They need to assert control over third party mods to prevent rampant account hijacking. Too many users are installing sketchy addons that steal account information for gold sellers, so "add-on code must be completely visible" is great.
I agree with you 100%. This seems like the natural 'next step' from Buffy & Angel and Firefly seems like an anomaly. This show is terrible and 4 episodes in, I'm bored to tears over the lousy dialogue and shallow, predictable plot.
I'm sure if you try hard enough, you can find a way to link the sale of any services or goods to terrorism. People with legitimate jobs have been found to be funding terrorism... they should write a paper linking that next.
I agree. There's plenty of companies negotiating concessions with unions and regularly staffed employees for pay or incentive cuts. Slashdot villify's Microsoft enough that they don't need to post the common business practices of third parties in the employ of Microsoft. Give us a break kdawson, enough with the sensationalist anti-Microsoft vendetta.
Windows is not difficult to secure for appropriately trained IT staff. The Department of Defense releases papers that walk people through creating extremely secure Windows environments, arguably more secure than many out of the box linux distros.
Excellent improvements and additions behind the scenes (such as the new group policy controls) but the usability has dropped considerably. "Roles" and "Features" are terribly silly and incongruous.
Then you are completely ignorant, purposely or otherwise. I don't know how it's apparent to you that I know even less, if you don't know anything of the sort.
This is very relevant to my interests. We'd tried a while back to compile a Linux kernel with ICC and had too numerous issues to list. We do a lot of work with fluid dynamics and it's ALL CPU based - any increase in speed would be appreciated. With the economy the way it is, and a lot of companies shelving projects, budgeting for new clusters isn't on the list of priorities.
Cut the shit. You and I both know that the majority of people aren't using P2P to download public domain content, linux distros and occasional WoW patching. Out of everyone I know using P2P, and that's a lot, I'm probably one of the few using it for legitimate needs (and I'm also using it for illegitimate needs). I don't stand behind their decision, but honest users that utilize maximum P2P bandwidth are a really small minority.
No one is stopping anyone from creating an ISP, the Canadian overbuilding rules were lifted long ago. If creating an ISP that offers its users unlimited bandwidth to P2P is that lucrative, especially now, wouldn't someone have gone ahead and done so?
Why? That's easy. Users downloading copyrighted materials typically use more bandwidth than regular users, so it's no loss to them if you stop or they cut justifiably (in their eyes) cut you off. I don't agree with it, I'm just suggesting that its their mentality.
As someone who vigorously feedbacked Windows Vista and many of it's bugs and UI issues (some of which were addressed after release, some in Windows 7 and none at all), I can say that Microsoft doesn't listen to their beta testers. I was in an IRC channel discussing a wireless bug with some other beta testers, at least 9 of us feedbacked it, and were dismayed that the bug still existed in release, one year later.
It's funny, I was getting up there, into 900 and then my queue position started rising not lowering. I gave up when it hit a few thousand. I'll wait until the fresh popularity wanes and give it a shot again.
If you're connecting to alternative providers at different rates, that's a misconfiguration of your phone. I've owned many cell phones in this life, and I've never seen one that doesn't have the ability to isolate your phone strictly to your provider. Maybe you're in GSM territory which might be different, but here in CDMA land (North America) our phones have this option.
I live near the US border in Canada and my phone often prioritizes or switches to American providers since Canadian providers seem to have little to no support at the edges of the country. When I was younger, I'd accidentally made a few calls while connected to the American providers and those were costly. My provider refunded me the difference, walked me through disabling roaming (or Home Only option) and told me if I ever did it again I'd have to pay for it.
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You forgot *waste of time as one of your options. I really don't have time for social networking, and I don't hire or have never been hired based on my social network. I doubt most human resources directors care, for that matter.
Microsoft isn't charging extra. The OEM's are charging extra for Windows XP Downgrade which Microsoft allows users and OEM's to install FOR FREE. OEM's have migrated to Vista and don't want to maintain deployment sets, support documentation and drivers for both operating systems so they're charging this extra XP tariff.
As a small OEM, I give my clients the option to go with either Windows XP or Windows Vista, as we sell relatively similar base models so it's easy for us to maintain concurrent deployment sets for both operating systems. This extra charge isn't Microsoft's fault.
Are you sure? From the article, "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States."
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They need to assert control over third party mods to prevent rampant account hijacking. Too many users are installing sketchy addons that steal account information for gold sellers, so "add-on code must be completely visible" is great.
I agree with you 100%. This seems like the natural 'next step' from Buffy & Angel and Firefly seems like an anomaly. This show is terrible and 4 episodes in, I'm bored to tears over the lousy dialogue and shallow, predictable plot.
