If you can't find a better return than that for 3 mill, you're not trying.
Suncorp (Australian bank) is offering 2.8% p.a. for 12 months for up to AUD$499K, with "negotiated" rates for amounts over AUD$500K.
That's a straight cash investment rate, the safest but lowest-earning category.
AUD$3M will buy you 5 - 6 residential properties in fairly "nice" areas, and you'll collect about $450/week each. If you allow say, 1 place vacant at any one time, you'll still gross AUD$117K per annum.
I first saw code on an Apple II - the Star Trek game.
I read an introduction to programming, and proceeded to modify the Star Trek game to not decrement the photon torpedo count whenever I fired one - ditto energy levels for shields and phasers. After a while I wrote a bouncing ball game, similar to pong.
Some time after I left school I found myself as the sysop for an IBM System/36, and I would play around with the application software source code to see how it worked - not the actual source code, of course - I made a copy to play with. The IBM programmer's and reference manuals are quite comprehensive and from there I was able to take on the source code maintenance and development roles. It was mostly RPGII, with a little bit of BASIC. Then we moved to an AS400, RPGIII, RPG400, and SQL.
International distribution is a tricky thing, especially for stuff that isn't actually produced by the big studios. You have to find someone in the destination country who's willing to be the distributor - to take on dubbing, manufacturing, marketing, etc. The producer in the source country often isn't interested in getting their product out of the country, and they sell the foreign distribution rights to specialists in that area.
Look at Studio Ghibli - their stuff wasn't available in the USA (officially) until John Lasseter saw them, then all of a sudden Disney was all over them, with name actors providing the English dubs. And it's not even Disney who distributes them in Australia. Madman has a separate deal with Disney to distribute the American English dubs of those Japanese films. Miyazaki was probably just offered a big cheque to turn over foreign distribution rights to Disney (for the english-speaking world, anyway).
Perhaps do some research - see if you can find a distribution company who deals with older, foreign content, and ask them if they would be interested.
You need to trace the distribution rights - which studio sold their entire back catalogue to Turner? I can't remember exactly when that happened, but it was long before the DVD era, and that's why there was a "Turner Classic Movies" channel on cable/satellite. I had Foxtel for a little while, and there were more "oldies" on TCM than I ever saw for sale on VHS.
If the studios weren't able to anticipate the sheer amount of money they could make by having their back catalogues available on disc or via streaming (sorry, got to stop and laugh here), they may have inadvertently failed to retain other distribution rights when negotiating with (for example) Turner - so it's possible that Turner owns those rights, not the studios.
Me. I have an old laptop (Core2Duo) next to the TV which runs netflix, youtube, plays DVDs, etc. It's smaller than the Blu-ray player next to it, but the next cast-off laptop will have a Blu-ray drive, and the player goes to ebay.
You don't need Apple products - more and more disc releases include an Ultraviolet download redemption code in the box - unfortunately playback needs MS Silverlight, but that's the cost of avoiding Apple products, if that's your thing.
Digital Cinema films are nearly always encrypted. You can load it onto the server, but it won't play without the decryption key, and that's only good for a limited period. You'd also have to re-render and re-compress the content anyway - DCP format is one file containing JPEG2000 frames, and one or more files containing the audio WAV files (plus metadata in XML files). I've seen DCP films over 180GB, so you'd need to grab the video frames, re-encode and compress them back to an MPEG stream, then re-mux the audio, and author a DVD.
Also the projector/s and server are tied together - a server will only play content on a projector that's on its list of licenced devices.
You could - in theory - tap the ethernet between server and projector (sometimes HDMI), but that also needs physical access, and technical knowledge beyond most pirates' skills.
You could point a camera at the screen, but that's hardly a high-quality copy.
It's all too much trouble. I suspect that rips come from releases in different regions, or from screener discs. Deadpool was available on KAT before any disc was released.
Task scheduler - create task Run as user SYSTEM trigger - whenever run cmd.exe or vbscript host with parameters/payload of choice Profit!
There ya go. Saved you $90K
I use that one to kill anti-virus/anti-malware programs whenever I need to run combofix, because the programs have failed in their primary purpose. If anti-malware programs can't guarantee to stop attacks, they shouldn't be allowed to run in the SYSTEM context. Require a password or SMS code to stop them temporarily, sure, but don't run them in a context where they CAN'T be stopped by a user. Some of them can be suspended temporarily, but that's not enough sometimes.
Back in the NT days, you could even get a CMD window to pop up on the desktop, running in the SYSTEM account. That's how you could get access to the SAM hive of the registry. The passwords were still encrypted, but still......
Windows has had some pretty crappy print spool management for a while. I've had to resort to restarting the spooler service to complete a "delete print job" request.
