and considering the effort required to upgrade ANY activex control now literally consists of a click and restart of the browser, I don't see how this couldn't be put into widespread use ASAP.
I've found H.264 is a tad bit fuzzier on my LCD TV during high-action scenes than Xvid (my reference is with the show Firefly) but given the difference in filesize, I'll never be one to complain!
The idea is that company C and company V have a contract preventing this sort of thing. Plus, it's all about the key-words nowadays and paying ANYONE for a "completely open internet" means you either don't understand how it works or you don't care.
This is seemingly targeted at a more 'ludditeful' crowd.
While I understand it may be frustrating, it is also your job (assuming you're IT) to train and upgrade products... Would you give someone in your company a "new" P3 500 MHz computer? Why is Office 2000 different? Sure the newfangled software might be different but who's to say they won't like it, or at least be current with the times? All I'm saying is that I've found the new interface to be intuitive and much faster. Yes, it's different, yes, it will require training, but what are we paying our IT staff for?
Then again, I'm also the type of guy that as a 5 year old pushed the button under the bank managers desk...
Actually, this reminds me of a book that I haven't seen for many years. While my grandpa was flying off to Germany in WWII, his troupe stopped in NYC for a bit before flying over. While there he bought this little silver book...on the cover was printed "Nudes Illustrated." The thing had a tin-foil cover, and the best part was there was a battery attached to a spring inside. When the book was opened, a magnet would pull the spring back, and the battery would rapidly oscillate back and forth, making a connection then breaking it, and repeating. The effect was, since the cover was tin-foil, the book would shock whoever opened it.
Now there's no need for the obvious (and heavy) battery!!!
Why do you think the ribbon is horrible? Sure it takes some getting used to, but I've found the interface much more intuitive. Try telling your grandmother how to print in Landscape all the way up to Office XP... It required at least 3 levels of menu-digging and a half-dozen clicks. Now, it's 2 clicks and she's on her way to printing out cheap-ass birthday cards!
I had a problem moving from using only a keyboard in Windows 3.1 to using a mouse in Windows 95, I thought it was too "clunky" and "bubbly" (pre-XP.) In the 10+ years since those 4 months of annoyance, nothing has really changed!
and I wonder where the antennae is pointing now? and what alien race is seeing incoming data from an uninhabited planet and scratching their...top-most-body parts...!
Thank you. I don't like to respond to my own posts, but I don't understand why it was modded troll either.
I'm actually speaking personally when I wrote the above. I myself have a mild form of PKU (it was caught and regulated from a young age, I am perfectly fine!) which means that even though I look, act, smell, feel normal, and I have the same level of intelligence as the next smartass, I STILL am not "optimal" or "the fittest" genetically of all other options. Does that mean I won't mate? Hell no, I'm mating weekly or more... Does that mean I SHOULD pass my gene's on? As far as I'm concerned, why not? PKU is very treatable and I have lived already a very successful 20+ years, and hope to live another 60!
By passing my gene's on, I'm diluting the gene pool, EVEN THOUGH I'm diluting it with a genetic abnormality. That was the entire intent of the above comment, troll or not, I just didn't want to have to bring myself into it to read peoples reactions...
I'm actually surprised by all of this. With the social programs we as a species have adopted, those individuals with crippling genetic diseases are now able to stay alive much longer and lead productive lives. With this, and as horrible as it is to say, unfortunately there is a better chance now for those individuals with disorders to reproduce. This isn't limited to disorders, but there are plenty of genetically influenced traits that thousands of years ago would have killed the carrier (ie: obesity, arthritis, diabetes) if they were being chased by some wild animal, effectively progressing towards weeding it out of the gene pool.
Though, in the same light, it's geographical distinction that most commonly affects genetic distribution and overall genetic manipulation (over time.) Given the ease of relocation and more liberal ethical philosophies in deciding our mates (compare to 50+ years or just 2 generations ago) I understand the dramatic decrease...
Slashdot is the (stagnant?) breeding pool of internet meme's. If you didn't know this by now, I'd assume you're new. In that case, good news everyone! We welcome you new n00berific meme-misunderstanding overlords! All your meme belong to us!
Oh don't get me wrong, there are some tards out there that will post entire HL7 messages to public boards, completely exposing medical record numbers, social security numbers, even things like allergies, diagnosis and food preferences! In cases like that, I'm glad they get the can. Could you imagine being told you had contracted HIV or some other insidious disease, and suddenly the entire world knows simply because some retard in the hospital's IT decided to share the logs for whatever reason?
