Correct on Steam. The offline mode is (or used to be) only valid for I think 2 weeks, at which point you would have to connect and reauthenticate again. Though I'm always connected so I never ran into it, I've heard others bitching about it back in the early days of steam.
Any AM3+ motherboard paired with an X3 or X4 CPU. I wouldn't recommend unlocking the extra core on the X3s, it IS disabled for a reason!
You'll need a 64-bit OS to see the extra RAM in your virtual hosts. (I think. As stated, you can run a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host if you have hardware virtualization acceleration, but I assume you still need a 64-bit OS to have the guests see all the RAM.)
You probably won't need more than 4GB, realistically, but there's no harm in going for 8 GB with today's prices.
What you may want to splurge on is an SSD (since the crux of virtualization is almost always I/O). I recommend the Intel X-25 M or the OCZ Vertex drives. Add in regular drives for capacity as you see fit, of course.
I would get: AMD Phenom II X3 710 - $120 MSI 790GX-G65 - $130 (open box: $90) (Has onboard video) 30 GB OCZ Vertex - $135 (Maybe 2 in RAID 0?) WD Caviar Black 500GB - $70 8 GB GSKill DDR3 1600 - $130 (2x "2x2GB")
$585 + tax/shipping. Obviously you need to add a PSU if your system is that old.
The zone setting for usb flash drives is "local", and thus, you don't get the warning with default settings.
If the application needs admin-level access (like any decent malware would), you still get the warning in XP.
Vista has UAC, though you may still get the warning there, I don't know.
If you're running it from the command prompt, you're seeing the real file extension, aren't you? FAIL AGAIN SIR.
Who cares about NTFS permissions? What does that have to do with anything?
"What does that have to do with the subject at hand?" you ask (about SFC)? NOTHING. YOU brought up notepad.exe, moron!
The ENTIRE fucking article is about dumb users being tricked by malware named, for example, virus.txt.exe.
I have shown that users will get a warning when opening the file. You claimed it didn't happen, and spewed bullshit about notepad.exe. I proved you wrong, and then you got pedantic about it not being an OS level check. Then you brought up a filesystem permissions flag, who the fuck knows why since it's up to an OS whether or not to obey those. Jesus, fuckface, get a clue.
I don't know what bugs me more. The insistence on shit like: (s)he s/he he/she him/her latin@ etc.
Or the counter movement where authors intentionally choose the female pronoun, or alternate between the two, use words like "womyn", etc.
Either way, I do my part by using "they/their" for some singulars ("If your friend touches you where you don't want them to, they are not your friend."), and in this case, I would have said:
A lawyer will take any case it can make a buck on.
Hell, I think I'll be using "it" in place of he/she/him/her/etc. from now on.
Won't someone stand up, and tell the fucking young people that the internet was not created just for them?!?!
I simply don't see how you can be so indignant about the actions of businesses in what is essentially a public medium. Businesses will sue your ass if you take their name or likeness or something close enough to it in real life, so why not on the internet?
The claim in this case is bullshit, and any court should decide so without delay.
Do you have some ideal you hold the internet to? It, like many awesome things, is military in origin. Other cool things of military origin include duct tape, super glue, and gps.
Yeah, I simply don't trust doom9 people in terms of their codec shootouts.
The people running the comparisons and analyzing the results are the people developing the codecs.
Reminds of when they would always put XviD above DivX, even though DivX was easily the winner if you used it right. (Sure, it took longer usually, but the output was worth it.)
Keep in mind Main Concept is a "professional" codec.
Of course, I use x.264 because it's easier and faster (usually) and any difference is going to be minor, and yes, just like Pluto and Neptune, sometimes the streams cross.
I was saying "popular" in terms of what a person (not a company) would use to compress something, given that they are using H.264 and a choice.
Apple's implementation is crap, especially the decoder. I don't know if it's their own code or if they have a custom build of the main concept codec, for example.
In terms of videos, it x.264 would be the most popular. Both for videos on sites like you tube, and for bluray/dvd rips.
In terms of programs, I think main concept would be the most popular, unless you count things that are just a GUI interface for x.264 and such (such as megui), then it's x.264 again.
Of course, then you could get into the whole issue of compressor vs decompressor. I know I'll be setting it up so that Divx decodes while x.264 encodes (until Divx gets their stuff up to par on the encode side).
