That's only if it runs as LocalSystem or Administrator. If someone is stupid enough to run services as those accounts, then they get what they deserve. How would that be any different from running a daemon as root in Linux?
OK, a lot of this reply is over my head about Windows internals, but popping open my services list on a fairly vanilla XPx64 install, damn near everything runs as localsystem, except for a few network-related services.
One or two of those things is much better than zero of those things. It would also be possible to bring up the median expenditure on a larger number of those other things to graduate from the realm of "half-assing it" (We're abandoning one of the Mars rovers due to a laughably tiny budget shortfall) to "making a good effort."
- Retailers can't sell free stuff, so you'll never see any free OS competing for shelve space in any retail environment. Not only is Windows the only OS your average Joe will see on the shelves, no business is going to offer a free alternative to a product they can make a buck on.
It's more like the competition between bottled water and tap water.
- Because it's so crap friendly, Windows preinstalls are often bloated with tons of crap trials and crippleware that the companies whose software it is pay for it to be installed.
And there's your business model when the retailers don't want it - customized ad-laden linux distros given out 'free' at the local Starbucks. Heck, put it on a bootable thumbdrive so people can have 'their' computer wherever they go. If you had a thumbdrive with a USB port for a second thumbdrive to seperate OS and documents, you might see people switch OSes like they switch skins on a cellphone.
Funny, I saw a two-hour documentary on Kent State with a detailed timeline and interviews with guardsmen who were on the scene, students who were wounded, and tons of still and movie footage, on state-sponsored television (PBS). Furthermore, I could swear some gentleman wrote a hit song about the events (a Mr. Young, I believe) which is frequently played on the radio even today. General ignorance in the population (of which this is a pretty poor example unless you only ask people under about 40) is not the same as massive *and effective* state censorship of at least two orders of magnitude more deaths.
Under Windows 2000, Windows update offered me the same ancient, busted nVidia driver for years, regardless of my running a driver several scores of version numbers newer. It think it may have had to do with using a PCI video card for the 3rd monitor.
That's funny, I used paypal to send a moderately large sum to a contractor in NZ from the states, and I got a confirmation phone call within 5 minutes of posting the transaction.
Given that those stickers are distributed by the tobacco companies themselves, I am inclined to think the wording is intended to make smoking appear more rebellious and cool to the kiddies - "Wow, it's wrong and illegal!"
Horizontal resolution, however, is somewhat indeterminate - I've seen numerous values, including 640, 704, and 720.
That's because it's an analog waveform. Better quality tubes can render more vertical black and white lines side-by-side (LCDs are of course fixed-resolution, and most are 640x480).
640x480 is NTSC resolution using square pixels, but DVD, MiniDV, and most other digital video devices use non-square pixels for a resolution of 720x480.
What happened to American independence? A few generations ago, people would rather live on beans and potatoes than accept money from the government.
Who?
From government-sanctioned slavery to free land under the Homestead Act to the Roosevelt Doctrine to Civil War pension riots to broke farmers in Hoovertowns, I don't see a lot of refusal to accept government handouts prior to the New Deal.
Actually, that business model is more or less explicitly not supposed to include the news programming. The broadcasters got their monopoly of the airwaves way back when at least partially in exchange for a promise that some portion of their programming would serve the public good (i.e. news).
The advent of TV news divisions being expected to make a profit, and the attendent nosedive in journalistic standards, is fairly recent. Watch Network now and it's hard to see how outrageous a satire the proto-reality TV news segments were back then - it's surpassed daily by all sorts of actual programming.
you can count on disabling the software firewall will solve almost all problems (if the computer is otherwise properly configured and there are no obvious configuration errors on the ISP side)
Yes, because within seconds, there will be a host of entirely new problems that prevent the network stack from working at all.
I couldn't count the number of times I've been told to reboot the computer as a first resort by DSL/Cable modem support when reporting a modem without sync. Not to mention that one is more or less obligated to lie if one is using a router or VOIP box of any kind, and give feedback as if the computer were directly connected to the internet (shudder).
