Please elaborate on how, exactly, are they shooting themselves in the foot?
As for not rolling out SP2 on the desktops that's the only smart way for large organizations to handle large updates like this. My employer isn't rolling SP2 out anytime soon. Why? Because we need to test it to make sure that the applications we can not do our jobs without still work, and so that the IT staff has time to learn what changes SP2 has that they are going to have to support.
I don't like Windows, and I dispise Microsoft as a corporation, but blanket "they fucked themselves this time" without anything to back it up is pointless and useless FUD.
Because a book is a real-world item that is not effortlessly duplicated by every general purpose computer in existance.
Which is completely irrelaivant and meaningless. The contents of the book could be released as a PDF file, series of HTML files, DOC file, RTF file, etc... which could be effortlessly duplicated.
But what does the effor involved to duplicate something matter?
A secure and stable OS (Because when you don't have a nearly infinite amount of con figurations, it's pretty easy to be secure and stable)
The security issues in Windows have nothing to do with having drivers for every computer accessory ever dreamed up by Man and beast. It has to do with incredibly stupid decisions made by Microsoft. Just look at some of the fixes that Windows XP SP2 includes that people have been clamoring for since Windows 95 was released!
We may be the first intellegent life to exist in the universe. Or we may be the first ones to live past the developement of nuclear weapons. Or we might be the first ones not killed off by a asteroid colliding with our planet, or a plague, or a massive volcanic eruption, etc... It doesn't take a whole hell of a lot to kill a species off. We can't even count the number of near misses the human race survived.
The universe is massive and ancient. It is also heartless and dangerous.
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Actually, the PC jr. was IBM's attempt at making a home computer at all. In some ways it was tehcnologically superior to the IBM PC, but its complete lack of DMA made it useless for anything more demanding than Word Perfect 4.2 for DOS.
I never owned one, but a good friend (as opposed to all of my evil friends) had two of them.
The Color Computer 3 was Tandy's last-ditch effort to keep its venerable Color Computer line afloat. I owned a Color Computer 2 for a while and they were fun, if not limited, computers.
I recently gave up on Open Office. The only part I really used was Writer, and that was okay. Mostly. As long as I only used it on my Windows box. Using it on my OSX biox was more pain than I want to remember. And that's not even accounting for the fact that the font rendering on OSX (X Windows, actually) is so hidiously ugly that it makes you want to gouge out your eyes.
I've switched to using simple word processors that use RTF files and got on with actually writing rather than fighting with the application.
The sad thing is that I really wanted to like OpenOffice. I used it for a long time. Hell, I even bought a caopy of Star Office back when it had that horrid unified desktop environment.
You're right, you don't register to buy a newspaper, unless you subscribe for home delivery. You PAY money for the newspaper. Bandwidth isn't free. Someone has to pay for it. If they want your email address instead of money that may, or may not be a fair trade, depending on what they do with your email address.
And the demographics aren't for their news coverage, anyway. It's usually for advertising purposes. And just like TV, advertising can pay the bulk of the money incurred in putting the publication together and the bandwidth fees to let you read it.
Isn't the whole idea of the Internet for information to be free?
No. The idea for the Internet was toi simply connect several uniersities and scientific centers together. Everything else is an afterthought bolted on to serve the purposes of those who bolted the things on. (In English, please!)
Actually, it works like this:
Species that shoot bullets can injure, and get into fighst with, any monster in the game.
Species that use missile attacks can only injure, and therefore get in fights with, members of other species.
That is to say that a Grunt can get into a fight with any other monster, including another grunt. While an Imp can only get into fights with any monster that is NOT an Imp.
There are four exceptions to this:
If a monster hits another with it's physical attack it will start a fight, regardless of species. This rarely happens with monsters of the same species, but I've seen it happen.
Barons of Hell and Hell Knights are imune to each other's missiles.
Monsters that use special attacks, like the Archvile, can injure and get intii fights with other members of their own species.
Pain Elementals can injure each other, but because their weapons are Lost Souls, the injured monster gets into a fight with the lost soul, not the Pain Elemnetal.
Yeah, I'm a DOOM geek.
Recieving a ciopyrighted work without the legally required compensation to the distributor/seller/etc... is theft. You are recieving the benefit of someone else's work for nothing against their wishes.
But I understand the desire to make it sound like you're not stealing anything as you are only making a copy. It makes it that much easier to look yourself in the mirror.
That's right. When Steve Wozniak built tha Apple 1 he had to float it by the boss at HP before he could go out on his own with it. If HP had wanted Steve's "little toy" they could have claimed it lock, stock and barrel as he had developed it while working at HP.
Ever since Mary Shelley (sp?), some authors have tried to warn us about the dangers they see on the horizon. And science fiction is the best genre to house these warnings. The Cold War becaomes the war between The Federation and The Klingon Empire, teh fear of the Soviet Union becomes invaders from Mars, fears of corporations taking over out lives become RoboCop, etc...
