Of course you can see the security improvements in the UI.
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the problem with UAC is that MSFt went straight to fine grained control of applications without having a general course grain security refined and in place to start with. It will take a while to sort out all the random issues with it. Maybe by SP2 it will be secure and useful.
then again MSFT doesn't think you own your PC or the content that's on it so maybe not.
It took OSX 2.5 versions to get up to speed. in 10.4 classic mode was finally not installed by default. Classic won't even run on th Intel Macs, but Intel macs have rosetta, combined with fat binaries.
Apple can literally support four different architecture's at the same time(PPC32, PC64, Intel32, Intel64) yet MSFT has trouble with just 2 (intel32, and intel64)
I know the AT&T cingluar to AT&T switchover hasn't gone all that smoothly though i do have one question was your old Phone GSM? If it was I would ahve gone to one of their stores, said I want to use my old phone and my current contract and when they started to as for payment for unlocking yelled at them.
Most of the stores I know would have unlocked the phone for free, but only if your there.
the screen on these things are literally twice as big as the the average PDA. I have tried reading PDF's on PDA's. It is a pain, I just can't get comfortable in a chair trying to read more than the simplest of documents.
I don't need the high res, the black and white eink displays are easy on the eyes. Try reading an entire novel on your PDA. The battery won't last through the entire book yet it will with one of these.
The kindle though is fugly. It looks like MSFt designed it. Illiad isn't bad but way to pricey. Sony has a decent one but it's sony and only woks with windows.
Look up iridium then. Sat phone to Sat. phone calls are not only possible but the norm. It only has to go to a ground station when interconnecting to land lines and other telephone networks.
Iridium Satellites aren't even high speed tech, but use something like 8 bit processors.
stop resisting the idea that MSFT incompatiblities are malevolent and intentional.
Active X a poor excuse for javascript Ever changing Document formats,.NET started as MSFT started to lose the Sun Java court case. MS JAVA a rip off windows only implentation of Java, Kerebos? nope.
the only Industry standard that MSFT properly supports is ??? TCP/IP And even that is questionable at times. Networking? SMB, nope SMB MSFT way, nope SMB sucks use CIFS. Every time someone gets close to reverse engineering MSFT protocols they change.
Documentation? nope MSFT documents none of their formats. at least according to the sworn statements MSFT made in the EU anti trust case. The only logical reasons are they are lazy and don't have the man power, or they are malevolent in their intentions.
I do agree America is in need of a major overhaul. I just don't see it happening without a major war. there is far to much greed in the current system to allow a change like that with out a major exterior force.
actually yes they do. Burger buys a dozen newspapers and leaves them out for their customers. at $.50 each it is a cheap way to get people to come in the door in the morning.
but your analogy isn't correct. It's more like a library charging people to look through the catalog to see if the books they want are present.
Bit torrent traffic can have only legal purposes. you only share back the files you are receiving, or have received. Unlike kazaa where you share everything in a folder, Torrents you have to explicitly share stuff.
only WMV 9 and less. wmv 10 and 11 are only barely supported and none of the DRm files. which are the ones created standard and needs to be turned off manually.
Name one Industry standard Codec? quicktime is at least playable on linux, windows and OS X. unlike Say WMV where msft won't even release the specs for it, so OS X and linux users are out of luck period.
besides Youtube uses Flash video where the individual codec doesn't matter so much.
think about it, if 50,000 people can force a national vote on a topic, the Hell's Angels could force a nation wide vote.
The economies of scale dictate the problem. For a nation wide referendum you need to be able to represent the minorities. The problems is the miniorities in the USA are significantly larger. Though It would likely work up to the state level.
As for the electoral college Bush never would have gotten elected if the popular vote actually counted for something, If Peoples votes in the presidential election actually mattered. I won't vote for a president because there are no good choices, and my vote doesn't matter anyways, as the electoral college votes again on a state by state basis.
Direct Democracies tend to fall apart with large numbers of people. Switzerland has ~8 million people. New York city alone has 8 million people.
