What do they mean by "it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."? It already is possible, as a simple google search proves.
File sharing isn't a threat to national security, stupid government employees that install file sharing programs on work computers and then make the shared folder one that contains important documents are a threat to national security.
Who in their right mind would sell their University email address and password on eBay? When you purchase it from their website they email you the download link along with a CD Key. I'd imagine at most universities, and at least at The University of Queensland, your email address/student number and password are the same for a whole host of pages, including the service that you would use to enroll, unenroll and change courses. Who would give someone else control over their enrollment for a mere $50?
The average student perhaps doesn't know about pop/imap, but there would be plenty who do, and they don't feel like constantly loading a webpage to check their emails, rather than simply waiting for a popup from a mail client telling them that they have mail. Perhaps they also want the convenience of having all of their mail available offline and immediately, without having to load a page. POP/IMAP is very useful, just because not every student uses it doesn't mean plenty would use it and benefit from it.
Good news, all that work was for nothing as it's already cracked, you can install Vista without a CD key and they give you 30 days grace to enter your key, in which time you're allowed to download updates as if your version of Vista is activated. It is a fairly simple process to stop this countdown permanently at 30 days using a crack available on torrent sites.
It would have been nice if it was specified what the '1' represented in '2 to 1', whether it was the 2nd option or the rest of the ideas. What the summary means is that the Linux idea has almost twice the votes than that of the second idea, which is to sell computers with no extra software, i.e. the bloatware that Dell is paid to install. However the votes are fragmented as the 4th choice is essentially the same as the 2nd and the 5th and 6th choices both deal with Linux/no OS installed. If you add up these votes it is closer to 36000 votes for Linux/OS free and 18000 for no preloaded software, so still around double the second most popular. Of course this is just from looking at the first page of 15 ideas, of 45 pages, so I'm sure that there would be plenty more ideas rehashing these popular ones.
Your calculations are wrong because monitors are measured along the diagonal and you're assuming that the size provided is the height/width and that they are square, neither of which is true. You can't actually calculate a moniter's screen area from just the diagonal, you need to know the ratio. As well as that, diagonals of the screens on CRTs aren't actually the size specified as the measurement is from the edges of the frames whereas LCDs don't have bulky frames around the screen. I don't feel like doing the calculations right now but this page provides the information necessary to calculate the screen area and other things about monitors of various sizes.
What's worse is the people creating websites that don't understand this concept. I just tried to go to http://centrelink.gov.au/ and it returned nothing, I added the www. and it loaded. This is incredibly frustrating, and on a government website no less!
I do this in my Opera right now, I just type 'g search text here' to search Google, or w for Wikipedia, or any letter(s) for any other searches I feel like creating.
I don't mean to troll, but what I think is an easier option is the F12 menu in Opera, you can enable or disable animated GIFs, sound, Java, plug-ins (including Flash) or Javascript, and it's there out of the box.
Apart from the fact that that sounds entirely unscientific, descendants of convicts would make up a very minor portion of Australia's population, with most of Australia's population being immigrants that arrived after the convicts. A more plausable explanation for the phenomena described in the GP's post is the one supplied, that Germans are conditioned by society to follow authority more than Australians. I would predict that similiar results to the Germans would be found in a country such as Japan.
I've been using sleep in Beta 2 and RC2 and in Beta 2 it screwed up when resuming (I think I lost power while it was napping) and it corrupted the install. I come home or wake up in the morning to find that it has mysteriously woken itself up, although I'm thinking that this is from the router initiating Wake on LAN.
So what then.....if my neighbor leaves his bright red sportscar with the door open and the keys in it, then all those photons of light that are bouncing off of it and onto my property and into my eyes are an invitation to get in it and take it for a drive?
If the neighbour also leaves a note on the window saying that you can drive it, or if he puts an invitation in your letterbox telling you to take his car, then yes, it is an invitation to drive it, just as a wireless router broadcasting an invitation to your wireless card is an invitation to use the connection.
We had that going at school until they installed a program called AppSentry that blocks any process other than those whitelisted. My friend and I were also running Opera from USB flash drives, which worked well for getting around the content filtering in IE.
They also mispelt Reporters Without Borders as Reporters Sans Frontieres. RSF is based in France and this page is most likely a translation from the French version. This seems quiet likely as the French version of the page seems much more polished
On a side note, it's a bit confusing as they seem to have gone halfway with Ireland, it is spelt 'Irlande' in French.
Microsoft isn't selling the Xbox or the Zune at less than cost to put Sony/Nintendo or Apple out of business, with their market share that is impossible at this time. Their philosophy for the Xbox (and possibly the Zune) is not to sell below cost in order to kill their competitors, it is to sell below cost in order to establish a market share and brand recognition so that they can sell at a profit and then possibly attempt to destroy their competition in later iterations of the product.
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There's a still too: http://bp3.blogger.com/_pNJFZtinpKY/Rc_OgMy2aeI/AA AAAAAAAPM/zoEDK9sJWH8/s1600-h/Mac_linux.jpg
What do they mean by "it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."? It already is possible, as a simple google search proves.
