I don't know why they included this. XP home does not have IIS.
Yes you can install IIS on XP home if you have an XP PRO CD all ready, but if they are trying to show what normal users expierence they shouldn't be including it.
To start: " Researchers asked the students to rate their own performance in school on a scale ranging from "below average" to "excellent," instead of looking directly at their grades or other metrics of academic performance"
It has nothing to do with grades as everyone keeps bringing up, it was how kids thought they did in schools. Kind of rating them selves. This might not even include grades at all.
Also they are not saying NO TV or games, but limited to 2 HOURS of quality broadcasting per day.
And what exactly are kids supposed to be doing? No kid would (or should) study 8+ hours a day, so what should the kids do for entertainment? And are things like after school sports, hanging out with friends, biking or what ever any better on a learning/educational level as video games?
When I first saw the photo I thought they had a PDA sitting on top of the computer. Which made me think, why not have a PDA that can be "docked" into the top of the laptop in the same way this display and controls are? It cant take up too much more space then this current design. The device would allow people much more freedom (remove it from the laptop, conntect to your desktop) and always have the files,contacts/information updated to the PDA. Also many people who I think would use a feature like this all ready have a PDA/smart phone it would make it so the person is carrying one less item.
Yeah there are just the two codes that worked cor contra, the other two were codes that worked with other kanami games. Useally any of those four codes could work on any of there games.
I dont know why they lump in IM, chat etc for "email" why not instead simply say no forms of communication, but you can still access information, or information and no communication.
That is what it really comes down too, and really I wouldnt choose. I'm a web developer, so I need all forms of communication for development, as well as access to the web for; well the projects I'm developing.
FTA it says the new ship date is because Sony has again pushed off their shipping date because of bluray problems. Should be really good for Nintendo. Not sure if SOny will make it for xmas time, but if they dont they will lose alot.
Auctually many of the airports use what is called a Nomadix USG (universal subscriber gateway) II. A very nice rackmountable gateway that works well with a radius/web/sQL system for AAA (authenication, authorization , accounting). It can also connect to a POS/hospitality system, but I dont believe many airports use this feature, thats more widely used by hotels.
The prices he lists are for canada only. The information for America is just him guessing what the prices will be.
"Based on current U.S. prices (which I wrote about last week), I would expect Windows Vista to sell in the U.S. for the following prices (full/upgrade):"
"Of course, these are guesses only. Some discounts will probably be available in the retail channel"
This isn't leaked information, it's guesses made by the guy.
The biggest problem with this idea is that the value of the domain name will be dependent on how much the website is worth that is using it. Since they can change the price year to year.
How much was the domain name flickr worth a few years ago, or how about digg, or youtube. Not very much in the setup they are talking about. But take a misspelled domain, and make the site worth millions (billions?) and now you can use extortion to the site owners to pay large amounts of money for the domain name they created value for, otherwise they lose the site.
"Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
I always loved that passage. If you think about it, what would be the mark? The persons identity. Man is the beast.
"I have news for you people who complain about welfare leeches... half the time these people are pushed into that because if they make above a certain level of income.. they will be denied welfare, but their jobs will make them less than welfare!"
So instead of making any attempt to increase what they make at their job, getting a second job, or finding a better job they instead go for the free ride that everyone else needs to pay, basicly paying for this person who is capable of working, but is not.
That is exactlly the type of person who even if they DID get a better job would do the minimium required of the job, will not attempt to improve their position at their job, and will most likely waste every bit of money they do make.
Because in many states you have to be over 18 to buy one.
And it could also be corporate policy that they have to run the license through the system now matter how old they look. But also a good way to collect data on who the person is incase they dont use a CC (or to check for fraud).
It's simple, its profiling or random checking for criminals. Even criminals have to buy food, and if they scan in their license there is a general known area s/he frequents.
The funny thing is that people are totally happy with letting companies and goverment track them. Every purchase with your CC is tracked. Every purchase with an "awards card" is tracked, and people are totally fine with this type of tracking.
Personally I think it will get to the point where you no longer just punch in for a job. You punch in to leave your house, enter your house, enter buildings, ride public transit and so on. it will be so simple, we all ready have a trackable ID on us. It would be simple too since they all ready do it with people on house arrest (talk into the phone and a device).
But with RFID it will be even easier, and less noticable.
It's still too early to tell. The only comparison there is right now is the xbox and the negative things that happened with release against 2 consoles that are still a ways from release.
