If your linux box has one year of uptime, and it is a world facing server, you deserve to be fired.
If your going to base reliability off of uptime, then Linux and MSFT are about equal, given the number of kernel and app patches that come out for both platforms. Yes, you can quickly apply a patch to apache and restart it without rebooting, but your gonna spend the same amount of time in change control as a MSFT box. Now, come to think of it, MSFT might be onto something... If the OS has a built in reboot function, no need to call the change control folks, it's now a problem ticket, and can be resolved immediately...
As with XP, all of these folders are "real" folders. That is, they exist at a discrete place in the shell hierarchy and can contain real files and folders. They are literally identical to folders in XP. However, Windows Vista, as you may know, also introduces the concept of Virtual Folders. These are not "real" folders but are instead XML-based containers for links to other files and folders. Virtual Folders do not "contain" anything. Instead, Virtual Folders point to lists of other files and aggregate data in meaningful ways.
Isn't this just a fancy way to say playlist? I fail to see the usefullness of adding yet another layer of confusion to getting to a users files. Not to mention, this ought to make user migration a joy for enterprise users.
After reading the article, why would Intel create any DRM solution tied to MSFT when apple has pledged support for Intel? I think that more research with actual facts would provide a better view into the problem.
Also, maybe I don't fully understand DRM, but how would dropping the DRM into hardware help? Other than offloading a CPU during playback / record, I can't figure out the advantages. Having the DRM in hardware would require constant firmware updates to enhance the DRM / stay ahead of the pirates. If they are hoping to get a "lock" on the media PC, this is really a bad way to start.
I'm sure this will all work out once the **AA gets involved and protects our rights to listen to their products.
Yeap, it will be a great boon, just like VBscript helped admins so much. Most admins will be unable to utilize the new functionality, making the primary use of the new shell viruses and exploits.
Thank god I am no longer the "Windows" guy at work.
If I remember correctly, the book explained it not as a failure of gravity control, but a loss of control of gravity. Basically, it is not the planet that is exerting gravity, but misdirected field generators.
Either way, the movie misses almost every plot device in every scene.
I thought they figured out an excuse for this by giving her some vulcan "brain damage" disease. This was covered in the vulcan embassy bombing when her and the captain were in some technology free zone on vulcan. When they met the natives, they mentioned something about a cure...
Too bad I didn't watch enough to see more on that. Enterprise had a lot of conceptual potential that was killed early. I would of loved to see things about the "federation" learning how to use and interact with aliens. Like, finding all the shore leave approved planets. Or buying parts from snake oil salesmen... Anything but some bs about a temporal cold war. Although the eugenics tie in was cool, but too late.
How about an expansion... publish a multicast schedule and create a client to queue these up and store them locally for a viewing window. Kind of like how people use Tivo today, except it would be over VOIP. The only drawback for the consumer is the use of bandwidth.
I guess now that things like VOIP are coming into being, it makes sense for ISPs to maintain location records in DNS. I know it seems odd, but why introduce GPS and other location tracking systems, when there all ready is a proposed and implemented system today. No, it wouldn't be perfect, but neither is using cell tower locations. At least it would give the process a head start in determining what resources to tap into.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use a low cost rescue vehicle, something akin to the apollo capsule? Something that can be easily kicked into orbit using a heavy lifter. I guess since a capsule doesn't have wings, it doesn't fall into the sexy category.
I was reading another story on this, and they talked about damages being paid to Microsoft. Why should Microsoft be paid because they wrote code that is vulnerable? What kind of precedent does this set?
Well, I guess if you consider CNN non-biased, then FOX news is biased fascist right, and the DNC is a non-partisan organization. I guess maybe Karl Marx might have been leaning towards the left on that scale.
I think its sad that in a free speach society, anything that is not the standard party line is biased and unfair. The worst part about this is we spend so much time on this partisanship, is that we are missing the point.
I pitty the interviewer for having to put up with the kind of dialouge that he had with these kids. I can just imagine these kids playing this stuff, popping smarties and cans of jolt. These kids were clearly out of touch with reality, and expected everything to be drawn out for them. No sense of depth in Star Wars? Complaing that adventure was not enough like Zelda, then complaining about Zelda.
