The easy way around this is to just slow down the rate of the scans and the type/quantity of scanning done at any one type. Whether it takes hours or weeks, time is not critical when you have millions of PCs at your disposal.
For burning ISOs of DVD and CD, you can download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit which includes the command line tools dvdburn.exe and cdburn.exe. This also allows burning of dvd ISOs on Windows XP, which I/think/ cdburnerxp can't do.
Why on earth would you hold out for $31?
Well, as but one example, Carl Ichan is reported to own about 50 million shares in Yahoo ( http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080513/yahoo_icahn.html ) so a stock increase from $30 to $31 represents a profit of about $50 million. Now, call me wacky, but that sounds like a good reason to me... Only if he's selling the shares he personally holds. Until then, it's just a number - and when you have $1,500,000,000 (yes, 1.5bn) in stock to begin with, it's a fairly insignificant number at that.
Microsoft's asset is an OS that people are still locked into, but becoming violently sick of. That's an interesting concept, but most people don't know what an operating system is. To a majority of the purchasing public, an OS is part of the computer. Both companies (Apple, MS) are aggressively perpetuating this myth; and the consumer will very likely never realize that there's a difference.
Unforunately, it's not that simple. Previous versions of IE were broken enough that standards-compliant HTML and CSS would not render properly. So if you wanted the majority of people to be able to actually use your site, you/had/ to be aware of - and often code around - IE stupidity, for all but the simplest of applications.
I agree 100% that in the eyes of the law, they're adults -- and that is as it should be. As you've noticed, though, that wasn't what I was referring to.
Indeed; note that I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished as adults -- the/should/ be at a point in their lives where they've acquired the ability to function as adults in this society. I'm only saying that based on their actions -- and attitudes in the interview -- they're not adults.
That's not what I said. Let me spell it out -- being an adult is not something that occur at a fixed, predetermined date in your life. This begins at around the time that you truly realize that your actions have a direct effect on other people; and that other people have an existence independent of and outside of your own.
For some people, that can happen in their early teens. For most people, it's sometime in their late twenties. You can tell when it happens by conversing with people - when the conversation is no longer "me, I, me" and instead "you, us, them" (with genuine interest, not a perfunctory 'because it's polite' attitude) , it's a pretty good sign.
For the kids in question here, there's no doubt that they are still kids. The interview shows no evidence of any awareness outside of their own selves and the minor circle of peers with which they identify.
I'm sure there's a bunch of late teenagers and young twenty-somethings who will hastily mod me down (if anyone's bothering to read the thread down this far), but it is what it is.
I'd say that their actions and attitudes quite clearly show that they're still kids. Turning 18 isn't a magic pill that instantly makes you an adult -- only time and experience can do that, regardless of the law.
A married couples on TV didn't share a single bed until about the 70's. There used to be rules that if one of the two was sitting on a bed, the other had to be standing-they couldn't even SIT on the same bed. ANd what bearing does this have on the discussion of 'bad language', which has not changed? I think it may be OK to say 'damn' and 'hell' now, but to my knowledge those were never subject to fines --- just bad ratings and public outcry.
There was an episode of South Park that said shit, what, 147 times or something? South Park is paid-access cable TV, not public airwaves. They don't have the same rules.
Music is only censored on the radio by some radio stations - they do it so they don't receive complaints by dumb ass ministers (like what happened in the 60's). But popular stations, especially big ones in LA, play what they want because they have the money to fight that kind of crap. Radio has slightly more leeway and always had - because the community's definition of obscenity is used. Still, if one of the 'seven words' gets used, it's far more likely than not that the radio station is getting fined. In fact, the FCC recently ('04) enacted regulations that allow fines to occur for/each incident/ - so if you say 'fuck' 10 times in a row on the program you're DJing, you get 10 fines. And the dollar amount of these fines gets ridiculously high.
Just like prohibition, any government body that tries to regulate morality eventually fails. We should just see the trend, and start writing the FCC and calling shinanegans. Unless you're willing to live in a wholly repressive state, like Communist China or some oppressive Islamic regime. Look, I agree with your beliefs. The idea that it's okay to say some words and not others is nothing short of preposterous. My only point is that it's premature to call the FCC's attempts a failure, when they have not, to date, failed.
he RIAA are getting stupider by the minute. It's high time they learned that people aren't going to take this shit sitting down for much longer. You're right. For the most part, they take it bent over with wide grins plastered on their faces. Of course, if you had a specific action in mind, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Obscene material is a joke. The FCC tried to regulate 'bad language' as obscene on the radio. Then they tried to do it on TV. They fail, and fail, and fail, yet they try again. Do we define failure the same way? One definition, perhaps the most broadly accepted one is "what happens when you do not succeed".
I turn on broadcast TV and radio today, and I note that I still can't hear any "bad language". I even learn that the FCC is slapping massive fines on anybody who utters such "bad language".
Failed? Really? Wouldn't that imply 'not successful'?
I wonder if the chairman did mean "obscene" in the sense of U.S. law, and not the more common, think-of-the-children sense of mere indecency. TFA doesn't make this any clearer. (I'm new here.) Obviously. You read TFA.
