I don't *need* a car since I don't go out of town very often.
Then your lifestyle is being dictated by the trains.
If you had a car you would go out of town more often. Ever think of that?
Wait... so you're telling me...
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A New Ice Age?
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Wait... so you're telling me that a movie writer is being loose with the truth?
What is the world coming to!?
Watch out for the licensing issues here
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Dual User Windows PC
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from the review the units abilities"
1 PC can be used by 2 users at the same time
2 users can browse the internet, send and receive email at the same time
2 users can access all software installed on the PC at the same time (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Data Base, games, etc.)
2 users can play games against each other with a dual-port VGA card
I know many softwares of mine have claims that only one person may use it on one machine at one time. What does this mean? If two Excels are loaded on the same machine at the same time where is the licensing happening? No check over network will find any but it's own self running when really it's running for another user anyway on the same machine and that would still end up being a violation of the licensing of a product.
MS would not be amused.
Re:The cache of owning an Apple?
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Actually kash-ay or kach-et are both correct pronunciations for the word. look it up.
As a natural way of strengthening the immunity of computer users as a whole by modifying their actions, I think that's the only thing that will work sadly. After that, such a large group of people won't be so nonchalant about security. They'll know (by experience) that their computers are going to be useless to them if they don't pick a more secure OS, secure the one they have, or just give up computing entirely.
It's not going to happen of course. Infected and remotely controllable machines are worth too much to worm/virus writers for them to run around willy nilly destroying the install on them.
You are of course absolutely correct:). I do use the term "viruses" to refer to any & all of the worm/virus/trojan/whatever mix.
Still, if every one of those worms did drastic damage to a system and needed a reinstall, people would care. Since they don't do that much bad from the point of view of normal Joe, he'll keep accepting that it's OK not to be worried about them much.
I think it's not always a matter of intelligence, but apathy. People get a virus and......so what? I've cleaned relatives machines with dozens of viruses. They kept working for the most part, they worked before and they worked afterwards. A few resources were consumed, but consumer machines now are in the multi GHz speed range. Most viruses just don't affect the user enough for them to really give a shit about them. For an example, when mydoom hit so massively earlier this year it... made their machine one of hundreds of thousands targeting sco.com.
Again, apathetic users, they don't notice and don't care. Until a virus comes along with the spreading power of mydoom, but sits and waits for a couple of weeks until it throws up gay porn onscreen and shouts out "HEY EVERYONE I'M WATCHING GAY PORN" while proceeding to delete EVERY SINGLE DAMNED FILE USERS HAVE... they're going to keep on not giving a damn about viruses.
The general public sees viruses as something computers just get, and is as innocuous as a sniffle. If a few viruses came along and did the equivalent of schizophrenia, lung cancer and whole body pus filled sores to their computer, THEN they will take notice.
Antialiased fonts might be nice on a CRT where fuzziness is the norm, but on an LCD it only makes text blurrier and harder to read. Cleartype is something a little bit worse again.
If anyone really values their eyesight, staying away from antialiased fonts is the best advice I can give.
I dont think it really matters how big a company is they all eventually die. I mean really how many large annoying companies are around that were around in the 1920s for example????
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If you take one or two simple security precautions all of windows already IS secure.
1. keep up to date with patches 2. run a good firewall 3. don't click on mail attachments 4. don't click on documents to load them, only load them through the applications that created them 5. don't use p2p to download pirated software/music/videos
then you're safe. these are simple precautions that should be used on ANY operating system, macos included now if you read the latest virus reports.
I set up my machine and everyone elses I know who I maintain to automatically bounce back every spam I have when it gets to a large amount to each of the addresses it comes to
for example if I have 100 spam emails then I send ALL ONE HUNDRED OF THEM back to each address in each of the 100 mails. It takes some time but eventually they will all get the message.
The simple answer is that Linux is 64bit from YellowDog, and OSX is not.
No, OSX is NOT 64 bit. Not yet anyway. It has some kludges that allow it to use more memory than a normal 32bit OS, but it is FAR from being a true 64 bit OS.
