Come on, lets not be pessimists here. That's a whole lot of people. A few percentage points more and business will not be able to ignore non-IE users. Do you want to be the guy telling your boss that 10% of your customers can't use the company website?
10% is doable and a realistic goal, possibly within a year.
On top of it all, Moz users simply don't have to deal with ActiveX and pop-ups thus lowering their chances of getting crapware on their machines. You bet their friends are going to notice.
Is it just me or is SP2 a big stopgap fix mainly for spyware and security? Considering the #1 WAN app is IE, it seems that this is directly or indirectly a response to Moz's success.
>At the end, the total amount of recall I have of specific aspects of the book will be about equivalent to the recall I'd have after seeing a movie,
Well, if you're going to read mindless drivel like Clancey, you'll retain and absorb the same amount of "entertainment" information you'd get from a TV show or movie.
I think its fair to say that when people talk about reading they tend to mean books which challenge us, good fiction, smart non-fiction, etc not the best-sellers. Many best-sellers could easily be turned into movies or TV shows with little effort and I think this speaks volumes on how much of a TV-centric culture we have become.
There are lots of things that simply don't translate over well to entertainment media, its visual language or its idioms. Imagine a movie based on The Selfish Gene. You would retain so little of the points Dawkins is trying to make.
Your 'retainment' argument can be applied to anything really. Why go to college when you can simply skim the textbook, afterall you will only retain so much. In the end I think its up to the reader to find works that challenge or interest her. Then retention will then come naturally. Its also up to the reader to get off her ass and find a book club or lend her books out to friends if she wants to chat about them.
Its not the same thing, if you visit the site its integrated with usenet, thus I'm sure confusing the two to users who don't know different. This is a very effective way to kill usenet.
If the new google groups was seperate I would agree with you, but they are not.
In other words, google takes a step towards the darkside with a proprietary and closed psuedo-usenet. If MS was doing this, everyone here would be screaming for vengence.
Keep your eye on google, they have the potential to do a lot of wrong.
I like the ext version of Dune. Its especially good for people who are not familiar with the book. Sure, the narration could be better but I believe it keeps the story flowing instead of people looking around and saying "wtf" every ten minutes.
The added footage (30+ minutes if I remember correctly) fits in pretty well; its not sub-par in any way. It wasn't cut out because of quality, but because it makes the movie 2+ hours long.
Dune will always be a love it or hate it movie, but I'm sure more people would like it (or understand it) if they got to see the longer version with all the narration at the theater.
First off its very easy to unintentionally damage goods. Secondly, the extended warranty usually just doesn't extend the duration of the warranty, but its common to buy "anything that goes wrong" protection from retail stores like Best Buy.
If there's fraud here, its the retailer, not the customer. Also, if Best Buy believes they are dealing with a scammer they can refuse to replace the item. Instead, Best Buy complains about people buying sale items and trying to get the service they paid for.
You negotiate and decide on a per job basis. In retail there is no such thing; the prices are set and you are welcome to buy the items (in general). If the store can't really sell at those prices and expects you to throw away that rebate slip, then they are lying to you about their prices.
At least you have the decency to admit "No, I can't take this job." A better analogy is you taking that "trouble job" and then screwing everyone over later.
How is a static fry of a video card "scamming?" Umm, the extended service plans are expensive because they cover so many things. If your company is unable to fulfill its contract then it is performing fraud. Plain and simple.
Unfortunately, Best Buy is the kind of company where there is intra-store (departments) and inter-store competition and actually fulfilling that expensive service plan costs the department money, so shady managers screw with customers when they're trying to 'get ahead.'
This business method is just disgusting and makes shopping at places like Best Buy something of a gamble.
This article shows you how unethical this company is. Its one thing to get rid of trouble customers and another to blame customers for actually buying on sale items and mailing in their rebates. If Best Buy doesn't like this then they can stop offering these deals.
Man, can consumer protection be any more impotent?
