Thats why he is proposing we use quantum entangled particles. They are "networked" without having any "wire" betwen them. I am sure there are major flaws to the proposal I just don't know enough physics to know what they are:)
All the way from its humble beginnings as a failed game server for the atari 2600, which btw has far outlasted my expectations for a game console. I just wish the joysticks that came with it lasted as long as the system itself:P
Hmmm I had a timex sinclair 1000 and because it had a faulty ribbon cable to connect the keyboard to the motherboard you had to take it apart a few times a year and reconnect that. I don't know if it was a widespread issue but I got 3 different ones and they all had the same problem.
HTML works just fine without TCP/IP. I load html documents from my hard drive all the time without a single tcp packet transferred. HTTP would work just fine without TCP/IP as well, so long as your network stack handled the switch to whichever protocol that you wanted. Modular design, remember how that works:)
That said I wish that IPv4 would die already so we could move over to newer protocols:)
I'm pretty sure that linux provides you multiple "virtual terminals" without resorting to using X. I think that would qualify as multple sessions from the pure CLI
I had no problem with my wi-fi, but then again I never watched download speed when I was making a call. I will say that the phone quality is fine when I am using the wireless network though.
I test software, not games, I work between 40 and 60 hours a week. When you start pushing up to 60 hours a week for more than a few weeks in a row it starts to become not work it and I make far more than 50k a year. I guess the downside is I make the same amount whether I work 40 or 60 or 1000 hours a week, though at least I don't have a manager sitting around trying to trim my hours down to the bare minimum and crank up the workload to the absolute maximum.
That said I love my job and feel like I'm one of the lucky few that actually can say that.
There is also a huge difference between "playtesting" which is play a mostly finished game or mostly finished part of the game and then explain what you liked, disliked and what was or could be done to make you more likely to play or buy the game to play, and functionally testing the game where you teidously check every nook, cranny and portion of a feature to make sure that it behaves the way its specified and that it ALWAYS behaves that way.
The former is halfway fun, because usually you get new games to test every once in a while and its not really too tedious, you are meant to play the game to have fun then write a report on whether you did or not. The latter is a pain in the ass and it really doesn't amount to much playing at all.
He hated playing games. Basically being a game tester sux, you don't get to play the game end to end like you might imagine, you get to walk into the same stupid corner a billion times to make sure that the clipping is set right so your character doesn't get stuck or fall through the map. Silly stuff like that, lots of repition and tedium. If you LOVE games my advice is NOT to test games, at least not pre-beta anyways. Its like UI testing but with a UI that has WAY more variations and is harder to reproduce situations on. Tough stuff and that doesn't even cover schedule crunches near ship time.
Do yourself a favor and test API's or server backends, its not glamorous but you won't go crazy.
Seems like it would be trivial to implement a loader that recorded your computer config right to the CD and only let the cd load itself on the computer with that config. Since its CDR and not CDRW it would be permanent once written.
A major disadvantage I could see with a system like that is you leave the disk in the sun for a short while and all the dye turns dark and you have permanently ruined the disc. Hmmmm I need to get that patent application out *wink* Does a/. post count as prior art? lol
I agree that noone "forced" them to pirate windows but not because of free alternatives. Face it, if you could copy windows for free without the slightest hint of legal repercussions you probably would. I mean how much good is the "winodws manual" and how many of us really love that windows box?
The issue is that the pirate software is free or close to free and there are no risks to using it so why not? I've found that most people don't have much in the way of morals when it comes to being a consumer, they really are only afraid of the man busting down on them.
Black people and women have made HUGE contributions to humanity. Washington Carver and Madam Currie are two I can think of right off the top of my head and I suck at history.
I don't usually beat the racial or sex horses but that comment was absurd. I'm also not at all for affirmative action and think it has watered down the core of people in many important fields, but I just can't believe that someone could say that women and african americans haven't contributed to humanity, crazy talk for sure.
I'm not defending microsoft here but nothing in the blurb that you posted says that MS won't collect the list of software on the machine. To play devils advocate its pretty easy to say that the installed software is part of the configuration information on the machine. Further it makes some sense how this is useful in picking which patches are presented to you. If there is a patch in windows update that fixes a bug that affects 1 software package in the world that 1% of users use then wouldn't it be useful to scan to see if that is installed and only present the patch to the 1% of users that need it. Especially given that many bug fixes cause bugs in other software that relies on the broken behavior or some kludgy work around.
