I believe you have to have Trillian Pro to use Rendezvous. I do (purchased it to support them a while back), and I don't remember having Rendezvous on Trillian Basic.
My recommendation? Take your own computer in and hook it up:-P I've been thinking about doing the same in response to being handed a crappy computer, but don't expect them to give you tech support if you do.
In class and barely paying attention:-P The subject should be: The difference between Mozilla and Microsoft
*cough* Feel free to mod me down for typos:-\
isn't that Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer or Mozilla is infinitely better than Microsoft. Both are hackable and exploitable. The difference is in their response. When something happens at Microsoft, it's not announced until significantly after the fact and it takes forever for them to do something about it. Mozilla's response is to immediately shut down their site and rebuild it from scratch to be certain there is nothing left to exploit and get everything taken care of. I can't imagine Microsoft ever taking anything down to fix it; they would feel that too much revenue would be lost.
But doesn't HIV stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus? Maybe the reason HIV doesn't take hold or is easily fought off by a croc's immune system is that a crocodile is not, as you might have been led to believe, a human.
Attribute it to Bush's administration, then. Furthermore, Al Gore did state that he contributed to the creation of the internet. In fact, he was recently given an award for it.
Then they could, say, dump it in the waters just off Tokyo to be nurtured by the local nuclear waste, causing great hilarity and movie remakes in years to come.
In Springfield, MO. where I live, wifi is free everywhere that has it. There aren't enough techies around here that there would be a point in charging. The few laptop carriers there are will just go elsewhere for internet access if you charge. However, offering free wifi in a city like this works because one might choose to go to a place that has wifi over one that doesn't.
The same applies in larger cities. On a recent trip to Chicago, I was appalled when I sat down in a Starbucks that charged for wifi. After checking my scan, I just connected to the Macintosh store across the way. Charging for wifi might bring in a bit of revenue, but I find it's better used as a draw than as a source of income.
Actually, depending on what you mean by "underage individual," you may not be able to agree to the terms of service properly. Generally, 13 is a set age for many contractual agreements and you would be able to agree to the ToS provided the credit card is in someone's name other than yours. There is a reason, however, the game is rated Mature (17+ years of age). Moreover, Blizzard does pay attention to their ToS or they wouldn't ban accounts. You are correct that Blizzard has no right to effect anything on your computer. However, by connecting to World of Warcraft, you are manipulating data on their servers, which they DO have control of. Your interaction with those servers is under the purview of the ToS, so you might want to consider regarding them a bit more seriously.
Every server also went down for maintenance this morning and the web is being flooded with news of the exploit. Wonder how long it'll be before the exploit is fixed and the exploiters are banned. Good job blurring the name on the screenshot, but it won't take long for Blizzard to see who has that many epic items for sale on the auction house and put 2 and 2 together.
Maybe it's just me, but when I agree to a terms of service, I tend to abide by it the same as I would any other contract. Does nobody care what they put their name to or agree to anymore?
I live in (southwest) Missouri too and have worked in real estate off and on for a number of years:-P A home of approximately $119,000 (like you described but without the basement) sells for around $450,000 in Denver (my mom just moved there, hence the comparison). To be honest, not sure about NY, hence the disclaimer in my previous comment.
I'm not a Republican, but I feel that's irrelevant in the case of this thread. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that when the makers of B-films are looking for a place to shoot, they are not looking at exit polls and political surveys. They are looking for places with low costs and good scenery. Missouri is beautiful, with a very low cost of living. People make a lot less here, but they also pay a lot less compared to other places in the US. (I've been told that $30,000/year in Missouri is comparable to $250,000/year in New York. Haven't taken the time to verify this, though.) So, you can take a bunch of money made elsewhere (like California) and go to Missouri, or Bulgaria, or Romania, and shoot a film cheaply with good scenery. *shrug*
He stressed Dell's position as the leading provider of technology to higher education...
Apple may have the majority of the market share with the iPod, but Dell is the leading provider of technology to higher education. That means to the universities, not to the students who buy MP3 players. My uni just dropped Gateway for Dell, which is several thousand computers and quite a few server bays that Dell is selling just to us. Their deal with Napster is to provide the servers, not the MP3 players, so the article is valid in this statement.
