More like, because he wasn't financially responsible enough to get health insurance for his family; if he can't even handle that, then why should a company trust the guy with their books?
"Someone buying an iPod does not inflate the price for everyone else."
Take a look at an econ 101 supply/demand curve. If there is more demand, producers can get away with charging more.
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And what might that be, posting a comment on a Slashdot story about an article written praising the things these professors are doing? I'd say they are on the higher end of the "useful" scale than you in this case.
The thing that should really concern them is that the passwords are probably represented in the database as MD5 checksums. The problem with this is that the intruder can essentially run a dictionary attack through an md5 program and get a lot of common words (there are actually multiple gigabyte databases out there on the web for free, full of text of common password/md5 checksum pairs). With the plain text passwords of many users in hand (certainly not all), they can then go about trying these on banking sites, etc. using the usernames from the databases. MD5 checksum storage for passwords really is a weak link in a lot of systems. It works fine for very strong passwords, but it doesn't solve as many problems as people think. (Note: it doesn't matter whether it's MD5 or SHA-n or whatever for the attack I'm talking about, the attack doesn't involve 'cracking' md5, it simply relies on common passwords being enumerable.)
How do you figure? They bought ATI, after ATI already made the deals, so the estimated value of those deals was already factored into the price of ATI. Unless you know something the market doesn't (if you did you would be out making money instead of blabbing on slashdot), you are just wildly speculating.
Guitar Hero can also only be used on... guitar games. This is not exactly a console saving market. Let me address "what's to stop somebody making that for the XBox 360 or even the PS2": Nintendo's patent?
Wow, yeah.. I just kinda shat out a response without looking into it.. and based on some really dated knowledge of my own. Here's a listing that backs up a lot of what you're saying. I don't think they would need people who have "Worked with multiple large databases greater than 1 Terabyte in size" to handle their billing databases...
I'm assuming you mean 'buy' a copy through one of these emerging download services (unlike the guy who thought you meant at the flea-market). If so, it would be more accurate to say "sorta license a copy.. that you can't use anywhere besides the device that you 'sorta licensed' it from."
I don't think they would use a database in the way it seems you are suggesting. When I trade an item with a player, certainly fields in a couple of DB tables aren't being updated. What most MMO's do is keep everything in memory and periodically serialize to disk. Take a look at RunUO (it's fully GPL'ed) for a system like this. Granted RunUO is a a single server only solution, most MMO's run single shards or "servers" on clusters of computers, each serving zones within a world, and they also don't necessarily serialize the entire world at once (they do some tricks to get around duping that could occur by not doing so).
Who else wishes MS would do the honorable thing and release the code under the same license as CPython? Sure, CPython's license in no way requires them to, but it is the classy thing to do.
Remap capslock to escape (for vim), escape to the windows key. Although, escape isn't so far out of the way on a laptop, so you really don't need it moved for vim, you could just make capslock the windows key. Don't even try to tell me you use capslock all day long.
I've got a tip for you: change your DNS server. Then you get lower internet rates based on the money they think they are getting with this new technology, and based on the other customers falling prey to it.
One somewhat glaring mistake: "As a matter of fact an insect's muscles, although they can contract more quickly than our own, appear to be less efficient; as otherwise a flea or grasshopper could rise six feet into the air."
Earlier in the paper he had talked about how small animals fall slower because they have a higher surface area to weight ratio; the same thing applies to jumping.
Look, people don't really mind blogspam, so even if the link went to his page it wouldn't cause that big of a deal on its own. What people hate about Roland was the rampant plagiarism he did in the past. I don't blame them, what he used to do was incredibly lame.
You aren't saying anything. You are just claiming 'slippery slope' without telling why. Yesterday my mom didn't eat any meat. She isn't a vegetarian, but that's just the way it happened yesterday. This means that now with this small step she will slowly stop eating any meat at all. After this, since she will be slipping down a slope, she will stop eating any animal products at all; she will be a vegan! Oh wait no, we're having steak tonight.
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More like, because he wasn't financially responsible enough to get health insurance for his family; if he can't even handle that, then why should a company trust the guy with their books?
"Someone buying an iPod does not inflate the price for everyone else."
Take a look at an econ 101 supply/demand curve. If there is more demand, producers can get away with charging more.
And what might that be, posting a comment on a Slashdot story about an article written praising the things these professors are doing? I'd say they are on the higher end of the "useful" scale than you in this case.
PS2 wasn't delayed as I recall, there was just a shortage of them for a few months during the Christmas shopping season.
