I actually hope no one will really use it mind you, but it is cool. I don't think MS even meant for it ever to be used as a firewall per se much less a consumer one, so the interface is a bit more forgiveable.
IPSec in general is a wonderful solution to a lot of problems, but the set up is so annoying.
Google news is not exactly the best place to look for a company. They do have a darpa contract, so they can't be too insane. And they have been around and getting grants since 1999. http://eisg.sdsu.edu/PIER%20area/..%5Cshortsums%5C shortsum0216.htm so I think they are perhaps marketing, but not outright crackpots or liars.
It looks like they are just forcing the OEMs to use the key printed on the box to do the auto intall.
Which doesn't seem *so* bad.
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I am talking about the Cretive Micro Color that is soon to be released the Iriver H10 (though it is not seamless FW-wise yet), the Gateway photo mini jukebox, and the supposed Dell color pocket DJ . Of them all the creative micro is probably the biggest threat. good specs, good ui, decent brand recognition, etc.
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The Rio Carbon is easily findable at $200 and $180 After rebate isn't exactly hard either. I do think the repricing will jiggle prices around, (and make all the players come out with quick 6gb updates.) though honestly I think the oncoming legion of color mini sized players is going to have a field day. If the world learned one thing from cell phones, it is that color (even if not exactly useful) beats B/W anyday, even when the B/W model has better specs and better UI (not saying that this is the case here, most of the color minis aren't quite released yet, so not appropriate to judge)
Get a decent soldering station with sponge and adjustable wattage (or if you really want to spend money adjustable temperature.) They are suprisingly affordable, also for a while you won't need a soldering ironas much as you will need a breadboard and lots of wire.
Just about any multimeter will do, even a $5 analog one, most of the time it is more a question of presence and magnitude rather then particular readings. (Though the nicer ones do have some cool features).
Look at http://www.sparkfun.com/ for your starting out. Lots of tutorials, a forum, a well stocked supportive store, and unlike digikey it has a limited enough selection that you won't feel like you are paging through a large city's phone book.
Do eventually sign up for digikey/mouser/future etc. catalogs though, just don't let them intimidate you.
Eh for simplicity CPM costs for CSI Miami is about $17.50 there are about 32 slots in an hour episode (8 minutes a halfhour). of which say 4 are wasted on shiling for other shows (which probably won't be removed, btw, and is probably on the low side). 28*17.50 = $490; 490/1000 = $.49 per hour episode. Now some shows are worth more (plain CSI is ~$20 per ep), and many are worth less. Of course a lot of this goes toward a broadcast busines the affiliate stations either get paid to broadcast content or get content free of charge, excepting the superbowl, and they get to run local ads in designated blocks (blocks we are counting as network profit) So $.25 a half hour is a very fair wholesale price. direct to consumer prices will probably be twice that just for customer service overhead and the like.
The big problem is the affiliates. They hate the idea of losing their plum perch. Oh well
It is not so much the NetFlix of the world, but people are more willing to buy the DVD, and less willing to rent it tehn they were with VHS. (esp. when they are around $15 the week of release and there are good movies even on the $7.50 shelf at the big boxes).
Exactly why (aside from the lower prices) people are renting less and buying more is open to debate, though most likely it has a bit to do with a combination of better marketing of Home Video releases, special features, an increasingly savy consumer (they at least "know" widescreen is good), and greater profusion and penetration of cable (the more you are entertained by cable the less you are to make those big 5 movies in 5 days rentals).
A suprising ammount does go to health care not neccesarily the smoker's health care but previous smokers (oh and seccond hand smoke damage, etc). Sort of pay as you go social security. Another slice ends up in smoking prevention. A certain ammount goes to the infastructure and enforcement of the levy. Another slice ends up in general budget, but it isn't that large.
Legally inequitable or selective enforcement is grouunds for dismissal of the action. (i.e. you can't use an ancient law baning women from wearing jeans on only one person while other women wear jeans). Besides the government went after Capone with tax violations mostly because it was hard to tie him to other activities. Here it is probably easier to determine that a company is a spyware company then what law they broke (Esp. keeping in mind that many of these places are small enough that they do not have the full weight of OSHA and labor regulations).
