I don't know where you come from that you can dismiss all of the reported problems so easily, but I can attest that no, Vista does NOT do all of this perfectly fine, every time.
My wife's new laptop came with Vista on it. It has higher specs than my laptop, which is 4 years older than hers. My laptop is faster in every possible way. Her laptop is slower. Several programs often "Stop Responding". Firefox is completely unusable. In anything we have done on her machine that we have tried to do on mine, hers takes twice as long. I'm not exaggerating.
Vista plays DVDs just fine.
We tried to play a (legally purchased) Babylon 5 DVD on her machine. The first time, it played correctly. No problems. We watched an episode, ejected the DVD, came back to it the next evening and intended on watching another episode. We could play the episode but had no audio (yes, we checked for muting and so on). Ejected the DVD, put it back in. Vista reported that the DVD could not be played to DRM (I forget the exact dialog). Remember, this was a legally purchased DVD.
No machine I can make purchasing suggestions about will have Vista on it if I can help it (and I do tech support for my family).
Deleting your account after a short period of time when you cancel your account in one way to encourage people NOT to come back. I've seen many people in WoW quit for 6 months and then come back, at least in part because they didn't have to start over from scratch.
I find it interesting that the article doesn't talk about the whole secondary industry that's popped up as a result of the popularity of gold sellers: spam and anti-spam measures.
I couldn't care less about whether or not people sell gold. What I do care about is that I get a poorly worded or even gibberish whisper every two minutes from some character asking me to buy gold. Often the whisper doesn't even include the website or the name of the company! It's almost as bad as email now.
Thanks for posting that. His/her signature was bugging me (I wasn't sure if I was just crazy...) for a while until I decided to click the link to your post:)
To reply to #2, as I understand US law (and remember, IANAL), if he had an open access point it's more the equivalent of leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. There's a chance that the procecution can get him as an accomplice or otherwise abeting the "theft". This is even more possible if he obviously didn't take due diligence with his access point, such as restricting the transfer amount in a given time period of unauthorized connections, blocking ports commonly used for malicious/illegal activity, etc.
a) it's good enough for me. I don't notice the difference.
b) burn it to a CD, in your comparison, you're already dealing with a cd instead of just a digital file.
c) please tell me how *7* burns is restricting, especially when you can just remake a list or reset the counter
d) well, if you are burning the "iTunes file" to a CD, you can rip it to ogg anyway
e) I don't know anything about this, you're probably right
f) good point
Interestingly enough, my experience doesn't match yours. My current Windows computer is a laptop running XP Pro. It BSODs around once a week. The laptop is just off the shelf, no mods or hardware changed on it. Explorer crashes all the time (well, ok... typically once every other day).
I, and anyone else that's been in a public (this probably applies to private schools too) know how easy it is to get ahold of someone else's login information. Trivial. And since most teachers aren't too well trained, technology-wise, it's usually not too hard to get a teacher's password either.
In some school, there aren't even restrictions on your network access, you just have to know where to look.
Long story short, a person could easily log on as A, download and put them in a private folder of person B, and no one would know who did it.
I'm kind of surprised. I attend a college that didn't even make the list, but the entire academic part of campus has complete wireless coverage. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover dorms. In every classroom there are quite a few students (in some cases, every student) using laptops for taking notes (or playing games hehe). Of course, my college also requires every student to purchase a laptop when they enroll.
"In a report by the AeA, they contend that American schools don't teach enough math and science anymore."
This I find interesting. I am a freshman CS and Software Engineering double major at my undergraduate college of choice. My curriculum has so much math that there is a Math Minor built in, and enough beyond the Minor that I could easily get another major in Math.
As for science, it's diverse enough that I don't have any built in minors. But there is a lot of it in there.
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Are you sure someone didn't enter the password as the hint? I know, you said you hadn't entered a hint, etc. etc. Just a random thought.
I don't know where you come from that you can dismiss all of the reported problems so easily, but I can attest that no, Vista does NOT do all of this perfectly fine, every time. My wife's new laptop came with Vista on it. It has higher specs than my laptop, which is 4 years older than hers. My laptop is faster in every possible way. Her laptop is slower. Several programs often "Stop Responding". Firefox is completely unusable. In anything we have done on her machine that we have tried to do on mine, hers takes twice as long. I'm not exaggerating.
Vista plays DVDs just fine.
