So once again MSFT is resorting to buying customers.
What's the difference in typing in www.yahoo.com or www.live.com. I will give you this much live.com is better looking though it always seems to give me strange results in the top ten.
MSFT is trying to duplicate google the problem is MSFT can't use their monopoly to force an advantage, since MSFT can't compete they are forced to buy customers.
great just what I want more advertising on shite I don't want or need. So what if I go to boat US and spend $200 I don't need your flyer as that $200 worth of gear covers everything i need for the next 2 years. your advertising dollar is now wasted.
Or big deal I go into payless and buy shoes. I don't need the catalog on womens shoes as I am a guy. don't send it to me, it won't help you sell more shoes as i have more than i want as it is(specialty footwear for special applications).
targeting advertising will never work and your only going to piss off the people who would buy your product but don't want to deal with your junk mail. I can't stand it when i buy one thing from a store and get advertisements on the next 6 months worth of stuff that i have no interest in. Go away, if I need something else I might be back.
The average Mall rat though tosses away the brochures even faster than I do. Advertising and meteorology. The only two things where statistics matter and yet are constantly wrong about the target.
AIM doesn't support the multipoint video but video over aim works just fine.
Why hasn't this been finished. people have been asking for video chat in things like gaim/icq/MSN for years and no one has done anything about it. yes it is hard, but shouldn't be that hard. This is a point where F/OSS can shine. since everyone else is proprietary as well as not directed at home users, F/OSS can step in and create a true standard to start with.
low flying aircraft are seldom lower than 1000 simply because it is saer to stay higher, and you can still get good image resolution. Also in many areas with low flying photography it isn't a 24 hour a day job. they are usually one off images. not something that is always happening.
Exactly update the Air traffic control system. Half of the propositions for Domestic UAV use are to replace police helicopters which are flying below 1,000 feet anyways. The rest are border patrols flying near restricted airspace anyways, or near Military bases which have their own airspace.
personally UAV's to replace police helicopters would be a good thing, it would lower police costs while providing the exact same service
I hate to tell you but birds by themselves or in flocks do show up on radar.
While they were testing the prototypes for what would become the F-117 lockhead engineers had the model on a stand and were trying to locate the model on radar. Suddenly it showed up clear, when they looked up there was a bird standing on the model. The F-22 has been compared to having the radar cross section of small birds.
Fiberglass is transparent to radar and microwaves though.
your quite right that shouldn't have been modded +5 but the source is in the fine print of most of the major press releases.
Yes They do do cash donations to AIDS, Cancer research. If you read the fine print of Donations of the foundation to public schools, libraries, etc it is only in software and maybe a little in hardware.
As for being legal i am sure MSFT either a) donates the software to the foundation, or b) charges $0.01 per copy. I can see B as many companies do such things to get their name out, and it's random good will. It's not like it costs MSFT a whole lot of money, even if they are sending CD's with stickers.
I will gladly admit MSFT does do some good. They were at the right place to drive down the costs of PC's. They put a semi standarde interface on everything to ease transitions. The problem is now the software for the OS costs more than the hardware.
MSFT office 2007 and MSFT office 2003 are so different that teaching the Kids MSFT office is useless.
you teach the kids how to use a word processor, and a spreadsheet, and you will not only have kids who can use MSFT Office 2007 Office 2003, but Office 2015.
that's teaching your kids. Stop thinking about today's needs and start thinking about tomorrow's.
Because for every million in cash he donates he donates 3 million in windows XP licenses.
Take a good long look at what the that foundation donates. a decent percentage of it is is windows software which costs bill G nothing to make another million copies of. He then writes off the full retail (not OEM, but retail) value of the software. As if someone was buying boxed copies of the software.
the Oil tycoons, and steel tycoons of old at least built things that the public could visit, and use. Bill G is too cheap to even do that much.
to run an OS MSFT will stop supporting in 45 days? the OS will run horribly as the hardware isn't fast enough to support XP, and the Interface isn't up to running on a small screen. Not to mention if you ever have any problems and re install you run into WGA activation which requires internet access which may or may not be available to the region in which the system has been deployed.
Can someone tell me why this makes sense again? or is it more of MSFT buying customers as they can't earn them through capitalistic competition.
newer mini's do have a fan. It only comes on with certain temperatures though and doesn't last long. The loudest part of my mini is still the Hard drive. In a quiet room I can hear it spin up. of course with the lack of blinking HD activity lights that noise is the only way to know the unit is active. I routine can her my mini's fan kick on while playing games(unreal, homeworld, etc) even then it is so quiet I have to try to hear it.
researchers and others are flooding the northwest with motion activated camera's capable of lasting a month or so in the woods. To date not one new image of bigfoot has been found.
