When you put up fees and interest rates well above the RBAs increase, make up some excuse about not having enough income and then post profits in the billions of dollars, people tend not to trust what you say.
Sounds like winter here for me.. Get up at 5am, its dark. Get to work by 6:30am, its still dark. Live all day in my office with no windows (The one that let light in, unfortunately I still have the other kind). Leave work around 5:30pm to see the sun dipping behind the horizon (or if I have to work another 10-15 mins, miss it completely). Repeat for 5 days a week. On weekends I get to sleep in and when I wake up wonder where all this light is coming from and why its hurting my eyes..
It actually sounds nice there, not having to walk around half blind on weekends..
"There are plenty of people still using Windows 98."
I seriously doubt this un cited statistic. Unless you live ina very poor town where people dont even have p4s. I personally havent seen more than a few windows 98 machines in years, and i fix alot of computers. I just dont believe it.
As a single point of reference, just last week here at work we 'found' a machine running some dedicated testing software under Windows 3.1. In the whole time it has been there we have never needed to do any work on it as it is still performing its single task adequately.
I say found because we honestly didn't even know it existed. I was looking for a data collection agent and found a PC turned on under a desk in the test area, followed the cable to a monitor in the corner and turned it on. Hilarity ensued.
I pretty much agree with the parent. The plot sucked, the dialog was sloppy and the characters were not that deep.. I haven't seen the movie in 3D and I suspect that is what most people were gushing over. The special effects were pretty good, but in the days of computer animated everything, its not really that surprising.
I did however enjoy the movie and i guess that's the point. I don't love the movie like everyone else seemed to, but I don't hate it either.
Reinventing something that's been available for years is not 'coming up with good technologies'.
Now what they SHOULD have done is just cache the MAC of the PC in AD along with the rest of the object (It might already be there as part of the auth stuff) and then mod the remote access client to try and ping first, no reply? Send a Wake on Lan packet.
In all seriousness though virtual monitors can be good for some things but completely useless for others.
Lets take for example my last job. Essentially my job was to monitor a whole bunch of graphs and if any of them did something unexpected, investigate why and then report it to someone. It was a lot more complicated than that (which is why we couldn't just trigger an alert in software, although we did have some) but we needed screen real estate and lots of it. We ended up with 8 20" monitors per person, meaning we had to use 4 video cards, 2 in 2 separate machines, and use synergy to link them so we could easily mouse from one to the other.
A single machine with all 8 monitors attached would have saved as a lot of messing around if one of the apps needed to be fixed/patched or when something went wrong. Having to log in to 2 machines at the start of your shift was also annoying as hell.
OCZ and im sure others have SSDs up to 500GB now. OK, they cost as much as my car, but they exist. It wont be long before they get up to 1TB, then 2TB.. Then its just a matter of waiting for the price to come down.
SSDs have caught up to traditional drives capacity extremely quickly, it wont be long before you can put a 10TB SSD in your laptop and never have to worry again (well, except for loosing it).
Well now I feel good about the decision I made 6 years ago to not watch a single episode of this show when I attempted to watch the first episode and failed 4 times. Even from the first episode it looked like it wasn't going to go anywhere and that a good 50% of the stuff in it would never be explained.
I was either going to be horribly wrong and miss the best written TV show ever, or be correct.
Bah.. That's nothing.. Our 'any router will do' policy once got me in to an argument with a customer that lasted a good 20 mins. When I advised him for the 5th time that while he had a router, he would ALSO need some form of computer to get internet pages, he demanded to speak to my supervisor.
I honestly cant see a problem with this. XP is now a 9 year old operating system that has been superseded but 2! newer versions and has entered extended support. I wouldn't expect apple to release the new version of safari on OS 9, I wouldn't expect Debian sarge to have the latest version of firefox back ported, why is IE9 any different?
What you need to do is firstly wait to see what impact this will have on your ability to play the game. Then you check the box, user agreement and any other documentation that came with the game that was readable before opening for any mention that the components that have now stopped working would actually stop working at some point in the future. Then after the 30 seconds of looking and finding nothing, you find a bunch of that have a similar issue with their game no longer working and start a class action.
And no im not american, and yes I usually hate the 'sue them' response, but every now and then you have to remind companies that they have a responsibility to their customers..
