i just want to point out that android does NOT run java.
When you write an android app, it gets compiled into dalvik bytecode, and any android phone only has a dalvik virtual machine. The way the app runs on the phone has nothing to do with the actual java VM
instead of 2gb of ram, your bottom basement bargain box will now feature 3gb of ram! (substitute 4gb, $1000 dell, 6gb if you want)
Alternatively, when building your own on a budget, those $20 saved can be invested on a faster CPU, bigger hard-drive, faster video-card, bigger monitor, or your own personal improvement point, leading to a better computer
Especially scenario #2 is beneficial to us card carying computer geeks, so if you cant see that, perhaps it is time to hand in that membership card
if you bought it in the 04-05 timeframe, it either had OS-X 10.3 or 10.4, both of which came with safari, alternately on 10.3 you can run firefox 2.0, 10.4 is still currently supported by mozilla. Firefox 2.0 might not be the pinacle of web-browsing these days, but it is miles ahead of IE6, which people still use daily
and the correct response isnt to bitch and moan till you get what you want (and dont have any rightfull claim to), but to say "fuck you" to apple, and stop buying their crap, if you are to cheap to stay hip
It also had better AI for things like spellcasting. For example, select a group of ghosts in Starcraft and cast lockdown. They'll all cast, which is a waste of mana.
They also fixed that in SC2, which pisses me off, if i want a group of battlecruisers to ALL fire their yamato cannon on say, the enemy command center, i have to select them one by one and trigger the yamato cannon, which SUCKS
The Fable series has evolved from a bad joke of an original into a pretty passable and unusual RPG.
Personally i dont know what to make of the fable line, i loved the first game, granted, it was way more constricted then it was hyped up to be, but it was good. Then fable 2 came around and improved a LOT, but they gimped part of the character building by completely removing armor, leaving you just with your physical properties and weapons. (not to mention i like the look of my character in bad-ass armor a lot more then with some poncy shirt on)
Fable 3, i havent played yet, but i watched my GF play a lot, and i think i wont really like it, mostly since the RPG elements are once again dumbed down, and the storyline is rather constricted.
I think Fable 2 for me is the optimum, 3 just takes the dumbing down to far
StarCraft 2 didn't really change anything, at least not for a casual person.
my feelings exactly, i never played SC single player, but i have my fair share of lan hours, last week i downloaded the SC2 demo (finally!!!!), and my impression after a few hours is that it is SC, but with 3d graphics and some changes in the units (they gimped the wraith into the viking, the goliath got steroids etc..), but that is it...
nice game though, i might consider picking it up once it hits a bargain bin (and when they release SC2: the real version, with all three campaigns)
Only thing that would fix the problem was upgrading to the latest Apple OS... after enough complaints to the manager at the apple store (which I did in a loud manner, on the floor, where it was crowded) I get a free upgrade.
i dont want to talk up vista (in my experience it is a total pig), but dont underestimate the bog-down power of your typical enterprise SOE. The laptop i work with (windows XP, core 2 duo, 3gb ram) feels like a fricking 386SX compared to the old write-off laptop (single core, 2gb linux) i have at home, thanks to the ~100 processes running after startup, not to mention the insane network integration, which coupled with mandatory wifi at the office, throws latency on top of everything i do.
I have to say though, even my GFs main pc (quad core, 8gb windows 7) feels a bit sluggish to me these days, i guess having an SSD in my older desktop spoiled me. I should really just throw some money into the mix and make myself a good primary system again.
yup, i started out with a 40mb drive in a 386, back then i had no concept of disk space, and it never ran out ( i was like 8 or something), through the years drives got bigger and bigger, and now i have an 8 TB media server at home, which is halfway full. The only reason that it might take more then this year to fill it all the way up is because we just moved and got a slower net connection now.
so yeah, for anything but a bare-bones OS install and some basic office suite software, 10 GB IS small
yup, and while some routers support manually setting a DNS, the integrated router/dsl modem i got with my new sub doesnt.. and i kind of hate the idea of putting a router behind my router for that kind of stuff (makes me feel like xzibit if you know what i mean)
and besides, its apple TV, who gives a frack? any card carying compu-nerd is gonna have his own multi-TB NAS setup with video-streamers under each TV
Martian obviously got triggerd by AC #2s "no wireless, less space then a nomad, lame" troll, which is rather apple specific. In the post higher up he is pretty clear about the fact that a sucky network means sucky remote desktop, no matter what platform.
