Let's face it - Google's plain text ads are hardly obtrusive enough to warrant an ad-blocker. Most people wouldn't even notice if they were blocked or not - they just care about the huge, multimedia-rich, bandwidth-intensive flash ads that fill half the screen.
The traditional mouse (and keyboard) aren't going anywhere until a more efficient interface is developed. I'm expecting it to be some sort of direct connection to our brains, but it'll be a century before that's viable...
When a SP2 system is first brought up, after running through Mini-Setup or the OOBE, it will open a "Post-Setup Security Update" wizard. Until the user clicks the "Finish" button on the wizard, the firewall blocks all incoming traffic. The wizard also has links to Microsoft Update, etc. This gives the user a chance to download all the patches before opening up the firewall.
I don't know about Server, but I've installed both WinXP and Vista, and I've never seen a Post-Security Update wizard (although I have noticed that if you insert the setup disk while Windows is running, it let's you download updated setup files before it starts installing).
In my experience, just installing updates after installation is fine, even with the internet connected. But then I'm safe behind my router's firewall, just like the majority of people - AFAIAA, there is no default installation that would leave you open to the internet like that.
True, but we were also too short-sighted to see the problems that handing over the infrastructure to a private company. The end result is that today our internet connections are among the worst in terms of speed.
Open networks = flexible connections, competition Privately owned infrastructure = no upgrades; most areas don't have fibre and many still don't have ADSL.
I'm surprised that no-one has picked up on this yet... as far as I know, this is the first time that a major TV channel has actually made its content available online for free. Although it is a good example of how whiny the ISPs are, there is another point - HD, full-length videos of a TV series are now freely and legally available to the public. This by itself demonstrates that the infrastructure is going to need a major overhaul over the next few years.
It's worth noting that the Church's position is that most if the Bible is symbolism, including Creationism (and especially Revelations aka. Book of the Apcoalypse). As such, it is not intended to be taken literally (Lutherans, on the hand, do take it literally). If you want to check this yourself, look up fundamentalism some time.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a Catholic, so I may be biased. But it also means that I have the benefit of being educated about our beliefs throughout my primary and secondary education.
The first language I learnt was HTML, if you can consider it one. I progressed to JavaScript after that, then moved on to *managed* C++. A year later I moved to C#, and I've been using it since.
Looking at this, you'd think it was a really crappy intro to programming. HTML is a mess (compared to XHTML), JavaScript isn't even strongly typed, and then I just jumped in the deep end. Yet I'm one of the best students in my class (yes I'm a student - studying software development). It could just be that I'm naturally gifted, but perhaps there is somthing to be said for the self-taught after all... Maybe its better to learn from experience and research, rather then let some professor who studied assembly in uni pass down his possibly outdated thinking.
I figure if technology is causing the problem it should solve it too. I'm not advocating the jammers or anything, but I reckon it would be good if there was some sort of official jammer that would not affect the phones of surgeons, etc. perhaps through a subscription service? That way, only people who actually needed it could make those calls.
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Let's face it - Google's plain text ads are hardly obtrusive enough to warrant an ad-blocker. Most people wouldn't even notice if they were blocked or not - they just care about the huge, multimedia-rich, bandwidth-intensive flash ads that fill half the screen.
But what if they started a chain reaction?
How about downloading an illegal copy of RIAA merchandise, burning it to a DVD, and throwing that in the water?
The traditional mouse (and keyboard) aren't going anywhere until a more efficient interface is developed. I'm expecting it to be some sort of direct connection to our brains, but it'll be a century before that's viable...
I don't know about Server, but I've installed both WinXP and Vista, and I've never seen a Post-Security Update wizard (although I have noticed that if you insert the setup disk while Windows is running, it let's you download updated setup files before it starts installing). In my experience, just installing updates after installation is fine, even with the internet connected. But then I'm safe behind my router's firewall, just like the majority of people - AFAIAA, there is no default installation that would leave you open to the internet like that.
True, but we were also too short-sighted to see the problems that handing over the infrastructure to a private company. The end result is that today our internet connections are among the worst in terms of speed.
Open networks = flexible connections, competition
Privately owned infrastructure = no upgrades; most areas don't have fibre and many still don't have ADSL.
If you're having trouble accessing the comics, you can see them without flash using the RSS feed. It can be found here.
I'm surprised that no-one has picked up on this yet... as far as I know, this is the first time that a major TV channel has actually made its content available online for free. Although it is a good example of how whiny the ISPs are, there is another point - HD, full-length videos of a TV series are now freely and legally available to the public. This by itself demonstrates that the infrastructure is going to need a major overhaul over the next few years.
I can see where this is coming from. Around 3/4 of my music ollection comes from TV shows, films, etc.
It's worth noting that the Church's position is that most if the Bible is symbolism, including Creationism (and especially Revelations aka. Book of the Apcoalypse). As such, it is not intended to be taken literally (Lutherans, on the hand, do take it literally). If you want to check this yourself, look up fundamentalism some time. Disclaimer: Yes, I am a Catholic, so I may be biased. But it also means that I have the benefit of being educated about our beliefs throughout my primary and secondary education.
2 words: Big Brother (the book, not the TV show)
The first language I learnt was HTML, if you can consider it one. I progressed to JavaScript after that, then moved on to *managed* C++. A year later I moved to C#, and I've been using it since. Looking at this, you'd think it was a really crappy intro to programming. HTML is a mess (compared to XHTML), JavaScript isn't even strongly typed, and then I just jumped in the deep end. Yet I'm one of the best students in my class (yes I'm a student - studying software development). It could just be that I'm naturally gifted, but perhaps there is somthing to be said for the self-taught after all... Maybe its better to learn from experience and research, rather then let some professor who studied assembly in uni pass down his possibly outdated thinking.
I figure if technology is causing the problem it should solve it too. I'm not advocating the jammers or anything, but I reckon it would be good if there was some sort of official jammer that would not affect the phones of surgeons, etc. perhaps through a subscription service? That way, only people who actually needed it could make those calls.