The rep told me on the phone, from that toll free number, that only 3 upgrades are possible. Perhaps that means that there could be a total of 4 installs. I did not clarify with the lady whether or not the original install was included in her number.
You are getting around the problem by saying that you are replacing broken hardware. I did not know that was possible before talking to that rep. She just eluded to Microsoft wanting to limit the number of upgrades that are not forced upgrades due to hardware failure. She said that if I just wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive that I could only reinstall onto that new hard drive if I had the retail version. And that the number of optional upgrade such as this is limited to 3 occurances/activations.
You can install XP onto a new pc if you have the retail version instead of the OEM version. You can only install it 3 times though, unless Microsoft changed their policy since the last time I talked with them.
We had a problem with the OEM version of XP we had put onto (and activated) on a new machine. We wanted to put it onto an older machine for testing, but we could not activate it. The Rep told me on the phone that that was because it was OEM that I was limited to one install. If the hard drive died and had to be replaced under warranty, then the rep would have (and later had to) reactivate the XP on the original system. If I had bought the retail version, then I am only limited to 3 installs. We ended up finishing our testing within the 30 day limit and put the old operating system back on the old machine.
I agree whole heartedly with your premise that some if not many Iranians would like democratic Iranian rule; however you seem to overlook some facts. The USA is the only super power left. I think that means they have shown a great ability to do something right and thus competence. Of course they made some mistakes, but all in all, they have done well.
Even if the US is trying to spew propaganda in Iran, there is no reason for Iranians, or anyone else to have to watch it. They can change the channel or just turn it off. Perhaps some want to get the other side of the story that they are not getting from their mainstream media. It was the Iranians who revolted several years ago and brought in the Mullahs. Now the Mullahs are enforcing their power over the democratic process such that some Iranians want another revolution. Iraq just had a regime change that would have only occured with help from the outside. It would have taken generations for an internal revolution to have occured. I doubt Iranians need nor will accept that same outside help.
Perhaps I don't understand this since I live in a city that is on bedrock 348 metres (1142 ft) above sea level, but when the silt settles, where does it go? Is the land slowly washing into the Gulf of Mexico? Is it the weight of the buildings and roads that is causing settling faster than it has over the past few hundred years? If the flooding actually deposits more than it washes away, then there will be an erosion of the mainland. That silt in the flood waters has to come from somewhere. Are the southern states becoming flatter or more trenched?
Why are we even discussing the setup and configuration of LAMP? The police officers using Star Office don't have to set anything up. They just have to use the software. Average users don't have to set anything up. Nor can they even reinstall windows on their system. They call people like me to do it for them when their system becomes riddled with viruses and stops working. I am sure the Tech department of the Scottish police had educated people to setup the systems to get them working. The problem came when trying to share the documents. There may have been other troubles, but they don't seem to me to have been issues directly related to Star Office. Difficulty in configuring the open-source software so that police officers could access their files from any police station does not seem to be a Star Office problem. If they had switched 100%, I doubt that the network problems would have existed. A homogenous setup is much easier. That is what they are choosing.
Nuclear energy is indeed a sensitive issue. The main problems seem to be what to do with the by products, how long they take to get up and running after a blackout (weeks here in Ontario after the August 2003 blackout where the nuclear plants needed power to make power), and some unnecessary fears about ancient disasters. To that I have some questions. The radioactive material is mined. What is wrong with putting the radioactive waste back into the emptied mines? It the final waste products too volumeous?
Back on topic, I also wonder about this solar plant's effectiveness on cloudy days. It may get 500MW on a sunny day, but what is the average over a year? Or is that 500 MW over a year already?
You seem to have forgotten your history. It was about marketing and putting their office products in with every system sold that gave Microsoft market share. "Oh, it comes with the computer, so now I don't have to buy Word Perfect." The users did not know about vendor lockin. They could not forsee forced upgrades. THe police may be congratulated for giving it a shot, but how much of a shot was it? They had trouble with integration with Microsoft Office products. Big surprise. The pilot project should have compared only within the 5% versus work outside the 5%. Which section, per capita, was better, cheaper, and easier. Add to that list any other criteria for which they were looking. Trying to make the sections mesh will not work. That has been proven time and time again as OSS pilot projects have 'failed'. Perhaps the problem is not the software but the politics that hamper a true test. If they had switched 100%, then where would the integration problems have been? They could even go to OpenOffice and use an open document standard, so even if they have AbiWord at home, they can still open the files. Vendor lockin is an annoyance.
perhaps the number of downloads for an update would be a better indicator of how many are in use. Of couse, not everyone downloads every update, but charting how the downloads of updates increases over time should give more interesting data.
