Actually caffeine does nothing for me. I do have ADD though and my brain is constantly understimulated unless on some sort of upper (Adderall prescription). I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Maybe my nervous system IS heightened which is why my brain is understimulated... I dunno.
I hate you. I can't sit in front of a CRT that has anything less than 85hz:(
Seriously, my coworkers tested me one time by randomly setting a refresh rate on a CRT several times between 60 and 85 and I could just look at the monitor and know exactly what refresh its running at.
Can any science types explain why some people can 'see faster' than others? (I also tend to hear hear things that are outside of other people's range. When I was in physics class one time in high school my teacher had a tv on with no input and it was producing this extremely high-pitched hum that was driving me nuts but no one else could hear it. Had to have the teacher just turn the TV off. I can also tell when a TV is on even with the volume on mute whenever entering a house. It's weird.)
Given the complexity of getting a CD emulator installed and working, I don't think it's worth the work, but that's the state of the world.
Hunh?? Did I miss something? How long does it take to install Daemon Tools again? I would guess around what, 10 seconds? Maybe a reboot? Wow. I must be a genius if that is complex...
I own a Neuros and got an iPod through freeipods.com... The clickwheel is neat, but the iPod's menu system/overall interface SUCKS compared to the Neuros.
The thing is, it isn't a scheme... Thousands have already gotten their iPods (including me yesterday.) Gratis (the company responsible) is not trying to rip anyone off. They are actually sending people iPods. See this page if you don't believe me.
Note that the link in my sig is for a friend, as I've already received mine.
Moderators note: This isn't a spam for free ipods, its a joke rather appropriate to the parent comment. In fact, I've already gotten my free iPod, the link in my sig is for a friend.
In any modern application its usually a little more complicated than that as almost every single one uses some form of PE compression/encryption. So to counter it you have to somehow get ahold of the uncompressed/unencrypted PE image (usually done by dumping the application from memory after extraction). Then you reconstruct the executable using the extracted PE, THEN you can hexedit and NOP to your hearts desire.
However, any good copy-protection routines nowadays overwrite locations in memory after executing those portions of code (and other things along those lines) to prevent cracking even further. As things progress, the barrier to entry for cracking has definitely gotten higher, but you'll never stop cracking as a whole, because if someone's smart enough to write a system to prevent cracking, there's always going to be someone smarter who can circumvent that system.
Disclaimer: No, I'm not a cracker, I'm not good enough.:P I've tried my hand at it, but I always got hung up on missing bits, etc, and its getting harder and harder to find good resources on learning cracking. (Not to mention you pretty much have to have a dedicated machine for cracking because many applications with copy-protection don't run when you even have SoftICE installed, let alone running. Sure, you can fool them eventually, but its annoying to have to keep up with techniques to hide debugger's when all you want to do is play a new game.)
My guess is that you'll have to get a specific license from Microsoft to enable these devices to interact with the system, and even then, only with specific "approved" applications.
Take off the tinfoil hat man. Join the real world. There is no way in the world that any company who wants to make money would do something so foolish. If such a thing happened it would make frontpage news in every tech journal, and likely newspaper. How many people would buy such an OS? NONE. Microsoft may not have the best business practices, but they are most definitely NOT stupid. Please, get off your anti-MS soapbox and stop posting such drivel.
By your reasoning, every single option in the Windows Security Policy manager would be locked, and you'd have to pay MS to unlock it. Do you see that happening now? Do you see anything leading towards that happening? No, you're just pulling random garbage out of your rear. This is nothing but a tool to be used by network admin's to further secure their networks. Get real.
Then you should try the Danger Hiptop. Blackberry's email interface is better (because it handles folders, etc in a better way) but everything else about the hiptop SMOKES the Blackberry.
And on the subject of predictive text input. Screw that, I can type 50+ WPM EASILY on my Hiptop.
Hear hear.. I'm on my 6th CSK, and its broken too... The back button is barely working. I'm holding out until the SK2 comes out hoping that when I RMA it TMobile will give in and ship me the SK2 instead of the CSK (although its not very likely because I won't be signing another 1 year contract to do so.)
Hrm, here's an idea: Use an email account that you don't care about. Gmail has done very well in filtering out spam, and since signing up for freeipods.com I haven't noticed an increase in spam either.
Oh get off it. I have Comcast, with 4Mbps/384kbps. Using Usenetserver.com, I can EASILY max out my cable at 495KB/s of actual data throughput, while DU meter reports actual usage at around 520KB/s (accounting for packet overhead.)