My campus (Southwest Missouri State University) just went to this plan with Napster, much to the chagrin of our computer community. The student government association said it sounded like a great idea while most of the students complained about it. The issue isn't that students have to pay to subscribe for the service, but rather that it is paid for by a student fee increase. This means that every student pays a fee for this service, including the ones that A) don't use it and/or B) don't have a computer. Moreover, the students that really download a lot are going to continue doing it through established mediums such as Kazaa or Bittorrent which will have a larger library than the ones Napstar establishes on the local servers.
In general, it's a waste of money, but maybe it'll convince them to lift the bandwidth limit they imposed on campus last year. That's about the only benefit I can see from putting this plan into effect: a false sense of security from which many can benefit. Probably not worth the fee increase though.
The first thing to jump out at me on that page was the big "Order now" button. You can preview the maps, see a demo, but you can't get good details there without paying.
The original poster's point was that yes, he can spend money for it, and he does. But it used to be free, or at least relatively so, and he feels it should still be free. It seems that the taxpayer's money used to be spent once, for collection, but now it is also being spent a second time to procur the data from a recently privatized company, so the data is being purchased twice (once to compile it, and again to get it from the company now owning it).
Nothing out there which is freely distributed matches the quality of what a geologist needs, and despite the faith one might have in P2P clients and Bittorrent, chances are people aren't going to start hosting high resolution geological maps anytime soon.
my friend hacked our school system's main computers just to see if it could be done. We were the techies for our school and ran the local network, but he wanted to see what the district computers were like. Unfortunately, he (stupidly) left calling cards throughout the system, so he called me the next morning when I got in to ask if I'd call the head computer guy for the district and explain why they had so many security flags:-P lol
The guy called my friend to tell him that they had fixed the security holes and would he please try and hack it again to find out? This went on for several months until we graduated.
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I believe you have to have Trillian Pro to use Rendezvous. I do (purchased it to support them a while back), and I don't remember having Rendezvous on Trillian Basic.
:-P I've been thinking about doing the same in response to being handed a crappy computer, but don't expect them to give you tech support if you do.
My recommendation? Take your own computer in and hook it up
In class and barely paying attention :-P The subject should be: The difference between Mozilla and Microsoft
*cough* Feel free to mod me down for typos :-\
isn't that Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer or Mozilla is infinitely better than Microsoft. Both are hackable and exploitable. The difference is in their response. When something happens at Microsoft, it's not announced until significantly after the fact and it takes forever for them to do something about it. Mozilla's response is to immediately shut down their site and rebuild it from scratch to be certain there is nothing left to exploit and get everything taken care of. I can't imagine Microsoft ever taking anything down to fix it; they would feel that too much revenue would be lost.
Everquest didn't kill the gaming industry. Neither will WoW.
But doesn't HIV stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus? Maybe the reason HIV doesn't take hold or is easily fought off by a croc's immune system is that a crocodile is not, as you might have been led to believe, a human.
I use Mandrake and I have no problem doing either of those. Which distro are you familiar with?
Attribute it to Bush's administration, then. Furthermore, Al Gore did state that he contributed to the creation of the internet. In fact, he was recently given an award for it.
Then they could, say, dump it in the waters just off Tokyo to be nurtured by the local nuclear waste, causing great hilarity and movie remakes in years to come.
In Springfield, MO. where I live, wifi is free everywhere that has it. There aren't enough techies around here that there would be a point in charging. The few laptop carriers there are will just go elsewhere for internet access if you charge. However, offering free wifi in a city like this works because one might choose to go to a place that has wifi over one that doesn't.
The same applies in larger cities. On a recent trip to Chicago, I was appalled when I sat down in a Starbucks that charged for wifi. After checking my scan, I just connected to the Macintosh store across the way. Charging for wifi might bring in a bit of revenue, but I find it's better used as a draw than as a source of income.