No no.. You can also use a bluetooth keyboard with most nokia phones now. So all you need to do is carry around a full sized keyboard, a smallish LCD TV and all the cables and you can use your phone to edit documents! Nokia's next innovation will be a device that is small enough to sit on your lap and contains the 'TV' and keyboard built in so then you wont have to worry about the cables either!
On a more serious note. I have an E65 and I can ALREADY view and edit word and excel files on it. I don't because I also have an eeepc and can use the phone as a tether to the internet and use openoffice on a much bigger screen..
I wouldn't say its 'taken then so long to get smart'. I've been playing the game for well over a year and while the introduction of an in game item to represent play time is new, selling game cards for in game currency (or buying game time for in game currency) has been in the game for longer than I have. There has been section of the forums setup specifically as a market place for time cards and for the whole time I have been playing you have been able to securely transfer game time through the web site.
I remember being told YEARS before I started playing that some people I know were earning enough per month to play multiple accounts for free. This has all been done through someone else selling them a game time card for in game currency. While im not sure for how long you have been able to do this through a secure system, I believe it has always been encouraged (or at least not discouraged)
While im not sure if this system was running from day one, it didn't take long to develop.
I have a fox terrier. Hes a smart little bugger and he knows it. I have numerous examples of him outsmarting people, but the one I love to tell is him outsmarting my wife.
She was sitting watching TV eating her dinner, it was a steak and some vegetables. Usually we are bad and cut bits off for the dog to eat with us, but she was hungry and it was only a small piece of steak so tonight the dog got his own meat and none of hers. He likes steak.
He watched her eating the steak and asked nicely if he could have some (he will pat your leg to remind you he hasn't had any yet). After being told no several times he got grumpy and sat down for a bit. All of a sudden he starts to bark loudly and growls and runs toward the front door. My wife jumps up putting her dinner down on the couch and runs to see what he is growling at. He sneaks past her as she runs down to an empty door. When she returns the steak is gone and the dog is no where to be seen.
He has tried this same trick again on her since then but she remembered to put her dinner higher up where he cant get it. He tried it on me and promptly got told to shut up, so he came back and sulked in front of me.
Amazon also hasn't sold you anything. You paid them for a license to read the book. They have simply revoked the license. I have no idea if the agreement you would have to have read to open the box (yay shrink wrapped EULAs) gives them the right to remove your licenses for any reason at all, but I suspect it does.
This is the biggest problem with DRM covered digital distribution. You think your paying for a book, when in reality you aren't.
After weighing up my options I decided to go with the "give one get one" program despite it being more expensive than getting something else because I thought I would be helping out some 3rd world child to get an education. I was told it wasn't available in my country.
They weren't selling the devices to the people that wanted to buy one. No matter how good your product is if you don't sell it to your market (even if its not the market you want) you will fail.
I'm actually not so sure that this is due to the user being stupid but more due to the person that's telling the user to 'just click continue anyway' not understanding the issue either. I have read a lot of replies to this story and it is very clear that even IT professionals don't understand the problem..
As a poster said somewhere above, the certificate is used for 2 important things. It is used to make an SSL connection (so the transport of the data is secure) and it tells you that the site you are sending your data too is the one it says it is. After giving us that gem of information they then went off on a tangent and said what we need is an SSL only certificate to secure the connection blah blah blah blah.. and they completely missed the point.
A valid certificate tells us that we have a secure connection and the site we are sending to is who it says it is. You need BOTH to be true to get any use out of this. Having a secure connection to some random site on the internet which may not be who its claiming to be is pointless. All the site would need to do is give you a self signed SSL certificate, log everything you give it and relay the pages from the real site. ie, man in the middle attack. Hopefully not having a secure connection has its own obvious flaw.
Its very evident from the discussion in here that IT professionals even have problems understanding why it is so important to prevent users from getting access to a site with an invalid certificate. If the professionals don't get it, what chance does the end user have?
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Well you ARE telling it its a file... ssh://example.com would be an example of an ssh URL...
When you put up fees and interest rates well above the RBAs increase, make up some excuse about not having enough income and then post profits in the billions of dollars, people tend not to trust what you say.