We tried to play a (legally purchased) Babylon 5 DVD on her machine. The first time, it played correctly. No problems. We watched an episode, ejected the DVD, came back to it the next evening and intended on watching another episode. We could play the episode but had no audio (yes, we checked for muting and so on). Ejected the DVD, put it back in. Vista reported that the DVD could not be played to DRM (I forget the exact dialog). Remember, this was a legally purchased DVD.
No machine I can make purchasing suggestions about will have Vista on it if I can help it (and I do tech support for my family).
Deleting your account after a short period of time when you cancel your account in one way to encourage people NOT to come back. I've seen many people in WoW quit for 6 months and then come back, at least in part because they didn't have to start over from scratch.
Well that's your problem, you have to take them out of the box first!
I find it interesting that the article doesn't talk about the whole secondary industry that's popped up as a result of the popularity of gold sellers: spam and anti-spam measures. I couldn't care less about whether or not people sell gold. What I do care about is that I get a poorly worded or even gibberish whisper every two minutes from some character asking me to buy gold. Often the whisper doesn't even include the website or the name of the company! It's almost as bad as email now.
Thanks for posting that. His/her signature was bugging me (I wasn't sure if I was just crazy...) for a while until I decided to click the link to your post :)
To reply to #2, as I understand US law (and remember, IANAL), if he had an open access point it's more the equivalent of leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. There's a chance that the procecution can get him as an accomplice or otherwise abeting the "theft". This is even more possible if he obviously didn't take due diligence with his access point, such as restricting the transfer amount in a given time period of unauthorized connections, blocking ports commonly used for malicious/illegal activity, etc.
"There's not too many chances in life to rack up that kind of cash that quickly. He should and probably will take full advantage of it."
Even ignoring the fact that he's making so much money, I bet he's *enjoying* it. Who wouldn't want to have that much fun and then get paid for it?
Of course, one of the topics would have to be Potent Potables.
Sorry about the formatting of my post. Here it is again:
a) it's good enough for me. I don't notice the difference.
b) burn it to a CD, in your comparison, you're already dealing with a cd instead of just a digital file.
c) please tell me how *7* burns is restricting, especially when you can just remake a list to reset the counter
d) well, if you are burning the "iTunes file" to a CD, you can rip it to ogg anyway
e) I don't know anything about this, you're probably right
f) good point
a) it's good enough for me. I don't notice the difference. b) burn it to a CD, in your comparison, you're already dealing with a cd instead of just a digital file. c) please tell me how *7* burns is restricting, especially when you can just remake a list or reset the counter d) well, if you are burning the "iTunes file" to a CD, you can rip it to ogg anyway e) I don't know anything about this, you're probably right f) good point
Interestingly enough, my experience doesn't match yours. My current Windows computer is a laptop running XP Pro. It BSODs around once a week. The laptop is just off the shelf, no mods or hardware changed on it. Explorer crashes all the time (well, ok... typically once every other day).
Users can also request a free CD copy of SP2, although shipping charges could apply, something which the company has yet to finalise, said Mr Goffe.
However, you might have to pay for shipping and handling.
It's near the advertisement.
I, and anyone else that's been in a public (this probably applies to private schools too) know how easy it is to get ahold of someone else's login information. Trivial. And since most teachers aren't too well trained, technology-wise, it's usually not too hard to get a teacher's password either. In some school, there aren't even restrictions on your network access, you just have to know where to look. Long story short, a person could easily log on as A, download and put them in a private folder of person B, and no one would know who did it.
I'm kind of surprised. I attend a college that didn't even make the list, but the entire academic part of campus has complete wireless coverage. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover dorms. In every classroom there are quite a few students (in some cases, every student) using laptops for taking notes (or playing games hehe). Of course, my college also requires every student to purchase a laptop when they enroll.
"In a report by the AeA, they contend that American schools don't teach enough math and science anymore."
This I find interesting. I am a freshman CS and Software Engineering double major at my undergraduate college of choice. My curriculum has so much math that there is a Math Minor built in, and enough beyond the Minor that I could easily get another major in Math. As for science, it's diverse enough that I don't have any built in minors. But there is a lot of it in there.
On my screen it shows: by huha (755976) on Wednesday February 25, @09:41AM (#8385557) That's about 6 hrs, not 4 minutes.
Now the really fun part is when you consider the possible moves in Go. That will put all of those numbers to shame.
I heard SCO was trying to sue Wilkins because of his use of "code"...