Passwords are personal, and they shouldn't be visible to anyone you happen to let use your computer for a second.
If you use the master password, they are not. Regardless of whether you have already been prompted for it, it will ask again if you try to reveal passwords in the list "show passwords".
Firefox can protect sensitive information such as saved passwords
and certificates by encrypting them using a master password. If you create a
master password, each time you start Firefox, it will ask you to enter
the password the first time it needs to access a certificate or stored
password.
Ask just about any musician what's the most important thing for them. Every interview I've heard has, pretty much with no hesitation, stated "That people get to hear my music".
It does not take 12 hours a day for 365 days to create a piece of music. There are tons of bands and solo artists out there that have a day job and music as a hobby. As with everyone else they'd love to be able to make a living out of what they enjoy, but it makes them happy as a hobby regardless. How many people around the world has invested more in a home theater system than they would need to do to be able to make a passable recording of a piece of music? Sure it will lack some shine, but talent will be talent and people will enjoy listening. The sound quality of an affordable "home studio" today would by far surpass anything done in the days of, for example, Elvis. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe he sold a couple of records.
Yes, a large amount of the "musicians" of today would vanish. Would "artists" like Britney Spears ever have risen to stardom without being handed songs and an image by the record company? Not a chance in hell. Does *anybody* apart from her and the studio care for even a second? I sure hope not.
Did you never draw/animate anything before someone started handing you money to do it? Did Stephen King write his first ever pages purely to earn a living off of it?
Look at amount of work the open source community produces. Now disregard anything produced by people that have been hired and are currently getting paid to maintain specific projects. Are you left with zero projects?
The RIAA brings nothing worthwhile to the constellation at all. The only thing they add is cost. It really is more akin to organized crime rackets demanding protection money than anything else I can think of. Killing them off would do everybody nothing but a service.
You work at Google and can vouch for that? Because the reply I got was quite clear that doing a "check for updates" should've done the trick.
Not to mention that I'm talking about weeks and weeks of lag here, not a few days. For example I was still at 1.0.0.100 when I wrote the original post, while 104 was released at the turn of the year.
Google Desktop says that it automatically updates itself, but that doesn't work, and there's no 'force an update' feature as with Firefox.
They seem to be having some issues with auto updating in general. Google Talk on my home computer lags behind the one on my work computer, and no amount of manually clicking "Check for updates now" will update it.
I asked Google about it, and they told me to uninstall, download new version, install. Which I did. But that was a few versions ago and I'm now lagging behind again. Not impressed.
However, the parts I am interested in, where I now have to 'grind' out 5,200 gold to afford that epic flying mount, which could take weeks or months, would be a waist of my time as there's no enjoyable benefit for me. I 'could' just keep doing the quests and dungeons until I reach 5,200 gold, but that would take months if I spend no time focusing on making money.
I'm sorry. But what is it you are interested in that requires the epic flying mount? Blizzard designed levels 60-70 to throw enough money at you to afford the non-epic flying mount when you reach 70. This will get you anywhere you need to go if you wish to explore the end-game content. Having an epic flying mount won't change anything except your flight speed. So if you aren't interested in the end-game content, then it won't change that. If you are, then the regular flying mount will get you where you need to go.
It sure did get rid of me. After only a week or two I realized I spent more time offline waiting for skilltimers than actually playing. Somehow, that didn't quite feel worth the cash.
And this problem is AFAIK a blunder by SAP, saying things like "uh, nobody gave us IE7 early enough, how were we supposed to fix our code".
I can't speak for SAP, but where I work (a competitor of theirs) we don't certify for the latest and greatest IE/Service Pack/OS until it has actually been finalized and released. And that certification does take some time.
If the customer decides to roll it out without waiting for our certification and any necessary patches, then that's their choice. If they also do it without even bothering to do internal testing to ensure the product still covers their critical functions, that's their suicide. Considering ERP products of this sort tend to be rather central to the business, it's somewhat depressing how many actually do such things without performing any testing at all.
No it can't. The author's lack of spelling and grammar knowledge undermines any other work he may have put into the article.