There's a lot of Adobe Creative Suite users out there, and Adobe doesn't have much motivation to port it to GNU/Linux, although it's available on OSX - it shouldn't take much effort, but the market is just too small, at least initially.
I'd prefer to see the penalties include a refund of the cost to undo the damage:
1. Revert Win10, or, when that doesn't work 2. Format and re-install Win7/8/8.1 3. Refund the cost of any hardware borked 4. Refund the cost of software re-installation And most important 5. Compensation for loss of business/income, say, actual plus 10x as a penalty and disincentive to do it again.
Seriously, this is stuff we criticize Microsoft for doing - sneaking changes past (or re-setting to MS preferred defaults) without a big "heads up!" for the users.
Let systemd-dev make their changes, but I agree, the distro maintainers have an obligation to put things like this in big, blinking, bright yellow words. I keep my systems up to date, but I don't have the time to follow every changelog.
"Software businesses now must accelerate their move to the cloud where everything can be controlled as a service rather than software. "
I think it's less hyperbole and more a sign of what Oracle is considering. She's let the cat out of the bag - Oracle must be exploring options to charge even more for their products.
You're not the only one. When I see how much time some people spend clicking likes, commenting on others' posts, and anxiously waiting for responses, I'm glad I never signed up.
Tried Linkedin for a while, but closed that when I started getting endorsements for non-existent skills from people who couldn't possibly know, i.e. linkedin was lying to me, and not in a subtle way.
Sadly, my Razr HD was ONLY sold in Oz via Telstra, I think that not enough were sold here to make it worthwhile for Telstra to put the effort into more than one upgrade - JB to KK, so no more updates for me - unless, of course, I unlock and root it. Fortunately, Motorola make it easy to unlock, and there's always XDA.
I believe it was XP that last had the option for a "repair install". Used it many times and it worked well.
Everything since has "startup repair" (which doesn't), or an install that *might" save your files and settings, but probably not your software. You can't even do the "in-place upgrade" without windows actually running first, so if it won't start windows, you're back to square 1. I don't think I've ever had a successful "startup repair". Even command-line access to fixboot, fixmbr, etc has never worked - so it's extract the disc, copy the user files, format and re-install.
30-day cooling off period aside, did she not have Win 8 installation media, or a recovery partition? I've had to format and re-install a couple of machines that the "reversion" managed to hose.
Nothing technically, but as it's a group policy setting, MS would be taking a very big risk of upsetting corporate/govt users. Enterprise versions of Windows aren't supposed to be affected, but not every "big" customer has everything on enterprise licencing.
There are some people who can't fathom or won't face why they're being treated with disrespect, contempt, or even paternalism, and can't get their heads around the possibility that it's *them* - their own personality - so they shift the burden to a much more comfortable stance - "you're a misogynist". That way they don't have to deal with uncomfortable facts about themselves.
Not saying that's the majority, but those types seem to be the most vocal about it.
Make sure you've got a backup of your files, and software. I've had three customers decide to revert after seeing Win10, and discussing their options with me, and two of those reversions failed.
Sure, it got rid of Win10, but blue-screened trying to boot Win7. I suspect Win10 had hosed the MBR when it "Upgraded" the disc to GPT, but the reversion process couldn't undo it. I spent hours trying to fix them before giving up, but at least they got a clean format & re-install.
Has anyone tried to schedule a "shutdown -a" (Cancel scheduled shutdown) job in task scheduler, to run every 15 seconds? Jobs added to the task scheduler can be run in the SYSTEM context, so it should have sufficient privileges to stop a planned shutdown.
Hell, find yourself a canal boat rental company, and take the family on a gentle cruise along canals.
There are lots of them in some countries (UK, parts of Europe), and none in many countries, but boy, are they fun - and relaxing. Cruise along, wave and smile at other boaties, enjoy the canal/riverbank scenery and wildlife, tie up at a riverside pub for lunch, eat, drink & be merry, and spend the late afternoon cruising to another pub for dinner.
There's just you and your family for most of the day, and you can join other people and socialise at lunch & dinner.
You can also have some fun learning to operate century-old locks. Yes, manually spinning a valve wheel, then *pushing* the operating arms made out of entire tree trunks. You won't get *that* on a Carnival Cruise.
Probably not. I'd want to have dedicated power available for electricity generation, but what those dedicated engines burn will come into the equation - total fuel consumed per {chosen unit} and total pollution emitted per {chosen unit}.
There's a fair chance that some of the cooling systems for the main engines are connected to a heat exchange unit somewhere, even if just to pre-heat the cabin showers (for example). There's a truckload of heat being given off by those big diesels, it's sensible and economical to make use of it, and it gives the company another green flag to wave.
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Actually, if I had points, it'd be "Offtopic". I don't actually care that many of the articles are references from elsewhere.
I come for the discussions - they're not quite like other forums (fora?).
In short, if you don't like it, close your account and don't lurk as AC.
