Quality is wonderful too.. uncompressed high-quality analog video.
Whenever I go over to a friends and watch their digital satellite, I am shocked at how terrible the quality is (very overcompressed). This is with StarChoice, in Canada. I don't know how it is in the States, but I've not been impressed with what I've seen here.
Between my C-Band dish and my antenna, I get much better quality (and much much cheaper! I pay ~$60 Canadian per YEAR for my C-Band service, since I choose just the few channels I want), for the most part. The local stations (Toronto area) on broadcast look wonderful.. so do the UHF Buffalo stations (no static at all, strong image). Low VHF is a problem because of interference from Ontario Hydro's electrical lines, but that's another story...
Am I the only one who finds analog noise more pleasing than digital macroblocking, though?
Let's face it, as long as there is a human element involved, there will be difference of opinion , no matter what the topic is about. And editing out parts which you don't necessaryly agree to is censorship.
Right, but all encyclopaedias are written by humans -- it doesn't matter if you are reading Encyclopaedia Britannica or Wikipedia -- they both contain bias.
But the difference is we dont have to spend millions of dollars to convert what we have to "M.S.W.", because we are already using it. Likewise, we dont have to retrain all the users, retrain the support staff (or fire them all and hire new staff), and replace tons of hardware which wont be Linux compatible.
Most people rooting for linux at the desktop really have no conception of how to run an IT department, much less its concerns
Maybe you should go and read the original article. Who's talking about desktops?
He said that the suggestion of Linux servers was laughed down because of the two root exploits.
The only embarrassing thing, for him, was that there had been two highly public r00t exploits within that two or three week period.
Because it's not like another popular operating system, who, for its own protection, we will only referred to as "M.S.W.", has a perfectly clean security record..
Others have suggested that Google will fall like Netscape (the browser) did.
I'm not so sure.
Yes, Microsoft did use their desktop OS monopoly to get IE onto everyone's computer, but they did it at just the right time -- Netscape had gone way downhill, and people wanted a browser that worked half decently.
Even if they integrate MSN Search, people will still use Google because it is lightyears better -- Google is even a verb now because of it.
Scientists have also found the same thing about Newfoundland (though they didn't practice polygamy, they are an island and didn't join Canada until 1949 so have a pretty bland gene pool)..
It's population has been very helpful in researching genetic diseases (of which Newfoundland has a huge problem with, due to lack of variety in the gene pool).
VCR:
Insert tape, push record. It's recording.
Computer:
Push power. Wait 2 minutes. Click, click, click, click, DAMN!! it crashed!!, reboot, click, click, click. It's recording. Oops, I moved the mouse -- it just dropped 20 consecutive frames. Oh well.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
Here, in Ontario, we pay 25 cents for all local calls at pay phones.
Long distance is 75 cents plus 25 cents/minute.
How can you stand paying that much? Why the hell is it that much?
Bell Canada doesn't seem to be eliminating pay phones here.. they actually (just a few years ago) finished replacing them all with Nextel Millenium payphones which are pretty fancy, heavy-duty, un-phreakable phones.
Sorry, nope. They had made the switch completely BEFORE New Coke.
Snopes to the rescue, again..
In 1980, five years before the introduction of New Coke, half the cane sugar in Coca-Cola had been replaced with high fructose corn syrup. By six months prior to New Coke's knocking the original Coca-Cola off the shelves, there was no cane sugar in American Coca-Cola. Whether they knew it or not, what consumers were drinking then was 100% sweetened by high fructose corn syrup.
Microsoft Office 97 requires you to open permissions on key parts of the system including C:\Winnt and C:\Winnt\System to work. (see my other comment in this thread)
I think you misunderstand. In Windows XP, the permissions are not this tight to start with -- if you want the important bits to only be touchable by Administrator, you need to tighten it down.
I know very well how to install a program as the Admin user. The point is, the software does not work unless it is running as the administrator unless you give everyone read/write permissions on certain areas where they shouldn't need it (such as the Program Files directory, and so on).
That's just poor programming.
In Linux, unless you need to do system administration functions, you never ever need to log into your machine as root.
Additionally (forgot to stick this in my other comment), Microsoft does NOT always create correct software.. see This page on the security requirements for Office 97. To be fair, I don't know if they fixed it for Office 2000, but come on.
Look at this; It needs full read/write access to C:\Temp, C:\Winnt, C:\Winnt\System, (these ones are already wide-open in a default install), C:\Program Files\Office 97, and a bunch others.
This makes it basically impossible to secure a Windows box..
It's for historical reasons; for the longest time Developers were allowed to put files wherever they wanted on the system, up till Windows NT4/2000/XP.
Also, Microsoft doesn't help matters by shipping Windows XP with the default user account as Administrator or Power User.. software can still dump stuff everywhere, so less-skilled developers don't even likely realize what they are doing is wrong.
In fact, by default large areas of the hard drive are open to all users, where as in *nix, a regular user can't write to anything but the files in their home directory.
In an operating system such as *nix, there is a strong historical precedent for putting things in the RIGHT place, because of the strong usage of user accounts.
And maybe, for some reason, people would not surf the dangerous web using the administrator account? It's not a Good Thing to do, it is more like a DANGEROUS kernel feature. You don't know if it will do anything, but when it does... it's too late.
