That a particle has free-will using the standard definition is rather disturbing. Particles, capable of making a decision implies an inherent intelligence or at least a built-in "table of actions" at some level.
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So while I can do all of that in.NET/SQL Server does that mean I get fired? Maybe I can substitute the PHP version in Assembly being that's what we use.
The *last* thing I would want is a manager sitting over my shoulder saying "why didn't you do method a() this way" or "why not write the mysql code a different way".
I would rather the manager, you know...manage. If a manager can't understand a method or get the reasoning behind a programming choice and cannot grasp changes or accept new ideas then get rid of them, not for not knowing code.
I wonder if game developers have ever even considered that some piracy occurs because the gamers cannot afford the games themselves. Adding a chip that prevents piracy wont result in any additional income from people who simply cannot afford the games to begin with. I for one prefer to spend my money on gas these days than games.
I'm going to assume thats 3 racks of hardware and 1 rack for wiring, switches and possibly a PBX? The previous heat comment can range from mild to severe depending on whats in 3 racks of equipment. If you have 30 rack mount machines pumping out heat you're going to have a small sauna to work in daily. "Simple" heat issues can become large complications when you find out where you need to route the heat, plenum considerations, incoming air and other fun things. The noise generated by even 4 servers with SCSI drives will drive you nutty after a few months (you'll hear SCSI whine in your sleep).
In short, draw diagrams, plan for thousands of watts of power consumption, plan your airflow and give more info next time.
Two months ago I was forced to call Comcast support for a dead modem. Now, at the time, I was running Fedora 7. The technician (I use that word loosely) was insistent I tell her the time, displayed on the lower right corner of my screen. My attempts to inform her that the time of my computer was irrelevant to a modem that is not syncing. After then giving in and telling her that on my desktop, the time is on the top right of the screen, not the bottom due to me being in Linux. "Ohh well, we don't support Linux" was the answer.
It then took another 12 minutes to explain that the OS of my choice has nothing to do with a modem that is failed. I was finally booted to a real technician after asking for a MAC address reassignment (tip: start using tech words and asking for things you can't actually do over the phone) I was able to get someone who at least understood what happened and send out a new modem.
What does this have to do with the topic? Well, I was asked to check a page at Comcast for terms, during the time I had told the "tech" that my cable was out, as they flat out said they would not support any issues with Firefox, especially under Linux, neither of which had anything to do with the problem.
A while back, I contacted a major ISP about an opening in their web based mail server system that would potentially expose the email from any account provided you knew the email address you wished to gain access to, not a hard thing to accomplish. I initially contacted the abuse@ department to explain what I found and how I, and here's the kicker, accidentally stumbled upon this. I wasn't looking for it or trying some form of pen-test, it was an accident.
At first I received an email back thanking me for pointing out the issue and a promise it will be resolved. This was then followed up by the busiest conference call I've ever been a participant of in my life where I was all but accused of starting the 1871 Chicago fire.
Thanks turned to anger as the engineers, obviously not wanting to get fired or "blamed" (god forbid anyone in America actually take blame for anything anymore) for this minor yet potentially nasty flaw, swore up and down that there's no way other than "actively attacking" the system could I have exposed this issue and that's when things got nasty.
I was threatened, with federal involvement (they never explained that part), emailed copies of recent arrests of hackers from Australia and told to get a lawyer. Four months later, there has been no follow-up, I've spent only eight-hundred in legal fees (I got lucky there) and the ISP quietly stopped harassing me.
I'm convinced this "attack" against anyone pointing web security flaws is all nested in this deep-rooted fear to admit ones mistakes. Web developers think if they admit a single mistake will never get another web development gig again. Ask yourself, would you hire a company that open admitted to making a security mistake on a website that was discovered? I'm interested in seeing where this goes.
"Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift"
Yeah, because when my neighbor down the street calls Dell to order a new desktop, the first thing on his mind other than "how the hell do I plug it in" is a demand for Vista and his digital shift. Let's see how many systems we're sold where people actually demanded Vista over XP and clearly understood the selection. The bank down the street from me still has windows 98 desktops on their desks! Digital shift my ass...