I think the same things can be said about modern games.
"oh great, another first person shooter. Let me guess, now I lose all of my weapons and need to start over."
"Colonies on mars, but not no light sources"
What would be nice is to see games that use technology and create a story with it, not depend on the technology for the story. For example, Frontier is probably the single best game I have played. Compare it to Freelancer, and Frontier still wins. The technology in Frontier was primitive, but they used it to enhance the story. The tech in Freelancer was pretty decent, but they relied too much on it, and the game became boring quickly. Not to mention, in Frontier, you actually felt like you were going to real places. Freelancer, You were basically traveling between boxes. X2 also suffers horibly from this. Maybe someday some one will buy the rights to Frontier and redo it correctly.... At the same time, I would love to see a GOOD armour-geddon clone (1 or 2, preferably 2).
I have to imagine that there is no "contributions" in defending the public from spammers. I have to imagine that the entertainment industry has a few more dollars to throw at the problem.
The sad part is that the party calling is not a non-profit organization. Most of the time a for profit organization will use a non-profit as a front to collect money from telemarketing. Of course the charity gets a cut, but only in the 10-30% range.
While it does soil the reputation of the NPO contracting this morons, I don't think I've been contacted by a single NPO I would have considered donating to in the first place. Especially not the fraternal order of Police, who use JAK for collection.
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If there is a patent on "add more batteries to store more electricity," then it is time to move.
Pick a service, and review the last years worth of vulnerabilities for it...
An admins job is simple. Ensure data safety. Leaving a server unpatched and vulnerable for a year should be grounds for dismissal.
Of course, I also think there should be signifigant fines for companies "losing" customer data.
If your linux box has one year of uptime, and it is a world facing server, you deserve to be fired.
If your going to base reliability off of uptime, then Linux and MSFT are about equal, given the number of kernel and app patches that come out for both platforms. Yes, you can quickly apply a patch to apache and restart it without rebooting, but your gonna spend the same amount of time in change control as a MSFT box. Now, come to think of it, MSFT might be onto something... If the OS has a built in reboot function, no need to call the change control folks, it's now a problem ticket, and can be resolved immediately...
Maybe they are on to something here...
After reading it, the article could have been summarized as this...
Microsoft good... linux bad. Really, trust us... we're as independent as your checkbook needs us to be.
Isn't this just a fancy way to say playlist? I fail to see the usefullness of adding yet another layer of confusion to getting to a users files. Not to mention, this ought to make user migration a joy for enterprise users.
After reading the article, why would Intel create any DRM solution tied to MSFT when apple has pledged support for Intel? I think that more research with actual facts would provide a better view into the problem.
Also, maybe I don't fully understand DRM, but how would dropping the DRM into hardware help? Other than offloading a CPU during playback / record, I can't figure out the advantages. Having the DRM in hardware would require constant firmware updates to enhance the DRM / stay ahead of the pirates. If they are hoping to get a "lock" on the media PC, this is really a bad way to start.
I'm sure this will all work out once the **AA gets involved and protects our rights to listen to their products.
Being a Bab5 freak, the bab5 mod for Freespace 2 really made the beams rock. Not to mention, Cruiser vs. Cruiser battles were a lot more interesting.
Argh, off to waste 5 hours getting this game out of my head now...
Yeap, it will be a great boon, just like VBscript helped admins so much. Most admins will be unable to utilize the new functionality, making the primary use of the new shell viruses and exploits.
Thank god I am no longer the "Windows" guy at work.
If I remember correctly, the book explained it not as a failure of gravity control, but a loss of control of gravity. Basically, it is not the planet that is exerting gravity, but misdirected field generators.
Either way, the movie misses almost every plot device in every scene.
I have a dogbert stress ball sitting on my case, does that mean I have "pimped" my computer with a dilbert theme?
If this is considered modding / pimping, then maybe I too can be a master modder.
I thought they figured out an excuse for this by giving her some vulcan "brain damage" disease. This was covered in the vulcan embassy bombing when her and the captain were in some technology free zone on vulcan. When they met the natives, they mentioned something about a cure...
