Installing new applications shouldn't mean that the administrator should have unconditional access to the data.
Applications are one thing, and overall useless. the Data is what is worth money. Photoshop is worthless. The artwork that is produced because of Photoshop is worth $700 a licensed copy.
autoCad is worthless, the building blueprints produced by it is worth millions. The Social Security Database is worth far more than the database server.
Admins should be able to have access to applications without data mattering.
Actually on a properly designed system not even the Administrator's should be able to install applications alone. And no one should be able to open every file.
Files should be locked, So while the Admin's can see them, move/copy them, they can't actually open the file itself. security should extend to more than just the file system, but to the files themselves. Of course being open to all should also be a manual changed possibility.
I wonder how long it will take for someone who makes more money than I will ever see to figure that out.
I know people who have run red lights, to pass me only for me to catch and pass them legally at the next light or two.
Speeding on anything but the highway is largely useless, and always dangerous. One spot maybe two is only 10 seconds you saved. On the highway it can add up to 15-20 minutes worth, but with regular traffic, with lights it's almost never worth it.
A company in California(?) is now selling designer solar sells, where the sells themselves are embedded into various roofing material and colours. I caught it in a trade magazine a month ago.
I live in Rochester, NY. it's 16 degrees outside this morning, and there is 2 feet of snow on the yard(as measured by the fire hydrant). yet most of the roofs are clear of snow. a few days of sun, with proper insulation in the roof keeps them that way.
Solar wouldn't work at peak efficiency here, but it would assist in the winter, and in the summer when air conditioners are running help relieve the overload, you know when the sun i actually shining.
actually i would rather have the larger size of the existing ones. That way you can read more than 5 lines of text at a time. I tend to speed read, reading multiple lines at the same time. having to stop and change pages every second is tiring.
though i do agree with the other points. the only one that is close so far is the iRex Illiad. though you might as well buy four OLPC's and keep one for your self at that price.
your right about tides, but there are times of the year when the tides are low and power output will fall.
also if you read the last paragraph of my reply I pointed out a way for Solar to jump out there. Both of those technologies are under active research with promising early results. If each house can cover 50-70% of their daily electrical bill by solar, then greener alternatives stand a chance.
And Nuclear is far cleaner than the coal that we burn now.
but are inconsistent and require large land area's worth of stuff, to generate the same mount of power as just one of those little nuclear reactors.
Wind doesn't always blow, tides come and go, Hydro requires large damns, Solar requires land area in the square mile range, geothermal is limited to areas which have large geothermal activity(iceland, yellowstone).
Though personally Solar has the best bet for the future. just two technologies need to be perfected. Crank up solar cell effeciency to 30-40%, and ultra Capacitors. Then Each home built could be designed with a roof for solar power. The cells recharge the ultracapacitors, and the excess goes out the line.
You literally build a solar farm from the very homes that need the power. One would still need nuclear, for the primary source, but you would need a lot less of it, and could turn off the coal plants.
Let's the Orbitors have a 120 flights pushing more than 830 people, 66 satellites, 32 orbital docking maneuvers, and 27,292 flight Hours.
So 14 people have been killed in two shuttle accidents. 14/830 is a 0.017 failure rate or just under 2%. An Astronaut is more likely to die by being killed in a drunk driving accident than on a shuttle flight.
Not bad considering it's the worlds only resuable space flight vehicle. Sure it's more expensive than forseen. and turn around time is greater than originally thought of. It is still more impressive than anything else. If Russia had finished the Buran I might consider that better, as without main engines on the vessel itself would lead to the faster turn around time that the shuttle was supposed to have.
the core OS stored on one of these things. The boot loader loads the OS drive read only. The OS loads and runs. Swap, applications, etc are then stored on the regular HD.
Benefits boot times are quicker, but more importantly viruses can't modify the core OS. At least beyond a reboot. Think of it as a live CD for any computer. Security for even MSFT's software would be high.