Sounds like winter here for me.. Get up at 5am, its dark. Get to work by 6:30am, its still dark. Live all day in my office with no windows (The one that let light in, unfortunately I still have the other kind). Leave work around 5:30pm to see the sun dipping behind the horizon (or if I have to work another 10-15 mins, miss it completely). Repeat for 5 days a week. On weekends I get to sleep in and when I wake up wonder where all this light is coming from and why its hurting my eyes..
It actually sounds nice there, not having to walk around half blind on weekends..
I seriously doubt this un cited statistic. Unless you live ina very poor town where people dont even have p4s. I personally havent seen more than a few windows 98 machines in years, and i fix alot of computers. I just dont believe it.
As a single point of reference, just last week here at work we 'found' a machine running some dedicated testing software under Windows 3.1. In the whole time it has been there we have never needed to do any work on it as it is still performing its single task adequately.
I say found because we honestly didn't even know it existed. I was looking for a data collection agent and found a PC turned on under a desk in the test area, followed the cable to a monitor in the corner and turned it on. Hilarity ensued.
I pretty much agree with the parent. The plot sucked, the dialog was sloppy and the characters were not that deep.. I haven't seen the movie in 3D and I suspect that is what most people were gushing over. The special effects were pretty good, but in the days of computer animated everything, its not really that surprising.
I did however enjoy the movie and i guess that's the point. I don't love the movie like everyone else seemed to, but I don't hate it either.
Welcome to eve. Where if you think someone is doing better than you, kill him and take his stuff.
Reinventing something that's been available for years is not 'coming up with good technologies'.
Now what they SHOULD have done is just cache the MAC of the PC in AD along with the rest of the object (It might already be there as part of the auth stuff) and then mod the remote access client to try and ping first, no reply? Send a Wake on Lan packet.
Ha ha. Very funny.
In all seriousness though virtual monitors can be good for some things but completely useless for others.
Lets take for example my last job. Essentially my job was to monitor a whole bunch of graphs and if any of them did something unexpected, investigate why and then report it to someone. It was a lot more complicated than that (which is why we couldn't just trigger an alert in software, although we did have some) but we needed screen real estate and lots of it. We ended up with 8 20" monitors per person, meaning we had to use 4 video cards, 2 in 2 separate machines, and use synergy to link them so we could easily mouse from one to the other.
A single machine with all 8 monitors attached would have saved as a lot of messing around if one of the apps needed to be fixed/patched or when something went wrong. Having to log in to 2 machines at the start of your shift was also annoying as hell.
OCZ and im sure others have SSDs up to 500GB now. OK, they cost as much as my car, but they exist. It wont be long before they get up to 1TB, then 2TB.. Then its just a matter of waiting for the price to come down.
SSDs have caught up to traditional drives capacity extremely quickly, it wont be long before you can put a 10TB SSD in your laptop and never have to worry again (well, except for loosing it).
Well now I feel good about the decision I made 6 years ago to not watch a single episode of this show when I attempted to watch the first episode and failed 4 times. Even from the first episode it looked like it wasn't going to go anywhere and that a good 50% of the stuff in it would never be explained.
I was either going to be horribly wrong and miss the best written TV show ever, or be correct.
Its not what you think.. Trust me.
Bah.. That's nothing.. Our 'any router will do' policy once got me in to an argument with a customer that lasted a good 20 mins. When I advised him for the 5th time that while he had a router, he would ALSO need some form of computer to get internet pages, he demanded to speak to my supervisor.
I honestly cant see a problem with this. XP is now a 9 year old operating system that has been superseded but 2! newer versions and has entered extended support. I wouldn't expect apple to release the new version of safari on OS 9, I wouldn't expect Debian sarge to have the latest version of firefox back ported, why is IE9 any different?
Don't know if serious.. But im assuming its because Win7 code has already screwed the battery up..
What you need to do is firstly wait to see what impact this will have on your ability to play the game. Then you check the box, user agreement and any other documentation that came with the game that was readable before opening for any mention that the components that have now stopped working would actually stop working at some point in the future. Then after the 30 seconds of looking and finding nothing, you find a bunch of that have a similar issue with their game no longer working and start a class action.
And no im not american, and yes I usually hate the 'sue them' response, but every now and then you have to remind companies that they have a responsibility to their customers..
