It will be interesting to see how this will affect the stem cell ban in America. Seeing in how it was instituted as a moral stance against abortion, I can't imagine much religous outcry against the collection of donations for research and development.
1. It is legal to make a "backup copy" of ANY files from your original Windows XP/2003 media to another media.
2. It is legal to add any other files you wish to the backup media.
3. It is not legal to use a BartPE CD and an installed Windows XP/2003 both at the same time under the same Windows XP/2003 EULA.
4. It is not legal to change any binary files in the process according to the Windows XP/2003 EULA. This makes "winlogon" and "bootscreen" hacks illegal.
5. A BartPE image is (and I quote) "not a properly licensed WinPE". This means that if you want to have a licensed WinPE, you cannot use BartPE. However, you can use a BartPE image under the license of the Windows XP/2003 EULA that came with the BartPE XP/2003 source media.
However the fact is, if you're using patents held by your ever-so-slightly-competition, you're sitting on a time bomb without a LCD display telling you when it will go off, and how much damage it is likely to cause.
I'm not sure that Creative's new patent is much of an issue for Apple. If it ever goes to court, all Apple has to do is prove prior art, even if it isn't the iPod.
HT was Hyper-Marketing anyway. Real world gains were minimal to null for the majority of apps. However, I do like that multicore processors are making thier introduction. Too bad most programs are still single threaded.
Apple switched to Intel to cut costs, heat and power issues, make laptops based on high end processors, and ensure there are no supply problems. Anyone building the worlds fastest clusters, in need of high powered scientific workstations, or basically anything that requires brute force with numbers will still be using IBMs Power line of processsors. If you need a dump truck, a couple of Toyota trucks and a shovel wouldn't be the best option just because it's cheaper or more popular. You still need the right tool for the right jobs.
Even we nerds have made careless mistakes. Sometimes we have to fall on our faces to learn a lesson and never forget it. I bet that the person who backed up shortcuts, and the couple that didn't kept backups of thie baby photos will never make those misakes ever again. The fact that in these two cases a format and restore was the cause of data loss is irrelevant. Barely a day goes by I don't hear a person say "my entire life was on that computer" upon hearing that thier hard drive has died. The close tolerances that modern hard drives operate under is so extreme that it's amazing they operate with the reliability they do.
Taken in the context that, when the new DRM scheme is released, I will be paying for something that I cannot use. Forced obsolescence is no way to conduct business. Then again, I've never cared much for DRM anyway. The phrase "trusted computing" should indicate who holds all the power. After all, it's not about the owner or user of a machine trusting it, it's a matter of content owners and providers trusting your machine. And since that's the case, I feel that the financial responsibility should fall on them instead of the user.
Well, I guess that I might have to wait a few days until someone releases a crack for the new protection scheme so that I I can enjoy content that I've already paid for. Unless MS or Apple pay for my new hardware I won't have any other choice.
ever consider the benefits of mmorpgs and computer games? Well... living in your mothers basement and never having a girlfriend is definately a financial benifit. Although, bad hygene and poor social development may be considered by some to be con.
ever compared the real violence rate and drug rates between nerds and jocks? Take a knee junior. This type of humor, although not ironical, uses juxtapositioning to present the stereotypical nerd, geek, dweeb, and dork just as irrational as the feared jock when it comes to ones obsession.
jocks are the generally the ones beating peers, raping women and snorting coke. Now who's the one holding the irrational stereotypes. How is your opinion any different that a jock thinking you are going to spend half your life as a virgin? I don't even know where the whole coke thing came in. If you think coke is worse than the massive ammounts of super processed junk food known as the staple of the nerd diet... you have a big suprise coming to you in a few years.
sh~t happens with anything. what doesn't influence people? Finally, a half way rational statement, "shit happens, things influence people".
Creationism and Evolution are both theories that cannot be 100% proven or disproven. For that reason, both should be given equal class time.
Except one is a scientific theory and the other is religious mythology. We send children to school at a young age to learn science, language, art, and social skills. We send them to Sunday school at a young age to teach them faith. I don't see a reason why these arrangements no longer functions and two separate systems must now be combined. What event happened recently that has motivated people to lobby the insertion of Christian beliefs into the curriculum of public schools?
Also, why lump Bush with other religious leaders who condemn evolution? This whole summary smacks of Slashdot sensationalism.