Bigfoot/yeti's are even one I can see happening too. small enough that the local area could support a small population. Loch Ness/Champ/etc are far too big to feed off of the area's food supply, let alone have a family of several hundred for a semi stable population.
Wake me when they've discovered how Everything evolved from Nothing.
No, no, everything exploded from Nothing. Get it right. Sheesh.</quote><br>Well first a daddy universe explodes into a momma universe and new life is formed. 9 billion years later that little universe thinks it is the center of everything.
Just because you can't identify it doesn't mean someone else can't. In the 50's and 60's UFO's were mostly experimental aircraft that the USA didn't want anyone to know about. Things like the prototype for the SR-71, various technology demostrators. Most of them have been declassified and the list of one-off planes built by the US government is long. To date No UFO evidence has been recorded with modern camera's Only old style black & white, or camera's with dubious quality of film. Even the Camera film that is supposed to be from the space shuttle is of a grainy quality that is considered sub standard by today's soccer parents.
Show me High res film or images and I will believe until then you really don't have anything.
it's like the film of lock ness, or bigfoot. Why hasn't a modern camera caught something yet?
Deeply religious people don't learn from the mistakes of others on the first try. In fact most people can't wrap their head around the idea of global communications and a global economy. Take a look at efforts to censor, or even tap into the internet.
Everyone is trying to limit information on an unlimited information supply. They can't understand what the word unlimited really means.
Ah so if the same thing happened from MSFT but no one noticed it does that mean closed source is better.
No software is perfect. when F/OSS screws up everything including the exact versions of the software where the bug began, until it is fixed is known. You know what/where/when/how, and most of the time why it happened.
With closed source software your considered lucky if you get a patch in a timely fashion.
Personally i would rather know what happened and when too.
one problem with cell phones is that if the company who builds them doesn't think there are enough people in the area then that area doesn't get a tower.
there are still huge sections of the USA who can't get cable TV as they are to spread out for a cable company to find value in it.
Modify an ATM's card reader with a second card reader on top of the first. install Hidden camera with transmitter overlooking the atm keypad.
Sit outside with the receiver setup/ or dump the receiver set to record everything into the convent trash can.
people use ATM the camera only records motion and records pin's while the card reader records cards.
Later gather the data by taking entire trash bag containing receiver. you can make generic cards easily enough. Walk up to another ATM with your generic card, swipe it, and enter the pin you have just gathered.
card and Pin numbers aren't hard to get. RFID as you can simply walk around with it.
If you linked up the FBI, CIA,and DHS windows computers you would have a pretty wide network. your not talking about a single point, your talking tens of thousands.
um the ASVAB isn't all that hard. I got a 98 on it in 1996. I took it just to keep my options open at the time.
Any one of the geeks here could pass it with one hand tied under the desk.
As for military service, It would do most of the slashdot community some good. 8 weeks of basic training would do wonders for them. while i never joined that was due to medical not intelligence. I would have to insist on joining.
you have to be able to know where the house is going to be built first.
Most of these competitions end up with learning remote guidance. This type of tech is what will allow planes to land themselves if something goes wrong with the pilot. Will Allow a ship to return to harbor on it's own if something happens to the crew.
All of this is relatively new technology. Sure radio controlled planes are 70 years old, but it has only been in the past decade that a camera could be fitted onto them. The tech needs massive amounts of refinement for practical purposes.
i figure google will have this locked down soon enough though. It's not like they won't notice the sudden burst of traffic. Some guy is going to be working hard tonight.
i loved my jeep liberty, go anywhere(and it did too), hauled my boats, got piss poor gas milage though. So when my boats and trailers were sold I traded over for a nissan sentra. boy am i ever glad I did for the gas. i do miss my jeep though, plowing through snow banks was always fun.
The problem is do you use that space on a regular basis? the liberty was small enough so yes i did. Most SUV owners however don't. Mini van drivers do. (soccer moms use up lot's of space.)
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So once again MSFT is resorting to buying customers.
What's the difference in typing in www.yahoo.com or www.live.com. I will give you this much live.com is better looking though it always seems to give me strange results in the top ten.