This will only be available on new computers, so why not have high standards for the cpu requirement. CPU's have not been coming out with higher GHz lately. A 3.1GHz system bought almost 2 years ago is still near the top of the line with respect to cycles per second. The main problem would be if they require some specific technology that only one cpu maker has.
Wait a sec. It says, "... the spreaders of computer viruses and worms are more logical candidates for capital punishment than murderers are." So anyone who spreads viruses is a more logical candidate? What if their computer is own3d? Or is spreading viruses without their knowledge. 'Oh, I didn't know why my internet was so slow' suddenly would become a legal argument? What a silly article. Someone trying to be contraversial but just coming up with bunk.
Don't worry. This has hit the news. CTV is a big network up here. Besides, the Canadian law makes it legal to make personal backups. This new legislation won't change that. From TFA, "The new legislation will contain rules that will make it illegal to hack or break into the digital locks often used to prevent the copying of movies and software -- although it will remain perfectly legal in Canada to copy a CD for personal use."
"Care to elaborate what quick prefs are? The ability to adjust preferences somewhere different than tools->options? I really am clueless..."
I have Opera 8.0
Under the tools pull down menu, there is a Quick Prefs submenu that contains toggles to either enable a feature or choose between a few settings. The toggles are the enabling or disabling of cookies, GIF animation, sound in Web pages, Java, plug-ins, JavaScript, referrer logging, and proxy servers. The settings are about popup blocking and identify as opera, mozilla, or IE.
The quick prefs prevent me from having to search through all the options for the most common settings. They are also not as buried.
If you prepare a lot of Word docs for printing by others and are not 100% sure what version of Word or open office they are using, perhaps you should try getting open office to export them to pdf.
Before I bought a PDA, I never used to carry everyone's phone number around with me where ever I went. After years of carrying my pda around barely using it for anything other than a calendar (I had all my friends numbers memorized anyway), it did not seem useful anymore. Actually, it got the most use when I was doing comparison shopping, but I found using a pen and paper was much faster than typing on a tiny keyboard. Low tech was still the better solution for me.
I am glad that another city is embracing Linux if only in part. Is anyone keeping track of what cities in the world have switched -- even partially? I recently heard that Calgary's (in Alberta Canada) switch had/is having some troubles. Does anyone have a url to a site that tracks this information including how far along the city is in their switch?
I agree. If the XDR RAM retails at $500 then they drop it by 100% to $0, then I may try it since it is free. If they take this poster's advice and drop manufacture prices to 200% of regular, then they would be paying me the regular price to use it. I would go for that! $500 would pay for most of the other hardware. Even if it the regular price was not that high, I could still upgrade my video or sound card.
It is also important to note that the numbers quoted in the article summary are misleading. It says "$39.95 for 5MB/2MB, $49.95 for 15MB/2MB, and $199.95 for 30MB/5MB", but the units should not be MB, but Mb. They are bits per second, not bytes. Why do so many keep getting this wrong? I used to get excited about seeing Byte, but now I have to verify the units from the company. Many stories get this wrong.
What would happen if the rfid did not work -- say a rare earth magnet or hammer accident? They would have to go back to processing the passport manually. If you have a tin foil hat, then the solution should be easy to solve if your passport has an rfid. As well, due to the limited range of the rfid, truely, there is little difference between this and a swipe card that stores information digitally on a magnetic strip. If either get stolen, you are still in trouble.
There are bigger problems than simply getting into orbit. For example, Newton's third law still applies. Every action requires an equal and opposite reaction. If the propulsion station orbiting earth can provide enough energy to propel a ship, then that half that energy will go into moving the station into the opposite direction. If the station is much larger than the craft then inertia will help, but there is no static friction to keep it in place. It must shoot past the earth then rely on gravity to keep pull it back into orbit. Since it can't shoot directly at the earth, at least some force will cause it to speed up or slow down.
And this is ignoring the amount of energy needed to create such a beam. Keeping a station around Jupiter supplied with enough energy to be able to create this beam will be more of a challenge than getting into orbit.
If the beam could be shot from the earth -- and a station on Mars for braking and the return trip, then that would be helpful as long as the beam does not require a vacuum and that atmosphere is not a hinderance.
