The point is that it can get the password in under 5 minutes. You could bring along something like L0pht, and then wait 2 weeks while it brute forces it.
Note that I didn't say that SP1 would be the reason for a switch, only that a switch would only be considered after SP1. I would imagine most shops are like mine; when a new OS comes out we look at it, techs like me run it first as test machines then eventually as main machines, and eventually (read: when MS pretty much forces us) we move the campus to it, in the interests of keeping a standard desktop environment. Though actually we are probably going to take an "upgrade by attrition" approach this time around, because of Vista's insane hardware requirements.
The practice of "waiting for the first SP", while perhaps somewhat of a misnomer in most cases, is well founded in the IT world (that deals with MS products anyway), so it's not exactly the dumbest question ever. Granted there are many other reasons not to switch to Vista yet (legacy application compatibility being chief among them), but I promise you there are quite a few IT shops out there who took the attitude of "Well we'll wait until SP1 and see" when it came to the question of moving the infrastructure to Vista.
You know we like to joke about signs of the apocalypse, but wow. I would almost look forward to that. Can you just imagine the Louderback articles we'd get with him on Linux?
vi v. emacs: The exciting new controversy
How to protect your children from The Gimp
Why won't anyone explain what GNU stands for?
You should give the thumb-balls a try. Once you get used to it there's no drop in precision, if anything there it is greater. And your thumb won't get tired, assuming you find a model that your hand will rest comfortably on.
I went thumb-ball maybe six or seven years ago, looking for an alternative to a mouse for playing Team Fortress Classic. I'll never use anything else for my main machines again.
Baffling news today from the West Bank, where officials arrested six terrorists who were attempting to attack a local market. Apparently the terrorists tried to execute their attack by teasing several vicious dogs they found wandering in a nearby alley, then leading the dogs to the market as they ran towards it. Witnesses say that the terrorists ran into the market, waited until the dogs were right on top of them, then attempted to confuse the dogs in various ways. One terrorist wrapped himself in a camoflage cloak and hid behind a fruit vendors stand, while several others simply laid on the ground and played dead. All six terrorists were hospitalized with bite and claw wounds to their face and arms.
Uh huh. Because you've never made a mistake or misdiagnosed a problem when something is broken and your entire customer base is screaming at you to fix it.
Jesus, I love how you all are posting here like you single handly created the first router and invented TCP/IP. Let's try and look at this from the Duke IT perspective:
1. Wireless network is (presumably) working great.
2. iPhone is released, students start showing up with it.
3. Wireless starts getting slammed.
Yes it was a wrong conclusion and faulty logic but come on, was it really that horrible? When something breaks the first thing you ask is "What has changed", in this case iPhones were introduced to the network. I guarentee that would have been the first thing I would have looked at.
I hate to break it to you, but Nintendo has realized that there is far more money to be made doing exactly what they're doing, then catering to the "hard core gamer", and looking at how things are going it's hard to argue with the strategy. What you call a lame/pathetic DDR style game is going to be a humongous hit with all those people who've never heard of DDR.
Is this wise? Again, time will tell, but hard to argue with the results so far. It's clear Nintendo has tapped a new market here, though, and personally I think they're onto something. Web games have shown us the future; it's important to realize that "fun" is defined very differently for this type of gamer.
Yeah right. Because early adopters who were willing to drop $600 for a phone and sign up for a 2 year contract with it are going to be so put off by an $80 battery replacement. That is done for them. That they probably won't have to worry about for at least a year. By which time they'll be ready to move on to a second gen iPhone anyway.
Not trying to say Apple isn't hosing their customers with this, but let's be honest: People who got an iPhone before this was made public aren't going to care one bit, despite what they might whine about.
With the story line so relevant to present-day politics, and the timing of the latest issue so precise, it's hard not to think the whole thing is one big slam on the government.
Isn't this one of the responsibilities artists have to the society that supports them?
Isnt' it about time that printer manufacturers got away from this "giving you the printer to sell the ink" idea? I know that's probably like trying to get the toothpaste pack in the tube at this point, but what would be wrong with a "tiered" system of some kind for printers? Have your $50 printers...hell, in fact give them away for free, and put in all the restrictions you can to keep third parties out of the business. If you give away the printers you could theoretically even make people sign a maintenance contract; manufacturer provides cartridges and perhaps even paper for a monthly fee or whatever, and take care of maintenance, like some outfits do now with businesses lasers. So long as the prices were reasonable people would pay for this service, and if you'd build better quality printers you could get 4 or 5 years out of them, perhaps even longer; if Ma and Pa just want a printer to print out photos the kids send them when would they ever want something more? There's got to be a "customers will pay it/break even point for making money" price in this model somewhere.
Alternatively offer the option of paying more for the printers, but let people do whatever they want to with them. Again make your printers higher quality and the hobbyists/geeks will gladly pay a premium, if they know they can count on it to last and can get their own consumables without hassle. Plus you don't destroy the business model for all the third party cart/refill businesses.
