a) see this as a Godsend (do you really empty your recycle bin daily... or what?
b) see this as Satanic (did you forget about the recycle bin?)
Personally, I only bother with the trash bin about once a year at work. Because I got a new box in January with a 200GB hard-drive, I may never bother looking in the trash directory again, as my chances of filling up the drive with text files in the next 5 yrs are pretty freaking remote, even if we do get forced to use MS-VISTA + MS-Orofice + MS-Abcess. [Section self-censored for drifting off topic.]
Personally, I really don't see this "feature" as useful, but then, I don't go around wantonly deleting files, or important sections of critical files. Fortunately, we retain enough marginal freedom that I can use what I want to at home and that's Linux and FreeBSD. At work it's the boss' call. At home... it's mine.
Windows 3.1 and DOS 6, DOS 6.22 for sure. If I remember correctly, it could identify viruses but not remove them. It did identify the "Michaelangelo" virus, back in the days of the sneaker-net. However, it was generally suggested that you get a real anti-virus program.
Kronos was the ruler of the elder gods in Greek religion. He had a habit of swallowing his children whole because it had been predicted that one of them would overthrow him. The anti-malware companies are the children of Microsoft. Is it really surprising that they would rather not be eaten?
A criminal trial requires a preponderance of evidence in order to convict someone. A civil trial requires only the judgement of the judge.
You are confused: a criminal trial requires proof beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt. The civil trial standard requires a preponderance of evidence. Note that the appeals court did not overturn the verdict that MS was guilty. They simply turned MS' "punishment" into more government coddling of the Redmond beast. Poor, poor MS. Sniff, I can hardly hold back my tears of sorrow for MS.
One more thing... if you really want to see a whiny loser, go find the nearest mirror.
I saw another link suggesting a lot of uncertainty in distance to RS Ophiuchi, that it might be as much as 5500 light years distant. However, assuming that it is at 2000 parsecs, i.e. 6600 light years, the gamma radiation flux should still be on somrthing the order of 250 simultaneous solar flares. At 5000 light years, I come up with 1000/(5000/3300)^2 or about 435 solar flares worth. Still nasty but perhaps not catastrophic. Either one has to be "better" than over 2850 solar flares worth, although the difference could be academic--for us. I simply don't know.
According to the link I provided above, a Type 1a supernova would have a gamma ray flux equivalent to 1000 solar flares at 1000 parsecs (10 is the max on any given day!). My recollection of how inverse square works is fuzzy, but I think at our distance we get 1000/(1950/3300)^2 or a flux greater than 2850 solar flares. I dunno, sounds bad.
According to Wikipedia, the "serious effects" range for Type Ia supernovae is about 1000 parsecs or 3300 light years. If 1950 light years is the correct distance to RS Ophiuchi, we are in the danger zone. Evidently from above posts & links Rho Cassiopeiae is also on the verge, but it's 8000 to 10,000 light years distant and a "mere" type II supernova candiate, anyway. Rho Cassiopeiae = fireworks display. RS Ophiuchi = hand grenade at least and maybe a 2000 lb bunker-buster.
Lots of calculations here.
Word Perfect has been doing footnotes, endnotes, citations etc. very well since version 6 for DOS. Very well. As far as citations go, I created a file with alphabetized, formatted references cited 15 years ago & just add new stuff to it. It is currently in the vicinity of 100 pages long.
As far as PowerPoint goes, I put together my last presentation in the OO clone & exported it as a.ppt file. No real problems other than my owm unfamiliarity with such routines. I really prefer a slide projector... and careful preparation over glitz.
Sure, IE isn't that great, but Microsoft is GIVING IT AWAY. If I'm missing something, someone please explain this because I don't get it at all..
Fascinating. Do you really believe that MS is giving IE away. Do you thing that MS's IE developers don't get paid??! Really. It's fairly obvious that the cost of IE is rolled into the cost of Windows. MS is no more giving IE away than GM is giving away free seats with every car they sell.
