These hardware bundles must also provide some form of hardware/vendor-licence verification mechanism ("anti-piracy measures"), which currently is supposed to consist of added code to the firmware.
This is stupid. It's an almost-dead market, and they place restrictions like this on the platform? AInc are stoopido.
I remember reading somewhere that the reason boys and girls differ in their computer expertise (on average) is due to the following:
Boy jumps onto the computer, plays with it till he breaks some part of it, and is forced to figure out how to fix it.
Girl, terrified of breaking the computer, demands to be shown what to do before using it.
Note: Yes this is a broad generalisation, but this is slashdot.
Because the guys jump into using it so quickly, they learn faster through trial and error. The pace of learning with girls is a lot slower due to their desire to know how stuff works first.
This has parallels with "reading instructions". From the large sample of friends that I have, very few of them (male) ever choose to read the instructions.
Personally, I'm affronted that I even need to read the instructions (especially for consumer electronic items). In this day and age, electronic items (VCR/DVD/camcorder/digicam) should be usable by anyone who spends 60 seconds playing with it (think iPod). In short, we should not ever need to read instructions.
When I get into my evil mindset (usually after a long and frustrating day), I'm tempted to learn (I have a book on Lisp around here somewhere...) one of those rarer languages (ie, lisp, Eiffel, o'caml) , and replace certain mission critical scripts with ones written in them.
Reminds me of an advertisment I saw just a few days ago. The magazine is literally sitting next to me, so let me just grab it to refresh my memory...
...ahh here's the quote:
"How many Developers run as Administrator on their development box?
Our research shows 95% or more - despite this being a known practice which introduces deployment and/or security flaws in applications downstream!"
Either way, it's an absolute PITA to do development without the freedom provided by having total access (installing third party packages/software, modifying permissions, configuring services). You can install applications like Sudo to grant elevated privileges on a case-by-case basis, but you have to be serious about it because there's a lot of configuration you have to do if you want to do it properly.
Sidenote: My colleague who used to work for a bank told me a tale where he was not allowed to see what cron jobs were running on a system, but for whatever reason - had been given access to use/bin/cat with sudo. At one stage he "cat" the/var/spool/cron/tabs/xyz (or whatever the path is), in order to find out why some process was hogging the system resources. When he offered a suggestion on how to improve it - the admin looked at him oddly and was like "how do you know what cron jobs are running!?"
However, Audacity has the benefit of being available for more platforms than just Linux. But if it doesn't have the features you're looking for, then who cares.
I've had bbclone monitoring my blog for the last 3-4 months.
In a few days I've noted MSNbot also "raping" my site (333 hits recently vs 600+ hits from Google across the last few months). It's managed to hit around 25% of robot traffic in the last week or so. I suspect this is due to a poor search algorithm (or duplication of effort by the search algorithm, in case the crawling fails).
Those that are clever may be able to guess the URL to my bbclone stats, to confirm what I'm saying.
It is for this reason, that the lab I administer has a Firefox link labelled "Internet" and all links to IE have been removed.
If that occured at my workplace, we'd have a few issues:
Our intranet doesn't reliably work without IE (poor/incomprehensible formatting in Firefox)
I cannot enter my timesheet in my company's web-based form with anything other than IE on windows (IE/Mac, Firefox, Safari and Opera all fail!)
At present, I use Firefox for everything except those two (crucial) sites. I even had a workmate ask me my opinion on Firefox (out of the blue). I recommended it to him with the caveat of "I only need IE for our Intranet".
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I doubt this, based on: 1) Most people I know who still play CS are pimply faced teens who's parents can't afford a new PC. 2) The same teens won't be able to afford a new game purchase in the $100 mark (AU prices). They will D/L or borrow from friends.
Around christmas I see the sales heading up there, but it's going to look a little lower than HL2, because of the requirement to upgrade the PC to play it. Halo just requires you buy the game, not a new video card, ram, motherboard, etc.
Practical example for Ettercap?
