...given that rights related to the Olympics has shut down the BBC's normal international news feed, as well as Oz's ABC and a Canadian stream I found recently. In fact, the rights surrounding the Olympics is do draconian that I'm not sure I'm even allowed to make a post on Slashdot with the word "Olympics" in it.
I sometimes wonder if people purposly put in backdoors or buffer issues to allow this to happen. A unhappy coder is a dangerous coder, and lets face it, if you work for an outsource company, you probly are not too happy. I sure wasn't.
This is based on SP2 experience, and ZoneAlarm experience. Sure, client software tends to cause a pop-up "unblock" request, but server services don't appear to cause a pop-up ever and are simply blocked unless you specifically go in and allow the program and/or the ports. Even then it will appear to work for one session, but fall over some time in the future. Annoying when you're dealing with remote user assistance software like VNC. ZoneAlarm always gave me a list of running processes that were asking for network access, as well as everything that ever had so that I could easily block or unblock them for local network and/or Internet access as either a server or a client. MS' attempt has none of this.
The old firewall only blocked incoming stuff, and even then not much of it.
The problem with the Windows Firewall is that, unlike the ZoneAlarm product it's an obvious rip-off of, it doesn't correctly list all programs attempting to use the network connection so that they can be easily allowed through. Unblocking the WinVNC server service has proven troublesome. I'll think it's working after being added to the exceptions list then the next time I try to connect it won't work. Microsoft appear to want to save users from having to manually unblock a whole heap of programs when the firewall is first installed, but all they've managed instead is to make ublocking pre-existing legitimate network programs annoying. I'm pretty much at the point where I'm going to be turning off the firewall as part of the upcoming SP2 roll-out.
I've found all "targetted" advertising, gmail or otherwise to be either totally off-base or for US companies so generic that they can't help but match something, despite being useless to this Australian. It's particularly humourous in gmail when you're bitching about something and gmail sees fit to try to sell it to you. I know I wouldn't want to be paying for my ads to be shown on the Interweb -- you might as well empty bags of money into a drain.
It's all going to be pretty academic until they fix "BeTwin and WinConnect Server XP software currently do not support Windows XP Service Pack 2". But their BeTwin product is very impressive. I can have two copies of Diablo II running at the same time using it. Chugs a little, but it's even possible for one session to be a server and the other to connect to it for multiplayer gaming. Microsoft should steal the idea and bundle it with SP3.
There are a couple of thin and thick (fat?) client combination solutions that may technically violate the Windows XP EULA, if you're interested. The easy one is Thinsoft's BeTwin -- which allows you to run up to five stations off a PC if you've got enough video cards and USB keyboards and mice. That bit arguably doesn't violate the EULA. As a bonus it gives you one concurrent terminal services session that you can connect a thin client (or any RDP client) to. That does violate the EULA. If that doesn't scare you away, but BeTwin's pricing does (or you want to run Service Pack 2, which BeTwin isn't yet compatible with), you can modify SP2 to allow a single concurrent session without needing any extra software, just a dll from a specific SP2 beta. For information on this, join "Pass-TS" on (ironically) MSN Groups. This would allow you to buy half the number of PCs then the same number of thin clients. Won't help you with the blue screens (can't remember the last time one of our Dells blue-screened, most of the few problems involve simply not booting at all -- usually a dead CPU fan.), but can be a major cost saver. If you're willing to challenge the validity of a Windows EULA.
A more legal way to get to a similar end result is to install Win 2k3 on the PCs -- it comes with a legitimate extra terminal services session or two and educational pricing is pretty decent if you qualify -- certainly less than the cost difference between a fat client and a thin client.
Anyway, this is how I'd do it. No one single server managing a room of thin clients, but a series of mid-range PCs each managing 2-5 other stations.
Crappy analogy. Try: "Why should I care that people are sometimes shot and killed by the owner of a house when breaking into it? I don't break into other people's houses". Not perfect, since breaking copyright is not equivalent to burglary, but a lot closer than yours.
I figure the grandparent poster could give me the cliff noites version and then i would decide wether it was worth my time.
You do need someone to read it to you! Okay, here's the "cliff noites" version. People who claim that Fox News is their primary source of news are substantially more likely to be mis-informed on any given topic. The main example given is "Were weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq". 33% of Fox viewers believed, incorrectly, that WMD had been found. CBS viewers were next with 23%, NBC 20%, CNN 20%. "Clear links between Iraq and al-Qaeda": A whopping 67% of Fox viewers were wrong.
Now that I've wasted my time with that, let's address your statements directly.
