Through windows XP Microsoft has opted to allow the default installed user account root access. This has allowed a lot of security threats to mitigate because when a user executes any code on windows that code has free rein on the entire system with admin permissions. In the future does Microsoft plan to move away from having the typical user log in as administrator and allow facilities for that to be a viable option? For example, will future windows OS's prompt for temporary admin access when needed, etc.
Nice call, yes it is law 1 of thermo I was refering to. I think what you're saying is all a matter of perspective though. How can you say that energy was always there? That's as impossible as anything else. It certainly does not refute the existence of a creator.
You're saying that energy could have always been there, but a creator could not have been. Again, that seems backwards to me because while an infinite God could create a world and even a universe that had laws that govern it, and people that couldn't comprehend infinity, or how a creator could have always been there, there is no logical explanation for how energy was always just sitting in the universe.
Even space itself, how could it exist? How could it not? At some point, somewhere, something had to be put into motion, and something had to exist out of nothingness. Unless of course our minds are not able to comprehend how something could have always existed... This of course would require a higher power or alternate reality or something like that.
If there is an intelligent creator, then he could have designed us with a mind that cannot understand his infinite nature, or how His presence could be possible.
Meanwhile the same is not true if the universe was formed by "random chance". Then you have to ask by the second law of thermo, if no energy can be created or destroyed, where did the energy in the universe come from? There's no valid explanation for that.
Last I checked, you can't talk to dead people. The old testament was written down several thousand years ago. Don't even tell me that you know how to talk to the people that wrote it down.
I used to work at SUN and I was personally at the meetings when they were announcing and planning their takeover of the x86 server market. They have been strategically planning and designing for this for more than two years now. The thing that SUN was finding as they made their designs and tested them is that they were finding flaws in the Intel/AMD ref designs, and when they went and told them, those companies were saying, "Wow, nobody ever noticed that before." SUN knows how to make a stable server, and their designs are WORLD CLASS. Bottom line. Looks like SUN is poised to become a great name in computing again.
I think part of the reason that the non-tec savy people stay non-tech savy is because they get so much conflicting bad information. Of course the DSL sales guy lies. He only knows enough about what he's selling to sell it. If he knew more, he wouldn't be selling it or installing it. He'd be doing something much more interesting.
But regarding hard drives, I can't believe they are saying that the burst rate does not matter. With a 10 MB+ hard disk cache you better believe that a lot of the information you request is coming burst transfer from the cache. Sounds like they just ran out of good ideas for their list, but they are complete morons for making such an unsubstantiated claim.
Is anyone here actually a software developer??? Vista is in Beta 1 NOW, so of course they aren't going to implement any design that was not previously planned.
Would any other software engineer expect them to? Of course not! I personally am working on a product that is in Beta and if someone comes to me and tells me that I need to add/change anything, I direct them to the specs for the next release.
I mean, come on. An OS is just about as big and complex as software designs get. Do you think Microsoft is really worried about the industry trying to force them to accept this standard? No way! Maybe if the spec came out 4 years ago when they were just starting Longhorn. Not now. It's unrealistic for any OS writer, not just Microsoft.
I already have a working single signon. It's called Windows XP login, using IE with autocomplete turned on you never have to enter any passwords online.
IE works better than Firefox; as unpopular as that is to say around here. I just can't subscribe to all the Microsoft Bashing.
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Through windows XP Microsoft has opted to allow the default installed user account root access. This has allowed a lot of security threats to mitigate because when a user executes any code on windows that code has free rein on the entire system with admin permissions. In the future does Microsoft plan to move away from having the typical user log in as administrator and allow facilities for that to be a viable option? For example, will future windows OS's prompt for temporary admin access when needed, etc.
Nice call, yes it is law 1 of thermo I was refering to. I think what you're saying is all a matter of perspective though. How can you say that energy was always there? That's as impossible as anything else. It certainly does not refute the existence of a creator.
You're saying that energy could have always been there, but a creator could not have been. Again, that seems backwards to me because while an infinite God could create a world and even a universe that had laws that govern it, and people that couldn't comprehend infinity, or how a creator could have always been there, there is no logical explanation for how energy was always just sitting in the universe.
Even space itself, how could it exist? How could it not? At some point, somewhere, something had to be put into motion, and something had to exist out of nothingness. Unless of course our minds are not able to comprehend how something could have always existed... This of course would require a higher power or alternate reality or something like that.
If there is an intelligent creator, then he could have designed us with a mind that cannot understand his infinite nature, or how His presence could be possible. Meanwhile the same is not true if the universe was formed by "random chance". Then you have to ask by the second law of thermo, if no energy can be created or destroyed, where did the energy in the universe come from? There's no valid explanation for that.
Last I checked, you can't talk to dead people. The old testament was written down several thousand years ago. Don't even tell me that you know how to talk to the people that wrote it down.
I used to work at SUN and I was personally at the meetings when they were announcing and planning their takeover of the x86 server market. They have been strategically planning and designing for this for more than two years now. The thing that SUN was finding as they made their designs and tested them is that they were finding flaws in the Intel/AMD ref designs, and when they went and told them, those companies were saying, "Wow, nobody ever noticed that before." SUN knows how to make a stable server, and their designs are WORLD CLASS. Bottom line. Looks like SUN is poised to become a great name in computing again.
I think part of the reason that the non-tec savy people stay non-tech savy is because they get so much conflicting bad information. Of course the DSL sales guy lies. He only knows enough about what he's selling to sell it. If he knew more, he wouldn't be selling it or installing it. He'd be doing something much more interesting. But regarding hard drives, I can't believe they are saying that the burst rate does not matter. With a 10 MB+ hard disk cache you better believe that a lot of the information you request is coming burst transfer from the cache. Sounds like they just ran out of good ideas for their list, but they are complete morons for making such an unsubstantiated claim.
Is anyone here actually a software developer??? Vista is in Beta 1 NOW, so of course they aren't going to implement any design that was not previously planned. Would any other software engineer expect them to? Of course not! I personally am working on a product that is in Beta and if someone comes to me and tells me that I need to add/change anything, I direct them to the specs for the next release. I mean, come on. An OS is just about as big and complex as software designs get. Do you think Microsoft is really worried about the industry trying to force them to accept this standard? No way! Maybe if the spec came out 4 years ago when they were just starting Longhorn. Not now. It's unrealistic for any OS writer, not just Microsoft.
I already have a working single signon. It's called Windows XP login, using IE with autocomplete turned on you never have to enter any passwords online. IE works better than Firefox; as unpopular as that is to say around here. I just can't subscribe to all the Microsoft Bashing.
I'm wondering if Al Gore is a secret Russian spy right about now...
Crap, I hope the sharks over there don't have internet access or these octopi are in some serious trouble.