What is the difference between a link/reference to an object and a foreign key? They are both relationships. Associations if you like. The relational model does not exclude the use of objects. Relational database management systems have been using objects for years. Those objects may infact have their own methods. Relational theory does not exclude this.
so, you seem to be telling me that your object oriented (oo) database is using a hierarchial design. The fact that an oo database uses an Relational DBMS means that it is a relational database as long as it uses relationships. I could use any database, put in a table that contains clientname, address, invoicenumber, itemnumber, quantity, unitprice, invoicetotal. I have seen novices do this. This is a heirachial database. Adding a couple more tables like customers, invoice, and invoicedistributions as well as relationships between them lends to less duplication of data by using a relational design. Using a hierarchal design is fine for a grocery list or phone book. If your oo database is indeed only a single table, then it may be using a hierarchial design. I just don't see too many business applications that employ only a simple list that would require an object oriented approach. Perhaps a phone book, but then why would a phone book need objects. Can you suggest some?
About the flat files, I don't care how a database is implemented. How it is stored on the harddrive is irrelevant. The fact that it uses tables and relationships is that makes it a relational database. Physical implemention is outside of the relational model.
I understand why Chris Date and Fabian Pascal get upset. They have been telling people about relational databases for years, and most people still don't get it. I know of 2 database models: Hierarchial and relational. Your object database is a relational database with objects. Of course, the relational model does not exclude the use of objects, so object databases are still based on the relational model. The XML databases are hierarchial. They have meta data in the tags, but they exist in separate files. This is a great way of transferring data between people which then gets imported into a table of the relational database. Bank transactions are a good example. The associative database is based on related tables storing the data. The items and links structures are simply two tables that are related. The associative part is simply a program that uses a relational database to hold its data.
Please tell me what I am missing.
Crappier music because it is not as well known as Britney Spears? There are plenty of artists that the music labels have not picked up because they are not mainstream enough. They make great music and you may find some of these gems on sites that feature independent music.
In Ontario, Canada, for the longest time, if I made a program and put it to tape or to CD then gave it to the client then they had to pay provincial sales tax (8% today). If we lent them the tape or cd then took it back or went onsite, transferred the program then took the media back, then it was not taxable. A few years back the law changed and not just shrink wrapped software, but all software is taxed. The only thing that is not taxed are consulting fees.
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You are getting around the problem by saying that you are replacing broken hardware. I did not know that was possible before talking to that rep. She just eluded to Microsoft wanting to limit the number of upgrades that are not forced upgrades due to hardware failure. She said that if I just wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive that I could only reinstall onto that new hard drive if I had the retail version. And that the number of optional upgrade such as this is limited to 3 occurances/activations.
You can install XP onto a new pc if you have the retail version instead of the OEM version. You can only install it 3 times though, unless Microsoft changed their policy since the last time I talked with them. We had a problem with the OEM version of XP we had put onto (and activated) on a new machine. We wanted to put it onto an older machine for testing, but we could not activate it. The Rep told me on the phone that that was because it was OEM that I was limited to one install. If the hard drive died and had to be replaced under warranty, then the rep would have (and later had to) reactivate the XP on the original system. If I had bought the retail version, then I am only limited to 3 installs. We ended up finishing our testing within the 30 day limit and put the old operating system back on the old machine.
I agree whole heartedly with your premise that some if not many Iranians would like democratic Iranian rule; however you seem to overlook some facts. The USA is the only super power left. I think that means they have shown a great ability to do something right and thus competence. Of course they made some mistakes, but all in all, they have done well.
Even if the US is trying to spew propaganda in Iran, there is no reason for Iranians, or anyone else to have to watch it. They can change the channel or just turn it off. Perhaps some want to get the other side of the story that they are not getting from their mainstream media. It was the Iranians who revolted several years ago and brought in the Mullahs. Now the Mullahs are enforcing their power over the democratic process such that some Iranians want another revolution. Iraq just had a regime change that would have only occured with help from the outside. It would have taken generations for an internal revolution to have occured. I doubt Iranians need nor will accept that same outside help.
Perhaps I don't understand this since I live in a city that is on bedrock 348 metres (1142 ft) above sea level, but when the silt settles, where does it go? Is the land slowly washing into the Gulf of Mexico? Is it the weight of the buildings and roads that is causing settling faster than it has over the past few hundred years? If the flooding actually deposits more than it washes away, then there will be an erosion of the mainland. That silt in the flood waters has to come from somewhere. Are the southern states becoming flatter or more trenched?