Nothing I can do but disagree. I should emphasise that's on principle, not related to this particular article which had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
While the odds are stacked firmly against a poorly written article containing any worthwhile insight, they do come along every now and then. I try not to judge an article solely on its phrasing and grammar, though I'll readily admit it does make me start out with a negative bias. Still, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt by reading what of it I can endure.
Having said that, I share your basic sentiment. If someone can't write proper, do us all a favor and run it by someone else that can. English is my second language and even I can usually keep my it's/its and the likes straight. Language skills going rapidly downhill seems to be rather epidemic of late though. Around here not even the bloody newspapers bother with a basic spellchecker these days. It really shows.
A well researched and comprehensive article can stand the author being lazy on his grammar and spelling. This thing is painfully inarticulate, cursory *and* inaccurate.
If accepted submissions had to pass an editor karma check, this article would have been posted anonymously.
First of all, this doesn't apply to the continent of Europe. It applies to members of the European Union. Secondly, the law requires the collection of connection information, not content. That is, the phonenumber dialed. The from and two fields of an email etc.
I'd still say it's about time for the public to wake up to the wonderful new world of cryptography. I've been chanting the "encrypt your freakin email" song for years and years and still can't get anybody to do so. I'm sure this law is just the first step (and a major reason I'll likely vote NO on the next attempt to ratify a EU application in my country). Be very worried.
I guess I should know better than to respond to someone feeling they know everything a game has to offer after putting in a fraction of the time the game's designed to take.
b) run for your life when your pet get killed/your hit points get dangerously low.
Or learn to play your character. Crowd control and getting out of sticky spots are aspects of the game that requires you to employ the tactics you haven't learned yet at your level (or the char does not yet have available skills for).
In WOW, the demonists (specialized in summoning..lol) can only summon 4 different monsters...
If you want dozens of different sidekicks, there's always the Hunter. Tame any beast you like.
In Wow, you only gain xp if your opponents are high lvl enough (at most 9 lvls beneath you).result : you never become powerfull as you are forced to constantly fight monsters that are the same lvl as you.
So, the fact that you can wipe out multiple monsters 10+ levels lower than you, that you struggled to kill a single one of 10 levels ago, is "not more powerful"? How many XP based games do you know that gives you great XP for killing monsters so much weaker than you that you can wipe them out in a single hit? How many games that stops throwing anything at you that's dangerous to your character once you reach a third of the level cap?
Low levels monsters can easily kill you if they are numerous enough (4 or more if you are a demonist)
So, bascially, you won't be happy unless you can take out an entire camp of mobs the same level as you without any danger? I take it you also dislike any game without a god mode?
you can't solo in instances/epic quests.
Yes, see, that's why there's solo content (the majority of quests), and team content (instances and some quests). It's to cater for players of both preferences, as opposed to just yours. It's an MMO game. If you want full access to every part of the game on your own, don't play an MMO game.
I happen to remember fondly my wizard in neverwinter nights. I could scout dangerous places at level 3 (invisibility..damn usefull spell)
If that's what you want, you should've made yourself a Rogue. Or bought invisibility potions. Of course, higher level mobs will stand a greater chance of discovering you either way. As it should be.
resist close combat warriors a bit (stoneskin)
Several classes have temporary invulnerability and other close combat survivability skills. Dwarves have stone skin as a racial trait (just mentioning it for the likeness in name, it's not terribly useful). Not all classes are meant to take a beating up close. That's why they have pets and rely on ranged attacks.
turn into a juggernaut warrior
Druids get bear form at an early level. And at level 40 a bear form tailored for tanking.
zap 'em into oblivion I could kill huge numbers of weak mob with one spell (and get a little xp)
Sounds like you might like the mage. The talent tree opens for several potent area of effect spells. Mobs 9 levels lower than you are very weak compared to your char. Unless you're utterly clueless of course. Just like a soldier isn't invincible against a crowd, neither is your higher level character against masses of lower level ones.
