You got the put something in writing. Any Joe blow can send me an e-mail, but if I get something on letterhead with a phone number to call I pay attention to that.
Well you can always contact the FBI, we have done that more than once about attacks on our hosted servers.
True that the copyright holders would do it, but it's rare for a public figure, like a politician to sue people, unless it's outright libel or slander, even in some cases they let that pass.
But the Copyright holder has every right to say that they don't want their song to be used in such a way, and since it's not a parody (not making fun of the song itself) it's not protected as free speech.
Jib jab is safe because the same is public domain, but this ruling doesn't protect everyone, so satire authors have to be care not to abuse other peoples copyrights.
So now Microsoft is taking the fall for America's lacklustre level of cultural awareness. Companies do this all the time, and I'm only surprised that Microsoft havent done this a lot more, when you think of the amount of products and services it provides across the globe.
It's not so much Microsoft's fault on this one, but in many cases either simple mistakes (opps Poland is blue) or issues that only a resident, or a regional expert would understand.
How would a programmer know that the word used for female means Bitch in Brazil? I doubt that their Spanish language translators might not have even know the subtleties.
Anyone going to fuckmicrosoft.com is obviously not intending to goto Microsoft.com, now instead lets say Lindows, bought microsft.com, and used it to sell their Lindows Software?
Personally I don't mind parody sites, as long as the domain is not simply a mistake spelling of the name. And is clearly labeled for what it is.
Haven't used Gentoo, nor SuSE, but at least with Red Hat you have to boot into XWindows before the Agent will update it.
With Windows you can always Slipstream the service packs and updates to create a relatively up-to-date installation CD. In fact I will be creating a new later this week for SP2. But that is only really worth your time if you are installing it on more than one computer.
Plus, I'm not big on putting XP on the net after a fresh install.
I'm not big on putting a two plus year old OS on the net either, you know like Red Hat 7.1, and 8.
But like with Linux there are ways that you can attach it to the net and not get attacked, it simply means turning on the firewall. Now they did make a mistake with the firewall (making it one of the last processes to start up), but if you simply left your cable unplugged you could update it, and even install SP2 (which is working fine so far in my lab computers).
It will probably only be in the Pro edition of the OS, which is aimed at power users and companies, which would like something like that.
Right now there just isn't any descent interface to do network wake ups, shutdowns are easier in AD, but you can't wake the machine up. Many of the larger corporations that I know have techs on site to power up, and get their machines ready for SMS pushes, but if they had some reliable way of powering on a machine remotely, they wouldn't need the techs to be there (maybe they might need one, but certainly not 3 for a 36 computer office).
Most of the "Windows" problems, that I have seen in this topic, are moronic user, or bad network design problems (running the primary and secondary database on a single box).
I have routinely ran Windows XP for several months at a time without a single issue, the machine that I am testing the Windows XP SP 2 patch on was on for 89 days (according to the network connection status) before I rebooted to ghost the drive.
Most Windows 2000 and later issues that I have ran into were hardware issues. Many cases linked to bad device drivers.
Would I run Windows XP on a medical device, probably not, I would consider Windows XP embedded, and left the firewall on by default.
The download times aren't that bad, it should only take me about an hour to get from MSDN.
Though that isn't as good some Linux downloads I got with Getright (on the 145Mb, DS3+100Mb Cogent connection when I worked at a hosting company). Downloaded an entire Linux ISO in 5 minutes, I wish I had that connection at home, or at my current employer.
I've been running 2000 Pro since it was available, and I've put off installing XP even though I have a boxed copy of it simply because I don't see any possible benefit of switching from what's a fantastic stable yet flexible desktop OS.
So you haven't even tried XP yet? Gee you must be an expert on it. Well expert enough for/.
I moved my computers to Windows XP Pro because I liked the remote desktop feature. Most of my computers are closet computers, I controlled them via VNC, but I liked the AD integration of RD within XP so I switched.
Well I can tell you I love Windows XP, I'm not that much of a gamer, so compatibility wasn't a worry, but it's just as stable as 2000 Pro was for me, the driver roll back is nice (someone published faulty drivers for my smart card reader on WU), and other than the activation there really is no call back.
Don't have any hard numbers, nor do I run any games on most of my systems, but the day to day use it seems as fast as 2000 Pro, though it boots up faster.
The only annoying thing was for the systems that I upgraded, if they had a burner I had to purchase the latest version, the Windows 2000 software wouldn't work under Windows XP.
About the Service Pack, don't know why everyone is up in arms, it's a release candidate, it's bound to have some problems in it. I'm not touching it until about a week after it's released.
Jesus the costs of a revamp for the entire country will be unfathomable. Oh well it's a cost of doing business when you don't plan for an expandable system.
I'm sure a few little VIN-parsing apps will need to be updated here and there, no big deal.
