Err... rebuild your machine and install TrustNoExe, then block the SMS client from running along with your domain logon scripts, etc.
Really useful little utility, and a good way to stop users from running unauthorized crap on their machines. The ability to block logon scripts and SMS snooping is just a nice little bonus.
I was suggesting inexpensive (compared to the current model) incremental updates, not freebies. Enough profit to keep the programmers in Jolt and pizza, plus a few people in HR, sales, marketing, and accounting.
Annual retests to maintain official certification. Doesn't matter so much to a guy like me sitting at one company long term, but contractors would more or less be doomed to pay - and a lot of corps would pay to keep their employees 'official'.
MS could even tier their tech support and charge (way) more unless working with someone with current certification.
Dumping Vista is unlikely, as the real driver for change here is revenue.
If Microsoft switched to a support model - cheap OS and bill for official MS tech support (or charge officially trained MS techs to keep their credentials via refresher courses and recertification) - they wouldn't need to force out a new product on a regular basis to make money.
Instead, we'd be seeing 'XP 2.0' coming out with incremental improvements and a whole slew of new support docs, training, and tech certificates.
I would definitely be very interested to find out if it is a case of the presenters discovering they hadn't really done what they claimed, or if they folded under threat of litigation.
This is interesting enough geek news that I expect some tech journalist somewhere will follow up on it.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but by this time anyone who is surprised by MicroSoft misrepresenting facts instead of actually acting on problems is either an idiot or hearing about MicroSoft for the first time.
If you're doing that sort of thing, I strongly suggest getting a commercial mobile connectivity solution instead of relying on what comes with your OS.
I can think of at least two Canadian-based solutions that would resolve the issue of intermittent connection loss without even letting your apps be aware of the issue.
Any woman who 'forgets' to check the seat position before using the toilet is too stupid to have as a wife. Dump her.
Seriously - if just LOOKING at something you're walking towards could save you getting stuck in a ceramic hoop with your ass dumped in a pool of cold water and you DIDN'T LOOK... wouldn't you feel like an idiot?
If I'm awake enough to get to the toilet, I'm awake enough to check the lid position. Same for her.
Six year olds, maybe... I wonder how much of a prodigy a kid would have to be at three to get much out of it.
I say, keep the words small, the concepts basic, and accept that maybe a few of the kids will remember and learn something from the memory when they're older.
Yeah, I'm getting awfully tired of tiny chicks kicking ass. Seriously, I'm in lousy shape (not fat or anything, but I sit on my ass for a living and it shows) and I'm pretty sure I could give a beat down to more than half the 'tough chicks' on screen.
Skill only does so much, and no 100lb woman can take a solid whack to the head or stomach as well as a 180lb man. Not only that, but a 180lb man will likely have a lot more muscle behind his 'solid whack' than the 100lb woman.
I gave up on Galactica in the episode where Starbuck inexplicably started diving into a gas giant. Of course, I'd fast-forwarded through the Caprica scenes of season one, and entirely skipped a few of the recent filler episodes.
I was just about to start watching again (despite a friend revealing to me the recent stupid season-ender) with the hope that season four being the final season would result in some direction to the lost show.
An announcement that this actually WON'T be the last season is something I greet with disappointment.
Too true. We could randomly choose any known trinary star system within range to resolve adequately, but you get a free 'nifty' factor when you can tie it in to some pop culture.
I have absolutely no problem with this - we'll very likely learn something interesting even without finding the boring super strong, long lived, mating-on-a-seven-year-cycle, emotionally repressed green blooded aliens with arching eyebrows and condescending attitudes.
I never said "might makes right". I don't personally identify with the Europeans who invaded the Americas.
"Might wins", well, yeah. And even today, the group with the right combination of the biggest stick and the most will to use it will win.
I've yet to see any culture master sustainability, except by failure to develop the technology to destroy their environment. Humans are short sighted.
Reducing our potato varieties to five is a short term advance - it makes mass production of the tubers in question easier. In the long run, yes, we're damaging the soil and getting slightly less nutrition than we might have.
Diplomacy IS a joke. Look at it... diplomacy is used by weak countries to feel as if they're important by browbeating militarily stronger countries. Diplomacy is otherwise used by most nations as a delay tactic.
Just because the West recognizes its own (major) flaws doesn't mean it isn't a pretty good civilization overall. The failure of individuals to take advantage of all our opportunities doesn't take away from the fact that this culture has produced more opportunities than any other.
I agree that "all cultures except my own are irrelevant" is a disgustingly ignorant outlook.
"Only cultures that made significant contributions to, or have a current significant impact on, the one I live in count when I'm considering how we got here" is a different matter.