The problem becomes numbers of people that need to be involved.
though America's democracy is in need of overhaul. eliminating the electoral college is a start. term limits would be a solid second. Politicains shouldn't be a life time job, but a temp job, maybe a decade or so of service.
um RM radiation can travel through vacuum, sound can not. Sound is literally the vibrations of the medium. Normally air but other substances as well. Sonar is sound waves traveling through water. why do we use Sonar instead of Radar underwater. because EM radar waves don't travel that well through water, or other dense objects.
As for speed in space, you can judge it simply but measuring time it takes you to travel between two fixed points, or by taking measurments againist another known objects. Besides Acceleration in space matters more than speed. To get to the moon you don't travel at a fixed speed but you accelerate half way there, and then decelerate the other half. without fricition to slow you down you need some massive forward firing engines.
colour e-ink technology is in the works but coming along slowly. the ipod touch while having a better screen, has a fraction of the battery life of all those units who can go hundreds of pages between charges.
the irex illiad can be modifiied(it runs linux) using it's own built in wifi and a web browser you can surf the web on it.
Um small nitpick, if you drop your paperback book or your ebook into a filled toilet your screwed either way.
I do understand the your point the price is way to expensive, and they generally have problems with various formats. For $400 I expect touch screen, and possibly black and white web surfing.
The advantage though is that with e-ink the display is absolutely easy on the eyes to read. If Sony would only support more than just Windows I would break down and grab one.
ah you don't understand network neutraility. the traffic that gets throttled would not only be non(comcast/time warner/ISP) traffic including your telnet so they can increase the bandwidth to thier video service from which they will charge extra fees. including only windows DRM.(see BBC's iPlayer)
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Of course you can see the security improvements in the UI.
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the problem with UAC is that MSFt went straight to fine grained control of applications without having a general course grain security refined and in place to start with. It will take a while to sort out all the random issues with it. Maybe by SP2 it will be secure and useful.
then again MSFT doesn't think you own your PC or the content that's on it so maybe not.
It took OSX 2.5 versions to get up to speed. in 10.4 classic mode was finally not installed by default. Classic won't even run on th Intel Macs, but Intel macs have rosetta, combined with fat binaries.
Apple can literally support four different architecture's at the same time(PPC32, PC64, Intel32, Intel64) yet MSFT has trouble with just 2 (intel32, and intel64)
>>Now, why don't they change the engine in IE while keeping both versions for backward compatibility? Thats the more interesting question.
The same reason why they didn't break all backward compatibility for Vista and use a sandboxed WinXP emulator for older applications.
MSFT managers won't think out side the box.
I know the AT&T cingluar to AT&T switchover hasn't gone all that smoothly though i do have one question was your old Phone GSM? If it was I would ahve gone to one of their stores, said I want to use my old phone and my current contract and when they started to as for payment for unlocking yelled at them.
Most of the stores I know would have unlocked the phone for free, but only if your there.
the screen on these things are literally twice as big as the the average PDA. I have tried reading PDF's on PDA's. It is a pain, I just can't get comfortable in a chair trying to read more than the simplest of documents.
I don't need the high res, the black and white eink displays are easy on the eyes. Try reading an entire novel on your PDA. The battery won't last through the entire book yet it will with one of these.
The kindle though is fugly. It looks like MSFt designed it. Illiad isn't bad but way to pricey. Sony has a decent one but it's sony and only woks with windows.
Look up iridium then. Sat phone to Sat. phone calls are not only possible but the norm. It only has to go to a ground station when interconnecting to land lines and other telephone networks.
Iridium Satellites aren't even high speed tech, but use something like 8 bit processors.
stop resisting the idea that MSFT incompatiblities are malevolent and intentional.
.NET started as MSFT started to lose the Sun Java court case.
Active X a poor excuse for javascript
Ever changing Document formats,
MS JAVA a rip off windows only implentation of Java,
Kerebos? nope.
the only Industry standard that MSFT properly supports is ??? TCP/IP And even that is questionable at times. Networking? SMB, nope SMB MSFT way, nope SMB sucks use CIFS. Every time someone gets close to reverse engineering MSFT protocols they change.
Documentation? nope MSFT documents none of their formats. at least according to the sworn statements MSFT made in the EU anti trust case. The only logical reasons are they are lazy and don't have the man power, or they are malevolent in their intentions.
give him? oh hell no those goggles cost $699 a pair to make. we can sell them at cost however.
