Black background and green text (any flavour of green, especially lime) should be made illegal.
The only thing worse is when people use Times New Roman with the wonderful colours of red, blue, yellow and lime green. (Mix and match background and text) then get their granny to go "ooh very nice dear" and they call it their homepage.
I've worked with a few macs and found OS X to be a pleasant experience. I don't expect the desktop to be customisable to my every need, although I expect it to go a long way there, and OS X from what I've used it is not only elegant but behind it has a lot of power which can be tapped fairly easily. I don't need to be able to customise every detail, I need to work and if I can do so whilst not suffering grey-box syndrome then so much the better.
Yet something such as OS X is snazzy and functional.
It can be done, it can be done well. I'm actually considering a move to Macs simply because they work, they work well, they let me work well, and they look good whilst working well.
I have a Windows Server 2003 laptop I use to irritate the network at school (i.e. make it think it's a domain controller and override all my security settings)
ABout the invites, I saw an interesting theory on here (can't remember who from so if it was you then shout up) that the invites should be kept to allow Google to trace where accounts came from. So, if a spammer gets a gMail account and invites himself 50 accounts to spam from, Google could get rid of them all by removing the 'root' account and anybody that account invited.
oookay - NT4 won't log me in even if I fill the password input to capacity. Capslock makes the usual difference on both systems - the password is case sensitive.
So I conclude anything more than 14 characters really screws NT4.
I've just tested this on my 2003 Active Directory with an account with a 127 character password. Changing the last character caused the password to be rejected, so unless it uses 126 characters and dumps the last one then it seems to be a true 127 character password.
I disagree. A major plus for Office in corporate environments is the fact you can configure it easily through group policies. Unless OpenOffice has a similar system which mysteriously provides its own low-cost trained admins, then there will still be a hell of an admin cost.
Of course, the fact it doesn't also cost $200 a seat is a big pro for OO.
You mean as opposed to mother nature tweaking things anyway in a process called natural selection?
Humans are part of the environment, if species can't deal with the fact we do impact on things then they deserve to die out. Don't say humans are different, a lot of species mould their environment to suit.
if ww.google.com gives you anything other than google then you're infected with something.
google.com is owned by Google, any subdomains (like www. and ww.) are also owned by Google. If something is redirecting ww.google.com then you need to run a spyware scanner, check your hosts file, or simply use a better browser.
That is more or less correct. Napster (in the UK at least) offer a £10 per month subscription which lets you get to the 'all you can eat', but only on an actual PC with Napster installed. You can then buy tracks for £0.99, and get rights to burn them to CD, transfer to portable players etc.
All Napster-To-Go does is let you use this subscription model to move music onto your portable player without paying extra for the right to do that.
It's good, and if iTunes ran a similar service (Listen Apple!) then they'd certainly get my subscription money. The only annoyance is that it's powered by MS DRM, which is vile, and it won't work without the Napster application running.
Aside from that it has some great features like Auto Radio, where I select some tracks from my library and it builds a radio station around my tastes (not chooses one from the stock list, dynamically builds one, which is great for finding new music).
Sadly, even using the shuttle as a blueprint for a '21st Century' version wouldn't work, because frankly the space shuttles are horribly designed. Oh sure, they do the job, but they are an inherently bad design for repeated use, for the simple reason the Air Force pilots wanted something which flew like a jet.
On the other hand, using it as a rough guide would probably be fine. You could lower the weight, lower the cost, increase the capacity, build in more redundancy, and reduce launch cost all at once.
Maybe even build a proper fleet of *specialised* spacecraft, one for lugging things into orbit, one for science missions, one for supply missions, one for carrying people? Once again, this has been thrown out in favour of a completely new design, which will once again be forced to do everything badly.
So I'm guessing you'd be ok with paying higher insurance rates for life because you got caught speeding when you were young, after all it's now on your record FOREVER. How about being pulled over on a regular basis anywhere you go, because once you got a DUI and now it shows on every report about you. This means no matter how you change , grow, learn, your violation/crime can never truley be paid for and you will be paying for mistakes until the day you die, mostley because there's money in it for someone. I guess you'd call that the "american dream" huh. Once a criminal always a criminal. One step away from a real police state, where everyone except law enforcement is a criminal waiting to be caught.
Being from the UK, the 'American Dream' seems a bit of a fanciful idea thrown around by the Irish a few hundred years ago, and a bit of an irritation thrown around by current US administration. If what you're saying makes any sense, then you are telling me points are never removed from your licence, and you solve this by moving to another state? Because if not then points would be removed from *all* states at once, meaning if you cock up in different states you not only get penalised fairly, but you also get your redemption fairly.
