I'm not sure what having a local mail server popping your mail would get you over having your email client pop your email; hell, use IMAP and you have decent control over what you actually want to bother downloading.
Well, uuencode still exists, I'm sure. But quite honestly? Untether yourself. In years to come, you'll look back at this, the only time you've ever actually been off the grid, and weep with fond memory.
Says me, who got out of working on New Years Day only by a trip to emergency. And I wouldn't have been surprised to have gotten a visit from a co-worker with questions.:-)
One every 3 - 4 months all with DLC that sometimes overlaps but can't be used between versions (although they are rectifying that somewhat in newer versions)? Seems a bit much, but then I guess with these kind of profits, who can blame them?
Each and every piece of DLC for Rock Band carries directly over to Rock Band 2 - if you have Rock Band, downloaded a bunch of songs, then go buy RB2, the first time you pop the RB2 disc in, the downloaded songs are available to play.
Further, for five bucks, you can export every song from RB1, save for 3 of them, into RB2. I'd expect that they did a better job pre-securing the export rights for stuff on RB2 for when RB3 comes out.
This is all on Xbox 360 mind you; I'm not sure about the PS3 version. But Harmonix did a hell of a job preserving your Rock Band investment with RB2.
Others have pointed out that Exchange has had single message store for quite a while; I know that Ex2K had it; I'm not sure about 5.5, but I think it did too. So at least eight years.
But I suddenly wonder if they might have turned SMS off, out of some idea that every email account needs to have it's own copy of a message sent to it for regulatory or archival reasons, something like that.
This is as it should be; Fallout isn't a combat RPG, so there shouldn't be huge XP gains for killing things. Your stealthy guy or social guy or techie guy or whatever should have a reasonable chance of making it through too.
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, I'm looking at you. Getting through to the last part of the game is NO problem with a stealth or a social guy. The last part, however, is a giant combat gauntlet.
it also can be a real pain in the ass getting DLC stuff back if your console breaks or gets stolen. I know why the DLC model exists, I just wish us backwards types could get it on physical media.
If I could post a picture of a dog cocking it's head in confuzzlement, I would.
Console broken? Mail it in, it gets repaired, your DLC is transferred. Done.
Don't want to mail it in? Buy a new one. Log in with your Xbox Live account. HoLY CRAP all your DLC works.
Don't want to need to log in? Use the handy dandy once-per-year arbitrary relicenser to tranfer all the licenses to your new console.
Xbox stolen? A combination of changing your Xbox Live password and the above relicensing. Though I'm willing to bet that if you contact Live Support they'd help you out as well.
As a personal anecdote, I replaced my xbox about a year ago. I haven't even bothered relicensing; I turn on the Xbox, it logs into Live, and there's all my stuff. No fuss, no muss.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think you give up the copyright to your work just by handing it in to a professor, which is all you need to publish it under your own terms (unless the university forces students to agree to the equivalent of a non-disclosure agreement, which would be a terrible thing). If you're doing research with university resources, grant funding, or as a university employee, the situation is more complex, and I doubt you'd retain the copyright to your work in most cases.
No, of course not. But if, when you accepted enrollment at the school, you signed something along the lines of a 'work for hire' then, yes, you've agreed to assign copyright over to the school. They're not 'taking' or 'stealing' anything; you're giving it to them. And if this is the case, you don't get to GPL your output.
Almost every console that has ever failed, has failed because they screwed the developers.
Developers jumped ship from Nintendo to Sony because Nintendo was still requiring carts, huge lead times, limited number of titles to each company, certification, and so on. Sony removed these restrictions, and developers didn't let the door hit their asses on the way out.
Sega had a history of screwing up with developers; random hardware addons like the Sega CD, 32X and so on; if the Dreamcast had come out without several years of beaten-puppy-syndrome affecting the devs, it would have done much better against the PS2.
When the Xbox came out, it was widely acknowledged as having the best dev tools, hands down. However, it was the new kid on the block. But Microsoft has always known that developers make the world go 'round; just ask Steve Ballmer.
Now, Sony has become Nintendo, dictating rather than asking. There's a reason why so many formerly Sony exclusives are winding up on the 360, just like so many Nintendo exclusives wound up on the PS1.
Of course, it also helps that the 360 is a better game machine than the PS3, for reasons other posters have pointed out; unified memory, better GPU, and so on.