Everyone always wants something for cheaper, but in this case it really seems like this has ended up harming the consumer rather than helping them. Someone else here made the point, "Why would I get an inkjet with all these issues when I can get a color laser for $300 more", and while I realize not everyone is going to think like that, it does seem to me that inkjet manufacturers are perhaps killing their own business.
Somewhere right now Jeff Hawkins is pissed. There's stolen thunder, and then there's corporate neutering. Will Jeff's device announcement even make the front page of Slashdot now?
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. It's not like there's some big conspiracy with all the app/OS programmers to keep their techie buddies in jobs here. People make mistakes, users are stupid, hackers are smart and sometimes evil.
NiGHTS is one of those games which really defined an era.
Heh, no. Look I can appreciate that this is a quality game and you obviously like it but that statement is just silly.
Pac Man defined an era. Super Mario Bros defined an era. Doom defined an era. NiGHTS, again while a good game and certainly under appreciated, was released on a console who's legacy is pretty much being the PS1's bitch.
I don't really remember much about the game (save for that dam level, Arghhh!!!) but I know I somehow managed to get as far as Shredder, and I think it may have even been with all my turtles alive. Never beat Shredder though, he pretty much stomped me IIRC.
Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?
Should we go ahead and put this next to "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?;)
I'd say Apple has earned the benefit of the doubt at this point. Yes a lot of people will be turned off by the price and carrier lock, but let's be honest, a lot of people obey their "Oooh shiney" gene as well. Also, don't discount what Apple could do by, say, dropping the price on this 6 months after release, or eventually opening it up to other carriers a year down the road, things like that.
Microsoft themselves also offer a free solution for Windows 2000 servers. Perhaps this takes a bit more work than an official patch would, but if you've got so many 2000 servers that you'd consider dropping $4k on a patch, chances are you've got Active Directory or at least an admin with the skills to script a rollout of a reg file with this fix.
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The point is that it can get the password in under 5 minutes. You could bring along something like L0pht, and then wait 2 weeks while it brute forces it.
Note that I didn't say that SP1 would be the reason for a switch, only that a switch would only be considered after SP1. I would imagine most shops are like mine; when a new OS comes out we look at it, techs like me run it first as test machines then eventually as main machines, and eventually (read: when MS pretty much forces us) we move the campus to it, in the interests of keeping a standard desktop environment. Though actually we are probably going to take an "upgrade by attrition" approach this time around, because of Vista's insane hardware requirements.
The practice of "waiting for the first SP", while perhaps somewhat of a misnomer in most cases, is well founded in the IT world (that deals with MS products anyway), so it's not exactly the dumbest question ever. Granted there are many other reasons not to switch to Vista yet (legacy application compatibility being chief among them), but I promise you there are quite a few IT shops out there who took the attitude of "Well we'll wait until SP1 and see" when it came to the question of moving the infrastructure to Vista.
You know we like to joke about signs of the apocalypse, but wow. I would almost look forward to that. Can you just imagine the Louderback articles we'd get with him on Linux?
vi v. emacs: The exciting new controversy
How to protect your children from The Gimp
Why won't anyone explain what GNU stands for?
Doctor: Here's your scientifically selected career.
Kid1: Architect!
Kid2: Insurance Salesman.
Ralph: Salmon gutter?
Milhouse: Military strongman!
Martin: Systems analyst....Systems analyst....Systems analyst...
Doctor: Systems analyst!
Martin: All right!
Is it exciting or disturbing that real life seems to become more like The Simpsons every day?
You should give the thumb-balls a try. Once you get used to it there's no drop in precision, if anything there it is greater. And your thumb won't get tired, assuming you find a model that your hand will rest comfortably on. I went thumb-ball maybe six or seven years ago, looking for an alternative to a mouse for playing Team Fortress Classic. I'll never use anything else for my main machines again.
Baffling news today from the West Bank, where officials arrested six terrorists who were attempting to attack a local market. Apparently the terrorists tried to execute their attack by teasing several vicious dogs they found wandering in a nearby alley, then leading the dogs to the market as they ran towards it. Witnesses say that the terrorists ran into the market, waited until the dogs were right on top of them, then attempted to confuse the dogs in various ways. One terrorist wrapped himself in a camoflage cloak and hid behind a fruit vendors stand, while several others simply laid on the ground and played dead. All six terrorists were hospitalized with bite and claw wounds to their face and arms.
There's a 7chan? God help us all...
Uh huh. Because you've never made a mistake or misdiagnosed a problem when something is broken and your entire customer base is screaming at you to fix it.