Besides shady methods of business does not translate into a shady business. Several fraudulent companies treated their employees very well while being very vicious to eldery widows.
JHymn was never forced to do this (and it wasn't hard to get it not to, they provide step by step instructions) and now IIRC they will rip out everything in the next update. Hymned files can be perfectly normal unless they start storing some sort of complicated hash system.
Even if they did the UnHymned files will play fine in anything but iTunes say WinAmp or Real or any other thing that can play aac. Since iTunes has a not so great interface for actual playing of music, it is no big loss (though the lack of iPod syncing hurts some).
Honestly they have to. Or at least most broken HTML will be supported, people would throw a fit if they fixed it. They do mention that they will be continuing to refine strict mode support though (think gecko's standards mode as opposed to tweaks mode).
The web is rapidly splitting between stuff that (mostly) validates and stuff that doesn't.
It says fault, and tells you to buy a new unit, which will be expensive enough that you really don't want to do it. Then it records and broadcasts your plate and you can't fill up again till you get a new GPS.
If it ever gets cheap enough they can just use max range * max rate or something.
Or it will go into tourist mode (i.e. a very high gas tax, that is used for out of staters)
You generally do have something like GameMap or MobileObjectsHashTable though. The cool thing about serializable is that it ripples through all serializable things. so you could litteraly do
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(file); oos.writeObject("GameMa p");
Of course you have to be careful that you don't implent serializable where you don't want it. And you have to have some relinking code to relink evertyhing with the GUI, but it isn't that hard.
PICs are what make the world go round. What exactly is in one of those anyways?
Honestly I can't find the normal geek porn shots of it, though honestly I am a bit nervous to do all the expirementing to find the proper incantion for google on anything involving literboxes.
If suddenly a beam of light is moving faster or slower in constant conditions according to your time source. Also if it was really major one could measure it by far distant pulsars and the like. Or one could put an atomic clock on a spacecraft (I think cassini might have one) if it is far enough away the pulses would arrive at several minutes remove. So even if the effect was universe wide and faster then light it would still be comprable. Or something like that.
Though a dedicated practioner could probably counter all of it (the radio waves are being modified in midflight and all that.) So it is pretty hopeless.
Yes but that was a protracted thing, the numbers started horrific and kept climbing, which is a pretty major confound. In the WTC case it was all pretty much over in a few hours. Of course note it is the funeral of Diana that caused the spike not the actual time of her death. Why one and not the other? On the same day of the funeral is a pretty weaselly way of putting it too. I mean it certainly doesn't sound like there is a constant offset from event to time. The odds of something happening in the same day are much better then something happening during an event. It just doesn't seem rigorous, and science = rigor.
Regardless I will certainly look more carefully at any Cognitive Science papers out of Princeton from now on.
Except they shouldn't be straight lines at all. They should take random directions all the time. Sometimes even very big ones. A flat line is one of the least random things produced in the world. If GC existed according to how REGs worked, atomic clocks would randomly lose percision around major events.
I mean a scientist is quoted as saying "Our data shows clearly that the chances of getting these results by fluke are one million to one against." I would actually place the chance much much lower, I mean a million to one is nothing really. The odds of 30 coin flips in any order is a million to one. The real problem is prediction. The question is whether the model can predict into the future what events will cause blips and the magnitude of the event.
Paying a programmer to do IT stuff is stupid not so much on a salary basis, (The salaries are suprisingly close for an experienced Sys Admin, and experienced but non managerial programer), but on an effectveness basis. Developers are lousy sys admins (too little concern with security, too much disdain for being a hermit crab), generally over confident help desk workers (the answer really is reboot 90% of the time, figuring out why is not that important), and generally poor to midling field techs (too little experience with hardware, coupled with lack of working with people, instead of just presenting to them).
That isn't to say there aren't good Developer/IT people, just that the skill sets are different, even their world outlook is different.
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Thanks, that is a neat hack.
I actually hope no one will really use it mind you, but it is cool. I don't think MS even meant for it ever to be used as a firewall per se much less a consumer one, so the interface is a bit more forgiveable.
