1. Write flawed email servercode that can't check its own buffers. 2. Profit!!! 3. Rather than fixing software, write firewall software that checks packets being sent to email server for it. 4. Profit again!!!
The pilgrims, contrary to what they let us all believe in school, did not promote separating of church and state. They simply left Europe to escape religious persecution; they had no qualms about persecuting others. If you were a pilgrim, you worshiped the way they said, or you left.
And the reasoning for this is pretty simply. Enough people will get screwed over by these patents to the point of people will patent everything, or at least file an application for everything, that way there is prior art on file.
Number of patent applications triple... patent office makes dump trucks full of money. End of story, we lose.
In order to eliminate viruses, you either need to eliminate the stupid people who run them, or make the operating system so impossibly hard to use, that the stupid people who run viruses won't be able to use them.
Seems kinda like getting rid of traffic accidents by making it so nobody can drive a car.
It's important to note that ATI leaked a Doom III alpha build, NOT the source code to Doom III.
I could see some legitimate reasons for giving ATI the source code to these games, but none of them justify the potential for it to get leaked out. It would be insane to just hand your source over to 3rd party companies.
I've had it screw at least 2 systems, granted it's always been on the "drive updates" portion of windows updates.
Once on my managers machine (he did it himself), windows update told him there was an updated driver for his hard drive controller, after it installed, his machine slowed to a crawl and the hard drive started a clicking noise. Upon inspection the hard drive was now claiming to be SCSI (which it wasn't, and I'm not just talking about how sometimes ULTRA ATA controllers claim to be SCSI, this was the hard drive itself). Luckily reinstalling the correct driver made the terrible sounds go away.
Another time it wanted to update the Intel NIC drivers on a Gateway E1200, after a reboot the networking was gone and the card said it wasn't working properly. Took me quite some time to get it back too. I had the driver CD's on the other side of campus, and the drivers that I could download were 5 megs, so there was little chance of putting them on a floppy.
Turns out they even offer HFNetChkLT for free now, what they call a "fully functional free version of HFNetChkPro." Which allows you to scan and push patches out to machines remotely. Only difference between the LT and Pro versions is tech support, and the LT can only scan and patch 50 machines at a time.
I never visit windows update anymore, one too many times of it installing an update that hosed my system. Shavlik still develops HFNetChk,
http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/, and it's still free. Just run it and then go to http://www.microsoft.com/security to get the updates it says you need. A bit more of a pain, but a lot more piece of mind.
E. The maximum C.O.D. Amount is $9,999,999.99 per shipment. THE C.O.D. AMOUNT IS NOT THE SAME AS, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH, DECLARED VALUE. (See "Declared Value and Limits of Liability" section.)
Why do I get the feeling that their maxiumum amount is based on some entry field that only takes 9 characters?
The simple solution is to not make it completly wide-open. I work at a state university in california and we're just starting to put up public access points across campus. The thing is that you have to use your campus account to authenticate over a VPN before you can access the network. Any student or faculty can bring us their laptop, we'll install the client for them and make sure it works.
Granted you couldn't really do this for everybody in the situation above, but you could have them do it themselves. You could even make it so when they open their web browser they get instructions and even a link to download a vpn client, and then make them stop by some office and register to get a username and password. That way when the FBI come and knock on your door asking who was "DOSing" from your network, you can tell them.
... or is this article not about Microsoft responding to the leaked memo at all, but rather posting the cnn version about the fact that there is a leaked memo...
The sensors sound pretty cool from the article, they mention the military wants to scatter them over a battlefield so they can collect info about where the enemy is, but I wonder how hard it would be for the enemy to just jam the network, or send out a bunch of bogus data into it.
But green power isn't made to save money, it's made to save the environment. Same thing with public transportation. No government ever makes money from public transportation, but it's purpose isn't to make money, it's to solve problems.
Isn't this almost a perpetual motion machine? I really haven't learned much about thermodynamics, or whatever branch of science says you can't have these, but if the rotation of the turbine is created by the rotation of the moon, and there is no energy going into making the moon rotate around the earth, it just seems like you're getting something out of nothing. Of course one day the moon will spin out of earths orbit, and even if we do pull it back the sun will eventually explode, so it's not forever, but it seems close. Somebody tell me where I've gone wrong before my head implodes please:)
Most end users aren't going to do research on the internet before they purchase a computer, they are going to go into the local computer store and buy one. If that laptop that they buy says it runs at one speed, but then doesn't, they're getting screwed, and it's not their fault because they didn't do research, it's false advertising.
Sure there's dozens of ways to get around their port blocking, but I have a feeling it will have the effect they desire. Only a handful of people will have the knowledge and resources to circumvent their port blocking. In fact, the number is probably small enough that the government won't have to put in any more effort.
Although the article is light on details, I would guess these are not regular boxed copies of microsoft software.
Many people are asking if this means that they can not sell their copy of windows. These are completly different situations. Kmart probably didn't buy a truck load of boxed copies of windows. They licensed the software at a significant discount (a discount because of the quantity they were buying AND because of the restrictive agreement).