WoW is pretty much the most newbie friendly MMO around. And you found it too much of a challenge. Though I could name plenty of wrong with WoW, I think your post speaks a lot more about you than it does about WoW.
Opera is licensed to be used in many embedded devices. If you buy a cellphone with a browser preinstalled, don't be surprised if it's Opera you find (they have licensing agreements with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola among others). And, I'm quite certain, Opera didn't give them those licenses for free.:)
I never understood why people left ICQ for MSN Messenger
I can't speak for everybody else, but the reason I moved from ICQ to Messenger ages ago (I was a fairly early adopter of ICQ) was the amazing bloat ICQ was adding to it with every release. It got so bad that, iirc, they even released an "ICQ Light" version themselves at one point.
For various reasons, I'm currently a Trillian user myself. If Google gets their multi protocol support going, I'll likely switch to that.
I want an IM client that does messages. Not an IM client that aspires to have every conceivable feature imaginable crammed into it.
The parent said he wanted to pick the box off the shelf, install and play. Not pick the box off the shelf, install, go online to download crack, then play.
"I want a box and a disc that I can put on my shelf, and in 10 years replay! I cant forsee ganking a DVD-R with HalfLife3 out of the binder and having it work in 10 years,"
Are you saying HL2 bought from a store gives you some illusion you'll actually be able to do the above? That is, picking it out of a closet in 10 years time and playing? Good luck. Unless Valve's still online so you can decrypt the data after installing it, you'll be way better of burning a Steam backup onto a DVD-R.
The future seems to be here. And I, for one, don't like the looks of it much.
The aussies aren't the only ones. Where I live (Norway) record sales revenue has been on an upward trend for years. Ironically, it apparently started to accellerate shortly after Napster became a household name. Surely a coincidence.
Personally I wish it would've started going down once the record companies started making their "CDs" incompatible with many devices. Of course, they would've attributed that to piracy as opposed to people getting fed up having to rip the CDs to burn on a CD-R and get the compatabilty back (I've yet to meet a "protected" CD that failed to rip as opposed to just ripping slower).
Seems people are missing the point indeed. One is to get some stress testing of Steam going. Another is to give people high resolution videos to really be able to appreciate the graphics. I've seen the 600MB QT a ton of times, and these new clips is like another world when it comes to seeing just what the engine's capable of.
For the whiners, Valve are going to keep releasing clips until they've run out of E3 footage. They'll then start releasing previously unseen footage. They posted this promise in the Steam forums.
Valve have stated them many times, just do a search for it. I did and the first site I found was an interview with Gabe Newell (Managing Director for Half-Life 2) where he states the min specs are a P3 800 and a DX6 (e.g. TNT) graphics card. I've seen 733 mentioned elsewhere but the difference isn't exactly a huge one.
The Source engine's been feature complete since Q4 last year so they should have a pretty good idea of its performance by now.
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If you use the master password, they are not. Regardless of whether you have already been prompted for it, it will ask again if you try to reveal passwords in the list "show passwords".
Ask just about any musician what's the most important thing for them. Every interview I've heard has, pretty much with no hesitation, stated "That people get to hear my music".
It does not take 12 hours a day for 365 days to create a piece of music. There are tons of bands and solo artists out there that have a day job and music as a hobby. As with everyone else they'd love to be able to make a living out of what they enjoy, but it makes them happy as a hobby regardless. How many people around the world has invested more in a home theater system than they would need to do to be able to make a passable recording of a piece of music? Sure it will lack some shine, but talent will be talent and people will enjoy listening. The sound quality of an affordable "home studio" today would by far surpass anything done in the days of, for example, Elvis. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe he sold a couple of records.
Yes, a large amount of the "musicians" of today would vanish. Would "artists" like Britney Spears ever have risen to stardom without being handed songs and an image by the record company? Not a chance in hell. Does *anybody* apart from her and the studio care for even a second? I sure hope not.
Did you never draw/animate anything before someone started handing you money to do it? Did Stephen King write his first ever pages purely to earn a living off of it?
