Well, lets take the total amount of people who know how to work with OS/2, and then take the total amount of people who know how to work with Windows, then factor in which has a bigger surplus of people to pull from for jobs in repairing these.
Also, DieBold, who supplies a lot of atms to a lot of financial institutions, has gone Windows Based (XP on a lot of models no doubt.). I suspect their move to Windows systems is based on the above fact that there are way more people out there who can fix a windows PC (basically all an ATM is, a PC w/ a Cash Cassettes and a NIC). Then people with experience in OS/2.
"There is a difference between "their" and "they're". They, their, they're and there are all different words, would you believe. Just because they sound very similar, does not mean they are spelled the same."
I missed something. I could have understood this if an Economics Professor or even an Industry Analyst replied to my ponderings, but where in a thread attached to a subject of 'Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006' does a English Guru, or at least someone with Mad Spell Checking skills find the room to correct someone's English?
Besides the fact I could be someone that does not speak English as a primary language, there is the fact that we are discussing Intel, a product of *theirs*, and *their* ambitions and what *they* might do to achieve these goals.
If their going to be that ambitious with their sales, I hope the are concidering pricing the the chips in a price range that anyone could afford and is willing the pay.
"Why cannot this bogus thinking be applied such that everyone has to use the same bank, in addition to credit card provider?"
Well... For one, BofA is not a Credit Card/Plastic Vendor. Master Card, Visa, Discover are CC Providers. BofA just has bin's with those providers/vendors so they can offer their cards to their Banking Customers. Also, depending on what restrictions your talking about, most banks do offer a choice of Visa or Master Card aside from whatever they choose to use with your Debit Card.
But regardless, they lost 1.2 million records of Government Employee information. That means Payroll, ACH info, Transactions, Loan details, etc. Even if it was civilian information, I'd still be looking for new options in where I stash my money, at this point, putting in a sock drawer might be safer. =)
Hmm, Doesn't the USAF have a Credit Union of some sort? I know the Navy has Sea-Air, surely should be more options for your banking needs than just that of Bank of America.
"Gmail blocks sending attachments of "executable" files, which includes.pl.exe.bat.com etc..., It even checks inside of zip, tar/gz archives to see if a file with matching extension is found. If it is found, gmail will not allow you to send your email."
Funny, I was unaware that Gmail scans attachments and simply denies if it's an executable. I say Funny because I have a couple of recent (as in over the weekend) files I zipped and sent from my gmail account to work account, neither were stopped, blocked, or altered. And I did not get all fancy about it either, I just zipped up all the files, attached, addressed and sent.
Also, I'm missing something else, why are you guys getting all crazy with encrypting and rar'ing executable files when most systems will ignore an attachment if you rename it to a registered extention like '.TXT' or '.RTF', honestly, renaming it back could be faster than decrypting and/or uncompressing it on the other end, unless of course your trying to compress the attachments due the desitination account has attachment size limits.
Are you sure of this? There has been press releases for a couple of years now regarding how desperately NASA needs funding these days. Then again, could spin the conspiracy wheels and chaulk this one up as a ploy to demonstrate how desperate NASA needs money.
But I'm going to look at it like this, They Don't Care. No need to burn yourself out thinking on this one. That project has been 'Scrapped', so what's the point in spending 2-5 days trying to revive the system just to only have it remain in service for another 32 days?
"Not to mention the fact that on my computer personally, when I tried to install SP2 I had to completely format my hard-drive by taking it out and putting it in another computer as a secondary drive, and formatting it there. My computer was running too slowly to be able to do it any other way."
As for the 'firewall' it adds, it 'Learns' what the user does. Much like all the commercial software firewalls do (Zone Alarm, McAfee internet security, norton, etc.). Do not mistake it trying to adapt to your habits as it's downfall, after all, your the one that is supposed to be smarter than the machine right?
How about next time, you RTFM. I say this with 400+ desktop machines across an organization under my belt, besides the machines I use at home btw. Only 28 machines took hits to performance (3 of which were my personal machines at home.), and once the Anti Virus clients uninstalled and then reinstalled, things were fine. Just because you were hasty for a solution to fix your slow down shouldn't be your arguement to condem the service release.
"The enterprise division is interested in promoting PowerPC, which is the hardware architecture, and Linux. Now that it doesn't have the PC division as an inhibitor, it can pursue those goals without conflict."
Is it me, or is this somewhat in Nazi Propaganda fashion? Beyond the point that it was, is, and going to be a matter of 'Copyright Infringment ', not 'theft', is the fact that they are playing the hero's of a crusade that only 1 psuedo-town in California cares about.
Besides, if their really interested in preventing sites like Lokitorrent and others from popping up and stop people from practicing in activities that "robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity", then how about the MPAA and the studios stop robbing us when we decide to spend an evening at the movie theaters spending $30 on just tickets, popcorn, a couple of drinks and gum stuck under your seat.
Time to kick it up a notch and start pushing a bit more to get things developed. Looking for a darn good Reason?
