think that torrents are just slightly under the radar for now (namely because millions of people still use kazaa, and not so many use torrents).
False false false false FALSE.
People are getting warnings for downloading movies via torrents.
(stay away from suprnova.org, studios share broken movie files on it and then send letters to the user's ISPs!)
There are a number of.torrent servers that maintain active blacklists of IPs from various movie studio, law enforcement, and so forth agencies. Basically Peer Guardian but on the server side (IP banning has to be implemented on the tracker for Bit Torrent, the once connected to the.torrent tracker, anyone can get all information about other users).
Windows and OSX are a long way from this. They just about understand http, and even then on at the application level.
*goes to arbitrary application*
*types in FTP address*
*browses his FTP server*
Problem solved.
Internet Explorer is integrated into the shell.
Anybody who uses the new(er) file open dialog boxes has access to this.
Oddly enough I remember thinking a few years back that it'd be a good idea if I could access my FTP from a file save/open dialog box.
For whatever odd reason the save dialog box CANNOT access arbitrary URLs, not too surprising, I guess their file save routine doesn't want to deal with going over various odd network types.
Not that this make KDE "light-years" ahead, a few days of coding perhaps.
Oh, and IE is extendable, all those different protocols can be tacked on by third parties.
"He is smoking crack if he thinks it takes three years to get a hip replaced in Canada. Try three months we'll do a better job for less money."
Only three months?...
I talked to an elderly gentleman a few weeks back, had come down from Canada with his wife to have her hip replaced. He couldn't stand to see her in agonizing PAIN for THREE MONTHS, when for (IIRC) around 10K he got it fixed up in a jiffy down here in the states.
I cannot remember what province he was from though, sorry about that.
Rather horrific though, making a patient wait in pain for three months. What, are Canandian doctors not required to take any sort of ethical oath?
No, it runs at the same level as the user you are logged in as. If you are logged in as admin, it runs with admin rights. If you log in as joeuser, it runs with joeusers rights.
And if file encryption is enabled, admin's can't touch another user's files anyways.
If I am talking to a friend about code I am working on, I like being able to bold certian key problem statements.
If I am making a chronological list of
Things to do today
Things to do tomarrow
Things I should have done yesterday
I like having at least the limited power of a simple HTML email client.
Heck just in general, I want at least minimalistic control over if the reader of the email is going to view my message in a fixed width of proportional font! (overridable by the reader of course, but still, default to proportional, and used fixed with when layout really matters.)
Lastly, writing classes are nice,
Writing classes also advocate how to properly format a document. This includes things such as a
heading
Topic titles
Chapter titles
and so on and so forth.
Preferably different sections, headings, and so forth, have some distinguishing feature aside from a few extra line spaces. Make scanning the document easier! I have read through enough ASCII FAQs to know what trying to jump around in them is like. If I want to go up to the beginning of a section that is once page before my current location, in a well made document there will be no need to use the find command.
I do not use HTML in every email I send, indeed, very few of the messages I send contain email (HTML usage patterns within my/. postings not being very representative.:) Honest!), but it is nice to have that extra bit of control over presentation when I want to.
When Microsoft merged IE and the desktop, almost ten years ago now, I immediately acted to get IE and Outlook banned at work. Why? Because using the same APIs to operate on trusted (local) and untrusted (email, internet) objects makes every program that uses those APIs responsible for determining, independently, whether an object is trusted or not.
I and every security administrator I knew wrote Microsoft telling them this was a horrible idea. Nothing. They ignored the security community and went on to actually build IE in to the next release of Windows so you couldn't leave it out, as part of their game-plan to try and outflank the DoJ.
I didn't know what the result would be, but I knew it would be bad. I did what I could to discourage our users from running IE and Outlook, and waited.
We didn't have long to wait.
When the Melissa virus showed up, I thought, "OK, this should let them know they've got a problem. They'll pull out IE and settle, and we'll be able to secure Windows again". Boy, was I naive.
Here we are, it's 2004 instead of 1996, and there are still weekly exploits found in IE, Outlook, Windows Media Player, programs that use the MSHTML control. Get rid of that and you'd cut the virus problem by a factor of 10 or 100. 90-99% of the time spent fighting and cleaning up after viruses should be billed directly to Redmond, and because they did it to illegally avoid complying with the agreement they had with the DoJ, there should be criminal charges on top of that.
Microsoft doesn't merely charge a lot for mediocre software, they deliberately and knowingly force people to chew up lifetimes fighting a problem that should not exist, and they do it to win a little extra market share for a secondary product that they don't even charge money for.
You don't get it, users (myself included!) LIKE having IE integrated, it is incredibly convienent. Windowkey-E, Shift-Tab, Space, Shift-Tab, enter URL, hit enter.
