Never heard of player. Download player, states that it's hundreds of days old on first run. Checks for updates. Doesn't find any. Attempt to play the slowest broadband (100Kbps stream,) which my connection should be able to handle fine, WMP and other players do, at least. Connection drops 2 seconds into playing and never recovers after spending a minute trying to rebuffer.
Actually every person should just get 2 way satellite, and avoid the potential for bandwidth leeching and political inevitabilities of bandwidth from a T1 or DSL or other shared line. While a regulated utility such as water/gas/electric is metered, bandwidth isn't, and if one person eats up the majority of the bandwidth, you have a small arms family fued going on in North Florida.
This post is golden. You hit the mark right on the money. If a company wants to focus on security, they should focus on training, physical security, then your IT infrastructure. The first two are your biggest holes. Make it paramount, like a bank does.
Do banks look forward to this Microsoft ideal world? No. Because money talks, insurance is expensive, and they lock it down very hard. It's not perfect, but why go with a company with security on the backburner for the first 20 years of it's existence? The answer? Don't. It's a semi-good desktop OS and gaming platform, but that's about it.
Such bull. W2K server takes up minimal space compared to W2K or NT4 given the years difference. On Modern drives the OS is taking less than 1% of the entire drive, in many cases.33%!
Don't forget.net the programming platform..net the server platform..net hailstorm.net the often changed philosophy over the last 4 years at MS. Anyone outside MS explain this completely I'll give you a cookie..net the tld domain...
DVD's have an expected shelf life of half that, at about 10 years. The layers break down and you'll start to have *completely* unplayable digital media in some cases.
Nice that besides the gamer's, you failed to mention workstations, server administrators, content creation (video/audio) graphic design, etc. These always need better hardware, and we'd like to be able to get there without spending $3000 every 3 years, thanks!
Count me to the list of people who refuse to pay for ads. period. I either pay for ad free entertainment, a.k.a. DVD, (which is barely cutting it sometimes) or I don't bother.
Magazines I stopped subscribing to 5 years ago. Except adbusters.:)
This and future legislation is about "too little too late." Look at states with antispam laws, (WA and CA mostly,) heck , look at 10+ years of fax spam laws, they still are abused and rarely enforced.
The flip side of the coin is that there are people not only wardriving, but silently sniffing, and not returning any indication that they are doing so. They don't hop on networks and use them, they simply sniff, grab passwords/etc via clear-text sniffing, and archive what they find. Completely untraceable unless you happen to be the FCC. These are scary times.
Also, one may lock down their wireless today, but someone can be archiving that encryption, then wait on it until it *is* crackable via later exploit or brute force is available. (crackable via later exploit being more likely) In general people's passwords 3-5 years ago (and 3-5 years from now) are pretty much still in use today. These are very scary times.
What I do: Find a way around the protection. Play and beat the game (there isn't a game out there that can't be beaten within 2 weeks) Return the game. If they bitch about returning the game I threaten to fight them with my credit card guarantees, better business beureau. Eventually they will get the point. I've done this a few times, not on every game, because not every game has these types of protections, and a lot of producers deserve my cash, but I won't stand for getting crap after I've laid out $40+.
Terrible that you bought a PS2 for it's DVD/playback capabilities. Its laser sucks, it frequently will lock up, ir doesn't have default optical outs, it's remote is horrid for controlling a DVD, it doesn't have progressive scan (or the models up until recently didn't.) Almost all the reviews commented on these lack of features.
gee, welcome to computing 101. bus speed does not scale with total performance--EVER architectural/pipeline differences north and south bridge interaction
Anything else you want to know about how a processor can differ from another?
No, I can't. As a Sysadmin (or whatever the name is now,) you cannot use a Mac for most legal tools. They don't make half the tools my user's need, including file patents electronically, examine metadata of documents, and keep a budget of under $1000/pc for a high end 5-10 apps open at once environment.
FOr that matter I can't use Unix/Linux, which just really pisses me off. servers, yes, we can and will replace them eventually, desktops, nope.
What company in their right mind would commit to a product that: -they haven't seen -They don't know fits their needs -Is "future" tech -Pays for all this up front ???
Apparently You've not used.net server. It runs better than XP home, due to the fact that most services are turned off by default, such as theme support and sound support, and it runs quite nicely even on a Ppro 200. It's a far better desktop OS than XP home.
It's working well for kazaa, limewire, edonkey, DC, DC++, freenet, gruntella(s), ftp, http, bittorrent, etc. They are *evolving*. Tivo doesn't do the same, it'll wither and die quite nicely as well.
I personally think napster should have just gone offshore at first legal trouble.
There are many alternatives coming onboard this and next year, watch for Tivo to have an extremely uphill battle and the marketplace getting very hot. XBOX2 and PS3 will *certainly* have PVR features built in, Microsoft to tie it into messenger/passport, etc, and Sony to do who knows what. The cable companies are looking into integrating this into all set-top boxes period.
This post is rediculous. We just implemented a spamassasin and squid gateway, saving thousands in time, money, licensing, yearly. It's 100% redundant, even if the devs of it died the next day, we'd be fine. Can you say the same for MS if redmond fell off the planet?
We're (an until recently) an all Microsoft shop. This is changing. There are several free products that do the job wonderfly. FInally we have opened our eyes!
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Never heard of player. Download player, states that it's hundreds of days old on first run. Checks for updates. Doesn't find any. Attempt to play the slowest broadband (100Kbps stream,) which my connection should be able to handle fine, WMP and other players do, at least. Connection drops 2 seconds into playing and never recovers after spending a minute trying to rebuffer.
Uninstalled.