Which reminds me of why MS started "giving away IE. As was determined at the anti-trust trial, MS gave IE away "to cut off Netscape's air supply." Netscape sold its browser, and it was the standard when I first got on the internet in 1995. How long would Chrysler stay in business if GM decided to destroy Chrysler by giving away GM cars--and had pockets deep enough to do it? Not long. And that's how long Netscape stayed in business. MS decided to destroy Netscape's because a) Microsoft was afraid of Netscape, and b) Netscape refused to participate in an illegal scheme to divide up the browser market. Period. An added bonus of giving I.E. away was that MS did not have to pay Spyglass royalties. MS did not write IE from scratch, it liscensed the code from Spyglass, promising to pay Spyglass a percentage of IE's sales price. Spyglass eventually threatened MS with an audit & got $8 million. One stone, two birds. MS killed Netscape because Netscape refused to participate in an illegal deal. Why dis MS screw Spyglass? Perhaps it was just MS's way of saying, "Thanks for the code."
Opera is a pretty good browser, which I have installed on the FreeBSD and Ubuntu partitions on my laptop. It's also on the almost-never-booted Windows partition on this machine. I'd use it on this partition, too, but there doesn't seem to be a version for AMD64 yet.
When did Forbes become a credible source on technology? The old Forbes was pretty good source of business info & investment ideas. Stevie-boy's rag has agendas other than helping its readership, IMHO. I won't touch it anymore.
Not much chance. Once Vista/Lamehorn is released it will be the only O/S installed on new machines in very short order. Most Windows users (Corporations included) might as well be MS's slaves anyway, and they will take whatever MS dishes out, because they can't imagine defying their master. Fear is MS's ally for now. Ultimately, most people don't handle fear very well, and it is transformed to anger, resentment, and hatred.
Master MS needs to make the uptake to look good, too. Win98 & ME were EOL'd ahead of schedule, expect XP's EOL to be hyper-accelerated, perhaps assisted by WGA false-positives to provide a little more thrust. MS needs this desparately, as the best thing anyone can say about their stock is that it has been stagnant for the last five years or so. If Vista/Lamehorn tanks, and the market starts to look too closely... look out. I'd guess that MS will go to any length to prevent such an outcome.
However, matters may be beyond their control. The situation is very murky and almost any outcome is possible.
Modern changes like mass production and digital communication, have also shifted the economy from valuing physical labor, to valuing IP. Hence the focus of ownership has also shifted from physical objects to ideas.
And that is scary as hell. If the wealth of a country is tied up in "IP" it can be lost for the cost of a few hundred (or thousands) $ worth of CDs. More frightening still, if ideas are wealth, then to cement control of wealth, the "IP" "owners" must ultimately assert absolute and unbreakable control over the thought processes of the rest of us. Should the Disneys etc. be allowed to lobotomize people to protect their "IP"? It doesn't necessarily end in a 1984-ish nightmare, either, as to judge from current trends, the more likely end is the insipid utopia of Huxley's Brave New World. Just my 2 cents.
Oh... and before anyone wants to point the finger at me, I am a published author in my field. The idea that my copyright should survive my death is absurd. Let my heirs do what I did: get an education, get a job, and support themselves--rather than being drones!
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I'm astonished at the number of folks who
... or what?
a) see this as a Godsend (do you really empty your recycle bin daily
b) see this as Satanic (did you forget about the recycle bin?)
Personally, I only bother with the trash bin about once a year at work. Because I got a new box in January with a 200GB hard-drive, I may never bother looking in the trash directory again, as my chances of filling up the drive with text files in the next 5 yrs are pretty freaking remote, even if we do get forced to use MS-VISTA + MS-Orofice + MS-Abcess. [Section self-censored for drifting off topic.]
Personally, I really don't see this "feature" as useful, but then, I don't go around wantonly deleting files, or important sections of critical files. Fortunately, we retain enough marginal freedom that I can use what I want to at home and that's Linux and FreeBSD. At work it's the boss' call. At home... it's mine.
Well said. Really.
But not until you delete them. C'est la vie.
Well said. I was going to suggest he get his sister a brain, but your solution is more elegant and, therefore, better.
His company got swallowed whole by MS. Too, bad I rather trusted it. Not now, though.
Windows 3.1 and DOS 6, DOS 6.22 for sure. If I remember correctly, it could identify viruses but not remove them. It did identify the "Michaelangelo" virus, back in the days of the sneaker-net. However, it was generally suggested that you get a real anti-virus program.
Kronos was the ruler of the elder gods in Greek religion. He had a habit of swallowing his children whole because it had been predicted that one of them would overthrow him. The anti-malware companies are the children of Microsoft. Is it really surprising that they would rather not be eaten?