That's a good explanation, but no one knows Spider-Man's relationship with Parker. Its assumed he just hires Parker and Spidey coming to avenge him seems a bit out of left field.
Granted, Ock is crazy, but it is a strange thing to do, a confusing scene at first, and a missed opportunity to do something interesting with the whole Parker == Spiderman bit.
Seriously. When Otto threw the car at Parker I assumed Otto figured out his secret identity. He didn't, it was just a mindless action shot.
Parker was his only contact to get to Spider-Man. Granted, in the process of rewrites and movie-making it may have been true that that Otto did figure it out (Oh, the only photographer is his exact same size!) but it was tossed for some reason or another.
This is a big mistake, because people like to be challenged when watching a movie. I like to guess at what's happening or will happen. Throwing a car at Parker is a big hint that Otto figured out his identity, instead the movie took the low-road of "lookee special effects!!"
Perhaps this story decision is a sign of the times.
That said, I saw this movie at home (shhh) and we just laughed at the cheesy and stoic "romance," and a few other things, but that was the only "nitpicking" thing I noticed and its a real flaw. Then again this wasn't a great movie to begin with and had a lot MST3K qualities to it.
Speaking of email. Anyone know how to reset the master password in Thunderbird, current milestone (on win2k)? I dont remember ever setting it, but there's a value there and this wont let me import my cert.
I pay for The Nation, which is an excellent news/politics weekly. Some of the stuff is online, but there's nothing like having the paper itself for the train.
I used to get Harper's but I really don't have time to finish a Harpers and they usually just end up in the bathroom after I've read the main story. A fine magazine with some very intelligent writing. The Harper's index is worth the admission price alone.
I subscribe to salon.com too. I never understood the allure of Lumpen and the other 'hip' liberal weeklies.
Thanks to the web and tivo I watch almost no televised news and get my AP/Reuters and NYTimes, Wash Post, etc for free.
>What I have been doing is simply swapping hard drives
I hope you are telling people that you are taking their drives, other than the fact this is fraud and theft you are destroying their warranties. Dell or whomever is not going to replace a third-party drive.
First off, you have to deal with windows file protection. This is known to help add more restarts than are needed.
Then you have the installer itself, in may be written to give you a false restart prompt.
2000 is not as flexible as XP and in my experience requires reboots for stuff that XP handles just fine. This many be how Microsoft writes it patches. I'm not sure on the specifics, but I see it all the time. (depending on the machine it may require as many reboots as an 2000 machine. see below)
Stuff in memory, stuff that is being used, etc or essentially 'your configuration and usage helps determine if you have to restart.'
That said, Windows needs a reboot every 30 days or so anyway to keep it running smoothly so it tends to work out. Especially on the server side. Trust me, you don't want to work with a Windows box that's been up for 100+ days. "Hey, why is all the RAM used up? Nothing is running."
Wait a second. Youre letting a group use your computer with no oversight (for all you know you are helping to crack codes for some government) and the update feature has you all up in arms?
Granted, I see the point of being able to disable this, but in the context of this project, well you're already their bitch.
Huh? How are a few fledgling attempts to break the 100km barrier anything close to a feasible manned Mars mission?
I guess its Lembeck's job to say nice things about NASA and those who control its purse-strings, but its a bit too optimistic to expect private industry to do a Mars launch anytime in the forseeable future. Heck, its hard to see NASA doing it, or any good reason to do it as a moon base would be safer, cheaper, and practical!
This sounds like damage-control after Scaled's success yesterday. Is NASA scared perhaps? Or maybe they don't want to look like a lumbering dinosaur to the tax payers.
That depends on state law I believe. Many people use pseudonyms, the real question I think ends with intent. If I want to remain anonymous (which this case might have made obselete) I am able, just like big celebrities, to use a fake name when it suits me.
If I use a fake name to perform fraud, then its just part of the big fraud pie and not necessarily illegal in itself.
> Kennedy went to space for political reasons too.
Yes, except Kennedy was serious and helped pull it off. The whole Mars mission is politics, but of the "distract them from the news" kind. Rutan will get on Mars before Bush's "mars mission."
