Or possibly a way for them to market their own Premium DNS offerings. I understand that users on Premium DNS were hardly affected (according to a co-worker who was monitoring the whole thing yesterday and had a number of Premium DNS users).
Odd. I saw the reverse: our company's domain which is on GoDaddy's Premium DNS servers was affected, while a colleage's personal domain on the standard DNS servers was unaffected.
FYI, the raising of capital stops when the IPO is completed. From then on, the securities change hands between investors, not between investors and companies.
This is so wrong. The reason it is called an Initial Public Offering is that there may be other public offereings, later, when the company decides to sell more of its stock.
"In my personal talks with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer he has given me assurances that they will comply immediately regardless of the conclusion of the anti trust probe," Almunia said at an economic conference in northern Italy, adding that he considered the matter a "very, very serious issue."
Isn't this the same company that somehow "accidentally" dropped the browser selection process for european installations of Windows 7 SP1?
What is interesting to me is that vets base antibiotic doses on the animals weight. Ok, that's not so interesting. In fact, it's pretty obvious. The interesting part is that pharmacists generally don't. A 120 pound woman receives the same dose of antibiotics as a 250 pound man.
Some (all?) drug doses are based on skin area, not total weight. The difference in skin area beteen a 120 pound woman and a 250 pound man isn't that great.
My Galaxy S2 got an update to 4.0, but it wasn't available OTA, only by connecting the phone to Samsung's KIES software.
My wifes's Motorola phone got an update to 2.3 just a couple of month's ago (yes, 2.3, not 4.0), but again, it wasn't available OTA -- only by using Motorola's software on a PC.
But perhaps you missed the point I was making about compatibility bugs. If LibreOffice, for instance, were to suddenly start doing perfect conversions, how long would that last? Only until MS could roll out something new and incompatible, and I am pretty sure that they would.
Actually, I think that you are wrong about this. Microsoft has built its monopoly on the basis of compatibility. If compatibility were suddenly broken, that would cause lots or issues for users, who might actually look at alternatives.
Note that, in my case, the problem is that LbreOffice will not correctly export and then import the same file via.doc or.docx formats. The problem is completely bounded within LibreOffice code. My complaint is not that LibreOffice won't read files created by Microsoft Word, it is that LibreOffice will not correctly import files written by LibreOffice (or that LibreOffice does not correctly export to.doc/.docx)
Antibiotics are given strategically, administered when pigs are sick, susceptible or exposed to illness. It's not just given to them willy-nilly.
Wrong. In the US, farm animals are routinely given low doses of anti-biotics (in their food) just for the purpose of "growth promotion", despite the lack of any of the factors you list.
I would agree that the problem actually is, as alluded to by the other respondent above, the requirement that data be submitted in a closed, proprietary format
If the formats, despite being proprietary and closed, were not well understood, you might have a point. But in this case, the formats have been reverse-engineered and are well understood. The issue is bugs that are known but apparently not important enough to fix.
Let me suggest that you "get real". The documents are sent to someone, manipulated and sent on further. Everyone in the chain (up and down, several thousand people) would have to stop using Microsoft Office, all because I asked? What you are proposing is, frankly, a utopian paradise. It isn't going to happen. I live in the real world and, while I continue to use LibreOffice on Linux, this is a very annoying problem and for some people will be a deal-breaker for using Linux.
The problem isn't Linux, or the office apps. You might think that the format is the problem, but it's not that either.
The real problem lies in whomever is asking your wife to deliver documents tailored with a specific software program instead of some standard format (ie: LaTeX or RTF), and the culture behind those people (generally, ignorace to the issue entirely).
Please tell me how well LaTeX or RTF support form data? If there were a realistic alternative to providing.doc or.docx files, I would suggest that, but I don't know of one. And suggesting that the recipient also uses (Libre|Open)Office is also not viable. The problem is actually bugs in the handling of tables and form data from.doc/.docx files in LibreOffice.
But for basic use? With GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice, etc., it seems as if the bases are covered.
Office apps are still a problem. My wife has to submit a word document every month. If the file is exported to a ".doc" file, the formtext fields get messed up, if it is exported as a docx file, the tables get messed up. "don't use a word file format" isn't a viable answer: she has no control over this. And no, PDF files are not acceptable.
Your understanding is wrong. User passwords are stored as hashes. For "Log on as a service", the password is stored in the WMI database somewhere, and there are no methods for querying it.
Just because a method isn't provided does not mean that it cannot be written.
