Well, it did say "server merges" Maybe the surprise it everyone's going to break into Galaxies and wreck up the place. Or (plz plz plz plz plz) they open a magic portal into Runescape servers they merged with and everyone can open up a can of pwnage:-D
well actually, it's good that they can't charge him with that or anything. If they could, they could send him to prison. But with no crime, they could just order him to work in the IT department at the prison. Now that's a sentence fit for an asshole lol.
what the hell is fun about this? Obviously some old amish guys made this decision. First of all, they meet the requirements now. They offer the Set Program Access and Defaults control panel where you can choose which browser is the default. And if you want a competing browser, Microsoft lets you use IE to go download it. Other than that, let's take a look at the options. You can include all the installers that exist right now for Firefox and Opera and Safari and all that on the windows CD and 5 years from now, people will be reinstalling outdated crap that's like 3 versions behind and full of security holes. Or you can have a super simple retriever browser/app that's only programmed to download installers for browsers but that'd have to be hard wired into the CD too. What if the server for one of the browsers moves after a year? Uh oh! If the makers include their browser installers in windows update, every time they make a new version there's a mountain of paperwork and testing before Microsoft approves it and by then, you're done with the next updated installer for it. The best they could possible do is write a retreiver browser that routes to a microsoft website that they can update to always point to a valid download link for any browser. But there's no such thing as a simple website loading retriever browser. It'd have to have fulls security and then what if it has a security hole that a virus can take advantage of that lets someone re-route the retriever to a different website permanently. Or maybe just a hosts file edit. Well then you're screwed because you can't download an antivirus program with no browser. This whole thing is completely stupid. Having a basic internet browser preinstalled on Windows is more important than Paint and Sound Editor and Movie Maker and they aren't complaining nearly as much about them for some reason.
If you're going to take a bunch of probably 30+ year olds and teach them semi-advanced and basic computer skills so they can do neat stuff, you might as well do it in Linux. I mean starting with almost no knowledge is sort of nice because basically the only reason I don't use Linux is I already know everything about Windows and don't feel like re-learning everything. So for others that don't already know windows inside and out, why not just teach em Linux? By the way, the other reason I don't use it is compatibility cuz I have to run certain programs that it doesn't support.
A while ago I used Grouper. It's a peer to peer system where you have to join a group to download files from someone else in the group or you can choose to make your files public and search for public files. If someone can't get into your group, they can't see what files you have or what you're transferring. I dunno if the error correction and speed were up to bittorrent levels though. It was awfully convenient and awesome for collaborating on projects and stuff. I loved it so if this is sort of similar, I think it will do well.
But making gamers move would make them way healthier and more physically fit than the average person. So where does that leave us? With an army up superhumans that also know strategy, have good reflexes, and can handle a gun. Oh well, we'll need them when China demands their 10 trillion back.
you're watering it down too much. Apple made an overpriced product. Pretentious people and other douchebags bought it to show off how rich and special they are. Apple starts handing out software (indirectly) that's bugger and underperforming but flashy and cute as usual and their short attention spanned customers stop using it after they've showed it to all their friends in one day. It's really that simple. Seriously, everyone I know with an iPhone shows me ALL their stupid little apps and then when I ask what they use them for, they say they don't really use them. Apple products are and always have been all about showing off and that's why serious people don't take them seriously. Maybe that should find that out in one of their little studies.
Everyone's poking around at the topic, saying things like "I bet if it missed and hit a lake, it'd only warm it up a little" or "you'd have to stand in it for hours to get burned." Okay, I'll answer your question about how badly a giant space microwave gun will do. Here's a little calculation to roll around in your head. If you rig the door and put your hand in a household microwave, you've got like 20-30 seconds before you're badly burned. And I would say that that beam has about enough power to run a standard household microwave, seeing as how it's...a standard household microwave making the beam. You follow? So like 1000W. Now I assume they aren't gonna spend $30 mil to send up a satellite that will beam down enough power for ten houses or they'd be paying 3 mil each. So let's say 10,000 houses. That'd need enough to run 10,000 household microwaves plus heating or cooling and TVs and computers and all that. That's not even that many houses really either. So in order to provide even that much power, first of all you'd need like a square mile of solar panels if not more but anyway, that's enough power to VAPORIZE A SMALL LAKE INSTANTLY! The thing better not miss cuz whatever it hits is gonna be on fire really damn fast! God help us if it hits an aluminum foil and fork factory. All the people saying we're going to have receivers on individual houses, you're crazy. No planes could fly and half the birds in the US would be dead. Everyone who says we're going to put neighborhood receivers in ponds, that pond isn't going to stop a damn thing if it misses. If it hits a house, it's gonna be in flames before the smoke alarms even go off. This is the worst idea I have ever heard in my entire life.
