Microsoft has fixed only 12 of 27 reported Vista vulnerabilities whereas it patched 36 of 39 known bugs in Windows XP
As most analogies suck, if the OS was akin to a house, the 15 vulnerabilites should be something like:
1. Doorbell light not working 2. Doorknobs dirty and stick sometimes. 3. Windows have bad seals and moisture is visible inside. 4. Garage has unfinished walls 5. Backyard is not landscaped 6. House needs to be painted 7. Carpet needs to be replaced 8. House backs to a busy street 9. House is near train tracks 10. Roof will need replacing within 5 years 11. Hot water heater will probably need replacing within 5 years 12. There is a creak on the floor on the second level near the bathroom 13. Refrigerator and dishwasher are not included 14. There are cracked tiles in the kitchen 15. Ceiling fans don't work in 2 rooms
But hey, all the doors and windows lock and the roof doesn't leak. Sounds lovely.
Great, then we'll just say that there is some super advanced technology that currently exists on Mars that will give us faster than light travel, cure cancer, and the ability to travel through time if we can just find it under the surface of the planet.
In case there are any young ones around, a color HP printer in 1996 was $200 something. Ink was $15 for black and $15 for color so $30 and it lasted for my use over a year. Color was a novelty then too so that was impressive for the amount of waste I went through.
Today you can get a printer for under $100 and EACH color is $15 and it lasts 3 months.
Some people might find this hard to belive but on the business side of things, the commercials are considered content and the programming is considered filler.
Back when MapPoint was the only game in town, Microsoft was still 2 years behind in map updates. Sure, the up-to-date construction information was nice but I'be been stuck in 2 states where there was no road in MapPoint and I had to resort to old school tactics by buying a map.
Cal Professor John Ogbu says it's all about attitude.
That's BS about spending 100% of money earned to feed a starving family. There are personal choices to be made as to what money goes where. For the record, I have spent ~6 weeks at the subsistence level (in my dumb, young 20s with a poor attitude that I'm movin out to another state with no help). I used to sneak into a poorly secured office building to sleep and I knew when the guard would come around and figured out to avoid him. I figured out that hotel bathrooms are the most friendly to use if you enter in the back entrance. I used to eat left over pizza that I found. The first 2 days you're in a destitute situation suck. You either become a victim or you get out of it. All I had was a small suitcase. I seized the opportunity to help out moving companies move equipment then I used that to get a job transferring TV cameras and got really lucky as I seemed trustworthy and I got to use the company van. 9 months later, I was able to afford a car.
Our economic system naturally balances itself in such a way that a very sizable portion of the population can never afford to invest.
How so? It's all about education and discipline. Period. All it takes is 1 cent to save. It takes $100 to invest. Put it in an interest bearing savings account, bingo - you've invested. A 17 year old teenager can earn $100 in a weekend waiting tables.
The following is a true story of motivation that occurred to a teenager I know:
He was told to get a job - whatever job he could get. He became picky, didn't want to do this or that, coming up with excuses for whater justification he needed. He managed to get 4 interviews in 2 weeks that he went to. He obviously projected that he really wasn't interested as it never went past that level. He wasn't really interested in working and he decided to play a game. He called his mother and told her he got arrested - as a joke. That didn't go over too well.
The day was Wednesday and I was asked to help and offer advice. I told the mother that he (the teenager) will be working on Monday and that is the attitude she needs to have with him as a parent. Be firm and definite. Monday, he works. By Monday, he will have to have a job he picks or he will be working as a volunteer at the homeless shelter or nursing home giving baths and washing clothes as I would set it up for him.
He then had a choice to work for free as a volunteer on Monday, join the landscaping work pool near their home on Monday, or get a job on his own accord. By Saturday, he had 13 interviews, he started a new job on Tuesday and we let him have the Monday off as his attitude changed for the better.
Attitude is everything. It's the cheapest thing that one can change that will have the biggest effect. The number one reason that employers hire new people to replace old people with bad attitudes is that the new people have healthy attitudes.
It's not advice, it's socio-economic findings (read: FACTS) for the current and past generations.
People who spend money tend to be lower class. People who save money tend to be middle class. People who invest money tend to be upper class.
The above is actually taken from handouts which was transcribed from known studies on the subjects of class and economic standing. The handouts are given to school teachers in my district that have to attend a class that is to deal with the problem with illegal immigration and what to do with all the non english speaking children in schools.