Look at amount of work the open source community produces. Now disregard anything produced by people that have been hired and are currently getting paid to maintain specific projects. Are you left with zero projects?
The RIAA brings nothing worthwhile to the constellation at all. The only thing they add is cost. It really is more akin to organized crime rackets demanding protection money than anything else I can think of. Killing them off would do everybody nothing but a service.
You work at Google and can vouch for that? Because the reply I got was quite clear that doing a "check for updates" should've done the trick.
Not to mention that I'm talking about weeks and weeks of lag here, not a few days. For example I was still at 1.0.0.100 when I wrote the original post, while 104 was released at the turn of the year.
They seem to be having some issues with auto updating in general. Google Talk on my home computer lags behind the one on my work computer, and no amount of manually clicking "Check for updates now" will update it.
I asked Google about it, and they told me to uninstall, download new version, install. Which I did. But that was a few versions ago and I'm now lagging behind again. Not impressed.
It sure did get rid of me. After only a week or two I realized I spent more time offline waiting for skilltimers than actually playing. Somehow, that didn't quite feel worth the cash.
I can't speak for SAP, but where I work (a competitor of theirs) we don't certify for the latest and greatest IE/Service Pack/OS until it has actually been finalized and released. And that certification does take some time.
If the customer decides to roll it out without waiting for our certification and any necessary patches, then that's their choice. If they also do it without even bothering to do internal testing to ensure the product still covers their critical functions, that's their suicide. Considering ERP products of this sort tend to be rather central to the business, it's somewhat depressing how many actually do such things without performing any testing at all.
If so they have made a remarkable recovery. Instant loadtime for me.
Scat
Jazz singing in which improvised, meaningless syllables are sung to a melody.
Which brings the music of Scatman to mind. Quote a lot worse than some other meanings of the word.
Nothing I can do but disagree. I should emphasise that's on principle, not related to this particular article which had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
While the odds are stacked firmly against a poorly written article containing any worthwhile insight, they do come along every now and then. I try not to judge an article solely on its phrasing and grammar, though I'll readily admit it does make me start out with a negative bias. Still, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt by reading what of it I can endure.
Having said that, I share your basic sentiment. If someone can't write proper, do us all a favor and run it by someone else that can. English is my second language and even I can usually keep my it's/its and the likes straight. Language skills going rapidly downhill seems to be rather epidemic of late though. Around here not even the bloody newspapers bother with a basic spellchecker these days. It really shows.
A well researched and comprehensive article can stand the author being lazy on his grammar and spelling. This thing is painfully inarticulate, cursory *and* inaccurate.
If accepted submissions had to pass an editor karma check, this article would have been posted anonymously.
First of all, this doesn't apply to the continent of Europe. It applies to members of the European Union. Secondly, the law requires the collection of connection information, not content. That is, the phonenumber dialed. The from and two fields of an email etc.
I'd still say it's about time for the public to wake up to the wonderful new world of cryptography. I've been chanting the "encrypt your freakin email" song for years and years and still can't get anybody to do so. I'm sure this law is just the first step (and a major reason I'll likely vote NO on the next attempt to ratify a EU application in my country). Be very worried.
I mean to say "stone form", not "stone skin". Not terribly important I know, but I swear someone would nitpick on it if I didn't correct it :)
Or learn to play your character. Crowd control and getting out of sticky spots are aspects of the game that requires you to employ the tactics you haven't learned yet at your level (or the char does not yet have available skills for).
If you want dozens of different sidekicks, there's always the Hunter. Tame any beast you like.
So, the fact that you can wipe out multiple monsters 10+ levels lower than you, that you struggled to kill a single one of 10 levels ago, is "not more powerful"? How many XP based games do you know that gives you great XP for killing monsters so much weaker than you that you can wipe them out in a single hit? How many games that stops throwing anything at you that's dangerous to your character once you reach a third of the level cap?
So, bascially, you won't be happy unless you can take out an entire camp of mobs the same level as you without any danger? I take it you also dislike any game without a god mode?
