There is a giant atheist conference and party in Oakland, CA, this Saturday and Sunday. (Oakland is where the doomday prophet, Harold Camping, broadcasts from.)
Yes, but side-effects also include pulling your entire body towards the earth's core as if you were being yanked by a tow truck right through the upper crust.
In related news, grocery supermarket chain Pack-N-Save has announced they will be laying off 75% of their workforce. After a one-day experiment to test customer honesty and self-checkout systems, the chain discovered it would be cheaper to fire all of their checkout employees and let customers do it themselves.
Other retail chains are expected to follow suit sometime later this year.
Once you include Active Directory, print servers, fileservers, sharepoint, system center, exchange, sql server and other support servers to run it all, a mid-sized company might have 20 or more servers just to run their Microsoft infrastructure
They could... or they could run all of that on one single machine that uses Microsoft Small Business Server.
I disagree. It sounds like you're claiming that Windows 7 killed the netbook market. I have an older Netbook that was purchased right before Windows 7 came out for $300. It came with Windows XP, which I replaced Window 7.
As a result, the system runs faster and does more. Yes, it consumed 16 GB of hard drive space, compared to about 2 GB, but that is the only negative.
Today, I can buy a brand new netbook for $280 with Windows 7 preinstalled. The specs are nicer, too.
So, the netbooks have gotten cheaper, run faster, and do more with Windows 7 than compared to their predecessors. The netbook market is alive and thriving, running on Windows 7 despite your opinion. If anything is hurting netbook sales, it's tablets, not Windows 7, and certainly not a Windows 7 vs XP choice.
"You dont need to have a local PC" is quite a generalization and certainly won't work with many people, and corporations.
What if ALL this.... the original video... the blog posting... the plagerized article in some obscure newspaper... and the backlash that followed..... were ALL part of the marketing campaign?
It does. One of the privacy settings controls who is allowed to tag you. Options include only yourself, friends, or specific groups of people you've created.
What's sad is that your proposal isn't even a fair comparison.
People really don't get it. They think you can type some secret code into the command line and get rid of the virus, like it's a bad spark plug that just needs to be replaced. They don't value the work and time that goes into such a thing, because to them the computer is just like a car engine.
Whether your hauling furniture or fixing a car engine, no amount of "disaster recovery" will parallel what goes into computer repair.
And the only people reading this guy's letter are the geeks who already know it. *sigh*
I think the topic was about getting a *good* night's sleep, not about trouble falling asleep.
I'm not vouching for the poll, just making a distinction. Perhaps you're not having problems sleeping, but the sleep you're getting isn't very good? (That might also be why you just don't have the energy.)
In other words, maybe those who use interactive technology just before bed are still able to fall asleep, but it's worthless sleep. Perhaps our brains are still too excited because of the interactivity to do whatever they're normally supposed to do when we sleep.
If nothing else, consider that the human brain is the result of some 1 billion years of evolution... and all but the last 10 years have had technology-free sleep.
All registered users of Microsoft Office 2010 enjoy the free Sky Drive service, a 2 GB storage space in "the cloud".
Not only can you share files with others, but it integrates directly with the "Save" command in Office as one of the destinations.
Oh, and the people you invite to collaborate with you don't even have to have Office. They can log in (for free) and edit your documents via the web-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It's rather slick, and yes, it works in Firefox and Safari.
Providing someone with your username and password is pretty much authorizing them to use it, especially when they tell you that their intent is to log in and review the content.
While this is should most certainly be against the federal labor code, I don't think you're pointing to the correct law that would prevent it (if there even is one).
All the more reason why you and others might be in favor of Microsoft's attempt to reform the patent system.
They don't like it either.
And if you think Microsoft is the only company patenting everything they do left-and-right, think again. IBM started the trend a long time ago, and companies like Google and Apple are right up there with Microsoft.
For those of you who are too lazy to click on the link for the abstract:
An adaptive clicker technique is described that provides a standardized polling control and a registration system to support mixed types of clickers and integrate the polling data. One embodiment of the adaptive clicker technique operates as follows. User inputs from more than one type of clicker device (e.g., personal interactive response system device) are received. The inputs from the more than one type of clicker device are formatted with a clicker adapter for each type of clicker to adapt user inputs to a common polling controller. The adapted inputs are then processed with the common polling controller to interface the adapted inputs with a personal response system software application to allow user polling data to be collected and assessed.
