They probably can't. I suspect there would be a whole other set of FAA hoops they'd have to jump through to take paying 'passengers'. Not to mention insurance issues.
Experiences vary. I bought a refurb Viewsonic 21" CRT years ago on an on-line auction (and this was pre-Ebay, so it was a *long* time ago), and it has never given me a days grief. Guess the tech who worked on mine was having a good day:)
No, it's the speed holes that make it go faster. You know, those tiny little holes in the socket -- the more holes, the faster the processor.
And I'll let you in on a little secret -- those pins that go in the holes are actually there to slow the CPU down. No need to buy a new processor -- just clip off a couple of the pins on your current PC and it'll go much faster.
The dual-boot issue had very little to do with it (that hurt OS/2 far more than it hurt Be).
BeOS had terrible hardware support through its early phases. No OEM in their right mind would have shipped a PC with it. Either they would have had to select from a minor subset of available hardware to build their PCs, or they would be installing an OS that didn't have sound, or support accellerated graphics, or something else.
I play with new and fringe OSs for fun, and even I gave up on Be through the first several iterations.
That's not a good thing, because it means that anybody that looks good in a well-shot video is suddenly at the top, whereas hugely talented people, who are great musicians, can barely get arrested.
Don't sell yourself short, David. You are hugely talented, and have no trouble getting arrested.
A little piece of everybody's history that's conveniently ignored. Very few of us are descended from the one's that were here first. Although, come to think of it, a large number of my users exhibit some Neanderthal tendencies. Guess the Cro-magnon's missed some.
the latest example of telephone companies passing their own cost of doing business to customers
Oh good lord. All companies pass their cost of doing business on to the customer. Put down your copy of the Communist Manifesto and step away from it slowly. Companies don't pay for operating expenses, taxes, payroll, or anything else. It all ultimately comes out of the pocket of their customers. Or do you think these companies stole their money from leprechauns?
Yes, but when you have moron users like me that can't figure out how to zip their 1.5 MB Powerpoint presentation and have to have it on removable media, CDs are a damn sight less wasteful than DVD.
Just built a new Win2k box, and SP4 plus subsequent patches is still 3 reboots. It'll get worse, too, as it may be long time (or never) before we get another cumulative service pack.
There is rarely a single definition of 'best'. If you value ready availability and price over selection and atmosphere, maybe McDonalds does make the 'best' food. If you favor ease of installation and interoperability (with other people, not software) over security and initial cost, maybe, for you, Microsoft does make the 'best' software.
I am using good AV software. By 'several layers' I mean at the server, at the workstation, inbound and outbound email scan, gateway, etc.
And I do real-time scanning; if you read my post again, you'd see I wrote that it checks for updated signatures hourly, not that I ran scans hourly.
And, honestly, I wouldn't run CA AV software if you put a gun to my head. FAXServe and ARCserve are some of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the misfortune to use. If someone whose opinion on such things mattered to me suggested it, I might look at it. But I'd be very skeptical.
Yes, they released the patch 21 days ago. They also released a hotfix at the same time that breaks a non-trivial # of computers.
Those of us forced to work and support a Windows environment are caught between a rock and a hard place. We don't dare apply a brand-new patch on production servers, or roll it out across the enterprise, but if we wait too long, an exploit hits what the patch supposedly fixed, and we get smacked (plus raked over the coals on/. for being incompetent).
I try to get new so-called critical patches applied within 7 days -- usually sooner, depending on when I can afford to take servers down, etc. But it won't be long before one of these wide-spread worms hits a vulnerability that's just been patched in the last day or two. Hell, I run several layers of AV protection that checks for updates hourly, and twice I've gotten hit by viruses before the updated signatures were available. -
Wonder if the Corel folks could help out with the file format problems. We use Office 2000 here, and at least once I month I fix a corrupted Word file by importing it into Wordperfect 10 and re-saving as a Word file.
Hmmm.
DVD -- one hand to hold my coffee, one hand to gratify self while watching DVD porn, one hand to hold cell phone, one hand to gesture rudely at other drivers. Hands free to steer: -2
Book -- one hand to hold my coffee, one hand to hold the book, one hand to turn the page, one hand to hold cell phone, one hand to gesture rudely at other drivers. Hands free to steer: -3
Strong means it requires a lot of force to affect a change in its shape. Brittle means that instead of bending or subtly deforming when enough force is applied, it will shear or shatter instead. You might be able to un-bend a deformed mount. A shattered mount has to be replaced.
If I'm using wireless USB, why would I want a power cord?
