Most likely if Linux was suddenly to become more widespread due to the sudden disappearance of Microsoft then virus writers would devote all of their time in finding vulnerabilities in Linux. We all know that there is no system in the world that is 100% un crackable and un hackable. Eventually someone would find a way epically with the source generally available (I'm not saying this would make it easier but it could help). With virus writers having nothing better to do that research Linux a chink in the armor WOULD be found.
The one big advantage Linux has is that modern virus writers are lazy and MS provides lots of easy ways to spread them around.
Also since the goal of a virus is to propagate itself it makes sense to write a virus for the worlds most popular platform.
To summarize if Linux were to take over tomorrow viruses would go down initially but over time they would begin to show up. However if it really is that much more difficult to infect a Linux system then you can bet it will breed a new class of virus writer. One that is much more skilled and when he/she writes a virus that can finally worm into Linux (which is most likely a feat in itself) you can be guaranteed that it will be designed to be just as hard to kill as Linux is just as hard to infect.
I remember in the o-Town area a particular comic store on Sand Lake Rd. was closing down after years of business. When I asked the owner, whom I had known for years the real reason of his close down he bitterly said 1 word "divorce".
The other 2 you are talking about I remember and I think that at least one of them may be opening a store front again soon, also though there is that mega-comix store on International which does not help a smaller business in the area epically in such a small market.
Too bad most tourists don't buy comics.
The other 2 you are talking about I remember and I think that at least one of them may be opening a store front again soon, also though there is that mega-comix store on International which does not help a smaller business in the area epically in such a small market.
Too bad most tourists don't buy comics.
There are some things I do miss about the corner store. I am much more prone to pick up a new series or something I haven't seen if I have the opportunity to read through it a bit. Plus I always enjoyed "talking shop" with the owner or clerk for about 20 mins when I stopped in.
Now I just point and click and get exactly what I'm looking for. It's nice and convient and I can get something I could never find in the corner store but I do miss some of the more human aspects.
Conversely an Anmie storm in Columbus, OH has struck a nice balance. They have managed to make 80% of their business off the net and catalog sales however they still maintain a local storefront attached to the warehouse. It was great to go down there and if it was not up front, 90% of the time he had it in the back. Since he automated nearly everything you could still talk shop too.
I think we can strike balance with technology and brick and mortar, the markets just have to find it because in reality all this stuff is still very new.
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I always wondered how they would send the commands to the bear. Unless the Actimates had a very high res camera to actually SEE the picture on the screen I would imagine it would be something with bright flashes in single frames of the video.
I played with a pre-cursor to this type of tech (anyone remember Nintendo's ROB the robot).
The only thing I keep seeing though with tech like this is 4 year olds across the nation having seizures from the flashes used to execute such commands.
One moment little Timmy is enjoying his show with that strange bear of his, the next moment little Timmy looks like he's overdosing on ketamine and ends up spending the rest of his life in a wheel chair with half his brain not working. "Timmah!"
Very true, and of course what the rich republicans don't understand is that if they would only do it the other way around they would actually get richer. Yes they would be paying higher taxes but with more lower classes spending money they will make more themselves.
Yes, the basis is that there will be routing around the damaged portion of the network. However because they are a major backbone provider the other links in Europe will not have the capacity to handle the extra traffic on top of their current traffic.
Just like in a big city, sure you can get around without the major highway but without it, it takes 2 - 3 times longer to get there (Unless your in LA).
You also have the possibility of overloading the other links and then almost no one in Europe could get online.
That's probably why they decided to stay in the NOC they aren't getting paid and the aero chairs are more comfortable than the curb in front of their apartment building.
Plus they can use the Internet access to do job hunting and play really fast QIII. (What you actually thought that they were maintaining the network?)
Actually I think it's great to see such dedication.
Actually it did make it to market but I don't remember by whom I remember having a player that did just that but without rewinding. It would detect the commercial and stop recording and then resume at the end. Sometimes it would fail and you would get 1 or 2 commercials but no big deal.
Then of course back in the 80s I don't think we had as many commercials either. There seems to be a lot more commercials on TV and they seem to come up more frequently than they used to (Maybe it just me) Sci-Fi seems to be really bad about this, too bad I love that channel.
It was probaly made in an MC, as with most thing nanotech taken to its extreme in that book. To see what a fully nano-tch society might be like it might be a good read. They go so far as creating entire cities atom by atom.
Depends on the game. I know that some EULAs for some games arent so restrictive where you can have multiple copies installed on multiple computers (like one at home and one at school) and as long as both are not running at the same time it's ok.
