I would just like to point out that *anyone* who purchases Microsoft Office with Open License (what most large companies do), that they automatically get free copies for home.
Microsoft did not "throw it in" to sweeten the deal for this customer. It's been part of the package for years now.
You certainly don't know what SharePoint is. And if you do, you give the impression that you have never made use of it in a corporate setting.
SharePoint is primarily for intranets and extranets, where the content consists mostly of Word/Excel/PowerPoint files. Using Word to edit this "website" is precisely what you're supposed to do with it.
While I've never used the trial version, I can say that I have no problems moving files between 2003 and 2007 and back to 2003 as long as you either:
a) Save As the 2003 format from within 2007, or
b) Install the free Compatibility Pack onto Office 2003
Further, if you open a 2003 file in Office 2007, it opens in "Compatibility Mode" and will ONLY save as a 2003 file unless you specifically tell it otherwise. It even disables features that are strictly 2007-only.
And uninstalling 2007 to put 2003 on was a piece of cake. On one machine, I even have *both* running at the same time and can easily switch between them. The only exception to this is Outlook, which you cannot have an old version on the same machine as a new one.
Meanwhile, Kristensen of Secunia said: "A new URI handler was registered on Windows systems to allow Web sites to force launching Firefox if the 'firefoxurl://' URI was called, like ftp://http:/// or similar would call other applications."
But because of the way the URI handler was registered by Firefox, it causes any parameter--which activates a program to perform a particular task--to be passed from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or another application, to Firefox, when firefoxurl:// is activated.
An attacker may use "chrome" context--the interface elements of a browser that create the frame around its page displays--to inject code on a user's system that would be executed within Firefox, Kristensen said.
I interpret that as saying that the Firefox installer messed with Windows and Internet Explorer, opening a hole. Is Window/IE really to blame when another application adds "features" that end up being holes?
If Windows/IE were to filter what can and cannot happen through URI handlers, I could see developers crying foul for preventing access and locking out competition.
Further, is the onus now on Microsoft to fix a hole created by Firefox? And once they fix it, and legit things break because of it, who's fault will that be?
You mean writing content that we actually WANT to read? Oh the horror!
What it will also do, hopefully, is give less credence to those damned websites that function only to direct traffic somewhere. You know, the search-engine equivalent of spam.
Advertisers will be less likely to give someone money if the average page view is only 1 second. That, in turn, will lead to better content to keep our interest.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Capchas were overcomes simply by showing the graphics to some underpaid person who just types in the actual responses.
A sophisticaed enough system could easily "pipe" these graphics to someone who just sits and types all day. At one capcha every 10 seconds, that's about 8000 in a day working 24/7.
Not everything these spammers do has to be automated.
I'm assuming you were applying for a management position.
I think the answer the interviewer wanted to hear was "Review My Day". As in, you sit down at your desk and look at the various tasks you have to accomplish and figure out when you're going to do them that day.
You might also throw in a quick review of your long term projects/goals, determine where you are in accomplishing them, and plan that progress into your day as well.
Most successful people will do this very early in the morning -- sometimes before they even leave the home -- and again when the day ends to prepare for the following day.
That would be kinda neat if one of the final bosses "abilities" is to draw new minions into existance to come and attack you. We've all seen bosses raise minions from the dead, summon them, or whatnot. But how many of them use a pencil?
I'm no expert on music law or anything, but it appears to me that the website in question is selling sheet music (in video form) of songs that he does not own the rights to.
I don't believe you can listen to someone else's song, figure out the notes, and then sell that to someone else. It seems to me that the original composer aught to be able to control that.
The kinda reminds me of the websites which were offering music lyrics for free, and earning revenue from advertising. I remember a number of those websites were shut down (some by police force). Although now it seems like they're everywhere, so I don't know what changed.
Like you said, the visual email thing requires a good deal of vendor support. And I imagine a vendor is only going to put forth the effort required if they see a substantial return on that investment.
Likewise, there's a very good possibility that AT&T has paid Apple for exclusive rights to the launch (a two year term). That contract, which could be worth a lot of money, is probably worth more to Apple than any kind of "good will" that might change the market or the sales they missed because of it.