It doesn't mean the American Indians weren't interesting, or that Europeans didn't invade and take their land... it just means that the American Indians don't count as discoverers of the Americas from the viewpoint of the current culture.
We didn't develop from them, we barely integrated them. We REPLACED them.
I tend to think that the Americas didn't matter much before Columbus. Face it, European culture is currently the most advanced. As a result, for people raised in European-descended cultures, only cultures directly linked to their current position actually matter.
We didn't learn much from American and South American cultures... though we eventually discovered they knew a few things we hadn't expected them to have figured out.
The Americas were DISCOVERED by the current leading culture about 500 years ago, and for the members of that culture, that's enough.
Err... did you read the post you so snottily rebutted? Reading comprehension is almost as important as maths, you know.
People play the lottery, imagining 1:23,000,000 is a good possibility.
Based on that logic, 1:45,000 should be perceived as close to 1:1.
Actually, no inductive charger required... we have implantable fuel cells that create electricity using blood as fuel.
Your major problem is weight and the optic nerve. Right now, they're putting something in your natural eye - stimulating what you have left to get the message through. Replacing the whole eye gets weight issues (I think it's referred to as orbital sag, but don't quote me), and directly connecting to the optic nerve is probably a nightmare - you can't exactly weld it.
Still, I am looking forward to the day when a 40/20 cybernetic eye with terahertz, infrared, lowlight, ultraviolet, motion enhancement, data overlay, etc, etc, is available for elective implantation. Might even happen while I'm still young enough and foolish enough to have a pair stuck in my skull.
For personal computers, that's the way I roll - I set auto update and walk away. Quite frankly, I'd rather have my computer F@*k up once in a blue moon than spend time doing full regression testing on a test platform I don't even have before moving to my prod system.
I can rebuild my system from scratch if I need to in less time than I'd spend in a year of reviewing patches. When I get home, I want to check my email, Slashdot, Fark, some comics, etc... not be right back at work only without the pay.
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Err... rebuild your machine and install TrustNoExe, then block the SMS client from running along with your domain logon scripts, etc.
Really useful little utility, and a good way to stop users from running unauthorized crap on their machines. The ability to block logon scripts and SMS snooping is just a nice little bonus.
Would it be too hard to name them: Intel [marketing name] [standard benchmark rating]?
Then, for those who want more - socket/clock/cache/whatever.
Maybe not SP1, but SP2 could have been sold as XP 1.5 or something.
I was suggesting inexpensive (compared to the current model) incremental updates, not freebies. Enough profit to keep the programmers in Jolt and pizza, plus a few people in HR, sales, marketing, and accounting.
Annual retests to maintain official certification. Doesn't matter so much to a guy like me sitting at one company long term, but contractors would more or less be doomed to pay - and a lot of corps would pay to keep their employees 'official'.
MS could even tier their tech support and charge (way) more unless working with someone with current certification.
Dumping Vista is unlikely, as the real driver for change here is revenue.
If Microsoft switched to a support model - cheap OS and bill for official MS tech support (or charge officially trained MS techs to keep their credentials via refresher courses and recertification) - they wouldn't need to force out a new product on a regular basis to make money.
Instead, we'd be seeing 'XP 2.0' coming out with incremental improvements and a whole slew of new support docs, training, and tech certificates.
Err... I'm not quite clear on your message. Should we be building breeder reactors?
I would definitely be very interested to find out if it is a case of the presenters discovering they hadn't really done what they claimed, or if they folded under threat of litigation.
This is interesting enough geek news that I expect some tech journalist somewhere will follow up on it.
My personal recommendation can be found at http://www.radio-ip.com/
Yeah, I'm sorry, but by this time anyone who is surprised by MicroSoft misrepresenting facts instead of actually acting on problems is either an idiot or hearing about MicroSoft for the first time.
If you're doing that sort of thing, I strongly suggest getting a commercial mobile connectivity solution instead of relying on what comes with your OS.
I can think of at least two Canadian-based solutions that would resolve the issue of intermittent connection loss without even letting your apps be aware of the issue.
Any woman who 'forgets' to check the seat position before using the toilet is too stupid to have as a wife. Dump her.
Seriously - if just LOOKING at something you're walking towards could save you getting stuck in a ceramic hoop with your ass dumped in a pool of cold water and you DIDN'T LOOK... wouldn't you feel like an idiot?
If I'm awake enough to get to the toilet, I'm awake enough to check the lid position. Same for her.
Six year olds, maybe... I wonder how much of a prodigy a kid would have to be at three to get much out of it.
