"As soon as you complete the transaction a pop-up window appears. It offers a discount on your next purchase. Click on the ad...."
So this is something that affects only people dumb enough to click on pop-ups, while those of us with either blockers or the brains to close pop-ups like this when they open are not affected?
Internet darwinism at work and working as intended imo.
Thanks- I was hoping someone would point this out, and I agree with you. It's sad commentary that today's consumers still don't approach every purchase expecting to get burned. Now, before anyone gets up in arms over that statement, let me explain: I don't agree it *should* be this way, but I know that it *is* this way and protect myself accordingly.
For any interested- The article fails to mention that this is/was an evaluation program initiated by BMW. The electric Cooper is not available through standard channels. I received an invitation to evaluate one but because I rent an apartment I didn't meet the minimum requirements to participate. One of the stipulations was that you had to have an enclosed parking area (i.e. a garage) and were willing to have the required charging equipment installed in that garage. There were some other requirements as well, but that was the one that prevented me from considering it. FWIW the invitation was pretty explicit about the performance differences between the gas and electric models as well as your responsibility during the evaluation period. Anyway, I wound up leasing a 2009 Clubman and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner- 'Fun to drive' is a huge understatement.
Both 28 Days Later and Resident Evil were made respectively by a UK director (in the UK), and by a UK company (FilmFour)....
Resident Evil (film) was based loosely on the Capcom (Japanese) videogame series Biohazard (Resident Evil in the US). The original games were intentional homages to classic zombie and "science-gone-awry" films and stories, although the latest installments have moved away from that somewhat.
As others have mentioned: You can try using the following 3 applications under WINE, and barring any emulation issues, you should be able to rip any DVD providing it is not physically damaged-
DVD Shrink, DVD Fab, DVD Decrypter
Rats can chew through anything. And I mean anything. Their teeth never stop growing, and due to the way they grow, they form razor sharp chisels which will chew through anything, given enough time. A wild colony of rats could easily chew through a brick wall or steel pipe in a matter of days if not hours. If a rat wants to get through something, he will.
Set the kernel to load into RAM and it will effectively eliminate the symptoms you describe here. This will maintain a working pagefile, but the kernel will not load any of its processes into it. There are a few other tweaks that are simple and help make XP/Vista very responsive, one of which is changing how each application uses memory address space. Search for XP/Vista tweaks and keep an eye out for references to "Disable page file for Windows kernel" and you'll know you're on the right track.
Most modern games will easily chew up the Video RAM, much of the system RAM and a large portion of any page file on the system. In practice, most load massive textural data to the pagefile, which is why many mid to low range systems experience "hitching" as you move through the game world. Hitching is the slight pause or stutter you experience as data is moved from the pagefile to RAM. In short, you simply cannot run most modern games from memory only. With the available address space of 64 bit processing and OSes this *could* change, but more than likely the same practice will continue.
Excellent points all. Further consideration: Regardless of what is produced by the application (Google Earth)there is no easy way to determine its legitimacy or accuracy. Just because an area isn't blurred doesn't mean what you're seeing is accurate. Oh, and I just checked the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) NPP, and the actual power plant and surrounding Zone of Alienation is still blurred.
Then how exactly would you explain why so many web pages are served by hosts called www2.somedomain.tld?
One of the most common reasons is that you are redirecting HTTP traffic to a port on your web server other than the standard port 80.
The catch-phrase "Web 2.0" has nothing to do with DNS and/or URL designation. It is a near meaningless term used by people who want to sound like they know what they're talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch
Contact bounce (also called chatter) is a common problem with mechanical switches and relays. Switch and relay contacts are usually made of springy metals that are forced into contact by an actuator. When the contacts strike together, their momentum and elasticity act together to cause bounce. The result is a rapidly pulsed electrical current instead of a clean transition from zero to full current. The waveform is then further modified by the parasitic inductances and capacitances in the switch and wiring, resulting in a series of damped sinusoidal oscillations. This effect is usually unnoticeable in AC mains circuits, where the bounce happens too quickly to affect most equipment, but causes problems in some analogue and logic circuits that respond fast enough to misinterpret the on-off pulses as a data stream.
Sequential digital logic circuits are particularly vulnerable to contact bounce. The voltage waveform produced by switch bounce usually violates the amplitude and timing specifications of the logic circuit. The result is that the circuit may fail, due to problems such as metastability, race conditions, runt pulses and glitches.