Though knowing MSFt they would allow the drive to be switched to R/W by windows update.
That's actually he main reason i originally got a mobile. I could talk to my sister 450 miles away cheaper and longer than without. On the plus side when i went to visit her I still had a phone from which i could call back home at the same damn rate, only using my minutes.
$40 a month isn't bad when i can use it as my primary and only phone. I am tempted to get an iPhone for coolness factor but in order to do so I will have to also get the $20 a month data plan.
your confusing e-ink vs e-books. e-books come in variety of formats, and formatting for various small screens.
e-ink devices are screens designed for easy reading. they are generally black and white only, but they are working on color. The display is also static which means two things. you only use power when you change the display so longer battery life. Since the screen doesn't refresh so often it's easy on the eyes and reads just like a piece of paper.
yes e-ink is that good once you overcome the limitations of the devices themselves.
as one of the others guys pointed out change he channel your on. I purposely scanned my neighborhood sorted out who has on which channel and then picked a clear one. Since most people use default settings picking an oddball one isn't hard. You also have several to choose from, at least you do if you don't have a cheap AP.
Napster is you pay us money or we cut off your music supply. It's subscription radio. Satellite radio is trying that and is barely surviving. One company had to buy the other in order to have enough customers to survive.
Subscription video/tv yea that works. subscription music will never work as people don't listen to music that way. At least Satellite subscription offered something unique.
actually I am thinking of installing a copy of windows to play one or two windows only games that i have been eyeing. this would work well. disable it so it can't connect to the Internet afterwards and let thme wonder what is going on.
Why they ask why can't the monitoring software work I will simply say that I don't let substandard software out on the internet, and go back to my Linux box.
>>really, I think this is a lot about nothing. Eventually the points get spent.
but that's the point you can never spend all of your points. the way the store is setup you can't ever spend every single point you have. Sure it may only be a dollar worth of points, but you just gave the worlds richest company a dollar because your a nice guy. Now multiple that by every single person on xbox live. MSFT just paid the xbox live developers a few thousand dollar bonus for ripping you off and made a tidy profit for doing nothing too.
After the 2003 blackout( I never lost my cell service but I know many who did. Many cell companies began a process of adding generators to as many towers as they could. the process lasted maybe 18 months and they missed a whole bunch but they did do some.
iTunes Music store. Billions of dollars worth of music sold. Credit card companies charge fixed percentages. a $.99 charge costs $0.02 for the transaction.
Also the xbox live credits aren't full dollar amounts either. So you can't get a one-one price ratio. MSFT did this to appear to be cheaper when they really aren't.
This is only about MSFT greed and nothing more. MSFT can collect interest on your money sitting in their bank accounts while you try and figure out a way to spend it.
um the regular POTS telephone network always runs off it's own power supply the phone network itself rarely goes down. You should always have a cheap plugin non battery powered phone around for when power goes down.
I was just thinking that about my DVD player remote. It has play/pause/ skip etc, but then it has three men buttons, a num pad, and at least 15 other buttons that I have never touched. In the 8 years I have owned the DVD player some 30 butttons haven't ever been used, yet every new DVD player has all those same buttons.
WHY?
I ask as I have been using Apple's front row to watch some dvd's on my comuter, and apple's 6 button remote is simple to use and I have used every button on the player. Add a power button and i would love to use it as my DVD player remote. Possily a separate eject button but even that isn't nessecary. You have to get up to get the disc anyways, leave the eject button on the drive.
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Installing new applications shouldn't mean that the administrator should have unconditional access to the data.
Applications are one thing, and overall useless. the Data is what is worth money. Photoshop is worthless. The artwork that is produced because of Photoshop is worth $700 a licensed copy.
autoCad is worthless, the building blueprints produced by it is worth millions. The Social Security Database is worth far more than the database server.
Admins should be able to have access to applications without data mattering.