I work in the California State University system (CSU Chico specifically). Due to budget cuts the state had to discontinue the site license they had with Microsoft, fortunetly part of the contract was that any computer that already has the software on it when the contract ends, gets to keep it. Needless to say, we upgraded all of our computer labs from win98 to win2k and from office2k to officeXP over the summer:)
There are no issues, that's the beauty of a free economy, as long as the government makes sure there can be competition (I'm not informed about cable internet access, but I know just about any company and be an ISP over PacBell DSL lines) the market will take care of itself.
So they want to now allow bandwidth hogs, that's fine, find a different ISP that does allow them. What? There aren't any that allow them, well then there's either a open market that needs filled, or that much bandwidth can't be supplied at that price and you just need to buy your own damned T1 if you want that much.
Don't like them limiting your content, also fine, find a different ISP.... see above...
AGP 4x 8x 16x isn't going to do much, it's still vastly slower than local memory on the graphics card. AGP just allows your graphics card to get textures directly from system memory if they are not loaded into local memory already. So that's great the first time you want the texture, but anytime after that it should be stored on the card. If it's not stored on the card, you're textures are going to thrash, AGP or not.
So basically until it's just as fast to use AGP and system memory, as it is to use the memory local on the graphics card, AGP isn't going to do squat for you except reduce thrashing a bit (and once again, if you get to the point of thrashing, your performance is screwed anyway, AGP 4x or AGP 8x)
Film makers can be passionate about their work and not create some snobby piece of art.
I for one though Armageddon was a great film, easily in my top 5 of all time, and director Michael Bay no doubt is very proud of it. I know the scene where the president is giving a speach about humanity and it shows different cultures around the world listening and comming together still gets me emotional.
I know if I were a director as people started editing my film I would be a bit dissapointed, and possibly upset, but hey, if they like it better that way, who am I to argue.
The thing that companies are just starting to notice is that the Gamer market controls the OEM market. ATI has found that out the hard way. A couple of years ago they had something like 70% market share in OEM machines. Their cards were decent for the OEM user, but crap for gamers. So if OEM users don't care what name is on their video card, why should ATI loose any market share right?
Well it turns out that when gamers scream nothing but NVIDIA for two years, even though the OEM ATI cards are fine for what they do, they OEM's start throwing in NVIDIA MX cards left an right.
By the look of ATI's new line of cards, they have finally turned their downward spiral around and seen that before OEM's will use your low end cards, you have to prove you are the FPS king.
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1. Write flawed email servercode that can't check its own buffers.
2. Profit!!!
3. Rather than fixing software, write firewall software that checks packets being sent to email server for it.
4. Profit again!!!
The pilgrims, contrary to what they let us all believe in school, did not promote separating of church and state. They simply left Europe to escape religious persecution; they had no qualms about persecuting others. If you were a pilgrim, you worshiped the way they said, or you left.
And the reasoning for this is pretty simply. Enough people will get screwed over by these patents to the point of people will patent everything, or at least file an application for everything, that way there is prior art on file.
Number of patent applications triple... patent office makes dump trucks full of money. End of story, we lose.
In order to eliminate viruses, you either need to eliminate the stupid people who run them, or make the operating system so impossibly hard to use, that the stupid people who run viruses won't be able to use them.
Seems kinda like getting rid of traffic accidents by making it so nobody can drive a car.
It's important to note that ATI leaked a Doom III alpha build, NOT the source code to Doom III.
I could see some legitimate reasons for giving ATI the source code to these games, but none of them justify the potential for it to get leaked out. It would be insane to just hand your source over to 3rd party companies.
I've had it screw at least 2 systems, granted it's always been on the "drive updates" portion of windows updates.
Once on my managers machine (he did it himself), windows update told him there was an updated driver for his hard drive controller, after it installed, his machine slowed to a crawl and the hard drive started a clicking noise. Upon inspection the hard drive was now claiming to be SCSI (which it wasn't, and I'm not just talking about how sometimes ULTRA ATA controllers claim to be SCSI, this was the hard drive itself). Luckily reinstalling the correct driver made the terrible sounds go away.
Another time it wanted to update the Intel NIC drivers on a Gateway E1200, after a reboot the networking was gone and the card said it wasn't working properly. Took me quite some time to get it back too. I had the driver CD's on the other side of campus, and the drivers that I could download were 5 megs, so there was little chance of putting them on a floppy.
Turns out they even offer HFNetChkLT for free now, what they call a "fully functional free version of HFNetChkPro." Which allows you to scan and push patches out to machines remotely. Only difference between the LT and Pro versions is tech support, and the LT can only scan and patch 50 machines at a time.
I never visit windows update anymore, one too many times of it installing an update that hosed my system. Shavlik still develops HFNetChk, http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/, and it's still free. Just run it and then go to http://www.microsoft.com/security to get the updates it says you need. A bit more of a pain, but a lot more piece of mind.
If you carrier charges you find a new one. That's the beauty of our economy, they'll get the hint soon enough.
Why do I get the feeling that their maxiumum amount is based on some entry field that only takes 9 characters?
