Only people below a certain level of intelligence believe that they are not influenced by onscreen advertising. I'm intelligent enough to know that I am.
Precisely. I was vaguely interested in the article - will a more expensive card improve the shooting speed on my camera? I wondered, or more precisely - would it reduce the delay between being able to take pictures?
Page 2 of the article: "many of our digital cameras have limited write speeds too, so the full potential of these so-called high-speed cards will be restricted.".
I was a wee bit old for Transformers. I used to watch occassionally, and assumed that the TV programmes were simply adverts for the merchandise. I can't see that I was really wrong. The production values were true cheese.
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I came in precisely to make the same point - why the sudden glut of slashbacks? They are entirely idiotic, from what I can tell. I saw the article a day or two ago, I read the most highly moderated comments, so what value has a summary of the highly moderated comments got?... apart from engendering a curious feeling of deja vue and dupedom.
How were you supposed to know? Because the idea of a single large box filtering all the traffic between Europe and the outside world is ludicrous, that's how. My apologies for using a metaphor.
I take it you haven't tried using Mac OS X's pitiful built in help. MS's effort leave Apple's standing. And I don't like saying that one bit. Not only is the system slow, but the content is very, very thin.
It wouldn't be a single monolithic firewall, you twerp. It would consist of every company and organisation firewalling the killswitch addresses/ports before they reinstalled.
I suspect if they did killswitch it, then what would *actually* happen would be the erection of a large firewall between Europe and the U.S, while governments re-installed from their install disks. There would certainly be a large amount of disruption to the European economy for two weeks.
Then extradition proceedings would start against Gates, Ballmer et al.
I'd like to see MS cope with all the refunds it would have to pay out in order to remove its customers licenses. Or did you mean that Microsoft would threaten to stop selling any new products into the EU? Hmmm, I can just see that one "Yes everyone in Europe will have to continue to use XP, we won't sell Vista, or new versions of office". That certainly sounds palatable to MS, I don't think.
Spendid bit of ad hominem flame baiting/trolling there. To be clear. Are you saying that the EU Commission is being "corrupt" in some way here? I'm not a fan of much of the Commission's work and its inability to get it's budget through audit for (how many?) years is ludicrous. In this case though, it appears ti have been transparent and straightforward.
I believe the difference is that with the existing system, any encrypted folder can be accessed using an admin password. Not so with private folders. I have a certain sympathy with MS on this one. I can think of occasions where a business manager (say the CFO) would like to encrypt data without the IT staff having access to it.
I'm a Mac user, I don't run in admin. However, usually pieces of software demand my admin password when I install, so that they can go into/Applications, or more troublesomely, scatter bits of themselves around the system.
This offers zero protection against trojans - I KNOW that I am installing software, I EXPECT it to ask for my admin password. However, it's a trojan, not the nice app I expected, so I am owned, nonetheless.
It is a shame that Mac OS X gives you zero visibility by default of WHY an installer is demanding admin - WHAT does it want to put where?
Yahoo used to stand for something though.... rattles grey cells. Checks Google. Hmmm, according to Yahoo's history page it used to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but I'm sure when I first came across it in the mid 90s it was 'Yet Another Hierarchically Organized..." something. Ontology?
Particularly since this story is all about how Google intends to remain focussed on search:
"Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering...Mr Merrill said 70% of the company's activities remained focused on search.
The description of the forte being systems programming could just as easily apply to Apple, but it isn't suffering the same type of issues, partly, I suspect because of the savvy way it has capitalised on open source code within a proprietary framework.
Actually, the fireman would evaluate the fire. If it was an oil fire he (she?) would not use the water. A more likely response would be to discard the water and place the upturned bucket over the fire to exclude oxygen.
I'm sure this contributes something deeply insightful to the debate, but I'm damned if I can work out what.
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More amusingly, the summary gives the impression that existing models of the future actually provide accurate, meaningful answers.
To which I feel compelled to reply "Bwhuahahahaha"
Only people below a certain level of intelligence believe that they are not influenced by onscreen advertising. I'm intelligent enough to know that I am.
Not all of them, but some of them.
Precisely. I was vaguely interested in the article - will a more expensive card improve the shooting speed on my camera? I wondered, or more precisely - would it reduce the delay between being able to take pictures?
Page 2 of the article: "many of our digital cameras have limited write speeds too, so the full potential of these so-called high-speed cards will be restricted.".