Granted it won't be a mass exodous, and as well that pirates don't make good Poster Children when it comes to gloating about how many people are using your Distro, but hell, it's users, and that's what MS has, and Linux as a whole is still suffering a lack of.
"Most serious people deploy PostgreSQL on Windows, if they're deploying anything on it at all."
You forgot to add in a field for 'snob' and 'over_opinionated' to that judgement... I mean statement. Most 'Serious' people do not just go with 'PostgreSQL', there are 'Serious' people who run msSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and etc. And each are most likely also say:
"Solid reliability, transaction support, and a good security track record."
"... so what then, can a software/hardware company like Apple do?"
Nothing, and that's the best thing for them to do right now for at least the next 3-5 years. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are the Top Dogs right now, with other players trying get off the ground (e.g. Phantom, etc.). Sure, Apple has a name for itself that is recognized in just about Any Household, and I'm pretty sure the Macities would buy an 'iGame' should one ever appears, just for the fact it's a Apple product, but how well do you think Apple could compete with the Big Dawgs when they all have very deep footholds within the industry. And I am not just talking about with their respected Fans, but also with Hardware and Software vendors who some may have contract restrictions that could impede on any deal that Apple would hope to get inorder to get a product to market quick.
Honestly, it would be safest for Apple to just continue on what they have going for them currently (iPod, iMac, etc.) and let the top 3 beat the hell out of themselves.
"Er no, I wouldn't, based on the evidence that they apperently don't "concider" anything of the sort."
Evidence please, now you have me interested. Not to say or even defend those that develop products, I know there have been a few things, electronics wise, that I've gone 'What in the hell were they (not) thinking?'. But, that phrase has surprisingly become rare. Unless you count my remarks when I got my MiFi.
I would be more afraid of an actual virus embedded into the file than the file actually playing instructions like that. Besides, wouldn't you think the people developing this tech concider the fact that the player reacting to it's own output might be a bit annoying to the consumer?
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I do not know about the Theme, but I also felt that was in homage to ET when I first saw it.
It was a mind trick.
Were Gonna be watchin you, eh.
"What was wrong with OS/2 atms?"
Well, lets take the total amount of people who know how to work with OS/2, and then take the total amount of people who know how to work with Windows, then factor in which has a bigger surplus of people to pull from for jobs in repairing these.
Also, DieBold, who supplies a lot of atms to a lot of financial institutions, has gone Windows Based (XP on a lot of models no doubt.). I suspect their move to Windows systems is based on the above fact that there are way more people out there who can fix a windows PC (basically all an ATM is, a PC w/ a Cash Cassettes and a NIC). Then people with experience in OS/2.
"There seems to be 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g and now 802.11s"
Do not forget to add 802.11pre-n to the growing list...
"There is a difference between "their" and "they're". They, their, they're and there are all different words, would you believe. Just because they sound very similar, does not mean they are spelled the same."
I missed something. I could have understood this if an Economics Professor or even an Industry Analyst replied to my ponderings, but where in a thread attached to a subject of 'Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006' does a English Guru, or at least someone with Mad Spell Checking skills find the room to correct someone's English?
Besides the fact I could be someone that does not speak English as a primary language, there is the fact that we are discussing Intel, a product of *theirs*, and *their* ambitions and what *they* might do to achieve these goals.
If their going to be that ambitious with their sales, I hope the are concidering pricing the the chips in a price range that anyone could afford and is willing the pay.
"The studios argue that the lost revenue means fewer artists will work to create movies or TV shows."
Depending on what actors are in question, this could be a blessing.
"Why cannot this bogus thinking be applied such that everyone has to use the same bank, in addition to credit card provider?"
Well... For one, BofA is not a Credit Card/Plastic Vendor. Master Card, Visa, Discover are CC Providers. BofA just has bin's with those providers/vendors so they can offer their cards to their Banking Customers. Also, depending on what restrictions your talking about, most banks do offer a choice of Visa or Master Card aside from whatever they choose to use with your Debit Card.
But regardless, they lost 1.2 million records of Government Employee information. That means Payroll, ACH info, Transactions, Loan details, etc. Even if it was civilian information, I'd still be looking for new options in where I stash my money, at this point, putting in a sock drawer might be safer. =)
Hmm, Doesn't the USAF have a Credit Union of some sort? I know the Navy has Sea-Air, surely should be more options for your banking needs than just that of Bank of America.
"Gmail blocks sending attachments of "executable" files, which includes .pl .exe .bat .com etc..., It even checks inside of zip, tar/gz archives to see if a file with matching extension is found. If it is found, gmail will not allow you to send your email."
Funny, I was unaware that Gmail scans attachments and simply denies if it's an executable. I say Funny because I have a couple of recent (as in over the weekend) files I zipped and sent from my gmail account to work account, neither were stopped, blocked, or altered. And I did not get all fancy about it either, I just zipped up all the files, attached, addressed and sent.
