Being a BOFH did not cost them their job, being a douche did. The key here is that the subject of both anecdotes are stepping over the line of legality and into the realm of general ass-hatery.
I'm partly a BOFH, mostly because I can't put up with people who are unable to read simple directions or *gasp* think for two seconds on their own.
Where would we be if carpenters (office workers) learned how to use their hammer (computer) for only pounding nails (day in, day out routine) and were all too afraid to *try* and use the claw side for removing a nail... ?(anything outside of clicking the handful of icons on the desktop)
I'm in agreement that encrypting the entire system is not required. Although there are benchmarks showing that there is no performance loss, it is another thing to go wrong.
Instead, I'd suggest we forget the first portion of what you said and change the second part to..
What you do is store sensitive material on secure servers and have people check out copies of material that they have access to a specified local encrypted volume.
This way if there does end up being a problem with the encryption software (see other posts where users have been unable to recover their OS from fully encrypted volumes) the only data to be lost is the checked out data that still resides on the server. With this method if there are any data corruption bugs (seems to be able to happen to the best of software) you do not have to re-image every device that ends up corrupt.
I think the next version of the boards software should allow for negative scoring. This way things that are just wrong can be -5 informative instead of flaimebait. Anyone else agree, has probably been suggested before.
I am not saying that they cant sell it, IÃm saying that they do it to squeeze money out of their customers, not because that is something that is good for their customers.
Whats the point of a business if not to make money?
Tell me why I should pay extra for running the OS on additional cores? You sound like the media mafia. When the CD came, they said it was more expensive because the quality was higher, now they sell mp3-files online for the same price as CDs.
Oh I don't know, maybe to pay the team that writes and maintains the code to support multiple processors?
You sound like the media mafia. When the CD came, they said it was more expensive because the quality was higher, now they sell mp3-files online for the same price as CDs.
meh, we can agree on this... if I can prove I own a license to the music, by say providing proof that I own the record, cassette, or CD, I should be able to obtain it on any other media for only the cost of the distribution method. No where near the same argument of paying more for added feature, but you knew that..
Price has nothing to do with features, if it had Ubuntu would be more expensive than Vista Ultimate
Oh... I get it now, you're an idiot.
Of course price is related to features. Programers write software, if they want to add a feature it takes more time, the company they work for pays them for that time, in turn the company charges more for the product. Pretty simple really..
Since you seem to want to work for free can you come keep my drive clear from all this damn snow that keeps building up..?
It seems to me that your saying Microsoft cant sell any products other than their OS unless its included freely in the OS.
Your PAYING for added features. When you buy ultimate your really doing this:
2 lisences for windows OS proper (first one allows you to run it on a single core, the second allows you to run it on any number of additional cores) 1 lisence for advanced networking components (name some applications and prices that come close to the level of central configuration and remote management group policy allows, don't forget each of the licenses for the agents) 1 license for MCE etc.. etc..
You wouldn't expect to get the complete version of winamp for free why expect the full version of media center to be free? Also, why the fuck don't you guys bitch about software that does this? Winamp has 3 versions! (Full, Bundled, Pro) its a single fucking application... can you tell just based on those names which is the free one?
Just posting for completeness, OEM keys and volume keys also work from the retail DVD.
It really is quite simple. MS licensing has really come a LONG way in the past few years. Most people here just seem to have their head in the sand when it comes to anything MS related.
The lack of fallout 3 data maybe because it currently will not run.
I can get it to install but it seems to be about the time secure rom kicks in that the game hangs at a black screen before the main menu.
l4d played awesome. Forgive me for not being so hardcore as to look at frame rates but the game seemed to perform as well as XP but looked better (fire, smoke, blood clouds) with DX10.
(I don't use silly numbers to tell me how a game is performing, if its smooth and fluid the game is performing fine, if its jerky not so much. I can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS anyway...)
AC is uninformed troll who can't be bothered to even read one post, what makes you think hes going to bother looking up anything for himself on other sites...
It actually takes even more than 30 days if your a long time smoker. Once a week for a few years will take somewhere between 60 and 90 days to become undetected in urine.
them pop up submenus? Sorry for two replies, but yes you can.
I've made use of this since the ability to add toolbars was possible. I set a toolbar to my music directory and shove it as close to the clock as possible. This way it displays as a menu (like the start menu) listing the folder with the ability to drill into your sub folders.
