Sounds like they are not allowing visualization on the Microsoft VM technology, and not a blanket statement on all VM technology like VMWare. I thought it was a nice touch that the Vista installer would fail under VMWare but worked just dandy on the Microsoft one. VMWare patched this in the 5.5.3 release earlier this month, so for those wanting to run Vista in a VM make sure you grab the latest greatest build. Also sounds like it will work if you have an MSDN subscription verion.
Foolish, however. In a VM, for demos, etc... I want as few features as possible using up as little RAM as I can. That way the applications I'm running have more resources. I already use Nlite to trim Win2k and Win2003 down substantially. Having something that has the 'ultimate' set of features OOTB is not a good thing. Thank goodness I spend more time on the server side rather than client - what a mess for those testing thick client applications.
>>The flaw derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a domain.
>Worst idea ever. The question isn't why wasn't this discovered earlier, but who decided this was a good idea in the first place?
Well, if they read/., it would seem the site is it.slashdot.org, games.slashdot.org, and a mess of other sub-domains. I can see why they might think subdomain 'sharing' was a good idea. Logging in on my blackberry is a real treat if I flush the passwords.
The technology works surprisingly well on a cell phone. One of the guys I work with in the UK showed me Shazam. I picked a random track from his vast MP3 collection, he dialed a number and held out his phone for a half a minute, and shortly thereafter they SMS'ed him the artist. Not a quite background either...
Take that same technology and do it on what should be even cleaner audio than what you send over a cell phone speaker - I suspect they could get most of it.
I actually had my gaming rig infected this way. Playing CS:Source, it is not uncommon for the MOTD to point to a web site. My default browser is FireFox, but it turns out Counter Strike is using the IE engine anyhow, and I got nailed by one of those drive by HTML exploits when I selected a random game server.
I really do not understand the people who say that DVD9 is big enough for games. Especially when we have releases like this. It's obvious that if there is space on the disc, the developers will find some use for it. While printing multiple DVD's would be cheaper than making a single HD DVD, it is still aggravation for the players and the developers in the long term
Multiple DVD's would only be an extra "disk in, disk out" on the install. It has been a long time since I've seen a game that did not put all the content on the absurdly large HDD and just use the CD for copy protection. By the time they start shipping games on HD DVD, do you think you could even buy a 250G HDD? As for the media itself, as long as it is going to be treated as a dongle, I'd just assume it was a little lower density / scratch resistant...
You need a cable to recharge, but I'd view it like Ethernet or wireless. Of course copper is faster, but there are times where it is just not convenient. My blackberry, for instance, uses a USB cable to recharge and do data. I can feed it power with my wife's cell phone charger too which is nothing more than a wall wart and USB cable. I'd like to have my cake and eat it too with an Ipod... Just another opinion.
Some of the language certification tests will push you. One of the things about working on the job is even a crummy company will usually put rules into place that prevent you from doing really ugly things. I mean, "__$_" is a perfectly valid variable name in Java, but I've never known anyone with enough brass to try and push something like that through a code review. Anyhow, I found the Java certification (and a C++ one back in the day) really pushed my understanding of the language itself. Worth doing, if you are looking to hone some skills and not just trying the bare minimum needed to pass a test.
The other thing is to mentor an intern or junior programmer. Few things will push you to 'do things right' more than being an example for others to emulate.
I saw that and tried to buy one of these 'cultured' diamonds back then. The only man made diamonds you could buy were yellow, pink, etc. Sure, super rare, yada, yada, yada... but many months of looking you could not find the classic clear diamond. If folks are starting to sell the clear diamonds, this is big news.
You can bet this is going to make life very hard for the folks like VLC or anyone who wants to do something clever with the audio system. Wonder how they are going to push it, however? Sure, they can go for attrition, and make sure all new machines come with Vista, but there are a lot of Win32 machines out there that have more than enough CPU. There were some big jumps from the 200mhz-600mhz range, but now with 2-3ghz more or less normal and no 'got to have it' devices like USB3 this is going to be a tough sell. Heck, even with DirectX 10 being reserved for Vista, game publishers would be suicide to go after that market for a couple years. While it might give a few more FPS, you can bet the vice-like grip on hardware will doom any of the older games from running on the system... I mean, heck, if you could access the video, you might just try to display content without the secret hardware handshake.