So nothing to see here, move along.
I was a wee bit old for Transformers. I used to watch occassionally, and assumed that the TV programmes were simply adverts for the merchandise. I can't see that I was really wrong. The production values were true cheese.
The most hotly contested issue raised by yesterday's Backslash was the gratuitous number of Backslashes that have now appeared. In today's Backslash we look at the most insightful comments regarding this issue, and ask; will we find an answer, which we can summarise in tomorrow's Backslash?
So you knew about the Macromedia buyout how many weeks in advance?
Imagine how much more traffic they could get if the editors spent the time researching and posting interesting new topics.
I came in precisely to make the same point - why the sudden glut of slashbacks? They are entirely idiotic, from what I can tell. I saw the article a day or two ago, I read the most highly moderated comments, so what value has a summary of the highly moderated comments got?... apart from engendering a curious feeling of deja vue and dupedom.
How were you supposed to know? Because the idea of a single large box filtering all the traffic between Europe and the outside world is ludicrous, that's how. My apologies for using a metaphor.
Well, we don;t know the price yet do we? If, for example I could rent a movie to watch on my PC for 5 days at $0.99c I'd be tempted.
It's DRM, but as long as it is transparent what you are getting, and the price reflects the restrictions, that's OK by me.
I take it you haven't tried using Mac OS X's pitiful built in help. MS's effort leave Apple's standing. And I don't like saying that one bit. Not only is the system slow, but the content is very, very thin.
It wouldn't be a single monolithic firewall, you twerp. It would consist of every company and organisation firewalling the killswitch addresses/ports before they reinstalled.
I suspect if they did killswitch it, then what would *actually* happen would be the erection of a large firewall between Europe and the U.S, while governments re-installed from their install disks. There would certainly be a large amount of disruption to the European economy for two weeks.
Then extradition proceedings would start against Gates, Ballmer et al.
I believe there is a procedure called 'extradition'
I'd like to see MS cope with all the refunds it would have to pay out in order to remove its customers licenses. Or did you mean that Microsoft would threaten to stop selling any new products into the EU? Hmmm, I can just see that one "Yes everyone in Europe will have to continue to use XP, we won't sell Vista, or new versions of office". That certainly sounds palatable to MS, I don't think.
Spendid bit of ad hominem flame baiting/trolling there. To be clear. Are you saying that the EU Commission is being "corrupt" in some way here? I'm not a fan of much of the Commission's work and its inability to get it's budget through audit for (how many?) years is ludicrous. In this case though, it appears ti have been transparent and straightforward.
I believe the difference is that with the existing system, any encrypted folder can be accessed using an admin password. Not so with private folders. I have a certain sympathy with MS on this one. I can think of occasions where a business manager (say the CFO) would like to encrypt data without the IT staff having access to it.
No wonder the It staff kicked up a fuss.
It depends on the design of the OS.
/Applications, or more troublesomely, scatter bits of themselves around the system.
I'm a Mac user, I don't run in admin. However, usually pieces of software demand my admin password when I install, so that they can go into
This offers zero protection against trojans - I KNOW that I am installing software, I EXPECT it to ask for my admin password. However, it's a trojan, not the nice app I expected, so I am owned, nonetheless.
It is a shame that Mac OS X gives you zero visibility by default of WHY an installer is demanding admin - WHAT does it want to put where?
Sorry, what part of it defies our current understanding? It has just updated our current understanding.
Yahoo used to stand for something though.... rattles grey cells. Checks Google. Hmmm, according to Yahoo's history page it used to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but I'm sure when I first came across it in the mid 90s it was 'Yet Another Hierarchically Organized ..." something. Ontology?
Particularly since this story is all about how Google intends to remain focussed on search:
"Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering...Mr Merrill said 70% of the company's activities remained focused on search.
Because the record companies don't want you doing anything with your CD other than playing it in a vanilla, dumb CD-player thank you very much.
The description of the forte being systems programming could just as easily apply to Apple, but it isn't suffering the same type of issues, partly, I suspect because of the savvy way it has capitalised on open source code within a proprietary framework.
Wasn't the new testament based on the teachings of a Jewish Communist?
Actually, the fireman would evaluate the fire. If it was an oil fire he (she?) would not use the water. A more likely response would be to discard the water and place the upturned bucket over the fire to exclude oxygen.
I'm sure this contributes something deeply insightful to the debate, but I'm damned if I can work out what.