In Ultima 9, children were about the only NPCs you could kill without being heavily penalised. Hacking them up with a claymore made a satisfying reaction to "My Dad says you're not good enough to complete your quest!"
I'm not running OS X, so this might be a stupid question, but what part of "/System/Library/CoreServices/Wi-Fi Diagnostics.app" makes this "hidden"?
Sounds more like hiding in plain sight to me.
It should be in/Applications/Utilities where all the other diagnostic tools are. This is the Mac equivalent of putting the program file somewhere inside/usr/lib/WiFi/ or c:\windows\resources\wifi (neither of which are on the path).
Somehow this has hit me harder than Jobs stepping down. I've been coming to Slashdot for the news/commentary for about 13+ years...and still plan to do so.
I think that sums it up for me as well. Wish I had created an account when I started reading, though.
I use a tablet for work. both my day job and my side photography business... and the iPad kicks android hard in the photography apps arena.
Now I'm curious. How do you get the photos into it? AFAIK the iPad cannot read SD cards nor accept USB mass storage devices.
Aside from the cost the reason I've always written off the iPad is because I need something that will allow me to upload photos from an external digital camera and edit text files on an external media. Has the situation changed there?
What these so called "leaders" don't understand is the same social networks used to organize these actions are also being used by the public to warn each other about where these attacks are taking place, where to avoid and calling their friends & neighbors to arms to help them protect their families, homes and businesses.
They do. I've been listening to the parlimentary debate (which has now shifted to the economy) and this fact has been pointed out several times - by MPs.
From the debate, it sounds to me more like they want to somehow censor (or monitor?) its use for criminal activity, without preventing people from organising the clean-up operations or similar things. That's the impression I got, anyway.
On the other hand nobody (here in the US) would have stuck his or her neck out and predicted power companies shutting off your appliances during the day to prevent brown-outs. It would have been unthinkable to predict that we'd never have enough cheap power to do everything we'd want to do, when we wanted to do it.
"Make Room, Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, 1966. Kind of butchered into the film 'Soylent Green' (which is made, funnily enough, of soya and lentils and even if it was made of people it was something that people could only afford occasionally as a special treat.
One thing that struck me last time I read it was that they had embarked on a program to build more nuclear plants, but of course only started doing this when the brown-outs started, and they weren't going to be able to have them online for another 10 years or so. They didn't have smart meters and remote deactivation, but they absolutely did not have enough power and the protagonist had to use a bicycle generator and batteries in order to keep the fridge running.
This would be a complete 180 on what the production team have been claiming, so (as in "investor") I would be very interested to hear if you have a citation for that.
This really does need to be modded up - it's a long read, but fascinating and having seen something like that happen to another firm, it's probably largely correct.
To my mind, it also resonates with Windows Phone 7. Especially the bit about keeping the cattle happy - that immediately reminded me of the silence from MS about Silverlight's future.
Since this design seems to be about using the APU for non-graphics things as well, you could probably stick an nVidia card in the PCI-E slot for better video and continue to use the Fusion APU for OpenCL (or whatever) at the same time.
To be fair, the Office capabilities sound more Enterprise-oriented than Consumer-oriented. I wouldn't say so much that WP7 abandons the enterprise, as that it doesn't include some enterprise features.
That's not what enterprise customers did with Windows Mobile, though. It was a platform for UPS, supermarkets, warehouses, parking enforcement companies, hospitals and so on to run their own bespoke C++ software on. Unless I'm much mistaken, WP7 can only run things from Microsoft's market and has no way to bypass it. It certainly won't run their existing C++ applications and is not currently a viable replacement.
And Microsoft will be thrilled to have every app they can which they can claim actually works on ARM Windows as well as x86 Windows.
I think these guys are making incorrect assumptions.
I've been in this exact position myself as a Windows Mobile developer. Learning the 8-year, 200'000 line C++ product that I maintain would have to be completely rewritten in C# and/or Silverlight if it was going to run on WP7 was a fun, fun experience and I would not be terribly surprised if Windows Phone 8 ditched that platform for Javascript, just like last time.
I imagine that the EU would probably block such an acquisition, since the Tegra is quite widely used on Android tablets and some phones as well IIRC. Their significance in the graphics card market and its impact on Linux and the Mac is unlikely to escape notice either.
If it works as described with the PCB generating heat to change the substance from a crystal to a liquid, once that heat is removed via loss of power, all would change back to a crystal, and you would lose all your data. This may be fine for RAM, but not for storage.
