Would not a better way be to allow the 18+ designation but say, increase the fines for game stores selling high rated games to those too young to play them, hrmm, about 2000% higher?
This would help curb the flagrant disregard most games stores have for such ratings at least (particularly if the new funds were used to cover more under-cover checks.
Was just pointing out to the parent, since he was on his high horse about it only being a "demo ink cart" and I know the epsons have full ones (the brand the article was talking about).
Yes they use a fair bit of ink to initialize the heads, mainly because unlike other manufacturers they don't make disposable heads, this is generally why epson carts are about $18AU and HP/etc are about $60AU.
Well from experience selling, setting up and using epsom printers, typically they do come with a full tank of cartridges, crazy concept I know, but thats one of the reasons we sell the damn things, another being they are one of the only printers on the market that come with a USB cable to hook them up.
As another person pointed out, its not free market capitalism at work, since the people the pirates are preying upon are not free to spend a few million on some guns themselves.
Mod parent up, although limit the mod to around 4, there were no cars in his analogy!
I can see the CSIRO getting more cool toys in the not-too-distant future what with their payout from their 802.11n patent win. Great to see them putting the funds to use (although I am betting this baby was on order long before that money will flow into their coffers).
Nothing worse than working on a smokers PC, the cigarete tar usually filters through any dust in the machine to make a fine layer of sludge (kinda like mud but a whole lot worse) on EVERYTHING.
Having said "nothing worse" yes I have repaired machines where mouse urine shorted the CPU socket, where a nest of white tail spiders (look them up, they have a fun bite) had taken up residence and even a computer that had been in a babies room and was full of talcum powder. And you know why? At the end of the day, you can wash the smell of all that off yourself, but cigarette tar takes about 3 days to fully get rid of the stink.
However, they really should put it in their warranty info, I know we have:)
I have mounted the Program Files (x86), the Users and the UserData folders as HDD partitions mounted via NTFS folders to these points, and it means your system boots and runs some apps as fast as the SSD can let it, but for storage of big files and junk, the rust takes over.
Conversely, if your browsing habits include a site like reddit, where you click a bunch of links related to what you are interested in, then no-script becomes a necessity to prevent java and java-script exploits.
Yeah yeah, its poking fun, but really clicking a whole crap-ton of links to sites you are not sure of in a potentially unsafe browser is just asking for something nasty, unless you are actually browsing for something nasty.
Possibility that if the majority of the document is on server level stuff, then did they maybe test IE with "enhanced protection" that comes with server? Effectively its like firefox with no-script but has none of the user-friendliness of no-script.
No-script isn't that bad, not a whole lot of sites require scripts, and those that do you can decide whether to trust the whole site or just the element you are wanting to use.
No-script, and there are very few sites you need to white-list, when you can just click the javascript element you want to view and just enable that one element.
Realistically, you can't, and I agree they need to harden the code more and sandbox it into a lower privilege.
I am not going to point out, as others have, that a virus scanner is just making a guess at your safety too, however I will point out one thing.
I am a computer tech, mainly I install and configure windows systems for a living, I also do extra work cleaning things off them, I know how to find nasties, and I know how to remove them.
My comment was primarily to point out that the state we are in at the moment is being perpetuated by bad education and habits in using computers and by sloppy programming on the part of application devs and OS devs.
Think about it, if windows firewall did what it was supposed to, and IE didn't automatically run everything that was handed to it we may not have a place for norton in this world.
Probably not going to happen, but a geek can dream can't he?
Interesting question, as a small OEM, we have decided unless a customer specifically asks for 32bit (or requires a media centre machine) they are getting 64bit:)
Why would you need an anti-virus if you have a router whose firewall is worth a damn, have a browser that doesn't develop un-patched exploits like college kids develop acne and you don't click and run every damn executable bit of code you see on web site?
If you have a good firewall and secure applications, the only remaining way to get a virus is if you download it and run it yourself.
Older versions of quicken software, older versions of MYOB, anything that interfaces with a gameport and I can't ignore the $15,000 laser cutter software I was trying to install on it the other month that couldn't see its parallel dongle (because there were no vista drivers for the dongle) and wouldn't run.
In short, if your current business PC is doing its job, don't fuck with it, just leave it.
If you need to upgrade to 7, the PC and the OS cost may be the cheapest part of your upgrade;)
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Would not a better way be to allow the 18+ designation but say, increase the fines for game stores selling high rated games to those too young to play them, hrmm, about 2000% higher?
This would help curb the flagrant disregard most games stores have for such ratings at least (particularly if the new funds were used to cover more under-cover checks.
Yes, they can (and would likely have) ask to remove to their satisfaction the offending material.
The next recourse to someone refusing to follow the somewhat simple request is to call the police and have them arrested for a felony.
Was just pointing out to the parent, since he was on his high horse about it only being a "demo ink cart" and I know the epsons have full ones (the brand the article was talking about).
Yes they use a fair bit of ink to initialize the heads, mainly because unlike other manufacturers they don't make disposable heads, this is generally why epson carts are about $18AU and HP/etc are about $60AU.