Also this kind of irked me. "Everyone else, at this point, seems to be just catching up." in reference to Nintendo.
If their controler is what they are hoping will get them top place their going to fail awfuly. Microsoft all ready has a ton of games released, a 3 year old online gaming system (and content pushing system) and so on. I just dont understand how they can be saying everyone is trying to catch up to nintendo when their product is still not released.
"has serious implications for e-commerce websites whose functionality might be affected by any bugs in the software"
Beta versions have been out for a while now. Even IF the application worked so differently then previous versions that it would affect your site your:
a) Making a website that hardly works on any browser (including old versions of IE) b) Not taking your job seriously. If your job is to manage this sites that will be affected by a new browser version you should have all ready started your testing a year ago. c) If you are not capable of a and b then I'm willing to bet your site has more serious problems to worry about then the 5 people a week that go to your site to begin with.
I would suspect that they would, instead of having a reader / writer magtek swip which would cost 200-400 a piece the device reads the card for the persons uid and keeps track of all their information on the device its self.
Really it's silly to think that its a reader/writer the device and the cards them selves would be worn out pretty quickly when you think of how often the thing would need to write to each card in a single game, let alone a device that would only cost them 1-2 dollars.
"While all were legitimate shipments on the day, our message to anyone thinking about shipping counterfeit DVDs through the FedEx network is simple: you're going to get caught."
No there message should be, any and all packages containing any type of cd media will be opened and searched/viewed, (including company backups and other secure information). How this can be legal and why fedex would agreee to this in any way is beyond my understanding.
Naturally as larger (smaller) hard drives become cheaper they will come up with ipods with more space, this isnt a rumor that they will be doing it, maybe a rumor that it will be happening soon.
Woudln't the phone need to have some way to encrypt these text messages before sending them? I know none of the phones I have had in the past do not encrypt the messages. This would also mean that if they did come up with some way to encrypt them, pre-existing phones would not have the ability to use this service.
Will they allow phones that do not suport this level of security? I would guess yes they will, because I dont think it will be secure in anyway.
" would really like to see a free Windows OS "Core" kernal system that doesn't have any features but can be downloaded and installed easily. You could purchase more and more expansions or just buy the loaded omgwtfbbq$999 version of Windows right off the bat with everything from Office Suite Complex SP8 to Windows Media Player with more skins than an 18th century fur trader. "
This would be good, and knowing Microsoft they would make money doing this. But they couldn't. Not because they wouldnt want to, but because of their current standing in the software industry, they are simply too big to offer free software of this level. There would be so many lawsuites filed against Microsoft so quickly and so frequently that it just couldn't happen.
People complain about how much of a monopoly Microsoft is now, just think how much they would be if they offered a free basic OS. And the ability to buy add-ons in a simple way would cause every single company that has a competing company sue.
Microsoft is damned if they do anything, and damned if they dont.
My first questions is, are you planning on replacing the entire system used, not only client/server but also camaras? My guess is that the camaras connect to a hub of sorts that then simply transfer the softare to a server, the server runs a web server with specific software that lets you view the incomming video/audio from the different locations.
If this was your situation then the camaras wouldnt need any type of computers or firewalls. If this isnt the solution you are using then your entire install was flawed from the get go.
Heres an example of what I am talking about, no computer per location, simply connect cables to hub and camara and your done.
Again if this isn't the type of solution you are using, and each location has a PC thats use, it's all ready flawed, with a system thats "hundreds world wide" the person who setup it up if not all ready should be fired.
If what your talking about is on the "server side" meaning not a deployed location, then you can really use any type of PC you want, since most modern and sane setups will only be accessable from a browser or remote connection. No specific ports need to be open besides 80 then.
There is TONS of information about this online, look up IP camaras online, if the company is willing to let you switch over hundreds of locations world wide to use linux then your better off saving the money on install times and just do it right this time.
Gamespot has an article about an association of Criminals protesting the GTA games. Apparently, the Criminals of the Criminals Outreach Project aren't too happy about their ingame counterparts being treated violently in the GTA games. They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards Criminals in real life."
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" then it looks like the Wii will be a big hit"
:)
No, it will be a big sale item on ebay
I don't know why they included this. XP home does not have IIS.
Yes you can install IIS on XP home if you have an XP PRO CD all ready, but if they are trying to show what normal users expierence they shouldn't be including it.
