Posts by wsm 329 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Aug 2008
Won't happen without using existing technology. No need for super-cooling when the ceramic tiles from the Space Shuttle, as several have mentioned, will work. But that's my point: heat-resistant materials have been around for centuries. Most varieties of mineral-based compositions will do the trick.
But the old school solution, asbestos, probably won't be making a comeback.
From the clueless to the clueless: who else would believe that the "Photoshop of word processing" could occur without the "overkill" of Word?
Sounds like Google is already proceeding backwards to the stagnation of the larger corporate mindset. Can't beat the competition while you do that, you can only join them.
I have to agree with the closing Flash comment. What is turned off most often by Firefox users? It's Flash and its intrusion into areas most IE-only users won't know about.
It's not your computer until you turn off Flash and deny it's data collection--which you can only do while on Adobe.com, by the way.
Amazing the level of naivete in some executives--all they need are assurances at board meetings before risking the livelihood of their stockholders.
About the only thing a lawsuit in China accomplishes is to alert the various authorities were the money went, for purposes of recovery of course!
Downloaded in less than 20 minutes, but immediately after the message arrived from Digital River. Early downloaders seemed to have no problem at all according to other forums.
BTW, the expandedSetup folder can be used to create a bootable .iso file. Any number of softwares can do that. One of the files inside the \Boot directory is used as the boot image and with a small change to the sector load specification, a Windows 7 DVD is made.
that there is no news here. PayPal is a completely unregulated service which does arbitrary things with scrip accounts. There is no money in your PayPal account, there is only what they say is in it.
I won a suit against PayPal and I'm not going back . No more eBay, no more small-time scammers selling junk. It's quite the life.
Let's see, any need for climate-control to preserve national treasures, conduct proper laboratory procedures, heal the sick--all of those need to go. After all, they just aren't energy efficient.
Four our next leap in logic, let's eliminate all nighttime lighting, keep ambulances from speeding, maybe even put everyone on bicycles.
It's Earth first, isn't it?
It's not just the size of the country and its varied population densities that seem to have confused the broadband report. Their approach to data analysis is naive.
Look at an obvious example like the State of Nevada. In the Las Vegas area, mediocre speeds abound. In an area north-east of Sin City, where only nearly deserted national parks and ranches are the norm, with a single town of 1,252 residents within hundreds of square miles, broadband speeds are extraordinary.
I say the sample size is remarkably poor and the map is wholly inaccurate. There may be those who want broadband everywhere, but it's not likely to happen where it's not needed. Though some communication abilities are beneficial for everyone, the Internet is not a necessity everywhere.
Sophos can't manage to get its client software to work on Windows servers once IE8 is installed due to problems with reliance on URL files to do its updating. No amount of pleading with their tech people can get that through to them, that they are completely useless in protecting servers.
Now Sophos is complaining that a VM needs another licensed copy of its software? Does this mean they can't figure out how to scan another set of files on the same computer? Even if some configuration of a remote scan is needed, it seems that Sophos is completely lacking in problem-solving expertise if they can't offer something to help.
Since the advent of Word and its initial competitive target, WordPerfect, Microsoft have not been able to convert graphics and tables with their content intact, let alone format either correctly.
Now OpenOffice and Word can't play nice. This is nothing new. Some ODF pre-loaders have been able to better convert Word documents before Writer reads them and Word can open files that OpenOffice saved into a .doc format, but that's as far as it goes.
Is anyone capable of creating a standards body that truly has neutral standards? Apparently not, not while there is software to sell and governments want to help regulate it.
no one on a home-based broadband connection ever expects the quality of any service provided to be anything but the best.
Like the quality we expect of telephone calls has declined since the advent or mobile phones, we don't really think that everything we get from an ISP will actually work as advertised--do we?
Windows 7 RTM is currently available (legitimately) through, at the very least, M\SDN, TechNet public and registered member offerings, OEM channels, Academic Alliance affiliated student groups, and the latest Microsoft roadshow giveaways.
When the pre-orders are released, many more installations will occur and MS will collect error messages leading up to the next service pack.
It's all part of the product life-cycle of an operating system. Isn't it wondrous?
BTW, the upgrade pre-order is less expensive in the states: $50.00 for Home Premium, $100.00 for Professional or Ultimate.
There won't be a stampede to upgrade for XP users, but there will be a lot fewer downgrade-to-XP customers.
Windows 7 runs better on lesser hardware but has the features that investors in good graphics cards and RAM will appreciate.
Translation: Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.
The issue at hand isn't control of computers, servers, or networks as most people know them. It's a matter of controlling access to two criminal records systems. The law enforcement personnel must control the system under strict federal and state guidelines. The trouble starts when politicians think they can arbitrarily give themselves or their under-skilled relatives control over the systems.
The rules are so strict on the data from these systems that only certified operators can even look at the terminal screens that display the information, let alone touch their keyboards or print from the system.
The sheriff probably has a point, but the local media and the misguided judge aren't letting him get the point across.
I know a few small business owners who were suckered into this arrangement. Each of them has said they will no longer use their sites and will let them expire rather than deal with Microsoft again.
Since Dell pushed this "free" service on them whenever they bought PCs through their small business division, Dell may be losing a few customers also.
When salaried under a contract with a large software firm (guess who) at the same time as they were opening a regional support center, several of us were contacted (supposedly by referral), applied, passed the technical tests, and were taking turns flying to the regional center for final offers.
After the first few made the round-trip, phone calls were made and the last man they sent for arrived only to be told he was "not qualified." All other arrangements were suddenly canceled and the rest of us notified we were also on the "not qualified" list.
An administrative assistant confirmed the phone calls were placed, but not a single corporate manager admitted making them. We were simply out of a larger paycheck. The company eventually lost the contract, but it was still difficult to get an interview with said software firm after the fact.
Dell does this regularly here, with pricing at anywhere from a few percentage points discount to nearly a complete give-away. But in most cases, they simply apologize and cancel all orders. Nothing else happens.
Perhaps holding them accountable would cure some of their self-checking policies, or lack thereof.
What the crocodile keyboard does is to put the largest part of the key where the largest part of the finger can contact it without overlapping onto another key. The triangle shape eliminates the lower part of the key where an overlap of the shape of the finger would hit the lower part of the key above the intended target.
True, there are differently shaped fingers and angles of attack, but the general idea of eliminating the contact area where there is none desired is done easily with triangles. Other shapes still put contact (or sensing) areas where they are not needed. Ovals between ovals or other shapes might do something similar, but triangles are easy.
Microsoft turning customers away? Well, they always did have trouble with "setting expectations" as their training manuals called it.
For what it's worth, I got the RC last week and, like nearly everyone on the forums who wanted it, I can say it's a success as a replacement for Vista. It puts all of the fixes in the right spots and works on just about everything from netbooks to servers.
The only stumbling block is the virtualization compatibility requirement for the CPU. But that's meant for newer boxes anyway.
to get a contract as the supplier of tinfoil hats, specially hand-constructed to protect the evidence handlers from possible contamination by the dirty data on these drives. With the obviously already distressed way of thinking from which they suffer, they just might buy into the protective gear idea.
But seriously, they are concerned with someone in what passes for central IT being able to "look" at a drive in another location and still call the results "evidence." I am sure the chain of custody won't hold up even if this were written into law.
Imagine the testimony:
"How do you know you were examining the correct 'hard drive' then?"
"'Cause the local constable told me it was."
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