People who spend money tend to be lower class. People who save money tend to be middle class. People who invest money tend to be upper class.
People themselves and the decisions they make are the biggest obstacle they have to overcome. As much as 'people' would like to obliterate `classes`, class warfare will always exist just as some people will like the color green over the color pink.
Any technician that has worked in an arcade/restaurant setting (Showbiz Pizza type) can attest that the dishwasher is the best thing to clean off Coke stains from PCBs.
Drop it in the dishwasher, take it to the bathroom for a quick air dry from the hand dryer, good as new.
It's not just that. It's that 'no child left behind' crap and 'more money for less performing schools'. It boils down to the Department of education and their political agenda.
DC and the city of Atlanta spend something like over $10,000 per child, have the lowest test scores and they still ask for more money. Poor performing schools aren't berated but praised with more money, good teachers have their hands tied behind their back and are punished by having to step down their lesson plans to accomodate non-english speaking students (at least where I live).
Basically we're stuck with a government agency that is hell bent on making sure that our highest aptitude students get the best quality education that the lowest attitude students can handle.
One of those publications could have been Compute!
I remember they had a checksum program you could use to verify line by line that what you typed matched was on the page of the magazine. They had a word processing program that got me through college on my Commodore 64.
It's inexcusable to say that murder is ever an appropriate recourse after crime.
It's real easy to say that if you're not a victim.
If someone breaks into my home and even THINKS of harming my family, I would not think twice about letting them out of paying taxes for the rest of their short life. Likewise, I would not let them walk out with my any of my property if I were available.
There was a story I remember that happened about 20 years ago in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when a martial arts instructor kidnapped one of his students. The instructor was found and extradited to Louisiana. The parent was on the phone near the walkway in the airport when he shot the instructor point blank in the head. That's justice at minimal cost to the public.
The early Microsoft manuals actually had useful information. Now they're thick books of marketing information. Not a single page of how to setup an email address using Outlook Express or how to write a document with Wordpad.
They [plants] also have a rectangular cellular makeup and I'm sure their nervous system is nothing like us animals. They respond to stimuli like a mouse thinks "oh sh*t" when an owl or snake gulps him down. What's really cool about plants is that they make their own food. Stuff that decays near their roots is just dessert. It's a shame that humans aren't as efficient.
If you have an alligator that tears a leg off a zebra, that zebra will still try to hobble away in order to survive. Likewise, you can tear a weed or a plant bud off the parent plant and it will try to grow on its own. That plant knows that something isn't right and it needs to adapt in order to survive.
Just because it isn't able to scream doesn't mean it doesn't feel pain. The fact it doesn't scream makes vegans feel better. Vegans are about 50/50 in the health benefit [good for you] versus "think of the animals" [shut the hell up]. The latter are the annoying crowd that seem to represent the vegan population and may not neccessessarily be true. When I see snakes eating watermelons and tofu, I'll think about cutting meat out my diet.
I've sent hundreds of old computers, monitors, and printers to a local recyclying place. They said that this stuff gets stuck on a pallet and shpped to India and Bangladesh where it gets dissassembled and processed.
Interesting thing is that no inkjet printers were allowed to be dropped off as the dissassembly is too difficult and not enough of a particular model has been available for them to become proficient in dissassembly.
I just can't imagine that millions of 540mb HDDs are in use in India. I can imagine a heap of them sitting in a landfill. If old HDDs are crushed, it only becomes crushed garbage. Monitors can have the plastic casing become recycled and the glass cleaned and reused but that's a lot of effort.
Being that the mailing doesn't have FREE anywhere in it, that pretty much sums it up.
The free dinner is only on the web form. The mailings are informative pieces about wines, steaks, deserts, and events regarding such. Users agree to the mailings once signing up.
The problem with AOL is that once one person tags a domain as SPAM, the domain is flagged as SPAM for automatic settings. People who have AOL addresses that "want" the newsletter aren't able to get it if they have their spam setting to automatic.
The repurcussions of their actions is that they are ineligible for a free dinner with a value of $100 - and yes, this is an upscale restaurant.
