oh yeah, that's what we need people doing in addition to talking on their cell phone while eating breakfast while driving. Come on, you know that you know at least one person that would check their e-mail on their fancy new monitor-glasses connected to their laptop while they were driving:P
OH.....MY.......GOD!!!! Now they'll have to get out of their car, open their front door, walk through their house and into the garage, hit the wired switch to open it, get back in their car, and drive it in! I specifically know people who will not leave their house because that's just too much of a hassle for them. But really, who needs to when everything's on Ebay:P
Either Steven's Point or Sheboygan, Wisconsin (I forget which) is missing from that pic. Nasa said it's a better site than any existing one and plans to built a launch site there. w00t Wisconsin ownz!
oh noooooooooo, now they'll have to get their fat asses out of their car and do the keypad instead! NOOOOO!!!! What is this, the middle ages?! Maybe some ppl will hire illegal immigrants to open their garages for them:P Then again, there's always the wireless, computer controller option:D Anyone got a driver for a USB 2.4 GHz garage door?
Uniden is trying to come up with easier-to-open packaging, but spokesman Rex Holloway said many retailers don't want change. "We're kind of caught between a rock and a hard place," he said.
hmm...no actually that'd be more like a rock and a dumb place because retailers refusing to do what their customers want them to is one of the stupidest things they can possibly do next to an Enron type episode. So they better start selling cutters made just for opening them and they damn well better not put that tool inside the evil plastic statis chamber of doom!
if you can't find it between Ebay and Froogle, it doesn't exist (or at least it's not for sale ANYWHERE) I've gotten super specialized computer repair parts through one of the two for years and never been able to not find something. Make sure you try searching with any serial #'s found on it.
what are you, retarded?! It goes like this. *reads the source code* oh look, here's a place in the program where a security flaw exists. *exploits it to hack someone in whatever way who's using the program* You seriously are retarded if you didn't realize that's what I meant because that's how hacking happens like 75% of the time. My php board got hacked cuz...well cuz it's php but still, it was badly designed open source crap that everyone can see the source code for. You can't possibly tell me that there's a program that exists with such perfect security that studying the source code wouldn't come up with a single security flaw at all!
I have posted that till my fingers fall off and they STILL do it. Seriously, what the hell. If they can even find one person that knows every tech acronym ever, I'll shut up about it but until them, SPELL THEM OUT ONCE!
and also, what the hell would someone have a use for a UAV that's actually legal that can't be done with existing technology? The only specialty compared to other flying vehicles is a wider view range, better cameras, and no person. So....it's sneakier and more privacy invading? I hope it doesn't pass after 2011 either.
But....it is insecure. You can go look up the source code and see exactly how it works and find a way to get around stuff really, really easily. All you have to be is a programmer. Any open source software that claims to be secure is only secure on the outside to non-programmers and there is some software like that but hackers, most of which are programmers, have no trouble finding security holes in open source stuff.
well gee, don't mention the price at all. And not just the ridiculous like $1000 per computer in licensing between the two, but the extra overtime for IT staff in installing it and training people on it too. Oh yeah and we can't forget that no computer on earth can run them both at the same time at any reasonable speed. How stupid can Microsoft possibly be?
every time someone enters a vote into a machine, the poll runners verify that one of the counters incremented by one. And every 15 minutes or so it prints out a count-so-far and they're kept in order. That way every single vote is counted and there's a semi-paper trail in case something weird happens. That would solve like 99.9999% of the problems as long as the poll operators sign a thing saying they can't tell anyone the count thus far or the counter only shows the last 3 digits of the count.
I'd stay far away from open source in the realm of investing. Open source naturally just has a disadvantage that...you know...it's FREE! Depending on how long you can keep it invested, I would put the majority of it in holographic storage technology like from InPhase http://www.inphase-technologies.com/investors/inde x.html. I personally have followed the development for years since I first heard of the technology and it's going to be commercially available within a very short time and with even just the experimental read/write speeds they've actually accomplished, it's gonna blow quantum, flash, and advanced magnetic storage away. Put at least some in google too if you wanna risk it but that's what people have been saying for years and it's never turned out bad:P And whatever's left over, put it in anything related to anti- global warming/mass starvation/weatger natural disasters technologies cuz you know those are gonna be huge in the next couple years.
