It's got a more scientific outlook than Mythbusters though. It explains *why* something will or won't work, in simple enough language... all mythbusters does is say 'well, that worked..' and end the programme with no explanation.. which kinda irritates me.
At its heart it's an excuse to blow things up though, or get drunk (the hangover cure episode was great.. I already knew the outcome, having done the experiment myself as a student, but it was fun to watch).
Fact: the 'proof of concept' does not work on a currently patched IE6. At all.
It DOSs the browser, in the same way it does for firefox... presumably it's going into some kind of infinite loop in javascript and that's supposed to run calc.exe.. doesn't work.
In the UK we've had video downloads for cellphones for a while, although they're only now starting to get popular (and live streaming of video, which was popular last year for a time but seems to have died off).
We also have video ringones... (see, there *is* one born every minute...).
I speculate that because of this the ipod video won't do too well here.. pure speculation though as it's not on sale yet (at least on the highstreet - possibly available through the apple store though).
You might not, but *everyone else* makes coffee with boiling water.
Before you add the milk it is going to be pretty close to boiling. Every child knows that (some even found out the hard way). That the woman who sued didn't know that shows the mentality.
I wouldn't buy coffee if it was 40 degrees cooler than standard coffee. I don't want my coffee lukewarm.
Playing chicken is where you are both in cars (or motorbikes) and head towards each other at high speed. The first to swerve out of the way is 'chicken'. It's a fast way to get killed...
Lying down in the highway is not true chicken, since only one side is risking their life (so you couldn't determine who the chicken was).
Your answer is worse. Your asking geeks to become someone they're not just to get dates. I'm a geek, and I would never pretend to be a non-geek just to get women.. no good relationship can start that way (OK if you're into one nighters I guess though).
What's going to happen to the 'relationship' when you bring home 100 metres of CAT5 and start stapling cable all over her flat? Or when you install linux on her computer? Or when you spend $1000 on new hardware in a day? Geeks routinely do things that non-geeks would have trouble living with (I've done all of the above in that last month, btw... albeit it's my flat too as I'm married).
I always understood that he knew too much and his government didn't believe his reasons for wanting to leave. His government was at the very least in collusion - remember when he escaped in the packing crate, and 'they' faked a plane ride and dumped him in an exact duplicate of his bosses office (only to be found out when they forgot to compensate for timezones)? His boss was there going along with it.
I kinda agree.. Incomprehensible script, amateurish camera work, (mostly) poor acting... I really wish they hadn't called it BSG since it's a different story really - then I could just not like the latest US blockbuster rather than not liking a classic remake (I really loved the original series, although it had bad acting and poor storylines, it didn't take itself too seriously).
..and they subsequently destroyed the reputation of a good company. Wouldn't be seen dead with linksys hardware any more.. it's cheaply made crap now.
cisco can get away with it on their routers (cisco routers are made in taiwain and hong kong and they use cheapo chinese power supplies.. they don't hide this fact either) as they have a support network to back it up. Unfortunately it's different with the linksys stuff - you get the cheap ass hardware and no support.
Actually any older film would have benefited - anything shot on real film (which has a *far* greater resolution than HD). Most modern stuff is shot like that too...
Cue the old graph you learn in economics.. as price decreases profit increases, but demand falls, affecting revenue. The trick is hitting the crossover point where you're maximising both.
Of course it's not *quite* so easy as the graphs make out (eg. spend $2million on an advertising campaign, demand increases, so you can get away with charging more, which pays for the advertising campaign (plus a bit)).
That was a daily mail headline I believe. It was bullshit when they printed it, and it's still bullshit.
The BBC proposed a possible rise to £150 by 2013. It's currently £126.50. In 7 years they want to increase the license fee by a whopping 18%. Big woop.
Your information is out of date. 'few if any' TVs? How about every major TV manufacturer has committed to selling digital TVs... you can't but a large screen TV nowadays without the support, and for smaller ones it's getting there slowly (support for portables still sucks though.. the only portables with DTT are LCD ones for stupid money).
Walk into your local Dixons/Currys. Over 50% of the TVs on display will have DTT tuners in them... it doesn't add anything to the cost any more (there was a time when it was a premium but the chipsets are now at effectively zero cost to the manufacturers since they're all combined analogue/digital).
Heck, they've even got some idea what HDTV is now, just in time for christmas... of course the problem that there are no HDTV broadcasts and aren't likely to be any for another 6 months at least and not mainstram for another year after that (Sky HD begins broadcasting in June 2006, but it'll be damned expensive and out of reach of most). Doesn't stop them selling it though...
They may not get it - the government want the space to sell off to mobile phone companies.
It's possible they'll be able to do BBC1-HD fairly quickly (since it'll be on satellite next year probably.. our first FTA HD channel! Woo! Pity the only way to receive it will be to sign up for sky with a £400 receiver and a full £60/month TV package + £10/month HD premium...). It's not 100% certain that there will ever be terrestrial HD though.
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It's got a more scientific outlook than Mythbusters though. It explains *why* something will or won't work, in simple enough language... all mythbusters does is say 'well, that worked..' and end the programme with no explanation.. which kinda irritates me.
At its heart it's an excuse to blow things up though, or get drunk (the hangover cure episode was great.. I already knew the outcome, having done the experiment myself as a student, but it was fun to watch).
Same on IE. Didn't seem to do anything on opera.
Not sure if crashing the browser can really be called an 'exploit'. Slashdot headline writers on crack again...
It's still not zero day.
PoC does not work - they have not proved that it's a vulnerability yet.