So no, there is no prior art as far as I can tell. This is like a middle-man approach so that a variety of inputs can be used in any setting such as a classroom. I presume this means a student could respond to a question via text message, laptop running One Note, a tablet running Chrome, an iPad app, or a generic clicker device hooked up to who-knows-what, and all the data is aggregated together.
The advantage being twofold: the administrator (teacher) doesn't have to somehow write code for 10 different inputs, and the students don't have to standardize on one input device.
Why patent it? Because Microsoft has to. If they don't, then someone else will and they could waste time and money in courts over it. That's why Microsoft and others are pushing for patent reform.
IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key.
I use the Context key frequently. For example, if you're typing in Word and the spell checker identifies a mistake (red squiggle), I can put my cursor inside the word and use the Context key to pull up the spell check results. This is far faster than grabbing the mouse to use a right-click.
Likewise with working on files. I often navigate to folders and open them without using the mouse. The Context key lets me "right click" whatever I have selected so that I can send it to a USB drive, email it as an attachment, or open it with an alternative program.
I would say it gets far more use than the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock combined.
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There is a giant atheist conference and party in Oakland, CA, this Saturday and Sunday. (Oakland is where the doomday prophet, Harold Camping, broadcasts from.)
http://www.atheists.org/events/Rapture_RAMS
Also, if you want to support the freethought movement and a summer camp for children in atheist families, you can click here and donate a little:
http://west.camp-quest.org/scripts/fundraising.pl?id=24
To all you Verizon customers who laughed at us AT&T customers when we lost our unlimited data plans... ... suck it!
Yes, but side-effects also include pulling your entire body towards the earth's core as if you were being yanked by a tow truck right through the upper crust.
In related news, grocery supermarket chain Pack-N-Save has announced they will be laying off 75% of their workforce. After a one-day experiment to test customer honesty and self-checkout systems, the chain discovered it would be cheaper to fire all of their checkout employees and let customers do it themselves.
Other retail chains are expected to follow suit sometime later this year.
The supporters of the bill specifically cite "intelligent" design as an example of something that would be protected.
The only other example they provide, that I recall, is theories that dispute climate change.
SBS will support up to 75 users.
But you're right, the term "mid" means a lot more than 75 people.
Of course there are exceptions. Media development companies and other similar industries are going to require more than what SBS offers.
But for the other 99% of the world, MS SBS is just fine.
We're talking companies from 5-50 users. They can have Exchange, file serving, Share Point, SQL, and everything else mentioned on the same server.
And if you don't believe that a single SBS machine can handle the IO on a modern network, you might give it a try or talk to people who are using it.
Once you include Active Directory, print servers, fileservers, sharepoint, system center, exchange, sql server and other support servers to run it all, a mid-sized company might have 20 or more servers just to run their Microsoft infrastructure
They could... or they could run all of that on one single machine that uses Microsoft Small Business Server.
Really. Look it up.
I disagree. It sounds like you're claiming that Windows 7 killed the netbook market. I have an older Netbook that was purchased right before Windows 7 came out for $300. It came with Windows XP, which I replaced Window 7.
As a result, the system runs faster and does more. Yes, it consumed 16 GB of hard drive space, compared to about 2 GB, but that is the only negative.
Today, I can buy a brand new netbook for $280 with Windows 7 preinstalled. The specs are nicer, too.
So, the netbooks have gotten cheaper, run faster, and do more with Windows 7 than compared to their predecessors. The netbook market is alive and thriving, running on Windows 7 despite your opinion. If anything is hurting netbook sales, it's tablets, not Windows 7, and certainly not a Windows 7 vs XP choice.
"You dont need to have a local PC" is quite a generalization and certainly won't work with many people, and corporations.
Yet here we are, discussing it on Slashdot.
If their market was 100,000 single men living in their parents' basements, they've succeeded.
What if ALL this.... the original video... the blog posting... the plagerized article in some obscure newspaper... and the backlash that followed..... were ALL part of the marketing campaign?
