The beta was for MSDN subscribers, the RC1 is a public release...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/win xp pro/sp2preview.mspx
If you're a developer it's really essential to have at least one PC running it (preferable amd64) as there are a lot of changes... the NX protection fubars Mozilla, Digiguide, most Antivirus software, etc.
I think that article poster got a bit ahead of themselves.
I'm prepared to accept it may be a well scripted movie, even well acted (although the version I've seen sure doesn't look like it), but serious? Give me a break. It's a monster flick.
Privilege escalation in Windows is so trivial it's not worth bothering about. Logging in a guest and granting yourself admin rights is fun for about 10 minutes, but since most windows users need admin rights to do anything anyway (at least local admin rights to install upgrades, test releases, etc.) then it's not worth the effort.
I've seen it driving a *huge* HD LCD screen (the BBC have access to a lot of nice kit...) The picture was 100% perfect with no artifacts except for one bit where there was a lot of sky (it was a skiier jumping over a hill.. momentarily the screen was about 70% blue with a sun in the background) where the resolution seemed to drop for a couple of frames. Could be a bug in the codec, or there were just too many shades of blue at once with no edges.. I don't have the knowledge to know why.
The quality craps on anything I've seen MPEG produce.
Please explain how an ID card would have any effect *at all* on benefit fraud.
A lot of claimed 'fraud' is ignorance - eg. two people move in together - according to the benefits agency they are no longer entitled to housing benefit, but nobody tells them that... this goes on the 'fraud' figures.
Of for a real fraud consider the case where someone claims they are disabled when they're not. How is an ID card going to help?
Or if someone claims they are unemployed when they are working. How is an ID card going to help?
Cards won't even cut down on 'benefit fraud' (whatever that means this week).
Benefits nowadays are transferred directly into bank accounts except in very exceptional circumstances. The 'fraud' is not happening at collection time any more (the government never counted this in its fraud figures anyway - if someone stole your giro and cashed it you were out of luck... they never issued another one. I went a whole month with no money at all once...lucky candles are cheap!).
*choke* you've been reading the propoganda from the card companies.
Instead of the (relatively difficult) task of duplicating your signature, a thief only has to remember a 4 digit number...That you've probably got written down anyway (most people do... they're not security experts).
So if you lose your wallet in the future it's goodbye savings!
Even if you haven't got it written down a thief only has to watch you type your pin (remember you'll be typing it *everywhere* now - supermarket, newsagents, etc.), follow you and steal your card and they have enough ID to empty your account.
Of course because of the way the card companies have it setup you'll be unable to prove that it wasn't you that spent all that money... at least with a forged signature you had a chance.
Technically you have the right to travel (and work) anywhere in the EU without extra ID, passports, etc.
Most people still use passports though... habit I suppost. Plus winding up an immigration officer by demanding your rights might just mean him demanding *his* rights with the rubber gloves...
If they were a small underfunded startup they could *still* have been wiped out by a pet project of Microsoft or Sony.
Lets say they violated your patent. What are you going to do about it? You're underfunded already, and suing Microsoft is not a good business move. You'd be bankcrupt long before the case came to court.
(In a startup I was involved in patent lawyers actually advised against patenting for this very reason... unless you've got the funds to fignt an expensive legal case don't bother).
The myth of the 'little guy' being saved by patents really needs to be put to bed.
Creative stopped supporting the Live driver, but I think ALSA supports it still.
OTOH you can forget the audigys... I've got an audigy 2 EX in the junk pile that'll never work... I've never bought a creative card since they pulled that one.
I'm not at all sure how the library compatibility will work in practice... all libraries come with header files, in C, which require a C compiler. Converting them will be nontrivial - especially since they change between versions. You'll end up making D wrapper functions which are no different to Java wrappers or Perl wrappers really.
No RAID, no failover, relatively slow processors. I notice he doesn't mention the speed of the internet connection (40 queries a second isn't a lot - I expect google handles 10 times that at least).
Since Ralsky is still both alive and not in jail, I can assume that the CAN-SPAM act has holes large enough to drive a truck through (since it's been in operation for a while now AFAIK).
I visualise the entire program whilst coding... I 'see' program and data flow, and just make it do what I want. I do know others who work line-by-line so it's probably that all programmers work in their own way.
OTOH I'm utterly useless at things like anagrams (worse than the average, by a long way), and can't do cryptic crosswords.
That's just a product of the storage - less 'important' things are stored such that they're hard to get at, and 'important' things are easier to get at. The brain stores a hell of a lot of data just in case it might be useful someday.
Under hypnosis you can get people to recall astounding levels of detail... and of course there are the people who have photographic memories, who seem to be able to access pretty much any of the stored data instantly.
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The beta was for MSDN subscribers, the RC1 is a public release...
n xp pro/sp2preview.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wi
If you're a developer it's really essential to have at least one PC running it (preferable amd64) as there are a lot of changes... the NX protection fubars Mozilla, Digiguide, most Antivirus software, etc.
I think that article poster got a bit ahead of themselves.
I'm prepared to accept it may be a well scripted movie, even well acted (although the version I've seen sure doesn't look like it), but serious? Give me a break. It's a monster flick.
Privilege escalation in Windows is so trivial it's not worth bothering about. Logging in a guest and granting yourself admin rights is fun for about 10 minutes, but since most windows users need admin rights to do anything anyway (at least local admin rights to install upgrades, test releases, etc.) then it's not worth the effort.
I've seen it driving a *huge* HD LCD screen (the BBC have access to a lot of nice kit...) The picture was 100% perfect with no artifacts except for one bit where there was a lot of sky (it was a skiier jumping over a hill.. momentarily the screen was about 70% blue with a sun in the background) where the resolution seemed to drop for a couple of frames. Could be a bug in the codec, or there were just too many shades of blue at once with no edges.. I don't have the knowledge to know why.