Download an exe from some random place and run it. Hell, couponprinter.exe (needed for that free KFC deal, before they just put up a pdf) is signed by verisign. Right click, properties, signatures. EXEs without a signature display a security warning.
You are factually incorrect.
The signing requirement for drivers is different, it is NOT a verification of the publisher of the driver but a verification of the driver's WHQL status. Drivers without WHQL approval are NOT signed by MS, and thus show you a warning when you attempt to install them.
You are factually incorrect.
All Windows system files are compared with a copy of the original every time they are accessed by the System File Checker.
Delete notepad.exe. Refresh or wait a few seconds for the auto refresh. It's back, bitch.
There are various codec implementations of it. x.264 being the most popular. Main Concept being the best overall. Nero being one of the first to market and as usual being slow and bloated and buggy. DivX as usual being late to market but driving the push for playback in embedded devices, while being at the top in terms of quality and decoding speed.
The reasoning, is not, since we have to handle PEAK bitrates. (Or are they streaming/playing app combos out there that buffer well, let you pick your own codecs, and DON'T suck ass?)
Retarded. People already bitch about having pillar boxes on 4:3 content. Now they'll get pillar boxes on 16:9 content, while 4:3 content fills up just what, 57% of the screen (I'm estimating here)?
Please stop referencing the RED ONE. There are plenty of other cameras in use. Many of them are far superior, and many are as good or better, for the same price.
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Correct on Steam.
The offline mode is (or used to be) only valid for I think 2 weeks, at which point you would have to connect and reauthenticate again. Though I'm always connected so I never ran into it, I've heard others bitching about it back in the early days of steam.
If you "own" some land, the government can take it way for whatever reason they please.
What about herstory?
Any AM3+ motherboard paired with an X3 or X4 CPU.
I wouldn't recommend unlocking the extra core on the X3s, it IS disabled for a reason!
You'll need a 64-bit OS to see the extra RAM in your virtual hosts. (I think. As stated, you can run a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host if you have hardware virtualization acceleration, but I assume you still need a 64-bit OS to have the guests see all the RAM.)
You probably won't need more than 4GB, realistically, but there's no harm in going for 8 GB with today's prices.
What you may want to splurge on is an SSD (since the crux of virtualization is almost always I/O).
I recommend the Intel X-25 M or the OCZ Vertex drives. Add in regular drives for capacity as you see fit, of course.
I would get:
AMD Phenom II X3 710 - $120
MSI 790GX-G65 - $130 (open box: $90) (Has onboard video)
30 GB OCZ Vertex - $135 (Maybe 2 in RAID 0?)
WD Caviar Black 500GB - $70
8 GB GSKill DDR3 1600 - $130 (2x "2x2GB")
$585 + tax/shipping.
Obviously you need to add a PSU if your system is that old.
Again you fail.
The zone setting for usb flash drives is "local",
and thus, you don't get the warning with default settings.
If the application needs admin-level access (like any decent malware would), you still get the warning in XP.
Vista has UAC, though you may still get the warning there, I don't know.
If you're running it from the command prompt, you're seeing the real file extension, aren't you? FAIL AGAIN SIR.
Who cares about NTFS permissions? What does that have to do with anything?
"What does that have to do with the subject at hand?" you ask (about SFC)? NOTHING. YOU brought up notepad.exe, moron!
The ENTIRE fucking article is about dumb users being tricked by malware named, for example, virus.txt.exe.
I have shown that users will get a warning when opening the file.
You claimed it didn't happen, and spewed bullshit about notepad.exe.
I proved you wrong, and then you got pedantic about it not being an OS level check.
Then you brought up a filesystem permissions flag, who the fuck knows why since it's up to an OS whether or not to obey those.
Jesus, fuckface, get a clue.
Then you're not who they're after, dipshit.
They're going after students and staff.
I don't know what bugs me more.
The insistence on shit like:
(s)he
s/he
he/she
him/her
latin@
etc.
Or the counter movement where authors intentionally choose the female pronoun, or alternate between the two, use words like "womyn", etc.
Either way, I do my part by using "they/their" for some singulars ("If your friend touches you where you don't want them to, they are not your friend."), and in this case, I would have said:
A lawyer will take any case it can make a buck on.
Hell, I think I'll be using "it" in place of he/she/him/her/etc. from now on.
Won't someone stand up, and tell the fucking young people that the internet was not created just for them?!?!
