Unfortunately KB950582 was not classified as a required security patch for Windows XP, and consequently not included for distribution in Windows Update or WSUS.
Far too few new college students (I ran a college help desk so I interviewed and hired a lot of them) understand the basic procedural operation of computer programs. The solution is to start young with simple environments (think LOGO) that limit complexity, but they are not "canned" in the sense that they walk the student through every problem.
And today, I'd say that even typing & text should not be requirements. Use graphic elements to build programs from simple blocks, laying out the high-level problem solving procedure before you teach kids how to write the blocks themselves.
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but as the father of a disabled child who very much loves computer games, I have a lot of experience and opinion on this issue.
(1) Best computer we've found so far is the Samsung Q1 Ultra. Touchscreen, light, reasonably tough, good battery life. You can get an Otterbox external plastic shell that makes it reasonably smack-resistant.
(2) My son's favorite site is www.poissonrouge.com, which works very well with the touchscreen.
Copernicus' realization that the Sun was the center of the universe was revolutionary, even if not mathematically correct by modern standards. The prevailing cosmology, which the church was more than happy to throw people in jail for questioning, was that the Earth was the center of the universe because it was created by God as the divine home for Man. The stars were not known to be like the Sun; they were believed to be lights pinned into the divine firmament.
The history of science is littered with theories that are known to be incorrect, but were more correct than their predecessors. Most of the time, the center of rotation of the solar system lies within the surface of the Sun, so the Sun can be truly said to be the center of the solar system. At the time, Copernicus would have believed that it was therefore the center of the universe.
> If Microsoft owns the desktop, browser, server, and data center, what's going to motivate them to follow standards?
What kind of 20th-century attitude is this? I think any hope that Microsoft would "own" the entire computing experience died sometime around the introduction of Firefox. Or Ubuntu.
What will make Microsoft follow standards is the existence of credible competition. Competition in the office suite space may be pretty thin, but in the Web browser space there is plenty of competition.
> they don't seem to be bothered enough > to keep it from occurring
They will do something about it when customers start to walk away.
I originally got an AMEX Blue card because it had an embedded security chip in it, and AMEX claimed vendors would be required to add chip readers, then you could set your account to only allow transactions on presentation of the physical card. They also promised a USB reader dongle for home use that would verify your physical possession of the card when making online purchases.
None of it went anywhere, as far as I know. I've never seen a device that can read the chip.
The amount of data in a txt... should be virtually free to transmit compared to voice traffic... they've been a price gouge from the start
You're talking to a society of people that will spend $1.25 for a bottle of water out of a vending machine which is sitting right next to a water fountain.
Prices will go down when people stop using the service.
This smells like a case of the Frankenstein complex to me. Although Google News may have linked the article in its recent results because of the fresh link on the Sun Sentinel home page, both the WSJ article and the Forbes investigation make it very clear that the problem was a human editor who misinterpreted the original article and posted it as new information (with a freshly written headline) in a by-subscription-only investor information service that is carried on Bloomberg trading terminals.
A human saw the story, failed to check the date (there was no date line at the top of the article), refreshed it with a new headline, and republished it on a trading service that was believed to be a source of credible journalism by its readers.
Depends on when you run it. Coal plants burn more coal at night than they need for electricity to keep the furnaces hot for peak usage periods. If you run F@H between 9PM and 6AM, you're actually not having much impact on fossil fuel use, pollution or carbon footprint.
That's why electric utilities and some companies are developing programs to make the best use of off-peak power. Electric cars, for example, are exciting because they could engage timers that charge them only during off-peak.
F@H could do the same in principle, with a check-box to run only during late hours. I don't know if they have that feature now.
I'm replying to you on a Samsung Q1 Ultra, an 800Âmhz processor w/ 1 GB of RAM. I have two, one for me, one for my son (the SSD version).
They are revelations. And they suck if you run Vista. If MS doesn't make a new OS for the hardware I want to use, then I don't have much choice but to use an OS that works.
I doubt even you would say that using the command line for, say, file management, is more natural and understandable to than dragging icons around with a mouse. Even an illiterate use could understand what is going on there.
Given that many users simply accept the default save location for files, then don't know how to find them after they are saved except to use the "Recent Documents" feature in their software or perform a search, I'm going to have to doubt this claim. In fact, the document/folder paradigm seems to be one of the hardest for truly new users to grasp.
I recently got into this discussion with my own supervisor. She seemed amazed when I told her that, based on my years of help desk experience, most people aren't very comfortable with a browse/drill down model, but instead prefer a search interface with rich search keys and chronological ordering.
The "document and folder" paradigm is, I'm afraid, a relic of the early computing era and not very applicable to the thinking of modern new users. That's why Google beat Yahoo.
The hologram of the Spiroplasma bacterium was made in precisely the same way, with much brighter x-ray beams and a much shorter pulse of light. So bright was the flash of light that the sample was vaporized...
The prisoner's last meal consisted of an enriched sugar/protein broth. He elected not to speak to a priest. His last words were, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done before."
