In the linked article (here) there is a section about solitaire that indicates that an application will be available called "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" which will replace the existing application.
The HOSTS file works fine in Windows 8. I use it on a daily basis.
If you're going to complain about something try to ensure you know what you're talking about.
Another big step of course is to eliminate the passing of wealth from parent to child. As long as we allow that then you can in a roundabout way take it with you. That is the secret to breaking up most of the entrenched power. By separating the success of the parent from the opportunity and success of the child you break up most of the entrenched power in short order.
That is, without a doubt, one of the most asinine and ignorant things I've seen anyone post in my entire life.
Have you ever heard of personal property rights? It is one of the things that is guaranteed in the US Constitution and is one of the foundations of the entire republic. What wealth and items I accumulate during my time on this planet are mine to distribute to my heirs as I see fit. The government does not have any right to rip that from my cold dead hands or from that of my heirs.
The idea that somehow accumulating wealth is wrong and should be stopped is just ridiculous.
While what you say is technically true it is grossly misleading.
The.NET Framework 3.0 is what you're referring to. The 3.0 framework is simply the 2.0 framework with WCF, WPF, WF and CardSpaces.
The 3.5 framework on the other hand does base itself on the 2.0 framework and includes all the aforementioned additions but also adds a ton of enhancements and new features as well as several bug-fixes and performance improvements. Click here for the obligatory Wikipedia reference.
There is also the.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 being released that will add more features and functionality as well as a few bug-fixes and preformance improvements.
For those not in the know....
WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation WCF - Windows Communication Foundation WF - Windows Workflow Foundation CardSpaces - Card Spaces (redundant?)
The EU has already overstepped their bounds. No government should be allowed to tell a company what it is they can charge for a product nor whether their individual products are "innovative" or just "patentable".
Forget the fact that the entire process is a blatant example of socialism, it's just purely one-sided and I believe that no matter what Microsoft does at this point the EU will just continue to abuse this implied authority that they've been granted until they can drive Microsoft off their shores or make all of the products free in EU.
Congratulations, this story is about a week old if not older. I heard them interview the guy on I think KROQ radio station in Southern California just after it happened.
Anything else you want to report? I don't know.... maybe like Anna Nicole Smith has died or perhaps the fact that JFK was assasinated?
The problem is that it's not really security. Security isn't asking the user if they're really sure they want to do something. Security is making sure the user is someone who is *allowed* to do something. You can't do that by saying, "allow or deny?", you do that by saying, "Enter your user name and password.".
If you are running Vista with a LIMITED user account you are in fact prompted for the PASSWORD for the ADMINISTRATOR account that you set up during installation. You only get the "Allow / Deny" prompt with no password requirement if you are already logged in as an administrator.
UAC isn't security. It's security-like trappings.
While the UAC system isn't perfect I think it's at least a step in the right direction. With a little tuning it could become perfect. Whether or not Microsoft decides to invest the time and effort in making it so is another topic for another time.
Can someone please explain to me how this is a violation of privacy? I'm seriously curious.
This gives anyone and everyone the ability to track my movements without my prior knowledge or consent. Yes, I know that theoretically someone can already do that by having me tracked by a PI or other such "active tracking" effort. However, the key distinction is just that.... one is "active" and the other is "passive". It is a direct violation of one's ability to go about your business without having every movement tracked and recorded for replay by Big Brother.
The medical benefits of EMTs being able to instantly know a person's blood type, allergies, and medical history are obvious.
Since I was 10 they have offered bracelets and necklaces that are imprinted with my blood type and allergies and medical conditions. I don't need a damned RFID tag to do this. It's just another excuse that is used to try and soften up the masses. It ranks right up there with the "Think about the children..." rhetoric.
What isn't obvious is why people think short-range RFID is the same as battery-powered wild animal tracking collars. Are they just stupid? Look at the way RFID works. A person CAN NOT use it to track someone as they walk around a city. A device capable of generating the power to operate these over more than a very short distance would be very obvious to spot and would probably break every PDA and wrist-watch in the area. Also, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to survey a large number of RFID devices at the same time because of the way collisions are handled.