Actually, depending on what you mean by "underage individual," you may not be able to agree to the terms of service properly. Generally, 13 is a set age for many contractual agreements and you would be able to agree to the ToS provided the credit card is in someone's name other than yours. There is a reason, however, the game is rated Mature (17+ years of age). Moreover, Blizzard does pay attention to their ToS or they wouldn't ban accounts. You are correct that Blizzard has no right to effect anything on your computer. However, by connecting to World of Warcraft, you are manipulating data on their servers, which they DO have control of. Your interaction with those servers is under the purview of the ToS, so you might want to consider regarding them a bit more seriously.
Every server also went down for maintenance this morning and the web is being flooded with news of the exploit. Wonder how long it'll be before the exploit is fixed and the exploiters are banned. Good job blurring the name on the screenshot, but it won't take long for Blizzard to see who has that many epic items for sale on the auction house and put 2 and 2 together. Maybe it's just me, but when I agree to a terms of service, I tend to abide by it the same as I would any other contract. Does nobody care what they put their name to or agree to anymore?
I live in (southwest) Missouri too and have worked in real estate off and on for a number of years :-P A home of approximately $119,000 (like you described but without the basement) sells for around $450,000 in Denver (my mom just moved there, hence the comparison). To be honest, not sure about NY, hence the disclaimer in my previous comment.
I'm not a Republican, but I feel that's irrelevant in the case of this thread. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that when the makers of B-films are looking for a place to shoot, they are not looking at exit polls and political surveys. They are looking for places with low costs and good scenery. Missouri is beautiful, with a very low cost of living. People make a lot less here, but they also pay a lot less compared to other places in the US. (I've been told that $30,000/year in Missouri is comparable to $250,000/year in New York. Haven't taken the time to verify this, though.) So, you can take a bunch of money made elsewhere (like California) and go to Missouri, or Bulgaria, or Romania, and shoot a film cheaply with good scenery. *shrug*
He stressed Dell's position as the leading provider of technology to higher education... Apple may have the majority of the market share with the iPod, but Dell is the leading provider of technology to higher education. That means to the universities, not to the students who buy MP3 players. My uni just dropped Gateway for Dell, which is several thousand computers and quite a few server bays that Dell is selling just to us. Their deal with Napster is to provide the servers, not the MP3 players, so the article is valid in this statement.
My campus (Southwest Missouri State University) just went to this plan with Napster, much to the chagrin of our computer community. The student government association said it sounded like a great idea while most of the students complained about it. The issue isn't that students have to pay to subscribe for the service, but rather that it is paid for by a student fee increase. This means that every student pays a fee for this service, including the ones that A) don't use it and/or B) don't have a computer. Moreover, the students that really download a lot are going to continue doing it through established mediums such as Kazaa or Bittorrent which will have a larger library than the ones Napstar establishes on the local servers. In general, it's a waste of money, but maybe it'll convince them to lift the bandwidth limit they imposed on campus last year. That's about the only benefit I can see from putting this plan into effect: a false sense of security from which many can benefit. Probably not worth the fee increase though.
The first thing to jump out at me on that page was the big "Order now" button. You can preview the maps, see a demo, but you can't get good details there without paying. The original poster's point was that yes, he can spend money for it, and he does. But it used to be free, or at least relatively so, and he feels it should still be free. It seems that the taxpayer's money used to be spent once, for collection, but now it is also being spent a second time to procur the data from a recently privatized company, so the data is being purchased twice (once to compile it, and again to get it from the company now owning it). Nothing out there which is freely distributed matches the quality of what a geologist needs, and despite the faith one might have in P2P clients and Bittorrent, chances are people aren't going to start hosting high resolution geological maps anytime soon.
my friend hacked our school system's main computers just to see if it could be done. We were the techies for our school and ran the local network, but he wanted to see what the district computers were like. Unfortunately, he (stupidly) left calling cards throughout the system, so he called me the next morning when I got in to ask if I'd call the head computer guy for the district and explain why they had so many security flags :-P lol
The guy called my friend to tell him that they had fixed the security holes and would he please try and hack it again to find out? This went on for several months until we graduated.