The only HD DVD content there is right now? Movies. There's NO software available for your PC to play those movies. So you can hook up the drive, you can access the drive, you can look at the data structure on an HD-DVD movie, but you can't actually play the movie that's there.
When you buy this device, it comes with an installation disc for your 360. That installation disc loads the software HD-DVD player onto your 360... the drive itself doesn't know anything about how to play those movies. Hooking this drive up to your PC will not let watch that HD-DVD King Kong movie you rented from netflix.
Xboxhacker points out that there is currently no available PC player for hddvd
This is the part everyone is missing. Allowing the USB HD-DVD drive to work on your PC buys you absolutely nothing at the moment. The importnat parts are all done in software on the 360.
But since Phishing sites can't get certificates anyway, what does this help?
Actually, I don't think phishing sites have much trouble getting certs. Several SSL providers merely check that you own the domain the cert is registered to. If I'm the registrant of amaz0n.com, I'll approve the ssl purchase and have a cert. It tells you absolutely nothing about whether you can trust the person running the website you've connected to.
I'm guessing this is going to end up a lot like the "Made for Windows" certifications where each SSL vendor will be required to meet certain criteria before being able to offer these new certs.
It might work, but I'm guessing it won't really help.
There's not much to worry about there, because there's really no "game" to be immersed in. Since SL is all about social interaction above all else, perhaps having news right there inside the world makes sense...
But then you could just play the game in a window and tab over to a web browser to read C|Net a whole heck of a lot faster.
There's also almost nothing to do inside the world except buy, create, sell and talk.
And most of the stuff you buy / create / sell either aids social interactions (wow! humping avatars!) or pay-for-play gambling.
There's just a whole lot of nothing besides chat and selling non-tangible items for the "cool" factor alone.
That and they allowed their credit card database to be raided and then refused to remove my personal information from their servers until the standard 90-day culling period had passed. Bastards
Well, that's exactly what a lot of people are missing.
This is no different than other forms of income, and income is taxable.
By great coincedence, the money you spend to allow you to create that income is allowed to be deducted from the earnings to offset the total tax paid.
If you make $20K/month in Second Life, hell yes you should be required to pay taxes on that. But you'll be able to deduct the cost of your internet access, computer depreciation, office space rental, etc. from the gross income.
The IRS isn't going to worry about people making $20-100 / month online doing this stuff... they are going to go after the bigger fish.
As an aside, most people know that the money you win gambling is taxable, typically at a fairly high rate. Most people I've talked to, however, didn't realize that if you keep your reciepts from when you lose, you can mark that as an expense against your winnings to reduce that tax.
All this being said, IANATL, so check with a specialist:-)
I'd agree with you _if_ the only reason a server ever got put onto an RBL was due to relaying and misconfiguration. The trouble is that some addresses are inevitably put on the list due to a disagreement about terms of service or what constitutes "spam."
As the network admin for a consulting company, I'll never use an RBL on our mail because any lost communication from a customer or potential customer costs us more than potentially allowing some spam through (or buying larger hardware to handle better spam detection)
What we don't know about the original contractor is if they were using the circumvention to actually enter the spam into blogs, or if he was using the input to train an even better captcha evading bot.
Outlook is still better than entourage, and it's even more attractive on an intel mac (Entourage is still PPC only).
And most of the Office versions that are supported are old. Outlook 2003 doesn't work, for example. Word 2003 seems to work okay, but as you indicated, there's a perfectly good Mac version of Word out there.
DNS TTL values are dependant on other people's DNS servers respecting your wishes. AOL's DNS servers (for one) will regularly cache a record for an hour regardless of TTL value.
An off-site anti-spam provider that can also do store-and-forward for your mail can really save your bacon in a situation like this. Personally, we use MXLogic.
