There was a physics simulator that did that with a skeletally-animated ragdoll stick figure a year or two back. Also one that involved the guy falling down a flight of stairs.
Sounds to me more like 'Vista is going to try to determine when you're installing software that a) isn't Vista aware, and b) assumes that you have full access to the computer, and prompt you with this information, and give you the option to let it install with elevated privilges, rather than just letting it fail with cryptic error messages about not being able to write to %SYSTEMROOT% or registry keys or suchlike.
The fact that they could have included a video scaling chip, so that the PS3, when told that you have a 1080i, will render in whatever format the game wants to render to, then upscale it and send it out to the display.
Very basically, a star's tendancy to collapse in on itself is countered by the fact that it's a big old nuclear fireball. As it runs out of hydrogen to burn, it starts to collapse in on itself again, until it starts burning helium. Once the helium is gone, it starts to collapse again.
Any given star of less than 1.4 solar masses will stop collapsing and turn into a white dwarf, due to the fact that it's gravity isn't enough to overcome the repulsion of electrons. (If this white dwarf gets some new material, say, by having a red giant close enough that it can gather material from it, it will explode, giving us a supernova.)
Any given star of greater than 1.4 solar masses but less than 3 solar masses will overcome this, but get halted by inability to squish neutrons together.
Anything bigger than 3 solar masses will overcome neutron degeneracy, and collapse even further into a black hole.
Eventually, new patches will stop coming out for it. Sure, some people will hack up XP patches, where they can, but eventually they'll stop coming.
So, what can you do? Make sure that you're running what patches do exist, make sure you never ever expose it live to the Internet, make sure that all of your apps are patched, make sure that you're running fully up-to-date antivirus. Don't install any software which is at all questionable, don't visit any questionable websites. Turn off what you can; if you don't use WSH, turn it off. Turn off autoassociations for it, at least. Turn off as much of ActiveX as you can, javascript and so on. There are lots of guides to hardening Win2000/IIS and so on, and most of the reccomendations here are ones that you should be following anyway.
If you wait long enough, of course, people will be targeting Vista rather than Win2000/XP, and you won't have to worry about it; kind of like how Win98 is actually a fairly safe operating system to be running these days.
Oh, and scan it with an up-to-date BartPE disc every once in a while, just to be sure. Make sure you grab the module for Spybot from the Spybot website.
I'd say a little of column a, a little of column b.
I mean, sure, most of the blacklists say 'Hey, don't use this to reject mail completely!' They generally, however, go on to say '*wink wink* if you really want to, though, here's a config file snippet to drop into your mail config. *wink wink*.
Why do we still use x86? Because every gods-damn time somebody tries to change this, the market goes apeshit.
Hell, Intel themselves got tired of listening to the 'P4s are based on 20 year old design!' crap, and invented Itanium; next gen, breaks the mold, sings, dances, and so on. But oh noes, it didn't work perfectly on the very first iteration, and *gasp* wasn't so good at running x86 code, so down it went.
Don't forget books! Man, some kid can walk right into a book store, and walk out with any number of books which contain graphic sex, graphic violence, torture, pedophilia, rape, hate crime, the list goes on. Hell, in some cases, they can then be praised for being mature and responsible enough to choose to read said book!
Well, in America, that would probably be held up as an implicit admission of guilt, foreknowledge, and culpability. Anywhere else, it would be seen as Nintendo just trying to make their product safer.
You're no more 'violating copyright' in the first place then a book which references another book, with a footnote giving an isbn number, edition and page/paragraph reference.
Embedding, on the other hand, might be open to interpretation.
Nah, he was doing perfectly good in the role; it's just when they fired Robert Wolfe because his stories were too intelligent and multi-episode that it went to crap.
The PS2 is backwards compatible because it, literally, includes the hardware of a PS1. The PS3 is BC because it, literally, includes the hardware of a PS2.
Microsoft could not include an Xbox in the 360 without paying huge chunks of change to Intel and nVidia. One of their requirements for the 360 was to own the designs of the cpu and gpu, so they could go thorugh the usual shrinking and redesign to save money down the road, and is one of the reasons they dropped Intel and nVidia.
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Sorry, replying to myself, but it's one chip, three cores, each core can do two threads. Or something.
3 processors, each dual-core, I thought.
There was a physics simulator that did that with a skeletally-animated ragdoll stick figure a year or two back. Also one that involved the guy falling down a flight of stairs.
Well, sure. But worst comes to worst, it doesn't identify an installer, and the install fails.
Or, if it's a current installer, it gets patched to identify itself properly to Vista.
Yeah, it's a messy solution, but it's a messy problem.