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Microsoft has fixed only 12 of 27 reported Vista vulnerabilities whereas it patched 36 of 39 known bugs in Windows XP
As most analogies suck, if the OS was akin to a house, the 15 vulnerabilites should be something like:
1. Doorbell light not working
2. Doorknobs dirty and stick sometimes.
3. Windows have bad seals and moisture is visible inside.
4. Garage has unfinished walls
5. Backyard is not landscaped
6. House needs to be painted
7. Carpet needs to be replaced
8. House backs to a busy street
9. House is near train tracks
10. Roof will need replacing within 5 years
11. Hot water heater will probably need replacing within 5 years
12. There is a creak on the floor on the second level near the bathroom
13. Refrigerator and dishwasher are not included
14. There are cracked tiles in the kitchen
15. Ceiling fans don't work in 2 rooms
But hey, all the doors and windows lock and the roof doesn't leak. Sounds lovely.
Great, then we'll just say that there is some super advanced technology that currently exists on Mars that will give us faster than light travel, cure cancer, and the ability to travel through time if we can just find it under the surface of the planet.
The $15 a color was referring to a 7 color Epson I had recent experience with. And the printer doesn't work unless all colors report full.
In case there are any young ones around, a color HP printer in 1996 was $200 something. Ink was $15 for black and $15 for color so $30 and it lasted for my use over a year. Color was a novelty then too so that was impressive for the amount of waste I went through.
Today you can get a printer for under $100 and EACH color is $15 and it lasts 3 months.
Some people might find this hard to belive but on the business side of things, the commercials are considered content and the programming is considered filler.
I like how Google Maps updates all the time.
Back when MapPoint was the only game in town, Microsoft was still 2 years behind in map updates. Sure, the up-to-date construction information was nice but I'be been stuck in 2 states where there was no road in MapPoint and I had to resort to old school tactics by buying a map.
Cal Professor John Ogbu says it's all about attitude.
That's BS about spending 100% of money earned to feed a starving family. There are personal choices to be made as to what money goes where.
For the record, I have spent ~6 weeks at the subsistence level (in my dumb, young 20s with a poor attitude that I'm movin out to another state with no help). I used to sneak into a poorly secured office building to sleep and I knew when the guard would come around and figured out to avoid him. I figured out that hotel bathrooms are the most friendly to use if you enter in the back entrance. I used to eat left over pizza that I found.
The first 2 days you're in a destitute situation suck. You either become a victim or you get out of it.
All I had was a small suitcase. I seized the opportunity to help out moving companies move equipment then I used that to get a job transferring TV cameras and got really lucky as I seemed trustworthy and I got to use the company van. 9 months later, I was able to afford a car.
Our economic system naturally balances itself in such a way that a very sizable portion of the population can never afford to invest.
How so? It's all about education and discipline. Period. All it takes is 1 cent to save. It takes $100 to invest. Put it in an interest bearing savings account, bingo - you've invested.
A 17 year old teenager can earn $100 in a weekend waiting tables.
The following is a true story of motivation that occurred to a teenager I know:
He was told to get a job - whatever job he could get. He became picky, didn't want to do this or that, coming up with excuses for whater justification he needed. He managed to get 4 interviews in 2 weeks that he went to. He obviously projected that he really wasn't interested as it never went past that level.
He wasn't really interested in working and he decided to play a game. He called his mother and told her he got arrested - as a joke. That didn't go over too well.
The day was Wednesday and I was asked to help and offer advice.
I told the mother that he (the teenager) will be working on Monday and that is the attitude she needs to have with him as a parent. Be firm and definite. Monday, he works.
By Monday, he will have to have a job he picks or he will be working as a volunteer at the homeless shelter or nursing home giving baths and washing clothes as I would set it up for him.
He then had a choice to work for free as a volunteer on Monday, join the landscaping work pool near their home on Monday, or get a job on his own accord.
By Saturday, he had 13 interviews, he started a new job on Tuesday and we let him have the Monday off as his attitude changed for the better.
Attitude is everything. It's the cheapest thing that one can change that will have the biggest effect.
The number one reason that employers hire new people to replace old people with bad attitudes is that the new people have healthy attitudes.
The above is actually taken from handouts which was transcribed from known studies on the subjects of class and economic standing. The handouts are given to school teachers in my district that have to attend a class that is to deal with the problem with illegal immigration and what to do with all the non english speaking children in schools.
People who spend money tend to be lower class.
People who save money tend to be middle class.
People who invest money tend to be upper class.
People themselves and the decisions they make are the biggest obstacle they have to overcome.
As much as 'people' would like to obliterate `classes`, class warfare will always exist just as some people will like the color green over the color pink.
Isn't Iron Man (Tony Stark) hung over anyway?
RDJ seems fitting.
Shoot, in Soviet Russia, they send you to work on nuclear reactors in raincoats!
