Compusa got forcibly delisted from the BBB (mostly for the rebate bullshit the ftc later punished them for) a couple of years ago and it was a pain in the ass for them to get back on and their reputation suffered. That said, if a company just doesn't care about negative PR - tiger direct comes to mind - yeah, filing a bbb report won't do shit.
Think about that again. When you tell someone to go and buy a new hard drive for their computer, where do they go? West coasters have Fry's (sorry don't know about all that hoopla). On the east, we have CompUsa and Best Buy. Best Buy only comes into mind because of their viral advertising campaign. Other than that, your average joe schmoe isn't going to research Pricewatch for the best price.. they will head to the brick-and-mortar store named CompUSA.
Sure, a tv news station could run a negative op-ed piece, but then CompUSA will sell insane amounts of RAM for $1. Damage control sustained. Why should they give a fuck about the BBB again?
Meh. I'm not worried due to my health; cigarette smoke is the worst smell I've yet encountered. I'd walk a quarter mile to avoid it. Skipping out on a room full of drunks is a small cost.
you need to find restaurants that have better ventilation. sitting at the end of the bar where no one is smoking and sitting two booths over in the "non-smoking section" are practically the same. that said, all upscale restaurants i've been to actually have good ventilation (perhaps you should consider moving to a city where smoking is banned in public places).
second off, what restaurant do you go to where there is a room full of drunks at lunch? especially since the whole getting drunk at lunch thing has been effectively killed since the 70s...
socialization does not mean go to bar and get pissy drunk while smoking death sticks. i socialize on a daily basis when i travel to work. hope the metro, sit down next to random person and strike up a random conversation. several of my gfs were found this way.. my last gf and i never even went to bars, but went to museums and such. of course this isn't limited just to women, going to a local restaurant and sitting at the bar* while i eat lunch allowed me to make new business contacts. or, the time a bigwig of Morgan Stanely needed a jumpstart allowed me to sit down with him for 30 minutes for a decent conversation.
socialization means going out and meeting with new people. for most of the 20-some crowd, this generally means going to a bar and getting shitfaced and waking up next to a stranger. for the older and it means going outside and saying "HI NEIGHBOR". to the younger, it means going to your friend's house to play video games.
and to stay ontopic, due to this insane heat i am being a complete web hermit today. after reading a funny k5 post, i decided to look at the w4m board on craigslist. the first post actually yielded an interesting chick to talk to. i will write a journal if i ever get coffee with this woman
lets kill this thread here, please.
*if you worry about a little second hand smoke (generally upscale restaurant bars aren't as smokey at lunch) then you need to reconsider that diet coke you're drinking.
BeOS ran on common (read: Apple and Intel) hardware from 1996. And it was marketed as a multimedia OS, but never gained a strong enough hold. Chances are, if you heard of it, you had no use for it. OS/2 was similar because it was marketed for business desktops.
SkyOS sounds like a slower rehash of BeOS complete to the lack of major hardware support (still no wifi support, for instance)
say there is a file on the usb drive labeled "mindy underwear 001" with a thumbnail of a scantly clad woman. you'd double click it to view it right? what if that thumbnail was an icon for a clever trojan that pops up a look alike of windows' image preview. cool huh? now there's an unauthorized program scanning through your files trying to find username/password combinations. SUCKER!
i read this article last night.. i think i may start doing this for shits and giggles. the obvious blackhat way would be to steal sensitive information. i'm thinking more obnoxious things that makes people privy to security violations. maybe a few floating penises while the computer is making orgasm sounds. with a text file that explains exactly how it got installed so the user can't say "i was surfing the web and this happened". ahh, i'm loading up visual c++ now. i'll report back with results on monday!
The captain had been telling the pilot for ~30 seconds that the plane was in go-around mode. When the pilot realized this, he turned it off without preparing for the next action. Two factors come into play here, an inexperienced pilot was flying and the crew was believed to be intoxicated during the incident. Which was the culprit, we'll probably never know but they also play majorly into the man vs computer argument.
I repeat the question. Have YOU performed any tests between iTunes for Windows compared to iTunes for OSX? I have and found iTunes for OS X to return results quicker than iTunes for Windows. This isn't a media library on a network drive, or two seperate sets of music on two different computers. This was a FAT32 USB 2.0 drive plugged into windows using iTunes then moved to a G4 Powerbook running OS X and iTunes. The powerbook returned results faster. I stopped using my windows machine shortly after.