I can't remember the last time I had a download speed of 3Mbps with Comcast... Mostly because I download at 4.
Hasn't really bothered me as I use RSSReader and just grab the aggregate feed. For some reason they don't use the subdomains for posting stories in the RSS so when linking to the story from my reader I just get the good ol' green scheme.
Whats even funnier is when you walk into Digital Innovations offices (the company that makes the Dr line) the first thing you see is every single one of those products sitting in a row. =)
For those interested, DI is also the same company that makes the Neuros.
The only thing the PHP docs have over MSDN collection is user comments, other than that the MSDN docs are thuroughly the best collection of developer docs out there.
Where can I get some of this crack you're smoking???
1. We're talking ASP.NET, not ASP. Welcome to the conversation. 2. How does ASP give you nothing? Last time I checked the.NET CLR is packed full of more classes than you'd ever know what to do with. I rarely have to buy any 3rd party components other than for interface-related things. 3. It is VERY feasible to run ASP.NET on a totally free platform using Mono. 4. If you think ASP.NET is inferior than PHP then you know nothing about web development. They both have strengths & weaknesses, but ASP.NET is by no means inferior.
I hear you. I think that'll change with VS.NET 2005, but for right now VB.NET is much easier to throw code in. The Intellisense/Autocomplete/Autoformat in VB.NET is much more effective and after developing in both I really don't see what the big deal is with C#. I'm just as fluent in both languages and much prefer VB.NET (and I too have a C++ background).
According to DU Meter, last month I downloaded 32.11GB, the month before it was 65.51GB. And this month I just upgraded from 3Mbits down to 4Mbits down. My projected usage is through the roof =)
You need to find an ISP who's not so archaic.
Just for reference, I'm on Comcast and get 495KB/s down.
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Actually caffeine does nothing for me. I do have ADD though and my brain is constantly understimulated unless on some sort of upper (Adderall prescription). I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Maybe my nervous system IS heightened which is why my brain is understimulated... I dunno.
I hate you. I can't sit in front of a CRT that has anything less than 85hz :(
Seriously, my coworkers tested me one time by randomly setting a refresh rate on a CRT several times between 60 and 85 and I could just look at the monitor and know exactly what refresh its running at.
Can any science types explain why some people can 'see faster' than others? (I also tend to hear hear things that are outside of other people's range. When I was in physics class one time in high school my teacher had a tv on with no input and it was producing this extremely high-pitched hum that was driving me nuts but no one else could hear it. Had to have the teacher just turn the TV off. I can also tell when a TV is on even with the volume on mute whenever entering a house. It's weird.)
Given the complexity of getting a CD emulator installed and working, I don't think it's worth the work, but that's the state of the world.
Hunh?? Did I miss something? How long does it take to install Daemon Tools again? I would guess around what, 10 seconds? Maybe a reboot? Wow. I must be a genius if that is complex...
I own a Neuros and got an iPod through freeipods.com... The clickwheel is neat, but the iPod's menu system/overall interface SUCKS compared to the Neuros.
:P
AND the Neuros plays OGG.
During the preloads of HL2 I have CONSISTENTLY maxed out my cable. 500KB/s+ easily.
The thing is, it isn't a scheme... Thousands have already gotten their iPods (including me yesterday.) Gratis (the company responsible) is not trying to rip anyone off. They are actually sending people iPods. See this page if you don't believe me.
Note that the link in my sig is for a friend, as I've already received mine.
Speak for yourself :P
So they were free? (See my sig...)
Sorry, I just had to. =)
Moderators note: This isn't a spam for free ipods, its a joke rather appropriate to the parent comment. In fact, I've already gotten my free iPod, the link in my sig is for a friend.
In any modern application its usually a little more complicated than that as almost every single one uses some form of PE compression/encryption. So to counter it you have to somehow get ahold of the uncompressed/unencrypted PE image (usually done by dumping the application from memory after extraction). Then you reconstruct the executable using the extracted PE, THEN you can hexedit and NOP to your hearts desire.
:P I've tried my hand at it, but I always got hung up on missing bits, etc, and its getting harder and harder to find good resources on learning cracking. (Not to mention you pretty much have to have a dedicated machine for cracking because many applications with copy-protection don't run when you even have SoftICE installed, let alone running. Sure, you can fool them eventually, but its annoying to have to keep up with techniques to hide debugger's when all you want to do is play a new game.)