I really disapointed me when i ask for an example and was told to read some report.... Apearently he is having a dificult time doing that. Maybe because he hasn't read the report himself? maybe because there isn't a real example, maybe because he is afraid the thought police or the secrete service is monitoring his every move.
It's a short report, only 23 pages. It is the evidence. Refusing to read a report that is the evidence you ask for then claiming that I have no evidence is bizarre.
Read the article, then rebut it. I'm not going to debate you further if you refuse to address it.
No book on critical thinking can prepare you for the statistic that regular Fox viewers are wrong about things significantly more often than non-viewers. (The report gets interesting at page 12.) I mean, I joke about feeling less informed after watching Channel 7 news here in Perth, but I'm making a comment on the insignificant nature of the majority of stories (which sports personality is banging which other sports personality's wife, etc) -- I don't literally mean that after watching it I feel like I've been infected with lies. Spin, sure. Fear, maybe. But there's a difference between choosing your stories carefully and blatently mis-informing your viewership.
Oh, look, I have no problem ranking the major parties at election time. I dislike the Liberal's sucking up to the US (from way before the FTA), so it's easy to go 1, 2, 3 based on your order. The problem is that so many people have been convinced that a vote for the Greens or the Democrats is a wasted vote, that despite their actual preferences, they put a one next to one of the major parties, effectively making it a self fulfilling prophecy.
The Right have been in a strong position for so long that what used to be Centre is Right and mainstream Left is barely Left at all. To try and vote for anyone actually Left is to be branded as a tree-hugging hippy, or dismissed as a communist. I am neither just because I believe that business and money are not the be all and end all of society.
But all of this is way off topic, since copyright isn't distorting the political arena nearly as much as the media is in general. I recommend watching "OutFoxed" (as referenced in this week's Media Watch) -- I got the DVD shipped in from Amazon. It may be American but the discussion of the techniques used by such stations as Fox is interesting even so. When some Americans say that their media sucks and that they need to turn to sources such as the BBC for a real idea of what's going on in the world it sounds like any person bitching about their crappy media, but if OutFoxed is even to be belived on half the things it claims then America's democratic process is in serious trouble.
Sounds great on paper, but we're also in the "vote for one of two parties that suck or waste your vote" boat just like the US. That said, I joined the Greens last week.
What happened to the 5k competition that SIGGRAPH was supposedly taking over. www.the5k.org hasn't been updated since the begging of the year, or possibly the end of last year. Now that I've been reminded I look at the site again to see some sort of registration of interest or some such. I even had an entry ready to go this year.
I don't believe the proportion of costs of launch vs development are clear cut enough to justify the "Uh" at the beginning of your post. While I don't have figures at hand, launch prices appear to be in the order of US$80m-US$100m. I'm sure it costs a lot more than that to develop and build most satellites. This article suggests value in some sort of satellite support system, though it's discussing pushing satellites into higher orbits or repairing/refueling them in space, rather than returning them to Earth.
Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me, particularly if Scaled wins the X-Prize, if in a few years time we have the "Y-Prize" for orbital shots.
I'd like to see a prize for a vehicle that can snatch a dead satellite from orbit and bring it safely back to earth for less than the value of the satellite.
Video games are expensive. If I read a glowing review for a game, say Prince of Persia: Sands of Time or Doom 3, and I drop A$99.95 on it only to find that it sucks so bad it could pull the moon out of orbit (in my opinion) then I feel a lot more annoyed than if I'd only spent A$29.95 (the price of a new-release album). If I hadn't bought any of the games that I subsequently thought were crap, my bank account would be near a couple of thousand dollars healthier. I therefore think I've bought the right to bitch about crappy reviews.
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...given that rights related to the Olympics has shut down the BBC's normal international news feed, as well as Oz's ABC and a Canadian stream I found recently. In fact, the rights surrounding the Olympics is do draconian that I'm not sure I'm even allowed to make a post on Slashdot with the word "Olympics" in it.
The old firewall only blocked incoming stuff, and even then not much of it.
The problem with the Windows Firewall is that, unlike the ZoneAlarm product it's an obvious rip-off of, it doesn't correctly list all programs attempting to use the network connection so that they can be easily allowed through. Unblocking the WinVNC server service has proven troublesome. I'll think it's working after being added to the exceptions list then the next time I try to connect it won't work. Microsoft appear to want to save users from having to manually unblock a whole heap of programs when the firewall is first installed, but all they've managed instead is to make ublocking pre-existing legitimate network programs annoying. I'm pretty much at the point where I'm going to be turning off the firewall as part of the upcoming SP2 roll-out.
Ouch. Then I wouldn't want to be, say, a publicly listed company whose primary income stream was a system like this.
