Actually, if you uninstall IE6/7/8 from a windows machine, automatic update will instantly (upon reboot) nag you to patch IE, even though its not installed. I think this is what parent is attempting to describe. His MS technet link states he only uses firefox.
I used to own my surname, owned it for 5 years or so, I forgot to renew it and it expired. I attempted to purchase it as it went out to the wild (it was in the deleted status but not released yet, about a 30 day period), but it got snatched by a squatter who is now attempting to sell it. Big group, doesn't care about the name, only that it was previously registered and that they want to sell it back to the owner (me). There are other TLD's open with my surname (its very very uncommon), but I had a lot of stuff tied to my particular TLD.
I researched back when this happened, but $1300 was ridiculous to dispute on something that I just administrated for my family. I attempted to contact the law firm that registered and was promptly ignored. This was a year ago, I waited to see if they would let the domain go, nobody's going to buy it from them, but they renewed it for another 1 year.
I honestly believe icann can do more about this issue, obvious squatters should pay more to hold the name space. Something to deter large organizations from simply owning domain names that was once previously owned. I could register some random text.com "jdklajflkda.com" let it expire, and I bet you a squatter picks it up.
The world did not end in 2004 when the President, Senate, House, and Supreme court were all majorly held by the Republicans. Then again, there is that whole financial crisis thing...
While diesel was used in testing, he clearly states application to all engine types:
"We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones," Tao wrote in the published study, "Electrorheology Leads to Efficient Combustion."
Personally I'd like to see more testing, as well as their testing methodology. A university doesn't typically back something that doesn't work, they have reputations to worry about.
What FF post would be complete without someone commenting on memory leaks? I couldn't resist responding to this.
"Improved Memory Management With all new management functions in place, Firefox 3 keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory. Plus, hundreds of memory leaks are now remedied."
Pretty big deal to me, especially since I like to game with an open browser window or more in the background.
"DJB was right. All those years ago, Dan J. Bernstein was right: Source Port Randomization should be standard on every name server in production use."
and
" 1) It's a bug in many platforms
2) It's the exact same bug in many platforms (design bugs, they are a pain) "
How is this not the same flaw DJB described?
The flaw in your argument is that games are designed to push the hardware envelope. Writing more efficient rendering engines that still accomplishes your visual goals is something that could be improved on. However something that is going to run on a cheap intel graphics chipset, is going to look like it was released in 1998, and then you would hear complaints about good video games again.
TV ads are for the most part enjoyable. People even watch the superbowl not for the football.. but for the comercials. On the web.. ads are only anoying, when was the last time you saw a pop up you liked?
The one thing I see that might be a problem is movie rentals. vhs tapes do ware out, it takes a while.. and sometimes you can get a bunk tape. DVD's can't ware out, no matter how many times you watch them, but they do get scratched. scratched rather easily, 7 out of 10 dvd's I rent are scratched to the point that they skip.. and jump back or ahead. its from all rental stores too. If VHS is phased out (which it will be) I can see this to be a problem where rental stores are replacing costly dvd's (rental stores play upwords of $100 for a new release), or you just wind up having movies that skip all the time.
How does a simple post saying 'They you're part of the problem. get modded up to 5?. Didn't even proof read. it'd be different if it were a long paragraph.. but its a simple phrase. technically even the contraction isn't proper in this instance.. should be 'you are'. but what do I know.. I've never been modded up on anything.
I don't agree fully.. Just because alot of people like something doesn't make it good. Take n'sync... Most musicians will say the're music sucks, but Millions of teen girls SCREEM when they hear/see anything having to do with them. go over to another example. Smokeing, Billions do it, but its not a good thing.
(ah.. i can already hear the flamer [ha! pun!]..) "you can't say that.. smokeing is addicting!"
yes it is.. but they're are smokes that know smokeing is bad.. don't want to do it.. but still do. I'm not counting that.. i'm talking hardcore smokers that like to do it.. and don't want to quit. Just becuase alot of people like something doesn't mean its good.. i may make lots of money (cough.. somkeing cough).. but its still bad.
so its perfectly fine to say that college/internet radio is better to listen to.
Another change seeks to curb about 90 percent of Windows XP piracy. Microsoft introduced Product Activation with the operating system, which uses a numeric key to lock the software to the hardware. But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying. People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site.
"Basically we're freezing their computer where it is," Cullinan said. "We're not preventing them from using it, but obviously one of the benefits of having a license is keeping your PC updated."
if I couldn't pirate software (or what I like to call my educational license) I wouldn't know half of what I do. I'd still be using win95.. or win98.. maybe.. with out pirating I wouldn't have the job I do now as I wouldn't have as wide range of products I know. I'm not going to buy all of these peaces of software just to learn them. if I were using them for production it would be different.
