Manager 1: Sir, our files are still being leaked. Our spy cameras show that employees are using Hotmail to send the files via e-mail! Manager 2: Lock out the entire internet!
Actually the iPod doesn't act like a USB mass storage device until you explicitly tell it to do so - i.e. for "backing up" files. Without this feature enabled, you have to use external applications (e.g. iTunes) to get at it. Would be nice if there was a way for the iPod and this new security to co-exist so the iPod could be used for music only. Then again, you might have people renaming important documents to mp3s and using iTunes to 'sync them in'...
Does anyone else find it amusing that most manufacturers, instead of paying the Microsoft 'Certification' fees, just tell the user to ignore the dialog box? It can't be good for IE users... 'Make this website your home page?'...'Download this harmful EXE?'... 'Install this spyware?'
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Yes, but you'd think that with all its aquired skill and legions of experienced coders, plus its UNIX roots and the fact it's completely powered by Linux, just one smidgen of helpfulness inside the company might prompt one of their staff to make a Firefox or Mozilla equivalent of the Google Toolbar.
But I guess, as you say, they're a company and they make business decisions. A bit of a shame, really.
I'll pull out the link again: Storage (a GNOME project) uses some nice algorithms to let you look up anything from '1960s music' or 'films directed by Francis Ford Coppola' to 'pdfs from joe'. All in natural language and over a wide range of formats, although evidently it's still a work in progress.
Maybe they should put Broussard in charge of WinFS.
"Okay guys, I know we were going to implement WinFS into Windows 3.1, but Windows 95 is JUST around the corner. Let's drop all our work and rewrite the code from scratch!
...
Alright guys, I know we've only just got a stable release candidate out for Me, but XP is on the pipeline and the folks in marketing want us to upgrade everything for NTFS. Get to work!"
On second thoughts, even Microsoft's management could get it done faster.
Is it possible that NTFS's meta-data was the first foray into actually implementing this? Like WinFS, they might have started wanting to categorise everything and link it together but settled on GUIs to change ID3 tags, as well as other meta-data (like Word), planning to implement the search engine and filesystem service layer (WinFS) later on.
However, NTFS works fine as it is. Like the parent, I too question the need for WinFS when some of its features have been implemented over several iterations of Windows. Perhaps that's why they dropped it.
Chess club relies on security through obscurity; got cracked. Therefore security through obscurity sucks and its polar opposite, open source security, rules. Therefore open source rules. Therefore Linux rules. Therefore Microsoft sucks. Apple, we don't yet have an established opinion on.
You underestimate the number of desperate guys* out there who ready their credit card at the slightest mention of 'Paris Hilton', 'anal' or 'Ron Jeremy' (okay I was joking about Paris Hilton, the video sucks)
*'desperate guys', of course, does not include geeks like myself who get their sexual satisfaction from other sources. By which I mean P2P, just to pre-empt anyone mentioning goats, love dolls, or goat love dolls.
You can't. From a cursory glance at the letter, it seems that they are only stating that they are allowed to defend the 'rights being infringed'. No rights are being infringed; they are allowed to defend 'nothing'. You'd be better off suing them for harrassment or similar...
Ditto here. However, Real videos almost always have WMV or MOV equivalents nowadays, and I don't mind having QuickTime on my computer because it's the only one of those three major formats that works inside Firefox. For some reason.
I really like this (legal) digital form of selling games. The pre-loading makes it as instant as a game box, but Valve can't really go out of stock. Makes it easier for lazy people like me who aren't pre-ordering HL2 from their local game shop.
On a recent flight they blocked everything from Gameboys and Laptops to my iPod. I was enraged. My iPod can't generate any kind of signal! The inflight entertainment was crap and I was sitting with my fmaily so I said screw it, hooked up the radio headphones you're supplied with to the iPod, and smuggled it beside me. Then the stewardess just assumed I was listening to the radio.
I can understand why they put such regulations in, though. You can't tell whether or not a given piece of electronics is going to mess with the airplane, so banning them all takes less time. It still remains annoying.
Erm, you do realise this 'ass' would probably be talking to the person next to him if he didn't have a phone? Or maybe he'll try taking to you. Phones wouldn't change that unless people started yelling over each other to be heard.
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The amusing thing is that the cached site is down but the original site is still up :)
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Which meant that I spent a lot of time studing how fast I could beat NES Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1... with varying levels of intoxication.
Ah, I can see that 'party animal' and 'beats deadlines way ahead of time' are mutually exclusive ;)
help $command
Or, while we're at it... just
help
I'd say distros should alias help to man, but that ball could keep rolling. What would be next? Aliasing 'umount' so it's spelt correctly?
Dutch people can't afford Matlab, you insensitive clod!