I think a bigger reason not to include the legacy ports is that they increase the complexity of the northbridge/southbrige and bios. They are plenty complicated and dropping some unnecessary baggage might give companies time to perfect the stuff I do use. Investing in a new keyboard, printer, and mouse is a small cost to pay for chipsets that work better. As far as needing a floppy for moving files goes, using the internet is FAR easier and faster.
I was able to write this sort of shell script ages ago (maybe not use a real shell but execute commands just fine) but I never would because it opens your server right up. I doubt many hosts will let you run this script for long.
At my college it was nearly impossible to fail a course if you turned in all the assignments. There was definitely some grade inflation going on because I saw people regularily get A's and B's and be unable to solve the medium difficulty problems in the course. I worry about the world if they get real jobs:P
Nope, the port in question was only for the SQL discoverability function which is of questionable use in the first place. The thought I came up with afterwords is that they might have blocked the port at the routers, but each individual subnet could still have enough power (MS has powerful machines afterall) to make it impossible to reach anything.
The critical difference is the Unix Honor Virus has no "payload" and can't "infect". It doesn't exploit any bugs and is a joke. Come up with better examples please.
I think you are missing some facts from the article.
First the article says that most of the boxes were developers boxes that run SQL for testing and such.
Second it seems that it was all on the "INTERNAL" network meaning these boxes should have been protected by the firewall.
The problem is that once the worm found its way into the fortress by whatever means the dev boxes that weren't updated (bad devs, bad bad devs) got infected and spammed the network. The admins seem to have done thier jobs.
The two questions I have is #1 why isn't there a way to push SQL patches to the network and #2 why didn't MS block the UDP port that the worm propogates on as soon as they knew there was a problem?
On the other hand, bugs happen, and so people need to be proactive in finding the fix's. I agree that software needs to be better to start but when something goes wrong people have to install the fix.
The article says "patches don't work" but fails to give any alternative. Saying "software needs to be perfect" is about as useful as telling us that patches don't work.
I don't se OSS as a solution to this either because unless you install the bugfixes you are still screwed.
From the sounds of it the problem is the boxes that got hit weren't run by admins. It sounds like all the developers boxes with SQL on them were unpatched.
There is something to be said about simple party games though. I often find myself carting out my n64 when friends come over because my Xbox games sort of suck for quick group fun.
I don't know if you like the features, or the fact its a closed box but it seems that a stack of ReplayTV boxes and a PC would do what you need.
The PC would be used to control the boxes over the network (I think you can remotely schedule anyways) and to archive off the video (if you really wanted to). I think that would be cheaper and easier to assemble than to put together the computer and software to do what you are asking.
I don't know why there should be a different tarif rate on "dolls" vs "toys" which includes action figures. I think the problem may stem from the fact that there are dolls that are obviously toys (barbie and kin) and ones that are obviously art (the fancy porcelain ones).
Anyways my point is that the tarif laws need to be examined to see if they categorize things the way they really want to, and when the categories are good then you won't see as many silly fights to jump from one category to another.
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Thats why he is proposing we use quantum entangled particles. They are "networked" without having any "wire" betwen them. I am sure there are major flaws to the proposal I just don't know enough physics to know what they are :)
All the way from its humble beginnings as a failed game server for the atari 2600, which btw has far outlasted my expectations for a game console. I just wish the joysticks that came with it lasted as long as the system itself :P
Hmmm I had a timex sinclair 1000 and because it had a faulty ribbon cable to connect the keyboard to the motherboard you had to take it apart a few times a year and reconnect that. I don't know if it was a widespread issue but I got 3 different ones and they all had the same problem.
That said I wish that IPv4 would die already so we could move over to newer protocols :)
I'm pretty sure that linux provides you multiple "virtual terminals" without resorting to using X. I think that would qualify as multple sessions from the pure CLI
I had no problem with my wi-fi, but then again I never watched download speed when I was making a call. I will say that the phone quality is fine when I am using the wireless network though.