Unprecedented? It's been happening since the Roman Empire.
In any case, the time when the US was able to dictate policy to the world has passed. China has 1.3 billion, India almost a billion, and 4 billion of the world population lives between Japan and the Arab peninsula. If the US doesn't start cooperating, it's going to fade into irrelevancy.
Wow, a misspelled spelling flame. It's like digging into the ground and pulling up a USENET post from 1993. Let me introduce you to a 21st century technology that might help you in future: it's called a search engine.
I think your answer is little too glib. If you were standing on such a planet and had no direct way to measure your planet's mass or the local sun's mass, how would you measure the length of a year? Would it be "obvious" that your planet's year was much shorter than an Earth year?
The answer is, you could observe the way the stars change around sunrise and sunset (or some other points in time fixed to the local sun, like solar midnight). The night sky will appear to rotate once over the course of a local solar year, and you would quickly notice that the night sky was changing. With some basic equipment and a watch, you could measure how fast it was rotating and predict the length of the year.
Their incoming from operations in 1Q 2008 was -11 million and has been declining consistently over the past 3 years.
Net income has declined consistently for the past several years.
Number 3 is kind of important. It means they are not actually making money. The tiny profit they show is due to investment income -- not anything they actually make or sell.
That is, they've taken investor's money, invested it themselves, and they are using the returns to pad the top line *just enough* to stay positive.
Number 4 is important because it means that, despite the fact that they are growing revenue, they are making less money. Less actual money on more sales. In other words, they are investing more cash into sales operations and getting less return on that additional operating expense, indicating that they are having a hard time selling anything that people want to buy.
All those things aside, it's time to face facts:
Everybody is going to offer Flash as the default choice, if they don't already. Show me a relatively popular new service that is not using Flash as the default. Please, name one. Where RealPlayer is offered, it is offered only for legacy reasons. Flash works without having to maintain a complicated dedicated client, and if your goal is to put more media in front of more faces, that is the way to do it.
Fewer and fewer sites offer non-Flash dedicated streaming feeds, and when they do, they are using Quicktime or WM, which work pretty consistently in their native operating systems.
Real has been on the decline for a decade. They are not making any money, their media player is a living joke and I can't remember the last time I went to a site that actually required RealPlayer, or even offered it as the default/first choice.
Adding stream ripping is nothing but a desperate attempt to promote their software. They haven't the slightest desire to make people's lives easier, they are just desperately trying to regain market share.
The article makes it pretty clear (emphasis mine):
... According to Genepax, the main feature of the new system is that it uses the company's membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which contains a material capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.
Their fuel cell has a chemical in it which is consumed when it splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Eventually, that chemical will be consumed and need to be replaced. That's where the energy comes from. The guy in the suit is just lying about the external inputs to a credulous reporter.
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Unfortunately KB950582 was not classified as a required security patch for Windows XP, and consequently not included for distribution in Windows Update or WSUS.
Far too few new college students (I ran a college help desk so I interviewed and hired a lot of them) understand the basic procedural operation of computer programs. The solution is to start young with simple environments (think LOGO) that limit complexity, but they are not "canned" in the sense that they walk the student through every problem.
And today, I'd say that even typing & text should not be requirements. Use graphic elements to build programs from simple blocks, laying out the high-level problem solving procedure before you teach kids how to write the blocks themselves.
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but as the father of a disabled child who very much loves computer games, I have a lot of experience and opinion on this issue.
(1) Best computer we've found so far is the Samsung Q1 Ultra. Touchscreen, light, reasonably tough, good battery life. You can get an Otterbox external plastic shell that makes it reasonably smack-resistant.
(2) My son's favorite site is www.poissonrouge.com, which works very well with the touchscreen.
RR
Copernicus' realization that the Sun was the center of the universe was revolutionary, even if not mathematically correct by modern standards. The prevailing cosmology, which the church was more than happy to throw people in jail for questioning, was that the Earth was the center of the universe because it was created by God as the divine home for Man. The stars were not known to be like the Sun; they were believed to be lights pinned into the divine firmament.
The history of science is littered with theories that are known to be incorrect, but were more correct than their predecessors. Most of the time, the center of rotation of the solar system lies within the surface of the Sun, so the Sun can be truly said to be the center of the solar system. At the time, Copernicus would have believed that it was therefore the center of the universe.
> 1 TRILLION dollar debt
Off by an order of magnitude. That's a 1 trillion dollar deficit, a 10 trillion dollar accumulated debt.
> If Microsoft owns the desktop, browser, server, and data center, what's going to motivate them to follow standards?
What kind of 20th-century attitude is this? I think any hope that Microsoft would "own" the entire computing experience died sometime around the introduction of Firefox. Or Ubuntu.
What will make Microsoft follow standards is the existence of credible competition. Competition in the office suite space may be pretty thin, but in the Web browser space there is plenty of competition.
RR
> they don't seem to be bothered enough
> to keep it from occurring
They will do something about it when customers start to walk away.