Those first my first thoughts too. XP has a built in firewall, once the network adapter is installed you can active it. You dont have to get on the net first.
What I do is keep the patches for blaster, et al on a usb keydrive. No need to even get the stock firewall up during the upgrade process.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe XP has a mandrake-like 'check for updates now.'
This is a bigger problem in 2K, but you activate IP filtering, which is essentially XP's firewall...after reviewing your link that's mostly what the SANS people are telling people. Enable firewall. This slashdot article sounds like more MS bitching (ive dont my fair share to be sure) than anything else.
>Also, I'm not sure on this point, but I believe they are probably less powerful than cell phones
Correct. A cellphone can push as much as 3-5 watts out. Wifi is measured in milliwatts, about 200 or so for a decent AP, the cards are usually a little weaker.
>I'm just saying, I hate them too, but hey if they work, they work.
So would forcing me to watch 10 minutes of commercials before what I want appears. Think of the trailers at the movies.
It may "work" but it sure as hell doesn't make me want to visit or do business with those people. For example, I knew full well that the Punisher movie was coming out and all the PR and the crappy trailer sealed the deal: i'm not even going to rent it.
The more aggressive your marketing the more hits you'll get, but remember a lot of those will be from people accidentally clicking on your ad, being forced to pass through it, or from people with very low tech skills thinking its part of the site they are visiting. Heck, all the pop-ups I've seen lately misuse words like 'upgrade' and 'patch' to fool more people into visiting these sites.
There's a real cost with doing aggressive marketing and the blowback is already here with pop-up blockers and angry web users, not to mention the hate of spyware. I hope your business isn't put on some blacklist in the near future for 'malicious advertising.'
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Come on, lets not be pessimists here. That's a whole lot of people. A few percentage points more and business will not be able to ignore non-IE users. Do you want to be the guy telling your boss that 10% of your customers can't use the company website?
10% is doable and a realistic goal, possibly within a year.
On top of it all, Moz users simply don't have to deal with ActiveX and pop-ups thus lowering their chances of getting crapware on their machines. You bet their friends are going to notice.
Is it just me or is SP2 a big stopgap fix mainly for spyware and security? Considering the #1 WAN app is IE, it seems that this is directly or indirectly a response to Moz's success.
>At the end, the total amount of recall I have of specific aspects of the book will be about equivalent to the recall I'd have after seeing a movie,
Well, if you're going to read mindless drivel like Clancey, you'll retain and absorb the same amount of "entertainment" information you'd get from a TV show or movie.
I think its fair to say that when people talk about reading they tend to mean books which challenge us, good fiction, smart non-fiction, etc not the best-sellers. Many best-sellers could easily be turned into movies or TV shows with little effort and I think this speaks volumes on how much of a TV-centric culture we have become.
There are lots of things that simply don't translate over well to entertainment media, its visual language or its idioms. Imagine a movie based on The Selfish Gene. You would retain so little of the points Dawkins is trying to make.
Your 'retainment' argument can be applied to anything really. Why go to college when you can simply skim the textbook, afterall you will only retain so much. In the end I think its up to the reader to find works that challenge or interest her. Then retention will then come naturally. Its also up to the reader to get off her ass and find a book club or lend her books out to friends if she wants to chat about them.
Its not the same thing, if you visit the site its integrated with usenet, thus I'm sure confusing the two to users who don't know different. This is a very effective way to kill usenet.
If the new google groups was seperate I would agree with you, but they are not.
In other words, google takes a step towards the darkside with a proprietary and closed psuedo-usenet. If MS was doing this, everyone here would be screaming for vengence.
Keep your eye on google, they have the potential to do a lot of wrong.
I like the ext version of Dune. Its especially good for people who are not familiar with the book. Sure, the narration could be better but I believe it keeps the story flowing instead of people looking around and saying "wtf" every ten minutes.