No big deal my ass, headline writer is correct that it's going to cast at least $250,000 per a company (unless it's a newer system). DMVs, car manufacturers, insurance companies, police stations, lenders and anyone else using the VIN number as vehicle identification (whether primary or secondary).
The governement transition alone will probably cost a couple of million.
One of the terms is that the univ. cannot disclose the terms of the agreement. If part of that agreement is "cannot use Linux on-campus", they can't disclose it.
Wasn't part of the terms at either of the schools that I have been to. They both used Linux in certian areas.
I can see schools and Universities switching to teach VB and C#, so their students are ready for the "real world".A lot of people in my course complain about this, paticularly after internships. When people don't have to pay $600 for Visual Basic, I think its uptake might increase, just a little.
Haven't been to a University with a Microsoft Campus agreement? They get almost all the Microsoft Software for free.
Need the Windows 98 disc, goto the Library and check it out for a day. Need Visual Studio 6, bring 2 CD-Rs to class, by the next class they will burn you a copy.
Heck the University I went to handed out Office 2000 (actual Microsoft discs with unique CD keys) during orientation.
Time to sacrafice some Karma.
You are correct on the relative views of each party.
At the moment Republicans are closer to the center than Democrats. Take a look at programs pushed by the Bush Administration and the Republican senate, No Child Left Behind, and Medicare Reform, though you may not like the details spending on social programs (many of which are proposed by President Bush) has gone through the roof. No conservative would have voted with these programs.
Now you can claim that he is more conservative on issues such as Taxes, Abortion and Stem cell research, but even then his administration has given tons of money to various research programs including fuel cells. As someone that is in the middle class working my way up, I would say that overall his tax relief is pretty even.
Overall I would say that the current crop of Republicans are more centrist than the current crop to Democrats. But I would say that this also comes from the way that the Republicans are acting, the Republicans proposing these social programs, all the Democrats can do to make themselves look different is propose expansion of these programs.
I feel that it's the usual partisan politics, many of the same people calling President Bush a Cowboy are the same that were calling Reagan a Cowboy. The same people calling President Bush's war in Iraq a war for oil, or saying that the rich are sending the poor off to die, were the same ones saying it during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Though in the past it was much less visible because CNN and the like were just getting started with their 24 hour coverage.
I am an infrastructure and application consultant for a Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. I have ran just about every version, and done commercial work on everything from Windows 95 on wards.
My personal computer routinely goes 60 or more days between reboots. Mainly it's rebooted because I feel like it, haven't had any issues with Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 that can't be traced to a crappy device drivers, with XP and 2003 it's simple to roll back the driver.
One of my DCs went 6 months before I decided it was time to install patches and reboot. Some consultants that I have talked to has had an NT box running 22 months and counting.
Windows can be just as stable as a well admined Linux system, just as Linux can be more unstable than Windows 95 when it's in the hands of someone that doesn't know what they are doing.
I believe the movie was too short for it's own good, even in Japanese, there is very little that makes me want to care the characters in the story, just not enough depth to make the movie really that good, but the animation quality, and music make it worthwhile to watch.
IMO the top three anime movies that I have seen (haven't seen Akira yet) are:
1. Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise - The first production from Studio Gainax, the folks that brought the world Eva, and a few other great shows. Fantastic animation, music and story make this one of the best movies that I have seen. It's not overly violent, I only wish it got a wider release stateside, it's hard to get even on DVD.
2. Macross Plus - The Top Gun of anime. The movie is not as good story wise as the OVAs, but I feel that the movie overall is well down, the music is great, the action is there, and has a pretty descent story. Too bad like Honneamise it didn't get a wider release, the movie wasn't even dubbed (personally don't like dubs but it's hard to get a non-anime fan to watch a sub). Like Honneamise it's hard to find on DVD.
3. Ghost in the Shell - for the reasons listed above it's number 3, it might move to number 4 after I see Akira if it's as good as what people rave about it.
No, they have an exemption for hazardous activities.
My first life insurance company didn't cover me while I was flying, took me a while to find a company that would cover me during recreational flying, and soaring, without charging me through the nose.
Also don't tell some car insurance companies your a pilot, you will get the rates of a 16 year old.
Or if you want to be a terrorist studying flying. ERAU has a little history with that.
Low blow, ouch.
The FBI investigated the suspected terrorist, it ended up that the alum simply had the same name, and was alive and well flying for a major airline in South America.
Riddle was just as hard with the shock, and hit harder because one of the airline pilots that died in the four planes was an alumni. Also a few students had friend and loved ones that died in the attacks, since Riddle student body is not nearly as geographically concentrated compared to many schools.