IPSec in general is a wonderful solution to a lot of problems, but the set up is so annoying.
Yes but it does break a few things. And most users have certainly not downloaded zonealarm. Also W2k iirc does not have a built in firewall.
Now granted it is only a DOS attack, but still.
Google news is not exactly the best place to look for a company. They do have a darpa contract, so they can't be too insane. And they have been around and getting grants since 1999. http://eisg.sdsu.edu/PIER%20area/..%5Cshortsums%5C shortsum0216.htm so I think they are perhaps marketing, but not outright crackpots or liars.
It looks like they are just forcing the OEMs to use the key printed on the box to do the auto intall.
Which doesn't seem *so* bad.
I am talking about the Cretive Micro Color that is soon to be released the Iriver H10 (though it is not seamless FW-wise yet), the Gateway photo mini jukebox, and the supposed Dell color pocket DJ . Of them all the creative micro is probably the biggest threat. good specs, good ui, decent brand recognition, etc.
The Rio Carbon is easily findable at $200 and $180 After rebate isn't exactly hard either. I do think the repricing will jiggle prices around, (and make all the players come out with quick 6gb updates.) though honestly I think the oncoming legion of color mini sized players is going to have a field day. If the world learned one thing from cell phones, it is that color (even if not exactly useful) beats B/W anyday, even when the B/W model has better specs and better UI (not saying that this is the case here, most of the color minis aren't quite released yet, so not appropriate to judge)
You mean our good friend Mr. Microwave? For easy product replacements 4s on high. Nah that is mean.
No accesories with the photos anymore.
Get a decent soldering station with sponge and adjustable wattage (or if you really want to spend money adjustable temperature.) They are suprisingly affordable, also for a while you won't need a soldering ironas much as you will need a breadboard and lots of wire.
Just about any multimeter will do, even a $5 analog one, most of the time it is more a question of presence and magnitude rather then particular readings. (Though the nicer ones do have some cool features).
Look at http://www.sparkfun.com/ for your starting out. Lots of tutorials, a forum, a well stocked supportive store, and unlike digikey it has a limited enough selection that you won't feel like you are paging through a large city's phone book.
Do eventually sign up for digikey/mouser/future etc. catalogs though, just don't let them intimidate you.
The real hard part is finding a project.
Just to americanize it:
Eh for simplicity CPM costs for CSI Miami is about $17.50 there are about 32 slots in an hour episode (8 minutes a halfhour). of which say 4 are wasted on shiling for other shows (which probably won't be removed, btw, and is probably on the low side). 28*17.50 = $490; 490/1000 = $.49 per hour episode. Now some shows are worth more (plain CSI is ~$20 per ep), and many are worth less. Of course a lot of this goes toward a broadcast busines the affiliate stations either get paid to broadcast content or get content free of charge, excepting the superbowl, and they get to run local ads in designated blocks (blocks we are counting as network profit) So $.25 a half hour is a very fair wholesale price. direct to consumer prices will probably be twice that just for customer service overhead and the like.
The big problem is the affiliates. They hate the idea of losing their plum perch. Oh well
It is not so much the NetFlix of the world, but people are more willing to buy the DVD, and less willing to rent it tehn they were with VHS. (esp. when they are around $15 the week of release and there are good movies even on the $7.50 shelf at the big boxes).
Exactly why (aside from the lower prices) people are renting less and buying more is open to debate, though most likely it has a bit to do with a combination of better marketing of Home Video releases, special features, an increasingly savy consumer (they at least "know" widescreen is good), and greater profusion and penetration of cable (the more you are entertained by cable the less you are to make those big 5 movies in 5 days rentals).
A suprising ammount does go to health care not neccesarily the smoker's health care but previous smokers (oh and seccond hand smoke damage, etc). Sort of pay as you go social security. Another slice ends up in smoking prevention. A certain ammount goes to the infastructure and enforcement of the levy. Another slice ends up in general budget, but it isn't that large.
Legally inequitable or selective enforcement is grouunds for dismissal of the action. (i.e. you can't use an ancient law baning women from wearing jeans on only one person while other women wear jeans). Besides the government went after Capone with tax violations mostly because it was hard to tie him to other activities. Here it is probably easier to determine that a company is a spyware company then what law they broke (Esp. keeping in mind that many of these places are small enough that they do not have the full weight of OSHA and labor regulations).