All that being said, in two years they will likely make it "open" and you'll be able to get your iPhone from any vendor. We'll see though.
The thing I like about singles is it lets the consumer decide. I can pay $10 for an entire album, or $1 for just the song(s) I want. The power is in the consumer's hands.
Most "albums" of today are simply a bunch of singles strung together. Very few tell a story. Hopefully though, this will inspire artists to create a more cohesive album when they feel so inclined.
A popular artist might be very successful releasing 10-15 singles, all independant of each other... or might decide to tell a story, write an album the "old fashioned way", and sell that instead. Or both.
Either way, this change in paradigm now opens up new avenues for artists and consumers.
Yeah, just the other day I was minding my own business when someone pointed a gun to my head and forced me to use Microsoft Excel.
It reminded me of the time a few years ago when my employer told me that if I didn't start using Outlook like the rest of the company, he would have me executed.
To make matters worse, my wife and kids are going to leave me unless I upgrade their computers to Vista.
Yeah, I hate being forced to use Microsoft's poorly-made software.
While I would *like* to believe, I still find it difficult to think that Roswell is really an alien cover-up.
That being said, I see a lot of people on here speculating that "beings who can manage interstellar flight and have technology 100 years beyond ours" could never possibly crash in New Mexico.
I would like to point out that we have been able to successfully fly crafts to Moon and Mars, and in both cases have made a bit of a crash landing. Our technology could very well look like "interstellar flight" and "100 years from the future" to anyone on Moon or Mars.
It could very well be that this flight to Earth was their first flight, and they goofed (much like we are capable of).
I have seen those in the US, primarily in airports where you can "rent" a stroller or cart and then return it for the majority of your deposit back.
As for a supermarket... that would be so incredibly inconvinient that I would never shop there. I rarely have $1 bills on me, let alone a $1 coin. If I could quickly swipe my credit card, that would be a little better.
But it also means you have to walk the cart back to a station to get your deposit back. Not exactly convinience.
Maybe it's just me, but ALL hardware companies write crappy code for the software interface.
HP comes to mind, but it's not just them. Aside from the actual driver itself, software interfaces ALWAYS break Windows conventions, are resource hogs, do annoying things like popup in the middle of the day to say hi, don't use Windows Update to deliver their patches, and are buggy as hell.
And why do I need a 200 MB download just to run a printer?
Google's job is to sell advertisements on its search engines. And it's sales people are the ones who make that happen.
So a sales person approaches the health care industry and offers to sell them stomething. Shocking and OMG evil!!!!
While we're at it, let's call AT&T evil for selling them cell phones, and PG&E evil for selling them electricity. Oh wait, we already call them evil. Let's call Linus Torvalds evil because I'm sure that somewhere, some computer in the healthcare industry is running Linux. Those bastards!
I used to be agnostic, in fact as far as I can remember up until about two weeks ago. At that point, I was reading Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion". While most of the book is aimed at showing how silly religious types are, there was a section in there aimed right at me: an agnostic.
What I came to realize is that being agnostic -- that is, sitting on top of the fence -- is the wrong way to go about it. In the back of my mind, I don't believe in Yahoweh (or whatever you want to call god) any more than I believe in the tooth fairy, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or in faries. I didn't take any issue with calling myself an atheist towards the FSM, and there exists the same amount of "evidence" for FSM as there is for Yahoweh. So, why be agnostic?
Almost any athetist, even Dawkins, will say that we don't have all the answers yet. But so far, of the answers we DO have, not one of them points to Yahoweh. And after realizing that, I declared myself an atheist.
So a charter school, which recieved some cash from Bill Gates, ends up closing and queue all the Microsoft jokes? What a great spin by Slashdot.
What the summary doesn't mention:
High Tech High has six schools which are doing great (three high schools, two middle schools, and one elementary school all in San Diego). It is only this one in Redwood City that has failed.
The school failed because of lack of enrollment. Microsoft and others from the community gave money to build it, but this location could not maintain enough students for some reason. Reports don't say why, but other locations are doin fine.
100 percent of graduates have been admitted to college, 80% to four-year institutions. Compare that to your high school.