SERIOUSLY?! Is the solar power in space sooo much better? I don't care if it's 10x the power per square inch. It costs like $10,000 to put some on my roof and like $30 million to put some in space. It's beyond idiotic. Plus, they're going to beam it down with microwaves, right? Yeah, that'll never fail will it. Even if it has a laser system where if the laser line of sight breaks, the microwaves shut off, then what? The whole town is out of power every time that happens? And what country wouldn't consider giant microwave guns in space to be weapons. That's all they are is directed energy beam generators! You could set whatever you wanted in fire with those! And planes suddenly can't fly within miles of that area. What do we do when this supposedly catches on and there's a thousand of these microwave receivers across the country? We just don't fly planes anymore then? And what about animals? There goes a flock of geeze! And will it lose connection when it's cloudy or raining or snowing? When it hits a cloud, will it heat it up and cause some weird and bad effect like a giant lightning storm or something. This has to be the stupid, least cost effective, worst invention I have ever heard of in my entire life!!!
Imeem sucks! It's like myspace but with worse code if you could imagine that. I would have expected them to be the lowest. If you actually count the amount of time some of their features didn't work, it's about 50% uptime.
if this is one of those blogging services, send a fake complaint to the company behind it saying that this person is literally claiming to be you to ruin your reputation. They won't spend much time looking into it, they'll just delete it.
speaking of that, wouldn't it be awfully easy to build an electric jetpack and run an extension cord? If I didn't have to carry fuel, it'd be awfully light! Plus a cord full of like 8 gauge metal probably weighs less per foot than a hose full of water.
So in the future when they have this all nailed down, if I am freaking awesome and everyone counts on me for something and they determine me leaving the game would cause like a dozen other people to quit the game cuz it's just not the same without me, they might start paying me to keep playing instead of me paying a subscription fee?:-D that'd be awesome lol.
AMD still won't openly admit this but there's a timing problem with all or at least most of their Athlon X2s where the cores' clocls get out of sync with each other. That causes major graphics problems in games that rely on it like Runescape and Halo 2. It also causes really strange side effects where basically the computer gets slower and less responsive over time until you restart it. I never knew what was wrong with my computer and assumed it was inefficient software but then I heard about this and OMFG was I mad! They even have a program on their website that fixes some mysterious, unnamed problem with X2s and graphics and as soon as I installed it, it worked and yet they still won't admit to the public how badly they screwed up! I didn't even see the story on slashdot but it's all over the web.
Also they should add to the list of major screw ups, the entire naming system used by Intel. Centrino sounds like Celeron and they brought back Pentiums but the Pentium D's and Pentium Dual Cores are different and then there was Core Duo and Core 2 Duo which are easy to overlook. Ugh, it's just stupid!
Making every single person slow down and just about stop on the highway is completely idiotic. Here's how Wisconsin does it, since toll boths are illegal here. We charge an extra high tax on the gasoline that's sold everywhere in the state. So there you go, the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them to be repaired. And compared to other states, we have really nice, well upkept roads so I guess it works, doesn't it?
your Anonymous Coward label doesn't fool me. You're FPS Doug! lol. Btw I'm forced to assume that the page is about doom 4's amazing ability to bring down websites through slashdotting cuz that's all the info I'm getting at the moment:-D
just because you can see the source code doesn't mean it's hackable. But for very large, complex programs, that's absolutely true. There's only two possibilities with them. 1, any random person can view the source code but the entire enormous application is absolutely 100% perfect and there is literally no way to hack it (yeah right). 2, any random person can view the entire source code, find a bug nobody else found yet, and use it to exploit the program. It's really as simple as that. For smaller programs, it is possible for the source code to be literally perfect but for something the size of Open Office not to have a single security hole at all is ridiculous. And being able to read the source code sure helps a lot more than just guessing at things that might be exploits. Yes, professional programmers and hackers are working on the project so they find security holes all the time then patch them but it still holds true that being able to view the source helps the bad guys a lot!