Starting up a browser seems so incredibly lame, especially with always on broadband internet. Once the browser is integrated into the OS, if I need to look something up, it takes a matter of seconds, NONE of which are spent waiting for the browser to load.
Firefox is honestly a superior browser, and I'd use it, if it integrated with my OS.
No kidding, that second paragraph (well, actually sentence) has high buzz word content yet actually only says, we do anti-spam. I have a feeling marketing and technical don't agree on much at this company.
Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product line
Human based spam filtering as a salable service is actually rather paradigm shifting. Using the word original might have been a bit nicer on the eyes/brain, but even so, they do have a point, they are doing a paradigm shift, marketing something original and new.
we offer a significant competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of best of breed anti-spam solutions.
This is actually a very telling statement, they are stating why you should hire them, in what is actually rather plain and simple words. They are saying that their cost/efficency rate is one of (well they would say the) highest in the anti-spam market that in general has a diverse and wide range of different solutions.
It was never supported correctly, either. In order to get somewhat acceptable levels of performance and/or resolution selections, you'd have to run helper applications like UNIVBE.
Use a non-craptacular video card.:)
Seriously though, I was always lucky enough that the video cards I owned back then (before I knew that there were different video cards. ^_^ ) ended up all being (after reading about them in the present) rather VESA complient.
Text mode is higher resolution then 320x240. But if your BIOS shows some graphic during POST, it won't be any better even with a completely new BIOS type unless all the graphics card makers also agree upon a standard interface for high color, high resolution graphics on boot.
"There have been 4 major hurricanes on my opponent's watch! That's not what I call PROGRESS!"
Yah, we all know how good Bush has been towards the enviroment.
"Lets drill up everything we can, cut down any trees we can get our hands on, and you can all worry about alternative energy sources after I get out of office."...
Hopefully, after Kerry tanks the Democrats will do some housecleaning and re-align with the center a little better.
What is wrong with you? Kerry is way to darn conservative, has ties to big business, his wife is a freaking South African millionaire!
Loony left would be if they came from a hippy colony and smoked joints during press interviews!
Yeesh.
Let me put it in perspective
THE DUDE WEARS A FREAKING SUIT
He is not THAT liberal.
marginalized some groups like the Christian Right that were detrimental to them. (Criticisms that the Republicans are controlled by them are now out of date.)
Umm, remember that AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION the republicans tried to get passed a little while back?
Yah, THAT one, the entire BIBLICALLY BASED AMENDMENT.
How the HELL are they not controlled by the religious right?
Oh, lets not forget the RNC opening day festivities hosted by the Jewish whatever committee/commission/association/whatever.
No coincidence that the wacko nutjob Xstian extremists believe that once the Jewish gain back control of Israel that, umm, oh yah, Jesus Christ will come back to earth and KILL US ALL, thus their funneling of money into causes to "liberate" Israel from all Muslim influences.
Noooo, that is not crazy at all.....
It is positively insane. Likely the Jews think so too, but hey, free money is free money, if it comes from some crackjob religious case, so be it.
More efficent farming, reduced costs of equipment, all put forth in place by a capitalist company that saw an open market and an efficent way to enter in that market and make a profit.
It is innovative solutions to market demands like this one that the backbone of the American economy, and culture. If only more company's could realize this and get back to where they started from.
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but give me a low end greyscale screen for $200-400.
What the HELL?
200-400 for greyscale? Umm, how about not?
$50 for the low end model tops, $100 for the gee-wiz bang one, MAYBE $125 or so.
How do your perform an controlled experiment in astronomy?
Well, you send a man up to space and have'em report on back down that yes, indeed, the world IS round, and there ARE lots of stars.:-D
Seriously though, controlled experiments does not neccessarily have to mean double blind, which is only really needed for cases when human subjectivity can get in the way.
If a giant meteor is approaching, nothing to subjective about that (well except for maybe what to do next.;) )
Well I don't imagine it is too dependent upon CPU speed, the system being connected to is a 600mhz Celeron with 384MB of RAM.
As I said, netmeeting, dialing into. Everybody is behind a NAT, but I have HUUUGE holes punched in it, ports forwarded to the appropriate client and server machines.
I have yet to see remote desktop work very well on Windows XP, what system are you using? I know that Terminal Services kicks Remote Desktop's arse, but MS won't let us at it. >:O
To get INTO a CS department (in my state at least):
2 quarters of calc needed to start Physics series.
3rd quarter of calc needed to finish Physics series.
3 quarters of Physics
Linear Algebra
1 Quarter of Chem or Bio (hey finally something WITHOUT a higher level math prereq!)
3 CSC intro courses.
Tada, now you are eligible to APPLY for ENTRY into the department.
Oh, and fat chance of getting into the largest university (University of Washington) as students with a 4.0 GPA cannot gain entry into the CS program there(!!! no kidding, I know students this has happened to!)