There are a number of techniques for debouncing (mitigating the effects of switch bounce). They can be split into wet contacts, timing based techniques and Hysteresis based techniques.
So, you're telling him to feed the troll? Let the troll know that he's getting to you, and he'll just do it more.
If you run the forum, the best solution is to ban him, and ban him with every new account he makes.
In many cases, this is the only option. It is typically a long and protracted battle, but eventually even the most persistent troll will relent if your dedication and resolve never falters.
Ban every IP and username that is associated with any troll-like behavior. Review your server and BB log files and ban every intrusion attempt. (Very often trolls are script kiddies and will make attempts at cracking your site and/or BB.)
Ultimately, it is a contest of wills: Your commitment to your site/BB has to be strong enough that you will endure and never concede defeat. If you want to emerge the victor, you can never give up.
The down side is that you *may* wind up burning a few innocents in the process if you aren't careful. It's a risk, but if your content is important to you, it's unfortunate but necessary.
For those of us who aren't trolls, it isn't possible to pity such a thing. We can only look at it as a curiosity and wonder how it came to be and why it chooses to continue existing in such a state.
BTW even though the 2600 joystick was in essence digital, all the inputs were read through analog mechanisms.
100% correct. If you ever had a 2600 joystick stop responding properly (as I did many a time) you could disassemble it via 4 screws in the base and then clean the ANALOG contact switches to remove oxidization.
To be sure, I just took apart the one I still have that I use on my C64 and sure enough; ANALOG switches.
For an older card I had to search for a custom-built driver because Nvidia simply does not provide one. The installation was an absurd mess, and never worked properly. Granted, that was the fault of the developer of the driver, but if it's so simple, then why didn't he use that simple method? He can write a driver but doesn't know how to write the installer? No. In order for the driver to function regardless of the flavor of Linux, he can't use an installer because there is no universally accepted process for such in the Linux community.
Again, I point out that this may not be a problem for people such as those who are here on/. but the *AVERAGE* user should never need to know about the shell or any of its commands.
As I said, I am a user and fan of Linux, but I am not a blind fanboy. I recognize the faults of Linux as equally as the faults of Windows and Mac.
But if you seriously believe that any installation process is *SIMPLER* (Not BETTER, but SIMPLER) than Windows, you're deluding yourself.
My understanding is that it's largely due to QA. LEGO bricks have some of the highest tolerances in the manufacturing industry. Think about it: when was the last time you had two bricks that didn't fit together perfectly?
That's part one and the other part, which I'm surprised nobody mentioned yet, is the designers.
Think about those simplistic $6/£3 Lego sets and the thought and engineering that went into each piece. Not to mention that every few months they introduce new pieces. I mean, just look at one of the bigger sets like the Millennium Falcon and all the unique parts it has. I also imagine the designers are urged to use as few bricks as possible as well; often being asked to remove here and there the pieces that might be merely cosmetic and non-critical.
Also, licensing costs are probably astronomical. I can only imagine the license fees for the Lucas and Spielberg properties.
Anyway, the video and article was very cool. I just wish the footage was longer.
If an app isn't supported, don't use it. Big hint here: Use Ubuntu Linux. It provides automatic updates.
That's one of the other issues any user coming from Windows or Mac always runs into with Linux: Application X isn't supported or Driver Y hasn't been written yet.
For people such as those here on/. the prospect of making that app work or building a driver from scratch is often an enjoyable challenge. For the rest of the 99% of the world's computer users, it's an instant deal breaker.
true, I've found instaling apps in Linux to be easier than Windows once you have a binary distribution that is packaged.
Windows application and/or driver installation requires the application/package and a double-click. You then choose a typical install which does literally everything for you or a customizable one. Done.
No Linux distro I have tried has EVER followed as simple an installation process. Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, DSL- Each had its own quirks, almost all of which required shell commands. (In fact, I believe all required it.)
For the *average* user, the Linux process is far from desirable.
This doesn't mean *I* am not a user or fan of Linux; it just means I am not your average user much like most of the people here.
If Linux developers could all agree on an install process that was 100% GUI compliant, (but still retained the OPTION to do things from the shell) irritated Windows and Mac users would flock to Linux in droves.
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+1 Thank You... Glad someone pointed that out.
Nothing to see here.
