Security on the Passport network isn't great - hotmail accounts are generally quite easy to steal, as anyone who's had the misfortune to use MSN Groups will confirm.
Suddenly, stealing a hotmail account is a way of committing piracy !
As I understand it, the future roadmap for FF/TB includes a common Gecko runtime environment which can run separate moz-based apps to eliminate exactly this issue.
Among the market Apple hopes to secure, I suspect the name Intel is better known & respected than AMD.
We geeks know that AMD has some good stuff, but I'm sure we can all remember when AMD provided chips like the K6/2 which while technically sound (100mhz front-side bus before the Pentium-2 became common, right?), tended to be sold cheap and built into PCs which also used cheap chipsets and reliability suffered as a result.
Back in the day, the P2 and early P3 and the K6/2 and K6/3 were only really differentiated by the quality of their chipsets. A lot of the people Apple wants to woo may have suffered the effects of cheap AMD-based PCs. Intel's late-90s/2000-era chipsets were pretty solid and due to better build quality and drivers tended to run Windows somewhat better.
I wouldnt be surprised if that still affects the market today. Technology moves on, consumers are more static.
Anyway they can always get established on x86 then build an Athlon64 xServe......
My point was that AOL subscribers + Microsoft WMV technology + TimeWarner content = Profit.
This merger/purchase would bring together the provider, the distributor and the audience.
Probably in the POP3 downloads (if allowed). Yahoo UK graciously alows its users to access it with POP3 but they must agree to receiving targeted advertising mails as well. I'll stick with gmail...
Also, a lot of the truly great programmers of our age have had personality flaws.. possibly a degree of autism-like inability to interface to other people is symptomatic of the mindset that understands computer systems. God knows, we geeks face dumber forms of that assumption every day!
I'm quite unhappy that new features are being added to the mouse interface - the way a mouse interacts with a GUI needs to be a simple, standardised, well documented system. Logitech are presumably adding a new driver, I hope it's stable and will fall back to a standard PS2 driver in the event of a fault.
The screenshots show Windows reporting hard drive space and RAM measured in TB.. unfortunately it's Windows XP 32-bit which can't handle more than 4GB of RAM. Clearly a hoax...
Last week's tragic events should have demonstrated to America the foolishness of such excessive consumption of fossil fuels. That said, I doubt Pres. Bush's recent failure to enforce reasonable standards of fuel economy on all vehicles will be overturned..
There are lots of cable routers which can deal with eMule/eDonkey levels of traffic but DSL / ADSL / SDSL users have a harder choice ahead of them.
Users at emule-project.org have done a lot of testing and found that one of the most resilient DSL routers is the U.S.Robotics "Sureconnect" 9105/9106... as someone who bought one based on their advice I can confirm this.
Avoid Conexant-based routers like the plague, and Netgear DG6xx/8xx or D-Link DSL-30x/50x aren't much better.
Here in Europe AOL / AIM is much less common, people are far more likely to have a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger login. AOL got in first by bundling an instant messanger in their client long before MS introduced Windows Messenger to everyone in 2001, but their hegemony is restricted to where they were a natural first choice as an ISP.
Slashdot by its nature attracts literate, intelligent people - yes, the 4 books together represent a lot of reading but equally, a tremendous reward locked in paper and yours to take for yourself and pass on.
Home on iPod was a feature slated for inclusion in OSX 10.3 Panther - it was the opportunity to have an encrypted home directory, containing application settings, documents and apps in a partition on an iPod's internal drive.
When connected to a supported Mac, the OS would allow the user to log in with their usual login and password, giving a seamless M
the feature was apparently scrapped as desktop usage was too stressful on the iPod hard drive
A manual gearbox will give better control of the car, better ability to recover from skidding, 10% better fuel economy across the board... and better understanding of the mechanics of driving.
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Security on the Passport network isn't great - hotmail accounts are generally quite easy to steal, as anyone who's had the misfortune to use MSN Groups will confirm.
Suddenly, stealing a hotmail account is a way of committing piracy !
This seems more like a crippled, intrusive version of Apt-Get. Hardly compelling, compared to Ubuntu's synaptic...
.. so you have to actually go to the Phillipines on spec, in the hope they'll accept it and pay you?
As I understand it, the future roadmap for FF/TB includes a common Gecko runtime environment which can run separate moz-based apps to eliminate exactly this issue.
Among the market Apple hopes to secure, I suspect the name Intel is better known & respected than AMD.
We geeks know that AMD has some good stuff, but I'm sure we can all remember when AMD provided chips like the K6/2 which while technically sound (100mhz front-side bus before the Pentium-2 became common, right?), tended to be sold cheap and built into PCs which also used cheap chipsets and reliability suffered as a result.
