I think there's a link to it in another comment. Alternatively, you might be able to find it on comedy central's website - they showed the clip on "The daily show".
"The claim that Microsoft intends to require the ability to modify the machine in the future is pure speculation and contrary to any business logic for Microsoft.
From the article: "And Warby says Microsoft has told him that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems."
That's not speculation, it's one person relating what he's been told by MS. If it were speculation, it would read something like: "And Warby says he expects Microsoft to eventually disable users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems."
Also, blocking access to the windows update site would work for manual updates. Not giving users admin access to their Win2000 workstations would (I think) achieve the same thing. I don't know which resource auto update connects to, but I don't think it's prudent to assume it connects to the windowsupdate site.
Since the total medical costs would go down, it is at least theoretically possible to come up with a system where everyone is better off.
Unless, of course, you're one of the unlucky people who has a higher insurance premium, in which case, you're not better off, even though the group might be.
"Will we ever get a good single sign-on solution?"
What about NDS/Single Sign On from Novell? I haven't looked at it in a while, but last I checked, it ran on most server operating systems (including Linux), makes administration a *lot* easier, and is pretty secure. What's not to like? (besides the fact that it's not opensource/freesoftware) I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Novell's marketing sucks. They have great technology, but have had a lot of trouble turning that into products.
Nah, I'm only blocking Katz. I figured it out - the original story was so new that it was still showing up at the bottom of the main page - hadn't yet tripped over to the "older stuff" section.
Check out OpenOffice.org's
groupware project. In the early development stages right now, it just got promoted to an "incubator" project. In addition, they just announced a deal with OEone to work together on improving the Mozilla Calendar project (as part of the overall OOo groupware effort).
If you were a true geek, you wouldn't have to ask who Will Wheaten is. You would Just Know.
If you were a true geek (or if you'd followed the link or even just read the posting), you'd know that his name is spelled "Wil Wheaton", not "Will Wheaten". dumbass.
My wife went to grad school with a woman whose husband makes jewelry. I went to him for the education about diamonds (and to have the ring made exactly the way I knew she'd want it). One of the first things he told me was not that they have no resale value, but that, unlike other significant investments, they don't appreciate in value AT ALL. That is, if you pay $5,000 for the ring, in 10 years, it's still worth $5,000.
I'd like a gov't grant to offset the costs of a good security system for my house, too, but i'm not going to get one. It sounds like your school needs to rethink it's spending decisions. Most universities are not so cash strapped that they cannot afford to install physical security for their IT infrastructure. A more likely explaination is that they're putting off spending the money until they have to - i.e. *after* someone steals a server. A government grant to pay for that is not necessary.
Maybe not, then again, maybe it does. Certainly a 2002 Lincoln Navigator will pollute less than a 1997 Navigator (though I don't know if Lincoln made the Navigator back in 1997). It's interesting that the stats you chose to cite (MPG) have nothing to do with pollution. They are measures of resource consumption.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Apologies for the delay in my reply. Hopefully you're still tracking this thread.
Thanks for the info about scheduler. I'll take a look more closely at the whiteboard - i'm new to OO and so far haven't really checked out the site other than to get the builds when they've been released.
I wasn't aware of the "HPaq" port to A64. I agree that ports are a good thing (more platforms = more choice), and I think the more resources that can be devoted to the project, the better. BTW, aren't they required to submit bug fixes and changes back to OO? Or am I misunderstanding the license terms?
Thank you for your time - I look forward to seeing what comes next from the project.
"They ran into the reality that many companies don't want any company between them and their customers," said David Smith.
Translation: The companies MS was counting on to implement Hailstorm remembered what happened the last time that a big company (IBM) allowed MS between them & their customers (IBM got crushed marginalized), and decided to actually learn from history instead of repeating the same mistake. We should applaud this.
Took a poke around on google again last night and found out that "Next" was a joint production of A&E and the BBC. Looks like it was a 4 part series that covered more than was in the book. No upcoming run dates, but they're selling a DVD of the run.
Hadn't heard that about Yoakum, though it does seem to make sense to me that that would happen.
Interesting stuff, and i'll be keeping an eye on what happens.
Didn't know there was a tv adaptation of "Next". Do you happen to recall when you saw it & on what channel? I'd like to see it.
"The record companies are kneekapping themselves by not selling singles..."