That's just it. I haven't heard a single word about this any place other than online. not even the local newspaper have had a story on it.
The people who will be most affected by it, are those who don't use computers, cause they are magical machines, and hard to use.
Actually on a properly designed system not even the Administrator's should be able to install applications alone. And no one should be able to open every file.
Files should be locked, So while the Admin's can see them, move/copy them, they can't actually open the file itself. security should extend to more than just the file system, but to the files themselves. Of course being open to all should also be a manual changed possibility.
I wonder how long it will take for someone who makes more money than I will ever see to figure that out.
Yes it is idiotic.
I know people who have run red lights, to pass me only for me to catch and pass them legally at the next light or two.
Speeding on anything but the highway is largely useless, and always dangerous. One spot maybe two is only 10 seconds you saved. On the highway it can add up to 15-20 minutes worth, but with regular traffic, with lights it's almost never worth it.
that's exactly what I want to know.
Though 300 MPC makes sense. Miles per charge.
A company in California(?) is now selling designer solar sells, where the sells themselves are embedded into various roofing material and colours. I caught it in a trade magazine a month ago.
that should appease your HOA better.
I live in Rochester, NY. it's 16 degrees outside this morning, and there is 2 feet of snow on the yard(as measured by the fire hydrant). yet most of the roofs are clear of snow. a few days of sun, with proper insulation in the roof keeps them that way.
Solar wouldn't work at peak efficiency here, but it would assist in the winter, and in the summer when air conditioners are running help relieve the overload, you know when the sun i actually shining.
actually i would rather have the larger size of the existing ones. That way you can read more than 5 lines of text at a time. I tend to speed read, reading multiple lines at the same time. having to stop and change pages every second is tiring.
though i do agree with the other points. the only one that is close so far is the iRex Illiad. though you might as well buy four OLPC's and keep one for your self at that price.
your right about tides, but there are times of the year when the tides are low and power output will fall.
also if you read the last paragraph of my reply I pointed out a way for Solar to jump out there. Both of those technologies are under active research with promising early results. If each house can cover 50-70% of their daily electrical bill by solar, then greener alternatives stand a chance.
And Nuclear is far cleaner than the coal that we burn now.
but are inconsistent and require large land area's worth of stuff, to generate the same mount of power as just one of those little nuclear reactors.
Wind doesn't always blow, tides come and go, Hydro requires large damns, Solar requires land area in the square mile range, geothermal is limited to areas which have large geothermal activity(iceland, yellowstone).
Though personally Solar has the best bet for the future. just two technologies need to be perfected. Crank up solar cell effeciency to 30-40%, and ultra Capacitors. Then Each home built could be designed with a roof for solar power. The cells recharge the ultracapacitors, and the excess goes out the line.
You literally build a solar farm from the very homes that need the power. One would still need nuclear, for the primary source, but you would need a lot less of it, and could turn off the coal plants.
Let's the Orbitors have a 120 flights pushing more than 830 people, 66 satellites, 32 orbital docking maneuvers, and 27,292 flight Hours.
So 14 people have been killed in two shuttle accidents. 14/830 is a 0.017 failure rate or just under 2%. An Astronaut is more likely to die by being killed in a drunk driving accident than on a shuttle flight.
Not bad considering it's the worlds only resuable space flight vehicle. Sure it's more expensive than forseen. and turn around time is greater than originally thought of. It is still more impressive than anything else. If Russia had finished the Buran I might consider that better, as without main engines on the vessel itself would lead to the faster turn around time that the shuttle was supposed to have.
Actually I am waiting for something even better.
the core OS stored on one of these things. The boot loader loads the OS drive read only. The OS loads and runs. Swap, applications, etc are then stored on the regular HD.
Benefits boot times are quicker, but more importantly viruses can't modify the core OS. At least beyond a reboot. Think of it as a live CD for any computer. Security for even MSFT's software would be high.
