On newer OSes, it just works without needing even the basics. XP, I think W2K-SP4, OS X, and the vast majority of 'ready to go' linux flavours (Such as Ubuntu, and not Gentoo).
Do the same thing that people have been doing for/years/ and use characters to emphasise. If you're feeling *really* brave, you could even try combining symbols to (gasp) make smilies:-D
No, it's not. WMP is *capable* of playing DVDs providing you have installed a codec. Same with QuickTime, Real, you name it. You need the codec, which usually comes with a DVD drive. The reason it's not shipped as standard? Because CSS (The DVD encryption algorithm) is a controlled one requiring fees to be paid to implement decryption.
Whilst true, I can't understand why the companies care. It's not like you're suddenly taking two lines, you have exactly the same line in - it's just shared.
"£19.99 for one PC, add another for only £4.99" is just nonsense IMHO. Windows XP will even offer to share internet connections for you if you set up a network.
Nope. Assuming poles had switched and you lined your compass up with the North it indicated, it would be a full 180 out. Hence rotate 180 to have the correct orientation again.
Close, but Exchange is all proprietary (I know, because it's what I use for corporate PIM) with a limited API. Apple uses open standards such as iCal for cross-app compatability.
One other thing Macs do, a nice byproduct of their device model, is they can sync to things properly. Using.mac, files just magically get between PCs. Emails are always accessible. Your contacts and calendar work in all applications, and sync nicely to your iPod. Photos can be used in the DVDs you burn...
In this case, yes because they didn't open the packages. All they did was suggest to HM Customs and Excise which packages may contain DVDs (Which if they're coming from abroad are fair game for a customs check) and then Customs and Excise opened them.
I thought you added an extra layer between kernel and user space to hold all the microkernel components?
That way no matter what goes down in userspace, and even if it brings down a kernel module with it, there's two layers still working which can restore the system.
There were distinct 'naked' textures for both male and female meshes. The male had just underwear, the female had underwear and a bra.
What has been done is renaming the male texture to the female one, and the game gets on with wrapping the female mesh in the male texture. Result - a topless female with badly stretched texture assets (Pun intended).
I don't know. The Sims, especially Sims 2, can throw some pretty inventive situations at the child. They get taught about death and relationships in what is, for a game, a damn accurate representation of reality.
Sims 2 even includes things like buying groceries. If you don't go buy groceries, or order them online, you don't eat. There's a lot of depth in the complete social interaction model of The Sims you won't get with dolls, or playing Mummies and Daddies "Then you go to work, then you come home and kiss me, and then I give you your tea".
I've never understood this - what the hell is the point in airbrushing UFOs out of photographs? Just take the bloody photographs when the UFOs have moved on and release those instead.
But if the player can't be arsed finding a keycard or 20, and has a rocket or demo pack spare, they can go 'stuff it' and take out the door with a satisfyingly big boom.
Is that AI in the sense that a bayesian filter doesn't need to know what is trying to sell me stuff and what isn't, it just learns? Or would the data set need to be able to be transferred to things other than plain text?
On the actual handset, it will only use as much power as it needs to get a signal. If you're in a zone with really crap reception, your handset will ramp up its signal power to try maintain contact. Conversely, if you're only a few hundred metres from a cell tower, it uses hardly any.
I can only guess that for towers the power alters based on an average of the signal strength to all its handsets, so it is also possibly to save power on the handsets. As for interference, there's no point keeping each tower up too high because handsets which would be best served by another cell would be handing over too late since they could keep in contact with their original tower. Even more extreme, if you're on parts of the English coastline you get charged international rates because your phone picks up signals from French towers stronger than UK towers.
Unrelated to the main body of the article, but the "OneWebDay" mentioned in the snippet at the bottom describes a symbol as "Three middle fingers outstretched with the thumb and little finger touching". Since when have web developers been associated with The Scout Movement?
Just out of interest, is there any common standard for return receipts? Or for that matter, an OSS email client which works with Outlook return receipts?