Too bad I didn't watch enough to see more on that. Enterprise had a lot of conceptual potential that was killed early. I would of loved to see things about the "federation" learning how to use and interact with aliens. Like, finding all the shore leave approved planets. Or buying parts from snake oil salesmen... Anything but some bs about a temporal cold war. Although the eugenics tie in was cool, but too late.
How about an expansion... publish a multicast schedule and create a client to queue these up and store them locally for a viewing window. Kind of like how people use Tivo today, except it would be over VOIP. The only drawback for the consumer is the use of bandwidth.
I know that here in DC area, hybrids are allowed to use the HOV lanes regardless of occupancy. That alone is worth the admission price.
I guess now that things like VOIP are coming into being, it makes sense for ISPs to maintain location records in DNS. I know it seems odd, but why introduce GPS and other location tracking systems, when there all ready is a proposed and implemented system today. No, it wouldn't be perfect, but neither is using cell tower locations. At least it would give the process a head start in determining what resources to tap into.
I would imagine that this would be an external system. sorta like car adapters are.... This wouldn't add any weight to the phone itself.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use a low cost rescue vehicle, something akin to the apollo capsule? Something that can be easily kicked into orbit using a heavy lifter. I guess since a capsule doesn't have wings, it doesn't fall into the sexy category.
I was reading another story on this, and they talked about damages being paid to Microsoft. Why should Microsoft be paid because they wrote code that is vulnerable? What kind of precedent does this set?
Sad part is, this would make the movie worth watching, and therefore is autmatically not a possibility.
Why worry about burning to DVD? Just buy a large drive to dump recordings to for long term storage.
Well, I guess if you consider CNN non-biased, then FOX news is biased fascist right, and the DNC is a non-partisan organization. I guess maybe Karl Marx might have been leaning towards the left on that scale.
I think its sad that in a free speach society, anything that is not the standard party line is biased and unfair. The worst part about this is we spend so much time on this partisanship, is that we are missing the point.
I pitty the interviewer for having to put up with the kind of dialouge that he had with these kids. I can just imagine these kids playing this stuff, popping smarties and cans of jolt. These kids were clearly out of touch with reality, and expected everything to be drawn out for them. No sense of depth in Star Wars? Complaing that adventure was not enough like Zelda, then complaining about Zelda.
I think the same things can be said about modern games.
"oh great, another first person shooter. Let me guess, now I lose all of my weapons and need to start over."
"Colonies on mars, but not no light sources"
What would be nice is to see games that use technology and create a story with it, not depend on the technology for the story. For example, Frontier is probably the single best game I have played. Compare it to Freelancer, and Frontier still wins. The technology in Frontier was primitive, but they used it to enhance the story. The tech in Freelancer was pretty decent, but they relied too much on it, and the game became boring quickly. Not to mention, in Frontier, you actually felt like you were going to real places. Freelancer, You were basically traveling between boxes. X2 also suffers horibly from this. Maybe someday some one will buy the rights to Frontier and redo it correctly.... At the same time, I would love to see a GOOD armour-geddon clone (1 or 2, preferably 2).
I have to imagine that there is no "contributions" in defending the public from spammers. I have to imagine that the entertainment industry has a few more dollars to throw at the problem.
I was almost sorry for you until I realized that I live in the Dulles Technology Corridor (five minutes from AOL HDQ) and we still don't have verizon.
Of course I have an adelphia cable modem, but I wouldn't classify that as "High Speed"
Us has a similar system, you are only taxed on the proceeds of selling your shares.
For example, if you are granted 1000 shares at 6, and you sell 1000 at 9 for a profit of 3000, your tax liability would be on the 3000.
The sad part is that the party calling is not a non-profit organization. Most of the time a for profit organization will use a non-profit as a front to collect money from telemarketing. Of course the charity gets a cut, but only in the 10-30% range.
While it does soil the reputation of the NPO contracting this morons, I don't think I've been contacted by a single NPO I would have considered donating to in the first place. Especially not the fraternal order of Police, who use JAK for collection.