That said I love my job and feel like I'm one of the lucky few that actually can say that.
The former is halfway fun, because usually you get new games to test every once in a while and its not really too tedious, you are meant to play the game to have fun then write a report on whether you did or not. The latter is a pain in the ass and it really doesn't amount to much playing at all.
That pretty much describes testing software except that bugs are a hell of a lot harder to find than those needles.
Do yourself a favor and test API's or server backends, its not glamorous but you won't go crazy.
A major disadvantage I could see with a system like that is you leave the disk in the sun for a short while and all the dye turns dark and you have permanently ruined the disc. Hmmmm I need to get that patent application out *wink* Does a /. post count as prior art? lol
The issue is that the pirate software is free or close to free and there are no risks to using it so why not? I've found that most people don't have much in the way of morals when it comes to being a consumer, they really are only afraid of the man busting down on them.
I don't usually beat the racial or sex horses but that comment was absurd. I'm also not at all for affirmative action and think it has watered down the core of people in many important fields, but I just can't believe that someone could say that women and african americans haven't contributed to humanity, crazy talk for sure.
I'm not defending microsoft here but nothing in the blurb that you posted says that MS won't collect the list of software on the machine. To play devils advocate its pretty easy to say that the installed software is part of the configuration information on the machine. Further it makes some sense how this is useful in picking which patches are presented to you. If there is a patch in windows update that fixes a bug that affects 1 software package in the world that 1% of users use then wouldn't it be useful to scan to see if that is installed and only present the patch to the 1% of users that need it. Especially given that many bug fixes cause bugs in other software that relies on the broken behavior or some kludgy work around.
I think a bigger reason not to include the legacy ports is that they increase the complexity of the northbridge/southbrige and bios. They are plenty complicated and dropping some unnecessary baggage might give companies time to perfect the stuff I do use. Investing in a new keyboard, printer, and mouse is a small cost to pay for chipsets that work better. As far as needing a floppy for moving files goes, using the internet is FAR easier and faster.
I was able to write this sort of shell script ages ago (maybe not use a real shell but execute commands just fine) but I never would because it opens your server right up. I doubt many hosts will let you run this script for long.
At my college it was nearly impossible to fail a course if you turned in all the assignments. There was definitely some grade inflation going on because I saw people regularily get A's and B's and be unable to solve the medium difficulty problems in the course. I worry about the world if they get real jobs :P
Nope, the port in question was only for the SQL discoverability function which is of questionable use in the first place. The thought I came up with afterwords is that they might have blocked the port at the routers, but each individual subnet could still have enough power (MS has powerful machines afterall) to make it impossible to reach anything.
The critical difference is the Unix Honor Virus has no "payload" and can't "infect". It doesn't exploit any bugs and is a joke. Come up with better examples please.
First the article says that most of the boxes were developers boxes that run SQL for testing and such.
Second it seems that it was all on the "INTERNAL" network meaning these boxes should have been protected by the firewall.
The problem is that once the worm found its way into the fortress by whatever means the dev boxes that weren't updated (bad devs, bad bad devs) got infected and spammed the network. The admins seem to have done thier jobs.
The two questions I have is #1 why isn't there a way to push SQL patches to the network and #2 why didn't MS block the UDP port that the worm propogates on as soon as they knew there was a problem?
The article says "patches don't work" but fails to give any alternative. Saying "software needs to be perfect" is about as useful as telling us that patches don't work.
I don't se OSS as a solution to this either because unless you install the bugfixes you are still screwed.
From the sounds of it the problem is the boxes that got hit weren't run by admins. It sounds like all the developers boxes with SQL on them were unpatched.
There is something to be said about simple party games though. I often find myself carting out my n64 when friends come over because my Xbox games sort of suck for quick group fun.
The PC would be used to control the boxes over the network (I think you can remotely schedule anyways) and to archive off the video (if you really wanted to). I think that would be cheaper and easier to assemble than to put together the computer and software to do what you are asking.
Anyways my point is that the tarif laws need to be examined to see if they categorize things the way they really want to, and when the categories are good then you won't see as many silly fights to jump from one category to another.