Talking theory is nice and all, but its better when you have facts to back it up.
then use.htaccess, lock down the dir to your ip or selected users, and enable register_globals on that directory only in the.htaccess file. apache is extensible like that
i use kde myself, i respect all of the hardwork put in by the kde devs, but lets seriously face it.. it's bloated, there is no such thing as QA testing (well thats an argument for 99% of open source software), and its not as intuitive as windows or mac os x. during the short period of time i tried to switch my laptop to unix only (i try about 4 times a year to check for improvements), i experienced kde's dcop manager crashing (making kde practically useless), lack of similar applications that i used in windows, wine is a joke (it can't run a lot of ishield executables properly, although that is mostly due to the funky design off their installers), and it's slow.
a big problem with this push for unix or linux on the desktop is that the underlying layer is still following 20 year old principles. for a desktop to shine, it has to be designed to act as a desktop, not a GUI hacked on top of a generic kernel. that's exactly what windows 3.x and 95 was. think of linux+x11 as windows 95 interface running loosely ontop of a windows nt kernel. now look at the desktop OSs that received popular reviews: windows nt/2000, beos, mac os x, skyos. now before you begin flaming me, consider this.. linux has a kernel-level http module(not a bad thing, IIS proved this helps performance), but no modules for graphics acceleration. X11 loads its drivers (ati, nvidia, and other kernel mods aside) in userland. The other OSs i mentioned previously do not. I can go on with a list of other reasons, but I will be going too far offtopic.
back on topic, amaroK is *great* for managing large music collections. amaroK + mysql use ~40-50MB of RAM, for my 25,000 song collection (98% legit!) compared to 100MB for Winamp and 200MB+ for iTunes. Windows Media Player actually used the least in windows coming in at 45MB however, as I said before, it is HORRIBLE for actually managing large collections. Anyway, if you're using *nix for your desktop, you don't really have any other choice other than a self-hacked find/xmms script.
memory is cheap, cpu cycles are not. with my library, searching for a song in iTunes takes up to 15 seconds before it updates the list. contrast to winamp that does it in 5. i used to use media player which took ~20 seconds, but people who came over to listen to music always complained (what self-respecting geek wants *anyone* complaining about their computing setup) so i switched it up. plus winamp provides rating support, a decent playlist manager, and AVS. iTunes does not compare (unless you buy music, but thats what that russian mp3 site is for)
i used to do the same thing until i started having parties and people looking for music had a very difficult time finding it. also during late night coding sessions, i don't want to have to search through folders to add songs when i can just type in a few letters and click "enqueue". if this doesn't bother you, by all means go for it. but i don't think thats what the original poster had in mind and i stand by winamp's media library or amaroK
I've found winamp to be the most functional when it comes to managing large music libraries. Large meaning 20,000+ songs. I find Windows Media Player to have the nicest interface for managing, sorting, and creating playlists, however it becomes dog slow when your collection reaches five digits. iTunes is also laggy, so I do not use that anymore. Winamp is always responsive (the player doesn't lock up while searching the library), but uses the most memory. While the UI isn't the best, it is better than iTunes.
I wish amoroK could be ported to windows (maybe a summer project, we'll see). It uses either MySQL or PostgreSQL for very fast response, has a very intuitive interface (better than iTunes, IMHO), and very stable for an open source application. It ties in to Last.FM and provides similar features locally, making it hands down the best for managing large music collections. Downside, it's UNIX only.
Not saying anything is wrong with UNIX or Linux, but lets face it.. Windows and Mac OS X rule the desktop. Oh, and FWIW, iTunes on Mac OS X is *much* more responsive than iTunes on Windows with the same media library.
you use the vagcom to reprogram the odometer, if its less than 200 miles. if its over 200 miles, you're SOL. no such thing as "reprogramming the dash to accept the ecu".
VW uses a particular system that is almost completely emulated by software packages like VAG-COM and ProDiag, and both can be used to re-associate a dashboard and ECU without any dealer involvement.
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this is assuming the US dollar does not crash in the next few years
Compusa got forcibly delisted from the BBB (mostly for the rebate bullshit the ftc later punished them for) a couple of years ago and it was a pain in the ass for them to get back on and their reputation suffered.
That said, if a company just doesn't care about negative PR - tiger direct comes to mind - yeah, filing a bbb report won't do shit.
