> People say that a lot, but it has NO basis in reality
NO basis in reality? Really, none at all? I find that hard to believe.
Maybe you should think about what you just said and in what context the previous post was made before blanket dismissing the statement. In some cases a simple generic device may have more value to one person than another device of similar specification that cost more, but in most cases, for most industries, an upgrade in price generally means an upgrade in performance.
You think there is much difference between a standard Subaru WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO? They look pretty similar don't they? They have much the same type of parts, many similarities in the engines, etc. But one is 50% more than the other. Oh, and yes, one goes a lot harder and faster than the other.
While both nVidia and ATi are options in a Mac Pro, one is clearly better. Without picking apart your words, the x1900 is clearly a better card than the GeForce 7300 GT - It's also twice the price.
Without pushing aside the issue of censorship here, The parent to this is right. nVidia are cheaper cards, and do have 'known' issues. Had you done a little more research, you may have ordered the box with the X1900 in it in place of the nVidia. I know it is more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
In a nutshell, pay less money, expect more issues. You paid for the 2GB RAM upgrade, why not the GFX card upgrade!?
FYI, I play WoW on my MacBook Pro with 1GB and a 128MB X1600 and it manages to run at full resolution on my 24" LCD (external) with no drama, plus with the Blizzard engine now supporting dual core properly, will do anything from 25-100 fps. That game on OSX is not as resource hungry as people think.
That's almost the same as my strategy. I get everything at my domiain that is not destined for an existing user, so I sign up to each and every web service that requires an email address with @mydomain.com
Again, you can see almost immediately where dodgy email is coming from if they decide to do a little bit of a sell, or they have poor security around their email databases. I find however that 99.9% of the span I get (well, block - greylist milter FTW), the address is sourced from other people who have my real email address, and don't protect their systems well enough. Trojans et al are very good at harvesting email addresses of home PCs these days.
Q: Does on-line bank fraud cost the consumer or the bank? A: In general, The Bank if you can prove it is not your fault. Otherwise, you, the consumer.
If it was costing the banks millions of dollars each year (which it is if we believe the press), then a bank should be willing to spend $5 per on-line user to issue each and every one of them with an OTP should they not? Well, my bank in Aus (HSBC) thinks so. I do a lot of online banking, and I don't mind doing it from a public terminal, because I have an electronic OTP, and each six-digit number is good for one login attempt, one payment or one transfer only. And that's the beauty of an OTP. You can't predict the next number, and the number just used has been used for ever.
Now I do understand that there must be some algorithm to match the number off my pad and what the on-line system is expecting, but I have my doubts as to whether or not that could be broken by a man-in-the-middle or a key logger attack.
And speaking of Mooks at the security desk how does this one grab you...
The captain of a Qantas 747 scheduled to leave LAX for SYD gets told he has to leave his multi-tool (Leatherman or whatever) behind as it "may allow him access to the flight deck".
His reply was along the lines of, while pointing at the captains stripes on his shoulder, a quite prominantly displayed ID card, and a pair of shiny brass wings on his shirt, "What the hell do you think these do!"
He got locked up for an hour after having 3 guns drawn on him.
And the 21 Sept. 11 Hijackers all used one-way tickets... Oh wait, they all used open ended return.
I'm sorry but your explaination does not hold water. Why would I get searched everytime, yet my travel bud never get searched? Same age, same sex, same itinerary, same tickets, same everything but passport names and numbers.
I travelled through the USA on 6 flights in Jan - Mar 2002. I was randomly selected for special treatment 6/6 times. My bagage and boarding cards get the SSSS every time. I travelled through the USA on 7 flights in Jul - Aug 2003. I was randomly selected for special treatment 7/7 times. This time was the funniest though. I was travelling with someone although on separate bookings, so I just gave him my carry-on as it was too much of a hassle for me to have it searched every time.
Both times were on round the world tickets, travelling one-way segments, single male, 25-28 years of age.
I can't believe it has taken 9 years for this to make it to the public...