Scaring my boss as I show him why it's important to explicitly disallow SSH v1 connections (ettercap can perform Man-In-The-Middle password sniffing on this).
Also to demonstrate why you should never let me mess around on a live network:
Ettercap running under Knoppix crashed, while sniffing the entire floor's network (my laptop was acting as the router for the floor, no wonder it crashed). Slight problem though, almost at once everyone looked up and went "did Exchange go down?". Had to rush from desk to desk flushing the arp table on people's system, as they were still trying to use the laptop as the default gateway.
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It was the story in Halo that I loved.
About the only thing I disliked was the somewhat repetitive umm... levels where you had to get away from the zombie like thingies, whatever they were.
The final level where you have to get out of the exploding ship, with the pumping soundtrack psyching you on, just made it for me. I have to checkout Halo 2 just because of the memory that Halo left me with.
We (by and large) hate the French president, do they care?
Without going to Google/CIA Factbook/etc, can you name the French president?
What many Americans don't seem to realise is that the outcome of their election will affect people outside their borders. This is why you have so much concern from Europeans. I (as an Australian with a huge muslim country to my north - Indonesia) am not looking forward to another few years with Bush as president, stirring up the hornets nest that is Islamic Fanaticism.
That's my fear and why I'm following this election closely.
I'm reminded of a line from Rounders, where Matt Damon's character says of the "Judges Game" (paraphrasing) "I realised - in this room of learned-minds, there was not one real poker player".
Intelligence (or geek skills) isn't the sole requirement. Knowledge will get you so far, but your ability to play the game (primarily the social aspect as you said). At the professional level, so much comes down to reading the other man, and controlling your reactions to how the cards and bets are played out. You can know odds and betting patterns, but hiding that grin when you make a good hand is worth so much more...
I have my powerbook at the office, and like to watch movies in the background.
Having a transparent terminal window above the DVD screen survives most casual glances, no need to cmd-tab!
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I have several workmates who are heavily into downloading movies via bittorrent and morpheus. They also ask to borrow my DVD's so they can burn themselves copies.
I used to share their mindset, but that was when I couldn't afford to purchase those items on my own. Now I can, and it's simply more convenient to purchase a DVD than it is to wait a day or so for it to download via bittorrent, while maxxing my cable connection and being unable to do much else.
The only exception to this is when something is unavailable and doesn't appear likely to become available for a while. An example is Ghost in the Shell 2. I haven't seen any announcements for its cinematic (let alone DVD) release in Australia, so I willingly grabbed it off a friend. However, as soon as it comes out in Australia on DVD, I will be buying a copy.
People who willingly pirate for the sake of it, not because they can't afford it, are the epitome of leeches.
Something interesting I read about when I was looking for alternatives to X (even on local lan it can perform poorly). These figures are in comparison to Nomachine's NX technology:
The basic stuff is opensource. And the numbers I heard about this
are pretty nice:
9600 Baud GSM modem link over vanilla X: Mozilla-1.6 needs
4000 roundtrips and takes 5 minutes.
9600 Baud GSM modem link over NX: Mozilla-1.6 needs a dozen
roundtrips and takes 20 seconds.
KDE-3.2 desktop startup over vanilla X: transfers 4.8 MByte
of data.
KDE-3.2 desktop startup over NX: transfers 35 kByte of data.
This was cut and pasted from an email I sent to workmates a while back when I heard about NX initially. These days I prefer to use RealVNC (until I get around to buying a copy of NX) to connect to my XFCE session at home from the office.
Even on what you consider a fast connection (local ethernet) I prefer VNC over X11.
Possibly because Trolltech's understood for a while that you can make money off open source.
It's a genious approach to open source development. You want to contribute to the world of free software - use the GPL'd version of Qt. Want to sell a proprietary, closed-source product so your competitors can't take a peek - go with the commercial version of Qt.
It's not that confusing after all is it? Or perhaps you'd like to share some actual areas in which you find it confusing... (or maybe you're just trolling).
Stop spending money on computer gear/magazines/games.