I originally got an AMEX Blue card because it had an embedded security chip in it, and AMEX claimed vendors would be required to add chip readers, then you could set your account to only allow transactions on presentation of the physical card. They also promised a USB reader dongle for home use that would verify your physical possession of the card when making online purchases.
None of it went anywhere, as far as I know. I've never seen a device that can read the chip.
You're talking to a society of people that will spend $1.25 for a bottle of water out of a vending machine which is sitting right next to a water fountain.
Prices will go down when people stop using the service.
This smells like a case of the Frankenstein complex to me. Although Google News may have linked the article in its recent results because of the fresh link on the Sun Sentinel home page, both the WSJ article and the Forbes investigation make it very clear that the problem was a human editor who misinterpreted the original article and posted it as new information (with a freshly written headline) in a by-subscription-only investor information service that is carried on Bloomberg trading terminals.
A human saw the story, failed to check the date (there was no date line at the top of the article), refreshed it with a new headline, and republished it on a trading service that was believed to be a source of credible journalism by its readers.
Depends on when you run it. Coal plants burn more coal at night than they need for electricity to keep the furnaces hot for peak usage periods. If you run F@H between 9PM and 6AM, you're actually not having much impact on fossil fuel use, pollution or carbon footprint.
That's why electric utilities and some companies are developing programs to make the best use of off-peak power. Electric cars, for example, are exciting because they could engage timers that charge them only during off-peak.
F@H could do the same in principle, with a check-box to run only during late hours. I don't know if they have that feature now.
I'm replying to you on a Samsung Q1 Ultra, an 800Âmhz processor w/ 1 GB of RAM. I have two, one for me, one for my son (the SSD version).
They are revelations. And they suck if you run Vista. If MS doesn't make a new OS for the hardware I want to use, then I don't have much choice but to use an OS that works.
Remember our motto: There's a hole in the sky, through which things can fly.
Now you're thinking with Portals!
And as we well know, the terrorists would never think of driving.
Threat averted! It's Miller Time, people!
Given that many users simply accept the default save location for files, then don't know how to find them after they are saved except to use the "Recent Documents" feature in their software or perform a search, I'm going to have to doubt this claim. In fact, the document/folder paradigm seems to be one of the hardest for truly new users to grasp.
I recently got into this discussion with my own supervisor. She seemed amazed when I told her that, based on my years of help desk experience, most people aren't very comfortable with a browse/drill down model, but instead prefer a search interface with rich search keys and chronological ordering.
The "document and folder" paradigm is, I'm afraid, a relic of the early computing era and not very applicable to the thinking of modern new users. That's why Google beat Yahoo.
From TFA:
The prisoner's last meal consisted of an enriched sugar/protein broth. He elected not to speak to a priest. His last words were, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done before."
Unprecedented? It's been happening since the Roman Empire.
In any case, the time when the US was able to dictate policy to the world has passed. China has 1.3 billion, India almost a billion, and 4 billion of the world population lives between Japan and the Arab peninsula. If the US doesn't start cooperating, it's going to fade into irrelevancy.
Wow, a misspelled spelling flame. It's like digging into the ground and pulling up a USENET post from 1993. Let me introduce you to a 21st century technology that might help you in future: it's called a search engine.
It's Taiyo Yuden, according to their own web site.
WW900FTJD?
And maybe the sun is larger, or smaller, than you are accustomed to.
How would you know how close you are to the local sun?
I think they would less like Superman and more like Hoffmanites.
I think your answer is little too glib. If you were standing on such a planet and had no direct way to measure your planet's mass or the local sun's mass, how would you measure the length of a year? Would it be "obvious" that your planet's year was much shorter than an Earth year?
The answer is, you could observe the way the stars change around sunrise and sunset (or some other points in time fixed to the local sun, like solar midnight). The night sky will appear to rotate once over the course of a local solar year, and you would quickly notice that the night sky was changing. With some basic equipment and a watch, you could measure how fast it was rotating and predict the length of the year.
Yeah, I checked the financial listings.
To quote Mr. Hammer, let's break it down:
Number 3 is kind of important. It means they are not actually making money. The tiny profit they show is due to investment income -- not anything they actually make or sell.
That is, they've taken investor's money, invested it themselves, and they are using the returns to pad the top line *just enough* to stay positive.
Number 4 is important because it means that, despite the fact that they are growing revenue, they are making less money. Less actual money on more sales. In other words, they are investing more cash into sales operations and getting less return on that additional operating expense, indicating that they are having a hard time selling anything that people want to buy.
All those things aside, it's time to face facts:
Real has been on the decline for a decade. They are not making any money, their media player is a living joke and I can't remember the last time I went to a site that actually required RealPlayer, or even offered it as the default/first choice.
Adding stream ripping is nothing but a desperate attempt to promote their software. They haven't the slightest desire to make people's lives easier, they are just desperately trying to regain market share.
The article makes it pretty clear (emphasis mine):
Their fuel cell has a chemical in it which is consumed when it splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Eventually, that chemical will be consumed and need to be replaced. That's where the energy comes from. The guy in the suit is just lying about the external inputs to a credulous reporter.