Word document encryption is easily defeated. There are tools to do so in under 5 minutes. Security through obscurity is no security at all. If you wish to have true security I suggest something like TrueCrypt.
Microsoft immediately responded by saying their reckless ways are endangering the security of Windows users and that they will disable this hack quickly.
Rather nice way to say "Thanks, we will fix this right away" eh?
To take a leaf from Star Trek just do what he always did. Say it will take 3 times as long as you think it will, and you will always get half that time to complete it. And if you get it done early you will be rewarded.
Posted at our cube? We don't have anything posted at our cube other then the usual company propaganda. I'm in the Winnipeg Call Centre. If people want to know where the closest payment centre is, http://comcast.com/Membership/LocatePaymentCenter. ashx?LinkID=101 is the link I give them.
Stop ranting and actually act decent, you are as bad as the customers we get.
I work for Comcast support, If a customer asks me to cancel their account, I first check to see if they have rented equipment, if so I tell them to go to a local payment centre, otherwise I click a button and cancel it on the spot.
Except I use a pop up blocker and they try go to around my wishes. If someone punched you when you asked for the time would you ever want to talk to them again?
How a friend linked me over MSN to a new flash animation on JibJab, myself having seen one before without incident didn't mind, however as soon as I loaded up their site they used flash to get around my pop up blocker and pop up an ad for Western Union.
From now on I will neither go to Jib Jab or even think of using Western Union.
I do not *need* to see their content no matter how good it apparently is.
While you may think so the truth is that I do infact blog about my personal life, I do so to remember later in my life about what is currently happening to me.
To say that everything on the internet should be pure information or something you would be interested in is wrong and short sighted. While you may be a technologically inclined person and not interested in my personal life, you are in a minority and many other people would in fact be interested (as many of my friends read my blog to keep updated on my life).
Releasing the source to your old games?
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My family's first computer was a Macintosh LC we bought in 1991, at the time I was only 4, I loved your Railroad Tycoon game and continued to play it for 10 years until we finally retired our LC and got a new iMac.
Unfortunately your game would not play well on PPC and not at all on OS X, I have played the sequels that were not by you, but they never seemed the same.
Would it be possible to release the source of some of your classic games for nostalgic people like me?
In other news people have trouble understanding lawyer speak, medical terms, names of car components, how to build a house to proper code, publishing industry slang etc...
Wow... Honestly, who cares? No game is ever going to be perfectly accurate, I'd rather have a game with a good story and playability then small insignificant details such as this.
That reminds me of my Wife's first experience with a mac laptop. She inserted a floppy disc and we could NOT figure out how to get it out.
In the PC world you simply pushed a button right next to the drive. No such luck there.
After a few days I finally had to call a friend of mine to explain it to me. And to this day I don't understand why deleting the floppy icon from the desktop is more "insanely great" than simply pushing one button. Then again, maybe the emphasis isn't on the "great" but is on the "insane."
Well, basically the trash stands as a catch-all for "get rid of" and has since the first Mac OS. You can drag toolbar items to the trash, you can drag dock items to the trash, connected servers, if you happen to be dragging and dropping some text and you drag it to the trash can a clipping will be formed inside of it with the text of the drag etc.
Basically apple wants to create the best "digitized office" for their users. They wanted as little as possible to be on the outside of the computer, more buttons == greater complexity, for a bad example, its the same reason some people can't even program their VCR.
Adding 50 or 60 builds (20 languages, 3 platforms each) to a release is a big deal and Chase spun many sets of localized builds. The last planned spin of all localized builds was at 10am Monday morning.
They could have easily used mac os x's built in localization APIs and saved themselves an easy 20 builds! Hosnestly, I don't know about Windows or Linux programming, but in Mac OS X, you can easily use published API's to do the dirty work for you.
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I'm not a biologist, but wouldn't this shorten your life span?
I remember reading about Telomeres and how they shorten as you age (and this is why you age).
Would this accelerated growth/generation cause these to shorten at a more rapid pace?
Cheap DV Cams run for about 500CAD now a days.
On Mac OS X you can easily program a device that would record using the following Objective C class.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Reference/QTCaptureLayer/Introduction/Introduction.html
Of course if you were using a different operating system it would be different, but it is the same idea.