Though knowing MSFt they would allow the drive to be switched to R/W by windows update.
That's actually he main reason i originally got a mobile. I could talk to my sister 450 miles away cheaper and longer than without. On the plus side when i went to visit her I still had a phone from which i could call back home at the same damn rate, only using my minutes.
$40 a month isn't bad when i can use it as my primary and only phone. I am tempted to get an iPhone for coolness factor but in order to do so I will have to also get the $20 a month data plan.
your confusing e-ink vs e-books. e-books come in variety of formats, and formatting for various small screens.
e-ink devices are screens designed for easy reading. they are generally black and white only, but they are working on color. The display is also static which means two things. you only use power when you change the display so longer battery life. Since the screen doesn't refresh so often it's easy on the eyes and reads just like a piece of paper.
yes e-ink is that good once you overcome the limitations of the devices themselves.
as one of the others guys pointed out change he channel your on. I purposely scanned my neighborhood sorted out who has on which channel and then picked a clear one. Since most people use default settings picking an oddball one isn't hard. You also have several to choose from, at least you do if you don't have a cheap AP.
In 2012 all those people spinning in their graves will finally be able to counter the rotation of the planet.
The Napster model is failing.
iTunes is a billion of cheap sales.
Napster is you pay us money or we cut off your music supply. It's subscription radio. Satellite radio is trying that and is barely surviving. One company had to buy the other in order to have enough customers to survive.
Subscription video/tv yea that works. subscription music will never work as people don't listen to music that way. At least Satellite subscription offered something unique.
then why do catholics think of greed as one of the seven deadly sins?
yes i do see the irony of the worlds only city state claiming greed is bad.
In the last 5 days two men fell 40 stories while washing windows on a skyscraper. One died, and the other one is still alive.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=5820578
Falling from great distances isn't always fatal.
actually I am thinking of installing a copy of windows to play one or two windows only games that i have been eyeing. this would work well. disable it so it can't connect to the Internet afterwards and let thme wonder what is going on.
Why they ask why can't the monitoring software work I will simply say that I don't let substandard software out on the internet, and go back to my Linux box.
>>really, I think this is a lot about nothing. Eventually the points get spent.
but that's the point you can never spend all of your points. the way the store is setup you can't ever spend every single point you have. Sure it may only be a dollar worth of points, but you just gave the worlds richest company a dollar because your a nice guy. Now multiple that by every single person on xbox live. MSFT just paid the xbox live developers a few thousand dollar bonus for ripping you off and made a tidy profit for doing nothing too.
After the 2003 blackout( I never lost my cell service but I know many who did. Many cell companies began a process of adding generators to as many towers as they could. the process lasted maybe 18 months and they missed a whole bunch but they did do some.
three words.
iTunes Music store. Billions of dollars worth of music sold. Credit card companies charge fixed percentages. a $.99 charge costs $0.02 for the transaction.
Also the xbox live credits aren't full dollar amounts either. So you can't get a one-one price ratio. MSFT did this to appear to be cheaper when they really aren't.
This is only about MSFT greed and nothing more. MSFT can collect interest on your money sitting in their bank accounts while you try and figure out a way to spend it.
um the regular POTS telephone network always runs off it's own power supply the phone network itself rarely goes down. You should always have a cheap plugin non battery powered phone around for when power goes down.
I was just thinking that about my DVD player remote. It has play/pause/ skip etc, but then it has three men buttons, a num pad, and at least 15 other buttons that I have never touched. In the 8 years I have owned the DVD player some 30 butttons haven't ever been used, yet every new DVD player has all those same buttons.
WHY?
I ask as I have been using Apple's front row to watch some dvd's on my comuter, and apple's 6 button remote is simple to use and I have used every button on the player. Add a power button and i would love to use it as my DVD player remote. Possily a separate eject button but even that isn't nessecary. You have to get up to get the disc anyways, leave the eject button on the drive.