At any rate, as an engineering major I'm amazed that an aerosci student figured out how to turn on a computer, let alone stumble onto Slashdot.:)
Haha, I was an AE major, that lasted about a semester once I got into the AE classes. The drafting class, though I got an A made me rethink my major.
But he is correct, though I didn't use a Riddle aircraft, they are too freaking expensive with too many SOP restrictions attached, I hear that they are worse now.
I was checked out with a couple of FBOs and flew a Cessna down to KTIX.
Shit I flew everywhere, didn't even need a reason, just needed money, which I was always lacking.
Exactly. As a kid I remember standing in front of this rocket at JSC, and saying, "Wow!" Here was the object that took our men to the moon, quite possibly the largest moving vehicle that I have ever seen.
Years later when I was attending Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, I flew down to Titusville to see a friend. I went by the KSC during the evening (before the post 9-11 lock down), here in that night, I could almost feel the power, it was almost as moving as when I was a kid.
Without the past, people have nothing to aspire to, for most people what's in the books is simply writing, it's no more real than Lord of the Rings, but if you put a kid in the rocket park down there, history comes alive, here is what you are reading about, not just in words, but in towering moments to the men that rode them.
It inspired me, I would gladly pay for them to be around to inspire future generations.
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Windows XP took the stability of Windows 2000 and polished it for consumer use.
Well you can always contact the FBI, we have done that more than once about attacks on our hosted servers.
But the Copyright holder has every right to say that they don't want their song to be used in such a way, and since it's not a parody (not making fun of the song itself) it's not protected as free speech.
Jib jab is safe because the same is public domain, but this ruling doesn't protect everyone, so satire authors have to be care not to abuse other peoples copyrights.
It's not so much Microsoft's fault on this one, but in many cases either simple mistakes (opps Poland is blue) or issues that only a resident, or a regional expert would understand.
How would a programmer know that the word used for female means Bitch in Brazil? I doubt that their Spanish language translators might not have even know the subtleties.
I would hope that the GPWS has something to say about that mountian.
Even Professional comes on a single disc.
It's applications like Frontpage, Visio, and Publisher that are sold as separate applications.
Personally I don't mind parody sites, as long as the domain is not simply a mistake spelling of the name. And is clearly labeled for what it is.
With Windows you can always Slipstream the service packs and updates to create a relatively up-to-date installation CD. In fact I will be creating a new later this week for SP2. But that is only really worth your time if you are installing it on more than one computer.
I'm not big on putting a two plus year old OS on the net either, you know like Red Hat 7.1, and 8.
But like with Linux there are ways that you can attach it to the net and not get attacked, it simply means turning on the firewall. Now they did make a mistake with the firewall (making it one of the last processes to start up), but if you simply left your cable unplugged you could update it, and even install SP2 (which is working fine so far in my lab computers).
Right now there just isn't any descent interface to do network wake ups, shutdowns are easier in AD, but you can't wake the machine up. Many of the larger corporations that I know have techs on site to power up, and get their machines ready for SMS pushes, but if they had some reliable way of powering on a machine remotely, they wouldn't need the techs to be there (maybe they might need one, but certainly not 3 for a 36 computer office).
I have routinely ran Windows XP for several months at a time without a single issue, the machine that I am testing the Windows XP SP 2 patch on was on for 89 days (according to the network connection status) before I rebooted to ghost the drive.
Most Windows 2000 and later issues that I have ran into were hardware issues. Many cases linked to bad device drivers.
Would I run Windows XP on a medical device, probably not, I would consider Windows XP embedded, and left the firewall on by default.
Though that isn't as good some Linux downloads I got with Getright (on the 145Mb, DS3+100Mb Cogent connection when I worked at a hosting company). Downloaded an entire Linux ISO in 5 minutes, I wish I had that connection at home, or at my current employer.
It's bigger than that. The ISO image on the MSDN subscriber website is 475.35 MB.
So you haven't even tried XP yet? Gee you must be an expert on it. Well expert enough for
I moved my computers to Windows XP Pro because I liked the remote desktop feature. Most of my computers are closet computers, I controlled them via VNC, but I liked the AD integration of RD within XP so I switched.
Well I can tell you I love Windows XP, I'm not that much of a gamer, so compatibility wasn't a worry, but it's just as stable as 2000 Pro was for me, the driver roll back is nice (someone published faulty drivers for my smart card reader on WU), and other than the activation there really is no call back.
Don't have any hard numbers, nor do I run any games on most of my systems, but the day to day use it seems as fast as 2000 Pro, though it boots up faster.
The only annoying thing was for the systems that I upgraded, if they had a burner I had to purchase the latest version, the Windows 2000 software wouldn't work under Windows XP.
About the Service Pack, don't know why everyone is up in arms, it's a release candidate, it's bound to have some problems in it. I'm not touching it until about a week after it's released.