The quality craps on anything I've seen MPEG produce.
I'm more worried about marauding australians :)
Please explain how an ID card would have any effect *at all* on benefit fraud.
A lot of claimed 'fraud' is ignorance - eg. two people move in together - according to the benefits agency they are no longer entitled to housing benefit, but nobody tells them that... this goes on the 'fraud' figures.
Of for a real fraud consider the case where someone claims they are disabled when they're not. How is an ID card going to help?
Or if someone claims they are unemployed when they are working. How is an ID card going to help?
Cards won't even cut down on 'benefit fraud' (whatever that means this week).
Benefits nowadays are transferred directly into bank accounts except in very exceptional circumstances. The 'fraud' is not happening at collection time any more (the government never counted this in its fraud figures anyway - if someone stole your giro and cashed it you were out of luck... they never issued another one. I went a whole month with no money at all once...lucky candles are cheap!).
*choke* you've been reading the propoganda from the card companies.
Instead of the (relatively difficult) task of duplicating your signature, a thief only has to remember a 4 digit number...That you've probably got written down anyway (most people do... they're not security experts).
So if you lose your wallet in the future it's goodbye savings!
Even if you haven't got it written down a thief only has to watch you type your pin (remember you'll be typing it *everywhere* now - supermarket, newsagents, etc.), follow you and steal your card and they have enough ID to empty your account.
Of course because of the way the card companies have it setup you'll be unable to prove that it wasn't you that spent all that money... at least with a forged signature you had a chance.
Technically you have the right to travel (and work) anywhere in the EU without extra ID, passports, etc.
Most people still use passports though... habit I suppost. Plus winding up an immigration officer by demanding your rights might just mean him demanding *his* rights with the rubber gloves...
What evidence do you have that your phones IMEI is going to be associated with your ID card number?
Think about it for a second.
You buy a mobile phone - you need ID to sign the contract (which of course in the future will be your ID card).
Immediately on the phone companies' database they have the IMEI number of your new phone and your ID card number.
They already do this with credit cards/passports - the police use it to track suspects already.
If they were a small underfunded startup they could *still* have been wiped out by a pet project of Microsoft or Sony.
Lets say they violated your patent. What are you going to do about it? You're underfunded already, and suing Microsoft is not a good business move. You'd be bankcrupt long before the case came to court.
(In a startup I was involved in patent lawyers actually advised against patenting for this very reason... unless you've got the funds to fignt an expensive legal case don't bother).
The myth of the 'little guy' being saved by patents really needs to be put to bed.
Uhh they are. Read that definition again. Specifically the beginning:
"A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC or Women's Army Corps".
DVD - Digital Versiatile (or video) Disk
VCR - Video Cassette Recorder
ATM - Automatic Teller Machine
SUV - No idea don't have them in this country
They are not abbreviations.
Not sound cards, but as an example.
A place where I worked had invested thousands on Smartcan IDE RAID devices for all the servers - that's *all* the servers.
MS released Win2k. Drivers don't work.
Smartcan said 'We will never write any drivers for Win2k f...k off' and promptly stopped supporting the devices.
Some of them were less than 2 months old. We had to write the lot off just to upgrade. It probably cost the annual salary of 3 programmers.
*that's* why source code for drivers is a good thing.
I know you're trolling but I'll bite.
Just how do you suggest that this is 'addressed'?
There's no specs. The manufacturers won't release them.
Jedi Mind control perhaps?
I smell bullshit actually....
a "brand new intel motherboard" from a "brand new PC"
And Windows 95 has support for it out of the box????
Umm....
Creative stopped supporting the Live driver, but I think ALSA supports it still.
OTOH you can forget the audigys... I've got an audigy 2 EX in the junk pile that'll never work... I've never bought a creative card since they pulled that one.
I'm not at all sure how the library compatibility will work in practice... all libraries come with header files, in C, which require a C compiler. Converting them will be nontrivial - especially since they change between versions. You'll end up making D wrapper functions which are no different to Java wrappers or Perl wrappers really.
I think that apples, if they index XML properly, will have a good shot at replacing oranges.
Not *exactly* like google... he's using a shitty courier font throughout the site.
Looks ok in IE, but in other browsers looks like crap.
No RAID, no failover, relatively slow processors.
I notice he doesn't mention the speed of the internet connection (40 queries a second isn't a lot - I expect google handles 10 times that at least).
If you ran a red light causing a schoolbus to hit you can killing 30 children you'd go to jail...
Even if it only nearly hit you you'd probably do some jail time (reckless driving, which I think you have in the US too from my viewing of 'cops').
Since Ralsky is still both alive and not in jail, I can assume that the CAN-SPAM act has holes large enough to drive a truck through (since it's been in operation for a while now AFAIK).
What we need is a CAN'T-SPAM act.
I visualise the entire program whilst coding... I 'see' program and data flow, and just make it do what I want. I do know others who work line-by-line so it's probably that all programmers work in their own way.
OTOH I'm utterly useless at things like anagrams (worse than the average, by a long way), and can't do cryptic crosswords.
That's just a product of the storage - less 'important' things are stored such that they're hard to get at, and 'important' things are easier to get at. The brain stores a hell of a lot of data just in case it might be useful someday.
Under hypnosis you can get people to recall astounding levels of detail... and of course there are the people who have photographic memories, who seem to be able to access pretty much any of the stored data instantly.
Oh, so he means that soon *everyone* will be copying movies?
Or has he just been leading a *really* sheltered life recently...