You are trying to update an existing system, not build a fresh one. Using a cheap hardware firewall (like a linksys router) will keep most evil at bay while you do the update. Better to download the big security rollups and service packs from a current machine, burn to cd or thumbdrive, and install those on your box before you connect to the net.
Now that Microsoft can't freely use the patented method, it isn't going to pay Eolas to use its patented method, it's going to work around it.
What does Eolas gain from its patent? Nothing.
I'm not sure about this. Thought Eolas get to collect 'damages' from all the earlier versions using their 'IP'... New browsers would not require any licensing fees if they used the non-infringing method, but they still suffer from what they already did. I thought Eolas was in it to make them suffer rather than just buy the IP.
Who else is going to pay for this type of pure research? Most shareholders and other commercial ventures will avoid R&D that does not have a short term ROI. The problem the military contractors are trying to solve are hard - essentially shooting down a bullet with another - and if you look beyond the star wars hype, it would be good to have some of those technology bits that will come out of this. The military is willing to pay an astronomical sum to keep an advantage over their opponent, so the money will be spent regardless. At least with the defense contractors, it is more of an engineering exercise than market driven fluff. Not that it is a huge solace.
I look at this research and see a better gyroscope. Look at the ring laser gyroscope technology that started as military kit, then worked its way into commercial aircraft. I would love for this to become such commodity stuff that I could put it cheaply into a homebuilt aircraft. Here is to hoping, anyhow...
One of the biggest perks for using VLC is it does *not* honor the 'thou shall not fast forward through the FBI warning and any damn previews/ads we applied the same flag to' setting. Skips right on by.
Ah the fun with IVR systems. We pulled a gag a few years back, with instructions to press '11' to complain after a long and twisty path. The user would press '1' twice, which would route them to an error message stating they pressed '1' which is not a valid menu entry and start them all over from scratch.
Whiteboard planning out the dev side, Visio for anything we hand the customer. That way they don't get any illusions there might be some prototype they can slam into production - even if I've got the HTML looking right on my part.
One of the things moving to the x86-64 cores get you is access to more RAM. I built a home system with 4x1024M sticks of RAM. With a 32 bit OS (like Win2K and WinXP in my case), you cannot access all 4G of RAM (easily). Windows reports back anywhere from 3.2-3.5G of RAM - in part due to the PCI devices mapping resources, etc.
With Win2k3-x86 and WinXP-64, most of the hoops (and startup switches) you use just go away. It just works. Same applied to Linux - moving to an A64 build just worked.
For server operations, more RAM is good. This is not as evil as it sounds.
I'll second that. I use nlite to slim down the OS and slipstream the patches for VMWare images. The lighter the footprint, the more RAM I have free for other things. For making a base win32 install without the faf, works great.
Is it worth it? If the check clears, YES! I spend more time wrapping bubble gum and aluminum foil around code because no one ever budgets time to do things right, even for the wrong reasons.
And that is just the half of it. Most folks 'working' for the government are not actually government employees. I'd guess fewer than one out of fifteen (or much higher) that I work with are Federal employees - the rest, contractors. You turn off service for Lockhead, SIAC, Northrop, EDS, etc, things will go to hell in a hand basket.
On 9-11, how did the networks gridlock but Blackberries keep working? Is it because they can communicate messages with short spurts of connectivity? Certainly the voice capabilities did not work any better than any other phone.
I've gone through several models of blackberry devices - all of them (and it could have been our IS department) default to automagically connect to a network. T-mobile down, it will grab another. Data may or may not be available with all carriers, but they tend to just work. Email will queue until it gets a data connection - even if it is only good for a few seconds.
As a side note, I personally doubled the company record cell bill as a result of this. Was working in India, and rather than stay on the network that cost me one or two quarters a minute, it would continued to rotate through carriers that charged anywhere from 7-11USD a minute. Did not realize what happened until the *second* month...
That will teach Wallace and Gromit to partner with the Madagascar Penguins leading in with a Christmas Caper short. Heard one of them talking about 'boom now?' just the other day.
