There is no *anything* In fact I'm beginning to have doubts this tool actually exists. You'd think they'd put an icon in program files or something.
It's not in add/remove programs either so once it's in your system (presumably) running in the background you're stuck with it. For this reason I recommend *not* downloading this app as I don't trust MS to not remove firefox or something.
EQ2 was worldwide. I bought it as I didn't expect to be able to get WOW for a while. Played it for 3 days and binned it (grind city! kill rat... sell rat... zzzz)
Eventually I imported WOW and am playing on the US servers... it's a really good game. There's a bit of grinding (since you have to level to do the quests or go to new areas) but it's nowhere near as bad as any other RPG I've played.
short - 16bit int - 32bit long - 32bit void* - 64bit
Everyone else on the entire planet:
short - 16bit int - 64bit/32bit (varies) long - 64bit void* 64bit
This makes porting apps to 64bit Windows rather a trying experience... Assuming you can get a pointer in a long is fairly common, and passing pointers via window messages *extremely* common - and doesn't now work (since DWORD hasn't changed size).
I tried this.. The RC1 didn't recognise either my video card or network card. I downloaded the 64bit ATI driver and that didn't recognise it either (the old release recognised the card at least, even if it wouldn't do widescreen).
No sign of anything resembling a network card driver... it couldn't even detect that I had one (I have two - one wireless and one fixed. Neither of them were detected even though they're in the default 32bit install CD).
The RC1 seems a bit better (haven't crashed notepad yet) but there's still no drivers...
The beta recognised my graphics card, but the RC1 doesn't any more, so I was left running in 800x600. Still no network drivers so no network.
At the moment it's little more than a toy, but I'm sure they'll get there before the release (they'll have to, otherwise it'll be the first MS OS to actually fail utterly).
Employers are people too... Be honest with them, and they'll be honest with you.
(my last employer on hearing I was leaving to set up on my own thanked me and gave me a nice bonus - because as well as my employer they were also people who I'd worked with and got to know for the last 5 years - we still converse occasionally).
omfg don't you have employee protection laws in the US?
If they tried that over here they'd have to pay the employee a couple of years salary to drop the lawsuit (which would be a *lot* more expensive - we have a loser-pays system here).
A company I worked for actually tried something like it once (funilly enough they'd just been taken over by a US management team). They phoned a sales guy up and told him he was fired, and gave no reason. He immediately phoned his lawyer.... he was back working there within 3 days. They eventually got rid of him the legal way but he negotiated a really fat redundancy package out of it.
It's been near release for months... the last beta I tried couldn't run anything much more sophisticated than Notepad. I got the impression they were gimping it until the Intel version of amd64 got some kind of foothold.
Still, thay're at RC1 now so maybe its improved a little.
It's quite easy to take 2000 and XP down... the system doesn't even have to crash, just go into a loop allocating memory or something - it's still power-button time (since the 3-finger salute doesn't work in those situations).
Bluescreening is harder, but there are more fun things like nuking lsass by passing wrong parameters to the security APIs (I do this deliberately sometimes, 'cos I'm strange like that...)
OTOH having to specify "hot" for a cup of Earl Grey shows an inherent design flaw. Hell having to specify "Tea" is over the top. The only piece of useful information in that command is "Earl Grey".
Note that Picard never specifies Milk and/or Sugar either. The computer is smart enough to know his preferences for that but not smart enough to realize he wants it hot? Pah.. 25th century programmers!!
Smaller systems don't use the year to calculate the day of the week... they just have a counter that wraps every 24 hours. Looked at your watch lately? Most of these you have to set the day manually.
Don't believe the hype. Traffic lights for example have failsafes in them to stop such things... anyway why does a traffic light care about the year? The day of the week/month maybe.
Similarly, elevators don't give a hoot what year it is.
Contrary to the press your washing machine will *not* think "ooh it's 1900 I haven't been invented yet.. better explode".
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good call.. I found the mrt.log
no mrt.exe anywhere.
An anti-spyware that deletes itself? Wierd...
There is no go button.
There is no *anything* In fact I'm beginning to have doubts this tool actually exists. You'd think they'd put an icon in program files or something.
It's not in add/remove programs either so once it's in your system (presumably) running in the background you're stuck with it. For this reason I recommend *not* downloading this app as I don't trust MS to not remove firefox or something.
I installed it... and... nothing.
It's the most invisible app I've ever seen. No menu option, no icon, no windows...
Assuming it actually exists (!) I assume that means I have no spyware (??)
EQ2 was worldwide. I bought it as I didn't expect to be able to get WOW for a while. Played it for 3 days and binned it (grind city! kill rat... sell rat... zzzz)
Eventually I imported WOW and am playing on the US servers... it's a really good game. There's a bit of grinding (since you have to level to do the quests or go to new areas) but it's nowhere near as bad as any other RPG I've played.
Err.. by public schools I assume you mean state schools?
:)
In this country 'public' schools are private schools (yeah I know, never made sense to me either).
I had a real hard time reading the post with that assumption in my head
Then again, public schools turn out managment types... Hmm... maybe I got it right on first reading...