Spend that money on getting some smart new clothes for your wardrobe (even if you meet them online, you're intending to meet them at some stage). This includes shoes.
If you wear glasses, get some contacts. First impressions count - and you might be a nice guy, but consider why you never saw any of the leads in sitcoms like Friends wearing glasses - they aren't considered attractive.
You most likely have very social friends that you don't hang out with as much as you could. Change that. Start calling them up and say "What are you doing this weekend? Mind if I join you?".
The goal is to get out and about, and meet more people, and get comfortable with meeting people. The more people you meet, the greater likelihood that you'll meet someone you want to go out with.
Details on Photoshop 7 support can be found here. However, it has been listed as a "Silver Medal" in terms of support, which in Codeweaver's language means: "This application installs, and runs well enough to be usable. However we find it has enough bugs to prevent it from running flawlessly. "
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This is stupid. It's an almost-dead market, and they place restrictions like this on the platform? AInc are stoopido.
Note: Yes this is a broad generalisation, but this is slashdot.
Because the guys jump into using it so quickly, they learn faster through trial and error. The pace of learning with girls is a lot slower due to their desire to know how stuff works first.
This has parallels with "reading instructions". From the large sample of friends that I have, very few of them (male) ever choose to read the instructions.
Personally, I'm affronted that I even need to read the instructions (especially for consumer electronic items). In this day and age, electronic items (VCR/DVD/camcorder/digicam) should be usable by anyone who spends 60 seconds playing with it (think iPod). In short, we should not ever need to read instructions.
When I get into my evil mindset (usually after a long and frustrating day), I'm tempted to learn (I have a book on Lisp around here somewhere...) one of those rarer languages (ie, lisp, Eiffel, o'caml) , and replace certain mission critical scripts with ones written in them.
As has been said many times before. You go with Sun for their support.
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake..."
Either way, it's an absolute PITA to do development without the freedom provided by having total access (installing third party packages/software, modifying permissions, configuring services). You can install applications like Sudo to grant elevated privileges on a case-by-case basis, but you have to be serious about it because there's a lot of configuration you have to do if you want to do it properly.
Sidenote: My colleague who used to work for a bank told me a tale where he was not allowed to see what cron jobs were running on a system, but for whatever reason - had been given access to use /bin/cat with sudo. At one stage he "cat" the /var/spool/cron/tabs/xyz (or whatever the path is), in order to find out why some process was hogging the system resources. When he offered a suggestion on how to improve it - the admin looked at him oddly and was like "how do you know what cron jobs are running!?"
However, Audacity has the benefit of being available for more platforms than just Linux. But if it doesn't have the features you're looking for, then who cares.
In a few days I've noted MSNbot also "raping" my site (333 hits recently vs 600+ hits from Google across the last few months). It's managed to hit around 25% of robot traffic in the last week or so. I suspect this is due to a poor search algorithm (or duplication of effort by the search algorithm, in case the crawling fails).
Those that are clever may be able to guess the URL to my bbclone stats, to confirm what I'm saying.
The type of users that the the Linux desktop is aimed at (these days) don't want to have to know about the command line. A frontend is required.
If that occured at my workplace, we'd have a few issues:
At present, I use Firefox for everything except those two (crucial) sites. I even had a workmate ask me my opinion on Firefox (out of the blue). I recommended it to him with the caveat of "I only need IE for our Intranet".
I doubt this, based on:
1) Most people I know who still play CS are pimply faced teens who's parents can't afford a new PC.
2) The same teens won't be able to afford a new game purchase in the $100 mark (AU prices). They will D/L or borrow from friends.
Around christmas I see the sales heading up there, but it's going to look a little lower than HL2, because of the requirement to upgrade the PC to play it. Halo just requires you buy the game, not a new video card, ram, motherboard, etc.
Ettercap running under Knoppix crashed, while sniffing the entire floor's network (my laptop was acting as the router for the floor, no wonder it crashed). Slight problem though, almost at once everyone looked up and went "did Exchange go down?". Had to rush from desk to desk flushing the arp table on people's system, as they were still trying to use the laptop as the default gateway.