It can and will be used to track someone as they move across town. Telling yourself anything else is just denial. Technologies always improve. If they can read an RFID with a low-power signal today at 2 feet in the real world then I will guarantee that they have something in the R & D shop that can do it at 10 feet already, and due to the of the technology, will probably be able to do it at 50 to 100 feet within a very short time frame. As for collisions, don't fool yourself. You pulse 2,000 tags every 1/4 of a second and filter out the ones you've already read and you've got a VERY accurate sampling of your "grid" however big that may be.
If you are afraid of this yet you carry a cellphone, you are a hypocrite. For practical purposes, small* RFID tags are a slightly-longer-range barcode
I can turn my cell phone off. I can leave it at home. I can throw it away and buy another one if I so wish. It is not part of me. An injected RFID tag or subdural tag, whichever they chose to use, is part of me. There is no off switch and there is no replacement plan. If RFID was truly nothing than a slightly-longer range barcode as you state then we wouldn't have RFID technology in the first place and we'd just have better barcode scanners.
I strongly suggest you take the time to not just think of what they can do with the technology today but put some serious thought in to where they'll be taking the technology in the future. More importantly still, think of how this technology will be abused in the future, not *IF* it will be abused, but *HOW* it will be abused. We can't even trust the government or corporations with the basic information they have available to them now. Do you think they're going to grow a conscience all of a sudden and not abuse this new tool as well?
So how much do the thought police pay you for trolling around on forums and making sure that people adhere to the politically-correct babble and unisex gender qualification rules?
Go back to your liberal Ivory Tower and leave the rest of the populace alone.
Can I have some of what you're drinking because it is obviously pretty damned strong.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual... that's just a few of the big-name banks and if you think for a minute that a handful of people asking when they're going to support Firefox is going to cause them to change their sites then you're out of your mind.
I work with all three banks on a daily basis developing direct intergrations in to my company's systems. These companies take 4 - 6 months to add a single new feature to any of their systems.
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When I was in the market for a new HDTV last year I desperatley wanted to get a DLP. To me the images seem clearer, the colors mor vibrant and the blacks are almost CRT level blacks. Unfortunatley for me my living room layout requires that my TV be placed in a media-nitch that sits roughly 4-feet off the ground so between viewing angle problems and size restrictions I could not get a DLP.
If you're not one of the "oh look how thin it is" or "I've gotta hang it on my wall" crowd then I'd suggeest a DLP set. The 52" models start out at around 16" deep and go up from there. Mitsubishi and even HP offer some beautiful models all of which are 1080p.
I would have to agree with you. I think it's ridiculous that I can't simply image a game on to my console and pick it from a menu. They could accomplish this and still maintain their paranoid DRM measures simply by encrypting the image using a hash unique to the machine or something similar.
I can't even begin to count how many games I've had to rebuy over the years for my XBox simply because the DVD has gotten damaged from continuous use... a situation that would not have happened if I could simply store the image on the box. It doesn't make the game companies any more money when this happens. I simply buy the next copy used from someone on the newsgroups for the same price that they'd get on the trade-in or from one of the many local stores that sell used games.
Someday, maybe, someone at Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo or whatever company will make this a viable option on a console and when they do I'll have my wallet in hand on the day of the release.
If they release Racing Destruction Set for the Wii I'm a dead man. That game nearly consumed my soul at the tender age of 14 and I can only imagine that the rerelease would suck me in just as well.
I'm sure if they release it on the Wii that my wife and children would simply abandon me.
I'm in the same boat as you my friend. I'm running a 6800GT OC and it will handle the majority of my game just fine. The newer games it tends to bog down a little bit on (BattleField 2142 especially) and I'm tempted to upgrade.
However, even though I'm a serious gamer and play just about anything and everything that comes out I'm reluctant to upgrade. There is the looming release of DX10, the fact that I have to switch from AGP to PCI-E if I want any real options which itself entails the processor upgrade (Core 2 Duo 6700 here I come) and a new motherboard and new memory and so on.
The worst part of it all is that I'm sure when the DX10 capable cards release they'll be in the $500 range which means that I'll have to wait another 6 to 12 months after they're released in order to find one in my comfort zone of $300, plus or minus $50.
Windows does have a central repository of software and hardware that is availble for it. It's not 100% inclusive of course because the sheer volume would be astounding. It does however list a fairly large portion of the more mainstream software that people might want to get their hands on.
