Larkin said the error message has existed for several years, persisting even in the newest Outlook version, even though the problem has been well-documented. Such situations tend to give credence to longstanding assertions that Microsoft makes its software unfriendly to programs from competing vendors.
This is what turned me off to Microsoft years ago. I used to love NT but got SO tired of incompatabilities with software from other vendors and of the misdirection from MS fans who always claimed the problems were with the other vendor. Well common sense tells me that when a microsoft program is released long after the other vendors has been on the market then the problem has to be caused by MS. Am I supposed to believe that the other vendors should have travelled in a time machine to test their software against a MS product that hasn't been written yet? Microsoft lost me as a supporter by cheating and lying about it.
an Australian company has released "The Worlds First" anti-virus software for mobile phones to fix the recent 'Caribe' virus and attempts to prevent future exploits.
I will not be dragged into yet another scam where I constantly pay to patch up problems that should not exist in the first place. If my service is interrupted by a virus my phone company had better release a firmware update to fix it or I won't be paying the bill. If they cut off my service for not paying for a phone that can't be used then all that will have happened is that they lost another customer. I can easily live without a cell phone.
If al-Qaeda really wanted to hurt american business then instead of ramming planes into buildings they should have just endorsed Microsoft. I can see it now...
Hello my name is Osama bil Laden and I pronounce Windows as 'Wonder-ows'. It is a simply marvelous product and allows my organization to operate at 100% efficiency! Praise Allah that He gave unto us the one called Bill Gates. He has truly earned his place in Paradise. No longer must I jihad with a difficult command line interface. Now I order executions with a simple point and click! Is so easy! Now I pray toward Washington five times each day but the state not the district of Columbia. Curse the D.C.! And look how it is loved by everyone, even my enemies. (holding up a severed head and throwing voice)
Yes I love it too because it helped me get ahead in business. I fell head over heels for Microsoft Windows! So you see that Allah is pleased for you to use the Microsoft windows and will set aside many virgins for you if you do. So come down to Crazy Mohammeds House of Goats and Software and license your copy today. This week only we have special price for window server 2003, only two camels and a goat. Get one year on MSN for only three drums of oil. Buy now or risk displeasing Allah!
I recored my voice to an ogg encoded binary and send my digital communique using the simplistic mail transference protocol. It is called a simplex conversation because only one person can talk simultaneaosly. My voice passes over the internet using the "internet protocol" a very sophisticated method for many inter connected computers to send messages amongst themselfs. If this sounds like it is going over your head, I would be happy to explain it in laymans terms. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.:)
This ruling doesn't change the fact that police just can't ask to for your name for no reason at all. At least get the facts right in your own damn summary before going off on "your rights".
Anyone who has seen the way cops drive cars both on duty and off duty know that they will do whatever they want and lie their asses off if someone even has the balls to take it before a judge. And the judge will always side with a police officer unless you have incontravertible proof that he is lying. And guess what? In some jurisdictions now it is illegal to make audio or video recordings of police when you are pulled over.
Its this really cool new protocol that lets you communicate and its supported by all major platforms. So far Microsoft has not embraced and perverted it so its cross platform future looks good. It great because it usually gets delivered right away but your friends don't expect a response within thirty seconds. You can send to an two way pager or a cell phone. You can even claim that you haven't been checking your email for a while if you don't feel like answering right now. And you can send HTML email that looks just like a web page including embedding graphics and sounds. You can even "attach" files to the message. Is that freaky or what? I think I just blew my own mind.
One class in a building will require restrictions, while both classrooms adjacent to it need open access.
And what keeps students in the middle classroom from connecting the access points on the other side of the wall? You need to explain the situation in more detail.
If only the middle classroom has access to some resource then just control access to that resource using something like NDS which allows limiting connections by MAC,IP,IPX addresses or by time of day, or by username.
as the White House is quick to point out, they never said anything factually untrue (at least about this).
Thats probably true. They relied on innuendo and rote association instead, the kind of tactics that an elementary school child would use or fall for.
How could they perpetrate such a fraud on the american public? Easy, just remember that 50% of the population has an IQ below 100 and waving an american flag in front of a redneck is akin to waving a red flag in front of a bull. Charge!
Probably not unless you are a monopoly - and they weren't at that time, just aiming to be. And their aim was pretty accurate.