Maybe if special characters were used in the firstplace, the systems wouldn't have been so easily hacked. ;)
It does. One of the privacy settings controls who is allowed to tag you. Options include only yourself, friends, or specific groups of people you've created.
What's sad is that your proposal isn't even a fair comparison.
People really don't get it. They think you can type some secret code into the command line and get rid of the virus, like it's a bad spark plug that just needs to be replaced. They don't value the work and time that goes into such a thing, because to them the computer is just like a car engine.
Whether your hauling furniture or fixing a car engine, no amount of "disaster recovery" will parallel what goes into computer repair.
And the only people reading this guy's letter are the geeks who already know it. *sigh*
I think the topic was about getting a *good* night's sleep, not about trouble falling asleep.
I'm not vouching for the poll, just making a distinction. Perhaps you're not having problems sleeping, but the sleep you're getting isn't very good? (That might also be why you just don't have the energy.)
In other words, maybe those who use interactive technology just before bed are still able to fall asleep, but it's worthless sleep. Perhaps our brains are still too excited because of the interactivity to do whatever they're normally supposed to do when we sleep.
If nothing else, consider that the human brain is the result of some 1 billion years of evolution... and all but the last 10 years have had technology-free sleep.
All registered users of Microsoft Office 2010 enjoy the free Sky Drive service, a 2 GB storage space in "the cloud".
Not only can you share files with others, but it integrates directly with the "Save" command in Office as one of the destinations.
Oh, and the people you invite to collaborate with you don't even have to have Office. They can log in (for free) and edit your documents via the web-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It's rather slick, and yes, it works in Firefox and Safari.
...without authorization...
Providing someone with your username and password is pretty much authorizing them to use it, especially when they tell you that their intent is to log in and review the content.
While this is should most certainly be against the federal labor code, I don't think you're pointing to the correct law that would prevent it (if there even is one).
I've always bought the business (Latitude) line of Dell laptops, and never have I seen "bloatware" or anything of the sort preinstalled.
All the more reason why you and others might be in favor of Microsoft's attempt to reform the patent system.
They don't like it either.
And if you think Microsoft is the only company patenting everything they do left-and-right, think again. IBM started the trend a long time ago, and companies like Google and Apple are right up there with Microsoft.
But does it then integrate the poll results back into a PowerPoint or OneNote object, live while the poll is being conducted?
For those of you who are too lazy to click on the link for the abstract:
An adaptive clicker technique is described that provides a standardized polling control and a registration system to support mixed types of clickers and integrate the polling data. One embodiment of the adaptive clicker technique operates as follows. User inputs from more than one type of clicker device (e.g., personal interactive response system device) are received. The inputs from the more than one type of clicker device are formatted with a clicker adapter for each type of clicker to adapt user inputs to a common polling controller. The adapted inputs are then processed with the common polling controller to interface the adapted inputs with a personal response system software application to allow user polling data to be collected and assessed.
So no, there is no prior art as far as I can tell. This is like a middle-man approach so that a variety of inputs can be used in any setting such as a classroom. I presume this means a student could respond to a question via text message, laptop running One Note, a tablet running Chrome, an iPad app, or a generic clicker device hooked up to who-knows-what, and all the data is aggregated together.
The advantage being twofold: the administrator (teacher) doesn't have to somehow write code for 10 different inputs, and the students don't have to standardize on one input device.
Why patent it? Because Microsoft has to. If they don't, then someone else will and they could waste time and money in courts over it. That's why Microsoft and others are pushing for patent reform.
IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key.
I use the Context key frequently. For example, if you're typing in Word and the spell checker identifies a mistake (red squiggle), I can put my cursor inside the word and use the Context key to pull up the spell check results. This is far faster than grabbing the mouse to use a right-click.
Likewise with working on files. I often navigate to folders and open them without using the mouse. The Context key lets me "right click" whatever I have selected so that I can send it to a USB drive, email it as an attachment, or open it with an alternative program.
I would say it gets far more use than the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock combined.
It's my understanding the WP7 does indeed do multi-tasking, in the same way that the current iPhone does it.
6-1-1 ?
the batteries of lawyers
By any chance, do those batteries explode like the ones in laptops?