It's a chance to make your millions though. Invest now in a few thousand worth of generic web startup stock, and then at the first sign of the market bombing sell the lot.
MS is bad, but I have never had a virus on any of my machines, be they Windows, Mac or Linux.
Most 'viruses' aren't. They're trojans, and there is nothing to prevent human stupidity except for the OS kicking up a fuss when an application tries to do something strange. OS X does this already, Linux does this already, and Windows will do this come Vista and XPSP3 (There was an article about it yesterday).
Vista has the potential to turn around the eternity of warning boxes. I would consider myself a computing professional, and sometimes even I've automatically clicked OK before going "Oh shit, what exactly did that just say?"
Vista's security model doesn't seem to ask for credentials in stupid places, unless the article writer believes that modifying the system folder should be the perogative of every user. What it does (Especially when running user apps) is show just how much applications rely on priveledged accounts. If the developers can get the program to work as expected without relying on admin rights, it will make users stop and think "Woah, why is this asking me for the admin password? What is it trying to do?"
I have no objection to being prompted every time something wants to mess with a system file. I object to being prompted every time something wants to mess with a system file because the application is piss-poorly designed.
Nope. I was unable to quickly find the appropriate options I wanted in OO.o Writer despite knowing *exactly* where they were in Word.
Learning curve yes, I can deal with, but too often Linux and OSS alternatives - whilst in most cases being equally stable and useful products - are marketed as being "Just like Windows" or "Just like Office".
I've been working with the Vista CTP for a while now, and the learning curve from even Windows 2000 is virtually non-existant. Getting used to a similar level of functionality I'm used to in Windows in Linux took me a good few days.
The question was why upgrade. Moving to OS X technically isn't an upgrade. I know this kind of metadata usage has been around for ages, but this is the first Windows implementation and thus a reason for people who use Windows as their primary OS to upgrade.
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Umm... where did I say that?
If MS want to run time.windows.com and have all standard installations of XP hit it, then let it be so.
On newer OSes, it just works without needing even the basics. XP, I think W2K-SP4, OS X, and the vast majority of 'ready to go' linux flavours (Such as Ubuntu, and not Gentoo).
Do the same thing that people have been doing for /years/ and use characters to emphasise. If you're feeling *really* brave, you could even try combining symbols to (gasp) make smilies :-D
No, it's not. WMP is *capable* of playing DVDs providing you have installed a codec. Same with QuickTime, Real, you name it. You need the codec, which usually comes with a DVD drive. The reason it's not shipped as standard? Because CSS (The DVD encryption algorithm) is a controlled one requiring fees to be paid to implement decryption.
Whilst true, I can't understand why the companies care. It's not like you're suddenly taking two lines, you have exactly the same line in - it's just shared.
"£19.99 for one PC, add another for only £4.99" is just nonsense IMHO. Windows XP will even offer to share internet connections for you if you set up a network.
Nah, they need your permission to broadcast it if you're identifiable in the film and not part of a crowd e.g. you are singled out.
Nope. Assuming poles had switched and you lined your compass up with the North it indicated, it would be a full 180 out. Hence rotate 180 to have the correct orientation again.
Close, but Exchange is all proprietary (I know, because it's what I use for corporate PIM) with a limited API. Apple uses open standards such as iCal for cross-app compatability.
One other thing Macs do, a nice byproduct of their device model, is they can sync to things properly. Using .mac, files just magically get between PCs. Emails are always accessible. Your contacts and calendar work in all applications, and sync nicely to your iPod. Photos can be used in the DVDs you burn...
What do PCs have that is close to that?
Like a "+1 Read TFA In The First Place"?
It'd be good for filtering comments based on it, certainly.
In this case, yes because they didn't open the packages. All they did was suggest to HM Customs and Excise which packages may contain DVDs (Which if they're coming from abroad are fair game for a customs check) and then Customs and Excise opened them.
I don't agree with it, but it's not illegal.
I thought you added an extra layer between kernel and user space to hold all the microkernel components?
That way no matter what goes down in userspace, and even if it brings down a kernel module with it, there's two layers still working which can restore the system.