Fact: the 'proof of concept' does not work on a currently patched IE6. At all.
It DOSs the browser, in the same way it does for firefox... presumably it's going into some kind of infinite loop in javascript and that's supposed to run calc.exe.. doesn't work.
Also it does *not* work on IE6 - it merely does the same as firefox.. goes 100% CPU.
It kills firefox, but doesn't open up calc.exe, so that's something at least.
Compared to SMB security? :P
There are better shared filesystems for both systems.
Is the US that behind?
In the UK we've had video downloads for cellphones for a while, although they're only now starting to get popular (and live streaming of video, which was popular last year for a time but seems to have died off).
We also have video ringones... (see, there *is* one born every minute...).
I speculate that because of this the ipod video won't do too well here.. pure speculation though as it's not on sale yet (at least on the highstreet - possibly available through the apple store though).
Sony is such a great company
That's fightin' talk around here...
But then how would you get metals for crafting?
Oh, wait...
You might not, but *everyone else* makes coffee with boiling water.
Before you add the milk it is going to be pretty close to boiling. Every child knows that (some even found out the hard way). That the woman who sued didn't know that shows the mentality.
I wouldn't buy coffee if it was 40 degrees cooler than standard coffee. I don't want my coffee lukewarm.
Playing chicken is where you are both in cars (or motorbikes) and head towards each other at high speed. The first to swerve out of the way is 'chicken'. It's a fast way to get killed...
Lying down in the highway is not true chicken, since only one side is risking their life (so you couldn't determine who the chicken was).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_chicken
I *want* my coffee hot. Not lukewarm, like that dumbass who sued would have everyone drink.
Anyone over 8 years old knows that coffee is hot. Suing because it is is entirely frivolous.
Women date YOU!!
Oh get over yourself.
Your answer is worse. Your asking geeks to become someone they're not just to get dates. I'm a geek, and I would never pretend to be a non-geek just to get women.. no good relationship can start that way (OK if you're into one nighters I guess though).
What's going to happen to the 'relationship' when you bring home 100 metres of CAT5 and start stapling cable all over her flat? Or when you install linux on her computer? Or when you spend $1000 on new hardware in a day? Geeks routinely do things that non-geeks would have trouble living with (I've done all of the above in that last month, btw... albeit it's my flat too as I'm married).
That's the point though.
The world *is* portmerion. We just can't see it.
You are number #921437.
I always understood that he knew too much and his government didn't believe his reasons for wanting to leave. His government was at the very least in collusion - remember when he escaped in the packing crate, and 'they' faked a plane ride and dumped him in an exact duplicate of his bosses office (only to be found out when they forgot to compensate for timezones)? His boss was there going along with it.
I kinda agree.. Incomprehensible script, amateurish camera work, (mostly) poor acting... I really wish they hadn't called it BSG since it's a different story really - then I could just not like the latest US blockbuster rather than not liking a classic remake (I really loved the original series, although it had bad acting and poor storylines, it didn't take itself too seriously).
..and they subsequently destroyed the reputation of a good company. Wouldn't be seen dead with linksys hardware any more.. it's cheaply made crap now.
cisco can get away with it on their routers (cisco routers are made in taiwain and hong kong and they use cheapo chinese power supplies.. they don't hide this fact either) as they have a support network to back it up. Unfortunately it's different with the linksys stuff - you get the cheap ass hardware and no support.
Actually any older film would have benefited - anything shot on real film (which has a *far* greater resolution than HD). Most modern stuff is shot like that too...
There's a lot of independent stuff on itunes... it's easy for an artist to get listed. You just have to look for it.
Cue the old graph you learn in economics.. as price decreases profit increases, but demand falls, affecting revenue. The trick is hitting the crossover point where you're maximising both.
Of course it's not *quite* so easy as the graphs make out (eg. spend $2million on an advertising campaign, demand increases, so you can get away with charging more, which pays for the advertising campaign (plus a bit)).
No it isn't.
That was a daily mail headline I believe. It was bullshit when they printed it, and it's still bullshit.
The BBC proposed a possible rise to £150 by 2013. It's currently £126.50. In 7 years they want to increase the license fee by a whopping 18%. Big woop.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds25116.html
Note that they've asked for this... they haven't been granted it yet (although it sounds fairly reasonable to meet the cost of switchover).
Your information is out of date. 'few if any' TVs? How about every major TV manufacturer has committed to selling digital TVs... you can't but a large screen TV nowadays without the support, and for smaller ones it's getting there slowly (support for portables still sucks though.. the only portables with DTT are LCD ones for stupid money).
Walk into your local Dixons/Currys. Over 50% of the TVs on display will have DTT tuners in them... it doesn't add anything to the cost any more (there was a time when it was a premium but the chipsets are now at effectively zero cost to the manufacturers since they're all combined analogue/digital).
Heck, they've even got some idea what HDTV is now, just in time for christmas... of course the problem that there are no HDTV broadcasts and aren't likely to be any for another 6 months at least and not mainstram for another year after that (Sky HD begins broadcasting in June 2006, but it'll be damned expensive and out of reach of most). Doesn't stop them selling it though...
No, the BBC *want* space for HDTV.
They may not get it - the government want the space to sell off to mobile phone companies.
It's possible they'll be able to do BBC1-HD fairly quickly (since it'll be on satellite next year probably.. our first FTA HD channel! Woo! Pity the only way to receive it will be to sign up for sky with a £400 receiver and a full £60/month TV package + £10/month HD premium...). It's not 100% certain that there will ever be terrestrial HD though.