Word document encryption is easily defeated. There are tools to do so in under 5 minutes. Security through obscurity is no security at all. If you wish to have true security I suggest something like TrueCrypt.
There is no contract with residential services with Comcast.
Rather nice way to say "Thanks, we will fix this right away" eh?
To take a leaf from Star Trek just do what he always did. Say it will take 3 times as long as you think it will, and you will always get half that time to complete it. And if you get it done early you will be rewarded.
Win-win.
Posted at our cube? We don't have anything posted at our cube other then the usual company propaganda. I'm in the Winnipeg Call Centre. If people want to know where the closest payment centre is, http://comcast.com/Membership/LocatePaymentCenter. ashx?LinkID=101 is the link I give them.
Stop ranting and actually act decent, you are as bad as the customers we get.
I work for Comcast support, If a customer asks me to cancel their account, I first check to see if they have rented equipment, if so I tell them to go to a local payment centre, otherwise I click a button and cancel it on the spot.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Ah, Now there are two missing links, you know how it all goes, at least until they find another, then there will be three, ad infinum.
Except I use a pop up blocker and they try go to around my wishes. If someone punched you when you asked for the time would you ever want to talk to them again?
How a friend linked me over MSN to a new flash animation on JibJab, myself having seen one before without incident didn't mind, however as soon as I loaded up their site they used flash to get around my pop up blocker and pop up an ad for Western Union.
From now on I will neither go to Jib Jab or even think of using Western Union.
I do not *need* to see their content no matter how good it apparently is.
While you may think so the truth is that I do infact blog about my personal life, I do so to remember later in my life about what is currently happening to me.
To say that everything on the internet should be pure information or something you would be interested in is wrong and short sighted. While you may be a technologically inclined person and not interested in my personal life, you are in a minority and many other people would in fact be interested (as many of my friends read my blog to keep updated on my life).
My family's first computer was a Macintosh LC we bought in 1991, at the time I was only 4, I loved your Railroad Tycoon game and continued to play it for 10 years until we finally retired our LC and got a new iMac.
Unfortunately your game would not play well on PPC and not at all on OS X, I have played the sequels that were not by you, but they never seemed the same.
Would it be possible to release the source of some of your classic games for nostalgic people like me?
In other news people have trouble understanding lawyer speak, medical terms, names of car components, how to build a house to proper code, publishing industry slang etc...
I guess that means people just have to learn eh?
Amen :-). Remember last year when it got up to -52 with wind-chill.
The saddest part of it was that schools weren't even closed!
Well there always is Avast antivirus.
Have they also figured out how to jumpstart the planet's magnetic field so that Cosmic Rays don't just strip the planet of it's atmosphere again?
Wow... Honestly, who cares? No game is ever going to be perfectly accurate, I'd rather have a game with a good story and playability then small insignificant details such as this.
The net core of Acquisition is piped rather then linked, thus it is in complete compliance with the GPL.
Well, basically the trash stands as a catch-all for "get rid of" and has since the first Mac OS. You can drag toolbar items to the trash, you can drag dock items to the trash, connected servers, if you happen to be dragging and dropping some text and you drag it to the trash can a clipping will be formed inside of it with the text of the drag etc.
Basically apple wants to create the best "digitized office" for their users. They wanted as little as possible to be on the outside of the computer, more buttons == greater complexity, for a bad example, its the same reason some people can't even program their VCR.
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Ahem OS X comes with Classic Compatibility, i can still run my copy of the TypeStyler(TM) program from over 10 years ago.
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:+http://www.or bitz.com/&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
I smell 46,600 lawsuits coming...
But seriously, this isn't even logical let alone enforceable, it will fail.
Works perfect in Safari even though I had to click twice to go in. Now if only it had Canada so i could use it :^).
They could have easily used mac os x's built in localization APIs and saved themselves an easy 20 builds! Hosnestly, I don't know about Windows or Linux programming, but in Mac OS X, you can easily use published API's to do the dirty work for you.
I'm sorry, but just buy her the damn macmini, she will love it just that much more. Not to mention she asked for it.