Most small to medium businesses that I know of use consumer grade DSL or cable connections that are notorious for going out weekly for minutes or hours, and yearly for a day or more.
i don't know what you're talking about, my dsl connection has never gone down. ah, i remember now! It went out once at 11.30 pm and i called up the company. they told me it would be all right in two hours. but i really doubt that those expensive fixed ip lines for businesses would go out.
that's what i did in my last home. cable was expensive and i wanted only one or two channels. i just let the cable hang outside the window and i got pretty good reception of all the channels.
i can't understand why is ps2 100usd in india but 250usd in brazil. i mean we never had to "vote in a legislature that would repeal the tariff", sony just sold it at 100 usd without any action from buyers. maybe it is the shipping charges from china?
and where do they get these names from? man i hate names like xulu, hulu, boxee, foxy, and now zeebo. in the good old times we had names in english: international business machines, apple, microsoft, general electric. good times....
Because PS2 consoles aren't manufactured in Brazil, and PS2 games aren't developed and replicated in Brazil.
and ps2s are not made in india either. but we get the consoles for 100usd and games fo 10usd each. however, the game discs are made here. still i can't understand why brazillians have to shell out 250usd per console.
I have to agree with you - too much money and not enough capability.
I'd be surprised to hear that a PS2 actually costs $250 in Brazil. You can pick them up used here in the UK for the equivalent of $100 or so, and the GamingIndians article linked in the summary places them at $125 (presumably new); the Zeebo isn't undercutting them at all, it's half the price again!
Add to that the fact that Zeebo's DRM prevents illegal copying (thus cutting off a prime source of cheap games in those markets) and places restrictions on the use of legally purchased content (no lending, for example) and I can see no reason that anyone would buy one if it actually were cheaper, let alone pay the premium for one.
yeah i just bought a ps2 for 6490 inr. that comes out to be about 105usd. and i got two games free too.
When it comes to the brain, there is no such thing as 'natural' talent that makes it possible for one person to achieve things other people can't...If you want to expand your brain power, or accomplish something with your brain, I can tell you how to achieve it.
you can't ever be einstein (most probably) and you can't tell me anything to make me acheive what einstein did.
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Like him or not, Bill Gates is pretty high up in the list of people who had a large effect on the whole computing industry.
that's a gross understatement. 80% market share says he had the largest effect on the computing industry.
so, does this Fortune 100 - 200, Publicly traded company we've all heard of, have a name? i don't understand. what's the big fucking secret? And you're anon too. what then, are you scared of?
i really need a new pc right now. but i am waiting. [rumor]maybe ms announces that all vista licenses bought after june will get a free upgrade to win 7.[/rumor] because i really don't want to get stuck with vista and then spend more money later to upgrade. i think home premium wouldbe good enough for home use, but if you want to run xp apps then perhaps ultimate. i would suggest you not to get the professional version because it doesn't have some useful things like media center.
i knew about linux but stayed away in fear of messing up the windows install. then i came to know about this linux distro aimed at windows users which could be tried first without modifying the current data (live cd). so the first time was when i put in the dapper drake cd and the brown wallpaper showed up in 800x600.
Wouldn't the ability to collect biometric information require a fairly potent piece of spyware to be loaded on the client system? How would a user, or even a security professional, easily tell the difference between a keylogger that reads our actual strokes, and one that is just timing the key presses?
Sounds like a kernel mode device that would have be part of the input drivers. It's an attack surface, IMO. I would think it's safer to have an separate input device for biometric authentication only than attempt to biometric metadata from highly sensitive input devs like keyboards and mice.
I did enjoy the 'honeypot field' example (in TFA). I suspect it is probably easily defeated, unfortunately. If the field is hidden on the page, can't we write a bot to detect that physical fact, or any source code (javascript?) that hides it. How do you obfuscate something like that without serving it with the page?
Sounds to me like CAPTCHA still wins. Oh well, I didn't expect much.;^)
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Toro
you don't actually hide it. you write above the field "Please leave this field empty."
i don't know how it works in the us, but here, if i pay an extra fee, i can send registered mail or parcel, which is guaranteed to arrive at the correct place without any damage. if you are sending things that are valuable enough to get stolen or fragile enough to get broken, pay some more.
the fbi would like you to remain calm and stay at home. we will be getting in touch soon. also, if you are wondering, writing in all lowercase is part of our new strategy to connect with more people.
yes, but if you had to buy a new pc, what would you buy? 7 or xp? yes i know some will say mac and others will say don't-care-install-arch. but if you had to choose between xp and win7, what would you choose. also, i've never seen an os so compelling that i would go and buy it to replace my old os (except linux distros, because they are free and who doesn't want the latest and greatest if it is for free).
nokia e71. youtube works the same as it does on the pc. earlier they just gave a link for the real player to stream, but recently they use flash (lite?) to render the exact same video area as on the pc.
what do you want to prove by posting a year old story? a year ago not everyone knew that the economic climate was about to change. none of the conditions we are discussing were of any importance then.
windows 7 was, from the start, aimed to be run on older hardware. the first thing ms did was to focus on performance, stability. now that it was done, beta was released and bugs are being fixed. how is apple any more directioned? also, in days when apple and microsoft are focusing on performance only, kde wrote everything again to target both features and performance. they have the most defined sense of direction.