I work for Xerox, we actually tell customers about this as a security feature of the machines. The article mentions that Xerox devices are more common in offices rather than homes (true) but company suits want to know that their employees aren't going to be making copies of currency (or stamps, bonds, etc.) on office equipment, thereby making them liable in some way, shape or form.
If you try to copy a US $ bill on a Xerox, you get a smudgy black blob anyway. It works with a few currencies, but it has the security dots on it (invisible to the naked eye) all over the page. We have been asked to identify the source a few times, and it is usually guys working in pay-for-print copy stores that get busted for conterfieting.
Other than that, there is no way we can track anything other than the time and place of the copy. So quit stressing.
There is nothing stopping you going and doing the non-human quests to get our lowbie off to a start. There are 3 totally separate areas with separate stories for each level range. You may think 1-10 might be your 'home' area all over again, but you could quite easily go to IF on the tram and start 1-10 in the Dorf area.
Maybe when you have 6 Alliance charaters you can whine about lack of lowbie areas, but again, there's nothing to stop you playin horde for another 6 characters.
I don't need to defend the game, but maybe you are missing a large chunk of the effort put in by the developers in your narrow minded and non-adventurous choice of character.
From memory, and I left uni 10 years ago, muffling a gt engine seriously ruins it's performence. Then again, we were interested in them pushing 300,000 tonne aircraft along at 500mph...
Nearing the end of the Afghan vs. USSR conflict in the '80s, Former US Congressman Charlie Wilson's "Tinkerers" (Their secret-ish building is now named after him) were working out ways simple Afghan tribesmen, often referred to as Muj, or Mujahadeen, could terrorise the Soviets without risking their lives. Many of the fiendish ploys were put in to practise whereby CIA men would train the Muj and the poor Russian soldiers would be the ones on the receiving end.
One of the ploys the tinkerers came up with was using RC planes to deliver explosives (or other payloads) in to airfields from a safe distance, however this idea was never passed on to the Muj by the CIA, for fear that the terrorist they were training might one day become OUR enemy, and having such an easily accessable and relatively risk free weapon was deemed 'unacceptable risk'.
And yes, all these terror plots that al-Queda are coming up with now are stemming from the things the Muj were taught by the CIA back when they were 'My Enemy's Enemy, and therefore My Friend'.
And 2 books for you people reading this comment before you label/flame me. "Charlie Wilson's War" (also has other titles) - George Crile, and "Sleeping with the Devil" - Robert Baer. Go on, educate yourself about US Foreign Policy in the Middle East!
I can't believe after 350+ comments there are only 3 people who have said buy a Mac, and this is (as I write) the only one that says buy a G4 iMac.
1. They are very small (esp. thin), very light weight, and very powerful. 2. They have 54g wireless, firewire, usb, etc... 3. You WILL buy an iPod eventually 4. OSX is the best OS - Ever! 5. The body is pretty robust. 6. G4 iMacs are cool. This last one you will appreciate after about 1 month of uni/college.
I just wish this technology was around when I was at uni, and laptops were not soley for the students whose family ran small Gulf Nations.
That said, Mac software can be a bit limited in speciallist areas, but since you have not specified what your doing, I can't say you'll want anything other than a word processor.
Also, if you need to write down formulas, pen & paper are a LOT faster.
It would be nice if Gnutella could share pieces of partially downloaded files, and it would be nice if Gnutella incorporated some anti-leech system like bittorrent has.
Well, I use WinMX on a crappy old PII that just sits in the corner of the den and, hums along nicely. I know it's Windoze and all that, but with MXmonitor kicking all the leeches, it really is a better solution than GNUtella. It shares partial files, but has no in-built anti leech stuff which is a minor issue.
Yes, but Titan may also be a massivley available fuel source, already in a high orbit, a long way from Earth where future outer space missions can be launched from.
If life exists on Titan, the human race will seek to exploit it for our own goals of exploration to other worlds. Not a hugely good thing, but good none the less.