Think about that again. When you tell someone to go and buy a new hard drive for their computer, where do they go? West coasters have Fry's (sorry don't know about all that hoopla). On the east, we have CompUsa and Best Buy. Best Buy only comes into mind because of their viral advertising campaign. Other than that, your average joe schmoe isn't going to research Pricewatch for the best price.. they will head to the brick-and-mortar store named CompUSA.
Sure, a tv news station could run a negative op-ed piece, but then CompUSA will sell insane amounts of RAM for $1. Damage control sustained. Why should they give a fuck about the BBB again?
Meh. I'm not worried due to my health; cigarette smoke is the worst smell I've yet encountered. I'd walk a quarter mile to avoid it. Skipping out on a room full of drunks is a small cost.
you need to find restaurants that have better ventilation. sitting at the end of the bar where no one is smoking and sitting two booths over in the "non-smoking section" are practically the same. that said, all upscale restaurants i've been to actually have good ventilation (perhaps you should consider moving to a city where smoking is banned in public places).
second off, what restaurant do you go to where there is a room full of drunks at lunch? especially since the whole getting drunk at lunch thing has been effectively killed since the 70s...
socialization does not mean go to bar and get pissy drunk while smoking death sticks. i socialize on a daily basis when i travel to work. hope the metro, sit down next to random person and strike up a random conversation. several of my gfs were found this way.. my last gf and i never even went to bars, but went to museums and such. of course this isn't limited just to women, going to a local restaurant and sitting at the bar* while i eat lunch allowed me to make new business contacts. or, the time a bigwig of Morgan Stanely needed a jumpstart allowed me to sit down with him for 30 minutes for a decent conversation.
socialization means going out and meeting with new people. for most of the 20-some crowd, this generally means going to a bar and getting shitfaced and waking up next to a stranger. for the older and it means going outside and saying "HI NEIGHBOR". to the younger, it means going to your friend's house to play video games.
and to stay ontopic, due to this insane heat i am being a complete web hermit today. after reading a funny k5 post, i decided to look at the w4m board on craigslist. the first post actually yielded an interesting chick to talk to. i will write a journal if i ever get coffee with this woman
lets kill this thread here, please.
*if you worry about a little second hand smoke (generally upscale restaurant bars aren't as smokey at lunch) then you need to reconsider that diet coke you're drinking.
Implementing malware with virtual machines
BeOS ran on common (read: Apple and Intel) hardware from 1996. And it was marketed as a multimedia OS, but never gained a strong enough hold. Chances are, if you heard of it, you had no use for it. OS/2 was similar because it was marketed for business desktops.
SkyOS sounds like a slower rehash of BeOS complete to the lack of major hardware support (still no wifi support, for instance)
/a and -a are the same
For example: PIN codes
are pretty secure, but they are only 4 digits.
Incorrect. Go and call your bank
say there is a file on the usb drive labeled "mindy underwear 001" with a thumbnail of a scantly clad woman. you'd double click it to view it right? what if that thumbnail was an icon for a clever trojan that pops up a look alike of windows' image preview. cool huh? now there's an unauthorized program scanning through your files trying to find username/password combinations. SUCKER!
i read this article last night.. i think i may start doing this for shits and giggles. the obvious blackhat way would be to steal sensitive information. i'm thinking more obnoxious things that makes people privy to security violations. maybe a few floating penises while the computer is making orgasm sounds. with a text file that explains exactly how it got installed so the user can't say "i was surfing the web and this happened". ahh, i'm loading up visual c++ now. i'll report back with results on monday!
To be a bit more precise:
The captain had been telling the pilot for ~30 seconds that the plane was in go-around mode. When the pilot realized this, he turned it off without preparing for the next action. Two factors come into play here, an inexperienced pilot was flying and the crew was believed to be intoxicated during the incident. Which was the culprit, we'll probably never know but they also play majorly into the man vs computer argument.
I repeat the question. Have YOU performed any tests between iTunes for Windows compared to iTunes for OSX? I have and found iTunes for OS X to return results quicker than iTunes for Windows. This isn't a media library on a network drive, or two seperate sets of music on two different computers. This was a FAT32 USB 2.0 drive plugged into windows using iTunes then moved to a G4 Powerbook running OS X and iTunes. The powerbook returned results faster. I stopped using my windows machine shortly after.