You'd be surprised. Lots of very 'smart' people do really stupid things. I've heard horror stories of multi-million dollar scientific instruments that come with an rs-232 port with a 386 connected to them, running a DOS program that hits the raw serial port, and relies on the hardware characteristics for timing and what not; in other words, even a different 386 might not work.
I remember, about ten years ago, doing an onsite visit for a genetics lab. They had, hooked up to a, damn I forget the exact term, but a polymerise chain reaction thingy, an apple PC running a web application development langauge.
They were doing genetic analysis, hundreds of megabytes of data at a time, using a product that competed with Classic ASP and Cold Fusion. They were using the language like it was PERL, and complaining when they hit a browser timeout.
Of course, I always thought it needed a CLI anyway... kind of like PHP has now.
You ABSOLUTELY need to check the generator, every week, after the self test. If it runs at 9 am on Monday, set a reminder in your PIM to check it at 9:30. Or something. Note the runtime gauge; keep a log. Note the pretty status lights.
Yes, the Romans had cavalry. The Roman Equites, or the "knight" class that was referred to were cavalry. They were not very good cavalry, but they were part of the Roman army. As pointed out, the Romans tended to overcome their crappy cav by using allied cavalry.
See, this is the problem. *Which* Romans? Remember, you're covering hundreds of years of history. It's like saying 'Americans use tanks' then putting tanks into a Revoluationary War sim.
Your spearhead is probably aimed at your schwerpunkt. You could have just read the article you referenced:-).
Schwerpunkt translates as 'heavy point' or 'emphasis.' Basically, where are you going to try to break through your enemy lines. The blitzkreig concept was to hit the enemy line hard at a point, break through, then, rather than rolling up the enemy flanks, just keep going, cutting supply lines, farking with rear element and support elements, and heading for your strategic objectives.
Remember that it's a direct response to World War One, which was 'Redcoat tactics with machine guns and artillery.' Instead of lining up your forces, and the enemy doing so, and having a massive clash all along the line of battle, aim the majority of your forces at a specific point, him them hard, and keep going.
Or, put another way, if 'blitzkreig' means 'lightning war,' which it does, the schwerpunkt is the point of impact.
So many of the Microprose classics could; SotS is certainly one (though some might argue that Shogun: Total War came close, to the second half at least.)
The remakes of Railroad Tycoon and Pirates! were excellent. Civilization is still going strong.
In addition to Sword of the Samurai, I'd like to see Covert Action redone; I quite enjoyed it.
The question here is, 'Why wasn't it in the best interests of the banking industry to not get into the mess they're in?'
The answer, of course, is government regulation. They were reasonably sure that if they needed to, they could go to the feds and get all the taxpayer money they wanted.
And hey, they were right!
The classic example is the railroads of old. Transcontinental railroads were being built just fine. Then the gov't stepped in, and offered a subsidy/bonus/incentive/whatever for each mile of track laid. Guess what happened? Go ahead, guess. Lets just say that though the shortest path between two points is a straight line, the shortest path to a big fat gov't payout was much longer, physically.
Yes, some regulation is desirable; however, these daysy, there's way too much. And I say this as a Canadian-style liberal (not necessarily Liberal) which really means centrist.
Ok, I see your point, and you're correct; on an NT system, an administrator cannot 'override' ACLs on an object; but he can take ownership of them, then change them, which amounts to the same thing, although with accounting.
That having been said, no matter how 'secure' your OS, right down to privilege separation by process (can't have a Top Secret level document open at the same time as a Secret level notepad) you can still write down notes, take pictures of the screen, and so on. Hell, memorize the salient points and take them home.
Any document, once read, is in the wild. The best you can hope to do is a) make it expensive to copy, be it in time, effort or money, and b) make any given copy of the document identifiable enough to find a scape goat.
Copy/paste is disabled? The ability to take local screen caps? The ability to make notes with a pen and paper?
For documents that really, truely need to be tracked, you use a canary trap. That is, each copy is slightly and uniquely different. Each copy is receipted by a specific person. If you find a copy in the wild, you can find a key phrase and track down who leaked it.
Second, Windows has never been designed to try to enforce more than discretionary controls. What does that mean? It means that EVERYONE who touches the machine or its data is presumed to be cleared to see whatever is on the machine. They may not have the need to know what's there (that's what DAC does), but they're cleared to see it - so they're TRUSTED to handle it correctly.
Err, what? Windows NT was built from the ground-up to enforce incredibly fine-grained manadatory access controls.
The problem is if somebody has read access, they can get a copy out somehow, even if it's manual transcription with pen and paper.