Actually I think you'll find it's the same material and a similar principle to CD-RW disks. The difference is that in CD-RW they are heating it with a laser, and reading it back optically. In PC memory, they are probably heating it electrically, and they are using a change in resistance rather than a change in reflectivity to read it back.
Ewww. I don't know what's in a flight manual, but I tried sticking a Studer A807 service manual on a Kindle once. It's unusable, at least for the circuit diagrams. No way to pan it properly when you're zoomed in, and the display is too small to read the component values when you aren't.
Who wrote the article is an idiot. Properly written managed.NET code will _at worst_ require recompilation. Ask yourself why MS has been pushing managed code like hell...
At worst, it will call down to some ancient DLL for which the source code has been lost or for which the vendor decides it's not worth porting.
To be fair, with linux on ARM, the binaries seem to be pretty interoperable, at least at the application level. AFAIK - and I will have to double-check that - I was able to run an armv5 binary built with Debian on an AC100 (Tegra2). Certainly this was not much of a problem with CE and PocketPC, and the Android NDK seems to be pretty robust too.
At the kernel and bootstrap level, it's a freaking mess, though.
There will be two versions of Windows 8, Legacy and ARM - so pick one and stop whining.
If the Register's report on Intel's claim is correct, there will be one for each SoC. So it would be Windows 8 x64 edition, Windows 8 Tegra edition, Windows 8 OMAP edition, Windows 8 Snapdragon edition and so on...
Code written for Android can't be run on another platform without rewriting large portions of the code. In essence, it's basically just the same sort of additions that Microsoft did and got tons of bad press about.
How is that different from developing a Blackberry application?
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Why aren't there killable children in Fallout 3?
In Ultima 9, children were about the only NPCs you could kill without being heavily penalised. Hacking them up with a claymore made a satisfying reaction to "My Dad says you're not good enough to complete your quest!"
I'm not running OS X, so this might be a stupid question, but what part of "/System/Library/CoreServices/Wi-Fi Diagnostics.app" makes this "hidden"?
Sounds more like hiding in plain sight to me.
It should be in /Applications/Utilities where all the other diagnostic tools are. This is the Mac equivalent of putting the program file somewhere inside /usr/lib/WiFi/ or c:\windows\resources\wifi (neither of which are on the path).
That's nice, but can it also image a CD to iso format, and snapshot disks and partitions as image files?
Somehow this has hit me harder than Jobs stepping down. I've been coming to Slashdot for the news/commentary for about 13+ years...and still plan to do so.
I think that sums it up for me as well. Wish I had created an account when I started reading, though.
Jesus Christ, Denton!
I use a tablet for work. both my day job and my side photography business... and the iPad kicks android hard in the photography apps arena.
Now I'm curious. How do you get the photos into it? AFAIK the iPad cannot read SD cards nor accept USB mass storage devices.
Aside from the cost the reason I've always written off the iPad is because I need something that will allow me to upload photos from an external digital camera and edit text files on an external media. Has the situation changed there?
Transportable like a Compaq lunchbox, or luggable like a Kaypro?
This was my thought too. Still, a mains-bound tablet would stand out from the crowd, and the battery life would be hard to beat.
How can one determine if one's computer is a zombie?
(and please no "well if you run ANY form of windows, you definitely are one" comments)
Traditionally you would look for large amounts of outgoing traffic on the router when the system should be idle.
What these so called "leaders" don't understand is the same social networks used to organize these actions are also being used by the public to warn each other about where these attacks are taking place, where to avoid and calling their friends & neighbors to arms to help them protect their families, homes and businesses.
They do. I've been listening to the parlimentary debate (which has now shifted to the economy) and this fact has been pointed out several times - by MPs.
From the debate, it sounds to me more like they want to somehow censor (or monitor?) its use for criminal activity, without preventing people from organising the clean-up operations or similar things. That's the impression I got, anyway.
Their manual says that? I want to buy their products just to encourage that style of documentation!
Well, the Caesar III manual is pretty famous for that: ...But I am curious about the Presonus as well now.
http://i55.tinypic.com/33ldvv6.jpg
On the other hand nobody (here in the US) would have stuck his or her neck out and predicted power companies shutting off your appliances during the day to prevent brown-outs. It would have been unthinkable to predict that we'd never have enough cheap power to do everything we'd want to do, when we wanted to do it.
"Make Room, Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, 1966. Kind of butchered into the film 'Soylent Green' (which is made, funnily enough, of soya and lentils and even if it was made of people it was something that people could only afford occasionally as a special treat.