Granted this is a very muddy area.
Option #4 does sound good, or at least have all the kids in the club kick in $20 or so at the beginning of the school year (this is quite common) so that the teacher can get copies if the school does not pony up the dough.
These concerns should brought against any school sponsored activity. How much is it costing the schools to do things like basketball nights, or pep rallies or all the other extra circular activities your school provides. Schools are a public commodity and you cant complain that the school is spending money on something just because your kid does not use it. There are normally many extra activates schools provide that your child does not participate in, and yes your tax dollars subsidize them all. Get off your "ME" wagon and think of the community.
Licensing on games is fairly cheap (most games cost $30-$40) and I'm sure the kids may even have their own copies (thus covering the need for software). Proper security can easily be implemented to make sure the machines only play games during the playtime. Honestly I would be more worried about what goes on at a "school sponsored" football game than a little LAN party because its not just kissing under the bleachers any more. Finally many teachers do this type of thing without pay, hell, a lot of teachers work 20 hours a week without pay just simply because of budget cuts in the school system. Why do they do it you may ask? Because they care more about their students and they love what they do.
Too bad you only seem interested in your own self.
And yes im not posting AC becasue im not afraid of the bad karma.
Agreed, but then the US Govt. will do a lot of things just to keep the "people" blissfully thinking everything is all right. Not that what they say to us is whats really going on.
And if the conspiracy theorists are to be believed then it was the best way to smoke screen the US Govt's own drug operations.
Trust me iPlanet is a scary product, not as bad as WebLogic.
I would put iPlanet on par with IIS in most ways. Now for commerical enterprise webservers I have been playing with WebSphere lately and it seems to have a lot of promise but I wont know more till I have more time to rip it apart.
I do enjoy the fact that it has native LDAP support.
Busted for possession? Surrender as a prisoner of war and claim your Geneva Convention rights.
I wish it were that easy, try reading the Geneva Convention and see what the rules are on POW. Things like being "uniformed" and a coherent group. These were arguments that were used for the prisoners in Cuba.
I'm sure if you were to try something like that any local US judge would call you a nut job and throw the book at you, or put you somewhere where you can get all the "happy candy" you want along with a nice white coat.
That is of course unless you can afford a real good lawyer.
I don't have too much trouble with blur on my screen. Sure its slightly noticeable where on a monitor there is NONE AT ALL, but it's not so bad that it keeps me from hitting my target when coming around a corner quickly. Or even when there is a fast action scene on a movie.
I remember that when I bought mine there were 2 options for LCDs the default cheaper option was rated with a lower refresh so I kicked in the few extra bucks for the better screen.
Just like if you by a bargain 17in monitor your not going to get the high resolutions or good dot pitch you expect from the more expensive models.
I don't own the particular model shown but I imagine that battery life is about similar being part of the Dell Insperion line.
I have an 8100 and a fully charged battery will last me about 2.5 - 3 hours and with 2 batteries (the DVD rom is in the side so it does not take a swap slot) I have almost 6 full hours of run time at full tilt.
If I'm just surfing the web and not using much of the systems resources I can get about 5-10% more out of the battery life. I tend to run mine so much at once that I put a big burn on my battery.
The Dell's and I imagine many other laptops of this range handle DVD play back epically well due to the graphics cards which are designed to, during DVD playback, actually power down the 3D processor, the mother board will also reduce the power to the CPU as the DVD decoder chip on the card does all the work.
Of course battery life can very greatly as these machines generally have many power options you can tweak for maximum performance or maximum battery life. The nice thing is even when on battery a 1.2ghz processor will throttle down to 833 or so which really isn't that bad to work with and can handle most apps very well.
Now if you are playing the latest 3D game then you're going to see a big burn on your battery as your vid card is most likely pulling a lot of power, on top of the sound card to give you the audio. Also you tend to have a lot of HDD access between levels as well as NIC burning energy if you happen to be playing multi-player.
This is just my personal experience and others may have different onions.
Maybe in a decade, movies will be released straight to home theatre. Perhaps we'll see an immersion style of theatre where you can watch the movie from within it, or even participate.
Mmmm...Ractives better than the old passives anyday.
As someone who just spent 6 months in Europe I happen to agree. Europe, epically British, prices have long been artificially inflated and its just since the internet has come along that British consumers have begun to see the difference. Heck they go over to France to buy their cars now.