Don't forget to use a variant of the Asherah virus to clean the info out of their brains after they're done looking at it. After all, it's your data, why should they be allowed to walk out with it in their brains?
You wouldn't let them bring a hammer or other tools home, right?
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I'm not sure what having a local mail server popping your mail would get you over having your email client pop your email; hell, use IMAP and you have decent control over what you actually want to bother downloading.
Sight reading is exactly what it is.
And you know what? Add a sixth line, change the bars/circles to numbers, and you've got a kick-ass tab scroller.
Well, uuencode still exists, I'm sure. But quite honestly? Untether yourself. In years to come, you'll look back at this, the only time you've ever actually been off the grid, and weep with fond memory.
Says me, who got out of working on New Years Day only by a trip to emergency. And I wouldn't have been surprised to have gotten a visit from a co-worker with questions. :-)
You know, any email program with the option to disable 'send messages immediately' and 'send/receive mail every X minutes' would do just fine.
Each and every piece of DLC for Rock Band carries directly over to Rock Band 2 - if you have Rock Band, downloaded a bunch of songs, then go buy RB2, the first time you pop the RB2 disc in, the downloaded songs are available to play.
Further, for five bucks, you can export every song from RB1, save for 3 of them, into RB2. I'd expect that they did a better job pre-securing the export rights for stuff on RB2 for when RB3 comes out.
This is all on Xbox 360 mind you; I'm not sure about the PS3 version. But Harmonix did a hell of a job preserving your Rock Band investment with RB2.
Others have pointed out that Exchange has had single message store for quite a while; I know that Ex2K had it; I'm not sure about 5.5, but I think it did too. So at least eight years.
But I suddenly wonder if they might have turned SMS off, out of some idea that every email account needs to have it's own copy of a message sent to it for regulatory or archival reasons, something like that.
Well, they'll just have to not have the video raw, or on the disc twice.
None of the 360 JRPGs by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi have had a problem with disc length. :-)
This is as it should be; Fallout isn't a combat RPG, so there shouldn't be huge XP gains for killing things. Your stealthy guy or social guy or techie guy or whatever should have a reasonable chance of making it through too.
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, I'm looking at you. Getting through to the last part of the game is NO problem with a stealth or a social guy. The last part, however, is a giant combat gauntlet.
If I could post a picture of a dog cocking it's head in confuzzlement, I would.
Console broken? Mail it in, it gets repaired, your DLC is transferred. Done.
Don't want to mail it in? Buy a new one. Log in with your Xbox Live account. HoLY CRAP all your DLC works.
Don't want to need to log in? Use the handy dandy once-per-year arbitrary relicenser to tranfer all the licenses to your new console.
Xbox stolen? A combination of changing your Xbox Live password and the above relicensing. Though I'm willing to bet that if you contact Live Support they'd help you out as well.
As a personal anecdote, I replaced my xbox about a year ago. I haven't even bothered relicensing; I turn on the Xbox, it logs into Live, and there's all my stuff. No fuss, no muss.
Mr. Fuzzle's weeds have gone unchecked for too long.End his life.
No, of course not. But if, when you accepted enrollment at the school, you signed something along the lines of a 'work for hire' then, yes, you've agreed to assign copyright over to the school. They're not 'taking' or 'stealing' anything; you're giving it to them. And if this is the case, you don't get to GPL your output.
Me thinks you miss the point.
If the poster's terms of enrollment state that his scholastic output belongs to the institution, then his output *isn't his to GPL.*
Almost every console that has ever failed, has failed because they screwed the developers.
Developers jumped ship from Nintendo to Sony because Nintendo was still requiring carts, huge lead times, limited number of titles to each company, certification, and so on. Sony removed these restrictions, and developers didn't let the door hit their asses on the way out.
Sega had a history of screwing up with developers; random hardware addons like the Sega CD, 32X and so on; if the Dreamcast had come out without several years of beaten-puppy-syndrome affecting the devs, it would have done much better against the PS2.
When the Xbox came out, it was widely acknowledged as having the best dev tools, hands down. However, it was the new kid on the block. But Microsoft has always known that developers make the world go 'round; just ask Steve Ballmer.
Now, Sony has become Nintendo, dictating rather than asking. There's a reason why so many formerly Sony exclusives are winding up on the 360, just like so many Nintendo exclusives wound up on the PS1.
Of course, it also helps that the 360 is a better game machine than the PS3, for reasons other posters have pointed out; unified memory, better GPU, and so on.