Power outlets are ubiquitous. If you run low, you can always add another power strip. A cheap extension cord takes care of distance. On the other hand, running a 50' USB cable is a pain in the ass if you do it right, or ugly if you do it quick.
Not sure I'd have a use for it in any event, but I know my Dad would love to be able to scan crap to his laptop without draping the cable across the office for the dogs to get tangled in.
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I didn't say it was intened to cripple industrial development. It was intended to hamper industrialized (read: western) economies. The Kyoto protocols specifically exempted developing nations, who are some of the worst offenders on a per-capita basis. If the point of Kyoto was environmental protection, then it would have been just as unforgiving of LDCs as it was of western countries.
It left the LDCs alone so that they could have a competitive advantage over those who had to invest a lot of money and effort to comply with Kyoto.
No one is adhering to Kyoto who wasn't already below those levels to begin with. Europe hasn't done jack, Russia hasn't done jack, China hasn't done jack. At least the US said up front that this treaty was a load of crap and didn't pay lip service to it while continuing to ignore it.
The point of Kyoto wasn't to reduce greenhouse gasses, although that's how it wasw sold to the treehugger crowd. The point of Kyoto was to cripple industrialized economies so that lesser developed nations could compete more effectively.
Global organizations, especially those dominated by third-countries (or soon to be third-world countries like France), are notorious for using the fascade of internationalism as a mask for the pursuit of their own selfish interests.
This particular case has nothing more to do with free trade than Germany banning internet sales of Nazi memorabilia. This is a law enforcement issue. Or would you claim that any nation's drug policy prohibiting the import of cocaine is an unfair trade practice targeted at Columbia?
And do a little homework before you start blathering about the US withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol. The US Senate never ratified it, since liberal poster-boy Bill Clinton never submitted it. Can't withdraw from a treaty you were never agreed to.
I've heard from photo hobbyist friends that people are buying the mini's to get the drives to use in their cameras because it's cheaper than buying just the drives.
Still too many enterprise customers with a "If it works, why change it?" mentality...
More shops need that mentality. If more places would only upgrade when they needed to instead of every time there was a new version, they'd be a lot happier.
I tried making everyone use a hardware firewall, but my laptop users bitched like crazy.
Sometimes you don't get to do what you want, or what is best. Sometimes you have to do what's mostly good enough.
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They probably can't. I suspect there would be a whole other set of FAA hoops they'd have to jump through to take paying 'passengers'. Not to mention insurance issues.
Experiences vary. I bought a refurb Viewsonic 21" CRT years ago on an on-line auction (and this was pre-Ebay, so it was a *long* time ago), and it has never given me a days grief. Guess the tech who worked on mine was having a good day :)
No, it's the speed holes that make it go faster. You know, those tiny little holes in the socket -- the more holes, the faster the processor.
And I'll let you in on a little secret -- those pins that go in the holes are actually there to slow the CPU down. No need to buy a new processor -- just clip off a couple of the pins on your current PC and it'll go much faster.
The dual-boot issue had very little to do with it (that hurt OS/2 far more than it hurt Be). BeOS had terrible hardware support through its early phases. No OEM in their right mind would have shipped a PC with it. Either they would have had to select from a minor subset of available hardware to build their PCs, or they would be installing an OS that didn't have sound, or support accellerated graphics, or something else. I play with new and fringe OSs for fun, and even I gave up on Be through the first several iterations.
From the David Crosby interview:
That's not a good thing, because it means that anybody that looks good in a well-shot video is suddenly at the top, whereas hugely talented people, who are great musicians, can barely get arrested.
Don't sell yourself short, David. You are hugely talented, and have no trouble getting arrested.
A little piece of everybody's history that's conveniently ignored. Very few of us are descended from the one's that were here first. Although, come to think of it, a large number of my users exhibit some Neanderthal tendencies. Guess the Cro-magnon's missed some.
Oh good lord. All companies pass their cost of doing business on to the customer. Put down your copy of the Communist Manifesto and step away from it slowly. Companies don't pay for operating expenses, taxes, payroll, or anything else. It all ultimately comes out of the pocket of their customers. Or do you think these companies stole their money from leprechauns?
Yes, but when you have moron users like me that can't figure out how to zip their 1.5 MB Powerpoint presentation and have to have it on removable media, CDs are a damn sight less wasteful than DVD.
Just built a new Win2k box, and SP4 plus subsequent patches is still 3 reboots. It'll get worse, too, as it may be long time (or never) before we get another cumulative service pack.
There is rarely a single definition of 'best'. If you value ready availability and price over selection and atmosphere, maybe McDonalds does make the 'best' food. If you favor ease of installation and interoperability (with other people, not software) over security and initial cost, maybe, for you, Microsoft does make the 'best' software.