They simply live in a world where all second hand software sales are piracy. Its the only possible way this figure could even be remotely correct.
OMG I didn't even notice till you pointed it out... I think I have a problem.
And who the hell buys more than 1 nunchuk?! I have 1 game that uses it and its a 2 player max game. (oh, and boxing from wii sports)
No no.. You can also use a bluetooth keyboard with most nokia phones now. So all you need to do is carry around a full sized keyboard, a smallish LCD TV and all the cables and you can use your phone to edit documents! Nokia's next innovation will be a device that is small enough to sit on your lap and contains the 'TV' and keyboard built in so then you wont have to worry about the cables either!
On a more serious note. I have an E65 and I can ALREADY view and edit word and excel files on it. I don't because I also have an eeepc and can use the phone as a tether to the internet and use openoffice on a much bigger screen..
I wouldn't say its 'taken then so long to get smart'. I've been playing the game for well over a year and while the introduction of an in game item to represent play time is new, selling game cards for in game currency (or buying game time for in game currency) has been in the game for longer than I have. There has been section of the forums setup specifically as a market place for time cards and for the whole time I have been playing you have been able to securely transfer game time through the web site.
I remember being told YEARS before I started playing that some people I know were earning enough per month to play multiple accounts for free. This has all been done through someone else selling them a game time card for in game currency. While im not sure for how long you have been able to do this through a secure system, I believe it has always been encouraged (or at least not discouraged)
While im not sure if this system was running from day one, it didn't take long to develop.
I have a fox terrier. Hes a smart little bugger and he knows it. I have numerous examples of him outsmarting people, but the one I love to tell is him outsmarting my wife.
She was sitting watching TV eating her dinner, it was a steak and some vegetables. Usually we are bad and cut bits off for the dog to eat with us, but she was hungry and it was only a small piece of steak so tonight the dog got his own meat and none of hers. He likes steak.
He watched her eating the steak and asked nicely if he could have some (he will pat your leg to remind you he hasn't had any yet). After being told no several times he got grumpy and sat down for a bit. All of a sudden he starts to bark loudly and growls and runs toward the front door. My wife jumps up putting her dinner down on the couch and runs to see what he is growling at. He sneaks past her as she runs down to an empty door. When she returns the steak is gone and the dog is no where to be seen.
He has tried this same trick again on her since then but she remembered to put her dinner higher up where he cant get it. He tried it on me and promptly got told to shut up, so he came back and sulked in front of me.
Amazon also hasn't sold you anything. You paid them for a license to read the book. They have simply revoked the license. I have no idea if the agreement you would have to have read to open the box (yay shrink wrapped EULAs) gives them the right to remove your licenses for any reason at all, but I suspect it does.
This is the biggest problem with DRM covered digital distribution. You think your paying for a book, when in reality you aren't.
After weighing up my options I decided to go with the "give one get one" program despite it being more expensive than getting something else because I thought I would be helping out some 3rd world child to get an education. I was told it wasn't available in my country.
They weren't selling the devices to the people that wanted to buy one. No matter how good your product is if you don't sell it to your market (even if its not the market you want) you will fail.
I'm actually not so sure that this is due to the user being stupid but more due to the person that's telling the user to 'just click continue anyway' not understanding the issue either. I have read a lot of replies to this story and it is very clear that even IT professionals don't understand the problem..
As a poster said somewhere above, the certificate is used for 2 important things. It is used to make an SSL connection (so the transport of the data is secure) and it tells you that the site you are sending your data too is the one it says it is. After giving us that gem of information they then went off on a tangent and said what we need is an SSL only certificate to secure the connection blah blah blah blah.. and they completely missed the point.
A valid certificate tells us that we have a secure connection and the site we are sending to is who it says it is. You need BOTH to be true to get any use out of this. Having a secure connection to some random site on the internet which may not be who its claiming to be is pointless. All the site would need to do is give you a self signed SSL certificate, log everything you give it and relay the pages from the real site. ie, man in the middle attack. Hopefully not having a secure connection has its own obvious flaw.
Its very evident from the discussion in here that IT professionals even have problems understanding why it is so important to prevent users from getting access to a site with an invalid certificate. If the professionals don't get it, what chance does the end user have?
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