However, any good copy-protection routines nowadays overwrite locations in memory after executing those portions of code (and other things along those lines) to prevent cracking even further. As things progress, the barrier to entry for cracking has definitely gotten higher, but you'll never stop cracking as a whole, because if someone's smart enough to write a system to prevent cracking, there's always going to be someone smarter who can circumvent that system.
Disclaimer: No, I'm not a cracker, I'm not good enough.
That wasn't sarcasm. It was utter unbased speculation about a feature that many a network admin has asked for.
What kind of idiot troll are you?
My guess is that you'll have to get a specific license from Microsoft to enable these devices to interact with the system, and even then, only with specific "approved" applications.
Take off the tinfoil hat man. Join the real world. There is no way in the world that any company who wants to make money would do something so foolish. If such a thing happened it would make frontpage news in every tech journal, and likely newspaper. How many people would buy such an OS? NONE. Microsoft may not have the best business practices, but they are most definitely NOT stupid. Please, get off your anti-MS soapbox and stop posting such drivel.
By your reasoning, every single option in the Windows Security Policy manager would be locked, and you'd have to pay MS to unlock it. Do you see that happening now? Do you see anything leading towards that happening? No, you're just pulling random garbage out of your rear. This is nothing but a tool to be used by network admin's to further secure their networks. Get real.
Which is exactly why my iPod is in shipping right now. Read it and weep. Its not a scam, really.
FYI, the link in my sig is for a friend who needs referrals, I've already got all of mine.
Then you should try the Danger Hiptop. Blackberry's email interface is better (because it handles folders, etc in a better way) but everything else about the hiptop SMOKES the Blackberry.
And on the subject of predictive text input. Screw that, I can type 50+ WPM EASILY on my Hiptop.
Hear hear.. I'm on my 6th CSK, and its broken too... The back button is barely working. I'm holding out until the SK2 comes out hoping that when I RMA it TMobile will give in and ship me the SK2 instead of the CSK (although its not very likely because I won't be signing another 1 year contract to do so.)
Hrm, here's an idea: Use an email account that you don't care about. Gmail has done very well in filtering out spam, and since signing up for freeipods.com I haven't noticed an increase in spam either.
Oh get off it. I have Comcast, with 4Mbps/384kbps. Using Usenetserver.com, I can EASILY max out my cable at 495KB/s of actual data throughput, while DU meter reports actual usage at around 520KB/s (accounting for packet overhead.)
I can't remember the last time I had a download speed of 3Mbps with Comcast... Mostly because I download at 4.
Yea... Good luck not getting stuck on 465 while you're thumbing said nose.
We back up our entire server farm (no idea how many terrabytes, but alot) to redundant SAN's nightly at our two sites over our DS3.
Hasn't really bothered me as I use RSSReader and just grab the aggregate feed. For some reason they don't use the subdomains for posting stories in the RSS so when linking to the story from my reader I just get the good ol' green scheme.
Whats even funnier is when you walk into Digital Innovations offices (the company that makes the Dr line) the first thing you see is every single one of those products sitting in a row. =)
For those interested, DI is also the same company that makes the Neuros.
No, just goto developer.danger.com and sign up for a developer account, then request an unlock key for your SK.
The only thing the PHP docs have over MSDN collection is user comments, other than that the MSDN docs are thuroughly the best collection of developer docs out there.
Where can I get some of this crack you're smoking???
.NET CLR is packed full of more classes than you'd ever know what to do with. I rarely have to buy any 3rd party components other than for interface-related things.
1. We're talking ASP.NET, not ASP. Welcome to the conversation.
2. How does ASP give you nothing? Last time I checked the
3. It is VERY feasible to run ASP.NET on a totally free platform using Mono.
4. If you think ASP.NET is inferior than PHP then you know nothing about web development. They both have strengths & weaknesses, but ASP.NET is by no means inferior.
Someone MOD this FUD-believing sheep down please.
I hear you. I think that'll change with VS.NET 2005, but for right now VB.NET is much easier to throw code in. The Intellisense/Autocomplete/Autoformat in VB.NET is much more effective and after developing in both I really don't see what the big deal is with C#. I'm just as fluent in both languages and much prefer VB.NET (and I too have a C++ background).
According to DU Meter, last month I downloaded 32.11GB, the month before it was 65.51GB. And this month I just upgraded from 3Mbits down to 4Mbits down. My projected usage is through the roof =)
You need to find an ISP who's not so archaic.
Just for reference, I'm on Comcast and get 495KB/s down.