I ignored all of the wiz-bang FPS ratings after viewing that power consumption chart. Every few weeks by friends kid invites his friends around for a small lan party (about 9 total). They run power cords from other rooms to drive their rigs (everyone brings desktop+lcd and use usb headsets) but now I'm imagining the speed the power meter wheel will spin when 9 computers, each with a 1kw PSU, connect in that house. Thats assuming his 60+ year old home will even survive that.
Sounds like they should sell a solar panel with each 1kw PSU.
A clients celeron 500 machine with 256MB of ram rendered the page in a blink of an eye along with the resulting (fake) image. I think the poster is under the impression that every single page on the 'net will have one of these images. If the purpose is to block spammers, and the HTML table will only be rendered when you attempt to post a message to a board, then what is the point of his post. I'm sure the 1/10th of a second extra it took to render that table is worth the wait to the owner of the board, and the readers, to keep posts on content and not filled with spam garbage.
While not a clear indication of trends towards choice of programming languages, its interesting to view the queries associated with either.net or perl. Google trends shows a nice steady decline in searches for perl while.net has remained a constant.
Am I missing something here in that the scripters/site hackers can now have a field day by not changing a hacked sites content itself but rather insert in harmless "children" based words into a pages meta tags and get the site operator a twenty-year jail sentance?
If the site operator cannot prove they didn't insert those words they could be in some serious trouble.
Strangely enough, for no reason we could figure out, our usage stats showed an increase from 12% to 20% of visitors to our site using Firefox. We've assumed since we are getting more traffic from europe, and reading this article that europe is using Firefox at ever greater levels it looks like our assumptions were correct. I for one welcome our firefox overlords.
It's secure alright. It prevents users from re-arranging their start menu. Now that's secure! I'm not aware of any malware that rearranges the start menu as a feature but Vista will prevent that too.
Want to delete that icon on your desktop? Yeap, you'll need administrative permissions for that as well. But you ask...it's my desktop, why do I need the administrator? One would figure that even running in "low" user mode would take into some kind of consideration that you don't need to be a damm admin to remove icons from your desktop.
And I am ****dying**** to see what happens when we use our RSA keys in Vista. There *is no* administrator password that is fixed. Does Microsoft envision a system that will have users asking me for permission where I have to whip out my key and give new passwords every minute?
I guess I missed something in this expansion. The first 15 minutes of the game are watching a purely scripted environment. You have absolutely no control over the outcome nor can you make any decisions (other than to jump off of a cliff). This game is *way* to scripted to be enjoyable and combined with the inability to shoot friendlies to me has less flair than the original.
Does it include free-time to install security updates or how about wasting 2 hours of time to remove embedded spyware? Does this program mean that the end user would need to pay not only to have pervasive software removed but also pay Microsoft for the time it takes to get rid of it?
It still wont stop exec's who think that plugins to add smiley faces to their email messages are just a "neat ass idea" installing spyware on purpose. It will just redefine what spyware is. Thats until the spyware creators find security holes in Vista and exploit them with, well, I dunno what we'll call it but it will still happen.
God's theory too. There's no proof at all other than a book, some guy asking you for money to make you feel better about yourself and some TV movies so we should add the word theory at any mention of the bible or religion as none of it's provable.
Can we get a class action lawsuit against Microsoft much like the assclown who's suing Apple by claiming there's no large warning on the IE7 install that our computers can be comprimised by a damm beta?
After redesigning our entire site I set about writing parts of it to work with my pocket pc screen. While the Ipaq I use leaves a lot to be desired for it's inability to render CSS it does do a fairly decent job with page data. I took our front page article feeds and made them available in limited text only format as well as the major practice area's. This way a casual browser to our ppc site would see basically the same info on our main page on their pocket pc. Once I can find uses for it we will add more features but so far of the users to our site, awstats shows 4 visitors with PPC devices and one of them was me. Was it worth it business wise? Not at all. Was it worth it programming/hobby wise? Sure.
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In the case that x million keys were used, would Steam really ban x million of its own clients and lose all of that ongoing revenue just for AMD?
At :51 in when they remove the box from the sink its still clearly visible in the mirror.
Has there been any mention of the size of that scar? I know the red spot can hold 2-3 earths but what size is that scar?
I figured I would have been a Dirk Gently comment in here at some point. Something about a lurking refrigerator springing forth a Guilt God...
