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What game is this from? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-13 09:34 · Score: 0 · on The Most Violent Video Games of All Time

Can someone tell me what the image in the article is from? The one that looks like a demon with a balloon animal: http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/29/0,1468,i=290549,00.jpg

So nice of them... by Snarf+You · 2010-02-17 09:44 · Score: 1 · on No Glasses Needed For TI's New 3D Display

I'm so glad they included a 2D picture of the 3D-ness in action.

The greasy fingerprints were a nice touch too.

Re:Bad Math by xlotlu · 2009-06-23 10:43 · Score: 1 · on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later

Sucks to be in California then I guess, because he'll definitely have surplus during summer months.

Anyway, check this very explicit chart about the tier plan he has for grid usage. His logic makes sense.

Re:Something to credit Microsoft for by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-26 10:07 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Looking at the screenshot it gets 20/100 which is wak.

Extradit Gary McKinnon by jsse · 2008-09-08 03:46 · Score: 1 · on The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame

from planet Vulcan?

Hold your flamethrower! I'm not making fun of Gary McKinnon's look. I'm a huge fan of Spock, and I do think he looks so COOL. XD

Re:Wooden knobs == PC case mods by aywwts4 · 2007-11-19 10:36 · Score: 1 · on 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets

You mean something like a 279 dollar network card with a big knife blade K for a heat sink http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/14/0,1425,sz=1&i=143965,00.jpg
That actually increases ping times. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2037166,00.asp

I'll save all the lonely geeks some time by _Hellfire_ · 2007-08-07 20:40 · Score: 1 · on Couple Bonding Through PC Building

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /16/0,1425,sz=1&i=166358,00.jpg

You're welcome

Got to love this image by mrjb · 2007-06-16 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny · on How Motherboards Are Made

This made me chuckle-
1. Be more responsible
2. Complain less
3. Be more attentive
4. Make lesser mistakes

Re:Extra hyperlink by antifoidulus · 2007-06-16 02:11 · Score: 1 · on How Motherboards Are Made

Captions/tags would be useful. For example, are they saving their urine in bottles in this picture?

Re:Haptics 1.2 by bendodge · 2007-03-31 16:42 · Score: 1 · on Haptics Technology Turns Phones into Weapons

Most people don't know that there's a motor in virtually every mouse ever made. They were put in there for future haptic-response initiatives from Microsoft and its third-party application partners, but have yet to be put to good use--until now. I sent you a message. I'd call that a tip-off. There are no motors in my mice; I've taken them apart before. Also, the writers thumbnail pic has Ulanoff with black eyes and missing a tooth!

Re:Nah. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-04 17:36 · Score: 0 · on Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection

She looks pretty nice to me:
http://www.spiz.ae.krakow.pl/uploaded_images/11231 65482_64981000.jpg
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /13/0,1425,sz=1&i=135407,00.jpg
http://www.artsandartists.org/images/staff/joanna. jpg

Some interesting numbers with MS by AHuxley · 2006-12-05 11:30 · Score: 1 · on Top 40 IT Vendors Rated

The MS one.
Not really Happy Happy Joy Joy but many want back in.
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /14/0,1425,sz=1&i=147743,00.gif

I'd hit it like the fist from an angry god! by adolfojp · 2006-10-27 08:47 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Joanna Rutkowska Discusses VM Rootkits

You are missing the point guys! I don't know who she is or what she is selling but if she is a geek and looks like this
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /13/0,1425,sz=1&i=135407,00.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/66/206241643_d48861f49c.j pg
I am subscribing to her newsletter. ;-)

Re:Mislinked? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-06 06:31 · Score: 0 · on Dvorak on Our Modern World

Its right here http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /2/0,1425,i=23485,00.jpg

Another Caterpillar! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · 2006-05-12 02:57 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification

(Offtopic warning!)

That eweek's "malware icon" (just like slashdot's malware icon has a picture of something that's not a worm.