File sharing isn't a threat to national security, stupid government employees that install file sharing programs on work computers and then make the shared folder one that contains important documents are a threat to national security.
Who in their right mind would sell their University email address and password on eBay? When you purchase it from their website they email you the download link along with a CD Key. I'd imagine at most universities, and at least at The University of Queensland, your email address/student number and password are the same for a whole host of pages, including the service that you would use to enroll, unenroll and change courses. Who would give someone else control over their enrollment for a mere $50?
The average student perhaps doesn't know about pop/imap, but there would be plenty who do, and they don't feel like constantly loading a webpage to check their emails, rather than simply waiting for a popup from a mail client telling them that they have mail. Perhaps they also want the convenience of having all of their mail available offline and immediately, without having to load a page. POP/IMAP is very useful, just because not every student uses it doesn't mean plenty would use it and benefit from it.
Having to click through 3 different prompts in order to delete a file was enough for me to disable UAC. It lasted about 2 days on my computer.
Good news, all that work was for nothing as it's already cracked, you can install Vista without a CD key and they give you 30 days grace to enter your key, in which time you're allowed to download updates as if your version of Vista is activated. It is a fairly simple process to stop this countdown permanently at 30 days using a crack available on torrent sites.
It would have been nice if it was specified what the '1' represented in '2 to 1', whether it was the 2nd option or the rest of the ideas. What the summary means is that the Linux idea has almost twice the votes than that of the second idea, which is to sell computers with no extra software, i.e. the bloatware that Dell is paid to install. However the votes are fragmented as the 4th choice is essentially the same as the 2nd and the 5th and 6th choices both deal with Linux/no OS installed. If you add up these votes it is closer to 36000 votes for Linux/OS free and 18000 for no preloaded software, so still around double the second most popular. Of course this is just from looking at the first page of 15 ideas, of 45 pages, so I'm sure that there would be plenty more ideas rehashing these popular ones.
Keep up the good work! SWAT teams should be arresting more hip-hop "artists" for crimes against humanity.
Your calculations are wrong because monitors are measured along the diagonal and you're assuming that the size provided is the height/width and that they are square, neither of which is true. You can't actually calculate a moniter's screen area from just the diagonal, you need to know the ratio. As well as that, diagonals of the screens on CRTs aren't actually the size specified as the measurement is from the edges of the frames whereas LCDs don't have bulky frames around the screen. I don't feel like doing the calculations right now but this page provides the information necessary to calculate the screen area and other things about monitors of various sizes.
What's more according to Wikipedia his middle name is Hussein.
What's worse is the people creating websites that don't understand this concept. I just tried to go to http://centrelink.gov.au/ and it returned nothing, I added the www. and it loaded. This is incredibly frustrating, and on a government website no less!
I do this in my Opera right now, I just type 'g search text here' to search Google, or w for Wikipedia, or any letter(s) for any other searches I feel like creating.
I don't mean to troll, but what I think is an easier option is the F12 menu in Opera, you can enable or disable animated GIFs, sound, Java, plug-ins (including Flash) or Javascript, and it's there out of the box.
So do we get to read Bush's mail? It seems only fair. Anyone here work for the post office?
*woosh* You've just reiterated what your parent poster said, sans the cynicism.
They were paid, but it was regardless of whether they completed the task or not.
Apart from the fact that that sounds entirely unscientific, descendants of convicts would make up a very minor portion of Australia's population, with most of Australia's population being immigrants that arrived after the convicts. A more plausable explanation for the phenomena described in the GP's post is the one supplied, that Germans are conditioned by society to follow authority more than Australians. I would predict that similiar results to the Germans would be found in a country such as Japan.
And that is generally because the broken HTML is written in a broken manner specifically in order to work in IE.
I've been using sleep in Beta 2 and RC2 and in Beta 2 it screwed up when resuming (I think I lost power while it was napping) and it corrupted the install. I come home or wake up in the morning to find that it has mysteriously woken itself up, although I'm thinking that this is from the router initiating Wake on LAN.
If the neighbour also leaves a note on the window saying that you can drive it, or if he puts an invitation in your letterbox telling you to take his car, then yes, it is an invitation to drive it, just as a wireless router broadcasting an invitation to your wireless card is an invitation to use the connection.
We had that going at school until they installed a program called AppSentry that blocks any process other than those whitelisted. My friend and I were also running Opera from USB flash drives, which worked well for getting around the content filtering in IE.
They also mispelt Reporters Without Borders as Reporters Sans Frontieres. RSF is based in France and this page is most likely a translation from the French version. This seems quiet likely as the French version of the page seems much more polished On a side note, it's a bit confusing as they seem to have gone halfway with Ireland, it is spelt 'Irlande' in French.
As well as comparing names he also narrowed the search down to those living within 5 miles of their registered post code
Microsoft isn't selling the Xbox or the Zune at less than cost to put Sony/Nintendo or Apple out of business, with their market share that is impossible at this time. Their philosophy for the Xbox (and possibly the Zune) is not to sell below cost in order to kill their competitors, it is to sell below cost in order to establish a market share and brand recognition so that they can sell at a profit and then possibly attempt to destroy their competition in later iterations of the product.