Yes, see, that's why there's solo content (the majority of quests), and team content (instances and some quests). It's to cater for players of both preferences, as opposed to just yours. It's an MMO game. If you want full access to every part of the game on your own, don't play an MMO game.
If that's what you want, you should've made yourself a Rogue. Or bought invisibility potions. Of course, higher level mobs will stand a greater chance of discovering you either way. As it should be.
Several classes have temporary invulnerability and other close combat survivability skills. Dwarves have stone skin as a racial trait (just mentioning it for the likeness in name, it's not terribly useful). Not all classes are meant to take a beating up close. That's why they have pets and rely on ranged attacks.
Druids get bear form at an early level. And at level 40 a bear form tailored for tanking.
Sounds like you might like the mage. The talent tree opens for several potent area of effect spells. Mobs 9 levels lower than you are very weak compared to your char. Unless you're utterly clueless of course. Just like a soldier isn't invincible against a crowd, neither is your higher level character against masses of lower level ones.
WoW is pretty much the most newbie friendly MMO around. And you found it too much of a challenge. Though I could name plenty of wrong with WoW, I think your post speaks a lot more about you than it does about WoW.
Opera is licensed to be used in many embedded devices. If you buy a cellphone with a browser preinstalled, don't be surprised if it's Opera you find (they have licensing agreements with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola among others). And, I'm quite certain, Opera didn't give them those licenses for free. :)
For various reasons, I'm currently a Trillian user myself. If Google gets their multi protocol support going, I'll likely switch to that.
I want an IM client that does messages. Not an IM client that aspires to have every conceivable feature imaginable crammed into it.
Communism is an ideology, not a religion. Of course, people can still be fanatical about it, but that doesn't make it a religion.
The parent said he wanted to pick the box off the shelf, install and play. Not pick the box off the shelf, install, go online to download crack, then play.
"I want a box and a disc that I can put on my shelf, and in 10 years replay! I cant forsee ganking a DVD-R with HalfLife3 out of the binder and having it work in 10 years,"
Are you saying HL2 bought from a store gives you some illusion you'll actually be able to do the above? That is, picking it out of a closet in 10 years time and playing? Good luck. Unless Valve's still online so you can decrypt the data after installing it, you'll be way better of burning a Steam backup onto a DVD-R.
The future seems to be here. And I, for one, don't like the looks of it much.
All other sites on the net: Be careful so you don't get caught out by the april fool joke.
Slashdot: No worries. They're all jokes. Go elsewhere for real news.
This is one tradition I could do without.
That reminds me of a Futurama episode I saw recently (season 2 episode, but new to me). Paraphrasing since I have crap memory.
Fry "The president of the world? What's he to us, thus is the United States!"
Leela "Fry, the United States is part of the world"
Fry "Really? Wow, the future really is different"
The aussies aren't the only ones. Where I live (Norway) record sales revenue has been on an upward trend for years. Ironically, it apparently started to accellerate shortly after Napster became a household name. Surely a coincidence.
Personally I wish it would've started going down once the record companies started making their "CDs" incompatible with many devices. Of course, they would've attributed that to piracy as opposed to people getting fed up having to rip the CDs to burn on a CD-R and get the compatabilty back (I've yet to meet a "protected" CD that failed to rip as opposed to just ripping slower).
Seems people are missing the point indeed. One is to get some stress testing of Steam going. Another is to give people high resolution videos to really be able to appreciate the graphics. I've seen the 600MB QT a ton of times, and these new clips is like another world when it comes to seeing just what the engine's capable of.
For the whiners, Valve are going to keep releasing clips until they've run out of E3 footage. They'll then start releasing previously unseen footage. They posted this promise in the Steam forums.
Valve have stated them many times, just do a search for it. I did and the first site I found was an interview with Gabe Newell (Managing Director for Half-Life 2) where he states the min specs are a P3 800 and a DX6 (e.g. TNT) graphics card. I've seen 733 mentioned elsewhere but the difference isn't exactly a huge one.
The Source engine's been feature complete since Q4 last year so they should have a pretty good idea of its performance by now.