But I think they still do sell them, though they're CD singles and, i've found, usually cost nearly as much as a full disc does. There's a couple of "bonus" tracks usually thrown in, but I don't think it makes purchasing worth it. I admit that I have purchaed one or two in the past, but that was to get one of the bonus tracks (live version of a different song I think it was), NOT for the single itself. (Note, I haven't been in a record store in quite some time, so this practice may have stopped).
Though i'd not be surprised to find out the record labels are loath to put more than two good singles on one disc, I think it more likely that the bands can typically only come up with one or two good songs in the time frame they have to record an album. I'm not a musician though, so the whole creative process there tends to amaze me anyway.
Seriously, though, you make a good point, one that I thought about but neglected to mention in my previous post. Thanks also for correcting my factual inaccuracies (my wife is reading "Next" so I couldn't get to it to check the story, though I think I got the gist of it correct).
It has been mentioned that the problem with, for example, the new Napster, is that "I can't find the music I want" i.e. the cool song I just heard on the radio driving to work. I guess the question is "how do you create demand for the indie bands, as opposed to the major-label acts"? I can remember going to see Dave Matthews at the Bayou here in DC. Two years later, my sister who lives in Cleveland was asking me if i'd heard of them. The interim step is that they got signed by a major label and got promoted. When it comes to filling in that missing step, I keep thinking about independent internet radio stations and independent music downloading sites and wondering if there's a way to band them together to get them noticed and start having THEM be the place where you hear the cool new music.
Or is that just replacing the big music labels with effectively another big label? I don't know...i'm babbling now I think.
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I think there's a link to it in another comment. Alternatively, you might be able to find it on comedy central's website - they showed the clip on "The daily show".
You're assuming that all users are up to the patch level referenced in the report, which they aren't, and most likely will never be.
"The claim that Microsoft intends to require the ability to modify the machine in the future is pure speculation and contrary to any business logic for Microsoft.
From the article:
"And Warby says Microsoft has told him that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems."
That's not speculation, it's one person relating what he's been told by MS. If it were speculation, it would read something like:
"And Warby says he expects Microsoft to eventually disable users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems."
Also, blocking access to the windows update site would work for manual updates. Not giving users admin access to their Win2000 workstations would (I think) achieve the same thing. I don't know which resource auto update connects to, but I don't think it's prudent to assume it connects to the windowsupdate site.
Since the total medical costs would go down, it is at least theoretically possible to come up with a system where everyone is better off.
Unless, of course, you're one of the unlucky people who has a higher insurance premium, in which case, you're not better off, even though the group might be.
"Will we ever get a good single sign-on solution?"
What about NDS/Single Sign On from Novell? I haven't looked at it in a while, but last I checked, it ran on most server operating systems (including Linux), makes administration a *lot* easier, and is pretty secure. What's not to like? (besides the fact that it's not opensource/freesoftware) I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Novell's marketing sucks. They have great technology, but have had a lot of trouble turning that into products.
Nah, I'm only blocking Katz. I figured it out - the original story was so new that it was still showing up at the bottom of the main page - hadn't yet tripped over to the "older stuff" section.
Weird. The original story SkulkCU referenced does not appear in the "older stuff" slashbox for my login. Anyone else have that problem?
Can anybody explain why the uninstall/install fresh routine is necessary?
Thanks.
Check out OpenOffice.org's groupware project. In the early development stages right now, it just got promoted to an "incubator" project. In addition, they just announced a deal with OEone to work together on improving the Mozilla Calendar project (as part of the overall OOo groupware effort).
Isn't doing interviews what got Judge Jackson removed from the MS case?
I don't disagree that it was a funny post. Just drives me nuts when people misspell things that are right in front of them.
If you were a true geek, you wouldn't have to ask who Will Wheaten is. You would Just Know.
If you were a true geek (or if you'd followed the link or even just read the posting), you'd know that his name is spelled "Wil Wheaton", not "Will Wheaten". dumbass.
My wife went to grad school with a woman whose husband makes jewelry. I went to him for the education about diamonds (and to have the ring made exactly the way I knew she'd want it). One of the first things he told me was not that they have no resale value, but that, unlike other significant investments, they don't appreciate in value AT ALL. That is, if you pay $5,000 for the ring, in 10 years, it's still worth $5,000.
Having said that:
Buy the diamond. It's worth it.