The added footage (30+ minutes if I remember correctly) fits in pretty well; its not sub-par in any way. It wasn't cut out because of quality, but because it makes the movie 2+ hours long.
Dune will always be a love it or hate it movie, but I'm sure more people would like it (or understand it) if they got to see the longer version with all the narration at the theater.
First off its very easy to unintentionally damage goods. Secondly, the extended warranty usually just doesn't extend the duration of the warranty, but its common to buy "anything that goes wrong" protection from retail stores like Best Buy.
If there's fraud here, its the retailer, not the customer. Also, if Best Buy believes they are dealing with a scammer they can refuse to replace the item. Instead, Best Buy complains about people buying sale items and trying to get the service they paid for.
No, those are two very different situations.
You negotiate and decide on a per job basis. In retail there is no such thing; the prices are set and you are welcome to buy the items (in general). If the store can't really sell at those prices and expects you to throw away that rebate slip, then they are lying to you about their prices.
At least you have the decency to admit "No, I can't take this job." A better analogy is you taking that "trouble job" and then screwing everyone over later.
How is a static fry of a video card "scamming?" Umm, the extended service plans are expensive because they cover so many things. If your company is unable to fulfill its contract then it is performing fraud. Plain and simple.
Unfortunately, Best Buy is the kind of company where there is intra-store (departments) and inter-store competition and actually fulfilling that expensive service plan costs the department money, so shady managers screw with customers when they're trying to 'get ahead.'
This business method is just disgusting and makes shopping at places like Best Buy something of a gamble.
This article shows you how unethical this company is. Its one thing to get rid of trouble customers and another to blame customers for actually buying on sale items and mailing in their rebates. If Best Buy doesn't like this then they can stop offering these deals.
Man, can consumer protection be any more impotent?
That's a good explanation, but no one knows Spider-Man's relationship with Parker. Its assumed he just hires Parker and Spidey coming to avenge him seems a bit out of left field.
Granted, Ock is crazy, but it is a strange thing to do, a confusing scene at first, and a missed opportunity to do something interesting with the whole Parker == Spiderman bit.
Seriously. When Otto threw the car at Parker I assumed Otto figured out his secret identity. He didn't, it was just a mindless action shot.
Parker was his only contact to get to Spider-Man. Granted, in the process of rewrites and movie-making it may have been true that that Otto did figure it out (Oh, the only photographer is his exact same size!) but it was tossed for some reason or another.
This is a big mistake, because people like to be challenged when watching a movie. I like to guess at what's happening or will happen. Throwing a car at Parker is a big hint that Otto figured out his identity, instead the movie took the low-road of "lookee special effects!!"
Perhaps this story decision is a sign of the times.
That said, I saw this movie at home (shhh) and we just laughed at the cheesy and stoic "romance," and a few other things, but that was the only "nitpicking" thing I noticed and its a real flaw. Then again this wasn't a great movie to begin with and had a lot MST3K qualities to it.
Speaking of email. Anyone know how to reset the master password in Thunderbird, current milestone (on win2k)? I dont remember ever setting it, but there's a value there and this wont let me import my cert.
I pay for The Nation, which is an excellent news/politics weekly. Some of the stuff is online, but there's nothing like having the paper itself for the train.
I used to get Harper's but I really don't have time to finish a Harpers and they usually just end up in the bathroom after I've read the main story. A fine magazine with some very intelligent writing. The Harper's index is worth the admission price alone.
I subscribe to salon.com too. I never understood the allure of Lumpen and the other 'hip' liberal weeklies.
Thanks to the web and tivo I watch almost no televised news and get my AP/Reuters and NYTimes, Wash Post, etc for free.
>What I have been doing is simply swapping hard drives
I hope you are telling people that you are taking their drives, other than the fact this is fraud and theft you are destroying their warranties. Dell or whomever is not going to replace a third-party drive.
First off, you have to deal with windows file protection. This is known to help add more restarts than are needed.
Then you have the installer itself, in may be written to give you a false restart prompt.