It's not even that.
There were distinct 'naked' textures for both male and female meshes. The male had just underwear, the female had underwear and a bra.
What has been done is renaming the male texture to the female one, and the game gets on with wrapping the female mesh in the male texture. Result - a topless female with badly stretched texture assets (Pun intended).
I don't know. The Sims, especially Sims 2, can throw some pretty inventive situations at the child. They get taught about death and relationships in what is, for a game, a damn accurate representation of reality.
Sims 2 even includes things like buying groceries. If you don't go buy groceries, or order them online, you don't eat. There's a lot of depth in the complete social interaction model of The Sims you won't get with dolls, or playing Mummies and Daddies "Then you go to work, then you come home and kiss me, and then I give you your tea".
I've never understood this - what the hell is the point in airbrushing UFOs out of photographs? Just take the bloody photographs when the UFOs have moved on and release those instead.
But if the player can't be arsed finding a keycard or 20, and has a rocket or demo pack spare, they can go 'stuff it' and take out the door with a satisfyingly big boom.
Is that AI in the sense that a bayesian filter doesn't need to know what is trying to sell me stuff and what isn't, it just learns? Or would the data set need to be able to be transferred to things other than plain text?
On the actual handset, it will only use as much power as it needs to get a signal. If you're in a zone with really crap reception, your handset will ramp up its signal power to try maintain contact. Conversely, if you're only a few hundred metres from a cell tower, it uses hardly any.
I can only guess that for towers the power alters based on an average of the signal strength to all its handsets, so it is also possibly to save power on the handsets. As for interference, there's no point keeping each tower up too high because handsets which would be best served by another cell would be handing over too late since they could keep in contact with their original tower. Even more extreme, if you're on parts of the English coastline you get charged international rates because your phone picks up signals from French towers stronger than UK towers.
Unrelated to the main body of the article, but the "OneWebDay" mentioned in the snippet at the bottom describes a symbol as "Three middle fingers outstretched with the thumb and little finger touching". Since when have web developers been associated with The Scout Movement?
Just out of interest, is there any common standard for return receipts? Or for that matter, an OSS email client which works with Outlook return receipts?
It's a chance to make your millions though. Invest now in a few thousand worth of generic web startup stock, and then at the first sign of the market bombing sell the lot.
MS is bad, but I have never had a virus on any of my machines, be they Windows, Mac or Linux.
Most 'viruses' aren't. They're trojans, and there is nothing to prevent human stupidity except for the OS kicking up a fuss when an application tries to do something strange. OS X does this already, Linux does this already, and Windows will do this come Vista and XPSP3 (There was an article about it yesterday).
Vista has the potential to turn around the eternity of warning boxes. I would consider myself a computing professional, and sometimes even I've automatically clicked OK before going "Oh shit, what exactly did that just say?"
Vista's security model doesn't seem to ask for credentials in stupid places, unless the article writer believes that modifying the system folder should be the perogative of every user. What it does (Especially when running user apps) is show just how much applications rely on priveledged accounts. If the developers can get the program to work as expected without relying on admin rights, it will make users stop and think "Woah, why is this asking me for the admin password? What is it trying to do?"
I have no objection to being prompted every time something wants to mess with a system file. I object to being prompted every time something wants to mess with a system file because the application is piss-poorly designed.
Nope. I was unable to quickly find the appropriate options I wanted in OO.o Writer despite knowing *exactly* where they were in Word.
Learning curve yes, I can deal with, but too often Linux and OSS alternatives - whilst in most cases being equally stable and useful products - are marketed as being "Just like Windows" or "Just like Office".
I've been working with the Vista CTP for a while now, and the learning curve from even Windows 2000 is virtually non-existant. Getting used to a similar level of functionality I'm used to in Windows in Linux took me a good few days.
The question was why upgrade. Moving to OS X technically isn't an upgrade. I know this kind of metadata usage has been around for ages, but this is the first Windows implementation and thus a reason for people who use Windows as their primary OS to upgrade.