MSFT is trying to duplicate google the problem is MSFT can't use their monopoly to force an advantage, since MSFT can't compete they are forced to buy customers.
great just what I want more advertising on shite I don't want or need. So what if I go to boat US and spend $200 I don't need your flyer as that $200 worth of gear covers everything i need for the next 2 years. your advertising dollar is now wasted.
Or big deal I go into payless and buy shoes. I don't need the catalog on womens shoes as I am a guy. don't send it to me, it won't help you sell more shoes as i have more than i want as it is(specialty footwear for special applications).
targeting advertising will never work and your only going to piss off the people who would buy your product but don't want to deal with your junk mail. I can't stand it when i buy one thing from a store and get advertisements on the next 6 months worth of stuff that i have no interest in. Go away, if I need something else I might be back.
The average Mall rat though tosses away the brochures even faster than I do. Advertising and meteorology. The only two things where statistics matter and yet are constantly wrong about the target.
AIM doesn't support the multipoint video but video over aim works just fine.
Why hasn't this been finished. people have been asking for video chat in things like gaim/icq/MSN for years and no one has done anything about it. yes it is hard, but shouldn't be that hard. This is a point where F/OSS can shine. since everyone else is proprietary as well as not directed at home users, F/OSS can step in and create a true standard to start with.
low flying aircraft are seldom lower than 1000 simply because it is saer to stay higher, and you can still get good image resolution. Also in many areas with low flying photography it isn't a 24 hour a day job. they are usually one off images. not something that is always happening.
Exactly update the Air traffic control system. Half of the propositions for Domestic UAV use are to replace police helicopters which are flying below 1,000 feet anyways. The rest are border patrols flying near restricted airspace anyways, or near Military bases which have their own airspace.
personally UAV's to replace police helicopters would be a good thing, it would lower police costs while providing the exact same service
I hate to tell you but birds by themselves or in flocks do show up on radar.
While they were testing the prototypes for what would become the F-117 lockhead engineers had the model on a stand and were trying to locate the model on radar. Suddenly it showed up clear, when they looked up there was a bird standing on the model. The F-22 has been compared to having the radar cross section of small birds.
Fiberglass is transparent to radar and microwaves though.
your quite right that shouldn't have been modded +5 but the source is in the fine print of most of the major press releases.
Yes They do do cash donations to AIDS, Cancer research. If you read the fine print of Donations of the foundation to public schools, libraries, etc it is only in software and maybe a little in hardware.
As for being legal i am sure MSFT either a) donates the software to the foundation, or b) charges $0.01 per copy. I can see B as many companies do such things to get their name out, and it's random good will. It's not like it costs MSFT a whole lot of money, even if they are sending CD's with stickers.
I will gladly admit MSFT does do some good. They were at the right place to drive down the costs of PC's. They put a semi standarde interface on everything to ease transitions. The problem is now the software for the OS costs more than the hardware.
MSFT office 2007 and MSFT office 2003 are so different that teaching the Kids MSFT office is useless.
you teach the kids how to use a word processor, and a spreadsheet, and you will not only have kids who can use MSFT Office 2007 Office 2003, but Office 2015.
that's teaching your kids. Stop thinking about today's needs and start thinking about tomorrow's.
Because for every million in cash he donates he donates 3 million in windows XP licenses.
Take a good long look at what the that foundation donates. a decent percentage of it is is windows software which costs bill G nothing to make another million copies of. He then writes off the full retail (not OEM, but retail) value of the software. As if someone was buying boxed copies of the software.
the Oil tycoons, and steel tycoons of old at least built things that the public could visit, and use. Bill G is too cheap to even do that much.
to run an OS MSFT will stop supporting in 45 days? the OS will run horribly as the hardware isn't fast enough to support XP, and the Interface isn't up to running on a small screen. Not to mention if you ever have any problems and re install you run into WGA activation which requires internet access which may or may not be available to the region in which the system has been deployed.
Can someone tell me why this makes sense again? or is it more of MSFT buying customers as they can't earn them through capitalistic competition.
newer mini's do have a fan. It only comes on with certain temperatures though and doesn't last long. The loudest part of my mini is still the Hard drive. In a quiet room I can hear it spin up. of course with the lack of blinking HD activity lights that noise is the only way to know the unit is active. I routine can her my mini's fan kick on while playing games(unreal, homeworld, etc) even then it is so quiet I have to try to hear it.
Show me some high quality images of UFO's.
researchers and others are flooding the northwest with motion activated camera's capable of lasting a month or so in the woods. To date not one new image of bigfoot has been found.