Enabling the text is an excellent idea as it will make it possible to distinguish running and non-running apps, and even know which document is being worked on. Microsoft should switch to this and probably scrap their current scheme for showing the running apps (it is seriously flawed as a non-running app between two running ones looks nearly identical to three running ones in a row). Programs that really think they work without text can set the text to a blank string.
Agreed 100%, I believe the show desktop button should also have something indicating what it is. I'm also unsure what purpose showing the desktop does when simply hovering the button but thats probably just due to my computing habits and never leaving anything on the desktop but some wallpaper.
I think Microsoft should get all those indicators (the battery, etc) into the taskbar as well. They really do indicate running programs. This would be much better and consistent than the Mac which put these things on the menubar. They should also maybe take some ideas from Gnome and make the "start" be a sort of running application. Gnome kind of has the right idea but they think the "all the visible windows" is a single "thing" to put on the taskbar, when instead it should be a dynamic collection of many "things", one per window.
I'm not yet sold on the changes they've made to the notification area. My settings don't seem to be sticking as of build 7000, so I can't decide if its because it isn't working right or just bad design.
>>will I be sure to get my data and unauthorized programs back after IT services is done dumping a new install on it?
No, you've been trained and reminded time and time again where to save your work and I don't give a care in the world to the pirated applications you've installed without consent. In fact you wouldn't have installed them at all if it weren't for that one stupid application from 12 years ago that requires administrative permissions.
Never mind you've been able to have non-running icons on your task bar since the IE 5 update on windows 95.
They dropped the "quick launch" toolbar and merged it into the task bar so you don't have one running and one non running item for the same thing.
The whole thing really does make a lot more sense when you turn the text back on. Open programs display the application or document name with the programs icon, closed applications drop down to their icon.
No, they will just be shinning examples of how pedophiles cannot be "fixed"(another discussion, imo probably true) and snapped because the system worked perfectly. They were so distraught being unable to get to children that they snapped. The homicides and following suicide were just tragic collateral damage.
I recall Countdown to Doomsday was on the SciFi channel a while back. (Sorry, 600,000 triggered the memory) It went over the 10 most likely doomsday events and was kind of unsettling. Most of the events that were "time-based" (supervolcano, meteor, giant solar flare) were real close to the interval they seem to occur at.
I take it with a grain of salt though, my lifetime is a very tiny percentage of any of those intervals.
So it's fine when we use "leet speek" for MS? B[_]t wh@+ if w3 @pp!13d 1t t0 3\/3|2y t|-|1ng!?!!!!!1oneeleventy.
It's just as lame to use "leet" for two letters as it is a whole sentance. Quit standing up for the lame troll.
They are already the laughing stock of the console gaming world with their poorly designed Xbox consoles and the massive Red Ring of Death hardware failures.
Psstt.. the only place this sentance is true is here on slashdot.
Not exactly on topic but close enough to provide a warning to other gamers out there.
I once played a ROM of Chrono Trigger all the way though (yes, I still actually own the game, its in the drawer behind me.) without using a save point.
Unfortunately, after beating the game you are supposed to get a new game plus option but since there was no saved game there was no game data to continue with. I figured that since the new game+ only was available after beating the final boss the game did its own save. It probably does, but instead of asking for a slot to save in when it doesn't find one it fails silently and continues.
Kind of surprising the game doesn't just crash but also doesn't handle things correctly either. I wonder if making a new game and just saving once would have unlocked it. Would expect to start with the level the save game was but able to get various endings.
I work at a grand format digital print company and trying to figure out if there are any cases we could use this, saving ink on the big printers would be awesome. Unfortunatly all text we print is generally as big as your head. We would need something with lots of much smaller holes since our viewing distances are usually in the dozens of feet.
Also, instead of having to print the entire document in draft mode any background art can be kept at regular quality. I would be surprised to find this couldn't be done through the RIP making this largely pointless.
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Being a BOFH did not cost them their job, being a douche did. The key here is that the subject of both anecdotes are stepping over the line of legality and into the realm of general ass-hatery.
I'm partly a BOFH, mostly because I can't put up with people who are unable to read simple directions or *gasp* think for two seconds on their own.
Where would we be if carpenters (office workers) learned how to use their hammer (computer) for only pounding nails (day in, day out routine) and were all too afraid to *try* and use the claw side for removing a nail... ?(anything outside of clicking the handful of icons on the desktop)
Close...