Now that you've shown the rest of the company just how important that connection is, you shouldn't have much trouble convincing them to spend the money to make sure it's up:-)
I agree with this. for relatively low usage they are superb, and we bought one for a couple of CxOs to share as well. Duplexing out of the box means you save on paper, and since it's PS and PCL6 print drivers are readily available for all major OS's
I'm shocked it took this long into the thread for this idea to come up. Dividing up the electoral votes a state has by the ratio of votes for each party would prevent the smaller population states from getting their votes dictated by the large, and yet still allow the "red state/blue state" schism to fall away.
The downside might be 50 Ohios / Floridas each election instead of just the one we've had for each of the last two.
Well, from a purely WoW perspective, hitting level 60 isn't really the goal of the game, it's the phat loots that you get from making endless high level raids.
Which is why I cancelled my account.
So levelling up faster just gets you to the end game faster which just lets you... um... Yeah, I don't know what the point is after that.
I'm probably too jaded on MMOs to be much use to you. Right now, they all seem to embody the worst elements of capitalism both in their billing model and their gameplay.
I thought the EULA wasn't binding until agreed to. Until I install the software or break certain seals, I do in fact own that copy of the software, up until I agree that I don't via the EULA
From the article:
The defence argued that if a large organisation, such as a bank, bought a large number of computers and never used the bundled Microsoft software and sold on the licences, that a company such as Digital could sell those licences, for which Microsoft had already been paid.
The judge rejected the argument. "The fallacy in the argument is that if the bank does not accept the EULA [licence] terms [by operating the software and agreeing the terms], it receives no licence. Thus it can confer no licence for the use of any Microsoft software by passing on the COA (certificate of authenticity), nor can the COA be evidence of, or itself confer, such a licence. Thus, provided that the licensing system is enforceable in law, the circumstances exemplified cannot give rise to a legitimate trade in COAs."
So, according to this judge, in the UK, if you don't agree to the licenses, you don't, in fact, own anything, even if you've paid for it.
There was an article in the Chicago Reader a couple of weeks ago about pets (and people) getting electrocuted from lines that were buried 40 or more years ago and were now corroding or fraying. It can actually cause wet concrete to basically act like a large shock plate. Not fun. It's also very hard to detect.
I'll second this. 2GB of RAM in a MacBook Pro is ideal.
and for the great grand-parent, you should find that parallels running on a MBP will outperform the Pentium M you have in the Dell, provided you aren't simultaneously soaking the processor in OS X:-)
If you were previously using email-only this is a total non-issue (you could always use any number of clients for pop or imap)
Not true. No matter what type of client you use to access a mailbox, it requires a seperate CAL for each user, unless you go the route of device CALs, in which case you'll need a seperate CAL for each piece of hardware, regardless of what type of client is used.
The fact that each CAL inclueds a license to use Outlook just makes it more attractive for people to use Outlook for their other mailboxes.
Note that RIS is not a very good solution. Even if you have uniform hardware, (Like Dell's, or HP/Compaq's) changing one driver can muck up the whole process.
Based on that statement, though, you didn't evaluate it very well. The method of loading drivers for either system is pretty much the same... Slipstreamed into the windows distribution and activated with unattended.txt (especially in the case of network or storage drivers) or applied after the fact through scripting (unattended) or group policy (RIS) for drivers that are less critical (sound and other stuff)
Don't get me wrong, I like the Unattended project, but it doesn't sound like you know the program you're arguing against very well.
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No, see you missed it again.
this allows you to play HD-DVDs on your PC
The only HD DVD content there is right now? Movies. There's NO software available for your PC to play those movies. So you can hook up the drive, you can access the drive, you can look at the data structure on an HD-DVD movie, but you can't actually play the movie that's there.
When you buy this device, it comes with an installation disc for your 360. That installation disc loads the software HD-DVD player onto your 360... the drive itself doesn't know anything about how to play those movies. Hooking this drive up to your PC will not let watch that HD-DVD King Kong movie you rented from netflix.
Clearer?