It's called the Windows Catalog and there is a link to it in the Start Menu under All Programs right there next to the link to Windows Update.
If memory serves correctly it has been there since the first version of Windows XP.
Unfortunatley, DLP was not an option for me. I was stuck with either Plasma or LCD flat panels due to the brain-dead floor plan in my family room.
I did look at the Mitsubishi DLP series of TVs which were all 1080p on all inputs and were around $3500 at the time. The picture quality was simply amazing but unfortunatley the form-factor wasn't something I could be flexible on.
I spent nearly 5 months looking for a TV which had a NATIVE 1080p resolution (1920x1080) and that would accept a 1080p signal on component, DVI and HDMI inputs. I was never able to find one that supported 1080p over component inputs but I finally found an affordable unit in the Westinghouse LVM-42w2 that did provide all the other functionality that I wanted.
I didn't find any sets during my research that could accept 1080p over component cables even in the $6K to $10K range.
My guess is that Microsoft will release a new cable in either VGA, DVI, or HDMI format in order to allow people to actually enjoy the benefits of a true 1080p signal.
I'm getting a little tired of hearing this FUD everytime a discussion of WGA pops up.
WGA does *NOT* prevent a user from updating Windows. What it does do is keep you from downloading "minor" content and manually chosing which updates to download. Instead the only opotion for updates on a system that fails a WGA check is to turn on Automatic Updates.
Enabling automatic updates allows the OS to download critical updates *ONLY* on a set schedule which are then automatically installed.
So even if you fail WGA you're not more likely to end up a spambot or zombie. As a matter of fact since the only way to get updates if you fail WGA is to let the system do it automatically you're probably more likley to get patched up regularly and are therefore less likely to become a spambot or zombie.
That game looks pretty nice. I couldn't find a demo, only a "demo coming soon" announcement. Do you have any idea when the demo is supposed to be released?
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In the linked article (here) there is a section about solitaire that indicates that an application will be available called "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" which will replace the existing application.
The HOSTS file works fine in Windows 8. I use it on a daily basis. If you're going to complain about something try to ensure you know what you're talking about.
Another big step of course is to eliminate the passing of wealth from parent to child. As long as we allow that then you can in a roundabout way take it with you. That is the secret to breaking up most of the entrenched power. By separating the success of the parent from the opportunity and success of the child you break up most of the entrenched power in short order.
That is, without a doubt, one of the most asinine and ignorant things I've seen anyone post in my entire life.
Have you ever heard of personal property rights? It is one of the things that is guaranteed in the US Constitution and is one of the foundations of the entire republic. What wealth and items I accumulate during my time on this planet are mine to distribute to my heirs as I see fit. The government does not have any right to rip that from my cold dead hands or from that of my heirs.
The idea that somehow accumulating wealth is wrong and should be stopped is just ridiculous.
The interview with the developers / designers indicates that they are targeting at least the PC and XBox 360.
There is no mention of the PS3 or the Wii in the article but that doesn't rule them out.
There was even mention of multiplayer and 4 player co-op play between the PC and XBox 360 as well.
We can start with the marketers and then follow up with the MBAs and attorneys. Once we're done with that I think we should rest.
While what you say is technically true it is grossly misleading.
The .NET Framework 3.0 is what you're referring to. The 3.0 framework is simply the 2.0 framework with WCF, WPF, WF and CardSpaces.
The 3.5 framework on the other hand does base itself on the 2.0 framework and includes all the aforementioned additions but also adds a ton of enhancements and new features as well as several bug-fixes and performance improvements. Click here for the obligatory Wikipedia reference.
There is also the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 being released that will add more features and functionality as well as a few bug-fixes and preformance improvements.
For those not in the know....
WPF - Windows Presentation FoundationWCF - Windows Communication Foundation
WF - Windows Workflow Foundation
CardSpaces - Card Spaces (redundant?)
It says, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"
The cake is a lie!
Cake is people!
Long live cake!
Will I be able to do "Massive Damage" to a "Crab" with my killer "Spear"?
The EU has already overstepped their bounds. No government should be allowed to tell a company what it is they can charge for a product nor whether their individual products are "innovative" or just "patentable".
Forget the fact that the entire process is a blatant example of socialism, it's just purely one-sided and I believe that no matter what Microsoft does at this point the EU will just continue to abuse this implied authority that they've been granted until they can drive Microsoft off their shores or make all of the products free in EU.