Also, I'm missing something else, why are you guys getting all crazy with encrypting and rar'ing executable files when most systems will ignore an attachment if you rename it to a registered extention like '.TXT' or '.RTF', honestly, renaming it back could be faster than decrypting and/or uncompressing it on the other end, unless of course your trying to compress the attachments due the desitination account has attachment size limits.
"Nasa has tons of servers..."
Are you sure of this? There has been press releases for a couple of years now regarding how desperately NASA needs funding these days. Then again, could spin the conspiracy wheels and chaulk this one up as a ploy to demonstrate how desperate NASA needs money.
But I'm going to look at it like this, They Don't Care. No need to burn yourself out thinking on this one. That project has been 'Scrapped', so what's the point in spending 2-5 days trying to revive the system just to only have it remain in service for another 32 days?
"Let's all wait for the chorus of "Now I'm moving to canada""
Never Fear, that choir moved last november. =)
"Not to mention the fact that on my computer personally, when I tried to install SP2 I had to completely format my hard-drive by taking it out and putting it in another computer as a secondary drive, and formatting it there. My computer was running too slowly to be able to do it any other way."
As for the 'firewall' it adds, it 'Learns' what the user does. Much like all the commercial software firewalls do (Zone Alarm, McAfee internet security, norton, etc.). Do not mistake it trying to adapt to your habits as it's downfall, after all, your the one that is supposed to be smarter than the machine right?
How about next time, you RTFM. I say this with 400+ desktop machines across an organization under my belt, besides the machines I use at home btw. Only 28 machines took hits to performance (3 of which were my personal machines at home.), and once the Anti Virus clients uninstalled and then reinstalled, things were fine. Just because you were hasty for a solution to fix your slow down shouldn't be your arguement to condem the service release.
"The enterprise division is interested in promoting PowerPC, which is the hardware architecture, and Linux. Now that it doesn't have the PC division as an inhibitor, it can pursue those goals without conflict."
*Cough Cough*Mac Mini*Cough Cough* -> Linux on the Mac Mini
No worries on him getting in trouble. People usually only get pissed off about Copyrights when the infringing material is good.
- Kn0x
Is it me, or is this somewhat in Nazi Propaganda fashion? Beyond the point that it was, is, and going to be a matter of ' Copyright Infringment ', not 'theft', is the fact that they are playing the hero's of a crusade that only 1 psuedo-town in California cares about.
Besides, if their really interested in preventing sites like Lokitorrent and others from popping up and stop people from practicing in activities that "robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity", then how about the MPAA and the studios stop robbing us when we decide to spend an evening at the movie theaters spending $30 on just tickets, popcorn, a couple of drinks and gum stuck under your seat.
..They're still a bit 'peeved' that we started that whole 'Freedom Fries', 'Freedom Toast' and 'France Sucks' campaigns.
Besides, When was the last time France ever won anything related to a 'Battle', even if it's in the courts?
Time to kick it up a notch and start pushing a bit more to get things developed. Looking for a darn good Reason?
Granted it won't be a mass exodous, and as well that pirates don't make good Poster Children when it comes to gloating about how many people are using your Distro, but hell, it's users, and that's what MS has, and Linux as a whole is still suffering a lack of.
"Most serious people deploy PostgreSQL on Windows, if they're deploying anything on it at all."
You forgot to add in a field for 'snob' and 'over_opinionated' to that judgement... I mean statement. Most 'Serious' people do not just go with 'PostgreSQL', there are 'Serious' people who run msSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and etc. And each are most likely also say:
"Solid reliability, transaction support, and a good security track record."
Nothing for you to see there. Please move along.
"... so what then, can a software/hardware company like Apple do?"
Nothing, and that's the best thing for them to do right now for at least the next 3-5 years. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are the Top Dogs right now, with other players trying get off the ground (e.g. Phantom, etc.). Sure, Apple has a name for itself that is recognized in just about Any Household, and I'm pretty sure the Macities would buy an 'iGame' should one ever appears, just for the fact it's a Apple product, but how well do you think Apple could compete with the Big Dawgs when they all have very deep footholds within the industry. And I am not just talking about with their respected Fans, but also with Hardware and Software vendors who some may have contract restrictions that could impede on any deal that Apple would hope to get inorder to get a product to market quick.
Honestly, it would be safest for Apple to just continue on what they have going for them currently (iPod, iMac, etc.) and let the top 3 beat the hell out of themselves.
"Er no, I wouldn't, based on the evidence that they apperently don't "concider" anything of the sort."
Evidence please, now you have me interested. Not to say or even defend those that develop products, I know there have been a few things, electronics wise, that I've gone 'What in the hell were they (not) thinking?'. But, that phrase has surprisingly become rare. Unless you count my remarks when I got my MiFi.
Thanks in Advance for the info.
I would be more afraid of an actual virus embedded into the file than the file actually playing instructions like that. Besides, wouldn't you think the people developing this tech concider the fact that the player reacting to it's own output might be a bit annoying to the consumer?
"..simultaneously defeating piracy.."
Sweet, now you only have to produce something someone would *WANT* to pirate.