If you can't find a better return than that for 3 mill, you're not trying.
Suncorp (Australian bank) is offering 2.8% p.a. for 12 months for up to AUD$499K, with "negotiated" rates for amounts over AUD$500K.
That's a straight cash investment rate, the safest but lowest-earning category.
AUD$3M will buy you 5 - 6 residential properties in fairly "nice" areas, and you'll collect about $450/week each. If you allow say, 1 place vacant at any one time, you'll still gross AUD$117K per annum.
I first saw code on an Apple II - the Star Trek game.
I read an introduction to programming, and proceeded to modify the Star Trek game to not decrement the photon torpedo count whenever I fired one - ditto energy levels for shields and phasers. After a while I wrote a bouncing ball game, similar to pong.
Some time after I left school I found myself as the sysop for an IBM System/36, and I would play around with the application software source code to see how it worked - not the actual source code, of course - I made a copy to play with. The IBM programmer's and reference manuals are quite comprehensive and from there I was able to take on the source code maintenance and development roles. It was mostly RPGII, with a little bit of BASIC. Then we moved to an AS400, RPGIII, RPG400, and SQL.
International distribution is a tricky thing, especially for stuff that isn't actually produced by the big studios. You have to find someone in the destination country who's willing to be the distributor - to take on dubbing, manufacturing, marketing, etc. The producer in the source country often isn't interested in getting their product out of the country, and they sell the foreign distribution rights to specialists in that area.
Look at Studio Ghibli - their stuff wasn't available in the USA (officially) until John Lasseter saw them, then all of a sudden Disney was all over them, with name actors providing the English dubs. And it's not even Disney who distributes them in Australia. Madman has a separate deal with Disney to distribute the American English dubs of those Japanese films. Miyazaki was probably just offered a big cheque to turn over foreign distribution rights to Disney (for the english-speaking world, anyway).
Perhaps do some research - see if you can find a distribution company who deals with older, foreign content, and ask them if they would be interested.
You need to trace the distribution rights - which studio sold their entire back catalogue to Turner? I can't remember exactly when that happened, but it was long before the DVD era, and that's why there was a "Turner Classic Movies" channel on cable/satellite. I had Foxtel for a little while, and there were more "oldies" on TCM than I ever saw for sale on VHS.
If the studios weren't able to anticipate the sheer amount of money they could make by having their back catalogues available on disc or via streaming (sorry, got to stop and laugh here), they may have inadvertently failed to retain other distribution rights when negotiating with (for example) Turner - so it's possible that Turner owns those rights, not the studios.
Me. I have an old laptop (Core2Duo) next to the TV which runs netflix, youtube, plays DVDs, etc. It's smaller than the Blu-ray player next to it, but the next cast-off laptop will have a Blu-ray drive, and the player goes to ebay.
You don't need Apple products - more and more disc releases include an Ultraviolet download redemption code in the box - unfortunately playback needs MS Silverlight, but that's the cost of avoiding Apple products, if that's your thing.
Digital Cinema films are nearly always encrypted. You can load it onto the server, but it won't play without the decryption key, and that's only good for a limited period. You'd also have to re-render and re-compress the content anyway - DCP format is one file containing JPEG2000 frames, and one or more files containing the audio WAV files (plus metadata in XML files). I've seen DCP films over 180GB, so you'd need to grab the video frames, re-encode and compress them back to an MPEG stream, then re-mux the audio, and author a DVD.
Also the projector/s and server are tied together - a server will only play content on a projector that's on its list of licenced devices.
You could - in theory - tap the ethernet between server and projector (sometimes HDMI), but that also needs physical access, and technical knowledge beyond most pirates' skills.
You could point a camera at the screen, but that's hardly a high-quality copy.
It's all too much trouble. I suspect that rips come from releases in different regions, or from screener discs. Deadpool was available on KAT before any disc was released.
Or is it the same old exploit?
Task scheduler - create task
Run as user SYSTEM
trigger - whenever
run cmd.exe or vbscript host with parameters/payload of choice
Profit!
There ya go. Saved you $90K
I use that one to kill anti-virus/anti-malware programs whenever I need to run combofix, because the programs have failed in their primary purpose. If anti-malware programs can't guarantee to stop attacks, they shouldn't be allowed to run in the SYSTEM context. Require a password or SMS code to stop them temporarily, sure, but don't run them in a context where they CAN'T be stopped by a user. Some of them can be suspended temporarily, but that's not enough sometimes.
Back in the NT days, you could even get a CMD window to pop up on the desktop, running in the SYSTEM account. That's how you could get access to the SAM hive of the registry. The passwords were still encrypted, but still......
Windows has had some pretty crappy print spool management for a while. I've had to resort to restarting the spooler service to complete a "delete print job" request.
