Comment Re:Surprise! (Score 2) 500
I think the OP's point is like XP was Windows nt5.1 to Windows 2k's nt5.0 (hint, just an update) and that Windows7 is just an update to Windows Vista, that ME was just an update to Windows 98 osr2.5.
Submission + - High Tech Misery in China
theodp writes: "Think you've got a bad job? Think again. You could be making keyboards for IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and HP at Meitai Plastic and Electronics, a Chinese hardware factory. Prompted by the release of High Tech Misery in China by a human-rights group, a self-regulating body set up by tech companies will conduct an audit of working conditions at the factory. In return for take-home pay of 41 cents per hour, workers reportedly sit on hard wooden stools for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Overtime is mandatory, with workers being given on average two days off per month. While on the production line, workers are not allowed to raise their hands or heads, are given 1.1 seconds to snap each key into place, and are encouraged to "actively monitor each other" to see if any company rules are being transgressed. They are also monitored by guards. Workers are fined if they break the rules, locked in the factory for four days per week, and sleep in crowded dormitories. Okay, it's not all bad news — they're hiring."
Submission + - EU wants standard for mobile phone connectors (www.nu.nl) 1
Jantastic writes: "European Commissioner Günter Verheugen (Industry) wants manufacturers of mobile phones to come up with a standard connector for chargers and microphones. If companies fail to do so, proposed legislation should speed up this process. Original story in Dutch here, funny English translation here. In theory, this could improve competition, while enabling longer lifecycles for these devices."
Submission + - Are you ready for road tolls anywhere? (and-still-i-persist.com)
bfwebster writes: "Here in Denver, we have E-470, a toll section of the 470 beltway that uses the usual transponder attached to your windshield. Fair enough, and I make use of it, particularly in driving to the airport. But they've just implemented new technology on E-470 that allows anyone to drive through the automated toll gates. If you don't have a transponder, it takes a photo of your license plate and sends a monthly bill to your house. As a result, the company that runs E-470 plans to close all human-staffed toll booths by mid-summer. And as an article in this morning's Rocky Mountain News notes, "Such a system could be deployed on other roads, including some that motorists now use free. The result: a new source of money for highways and bridges badly in need of repair." You can bet that legislators, mayors, and city councilpersons everywhere will see this as an even-better source of income than red-light cameras. You've been warned.""
Comment TCP/IP is native to UNIX/Linux/BSD (Score -1, Flamebait) 515
TCP/IP is not native to Windows. Windows has the translation overhead that Linux doesn't.
Comment Re:Well? (Score 1) 269
He can have their license to practice law reviewed by the state bar, and the bar can revoke their privilege to practice law.
If, as a lawyer, you piss off a Federal Judge by not doing what the court asks of you, that can be the penalty.
Comment KDE prior art (Score 5, Informative) 250
Take a look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_1.0.jpg
see the view of the virtual desktops on the top right?
KDE has had this feature since at least 98
and I think the beta's had even more.
Gregory Swartz just patented someone elses work
likely seen while working as a consultant in the working environments of his clients.
Comment Re:Notification for everything (Score 1) 403
Have your fellow Idahoians been moving to California?
There seems to have been an increase of slow-drivers-that-won't-move-over here. Recently.
Comment Avast (Score 4, Informative) 586
Add me to the chorus of Avast.
It simply works and works well.
Submission + - Mac users' Internet experience to remain seamless 2
thefickler writes: Mac users will continue to see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the renewal of a font licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts.
Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts", and are therefore widely used by Internet developers.
Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts", and are therefore widely used by Internet developers.
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Journal Journal: Bill Introduced to Save Internet Radio
According to SaveNetRadio.org, Representatives Jay Inslee and Donald Manzullo have introduced a bill to restore reasonable royalty rates to Internet Radio. It hasn't passed yet, so there's still time to let your representatives know that you support this bill (or don't).
Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website 356
Iberian writes "The Courant site confirms an oft-rumoured possibility: Best Buy does indeed maintain a second website for what one could assume is for the purpose of defrauding its customers. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after columnist George Gombossy disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com. Says Gombossy, 'What is more troubling to me, and to some Best Buy customers, is that even when one informs a salesperson of the Internet price, customers have been shown the intranet site, which looks identical to the Internet site, but does not always show the lowest price. [State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal] said that because of the fuzzy responses from Best Buy, he has yet to figure out the real motivation behind the intranet site and whether sales people are encouraged to use it to cheat customers.'"
MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online 83
networkBoy writes with word that The Register is following up its story about the Microsoft dirty tricks archive going offline. It appears that several individuals have the pieces to the puzzle and are looking for hosting resources. From the latter article: "The 3,000 document archive from the Comes antitrust trial, which disappeared from the web abruptly when Microsoft settled the case last week, is beginning to trickle back into view. A week ago the site was placed under password protection, Microsoft withdrew its own account of events, and so-called internet 'archive' archive.org apparently also pulled its mirror."
Journal Journal: The Earth was warming before global warming was cool. 4
Sometimes it is useful to be a devil's advocate in discussing matters of scietific import. Thus we get this column from Pete du Pont in the WSJ