Unless I've missed the threat of 'caterpillars' crawling the internet (consuming all resources. :-)

Anyway, back on topic - wouldn't it be easier for MS to simply write more secure software? It's rather disheartening to hear their response to the deluge of malware is a classification program.

Re:Two questions. oops it says about distance by mapkinase · 2006-04-25 04:37 · Score: 1 · on First 802.11n Products Breaking Out

Distance graph comparison

Re:Desktop by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-06 02:38 · Score: 0 · on How Bill Gates Works

Apparently his office is pretty tame. Here's a better picture of the main part.

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /10/0,1425,sz=1&i=108727,00.jpg

Slick "new" calendar? by rock217 · 2006-02-28 09:57 · Score: 1 · on Why Vista Won't Suck

From TFA: The slick new calendar app is a welcome addition to the bundled Windows programs.

So how is this different than outlook? The screeny to me looks like outlook+eyecandy...maybe its just me.

Re:Why not paste the real link? by cswiger2005 · 2006-02-26 05:29 · Score: 1 · on Linux On Older Hardware

Oops, I got sidetracked a little bit in the last post, I meant to finish by posting an interesting link which is relevant to the story once you find it. Check out this image here:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /12/0,1425,i=123899,00.jpg

All of the Linux variants ran OK on 2001-grade hardware (P3-800 + 128MB RAM); most of them ran fine on 1999-grade hardware (P2-450/64MB). About half ran OK on 1997-grade P-233/32MB, and only one ran on a 1995-era box, which is over a decade old.

They didn't show how well Win2000 or WinXP or Vista will do on such machines, oddly enough, although the Ziff-Davis article spent a lot of time talking about the requirements for Office versus OpenOffice instead. I wonder why?

It's also a pity they didn't test the BSD family as well; NetBSD in particular would excel for that task, although OpenBSD and FreeBSD up through v4 would probably also work all the way back to the 1995-era 486/16MB machine. All three ought to work fine on the 1997 box.

When did Novell acquire Ziff Davis? by Zero__Kelvin · 2006-02-16 08:04 · Score: 1 · on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements

The article title says "Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements"

Unless Novell has been taking a page from Micro$oft, and has aquired Ziff Davis, this is entirely incorrect. If they have taken a page from M$, they really should give it back. That article sucked wind on so many levels it was of low standard even for Ziff Davis.

If I were a Novell executive, I would seriously be looking at firing off a gently worded cease and desist order to Slashdot for associating my company's name with that garbage.

Homer Simpson's Shoe by kleptonin · 2006-02-07 10:50 · Score: 2, Informative · on Are Vertical Mice The Next Ergonomic Trend?

My girlfriend uses the VerticalMouse 2 (photo) and it's come to be known in our circle of friends as "Homer Simpson's Shoe", mainly because of me constantly reminding her that it looked a bit like Homer Simpson's shoe. With some purple parts.

In any case, after using it for a few months, the pains she had been experiencing in her arm from using a regular mouse are gone.

Twisted arm graphic by planetsphinx · 2006-02-07 10:40 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Are Vertical Mice The Next Ergonomic Trend?

Ok, on the graphic example of the "twisted" arm, the hand holding the regular mouse, is twised WAY to far.
(Link to graphic in the article here.)
Also, it seems to me, holding the mouse in a 90 degree angle, like their many examples show, would stress my THUMB more than holding a regular mouse would stress my "twisted" arm..
Try it yourself. Hold your arm like in their example, pretend like your holding the 90 degree mouse. Now move your wrist 90 degrees, as if you were going to hold a mouse. I'm not sure about everybody else, but my wrist mostly moved, NOT my arm.
Nice try though.

Intel's roadmap by e1618978 · 2006-01-10 08:06 · Score: 1 · on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop

The Intel roadmap has the new server and desktop processors coming out in the 3rd quarter. http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /10/0,1425,sz=1&i=105032,00.jpg Probably one of those code-names will be our powermacs ("Conroe"?)