Under recent versions of Windows, services can be configured to "log on" as a particular user in order to run. This requires the password to be entered.
If the user's password is later changed, the services will not run, because the "log on" fails. This implies that the password is being stored (perhaps encrypted) somewhere in a fashion that the password can be recovered (in order to be used by the service to "log on").
If the OS can recover the user's password to log on a service, then other programs should also be able to recover the password.
Have I misunderstood what is happening to the user login, or is it another hole?
Can these types of deals be attacked because of the grading systems operated by the publishers? The publisher is not only grading but also maininting and reporting grades for students.
Have any of these grading systems been vetted? Approved by the various education bodies? Surely, the schools have their own system and there is policy that allows for grades to be recorded by another system?
I am sorry, but if you want people to try your stuff, you need to provide the assurance of a way back to what they had before installing your stuff.
Red Hat doesn't provide a backup/restore utility?
Of course backup/restore was available. But that assumes that nothing else changed in the meantime. Using a system level backup/restore is the classic sledgehammer/nut issue.
Providing no way back using the package management tools is epic FAIL.
Many years ago, I foolishly attempted to install the "Red Carpet" Gnome on my RedHat system. The install went very well, but the desktop was now so different that I wanted to revert. How to revert? Well, it seems that Ximian did not consider that possibilty. I spent a frustrating few days removing many Ximian packages and then repacing with RedHat packages (without yum and access to up2date a much more difficult task than it would be now)
I am sorry, but if you want people to try your stuff, you need to provide the assurance of a way back to what they had before installing your stuff.
Can you imagine how little value Mono and his other projects must have if a holding company just wrote them off?
They have provided excellent value...... to Microsoft. Stymieing the development of Linux has been priceless to Microsoft, for the cost of refusing to hire him.
How did so many get this so wrong? I fear it betrays something ugly about the way tech reporting worksâ"and doesnâ(TM)t workâ"these days. Depth, expertise, and reflection are all lacking. So is serious research
The note at the end:
Note: The original version of this post said the jury had rejected all claims regarding the rounded-corner design. The jury in fact rejected all claims only regarding willful infringement. On the simple question of infringement, the jury rejected a majority of claims, but did accept five regarding the iPhone. The corrected version appears above.
In an article complaining about how the press were so wrong, the author made a factual error. Perhaps he should have spent more time in "Depth", "reflection" and "serious research" that other authors are apparently lacking!
Winning court cases is hard. So, the solution has been to turn the process of justice into its own form of punishment.
Wasn't this one of the grievencies of the original colonists in America? Arrest someone and take them to England for prosecution, in the process, keeping them under arrest for months/years.
"The Pirate Bay team is going to be making the RIAA angry
It might be making the RIAA members angry, but I doubt it is making the RIAA angry -- in fact, quite the reverse. The RIAA is an organization whose members will be more convinced that they need the RIAA and will happily pay dues to the RIAA because of actions like this from the Pirate Bay.
Really, one of the issues that needs to be highlighted is how the large music publishers have changed the dialogue from how the music publishers are suing people over file sharing into a dialogue about how a faceless organization is suing people over file sharing.
They certainly have some weight to throw around but even if they bully a few desktop manufacturers into forcing some protection onto their systems no doubt they will just release a "server only" motherboard that doesn't have any protection and is a complete copy of the desktop except something like the BIOS will boot up and say "Server BIOS".
When RIAA music becomes prohibitively expensive for radio stations, non-RIAA music will get more airplay and exposure.
Remember that these are default rates. My expectation is that the RIAA member companies will offer reduced rates to the stations that play music that they want promoted. It's payola in another form.
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Odd. I saw the reverse: our company's domain which is on GoDaddy's Premium DNS servers was affected, while a colleage's personal domain on the standard DNS servers was unaffected.
This is so wrong. The reason it is called an Initial Public Offering is that there may be other public offereings, later, when the company decides to sell more of its stock.
Corporations are people too!
Isn't this the same company that somehow "accidentally" dropped the browser selection process for european installations of Windows 7 SP1?
Some (all?) drug doses are based on skin area, not total weight. The difference in skin area beteen a 120 pound woman and a 250 pound man isn't that great.
My Galaxy S2 got an update to 4.0, but it wasn't available OTA, only by connecting the phone to Samsung's KIES software.
My wifes's Motorola phone got an update to 2.3 just a couple of month's ago (yes, 2.3, not 4.0), but again, it wasn't available OTA -- only by using Motorola's software on a PC.