Talking theory is nice and all, but its better when you have facts to back it up.
i'll refer you to my previous comment before you make baseless accusations. are you like an old shcool troll or something?
since when did a G4 have an intel processer and run windows? please read the entire thread before randomly replying. kplzthx
you also don't have what's considered a large library. i'm crossing 25,000 and see major delays
then use .htaccess, lock down the dir to your ip or selected users, and enable register_globals on that directory only in the .htaccess file. apache is extensible like that
i use kde myself, i respect all of the hardwork put in by the kde devs, but lets seriously face it.. it's bloated, there is no such thing as QA testing (well thats an argument for 99% of open source software), and its not as intuitive as windows or mac os x. during the short period of time i tried to switch my laptop to unix only (i try about 4 times a year to check for improvements), i experienced kde's dcop manager crashing (making kde practically useless), lack of similar applications that i used in windows, wine is a joke (it can't run a lot of ishield executables properly, although that is mostly due to the funky design off their installers), and it's slow.
a big problem with this push for unix or linux on the desktop is that the underlying layer is still following 20 year old principles. for a desktop to shine, it has to be designed to act as a desktop, not a GUI hacked on top of a generic kernel. that's exactly what windows 3.x and 95 was. think of linux+x11 as windows 95 interface running loosely ontop of a windows nt kernel. now look at the desktop OSs that received popular reviews: windows nt/2000, beos, mac os x, skyos. now before you begin flaming me, consider this.. linux has a kernel-level http module(not a bad thing, IIS proved this helps performance), but no modules for graphics acceleration. X11 loads its drivers (ati, nvidia, and other kernel mods aside) in userland. The other OSs i mentioned previously do not. I can go on with a list of other reasons, but I will be going too far offtopic.
back on topic, amaroK is *great* for managing large music collections. amaroK + mysql use ~40-50MB of RAM, for my 25,000 song collection (98% legit!) compared to 100MB for Winamp and 200MB+ for iTunes. Windows Media Player actually used the least in windows coming in at 45MB however, as I said before, it is HORRIBLE for actually managing large collections. Anyway, if you're using *nix for your desktop, you don't really have any other choice other than a self-hacked find/xmms script.
mess with the shuffle morph rate bar, it was introduced for that exact reason back in 2.01 (or some other really early version)
memory is cheap, cpu cycles are not. with my library, searching for a song in iTunes takes up to 15 seconds before it updates the list. contrast to winamp that does it in 5. i used to use media player which took ~20 seconds, but people who came over to listen to music always complained (what self-respecting geek wants *anyone* complaining about their computing setup) so i switched it up. plus winamp provides rating support, a decent playlist manager, and AVS. iTunes does not compare (unless you buy music, but thats what that russian mp3 site is for)
you did check with your credit card company to see if they offer insurance for rental cars first right?
i used to do the same thing until i started having parties and people looking for music had a very difficult time finding it. also during late night coding sessions, i don't want to have to search through folders to add songs when i can just type in a few letters and click "enqueue". if this doesn't bother you, by all means go for it. but i don't think thats what the original poster had in mind and i stand by winamp's media library or amaroK
I've found winamp to be the most functional when it comes to managing large music libraries. Large meaning 20,000+ songs. I find Windows Media Player to have the nicest interface for managing, sorting, and creating playlists, however it becomes dog slow when your collection reaches five digits. iTunes is also laggy, so I do not use that anymore. Winamp is always responsive (the player doesn't lock up while searching the library), but uses the most memory. While the UI isn't the best, it is better than iTunes.
I wish amoroK could be ported to windows (maybe a summer project, we'll see). It uses either MySQL or PostgreSQL for very fast response, has a very intuitive interface (better than iTunes, IMHO), and very stable for an open source application. It ties in to Last.FM and provides similar features locally, making it hands down the best for managing large music collections. Downside, it's UNIX only.
Not saying anything is wrong with UNIX or Linux, but lets face it.. Windows and Mac OS X rule the desktop. Oh, and FWIW, iTunes on Mac OS X is *much* more responsive than iTunes on Windows with the same media library.
Let the flames commence
you use the vagcom to reprogram the odometer, if its less than 200 miles. if its over 200 miles, you're SOL. no such thing as "reprogramming the dash to accept the ecu".
it wasn't an interview, and it was a simple task of installing apache on a fresh solaris box
VW uses a particular system that is almost completely emulated by software packages like VAG-COM and ProDiag, and both can be used to re-associate a dashboard and ECU without any dealer involvement.
Define re-associate.
I've heard of at least one vehicle handled in this way.
Hello Audi and Volkswagen. I'm pretty sure BMW, Jaguar, et. al do the same