I was in Japan this time last year and I used the RF/Prox card for the metro, as well as the traditional magnetic strip tickets. The card is very quick indeed to get through the turnstyles, but the normal ticket system can easily cope with the levels of use and is also just as fast. The only way this benefits the customer is missing the queues to buy/adjust the ticket value at the beginning/end of the journey.
Where I live here in Edinburgh, the busses have a similar sort of card (time, not distance based though) and it takes easily a full two seconds before it registers the pass which is slower than paying by cash. It does forfeit the problem of having to dig up correct change before walking out the door though.
The largest portion of my multiplaying time was taken up with Warcaft II, the grandaddy of multiplayer RTS (IMO). I remember playing that for more than 32 hours in a 48 hour period once.
So would I be correct in saying that if you buy the game, you get every bit of 'expansion pack' style material that comes out in the following year of development?
That's sure to be a success, although I can only think of one expansion pack I didn't buy for a Blizzard game (they're good at releasing expansions that cost half the same as the original game).
Still, I'm contemplating either MOO3 or GalCiv as I don't have loads of time to spend playing games these days.
Quick poll, which one do you think is better? I'm leaning towards GalCiv as I usually like playing strategy games single player. Multiplayer is much better in fast pace eg. FPS.
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> People say that a lot, but it has NO basis in reality
NO basis in reality? Really, none at all? I find that hard to believe.
Maybe you should think about what you just said and in what context the previous post was made before blanket dismissing the statement. In some cases a simple generic device may have more value to one person than another device of similar specification that cost more, but in most cases, for most industries, an upgrade in price generally means an upgrade in performance.
You think there is much difference between a standard Subaru WRX and the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO? They look pretty similar don't they? They have much the same type of parts, many similarities in the engines, etc. But one is 50% more than the other. Oh, and yes, one goes a lot harder and faster than the other.
While both nVidia and ATi are options in a Mac Pro, one is clearly better. Without picking apart your words, the x1900 is clearly a better card than the GeForce 7300 GT - It's also twice the price.
P.S., You get what you pay for.
Without pushing aside the issue of censorship here, The parent to this is right. nVidia are cheaper cards, and do have 'known' issues. Had you done a little more research, you may have ordered the box with the X1900 in it in place of the nVidia. I know it is more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
In a nutshell, pay less money, expect more issues. You paid for the 2GB RAM upgrade, why not the GFX card upgrade!?
FYI, I play WoW on my MacBook Pro with 1GB and a 128MB X1600 and it manages to run at full resolution on my 24" LCD (external) with no drama, plus with the Blizzard engine now supporting dual core properly, will do anything from 25-100 fps. That game on OSX is not as resource hungry as people think.
That's almost the same as my strategy. I get everything at my domiain that is not destined for an existing user, so I sign up to each and every web service that requires an email address with @mydomain.com
Again, you can see almost immediately where dodgy email is coming from if they decide to do a little bit of a sell, or they have poor security around their email databases. I find however that 99.9% of the span I get (well, block - greylist milter FTW), the address is sourced from other people who have my real email address, and don't protect their systems well enough. Trojans et al are very good at harvesting email addresses of home PCs these days.
Q: Does on-line bank fraud cost the consumer or the bank?
A: In general, The Bank if you can prove it is not your fault. Otherwise, you, the consumer.
If it was costing the banks millions of dollars each year (which it is if we believe the press), then a bank should be willing to spend $5 per on-line user to issue each and every one of them with an OTP should they not? Well, my bank in Aus (HSBC) thinks so. I do a lot of online banking, and I don't mind doing it from a public terminal, because I have an electronic OTP, and each six-digit number is good for one login attempt, one payment or one transfer only. And that's the beauty of an OTP. You can't predict the next number, and the number just used has been used for ever.
Now I do understand that there must be some algorithm to match the number off my pad and what the on-line system is expecting, but I have my doubts as to whether or not that could be broken by a man-in-the-middle or a key logger attack.
And speaking of Mooks at the security desk how does this one grab you...