This is a laywer's wet dream. They've sued the living daylights out of car companies, tobacco, and drug companies... now they're after new blood. If robots ever get really popular, they'll be suing them next.
If they go after the robots, they had better hope the bug is not in the 'first law' drivers.
Nothing but a spray of bone fragments and gore over a six foot area, just a ragged stump. Think wood chipper. Very freaky. Best we could figure was the bullet hit the spine at the base of the skull, causing the thing to pop like a balloon. Was ~40 yards out...
I can believe the damage. I grew up hunting in North Dakota, and packed a 30-06 for many years. Came across a coyote, was relatively close, and took a shot when it was running away with ammo I used for elk/moose. The damage took the head off in a similar fashion, but I was shooting from behind rather than the thing charging me. Most shots hitting the body won't cause that type of damage! Granted, the insides are a mess - but in 22 years of hunting, every one in the group was stunned (and making cracks about using explosive rounds).
f you're an iPod owner... then you're stuck with iTunes.'"
Right, because I'm such a moron that I can't figure out how to get an mp3 onto my iPod.
I'm an ipod shuffle owner. One of the things that drove me nuts is the shuffle required you to use the itunes software to move the MP3 files onto the player. Even though I could mount it as a USB thumb drive, no joy for just moving my files onto the player and having it work. Loads of fun since my primary workstation is Linux and there was no itunes software. (found some stuff that did the trick, however)
Mind you, I've got a healthy CD collection that I've ripped to high bitrate MP3 format. The fact that any player can do protected AAC or WMF format means nothing to me. Itunes is not a feature for me, my only beef with a pretty solid MP3 player.
You must not be looking very hard at the numbers... From my perspective, the management track will probably be more profitable. Once you hit the director level and up, options, bonus programs, and other perks are more or less standard fare. You may be top of your food chain at the current company, but there are other companies out there. It is much harder for a technologist with 'business' skills to become management than it is for management to be savvy in the craft. If it is a technology based company, both skills are a major boon if you end up in the leadership role.
As learning - it does not matter what track you pick - you should always be learning.
Too expensive. And that is just the film. Factor in popcorn and...
No kidding. My Bride just got done lining up a sitter for tonight. Looked at what was showing in the movie theaters, and somehow she convinced me it was about the same as picking up tickets for Corteo Cirque du Soleil and going for supper at a nice restaurant near by. Dang, things got spendy...
(I suspect I'm the victim of a Jedi mind trick... but can't prove anything)
In my case, city water pressure is largely gravity fed (via water towers). Not an infinite supply, but good enough when people can't take a hot shower. Takes a fair amount of water pressure before it generates enough vacuum to move water, so you are boned on this one.
Electrical feeds are underground in my neighborhood, but all around us are power pools and tall trees will make a mess of things after a storm. It is not unusual to go one or two days in the summer after a bad storm. Winter, they tend to move a bit faster.
Houses with basements often have problems when the power goes out because the pumps fail. Short term, not a big deal. My last couple homes would be in trouble if I went over four hours without it in a heavy downpour. A few good straight-line winds or a digger/backhoe mistake, and I would get to spend quality time with a bucket.
After the second day without power I rigged up an old venturi pump that I used to drain my waterbed. (ha, my packrat collection finally pays out) Sure, leaving the faucet running cost a little bit of coin, but worked great in a pinch.
In the end, a minor bit of coin. Cheaper to buy her off and have her go away than deal with the wrongful dismissal lawsuit she was bound to file trying to go throw the normal process to expunge the loon. She almost 'tripped' going down the stairs, had not the guard escorting her out caught her... The fact that they cut a deal was just shocking. Seen worse since...
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It would be rather difficult for the FBI to invoke the Patriot Act since Rogers is a Canadian company.
Just check the fine print. They asked for a pony while they were at it...
(/duck)
You are trying to update an existing system, not build a fresh one. Using a cheap hardware firewall (like a linksys router) will keep most evil at bay while you do the update. Better to download the big security rollups and service packs from a current machine, burn to cd or thumbdrive, and install those on your box before you connect to the net.