Parmesean actually crumbles really easily. I don't think any type of cheese is really tough enough to protect your server lol. Maybe gouda cuz that's some tough, thick stuff but other than that, I'd suggest dousing a wall in gasoline and lighting it up. That would of course be a firewall lol.
The machines decided to try and rise up and the first thing they needed were some agents on the inside to take down Slashdot so we'd stop reporting about it all. You know, they can't have Slashdot stories like "voting machines changing results" cuz they need to pick whatever president they find suitable. I say we get a +2 mace and go medieval on that cabinet!
Stupid 12 year olds screaming incorrectly spelled, angry crap at random people and generally being annoying spoils games for me but obviously that only applies to online ones. That and cheaters that make it impossible for honest players to win. Both of those can be proven by looking at Halo 2.
in Runescape they set up trade limits. If you log into someone's account and want to dump all their stuff off onto your account, you can't unless you compensate them with a matching amount of money based on what the current market price is (which is determined by the giant, in-game ebay type of system for selling in game items for in game currency). So they worst they can do is just destroy or drop all your stuff but there is no way to get the items off their account and onto yours (except one loophole but it's sketchy). Everyone hates it but at least it keeps the idiots safe. Speaking of idiots though, anyone who goes to a community site and reads a banner that says "download out 100% rare drop generator. You'll be richer than everyone else!" and they do it cuz they're a stupid cheater like that, they deserve to have their account stolen.
oh you aint got shit on me! lol, I just finished Dream Mentor after borrowing a saradomin sword (the regular, not the godsword) and ate 24/26 mantas. Now that's close! But seriously, call me when some of those Turkish botting douchebag clans get disbanded in SRO.
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Well, it did say "server merges" Maybe the surprise it everyone's going to break into Galaxies and wreck up the place. Or (plz plz plz plz plz) they open a magic portal into Runescape servers they merged with and everyone can open up a can of pwnage :-D
well actually, it's good that they can't charge him with that or anything. If they could, they could send him to prison. But with no crime, they could just order him to work in the IT department at the prison. Now that's a sentence fit for an asshole lol.
what the hell is fun about this? Obviously some old amish guys made this decision. First of all, they meet the requirements now. They offer the Set Program Access and Defaults control panel where you can choose which browser is the default. And if you want a competing browser, Microsoft lets you use IE to go download it. Other than that, let's take a look at the options. You can include all the installers that exist right now for Firefox and Opera and Safari and all that on the windows CD and 5 years from now, people will be reinstalling outdated crap that's like 3 versions behind and full of security holes. Or you can have a super simple retriever browser/app that's only programmed to download installers for browsers but that'd have to be hard wired into the CD too. What if the server for one of the browsers moves after a year? Uh oh! If the makers include their browser installers in windows update, every time they make a new version there's a mountain of paperwork and testing before Microsoft approves it and by then, you're done with the next updated installer for it. The best they could possible do is write a retreiver browser that routes to a microsoft website that they can update to always point to a valid download link for any browser. But there's no such thing as a simple website loading retriever browser. It'd have to have fulls security and then what if it has a security hole that a virus can take advantage of that lets someone re-route the retriever to a different website permanently. Or maybe just a hosts file edit. Well then you're screwed because you can't download an antivirus program with no browser. This whole thing is completely stupid. Having a basic internet browser preinstalled on Windows is more important than Paint and Sound Editor and Movie Maker and they aren't complaining nearly as much about them for some reason.
If you're going to take a bunch of probably 30+ year olds and teach them semi-advanced and basic computer skills so they can do neat stuff, you might as well do it in Linux. I mean starting with almost no knowledge is sort of nice because basically the only reason I don't use Linux is I already know everything about Windows and don't feel like re-learning everything. So for others that don't already know windows inside and out, why not just teach em Linux? By the way, the other reason I don't use it is compatibility cuz I have to run certain programs that it doesn't support.