I'm in agreement that encrypting the entire system is not required. Although there are benchmarks showing that there is no performance loss, it is another thing to go wrong.
Instead, I'd suggest we forget the first portion of what you said and change the second part to..
What you do is store sensitive material on secure servers and have people check out copies of material that they have access to a specified local encrypted volume.
This way if there does end up being a problem with the encryption software (see other posts where users have been unable to recover their OS from fully encrypted volumes) the only data to be lost is the checked out data that still resides on the server. With this method if there are any data corruption bugs (seems to be able to happen to the best of software) you do not have to re-image every device that ends up corrupt.
I think the next version of the boards software should allow for negative scoring. This way things that are just wrong can be -5 informative instead of flaimebait. Anyone else agree, has probably been suggested before.
This has got to be the most ignorant thing I have ever read on the Internet.
I am not saying that they cant sell it, IÃm saying that they do it to squeeze money out of their customers, not because that is something that is good for their customers.
Whats the point of a business if not to make money?
Tell me why I should pay extra for running the OS on additional cores? You sound like the media mafia. When the CD came, they said it was more expensive because the quality was higher, now they sell mp3-files online for the same price as CDs.
Oh I don't know, maybe to pay the team that writes and maintains the code to support multiple processors?
You sound like the media mafia. When the CD came, they said it was more expensive because the quality was higher, now they sell mp3-files online for the same price as CDs.
meh, we can agree on this... if I can prove I own a license to the music, by say providing proof that I own the record, cassette, or CD, I should be able to obtain it on any other media for only the cost of the distribution method. No where near the same argument of paying more for added feature, but you knew that..
Price has nothing to do with features, if it had Ubuntu would be more expensive than Vista Ultimate
Oh... I get it now, you're an idiot.
Of course price is related to features. Programers write software, if they want to add a feature it takes more time, the company they work for pays them for that time, in turn the company charges more for the product. Pretty simple really..
Since you seem to want to work for free can you come keep my drive clear from all this damn snow that keeps building up..?
It seems to me that your saying Microsoft cant sell any products other than their OS unless its included freely in the OS.
Your PAYING for added features. When you buy ultimate your really doing this:
2 lisences for windows OS proper (first one allows you to run it on a single core, the second allows you to run it on any number of additional cores)
1 lisence for advanced networking components (name some applications and prices that come close to the level of central configuration and remote management group policy allows, don't forget each of the licenses for the agents)
1 license for MCE
etc.. etc..
You wouldn't expect to get the complete version of winamp for free why expect the full version of media center to be free? Also, why the fuck don't you guys bitch about software that does this? Winamp has 3 versions! (Full, Bundled, Pro) its a single fucking application... can you tell just based on those names which is the free one?
Just posting for completeness, OEM keys and volume keys also work from the retail DVD.
It really is quite simple. MS licensing has really come a LONG way in the past few years. Most people here just seem to have their head in the sand when it comes to anything MS related.
The lack of fallout 3 data maybe because it currently will not run.
I can get it to install but it seems to be about the time secure rom kicks in that the game hangs at a black screen before the main menu.
l4d played awesome. Forgive me for not being so hardcore as to look at frame rates but the game seemed to perform as well as XP but looked better (fire, smoke, blood clouds) with DX10.
(I don't use silly numbers to tell me how a game is performing, if its smooth and fluid the game is performing fine, if its jerky not so much. I can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS anyway...)
AC is uninformed troll who can't be bothered to even read one post, what makes you think hes going to bother looking up anything for himself on other sites...
It actually takes even more than 30 days if your a long time smoker. Once a week for a few years will take somewhere between 60 and 90 days to become undetected in urine.
Whether you care to admit it or not, pot smoking does adversely affect people's ability to get work accomplished in a reasonable way.
Is this kind of like how I have to work 30-45 minutes more than the tobacco smokers do so they can get their 2-3 15 minute smoke breaks in?
Not saying you smoke tobacco but this is a hypocritical defense and one I won't listen to.
them pop up submenus?
Sorry for two replies, but yes you can.
I've made use of this since the ability to add toolbars was possible. I set a toolbar to my music directory and shove it as close to the clock as possible. This way it displays as a menu (like the start menu) listing the folder with the ability to drill into your sub folders.