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Most small to medium businesses that I know of use consumer grade DSL or cable connections that are notorious for going out weekly for minutes or hours, and yearly for a day or more.
i don't know what you're talking about, my dsl connection has never gone down. ah, i remember now! It went out once at 11.30 pm and i called up the company. they told me it would be all right in two hours.
but i really doubt that those expensive fixed ip lines for businesses would go out.
lol hilarious!!
oh just check the encryption box in utorrent settings. it's that easy!
that's what i did in my last home. cable was expensive and i wanted only one or two channels. i just let the cable hang outside the window and i got pretty good reception of all the channels.
i can't understand why is ps2 100usd in india but 250usd in brazil. i mean we never had to "vote in a legislature that would repeal the tariff", sony just sold it at 100 usd without any action from buyers. maybe it is the shipping charges from china?
and where do they get these names from? man i hate names like xulu, hulu, boxee, foxy, and now zeebo. in the good old times we had names in english: international business machines, apple, microsoft, general electric. good times....
Why do PS2 games cost up to $100 there?
Because PS2 consoles aren't manufactured in Brazil, and PS2 games aren't developed and replicated in Brazil.
and ps2s are not made in india either. but we get the consoles for 100usd and games fo 10usd each. however, the game discs are made here.
still i can't understand why brazillians have to shell out 250usd per console.
I have to agree with you - too much money and not enough capability.
I'd be surprised to hear that a PS2 actually costs $250 in Brazil. You can pick them up used here in the UK for the equivalent of $100 or so, and the GamingIndians article linked in the summary places them at $125 (presumably new); the Zeebo isn't undercutting them at all, it's half the price again!
Add to that the fact that Zeebo's DRM prevents illegal copying (thus cutting off a prime source of cheap games in those markets) and places restrictions on the use of legally purchased content (no lending, for example) and I can see no reason that anyone would buy one if it actually were cheaper, let alone pay the premium for one.
yeah i just bought a ps2 for 6490 inr. that comes out to be about 105usd. and i got two games free too.
When it comes to the brain, there is no such thing as 'natural' talent that makes it possible for one person to achieve things other people can't...If you want to expand your brain power, or accomplish something with your brain, I can tell you how to achieve it.
you can't ever be einstein (most probably) and you can't tell me anything to make me acheive what einstein did.
Like him or not, Bill Gates is pretty high up in the list of people who had a large effect on the whole computing industry.
that's a gross understatement. 80% market share says he had the largest effect on the computing industry.
so, does this Fortune 100 - 200, Publicly traded company we've all heard of, have a name?
i don't understand. what's the big fucking secret? And you're anon too. what then, are you scared of?
i really need a new pc right now. but i am waiting. [rumor]maybe ms announces that all vista licenses bought after june will get a free upgrade to win 7.[/rumor] because i really don't want to get stuck with vista and then spend more money later to upgrade.
i think home premium wouldbe good enough for home use, but if you want to run xp apps then perhaps ultimate. i would suggest you not to get the professional version because it doesn't have some useful things like media center.
care to elaborate on the 'how' part?
i knew about linux but stayed away in fear of messing up the windows install. then i came to know about this linux distro aimed at windows users which could be tried first without modifying the current data (live cd). so the first time was when i put in the dapper drake cd and the brown wallpaper showed up in 800x600.
the image orientation test seems to be the real answer. man, google has some smart people.
Wouldn't the ability to collect biometric information require a fairly potent piece of spyware to be loaded on the client system? How would a user, or even a security professional, easily tell the difference between a keylogger that reads our actual strokes, and one that is just timing the key presses?
Sounds like a kernel mode device that would have be part of the input drivers. It's an attack surface, IMO. I would think it's safer to have an separate input device for biometric authentication only than attempt to biometric metadata from highly sensitive input devs like keyboards and mice.
I did enjoy the 'honeypot field' example (in TFA). I suspect it is probably easily defeated, unfortunately. If the field is hidden on the page, can't we write a bot to detect that physical fact, or any source code (javascript?) that hides it. How do you obfuscate something like that without serving it with the page?
Sounds to me like CAPTCHA still wins. Oh well, I didn't expect much. ;^)
-- Toro
you don't actually hide it. you write above the field "Please leave this field empty."
i don't know how it works in the us, but here, if i pay an extra fee, i can send registered mail or parcel, which is guaranteed to arrive at the correct place without any damage. if you are sending things that are valuable enough to get stolen or fragile enough to get broken, pay some more.
i downloaded the live cd and am posting this from inside it. i would like to know, by the way, what pos are you trying to pass off as a computer?
the fbi would like you to remain calm and stay at home. we will be getting in touch soon.
also, if you are wondering, writing in all lowercase is part of our new strategy to connect with more people.
also, inexplicably, apple is down 1.2% today.
i wonder why?
it's the highest level in the last 6 months.
yes, but if you had to buy a new pc, what would you buy?
7 or xp?
yes i know some will say mac and others will say don't-care-install-arch.
but if you had to choose between xp and win7, what would you choose.
also, i've never seen an os so compelling that i would go and buy it to replace my old os (except linux distros, because they are free and who doesn't want the latest and greatest if it is for free).
nokia e71. youtube works the same as it does on the pc.
earlier they just gave a link for the real player to stream, but recently they use flash (lite?) to render the exact same video area as on the pc.
what do you want to prove by posting a year old story?
a year ago not everyone knew that the economic climate was about to change. none of the conditions we are discussing were of any importance then.
windows 7 was, from the start, aimed to be run on older hardware. the first thing ms did was to focus on performance, stability. now that it was done, beta was released and bugs are being fixed. how is apple any more directioned?
also, in days when apple and microsoft are focusing on performance only, kde wrote everything again to target both features and performance. they have the most defined sense of direction.