Why don't they come out with a version of it for Wii using the motion sensing abilities so gamers can call it excercise and all the critics can get on with their lives? Soon gamers would be known as physically fit, skinny people with large upper bodies (and legs if they play DDR too!) If we had that going for us, we could dismiss any other complaints about playing to much by saying it's no different than going to the gym and talking with your friends (however, not throwing the weights at people that look like orcs) and tada, "gamer" is a good name again:)
I can spot geniune tech stupidity from a distance of 50 feet at least and I'm right in front of my monitor (TV tuner card) so trust me, some things he says are truly accurate to people like that.
Didn't I see that WALT device attached to a fancy Japanese toilet? Couldda sworn...
But thank God they cancelled crappy products that didn't function correctly before they made it to market unlike most other companies *cough cough Sony cough*
I've been a computer repairer for like 4 years and I just carry a 1 GB USB drive with installers for Spybot S&D, Ad-aware SE, Avast, Zone Alarm, and Everest home edition (not available anymore). Anything else I can usually fix manually. I also have some great utilities like winsock fix and the removal tools for common viruses. And of course, an installer for Open Office cuz that takes forever on DSL and everyone whines about not having office. I also have a rarely used free RAM tester. Plus I have internet shortcuts to any websites I always want to go to on-site like driverguide.com in case I forget the address. Also, pre-written instruction files for common tasks so I don't have to re-type them every time someone asks (you'd be surprised how often that comes up). If I knew of an alternate to the windows task manager other than spybot, I'd have that on there too. So there ya go, a bunch of stuff you probably never thought of but will save U tons of time and headaches from a computer repair expert who actually has repaired people's home computers. Look at the absolute crap that has nothing to do repair above this post and mod this one up already!
don't forget he also at one point totally dissed wikipedia (not that it didn't deserve what he said) and told people to go change an article to something purposely not true. Just think about what would have happened if he had changed the wording just a hair and told people to edit every article randomly to stuff that's not true. Bye bye wikipedia. He's an overall complete anti-geek in case you haven't watched every episode of the show.
well, there goes his college's server(s). I bet all the web dev students using the servers for final projects and people paying next semester's tuition online are just delighted over that one. And youtube is down at this very moment too so now they REALLY have nothing to do in the meantime. Hope they got Wiis or something:P
btw he should have asked for a better offer from ANYONE before accepting Sony's cuz they'll screw up his idea into a horrible, twisted, crap version like they do with most of their other products cuz they think they'll make more money *cough cough PS3 cough* I'd be surprised if it didn't eventually come out classified as a racing game/RPG with strong anime undertones.
what about inventions such as Tower of Power style advanced games. They're doing things more complicated and advanced than the game's original scope was intended for. New game types like swat are the same way. Also, sniping perfect head shots at respawn points is the equivalent of cheetahs getting better at gazelle hunting (except cheetahs aren't cheap ass modders, I doubt anyone does the aforementioned technique naturally)
yeah, I was pretty much just makin fun of the title. It wasn't Europe, developers, or bad planning, it was all because of the on/off menu. Though I was also referring to the second article's quote about why Vista took so long as a whole. Is this like some sort of dual topic story or something?
I have dual monitors and a really nice TV tuner card so I just mute the TV and watch vids online during the commercials. Nielson better be really glad they didn't pick me to study cuz there's absolutely no way to stop me or others from doing that at all (except making commericals way WAY less stupid and annoying)
I'm no engineer but if they hook really, really big hot air balloons up to the exhaust towers, wouldn't that lift it noticeablly too? A couple more ideas like that and they'll just be big airplanes lol.
Is anyone else surprised they didn't mention Europe bitching about every little thing in Vista as part of the delays? Kinda hard to forget to mention that one, huh? I do agree that the overstaffing problem is a huge one. I'm working on a 9 week programming project for a class in a group of three and we're still like "you did what?!" every single week and then try and stomp out all the little fires that pop up from two people doing things that aren't compatible.
I'd say just go visit the bank in person, it's probably right down the street, but of course it's not open. I don't care what type of bank it is, it's not open right now. Why? Because you're home and not at work, probably cuz it's a weekend. If banks really wanted to improve security, they'd actually be open at usefull times so you wouldn't have to rely on web services. But I guess that's all you can expect from a business where the less customers stop in, the more money they save (in staffing etc). I have another great idea too. On the applications for web banking services, they could have an area where it says "I hereby swear that I am not a complete dumbass when it comes to passwords. It is not a. my last name, b. something I tell everyone, or c. on a sticky note on my monitor." That would get rid of at least half of the major security problems.