That a particle has free-will using the standard definition is rather disturbing. Particles, capable of making a decision implies an inherent intelligence or at least a built-in "table of actions" at some level.
So while I can do all of that in .NET/SQL Server does that mean I get fired? Maybe I can substitute the PHP version in Assembly being that's what we use.
The *last* thing I would want is a manager sitting over my shoulder saying "why didn't you do method a() this way" or "why not write the mysql code a different way".
I would rather the manager, you know...manage. If a manager can't understand a method or get the reasoning behind a programming choice and cannot grasp changes or accept new ideas then get rid of them, not for not knowing code.
I wonder if game developers have ever even considered that some piracy occurs because the gamers cannot afford the games themselves. Adding a chip that prevents piracy wont result in any additional income from people who simply cannot afford the games to begin with. I for one prefer to spend my money on gas these days than games.
I'm going to assume thats 3 racks of hardware and 1 rack for wiring, switches and possibly a PBX? The previous heat comment can range from mild to severe depending on whats in 3 racks of equipment. If you have 30 rack mount machines pumping out heat you're going to have a small sauna to work in daily. "Simple" heat issues can become large complications when you find out where you need to route the heat, plenum considerations, incoming air and other fun things. The noise generated by even 4 servers with SCSI drives will drive you nutty after a few months (you'll hear SCSI whine in your sleep).
In short, draw diagrams, plan for thousands of watts of power consumption, plan your airflow and give more info next time.
Two months ago I was forced to call Comcast support for a dead modem. Now, at the time, I was running Fedora 7. The technician (I use that word loosely) was insistent I tell her the time, displayed on the lower right corner of my screen. My attempts to inform her that the time of my computer was irrelevant to a modem that is not syncing. After then giving in and telling her that on my desktop, the time is on the top right of the screen, not the bottom due to me being in Linux. "Ohh well, we don't support Linux" was the answer.
It then took another 12 minutes to explain that the OS of my choice has nothing to do with a modem that is failed. I was finally booted to a real technician after asking for a MAC address reassignment (tip: start using tech words and asking for things you can't actually do over the phone) I was able to get someone who at least understood what happened and send out a new modem.
What does this have to do with the topic? Well, I was asked to check a page at Comcast for terms, during the time I had told the "tech" that my cable was out, as they flat out said they would not support any issues with Firefox, especially under Linux, neither of which had anything to do with the problem.
Next time, I'll tell them I'm in BeOS or V2.
A while back, I contacted a major ISP about an opening in their web based mail server system that would potentially expose the email from any account provided you knew the email address you wished to gain access to, not a hard thing to accomplish. I initially contacted the abuse@ department to explain what I found and how I, and here's the kicker, accidentally stumbled upon this. I wasn't looking for it or trying some form of pen-test, it was an accident.
At first I received an email back thanking me for pointing out the issue and a promise it will be resolved. This was then followed up by the busiest conference call I've ever been a participant of in my life where I was all but accused of starting the 1871 Chicago fire.
Thanks turned to anger as the engineers, obviously not wanting to get fired or "blamed" (god forbid anyone in America actually take blame for anything anymore) for this minor yet potentially nasty flaw, swore up and down that there's no way other than "actively attacking" the system could I have exposed this issue and that's when things got nasty.
I was threatened, with federal involvement (they never explained that part), emailed copies of recent arrests of hackers from Australia and told to get a lawyer. Four months later, there has been no follow-up, I've spent only eight-hundred in legal fees (I got lucky there) and the ISP quietly stopped harassing me.
I'm convinced this "attack" against anyone pointing web security flaws is all nested in this deep-rooted fear to admit ones mistakes. Web developers think if they admit a single mistake will never get another web development gig again. Ask yourself, would you hire a company that open admitted to making a security mistake on a website that was discovered? I'm interested in seeing where this goes.
"Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift"
Yeah, because when my neighbor down the street calls Dell to order a new desktop, the first thing on his mind other than "how the hell do I plug it in" is a demand for Vista and his digital shift. Let's see how many systems we're sold where people actually demanded Vista over XP and clearly understood the selection. The bank down the street from me still has windows 98 desktops on their desks! Digital shift my ass...