Back in the day, the P2 and early P3 and the K6/2 and K6/3 were only really differentiated by the quality of their chipsets. A lot of the people Apple wants to woo may have suffered the effects of cheap AMD-based PCs. Intel's late-90s/2000-era chipsets were pretty solid and due to better build quality and drivers tended to run Windows somewhat better.
I wouldnt be surprised if that still affects the market today. Technology moves on, consumers are more static.
Anyway they can always get established on x86 then build an Athlon64 xServe......
Yes, quite true
My point was that AOL subscribers + Microsoft WMV technology + TimeWarner content = Profit.
This merger/purchase would bring together the provider, the distributor and the audience.
54Mbit/sec = 27 Mbit/sec each way. 20mbit/sec is the max reasonable bandwidth...
Microsoft sees its future in the media distribution/licencing business - hence so much R&D of their proprietary secured codecs for audio and video.
AOL is presently owned by Time Warner
Probably in the POP3 downloads (if allowed). Yahoo UK graciously alows its users to access it with POP3 but they must agree to receiving targeted advertising mails as well. I'll stick with gmail...
Also, a lot of the truly great programmers of our age have had personality flaws.. possibly a degree of autism-like inability to interface to other people is symptomatic of the mindset that understands computer systems. God knows, we geeks face dumber forms of that assumption every day!
I'm quite unhappy that new features are being added to the mouse interface - the way a mouse interacts with a GUI needs to be a simple, standardised, well documented system. Logitech are presumably adding a new driver, I hope it's stable and will fall back to a standard PS2 driver in the event of a fault.
The screenshots show Windows reporting hard drive space and RAM measured in TB.. unfortunately it's Windows XP 32-bit which can't handle more than 4GB of RAM. Clearly a hoax...
Microsoft recently bought Connectix, makers of VirtualPC, ostensibly to use their system virtualisation technology in new Microsoft products.
Will virtual X86 servers running on Itanium be an available option to supply services not supported by native Itanium code?
No, he failed (ie, refused) to do something reasonable and worthwhile. That's not the same thing at all.
Last week's tragic events should have demonstrated to America the foolishness of such excessive consumption of fossil fuels. That said, I doubt Pres. Bush's recent failure to enforce reasonable standards of fuel economy on all vehicles will be overturned..
Probably a strictly hypothetical max bandwidth. 108mb/s 802.11n struggles to exceed 40mb/s in real-life.
netgear and D-Link routers also run Linux, It's still easy to crash them through overloading the routing table.
Quite why a 266mhz ARM-CPU D-Link router can't handle the same throughput as a Pentium-133 running Monowall, I wouldnt like to say.
Meanwhile the Apple Airport Extreme has a 333mhz AMD CPU (hah!) in it running a proprietary RTOS and is totally uncrashable in my experience.
There are lots of cable routers which can deal with eMule/eDonkey levels of traffic but DSL / ADSL / SDSL users have a harder choice ahead of them.
Users at emule-project.org have done a lot of testing and found that one of the most resilient DSL routers is the U.S.Robotics "Sureconnect" 9105/9106... as someone who bought one based on their advice I can confirm this.
Avoid Conexant-based routers like the plague, and Netgear DG6xx/8xx or D-Link DSL-30x/50x aren't much better.
Here in Europe AOL / AIM is much less common, people are far more likely to have a Yahoo! or MSN Messenger login. AOL got in first by bundling an instant messanger in their client long before MS introduced Windows Messenger to everyone in 2001, but their hegemony is restricted to where they were a natural first choice as an ISP.
Slashdot by its nature attracts literate, intelligent people - yes, the 4 books together represent a lot of reading but equally, a tremendous reward locked in paper and yours to take for yourself and pass on.
Fiction, but still good:
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Then to explain how Enoch Root lives so long, you'll need to read
Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle Trilogy
In other news, Intel announced a multi-million dollar deployment and support contract sold to OptInRealBig.com....
giving a seamless Mac user experience
I'm not sure what happened there..
Home on iPod was a feature slated for inclusion in OSX 10.3 Panther - it was the opportunity to have an encrypted home directory, containing application settings, documents and apps in a partition on an iPod's internal drive.
When connected to a supported Mac, the OS would allow the user to log in with their usual login and password, giving a seamless M
the feature was apparently scrapped as desktop usage was too stressful on the iPod hard drive
A manual gearbox will give better control of the car, better ability to recover from skidding, 10% better fuel economy across the board... and better understanding of the mechanics of driving.