Yes this is doubleplus good. I like that the DRM is so diligent, And the RMS Server has been enhanced for us. Thank god somebody's thinking of the children.
Okay, I was kidding about how much resources the uplink to the mothership uses. It was the alleged reconfig that bothered me. But how much resources are used to constantly refresh the latest Britney Spears templates from the RMS Server?
"Enables polling of RMS server at regular intervals to identify new templates and download them to the local template store."
Seems like a significant load is possible. What sort of algorithm are they running?
"Users who did not opt-in to the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) will be prompted again to join after installing SP1. The experience will remain the same and the default will continue to be opt-out."
I guess I need to read ALL TFA before I post. The previous MS quote misled my beliefs until corrected by the newthink MS quote. MY humble apologies. Does anybody know what the default really is? I haven't upgraded since xp-64.
"To help improve the quality of SP1, installing the RC version of SP1 will activate the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) for the computer regardless of the previous settings. This program will be activated until SP1 is uninstalled. CEIP collects basic information about computers and how users use the product."
Are you running broadband? Perhaps the data buffering for the uploads to momma is overtaxing your swapfile. For windows I partition about four gigs on the outer rims of one of the drives (E:, usually)that is for swaps.
What they are really saying is: We haven't found any terrorists, but we're thinking of the children! 70,000 victims of secondary harassment. This is a major criminal operation we're funding.
Really, I can't look at any cop without displaying MACRO-expressions that probably reveal "emotions such as fear, anger, surprise or contempt". Mere innocence is no defense, nowadays.
I fondly remember the olden days,(when I was a kid), and Herbert Schwartz showing me the lineman's phones that he'd socially engineered from some Bell Telephone guys. Herbie had a junction box in his back yard there in Livermore, so he could hook on and call his friends in Vienna. By not hooking on to the (correct) lines, nobody got billed for the calls. Way cool. This was back before touch-tone dialing, and it was a while before any sort of security or blocking was instituted anyway, so it was hardly phreaking. Knowing Herbert, he was still the first kid in town with the blue box or whatever. Wonder where he is these days.
A real analogy perhaps? In my misspent youth I roadied for rock bands. Back then, in the "Punk Rock" genre, it was fairly evident that pretty much any fool could play guitar (unlike, say, drums or horns). I used to make up nice melodies and could hum or whistle them and have a musician duplicate them on an instrument, writing actual tunes in collaboration. Any way, I decided to learn to play guitar. After several months of practice, I discovered that the melodies in my head would no longer come out. I was limited by my rudimentary skill as a guitarist, even if I didn't have a guitar in hand, my brain was stuck in the one or two keys I (sort of) knew. So my tunes became extremely clunky and boring. Interesting phenomena. BTW the shooting baskets ploy is sort of like what I did if I muffed a chord change in practice, I found it very helpful to run through the chord progression backwards, sort of de-constructing my mistakes. I still can't play very well, But my pro musician friends all say my chord changes are pretty clean.
This all reminds me of a slogan I used to share, until I realised that nobody got the point:
"If I can't trust you with a machine gun, why are you still AT LARGE?"
I wouldn't generalise about "rednecks", however, the kind of fool that would shoot someone for looking "different" are very common in my area. If I may go on and troll a bit further, my European friends have indicated that this is not socially approved in the old countries e.g. Norway, The Netherlands, and that fewer people openly encourage willful ignorance. I haven't been there myself but it wouldn't surprise me if some other cultures are less enthusiastic in their suppression of rationality. BTW I can't count the times MY Neighbors have suggested internment camps, deportations, and random violence against immigrants, as well as nuclear retaliation against IRAQ since SADDAM blew up the WTC.
Loaded long guns are intrinsically unsafe. Handguns are engineered to be kept loaded, and are unlikely to discharge accidentally, i.e. when dropped. Mainly one should develop and maintain a strict safety protocol around the handling of firearms, and power tools. I keep my revolvers loaded and securely inaccessible to kids. I keep the shotgun and carbine accessible with the cartridges locked up. When the lads were out celebrating the Rodney King verdict, I did load them.
In the olden days, when I was a kid, I repaired televisions. I don't recall the name of the government entity involved, similar to the Bureau of Automotive Repair, but for electronic repair, and we had the same law regarding customer's old parts. I would assume that applies to computers as well as radios and television. Isn't Apple incorporated in The People's Republic of California?
I larfed twice, first I thought goatse, almost fell out of my chair. Then when I saw the imaging comment from AC, (good one, eh?) and LOL all over again. Now the ol' lady is yelling I woke her up.
Think of the intersection of subset: People_convicted_of crimes and subset: Guilty_criminals. There is a difference, but the FBI will never acknowledge this. Haven't you learned that? You must post bail pretty quick. Slander is high on the list of the FBI's accomplishments.
I try to note the sponsors of especially egregious pop-ups in order to avoid purchasing their products.Spam, of course, rates a permanent boycott. I don't recall ever deliberately clicking on an off-site advertisement link. I am not much like a normal consumer however, and they aren't missing me.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes this is doubleplus good. I like that the DRM is so diligent, And the RMS Server has been enhanced for us. Thank god somebody's thinking of the children.
Okay, I was kidding about how much resources the uplink to the mothership uses. It was the alleged reconfig that bothered me. But how much resources are used to constantly refresh the latest Britney Spears templates from the RMS Server?