I've found all "targetted" advertising, gmail or otherwise to be either totally off-base or for US companies so generic that they can't help but match something, despite being useless to this Australian. It's particularly humourous in gmail when you're bitching about something and gmail sees fit to try to sell it to you. I know I wouldn't want to be paying for my ads to be shown on the Interweb -- you might as well empty bags of money into a drain.
Damn pop-up javascript window. Anyone got the stream's URL? I can't open the pop-up on my Pocket PC.
I've found both Australia's ABC and BBC news streams have been put on hold during the Olympics. Is there anything left to bounce through a proxy?
Just build a big brightly lit sign with "Core explosion. Repent sins" -- that should make everyone nervous.
It's all going to be pretty academic until they fix "BeTwin and WinConnect Server XP software currently do not support Windows XP Service Pack 2". But their BeTwin product is very impressive. I can have two copies of Diablo II running at the same time using it. Chugs a little, but it's even possible for one session to be a server and the other to connect to it for multiplayer gaming. Microsoft should steal the idea and bundle it with SP3.
A more legal way to get to a similar end result is to install Win 2k3 on the PCs -- it comes with a legitimate extra terminal services session or two and educational pricing is pretty decent if you qualify -- certainly less than the cost difference between a fat client and a thin client.
Anyway, this is how I'd do it. No one single server managing a room of thin clients, but a series of mid-range PCs each managing 2-5 other stations.
Crappy analogy. Try: "Why should I care that people are sometimes shot and killed by the owner of a house when breaking into it? I don't break into other people's houses". Not perfect, since breaking copyright is not equivalent to burglary, but a lot closer than yours.
Anyone that didn't get the reference before the explanation should hand in their nerd license on the way out...
Now that I've wasted my time with that, let's address your statements directly.
It's a short report, only 23 pages. It is the evidence. Refusing to read a report that is the evidence you ask for then claiming that I have no evidence is bizarre.Read the article, then rebut it. I'm not going to debate you further if you refuse to address it.
Isn't she a bit tall for Rayne?
No book on critical thinking can prepare you for the statistic that regular Fox viewers are wrong about things significantly more often than non-viewers. (The report gets interesting at page 12.) I mean, I joke about feeling less informed after watching Channel 7 news here in Perth, but I'm making a comment on the insignificant nature of the majority of stories (which sports personality is banging which other sports personality's wife, etc) -- I don't literally mean that after watching it I feel like I've been infected with lies. Spin, sure. Fear, maybe. But there's a difference between choosing your stories carefully and blatently mis-informing your viewership.
The Right have been in a strong position for so long that what used to be Centre is Right and mainstream Left is barely Left at all. To try and vote for anyone actually Left is to be branded as a tree-hugging hippy, or dismissed as a communist. I am neither just because I believe that business and money are not the be all and end all of society.
But all of this is way off topic, since copyright isn't distorting the political arena nearly as much as the media is in general. I recommend watching "OutFoxed" (as referenced in this week's Media Watch) -- I got the DVD shipped in from Amazon. It may be American but the discussion of the techniques used by such stations as Fox is interesting even so. When some Americans say that their media sucks and that they need to turn to sources such as the BBC for a real idea of what's going on in the world it sounds like any person bitching about their crappy media, but if OutFoxed is even to be belived on half the things it claims then America's democratic process is in serious trouble.
Sounds great on paper, but we're also in the "vote for one of two parties that suck or waste your vote" boat just like the US. That said, I joined the Greens last week.
What happened to the 5k competition that SIGGRAPH was supposedly taking over. www.the5k.org hasn't been updated since the begging of the year, or possibly the end of last year. Now that I've been reminded I look at the site again to see some sort of registration of interest or some such. I even had an entry ready to go this year.
I don't believe the proportion of costs of launch vs development are clear cut enough to justify the "Uh" at the beginning of your post. While I don't have figures at hand, launch prices appear to be in the order of US$80m-US$100m. I'm sure it costs a lot more than that to develop and build most satellites. This article suggests value in some sort of satellite support system, though it's discussing pushing satellites into higher orbits or repairing/refueling them in space, rather than returning them to Earth.
Video games are expensive. If I read a glowing review for a game, say Prince of Persia: Sands of Time or Doom 3, and I drop A$99.95 on it only to find that it sucks so bad it could pull the moon out of orbit (in my opinion) then I feel a lot more annoyed than if I'd only spent A$29.95 (the price of a new-release album). If I hadn't bought any of the games that I subsequently thought were crap, my bank account would be near a couple of thousand dollars healthier. I therefore think I've bought the right to bitch about crappy reviews.
I thought the early Palms' Dragonball CPU was a Z80 derivative, not based on the 68k.