I once knew someone that was very good with 3dstudio max.. got hired into a gfx department and had a full copy, he ripped open the box.. chucked the CD aside.. and was geeking out on the documentation, simply because he had never seen it.
antipirating is important to stop people from just taking it.. but if something was completely UNpirateable I think that would slow the industry down.. and the talent that it has raised.
even if i record the commercials along with the program, when i go to watch what i recorded, i'm just going to fast forward though the commercials anyways.. am i know going to be forced into believing i have a moral obligation to watch sponsorship?
would it be the same if i turned off images in my browser just so i couldn't see the ads? am i steeling web content then?
If a bartender can be held accountable for letting a known drunk drive home and if a gun store owner can be held accountable for selling a gun to a known felon, why shouldn't ISP's be held accountable for selling service to a known spammer?
I think ad's in games would add to the realism of the game.. if you think about it, in live you see ad's on the streets, products in houses... why have a cola can sitting on the table when the develpers could have a real coke can, or case.. and get paid to have it there too. Granted there is a line, it must be apart of the game.. and not interfearing with the game, and not all games woulf fit to have ads.. such as Black&White.. no room for ad's in that game. But a game like MaxPayne, it would fit GREAT.
how does this comment warrent "insightful"? compareing ram to storege media? nither technology is trying to accomplish anything anywhere near the other. ram is random access temporary storege. The microdrive/flash media are semi perminat storage. Ofcorse its in high demand, people are wanting more ram for there systems! there are alot more servers and workstations out there than pda's looking to expand storage. plus.. ram is really really cheap right now.
one more thing.. ram IS faster than the microdrive, its solid state!
I bought a cheap imac (dv special, 400Mhz ($500 it cost me)) just to play with os X. As I was working with it.. I installed os X clean onto a 40GB quantom drive. partitioned it up (useing the partition program on the install disk) into 3 sections.. two UFS partitions.. and one HFS (small for legacy mac crap)
after instilation failed twice, I had to set it so it formatted the root partition again on install for it to boot properly when it was finished. once there.. I played around with all the settings (all the very few settings) ftp'd over some files.. and atemted to move them onto my/file partition (fake/files as I found out.. its like/Volume/hd0012/files or whatever, that mac is long gone as I write this). my user didnt' have write permition to any of my other 2 partitions.. enableing it though the gui was useless, because the owner was system... so I wasn't an owner, and I wasn't in the group.. only way to enable this now would be as the root user.. being as you can't log into the gui as the root user (and the adverage user.. or joblow imac would even know of a root user) I ended up changing this in the shell with chgrp. now.. how is anyone else with no unix expirence expected to do something like this....
go ahead and flame over the fact that most people arn't going to have multiple partitions like that. point is there are alot that know how to have multiple partions.. and have absolutly no unix exprience.. this is just one example where apple does not yet have a fully functional gui. there are many many things yet that simply can not be done unless you do them in a shell. also there is just a grate lack of configureablitly.. (again, unless you do it in the shell) OS 9 is more configureable (in gui). I don't see at all why they didn't transfer over simular functionality in the "system preferences". sold the iMac... (hated that keyboard.. key's sticked, this is fault of the keyboard itself.. i've tried other mac keyboards.. all have the same fault) wouldn't play quake3 at all either.. crashed all the time. I was quite disapointed.. with Apple as a whole. I had hyped up for it.. was excited when I got it.. went in not only with an open mind.. but thinking it was gonna be cool.. and was sorly dissapointed by nearly every aspect that I tried to do. I could sum it all up in one word.. Combersome..
back to power using my winXP box.. (hasn't crashed on me yet, only time I reboot is for updates.. and yes I gripe about MS holes too. just play to many games to use Slack full time, although quake3 runs faster in slack than on win:)
If I want to play a game, I want to have FUN. Configuring memory access or video drivers, etc. i snot my idea of fun. I like the idea of putting a CD/DVD in the game box, and pressing one buttton. It works first time, every time.
works fine for me every time... infact.. it may even be easyer.. I don't even have to put in a cd in my "game box" alot of the time.. I just click on ONE button.
..and what are you talking about, messing with configurations IS fun!
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Maybe, or MAYBE he really didn't have the money, so he couldn't really afford the toilet paper!
Its expensive to keep that baller image.
Are you retarded, or a troll?
IE8 is included in Windows 7.
Actually, if you uninstall IE6/7/8 from a windows machine, automatic update will instantly (upon reboot) nag you to patch IE, even though its not installed. I think this is what parent is attempting to describe.
His MS technet link states he only uses firefox.