Enabling the text is an excellent idea as it will make it possible to distinguish running and non-running apps, and even know which document is being worked on. Microsoft should switch to this and probably scrap their current scheme for showing the running apps (it is seriously flawed as a non-running app between two running ones looks nearly identical to three running ones in a row). Programs that really think they work without text can set the text to a blank string.
Agreed 100%, I believe the show desktop button should also have something indicating what it is. I'm also unsure what purpose showing the desktop does when simply hovering the button but thats probably just due to my computing habits and never leaving anything on the desktop but some wallpaper.
I think Microsoft should get all those indicators (the battery, etc) into the taskbar as well. They really do indicate running programs. This would be much better and consistent than the Mac which put these things on the menubar. They should also maybe take some ideas from Gnome and make the "start" be a sort of running application. Gnome kind of has the right idea but they think the "all the visible windows" is a single "thing" to put on the taskbar, when instead it should be a dynamic collection of many "things", one per window.
I'm not yet sold on the changes they've made to the notification area. My settings don't seem to be sticking as of build 7000, so I can't decide if its because it isn't working right or just bad design.
>>will I be sure to get my data and unauthorized programs back after IT services is done dumping a new install on it?
No, you've been trained and reminded time and time again where to save your work and I don't give a care in the world to the pirated applications you've installed without consent. In fact you wouldn't have installed them at all if it weren't for that one stupid application from 12 years ago that requires administrative permissions.
I've been looking forward to this release since my first install of vista. Also been using 7 since the day the beta was released.
So far I really like, will most likely upgrade from XP when it is released.
Never mind you've been able to have non-running icons on your task bar since the IE 5 update on windows 95.
They dropped the "quick launch" toolbar and merged it into the task bar so you don't have one running and one non running item for the same thing.
The whole thing really does make a lot more sense when you turn the text back on. Open programs display the application or document name with the programs icon, closed applications drop down to their icon.
No, they will just be shinning examples of how pedophiles cannot be "fixed"(another discussion, imo probably true) and snapped because the system worked perfectly. They were so distraught being unable to get to children that they snapped. The homicides and following suicide were just tragic collateral damage.
Full version of acrobat != pdfcreator or cutepdf writer or any other print to pdf application.
Most users do not need anything more than the free acrobat reader and a pdf printer though.
I recall Countdown to Doomsday was on the SciFi channel a while back. (Sorry, 600,000 triggered the memory) It went over the 10 most likely doomsday events and was kind of unsettling. Most of the events that were "time-based" (supervolcano, meteor, giant solar flare) were real close to the interval they seem to occur at.
I take it with a grain of salt though, my lifetime is a very tiny percentage of any of those intervals.
2/10 - lost points for making it personal and using such a worthless link to attempt to "prove" your argument...
So it's fine when we use "leet speek" for MS? B[_]t wh@+ if w3 @pp!13d 1t t0 3\/3|2y t|-|1ng!?!!!!!1oneeleventy. It's just as lame to use "leet" for two letters as it is a whole sentance. Quit standing up for the lame troll.
They are already the laughing stock of the console gaming world with their poorly designed Xbox consoles and the massive Red Ring of Death hardware failures. Psstt.. the only place this sentance is true is here on slashdot.
Not exactly on topic but close enough to provide a warning to other gamers out there. I once played a ROM of Chrono Trigger all the way though (yes, I still actually own the game, its in the drawer behind me.) without using a save point. Unfortunately, after beating the game you are supposed to get a new game plus option but since there was no saved game there was no game data to continue with. I figured that since the new game+ only was available after beating the final boss the game did its own save. It probably does, but instead of asking for a slot to save in when it doesn't find one it fails silently and continues.
Kind of surprising the game doesn't just crash but also doesn't handle things correctly either. I wonder if making a new game and just saving once would have unlocked it. Would expect to start with the level the save game was but able to get various endings.
It only takes two words to fix most things: Common and Sense. Unfortunatly, you can't fix stupid.
Eh, I think if they are sending their to a school well off enough to give a laptop to everyone they can afford a laptop for their snowflake.
I work at a grand format digital print company and trying to figure out if there are any cases we could use this, saving ink on the big printers would be awesome. Unfortunatly all text we print is generally as big as your head. We would need something with lots of much smaller holes since our viewing distances are usually in the dozens of feet.
Also, instead of having to print the entire document in draft mode any background art can be kept at regular quality. I would be surprised to find this couldn't be done through the RIP making this largely pointless.