8 6 for a nice pointer to all the patches you should snag. Get the major ones and you should be OK to just do an update.
Check out http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=318
Now that Microsoft can't freely use the patented method, it isn't going to pay Eolas to use its patented method, it's going to work around it.
What does Eolas gain from its patent? Nothing.
I'm not sure about this. Thought Eolas get to collect 'damages' from all the earlier versions using their 'IP'... New browsers would not require any licensing fees if they used the non-infringing method, but they still suffer from what they already did. I thought Eolas was in it to make them suffer rather than just buy the IP.
He should get that "open sores" PC checked out. That doesn't sound good at all.
I hear you can get that type of problem if you don't practice safe hex...
Missle defense is a waste of money.
Who else is going to pay for this type of pure research? Most shareholders and other commercial ventures will avoid R&D that does not have a short term ROI. The problem the military contractors are trying to solve are hard - essentially shooting down a bullet with another - and if you look beyond the star wars hype, it would be good to have some of those technology bits that will come out of this. The military is willing to pay an astronomical sum to keep an advantage over their opponent, so the money will be spent regardless. At least with the defense contractors, it is more of an engineering exercise than market driven fluff. Not that it is a huge solace.
I look at this research and see a better gyroscope. Look at the ring laser gyroscope technology that started as military kit, then worked its way into commercial aircraft. I would love for this to become such commodity stuff that I could put it cheaply into a homebuilt aircraft. Here is to hoping, anyhow...
One of the biggest perks for using VLC is it does *not* honor the 'thou shall not fast forward through the FBI warning and any damn previews/ads we applied the same flag to' setting. Skips right on by.
Ah the fun with IVR systems. We pulled a gag a few years back, with instructions to press '11' to complain after a long and twisty path. The user would press '1' twice, which would route them to an error message stating they pressed '1' which is not a valid menu entry and start them all over from scratch.
Whiteboard planning out the dev side, Visio for anything we hand the customer. That way they don't get any illusions there might be some prototype they can slam into production - even if I've got the HTML looking right on my part.
One of the things moving to the x86-64 cores get you is access to more RAM. I built a home system with 4x1024M sticks of RAM. With a 32 bit OS (like Win2K and WinXP in my case), you cannot access all 4G of RAM (easily). Windows reports back anywhere from 3.2-3.5G of RAM - in part due to the PCI devices mapping resources, etc.
With Win2k3-x86 and WinXP-64, most of the hoops (and startup switches) you use just go away. It just works. Same applied to Linux - moving to an A64 build just worked.
For server operations, more RAM is good. This is not as evil as it sounds.
I'll second that. I use nlite to slim down the OS and slipstream the patches for VMWare images. The lighter the footprint, the more RAM I have free for other things. For making a base win32 install without the faf, works great.
Is it worth it? If the check clears, YES! I spend more time wrapping bubble gum and aluminum foil around code because no one ever budgets time to do things right, even for the wrong reasons.
And that is just the half of it. Most folks 'working' for the government are not actually government employees. I'd guess fewer than one out of fifteen (or much higher) that I work with are Federal employees - the rest, contractors. You turn off service for Lockhead, SIAC, Northrop, EDS, etc, things will go to hell in a hand basket.
On 9-11, how did the networks gridlock but Blackberries keep working? Is it because they can communicate messages with short spurts of connectivity? Certainly the voice capabilities did not work any better than any other phone.
I've gone through several models of blackberry devices - all of them (and it could have been our IS department) default to automagically connect to a network. T-mobile down, it will grab another. Data may or may not be available with all carriers, but they tend to just work. Email will queue until it gets a data connection - even if it is only good for a few seconds.
As a side note, I personally doubled the company record cell bill as a result of this. Was working in India, and rather than stay on the network that cost me one or two quarters a minute, it would continued to rotate through carriers that charged anywhere from 7-11USD a minute. Did not realize what happened until the *second* month...