Bigfoot/yeti's are even one I can see happening too. small enough that the local area could support a small population. Loch Ness/Champ/etc are far too big to feed off of the area's food supply, let alone have a family of several hundred for a semi stable population.
Wake me when they've discovered how Everything evolved from Nothing.
No, no, everything exploded from Nothing. Get it right. Sheesh.</quote><br>Well first a daddy universe explodes into a momma universe and new life is formed. 9 billion years later that little universe thinks it is the center of everything.
then you are naive. Religions force people to believe that god created Man in his image and we are the center of the universe because of it.
that right there is 2 billion people who would rather attack and kill the aliens to prove they are still better than anyone else.
a UFO is just that an Unidentified flying object.
Just because you can't identify it doesn't mean someone else can't. In the 50's and 60's UFO's were mostly experimental aircraft that the USA didn't want anyone to know about. Things like the prototype for the SR-71, various technology demostrators. Most of them have been declassified and the list of one-off planes built by the US government is long. To date No UFO evidence has been recorded with modern camera's Only old style black & white, or camera's with dubious quality of film. Even the Camera film that is supposed to be from the space shuttle is of a grainy quality that is considered sub standard by today's soccer parents.
Show me High res film or images and I will believe until then you really don't have anything.
it's like the film of lock ness, or bigfoot. Why hasn't a modern camera caught something yet?
Deeply religious people don't learn from the mistakes of others on the first try. In fact most people can't wrap their head around the idea of global communications and a global economy. Take a look at efforts to censor, or even tap into the internet.
Everyone is trying to limit information on an unlimited information supply. They can't understand what the word unlimited really means.
Ah so if the same thing happened from MSFT but no one noticed it does that mean closed source is better.
No software is perfect. when F/OSS screws up everything including the exact versions of the software where the bug began, until it is fixed is known. You know what/where/when/how, and most of the time why it happened.
With closed source software your considered lucky if you get a patch in a timely fashion.
Personally i would rather know what happened and when too.
one problem with cell phones is that if the company who builds them doesn't think there are enough people in the area then that area doesn't get a tower.
there are still huge sections of the USA who can't get cable TV as they are to spread out for a cable company to find value in it.
My bank does the dame thing, but many gas station ATM's don't.
If the gas station attendant wanted a cut of the cards gotten they could even set it up.
really done.
Modify an ATM's card reader with a second card reader on top of the first. install Hidden camera with transmitter overlooking the atm keypad.
Sit outside with the receiver setup/ or dump the receiver set to record everything into the convent trash can.
people use ATM the camera only records motion and records pin's while the card reader records cards.
Later gather the data by taking entire trash bag containing receiver. you can make generic cards easily enough. Walk up to another ATM with your generic card, swipe it, and enter the pin you have just gathered.
card and Pin numbers aren't hard to get. RFID as you can simply walk around with it.
your quite correct but.
If you linked up the FBI, CIA,and DHS windows computers you would have a pretty wide network. your not talking about a single point, your talking tens of thousands.
um the ASVAB isn't all that hard. I got a 98 on it in 1996. I took it just to keep my options open at the time.
Any one of the geeks here could pass it with one hand tied under the desk.
As for military service, It would do most of the slashdot community some good. 8 weeks of basic training would do wonders for them. while i never joined that was due to medical not intelligence. I would have to insist on joining.
you have to be able to know where the house is going to be built first.
Most of these competitions end up with learning remote guidance. This type of tech is what will allow planes to land themselves if something goes wrong with the pilot. Will Allow a ship to return to harbor on it's own if something happens to the crew.
All of this is relatively new technology. Sure radio controlled planes are 70 years old, but it has only been in the past decade that a camera could be fitted onto them. The tech needs massive amounts of refinement for practical purposes.
last I checked it was 6.5 gigs of storage.
i figure google will have this locked down soon enough though. It's not like they won't notice the sudden burst of traffic. Some guy is going to be working hard tonight.
i loved my jeep liberty, go anywhere(and it did too), hauled my boats, got piss poor gas milage though. So when my boats and trailers were sold I traded over for a nissan sentra. boy am i ever glad I did for the gas. i do miss my jeep though, plowing through snow banks was always fun.
The problem is do you use that space on a regular basis? the liberty was small enough so yes i did. Most SUV owners however don't. Mini van drivers do. (soccer moms use up lot's of space.)