However more people in Britain need to start sending their money overseas and deprive the wallet-robbing merchants in your country. Remember vote with your wallet. Or how about lobbying parliament? From what I saw in Britain most people just bitch and never do anything about it until it kills someone (RailTrack).
As for companies favoring America: I agree it's not fair. Allow me to offer reasoning to this though. On the Internet there are about 242 million users. Out of that 120 million are here in the US. The next biggest is ALL of Europe at 70 million (all of Europe - 13 some odd different countries with different languages laws and until recently different currencies). An online merchant is much more likely to favor his biggest possible customer base. Unsurprisingly many merchants cater to the US only due to the ease of not worrying about international shipping, laws in other countries and such (remember Yahoo got stung by France and don't think it didn't cost them a pretty penny).
I'm not saying its right for a site to favor US users but I am trying to illustrate that there are more barriers to get an international merchant site up and running than just adding an item to a drop down list. These barriers are cultural, economical, legal and political. These are barriers we all need to work on breaking down. Things like the euro make it much easier but there is still allot to do, and that is another discussion all together.
Console gaming is one of the most cutthroat industries out there. If you think Nintendo and Sony play nice then you're kidding yourself. The difference is that Nintendo and Sony and the others have great PR control so you rarely hear about how crazy the market is.
Honestly MS may be big and bad in the PC market, but I don't think they know thing 1 about the console market. They are also entering a market against competitors that have an entrenched user base and long term publishing agreements. Plus they have very deep pockets as well.
I don't see Nintendo or Sony giving this market up without a massive battle. They have all the cards and MS is the young upstart and they have to learn the entire industry from scratch. They've already managed to piss off EA, big mistake.
MS may fly or MS may fall but whatever the outcome I think we are going to see some serious sparks fly.
From my expierence, (note only limited since I was only there 6 months) everything in Brittan is a great idea but the the implmentation almost always sucks. Ever heard of RailTrack, or how about the up and coming privatization of the London Underground??
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Most likely if Linux was suddenly to become more widespread due to the sudden disappearance of Microsoft then virus writers would devote all of their time in finding vulnerabilities in Linux. We all know that there is no system in the world that is 100% un crackable and un hackable. Eventually someone would find a way epically with the source generally available (I'm not saying this would make it easier but it could help). With virus writers having nothing better to do that research Linux a chink in the armor WOULD be found.
The one big advantage Linux has is that modern virus writers are lazy and MS provides lots of easy ways to spread them around.
Also since the goal of a virus is to propagate itself it makes sense to write a virus for the worlds most popular platform.
To summarize if Linux were to take over tomorrow viruses would go down initially but over time they would begin to show up. However if it really is that much more difficult to infect a Linux system then you can bet it will breed a new class of virus writer. One that is much more skilled and when he/she writes a virus that can finally worm into Linux (which is most likely a feat in itself) you can be guaranteed that it will be designed to be just as hard to kill as Linux is just as hard to infect.
And even the eurostar has to go slower on the England side due to the fact that GB could not upgrade the rail to support high speed trains.
Thus why it takes almost an hour to cover the short distance between Waterloo and the chunnel.
oops, one too many Ctrl+Vs.
At least I spell check.
I remember in the o-Town area a particular comic store on Sand Lake Rd. was closing down after years of business. When I asked the owner, whom I had known for years the real reason of his close down he bitterly said 1 word "divorce".
The other 2 you are talking about I remember and I think that at least one of them may be opening a store front again soon, also though there is that mega-comix store on International which does not help a smaller business in the area epically in such a small market.
Too bad most tourists don't buy comics.
The other 2 you are talking about I remember and I think that at least one of them may be opening a store front again soon, also though there is that mega-comix store on International which does not help a smaller business in the area epically in such a small market.
Too bad most tourists don't buy comics.
There are some things I do miss about the corner store. I am much more prone to pick up a new series or something I haven't seen if I have the opportunity to read through it a bit. Plus I always enjoyed "talking shop" with the owner or clerk for about 20 mins when I stopped in.
Now I just point and click and get exactly what I'm looking for. It's nice and convient and I can get something I could never find in the corner store but I do miss some of the more human aspects.
Conversely an Anmie storm in Columbus, OH has struck a nice balance. They have managed to make 80% of their business off the net and catalog sales however they still maintain a local storefront attached to the warehouse. It was great to go down there and if it was not up front, 90% of the time he had it in the back. Since he automated nearly everything you could still talk shop too.
I think we can strike balance with technology and brick and mortar, the markets just have to find it because in reality all this stuff is still very new.