Be careful - the definition of 'rich' gets lower and lower each year. (grin) If you are in technology and are lucky enough to have a dual income, you may be shocked to find yourself paying Alternative Minimum Tax.
...the Treasury Department estimated that around 15% of households with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000 must pay Alternative Minimum Tax...
And that is not hard to do in California, for example, where 50k a year puts you at the poverty level. Even at 100k or more, there are no fantastic 'hide all your money' shelters like their might be for some MPAA execs with seven digit salary.
Yup. Looking at the materials, sounds like they went for the 'simple' (!h-bomb) implosion and horked it up. Figured they would have tried a gun type first test, as it is harder to screw up, but seems the material they pulled from their 'power generator' would make that more trouble than it is worth. You would not think a soccer ball shape charge would be that hard to pull off with today's technology. Heh. Glad it is. Did not know it was plutonium when I posted... wish I could edit...
Course, if they were looking to build a dirty bomb, they passed with wild colors. (grin)
I think they got it half right. Fission is (relatively) easy, fusion is hard. The big yields come from fusion, however, so well worth your time if you really want to make a mess. I'm sure there are better ways to describe this, but the typical design of an H-bomb is to split the atoms to generate the compression and heat to kick off the fusion reaction.
Short of it is it looks like they got the first half right, and horked up the more complex timing to get the fusion part down. This makes it just a little less scary... it means they have the old school fission weapons and were probably gunning for something a magnitude harder. Yikes.
Use VLC on the mac. It not only ignores the region codes, but lets you skip the FBI warnings and any other junk the publisher want you to not skip. (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)
When I bought my 1G shuffle, it was cheaper than any other MP3 player that size - almost the same cost as many of the 512M models. At the same cost or less, I went with the Apple MP3 player. All of these players seem to be within $10 of each other, and as parts get cheaper, they seem to add more functionality to keep the price point high. Someone willing to make 5% profit on basic hardware could dethrone the lot.
Many folks have large collections of bog standard MP3's. I know I keep my CD collection in a couple milk crates once I figured out how to rip high quality MP3's and keep the original media safe and sound. The fact that my Shuffle can play Apple's DRM format does not matter to me - I have never purchased an electronic track. Same goes for Zune and the plethora of 'play for sure' devices. I just want an MP3 player. On the original purchase, the thought of using the iTunes store did come into play. Not so anymore. I'd love to pay half what Apple or Microsoft are selling their models for, and skip the ability to do 'pay to play'.
Subscription services are right out. I like to own my music. I suspect others feel the same way. Were I starting from scratch, on the music front, might feel different. Don't see that business model taking off.
Heresy, but I don't consider iTunes to be a fantastic way to manage large collections of music. I strongly dislike the transcoding to other 'protected' formats like Sony tried and sounds like the Zune is doing. It is worth more to me to not need special software to upload or download music to the device. Something that would, oh, just look at the player like a USB drive and play all the MP3 files on it would be great. Again, I'm happy enough with the Shuffle - no screen, random or linear track selection - so not looking to pay for an MP3 player that does all sorts of clever stuff.
So could something else win? I think so. A decent quality 4G MP3 player for $50 would be very appealing to me. Brand would not matter.
As every round takes an extra few seconds to sort out the price of the week. This sort of thing would be a fine optional plugin, or something tuned at the local server level... but to base 'demand' on all the servers globally? Hmmn. Can't say that I like it.
Would be nice to see them fix some bugs rather than add new features. Every time I start up the game and load up a list of servers, my menus are all crunched together. Every month or so it wipes out my favorites and history files - making me dig up the IP address of the servers I haunt. Strikes me as amateur hour, anyhow, so an update like this scares me.