What is Windows XT? by AnXa · 2006-01-09 02:31 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /12/0,1425,i=123899,00.jpg

So, what is Windows XT? eXperienced Toaster? ;)

And why doesn't other Gnu/Linuxes perform as well as Knoppix? What are they doing? I think that having Windows XT installed on a computer tells something about the testers and their paragraphs.

Why Fedora Core 3 was used in tests thought we all know that newest release is Fedora Core 4? There are lots of things from the toaster test I'd like to know why? But well, they are micro$oft after all. They'll do anything to make their product sell. Even release false information.

Besides here is the "Ha Haa" of the test results. Take a closer look to that paragrap, isn't it cleary telling that Linux out performs Windows eXtra Toaster and it's slave a like server brother. In many ways. RHEL is same class operating system than what is Server 2003(what version of server 2003, web,enterprise or some other?). Besides Mandrake is comparatible to WindowsXT ;) (yeah yeah. I know. It's already old joke, dear reader)

And even we think about that all of those Gnu/Linuxes are running under top of the SAME SOFTWARE! I think people often forgot that small but very important point of the Gnu/Linux benchmarks.

Re:The underlying problem--Go further... by jlseagull · 2006-01-06 09:40 · Score: 1 · on Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap

We could add an additional layer of security to the SSN-ULTRA in the form of a time-based component. Say that we issue as a social security card a thin keyfob with a 20-digit LCD screen. The screen would have a number that changes every 12 hours in a sequence governed by the proper polynomial. That polynomial is your REAL social security number. So we have a bank of 9 shift registers, each containing a sequential-XOR chain 10 gates long. Basically, this keyfob generates and displays a different number every 12 hours based on a seed number which is kept secret. This displayed number is the one you use for gym memberships, credit cards, cell phones, and the like. All different, depending when you signed up. And each one is only good for 12 hours. In other words, if someone wants to check your police record with the government, they can do so for 12 hours, then the number that indicates you changes simultaneously in both your card and the government computer. If they want to check you again, they have to ask you for your number again.

A simple transaction with a government computer would verify that the 20-digit one links to you and whether you had any felonies. In other words, big important data. However, all of these different corporate scum wouldn't be able to sell data between themselves about your adult-toy buying habits based on SSN, because all of the numbers that describe you are different and unique.

Lastly, the interesting part is that you could see who queried your data and when, based on what numbers were given.

This concept is based on the RSA SecurID, a keyfob that does something very similar.

Now I can see my hard drive crash by digitaldc · 2005-12-08 08:24 · Score: 4, Funny · on Hard Drive Window

...IN REAL TIME!

Microsoft will be suing for patent infringement for putting windows on hard drives.

Just for fun, a hard drive undone: http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /9/0,1425,sz=1&i=93587,00.jpg

So that's what the front looks like.. by Thantos_42 · 2005-07-12 10:12 · Score: 1 · on How to Keep Your Computer Cool

"This photograph shows a 120mm fan mount in the front of a case." http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /10/0,1425,i=109182,00.jpg I can understand typos but come on. Doesn't look like the front of any case I've ever seen.

We're all mad here by Kaseijin · 2005-07-12 00:56 · Score: 1 · on IBM Officially Unveils Dual-core PowerPC Chips

First of all, try actually reading that LaGrande link. It's more about protecting programs from affecting each other than any kind of DRM.

It's about preventing the 'owner' of the system from accessing the keys. Intel et al. absolutely refuse to budge on that point, and there's only one reason for such a design. Intel have been the most coy about motivation (Bill Gates, for example, has stated outright that Microsoft's closely related Palladium/NGSCB project came out of efforts to restrict music), but they've had their moments. Bottom line (literally): the user is a threat, but only if they can mount an expensive, illegal "Sophisticated local HW attack".

Secondly, it does not in any way fit with the direction Apple has chosen for DRM, which is that it exists only when it does not inconvienince the user.

Locking users into QuickTime and iPod inconveniences them. Requiring them to waste perfectly good CDs and even better time on a burn-rip cycle to unlock tracks inconveniences them. Forcing a choice between larger files and lower fidelity after unlocking inconveniences them. Changing the burning permissions, removing the ability to stream over the Internet, limiting library access to five users per day--these inconvenience users. Apple's ability to add new inconveniences at their whim inconveniences users. Maybe Apple's restrictions haven't inconvenienced you yet; there are a lot of people they haven't. Maybe it won't inconvenience you ever. There isn't any noble principle behind it, though.