The link got hacked. The article is there, but they updated the graphic. Nasty...
If /. sucks so much, why are you still here?
For the chicks, duh...
That will teach Wallace and Gromit to partner with the Madagascar Penguins leading in with a Christmas Caper short. Heard one of them talking about 'boom now?' just the other day.
This is a laywer's wet dream. They've sued the living daylights out of car companies, tobacco, and drug companies... now they're after new blood. If robots ever get really popular, they'll be suing them next.
If they go after the robots, they had better hope the bug is not in the 'first law' drivers.
Was the removed head recognisable as coyote?
Nothing but a spray of bone fragments and gore over a six foot area, just a ragged stump. Think wood chipper. Very freaky. Best we could figure was the bullet hit the spine at the base of the skull, causing the thing to pop like a balloon. Was ~40 yards out...
What was this guy shooting? 105mm Howitzer?
I can believe the damage. I grew up hunting in North Dakota, and packed a 30-06 for many years. Came across a coyote, was relatively close, and took a shot when it was running away with ammo I used for elk/moose. The damage took the head off in a similar fashion, but I was shooting from behind rather than the thing charging me. Most shots hitting the body won't cause that type of damage! Granted, the insides are a mess - but in 22 years of hunting, every one in the group was stunned (and making cracks about using explosive rounds).
f you're an iPod owner... then you're stuck with iTunes.'"
Right, because I'm such a moron that I can't figure out how to get an mp3 onto my iPod.
I'm an ipod shuffle owner. One of the things that drove me nuts is the shuffle required you to use the itunes software to move the MP3 files onto the player. Even though I could mount it as a USB thumb drive, no joy for just moving my files onto the player and having it work. Loads of fun since my primary workstation is Linux and there was no itunes software. (found some stuff that did the trick, however)
Mind you, I've got a healthy CD collection that I've ripped to high bitrate MP3 format. The fact that any player can do protected AAC or WMF format means nothing to me. Itunes is not a feature for me, my only beef with a pretty solid MP3 player.
You must not be looking very hard at the numbers... From my perspective, the management track will probably be more profitable. Once you hit the director level and up, options, bonus programs, and other perks are more or less standard fare. You may be top of your food chain at the current company, but there are other companies out there. It is much harder for a technologist with 'business' skills to become management than it is for management to be savvy in the craft. If it is a technology based company, both skills are a major boon if you end up in the leadership role.
As learning - it does not matter what track you pick - you should always be learning.
Too expensive. And that is just the film. Factor in popcorn and...
No kidding. My Bride just got done lining up a sitter for tonight. Looked at what was showing in the movie theaters, and somehow she convinced me it was about the same as picking up tickets for Corteo Cirque du Soleil and going for supper at a nice restaurant near by. Dang, things got spendy...
(I suspect I'm the victim of a Jedi mind trick... but can't prove anything)
In my case, city water pressure is largely gravity fed (via water towers). Not an infinite supply, but good enough when people can't take a hot shower. Takes a fair amount of water pressure before it generates enough vacuum to move water, so you are boned on this one.
Electrical feeds are underground in my neighborhood, but all around us are power pools and tall trees will make a mess of things after a storm. It is not unusual to go one or two days in the summer after a bad storm. Winter, they tend to move a bit faster.
Houses with basements often have problems when the power goes out because the pumps fail. Short term, not a big deal. My last couple homes would be in trouble if I went over four hours without it in a heavy downpour. A few good straight-line winds or a digger/backhoe mistake, and I would get to spend quality time with a bucket.
After the second day without power I rigged up an old venturi pump that I used to drain my waterbed. (ha, my packrat collection finally pays out) Sure, leaving the faucet running cost a little bit of coin, but worked great in a pinch.
In the end, a minor bit of coin. Cheaper to buy her off and have her go away than deal with the wrongful dismissal lawsuit she was bound to file trying to go throw the normal process to expunge the loon. She almost 'tripped' going down the stairs, had not the guard escorting her out caught her... The fact that they cut a deal was just shocking. Seen worse since...