The competitiveness means you had better completed ALL of your courses with at LEAST a 3.6+, and if you didn't, retake them for a higher grade.
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False false false false FALSE.
People are getting warnings for downloading movies via torrents.
(stay away from suprnova.org, studios share broken movie files on it and then send letters to the user's ISPs!)
There are a number of
*goes to arbitrary application*
*types in FTP address*
*browses his FTP server*
Problem solved.
Internet Explorer is integrated into the shell.
Anybody who uses the new(er) file open dialog boxes has access to this.
Oddly enough I remember thinking a few years back that it'd be a good idea if I could access my FTP from a file save/open dialog box.
For whatever odd reason the save dialog box CANNOT access arbitrary URLs, not too surprising, I guess their file save routine doesn't want to deal with going over various odd network types.
Not that this make KDE "light-years" ahead, a few days of coding perhaps.
Oh, and IE is extendable, all those different protocols can be tacked on by third parties.
Only three months?
I talked to an elderly gentleman a few weeks back, had come down from Canada with his wife to have her hip replaced. He couldn't stand to see her in agonizing PAIN for THREE MONTHS, when for (IIRC) around 10K he got it fixed up in a jiffy down here in the states.
I cannot remember what province he was from though, sorry about that.
Rather horrific though, making a patient wait in pain for three months. What, are Canandian doctors not required to take any sort of ethical oath?
And if file encryption is enabled, admin's can't touch another user's files anyways.
until 1997 or so.
If I am talking to a friend about code I am working on, I like being able to bold certian key problem statements.
If I am making a chronological list of
I like having at least the limited power of a simple HTML email client.
Heck just in general, I want at least minimalistic control over if the reader of the email is going to view my message in a fixed width of proportional font! (overridable by the reader of course, but still, default to proportional, and used fixed with when layout really matters.)
Lastly, writing classes are nice,
Writing classes also advocate how to properly format a document. This includes things such as a
and so on and so forth.
Preferably different sections, headings, and so forth, have some distinguishing feature aside from a few extra line spaces. Make scanning the document easier! I have read through enough ASCII FAQs to know what trying to jump around in them is like. If I want to go up to the beginning of a section that is once page before my current location, in a well made document there will be no need to use the find command.
I do not use HTML in every email I send, indeed, very few of the messages I send contain email (HTML usage patterns within my
I want my emails to stop looking like they came from a blind retard.
You on the east coast or something? Do you realize how large of a drive it is from Seattle to Oregon?
From my general experience (growing up in Seattle my entire life), driving down to Oregon for the purposes of tax evasion would be rather ridiculas.
Now on the other hand, avoiding doing x-mas shopping on amazon.com is a must.
shutupshutupshutup.
not old school. NOT OLD SCHOOL DAMNIT!!!
Someone please slap the newbs
I remember when HL first came out, yes, there used to be a HL without CS. It was much better, why heck, we didn't even have to worry about cheaters!!
I remember when CS has instant respawn too,
I and every security administrator I knew wrote Microsoft telling them this was a horrible idea. Nothing. They ignored the security community and went on to actually build IE in to the next release of Windows so you couldn't leave it out, as part of their game-plan to try and outflank the DoJ.
I didn't know what the result would be, but I knew it would be bad. I did what I could to discourage our users from running IE and Outlook, and waited.
We didn't have long to wait.
When the Melissa virus showed up, I thought, "OK, this should let them know they've got a problem. They'll pull out IE and settle, and we'll be able to secure Windows again". Boy, was I naive.
Here we are, it's 2004 instead of 1996, and there are still weekly exploits found in IE, Outlook, Windows Media Player, programs that use the MSHTML control. Get rid of that and you'd cut the virus problem by a factor of 10 or 100. 90-99% of the time spent fighting and cleaning up after viruses should be billed directly to Redmond, and because they did it to illegally avoid complying with the agreement they had with the DoJ, there should be criminal charges on top of that.
Microsoft doesn't merely charge a lot for mediocre software, they deliberately and knowingly force people to chew up lifetimes fighting a problem that should not exist, and they do it to win a little extra market share for a secondary product that they don't even charge money for.
You don't get it, users (myself included!) LIKE having IE integrated, it is incredibly convienent. Windowkey-E, Shift-Tab, Space, Shift-Tab, enter URL, hit enter.
Starting up a browser seems so incredibly lame, especially with always on broadband internet. Once the browser is integrated into the OS, if I need to look something up, it takes a matter of seconds, NONE of which are spent waiting for the browser to load.
Firefox is honestly a superior browser, and I'd use it, if it integrated with my OS.
- No kidding, that second paragraph (well, actually sentence) has high buzz word content yet actually only says, we do anti-spam. I have a feeling marketing and technical don't agree on much at this company.
Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product lineHuman based spam filtering as a salable service is actually rather paradigm shifting. Using the word original might have been a bit nicer on the eyes/brain, but even so, they do have a point, they are doing a paradigm shift, marketing something original and new.
This is actually a very telling statement, they are stating why you should hire them, in what is actually rather plain and simple words. They are saying that their cost/efficency rate is one of (well they would say the) highest in the anti-spam market that in general has a diverse and wide range of different solutions.
Really not ALL that bad.
That'd be it.
Actually, from what I last checked out (admittedly a bit out of date, G400), they still do!
Matrox does a lot of POS stuff, not to mention other markets that rely on lots of legacy software. VESA support is rather important for them.
Use a non-craptacular video card.
Seriously though, I was always lucky enough that the video cards I owned back then (before I knew that there were different video cards. ^_^ ) ended up all being (after reading about them in the present) rather VESA complient.
EV4000 or 400 or whatever it was, yah!
I actually had good luck with a Trident card too!
Yah, VESA was a lot more supported before DirectX and OpenGL et all came along. (In other words, back when people cared about 2D!)
*COUGH*VESA*COUGH*
Yah, we all know how good Bush has been towards the enviroment.
"Lets drill up everything we can, cut down any trees we can get our hands on, and you can all worry about alternative energy sources after I get out of office."
Or its news channels. . . .
What is wrong with you? Kerry is way to darn conservative, has ties to big business, his wife is a freaking South African millionaire!
Loony left would be if they came from a hippy colony and smoked joints during press interviews!
Yeesh.
Let me put it in perspective
THE DUDE WEARS A FREAKING SUIT
He is not THAT liberal.
Umm, remember that AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION the republicans tried to get passed a little while back?
Yah, THAT one, the entire BIBLICALLY BASED AMENDMENT.
How the HELL are they not controlled by the religious right?
Oh, lets not forget the RNC opening day festivities hosted by the Jewish whatever committee/commission/association/whatever.
No coincidence that the wacko nutjob Xstian extremists believe that once the Jewish gain back control of Israel that, umm, oh yah, Jesus Christ will come back to earth and KILL US ALL, thus their funneling of money into causes to "liberate" Israel from all Muslim influences.
Noooo, that is not crazy at all.
It is positively insane. Likely the Jews think so too, but hey, free money is free money, if it comes from some crackjob religious case, so be it.
More efficent farming, reduced costs of equipment, all put forth in place by a capitalist company that saw an open market and an efficent way to enter in that market and make a profit.
It is innovative solutions to market demands like this one that the backbone of the American economy, and culture. If only more company's could realize this and get back to where they started from.
What the HELL?
200-400 for greyscale? Umm, how about not?
$50 for the low end model tops, $100 for the gee-wiz bang one, MAYBE $125 or so.
Call me when it has replaced the bin/usr/etc hiarchy.
Well, you send a man up to space and have'em report on back down that yes, indeed, the world IS round, and there ARE lots of stars.
Seriously though, controlled experiments does not neccessarily have to mean double blind, which is only really needed for cases when human subjectivity can get in the way.
If a giant meteor is approaching, nothing to subjective about that (well except for maybe what to do next.
Well I don't imagine it is too dependent upon CPU speed, the system being connected to is a 600mhz Celeron with 384MB of RAM.
As I said, netmeeting, dialing into. Everybody is behind a NAT, but I have HUUUGE holes punched in it, ports forwarded to the appropriate client and server machines.
I have yet to see remote desktop work very well on Windows XP, what system are you using? I know that Terminal Services kicks Remote Desktop's arse, but MS won't let us at it. >:O
Then you have lower math prereqs. :-D
To get INTO a CS department (in my state at least):
2 quarters of calc needed to start Physics series.
3rd quarter of calc needed to finish Physics series.
3 quarters of Physics
Linear Algebra
1 Quarter of Chem or Bio (hey finally something WITHOUT a higher level math prereq!)
3 CSC intro courses.
Tada, now you are eligible to APPLY for ENTRY into the department.
Oh, and fat chance of getting into the largest university (University of Washington) as students with a 4.0 GPA cannot gain entry into the CS program there(!!! no kidding, I know students this has happened to!)
The competitiveness means you had better completed ALL of your courses with at LEAST a 3.6+, and if you didn't, retake them for a higher grade.
Enjoy.
*sigh*
10ms latency.
Or less.
My friend and I are both on cable modems, we live blocks away from each other.
800x600@8bit is dirt slow. 800x600@8bit over a 10mbit connection is STILL jerky.
This is using Netmeeting mind you. Getting Terminal Services working proved to be, umm, futile. (3 OSs latter. . . . we curse MS's licensing scheme!)
Dirt slow, 256kbit up connection, DIRT SLOW.
Click, 2-3 second delay before anything happens, 256 color mode.
(this is connecting to a WinXP box that is using the "Classic" theme.)