At this point I realized that I could to work on one monitor and watch a full screen DVD on the other. This was pretty cool until I realized how counterproductive it could be.
Seriously, how didn't you realise that it would affect your productivity beforehand? I find it hard enough to work when I just have a small video window playing in the corner of the screen, let alone having an entire monitor dedicated to it.
I have to agree, I don't think the British will accept tactics like this from big corporate companies. For example, I remember the outcry over Coca Cola marketing Dasani over here (effectively bottled tap water), and the amount of bad press they got from it, forcing them to withdraw it from sale here.
Because of this, I'm intrigued as to how much the value will be that the BPI will put onto each shared track, I just don't see the British people accepting a figure anywhere near the RIAAs ($150000 per track if I recall correctly?)
'Mr Gelsinger said Intel wanted its hardware to be at the heart of this overlay system. "If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion," he said.'
Apparently, it will let you install it on an installation using one of the well-known CD-keys. However, I've heard reports that Windows Update will then refuse to let you download further updates.
One problem that contributes to piracy is release dates. In the UK, Doom 3 will be released on the 13th, and, being such a long awaited game, it's inevitable that people here will download it, rather than waiting for over a week longer than those living in the US.
Regardless of how quick they fixed it, it is slightly concerning that they were expanding the whitelist from update.mozilla.org to mozilla.org without realising that this would let anyone to upload a malicious XPI to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Thankfully, someone noticed and pointed it out by posting a comment on the article.
Actually I think the biggest marketing achievement in the last 10 years was Microsoft convincing the public that Win2000/XP is more secure than Win9x.
Are you serious? You're saying that an operating system that let anybody use it by simply selecting 'Cancel' on the login screen (if even enabled), is more secure than Windows 2000/XP. Madness.
Since anybody can apparently edit an unprotected article, what would stop someone submitting copyrighted material in an update(which surely wouldn't be permitted to be licensed under the GFDL as Wikipedias content supposedly is)?
I realise this can be a potential problem in all software, but it seems that it could be a far bigger problem for Wikipedia, particularly if someone else took content assuming it was licensed under the GFDL.
For example, dell cannot ship a dual boot system, nor can they ship firefox on the windows platform. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Dell made an agreement with Sun a while back to ship the Sun Java Runtime Enviroment with their computers, so I'm pretty sure that they'd be free to bundle other items such as Firefox if they wanted to.
I just have to look at the emotive name of this movie on Moore, 'Michael Moore Hates America', and I dismiss it.
Opposing the current government of a country, does not make a person hate the country, but I'm concerned that some people seem to take these things hand-in-hand. I may disagree strongly with some actions of my government, but it doesn't mean I hate Britain at all.
I've not really experienced any slowdown since Hauppauge incorporated some of the DScaler algorithms, but for those on lower-spec computers, it might be an idea to use DScaler 3.12, rather than the latest 4.19 as it seems to use significantly less CPU. I still have 3.12 installed for this reason.
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At this point I realized that I could to work on one monitor and watch a full screen DVD on the other. This was pretty cool until I realized how counterproductive it could be.
Seriously, how didn't you realise that it would affect your productivity beforehand? I find it hard enough to work when I just have a small video window playing in the corner of the screen, let alone having an entire monitor dedicated to it.
I have to agree, I don't think the British will accept tactics like this from big corporate companies. For example, I remember the outcry over Coca Cola marketing Dasani over here (effectively bottled tap water), and the amount of bad press they got from it, forcing them to withdraw it from sale here.
Because of this, I'm intrigued as to how much the value will be that the BPI will put onto each shared track, I just don't see the British people accepting a figure anywhere near the RIAAs ($150000 per track if I recall correctly?)
How do you know that it's completely uneffective? Spam might be bad now, but without ISPs shutting spammers down, it could be even worse.
From the article:
'Mr Gelsinger said Intel wanted its hardware to be at the heart of this overlay system. "If the net grows to 100 billion devices connected to it, our goal is to have a piece of Intel inside in every one of those hundred billion," he said.'
Firefox claims SP2 is 272.4mb, obviously it assumes 1000kb = 1meg. If someone is bad at math, it's not me.
You can now download it from Microsoft here
Interestingly, it's 272.4mb, not 266.01mb as the 'leaked' release was...
Maybe not, IE says it's 266mb - but Firefox is reporting it as 272.4mb when I try to dl it with that, strange.
Windows XP SP2 - more details about the file here
Interestingly, it's 272.4mb, not 266.01mb as the 'leaked' release was...
I'd say a woman, but...
Apparently, it will let you install it on an installation using one of the well-known CD-keys. However, I've heard reports that Windows Update will then refuse to let you download further updates.
Here's a little more info about the file. Size: 278,927,592 bytes MD5: 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7
This is Slashdot. Do you really need to ask? ;)
One problem that contributes to piracy is release dates. In the UK, Doom 3 will be released on the 13th, and, being such a long awaited game, it's inevitable that people here will download it, rather than waiting for over a week longer than those living in the US.
So, are their patches normally NOT long-term solutions to vulnerabilities then?
And if not, no need for wasting money on them, just type in IDKFA!
More importantly, will other Microsoft operating systems be updated to support HD-DVD?
Depends whether you class high-speed as only meaning high bandwidth, as I'd expect ping times to be slow on such a service.
Any details about of the size of the Doom3 install, or how many CDS/DVDs it comes on? This seems to be the only hardware requirement we're missing.
Regardless of how quick they fixed it, it is slightly concerning that they were expanding the whitelist from update.mozilla.org to mozilla.org without realising that this would let anyone to upload a malicious XPI to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Thankfully, someone noticed and pointed it out by posting a comment on the article.
Are you serious? You're saying that an operating system that let anybody use it by simply selecting 'Cancel' on the login screen (if even enabled), is more secure than Windows 2000/XP. Madness.
Since anybody can apparently edit an unprotected article, what would stop someone submitting copyrighted material in an update(which surely wouldn't be permitted to be licensed under the GFDL as Wikipedias content supposedly is)? I realise this can be a potential problem in all software, but it seems that it could be a far bigger problem for Wikipedia, particularly if someone else took content assuming it was licensed under the GFDL.
Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.
Dell made an agreement with Sun a while back to ship the Sun Java Runtime Enviroment with their computers, so I'm pretty sure that they'd be free to bundle other items such as Firefox if they wanted to.
Opposing the current government of a country, does not make a person hate the country, but I'm concerned that some people seem to take these things hand-in-hand. I may disagree strongly with some actions of my government, but it doesn't mean I hate Britain at all.
I've not really experienced any slowdown since Hauppauge incorporated some of the DScaler algorithms, but for those on lower-spec computers, it might be an idea to use DScaler 3.12, rather than the latest 4.19 as it seems to use significantly less CPU. I still have 3.12 installed for this reason.