Actually every person should just get 2 way satellite, and avoid the potential for bandwidth leeching and political inevitabilities of bandwidth from a T1 or DSL or other shared line. While a regulated utility such as water/gas/electric is metered, bandwidth isn't, and if one person eats up the majority of the bandwidth, you have a small arms family fued going on in North Florida.
This post is golden. You hit the mark right on the money. If a company wants to focus on security, they should focus on training, physical security, then your IT infrastructure. The first two are your biggest holes. Make it paramount, like a bank does.
Do banks look forward to this Microsoft ideal world? No. Because money talks, insurance is expensive, and they lock it down very hard. It's not perfect, but why go with a company with security on the backburner for the first 20 years of it's existence? The answer? Don't. It's a semi-good desktop OS and gaming platform, but that's about it.
Such bull. .33%!
W2K server takes up minimal space compared to W2K or NT4 given the years difference. On Modern drives the OS is taking less than 1% of the entire drive, in many cases
Ever try and run NT4 on a 300 mhz system with ~only~ 64M ram? Runs pretty damn well.
Then add all the SP's and IE6, IT...SLOWS...TO...A...CRAWL...
Don't forget .net the programming platform. .net the server platform. .net hailstorm .net the often changed philosophy over the last 4 years at MS. Anyone outside MS explain this completely I'll give you a cookie. .net the tld domain ...
DVD's have an expected shelf life of half that, at about 10 years. The layers break down and you'll start to have *completely* unplayable digital media in some cases.
Nice that besides the gamer's, you failed to mention workstations, server administrators, content creation (video/audio) graphic design, etc. These always need better hardware, and we'd like to be able to get there without spending $3000 every 3 years, thanks!
Jesus you just described me to a t, bathrobe and all. :( Big frown.
Count me to the list of people who refuse to pay for ads. period. I either pay for ad free entertainment, a.k.a. DVD, (which is barely cutting it sometimes) or I don't bother.
:)
Magazines I stopped subscribing to 5 years ago. Except adbusters.
Nice try!
sorry, I don't run at 640x480 with large fonts.... that barely covered 1/4 of my screen.
This and future legislation is about "too little too late." Look at states with antispam laws, (WA and CA mostly,) heck , look at 10+ years of fax spam laws, they still are abused and rarely enforced.
The flip side of the coin is that there are people not only wardriving, but silently sniffing, and not returning any indication that they are doing so. They don't hop on networks and use them, they simply sniff, grab passwords/etc via clear-text sniffing, and archive what they find. Completely untraceable unless you happen to be the FCC. These are scary times.
Also, one may lock down their wireless today, but someone can be archiving that encryption, then wait on it until it *is* crackable via later exploit or brute force is available. (crackable via later exploit being more likely) In general people's passwords 3-5 years ago (and 3-5 years from now) are pretty much still in use today.
These are very scary times.
"...almost all the buffer overflow problems..."
Now that's what I call PROGRESS!
What I do:
Find a way around the protection.
Play and beat the game (there isn't a game out there that can't be beaten within 2 weeks)
Return the game. If they bitch about returning the game I threaten to fight them with my credit card guarantees, better business beureau. Eventually they will get the point. I've done this a few times, not on every game, because not every game has these types of protections, and a lot of producers deserve my cash, but I won't stand for getting crap after I've laid out $40+.
Terrible that you bought a PS2 for it's DVD/playback capabilities. Its laser sucks, it frequently will lock up, ir doesn't have default optical outs, it's remote is horrid for controlling a DVD, it doesn't have progressive scan (or the models up until recently didn't.) Almost all the reviews commented on these lack of features.
gee, welcome to computing 101. bus speed does not scale with total performance--EVER
architectural/pipeline differences
north and south bridge interaction
Anything else you want to know about how a processor can differ from another?
Actually some reviewers are finding that Analog connections actually are getting better resolution than digital:
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http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,11
No, I can't. As a Sysadmin (or whatever the name is now,) you cannot use a Mac for most legal tools. They don't make half the tools my user's need, including file patents electronically, examine metadata of documents, and keep a budget of under $1000/pc for a high end 5-10 apps open at once environment.
FOr that matter I can't use Unix/Linux, which just really pisses me off. servers, yes, we can and will replace them eventually, desktops, nope.
What company in their right mind would commit to a product that:
-they haven't seen
-They don't know fits their needs
-Is "future" tech
-Pays for all this up front
???
WHY?
Apparently You've not used .net server. It runs better than XP home, due to the fact that most services are turned off by default, such as theme support and sound support, and it runs quite nicely even on a Ppro 200. It's a far better desktop OS than XP home.
It's working well for kazaa, limewire, edonkey, DC, DC++, freenet, gruntella(s), ftp, http, bittorrent, etc. They are *evolving*. Tivo doesn't do the same, it'll wither and die quite nicely as well.
I personally think napster should have just gone offshore at first legal trouble.
I called and it was busy! Terrible! I WANT MY MARKETING CAPABILITY!
There are many alternatives coming onboard this and next year, watch for Tivo to have an extremely uphill battle and the marketplace getting very hot. XBOX2 and PS3 will *certainly* have PVR features built in, Microsoft to tie it into messenger/passport, etc, and Sony to do who knows what. The cable companies are looking into integrating this into all set-top boxes period.
This post is rediculous. We just implemented a spamassasin and squid gateway, saving thousands in time, money, licensing, yearly. It's 100% redundant, even if the devs of it died the next day, we'd be fine. Can you say the same for MS if redmond fell off the planet?
We're (an until recently) an all Microsoft shop. This is changing. There are several free products that do the job wonderfly. FInally we have opened our eyes!