I say, keep the words small, the concepts basic, and accept that maybe a few of the kids will remember and learn something from the memory when they're older.
Yeah, I'm getting awfully tired of tiny chicks kicking ass. Seriously, I'm in lousy shape (not fat or anything, but I sit on my ass for a living and it shows) and I'm pretty sure I could give a beat down to more than half the 'tough chicks' on screen.
Skill only does so much, and no 100lb woman can take a solid whack to the head or stomach as well as a 180lb man. Not only that, but a 180lb man will likely have a lot more muscle behind his 'solid whack' than the 100lb woman.
I gave up on Galactica in the episode where Starbuck inexplicably started diving into a gas giant. Of course, I'd fast-forwarded through the Caprica scenes of season one, and entirely skipped a few of the recent filler episodes.
I was just about to start watching again (despite a friend revealing to me the recent stupid season-ender) with the hope that season four being the final season would result in some direction to the lost show.
An announcement that this actually WON'T be the last season is something I greet with disappointment.
Too true. We could randomly choose any known trinary star system within range to resolve adequately, but you get a free 'nifty' factor when you can tie it in to some pop culture. I have absolutely no problem with this - we'll very likely learn something interesting even without finding the boring super strong, long lived, mating-on-a-seven-year-cycle, emotionally repressed green blooded aliens with arching eyebrows and condescending attitudes.
I never said "might makes right". I don't personally identify with the Europeans who invaded the Americas.
"Might wins", well, yeah. And even today, the group with the right combination of the biggest stick and the most will to use it will win.
I've yet to see any culture master sustainability, except by failure to develop the technology to destroy their environment. Humans are short sighted.
Reducing our potato varieties to five is a short term advance - it makes mass production of the tubers in question easier. In the long run, yes, we're damaging the soil and getting slightly less nutrition than we might have.
Diplomacy IS a joke. Look at it... diplomacy is used by weak countries to feel as if they're important by browbeating militarily stronger countries. Diplomacy is otherwise used by most nations as a delay tactic.
Just because the West recognizes its own (major) flaws doesn't mean it isn't a pretty good civilization overall. The failure of individuals to take advantage of all our opportunities doesn't take away from the fact that this culture has produced more opportunities than any other.
I agree that "all cultures except my own are irrelevant" is a disgustingly ignorant outlook.
"Only cultures that made significant contributions to, or have a current significant impact on, the one I live in count when I'm considering how we got here" is a different matter.
It doesn't mean the American Indians weren't interesting, or that Europeans didn't invade and take their land... it just means that the American Indians don't count as discoverers of the Americas from the viewpoint of the current culture.
We didn't develop from them, we barely integrated them. We REPLACED them.
Despite what some overly sensitive user with a mod point thought, the parent post was NOT flamebait.
I tend to think that the Americas didn't matter much before Columbus. Face it, European culture is currently the most advanced. As a result, for people raised in European-descended cultures, only cultures directly linked to their current position actually matter.
We didn't learn much from American and South American cultures... though we eventually discovered they knew a few things we hadn't expected them to have figured out.
The Americas were DISCOVERED by the current leading culture about 500 years ago, and for the members of that culture, that's enough.
Have I missed some configuration option for blocking articles submitted by a particular source?
I'd be OK with blocking all of Pipsqueak's submissions.
You're an idiot, and need to have your tinfoil hat adjusted.
Err... did you read the post you so snottily rebutted? Reading comprehension is almost as important as maths, you know. People play the lottery, imagining 1:23,000,000 is a good possibility. Based on that logic, 1:45,000 should be perceived as close to 1:1.
Actually, no inductive charger required... we have implantable fuel cells that create electricity using blood as fuel. Your major problem is weight and the optic nerve. Right now, they're putting something in your natural eye - stimulating what you have left to get the message through. Replacing the whole eye gets weight issues (I think it's referred to as orbital sag, but don't quote me), and directly connecting to the optic nerve is probably a nightmare - you can't exactly weld it. Still, I am looking forward to the day when a 40/20 cybernetic eye with terahertz, infrared, lowlight, ultraviolet, motion enhancement, data overlay, etc, etc, is available for elective implantation. Might even happen while I'm still young enough and foolish enough to have a pair stuck in my skull.
For personal computers, that's the way I roll - I set auto update and walk away. Quite frankly, I'd rather have my computer F@*k up once in a blue moon than spend time doing full regression testing on a test platform I don't even have before moving to my prod system.
I can rebuild my system from scratch if I need to in less time than I'd spend in a year of reviewing patches. When I get home, I want to check my email, Slashdot, Fark, some comics, etc... not be right back at work only without the pay.