Umm.. well, a physical virus wouldn't affect the conductivity of your surface skin (unless it makes you sweat, but then the tech will only work better, I'm sure) and a software virus would do exactly the same thing that it does now with any other sort of network of disimilar devices (what about your BT phone, laptop, PDA, printer network? Wtf happens if one gets a virus?)
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the badguys are more likely to find an unpatched weakness
More than likely, any "unpatched weaknesses" would prevent the plant from living. Genetics and coding shouldn't even be contrasted, let alone compared. It's like comparing Seedless Watermellons and Bus Stations.
a TV-Wonder Product that supports TV On Demand (TIVO-style) functionality. Now I can use whatever graphics card I want, rather than having to use the one integrated in whatever All-In-Wonder product I buy and then upgrade the entire thing every time I need a new graphics card...
Probably won't be as much of an issue since this is just a TV-Wonder product, and not an All-In-Wonder product; there's no integrated graphics controller.
I agree. Using the windows firewall will give at least some protection.
all firewalls are turned off.
You say you installed NIS. Keep it's firewall on. I prefer Sygate, but what I do is block everything except Internet Explorer. You can block explorer.exe and most of the other windows componenets that try to connect. Definatley block ANYTHING that says it's an incomming connection.
I've used this method to get around campus network checks for patches before you're given a DHCP lease. As far as the network knows until after I get the patches and relax the firewall, I'm not even running windows.
Thanks to this article, I know of the existance of "Games X Copy," a product I would never have known about had EA and the others sued.
What will I do with my knew found awareness? Probably nothing right now, but I'm sure I'll let others know about it eventually and there's a slim possibility I might buy a copy before they're gone...
Thanks EA and Atari! Now I know about another great 321 Studios project!!
Alright, enough already. Twenty people before you already pointed this out. The important thing is the reference to Homer Simpson.
While great Simpson's references should always fit perfectly into the situation, good Simpson's references do not need to fit wholey without flaw.
This references is good verging on great. While at first look it doesn't perfectly fit (for the reason's you and posters above you mentioned) it truely does fit; when Homer made the statement, it wasn't a good moral either. Thus the reference is complete.
I urge everyone who is involved in the commercial bulk e-mail business to cease all operations unless and until they are completely compliant with the requirements of the new United States anti-spam laws. There is no substitute for complete compliance
Translation? "I just got sued by yahoo and this isn't worth it anymore. I think I'll take the rest of my dirty money and retire with this one last publicity stunt."
I think the biggest problem with it is that it seems to require an outside projector. It's just a reflective material. Once they integrate the projector into the cloak (maybe via LEDs or somesuch) then it will really start to be useful...
I haven't had a windows installation of my own since win 98, but back then I there was no way to remove the "open as folders" behaviour. You could only toggle whether or not it should open as a new window or not.
Since I'm using Win98 right now, I thought I'd check it out. Looks like you can turn on the folder tree (view: explorer bar: folders) and then tell all folders on the system to open with the folder bar turned on (View: Folder Options: View tab: "You can make all folders: Like Current Folder")
Although maybe not the best method, it's still easier for newer computer users to understand than the system registry.. or gconf-editor. And since it's almost the same in the later Win95 with USB support and up through WinXP, it's had plenty of time for people to get used to, without the regedit type stigma...
Organized doesn't have to be complicated. I recommend folders to organize, but you still should keep it shallow. Try 1 folder with a bunch of folders for your categories and all of your files in there. Maybe have 2 layers of folders and then your files, but don't go much over that unless you really have to or it really makes sense.
As you said, 1 folder with 2000 files in it is a mess, but so is 13 directory levels. -- Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
What exactly makes it spatial, then? Just opening folders in new windows the way Win95 and Win98 did by default (and most of us probably disabled?) Or is it remembering your preferences for each seperate folder, the way WinXP does?
Whether it changes the window contents or not, if it doesn't have a file tree in the left pane, I'm all for it. I just don't like it opening new windows everytime I click on something. When I pull a file out of a cabinent--which, in my 20 years of life I've done so many times that I can count it on 1 hand--I don't dump the whole drawer on the table. I browse through and find the file or paper I want and remove only that folder, just like I only keep open the folder on the desktop I want to use, not the whole cabinent...