(Course, Defcon is out the end of the month too - so Steam may have CS sorted by the time I get back to it)
And for those who can't run their own email servers, a handy trick for those using a gmail account is to add a '+' to the user name, and it will deliver. Say I had a gmail account called slashdot@gmail.com. I could email slashdot+etrade@gmail.com and it will resolve to the slashdot@gmail.com address. Very handy for finding out who is being bad with privacy information when they ask for an email address.
Look for it on Steam. Logging in for a quick game of CS:Source, and they listed it for 9.95USD if you buy it before they release it (end of this month).
Just got done shelling out $10USD for Defcon on the PC. I would not have paid $50-30 for it, which is usually what the going rate is for shelf space. Also an indie as far as I know. If it goes well, may buy more games that way.
what ever happened to exploits ( be it virus, trojan, whatever ) that cased some REAL damage?
3. Profit. Folks found there was money to be made off of a bot net under your control. Not uncommon to see an infected system patch itself so others can't infect the system.
(drat - hit submit rather then preview - wish there was an edit)
For those looking to rip CD's, but not learn how the command line LAME encoder works, check out audiograbber. Makes quick work of turning a collection into MP3 format.
they made it easy to 'import' CD's into your itune lib by ripping stuff to a digital format. Most folks, I suspect, have a pretty good size collection of CD's. I'll buy music, but tend to do a CD (and rip to mp3 or other formats) rather than buy something digital from the go.
When the telemarketers call in - political, charity, whatever - we have a 'do not contribute' policy in our house. We signed up for the Do Not Call list, but there are exceptions to the policy. I've found it easiest to tell them we understand they can call our house, even though we signed up on the DNC list, and make it a point to *not* contribute any money to people who exercise this loophole. Seems to be working...
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Further you can remove the antenna which will greatly reduce or eliminate the transmission range of the phone.
I've found you can simulate this effect without modifying the hardware by using T-Mobile service. (argh)
Sounds like they are not allowing visualization on the Microsoft VM technology, and not a blanket statement on all VM technology like VMWare. I thought it was a nice touch that the Vista installer would fail under VMWare but worked just dandy on the Microsoft one. VMWare patched this in the 5.5.3 release earlier this month, so for those wanting to run Vista in a VM make sure you grab the latest greatest build. Also sounds like it will work if you have an MSDN subscription verion.
Foolish, however. In a VM, for demos, etc... I want as few features as possible using up as little RAM as I can. That way the applications I'm running have more resources. I already use Nlite to trim Win2k and Win2003 down substantially. Having something that has the 'ultimate' set of features OOTB is not a good thing. Thank goodness I spend more time on the server side rather than client - what a mess for those testing thick client applications.
>>The flaw derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a domain.
>Worst idea ever. The question isn't why wasn't this discovered earlier, but who decided this was a good idea in the first place?
Well, if they read
I wonder how well this will actually work.
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The technology works surprisingly well on a cell phone. One of the guys I work with in the UK showed me Shazam. I picked a random track from his vast MP3 collection, he dialed a number and held out his phone for a half a minute, and shortly thereafter they SMS'ed him the artist. Not a quite background either...
http://www.shazam.com/music/portal/sp/s/media-typ
Take that same technology and do it on what should be even cleaner audio than what you send over a cell phone speaker - I suspect they could get most of it.
I actually had my gaming rig infected this way. Playing CS:Source, it is not uncommon for the MOTD to point to a web site. My default browser is FireFox, but it turns out Counter Strike is using the IE engine anyhow, and I got nailed by one of those drive by HTML exploits when I selected a random game server.
I really do not understand the people who say that DVD9 is big enough for games. Especially when we have releases like this. It's obvious that if there is space on the disc, the developers will find some use for it. While printing multiple DVD's would be cheaper than making a single HD DVD, it is still aggravation for the players and the developers in the long term
Multiple DVD's would only be an extra "disk in, disk out" on the install. It has been a long time since I've seen a game that did not put all the content on the absurdly large HDD and just use the CD for copy protection. By the time they start shipping games on HD DVD, do you think you could even buy a 250G HDD? As for the media itself, as long as it is going to be treated as a dongle, I'd just assume it was a little lower density / scratch resistant...