The world of 1984 takes a lot of effort to create, and it looks like the only thing which would make a police state necessary is people who blindly refuse to give details to government. You as a people go and vote the currend administration into power, if you don't like it move out of the country. Otherwise, fill out the forms. By all means refuse to give things you know aren't needed, but at least let the people you put into power try do their jobs.
There is a system in place for dealing with this - write to your local representitive. If enough people do this, the city won't bother with WiFi access. On the other hand, if most people agree with the service, the city is fine to install the service. Democracy works like that, voice of the people and all.
In my opinion (UK here, so this isn't relevant to you but is relevant to the concept), the government should not provide additional cash to 'deprived' students in order to encourage their staying in further education. However, the general opinion seems to be that it stays. Now, I have written to my MP to voice my opinions and they will be weighed with everything else. They might make a difference, but I can guarantee that sitting on your ass bitching about it on/. won't help.
i think the difference is you know exactly what the DMV (and hence the government) can see - you filled out the form. A camera is a much more generic thing, but nobody's forcing you to have either a camera or a driving licence.
Your state is just a logical partition of the federal government. Personally (being from the UK) I like government services being able to access details from anywhere in the country, especially with things like healthcare (A hospital in the south automatically knows I'm anemic and allergic to penicillin before giving me the drugs), driving licence is the same in reverse - if you have nothing to worry about be happy it catches the idiots who drive up your insurance.
Oh come off it. I perfectly agree with your right to not tell people what you don't want to tell them, but by having a licence you agreed to let the state know your driver details. You also agree to show your licence when asked, or as far as the system is concerned you're driving without a licence. You knew this when you signed the form, you can't bitch about it now.
Back to the article, i'm all in favour of sharing driver information between states. No, really. Why? Because if (like you) you have no or few points on your licence then what is there to worry about? "Oh no, the state can track me!". Your mobile phone company knows far more about your habits than you can possibly extract from a driving licence, so what's the worry? If it helps, go privatise it. I'm sure your store cards and credit cards would never be used to work out what you do and don't do without you telling the stores, my word no!
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Black background and green text (any flavour of green, especially lime) should be made illegal.
The only thing worse is when people use Times New Roman with the wonderful colours of red, blue, yellow and lime green. (Mix and match background and text) then get their granny to go "ooh very nice dear" and they call it their homepage.
I've worked with a few macs and found OS X to be a pleasant experience. I don't expect the desktop to be customisable to my every need, although I expect it to go a long way there, and OS X from what I've used it is not only elegant but behind it has a lot of power which can be tapped fairly easily. I don't need to be able to customise every detail, I need to work and if I can do so whilst not suffering grey-box syndrome then so much the better.
Yet something such as OS X is snazzy and functional.
It can be done, it can be done well. I'm actually considering a move to Macs simply because they work, they work well, they let me work well, and they look good whilst working well.
iHIV Mini. Available in 5 different mutations.
If they have half a brain cell, it will all be IPv6 from the word go.
I have a Windows Server 2003 laptop I use to irritate the network at school (i.e. make it think it's a domain controller and override all my security settings)
ABout the invites, I saw an interesting theory on here (can't remember who from so if it was you then shout up) that the invites should be kept to allow Google to trace where accounts came from. So, if a spammer gets a gMail account and invites himself 50 accounts to spam from, Google could get rid of them all by removing the 'root' account and anybody that account invited.
oookay - NT4 won't log me in even if I fill the password input to capacity. Capslock makes the usual difference on both systems - the password is case sensitive.
So I conclude anything more than 14 characters really screws NT4.
I think the idea is that we have enough computing power to be able to throw a couple of checks at each operation...
what a waste.
meh - the first one worked when I previewed so I assumed the second would.
It's an image linked from the first page if you're interested.
I've just tested this on my 2003 Active Directory with an account with a 127 character password. Changing the last character caused the password to be rejected, so unless it uses 126 characters and dumps the last one then it seems to be a true 127 character password.
Took a bloody age to authenticate though.
Kitchen Sink should be standard by now. Acorns have had sinks for a while.
I disagree. A major plus for Office in corporate environments is the fact you can configure it easily through group policies. Unless OpenOffice has a similar system which mysteriously provides its own low-cost trained admins, then there will still be a hell of an admin cost.
Of course, the fact it doesn't also cost $200 a seat is a big pro for OO.
You haven't purchased it, you purchased the right to listen to it for a bit.
If you want to purchase, it's still the same old $1 per song.
You mean as opposed to mother nature tweaking things anyway in a process called natural selection?
Humans are part of the environment, if species can't deal with the fact we do impact on things then they deserve to die out. Don't say humans are different, a lot of species mould their environment to suit.
if ww.google.com gives you anything other than google then you're infected with something.
google.com is owned by Google, any subdomains (like www. and ww.) are also owned by Google. If something is redirecting ww.google.com then you need to run a spyware scanner, check your hosts file, or simply use a better browser.