A while ago I used Grouper. It's a peer to peer system where you have to join a group to download files from someone else in the group or you can choose to make your files public and search for public files. If someone can't get into your group, they can't see what files you have or what you're transferring. I dunno if the error correction and speed were up to bittorrent levels though. It was awfully convenient and awesome for collaborating on projects and stuff. I loved it so if this is sort of similar, I think it will do well.
But making gamers move would make them way healthier and more physically fit than the average person. So where does that leave us? With an army up superhumans that also know strategy, have good reflexes, and can handle a gun. Oh well, we'll need them when China demands their 10 trillion back.
you're watering it down too much. Apple made an overpriced product. Pretentious people and other douchebags bought it to show off how rich and special they are. Apple starts handing out software (indirectly) that's bugger and underperforming but flashy and cute as usual and their short attention spanned customers stop using it after they've showed it to all their friends in one day. It's really that simple. Seriously, everyone I know with an iPhone shows me ALL their stupid little apps and then when I ask what they use them for, they say they don't really use them. Apple products are and always have been all about showing off and that's why serious people don't take them seriously. Maybe that should find that out in one of their little studies.
Everyone's poking around at the topic, saying things like "I bet if it missed and hit a lake, it'd only warm it up a little" or "you'd have to stand in it for hours to get burned." Okay, I'll answer your question about how badly a giant space microwave gun will do. Here's a little calculation to roll around in your head. If you rig the door and put your hand in a household microwave, you've got like 20-30 seconds before you're badly burned. And I would say that that beam has about enough power to run a standard household microwave, seeing as how it's...a standard household microwave making the beam. You follow? So like 1000W. Now I assume they aren't gonna spend $30 mil to send up a satellite that will beam down enough power for ten houses or they'd be paying 3 mil each. So let's say 10,000 houses. That'd need enough to run 10,000 household microwaves plus heating or cooling and TVs and computers and all that. That's not even that many houses really either. So in order to provide even that much power, first of all you'd need like a square mile of solar panels if not more but anyway, that's enough power to VAPORIZE A SMALL LAKE INSTANTLY! The thing better not miss cuz whatever it hits is gonna be on fire really damn fast! God help us if it hits an aluminum foil and fork factory. All the people saying we're going to have receivers on individual houses, you're crazy. No planes could fly and half the birds in the US would be dead. Everyone who says we're going to put neighborhood receivers in ponds, that pond isn't going to stop a damn thing if it misses. If it hits a house, it's gonna be in flames before the smoke alarms even go off. This is the worst idea I have ever heard in my entire life.
SERIOUSLY?! Is the solar power in space sooo much better? I don't care if it's 10x the power per square inch. It costs like $10,000 to put some on my roof and like $30 million to put some in space. It's beyond idiotic. Plus, they're going to beam it down with microwaves, right? Yeah, that'll never fail will it. Even if it has a laser system where if the laser line of sight breaks, the microwaves shut off, then what? The whole town is out of power every time that happens? And what country wouldn't consider giant microwave guns in space to be weapons. That's all they are is directed energy beam generators! You could set whatever you wanted in fire with those! And planes suddenly can't fly within miles of that area. What do we do when this supposedly catches on and there's a thousand of these microwave receivers across the country? We just don't fly planes anymore then? And what about animals? There goes a flock of geeze! And will it lose connection when it's cloudy or raining or snowing? When it hits a cloud, will it heat it up and cause some weird and bad effect like a giant lightning storm or something. This has to be the stupid, least cost effective, worst invention I have ever heard of in my entire life!!!
Imeem sucks! It's like myspace but with worse code if you could imagine that. I would have expected them to be the lowest. If you actually count the amount of time some of their features didn't work, it's about 50% uptime.
if this is one of those blogging services, send a fake complaint to the company behind it saying that this person is literally claiming to be you to ruin your reputation. They won't spend much time looking into it, they'll just delete it.
speaking of that, wouldn't it be awfully easy to build an electric jetpack and run an extension cord? If I didn't have to carry fuel, it'd be awfully light! Plus a cord full of like 8 gauge metal probably weighs less per foot than a hose full of water.