Congratulations, this story is about a week old if not older. I heard them interview the guy on I think KROQ radio station in Southern California just after it happened.
Anything else you want to report? I don't know.... maybe like Anna Nicole Smith has died or perhaps the fact that JFK was assasinated?
The problem is that it's not really security. Security isn't asking the user if they're really sure they want to do something. Security is making sure the user is someone who is *allowed* to do something. You can't do that by saying, "allow or deny?", you do that by saying, "Enter your user name and password.".
If you are running Vista with a LIMITED user account you are in fact prompted for the PASSWORD for the ADMINISTRATOR account that you set up during installation. You only get the "Allow / Deny" prompt with no password requirement if you are already logged in as an administrator.
UAC isn't security. It's security-like trappings.
While the UAC system isn't perfect I think it's at least a step in the right direction. With a little tuning it could become perfect. Whether or not Microsoft decides to invest the time and effort in making it so is another topic for another time.
Can someone please explain to me how this is a violation of privacy? I'm seriously curious.
This gives anyone and everyone the ability to track my movements without my prior knowledge or consent. Yes, I know that theoretically someone can already do that by having me tracked by a PI or other such "active tracking" effort. However, the key distinction is just that.... one is "active" and the other is "passive". It is a direct violation of one's ability to go about your business without having every movement tracked and recorded for replay by Big Brother.
The medical benefits of EMTs being able to instantly know a person's blood type, allergies, and medical history are obvious.
Since I was 10 they have offered bracelets and necklaces that are imprinted with my blood type and allergies and medical conditions. I don't need a damned RFID tag to do this. It's just another excuse that is used to try and soften up the masses. It ranks right up there with the "Think about the children..." rhetoric.
What isn't obvious is why people think short-range RFID is the same as battery-powered wild animal tracking collars. Are they just stupid? Look at the way RFID works. A person CAN NOT use it to track someone as they walk around a city. A device capable of generating the power to operate these over more than a very short distance would be very obvious to spot and would probably break every PDA and wrist-watch in the area. Also, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to survey a large number of RFID devices at the same time because of the way collisions are handled.
It can and will be used to track someone as they move across town. Telling yourself anything else is just denial. Technologies always improve. If they can read an RFID with a low-power signal today at 2 feet in the real world then I will guarantee that they have something in the R & D shop that can do it at 10 feet already, and due to the of the technology, will probably be able to do it at 50 to 100 feet within a very short time frame. As for collisions, don't fool yourself. You pulse 2,000 tags every 1/4 of a second and filter out the ones you've already read and you've got a VERY accurate sampling of your "grid" however big that may be. If you are afraid of this yet you carry a cellphone, you are a hypocrite. For practical purposes, small* RFID tags are a slightly-longer-range barcode
I can turn my cell phone off. I can leave it at home. I can throw it away and buy another one if I so wish. It is not part of me. An injected RFID tag or subdural tag, whichever they chose to use, is part of me. There is no off switch and there is no replacement plan. If RFID was truly nothing than a slightly-longer range barcode as you state then we wouldn't have RFID technology in the first place and we'd just have better barcode scanners.
I strongly suggest you take the time to not just think of what they can do with the technology today but put some serious thought in to where they'll be taking the technology in the future. More importantly still, think of how this technology will be abused in the future, not *IF* it will be abused, but *HOW* it will be abused. We can't even trust the government or corporations with the basic information they have available to them now. Do you think they're going to grow a conscience all of a sudden and not abuse this new tool as well?
I'm sorry, I must have missed the memo. Is sniffing magic markers supposed to be bad?
So how much do the thought police pay you for trolling around on forums and making sure that people adhere to the politically-correct babble and unisex gender qualification rules?
Go back to your liberal Ivory Tower and leave the rest of the populace alone.
Can I have some of what you're drinking because it is obviously pretty damned strong.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual... that's just a few of the big-name banks and if you think for a minute that a handful of people asking when they're going to support Firefox is going to cause them to change their sites then you're out of your mind.
I work with all three banks on a daily basis developing direct intergrations in to my company's systems. These companies take 4 - 6 months to add a single new feature to any of their systems.