Well from experience selling, setting up and using epsom printers, typically they do come with a full tank of cartridges, crazy concept I know, but thats one of the reasons we sell the damn things, another being they are one of the only printers on the market that come with a USB cable to hook them up.
And power supplies (cheap ones) are how efficient? ;)
Its his blog, if you don't like it piss off :)
As another person pointed out, its not free market capitalism at work, since the people the pirates are preying upon are not free to spend a few million on some guns themselves.
Its a breakdown in the UN sure enough.
Ahh, but you see they are not terrorists (yet), so they are off the radar of the general public.
Give your government some credit though, Somalia will be invaded to preserve freedom soon enough.
Likely because 280s were phased out a while back by 285s, which should be cheaper to get a hold of.
Very very close, GTX280 SLI :)
Most users also don't need to run at 1920x1200, and most users can now afford a GTX275 for their basic gaming machine without too much of a stretch :)
Mod parent up, although limit the mod to around 4, there were no cars in his analogy!
I can see the CSIRO getting more cool toys in the not-too-distant future what with their payout from their 802.11n patent win. Great to see them putting the funds to use (although I am betting this baby was on order long before that money will flow into their coffers).
Time to upgrade, my 12mth old hardware runs it at 1920x1200 with all detail on max at 60fps.
This meme is getting old very fast.
Here here.
Nothing worse than working on a smokers PC, the cigarete tar usually filters through any dust in the machine to make a fine layer of sludge (kinda like mud but a whole lot worse) on EVERYTHING.
Having said "nothing worse" yes I have repaired machines where mouse urine shorted the CPU socket, where a nest of white tail spiders (look them up, they have a fun bite) had taken up residence and even a computer that had been in a babies room and was full of talcum powder. And you know why? At the end of the day, you can wash the smell of all that off yourself, but cigarette tar takes about 3 days to fully get rid of the stink.
However, they really should put it in their warranty info, I know we have :)
Wrong actually.
I have mounted the Program Files (x86), the Users and the UserData folders as HDD partitions mounted via NTFS folders to these points, and it means your system boots and runs some apps as fast as the SSD can let it, but for storage of big files and junk, the rust takes over.
Wait, if your blocking everything inbound, and now we need to block everything outbound....
I will sell you my new "loose wire" protection system, it stops ALL remote exploits and costs just $11.99 a month (per seat) to implement!
Conversely, if your browsing habits include a site like reddit, where you click a bunch of links related to what you are interested in, then no-script becomes a necessity to prevent java and java-script exploits.
Yeah yeah, its poking fun, but really clicking a whole crap-ton of links to sites you are not sure of in a potentially unsafe browser is just asking for something nasty, unless you are actually browsing for something nasty.
Possibility that if the majority of the document is on server level stuff, then did they maybe test IE with "enhanced protection" that comes with server? Effectively its like firefox with no-script but has none of the user-friendliness of no-script.
No-script isn't that bad, not a whole lot of sites require scripts, and those that do you can decide whether to trust the whole site or just the element you are wanting to use.
No-script, and there are very few sites you need to white-list, when you can just click the javascript element you want to view and just enable that one element.
Realistically, you can't, and I agree they need to harden the code more and sandbox it into a lower privilege.
I am not going to point out, as others have, that a virus scanner is just making a guess at your safety too, however I will point out one thing.
I am a computer tech, mainly I install and configure windows systems for a living, I also do extra work cleaning things off them, I know how to find nasties, and I know how to remove them.
My comment was primarily to point out that the state we are in at the moment is being perpetuated by bad education and habits in using computers and by sloppy programming on the part of application devs and OS devs.
Think about it, if windows firewall did what it was supposed to, and IE didn't automatically run everything that was handed to it we may not have a place for norton in this world.
Probably not going to happen, but a geek can dream can't he?
Interesting question, as a small OEM, we have decided unless a customer specifically asks for 32bit (or requires a media centre machine) they are getting 64bit :)
Why would you need an anti-virus if you have a router whose firewall is worth a damn, have a browser that doesn't develop un-patched exploits like college kids develop acne and you don't click and run every damn executable bit of code you see on web site?
If you have a good firewall and secure applications, the only remaining way to get a virus is if you download it and run it yourself.
Virus and virus-checker free for over 8 years.
Cop-Killer rounds usually refers to 8mm and 9mm pistol and machine pistol rounds that are designed for armour piercing.
None available, there are win98 drivers for it, they are a little shaky under 98se, but the first one runs em fine...
That particular system ended up as a VM running under vista.
Older versions of quicken software, older versions of MYOB, anything that interfaces with a gameport and I can't ignore the $15,000 laser cutter software I was trying to install on it the other month that couldn't see its parallel dongle (because there were no vista drivers for the dongle) and wouldn't run.
In short, if your current business PC is doing its job, don't fuck with it, just leave it.
If you need to upgrade to 7, the PC and the OS cost may be the cheapest part of your upgrade ;)