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oh yeah, that's what we need people doing in addition to talking on their cell phone while eating breakfast while driving. Come on, you know that you know at least one person that would check their e-mail on their fancy new monitor-glasses connected to their laptop while they were driving :P
OH.....MY.......GOD!!!! Now they'll have to get out of their car, open their front door, walk through their house and into the garage, hit the wired switch to open it, get back in their car, and drive it in! I specifically know people who will not leave their house because that's just too much of a hassle for them. But really, who needs to when everything's on Ebay :P
Either Steven's Point or Sheboygan, Wisconsin (I forget which) is missing from that pic. Nasa said it's a better site than any existing one and plans to built a launch site there. w00t Wisconsin ownz!
oh noooooooooo, now they'll have to get their fat asses out of their car and do the keypad instead! NOOOOO!!!! What is this, the middle ages?! Maybe some ppl will hire illegal immigrants to open their garages for them :P Then again, there's always the wireless, computer controller option :D Anyone got a driver for a USB 2.4 GHz garage door?
if you can't find it between Ebay and Froogle, it doesn't exist (or at least it's not for sale ANYWHERE) I've gotten super specialized computer repair parts through one of the two for years and never been able to not find something. Make sure you try searching with any serial #'s found on it.
what are you, retarded?! It goes like this. *reads the source code* oh look, here's a place in the program where a security flaw exists. *exploits it to hack someone in whatever way who's using the program* You seriously are retarded if you didn't realize that's what I meant because that's how hacking happens like 75% of the time. My php board got hacked cuz...well cuz it's php but still, it was badly designed open source crap that everyone can see the source code for. You can't possibly tell me that there's a program that exists with such perfect security that studying the source code wouldn't come up with a single security flaw at all!
yeah, it's called Wisconsin, move here. A quick summary as far as I know is that ONLY programmers are exempt from overtime laws and that's it.
I have posted that till my fingers fall off and they STILL do it. Seriously, what the hell. If they can even find one person that knows every tech acronym ever, I'll shut up about it but until them, SPELL THEM OUT ONCE!
and also, what the hell would someone have a use for a UAV that's actually legal that can't be done with existing technology? The only specialty compared to other flying vehicles is a wider view range, better cameras, and no person. So....it's sneakier and more privacy invading? I hope it doesn't pass after 2011 either.
But....it is insecure. You can go look up the source code and see exactly how it works and find a way to get around stuff really, really easily. All you have to be is a programmer. Any open source software that claims to be secure is only secure on the outside to non-programmers and there is some software like that but hackers, most of which are programmers, have no trouble finding security holes in open source stuff.
well gee, don't mention the price at all. And not just the ridiculous like $1000 per computer in licensing between the two, but the extra overtime for IT staff in installing it and training people on it too. Oh yeah and we can't forget that no computer on earth can run them both at the same time at any reasonable speed. How stupid can Microsoft possibly be?
every time someone enters a vote into a machine, the poll runners verify that one of the counters incremented by one. And every 15 minutes or so it prints out a count-so-far and they're kept in order. That way every single vote is counted and there's a semi-paper trail in case something weird happens. That would solve like 99.9999% of the problems as long as the poll operators sign a thing saying they can't tell anyone the count thus far or the counter only shows the last 3 digits of the count.
I'd stay far away from open source in the realm of investing. Open source naturally just has a disadvantage that...you know...it's FREE! Depending on how long you can keep it invested, I would put the majority of it in holographic storage technology like from InPhase http://www.inphase-technologies.com/investors/inde x.html. I personally have followed the development for years since I first heard of the technology and it's going to be commercially available within a very short time and with even just the experimental read/write speeds they've actually accomplished, it's gonna blow quantum, flash, and advanced magnetic storage away. Put at least some in google too if you wanna risk it but that's what people have been saying for years and it's never turned out bad :P And whatever's left over, put it in anything related to anti- global warming/mass starvation/weatger natural disasters technologies cuz you know those are gonna be huge in the next couple years.