That would be an imposed, rather than intrinsic, limit.
You'd be surprised. Lots of very 'smart' people do really stupid things. I've heard horror stories of multi-million dollar scientific instruments that come with an rs-232 port with a 386 connected to them, running a DOS program that hits the raw serial port, and relies on the hardware characteristics for timing and what not; in other words, even a different 386 might not work.
I remember, about ten years ago, doing an onsite visit for a genetics lab. They had, hooked up to a, damn I forget the exact term, but a polymerise chain reaction thingy, an apple PC running a web application development langauge.
They were doing genetic analysis, hundreds of megabytes of data at a time, using a product that competed with Classic ASP and Cold Fusion. They were using the language like it was PERL, and complaining when they hit a browser timeout.
Of course, I always thought it needed a CLI anyway... kind of like PHP has now.
You ABSOLUTELY need to check the generator, every week, after the self test. If it runs at 9 am on Monday, set a reminder in your PIM to check it at 9:30. Or something. Note the runtime gauge; keep a log. Note the pretty status lights.
Voice of experience.
See, this is the problem. *Which* Romans? Remember, you're covering hundreds of years of history. It's like saying 'Americans use tanks' then putting tanks into a Revoluationary War sim.
Your spearhead is probably aimed at your schwerpunkt. You could have just read the article you referenced :-).
Schwerpunkt translates as 'heavy point' or 'emphasis.' Basically, where are you going to try to break through your enemy lines. The blitzkreig concept was to hit the enemy line hard at a point, break through, then, rather than rolling up the enemy flanks, just keep going, cutting supply lines, farking with rear element and support elements, and heading for your strategic objectives.
Remember that it's a direct response to World War One, which was 'Redcoat tactics with machine guns and artillery.' Instead of lining up your forces, and the enemy doing so, and having a massive clash all along the line of battle, aim the majority of your forces at a specific point, him them hard, and keep going.
Or, put another way, if 'blitzkreig' means 'lightning war,' which it does, the schwerpunkt is the point of impact.
Dude, just use DosBox.
So many of the Microprose classics could; SotS is certainly one (though some might argue that Shogun: Total War came close, to the second half at least.)
The remakes of Railroad Tycoon and Pirates! were excellent. Civilization is still going strong.
In addition to Sword of the Samurai, I'd like to see Covert Action redone; I quite enjoyed it.
The question here is, 'Why wasn't it in the best interests of the banking industry to not get into the mess they're in?'
The answer, of course, is government regulation. They were reasonably sure that if they needed to, they could go to the feds and get all the taxpayer money they wanted.
And hey, they were right!
The classic example is the railroads of old. Transcontinental railroads were being built just fine. Then the gov't stepped in, and offered a subsidy/bonus/incentive/whatever for each mile of track laid. Guess what happened? Go ahead, guess. Lets just say that though the shortest path between two points is a straight line, the shortest path to a big fat gov't payout was much longer, physically.
Yes, some regulation is desirable; however, these daysy, there's way too much. And I say this as a Canadian-style liberal (not necessarily Liberal) which really means centrist.
Ok, I see your point, and you're correct; on an NT system, an administrator cannot 'override' ACLs on an object; but he can take ownership of them, then change them, which amounts to the same thing, although with accounting.
That having been said, no matter how 'secure' your OS, right down to privilege separation by process (can't have a Top Secret level document open at the same time as a Secret level notepad) you can still write down notes, take pictures of the screen, and so on. Hell, memorize the salient points and take them home.
Any document, once read, is in the wild. The best you can hope to do is a) make it expensive to copy, be it in time, effort or money, and b) make any given copy of the document identifiable enough to find a scape goat.
Copy/paste is disabled? The ability to take local screen caps? The ability to make notes with a pen and paper?
For documents that really, truely need to be tracked, you use a canary trap. That is, each copy is slightly and uniquely different. Each copy is receipted by a specific person. If you find a copy in the wild, you can find a key phrase and track down who leaked it.
Err, what? Windows NT was built from the ground-up to enforce incredibly fine-grained manadatory access controls.
The problem is if somebody has read access, they can get a copy out somehow, even if it's manual transcription with pen and paper.
Don't forget to use a variant of the Asherah virus to clean the info out of their brains after they're done looking at it. After all, it's your data, why should they be allowed to walk out with it in their brains?
You wouldn't let them bring a hammer or other tools home, right?
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