The organization has $45 million in real estate holdings; and its annual operating budget is $18 million. Not too shabby.
My guess is that this one location probably had too much competition from other charter schools, or was poorly managed by the school district or its employees.
But hey, somewhere down the line Microsoft gave it some cash, so let's all just blame them, right? I suppose there were Windows machines in the school too, har har.
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I would just like to point out that *anyone* who purchases Microsoft Office with Open License (what most large companies do), that they automatically get free copies for home.
Microsoft did not "throw it in" to sweeten the deal for this customer. It's been part of the package for years now.
You certainly don't know what SharePoint is. And if you do, you give the impression that you have never made use of it in a corporate setting.
SharePoint is primarily for intranets and extranets, where the content consists mostly of Word/Excel/PowerPoint files. Using Word to edit this "website" is precisely what you're supposed to do with it.
Where are your error handling routines?
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Your comments??
User-defined settings???
Debug preferences????
Amature.
While I've never used the trial version, I can say that I have no problems moving files between 2003 and 2007 and back to 2003 as long as you either:
a) Save As the 2003 format from within 2007, or
b) Install the free Compatibility Pack onto Office 2003
Further, if you open a 2003 file in Office 2007, it opens in "Compatibility Mode" and will ONLY save as a 2003 file unless you specifically tell it otherwise. It even disables features that are strictly 2007-only.
And uninstalling 2007 to put 2003 on was a piece of cake. On one machine, I even have *both* running at the same time and can easily switch between them. The only exception to this is Outlook, which you cannot have an old version on the same machine as a new one.
Here's why:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
Apparently a Firefox developer thought it was a good idea, too.
I interpret that as saying that the Firefox installer messed with Windows and Internet Explorer, opening a hole. Is Window/IE really to blame when another application adds "features" that end up being holes?
If Windows/IE were to filter what can and cannot happen through URI handlers, I could see developers crying foul for preventing access and locking out competition.
Further, is the onus now on Microsoft to fix a hole created by Firefox? And once they fix it, and legit things break because of it, who's fault will that be?
You mean writing content that we actually WANT to read? Oh the horror!
What it will also do, hopefully, is give less credence to those damned websites that function only to direct traffic somewhere. You know, the search-engine equivalent of spam.
Advertisers will be less likely to give someone money if the average page view is only 1 second. That, in turn, will lead to better content to keep our interest.
One hopes.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Capchas were overcomes simply by showing the graphics to some underpaid person who just types in the actual responses.
A sophisticaed enough system could easily "pipe" these graphics to someone who just sits and types all day. At one capcha every 10 seconds, that's about 8000 in a day working 24/7.
Not everything these spammers do has to be automated.
I'm assuming you were applying for a management position.
I think the answer the interviewer wanted to hear was "Review My Day". As in, you sit down at your desk and look at the various tasks you have to accomplish and figure out when you're going to do them that day.
You might also throw in a quick review of your long term projects/goals, determine where you are in accomplishing them, and plan that progress into your day as well.
Most successful people will do this very early in the morning -- sometimes before they even leave the home -- and again when the day ends to prepare for the following day.
You mean Kafka wrote Men in Black?
That would be kinda neat if one of the final bosses "abilities" is to draw new minions into existance to come and attack you. We've all seen bosses raise minions from the dead, summon them, or whatnot. But how many of them use a pencil?
I'm no expert on music law or anything, but it appears to me that the website in question is selling sheet music (in video form) of songs that he does not own the rights to.
I don't believe you can listen to someone else's song, figure out the notes, and then sell that to someone else. It seems to me that the original composer aught to be able to control that.
The kinda reminds me of the websites which were offering music lyrics for free, and earning revenue from advertising. I remember a number of those websites were shut down (some by police force). Although now it seems like they're everywhere, so I don't know what changed.
I would have to imagine there are two reasons.
Like you said, the visual email thing requires a good deal of vendor support. And I imagine a vendor is only going to put forth the effort required if they see a substantial return on that investment.