One more thing
I saw another link suggesting a lot of uncertainty in distance to RS Ophiuchi, that it might be as much as 5500 light years distant. However, assuming that it is at 2000 parsecs, i.e. 6600 light years, the gamma radiation flux should still be on somrthing the order of 250 simultaneous solar flares. At 5000 light years, I come up with 1000/(5000/3300)^2 or about 435 solar flares worth. Still nasty but perhaps not catastrophic. Either one has to be "better" than over 2850 solar flares worth, although the difference could be academic--for us. I simply don't know.
According to the link I provided above, a Type 1a supernova would have a gamma ray flux equivalent to 1000 solar flares at 1000 parsecs (10 is the max on any given day!). My recollection of how inverse square works is fuzzy, but I think at our distance we get 1000/(1950/3300)^2 or a flux greater than 2850 solar flares. I dunno, sounds bad.
According to Wikipedia, the "serious effects" range for Type Ia supernovae is about 1000 parsecs or 3300 light years. If 1950 light years is the correct distance to RS Ophiuchi, we are in the danger zone. Evidently from above posts & links Rho Cassiopeiae is also on the verge, but it's 8000 to 10,000 light years distant and a "mere" type II supernova candiate, anyway. Rho Cassiopeiae = fireworks display. RS Ophiuchi = hand grenade at least and maybe a 2000 lb bunker-buster. Lots of calculations here.
Mod parent up!
Linus .... Don't you mean apt-get? Pagan!
Word Perfect has been doing footnotes, endnotes, citations etc. very well since version 6 for DOS. Very well. As far as citations go, I created a file with alphabetized, formatted references cited 15 years ago & just add new stuff to it. It is currently in the vicinity of 100 pages long.
.ppt file. No real problems other than my owm unfamiliarity with such routines. I really prefer a slide projector... and careful preparation over glitz.
As far as PowerPoint goes, I put together my last presentation in the OO clone & exported it as a
Which reminds me of why MS started "giving away IE. As was determined at the anti-trust trial, MS gave IE away "to cut off Netscape's air supply." Netscape sold its browser, and it was the standard when I first got on the internet in 1995. How long would Chrysler stay in business if GM decided to destroy Chrysler by giving away GM cars--and had pockets deep enough to do it? Not long. And that's how long Netscape stayed in business. MS decided to destroy Netscape's because a) Microsoft was afraid of Netscape, and b) Netscape refused to participate in an illegal scheme to divide up the browser market. Period. An added bonus of giving I.E. away was that MS did not have to pay Spyglass royalties. MS did not write IE from scratch, it liscensed the code from Spyglass, promising to pay Spyglass a percentage of IE's sales price. Spyglass eventually threatened MS with an audit & got $8 million. One stone, two birds. MS killed Netscape because Netscape refused to participate in an illegal deal. Why dis MS screw Spyglass? Perhaps it was just MS's way of saying, "Thanks for the code."
Opera is a pretty good browser, which I have installed on the FreeBSD and Ubuntu partitions on my laptop. It's also on the almost-never-booted Windows partition on this machine. I'd use it on this partition, too, but there doesn't seem to be a version for AMD64 yet.
Wake up, mods, the parent is mot a troll.
When did Forbes become a credible source on technology? The old Forbes was pretty good source of business info & investment ideas. Stevie-boy's rag has agendas other than helping its readership, IMHO. I won't touch it anymore.
Not much chance. Once Vista/Lamehorn is released it will be the only O/S installed on new machines in very short order. Most Windows users (Corporations included) might as well be MS's slaves anyway, and they will take whatever MS dishes out, because they can't imagine defying their master. Fear is MS's ally for now. Ultimately, most people don't handle fear very well, and it is transformed to anger, resentment, and hatred.
... look out. I'd guess that MS will go to any length to prevent such an outcome.
Master MS needs to make the uptake to look good, too. Win98 & ME were EOL'd ahead of schedule, expect XP's EOL to be hyper-accelerated, perhaps assisted by WGA false-positives to provide a little more thrust. MS needs this desparately, as the best thing anyone can say about their stock is that it has been stagnant for the last five years or so. If Vista/Lamehorn tanks, and the market starts to look too closely
However, matters may be beyond their control. The situation is very murky and almost any outcome is possible.
Well and simply expressed.
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Hey! Don't go giving the U.S. Congress any ideas, buddy.
What else is new, this is MS, after all. On the up side...Beagle wins!