I'm sure if you try hard enough, you can find a way to link the sale of any services or goods to terrorism. People with legitimate jobs have been found to be funding terrorism... they should write a paper linking that next.
I agree. There's plenty of companies negotiating concessions with unions and regularly staffed employees for pay or incentive cuts. Slashdot villify's Microsoft enough that they don't need to post the common business practices of third parties in the employ of Microsoft. Give us a break kdawson, enough with the sensationalist anti-Microsoft vendetta.
This is slashdot. If I'd suggested anything else I'd have been modded flamebait and have at least 10 people picking that apart ;)
Windows is not difficult to secure for appropriately trained IT staff. The Department of Defense releases papers that walk people through creating extremely secure Windows environments, arguably more secure than many out of the box linux distros.
Excellent improvements and additions behind the scenes (such as the new group policy controls) but the usability has dropped considerably. "Roles" and "Features" are terribly silly and incongruous.
Then you are completely ignorant, purposely or otherwise. I don't know how it's apparent to you that I know even less, if you don't know anything of the sort.
This is very relevant to my interests. We'd tried a while back to compile a Linux kernel with ICC and had too numerous issues to list. We do a lot of work with fluid dynamics and it's ALL CPU based - any increase in speed would be appreciated. With the economy the way it is, and a lot of companies shelving projects, budgeting for new clusters isn't on the list of priorities.
Cut the shit. You and I both know that the majority of people aren't using P2P to download public domain content, linux distros and occasional WoW patching. Out of everyone I know using P2P, and that's a lot, I'm probably one of the few using it for legitimate needs (and I'm also using it for illegitimate needs). I don't stand behind their decision, but honest users that utilize maximum P2P bandwidth are a really small minority.
No one is stopping anyone from creating an ISP, the Canadian overbuilding rules were lifted long ago. If creating an ISP that offers its users unlimited bandwidth to P2P is that lucrative, especially now, wouldn't someone have gone ahead and done so?
Why? That's easy. Users downloading copyrighted materials typically use more bandwidth than regular users, so it's no loss to them if you stop or they cut justifiably (in their eyes) cut you off. I don't agree with it, I'm just suggesting that its their mentality.
As someone who vigorously feedbacked Windows Vista and many of it's bugs and UI issues (some of which were addressed after release, some in Windows 7 and none at all), I can say that Microsoft doesn't listen to their beta testers. I was in an IRC channel discussing a wireless bug with some other beta testers, at least 9 of us feedbacked it, and were dismayed that the bug still existed in release, one year later.
It's funny, I was getting up there, into 900 and then my queue position started rising not lowering. I gave up when it hit a few thousand. I'll wait until the fresh popularity wanes and give it a shot again.
If you're connecting to alternative providers at different rates, that's a misconfiguration of your phone. I've owned many cell phones in this life, and I've never seen one that doesn't have the ability to isolate your phone strictly to your provider. Maybe you're in GSM territory which might be different, but here in CDMA land (North America) our phones have this option.
I live near the US border in Canada and my phone often prioritizes or switches to American providers since Canadian providers seem to have little to no support at the edges of the country. When I was younger, I'd accidentally made a few calls while connected to the American providers and those were costly. My provider refunded me the difference, walked me through disabling roaming (or Home Only option) and told me if I ever did it again I'd have to pay for it.
You forgot *waste of time as one of your options. I really don't have time for social networking, and I don't hire or have never been hired based on my social network. I doubt most human resources directors care, for that matter.
So far I've noted the majority of the erroneous, sensationalist or non-cited posts are coming through kdawson.
If this was a purchasing issue, why does the article quote the interviewee as suggesting, "Their IT people should have known better,"
Microsoft isn't charging extra. The OEM's are charging extra for Windows XP Downgrade which Microsoft allows users and OEM's to install FOR FREE. OEM's have migrated to Vista and don't want to maintain deployment sets, support documentation and drivers for both operating systems so they're charging this extra XP tariff.
As a small OEM, I give my clients the option to go with either Windows XP or Windows Vista, as we sell relatively similar base models so it's easy for us to maintain concurrent deployment sets for both operating systems. This extra charge isn't Microsoft's fault.
You are required to be authenticated. So much for anonymous readers.
Fantastic! Now the 4chan'ers can stay in 4chan, and maybe Slashdot will regain some of its quality user base.
Why? If a company with in house IT can't administer an Exchange server, there's something seriously wrong with their staff selection.
This is an anti-Microsoft Slashdot posting. It does not require citations or proof!
Interesting... TFA would have you believe that IBM employees are unionized, and the union is out to protect them and protesting against this move.
Are you sure? From the article, "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States."