It was the story in Halo that I loved.
About the only thing I disliked was the somewhat repetitive umm... levels where you had to get away from the zombie like thingies, whatever they were.
The final level where you have to get out of the exploding ship, with the pumping soundtrack psyching you on, just made it for me. I have to checkout Halo 2 just because of the memory that Halo left me with.
And say the reason you need a G5 is because Aspyr can't be bothered optimising for G4 systems. Simple solution - require G5's.
Without going to Google/CIA Factbook/etc, can you name the French president?
What many Americans don't seem to realise is that the outcome of their election will affect people outside their borders. This is why you have so much concern from Europeans. I (as an Australian with a huge muslim country to my north - Indonesia) am not looking forward to another few years with Bush as president, stirring up the hornets nest that is Islamic Fanaticism.
That's my fear and why I'm following this election closely.
Ricenix: Too fast, too optimised!
You could also say the same of CIA:
Pick any two:
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Samsung have such beautifully designed phones, I can't believe it's taken till late 2004 for them to add bluetooth connectivity.
You can look at their new bluetooth model here: D500
Intelligence (or geek skills) isn't the sole requirement. Knowledge will get you so far, but your ability to play the game (primarily the social aspect as you said). At the professional level, so much comes down to reading the other man, and controlling your reactions to how the cards and bets are played out. You can know odds and betting patterns, but hiding that grin when you make a good hand is worth so much more...
I have my powerbook at the office, and like to watch movies in the background.
Having a transparent terminal window above the DVD screen survives most casual glances, no need to cmd-tab!
I have several workmates who are heavily into downloading movies via bittorrent and morpheus. They also ask to borrow my DVD's so they can burn themselves copies.
I used to share their mindset, but that was when I couldn't afford to purchase those items on my own. Now I can, and it's simply more convenient to purchase a DVD than it is to wait a day or so for it to download via bittorrent, while maxxing my cable connection and being unable to do much else.
The only exception to this is when something is unavailable and doesn't appear likely to become available for a while. An example is Ghost in the Shell 2. I haven't seen any announcements for its cinematic (let alone DVD) release in Australia, so I willingly grabbed it off a friend. However, as soon as it comes out in Australia on DVD, I will be buying a copy.
People who willingly pirate for the sake of it, not because they can't afford it, are the epitome of leeches.
This was cut and pasted from an email I sent to workmates a while back when I heard about NX initially. These days I prefer to use RealVNC (until I get around to buying a copy of NX) to connect to my XFCE session at home from the office.
Even on what you consider a fast connection (local ethernet) I prefer VNC over X11.
Possibly because Trolltech's understood for a while that you can make money off open source.
It's a genious approach to open source development. You want to contribute to the world of free software - use the GPL'd version of Qt. Want to sell a proprietary, closed-source product so your competitors can't take a peek - go with the commercial version of Qt.
It's not that confusing after all is it? Or perhaps you'd like to share some actual areas in which you find it confusing... (or maybe you're just trolling).
- Stop spending money on computer gear/magazines/games.
- Spend that money on getting some smart new clothes for your wardrobe (even if you meet them online, you're intending to meet them at some stage). This includes shoes.
- If you wear glasses, get some contacts. First impressions count - and you might be a nice guy, but consider why you never saw any of the leads in sitcoms like Friends wearing glasses - they aren't considered attractive.
- You most likely have very social friends that you don't hang out with as much as you could. Change that. Start calling them up and say "What are you doing this weekend? Mind if I join you?".
The goal is to get out and about, and meet more people, and get comfortable with meeting people. The more people you meet, the greater likelihood that you'll meet someone you want to go out with.Hope this helps.
Details on Photoshop 7 support can be found here. However, it has been listed as a "Silver Medal" in terms of support, which in Codeweaver's language means: "This application installs, and runs well enough to be usable. However we find it has enough bugs to prevent it from running flawlessly. "