You need to hook it up anyway to recharge.
You need a cable to recharge, but I'd view it like Ethernet or wireless. Of course copper is faster, but there are times where it is just not convenient. My blackberry, for instance, uses a USB cable to recharge and do data. I can feed it power with my wife's cell phone charger too which is nothing more than a wall wart and USB cable. I'd like to have my cake and eat it too with an Ipod... Just another opinion.
Some of the language certification tests will push you. One of the things about working on the job is even a crummy company will usually put rules into place that prevent you from doing really ugly things. I mean, "__$_" is a perfectly valid variable name in Java, but I've never known anyone with enough brass to try and push something like that through a code review. Anyhow, I found the Java certification (and a C++ one back in the day) really pushed my understanding of the language itself. Worth doing, if you are looking to hone some skills and not just trying the bare minimum needed to pass a test.
The other thing is to mentor an intern or junior programmer. Few things will push you to 'do things right' more than being an example for others to emulate.
I saw that and tried to buy one of these 'cultured' diamonds back then. The only man made diamonds you could buy were yellow, pink, etc. Sure, super rare, yada, yada, yada... but many months of looking you could not find the classic clear diamond. If folks are starting to sell the clear diamonds, this is big news.
You can bet this is going to make life very hard for the folks like VLC or anyone who wants to do something clever with the audio system. Wonder how they are going to push it, however? Sure, they can go for attrition, and make sure all new machines come with Vista, but there are a lot of Win32 machines out there that have more than enough CPU. There were some big jumps from the 200mhz-600mhz range, but now with 2-3ghz more or less normal and no 'got to have it' devices like USB3 this is going to be a tough sell. Heck, even with DirectX 10 being reserved for Vista, game publishers would be suicide to go after that market for a couple years. While it might give a few more FPS, you can bet the vice-like grip on hardware will doom any of the older games from running on the system... I mean, heck, if you could access the video, you might just try to display content without the secret hardware handshake.
You missed one...
10) let you 'order' a CD that has the drivers for your printer, camera, burner, or scanner for $20.
After getting burned on that one a few times, I know I'll never have an HP logo on anything I shell out cash for again.
Be careful - the definition of 'rich' gets lower and lower each year. (grin) If you are in technology and are lucky enough to have a dual income, you may be shocked to find yourself paying Alternative Minimum Tax.
...the Treasury Department estimated that around 15% of households with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000 must pay Alternative Minimum Tax...
And that is not hard to do in California, for example, where 50k a year puts you at the poverty level. Even at 100k or more, there are no fantastic 'hide all your money' shelters like their might be for some MPAA execs with seven digit salary.
Yup. Looking at the materials, sounds like they went for the 'simple' (!h-bomb) implosion and horked it up. Figured they would have tried a gun type first test, as it is harder to screw up, but seems the material they pulled from their 'power generator' would make that more trouble than it is worth. You would not think a soccer ball shape charge would be that hard to pull off with today's technology. Heh. Glad it is. Did not know it was plutonium when I posted... wish I could edit...
Course, if they were looking to build a dirty bomb, they passed with wild colors. (grin)
I think they got it half right. Fission is (relatively) easy, fusion is hard. The big yields come from fusion, however, so well worth your time if you really want to make a mess. I'm sure there are better ways to describe this, but the typical design of an H-bomb is to split the atoms to generate the compression and heat to kick off the fusion reaction.
(nice pic and description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller-Ulam_design)
Short of it is it looks like they got the first half right, and horked up the more complex timing to get the fusion part down. This makes it just a little less scary... it means they have the old school fission weapons and were probably gunning for something a magnitude harder. Yikes.