Likewise, there's a very good possibility that AT&T has paid Apple for exclusive rights to the launch (a two year term). That contract, which could be worth a lot of money, is probably worth more to Apple than any kind of "good will" that might change the market or the sales they missed because of it.
All that being said, in two years they will likely make it "open" and you'll be able to get your iPhone from any vendor. We'll see though.
The thing I like about singles is it lets the consumer decide. I can pay $10 for an entire album, or $1 for just the song(s) I want. The power is in the consumer's hands.
Most "albums" of today are simply a bunch of singles strung together. Very few tell a story. Hopefully though, this will inspire artists to create a more cohesive album when they feel so inclined.
A popular artist might be very successful releasing 10-15 singles, all independant of each other... or might decide to tell a story, write an album the "old fashioned way", and sell that instead. Or both.
Either way, this change in paradigm now opens up new avenues for artists and consumers.
Yeah, just the other day I was minding my own business when someone pointed a gun to my head and forced me to use Microsoft Excel.
It reminded me of the time a few years ago when my employer told me that if I didn't start using Outlook like the rest of the company, he would have me executed.
To make matters worse, my wife and kids are going to leave me unless I upgrade their computers to Vista.
Yeah, I hate being forced to use Microsoft's poorly-made software.
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While I would *like* to believe, I still find it difficult to think that Roswell is really an alien cover-up.
That being said, I see a lot of people on here speculating that "beings who can manage interstellar flight and have technology 100 years beyond ours" could never possibly crash in New Mexico.
I would like to point out that we have been able to successfully fly crafts to Moon and Mars, and in both cases have made a bit of a crash landing. Our technology could very well look like "interstellar flight" and "100 years from the future" to anyone on Moon or Mars.
It could very well be that this flight to Earth was their first flight, and they goofed (much like we are capable of).
I have seen those in the US, primarily in airports where you can "rent" a stroller or cart and then return it for the majority of your deposit back.
As for a supermarket... that would be so incredibly inconvinient that I would never shop there. I rarely have $1 bills on me, let alone a $1 coin. If I could quickly swipe my credit card, that would be a little better.
But it also means you have to walk the cart back to a station to get your deposit back. Not exactly convinience.
Maybe it's just me, but ALL hardware companies write crappy code for the software interface.
HP comes to mind, but it's not just them. Aside from the actual driver itself, software interfaces ALWAYS break Windows conventions, are resource hogs, do annoying things like popup in the middle of the day to say hi, don't use Windows Update to deliver their patches, and are buggy as hell.
And why do I need a 200 MB download just to run a printer?
Google's job is to sell advertisements on its search engines. And it's sales people are the ones who make that happen.
So a sales person approaches the health care industry and offers to sell them stomething. Shocking and OMG evil!!!!
While we're at it, let's call AT&T evil for selling them cell phones, and PG&E evil for selling them electricity. Oh wait, we already call them evil. Let's call Linus Torvalds evil because I'm sure that somewhere, some computer in the healthcare industry is running Linux. Those bastards!
Is that like being almost pregnant?
Or not-quite dead?
I used to be agnostic, in fact as far as I can remember up until about two weeks ago. At that point, I was reading Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion". While most of the book is aimed at showing how silly religious types are, there was a section in there aimed right at me: an agnostic.
What I came to realize is that being agnostic -- that is, sitting on top of the fence -- is the wrong way to go about it. In the back of my mind, I don't believe in Yahoweh (or whatever you want to call god) any more than I believe in the tooth fairy, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or in faries. I didn't take any issue with calling myself an atheist towards the FSM, and there exists the same amount of "evidence" for FSM as there is for Yahoweh. So, why be agnostic?
Almost any athetist, even Dawkins, will say that we don't have all the answers yet. But so far, of the answers we DO have, not one of them points to Yahoweh. And after realizing that, I declared myself an atheist.
What the summary doesn't mention:
My guess is that this one location probably had too much competition from other charter schools, or was poorly managed by the school district or its employees.
But hey, somewhere down the line Microsoft gave it some cash, so let's all just blame them, right? I suppose there were Windows machines in the school too, har har.
Ever try turning off the sidebar?
Or do you run *every* program that comes loaded with Ubuntu and never change its default settings, too?