One thing that struck me last time I read it was that they had embarked on a program to build more nuclear plants, but of course only started doing this when the brown-outs started, and they weren't going to be able to have them online for another 10 years or so. They didn't have smart meters and remote deactivation, but they absolutely did not have enough power and the protagonist had to use a bicycle generator and batteries in order to keep the fridge running.
I recently bought an Acorn Electron on eBay. It works. Now to think up something super-1337 to do with it.
Try to complete Citadel...
This would be a complete 180 on what the production team have been claiming, so (as in "investor") I would be very interested to hear if you have a citation for that.
Changing supplier and threatening legal action:
http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/4058-wifi-tests-and-circuitco-2011-06-17/page__view__findpost__p__74759
Oxidisation problems:
http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/4058-wifi-tests-and-circuitco-2011-06-17/page__view__findpost__p__74948
This really does need to be modded up - it's a long read, but fascinating and having seen something like that happen to another firm, it's probably largely correct.
To my mind, it also resonates with Windows Phone 7. Especially the bit about keeping the cattle happy - that immediately reminded me of the silence from MS about Silverlight's future.
Since this design seems to be about using the APU for non-graphics things as well, you could probably stick an nVidia card in the PCI-E slot for better video and continue to use the Fusion APU for OpenCL (or whatever) at the same time.
To be fair, the Office capabilities sound more Enterprise-oriented than Consumer-oriented. I wouldn't say so much that WP7 abandons the enterprise, as that it doesn't include some enterprise features.
That's not what enterprise customers did with Windows Mobile, though. It was a platform for UPS, supermarkets, warehouses, parking enforcement companies, hospitals and so on to run their own bespoke C++ software on. Unless I'm much mistaken, WP7 can only run things from Microsoft's market and has no way to bypass it. It certainly won't run their existing C++ applications and is not currently a viable replacement.
And Microsoft will be thrilled to have every app they can which they can claim actually works on ARM Windows as well as x86 Windows.
I think these guys are making incorrect assumptions.
I've been in this exact position myself as a Windows Mobile developer. Learning the 8-year, 200'000 line C++ product that I maintain would have to be completely rewritten in C# and/or Silverlight if it was going to run on WP7 was a fun, fun experience and I would not be terribly surprised if Windows Phone 8 ditched that platform for Javascript, just like last time.
I imagine that the EU would probably block such an acquisition, since the Tegra is quite widely used on Android tablets and some phones as well IIRC. Their significance in the graphics card market and its impact on Linux and the Mac is unlikely to escape notice either.
If it works as described with the PCB generating heat to change the substance from a crystal to a liquid, once that heat is removed via loss of power, all would change back to a crystal, and you would lose all your data. This may be fine for RAM, but not for storage.
Actually I think you'll find it's the same material and a similar principle to CD-RW disks. The difference is that in CD-RW they are heating it with a laser, and reading it back optically. In PC memory, they are probably heating it electrically, and they are using a change in resistance rather than a change in reflectivity to read it back.
Ewww. I don't know what's in a flight manual, but I tried sticking a Studer A807 service manual on a Kindle once. It's unusable, at least for the circuit diagrams. No way to pan it properly when you're zoomed in, and the display is too small to read the component values when you aren't.
What happens if there's not enough disk space left for the game? Or is it being installed in a dedicated system partition?
Who wrote the article is an idiot. Properly written managed .NET code will _at worst_ require recompilation. Ask yourself why MS has been pushing managed code like hell...
At worst, it will call down to some ancient DLL for which the source code has been lost or for which the vendor decides it's not worth porting.
To be fair, with linux on ARM, the binaries seem to be pretty interoperable, at least at the application level. AFAIK - and I will have to double-check that - I was able to run an armv5 binary built with Debian on an AC100 (Tegra2). Certainly this was not much of a problem with CE and PocketPC, and the Android NDK seems to be pretty robust too.
At the kernel and bootstrap level, it's a freaking mess, though.
There will be two versions of Windows 8, Legacy and ARM - so pick one and stop whining.
If the Register's report on Intel's claim is correct, there will be one for each SoC. So it would be Windows 8 x64 edition, Windows 8 Tegra edition, Windows 8 OMAP edition, Windows 8 Snapdragon edition and so on...
Code written for Android can't be run on another platform without rewriting large portions of the code. In essence, it's basically just the same sort of additions that Microsoft did and got tons of bad press about.
How is that different from developing a Blackberry application?