Why is the parent modded down? I clicked on the comments fully expecting to read On noes, the big, bad evil blah blah blah and was quite happy to see intelligent quotes responding to a MS article. It's actually a nice change. (And, as an FYI, I'm a mac fanboy, not a MS groupie.)
I used to work for Roadrunner, Time Warner's cable modem division (not sure if it still goes by the name or not.) The complaint the more "geeky" customers would make is that you're on shared pipe - that is, your node has only so much bandwidth and you share it with your neighbors. That was a sticking point with some people who decided to go with a telco solution instead of cable. We were always told to respond that we'd be monitoring the saturation in neighborhoods and if it got to high, we'd split the node. I don't know of a single time that was done when I was there. Doesn't mean it wasn't, just that no one that I know heard of it actually occurring.
If I'm not mistaken Apple has a primitive version of this but the speech recognition is crap.
Actually, from my experience it's pretty good, at least for short expressions. I've got mine set-up to do things exactly like your Slashdot example. (I tell it "Browser slashdot" and it works great (I'm guessing because it knows "browser" means that I want the word right afterward to mean the phonetic term "Slashdot" that I've previously told it meant the Website, not "/.") It's also useful for things like launching mail.app and checking email. With Applescript, it becomes even more useful (I can tell it to launch a pre-built "app" that can do just about any number of things using automater.) While it would obviously be trivial to have those apps on the dock so that I can click them to launch, this way I don't have to take up Dock space to do so.
S'Truth. The only two reasons I learned VB was to quickly throw together an NNTP client using a pre-built, purchased ActiveX component that took care of it all for me (and let me hit my deadline and impressed my bosses with a shiny toy) and to get a UI together for the day before a presentation. It's amazing what some neat buttons and textarea boxes can do to impress people. VB was always really good at something. Of that, I'm certain. But it just really never seemed to be the Most Amazing Thing Ever (tm). I understand from friends who build frontends for databases that it's fairly easy to do so with VB, but I have no experience there.
Regardless, with dropping support for VBA, does that completely hose things like all of the millions of complex macros that have been developed over the years? Does this affect VBScript (And no, I haven't RTFA)?
> Most of those tv have a serial port in the back where you can send commands to the LCD
Where who can? Some (and don't claim it's all) of/. readers? Sure. But how many of us would think that some asshat would come by and pull crap like this? Exactly what was the point? To show how easy it is in this post-9/11 world for terrorists to disrupt our way of life? As a piece of performance art reminding us of our umbilical chord-like ties to the TV set? (I'm being sarcastic with both examples, of courses.) While it may be possible, this wasn't a gray hat trying to expose a critical vulnerability in a piece of software or hardware. This was a jerk ruining presentations that companies - and some of the smaller ones spend a decent chunk of their annual advertising revenue to accomplish - expected to be as hassle-free as possible. Try doing a live presentation at a major expo like CES. I have, and it's nerve wracking. You have four things on your mind: Getting people to the booth; keeping them at the booth; not being distracted by something to the point that you forget your "pitch,"; and not having a tech failure like this jerk caused. He ruined three-out-of-four of those things. Ha Ha. You're very creative. Now go back to your mom's basement you punk and continue to expound on how L337 you are.
> How many times is this going to happen before corporations realize front organizations don't work on the Internet?
It'll happen about the same time people get tired of porn. That is to say, never. For every article that comes out revealing this sort of thing, how many aren't identified? Obviously it's impossible to say. So it will keep going on.
Anti-american vitriol aside, I'm not sure that there is a difference between "highly illegal" and simply "illegal." Is it possible for something to be "somewhat illegal"? Or somewhat pregnant?
It seems to me as if record industry executives are getting wealthy off of content that they, frankly, do not create.
Sorry, but that's the same argument made over and over that comes across as nothing more than a self-justification for pirating music. Did Hiroshi Okuda personally build Toyota cars? Did he design them? Doubtful, yet he made a huge salary when Toyota's profits climbed to their highest ever. Think IBM's Palmisano writes code or personally oversees the production of each PC? Not likely, but he also takes home a decent salary. That's the way the business world works. Want the artists to make more money? Support ones that manage, promote, etc. their own material. That's not always possible. I'm a fan of Mandy Patinkin, but I doubt he's going to leave the Nonesuch label to promote his own stuff. So do I not buy his stuff because the heads of Nonesuch get, "wealthy off of content that they, frankly, do not create"?