I see it from a different perspective. I'm GLAD this happened and if it's bad for Fairplay/Apple then it's good for the rest of the industry imho
Standards are one thing, and they can only be good if they are WIDELY USED STANDARDS. the standard for AGML for example, is useless. Nobody uses it.
What's the use of a standard like fairplay that's solely in the hands of a niche player? When 98% of the world runs windows PCs, when 98% of media players, portable or software or those you put on your shelf all run WMA except Apple's, what does that say? The standard to become popular is the one that's widely used, anything else is nonsensicle.
To me, DRM is coming whether we like it or not. Apple, MS, RIAA, whoever. it doesn't matter, DRM is DRM, and the right for a standard to live or die should be judged on its merits as a standard - and that's where WMA wins out.
Well no if you think about it the western world is already where all the standards are that are currently in use. All that China could do is expand on things that have already been done, and they'd be making things broken if they didn't work where the majority of people are, that is in the US
Given this, wouldn't it be better for people migrating from windows to become acustomed to the more powerful desktop environment of linux, rather than one which sacrifices some good features for the sake of making windows users feel more at home?
It would, but unfortunately many of the other DEs replicate the mistakes Apple and MS make with their UIs. I think the whole concept of a UI should be redesigned from scratch to move as far away from the failings of the two giants in the field and making a more Amiga style UI, only keeping the absolutely minimum that is required for a UI to work.
When people begin to see the superiority of a gui in linux on its own terms then they'll be converted for life, and that'll make us all the stronger.
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I don't *need* a car since I don't go out of town very often.
Then your lifestyle is being dictated by the trains.
If you had a car you would go out of town more often. Ever think of that?
Wait... so you're telling me that a movie writer is being loose with the truth?
What is the world coming to!?
from the review the units abilities"
1 PC can be used by 2 users at the same time
2 users can browse the internet, send and receive email at the same time
2 users can access all software installed on the PC at the same time (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Data Base, games, etc.)
2 users can play games against each other with a dual-port VGA card
I know many softwares of mine have claims that only one person may use it on one machine at one time. What does this mean? If two Excels are loaded on the same machine at the same time where is the licensing happening? No check over network will find any but it's own self running when really it's running for another user anyway on the same machine and that would still end up being a violation of the licensing of a product.
MS would not be amused.
Actually kash-ay or kach-et are both correct pronunciations for the word. look it up.
I fear the Quantum DRM that'll follow.
As a natural way of strengthening the immunity of computer users as a whole by modifying their actions, I think that's the only thing that will work sadly. After that, such a large group of people won't be so nonchalant about security. They'll know (by experience) that their computers are going to be useless to them if they don't pick a more secure OS, secure the one they have, or just give up computing entirely.
It's not going to happen of course. Infected and remotely controllable machines are worth too much to worm/virus writers for them to run around willy nilly destroying the install on them.
You are of course absolutely correct :). I do use the term "viruses" to refer to any & all of the worm/virus/trojan/whatever mix.
Still, if every one of those worms did drastic damage to a system and needed a reinstall, people would care. Since they don't do that much bad from the point of view of normal Joe, he'll keep accepting that it's OK not to be worried about them much.
I think it's not always a matter of intelligence, but apathy. People get a virus and... ...so what? I've cleaned relatives machines with dozens of viruses. They kept working for the most part, they worked before and they worked afterwards. A few resources were consumed, but consumer machines now are in the multi GHz speed range. Most viruses just don't affect the user enough for them to really give a shit about them. For an example, when mydoom hit so massively earlier this year it... made their machine one of hundreds of thousands targeting sco.com.
Again, apathetic users, they don't notice and don't care. Until a virus comes along with the spreading power of mydoom, but sits and waits for a couple of weeks until it throws up gay porn onscreen and shouts out "HEY EVERYONE I'M WATCHING GAY PORN" while proceeding to delete EVERY SINGLE DAMNED FILE USERS HAVE... they're going to keep on not giving a damn about viruses.
