Its good to see someone that actually matters standing up. It would be even better to see them refuse to sell DVDs without being allowed to rip them for customers. I wonder if Circuit City actually sells enough DVDs for that to make a difference?
"And users would not be able to copy the main audio mix onto their computers. On the proposed DVD album, the main audio mix is to be protected by the same software that already protects the content on normal DVDs."..
I think there would be even more problems with fruad paying per impression. Its extremely simple to make an advertisement invisible on a website. While being paid per impression webmasters have no incentive to actually let visitors see the advertisements. Which is why I suggest some sort of minimum impression / click ratio. The cost of 50 clicks guaruntees you 50 clicks AND 1000 impressions or whatever a decent click through ratio might be.
This way no website can have a 100% click through ratio, and if they did the companies would only be charged for 5% and the website would only be paid for 5% CTR.
I truly hope these "guidelines" don't roll over to the DIY market. I would hate to see Antec, Chieftech and the like conforming to case appearance standards just to please Microsoft. This would be a huge kick in the balls for people building computers for themselves or friends.. or even some small-time shops.
I think these days locking people into an OS would be fairly simple.
A basic OS installed on minimal flash memory or even ROM that has NIC drivers.. as well as no way to attach external media. With the amount of bandwidth people have these days compared to the past it would be trivial to stream the main operating system and applications over the internet. Basically what Windows Live is meant to be..
Not exactly hack proof but stronger than simply formatting a large drive and installing a new OS.
journalist - One who keeps a journal "blog" - an online diary diary - A daily record, especially a personal record of events, experiences, and observations; a journal.
Now doesnt that make anyone that has a "blog" have an online diary which is a synonym for an online journal? Therefor having a blog makes your a journalist. Otherwise it isn't a blog...
he is, the thing though is the bottleneck isnt the capacity of the tubes but the load balancing at the ISPs and the throughput of "last mile" connections. There is hoards of bandwidth in dark fibre throughout the world.
If TweakUI was shoved down end-users throats like customizing cell phones is to cell phone users I'd imagine MANY more people would be interested in using it.
Since when does any administrator have actual access to anyones password? I can see them having the ability to change their password to something else.. but comon. Shouldn't / wouldn't these be encrypted and only accessable remotely?
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according to the dictionary encumbered and hindered are completely interchangable
Now, the only reason these codecs arent supported is because of patents, right? How is that not encumbered? I'm sure everyone can agree they would be included by default had they been open codecs.
Hmm I was freezing my ass off all winter trying to smoke cigarettes outside of work.. and the highest temps I've noticed around my area thus far have been around 90F(around DC, in virginia)
Pretty cool compared to normal.. I haven't even used the A/C in my car yet...the windows down keeps me very comfy.
Before the quality of search results I Think the main problem with both MSN and Yahoo! is all the crap on their site. Google is plain and simple, when people to go a site with the specific intent of searching why would they want to look at all that junk?
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"encumbered - To hinder or impede the action or performance of"
Ubuntu IS encumbered by patent restrictions, unless you are trying to say ubuntu supports those formats out of the box? Nice try though..
Hmm upon reading the topic I was under the impression you were interested in tools for "manually" writing something. Upon further inspection it seems you are looking for tools to write a manual.
For me being computer literate is not / very rarely asking for help with your computer. That doesn't mean they need to know how to install linux as an example.. just that said person is capable of doing whatever they want to do on their computer without direct assistance. (Of course reading a manual.. or using the electricity from the power company doesn't count:D)
To come across an easy way for instant elevation (run as admin, w/e) in XP. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? Not many issues as far as spyware / virii. I'd def give it a shot if I wouldnt have to reboot every time I install an application.. thats why I'm usually at least a week or two behind on patches, I hate rebooting.
As a general user that doesn't know how to install programs on their own anyway and has issues doing simple things like sending an e-mail attachment there is no reason to run as admin. So for yourself or more savvy users I could recommend possibly running as admin and for the less-knowledgable without it.
Of course there is the 3rd case where people are able to do admin tasks and you don't want them to.. that one should be obvious though:)
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Its good to see someone that actually matters standing up. It would be even better to see them refuse to sell DVDs without being allowed to rip them for customers. I wonder if Circuit City actually sells enough DVDs for that to make a difference?
"And users would not be able to copy the main audio mix onto their computers. On the proposed DVD album, the main audio mix is to be protected by the same software that already protects the content on normal DVDs." ..
So basically we rip them just like audio CDs?