You dont need to own an ipad to see that using it like that on 3G or oversaturated wifi is gonna suck, i love my HTC android phone, but the 3G connection certainly wouldnt be enough to do any type of remote desktopping on, and that is in a densely populated western country with 90% 3G coverage.
And as a code-monkey myself, i have no trouble seeing myself as a monkey sometime, it allows me to completely abstain from any manager-aspiration and keep thinking of myself as someone who actually gets stuff done
i was under the impression the app retrieved the data from the wikileaks server, else with every new leak, an app update would be needed for it to stay relevant.
So no, the app installation file on the apple servers does not (have to) contain any classified/illegal documents
then how the hell does MS explain REZ on the 360? you can use any controller not used by a player as a "trance vibrator", if it had seen physical distribution (it is XBLA only), chances are it would have come with its own USB trance vibrator, complete with "washable pouch" like the PS2 version did.
not that i mind though, to each his own i say, and if that happens to be a game where you get to thrust in mid-air while the game console renders some anime chick in front of you, fine... it doesnt bother me (just as long as the neighbours close the curtains when they play:P guitar hero is bad enough)
any of these in-browser security checks on iframe would require users to run a well-maintained frequently updated browser to have any effect within a few years, guess what browser most people still use?
I have to say this is quite a cool attack, and even without iframes you can still use any javascript running client to do a DOS attack using simple ajax style code, the real problem here, as pointed out before, is that the internet evolved into a place where running 3rd party code on your own machine without any validation is the norm (and thus breaks many legit sites when it you disable it)
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i just want to point out that android does NOT run java.
When you write an android app, it gets compiled into dalvik bytecode, and any android phone only has a dalvik virtual machine. The way the app runs on the phone has nothing to do with the actual java VM
instead of 2gb of ram, your bottom basement bargain box will now feature 3gb of ram! (substitute 4gb, $1000 dell, 6gb if you want)
Alternatively, when building your own on a budget, those $20 saved can be invested on a faster CPU, bigger hard-drive, faster video-card, bigger monitor, or your own personal improvement point, leading to a better computer
Especially scenario #2 is beneficial to us card carying computer geeks, so if you cant see that, perhaps it is time to hand in that membership card
if you bought it in the 04-05 timeframe, it either had OS-X 10.3 or 10.4, both of which came with safari, alternately on 10.3 you can run firefox 2.0, 10.4 is still currently supported by mozilla. Firefox 2.0 might not be the pinacle of web-browsing these days, but it is miles ahead of IE6, which people still use daily
and the correct response isnt to bitch and moan till you get what you want (and dont have any rightfull claim to), but to say "fuck you" to apple, and stop buying their crap, if you are to cheap to stay hip
no i wasnt, thanks for the tip! (just dabled with the demo since last week)
if i get some time of tonight i'll try that, still not as cool as having the entire fleet fire simultaniously though
It also had better AI for things like spellcasting. For example, select a group of ghosts in Starcraft and cast lockdown. They'll all cast, which is a waste of mana.
They also fixed that in SC2, which pisses me off, if i want a group of battlecruisers to ALL fire their yamato cannon on say, the enemy command center, i have to select them one by one and trigger the yamato cannon, which SUCKS
The Fable series has evolved from a bad joke of an original into a pretty passable and unusual RPG.
Personally i dont know what to make of the fable line, i loved the first game, granted, it was way more constricted then it was hyped up to be, but it was good. Then fable 2 came around and improved a LOT, but they gimped part of the character building by completely removing armor, leaving you just with your physical properties and weapons. (not to mention i like the look of my character in bad-ass armor a lot more then with some poncy shirt on)
Fable 3, i havent played yet, but i watched my GF play a lot, and i think i wont really like it, mostly since the RPG elements are once again dumbed down, and the storyline is rather constricted.
I think Fable 2 for me is the optimum, 3 just takes the dumbing down to far
StarCraft 2 didn't really change anything, at least not for a casual person.
my feelings exactly, i never played SC single player, but i have my fair share of lan hours, last week i downloaded the SC2 demo (finally!!!!), and my impression after a few hours is that it is SC, but with 3d graphics and some changes in the units (they gimped the wraith into the viking, the goliath got steroids etc..), but that is it...
nice game though, i might consider picking it up once it hits a bargain bin (and when they release SC2: the real version, with all three campaigns)
oh oh!
dont forget:
- lotus notes
- IE 5.5 with various toolbars
- motherboard with the notorious leaky caps
and as an alternative for the intel i740 video card:
- Nvidia geforce FX 5800, performance of GF 4, but now with added vacume cleaner noises!