Remember K19 - The Widowmaker, they sent those boys to work on the reactors wearong rubber chemical suits.
Any technician that has worked in an arcade/restaurant setting (Showbiz Pizza type) can attest that the dishwasher is the best thing to clean off Coke stains from PCBs.
Drop it in the dishwasher, take it to the bathroom for a quick air dry from the hand dryer, good as new.
It's not just that. It's that 'no child left behind' crap and 'more money for less performing schools'. It boils down to the Department of education and their political agenda.
DC and the city of Atlanta spend something like over $10,000 per child, have the lowest test scores and they still ask for more money. Poor performing schools aren't berated but praised with more money, good teachers have their hands tied behind their back and are punished by having to step down their lesson plans to accomodate non-english speaking students (at least where I live).
Basically we're stuck with a government agency that is hell bent on making sure that our highest aptitude students get the best quality education that the lowest attitude students can handle.
One of those publications could have been Compute!
I remember they had a checksum program you could use to verify line by line that what you typed matched was on the page of the magazine.
They had a word processing program that got me through college on my Commodore 64.
It's real easy to say that if you're not a victim.
If someone breaks into my home and even THINKS of harming my family, I would not think twice about letting them out of paying taxes for the rest of their short life.
Likewise, I would not let them walk out with my any of my property if I were available.
Can't really say if I'm for capital punishment or against it but in some cases, it's called for;
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,
http://www.vdare.com/francis/gang_rape.htm
There was a story I remember that happened about 20 years ago in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when a martial arts instructor kidnapped one of his students. The instructor was found and extradited to Louisiana. The parent was on the phone near the walkway in the airport when he shot the instructor point blank in the head. That's justice at minimal cost to the public.
The early Microsoft manuals actually had useful information. Now they're thick books of marketing information.
Not a single page of how to setup an email address using Outlook Express or how to write a document with Wordpad.
Poor Pluto
I believe rocket fuel is liquid oxygen and not a greenhouse gas. The energy required to get LOX is another matter.
They [plants] also have a rectangular cellular makeup and I'm sure their nervous system is nothing like us animals. They respond to stimuli like a mouse thinks "oh sh*t" when an owl or snake gulps him down. What's really cool about plants is that they make their own food. Stuff that decays near their roots is just dessert. It's a shame that humans aren't as efficient.
If you have an alligator that tears a leg off a zebra, that zebra will still try to hobble away in order to survive.
Likewise, you can tear a weed or a plant bud off the parent plant and it will try to grow on its own. That plant knows that something isn't right and it needs to adapt in order to survive.
Just because it isn't able to scream doesn't mean it doesn't feel pain. The fact it doesn't scream makes vegans feel better.
Vegans are about 50/50 in the health benefit [good for you] versus "think of the animals" [shut the hell up]. The latter are the annoying crowd that seem to represent the vegan population and may not neccessessarily be true. When I see snakes eating watermelons and tofu, I'll think about cutting meat out my diet.
Don't even mention that plants can feel pain. What are the vegans going to eat?
It has to become garbage somewhere.
I've sent hundreds of old computers, monitors, and printers to a local recyclying place. They said that this stuff gets stuck on a pallet and shpped to India and Bangladesh where it gets dissassembled and processed.
Interesting thing is that no inkjet printers were allowed to be dropped off as the dissassembly is too difficult and not enough of a particular model has been available for them to become proficient in dissassembly.
I just can't imagine that millions of 540mb HDDs are in use in India. I can imagine a heap of them sitting in a landfill. If old HDDs are crushed, it only becomes crushed garbage.
Monitors can have the plastic casing become recycled and the glass cleaned and reused but that's a lot of effort.
I did say assume - on purpose because I didn't RTFA. But on the other hand, 775 million is 77% to 78% of a billion.
I believe the 775 is a typo in conjunction with the FP. I assume it to mean 77%.
Being that the mailing doesn't have FREE anywhere in it, that pretty much sums it up.
The free dinner is only on the web form. The mailings are informative pieces about wines, steaks, deserts, and events regarding such. Users agree to the mailings once signing up.
The problem with AOL is that once one person tags a domain as SPAM, the domain is flagged as SPAM for automatic settings. People who have AOL addresses that "want" the newsletter aren't able to get it if they have their spam setting to automatic.
The repurcussions of their actions is that they are ineligible for a free dinner with a value of $100 - and yes, this is an upscale restaurant.