2000 is not as flexible as XP and in my experience requires reboots for stuff that XP handles just fine. This many be how Microsoft writes it patches. I'm not sure on the specifics, but I see it all the time. (depending on the machine it may require as many reboots as an 2000 machine. see below)
Stuff in memory, stuff that is being used, etc or essentially 'your configuration and usage helps determine if you have to restart.'
That said, Windows needs a reboot every 30 days or so anyway to keep it running smoothly so it tends to work out. Especially on the server side. Trust me, you don't want to work with a Windows box that's been up for 100+ days. "Hey, why is all the RAM used up? Nothing is running."
I made a .reg file for XP/2000 machines.
I have no use for autoplay and having the OS execute a binary on insertion is a ridiculous security hole.
I believe this will require a reboot for both XP and 2000.
Heart problems, skeletal problems, development problems, etc.
All things come with a price, especially when discussing evolution.
Wait a second. Youre letting a group use your computer with no oversight (for all you know you are helping to crack codes for some government) and the update feature has you all up in arms?
Granted, I see the point of being able to disable this, but in the context of this project, well you're already their bitch.
Huh? How are a few fledgling attempts to break the 100km barrier anything close to a feasible manned Mars mission?
I guess its Lembeck's job to say nice things about NASA and those who control its purse-strings, but its a bit too optimistic to expect private industry to do a Mars launch anytime in the forseeable future. Heck, its hard to see NASA doing it, or any good reason to do it as a moon base would be safer, cheaper, and practical!
This sounds like damage-control after Scaled's success yesterday. Is NASA scared perhaps? Or maybe they don't want to look like a lumbering dinosaur to the tax payers.
Dunno, but the timing of this is very suspicious.
That depends on state law I believe. Many people use pseudonyms, the real question I think ends with intent. If I want to remain anonymous (which this case might have made obselete) I am able, just like big celebrities, to use a fake name when it suits me.
If I use a fake name to perform fraud, then its just part of the big fraud pie and not necessarily illegal in itself.
I'm sure this varies greatly from state to state.
> Kennedy went to space for political reasons too.
Yes, except Kennedy was serious and helped pull it off. The whole Mars mission is politics, but of the "distract them from the news" kind. Rutan will get on Mars before Bush's "mars mission."
Those first my first thoughts too. XP has a built in firewall, once the network adapter is installed you can active it. You dont have to get on the net first.
..after reviewing your link that's mostly what the SANS people are telling people. Enable firewall. This slashdot article sounds like more MS bitching (ive dont my fair share to be sure) than anything else.
What I do is keep the patches for blaster, et al on a usb keydrive. No need to even get the stock firewall up during the upgrade process.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe XP has a mandrake-like 'check for updates now.'
This is a bigger problem in 2K, but you activate IP filtering, which is essentially XP's firewall.
>Also, I'm not sure on this point, but I believe they are probably less powerful than cell phones
Correct. A cellphone can push as much as 3-5 watts out. Wifi is measured in milliwatts, about 200 or so for a decent AP, the cards are usually a little weaker.
>I'm just saying, I hate them too, but hey if they work, they work.
So would forcing me to watch 10 minutes of commercials before what I want appears. Think of the trailers at the movies.
It may "work" but it sure as hell doesn't make me want to visit or do business with those people. For example, I knew full well that the Punisher movie was coming out and all the PR and the crappy trailer sealed the deal: i'm not even going to rent it.
The more aggressive your marketing the more hits you'll get, but remember a lot of those will be from people accidentally clicking on your ad, being forced to pass through it, or from people with very low tech skills thinking its part of the site they are visiting. Heck, all the pop-ups I've seen lately misuse words like 'upgrade' and 'patch' to fool more people into visiting these sites.
There's a real cost with doing aggressive marketing and the blowback is already here with pop-up blockers and angry web users, not to mention the hate of spyware. I hope your business isn't put on some blacklist in the near future for 'malicious advertising.'
Yeah, you know what 'robo' means. Keep reaching for that rainbow!
For 2K and XP.
Enjoy