By placing the events of the story in a world that does not (yet) exist, the author can explore the issues he/she wants to talk about without pointing fingers directly at existing entities, and can take steps to remove us from the coccoon of our lives. They can show us their fears in a context outside of our daily lives, allowing us to see them in a context unclouded by what we;ve already taken for granted.
Sceince Fiction is a genre that can elegantly searve to make social comentaries about things we otherwise might not be willing to look at. Sceince fiction has dealt with racism, sexism, politics, matters of sexual orientation, rampant consumerism, medical breakthroughs, etc...
(1) Avoiding single points of failure for the entire human race (e.g., giant asteroid nails Earth);
And where shall we put these colonies? What planet in the solar system can sustain a colony? What planet has the needed solar energy? The water? The gasses to build a breathable atmosphere? And most importantly of all, what planet has a magnetic field strong enough to protect human life from solar storms?
Mercury: Not even a contender, unless you like bathing in molten lead.
Venus: Nope. Same problem as Mercury, only worse due to the sulphuric atmosphere.
Earth : Yes to all of the above.
Mars : May have water, but it has almost no atmosphere and has only limited localized magnetic fields that are completely ineffectual against solar storms.
Jupiter: Magnetic field from Hell, no surface.
Europa: Not enough solar radiation. Possible damage from Jovian magentic field.
Saturn: Same problems as Jupiter.
Neptune: See Jupiter.
Uranus: See Jupiter.
Pluto: No detectable atmosphere. No detectable magentic field. Too damned cold.
You've never met kids who've gone through the D.A.R.E. program. They tell all kinds or horrific lies about drugs. Crap like pot will turn you into a heroin junkie.
Now, I support teaching kids about the dangers of drugs. But I'm against lieing to them about it. If you want your kids to be able to deal with drugs they need to know the truth.
The problem with lieing to kids about drugs as mostly-harmless as pot is that when the kids do try it, and none of those evil things happen to them, they doubt your word on the really dangerous stuff like cocain and heroin.
Honesty is paramount when dealing with children if you want them to have the tools to survive.
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I don't like Hillary on a personal level, but I wouldn't resort to lying about her, or anyone. But I don't have a fear of powerful women.
And the Democratic Party hasn't cpmpaired Bush to Hitler, either. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarbougho (sp?) et al.. have repeatedly made insane comments about Democrats, including repeated accusations that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian (as if that was a bad thing).
Saying MoveOn.Org is a hate group because it makes comparisons of politicians that that politician's party would not make is rediculous.
If you were to hold MoveOn.Org to the same standards as the Right-Wing activists (some of whome say some pretty insane crap) II would give your argument some merrit.
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Please elaborate on how, exactly, are they shooting themselves in the foot?
As for not rolling out SP2 on the desktops that's the only smart way for large organizations to handle large updates like this. My employer isn't rolling SP2 out anytime soon. Why? Because we need to test it to make sure that the applications we can not do our jobs without still work, and so that the IT staff has time to learn what changes SP2 has that they are going to have to support.
I don't like Windows, and I dispise Microsoft as a corporation, but blanket "they fucked themselves this time" without anything to back it up is pointless and useless FUD.
A cute, if not grossly underpowered little computer.
Hey! Leave me out of this!
Which is completely irrelaivant and meaningless. The contents of the book could be released as a PDF file, series of HTML files, DOC file, RTF file, etc... which could be effortlessly duplicated.
But what does the effor involved to duplicate something matter?
As a proud owner of a G5 I have to say there is nothing more fun than a ten-player game of Photoshop Deathmatch.
(But seriously, I do own a G5 and I do not regret it one bit.)
The security issues in Windows have nothing to do with having drivers for every computer accessory ever dreamed up by Man and beast. It has to do with incredibly stupid decisions made by Microsoft. Just look at some of the fixes that Windows XP SP2 includes that people have been clamoring for since Windows 95 was released!
We may be the first intellegent life to exist in the universe. Or we may be the first ones to live past the developement of nuclear weapons. Or we might be the first ones not killed off by a asteroid colliding with our planet, or a plague, or a massive volcanic eruption, etc... It doesn't take a whole hell of a lot to kill a species off. We can't even count the number of near misses the human race survived.
The universe is massive and ancient. It is also heartless and dangerous.
Actually, the PC jr. was IBM's attempt at making a home computer at all. In some ways it was tehcnologically superior to the IBM PC, but its complete lack of DMA made it useless for anything more demanding than Word Perfect 4.2 for DOS.
I never owned one, but a good friend (as opposed to all of my evil friends) had two of them.
The Color Computer 3 was Tandy's last-ditch effort to keep its venerable Color Computer line afloat. I owned a Color Computer 2 for a while and they were fun, if not limited, computers.
(I am a huge nerd.)
I recently gave up on Open Office. The only part I really used was Writer, and that was okay. Mostly. As long as I only used it on my Windows box. Using it on my OSX biox was more pain than I want to remember. And that's not even accounting for the fact that the font rendering on OSX (X Windows, actually) is so hidiously ugly that it makes you want to gouge out your eyes.