HIPAA is a step in the right direction, and I certainly care enough about my job AND my own privacy to respect that of others... My point is that it's just very easy to violate it, and it can even be the tiniest (seemingly insignificant) thing!
It's HIPAA, not HIPPA, though we in the medical biz do refer to it as the giant hippo on our back!
Don't get me wrong, patient privacy is important, but these regulations are incredibly strict! If I receive an email containing just ONE identifiable record for a medical patient, I'm to report it and the sender is to be cited. This includes birthdays, phone numbers or billing IDs (which are completely internal to the facility!)
Two citations and you're canned... Yeah, that's right, send me an email containing a patients phone number and birthday and you are fired, no questions asked.
Windows 2003 with no service pack, and the instance where I was receiving the viruses was when I was at college on Internet2 with a completely open connection.
I kept getting the sasser virus, most specifically, and had to constantly run the "shutdown -a" command in start > run or it would restart in a minute.
I promise I wasn't trolling, I was really just saying "I understand!"
From the article: Again, even when idle and running only a bare minimum of system processes.
With that said, has anyone ever installed Server 2003 on a box, only to realize you booted it for the first time with the ethernet plugged in (and the firewall defaults to "off?") and within 45 seconds it's crippled by one of about 7 different viruses? Yeah, well, it's happened to me more times than I can count on one hand, I KNOW I'm constantly scanned from multiple sources, P2P software or not.
Well, sure, if I stopped using my microwave to cook stuff I'm sure it'd last decades! I think the point is much less to restrict what you do and still be able to avoid the bloat...
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and considering the effort required to upgrade ANY activex control now literally consists of a click and restart of the browser, I don't see how this couldn't be put into widespread use ASAP.
I've found H.264 is a tad bit fuzzier on my LCD TV during high-action scenes than Xvid (my reference is with the show Firefly) but given the difference in filesize, I'll never be one to complain!
The idea is that company C and company V have a contract preventing this sort of thing. Plus, it's all about the key-words nowadays and paying ANYONE for a "completely open internet" means you either don't understand how it works or you don't care.
This is seemingly targeted at a more 'ludditeful' crowd.
While I understand it may be frustrating, it is also your job (assuming you're IT) to train and upgrade products... Would you give someone in your company a "new" P3 500 MHz computer? Why is Office 2000 different? Sure the newfangled software might be different but who's to say they won't like it, or at least be current with the times? All I'm saying is that I've found the new interface to be intuitive and much faster. Yes, it's different, yes, it will require training, but what are we paying our IT staff for?
Then again, I'm also the type of guy that as a 5 year old pushed the button under the bank managers desk...
Actually, this reminds me of a book that I haven't seen for many years. While my grandpa was flying off to Germany in WWII, his troupe stopped in NYC for a bit before flying over. While there he bought this little silver book...on the cover was printed "Nudes Illustrated."
The thing had a tin-foil cover, and the best part was there was a battery attached to a spring inside. When the book was opened, a magnet would pull the spring back, and the battery would rapidly oscillate back and forth, making a connection then breaking it, and repeating. The effect was, since the cover was tin-foil, the book would shock whoever opened it.
Now there's no need for the obvious (and heavy) battery!!!
Our current administration is NOTHING like Reagan's, outside the label.
Why do you think the ribbon is horrible? Sure it takes some getting used to, but I've found the interface much more intuitive. Try telling your grandmother how to print in Landscape all the way up to Office XP... It required at least 3 levels of menu-digging and a half-dozen clicks. Now, it's 2 clicks and she's on her way to printing out cheap-ass birthday cards!
I had a problem moving from using only a keyboard in Windows 3.1 to using a mouse in Windows 95, I thought it was too "clunky" and "bubbly" (pre-XP.) In the 10+ years since those 4 months of annoyance, nothing has really changed!
By then, it might be worthwhile to just wait for Windows 7.
and I wonder where the antennae is pointing now? and what alien race is seeing incoming data from an uninhabited planet and scratching their...top-most-body parts...!
Thank you. I don't like to respond to my own posts, but I don't understand why it was modded troll either.
I'm actually speaking personally when I wrote the above. I myself have a mild form of PKU (it was caught and regulated from a young age, I am perfectly fine!) which means that even though I look, act, smell, feel normal, and I have the same level of intelligence as the next smartass, I STILL am not "optimal" or "the fittest" genetically of all other options. Does that mean I won't mate? Hell no, I'm mating weekly or more... Does that mean I SHOULD pass my gene's on? As far as I'm concerned, why not? PKU is very treatable and I have lived already a very successful 20+ years, and hope to live another 60!