The captain of a Qantas 747 scheduled to leave LAX for SYD gets told he has to leave his multi-tool (Leatherman or whatever) behind as it "may allow him access to the flight deck".
His reply was along the lines of, while pointing at the captains stripes on his shoulder, a quite prominantly displayed ID card, and a pair of shiny brass wings on his shirt, "What the hell do you think these do!"
He got locked up for an hour after having 3 guns drawn on him.
And this was about a month ago.
Mooks indeed.
Of course! Now we know how to catch 'em!
And the 21 Sept. 11 Hijackers all used one-way tickets... Oh wait, they all used open ended return.
I'm sorry but your explaination does not hold water. Why would I get searched everytime, yet my travel bud never get searched? Same age, same sex, same itinerary, same tickets, same everything but passport names and numbers.
Random is such a joke.
I travelled through the USA on 6 flights in Jan - Mar 2002. I was randomly selected for special treatment 6/6 times. My bagage and boarding cards get the SSSS every time.
I travelled through the USA on 7 flights in Jul - Aug 2003. I was randomly selected for special treatment 7/7 times. This time was the funniest though. I was travelling with someone although on separate bookings, so I just gave him my carry-on as it was too much of a hassle for me to have it searched every time.
Both times were on round the world tickets, travelling one-way segments, single male, 25-28 years of age.
So to reiterate, random, my ass.
Apart from the whacky oval layout, the Dilbert Ultimate Home is one on the most well integrated pieces of (virtual) real estate I have ever seen.
When it comes time for me to build a house, there will be a lot of ideas taken from that website!
Are those Sharks with Laser beams attached to their heads? Scotty, that is the best gift!
>> I mean, if I took heroin once a week, you wouldn't exactly call me a "heavy drug user", would you?
Yes, in fact, I would call anyone that used such a drug more than once a user, and once a week is heavy drug use of illicit drugs.
unlike Blizzard who would sell millions of games regardless of the quality of their product.
Which has NOTHING to do with the reputaion they have for making quality games...
You'd be 3 or 4 by the time you got there on area discovery!
I can't believe it has taken 9 years for this to make it to the public...
I work for Xerox, we actually tell customers about this as a security feature of the machines. The article mentions that Xerox devices are more common in offices rather than homes (true) but company suits want to know that their employees aren't going to be making copies of currency (or stamps, bonds, etc.) on office equipment, thereby making them liable in some way, shape or form.
If you try to copy a US $ bill on a Xerox, you get a smudgy black blob anyway. It works with a few currencies, but it has the security dots on it (invisible to the naked eye) all over the page. We have been asked to identify the source a few times, and it is usually guys working in pay-for-print copy stores that get busted for conterfieting.
Other than that, there is no way we can track anything other than the time and place of the copy. So quit stressing.
Dude,
There is nothing stopping you going and doing the non-human quests to get our lowbie off to a start. There are 3 totally separate areas with separate stories for each level range. You may think 1-10 might be your 'home' area all over again, but you could quite easily go to IF on the tram and start 1-10 in the Dorf area.
Maybe when you have 6 Alliance charaters you can whine about lack of lowbie areas, but again, there's nothing to stop you playin horde for another 6 characters.
I don't need to defend the game, but maybe you are missing a large chunk of the effort put in by the developers in your narrow minded and non-adventurous choice of character.
From memory, and I left uni 10 years ago, muffling a gt engine seriously ruins it's performence. Then again, we were interested in them pushing 300,000 tonne aircraft along at 500mph...
I have but one word for you.
Noise.
Nearing the end of the Afghan vs. USSR conflict in the '80s, Former US Congressman Charlie Wilson's "Tinkerers" (Their secret-ish building is now named after him) were working out ways simple Afghan tribesmen, often referred to as Muj, or Mujahadeen, could terrorise the Soviets without risking their lives. Many of the fiendish ploys were put in to practise whereby CIA men would train the Muj and the poor Russian soldiers would be the ones on the receiving end.