Well, the man did say the jury was out on the theory of evolution. He also has no problems implementing religious doctrine as law. Regardless of his stated opinion on this topic, it should be obvious to everyone what he really believes. I have found all of his other attempts at legislating the moral high ground asinine, and I don't see any reason why 'equal time' would be any different.
I find it funny the editors are probably pushing their thirties, yet still act like 5 year olds toward a billion dollar corporation that has contributed more and done more for the world than they can ever hope to.
I agreed with you up until this point. I can't remember the last time MS went out of the way for philanthropic motives. Everything they have ever done has self-serving purposes. That's the way business works in a capitalistic society. Remember their settlement with the state of California? They gave vouchers and coupons for their software to schools as a settlement in the states anti-monopoly case. Whenever they have committed a true act of charity, the PR department is quick to flaunt it to every news agency around as if they can buy back a positive public image.
There are two main reasons that everyone loves to beat on MS. The first being their propensity to play the game of business by the dirtiest means possible. The second is how quickly they cry foul when anyone uses their own dirty tactics against them. Also, lets not forget the most important thing: you are now posting on a website owned by the "OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT LABS". Seeing as how MS is enemy #1 of open source, I don't understand how you expect anything but MS bashing here. Personally, anytime I hear someone kissing Microsoft's ass, I can't help but think that they don't understand business ethics, or perhaps, live in a velvet cage.
So which is more harmful to kids in the longrun? Watching adults (and I use the term loosely) beat eachother's brains out on TV (something that you hope they'll never do), or watching some sex (which they're going to do anyway)?
This wouldn't be the first time the 'moral majority' had their priorities ass backward. You see, America was founded by people that were oppressed in England for being too prudish. To fundamentalists, the body is a dirty, sinful thing that should be hidden.
Over a century ago, the lower class had horrible personal hygene, and the upper class was lucky enough to be able to afford powerful perfumes for themselves. This was normal because it was taboo to remove your clothes, even in total privacy. It wasn't until the "Cleanliness is next to godliness" marketing campaign by the hygene industry, around the turn of the century, that social and personal concepts began to change. Since then, business has taken a major role in shaping modern morals. Money is good, so products that make money become popular via marketing. The Christian majority still have a generalized shit list, but tends to focus on only a couple of hot button topics at a time, but the prowl is always on for open sex or nudity because of their historical significance.
Also I heard that DST causes major headaches for people like farmers where your cows have to milked at the same time regardless of what the clock states...
Thats just what the farmers want you to think. They just don't want to get up an hour earlier to start their work.
Something odd is going on this year with DST. Indiana, which has long opposed DST, is seriously considering it again. That is, as long as the farmers keep their collective mouths shut. Anyone who has conducted business within or with a state that does not observe it knows first hand what hasles it can be. Indiana is a mess. Some counties near Chicago operate on their time, while some near Kentucky and Ohio operate on their respective times, while the middle of the state does its own thing. So within one state, you may have 3 different times and any given point.
Code revision is a fact of life. For MS, I can't imagine it would be too rough. For the option -5:00 Indiana, all they would have to do is un-grey the DST check box, and for the rest of the US all they would have to do is chang the variable that controls when the clock automatically adjusts for DST.
"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place."
I think that the politicians are just pissed that the game industry is muscling into their racket. Where are all these helpless children getting the $30 to $60 to buy each of these games? Why aren't thses helpless children being educated on the difference between fantasy and reality? After all, kids played cowboys and indians for decades, and you don't see our politicians shooting brown people every chance they get. Oh, wait... bad example.
I've worked 3 jobs that were migrating to Siebel. The first two migrated about 1/8 of their people for 6 months for a trial phase. After the trial period, they gave their people prepaid Visa cards worth $100 as a thank you and apology for lost productivity. My current job is also migrating, but limited the abilities of their telnet backend so there would be no going back. It's just frustrating to have to step back into the 1980s every time I want a system to work and do so in a timely manner.
When I cast my ballot, there were 8 choices for president of the U.S.; three of which I honestly didn't know anything about.
There could have been 800 names on the ballot for all I care. Only 2 had a shot in hell of winning. You see, Democracy in America exists in a state of illusion. As long as people think that their opinion matters they will remain largely subservient and docile. Take, for example, our two main political parties: They squabble like they are polar opposites, yet they have much, much more in common than in difference. Despite this, people get extremely belligerent when they recite party rhetoric, almost as if one party is going to take radical action to cure the political hot button of the month, whatever it may be.