I used a Cintiq, or whatever Wacom was calling them back then, in 1995 when a rich classmate brought one into the computer lab at art school to play with.
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There are plenty of musical jobs besides 'rock star' that pay the bills.
OK, a lot of this reply is over my head about Windows internals, but popping open my services list on a fairly vanilla XPx64 install, damn near everything runs as localsystem, except for a few network-related services.
OK, now try it with ice cubes sitting in a glass full of Greenland.
How about Major League Baseball?
One or two of those things is much better than zero of those things. It would also be possible to bring up the median expenditure on a larger number of those other things to graduate from the realm of "half-assing it" (We're abandoning one of the Mars rovers due to a laughably tiny budget shortfall) to "making a good effort."
Same as lots of OSS developers.
It's more like the competition between bottled water and tap water.
- Because it's so crap friendly, Windows preinstalls are often bloated with tons of crap trials and crippleware that the companies whose software it is pay for it to be installed.
And there's your business model when the retailers don't want it - customized ad-laden linux distros given out 'free' at the local Starbucks. Heck, put it on a bootable thumbdrive so people can have 'their' computer wherever they go. If you had a thumbdrive with a USB port for a second thumbdrive to seperate OS and documents, you might see people switch OSes like they switch skins on a cellphone.
Because people just have to fucking yell into the things.
Funny, I saw a two-hour documentary on Kent State with a detailed timeline and interviews with guardsmen who were on the scene, students who were wounded, and tons of still and movie footage, on state-sponsored television (PBS). Furthermore, I could swear some gentleman wrote a hit song about the events (a Mr. Young, I believe) which is frequently played on the radio even today. General ignorance in the population (of which this is a pretty poor example unless you only ask people under about 40) is not the same as massive *and effective* state censorship of at least two orders of magnitude more deaths.
Under Windows 2000, Windows update offered me the same ancient, busted nVidia driver for years, regardless of my running a driver several scores of version numbers newer. It think it may have had to do with using a PCI video card for the 3rd monitor.
That's funny, I used paypal to send a moderately large sum to a contractor in NZ from the states, and I got a confirmation phone call within 5 minutes of posting the transaction.
Well, for those of us working with large images, programs speed up because they aren't constantly thrashing the swapfile.
Given that those stickers are distributed by the tobacco companies themselves, I am inclined to think the wording is intended to make smoking appear more rebellious and cool to the kiddies - "Wow, it's wrong and illegal!"
What about the all-consuming addiction?
or perhaps one HUNDRED times one MILLION is ONE HUNDRED MILLION. Even an English major can do that one.
You mean like Geezer, Codger, or Gaffer? That's not even going into borrowed words in widespread use like Farklempt and Alterkocker.
That's because it's an analog waveform. Better quality tubes can render more vertical black and white lines side-by-side (LCDs are of course fixed-resolution, and most are 640x480).
640x480 is NTSC resolution using square pixels, but DVD, MiniDV, and most other digital video devices use non-square pixels for a resolution of 720x480.
Article 1, Section 10 disagrees with you. Contracts trump constitutionality.
OK.
Who?
From government-sanctioned slavery to free land under the Homestead Act to the Roosevelt Doctrine to Civil War pension riots to broke farmers in Hoovertowns, I don't see a lot of refusal to accept government handouts prior to the New Deal.
The advent of TV news divisions being expected to make a profit, and the attendent nosedive in journalistic standards, is fairly recent. Watch Network now and it's hard to see how outrageous a satire the proto-reality TV news segments were back then - it's surpassed daily by all sorts of actual programming.
Yes, because within seconds, there will be a host of entirely new problems that prevent the network stack from working at all.
OK, they have a stupid reason for asking the question, and I have an excellent reason for pretending I did what they asked.
I couldn't count the number of times I've been told to reboot the computer as a first resort by DSL/Cable modem support when reporting a modem without sync. Not to mention that one is more or less obligated to lie if one is using a router or VOIP box of any kind, and give feedback as if the computer were directly connected to the internet (shudder).
I used a Cintiq, or whatever Wacom was calling them back then, in 1995 when a rich classmate brought one into the computer lab at art school to play with.