I ignored all of the wiz-bang FPS ratings after viewing that power consumption chart. Every few weeks by friends kid invites his friends around for a small lan party (about 9 total). They run power cords from other rooms to drive their rigs (everyone brings desktop+lcd and use usb headsets) but now I'm imagining the speed the power meter wheel will spin when 9 computers, each with a 1kw PSU, connect in that house. Thats assuming his 60+ year old home will even survive that.
Sounds like they should sell a solar panel with each 1kw PSU.
A clients celeron 500 machine with 256MB of ram rendered the page in a blink of an eye along with the resulting (fake) image. I think the poster is under the impression that every single page on the 'net will have one of these images. If the purpose is to block spammers, and the HTML table will only be rendered when you attempt to post a message to a board, then what is the point of his post. I'm sure the 1/10th of a second extra it took to render that table is worth the wait to the owner of the board, and the readers, to keep posts on content and not filled with spam garbage.
While not a clear indication of trends towards choice of programming languages, its interesting to view the queries associated with either .net or perl. Google trends shows a nice steady decline in searches for perl while .net has remained a constant.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+perl
There is also a steady decline in Java compared to C# in queries.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=c%23%2C+java&ctab=
Could it be that nobody needs to search google for examples, updates, information versus C#? Who can tell.
Am I missing something here in that the scripters/site hackers can now have a field day by not changing a hacked sites content itself but rather insert in harmless "children" based words into a pages meta tags and get the site operator a twenty-year jail sentance?
If the site operator cannot prove they didn't insert those words they could be in some serious trouble.
Strangely enough, for no reason we could figure out, our usage stats showed an increase from 12% to 20% of visitors to our site using Firefox. We've assumed since we are getting more traffic from europe, and reading this article that europe is using Firefox at ever greater levels it looks like our assumptions were correct. I for one welcome our firefox overlords.
It's secure alright. It prevents users from re-arranging their start menu. Now that's secure! I'm not aware of any malware that rearranges the start menu as a feature but Vista will prevent that too.
Want to delete that icon on your desktop? Yeap, you'll need administrative permissions for that as well. But you ask...it's my desktop, why do I need the administrator? One would figure that even running in "low" user mode would take into some kind of consideration that you don't need to be a damm admin to remove icons from your desktop.
And I am ****dying**** to see what happens when we use our RSA keys in Vista. There *is no* administrator password that is fixed. Does Microsoft envision a system that will have users asking me for permission where I have to whip out my key and give new passwords every minute?
I guess I missed something in this expansion. The first 15 minutes of the game are watching a purely scripted environment. You have absolutely no control over the outcome nor can you make any decisions (other than to jump off of a cliff). This game is *way* to scripted to be enjoyable and combined with the inability to shoot friendlies to me has less flair than the original.
Does it include free-time to install security updates or how about wasting 2 hours of time to remove embedded spyware? Does this program mean that the end user would need to pay not only to have pervasive software removed but also pay Microsoft for the time it takes to get rid of it?
The flash component required to view "provides spacfic sounds" so the brain test didn't get past the spelling test before I cancelled it.
It still wont stop exec's who think that plugins to add smiley faces to their email messages are just a "neat ass idea" installing spyware on purpose. It will just redefine what spyware is. Thats until the spyware creators find security holes in Vista and exploit them with, well, I dunno what we'll call it but it will still happen.
Are they going to sue me because I dont visit their website and look at their pages? I sense a bit of corporate "waaaaaaaaa" going on here.
God's theory too. There's no proof at all other than a book, some guy asking you for money to make you feel better about yourself and some TV movies so we should add the word theory at any mention of the bible or religion as none of it's provable.
Can we get a class action lawsuit against Microsoft much like the assclown who's suing Apple by claiming there's no large warning on the IE7 install that our computers can be comprimised by a damm beta?
After redesigning our entire site I set about writing parts of it to work with my pocket pc screen. While the Ipaq I use leaves a lot to be desired for it's inability to render CSS it does do a fairly decent job with page data. I took our front page article feeds and made them available in limited text only format as well as the major practice area's. This way a casual browser to our ppc site would see basically the same info on our main page on their pocket pc. Once I can find uses for it we will add more features but so far of the users to our site, awstats shows 4 visitors with PPC devices and one of them was me. Was it worth it business wise? Not at all. Was it worth it programming/hobby wise? Sure.