Windows is braindead and inconsistent in this respect. Much software still wants to piss in it's Program Files directory and will refuse to run unless it is run as Administrator.. other programs require it because of sloppy coding.
You'd think you could set everything in the Program Files directory to be writable by Admin only, but it doesn't work because of this.
Also, when you install software, it is unpredictable as to what it will do; whether it will put it's icons in the All Users start menu or in the current user's one.
So, basically, all there is to do is run as Administrator.. the system is nearly unusable otherwise.
And would those be Binary megabytes or Decimal megabytes?
It's a battle you just can't win.. I personally perfer "Mbit" for megabits and the conventional binary megabyte.. but I've been known to write it MB, Mb, or mb.
In general, I think it's a bad idea to make such a distinction based on the capitalization of one letter.. it's too easy to screw up and too difficult for most people to understand..
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Whenever I go over to a friends and watch their digital satellite, I am shocked at how terrible the quality is (very overcompressed). This is with StarChoice, in Canada. I don't know how it is in the States, but I've not been impressed with what I've seen here.
Between my C-Band dish and my antenna, I get much better quality (and much much cheaper! I pay ~$60 Canadian per YEAR for my C-Band service, since I choose just the few channels I want), for the most part. The local stations (Toronto area) on broadcast look wonderful.. so do the UHF Buffalo stations (no static at all, strong image). Low VHF is a problem because of interference from Ontario Hydro's electrical lines, but that's another story...
Am I the only one who finds analog noise more pleasing than digital macroblocking, though?
He said that the suggestion of Linux servers was laughed down because of the two root exploits.
Because it's not like another popular operating system, who, for its own protection, we will only referred to as "M.S.W.", has a perfectly clean security record..
Problem solved! ;)
No way it could have anything to do with the fact that messages in the binary groups are easily 1000 times the size of text messages..
I'm not so sure.
Yes, Microsoft did use their desktop OS monopoly to get IE onto everyone's computer, but they did it at just the right time -- Netscape had gone way downhill, and people wanted a browser that worked half decently.
Even if they integrate MSN Search, people will still use Google because it is lightyears better -- Google is even a verb now because of it.
It's population has been very helpful in researching genetic diseases (of which Newfoundland has a huge problem with, due to lack of variety in the gene pool).
VCR: Insert tape, push record. It's recording. Computer: Push power. Wait 2 minutes. Click, click, click, click, DAMN!! it crashed!!, reboot, click, click, click. It's recording. Oops, I moved the mouse -- it just dropped 20 consecutive frames. Oh well.
Here, in Ontario, we pay 25 cents for all local calls at pay phones.
Long distance is 75 cents plus 25 cents/minute.
How can you stand paying that much? Why the hell is it that much?
Bell Canada doesn't seem to be eliminating pay phones here.. they actually (just a few years ago) finished replacing them all with Nextel Millenium payphones which are pretty fancy, heavy-duty, un-phreakable phones.
Snopes to the rescue, again..
Or perhaps you don't understand what CDN$ means? (CanaDiaN dollars) Even USD$59.98 is not enough to buy a new TV set..
And what about Divx? (not the codec)
Also a lot more convenient than ripping DVDs.
You just don't get the 'purely unintended' side effect of getting to keep it forever..
It's a shame that Filemaker is only Windows and Mac..
It's just like Access, except with an multi-window interface instead. It's also extensible with Python.
If you don't get it, read the packaging section of this site.
VCDEasy burning software
Medal of Honour: Allied Assult Spearhead Multiplayer Demo
There's lots of others..
I know very well how to install a program as the Admin user. The point is, the software does not work unless it is running as the administrator unless you give everyone read/write permissions on certain areas where they shouldn't need it (such as the Program Files directory, and so on).
That's just poor programming.
In Linux, unless you need to do system administration functions, you never ever need to log into your machine as root.
I don't use one; I know people who do. There's plenty of other good programmable keyboards, though.
Look at this; It needs full read/write access to C:\Temp, C:\Winnt, C:\Winnt\System, (these ones are already wide-open in a default install), C:\Program Files\Office 97, and a bunch others.
This makes it basically impossible to secure a Windows box..
Also, Microsoft doesn't help matters by shipping Windows XP with the default user account as Administrator or Power User.. software can still dump stuff everywhere, so less-skilled developers don't even likely realize what they are doing is wrong.
In fact, by default large areas of the hard drive are open to all users, where as in *nix, a regular user can't write to anything but the files in their home directory.
In an operating system such as *nix, there is a strong historical precedent for putting things in the RIGHT place, because of the strong usage of user accounts.
Windows is braindead and inconsistent in this respect. Much software still wants to piss in it's Program Files directory and will refuse to run unless it is run as Administrator.. other programs require it because of sloppy coding.
You'd think you could set everything in the Program Files directory to be writable by Admin only, but it doesn't work because of this.
Also, when you install software, it is unpredictable as to what it will do; whether it will put it's icons in the All Users start menu or in the current user's one.
So, basically, all there is to do is run as Administrator.. the system is nearly unusable otherwise.
It's a battle you just can't win.. I personally perfer "Mbit" for megabits and the conventional binary megabyte.. but I've been known to write it MB, Mb, or mb.
In general, I think it's a bad idea to make such a distinction based on the capitalization of one letter.. it's too easy to screw up and too difficult for most people to understand..