There's a lot of Adobe Creative Suite users out there, and Adobe doesn't have much motivation to port it to GNU/Linux, although it's available on OSX - it shouldn't take much effort, but the market is just too small, at least initially.
S'funny - there's an article further down about the latest release of OS/2.
I'd prefer to see the penalties include a refund of the cost to undo the damage:
1. Revert Win10, or, when that doesn't work
2. Format and re-install Win7/8/8.1
3. Refund the cost of any hardware borked
4. Refund the cost of software re-installation
And most important
5. Compensation for loss of business/income, say, actual plus 10x as a penalty and disincentive to do it again.
Seriously, this is stuff we criticize Microsoft for doing - sneaking changes past (or re-setting to MS preferred defaults) without a big "heads up!" for the users.
Let systemd-dev make their changes, but I agree, the distro maintainers have an obligation to put things like this in big, blinking, bright yellow words. I keep my systems up to date, but I don't have the time to follow every changelog.
"Software businesses now must accelerate their move to the cloud where everything can be controlled as a service rather than software. "
I think it's less hyperbole and more a sign of what Oracle is considering. She's let the cat out of the bag - Oracle must be exploring options to charge even more for their products.
You're not the only one. When I see how much time some people spend clicking likes, commenting on others' posts, and anxiously waiting for responses, I'm glad I never signed up.
Tried Linkedin for a while, but closed that when I started getting endorsements for non-existent skills from people who couldn't possibly know, i.e. linkedin was lying to me, and not in a subtle way.
Sadly, my Razr HD was ONLY sold in Oz via Telstra, I think that not enough were sold here to make it worthwhile for Telstra to put the effort into more than one upgrade - JB to KK, so no more updates for me - unless, of course, I unlock and root it. Fortunately, Motorola make it easy to unlock, and there's always XDA.
I believe it was XP that last had the option for a "repair install". Used it many times and it worked well.
Everything since has "startup repair" (which doesn't), or an install that *might" save your files and settings, but probably not your software. You can't even do the "in-place upgrade" without windows actually running first, so if it won't start windows, you're back to square 1. I don't think I've ever had a successful "startup repair". Even command-line access to fixboot, fixmbr, etc has never worked - so it's extract the disc, copy the user files, format and re-install.
Bring back "Repair install", I say!
30-day cooling off period aside, did she not have Win 8 installation media, or a recovery partition? I've had to format and re-install a couple of machines that the "reversion" managed to hose.
Nothing technically, but as it's a group policy setting, MS would be taking a very big risk of upsetting corporate/govt users. Enterprise versions of Windows aren't supposed to be affected, but not every "big" customer has everything on enterprise licencing.
There are some people who can't fathom or won't face why they're being treated with disrespect, contempt, or even paternalism, and can't get their heads around the possibility that it's *them* - their own personality - so they shift the burden to a much more comfortable stance - "you're a misogynist". That way they don't have to deal with uncomfortable facts about themselves.
Not saying that's the majority, but those types seem to be the most vocal about it.
Make sure you've got a backup of your files, and software. I've had three customers decide to revert after seeing Win10, and discussing their options with me, and two of those reversions failed.
Sure, it got rid of Win10, but blue-screened trying to boot Win7. I suspect Win10 had hosed the MBR when it "Upgraded" the disc to GPT, but the reversion process couldn't undo it. I spent hours trying to fix them before giving up, but at least they got a clean format & re-install.
And a copy of GWX Control Panel.
Has anyone tried to schedule a "shutdown -a" (Cancel scheduled shutdown) job in task scheduler, to run every 15 seconds? Jobs added to the task scheduler can be run in the SYSTEM context, so it should have sufficient privileges to stop a planned shutdown.
Hell, find yourself a canal boat rental company, and take the family on a gentle cruise along canals.
There are lots of them in some countries (UK, parts of Europe), and none in many countries, but boy, are they fun - and relaxing. Cruise along, wave and smile at other boaties, enjoy the canal/riverbank scenery and wildlife, tie up at a riverside pub for lunch, eat, drink & be merry, and spend the late afternoon cruising to another pub for dinner.
There's just you and your family for most of the day, and you can join other people and socialise at lunch & dinner.
You can also have some fun learning to operate century-old locks. Yes, manually spinning a valve wheel, then *pushing* the operating arms made out of entire tree trunks. You won't get *that* on a Carnival Cruise.
Probably not. I'd want to have dedicated power available for electricity generation, but what those dedicated engines burn will come into the equation - total fuel consumed per {chosen unit} and total pollution emitted per {chosen unit}.
There's a fair chance that some of the cooling systems for the main engines are connected to a heat exchange unit somewhere, even if just to pre-heat the cabin showers (for example). There's a truckload of heat being given off by those big diesels, it's sensible and economical to make use of it, and it gives the company another green flag to wave.
Yet you're interested enough to post a comment.