Jesus, I love how you all are posting here like you single handly created the first router and invented TCP/IP. Let's try and look at this from the Duke IT perspective: 1. Wireless network is (presumably) working great. 2. iPhone is released, students start showing up with it. 3. Wireless starts getting slammed. Yes it was a wrong conclusion and faulty logic but come on, was it really that horrible? When something breaks the first thing you ask is "What has changed", in this case iPhones were introduced to the network. I guarentee that would have been the first thing I would have looked at.
I hate to break it to you, but Nintendo has realized that there is far more money to be made doing exactly what they're doing, then catering to the "hard core gamer", and looking at how things are going it's hard to argue with the strategy. What you call a lame/pathetic DDR style game is going to be a humongous hit with all those people who've never heard of DDR.
Is this wise? Again, time will tell, but hard to argue with the results so far. It's clear Nintendo has tapped a new market here, though, and personally I think they're onto something. Web games have shown us the future; it's important to realize that "fun" is defined very differently for this type of gamer.
Yeah right. Because early adopters who were willing to drop $600 for a phone and sign up for a 2 year contract with it are going to be so put off by an $80 battery replacement. That is done for them. That they probably won't have to worry about for at least a year. By which time they'll be ready to move on to a second gen iPhone anyway. Not trying to say Apple isn't hosing their customers with this, but let's be honest: People who got an iPhone before this was made public aren't going to care one bit, despite what they might whine about.
With the story line so relevant to present-day politics, and the timing of the latest issue so precise, it's hard not to think the whole thing is one big slam on the government.
Isn't this one of the responsibilities artists have to the society that supports them?
Isnt' it about time that printer manufacturers got away from this "giving you the printer to sell the ink" idea? I know that's probably like trying to get the toothpaste pack in the tube at this point, but what would be wrong with a "tiered" system of some kind for printers? Have your $50 printers...hell, in fact give them away for free, and put in all the restrictions you can to keep third parties out of the business. If you give away the printers you could theoretically even make people sign a maintenance contract; manufacturer provides cartridges and perhaps even paper for a monthly fee or whatever, and take care of maintenance, like some outfits do now with businesses lasers. So long as the prices were reasonable people would pay for this service, and if you'd build better quality printers you could get 4 or 5 years out of them, perhaps even longer; if Ma and Pa just want a printer to print out photos the kids send them when would they ever want something more? There's got to be a "customers will pay it/break even point for making money" price in this model somewhere.
Alternatively offer the option of paying more for the printers, but let people do whatever they want to with them. Again make your printers higher quality and the hobbyists/geeks will gladly pay a premium, if they know they can count on it to last and can get their own consumables without hassle. Plus you don't destroy the business model for all the third party cart/refill businesses.
Everyone always wants something for cheaper, but in this case it really seems like this has ended up harming the consumer rather than helping them. Someone else here made the point, "Why would I get an inkjet with all these issues when I can get a color laser for $300 more", and while I realize not everyone is going to think like that, it does seem to me that inkjet manufacturers are perhaps killing their own business.
Thank you Dr. Serious McNeverJoke.
Somewhere right now Jeff Hawkins is pissed. There's stolen thunder, and then there's corporate neutering. Will Jeff's device announcement even make the front page of Slashdot now?
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. It's not like there's some big conspiracy with all the app/OS programmers to keep their techie buddies in jobs here. People make mistakes, users are stupid, hackers are smart and sometimes evil.
So basically he's just a myopic Yankee's fan. Got it.
Although that is funny, him predicting in 2004 the Yankee's would break the season record for wins.
NiGHTS is one of those games which really defined an era.
Heh, no. Look I can appreciate that this is a quality game and you obviously like it but that statement is just silly.
Pac Man defined an era. Super Mario Bros defined an era. Doom defined an era. NiGHTS, again while a good game and certainly under appreciated, was released on a console who's legacy is pretty much being the PS1's bitch.
I don't really remember much about the game (save for that dam level, Arghhh!!!) but I know I somehow managed to get as far as Shredder, and I think it may have even been with all my turtles alive. Never beat Shredder though, he pretty much stomped me IIRC.
And yet, it has humbled so many gamers who once thought themselves skilled...
Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?
Also there are eagle feathers under the CD-Rom.
I doubt it's a vast right-wing conspiracy.
I agree. Clearly the left is to blame for this.
Too expensive, too little demand.
;)
Should we go ahead and put this next to "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?
I'd say Apple has earned the benefit of the doubt at this point. Yes a lot of people will be turned off by the price and carrier lock, but let's be honest, a lot of people obey their "Oooh shiney" gene as well. Also, don't discount what Apple could do by, say, dropping the price on this 6 months after release, or eventually opening it up to other carriers a year down the road, things like that.
OK say what you want to about the RIAA, but that's a funny line.
Microsoft themselves also offer a free solution for Windows 2000 servers. Perhaps this takes a bit more work than an official patch would, but if you've got so many 2000 servers that you'd consider dropping $4k on a patch, chances are you've got Active Directory or at least an admin with the skills to script a rollout of a reg file with this fix.