I simply don't see how you can be so indignant about the actions of businesses in what is essentially a public medium. Businesses will sue your ass if you take their name or likeness or something close enough to it in real life, so why not on the internet?
The claim in this case is bullshit, and any court should decide so without delay.
Do you have some ideal you hold the internet to?
It, like many awesome things, is military in origin.
Other cool things of military origin include duct tape, super glue, and gps.
junioN?
Lawyers have an obligation to get as much money as they can.
That's all.
Actually
Go eat a nice hot pizza.
Now get some of that hot cheese on your thigh.
Easy to eat, yet it can still burn.
AMAZING!
It is a monster, and I'd get through most of it in a day by just hacking arms off left and right.
$A million for welfare program X? GONE.
$B billion for subsidies for industry Y? GONE.
$C trillion for bailout Z? GONE.
I'd print that fucker out and bust out a pack of Sharpies and giggle with glee for hours!
Believe me, I want to support 48 bpp!
I'm so sick of fucking 16777216 colors. I need more, lots more, and a display that can actually render them!
Yeah, I simply don't trust doom9 people in terms of their codec shootouts.
The people running the comparisons and analyzing the results are the people developing the codecs.
Reminds of when they would always put XviD above DivX, even though DivX was easily the winner if you used it right. (Sure, it took longer usually, but the output was worth it.)
Keep in mind Main Concept is a "professional" codec.
Of course, I use x.264 because it's easier and faster (usually) and any difference is going to be minor, and yes, just like Pluto and Neptune, sometimes the streams cross.
I was saying "popular" in terms of what a person (not a company) would use to compress something, given that they are using H.264 and a choice.
Apple's implementation is crap, especially the decoder. I don't know if it's their own code or if they have a custom build of the main concept codec, for example.
In terms of videos, it x.264 would be the most popular. Both for videos on sites like you tube, and for bluray/dvd rips.
In terms of programs, I think main concept would be the most popular, unless you count things that are just a GUI interface for x.264 and such (such as megui), then it's x.264 again.
Of course, then you could get into the whole issue of compressor vs decompressor. I know I'll be setting it up so that Divx decodes while x.264 encodes (until Divx gets their stuff up to par on the encode side).
You are factually incorrect.
Download an exe from some random place and run it.
Hell, couponprinter.exe (needed for that free KFC deal, before they just put up a pdf) is signed by verisign. Right click, properties, signatures. EXEs without a signature display a security warning.
You are factually incorrect.
The signing requirement for drivers is different, it is NOT a verification of the publisher of the driver but a verification of the driver's WHQL status. Drivers without WHQL approval are NOT signed by MS, and thus show you a warning when you attempt to install them.
You are factually incorrect.
All Windows system files are compared with a copy of the original every time they are accessed by the System File Checker.
Delete notepad.exe.
Refresh or wait a few seconds for the auto refresh.
It's back, bitch.
You are factually incorrect.
Give an example of a 0-day exploit that would have affected me without my interaction.
I'll let you know if any of the sites I go to got hacked.
Protip: I don't go to many sites daily, and I rarely go to sites with user generated content / annoying ads.
H.264 is a specification, not a codec.
There are various codec implementations of it.
x.264 being the most popular.
Main Concept being the best overall.
Nero being one of the first to market and as usual being slow and bloated and buggy.
DivX as usual being late to market but driving the push for playback in embedded devices, while being at the top in terms of quality and decoding speed.
24 (bits per pixel)
1920 (pixels per frame width)
1080 (pixels per frame height)
60 (frames per second)
-----
2985984000
Add in your audio/other crap.
You've got damn near 3 Gbps, son!
Um.
His math is correct.
The reasoning, is not, since we have to handle PEAK bitrates. (Or are they streaming/playing app combos out there that buffer well, let you pick your own codecs, and DON'T suck ass?)
Dammit I forgot to post my self-response as AC for lulz.
No, dipshit, that's MPEG 7!
MPEG 5?
Retarded.
People already bitch about having pillar boxes on 4:3 content. Now they'll get pillar boxes on 16:9 content, while 4:3 content fills up just what, 57% of the screen (I'm estimating here)?
Please stop referencing the RED ONE. There are plenty of other cameras in use. Many of them are far superior, and many are as good or better, for the same price.
Why is everyone on the RED ONE's cock?