Xboxhacker points out that there is currently no available PC player for hddvd
This is the part everyone is missing. Allowing the USB HD-DVD drive to work on your PC buys you absolutely nothing at the moment. The importnat parts are all done in software on the 360.
But since Phishing sites can't get certificates anyway, what does this help?
Actually, I don't think phishing sites have much trouble getting certs. Several SSL providers merely check that you own the domain the cert is registered to. If I'm the registrant of amaz0n.com, I'll approve the ssl purchase and have a cert. It tells you absolutely nothing about whether you can trust the person running the website you've connected to.
I'm guessing this is going to end up a lot like the "Made for Windows" certifications where each SSL vendor will be required to meet certain criteria before being able to offer these new certs.
It might work, but I'm guessing it won't really help.
There's not much to worry about there, because there's really no "game" to be immersed in. Since SL is all about social interaction above all else, perhaps having news right there inside the world makes sense...
But then you could just play the game in a window and tab over to a web browser to read C|Net a whole heck of a lot faster.
There's also almost nothing to do inside the world except buy, create, sell and talk.
And most of the stuff you buy / create / sell either aids social interactions (wow! humping avatars!) or pay-for-play gambling.
There's just a whole lot of nothing besides chat and selling non-tangible items for the "cool" factor alone.
That and they allowed their credit card database to be raided and then refused to remove my personal information from their servers until the standard 90-day culling period had passed. Bastards
Well, that's exactly what a lot of people are missing.
/month in Second Life, hell yes you should be required to pay taxes on that. But you'll be able to deduct the cost of your internet access, computer depreciation, office space rental, etc. from the gross income.
:-)
This is no different than other forms of income, and income is taxable.
By great coincedence, the money you spend to allow you to create that income is allowed to be deducted from the earnings to offset the total tax paid.
If you make $20K
The IRS isn't going to worry about people making $20-100 / month online doing this stuff... they are going to go after the bigger fish.
As an aside, most people know that the money you win gambling is taxable, typically at a fairly high rate. Most people I've talked to, however, didn't realize that if you keep your reciepts from when you lose, you can mark that as an expense against your winnings to reduce that tax.
All this being said, IANATL, so check with a specialist
Gee, that won't upset the standard viewing public at all... will it?
Maybe they could play an emergency test tone over the entire 30 seconds, just to get everyone's attention.
4GB? No WiFi? Lame. :-)
I like that they went back to the mini-style cases, less worry of scratches.
Step down? Shouldn't someone go to jail for this? I agree it's fraud, let's treat it as such.
As long as Gordon Freeman is there to watch over the experiment, I think we'll all be okay. Maybe.
I hear the Vortigaunts are our allies.
I'd agree with you _if_ the only reason a server ever got put onto an RBL was due to relaying and misconfiguration. The trouble is that some addresses are inevitably put on the list due to a disagreement about terms of service or what constitutes "spam."
As the network admin for a consulting company, I'll never use an RBL on our mail because any lost communication from a customer or potential customer costs us more than potentially allowing some spam through (or buying larger hardware to handle better spam detection)
What we don't know about the original contractor is if they were using the circumvention to actually enter the spam into blogs, or if he was using the input to train an even better captcha evading bot.
So we may not even be making it harder. Bummer
Outlook is still better than entourage, and it's even more attractive on an intel mac (Entourage is still PPC only).
And most of the Office versions that are supported are old. Outlook 2003 doesn't work, for example. Word 2003 seems to work okay, but as you indicated, there's a perfectly good Mac version of Word out there.
DNS TTL values are dependant on other people's DNS servers respecting your wishes. AOL's DNS servers (for one) will regularly cache a record for an hour regardless of TTL value.
An off-site anti-spam provider that can also do store-and-forward for your mail can really save your bacon in a situation like this. Personally, we use MXLogic.
