The Conservatives have criticised the idea, with the Shadow Home Secretary saying, 'yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances.'"
An of course, once they are in power, they will stop the data logging? - or will they conveniently forget and keep it going?
"What I can't understand is why people will pay $500-$2500 for their computer, another $200-$1000 for software, but won't pay a measly $20-$40 per year for an antivirus."
"That's a nice computer you got there. Would be a shame if someting would happen to it!"
That's the problem I have with anti-virus software.
That's one reason why I got a Mac, don't click randomly, and keep my software up to date.
What about iNtel having issues supplying the laptop chips to the manufacturers? This would explain why other dual core laptops are also being shipped "February" and the fact that the MacBooks at MacWorld were running hot, and the fact that no hardware for battery testing has been available.
I just have to bow before the guy who can read a 44 page pdf and post an intelligible, coherent comment on it in less than two minutes. I just have to ask - where do you get that kind of caffeine?
You can only really make the assumption that folks who install this are pirates, if it is also available by non-leaked paths.
If I was looking down the barrel of supporting a forced upgrade in a years time and this preview came along, I'd take the chance to have a look. That wouldn't make me a pirate - I can't buy it in the stores yet.
And why not simply install a popular Linux distribution on it from the get go? They could "brand" it simply by adding a package with Dell-logo wallpapers, themes, and icon sets.
For the same reason they don't install FreeDOS - they would have to support it in the field. Now they just have to support the hardware.
"Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to."
I would love to use Opera here at work, but it still can not handle the authenticated poxy server we have.
The latest version of firefox just needs "Automatic Detect" enabled.
Two people apply for a position. Both claim to know what they are doing. Both have the same amount of real world experiance. One has a cert/degree one dosn't. Which one do you hire?
Better question: which one do you call in for an interview?
I am an electronic engineer, not a CS guy, and I can tell you that in the last 3 companies I have worked, the manager of the Software team has said that he'd hire an EE over a CS degree to do software any day of the week.
Might sound like a flame, but in my experience CS degrees are looked at as lower than EE.
Leave your bedroom door open. Hopefully the lil bugger would run out of the room, find the stairs, and then just be an annoyance to the cats until the batteries ran out.
Dunno about anywehere else, but at my place of employment, we want to see manufacturable silicon before we even design 3rd party products into our designs, let alone announce to the public.
I thought slashdot was a write-only medium. No need to check if your statement (or story has been used before).
I gotta get out of here - theres still 12 hours to start my crimbo shopping, right?
I hope the extra 50 minutes comes BEFORE the part where Mr Jackson decided to have 3 false endings with lots of running water going on. Evil, Evil, Evil....
I work in RF design and the connectors and adaptors in our lab have a life-span of about 2 days before they 'walk'.
Now I finally see what the connectors do when set free!
I can't help wandering how this sort of connection will start effecting house prices, ie cheaper areas in a town because they are without Broadband.
Incidentally, I live in Campbell - next door to San Jose, as in Silicon Valley, and I can't even get DSL or Cable modem. Dial up speed is about 28k, and it's not my modem - that gets 48k at work.
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The Conservatives have criticised the idea, with the Shadow Home Secretary saying, 'yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances.'"
An of course, once they are in power, they will stop the data logging? - or will they conveniently forget and keep it going?
Should that be WAN-lubbers?
"What I can't understand is why people will pay $500-$2500 for their computer, another $200-$1000 for software, but won't pay a measly $20-$40 per year for an antivirus."
"That's a nice computer you got there. Would be a shame if someting would happen to it!"
That's the problem I have with anti-virus software. That's one reason why I got a Mac, don't click randomly, and keep my software up to date.
What about iNtel having issues supplying the laptop chips to the manufacturers? This would explain why other dual core laptops are also being shipped "February" and the fact that the MacBooks at MacWorld were running hot, and the fact that no hardware for battery testing has been available.
I just have to bow before the guy who can read a 44 page pdf and post an intelligible, coherent comment on it in less than two minutes. I just have to ask - where do you get that kind of caffeine?
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The cops in England? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/drugs_mix
No space sex? Why the hell am I wasting my time at astronaut school, then?!
;-)
And engineering school is much better?
You can only really make the assumption that folks who install this are pirates, if it is also available by non-leaked paths. If I was looking down the barrel of supporting a forced upgrade in a years time and this preview came along, I'd take the chance to have a look. That wouldn't make me a pirate - I can't buy it in the stores yet.
And why not simply install a popular Linux distribution on it from the get go? They could "brand" it simply by adding a package with Dell-logo wallpapers, themes, and icon sets.
For the same reason they don't install FreeDOS - they would have to support it in the field. Now they just have to support the hardware.
A couple of years back when M$ were talking about software rental and web-based apps, I seem to remember we were all dead against it.
Now Google are coming out with the same idea, it's seen as Good?
I know M$ needs a competitor, but we should be careful what we wish for. Is this web-based app world for everything better than the current M$ model?
Except more people are likely to read a diary than some random guys blog.
Blogs seem to decrease the Signal-to-Noise ratio of the net.
"Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to."
I would love to use Opera here at work, but it still can not handle the authenticated poxy server we have.
The latest version of firefox just needs "Automatic Detect" enabled.
Two people apply for a position. Both claim to know what they are doing. Both have the same amount of real world experiance. One has a cert/degree one dosn't. Which one do you hire?
Better question: which one do you call in for an interview?
I am an electronic engineer, not a CS guy, and I can tell you that in the last 3 companies I have worked, the manager of the Software team has said that he'd hire an EE over a CS degree to do software any day of the week. Might sound like a flame, but in my experience CS degrees are looked at as lower than EE.
It must be very cold down there....
Slashdot is making a good stab at Slashdotting itself!
Leave your bedroom door open.
Hopefully the lil bugger would run out of the room, find the stairs, and then just be an annoyance to the cats until the batteries ran out.
It's called The Lottery. I used to make a pound per week from it by not entering.
Damn! Looks like my XP box has caught this as well. Is this a cross-OS virus or something? ;-)
"Maybe the RAF has a big PowerPoint that's of interest on web server somewhere..." Are the RAF hosting it now because the Royal Navy website is down?
Dunno about anywehere else, but at my place of employment, we want to see manufacturable silicon before we even design 3rd party products into our designs, let alone announce to the public.
I thought slashdot was a write-only medium. No need to check if your statement (or story has been used before). I gotta get out of here - theres still 12 hours to start my crimbo shopping, right?
I hope the extra 50 minutes comes BEFORE the part where Mr Jackson decided to have 3 false endings with lots of running water going on. Evil, Evil, Evil....
I work in RF design and the connectors and adaptors in our lab have a life-span of about 2 days before they 'walk'. Now I finally see what the connectors do when set free!
2 days ago I purchased 9.1 pro. D'oH! Do they do an upgrade path?
I can't help wandering how this sort of connection will start effecting house prices, ie cheaper areas in a town because they are without Broadband. Incidentally, I live in Campbell - next door to San Jose, as in Silicon Valley, and I can't even get DSL or Cable modem. Dial up speed is about 28k, and it's not my modem - that gets 48k at work.