Both parties are known to band together to save their collective asses though. They have done a great job of convincing the population that voting for a 3rd party is a wasted vote, despite the fact that in our 'winner take all' system, voting for anyone but the winner is wasting a vote. Everyone who voted for Nader wasted their vote, just like everyone who voted for Kerry. We live in an electoral system that favors dishonesty in voting. Do you believe that most of the people who voted for Kerry in the last election did so because they considered him the best leader? I doubt it. In America, we don't vote for the best leader, we vote for the person who is most likely to defeat the least desirable leader.
Both major CPU makers have stopped using the clock spped as the selling point of their products for a very good reason. Raw clock speed is the lest effective way to judge preformance. A system is only as fast as its slowest part. With Athlon FX systems getting close to 2GHz FSB speeds, on chip memory controllers, and beefy L2 caches, it's easy to see just how much preformance you can get out a of a chip if you give it what it wants: low latency, high bandwith, and memory to spare.
It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.? The error is Microsoft didn't ship an operating system that could remotely be considered secure. You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer. Where's the sense in this? Where's the user error?
While this is true most of my experience is user error. When I work in the shop, I spend the majority of my day running adaware, spybot, and moosoft. I'd say over 90% of the problems described are a result of spy/ad ware, trojins, and viruses. In terms of file numbers, people who have p2p apps installed tend to be much worse off, as do people who visit porn and gambling sites. If it's really bad, we refuse to warranty our work unless they let us do a backup, format, and restore.
Some new variants are highly defensive. One I was dealing with the other day had seveal libraries, virtual device drivers, and programs hid all over the system and multiple active modules that would fix restore deleted registry and files. It still managed to get loaded in safe mode and repaired its damage. It also blocked the installation or use of norton antivirus, caused malfunction of spybots repair engine, and wasn't even detected by adaware.
I was actually told to quit telling people about firefox because all of this is such a large portion of our work. By the time they mentioned something I had already given up due to constantly explaining the the difference between an ISP and a web browser. I have told people to use macs though. We sell refurbs for cheap. An extra $250 brings a 12' powerbook for about the educational price of a new one, but it includes full coverage for parts and service and even a full data recovery service. I can't tell you how many times I've pulled the platers out of a coffee soaked drive to get to some office documents or media.
Using a DDOS on spammers is kind of like sending an arsonist to burn down the house of a murderer...
Well... it works. Nobody doubts the fact that an arsonist can indeed burn a house down. I just think that it's pure comedy that users step into the same grey area that spammers have built their fortunes on, and spammers start to cry about things being unfair or legally questionable. How many companies spend a fortune on manpower, software, and hardware to keep spam from destroying their bandwidth and storage? I don't have any numbers here, but I would guess that the money spent on preventing spam is much more than the revenue generated by spammers. It may not be long before people put spamemrs on payroll in exchange for them to not spam them.
Screw that. I'm way too old and far too busy to sit around and follow the news of development. When you buy something, you expect it to work and do so while giving you a minimal ammount of crap. This ranks in the same category of purchased DVDs that force people watch their commercials before the video. Despite all the bitching taking place on the nerdier side of the internet, this stuff is becoming part of the law and not a dman thing is going to change it; or at least until after the mass public gets a taste of it.
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It will be interesting to see how this will affect the stem cell ban in America. Seeing in how it was instituted as a moral stance against abortion, I can't imagine much religous outcry against the collection of donations for research and development.
I'm not sure about programs that actively prevent rootkits, but a copy of Barts PE with the Registry Editor PE plugin is a simple way to remove them.
1. It is legal to make a "backup copy" of ANY files from your original Windows XP/2003 media to another media.
2. It is legal to add any other files you wish to the backup media.
3. It is not legal to use a BartPE CD and an installed Windows XP/2003 both at the same time under the same Windows XP/2003 EULA.
4. It is not legal to change any binary files in the process according to the Windows XP/2003 EULA. This makes "winlogon" and "bootscreen" hacks illegal.