Why don't they come out with a version of it for Wii using the motion sensing abilities so gamers can call it excercise and all the critics can get on with their lives? Soon gamers would be known as physically fit, skinny people with large upper bodies (and legs if they play DDR too!) If we had that going for us, we could dismiss any other complaints about playing to much by saying it's no different than going to the gym and talking with your friends (however, not throwing the weights at people that look like orcs) and tada, "gamer" is a good name again :)
I can spot geniune tech stupidity from a distance of 50 feet at least and I'm right in front of my monitor (TV tuner card) so trust me, some things he says are truly accurate to people like that.
Didn't I see that WALT device attached to a fancy Japanese toilet? Couldda sworn...
But thank God they cancelled crappy products that didn't function correctly before they made it to market unlike most other companies *cough cough Sony cough*
I've been a computer repairer for like 4 years and I just carry a 1 GB USB drive with installers for Spybot S&D, Ad-aware SE, Avast, Zone Alarm, and Everest home edition (not available anymore). Anything else I can usually fix manually. I also have some great utilities like winsock fix and the removal tools for common viruses. And of course, an installer for Open Office cuz that takes forever on DSL and everyone whines about not having office. I also have a rarely used free RAM tester. Plus I have internet shortcuts to any websites I always want to go to on-site like driverguide.com in case I forget the address. Also, pre-written instruction files for common tasks so I don't have to re-type them every time someone asks (you'd be surprised how often that comes up). If I knew of an alternate to the windows task manager other than spybot, I'd have that on there too. So there ya go, a bunch of stuff you probably never thought of but will save U tons of time and headaches from a computer repair expert who actually has repaired people's home computers. Look at the absolute crap that has nothing to do repair above this post and mod this one up already!
don't forget he also at one point totally dissed wikipedia (not that it didn't deserve what he said) and told people to go change an article to something purposely not true. Just think about what would have happened if he had changed the wording just a hair and told people to edit every article randomly to stuff that's not true. Bye bye wikipedia. He's an overall complete anti-geek in case you haven't watched every episode of the show.
well, there goes his college's server(s). I bet all the web dev students using the servers for final projects and people paying next semester's tuition online are just delighted over that one. And youtube is down at this very moment too so now they REALLY have nothing to do in the meantime. Hope they got Wiis or something :P
btw he should have asked for a better offer from ANYONE before accepting Sony's cuz they'll screw up his idea into a horrible, twisted, crap version like they do with most of their other products cuz they think they'll make more money *cough cough PS3 cough* I'd be surprised if it didn't eventually come out classified as a racing game/RPG with strong anime undertones.
what about inventions such as Tower of Power style advanced games. They're doing things more complicated and advanced than the game's original scope was intended for. New game types like swat are the same way. Also, sniping perfect head shots at respawn points is the equivalent of cheetahs getting better at gazelle hunting (except cheetahs aren't cheap ass modders, I doubt anyone does the aforementioned technique naturally)
yeah, I was pretty much just makin fun of the title. It wasn't Europe, developers, or bad planning, it was all because of the on/off menu. Though I was also referring to the second article's quote about why Vista took so long as a whole. Is this like some sort of dual topic story or something?
I have dual monitors and a really nice TV tuner card so I just mute the TV and watch vids online during the commercials. Nielson better be really glad they didn't pick me to study cuz there's absolutely no way to stop me or others from doing that at all (except making commericals way WAY less stupid and annoying)
I'm no engineer but if they hook really, really big hot air balloons up to the exhaust towers, wouldn't that lift it noticeablly too? A couple more ideas like that and they'll just be big airplanes lol.
Is anyone else surprised they didn't mention Europe bitching about every little thing in Vista as part of the delays? Kinda hard to forget to mention that one, huh? I do agree that the overstaffing problem is a huge one. I'm working on a 9 week programming project for a class in a group of three and we're still like "you did what?!" every single week and then try and stomp out all the little fires that pop up from two people doing things that aren't compatible.
I'd say just go visit the bank in person, it's probably right down the street, but of course it's not open. I don't care what type of bank it is, it's not open right now. Why? Because you're home and not at work, probably cuz it's a weekend. If banks really wanted to improve security, they'd actually be open at usefull times so you wouldn't have to rely on web services. But I guess that's all you can expect from a business where the less customers stop in, the more money they save (in staffing etc). I have another great idea too. On the applications for web banking services, they could have an area where it says "I hereby swear that I am not a complete dumbass when it comes to passwords. It is not a. my last name, b. something I tell everyone, or c. on a sticky note on my monitor." That would get rid of at least half of the major security problems.