Does this mean it wasn't successful?
Why are we even discussing the setup and configuration of LAMP? The police officers using Star Office don't have to set anything up. They just have to use the software. Average users don't have to set anything up. Nor can they even reinstall windows on their system. They call people like me to do it for them when their system becomes riddled with viruses and stops working. I am sure the Tech department of the Scottish police had educated people to setup the systems to get them working. The problem came when trying to share the documents. There may have been other troubles, but they don't seem to me to have been issues directly related to Star Office. Difficulty in configuring the open-source software so that police officers could access their files from any police station does not seem to be a Star Office problem. If they had switched 100%, I doubt that the network problems would have existed. A homogenous setup is much easier. That is what they are choosing.
Nuclear energy is indeed a sensitive issue. The main problems seem to be what to do with the by products, how long they take to get up and running after a blackout (weeks here in Ontario after the August 2003 blackout where the nuclear plants needed power to make power), and some unnecessary fears about ancient disasters. To that I have some questions. The radioactive material is mined. What is wrong with putting the radioactive waste back into the emptied mines? It the final waste products too volumeous? Back on topic, I also wonder about this solar plant's effectiveness on cloudy days. It may get 500MW on a sunny day, but what is the average over a year? Or is that 500 MW over a year already?
You seem to have forgotten your history. It was about marketing and putting their office products in with every system sold that gave Microsoft market share. "Oh, it comes with the computer, so now I don't have to buy Word Perfect." The users did not know about vendor lockin. They could not forsee forced upgrades. THe police may be congratulated for giving it a shot, but how much of a shot was it? They had trouble with integration with Microsoft Office products. Big surprise. The pilot project should have compared only within the 5% versus work outside the 5%. Which section, per capita, was better, cheaper, and easier. Add to that list any other criteria for which they were looking. Trying to make the sections mesh will not work. That has been proven time and time again as OSS pilot projects have 'failed'. Perhaps the problem is not the software but the politics that hamper a true test. If they had switched 100%, then where would the integration problems have been? They could even go to OpenOffice and use an open document standard, so even if they have AbiWord at home, they can still open the files. Vendor lockin is an annoyance.
perhaps the number of downloads for an update would be a better indicator of how many are in use. Of couse, not everyone downloads every update, but charting how the downloads of updates increases over time should give more interesting data.
This will only be available on new computers, so why not have high standards for the cpu requirement. CPU's have not been coming out with higher GHz lately. A 3.1GHz system bought almost 2 years ago is still near the top of the line with respect to cycles per second. The main problem would be if they require some specific technology that only one cpu maker has.
Wait a sec. It says, "... the spreaders of computer viruses and worms are more logical candidates for capital punishment than murderers are." So anyone who spreads viruses is a more logical candidate? What if their computer is own3d? Or is spreading viruses without their knowledge. 'Oh, I didn't know why my internet was so slow' suddenly would become a legal argument? What a silly article. Someone trying to be contraversial but just coming up with bunk.
Don't worry. This has hit the news. CTV is a big network up here. Besides, the Canadian law makes it legal to make personal backups. This new legislation won't change that. From TFA, "The new legislation will contain rules that will make it illegal to hack or break into the digital locks often used to prevent the copying of movies and software -- although it will remain perfectly legal in Canada to copy a CD for personal use."
"Care to elaborate what quick prefs are? The ability to adjust preferences somewhere different than tools->options? I really am clueless..." I have Opera 8.0 Under the tools pull down menu, there is a Quick Prefs submenu that contains toggles to either enable a feature or choose between a few settings. The toggles are the enabling or disabling of cookies, GIF animation, sound in Web pages, Java, plug-ins, JavaScript, referrer logging, and proxy servers. The settings are about popup blocking and identify as opera, mozilla, or IE. The quick prefs prevent me from having to search through all the options for the most common settings. They are also not as buried.
If you prepare a lot of Word docs for printing by others and are not 100% sure what version of Word or open office they are using, perhaps you should try getting open office to export them to pdf.
Before I bought a PDA, I never used to carry everyone's phone number around with me where ever I went. After years of carrying my pda around barely using it for anything other than a calendar (I had all my friends numbers memorized anyway), it did not seem useful anymore. Actually, it got the most use when I was doing comparison shopping, but I found using a pen and paper was much faster than typing on a tiny keyboard. Low tech was still the better solution for me.