By passing my gene's on, I'm diluting the gene pool, EVEN THOUGH I'm diluting it with a genetic abnormality. That was the entire intent of the above comment, troll or not, I just didn't want to have to bring myself into it to read peoples reactions...
I'm actually surprised by all of this. With the social programs we as a species have adopted, those individuals with crippling genetic diseases are now able to stay alive much longer and lead productive lives. With this, and as horrible as it is to say, unfortunately there is a better chance now for those individuals with disorders to reproduce. This isn't limited to disorders, but there are plenty of genetically influenced traits that thousands of years ago would have killed the carrier (ie: obesity, arthritis, diabetes) if they were being chased by some wild animal, effectively progressing towards weeding it out of the gene pool.
Though, in the same light, it's geographical distinction that most commonly affects genetic distribution and overall genetic manipulation (over time.) Given the ease of relocation and more liberal ethical philosophies in deciding our mates (compare to 50+ years or just 2 generations ago) I understand the dramatic decrease...
Slashdot is the (stagnant?) breeding pool of internet meme's. If you didn't know this by now, I'd assume you're new. In that case, good news everyone! We welcome you new n00berific meme-misunderstanding overlords! All your meme belong to us!
Oh don't get me wrong, there are some tards out there that will post entire HL7 messages to public boards, completely exposing medical record numbers, social security numbers, even things like allergies, diagnosis and food preferences! In cases like that, I'm glad they get the can. Could you imagine being told you had contracted HIV or some other insidious disease, and suddenly the entire world knows simply because some retard in the hospital's IT decided to share the logs for whatever reason?
HIPAA is a step in the right direction, and I certainly care enough about my job AND my own privacy to respect that of others... My point is that it's just very easy to violate it, and it can even be the tiniest (seemingly insignificant) thing!
^^not related to the parent, but not off-topic^^
It's HIPAA, not HIPPA, though we in the medical biz do refer to it as the giant hippo on our back!
Don't get me wrong, patient privacy is important, but these regulations are incredibly strict! If I receive an email containing just ONE identifiable record for a medical patient, I'm to report it and the sender is to be cited. This includes birthdays, phone numbers or billing IDs (which are completely internal to the facility!)
Two citations and you're canned... Yeah, that's right, send me an email containing a patients phone number and birthday and you are fired, no questions asked.
Considering we're still all funked up from the economics of every single example you gave I think it's VERY relevant.
If you REALLY don't think that the decisions made more than 10 years ago don't affect us today, please read this. (PDF)
I think we should take an anonymous poll here.......
Post if you DON'T have porn on your computer.
This one doesn't count...
Who says that 90% of our government now is insightful forever though? What laws would EVER get 90% approval?!
Windows 2003 with no service pack, and the instance where I was receiving the viruses was when I was at college on Internet2 with a completely open connection.
I kept getting the sasser virus, most specifically, and had to constantly run the "shutdown -a" command in start > run or it would restart in a minute.
I promise I wasn't trolling, I was really just saying "I understand!"
...so yeah, chill man!
From the article: Again, even when idle and running only a bare minimum of system processes.
With that said, has anyone ever installed Server 2003 on a box, only to realize you booted it for the first time with the ethernet plugged in (and the firewall defaults to "off?") and within 45 seconds it's crippled by one of about 7 different viruses? Yeah, well, it's happened to me more times than I can count on one hand, I KNOW I'm constantly scanned from multiple sources, P2P software or not.
Since I have stopped downloading stuff
Well, sure, if I stopped using my microwave to cook stuff I'm sure it'd last decades! I think the point is much less to restrict what you do and still be able to avoid the bloat...
Colleges singled out:
State University of New York at Morrisville
Georgia Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
University of Central Arkansas
University of Delaware
Northern Michigan University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
George Washington University
Ohio State University
New Mexico State University
Eckerd College
University of Minnesota
California State University - Monterey Bay
University of Kansas
University of Missouri - Rolla
University of San Francisco
Case Western Reserve University
Northern Arizona University
San Francisco State University
University of Tulsa
Franklin and Marshall College
Western Kentucky University
and Santa Clara University.
...so...they were former roomates?
...with the sole exception being that water doesn't necessarily LIKE to stay in a pyramid shape! You know...physics, gravity and all...
...by ripping off her forearm?
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