I've switched to using simple word processors that use RTF files and got on with actually writing rather than fighting with the application.
The sad thing is that I really wanted to like OpenOffice. I used it for a long time. Hell, I even bought a caopy of Star Office back when it had that horrid unified desktop environment.
About "Two Weeks" in id Software time.
You're right, you don't register to buy a newspaper, unless you subscribe for home delivery. You PAY money for the newspaper. Bandwidth isn't free. Someone has to pay for it. If they want your email address instead of money that may, or may not be a fair trade, depending on what they do with your email address.
And the demographics aren't for their news coverage, anyway. It's usually for advertising purposes. And just like TV, advertising can pay the bulk of the money incurred in putting the publication together and the bandwidth fees to let you read it.
No. The idea for the Internet was toi simply connect several uniersities and scientific centers together. Everything else is an afterthought bolted on to serve the purposes of those who bolted the things on. (In English, please!)
Species that shoot bullets can injure, and get into fighst with, any monster in the game.
Species that use missile attacks can only injure, and therefore get in fights with, members of other species.
That is to say that a Grunt can get into a fight with any other monster, including another grunt. While an Imp can only get into fights with any monster that is NOT an Imp.
There are four exceptions to this:
Cry me a river. You've already waited for four years. What's another week? Or do you have no ability to deal with delayed gratification?
Recieving a ciopyrighted work without the legally required compensation to the distributor/seller/etc... is theft. You are recieving the benefit of someone else's work for nothing against their wishes.
But I understand the desire to make it sound like you're not stealing anything as you are only making a copy. It makes it that much easier to look yourself in the mirror.
That's right. When Steve Wozniak built tha Apple 1 he had to float it by the boss at HP before he could go out on his own with it. If HP had wanted Steve's "little toy" they could have claimed it lock, stock and barrel as he had developed it while working at HP.
Ever since Mary Shelley (sp?), some authors have tried to warn us about the dangers they see on the horizon. And science fiction is the best genre to house these warnings. The Cold War becaomes the war between The Federation and The Klingon Empire, teh fear of the Soviet Union becomes invaders from Mars, fears of corporations taking over out lives become RoboCop, etc...
By placing the events of the story in a world that does not (yet) exist, the author can explore the issues he/she wants to talk about without pointing fingers directly at existing entities, and can take steps to remove us from the coccoon of our lives. They can show us their fears in a context outside of our daily lives, allowing us to see them in a context unclouded by what we;ve already taken for granted.
Sceince Fiction is a genre that can elegantly searve to make social comentaries about things we otherwise might not be willing to look at. Sceince fiction has dealt with racism, sexism, politics, matters of sexual orientation, rampant consumerism, medical breakthroughs, etc...
In no particular order:
McCarthyism - The persecution of anyone with different values than the ruling class.
The stagnating conformity of post-WWII America.
The advent of suburbs and the dissolution of neighborhoods.
The bitter generation gap of the 1960's and the persicution of the youing by the ruling classes of that time.
The Atomic Bomb, and the fear of run-away science.
The Cold War and the fear of a constant, unsleeping enemy.
The growing corporate takeover of modern life. There are more factors, I'm sure.
1. Fist/Berserk Fist/Chansaw
2. Pistol
3. Shotgun/Combat Shotgun (D2)
4. Chaingun
5. Rocket Launcher
6. Plasma Rifle
7. BFG
(Yeah, I'm a nerd.)
And where shall we put these colonies? What planet in the solar system can sustain a colony? What planet has the needed solar energy? The water? The gasses to build a breathable atmosphere? And most importantly of all, what planet has a magnetic field strong enough to protect human life from solar storms?
Shuttle PCs are very easy to work in, actually. They do a very good job of making them accessable inside.
The movie is a crime against humanity. The book was pretty good.
You've never met kids who've gone through the D.A.R.E. program. They tell all kinds or horrific lies about drugs. Crap like pot will turn you into a heroin junkie.
Now, I support teaching kids about the dangers of drugs. But I'm against lieing to them about it. If you want your kids to be able to deal with drugs they need to know the truth.
The problem with lieing to kids about drugs as mostly-harmless as pot is that when the kids do try it, and none of those evil things happen to them, they doubt your word on the really dangerous stuff like cocain and heroin.
Honesty is paramount when dealing with children if you want them to have the tools to survive.
I don't like Hillary on a personal level, but I wouldn't resort to lying about her, or anyone. But I don't have a fear of powerful women.
That MP3 is damned funny. Thanks.
And the Democratic Party hasn't cpmpaired Bush to Hitler, either. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarbougho (sp?) et al.. have repeatedly made insane comments about Democrats, including repeated accusations that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian (as if that was a bad thing).
Saying MoveOn.Org is a hate group because it makes comparisons of politicians that that politician's party would not make is rediculous.
If you were to hold MoveOn.Org to the same standards as the Right-Wing activists (some of whome say some pretty insane crap) II would give your argument some merrit.