I think there would be even more problems with fruad paying per impression. Its extremely simple to make an advertisement invisible on a website. While being paid per impression webmasters have no incentive to actually let visitors see the advertisements. Which is why I suggest some sort of minimum impression / click ratio. The cost of 50 clicks guaruntees you 50 clicks AND 1000 impressions or whatever a decent click through ratio might be.
This way no website can have a 100% click through ratio, and if they did the companies would only be charged for 5% and the website would only be paid for 5% CTR.
I truly hope these "guidelines" don't roll over to the DIY market. I would hate to see Antec, Chieftech and the like conforming to case appearance standards just to please Microsoft. This would be a huge kick in the balls for people building computers for themselves or friends.. or even some small-time shops.
ah post above this points out only 10 million units sold, so thats where they got their 8% from :D
Isnt 20 million sold out of 128 million people ~15%?
I think these days locking people into an OS would be fairly simple.
A basic OS installed on minimal flash memory or even ROM that has NIC drivers.. as well as no way to attach external media. With the amount of bandwidth people have these days compared to the past it would be trivial to stream the main operating system and applications over the internet. Basically what Windows Live is meant to be..
Not exactly hack proof but stronger than simply formatting a large drive and installing a new OS.
In public schools 64% is barely an F. Obviously pacman fails at being violent. Case closed, go home.
I would love to see one of those graphs with 1600 "things" on it.
I'd imagine it would look something like this
~10 years of daily gaming / computer using, hours on end. Not a hitch in this right hand / wrist
Disclaimer: I am left handed
Correct me if I'm wrong..
journalist - One who keeps a journal
"blog" - an online diary
diary - A daily record, especially a personal record of events, experiences, and observations; a journal.
Now doesnt that make anyone that has a "blog" have an online diary which is a synonym for an online journal? Therefor having a blog makes your a journalist. Otherwise it isn't a blog...
he is, the thing though is the bottleneck isnt the capacity of the tubes but the load balancing at the ISPs and the throughput of "last mile" connections. There is hoards of bandwidth in dark fibre throughout the world.
Thats a horrible arguement.
If TweakUI was shoved down end-users throats like customizing cell phones is to cell phone users I'd imagine MANY more people would be interested in using it.
Since when does any administrator have actual access to anyones password? I can see them having the ability to change their password to something else.. but comon. Shouldn't / wouldn't these be encrypted and only accessable remotely?
according to the dictionary encumbered and hindered are completely interchangable
Now, the only reason these codecs arent supported is because of patents, right? How is that not encumbered? I'm sure everyone can agree they would be included by default had they been open codecs.
Hmm I was freezing my ass off all winter trying to smoke cigarettes outside of work.. and the highest temps I've noticed around my area thus far have been around 90F(around DC, in virginia)
Pretty cool compared to normal.. I haven't even used the A/C in my car yet...the windows down keeps me very comfy.
Before the quality of search results I Think the main problem with both MSN and Yahoo! is all the crap on their site. Google is plain and simple, when people to go a site with the specific intent of searching why would they want to look at all that junk?
"encumbered - To hinder or impede the action or performance of"
Ubuntu IS encumbered by patent restrictions, unless you are trying to say ubuntu supports those formats out of the box? Nice try though..
Its been 20 years since 1986..
you sure about that? My x2 3800+ is using between 0 and 1% CPU resources with 6 IE windows + FF w/ 3x tabs + Aim + antivirus and browsing the web.
wait.. it just hopped to 2% for a split second.
I am using 400MB of ram currently though.. thats kinda hoggish.
Hmm upon reading the topic I was under the impression you were interested in tools for "manually" writing something. Upon further inspection it seems you are looking for tools to write a manual.
Whats wrong with MS word or OOo?
they found porn on the hard drives?! I need to get a job at geek squad
why not:
atari
nes
snes / genesis
psx / n64 / saturn
dreamcast / ps2
xbox / gamecube
xbox360 / wii / ps3
?
For me being computer literate is not / very rarely asking for help with your computer. That doesn't mean they need to know how to install linux as an example.. just that said person is capable of doing whatever they want to do on their computer without direct assistance. (Of course reading a manual.. or using the electricity from the power company doesn't count :D)
To come across an easy way for instant elevation (run as admin, w/e) in XP. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? Not many issues as far as spyware / virii. I'd def give it a shot if I wouldnt have to reboot every time I install an application.. thats why I'm usually at least a week or two behind on patches, I hate rebooting.
:)
As a general user that doesn't know how to install programs on their own anyway and has issues doing simple things like sending an e-mail attachment there is no reason to run as admin. So for yourself or more savvy users I could recommend possibly running as admin and for the less-knowledgable without it.
Of course there is the 3rd case where people are able to do admin tasks and you don't want them to.. that one should be obvious though