To start:
" Researchers asked the students to rate their own performance in school on a scale ranging from "below average" to "excellent," instead of looking directly at their grades or other metrics of academic performance"
It has nothing to do with grades as everyone keeps bringing up, it was how kids thought they did in schools. Kind of rating them selves. This might not even include grades at all.
Also they are not saying NO TV or games, but limited to 2 HOURS of quality broadcasting per day.
And what exactly are kids supposed to be doing? No kid would (or should) study 8+ hours a day, so what should the kids do for entertainment? And are things like after school sports, hanging out with friends, biking or what ever any better on a learning/educational level as video games?
When I first saw the photo I thought they had a PDA sitting on top of the computer. Which made me think, why not have a PDA that can be "docked" into the top of the laptop in the same way this display and controls are? It cant take up too much more space then this current design. The device would allow people much more freedom (remove it from the laptop, conntect to your desktop) and always have the files,contacts/information updated to the PDA. Also many people who I think would use a feature like this all ready have a PDA/smart phone it would make it so the person is carrying one less item.
Yeah there are just the two codes that worked cor contra, the other two were codes that worked with other kanami games. Useally any of those four codes could work on any of there games.
its u u d d l r l r a b select start
or u u d d l r l r b a select start
or u u d d l r l l r l b a select start
or u u d d l r l l r l a b select start
select was only for 2 player games, if you wanted only single player you wouldnt hit select.
I dont know why they lump in IM, chat etc for "email" why not instead simply say no forms of communication, but you can still access information, or information and no communication. That is what it really comes down too, and really I wouldnt choose. I'm a web developer, so I need all forms of communication for development, as well as access to the web for; well the projects I'm developing.
FTA it says the new ship date is because Sony has again pushed off their shipping date because of bluray problems. Should be really good for Nintendo. Not sure if SOny will make it for xmas time, but if they dont they will lose alot.
Auctually many of the airports use what is called a Nomadix USG (universal subscriber gateway) II. A very nice rackmountable gateway that works well with a radius/web/sQL system for AAA (authenication, authorization , accounting). It can also connect to a POS/hospitality system, but I dont believe many airports use this feature, thats more widely used by hotels.
Yes just what I want. my own custom image blocking any information regarding why my system just crashed.
The prices he lists are for canada only. The information for America is just him guessing what the prices will be.
"Based on current U.S. prices (which I wrote about last week), I would expect Windows Vista to sell in the U.S. for the following prices (full/upgrade):"
"Of course, these are guesses only. Some discounts will probably be available in the retail channel"
This isn't leaked information, it's guesses made by the guy.
The biggest problem with this idea is that the value of the domain name will be dependent on how much the website is worth that is using it. Since they can change the price year to year.
How much was the domain name flickr worth a few years ago, or how about digg, or youtube. Not very much in the setup they are talking about. But take a misspelled domain, and make the site worth millions (billions?) and now you can use extortion to the site owners to pay large amounts of money for the domain name they created value for, otherwise they lose the site.
"Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
I always loved that passage. If you think about it, what would be the mark? The persons identity. Man is the beast.
"I have news for you people who complain about welfare leeches... half the time these people are pushed into that because if they make above a certain level of income.. they will be denied welfare, but their jobs will make them less than welfare!"
So instead of making any attempt to increase what they make at their job, getting a second job, or finding a better job they instead go for the free ride that everyone else needs to pay, basicly paying for this person who is capable of working, but is not.
That is exactlly the type of person who even if they DID get a better job would do the minimium required of the job, will not attempt to improve their position at their job, and will most likely waste every bit of money they do make.
That is why we complain about welfare leeches.
" smell BS. An ID for a lighter? Bah"
Because in many states you have to be over 18 to buy one.
And it could also be corporate policy that they have to run the license through the system now matter how old they look. But also a good way to collect data on who the person is incase they dont use a CC (or to check for fraud).
It's simple, its profiling or random checking for criminals. Even criminals have to buy food, and if they scan in their license there is a general known area s/he frequents.
The funny thing is that people are totally happy with letting companies and goverment track them. Every purchase with your CC is tracked. Every purchase with an "awards card" is tracked, and people are totally fine with this type of tracking.
Personally I think it will get to the point where you no longer just punch in for a job. You punch in to leave your house, enter your house, enter buildings, ride public transit and so on. it will be so simple, we all ready have a trackable ID on us. It would be simple too since they all ready do it with people on house arrest (talk into the phone and a device).