The simple solution is to not make it completly wide-open. I work at a state university in california and we're just starting to put up public access points across campus. The thing is that you have to use your campus account to authenticate over a VPN before you can access the network. Any student or faculty can bring us their laptop, we'll install the client for them and make sure it works.
Granted you couldn't really do this for everybody in the situation above, but you could have them do it themselves. You could even make it so when they open their web browser they get instructions and even a link to download a vpn client, and then make them stop by some office and register to get a username and password. That way when the FBI come and knock on your door asking who was "DOSing" from your network, you can tell them.
... or is this article not about Microsoft responding to the leaked memo at all, but rather posting the cnn version about the fact that there is a leaked memo...
The sensors sound pretty cool from the article, they mention the military wants to scatter them over a battlefield so they can collect info about where the enemy is, but I wonder how hard it would be for the enemy to just jam the network, or send out a bunch of bogus data into it.
"I see you have constructed a new mouse. Your skills are complete. Indeed you are powerfull, as the Emperor has foreseen."
But green power isn't made to save money, it's made to save the environment. Same thing with public transportation. No government ever makes money from public transportation, but it's purpose isn't to make money, it's to solve problems.
Isn't this almost a perpetual motion machine? I really haven't learned much about thermodynamics, or whatever branch of science says you can't have these, but if the rotation of the turbine is created by the rotation of the moon, and there is no energy going into making the moon rotate around the earth, it just seems like you're getting something out of nothing. Of course one day the moon will spin out of earths orbit, and even if we do pull it back the sun will eventually explode, so it's not forever, but it seems close. Somebody tell me where I've gone wrong before my head implodes please :)
What if the Car had a sticker on it that said V8.
Most end users aren't going to do research on the internet before they purchase a computer, they are going to go into the local computer store and buy one. If that laptop that they buy says it runs at one speed, but then doesn't, they're getting screwed, and it's not their fault because they didn't do research, it's false advertising.
Sure there's dozens of ways to get around their port blocking, but I have a feeling it will have the effect they desire. Only a handful of people will have the knowledge and resources to circumvent their port blocking. In fact, the number is probably small enough that the government won't have to put in any more effort.
Sad... but probably true.
Although the article is light on details, I would guess these are not regular boxed copies of microsoft software.
:)
Many people are asking if this means that they can not sell their copy of windows. These are completly different situations. Kmart probably didn't buy a truck load of boxed copies of windows. They licensed the software at a significant discount (a discount because of the quantity they were buying AND because of the restrictive agreement).
I work in the California State University system (CSU Chico specifically). Due to budget cuts the state had to discontinue the site license they had with Microsoft, fortunetly part of the contract was that any computer that already has the software on it when the contract ends, gets to keep it. Needless to say, we upgraded all of our computer labs from win98 to win2k and from office2k to officeXP over the summer
In other news, The Devil announced that he will be removing "pain and suffering" from hell in an attempt to make it a "nicer place"
There are no issues, that's the beauty of a free economy, as long as the government makes sure there can be competition (I'm not informed about cable internet access, but I know just about any company and be an ISP over PacBell DSL lines) the market will take care of itself.
So they want to now allow bandwidth hogs, that's fine, find a different ISP that does allow them. What? There aren't any that allow them, well then there's either a open market that needs filled, or that much bandwidth can't be supplied at that price and you just need to buy your own damned T1 if you want that much.
Don't like them limiting your content, also fine, find a different ISP.... see above...
AGP 4x 8x 16x isn't going to do much, it's still vastly slower than local memory on the graphics card. AGP just allows your graphics card to get textures directly from system memory if they are not loaded into local memory already. So that's great the first time you want the texture, but anytime after that it should be stored on the card. If it's not stored on the card, you're textures are going to thrash, AGP or not.
So basically until it's just as fast to use AGP and system memory, as it is to use the memory local on the graphics card, AGP isn't going to do squat for you except reduce thrashing a bit (and once again, if you get to the point of thrashing, your performance is screwed anyway, AGP 4x or AGP 8x)
Film makers can be passionate about their work and not create some snobby piece of art.
I for one though Armageddon was a great film, easily in my top 5 of all time, and director Michael Bay no doubt is very proud of it. I know the scene where the president is giving a speach about humanity and it shows different cultures around the world listening and comming together still gets me emotional.
I know if I were a director as people started editing my film I would be a bit dissapointed, and possibly upset, but hey, if they like it better that way, who am I to argue.
Also mentioned is a proposal being considered by the FCC that would allow cable companies to 'turn off' the firewire port
Great, now we have to start mod'ing our TV's in addition to our DVD players and game consoles.
The thing that companies are just starting to notice is that the Gamer market controls the OEM market. ATI has found that out the hard way. A couple of years ago they had something like 70% market share in OEM machines. Their cards were decent for the OEM user, but crap for gamers. So if OEM users don't care what name is on their video card, why should ATI loose any market share right?
Well it turns out that when gamers scream nothing but NVIDIA for two years, even though the OEM ATI cards are fine for what they do, they OEM's start throwing in NVIDIA MX cards left an right.
By the look of ATI's new line of cards, they have finally turned their downward spiral around and seen that before OEM's will use your low end cards, you have to prove you are the FPS king.