if someone has tampered with your information.
Dude, that wasn't a problem with handling, the piece of paper really is telling you it has been tampered with, and from your description its happened more than once.
Inform the bank, and consider suing your post office for negligence at the very least.
Tamper evident packaging is effective in telling you something has been tampered with, you wouldn't drink from a new bottle with a pre-opened lid would you?
Rule number one of the internet.
If you don't want the world to see your sensitive documents, don't put them on the webserver.
3. Yes. This is Google we're talking about.
Actually, you can't just generically say google searches are automatically good.
I have been unimpressed by the searching functionality inside their maps tool.
Whenever I enter a place name to goto it fails horribly and tries to list business locations within the displayed area. A lot of the time I end up back on my old mapping site until I find the location and then drill down from a country view to where I am looking for.
Other map software finds addresses and locations using single keywords MUCH better than google.
Try going onto maps.google.com and entering "Hollywood" to see the effect. I do note however it is getting better and can now finally find my hometown at the first attempt.
Other search problems I have noticed were bugs in gmail, but those have been fixed now, so all is good again.