Whatever there is to a spatial desktop that isn't opening a new window, I'll accept. Guess I'll just have to learn to dbl-middle click! -- Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
GNOME 2.6 is all about ease of use, performance and unification ...
Don't know how to use gconf? Then you shouldn't change the way Nautilitus works, I presume.
I'm sure they could improve the way that printers block the bill so that it wouldn't even print the bill at all.
Your solution requires RFID readers in all existing vending machines. That's a lot of replacing to do, while this might not help as much, it's also a lot less costly.
Will they publicise which keys are affected by this "Feture/Bug"?
Probably. They reported which keys were banned by SP1. Probably keep an eye on Q328874 as it will probably link to a KB article about SP2 as it already does with SP1.
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ZDNet has had a nice video interview for the past few days. Check it out.
Legislators don't have all of the facts before they pass laws. Nobody does. They do the best the can, but they certainly don't protect me any better than I do. That's why it's your responsibility to protect yourself.
In any event, I should have to the right to enter into a contract with a cleaning supply maker even if I know that use of that cleaning product will cause deformities in my children. Perhaps shiny chrome is more important than kids. I'll get a visectomy and clean my car, thank you very much!
I use Mozilla Firefox almost exclusively, but still use IE for Windows Update (I can't think of anyother site off the top of my head that doesn't work with Mozilla).
Does that mean I'm part of both the 25% and the 93.7%? Or am I just part of the 25%?
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Wtf happens if one gets a viri?
Umm.. well, a physical virus wouldn't affect the conductivity of your surface skin (unless it makes you sweat, but then the tech will only work better, I'm sure) and a software virus would do exactly the same thing that it does now with any other sort of network of disimilar devices (what about your BT phone, laptop, PDA, printer network? Wtf happens if one gets a virus?)
the badguys are more likely to find an unpatched weakness
More than likely, any "unpatched weaknesses" would prevent the plant from living. Genetics and coding shouldn't even be contrasted, let alone compared. It's like comparing Seedless Watermellons and Bus Stations.
a TV-Wonder Product that supports TV On Demand (TIVO-style) functionality. Now I can use whatever graphics card I want, rather than having to use the one integrated in whatever All-In-Wonder product I buy and then upgrade the entire thing every time I need a new graphics card...
Probably won't be as much of an issue since this is just a TV-Wonder product, and not an All-In-Wonder product; there's no integrated graphics controller.
I agree. Using the windows firewall will give at least some protection.
all firewalls are turned off.
You say you installed NIS. Keep it's firewall on. I prefer Sygate, but what I do is block everything except Internet Explorer. You can block explorer.exe and most of the other windows componenets that try to connect. Definatley block ANYTHING that says it's an incomming connection.
I've used this method to get around campus network checks for patches before you're given a DHCP lease. As far as the network knows until after I get the patches and relax the firewall, I'm not even running windows.
Thanks to this article, I know of the existance of "Games X Copy," a product I would never have known about had EA and the others sued.
What will I do with my knew found awareness? Probably nothing right now, but I'm sure I'll let others know about it eventually and there's a slim possibility I might buy a copy before they're gone...
Thanks EA and Atari! Now I know about another great 321 Studios project!!
Turbo Teen... always loved that show, never sure why they cancled it... but, I guess I was 5 when the re-runs stopped running on USA...
Alright, enough already. Twenty people before you already pointed this out. The important thing is the reference to Homer Simpson.
While great Simpson's references should always fit perfectly into the situation, good Simpson's references do not need to fit wholey without flaw.
This references is good verging on great. While at first look it doesn't perfectly fit (for the reason's you and posters above you mentioned) it truely does fit; when Homer made the statement, it wasn't a good moral either. Thus the reference is complete.
I urge everyone who is involved in the commercial bulk e-mail business to cease all operations unless and until they are completely compliant with the requirements of the new United States anti-spam laws. There is no substitute for complete compliance
Translation? "I just got sued by yahoo and this isn't worth it anymore. I think I'll take the rest of my dirty money and retire with this one last publicity stunt."