"As soon as you complete the transaction a pop-up window appears. It offers a discount on your next purchase. Click on the ad...." So this is something that affects only people dumb enough to click on pop-ups, while those of us with either blockers or the brains to close pop-ups like this when they open are not affected? Internet darwinism at work and working as intended imo.
Thanks- I was hoping someone would point this out, and I agree with you. It's sad commentary that today's consumers still don't approach every purchase expecting to get burned. Now, before anyone gets up in arms over that statement, let me explain: I don't agree it *should* be this way, but I know that it *is* this way and protect myself accordingly.
For any interested- The article fails to mention that this is/was an evaluation program initiated by BMW. The electric Cooper is not available through standard channels. I received an invitation to evaluate one but because I rent an apartment I didn't meet the minimum requirements to participate. One of the stipulations was that you had to have an enclosed parking area (i.e. a garage) and were willing to have the required charging equipment installed in that garage. There were some other requirements as well, but that was the one that prevented me from considering it. FWIW the invitation was pretty explicit about the performance differences between the gas and electric models as well as your responsibility during the evaluation period. Anyway, I wound up leasing a 2009 Clubman and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner- 'Fun to drive' is a huge understatement.
Unless you live in Australia... (looks at Left 4 Dead 2 with pity...)
Both 28 Days Later and Resident Evil were made respectively by a UK director (in the UK), and by a UK company (FilmFour)....
Resident Evil (film) was based loosely on the Capcom (Japanese) videogame series Biohazard (Resident Evil in the US). The original games were intentional homages to classic zombie and "science-gone-awry" films and stories, although the latest installments have moved away from that somewhat.
As others have mentioned: You can try using the following 3 applications under WINE, and barring any emulation issues, you should be able to rip any DVD providing it is not physically damaged- DVD Shrink, DVD Fab, DVD Decrypter
You mean MAGIC black smoke. That's the Genie!
or a Layer 8 issue- Your choice.
Rats can chew through anything. And I mean anything. Their teeth never stop growing, and due to the way they grow, they form razor sharp chisels which will chew through anything, given enough time. A wild colony of rats could easily chew through a brick wall or steel pipe in a matter of days if not hours. If a rat wants to get through something, he will.
Set the kernel to load into RAM and it will effectively eliminate the symptoms you describe here. This will maintain a working pagefile, but the kernel will not load any of its processes into it. There are a few other tweaks that are simple and help make XP/Vista very responsive, one of which is changing how each application uses memory address space. Search for XP/Vista tweaks and keep an eye out for references to "Disable page file for Windows kernel" and you'll know you're on the right track.
Most modern games will easily chew up the Video RAM, much of the system RAM and a large portion of any page file on the system. In practice, most load massive textural data to the pagefile, which is why many mid to low range systems experience "hitching" as you move through the game world. Hitching is the slight pause or stutter you experience as data is moved from the pagefile to RAM. In short, you simply cannot run most modern games from memory only. With the available address space of 64 bit processing and OSes this *could* change, but more than likely the same practice will continue.
Most, if not all of which were possible long before the catchphrase took root. =)
Excellent points all. Further consideration: Regardless of what is produced by the application (Google Earth)there is no easy way to determine its legitimacy or accuracy. Just because an area isn't blurred doesn't mean what you're seeing is accurate. Oh, and I just checked the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) NPP, and the actual power plant and surrounding Zone of Alienation is still blurred.
Reading is fundamental! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_washing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch Contact bounce (also called chatter) is a common problem with mechanical switches and relays. Switch and relay contacts are usually made of springy metals that are forced into contact by an actuator. When the contacts strike together, their momentum and elasticity act together to cause bounce. The result is a rapidly pulsed electrical current instead of a clean transition from zero to full current. The waveform is then further modified by the parasitic inductances and capacitances in the switch and wiring, resulting in a series of damped sinusoidal oscillations. This effect is usually unnoticeable in AC mains circuits, where the bounce happens too quickly to affect most equipment, but causes problems in some analogue and logic circuits that respond fast enough to misinterpret the on-off pulses as a data stream. Sequential digital logic circuits are particularly vulnerable to contact bounce. The voltage waveform produced by switch bounce usually violates the amplitude and timing specifications of the logic circuit. The result is that the circuit may fail, due to problems such as metastability, race conditions, runt pulses and glitches. There are a number of techniques for debouncing (mitigating the effects of switch bounce). They can be split into wet contacts, timing based techniques and Hysteresis based techniques.