I always wondered how they would send the commands to the bear. Unless the Actimates had a very high res camera to actually SEE the picture on the screen I would imagine it would be something with bright flashes in single frames of the video.
I played with a pre-cursor to this type of tech (anyone remember Nintendo's ROB the robot).
The only thing I keep seeing though with tech like this is 4 year olds across the nation having seizures from the flashes used to execute such commands.
One moment little Timmy is enjoying his show with that strange bear of his, the next moment little Timmy looks like he's overdosing on ketamine and ends up spending the rest of his life in a wheel chair with half his brain not working. "Timmah!"
That's half the fun, he shows you how the hardware is hooked up and the hardware he uses. He even supplies you with the source code. He even goes through the trouble of supplying you with the actual GBA Compiled ROM itself.
If you need more detail than that do a little research on electronics and the structure of GBA hardware.
Very true, and of course what the rich republicans don't understand is that if they would only do it the other way around they would actually get richer. Yes they would be paying higher taxes but with more lower classes spending money they will make more themselves.
Yes, the basis is that there will be routing around the damaged portion of the network. However because they are a major backbone provider the other links in Europe will not have the capacity to handle the extra traffic on top of their current traffic.
Just like in a big city, sure you can get around without the major highway but without it, it takes 2 - 3 times longer to get there (Unless your in LA).
You also have the possibility of overloading the other links and then almost no one in Europe could get online.
They were fired on the 6th, yet they stayed becasue they were the only ones left to support the network.
That's probably why they decided to stay in the NOC they aren't getting paid and the aero chairs are more comfortable than the curb in front of their apartment building.
Plus they can use the Internet access to do job hunting and play really fast QIII. (What you actually thought that they were maintaining the network?)
Actually I think it's great to see such dedication.
Actually it did make it to market but I don't remember by whom I remember having a player that did just that but without rewinding. It would detect the commercial and stop recording and then resume at the end. Sometimes it would fail and you would get 1 or 2 commercials but no big deal.
Then of course back in the 80s I don't think we had as many commercials either. There seems to be a lot more commercials on TV and they seem to come up more frequently than they used to (Maybe it just me) Sci-Fi seems to be really bad about this, too bad I love that channel.
It was probaly made in an MC, as with most thing nanotech taken to its extreme in that book. To see what a fully nano-tch society might be like it might be a good read. They go so far as creating entire cities atom by atom.
Depends on the game. I know that some EULAs for some games arent so restrictive where you can have multiple copies installed on multiple computers (like one at home and one at school) and as long as both are not running at the same time it's ok.
Granted this is a very muddy area.
Option #4 does sound good, or at least have all the kids in the club kick in $20 or so at the beginning of the school year (this is quite common) so that the teacher can get copies if the school does not pony up the dough.
These concerns should brought against any school sponsored activity. How much is it costing the schools to do things like basketball nights, or pep rallies or all the other extra circular activities your school provides. Schools are a public commodity and you cant complain that the school is spending money on something just because your kid does not use it. There are normally many extra activates schools provide that your child does not participate in, and yes your tax dollars subsidize them all. Get off your "ME" wagon and think of the community.
Licensing on games is fairly cheap (most games cost $30-$40) and I'm sure the kids may even have their own copies (thus covering the need for software). Proper security can easily be implemented to make sure the machines only play games during the playtime. Honestly I would be more worried about what goes on at a "school sponsored" football game than a little LAN party because its not just kissing under the bleachers any more. Finally many teachers do this type of thing without pay, hell, a lot of teachers work 20 hours a week without pay just simply because of budget cuts in the school system. Why do they do it you may ask? Because they care more about their students and they love what they do.
Too bad you only seem interested in your own self.
And yes im not posting AC becasue im not afraid of the bad karma.
Agreed, but then the US Govt. will do a lot of things just to keep the "people" blissfully thinking everything is all right. Not that what they say to us is whats really going on.
And if the conspiracy theorists are to be believed then it was the best way to smoke screen the US Govt's own drug operations.
Trust me iPlanet is a scary product, not as bad as WebLogic.
I would put iPlanet on par with IIS in most ways. Now for commerical enterprise webservers I have been playing with WebSphere lately and it seems to have a lot of promise but I wont know more till I have more time to rip it apart.
I do enjoy the fact that it has native LDAP support.
Busted for possession? Surrender as a prisoner of war and claim your Geneva Convention rights.