5. A BartPE image is (and I quote) "not a properly licensed WinPE". This means that if you want to have a licensed WinPE, you cannot use BartPE. However, you can use a BartPE image under the license of the Windows XP/2003 EULA that came with the BartPE XP/2003 source media.
HT was Hyper-Marketing anyway. Real world gains were minimal to null for the majority of apps. However, I do like that multicore processors are making thier introduction. Too bad most programs are still single threaded.
Apple switched to Intel to cut costs, heat and power issues, make laptops based on high end processors, and ensure there are no supply problems. Anyone building the worlds fastest clusters, in need of high powered scientific workstations, or basically anything that requires brute force with numbers will still be using IBMs Power line of processsors. If you need a dump truck, a couple of Toyota trucks and a shovel wouldn't be the best option just because it's cheaper or more popular. You still need the right tool for the right jobs.
Even we nerds have made careless mistakes. Sometimes we have to fall on our faces to learn a lesson and never forget it. I bet that the person who backed up shortcuts, and the couple that didn't kept backups of thie baby photos will never make those misakes ever again. The fact that in these two cases a format and restore was the cause of data loss is irrelevant. Barely a day goes by I don't hear a person say "my entire life was on that computer" upon hearing that thier hard drive has died. The close tolerances that modern hard drives operate under is so extreme that it's amazing they operate with the reliability they do.
Taken in the context that, when the new DRM scheme is released, I will be paying for something that I cannot use. Forced obsolescence is no way to conduct business. Then again, I've never cared much for DRM anyway. The phrase "trusted computing" should indicate who holds all the power. After all, it's not about the owner or user of a machine trusting it, it's a matter of content owners and providers trusting your machine. And since that's the case, I feel that the financial responsibility should fall on them instead of the user.
Well, I guess that I might have to wait a few days until someone releases a crack for the new protection scheme so that I I can enjoy content that I've already paid for. Unless MS or Apple pay for my new hardware I won't have any other choice.
ever consider the benefits of mmorpgs and computer games?
Well... living in your mothers basement and never having a girlfriend is definately a financial benifit. Although, bad hygene and poor social development may be considered by some to be con.
ever compared the real violence rate and drug rates between nerds and jocks?
Take a knee junior. This type of humor, although not ironical, uses juxtapositioning to present the stereotypical nerd, geek, dweeb, and dork just as irrational as the feared jock when it comes to ones obsession.
jocks are the generally the ones beating peers, raping women and snorting coke. Now who's the one holding the irrational stereotypes. How is your opinion any different that a jock thinking you are going to spend half your life as a virgin? I don't even know where the whole coke thing came in. If you think coke is worse than the massive ammounts of super processed junk food known as the staple of the nerd diet... you have a big suprise coming to you in a few years.
sh~t happens with anything. what doesn't influence people?
Finally, a half way rational statement, "shit happens, things influence people".
There are two main reasons that everyone loves to beat on MS. The first being their propensity to play the game of business by the dirtiest means possible. The second is how quickly they cry foul when anyone uses their own dirty tactics against them. Also, lets not forget the most important thing: you are now posting on a website owned by the "OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT LABS". Seeing as how MS is enemy #1 of open source, I don't understand how you expect anything but MS bashing here. Personally, anytime I hear someone kissing Microsoft's ass, I can't help but think that they don't understand business ethics, or perhaps, live in a velvet cage.
Over a century ago, the lower class had horrible personal hygene, and the upper class was lucky enough to be able to afford powerful perfumes for themselves. This was normal because it was taboo to remove your clothes, even in total privacy. It wasn't until the "Cleanliness is next to godliness" marketing campaign by the hygene industry, around the turn of the century, that social and personal concepts began to change.
Since then, business has taken a major role in shaping modern morals. Money is good, so products that make money become popular via marketing. The Christian majority still have a generalized shit list, but tends to focus on only a couple of hot button topics at a time, but the prowl is always on for open sex or nudity because of their historical significance.
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Something odd is going on this year with DST. Indiana, which has long opposed DST, is seriously considering it again. That is, as long as the farmers keep their collective mouths shut. Anyone who has conducted business within or with a state that does not observe it knows first hand what hasles it can be. Indiana is a mess. Some counties near Chicago operate on their time, while some near Kentucky and Ohio operate on their respective times, while the middle of the state does its own thing. So within one state, you may have 3 different times and any given point.
