What is it with the climate change deniers' inability to spell? At least the loonies on the other side of the debate (and there are loonies on both sides) seem to be able to spell.
Prevx had pointed the finger at, but then exonerated, KB976098 and KB915597. Are you sure that you mean 976036? MS' site doesn't seem to know about it.
At least at my bank, they don't offer automatic ways of transferring from savings to credit accounts.
Perhaps you're with the wrong bank?
Joking aside, the cost of foreign currency transactions might be a significant factor, so picking a bank that is (a) associated with a payment network that covers where you're going and (b) isn't going to charge you a huge amount on every non-home-currency credit card transaction could save you a fair amount of cash.
Since my trip is so long I'll have no choice but to access my banking, credit card, and investment accounts on public networks.
If you're stuck in the middle of Machu Picchu do you really want to be looking for a Wifi network so that you can poke around with your "investment accounts"?
When you're at the lodge after a hard day's sightseeing, don't be the one at the back of the room with a laptop. Be at the bar talking to people.
You've only had the option to stay connected in this way for the last few years or so - why not think back to how people used to manage 10 years or more ago? The answer then was to set stuff up before you set off and relied on that.
Machines (even Windows machines) continually getting infected by Viruses and other malware is not normal. If it keeps happening, someone's doing something to cause it. What I suspect that you're going to have to do is to find out how the infection is happening and make it difficult or impossible for it to happen again in the future.
What that is will depend what the problem is - it might be ensuring that users use non-admin accounts, or browsers that are easier to lock down, or something else entirely.
Obligatory car analogy - right now they're regularly running out of fuel because the fuel gauge is broken, and you're fixing it by filling the tank up and putting them back exactly where they were before.
they seemed to forget to mention the imminent drop of Motorola from number 2 in the list in 2006. They warned about Samsung, who improved their position.
My forecast? In 2012 one of the dominant smartphone OSes will be some Chinese thing that no-one reading this has heard of yet.
According to the article "No British commercial digital TV manufacturer would risk any innovation that might invalidate their "metadata compression parameter" license,"
That wasn't what happened with DVD region coding. Manufacturers of kit do so these days for the world market (perhaps with 2 or 3 models worldwide). While DVD players may still be sold locked to a particular region, unlocking them has become trivial, usually using information provided by the manufacturer themselves.
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MSN/Hotmail's postmaster guidelines don't seem to mention DomainKeys, but do mention SPF:
http://postmaster.hotmail.com/Guidelines.aspx
"4. Authenticate your outbound e-mail: Publish Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records"
... Climate astrologier ...
What is it with the climate change deniers' inability to spell? At least the loonies on the other side of the debate (and there are loonies on both sides) seem to be able to spell.
Prevx had pointed the finger at, but then exonerated, KB976098 and KB915597. Are you sure that you mean 976036? MS' site doesn't seem to know about it.
That may be so, but the only hit on Google's front page with that spelling is this story.
At least at my bank, they don't offer automatic ways of transferring from savings to credit accounts.
Perhaps you're with the wrong bank?
Joking aside, the cost of foreign currency transactions might be a significant factor, so picking a bank that is (a) associated with a payment network that covers where you're going and (b) isn't going to charge you a huge amount on every non-home-currency credit card transaction could save you a fair amount of cash.
Since my trip is so long I'll have no choice but to access my banking, credit card, and investment accounts on public networks.
If you're stuck in the middle of Machu Picchu do you really want to be looking for a Wifi network so that you can poke around with your "investment accounts"?
When you're at the lodge after a hard day's sightseeing, don't be the one at the back of the room with a laptop. Be at the bar talking to people.
You've only had the option to stay connected in this way for the last few years or so - why not think back to how people used to manage 10 years or more ago? The answer then was to set stuff up before you set off and relied on that.
would you want to do their job on the money that they're being paid?
(you'll have to imagine the Yorkshire accent):
You were lucky!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80
Unfortunately the BBC are at it as well. Their "Have Your Say" section on the website is truly muppetastic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm
The best bits are here:
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
Machines (even Windows machines) continually getting infected by Viruses and other malware is not normal. If it keeps happening, someone's doing something to cause it. What I suspect that you're going to have to do is to find out how the infection is happening and make it difficult or impossible for it to happen again in the future.
What that is will depend what the problem is - it might be ensuring that users use non-admin accounts, or browsers that are easier to lock down, or something else entirely.
Obligatory car analogy - right now they're regularly running out of fuel because the fuel gauge is broken, and you're fixing it by filling the tank up and putting them back exactly where they were before.
Yes, but if they'd gone straight to http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces or http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/drive they wouldn't have got any press coverage about what they're trying to do with the data...
It works perfectly for me - I don't get the pop-up!
It depends. Were they dragged by the ears?
CNET - Owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Sky - Owned by Rupert Murdoch.
CBS, actually:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/15/why-cbs-bought-cnet-and-not-the-other-way-around/
If it'd been a Myspace survey or something from the Times, the Courier-Mail or the WSJ, you'd have had a point.
As far as I can tell from here:
http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Blogs/view/5485/.html
http://tinyurl.com/yh3d59w
The "2009" figures are actually from Q1 2009, first published in May:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=985912
The original "article" doesn't seem to be the Reg one but a plug for Gartner's October conference:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139026/Android_to_grab_No._2_spot_by_2012_says_Gartner
Gartner's Mystic Megs haven't always been spot-on before. For example, in 2006:
http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_152911_11.html
they seemed to forget to mention the imminent drop of Motorola from number 2 in the list in 2006. They warned about Samsung, who improved their position.
My forecast? In 2012 one of the dominant smartphone OSes will be some Chinese thing that no-one reading this has heard of yet.
So passengers are banned from phone use too?
Don't plan on cashing that cheque any time soon...
To all the wooshees - the reference was to an Investor's Business Daily editorial. The original article has unfortunately disappeared:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/IBDEditorials.aspx
More jollity at IBD's expense here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/
An equivalent costs 2.99 GBP from Maplins in the UK, including 2 AA batteries (that's from an actual shop, so presumably cheaper from elsewhere).
... and breathe.
Perhaps because, while it was visionary in a number of areas it wasn't actually very good as a car?
... and no reference would be complete without a mention of the work that they did for Audi restoring Auto Unions from the 30s:
http://www.ianmacfarlane.co.uk/ianHome.htm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pI99iOezo
(I was lucky enough to see the both reproduction and restored C and D types running at Donington a few years ago)
Hang on - it's 2009 and we're still arguing about calculators? Has this been going on since before the Amiga / Atari stuff?
(Comptometer ftw!)
According to the article "No British commercial digital TV manufacturer would risk any innovation that might invalidate their "metadata compression parameter" license,"
That wasn't what happened with DVD region coding. Manufacturers of kit do so these days for the world market (perhaps with 2 or 3 models worldwide). While DVD players may still be sold locked to a particular region, unlocking them has become trivial, usually using information provided by the manufacturer themselves.
Allegedly "The relative damaging effect of an axle is considered to be approximately proportional to the fourth power of the load":
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JFE/bin/get6.cgi?directory=July99/&filename=martin.html
By that reckoning if the Cherokee weighs twice what the Civic does (ish) it should be paying 16 times as much tax.
Maybe not yet...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027131/