I am glad that another city is embracing Linux if only in part. Is anyone keeping track of what cities in the world have switched -- even partially? I recently heard that Calgary's (in Alberta Canada) switch had/is having some troubles. Does anyone have a url to a site that tracks this information including how far along the city is in their switch?
I agree. If the XDR RAM retails at $500 then they drop it by 100% to $0, then I may try it since it is free. If they take this poster's advice and drop manufacture prices to 200% of regular, then they would be paying me the regular price to use it. I would go for that! $500 would pay for most of the other hardware. Even if it the regular price was not that high, I could still upgrade my video or sound card.
It is also important to note that the numbers quoted in the article summary are misleading. It says "$39.95 for 5MB/2MB, $49.95 for 15MB/2MB, and $199.95 for 30MB/5MB", but the units should not be MB, but Mb. They are bits per second, not bytes. Why do so many keep getting this wrong? I used to get excited about seeing Byte, but now I have to verify the units from the company. Many stories get this wrong.
What would happen if the rfid did not work -- say a rare earth magnet or hammer accident? They would have to go back to processing the passport manually. If you have a tin foil hat, then the solution should be easy to solve if your passport has an rfid. As well, due to the limited range of the rfid, truely, there is little difference between this and a swipe card that stores information digitally on a magnetic strip. If either get stolen, you are still in trouble.
There are bigger problems than simply getting into orbit. For example, Newton's third law still applies. Every action requires an equal and opposite reaction. If the propulsion station orbiting earth can provide enough energy to propel a ship, then that half that energy will go into moving the station into the opposite direction. If the station is much larger than the craft then inertia will help, but there is no static friction to keep it in place. It must shoot past the earth then rely on gravity to keep pull it back into orbit. Since it can't shoot directly at the earth, at least some force will cause it to speed up or slow down. And this is ignoring the amount of energy needed to create such a beam. Keeping a station around Jupiter supplied with enough energy to be able to create this beam will be more of a challenge than getting into orbit. If the beam could be shot from the earth -- and a station on Mars for braking and the return trip, then that would be helpful as long as the beam does not require a vacuum and that atmosphere is not a hinderance.
What is the difference between a link/reference to an object and a foreign key? They are both relationships. Associations if you like. The relational model does not exclude the use of objects. Relational database management systems have been using objects for years. Those objects may infact have their own methods. Relational theory does not exclude this. so, you seem to be telling me that your object oriented (oo) database is using a hierarchial design. The fact that an oo database uses an Relational DBMS means that it is a relational database as long as it uses relationships. I could use any database, put in a table that contains clientname, address, invoicenumber, itemnumber, quantity, unitprice, invoicetotal. I have seen novices do this. This is a heirachial database. Adding a couple more tables like customers, invoice, and invoicedistributions as well as relationships between them lends to less duplication of data by using a relational design. Using a hierarchal design is fine for a grocery list or phone book. If your oo database is indeed only a single table, then it may be using a hierarchial design. I just don't see too many business applications that employ only a simple list that would require an object oriented approach. Perhaps a phone book, but then why would a phone book need objects. Can you suggest some? About the flat files, I don't care how a database is implemented. How it is stored on the harddrive is irrelevant. The fact that it uses tables and relationships is that makes it a relational database. Physical implemention is outside of the relational model.
I understand why Chris Date and Fabian Pascal get upset. They have been telling people about relational databases for years, and most people still don't get it. I know of 2 database models: Hierarchial and relational. Your object database is a relational database with objects. Of course, the relational model does not exclude the use of objects, so object databases are still based on the relational model. The XML databases are hierarchial. They have meta data in the tags, but they exist in separate files. This is a great way of transferring data between people which then gets imported into a table of the relational database. Bank transactions are a good example. The associative database is based on related tables storing the data. The items and links structures are simply two tables that are related. The associative part is simply a program that uses a relational database to hold its data. Please tell me what I am missing.
Crappier music because it is not as well known as Britney Spears? There are plenty of artists that the music labels have not picked up because they are not mainstream enough. They make great music and you may find some of these gems on sites that feature independent music.
In Ontario, Canada, for the longest time, if I made a program and put it to tape or to CD then gave it to the client then they had to pay provincial sales tax (8% today). If we lent them the tape or cd then took it back or went onsite, transferred the program then took the media back, then it was not taxable. A few years back the law changed and not just shrink wrapped software, but all software is taxed. The only thing that is not taxed are consulting fees.