Actually, I think that you are wrong about this. Microsoft has built its monopoly on the basis of compatibility. If compatibility were suddenly broken, that would cause lots or issues for users, who might actually look at alternatives.
.doc or .docx formats. The problem is completely bounded within LibreOffice code. My complaint is not that LibreOffice won't read files created by Microsoft Word, it is that LibreOffice will not correctly import files written by LibreOffice (or that LibreOffice does not correctly export to .doc/.docx)
Note that, in my case, the problem is that LbreOffice will not correctly export and then import the same file via
Wrong. In the US, farm animals are routinely given low doses of anti-biotics (in their food) just for the purpose of "growth promotion", despite the lack of any of the factors you list.
If the formats, despite being proprietary and closed, were not well understood, you might have a point. But in this case, the formats have been reverse-engineered and are well understood. The issue is bugs that are known but apparently not important enough to fix.
Let me suggest that you "get real". The documents are sent to someone, manipulated and sent on further. Everyone in the chain (up and down, several thousand people) would have to stop using Microsoft Office, all because I asked? What you are proposing is, frankly, a utopian paradise. It isn't going to happen. I live in the real world and, while I continue to use LibreOffice on Linux, this is a very annoying problem and for some people will be a deal-breaker for using Linux.
Please tell me how well LaTeX or RTF support form data? If there were a realistic alternative to providing .doc or .docx files, I would suggest that, but I don't know of one. And suggesting that the recipient also uses (Libre|Open)Office is also not viable. The problem is actually bugs in the handling of tables and form data from .doc/.docx files in LibreOffice.
Office apps are still a problem. My wife has to submit a word document every month. If the file is exported to a ".doc" file, the formtext fields get messed up, if it is exported as a docx file, the tables get messed up. "don't use a word file format" isn't a viable answer: she has no control over this. And no, PDF files are not acceptable.
Just because a method isn't provided does not mean that it cannot be written.
Under recent versions of Windows, services can be configured to "log on" as a particular user in order to run. This requires the password to be entered.
If the user's password is later changed, the services will not run, because the "log on" fails. This implies that the password is being stored (perhaps encrypted) somewhere in a fashion that the password can be recovered (in order to be used by the service to "log on").
If the OS can recover the user's password to log on a service, then other programs should also be able to recover the password.
Have I misunderstood what is happening to the user login, or is it another hole?
A robot might not have cross-threaded the bolt in the first place (why do you think there were metal shavings in the threads?)
Can these types of deals be attacked because of the grading systems operated by the publishers? The publisher is not only grading but also maininting and reporting grades for students.
Have any of these grading systems been vetted? Approved by the various education bodies? Surely, the schools have their own system and there is policy that allows for grades to be recorded by another system?
Of course backup/restore was available. But that assumes that nothing else changed in the meantime. Using a system level backup/restore is the classic sledgehammer/nut issue.
Providing no way back using the package management tools is epic FAIL.
Many years ago, I foolishly attempted to install the "Red Carpet" Gnome on my RedHat system. The install went very well, but the desktop was now so different that I wanted to revert. How to revert? Well, it seems that Ximian did not consider that possibilty. I spent a frustrating few days removing many Ximian packages and then repacing with RedHat packages (without yum and access to up2date a much more difficult task than it would be now)
I am sorry, but if you want people to try your stuff, you need to provide the assurance of a way back to what they had before installing your stuff.
They have provided excellent value ...... to Microsoft. Stymieing the development of Linux has been priceless to Microsoft, for the cost of refusing to hire him.
Try using Webex without Java enabled in your browser.
The note at the end:
In an article complaining about how the press were so wrong, the author made a factual error. Perhaps he should have spent more time in "Depth", "reflection" and "serious research" that other authors are apparently lacking!
Wasn't this one of the grievencies of the original colonists in America? Arrest someone and take them to England for prosecution, in the process, keeping them under arrest for months/years.
It might be making the RIAA members angry, but I doubt it is making the RIAA angry -- in fact, quite the reverse. The RIAA is an organization whose members will be more convinced that they need the RIAA and will happily pay dues to the RIAA because of actions like this from the Pirate Bay.
Really, one of the issues that needs to be highlighted is how the large music publishers have changed the dialogue from how the music publishers are suing people over file sharing into a dialogue about how a faceless organization is suing people over file sharing.
Remember that these are default rates. My expectation is that the RIAA member companies will offer reduced rates to the stations that play music that they want promoted. It's payola in another form.