I think the biggest problem with it is that it seems to require an outside projector. It's just a reflective material. Once they integrate the projector into the cloak (maybe via LEDs or somesuch) then it will really start to be useful...
I haven't had a windows installation of my own since win 98, but back then I there was no way to remove the "open as folders" behaviour. You could only toggle whether or not it should open as a new window or not.
Since I'm using Win98 right now, I thought I'd check it out. Looks like you can turn on the folder tree (view: explorer bar: folders) and then tell all folders on the system to open with the folder bar turned on (View: Folder Options: View tab: "You can make all folders: Like Current Folder")
Although maybe not the best method, it's still easier for newer computer users to understand than the system registry.. or gconf-editor. And since it's almost the same in the later Win95 with USB support and up through WinXP, it's had plenty of time for people to get used to, without the regedit type stigma...
Organized doesn't have to be complicated. I recommend folders to organize, but you still should keep it shallow. Try 1 folder with a bunch of folders for your categories and all of your files in there. Maybe have 2 layers of folders and then your files, but don't go much over that unless you really have to or it really makes sense.
As you said, 1 folder with 2000 files in it is a mess, but so is 13 directory levels.
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Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
What exactly makes it spatial, then? Just opening folders in new windows the way Win95 and Win98 did by default (and most of us probably disabled?) Or is it remembering your preferences for each seperate folder, the way WinXP does?
Whether it changes the window contents or not, if it doesn't have a file tree in the left pane, I'm all for it. I just don't like it opening new windows everytime I click on something. When I pull a file out of a cabinent--which, in my 20 years of life I've done so many times that I can count it on 1 hand--I don't dump the whole drawer on the table. I browse through and find the file or paper I want and remove only that folder, just like I only keep open the folder on the desktop I want to use, not the whole cabinent...
Whatever there is to a spatial desktop that isn't opening a new window, I'll accept. Guess I'll just have to learn to dbl-middle click!
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Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
GNOME 2.6 is all about ease of use, performance and unification
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Don't know how to use gconf? Then you shouldn't change the way Nautilitus works, I presume.
Am I missing something?
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Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
Leave it to slash dot to kill a typo. You're right. I meant typo. Excuse my lack of proofreading.
I'm sure they could improve the way that printers block the bill so that it wouldn't even print the bill at all.
Your solution requires RFID readers in all existing vending machines. That's a lot of replacing to do, while this might not help as much, it's also a lot less costly.
They're giving the software away free, so it sounds like it should be easy enough to add to OSS projects, and it helps to curb priacy.
Althouth I think forcing it to be included in Hardware only and allowing software to remain voluntary is probably more prudent.
Will they publicise which keys are affected by this "Feture/Bug"?
Probably. They reported which keys were banned by SP1. Probably keep an eye on Q328874 as it will probably link to a KB article about SP2 as it already does with SP1.
ZDNet has had a nice video interview for the past few days. Check it out.
DMCA... Gulf War...
Legislators don't have all of the facts before they pass laws. Nobody does. They do the best the can, but they certainly don't protect me any better than I do. That's why it's your responsibility to protect yourself.
In any event, I should have to the right to enter into a contract with a cleaning supply maker even if I know that use of that cleaning product will cause deformities in my children. Perhaps shiny chrome is more important than kids. I'll get a visectomy and clean my car, thank you very much!
Oh, and I'll use GMail, too.
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Remove the Kiddie Gloves!
I use Mozilla Firefox almost exclusively, but still use IE for Windows Update (I can't think of anyother site off the top of my head that doesn't work with Mozilla).
Does that mean I'm part of both the 25% and the 93.7%? Or am I just part of the 25%?
Not sure a gun in your trunk will do you much good if your driving....
Way to hit submit without previewing!
that should say "integrated", not "implimented".
Browsers should never have been implimented in the first place
Yes, I hate the internet! Damn you Al Gore! Damn you and your horrible invention!!!
Browsers should never have been implimented in the first place.
but then, I'm still spiteful over IE gaining market share over Netscape.
So does Opera.