Sounds to me more like 'Vista is going to try to determine when you're installing software that a) isn't Vista aware, and b) assumes that you have full access to the computer, and prompt you with this information, and give you the option to let it install with elevated privilges, rather than just letting it fail with cryptic error messages about not being able to write to %SYSTEMROOT% or registry keys or suchlike.
The fact that they could have included a video scaling chip, so that the PS3, when told that you have a 1080i, will render in whatever format the game wants to render to, then upscale it and send it out to the display.
Which, I'll point out, the Xbox 360 does.
I'm looking to sell a copy of BotF, complete with manual and official strategy guide, amoung many other wonderful vinatge games. Check sig.
(note: this is from memory)
Our sun is defined as 'one solar mass.'
Very basically, a star's tendancy to collapse in on itself is countered by the fact that it's a big old nuclear fireball. As it runs out of hydrogen to burn, it starts to collapse in on itself again, until it starts burning helium. Once the helium is gone, it starts to collapse again.
Any given star of less than 1.4 solar masses will stop collapsing and turn into a white dwarf, due to the fact that it's gravity isn't enough to overcome the repulsion of electrons. (If this white dwarf gets some new material, say, by having a red giant close enough that it can gather material from it, it will explode, giving us a supernova.)
Any given star of greater than 1.4 solar masses but less than 3 solar masses will overcome this, but get halted by inability to squish neutrons together.
Anything bigger than 3 solar masses will overcome neutron degeneracy, and collapse even further into a black hole.
Thanks muchly!
I remember beta testing MicroFocus Visual Object COBOL in 1995.
Eventually, new patches will stop coming out for it. Sure, some people will hack up XP patches, where they can, but eventually they'll stop coming.
So, what can you do? Make sure that you're running what patches do exist, make sure you never ever expose it live to the Internet, make sure that all of your apps are patched, make sure that you're running fully up-to-date antivirus. Don't install any software which is at all questionable, don't visit any questionable websites. Turn off what you can; if you don't use WSH, turn it off. Turn off autoassociations for it, at least. Turn off as much of ActiveX as you can, javascript and so on. There are lots of guides to hardening Win2000/IIS and so on, and most of the reccomendations here are ones that you should be following anyway.
If you wait long enough, of course, people will be targeting Vista rather than Win2000/XP, and you won't have to worry about it; kind of like how Win98 is actually a fairly safe operating system to be running these days.
Oh, and scan it with an up-to-date BartPE disc every once in a while, just to be sure. Make sure you grab the module for Spybot from the Spybot website.
That's elegant. Can you share?
I'd say a little of column a, a little of column b.
I mean, sure, most of the blacklists say 'Hey, don't use this to reject mail completely!' They generally, however, go on to say '*wink wink* if you really want to, though, here's a config file snippet to drop into your mail config. *wink wink*.
Why do we still use x86? Because every gods-damn time somebody tries to change this, the market goes apeshit.
Hell, Intel themselves got tired of listening to the 'P4s are based on 20 year old design!' crap, and invented Itanium; next gen, breaks the mold, sings, dances, and so on. But oh noes, it didn't work perfectly on the very first iteration, and *gasp* wasn't so good at running x86 code, so down it went.
Don't forget books! Man, some kid can walk right into a book store, and walk out with any number of books which contain graphic sex, graphic violence, torture, pedophilia, rape, hate crime, the list goes on. Hell, in some cases, they can then be praised for being mature and responsible enough to choose to read said book!
"GPL3 ain't done till Microsoft and Novell won't run"?
Does that apply to criminal proceedings, civil, or both?
I'm thinking it's kind of like 'never say 'I'm sorry' at a traffic accident.'
Well, in America, that would probably be held up as an implicit admission of guilt, foreknowledge, and culpability. Anywhere else, it would be seen as Nintendo just trying to make their product safer.
You're no more 'violating copyright' in the first place then a book which references another book, with a footnote giving an isbn number, edition and page/paragraph reference.
Embedding, on the other hand, might be open to interpretation.
When I die, I want to go like my father did. Peacefully, sleeping. Not screaming and panicing like all of the passengers he was flying to Duluth....
Nah, he was doing perfectly good in the role; it's just when they fired Robert Wolfe because his stories were too intelligent and multi-episode that it went to crap.
Andromeda was a perfectly good show until Kevin Sorbo turned it into Hercules in Space.
The PS2 is backwards compatible because it, literally, includes the hardware of a PS1. The PS3 is BC because it, literally, includes the hardware of a PS2.
Microsoft could not include an Xbox in the 360 without paying huge chunks of change to Intel and nVidia. One of their requirements for the 360 was to own the designs of the cpu and gpu, so they could go thorugh the usual shrinking and redesign to save money down the road, and is one of the reasons they dropped Intel and nVidia.
I'm still waiting for Secret of Vulcan's Fury, damnit.
Bridge Commander bad, Klingon Academy good.