In britain some moron went around phoning the relatives of the missing telling them their loved ones were dead.
You gotta be pretty fucked up to want to do that.
(although not half as much as when his cellmates find out what he's in for).
Yeah it's wierd that MS did that.
MS 64bit:
short - 16bit
int - 32bit
long - 32bit
void* - 64bit
Everyone else on the entire planet:
short - 16bit
int - 64bit/32bit (varies)
long - 64bit
void* 64bit
This makes porting apps to 64bit Windows rather a trying experience... Assuming you can get a pointer in a long is fairly common, and passing pointers via window messages *extremely* common - and doesn't now work (since DWORD hasn't changed size).
It's on MSDN, if you (or perhaps your company) have it.
I tried this.. The RC1 didn't recognise either my video card or network card. I downloaded the 64bit ATI driver and that didn't recognise it either (the old release recognised the card at least, even if it wouldn't do widescreen).
No sign of anything resembling a network card driver... it couldn't even detect that I had one (I have two - one wireless and one fixed. Neither of them were detected even though they're in the default 32bit install CD).
They missed:
..but the FSF don't believe in that...
* The freedom to license *my* code any way I damn well choose.
The RC1 seems a bit better (haven't crashed notepad yet) but there's still no drivers...
The beta recognised my graphics card, but the RC1 doesn't any more, so I was left running in 800x600. Still no network drivers so no network.
At the moment it's little more than a toy, but I'm sure they'll get there before the release (they'll have to, otherwise it'll be the first MS OS to actually fail utterly).
..and it takes about 2-3 years to get a license, and costs an arm and a leg.
That's why smaller stations often rent space on satellite - it's cheaper.
Employers are people too...
Be honest with them, and they'll be honest with you.
(my last employer on hearing I was leaving to set up on my own thanked me and gave me a nice bonus - because as well as my employer they were also people who I'd worked with and got to know for the last 5 years - we still converse occasionally).
If they're going through https that's damned hard to sniff.. SSL provides end to end security that's supposed to stop exactly this kind of thing.
omfg don't you have employee protection laws in the US?
If they tried that over here they'd have to pay the employee a couple of years salary to drop the lawsuit (which would be a *lot* more expensive - we have a loser-pays system here).
A company I worked for actually tried something like it once (funilly enough they'd just been taken over by a US management team). They phoned a sales guy up and told him he was fired, and gave no reason. He immediately phoned his lawyer.... he was back working there within 3 days. They eventually got rid of him the legal way but he negotiated a really fat redundancy package out of it.
The first law is all screwed up...
If we told a robot that a terrorist was on the plane, and he was about to crash it into somewhere like the superbowl, what would he do?
1. Nothing, because it would cause harm to a human being.
2. Blow the plane up, because his inaction would allow a human being to come to harm.
Imagine he chooses 2. OK so we lied, there was no terrorist... what was the point of the first law then?
It's been near release for months... the last beta I tried couldn't run anything much more sophisticated than Notepad. I got the impression they were gimping it until the Intel version of amd64 got some kind of foothold.
Still, thay're at RC1 now so maybe its improved a little.
it can take you several hours to just make coffee and walk to the front door in the morning.
Hey, I didn't realise it was *that* realistic!
Only 50% of the slashdotters with id 1000 are still married.
Surely there's only one slashdotter with id 1000...
Is he half married?
In the UK even the trains have these power points - specifically marked 'for laptops'.
The airports are full of them... in the 1st class lounge you even get a desk to work on, and they provide a Wireless LAN.
I've not seem them in resaraunts yet but I probably don't frequent the right establishments.
It's quite easy to take 2000 and XP down... the system doesn't even have to crash, just go into a loop allocating memory or something - it's still power-button time (since the 3-finger salute doesn't work in those situations).
Bluescreening is harder, but there are more fun things like nuking lsass by passing wrong parameters to the security APIs (I do this deliberately sometimes, 'cos I'm strange like that...)
OTOH having to specify "hot" for a cup of Earl Grey shows an inherent design flaw. Hell having to specify "Tea" is over the top. The only piece of useful information in that command is "Earl Grey".
Note that Picard never specifies Milk and/or Sugar either. The computer is smart enough to know his preferences for that but not smart enough to realize he wants it hot? Pah.. 25th century programmers!!
Smaller systems don't use the year to calculate the day of the week... they just have a counter that wraps every 24 hours. Looked at your watch lately? Most of these you have to set the day manually.
Elevators sticking? Traffic lights out of sync?
Don't believe the hype. Traffic lights for example have failsafes in them to stop such things... anyway why does a traffic light care about the year? The day of the week/month maybe.
Similarly, elevators don't give a hoot what year it is.
Contrary to the press your washing machine will *not* think "ooh it's 1900 I haven't been invented yet.. better explode".
Has anyone noticed it's got worse lately?
At one time, people were usually quiet while the film was playing. Now it sounds like a childrens playgroup all the way through the film.
The cinema is now usually half empty... probably not a coincidence.
If I want to see a film I'll download it just to avoid that, then buy the DVD later (usually 6 months after it's been on at the cinema).