If you had followed the MS antitrust trial you should have learned that a company can hold a monopoly with as little as 30-40% of marketshare depending on the industry and other circumstances. MS had greater than 90% share of the IBM PC OS market right from the beginning when IBM began bundling it with their personal computers. So MS was unquestionably a monopoly from that point forward at least in the market for IBM and IBM compatibles. (Yes I am ignoring Apple here but they never stood a chance against IBM) Just because a federal judge had not yet ruled that MS holds a monopoly did not mean they didn't have one. The ruling just meant that MS needed to quit wasting the courts time by denying something so obvious.
They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.
But a much more interesting example is when they checked to see if DR DOS was running and flashed a FUD-filled error message to the user. Mmmmm... FUD
While I'm not certain that I completely trust Microsoft on this, it might make sense to have the antivirus scanner as a part of the OS.
It is widely suspected the authors of many viruses work for the antivirus companies or own stock in them. Imagine if Microsoft bundled antivirus with the OS which would eventually put McAffee and NAV and others out of business like so many others in the past. The virus writers, whoever they may be, could make Microsoft look stupid by releasing threats tailored specifically to attack machines loaded with MS AV. This is one case where it is more difficult for MS to choke off their competitors air supply.
How many of you guys read manga (as opposed to watch anime), anyway?
Not me. You think I'm going to send my hard earned money overseas for something as useless as a comic book? Not on your life. I'll buy a car or a cell phone from them if it's a better value than I can get domestically. But exporting your money for things with intangible value is Stupid.
If we define a PDA as a handheld mobile device that has a screen too big for a conventional (2004) shirt pocket, that overcomes the semantic issue of having to define the dividing line between PDA and phone.
Didn't you mean "a screen small enough for a conventional shirt pocket"? If not, then I don't understand what you are trying to say. Every PDA I've owned including several models of Palms and a Zaurus have fit in my shirt pockets. I have seen wince devices advertised which were way too large to fit but they didn't last long on the market. Once guy at work who was a true ms believer bought one and tried carrying it around from a sling on his belt. That last for maybe a few weeks.
PDA's need to fit in a shirt pocket too. There have been attempts to combine phone and PDA into one such as
the Treo and some people like them but from what I heard a couple years ago the reception and battery life is not as good and you can't hear the other party as well as on a regular cell phone. But these seem like issues that can be overcome and in fact I see that there is a new model the Treo 600 which has a very different design from the original so it probably takes some of the complaints into account.
There is also the question of crunching more pixels into a smaller area. If display technology improves to the point where I can get megapixel resolution on a Palm Pilot then combined with advances in processor and memory, I won't need a laptop anymore. And while we are waiting on higher pixel density what would drive sales of a converged PDA/phone device? How about videophone? If the device had built-in 802.11 b, g, analog and digital cell service and could make the best, fastest, cheapest connection to another device or Polycom, Netmeeting that would be a pretty hot ticket.
Corporal Capacitor: 'Hey Specialist, where'd the Sarge go?' Specialist Sparks: 'He just climbed out on the deck to take a leak.' Corporal Capacitor: (Charging plates) 'Oh really?'
the object of which was for contestants to create a site ranked highest by google for a nonsense phrase, "nigritude ultramarine."
I was picturing a black supersoldier, kinda like my old drill instructor at Fort Benning. That guy was freakin scary. He was six foot five and hard as a rock in both physique and attitude and had those crazy looking eyes like Bernie Mac. Once out on bivouac he actually opened up a bit and told us about his days in Vietnam when he was a seventeen year old private.
Bryant's lawyers are hoping that in the victim's highly emotional state just hours after the rape she lashed out verbally at her attacker by using the word 'nigger' in an environment she thought was private between her and her support network. By showing such a message to a jury they can try to claim that she is racist and set Bryant up as part of a premeditated racially motivated miscarraiage of justice ala the O.J. Simpson defense.
First off, I don't see any concentric rings. Are they being obscured by the figure of Jesus or the praying virgin Mary?
Second, Atlantis was only 925m in diameter? It was always made out to be a whole continent in all the crackpot stories. It sounds like it was only ever just a city with 5 defensible moats. If that is what Plato wrote then how did it get blown so far out of proportion?