The general public sees viruses as something computers just get, and is as innocuous as a sniffle. If a few viruses came along and did the equivalent of schizophrenia, lung cancer and whole body pus filled sores to their computer, THEN they will take notice.
Antialiased fonts might be nice on a CRT where fuzziness is the norm, but on an LCD it only makes text blurrier and harder to read. Cleartype is something a little bit worse again.
If anyone really values their eyesight, staying away from antialiased fonts is the best advice I can give.
I dont think it really matters how big a company is they all eventually die. I mean really how many large annoying companies are around that were around in the 1920s for example????
None!
So you're suggesting breaking the law?
Moron
If you take one or two simple security precautions all of windows already IS secure.
1. keep up to date with patches
2. run a good firewall
3. don't click on mail attachments
4. don't click on documents to load them, only load them through the applications that created them
5. don't use p2p to download pirated software/music/videos
then you're safe. these are simple precautions that should be used on ANY operating system, macos included now if you read the latest virus reports.
So not only didn't you get the joke... there's an entire web site for people who don't get the joke?
Way to advertise your cluelessness.
LOL
:D
Thank you for making my day
Same here. Wood just makes me think of trailer park fake wooden panelling, cheap porn, and 1960s station wagons.
One more problem too is wood is a very good insulator so these cases would heat up more than any others as well.
I suspect we'll see many dead CPUs because of this
I mean we dont want spam.
I set up my machine and everyone elses I know who I maintain to automatically bounce back every spam I have when it gets to a large amount to each of the addresses it comes to
for example if I have 100 spam emails then I send ALL ONE HUNDRED OF THEM back to each address in each of the 100 mails. It takes some time but eventually they will all get the message.
WE DONT WANT SAM
The simple answer is that Linux is 64bit from YellowDog, and OSX is not.
No, OSX is NOT 64 bit. Not yet anyway. It has some kludges that allow it to use more memory than a normal 32bit OS, but it is FAR from being a true 64 bit OS.
Uhhh I was taught in the 1980s that the archaic usage has changed.
One DATA several DATAS. The plural has been anglicised for a long time now
I see it from a different perspective. I'm GLAD this happened and if it's bad for Fairplay/Apple then it's good for the rest of the industry imho
Standards are one thing, and they can only be good if they are WIDELY USED STANDARDS. the standard for AGML for example, is useless. Nobody uses it.
What's the use of a standard like fairplay that's solely in the hands of a niche player? When 98% of the world runs windows PCs, when 98% of media players, portable or software or those you put on your shelf all run WMA except Apple's, what does that say? The standard to become popular is the one that's widely used, anything else is nonsensicle.
To me, DRM is coming whether we like it or not. Apple, MS, RIAA, whoever. it doesn't matter, DRM is DRM, and the right for a standard to live or die should be judged on its merits as a standard - and that's where WMA wins out.
Well no if you think about it the western world is already where all the standards are that are currently in use. All that China could do is expand on things that have already been done, and they'd be making things broken if they didn't work where the majority of people are, that is in the US
Probably because spam is no longer a problem it's only common
I have one email address that gets hundreds a day. All but about 5 are filtered out. I don't see that as a problem any more.
Given this, wouldn't it be better for people migrating from windows to become acustomed to the more powerful desktop environment of linux, rather than one which sacrifices some good features for the sake of making windows users feel more at home?
It would, but unfortunately many of the other DEs replicate the mistakes Apple and MS make with their UIs. I think the whole concept of a UI should be redesigned from scratch to move as far away from the failings of the two giants in the field and making a more Amiga style UI, only keeping the absolutely minimum that is required for a UI to work.
When people begin to see the superiority of a gui in linux on its own terms then they'll be converted for life, and that'll make us all the stronger.
And no, not everyone knows that your PIN should never been given to anyone.
Anyone who reads the advice from their bank knows. Especially the part that says "Never give your PIN to anyone".
If people then give their PIN away, imho they deserve everything that happens to them from then on.