Code revision is a fact of life. For MS, I can't imagine it would be too rough. For the option -5:00 Indiana, all they would have to do is un-grey the DST check box, and for the rest of the US all they would have to do is chang the variable that controls when the clock automatically adjusts for DST.
I've worked 3 jobs that were migrating to Siebel. The first two migrated about 1/8 of their people for 6 months for a trial phase. After the trial period, they gave their people prepaid Visa cards worth $100 as a thank you and apology for lost productivity. My current job is also migrating, but limited the abilities of their telnet backend so there would be no going back. It's just frustrating to have to step back into the 1980s every time I want a system to work and do so in a timely manner.
When I cast my ballot, there were 8 choices for president of the U.S.; three of which I honestly didn't know anything about.
There could have been 800 names on the ballot for all I care. Only 2 had a shot in hell of winning. You see, Democracy in America exists in a state of illusion. As long as people think that their opinion matters they will remain largely subservient and docile. Take, for example, our two main political parties: They squabble like they are polar opposites, yet they have much, much more in common than in difference. Despite this, people get extremely belligerent when they recite party rhetoric, almost as if one party is going to take radical action to cure the political hot button of the month, whatever it may be.
Both parties are known to band together to save their collective asses though. They have done a great job of convincing the population that voting for a 3rd party is a wasted vote, despite the fact that in our 'winner take all' system, voting for anyone but the winner is wasting a vote. Everyone who voted for Nader wasted their vote, just like everyone who voted for Kerry. We live in an electoral system that favors dishonesty in voting. Do you believe that most of the people who voted for Kerry in the last election did so because they considered him the best leader? I doubt it. In America, we don't vote for the best leader, we vote for the person who is most likely to defeat the least desirable leader.
Is this just another move to encroach on the open source community?
Short answer.... YES.
Both major CPU makers have stopped using the clock spped as the selling point of their products for a very good reason. Raw clock speed is the lest effective way to judge preformance. A system is only as fast as its slowest part. With Athlon FX systems getting close to 2GHz FSB speeds, on chip memory controllers, and beefy L2 caches, it's easy to see just how much preformance you can get out a of a chip if you give it what it wants: low latency, high bandwith, and memory to spare.
While this is true most of my experience is user error. When I work in the shop, I spend the majority of my day running adaware, spybot, and moosoft. I'd say over 90% of the problems described are a result of spy/ad ware, trojins, and viruses. In terms of file numbers, people who have p2p apps installed tend to be much worse off, as do people who visit porn and gambling sites. If it's really bad, we refuse to warranty our work unless they let us do a backup, format, and restore.
Some new variants are highly defensive. One I was dealing with the other day had seveal libraries, virtual device drivers, and programs hid all over the system and multiple active modules that would fix restore deleted registry and files. It still managed to get loaded in safe mode and repaired its damage. It also blocked the installation or use of norton antivirus, caused malfunction of spybots repair engine, and wasn't even detected by adaware.
I was actually told to quit telling people about firefox because all of this is such a large portion of our work. By the time they mentioned something I had already given up due to constantly explaining the the difference between an ISP and a web browser. I have told people to use macs though. We sell refurbs for cheap. An extra $250 brings a 12' powerbook for about the educational price of a new one, but it includes full coverage for parts and service and even a full data recovery service. I can't tell you how many times I've pulled the platers out of a coffee soaked drive to get to some office documents or media.
Using a DDOS on spammers is kind of like sending an arsonist to burn down the house of a murderer...
Well... it works. Nobody doubts the fact that an arsonist can indeed burn a house down. I just think that it's pure comedy that users step into the same grey area that spammers have built their fortunes on, and spammers start to cry about things being unfair or legally questionable. How many companies spend a fortune on manpower, software, and hardware to keep spam from destroying their bandwidth and storage? I don't have any numbers here, but I would guess that the money spent on preventing spam is much more than the revenue generated by spammers. It may not be long before people put spamemrs on payroll in exchange for them to not spam them.
Screw that. I'm way too old and far too busy to sit around and follow the news of development. When you buy something, you expect it to work and do so while giving you a minimal ammount of crap. This ranks in the same category of purchased DVDs that force people watch their commercials before the video. Despite all the bitching taking place on the nerdier side of the internet, this stuff is becoming part of the law and not a dman thing is going to change it; or at least until after the mass public gets a taste of it.