Google Fills a Void
The likely next step for Google is to offer its customers remote storage space, a virtual hard drive on which to store all of your files, share them with friends and colleagues, and access them from anywhere.
Reifman suggests that Microsoft's salvation lies in signing up portions of the Windows user base for services (20 million x $19.95), but they've already been beaten to the punch on this one. Check out Novell's Virtual Office. Not only can you do these things with virtual office but you control the information because it's hosted on your own servers. This was the failing that Reifman pointed out for Microsoft's Passport service. Evidently Novell has learned from Gate's mistakes.
Apple, in contrast, has embraced Open Source and is delivering a better consumer experience.
I was in a store yesterday and saw an Apple computer for $799 with a builtin 17" LCD display. Those monitors usually cost over $400 so the marginal cost of the iMac was less than $399. I haven't owned a Mac in over 10 years mostly because of price but the difference between PC and Mac is becoming close enough that I think I will try one out next time I purchase.
I recently received a faulty cell phone bill for $2000 claiming that I sent 40,000 text messages in one month
When I got a cell phone recently I was asked for some very personal info such as social security number, drivers license number, date of birth. When I asked why they claimed it was so they could "find" me if I charged up a big phone bill and then refused to pay. I didn't think they needed to start a dossier on me so I asked several of these phone service providers if I could get my account capped at some low amount. I even offered to leave a deposit for this amount. They said they won't do that. I am still mystified as to why. Credit card companies will do it. They will even question charges that appear fraudulent. But a telecomm company won't?
I ended up getting one of them to agree to remove my social security number from there computer file by zeroing it out after performing a credit check. I suspect it is still in their computer though. Does anyone know why a phone company would actually need your most personal information?
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I will not be dragged into yet another scam where I constantly pay to patch up problems that should not exist in the first place. If my service is interrupted by a virus my phone company had better release a firmware update to fix it or I won't be paying the bill. If they cut off my service for not paying for a phone that can't be used then all that will have happened is that they lost another customer. I can easily live without a cell phone.
I recored my voice to an ogg encoded binary and send my digital communique using the simplistic mail transference protocol. It is called a simplex conversation because only one person can talk simultaneaosly. My voice passes over the internet using the "internet protocol" a very sophisticated method for many inter connected computers to send messages amongst themselfs. If this sounds like it is going over your head, I would be happy to explain it in laymans terms. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. :)
Condescending enough for you?
Anyone who has seen the way cops drive cars both on duty and off duty know that they will do whatever they want and lie their asses off if someone even has the balls to take it before a judge. And the judge will always side with a police officer unless you have incontravertible proof that he is lying. And guess what? In some jurisdictions now it is illegal to make audio or video recordings of police when you are pulled over.
Its this really cool new protocol that lets you communicate and its supported by all major platforms. So far Microsoft has not embraced and perverted it so its cross platform future looks good. It great because it usually gets delivered right away but your friends don't expect a response within thirty seconds. You can send to an two way pager or a cell phone. You can even claim that you haven't been checking your email for a while if you don't feel like answering right now. And you can send HTML email that looks just like a web page including embedding graphics and sounds. You can even "attach" files to the message. Is that freaky or what? I think I just blew my own mind.
I wonder whether he answered yes or no.
And what keeps students in the middle classroom from connecting the access points on the other side of the wall? You need to explain the situation in more detail.
If only the middle classroom has access to some resource then just control access to that resource using something like NDS which allows limiting connections by MAC,IP,IPX addresses or by time of day, or by username.
Thats probably true. They relied on innuendo and rote association instead, the kind of tactics that an elementary school child would use or fall for.
How could they perpetrate such a fraud on the american public? Easy, just remember that 50% of the population has an IQ below 100 and waving an american flag in front of a redneck is akin to waving a red flag in front of a bull. Charge!
If you had followed the MS antitrust trial you should have learned that a company can hold a monopoly with as little as 30-40% of marketshare depending on the industry and other circumstances. MS had greater than 90% share of the IBM PC OS market right from the beginning when IBM began bundling it with their personal computers. So MS was unquestionably a monopoly from that point forward at least in the market for IBM and IBM compatibles. (Yes I am ignoring Apple here but they never stood a chance against IBM) Just because a federal judge had not yet ruled that MS holds a monopoly did not mean they didn't have one. The ruling just meant that MS needed to quit wasting the courts time by denying something so obvious.