One of the ploys the tinkerers came up with was using RC planes to deliver explosives (or other payloads) in to airfields from a safe distance, however this idea was never passed on to the Muj by the CIA, for fear that the terrorist they were training might one day become OUR enemy, and having such an easily accessable and relatively risk free weapon was deemed 'unacceptable risk'.
And yes, all these terror plots that al-Queda are coming up with now are stemming from the things the Muj were taught by the CIA back when they were 'My Enemy's Enemy, and therefore My Friend'.
And 2 books for you people reading this comment before you label/flame me. "Charlie Wilson's War" (also has other titles) - George Crile, and "Sleeping with the Devil" - Robert Baer. Go on, educate yourself about US Foreign Policy in the Middle East!
I can't believe after 350+ comments there are only 3 people who have said buy a Mac, and this is (as I write) the only one that says buy a G4 iMac.
1. They are very small (esp. thin), very light weight, and very powerful.
2. They have 54g wireless, firewire, usb, etc...
3. You WILL buy an iPod eventually
4. OSX is the best OS - Ever!
5. The body is pretty robust.
6. G4 iMacs are cool. This last one you will appreciate after about 1 month of uni/college.
I just wish this technology was around when I was at uni, and laptops were not soley for the students whose family ran small Gulf Nations.
That said, Mac software can be a bit limited in speciallist areas, but since you have not specified what your doing, I can't say you'll want anything other than a word processor.
Also, if you need to write down formulas, pen & paper are a LOT faster.
It would be nice if Gnutella could share pieces of partially downloaded files, and it would be nice if Gnutella incorporated some anti-leech system like bittorrent has.
Well, I use WinMX on a crappy old PII that just sits in the corner of the den and, hums along nicely. I know it's Windoze and all that, but with MXmonitor kicking all the leeches, it really is a better solution than GNUtella. It shares partial files, but has no in-built anti leech stuff which is a minor issue.
Just my 2c.
Yes, but Titan may also be a massivley available fuel source, already in a high orbit, a long way from Earth where future outer space missions can be launched from.
If life exists on Titan, the human race will seek to exploit it for our own goals of exploration to other worlds. Not a hugely good thing, but good none the less.
I was in Japan this time last year and I used the RF/Prox card for the metro, as well as the traditional magnetic strip tickets. The card is very quick indeed to get through the turnstyles, but the normal ticket system can easily cope with the levels of use and is also just as fast. The only way this benefits the customer is missing the queues to buy/adjust the ticket value at the beginning/end of the journey.
Where I live here in Edinburgh, the busses have a similar sort of card (time, not distance based though) and it takes easily a full two seconds before it registers the pass which is slower than paying by cash. It does forfeit the problem of having to dig up correct change before walking out the door though.
I can't believe I just downloaded a 132MB demo and it can't run properly on a P4 1.8GHz w/ 512MB and a 32MB 3D card. Like seriously - WTF!!
The mouse pointer updated it's position on the screen once every 30-60 frames, although the (really fancy) pics and animations ran smoothly.
Let's see now, which needs to update all the time and which one doesn't? Well, it's not the freakin' asteroids that are just BG art!
Eg means 'for example'.
The largest portion of my multiplaying time was taken up with Warcaft II, the grandaddy of multiplayer RTS (IMO). I remember playing that for more than 32 hours in a 48 hour period once.
So would I be correct in saying that if you buy the game, you get every bit of 'expansion pack' style material that comes out in the following year of development?
That's sure to be a success, although I can only think of one expansion pack I didn't buy for a Blizzard game (they're good at releasing expansions that cost half the same as the original game).
Still, I'm contemplating either MOO3 or GalCiv as I don't have loads of time to spend playing games these days.
Quick poll, which one do you think is better? I'm leaning towards GalCiv as I usually like playing strategy games single player. Multiplayer is much better in fast pace eg. FPS.
what do we use to capture the video and convert it to divx
The WEF's Gordian Knot of course!
Actually, that's for M$ too, but it's got the best stuff for converting anything to DivX.