True, Win2K was a close second for me. What really turned me off were two things:
1) they got rid of the simple file search from WinNT. I/loved/ that search- it didn't try to get fancy, it didn't want to index files, it didn't want to give me a stupid cartoon dog to do the search for me -- it just found files by name, optionally with specified content. And it did it very quickly, without requiring a separate indexer.
2) larger memory footprint (though to be honest, I don't remember the numbers)
I literally couldn't handle using windows 95/98/Me. I know it sounds ridiculous, but there were so many things that were just/stupid/ (especially after having come from an OS/2 background) in the way it managed resources, handled devices and configuration, etc that I just started running NT until Win2K came out.
I think you meant to say that "I personally didn't have the slightest notion of this concept before I went to England". In all the places I've lived, there were several receptacles that were controlled by wall switches. Considering that I've lived in six different states, I'd say that's a fairly reasonable sample size for one person.
... I paid a fair chunk of change to get next-day on site support. When I needed it, what it really meant was "they'll schedule with their subcontractor by the next day". Which in turn became, "The subcontractor schedules with their own subcontractor". Which added up to 7 days.
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The easy way around this is to just slow down the rate of the scans and the type/quantity of scanning done at any one type. Whether it takes hours or weeks, time is not critical when you have millions of PCs at your disposal.
What you call science is merely a set of principles used in establishing facts. Without being believed in those principles become meaningless.
For burning ISOs of DVD and CD, you can download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit which includes the command line tools dvdburn.exe and cdburn.exe. This also allows burning of dvd ISOs on Windows XP, which I /think/ cdburnerxp can't do.
Now that rationale makes a lot more sense to me.
I think it's mostly a matter of awareness. Not to say that a bit of due diligence wouldn't have uncovered it...
Another big problem is corporate intranets. When people are creating for a captive audience, standard are often never considered.
Erm... they do...
Unforunately, it's not that simple. Previous versions of IE were broken enough that standards-compliant HTML and CSS would not render properly. So if you wanted the majority of people to be able to actually use your site, you /had/ to be aware of - and often code around - IE stupidity, for all but the simplest of applications.
As far as I know, the others don't use secure/private networks. That's a vital factor in the blackberry's success with businesses.
I agree 100% that in the eyes of the law, they're adults -- and that is as it should be. As you've noticed, though, that wasn't what I was referring to.
Indeed; note that I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished as adults -- the /should/ be at a point in their lives where they've acquired the ability to function as adults in this society. I'm only saying that based on their actions -- and attitudes in the interview -- they're not adults.
That's not what I said. Let me spell it out -- being an adult is not something that occur at a fixed, predetermined date in your life. This begins at around the time that you truly realize that your actions have a direct effect on other people; and that other people have an existence independent of and outside of your own.
For some people, that can happen in their early teens. For most people, it's sometime in their late twenties. You can tell when it happens by conversing with people - when the conversation is no longer "me, I, me" and instead "you, us, them" (with genuine interest, not a perfunctory 'because it's polite' attitude) , it's a pretty good sign.
For the kids in question here, there's no doubt that they are still kids. The interview shows no evidence of any awareness outside of their own selves and the minor circle of peers with which they identify.
I'm sure there's a bunch of late teenagers and young twenty-somethings who will hastily mod me down (if anyone's bothering to read the thread down this far), but it is what it is.
I'd say that their actions and attitudes quite clearly show that they're still kids. Turning 18 isn't a magic pill that instantly makes you an adult -- only time and experience can do that, regardless of the law.
I turn on broadcast TV and radio today, and I note that I still can't hear any "bad language". I even learn that the FCC is slapping massive fines on anybody who utters such "bad language".
Failed? Really? Wouldn't that imply 'not successful'?
But then it would be the Nano Nano Nano, and that's just silly.
True, Win2K was a close second for me. What really turned me off were two things: /loved/ that search- it didn't try to get fancy, it didn't want to index files, it didn't want to give me a stupid cartoon dog to do the search for me -- it just found files by name, optionally with specified content. And it did it very quickly, without requiring a separate indexer.
1) they got rid of the simple file search from WinNT. I
2) larger memory footprint (though to be honest, I don't remember the numbers)
I literally couldn't handle using windows 95/98/Me. I know it sounds ridiculous, but there were so many things that were just /stupid/ (especially after having come from an OS/2 background) in the way it managed resources, handled devices and configuration, etc that I just started running NT until Win2K came out.
I think you meant to say that "I personally didn't have the slightest notion of this concept before I went to England". In all the places I've lived, there were several receptacles that were controlled by wall switches. Considering that I've lived in six different states, I'd say that's a fairly reasonable sample size for one person.
Windows 95 was great for doing one thing at a time. Anythig more than that, and it would crash for more often than once a week.
IMO, Win NT 4 was the top of the line for stability. Small memory footprint (60MB or so), and it would go for months without restarting.
Or perhaps I simply had a bad first experience.
... I paid a fair chunk of change to get next-day on site support. When I needed it, what it really meant was "they'll schedule with their subcontractor by the next day". Which in turn became, "The subcontractor schedules with their own subcontractor". Which added up to 7 days.