Use VLC on the mac. It not only ignores the region codes, but lets you skip the FBI warnings and any other junk the publisher want you to not skip. (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)
When I bought my 1G shuffle, it was cheaper than any other MP3 player that size - almost the same cost as many of the 512M models. At the same cost or less, I went with the Apple MP3 player. All of these players seem to be within $10 of each other, and as parts get cheaper, they seem to add more functionality to keep the price point high. Someone willing to make 5% profit on basic hardware could dethrone the lot.
Many folks have large collections of bog standard MP3's. I know I keep my CD collection in a couple milk crates once I figured out how to rip high quality MP3's and keep the original media safe and sound. The fact that my Shuffle can play Apple's DRM format does not matter to me - I have never purchased an electronic track. Same goes for Zune and the plethora of 'play for sure' devices. I just want an MP3 player. On the original purchase, the thought of using the iTunes store did come into play. Not so anymore. I'd love to pay half what Apple or Microsoft are selling their models for, and skip the ability to do 'pay to play'.
Subscription services are right out. I like to own my music. I suspect others feel the same way. Were I starting from scratch, on the music front, might feel different. Don't see that business model taking off.
Heresy, but I don't consider iTunes to be a fantastic way to manage large collections of music. I strongly dislike the transcoding to other 'protected' formats like Sony tried and sounds like the Zune is doing. It is worth more to me to not need special software to upload or download music to the device. Something that would, oh, just look at the player like a USB drive and play all the MP3 files on it would be great. Again, I'm happy enough with the Shuffle - no screen, random or linear track selection - so not looking to pay for an MP3 player that does all sorts of clever stuff.
So could something else win? I think so. A decent quality 4G MP3 player for $50 would be very appealing to me. Brand would not matter.
how does one about getting a subscription to a classified journal? Do they mail it to you?
Inter-office mail?
As every round takes an extra few seconds to sort out the price of the week. This sort of thing would be a fine optional plugin, or something tuned at the local server level... but to base 'demand' on all the servers globally? Hmmn. Can't say that I like it.
Would be nice to see them fix some bugs rather than add new features. Every time I start up the game and load up a list of servers, my menus are all crunched together. Every month or so it wipes out my favorites and history files - making me dig up the IP address of the servers I haunt. Strikes me as amateur hour, anyhow, so an update like this scares me.
(Course, Defcon is out the end of the month too - so Steam may have CS sorted by the time I get back to it)
And for those who can't run their own email servers, a handy trick for those using a gmail account is to add a '+' to the user name, and it will deliver. Say I had a gmail account called slashdot@gmail.com. I could email slashdot+etrade@gmail.com and it will resolve to the slashdot@gmail.com address. Very handy for finding out who is being bad with privacy information when they ask for an email address.
Look for it on Steam. Logging in for a quick game of CS:Source, and they listed it for 9.95USD if you buy it before they release it (end of this month).
Just got done shelling out $10USD for Defcon on the PC. I would not have paid $50-30 for it, which is usually what the going rate is for shelf space. Also an indie as far as I know. If it goes well, may buy more games that way.
what ever happened to exploits ( be it virus, trojan, whatever ) that cased some REAL damage?
3. Profit. Folks found there was money to be made off of a bot net under your control. Not uncommon to see an infected system patch itself so others can't infect the system.
(drat - hit submit rather then preview - wish there was an edit)
For those looking to rip CD's, but not learn how the command line LAME encoder works, check out audiograbber. Makes quick work of turning a collection into MP3 format.
they made it easy to 'import' CD's into your itune lib by ripping stuff to a digital format. Most folks, I suspect, have a pretty good size collection of CD's. I'll buy music, but tend to do a CD (and rip to mp3 or other formats) rather than buy something digital from the go.
When the telemarketers call in - political, charity, whatever - we have a 'do not contribute' policy in our house. We signed up for the Do Not Call list, but there are exceptions to the policy. I've found it easiest to tell them we understand they can call our house, even though we signed up on the DNC list, and make it a point to *not* contribute any money to people who exercise this loophole. Seems to be working...