"Enables polling of RMS server at regular intervals to identify new templates and download them to the local template store."
Seems like a significant load is possible. What sort of algorithm are they running?
"Users who did not opt-in to the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) will be prompted again to join after installing SP1. The experience will remain the same and the default will continue to be opt-out."
I guess I need to read ALL TFA before I post. The previous MS quote misled my beliefs until corrected by the newthink MS quote. MY humble apologies. Does anybody know what the default really is? I haven't upgraded since xp-64.
"To help improve the quality of SP1, installing the RC version of SP1 will activate the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) for the computer regardless of the previous settings. This program will be activated until SP1 is uninstalled. CEIP collects basic information about computers and how users use the product."
Are you running broadband? Perhaps the data buffering for the uploads to momma is overtaxing your swapfile. For windows I partition about four gigs on the outer rims of one of the drives (E:, usually)that is for swaps.
What they are really saying is: We haven't found any terrorists, but we're thinking of the children!
70,000 victims of secondary harassment. This is a major criminal operation we're funding.
Such a system does exist, and it is utterly useless due to the number of false positives. It is referred to by the initials "TSA".
Really, I can't look at any cop without displaying MACRO-expressions that probably reveal "emotions such as fear, anger, surprise or contempt". Mere innocence is no defense, nowadays.
I fondly remember the olden days,(when I was a kid), and Herbert Schwartz showing me the lineman's phones that he'd socially engineered from some Bell Telephone guys. Herbie had a junction box in his back yard there in Livermore, so he could hook on and call his friends in Vienna. By not hooking on to the (correct) lines, nobody got billed for the calls. Way cool. This was back before touch-tone dialing, and it was a while before any sort of security or blocking was instituted anyway, so it was hardly phreaking. Knowing Herbert, he was still the first kid in town with the blue box or whatever. Wonder where he is these days.
Retard.
A real analogy perhaps? In my misspent youth I roadied for rock bands. Back then, in the "Punk Rock" genre, it was fairly evident that pretty much any fool could play guitar (unlike, say, drums or horns). I used to make up nice melodies and could hum or whistle them and have a musician duplicate them on an instrument, writing actual tunes in collaboration. Any way, I decided to learn to play guitar. After several months of practice, I discovered that the melodies in my head would no longer come out. I was limited by my rudimentary skill as a guitarist, even if I didn't have a guitar in hand, my brain was stuck in the one or two keys I (sort of) knew. So my tunes became extremely clunky and boring. Interesting phenomena. BTW the shooting baskets ploy is sort of like what I did if I muffed a chord change in practice, I found it very helpful to run through the chord progression backwards, sort of de-constructing my mistakes. I still can't play very well, But my pro musician friends all say my chord changes are pretty clean.
OMG I should be scourged! I am not fit to be among decent people. SAVE THE CHILDREN!
This all reminds me of a slogan I used to share, until I realised that nobody got the point:
"If I can't trust you with a machine gun, why are you still AT LARGE?"
More open? More like the theme of their personal identity.
I wouldn't generalise about "rednecks", however, the kind of fool that would shoot someone for looking "different" are very common in my area. If I may go on and troll a bit further, my European friends have indicated that this is not socially approved in the old countries e.g. Norway, The Netherlands, and that fewer people openly encourage willful ignorance. I haven't been there myself but it wouldn't surprise me if some other cultures are less enthusiastic in their suppression of rationality. BTW I can't count the times MY Neighbors have suggested internment camps, deportations, and random violence against immigrants, as well as nuclear retaliation against IRAQ since SADDAM blew up the WTC.
Loaded long guns are intrinsically unsafe. Handguns are engineered to be kept loaded, and are unlikely to discharge accidentally, i.e. when dropped. Mainly one should develop and maintain a strict safety protocol around the handling of firearms, and power tools. I keep my revolvers loaded and securely inaccessible to kids. I keep the shotgun and carbine accessible with the cartridges locked up. When the lads were out celebrating the Rodney King verdict, I did load them.
In the olden days, when I was a kid, I repaired televisions. I don't recall the name of the government entity involved, similar to the Bureau of Automotive Repair, but for electronic repair, and we had the same law regarding customer's old parts. I would assume that applies to computers as well as radios and television. Isn't Apple incorporated in The People's Republic of California?
I larfed twice, first I thought goatse, almost fell out of my chair. Then when I saw the imaging comment from AC, (good one, eh?) and LOL all over again. Now the ol' lady is yelling I woke her up.
As horrifying as it is, it doesn't piss me off like that fohootville crap.
" About SCO
The SCO Group is a leading provider of UNIX software technology and mobile services."
I think I like the Nelson Muntz quote best.
Think of the intersection of subset: People_convicted_of crimes and subset: Guilty_criminals. There is a difference, but the FBI will never acknowledge this. Haven't you learned that? You must post bail pretty quick. Slander is high on the list of the FBI's accomplishments.
What do you think they do in gaol?
The FCC used to limit advertisement to eight minutes per hour. AFAIK the limit kind of topped out at 60 recently.
I try to note the sponsors of especially egregious pop-ups in order to avoid purchasing their products.Spam, of course, rates a permanent boycott. I don't recall ever deliberately clicking on an off-site advertisement link. I am not much like a normal consumer however, and they aren't missing me.
I didn't know Heathkit was still around.
Bring on the bloatware.