Besides shady methods of business does not translate into a shady business. Several fraudulent companies treated their employees very well while being very vicious to eldery widows.
JHymn was never forced to do this (and it wasn't hard to get it not to, they provide step by step instructions) and now IIRC they will rip out everything in the next update. Hymned files can be perfectly normal unless they start storing some sort of complicated hash system.
Even if they did the UnHymned files will play fine in anything but iTunes say WinAmp or Real or any other thing that can play aac. Since iTunes has a not so great interface for actual playing of music, it is no big loss (though the lack of iPod syncing hurts some).
Honestly they have to. Or at least most broken HTML will be supported, people would throw a fit if they fixed it. They do mention that they will be continuing to refine strict mode support though (think gecko's standards mode as opposed to tweaks mode).
The web is rapidly splitting between stuff that (mostly) validates and stuff that doesn't.
It says fault, and tells you to buy a new unit, which will be expensive enough that you really don't want to do it. Then it records and broadcasts your plate and you can't fill up again till you get a new GPS.
If it ever gets cheap enough they can just use max range * max rate or something.
Or it will go into tourist mode (i.e. a very high gas tax, that is used for out of staters)
Thanks I wondered what sensor they were using, sonar seemed far overkill (and over parts budget).
Hehe, I can imagine the cats find it pretty odd for a creature. Though I am suprised they don't try to attack the thing.
PICs are what make the world go round. What exactly is in one of those anyways?
Honestly I can't find the normal geek porn shots of it, though honestly I am a bit nervous to do all the expirementing to find the proper incantion for google on anything involving literboxes.
Really cool hack/fix though.
If suddenly a beam of light is moving faster or slower in constant conditions according to your time source. Also if it was really major one could measure it by far distant pulsars and the like. Or one could put an atomic clock on a spacecraft (I think cassini might have one) if it is far enough away the pulses would arrive at several minutes remove. So even if the effect was universe wide and faster then light it would still be comprable. Or something like that.
Though a dedicated practioner could probably counter all of it (the radio waves are being modified in midflight and all that.) So it is pretty hopeless.
Yes but that was a protracted thing, the numbers started horrific and kept climbing, which is a pretty major confound. In the WTC case it was all pretty much over in a few hours. Of course note it is the funeral of Diana that caused the spike not the actual time of her death. Why one and not the other? On the same day of the funeral is a pretty weaselly way of putting it too. I mean it certainly doesn't sound like there is a constant offset from event to time. The odds of something happening in the same day are much better then something happening during an event. It just doesn't seem rigorous, and science = rigor.
Regardless I will certainly look more carefully at any Cognitive Science papers out of Princeton from now on.
Eh, sorry, I was typing late, good catch.
Except they shouldn't be straight lines at all. They should take random directions all the time. Sometimes even very big ones. A flat line is one of the least random things produced in the world. If GC existed according to how REGs worked, atomic clocks would randomly lose percision around major events.
I mean a scientist is quoted as saying "Our data shows clearly that the chances of getting these results by fluke are one million to one against." I would actually place the chance much much lower, I mean a million to one is nothing really. The odds of 30 coin flips in any order is a million to one. The real problem is prediction. The question is whether the model can predict into the future what events will cause blips and the magnitude of the event.
Whenever something mentions Diana as something that could be predicted as an event of the same importance as 9/11 I sort of tune out.
It is I think a paranormal defense mechanism employed to prevent bloodshed.
Paying a programmer to do IT stuff is stupid not so much on a salary basis, (The salaries are suprisingly close for an experienced Sys Admin, and experienced but non managerial programer), but on an effectveness basis. Developers are lousy sys admins (too little concern with security, too much disdain for being a hermit crab), generally over confident help desk workers (the answer really is reboot 90% of the time, figuring out why is not that important), and generally poor to midling field techs (too little experience with hardware, coupled with lack of working with people, instead of just presenting to them).
That isn't to say there aren't good Developer/IT people, just that the skill sets are different, even their world outlook is different.