Not only that, but Avalon's 3D methods are probably just wrappers for DirectX. Which means less code redundancy, too.
Microsoft response, courtesy of Steve Ballmer: I'll 'fstab' you in the face!!
Manager 1: Sir, our files are still being leaked. Our spy cameras show that employees are using Hotmail to send the files via e-mail!
Manager 2: Lock out the entire internet!
Actually the iPod doesn't act like a USB mass storage device until you explicitly tell it to do so - i.e. for "backing up" files. Without this feature enabled, you have to use external applications (e.g. iTunes) to get at it. Would be nice if there was a way for the iPod and this new security to co-exist so the iPod could be used for music only. Then again, you might have people renaming important documents to mp3s and using iTunes to 'sync them in' ...
Does anyone else find it amusing that most manufacturers, instead of paying the Microsoft 'Certification' fees, just tell the user to ignore the dialog box? It can't be good for IE users... 'Make this website your home page?' ...'Download this harmful EXE?' ... 'Install this spyware?'
No, it's not some Microsoft conspiracy to end iTMS and the iPod.
--
Bill
Pfft, nice try. Like I'm gonna believe anything Bill Gates says on Slashdot.
You have a god point
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Yes, but you'd think that with all its aquired skill and legions of experienced coders, plus its UNIX roots and the fact it's completely powered by Linux, just one smidgen of helpfulness inside the company might prompt one of their staff to make a Firefox or Mozilla equivalent of the Google Toolbar.
But I guess, as you say, they're a company and they make business decisions. A bit of a shame, really.
I'll pull out the link again: Storage (a GNOME project) uses some nice algorithms to let you look up anything from '1960s music' or 'films directed by Francis Ford Coppola' to 'pdfs from joe'. All in natural language and over a wide range of formats, although evidently it's still a work in progress.
Maybe they should put Broussard in charge of WinFS.
"Okay guys, I know we were going to implement WinFS into Windows 3.1, but Windows 95 is JUST around the corner. Let's drop all our work and rewrite the code from scratch!
Alright guys, I know we've only just got a stable release candidate out for Me, but XP is on the pipeline and the folks in marketing want us to upgrade everything for NTFS. Get to work!"
On second thoughts, even Microsoft's management could get it done faster.
Is it possible that NTFS's meta-data was the first foray into actually implementing this? Like WinFS, they might have started wanting to categorise everything and link it together but settled on GUIs to change ID3 tags, as well as other meta-data (like Word), planning to implement the search engine and filesystem service layer (WinFS) later on.
However, NTFS works fine as it is. Like the parent, I too question the need for WinFS when some of its features have been implemented over several iterations of Windows. Perhaps that's why they dropped it.
*disc disintegrates in hands*
My entire pr0n collection.... NOOOO!!!
Chess club relies on security through obscurity; got cracked. Therefore security through obscurity sucks and its polar opposite, open source security, rules. Therefore open source rules. Therefore Linux rules. Therefore Microsoft sucks. Apple, we don't yet have an established opinion on.
You underestimate the number of desperate guys* out there who ready their credit card at the slightest mention of 'Paris Hilton', 'anal' or 'Ron Jeremy' (okay I was joking about Paris Hilton, the video sucks)
*'desperate guys', of course, does not include geeks like myself who get their sexual satisfaction from other sources. By which I mean P2P, just to pre-empt anyone mentioning goats, love dolls, or goat love dolls.
You can't. From a cursory glance at the letter, it seems that they are only stating that they are allowed to defend the 'rights being infringed'. No rights are being infringed; they are allowed to defend 'nothing'. You'd be better off suing them for harrassment or similar ...
Ditto here. However, Real videos almost always have WMV or MOV equivalents nowadays, and I don't mind having QuickTime on my computer because it's the only one of those three major formats that works inside Firefox. For some reason.
I really like this (legal) digital form of selling games. The pre-loading makes it as instant as a game box, but Valve can't really go out of stock. Makes it easier for lazy people like me who aren't pre-ordering HL2 from their local game shop.
On a recent flight they blocked everything from Gameboys and Laptops to my iPod. I was enraged. My iPod can't generate any kind of signal! The inflight entertainment was crap and I was sitting with my fmaily so I said screw it, hooked up the radio headphones you're supplied with to the iPod, and smuggled it beside me. Then the stewardess just assumed I was listening to the radio.
I can understand why they put such regulations in, though. You can't tell whether or not a given piece of electronics is going to mess with the airplane, so banning them all takes less time. It still remains annoying.
Erm, you do realise this 'ass' would probably be talking to the person next to him if he didn't have a phone? Or maybe he'll try taking to you. Phones wouldn't change that unless people started yelling over each other to be heard.