Lastly, you have the basic problem that it makes no sense to have any DRm at all in the context of the apps you mention which allow me to create my own content. Why would I want to lock it? Simply put I would not; so such apps will not be supporting LaGrande.
Your claptrap posted later about Apple using LaGrande to prop up the current media moguls as "gateways of media" is simply a paranoid theory that has no basis in what they have done, what would be healthy for them as a company to do, or even what Jobs himself would like to do. Jobs has no love for the current media industry which he considers to be idiots, and in fact is cheerfully undermining them by allowing many indies equal access to iTunes.

Neither of the grandparent's posts to this story imply that Apple have any interest in sustaining the current distribution cartel, nor do either contain the phrase you 'quoted'. Apple want to replace them, but in order to get the big publishers to sign on, Apple need digital restrictions. (The largest publishers and the largest distributors are currently few and the same, but they really don't care who handles the distribution as long as they get their terms and their cut.)

Let's put that to the same test you applied to your strawman. It's consistent with Apple's categorical refusal to allow other distributors to sell iTunes/iPod-compatible restricted tracks, which they wouldn't do if they just cared about selling iPods or promoting QuickTime. If "healthy for them as a company" is a circumlocution for 'profitable', iTMS is that--not much, but increasing. On the final criterion, Jobs obviously doesn't have a problem with being a distributor for these 'idiots'.

The grandparent's claim about Apple locking all works created with Apple tools is a bit of a stretch, I agree. The "current media moguls" have floated the idea on occasion, but it doesn't seem in sync with even the new Apple. It would be wise to recognize, however, that Apple's loyalties do not lie solely with their customers.

Apple may use LaGrande for some sort of process security, but there's simply no reason to think it will be incorperated in any DRm scheme - expecially since it would not be supported by the majority of macs (PPC) in the market for years to come!

Re:wtfhatta? by viva_fourier · 2005-06-07 13:44 · Score: 1 · on The Science of Star Wars

well yes, but money is all about:
MOICHANDIZING!

Star Wars the Science Compendium,
Star Wars the Religious Accompanianment
Star Wars the Case Mod

Chances of getting this into Australia? by B747SP · 2005-05-16 12:34 · Score: 3, Informative · on A Pistol Mouse for Your Fragging Pleasure

Australian Customs are pretty strict on guns, and things that look like guns. Even the Old Namco Gun-Con for the original Playstation wasn't allowed in until the importers/manufacturers put flourescent orange tape up the sides. I wonder how we'll go with this one.

Having said that, one does see obviously illegal-import gaming 'guns' for sale at markets and stuff from time to time, and at least one online store in Australia claims to have stock of this PistolMouse, so some folks are sneaking under the radar.

Vertical mice aren't anything new though. I've been using the 3M 'Renaissance Mouse' for years now - I've got four of them in various places at home and work. A couple of random images courtesy google image search here.

A key point I've found with the 3M mice is that they're pretty hard to control for a few days, and you never really regain the fine control that you have with a regular horizontal mouse. I can't help but wonder if the relative lack of control will be a problem for gamers. Remember, this 'gun' must slide around on the surface of a table, so it's going to operate like a vertical mouse, not a free-moving gun. I often keep two mice plugged into my computers - one of these for long-term comfort, and a regular mouse for when I need fine control, say with photoshop or the Gimp.

Re:And yet even this is simplified a good bit by pipingguy · 2005-05-07 15:53 · Score: 1 · on A Non-Dogmatic History of the GUI

Like this?

Comparing Windows/OSX graphics architectures by CdXiminez · 2005-05-03 22:39 · Score: 1 · on The Future of Windows Graphic Technology

Is it me or is the Windows graphics architecture, expectedly, far more complicated than the Mac OSX graphics architecture?