IO or Europa are a lot closer. Plus think of the kick arse view you could get with Jupiter in background.
you need a match to light the wd-40 for the heat source, or at the very least an pair of binoculars, and some sunlight.
Open plans aren't new either They were big in the 1970's. Heck My high school did a refit to an open plan and with in 10 years most of that was gone.
Open plans don't give those that need a quiet place to work a quiet place to work as everyone's phone calls can easily be overheard.
I do agree America is in need of a major overhaul. I just don't see it happening without a major war. there is far to much greed in the current system to allow a change like that with out a major exterior force.
actually yes they do. Burger buys a dozen newspapers and leaves them out for their customers. at $.50 each it is a cheap way to get people to come in the door in the morning.
but your analogy isn't correct. It's more like a library charging people to look through the catalog to see if the books they want are present.
looks an AC that's an idiot.
Bit torrent traffic can have only legal purposes. you only share back the files you are receiving, or have received. Unlike kazaa where you share everything in a folder, Torrents you have to explicitly share stuff.
only WMV 9 and less. wmv 10 and 11 are only barely supported and none of the DRm files. which are the ones created standard and needs to be turned off manually.
Name one Industry standard Codec? quicktime is at least playable on linux, windows and OS X. unlike Say WMV where msft won't even release the specs for it, so OS X and linux users are out of luck period.
besides Youtube uses Flash video where the individual codec doesn't matter so much.
How long do you think your battery would last under constant usage?
haven't you ever noticed the difference between stand by and talk times?
think about it, if 50,000 people can force a national vote on a topic, the Hell's Angels could force a nation wide vote.
The economies of scale dictate the problem. For a nation wide referendum you need to be able to represent the minorities. The problems is the miniorities in the USA are significantly larger. Though It would likely work up to the state level.
As for the electoral college Bush never would have gotten elected if the popular vote actually counted for something, If Peoples votes in the presidential election actually mattered. I won't vote for a president because there are no good choices, and my vote doesn't matter anyways, as the electoral college votes again on a state by state basis.
Direct Democracies tend to fall apart with large numbers of people. Switzerland has ~8 million people. New York city alone has 8 million people.
The problem becomes numbers of people that need to be involved.
though America's democracy is in need of overhaul. eliminating the electoral college is a start. term limits would be a solid second. Politicains shouldn't be a life time job, but a temp job, maybe a decade or so of service.
dude you mean we get to asiante hillary too. space and a Hillary assinated by a CIA cover up. too cool.
um RM radiation can travel through vacuum, sound can not. Sound is literally the vibrations of the medium. Normally air but other substances as well. Sonar is sound waves traveling through water. why do we use Sonar instead of Radar underwater. because EM radar waves don't travel that well through water, or other dense objects.
As for speed in space, you can judge it simply but measuring time it takes you to travel between two fixed points, or by taking measurments againist another known objects. Besides Acceleration in space matters more than speed. To get to the moon you don't travel at a fixed speed but you accelerate half way there, and then decelerate the other half. without fricition to slow you down you need some massive forward firing engines.
That was just technobabble to give Riker an Evil twin.
It's almost as good as the separated at birth and hidden by his parents story.
colour e-ink technology is in the works but coming along slowly. the ipod touch while having a better screen, has a fraction of the battery life of all those units who can go hundreds of pages between charges.
the irex illiad can be modifiied(it runs linux) using it's own built in wifi and a web browser you can surf the web on it.
Um small nitpick, if you drop your paperback book or your ebook into a filled toilet your screwed either way.
I do understand the your point the price is way to expensive, and they generally have problems with various formats. For $400 I expect touch screen, and possibly black and white web surfing.
The advantage though is that with e-ink the display is absolutely easy on the eyes to read. If Sony would only support more than just Windows I would break down and grab one.
ah you don't understand network neutraility. the traffic that gets throttled would not only be non(comcast/time warner/ISP) traffic including your telnet so they can increase the bandwidth to thier video service from which they will charge extra fees. including only windows DRM.(see BBC's iPlayer)