So, you're telling him to feed the troll? Let the troll know that he's getting to you, and he'll just do it more. If you run the forum, the best solution is to ban him, and ban him with every new account he makes.
In many cases, this is the only option. It is typically a long and protracted battle, but eventually even the most persistent troll will relent if your dedication and resolve never falters.
Ban every IP and username that is associated with any troll-like behavior. Review your server and BB log files and ban every intrusion attempt. (Very often trolls are script kiddies and will make attempts at cracking your site and/or BB.)
Ultimately, it is a contest of wills: Your commitment to your site/BB has to be strong enough that you will endure and never concede defeat. If you want to emerge the victor, you can never give up.
The down side is that you *may* wind up burning a few innocents in the process if you aren't careful. It's a risk, but if your content is important to you, it's unfortunate but necessary.
For those of us who aren't trolls, it isn't possible to pity such a thing. We can only look at it as a curiosity and wonder how it came to be and why it chooses to continue existing in such a state.
BTW even though the 2600 joystick was in essence digital, all the inputs were read through analog mechanisms.
100% correct. If you ever had a 2600 joystick stop responding properly (as I did many a time) you could disassemble it via 4 screws in the base and then clean the ANALOG contact switches to remove oxidization.
To be sure, I just took apart the one I still have that I use on my C64 and sure enough; ANALOG switches.
Could you describe how those mechanisms are analog?
They were analog switches. (At least in the original controllers. I can't say if that ever changed, however.)
Not my point
I would have thought that was obvious, but obviously it is not.
QUESTION: How many Nvidia developed graphics card drivers are there for anything pre-dating the 5100 series? ANSWER: NONE
Here's your proof: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html
For an older card I had to search for a custom-built driver because Nvidia simply does not provide one. The installation was an absurd mess, and never worked properly. Granted, that was the fault of the developer of the driver, but if it's so simple, then why didn't he use that simple method? He can write a driver but doesn't know how to write the installer? No. In order for the driver to function regardless of the flavor of Linux, he can't use an installer because there is no universally accepted process for such in the Linux community.
Again, I point out that this may not be a problem for people such as those who are here on /. but the *AVERAGE* user should never need to know about the shell or any of its commands.
As I said, I am a user and fan of Linux, but I am not a blind fanboy. I recognize the faults of Linux as equally as the faults of Windows and Mac.
But if you seriously believe that any installation process is *SIMPLER* (Not BETTER, but SIMPLER) than Windows, you're deluding yourself.
My understanding is that it's largely due to QA. LEGO bricks have some of the highest tolerances in the manufacturing industry. Think about it: when was the last time you had two bricks that didn't fit together perfectly?
That's part one and the other part, which I'm surprised nobody mentioned yet, is the designers.
Think about those simplistic $6/£3 Lego sets and the thought and engineering that went into each piece. Not to mention that every few months they introduce new pieces. I mean, just look at one of the bigger sets like the Millennium Falcon and all the unique parts it has. I also imagine the designers are urged to use as few bricks as possible as well; often being asked to remove here and there the pieces that might be merely cosmetic and non-critical.
Also, licensing costs are probably astronomical. I can only imagine the license fees for the Lucas and Spielberg properties.
Anyway, the video and article was very cool. I just wish the footage was longer.
If an app isn't supported, don't use it. Big hint here: Use Ubuntu Linux. It provides automatic updates.
That's one of the other issues any user coming from Windows or Mac always runs into with Linux: Application X isn't supported or Driver Y hasn't been written yet.
For people such as those here on /. the prospect of making that app work or building a driver from scratch is often an enjoyable challenge. For the rest of the 99% of the world's computer users, it's an instant deal breaker.
true, I've found instaling apps in Linux to be easier than Windows once you have a binary distribution that is packaged.
Windows application and/or driver installation requires the application/package and a double-click. You then choose a typical install which does literally everything for you or a customizable one. Done.
No Linux distro I have tried has EVER followed as simple an installation process. Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, DSL- Each had its own quirks, almost all of which required shell commands. (In fact, I believe all required it.)
For the *average* user, the Linux process is far from desirable.
This doesn't mean *I* am not a user or fan of Linux; it just means I am not your average user much like most of the people here.
If Linux developers could all agree on an install process that was 100% GUI compliant, (but still retained the OPTION to do things from the shell) irritated Windows and Mac users would flock to Linux in droves.