You're absolutely correct. And now that you've also managed to raise $1,135,000 for charity, we're more than willing to use your definition of the word...Oh, wait...
Doesn't the use of the word, "criminal" mean the person has been convicted of a crime? FTFA:
According to a CNN report, in September, Florida authorities arrested a drug suspect two weeks after his photo was displayed on a billboard in Daytona Beach
Does the fact that the person is a "drug suspect" mean that they are not a criminal as they haven't been tried yet? IANAL, obviously, but I'm curious if I'm not understanding the definition/use of the term.
When I was at jacksonville.com (the Florida Times-Union Website) the Jaguars had just come into being. Obviously the local paper was going to cover them. Two issues came up: As part of our server farm, we named our servers, "entertainment.jacksonville.com," "lifestyle.jacksonville.com," "business.jacksonville.com," etc. Because we knew the Jags site would be so popular, we didn't put it on sports.jacksonville.com. Instead it went on jaguars.jacksonville.com. The Jags and the NFL threw a fit, claiming that we were doing it in an effort to capitalize on the names (nevermind that we had server logs from more than a year prior showing our naming convention.) For the outcome, go to http://jaguars.jacksonville.com/... It's still being used 10 years later.
The second was they were having a fit because we were shooting pictures of the game and posting them to the site. Not in real-time. After the game. As part of our coverage. Our publisher agreed to stop doing so... in exchange, the paper wouldn't write any articles about the team.
So there we were, two days later, posting pictures to the site...;)
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Murphy? I know that guy. 13th level Warlock? I think I was I ran an instanc with him the other day ... ;)
Why is the parent modded down? I clicked on the comments fully expecting to read On noes, the big, bad evil blah blah blah and was quite happy to see intelligent quotes responding to a MS article. It's actually a nice change. (And, as an FYI, I'm a mac fanboy, not a MS groupie.)
I used to work for Roadrunner, Time Warner's cable modem division (not sure if it still goes by the name or not.) The complaint the more "geeky" customers would make is that you're on shared pipe - that is, your node has only so much bandwidth and you share it with your neighbors. That was a sticking point with some people who decided to go with a telco solution instead of cable. We were always told to respond that we'd be monitoring the saturation in neighborhoods and if it got to high, we'd split the node. I don't know of a single time that was done when I was there. Doesn't mean it wasn't, just that no one that I know heard of it actually occurring.
or whatever's the latest fad
;)
Kids today! Why when I was a kid, we had to hack gold up hill, in Dun Morogh's snow!
If I'm not mistaken Apple has a primitive version of this but the speech recognition is crap.
.") It's also useful for things like launching mail.app and checking email. With Applescript, it becomes even more useful (I can tell it to launch a pre-built "app" that can do just about any number of things using automater.) While it would obviously be trivial to have those apps on the dock so that I can click them to launch, this way I don't have to take up Dock space to do so.
Actually, from my experience it's pretty good, at least for short expressions. I've got mine set-up to do things exactly like your Slashdot example. (I tell it "Browser slashdot" and it works great (I'm guessing because it knows "browser" means that I want the word right afterward to mean the phonetic term "Slashdot" that I've previously told it meant the Website, not "/
S'Truth. The only two reasons I learned VB was to quickly throw together an NNTP client using a pre-built, purchased ActiveX component that took care of it all for me (and let me hit my deadline and impressed my bosses with a shiny toy) and to get a UI together for the day before a presentation. It's amazing what some neat buttons and textarea boxes can do to impress people. VB was always really good at something. Of that, I'm certain. But it just really never seemed to be the Most Amazing Thing Ever (tm). I understand from friends who build frontends for databases that it's fairly easy to do so with VB, but I have no experience there.
Regardless, with dropping support for VBA, does that completely hose things like all of the millions of complex macros that have been developed over the years? Does this affect VBScript (And no, I haven't RTFA)?
> Most of those tv have a serial port in the back where you can send commands to the LCD
/. readers? Sure. But how many of us would think that some asshat would come by and pull crap like this? Exactly what was the point? To show how easy it is in this post-9/11 world for terrorists to disrupt our way of life? As a piece of performance art reminding us of our umbilical chord-like ties to the TV set? (I'm being sarcastic with both examples, of courses.) While it may be possible, this wasn't a gray hat trying to expose a critical vulnerability in a piece of software or hardware. This was a jerk ruining presentations that companies - and some of the smaller ones spend a decent chunk of their annual advertising revenue to accomplish - expected to be as hassle-free as possible. Try doing a live presentation at a major expo like CES. I have, and it's nerve wracking. You have four things on your mind: Getting people to the booth; keeping them at the booth; not being distracted by something to the point that you forget your "pitch,"; and not having a tech failure like this jerk caused. He ruined three-out-of-four of those things. Ha Ha. You're very creative. Now go back to your mom's basement you punk and continue to expound on how L337 you are.