:-)
Now that you've shown the rest of the company just how important that connection is, you shouldn't have much trouble convincing them to spend the money to make sure it's up
I agree with this. for relatively low usage they are superb, and we bought one for a couple of CxOs to share as well. Duplexing out of the box means you save on paper, and since it's PS and PCL6 print drivers are readily available for all major OS's
I'm shocked it took this long into the thread for this idea to come up. Dividing up the electoral votes a state has by the ratio of votes for each party would prevent the smaller population states from getting their votes dictated by the large, and yet still allow the "red state/blue state" schism to fall away.
The downside might be 50 Ohios / Floridas each election instead of just the one we've had for each of the last two.
Probably because this specific thread is about VMWare Server.
None of the servers in my data center can do 3d acceleration worth a damn, and that really hasn't bothered me a bit.
Well, from a purely WoW perspective, hitting level 60 isn't really the goal of the game, it's the phat loots that you get from making endless high level raids.
Which is why I cancelled my account.
So levelling up faster just gets you to the end game faster which just lets you... um... Yeah, I don't know what the point is after that.
I'm probably too jaded on MMOs to be much use to you. Right now, they all seem to embody the worst elements of capitalism both in their billing model and their gameplay.
I thought the EULA wasn't binding until agreed to. Until I install the software or break certain seals, I do in fact own that copy of the software, up until I agree that I don't via the EULA
From the article:
The defence argued that if a large organisation, such as a bank, bought a large number of computers and never used the bundled Microsoft software and sold on the licences, that a company such as Digital could sell those licences, for which Microsoft had already been paid.
The judge rejected the argument. "The fallacy in the argument is that if the bank does not accept the EULA [licence] terms [by operating the software and agreeing the terms], it receives no licence. Thus it can confer no licence for the use of any Microsoft software by passing on the COA (certificate of authenticity), nor can the COA be evidence of, or itself confer, such a licence. Thus, provided that the licensing system is enforceable in law, the circumstances exemplified cannot give rise to a legitimate trade in COAs."
So, according to this judge, in the UK, if you don't agree to the licenses, you don't, in fact, own anything, even if you've paid for it.
Kinda scary.
There was an article in the Chicago Reader a couple of weeks ago about pets (and people) getting electrocuted from lines that were buried 40 or more years ago and were now corroding or fraying. It can actually cause wet concrete to basically act like a large shock plate. Not fun. It's also very hard to detect.
Here's a link to the article summary, though you'd have to pay $2 to actually read it.
I'll second this. 2GB of RAM in a MacBook Pro is ideal.
:-)
and for the great grand-parent, you should find that parallels running on a MBP will outperform the Pentium M you have in the Dell, provided you aren't simultaneously soaking the processor in OS X
If you were previously using email-only this is a total non-issue (you could always use any number of clients for pop or imap)
Not true. No matter what type of client you use to access a mailbox, it requires a seperate CAL for each user, unless you go the route of device CALs, in which case you'll need a seperate CAL for each piece of hardware, regardless of what type of client is used.
The fact that each CAL inclueds a license to use Outlook just makes it more attractive for people to use Outlook for their other mailboxes.
Note that RIS is not a very good solution. Even if you have uniform hardware, (Like Dell's, or HP/Compaq's) changing one driver can muck up the whole process.
Based on that statement, though, you didn't evaluate it very well. The method of loading drivers for either system is pretty much the same... Slipstreamed into the windows distribution and activated with unattended.txt (especially in the case of network or storage drivers) or applied after the fact through scripting (unattended) or group policy (RIS) for drivers that are less critical (sound and other stuff)
Don't get me wrong, I like the Unattended project, but it doesn't sound like you know the program you're arguing against very well.
I believe you are confusing RIS with an imaging based solution.
RIS works pretty much the same way the Unattended Project does, only without the Linux/Perl glue holding together the pre and post-install tasks.
One advantage with RIS is that it will most likely be the first "fully-baked" automated Vista installation out there.