It is widely suspected the authors of many viruses work for the antivirus companies or own stock in them. Imagine if Microsoft bundled antivirus with the OS which would eventually put McAffee and NAV and others out of business like so many others in the past. The virus writers, whoever they may be, could make Microsoft look stupid by releasing threats tailored specifically to attack machines loaded with MS AV. This is one case where it is more difficult for MS to choke off their competitors air supply.
Not me. You think I'm going to send my hard earned money overseas for something as useless as a comic book? Not on your life. I'll buy a car or a cell phone from them if it's a better value than I can get domestically. But exporting your money for things with intangible value is Stupid.
Didn't you mean "a screen small enough for a conventional shirt pocket"? If not, then I don't understand what you are trying to say. Every PDA I've owned including several models of Palms and a Zaurus have fit in my shirt pockets. I have seen wince devices advertised which were way too large to fit but they didn't last long on the market. Once guy at work who was a true ms believer bought one and tried carrying it around from a sling on his belt. That last for maybe a few weeks.
There is also the question of crunching more pixels into a smaller area. If display technology improves to the point where I can get megapixel resolution on a Palm Pilot then combined with advances in processor and memory, I won't need a laptop anymore. And while we are waiting on higher pixel density what would drive sales of a converged PDA/phone device? How about videophone? If the device had built-in 802.11 b, g, analog and digital cell service and could make the best, fastest, cheapest connection to another device or Polycom, Netmeeting that would be a pretty hot ticket.
The funniest thing is that the author is probably fully aware of the word's meaning since he uses a fly for his icon.
Corporal Capacitor: 'Hey Specialist, where'd the Sarge go?'
Specialist Sparks: 'He just climbed out on the deck to take a leak.'
Corporal Capacitor: (Charging plates) 'Oh really?'
Bryant's lawyers are hoping that in the victim's highly emotional state just hours after the rape she lashed out verbally at her attacker by using the word 'nigger' in an environment she thought was private between her and her support network. By showing such a message to a jury they can try to claim that she is racist and set Bryant up as part of a premeditated racially motivated miscarraiage of justice ala the O.J. Simpson defense.
First off, I don't see any concentric rings. Are they being obscured by the figure of Jesus or the praying virgin Mary?
Second, Atlantis was only 925m in diameter? It was always made out to be a whole continent in all the crackpot stories. It sounds like it was only ever just a city with 5 defensible moats. If that is what Plato wrote then how did it get blown so far out of proportion?
The likely next step for Google is to offer its customers remote storage space, a virtual hard drive on which to store all of your files, share them with friends and colleagues, and access them from anywhere.
Reifman suggests that Microsoft's salvation lies in signing up portions of the Windows user base for services (20 million x $19.95), but they've already been beaten to the punch on this one. Check out Novell's Virtual Office. Not only can you do these things with virtual office but you control the information because it's hosted on your own servers. This was the failing that Reifman pointed out for Microsoft's Passport service. Evidently Novell has learned from Gate's mistakes.
I was in a store yesterday and saw an Apple computer for $799 with a builtin 17" LCD display. Those monitors usually cost over $400 so the marginal cost of the iMac was less than $399. I haven't owned a Mac in over 10 years mostly because of price but the difference between PC and Mac is becoming close enough that I think I will try one out next time I purchase.
When I got a cell phone recently I was asked for some very personal info such as social security number, drivers license number, date of birth. When I asked why they claimed it was so they could "find" me if I charged up a big phone bill and then refused to pay. I didn't think they needed to start a dossier on me so I asked several of these phone service providers if I could get my account capped at some low amount. I even offered to leave a deposit for this amount. They said they won't do that. I am still mystified as to why. Credit card companies will do it. They will even question charges that appear fraudulent. But a telecomm company won't?
I ended up getting one of them to agree to remove my social security number from there computer file by zeroing it out after performing a credit check. I suspect it is still in their computer though. Does anyone know why a phone company would actually need your most personal information?
Caps Lock is neccessary for typing in those super long computer industry acronyms!
I don't see popups either, nor popunders, adware, spyware, or unwanted cookies. Aren't Mozilla and Linux great?