So you say winstonwolfIT didnt actually read the article before summarizing?
Madness i say!
Only thing that would fix the problem was upgrading to the latest Apple OS... after enough complaints to the manager at the apple store (which I did in a loud manner, on the floor, where it was crowded) I get a free upgrade.
You sound like a dick
i dont want to talk up vista (in my experience it is a total pig), but dont underestimate the bog-down power of your typical enterprise SOE. The laptop i work with (windows XP, core 2 duo, 3gb ram) feels like a fricking 386SX compared to the old write-off laptop (single core, 2gb linux) i have at home, thanks to the ~100 processes running after startup, not to mention the insane network integration, which coupled with mandatory wifi at the office, throws latency on top of everything i do.
I have to say though, even my GFs main pc (quad core, 8gb windows 7) feels a bit sluggish to me these days, i guess having an SSD in my older desktop spoiled me. I should really just throw some money into the mix and make myself a good primary system again.
sorry dude, but clicking an icon when there is a simple shortcut key = fail
windows key + d, learn it, live it, love it.
(pedantry aside, i never quite understood why people click that shortcut, if there is one thing windows has done right, it is keyboard shortcuts)
if we throw out all the GUI changes (some people like em, some people dont), there is one killer feature for anyone who uses their PC for actual work
64 bit support
at some point you WILL need 4+ gbs of memory if you use your machine for anything serious, and lets face it, xp64 never was a real option
yup, i started out with a 40mb drive in a 386, back then i had no concept of disk space, and it never ran out ( i was like 8 or something), through the years drives got bigger and bigger, and now i have an 8 TB media server at home, which is halfway full. The only reason that it might take more then this year to fill it all the way up is because we just moved and got a slower net connection now.
so yeah, for anything but a bare-bones OS install and some basic office suite software, 10 GB IS small
yup, and while some routers support manually setting a DNS, the integrated router/dsl modem i got with my new sub doesnt.. and i kind of hate the idea of putting a router behind my router for that kind of stuff (makes me feel like xzibit if you know what i mean)
and besides, its apple TV, who gives a frack? any card carying compu-nerd is gonna have his own multi-TB NAS setup with video-streamers under each TV
Martian obviously got triggerd by AC #2s "no wireless, less space then a nomad, lame" troll, which is rather apple specific. In the post higher up he is pretty clear about the fact that a sucky network means sucky remote desktop, no matter what platform.
You dont need to own an ipad to see that using it like that on 3G or oversaturated wifi is gonna suck, i love my HTC android phone, but the 3G connection certainly wouldnt be enough to do any type of remote desktopping on, and that is in a densely populated western country with 90% 3G coverage.
LOL
And as a code-monkey myself, i have no trouble seeing myself as a monkey sometime, it allows me to completely abstain from any manager-aspiration and keep thinking of myself as someone who actually gets stuff done
Code monkey code code!!
on the plus side, that means a 16 port switch going down only kills 8 employes instead of 16...
not all work that needs to be done requires network access.
Some coding/documenting/testing work can be done easily on an isolated workstation for a few hours.
Don't tell me, it's Task Forces all the way down?
Alternative joke: How many of those leaks would we need to cause a CIA stack overflow?
Drat, there goes my dream of having my 1.4 litre euro-econobox making the same noise as a v8 ferrari F1 engine at 15000 RPM
i was under the impression the app retrieved the data from the wikileaks server, else with every new leak, an app update would be needed for it to stay relevant.
So no, the app installation file on the apple servers does not (have to) contain any classified/illegal documents
now if only you used that doz.me URL shortener for that, it might have had some effect
then how the hell does MS explain REZ on the 360? you can use any controller not used by a player as a "trance vibrator", if it had seen physical distribution (it is XBLA only), chances are it would have come with its own USB trance vibrator, complete with "washable pouch" like the PS2 version did.
not that i mind though, to each his own i say, and if that happens to be a game where you get to thrust in mid-air while the game console renders some anime chick in front of you, fine... it doesnt bother me (just as long as the neighbours close the curtains when they play :P guitar hero is bad enough)
any of these in-browser security checks on iframe would require users to run a well-maintained frequently updated browser to have any effect within a few years, guess what browser most people still use?
I have to say this is quite a cool attack, and even without iframes you can still use any javascript running client to do a DOS attack using simple ajax style code, the real problem here, as pointed out before, is that the internet evolved into a place where running 3rd party code on your own machine without any validation is the norm (and thus breaks many legit sites when it you disable it)