That is more or less correct. Napster (in the UK at least) offer a £10 per month subscription which lets you get to the 'all you can eat', but only on an actual PC with Napster installed. You can then buy tracks for £0.99, and get rights to burn them to CD, transfer to portable players etc.
All Napster-To-Go does is let you use this subscription model to move music onto your portable player without paying extra for the right to do that.
It's good, and if iTunes ran a similar service (Listen Apple!) then they'd certainly get my subscription money. The only annoyance is that it's powered by MS DRM, which is vile, and it won't work without the Napster application running.
Aside from that it has some great features like Auto Radio, where I select some tracks from my library and it builds a radio station around my tastes (not chooses one from the stock list, dynamically builds one, which is great for finding new music).
Sadly, even using the shuttle as a blueprint for a '21st Century' version wouldn't work, because frankly the space shuttles are horribly designed. Oh sure, they do the job, but they are an inherently bad design for repeated use, for the simple reason the Air Force pilots wanted something which flew like a jet.
On the other hand, using it as a rough guide would probably be fine. You could lower the weight, lower the cost, increase the capacity, build in more redundancy, and reduce launch cost all at once.
Maybe even build a proper fleet of *specialised* spacecraft, one for lugging things into orbit, one for science missions, one for supply missions, one for carrying people? Once again, this has been thrown out in favour of a completely new design, which will once again be forced to do everything badly.
Third Rule of MythTV - Don't ever, ever listen to Windows Media Centre users, for they spout MSish
I use AAC, do I get points?
So I'm guessing you'd be ok with paying higher insurance rates for life because you got caught speeding when you were young, after all it's now on your record FOREVER. How about being pulled over on a regular basis anywhere you go, because once you got a DUI and now it shows on every report about you. This means no matter how you change , grow, learn, your violation/crime can never truley be paid for and you will be paying for mistakes until the day you die, mostley because there's money in it for someone. I guess you'd call that the "american dream" huh. Once a criminal always a criminal. One step away from a real police state, where everyone except law enforcement is a criminal waiting to be caught.
Being from the UK, the 'American Dream' seems a bit of a fanciful idea thrown around by the Irish a few hundred years ago, and a bit of an irritation thrown around by current US administration. If what you're saying makes any sense, then you are telling me points are never removed from your licence, and you solve this by moving to another state? Because if not then points would be removed from *all* states at once, meaning if you cock up in different states you not only get penalised fairly, but you also get your redemption fairly. The world of 1984 takes a lot of effort to create, and it looks like the only thing which would make a police state necessary is people who blindly refuse to give details to government. You as a people go and vote the currend administration into power, if you don't like it move out of the country. Otherwise, fill out the forms. By all means refuse to give things you know aren't needed, but at least let the people you put into power try do their jobs.
There is a system in place for dealing with this - write to your local representitive. If enough people do this, the city won't bother with WiFi access. On the other hand, if most people agree with the service, the city is fine to install the service. Democracy works like that, voice of the people and all.
/. won't help.
In my opinion (UK here, so this isn't relevant to you but is relevant to the concept), the government should not provide additional cash to 'deprived' students in order to encourage their staying in further education. However, the general opinion seems to be that it stays. Now, I have written to my MP to voice my opinions and they will be weighed with everything else. They might make a difference, but I can guarantee that sitting on your ass bitching about it on
i think the difference is you know exactly what the DMV (and hence the government) can see - you filled out the form. A camera is a much more generic thing, but nobody's forcing you to have either a camera or a driving licence.
Your state is just a logical partition of the federal government. Personally (being from the UK) I like government services being able to access details from anywhere in the country, especially with things like healthcare (A hospital in the south automatically knows I'm anemic and allergic to penicillin before giving me the drugs), driving licence is the same in reverse - if you have nothing to worry about be happy it catches the idiots who drive up your insurance.
Oh come off it. I perfectly agree with your right to not tell people what you don't want to tell them, but by having a licence you agreed to let the state know your driver details. You also agree to show your licence when asked, or as far as the system is concerned you're driving without a licence. You knew this when you signed the form, you can't bitch about it now.
Back to the article, i'm all in favour of sharing driver information between states. No, really. Why? Because if (like you) you have no or few points on your licence then what is there to worry about? "Oh no, the state can track me!". Your mobile phone company knows far more about your habits than you can possibly extract from a driving licence, so what's the worry? If it helps, go privatise it. I'm sure your store cards and credit cards would never be used to work out what you do and don't do without you telling the stores, my word no!
Being in the UK I missed this one (But I've heard of it), can someone give me an overview or a link to the ad in question?