I wish it were that easy, try reading the Geneva Convention and see what the rules are on POW. Things like being "uniformed" and a coherent group. These were arguments that were used for the prisoners in Cuba.
I'm sure if you were to try something like that any local US judge would call you a nut job and throw the book at you, or put you somewhere where you can get all the "happy candy" you want along with a nice white coat.
That is of course unless you can afford a real good lawyer.
I don't have too much trouble with blur on my screen. Sure its slightly noticeable where on a monitor there is NONE AT ALL, but it's not so bad that it keeps me from hitting my target when coming around a corner quickly. Or even when there is a fast action scene on a movie.
I remember that when I bought mine there were 2 options for LCDs the default cheaper option was rated with a lower refresh so I kicked in the few extra bucks for the better screen.
Just like if you by a bargain 17in monitor your not going to get the high resolutions or good dot pitch you expect from the more expensive models.
before I get any comments on this....
Damn onions.......
I don't own the particular model shown but I imagine that battery life is about similar being part of the Dell Insperion line.
I have an 8100 and a fully charged battery will last me about 2.5 - 3 hours and with 2 batteries (the DVD rom is in the side so it does not take a swap slot) I have almost 6 full hours of run time at full tilt.
If I'm just surfing the web and not using much of the systems resources I can get about 5-10% more out of the battery life. I tend to run mine so much at once that I put a big burn on my battery.
The Dell's and I imagine many other laptops of this range handle DVD play back epically well due to the graphics cards which are designed to, during DVD playback, actually power down the 3D processor, the mother board will also reduce the power to the CPU as the DVD decoder chip on the card does all the work.
Of course battery life can very greatly as these machines generally have many power options you can tweak for maximum performance or maximum battery life. The nice thing is even when on battery a 1.2ghz processor will throttle down to 833 or so which really isn't that bad to work with and can handle most apps very well.
Now if you are playing the latest 3D game then you're going to see a big burn on your battery as your vid card is most likely pulling a lot of power, on top of the sound card to give you the audio. Also you tend to have a lot of HDD access between levels as well as NIC burning energy if you happen to be playing multi-player.
This is just my personal experience and others may have different onions.
still alive and kicking unfortunatley
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Maybe in a decade, movies will be released straight to home theatre. Perhaps we'll see an immersion style of theatre where you can watch the movie from within it, or even participate.
Mmmm...Ractives better than the old passives anyday.
As someone who just spent 6 months in Europe I happen to agree. Europe, epically British, prices have long been artificially inflated and its just since the internet has come along that British consumers have begun to see the difference. Heck they go over to France to buy their cars now.
However more people in Britain need to start sending their money overseas and deprive the wallet-robbing merchants in your country. Remember vote with your wallet. Or how about lobbying parliament? From what I saw in Britain most people just bitch and never do anything about it until it kills someone (RailTrack).
As for companies favoring America: I agree it's not fair. Allow me to offer reasoning to this though. On the Internet there are about 242 million users. Out of that 120 million are here in the US. The next biggest is ALL of Europe at 70 million (all of Europe - 13 some odd different countries with different languages laws and until recently different currencies). An online merchant is much more likely to favor his biggest possible customer base. Unsurprisingly many merchants cater to the US only due to the ease of not worrying about international shipping, laws in other countries and such (remember Yahoo got stung by France and don't think it didn't cost them a pretty penny).
I'm not saying its right for a site to favor US users but I am trying to illustrate that there are more barriers to get an international merchant site up and running than just adding an item to a drop down list. These barriers are cultural, economical, legal and political. These are barriers we all need to work on breaking down. Things like the euro make it much easier but there is still allot to do, and that is another discussion all together.
Console systems play nice???
Console gaming is one of the most cutthroat industries out there. If you think Nintendo and Sony play nice then you're kidding yourself. The difference is that Nintendo and Sony and the others have great PR control so you rarely hear about how crazy the market is.
Honestly MS may be big and bad in the PC market, but I don't think they know thing 1 about the console market. They are also entering a market against competitors that have an entrenched user base and long term publishing agreements. Plus they have very deep pockets as well.
I don't see Nintendo or Sony giving this market up without a massive battle. They have all the cards and MS is the young upstart and they have to learn the entire industry from scratch. They've already managed to piss off EA, big mistake.
MS may fly or MS may fall but whatever the outcome I think we are going to see some serious sparks fly.
From my expierence, (note only limited since I was only there 6 months) everything in Brittan is a great idea but the the implmentation almost always sucks. Ever heard of RailTrack, or how about the up and coming privatization of the London Underground??