I used to own my surname, owned it for 5 years or so, I forgot to renew it and it expired. I attempted to purchase it as it went out to the wild (it was in the deleted status but not released yet, about a 30 day period), but it got snatched by a squatter who is now attempting to sell it. Big group, doesn't care about the name, only that it was previously registered and that they want to sell it back to the owner (me). There are other TLD's open with my surname (its very very uncommon), but I had a lot of stuff tied to my particular TLD.
I researched back when this happened, but $1300 was ridiculous to dispute on something that I just administrated for my family. I attempted to contact the law firm that registered and was promptly ignored. This was a year ago, I waited to see if they would let the domain go, nobody's going to buy it from them, but they renewed it for another 1 year.
I honestly believe icann can do more about this issue, obvious squatters should pay more to hold the name space. Something to deter large organizations from simply owning domain names that was once previously owned. I could register some random text .com "jdklajflkda.com" let it expire, and I bet you a squatter picks it up.
Well, if you get into trouble all you have to do is enter the Konami Code.
The world did not end in 2004 when the President, Senate, House, and Supreme court were all majorly held by the Republicans. Then again, there is that whole financial crisis thing...
While diesel was used in testing, he clearly states application to all engine types:
"We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones," Tao wrote in the published study, "Electrorheology Leads to Efficient Combustion."
Personally I'd like to see more testing, as well as their testing methodology. A university doesn't typically back something that doesn't work, they have reputations to worry about.
What FF post would be complete without someone commenting on memory leaks? I couldn't resist responding to this.
"Improved Memory Management
With all new management functions in place, Firefox 3 keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory. Plus, hundreds of memory leaks are now remedied."
Pretty big deal to me, especially since I like to game with an open browser window or more in the background.
3.0.1 resolves the problem of "[Firefox3] suffers from garbage collection hick up" in Defender of the favicon
Now I can get back to gaming in the corner of my address bar.
I'm having trouble with Paul Vixies' line:
."
Q: "This is the same attack as described way back in
A: No, it's not.
When Dan Kaminsky states in his blog.
"DJB was right. All those years ago, Dan J. Bernstein was right: Source Port Randomization should be standard on every name server in production use."
and
" 1) It's a bug in many platforms 2) It's the exact same bug in many platforms (design bugs, they are a pain) " How is this not the same flaw DJB described?
The flaw in your argument is that games are designed to push the hardware envelope. Writing more efficient rendering engines that still accomplishes your visual goals is something that could be improved on. However something that is going to run on a cheap intel graphics chipset, is going to look like it was released in 1998, and then you would hear complaints about good video games again.
I hope you've patched to 12.2
TV ads are for the most part enjoyable. People even watch the superbowl not for the football.. but for the comercials. On the web.. ads are only anoying, when was the last time you saw a pop up you liked?
The one thing I see that might be a problem is movie rentals. vhs tapes do ware out, it takes a while.. and sometimes you can get a bunk tape. DVD's can't ware out, no matter how many times you watch them, but they do get scratched. scratched rather easily, 7 out of 10 dvd's I rent are scratched to the point that they skip.. and jump back or ahead. its from all rental stores too. If VHS is phased out (which it will be) I can see this to be a problem where rental stores are replacing costly dvd's (rental stores play upwords of $100 for a new release), or you just wind up having movies that skip all the time.
How does a simple post saying 'They you're part of the problem. get modded up to 5?. Didn't even proof read. it'd be different if it were a long paragraph.. but its a simple phrase. technically even the contraction isn't proper in this instance.. should be 'you are'. but what do I know.. I've never been modded up on anything.
I don't agree fully.. Just because alot of people like something doesn't make it good. Take n'sync... Most musicians will say the're music sucks, but Millions of teen girls SCREEM when they hear/see anything having to do with them. go over to another example. Smokeing, Billions do it, but its not a good thing.
(ah.. i can already hear the flamer [ha! pun!]..) "you can't say that.. smokeing is addicting!"
yes it is.. but they're are smokes that know smokeing is bad.. don't want to do it.. but still do. I'm not counting that.. i'm talking hardcore smokers that like to do it.. and don't want to quit.
Just becuase alot of people like something doesn't mean its good.. i may make lots of money (cough.. somkeing cough).. but its still bad.
so its perfectly fine to say that college/internet radio is better to listen to.
-brian
Another change seeks to curb about 90 percent of Windows XP piracy. Microsoft introduced Product Activation with the operating system, which uses a numeric key to lock the software to the hardware. But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying. People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site.
"Basically we're freezing their computer where it is," Cullinan said. "We're not preventing them from using it, but obviously one of the benefits of having a license is keeping your PC updated."
if I couldn't pirate software (or what I like to call my educational license) I wouldn't know half of what I do. I'd still be using win95.. or win98.. maybe.. with out pirating I wouldn't have the job I do now as I wouldn't have as wide range of products I know. I'm not going to buy all of these peaces of software just to learn them. if I were using them for production it would be different.