I am using good AV software. By 'several layers' I mean at the server, at the workstation, inbound and outbound email scan, gateway, etc.
And I do real-time scanning; if you read my post again, you'd see I wrote that it checks for updated signatures hourly, not that I ran scans hourly.
And, honestly, I wouldn't run CA AV software if you put a gun to my head. FAXServe and ARCserve are some of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the misfortune to use. If someone whose opinion on such things mattered to me suggested it, I might look at it. But I'd be very skeptical.
Yes, they released the patch 21 days ago. They also released a hotfix at the same time that breaks a non-trivial # of computers.
/. for being incompetent).
Those of us forced to work and support a Windows environment are caught between a rock and a hard place. We don't dare apply a brand-new patch on production servers, or roll it out across the enterprise, but if we wait too long, an exploit hits what the patch supposedly fixed, and we get smacked (plus raked over the coals on
I try to get new so-called critical patches applied within 7 days -- usually sooner, depending on when I can afford to take servers down, etc. But it won't be long before one of these wide-spread worms hits a vulnerability that's just been patched in the last day or two. Hell, I run several layers of AV protection that checks for updates hourly, and twice I've gotten hit by viruses before the updated signatures were available.
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Wonder if the Corel folks could help out with the file format problems. We use Office 2000 here, and at least once I month I fix a corrupted Word file by importing it into Wordperfect 10 and re-saving as a Word file.
Not true. My ReplayTV can be set to record first-run only.
Hmmm.
DVD -- one hand to hold my coffee, one hand to gratify self while watching DVD porn, one hand to hold cell phone, one hand to gesture rudely at other drivers. Hands free to steer: -2
Book -- one hand to hold my coffee, one hand to hold the book, one hand to turn the page, one hand to hold cell phone, one hand to gesture rudely at other drivers. Hands free to steer: -3
Clearly, car DVDs are safer than books.
Strong means it requires a lot of force to affect a change in its shape. Brittle means that instead of bending or subtly deforming when enough force is applied, it will shear or shatter instead. You might be able to un-bend a deformed mount. A shattered mount has to be replaced.
If I'm using wireless USB, why would I want a power cord?
Power outlets are ubiquitous. If you run low, you can always add another power strip. A cheap extension cord takes care of distance. On the other hand, running a 50' USB cable is a pain in the ass if you do it right, or ugly if you do it quick.
Not sure I'd have a use for it in any event, but I know my Dad would love to be able to scan crap to his laptop without draping the cable across the office for the dogs to get tangled in.
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I know. I'm kinda disappointed. I'm not usually so direct, but it's Friday and I figured everyone needed to get their blood up a little.
/. community is maturing and not so easily provoked anymore? I hope not.
Maybe the
I didn't say it was intened to cripple industrial development. It was intended to hamper industrialized (read: western) economies. The Kyoto protocols specifically exempted developing nations, who are some of the worst offenders on a per-capita basis. If the point of Kyoto was environmental protection, then it would have been just as unforgiving of LDCs as it was of western countries.
It left the LDCs alone so that they could have a competitive advantage over those who had to invest a lot of money and effort to comply with Kyoto.
No one is adhering to Kyoto who wasn't already below those levels to begin with. Europe hasn't done jack, Russia hasn't done jack, China hasn't done jack. At least the US said up front that this treaty was a load of crap and didn't pay lip service to it while continuing to ignore it. The point of Kyoto wasn't to reduce greenhouse gasses, although that's how it wasw sold to the treehugger crowd. The point of Kyoto was to cripple industrialized economies so that lesser developed nations could compete more effectively.
Time to burn some karma.
Global organizations, especially those dominated by third-countries (or soon to be third-world countries like France), are notorious for using the fascade of internationalism as a mask for the pursuit of their own selfish interests.
This particular case has nothing more to do with free trade than Germany banning internet sales of Nazi memorabilia. This is a law enforcement issue. Or would you claim that any nation's drug policy prohibiting the import of cocaine is an unfair trade practice targeted at Columbia?
And do a little homework before you start blathering about the US withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol. The US Senate never ratified it, since liberal poster-boy Bill Clinton never submitted it. Can't withdraw from a treaty you were never agreed to.
I've heard from photo hobbyist friends that people are buying the mini's to get the drives to use in their cameras because it's cheaper than buying just the drives.
Maybe NASA could do a better job at managing tight-budget programs if they blocked access to /. for people embroiled in start-up operations.
I tried making everyone use a hardware firewall, but my laptop users bitched like crazy. Sometimes you don't get to do what you want, or what is best. Sometimes you have to do what's mostly good enough.