The thing that should really concern them is that the passwords are probably represented in the database as MD5 checksums. The problem with this is that the intruder can essentially run a dictionary attack through an md5 program and get a lot of common words (there are actually multiple gigabyte databases out there on the web for free, full of text of common password/md5 checksum pairs). With the plain text passwords of many users in hand (certainly not all), they can then go about trying these on banking sites, etc. using the usernames from the databases. MD5 checksum storage for passwords really is a weak link in a lot of systems. It works fine for very strong passwords, but it doesn't solve as many problems as people think. (Note: it doesn't matter whether it's MD5 or SHA-n or whatever for the attack I'm talking about, the attack doesn't involve 'cracking' md5, it simply relies on common passwords being enumerable.)
How do you figure? They bought ATI, after ATI already made the deals, so the estimated value of those deals was already factored into the price of ATI. Unless you know something the market doesn't (if you did you would be out making money instead of blabbing on slashdot), you are just wildly speculating.
Guitar Hero can also only be used on... guitar games. This is not exactly a console saving market. Let me address "what's to stop somebody making that for the XBox 360 or even the PS2": Nintendo's patent?
Wow, yeah.. I just kinda shat out a response without looking into it.. and based on some really dated knowledge of my own. Here's a listing that backs up a lot of what you're saying. I don't think they would need people who have "Worked with multiple large databases greater than 1 Terabyte in size" to handle their billing databases...
I'm assuming you mean 'buy' a copy through one of these emerging download services (unlike the guy who thought you meant at the flea-market). If so, it would be more accurate to say "sorta license a copy.. that you can't use anywhere besides the device that you 'sorta licensed' it from."
Slightly more than half of Aleister Crowley's works go into great depth on the subject. Black magic indeed.
This wasn't a troll, it was simply a question.
I don't think they would use a database in the way it seems you are suggesting. When I trade an item with a player, certainly fields in a couple of DB tables aren't being updated. What most MMO's do is keep everything in memory and periodically serialize to disk. Take a look at RunUO (it's fully GPL'ed) for a system like this. Granted RunUO is a a single server only solution, most MMO's run single shards or "servers" on clusters of computers, each serving zones within a world, and they also don't necessarily serialize the entire world at once (they do some tricks to get around duping that could occur by not doing so).
"Why any different than Linux or MacOS X?"
I can think of several hundred million reasons (hmm, for some reason this number is right up there with MS's userbase...).
Who else wishes MS would do the honorable thing and release the code under the same license as CPython? Sure, CPython's license in no way requires them to, but it is the classy thing to do.
"C'mon millions of users bought pet rocks"
Is this a reference to crack? I think you mean 'consumers', not 'users'.
So now, I stick to classics and Mame. I will never pay a monthly fee for a game.
It is funny that you mention Mame, something you don't pay anything for. Quit pretending it is just monthly fees you don't like.
Wow, the sarcastic nature of your post is right on. Oh, wait.
Won't matter, fn isn't considered a 'key' that can be remapped.
Well, no one has proven that there is a market inside education.
Remap capslock to escape (for vim), escape to the windows key. Although, escape isn't so far out of the way on a laptop, so you really don't need it moved for vim, you could just make capslock the windows key. Don't even try to tell me you use capslock all day long.
I've got a tip for you: change your DNS server. Then you get lower internet rates based on the money they think they are getting with this new technology, and based on the other customers falling prey to it.
One somewhat glaring mistake: "As a matter of fact an insect's muscles, although they can contract more quickly than our own, appear to be less efficient; as otherwise a flea or grasshopper could rise six feet into the air."
Earlier in the paper he had talked about how small animals fall slower because they have a higher surface area to weight ratio; the same thing applies to jumping.
Hi. I run a farm. We don't use tools and we just kinda kick around in the mud trying to get things to grow. But call us amatuers and you are SNIDE!!!
Look, people don't really mind blogspam, so even if the link went to his page it wouldn't cause that big of a deal on its own. What people hate about Roland was the rampant plagiarism he did in the past. I don't blame them, what he used to do was incredibly lame.
You aren't saying anything. You are just claiming 'slippery slope' without telling why. Yesterday my mom didn't eat any meat. She isn't a vegetarian, but that's just the way it happened yesterday. This means that now with this small step she will slowly stop eating any meat at all. After this, since she will be slipping down a slope, she will stop eating any animal products at all; she will be a vegan! Oh wait no, we're having steak tonight.