I once knew someone that was very good with 3dstudio max.. got hired into a gfx department and had a full copy, he ripped open the box.. chucked the CD aside.. and was geeking out on the documentation, simply because he had never seen it.
antipirating is important to stop people from just taking it.. but if something was completely UNpirateable I think that would slow the industry down.. and the talent that it has raised.
even if i record the commercials along with the program, when i go to watch what i recorded, i'm just going to fast forward though the commercials anyways.. am i know going to be forced into believing i have a moral obligation to watch sponsorship?
would it be the same if i turned off images in my browser just so i couldn't see the ads? am i steeling web content then?
my microwave run's at 2.4Ghz.. if i could figure out how to connect it to the rest of my system and not melt it.. i'd have had this years ago..
er.. i mean i get them as gifts from other... yeah.. thats it. complete with license certificates..
If a bartender can be held accountable for letting a known drunk drive home and if a gun store owner can be held accountable for selling a gun to a known felon, why shouldn't ISP's be held accountable for selling service to a known spammer?
Has recieving spam ever killed anyone?
I think ad's in games would add to the realism of the game.. if you think about it, in live you see ad's on the streets, products in houses... why have a cola can sitting on the table when the develpers could have a real coke can, or case.. and get paid to have it there too. Granted there is a line, it must be apart of the game.. and not interfearing with the game, and not all games woulf fit to have ads.. such as Black&White.. no room for ad's in that game. But a game like MaxPayne, it would fit GREAT.
how does this comment warrent "insightful"? compareing ram to storege media? nither technology is trying to accomplish anything anywhere near the other. ram is random access temporary storege. The microdrive/flash media are semi perminat storage. Ofcorse its in high demand, people are wanting more ram for there systems! there are alot more servers and workstations out there than pda's looking to expand storage. plus.. ram is really really cheap right now.
one more thing.. ram IS faster than the microdrive, its solid state!
I bought a cheap imac (dv special, 400Mhz ($500 it cost me)) just to play with os X. As I was working with it.. I installed os X clean onto a 40GB quantom drive. partitioned it up (useing the partition program on the install disk) into 3 sections.. two UFS partitions.. and one HFS (small for legacy mac crap)
/file partition (fake /files as I found out.. its like /Volume/hd0012/files or whatever, that mac is long gone as I write this). my user didnt' have write permition to any of my other 2 partitions.. enableing it though the gui was useless, because the owner was system... so I wasn't an owner, and I wasn't in the group.. only way to enable this now would be as the root user.. being as you can't log into the gui as the root user (and the adverage user.. or joblow imac would even know of a root user) I ended up changing this in the shell with chgrp. now.. how is anyone else with no unix expirence expected to do something like this....
:)
after instilation failed twice, I had to set it so it formatted the root partition again on install for it to boot properly when it was finished. once there.. I played around with all the settings (all the very few settings) ftp'd over some files.. and atemted to move them onto my
go ahead and flame over the fact that most people arn't going to have multiple partitions like that. point is there are alot that know how to have multiple partions.. and have absolutly no unix exprience.. this is just one example where apple does not yet have a fully functional gui. there are many many things yet that simply can not be done unless you do them in a shell. also there is just a grate lack of configureablitly.. (again, unless you do it in the shell) OS 9 is more configureable (in gui). I don't see at all why they didn't transfer over simular functionality in the "system preferences". sold the iMac... (hated that keyboard.. key's sticked, this is fault of the keyboard itself.. i've tried other mac keyboards.. all have the same fault) wouldn't play quake3 at all either.. crashed all the time. I was quite disapointed.. with Apple as a whole. I had hyped up for it.. was excited when I got it.. went in not only with an open mind.. but thinking it was gonna be cool.. and was sorly dissapointed by nearly every aspect that I tried to do. I could sum it all up in one word.. Combersome..
back to power using my winXP box.. (hasn't crashed on me yet, only time I reboot is for updates.. and yes I gripe about MS holes too. just play to many games to use Slack full time, although quake3 runs faster in slack than on win
If I want to play a game, I want to have FUN. Configuring memory access or video drivers, etc. i snot my idea of fun. I like the idea of putting a CD/DVD in the game box, and pressing one buttton. It works first time, every time.
works fine for me every time... infact.. it may even be easyer.. I don't even have to put in a cd in my "game box" alot of the time.. I just click on ONE button.
..and what are you talking about, messing with configurations IS fun!
-bofslime
Ok, fine.. now they have Lindows.. i'm waiting for MS Winux