But with RFID it will be even easier, and less noticable.
It's still too early to tell. The only comparison there is right now is the xbox and the negative things that happened with release against 2 consoles that are still a ways from release.
Also this kind of irked me.
"Everyone else, at this point, seems to be just catching up." in reference to Nintendo.
If their controler is what they are hoping will get them top place their going to fail awfuly. Microsoft all ready has a ton of games released, a 3 year old online gaming system (and content pushing system) and so on. I just dont understand how they can be saying everyone is trying to catch up to nintendo when their product is still not released.
"has serious implications for e-commerce websites whose functionality might be affected by any bugs in the software"
Beta versions have been out for a while now. Even IF the application worked so differently then previous versions that it would affect your site your:
a) Making a website that hardly works on any browser (including old versions of IE)
b) Not taking your job seriously. If your job is to manage this sites that will be affected by a new browser version you should have all ready started your testing a year ago.
c) If you are not capable of a and b then I'm willing to bet your site has more serious problems to worry about then the 5 people a week that go to your site to begin with.
I would suspect that they would, instead of having a reader / writer magtek swip which would cost 200-400 a piece the device reads the card for the persons uid and keeps track of all their information on the device its self.
Really it's silly to think that its a reader/writer the device and the cards them selves would be worn out pretty quickly when you think of how often the thing would need to write to each card in a single game, let alone a device that would only cost them 1-2 dollars.
"While all were legitimate shipments on the day, our message to anyone thinking about shipping counterfeit DVDs through the FedEx network is simple: you're going to get caught."
No there message should be, any and all packages containing any type of cd media will be opened and searched/viewed, (including company backups and other secure information). How this can be legal and why fedex would agreee to this in any way is beyond my understanding.
Naturally as larger (smaller) hard drives become cheaper they will come up with ipods with more space, this isnt a rumor that they will be doing it, maybe a rumor that it will be happening soon.
Woudln't the phone need to have some way to encrypt these text messages before sending them? I know none of the phones I have had in the past do not encrypt the messages. This would also mean that if they did come up with some way to encrypt them, pre-existing phones would not have the ability to use this service.
Will they allow phones that do not suport this level of security? I would guess yes they will, because I dont think it will be secure in anyway.
" would really like to see a free Windows OS "Core" kernal system that doesn't have any features but can be downloaded and installed easily. You could purchase more and more expansions or just buy the loaded omgwtfbbq$999 version of Windows right off the bat with everything from Office Suite Complex SP8 to Windows Media Player with more skins than an 18th century fur trader. "
This would be good, and knowing Microsoft they would make money doing this. But they couldn't. Not because they wouldnt want to, but because of their current standing in the software industry, they are simply too big to offer free software of this level. There would be so many lawsuites filed against Microsoft so quickly and so frequently that it just couldn't happen.
People complain about how much of a monopoly Microsoft is now, just think how much they would be if they offered a free basic OS. And the ability to buy add-ons in a simple way would cause every single company that has a competing company sue.
Microsoft is damned if they do anything, and damned if they dont.
My first questions is, are you planning on replacing the entire system used, not only client/server but also camaras? My guess is that the camaras connect to a hub of sorts that then simply transfer the softare to a server, the server runs a web server with specific software that lets you view the incomming video/audio from the different locations.
If this was your situation then the camaras wouldnt need any type of computers or firewalls. If this isnt the solution you are using then your entire install was flawed from the get go.
Heres an example of what I am talking about, no computer per location, simply connect cables to hub and camara and your done.
Again if this isn't the type of solution you are using, and each location has a PC thats use, it's all ready flawed, with a system thats "hundreds world wide" the person who setup it up if not all ready should be fired.
If what your talking about is on the "server side" meaning not a deployed location, then you can really use any type of PC you want, since most modern and sane setups will only be accessable from a browser or remote connection. No specific ports need to be open besides 80 then.
There is TONS of information about this online, look up IP camaras online, if the company is willing to let you switch over hundreds of locations world wide to use linux then your better off saving the money on install times and just do it right this time.
Gamespot has an article about an association of Criminals protesting the GTA games. Apparently, the Criminals of the Criminals Outreach Project aren't too happy about their ingame counterparts being treated violently in the GTA games. They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards Criminals in real life."