When I was in the market for a new HDTV last year I desperatley wanted to get a DLP. To me the images seem clearer, the colors mor vibrant and the blacks are almost CRT level blacks. Unfortunatley for me my living room layout requires that my TV be placed in a media-nitch that sits roughly 4-feet off the ground so between viewing angle problems and size restrictions I could not get a DLP. If you're not one of the "oh look how thin it is" or "I've gotta hang it on my wall" crowd then I'd suggeest a DLP set. The 52" models start out at around 16" deep and go up from there. Mitsubishi and even HP offer some beautiful models all of which are 1080p.
I would have to agree with you. I think it's ridiculous that I can't simply image a game on to my console and pick it from a menu. They could accomplish this and still maintain their paranoid DRM measures simply by encrypting the image using a hash unique to the machine or something similar.
I can't even begin to count how many games I've had to rebuy over the years for my XBox simply because the DVD has gotten damaged from continuous use... a situation that would not have happened if I could simply store the image on the box. It doesn't make the game companies any more money when this happens. I simply buy the next copy used from someone on the newsgroups for the same price that they'd get on the trade-in or from one of the many local stores that sell used games.
Someday, maybe, someone at Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo or whatever company will make this a viable option on a console and when they do I'll have my wallet in hand on the day of the release.
If they release Racing Destruction Set for the Wii I'm a dead man. That game nearly consumed my soul at the tender age of 14 and I can only imagine that the rerelease would suck me in just as well.
I'm sure if they release it on the Wii that my wife and children would simply abandon me.
I'm in the same boat as you my friend. I'm running a 6800GT OC and it will handle the majority of my game just fine. The newer games it tends to bog down a little bit on (BattleField 2142 especially) and I'm tempted to upgrade.
However, even though I'm a serious gamer and play just about anything and everything that comes out I'm reluctant to upgrade. There is the looming release of DX10, the fact that I have to switch from AGP to PCI-E if I want any real options which itself entails the processor upgrade (Core 2 Duo 6700 here I come) and a new motherboard and new memory and so on.
The worst part of it all is that I'm sure when the DX10 capable cards release they'll be in the $500 range which means that I'll have to wait another 6 to 12 months after they're released in order to find one in my comfort zone of $300, plus or minus $50.
Windows does have a central repository of software and hardware that is availble for it. It's not 100% inclusive of course because the sheer volume would be astounding. It does however list a fairly large portion of the more mainstream software that people might want to get their hands on.
It's called the Windows Catalog and there is a link to it in the Start Menu under All Programs right there next to the link to Windows Update.
If memory serves correctly it has been there since the first version of Windows XP.
Unfortunatley, DLP was not an option for me. I was stuck with either Plasma or LCD flat panels due to the brain-dead floor plan in my family room.
I did look at the Mitsubishi DLP series of TVs which were all 1080p on all inputs and were around $3500 at the time. The picture quality was simply amazing but unfortunatley the form-factor wasn't something I could be flexible on.
I spent nearly 5 months looking for a TV which had a NATIVE 1080p resolution (1920x1080) and that would accept a 1080p signal on component, DVI and HDMI inputs. I was never able to find one that supported 1080p over component inputs but I finally found an affordable unit in the Westinghouse LVM-42w2 that did provide all the other functionality that I wanted.
I didn't find any sets during my research that could accept 1080p over component cables even in the $6K to $10K range.
My guess is that Microsoft will release a new cable in either VGA, DVI, or HDMI format in order to allow people to actually enjoy the benefits of a true 1080p signal.
I'm getting a little tired of hearing this FUD everytime a discussion of WGA pops up. WGA does *NOT* prevent a user from updating Windows. What it does do is keep you from downloading "minor" content and manually chosing which updates to download. Instead the only opotion for updates on a system that fails a WGA check is to turn on Automatic Updates. Enabling automatic updates allows the OS to download critical updates *ONLY* on a set schedule which are then automatically installed. So even if you fail WGA you're not more likely to end up a spambot or zombie. As a matter of fact since the only way to get updates if you fail WGA is to let the system do it automatically you're probably more likley to get patched up regularly and are therefore less likely to become a spambot or zombie.
That game looks pretty nice. I couldn't find a demo, only a "demo coming soon" announcement. Do you have any idea when the demo is supposed to be released?