Where who can? Some (and don't claim it's all) of
> How many times is this going to happen before corporations realize front organizations don't work on the Internet?
It'll happen about the same time people get tired of porn. That is to say, never. For every article that comes out revealing this sort of thing, how many aren't identified? Obviously it's impossible to say. So it will keep going on.
Most of the so called evidence that this article points to are articles on computerworld.com too...
And all of your evidence is based on your log file. Hardly a scientific poll, so what's your point?
Anti-american vitriol aside, I'm not sure that there is a difference between "highly illegal" and simply "illegal." Is it possible for something to be "somewhat illegal"? Or somewhat pregnant?
It seems to me as if record industry executives are getting wealthy off of content that they, frankly, do not create.
Sorry, but that's the same argument made over and over that comes across as nothing more than a self-justification for pirating music. Did Hiroshi Okuda personally build Toyota cars? Did he design them? Doubtful, yet he made a huge salary when Toyota's profits climbed to their highest ever. Think IBM's Palmisano writes code or personally oversees the production of each PC? Not likely, but he also takes home a decent salary. That's the way the business world works. Want the artists to make more money? Support ones that manage, promote, etc. their own material. That's not always possible. I'm a fan of Mandy Patinkin, but I doubt he's going to leave the Nonesuch label to promote his own stuff. So do I not buy his stuff because the heads of Nonesuch get, "wealthy off of content that they, frankly, do not create"?
You're absolutely correct. And now that you've also managed to raise $1,135,000 for charity, we're more than willing to use your definition of the word ...Oh, wait ...
Yeah, good luck people agreeing to install that ActiveX control! :)
Completely agreed. That around what they'd have to pay most of us to listen to it ;)
I can tell that this argument is far from over. Just like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
Doesn't the use of the word, "criminal" mean the person has been convicted of a crime? FTFA:
According to a CNN report, in September, Florida authorities arrested a drug suspect two weeks after his photo was displayed on a billboard in Daytona Beach
Does the fact that the person is a "drug suspect" mean that they are not a criminal as they haven't been tried yet? IANAL, obviously, but I'm curious if I'm not understanding the definition/use of the term.
You're right. But sometimes MS is in a hurry to get their product out.
...
Oh, you mean Kaspersky Labs
Really? What really peeves me is Hasselhoff's popularity is too lazy to try to conform to the realm of possibility ;)
> Asking for only certain characters from a password (e.g. characters 1,4,8 & 9)
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!
*grin*
Tell Michael Romaner his old buddy from Amarillo and Jax says hello. He should know who I mean :)
When I was at jacksonville.com (the Florida Times-Union Website) the Jaguars had just come into being. Obviously the local paper was going to cover them. Two issues came up: As part of our server farm, we named our servers, "entertainment.jacksonville.com," "lifestyle.jacksonville.com," "business.jacksonville.com," etc. Because we knew the Jags site would be so popular, we didn't put it on sports.jacksonville.com. Instead it went on jaguars.jacksonville.com. The Jags and the NFL threw a fit, claiming that we were doing it in an effort to capitalize on the names (nevermind that we had server logs from more than a year prior showing our naming convention.) For the outcome, go to http://jaguars.jacksonville.com/ ... It's still being used 10 years later.
... in exchange, the paper wouldn't write any articles about the team.
... ;)
The second was they were having a fit because we were shooting pictures of the game and posting them to the site. Not in real-time. After the game. As part of our coverage. Our publisher agreed to stop doing so
So there we were, two days later, posting pictures to the site
> maybe replace all their employees with robots?
;)
Yeah but in two months they'd replace those with slightly better models
> if a probable anomaly in the IE7 results is overlooked
;)
Like what? It didn't crash the system or it actually launched
"You're in contempt of court."
It's already being influenced by thousands of external stimuli, and you have no idea how they're influencing you
... :)
I have to admit, that's a pretty persuasive argument. You've definitely gotten me to change my mind on the subject