So in the future when they have this all nailed down, if I am freaking awesome and everyone counts on me for something and they determine me leaving the game would cause like a dozen other people to quit the game cuz it's just not the same without me, they might start paying me to keep playing instead of me paying a subscription fee? :-D that'd be awesome lol.
AMD still won't openly admit this but there's a timing problem with all or at least most of their Athlon X2s where the cores' clocls get out of sync with each other. That causes major graphics problems in games that rely on it like Runescape and Halo 2. It also causes really strange side effects where basically the computer gets slower and less responsive over time until you restart it. I never knew what was wrong with my computer and assumed it was inefficient software but then I heard about this and OMFG was I mad! They even have a program on their website that fixes some mysterious, unnamed problem with X2s and graphics and as soon as I installed it, it worked and yet they still won't admit to the public how badly they screwed up! I didn't even see the story on slashdot but it's all over the web.
Also they should add to the list of major screw ups, the entire naming system used by Intel. Centrino sounds like Celeron and they brought back Pentiums but the Pentium D's and Pentium Dual Cores are different and then there was Core Duo and Core 2 Duo which are easy to overlook. Ugh, it's just stupid!
Well then let me be the first to say on behalf of slashdot: "Take that you stupid, bill-hijacking, lobbyist bribed bitch!"
Making every single person slow down and just about stop on the highway is completely idiotic. Here's how Wisconsin does it, since toll boths are illegal here. We charge an extra high tax on the gasoline that's sold everywhere in the state. So there you go, the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them to be repaired. And compared to other states, we have really nice, well upkept roads so I guess it works, doesn't it?
For example, tigers like the maul humans before they get freaky :P
So then why don't they just called it what it is, either a service pack for Vista or actual Vista, as Vista was just a glitchy beta.
your Anonymous Coward label doesn't fool me. You're FPS Doug! lol. Btw I'm forced to assume that the page is about doom 4's amazing ability to bring down websites through slashdotting cuz that's all the info I'm getting at the moment :-D
just because you can see the source code doesn't mean it's hackable. But for very large, complex programs, that's absolutely true. There's only two possibilities with them. 1, any random person can view the source code but the entire enormous application is absolutely 100% perfect and there is literally no way to hack it (yeah right). 2, any random person can view the entire source code, find a bug nobody else found yet, and use it to exploit the program. It's really as simple as that. For smaller programs, it is possible for the source code to be literally perfect but for something the size of Open Office not to have a single security hole at all is ridiculous. And being able to read the source code sure helps a lot more than just guessing at things that might be exploits. Yes, professional programmers and hackers are working on the project so they find security holes all the time then patch them but it still holds true that being able to view the source helps the bad guys a lot!
Parmesean actually crumbles really easily. I don't think any type of cheese is really tough enough to protect your server lol. Maybe gouda cuz that's some tough, thick stuff but other than that, I'd suggest dousing a wall in gasoline and lighting it up. That would of course be a firewall lol.
The machines decided to try and rise up and the first thing they needed were some agents on the inside to take down Slashdot so we'd stop reporting about it all. You know, they can't have Slashdot stories like "voting machines changing results" cuz they need to pick whatever president they find suitable. I say we get a +2 mace and go medieval on that cabinet!
Stupid 12 year olds screaming incorrectly spelled, angry crap at random people and generally being annoying spoils games for me but obviously that only applies to online ones. That and cheaters that make it impossible for honest players to win. Both of those can be proven by looking at Halo 2.
in Runescape they set up trade limits. If you log into someone's account and want to dump all their stuff off onto your account, you can't unless you compensate them with a matching amount of money based on what the current market price is (which is determined by the giant, in-game ebay type of system for selling in game items for in game currency). So they worst they can do is just destroy or drop all your stuff but there is no way to get the items off their account and onto yours (except one loophole but it's sketchy). Everyone hates it but at least it keeps the idiots safe. Speaking of idiots though, anyone who goes to a community site and reads a banner that says "download out 100% rare drop generator. You'll be richer than everyone else!" and they do it cuz they're a stupid cheater like that, they deserve to have their account stolen.
oh you aint got shit on me! lol, I just finished Dream Mentor after borrowing a saradomin sword (the regular, not the godsword) and ate 24/26 mantas. Now that's close! But seriously, call me when some of those Turkish botting douchebag clans get disbanded in SRO.