Does anybody have links to more information about the Japanese efforts? I don't recall hearing about them.
I'd like a gov't grant to offset the costs of a good security system for my house, too, but i'm not going to get one. It sounds like your school needs to rethink it's spending decisions. Most universities are not so cash strapped that they cannot afford to install physical security for their IT infrastructure. A more likely explaination is that they're putting off spending the money until they have to - i.e. *after* someone steals a server. A government grant to pay for that is not necessary.
Maybe not, then again, maybe it does. Certainly a 2002 Lincoln Navigator will pollute less than a 1997 Navigator (though I don't know if Lincoln made the Navigator back in 1997). It's interesting that the stats you chose to cite (MPG) have nothing to do with pollution. They are measures of resource consumption.
Or maybe you could just register and have your own login. What, exactly, do people have against registering on that site?
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Apologies for the delay in my reply. Hopefully you're still tracking this thread.
Thanks for the info about scheduler. I'll take a look more closely at the whiteboard - i'm new to OO and so far haven't really checked out the site other than to get the builds when they've been released.
I wasn't aware of the "HPaq" port to A64. I agree that ports are a good thing (more platforms = more choice), and I think the more resources that can be devoted to the project, the better. BTW, aren't they required to submit bug fixes and changes back to OO? Or am I misunderstanding the license terms?
Thank you for your time - I look forward to seeing what comes next from the project.
First, does Sun have any plans for StarOffice Schedule Server? It's not part of 6.0 (or OpenOffice that I can see).
Second, how would Sun feel about another large company (IBM?) rolling and selling its own version of OpenOffice?
I know, I know. What i'm asking is, if it *were* possible to prevent copying of the music files, would what this company did be okay?
"They ran into the reality that many companies don't want any company between them and their customers," said David Smith.
Translation:
The companies MS was counting on to implement Hailstorm remembered what happened the last time that a big company (IBM) allowed MS between them & their customers (IBM got crushed marginalized), and decided to actually learn from history instead of repeating the same mistake. We should applaud this.
Well, what if the files on the server were somehow restricted so that they could only be listened to, not copied? Would that be okay?
Took a poke around on google again last night and found out that "Next" was a joint production of A&E and the BBC. Looks like it was a 4 part series that covered more than was in the book. No upcoming run dates, but they're selling a DVD of the run.
Hadn't heard that about Yoakum, though it does seem to make sense to me that that would happen.
Interesting stuff, and i'll be keeping an eye on what happens.
Didn't know there was a tv adaptation of "Next". Do you happen to recall when you saw it & on what channel? I'd like to see it.
"The record companies are kneekapping themselves by not selling singles..."
But I think they still do sell them, though they're CD singles and, i've found, usually cost nearly as much as a full disc does. There's a couple of "bonus" tracks usually thrown in, but I don't think it makes purchasing worth it. I admit that I have purchaed one or two in the past, but that was to get one of the bonus tracks (live version of a different song I think it was), NOT for the single itself. (Note, I haven't been in a record store in quite some time, so this practice may have stopped).
Though i'd not be surprised to find out the record labels are loath to put more than two good singles on one disc, I think it more likely that the bands can typically only come up with one or two good songs in the time frame they have to record an album. I'm not a musician though, so the whole creative process there tends to amaze me anyway.
Your post reminds me of the SouthPark Episode about the Gnomes:
......
step 1 collect underwear
step 2
step 3 PROFIT!
Seriously, though, you make a good point, one that I thought about but neglected to mention in my previous post. Thanks also for correcting my factual inaccuracies (my wife is reading "Next" so I couldn't get to it to check the story, though I think I got the gist of it correct).
It has been mentioned that the problem with, for example, the new Napster, is that "I can't find the music I want" i.e. the cool song I just heard on the radio driving to work. I guess the question is "how do you create demand for the indie bands, as opposed to the major-label acts"? I can remember going to see Dave Matthews at the Bayou here in DC. Two years later, my sister who lives in Cleveland was asking me if i'd heard of them. The interim step is that they got signed by a major label and got promoted. When it comes to filling in that missing step, I keep thinking about independent internet radio stations and independent music downloading sites and wondering if there's a way to band them together to get them noticed and start having THEM be the place where you hear the cool new music.
Or is that just replacing the big music labels with effectively another big label? I don't know...i'm babbling now I think.