Jesus the costs of a revamp for the entire country will be unfathomable. Oh well it's a cost of doing business when you don't plan for an expandable system.
No big deal my ass, headline writer is correct that it's going to cast at least $250,000 per a company (unless it's a newer system). DMVs, car manufacturers, insurance companies, police stations, lenders and anyone else using the VIN number as vehicle identification (whether primary or secondary).
The governement transition alone will probably cost a couple of million.
Wasn't part of the terms at either of the schools that I have been to. They both used Linux in certian areas.
Haven't been to a University with a Microsoft Campus agreement? They get almost all the Microsoft Software for free.
Need the Windows 98 disc, goto the Library and check it out for a day. Need Visual Studio 6, bring 2 CD-Rs to class, by the next class they will burn you a copy.
Heck the University I went to handed out Office 2000 (actual Microsoft discs with unique CD keys) during orientation.
At the moment Republicans are closer to the center than Democrats. Take a look at programs pushed by the Bush Administration and the Republican senate, No Child Left Behind, and Medicare Reform, though you may not like the details spending on social programs (many of which are proposed by President Bush) has gone through the roof. No conservative would have voted with these programs.
Now you can claim that he is more conservative on issues such as Taxes, Abortion and Stem cell research, but even then his administration has given tons of money to various research programs including fuel cells. As someone that is in the middle class working my way up, I would say that overall his tax relief is pretty even.
Overall I would say that the current crop of Republicans are more centrist than the current crop to Democrats. But I would say that this also comes from the way that the Republicans are acting, the Republicans proposing these social programs, all the Democrats can do to make themselves look different is propose expansion of these programs.
I feel that it's the usual partisan politics, many of the same people calling President Bush a Cowboy are the same that were calling Reagan a Cowboy. The same people calling President Bush's war in Iraq a war for oil, or saying that the rich are sending the poor off to die, were the same ones saying it during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Though in the past it was much less visible because CNN and the like were just getting started with their 24 hour coverage.
My personal computer routinely goes 60 or more days between reboots. Mainly it's rebooted because I feel like it, haven't had any issues with Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 that can't be traced to a crappy device drivers, with XP and 2003 it's simple to roll back the driver.
One of my DCs went 6 months before I decided it was time to install patches and reboot. Some consultants that I have talked to has had an NT box running 22 months and counting.
Windows can be just as stable as a well admined Linux system, just as Linux can be more unstable than Windows 95 when it's in the hands of someone that doesn't know what they are doing.
IMO the top three anime movies that I have seen (haven't seen Akira yet) are:
1. Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise - The first production from Studio Gainax, the folks that brought the world Eva, and a few other great shows. Fantastic animation, music and story make this one of the best movies that I have seen. It's not overly violent, I only wish it got a wider release stateside, it's hard to get even on DVD.
2. Macross Plus - The Top Gun of anime. The movie is not as good story wise as the OVAs, but I feel that the movie overall is well down, the music is great, the action is there, and has a pretty descent story. Too bad like Honneamise it didn't get a wider release, the movie wasn't even dubbed (personally don't like dubs but it's hard to get a non-anime fan to watch a sub). Like Honneamise it's hard to find on DVD.
3. Ghost in the Shell - for the reasons listed above it's number 3, it might move to number 4 after I see Akira if it's as good as what people rave about it.
My first life insurance company didn't cover me while I was flying, took me a while to find a company that would cover me during recreational flying, and soaring, without charging me through the nose.
Also don't tell some car insurance companies your a pilot, you will get the rates of a 16 year old.
Low blow, ouch.
The FBI investigated the suspected terrorist, it ended up that the alum simply had the same name, and was alive and well flying for a major airline in South America.
Riddle was just as hard with the shock, and hit harder because one of the airline pilots that died in the four planes was an alumni. Also a few students had friend and loved ones that died in the attacks, since Riddle student body is not nearly as geographically concentrated compared to many schools.
Haha, I was an AE major, that lasted about a semester once I got into the AE classes. The drafting class, though I got an A made me rethink my major.
But he is correct, though I didn't use a Riddle aircraft, they are too freaking expensive with too many SOP restrictions attached, I hear that they are worse now.
I was checked out with a couple of FBOs and flew a Cessna down to KTIX.
Shit I flew everywhere, didn't even need a reason, just needed money, which I was always lacking.
Years later when I was attending Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, I flew down to Titusville to see a friend. I went by the KSC during the evening (before the post 9-11 lock down), here in that night, I could almost feel the power, it was almost as moving as when I was a kid.
Without the past, people have nothing to aspire to, for most people what's in the books is simply writing, it's no more real than Lord of the Rings, but if you put a kid in the rocket park down there, history comes alive, here is what you are reading about, not just in words, but in towering moments to the men that rode them.
It inspired me, I would gladly pay for them to be around to inspire future generations.