Er, they charge $80 for a series because people pay it, and they're selling very well. I'm not buying, but I know plenty of people who do, and while that's just anecdotal, the numbers back me up.
Personally, I'd rather pay someone to kick me than watch something twice -- let alone multiple times -- but maybe that's just me. Between books, magazines, the net, programming, and gaming, there's enough to do that's new and fresh that I see little point in watching something twice. Perhaps playing it for the benefits of someone else, but even that's tedious.
If anyone out there would like to trade me a fully functional 60GB PS3 for a Wii, please reply to this post and I will gladly make arrangements. Multiple trades welcome.
Also if anyone wants to trade in their worn-out one hundred dollar bills for a matching quantity of crisp singles, or if anyone has lost their keys and would like to give me their home and/or car, I can make arrangements for that as well. Also if anyone would like to purchase some fresh air...
I think this is great people that shoot from the side of the road and use spotlights are scum not hunters.
Reminds me of one time when I was 18 or 19.. I was driving through a State Park with my girlfriend in the early evening. We saw a huge herd of deer next to a parking area, so I pulled in so we could get a look at them. The next thing I knew, a Statey came up behind me and "pulled me over" in the parking lot. He then threatened to give me a ticket for spotlighting because my headlights were shining on the deer. I suppose it might be common knowledge among rural dwellers that it's illegal to use your headlights if deer happen to be in the path, but as an out-of-towner just trying to enjoy the sights in the park, I found it pretty ridiculous. I was driving a two-seater, by the way.. not exactly the sort of vehicle you'd try to put a bloody carcass in. Anyway, I appreciate that poaching is illegal (by definition) -- although I have no feelings one way or the other on the subject -- but is it too much to wait until someone actually takes a shot before treating them like a criminal and wasting a half hour of their time? I don't think so, but maybe that's just me.
Actually, it's directly attributable to the counting method used. As it turns out, penguins are extremely uncooperative when asked to raise their hands.
The News.com piece makes it clear the report was released on Friday in an attempt to obscure it from public notice
I'm as cynical as the next Slashdotter, but I find that conclusion a bit paranoid. I find it at least as likely that somebody or other mandated that the report be finished by end-of-year, and in typical bureaucratic fashion, it was finished last minute, right before somebody went on leave for the holidays.
Aside from that, the report was pretty much just a reiteration of what everybody already knew. Old news. Maybe they didn't want to bring it back in the spotlight, but good luck getting news agencies to report or update a story older than 24 hours anyway, let alone a year.
Is this really that big a deal? I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers, but was a couple of hours of downtime early in a workday really such a burden?
Hi, Asia? "Off-peak" is the middle of the evening here. Don't mind us though, we'll just do some math while we wait. We'll count Aussies or something, since nobody else seems to.
That's a nice building, but man is that picture spooky. It starts fading away like the end of a song, and then BLAM! "Woah, I'm not going anywhere! Thought I was leaving did you? Anyway, I'll just be going now. Off to do some... HEY, LOOK AT ME!"
Anyway, yeah, I got an e-mail with a crappy PowerPoint attachment playing "So this is Christmas" in the background. Indeed. Didn't let that spoil the mood when I opened the socks from my girlfriend though. Nosiree.. They almost perfectly match the color of the floor in the house I just bought for us, so that's nice... Gives her a plausible excuse for not seeing my feet now.
Linux working and detecting all hardware on a 5 year-old laptop isn't surprising in the least. What would be surprising was if you installed it without a hitch on a 5 month-old laptop.
1974: Freshman year. 1983: Vowed to quit computer gaming.
Stay tuned for Part II (1984-1994), due out Tuesday (patch day!), in which I relate the story of how the now-famous Apple commercial lowered my Con by 2 and lured me back in.
With this set of personal flying wings strapped to your back, you'll be able to bail out of a plane miles from your target, glide to a landing area while staying virtually undetectable by radar, and then pull the rip cord on your 'chute for a soft landing
The key thing I think they've failed to account for in all of this is that, if they're even a little smarter than the guards in Splinter Cell, people are somewhat likely to be alarmed enough by falling wings that they don't just go back to patrolling while you continue to descend by parachute.
Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) is a liquid armor that turns extremely hard and spreads itself out when punctured or struck with a high-velocity object, such as a bullet.
Making it only a matter of time before the phrase "Gear up" is replaced by "STF up!"
1. It encourages people to install even questionable programs by making it nearly effortless to do so.
NT4+ requires administrative rights to install most software, and does a fairly good job of protecting the registry from casual tinkering. Additionally, admins can make the "Program Files" folder RX only. Meanwhile Unix allows (encourages?) users to install any program they wish in their home directory, and the nature of OS is such that there are no controls whatsoever aside from user/group permissions for the filesystem. Granted, further limits aren't really required, and questionable programs are in far less supply, but that doesn't change the fact that there's *more* user control in an NT environment which, I believe, is what we're talking about.
2. It actively hides things such as network and disk space utilization from the user.
Only for very limited definitions of "hide." Selecting any drive shows utilization in the pane on the left, and network utilization is viewable from the task manager. Further, selecting the "Properties" of any folder shows its specific size, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say "hide". Any Unix user would need to know similar commands or techniques, thus the existance of applets such as gKrellm.
3. The Windows Explorer model hides important details from the user by default. The consequence is that users don't need to know, and seldom understand, how their computer works. Thus, they remain unqualified to take an active part in the security of their machines and the network.
Definately wandering off topic here. The "user" in a domain shouldn't be worrying about that sort of thing at all. A user in a Windows home environment can probably figure out how to access Windows Firewall, and a home Linux user would have no indication whatsoever (on any install that I've seen) that they should consider making rules for iptables/ipchains, unless they bothered to RTFM.
4. It provides multiple vectors for security compromises - Secure the OS, and the email client becomes a virus vector. Secure the email client, and the mandatory web browser becomes a vector. Unlike the UNIX model, in Windows, any installed program can compromise the security of the entire machine, and sometimes the entire network.
Not unless the user is logged on as an administrator. Sure, there are programs that use privilage escalation exploits, but malware is malware. The fact that there is little to no equivelant malware in Linux/Unix is not, in and of itself, an indication that such vulnerabilities do not exist.
5. Windows security is default allow, explicit deny - while MS has improved this in the recent past, their most recent gaffes in IE 7 and the exploit code in Word demonstrate that, as a company, they are still clueless about security.
I wouldn't go so far as to call them clueless. Rather, interface usability and user convenience have been their primary considerations over security in the past, which sort of makes sense from a company selling a method of making computers usable for "regular people," who have neither the time nor the inclination to investigate every aspect of their computing environment.
We don't get many rogue alligators around these parts.. mostly just the shamans, and believe me, bananas do NOT deter an angry alligator shaman. Just you go ahead and try to restore 243 points over 21 seconds with that banana, and we'll see who's laughing and who's dead.
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At 80$ a season, they're not going to sell.
Er, they charge $80 for a series because people pay it, and they're selling very well. I'm not buying, but I know plenty of people who do, and while that's just anecdotal, the numbers back me up.
Personally, I'd rather pay someone to kick me than watch something twice -- let alone multiple times -- but maybe that's just me. Between books, magazines, the net, programming, and gaming, there's enough to do that's new and fresh that I see little point in watching something twice. Perhaps playing it for the benefits of someone else, but even that's tedious.
Live one calendar millennium ahead...you'll be dead then
Speak for yourself.. I already made reservations for 31 December, 2999, and I plan on partying even harder than I did in 1999.
So what are you saying?
If anyone out there would like to trade me a fully functional 60GB PS3 for a Wii, please reply to this post and I will gladly make arrangements. Multiple trades welcome.
Also if anyone wants to trade in their worn-out one hundred dollar bills for a matching quantity of crisp singles, or if anyone has lost their keys and would like to give me their home and/or car, I can make arrangements for that as well. Also if anyone would like to purchase some fresh air...
PC LOAD LETTER?!? What the fsck does that mean???
I think this is great people that shoot from the side of the road and use spotlights are scum not hunters.
Reminds me of one time when I was 18 or 19.. I was driving through a State Park with my girlfriend in the early evening. We saw a huge herd of deer next to a parking area, so I pulled in so we could get a look at them. The next thing I knew, a Statey came up behind me and "pulled me over" in the parking lot. He then threatened to give me a ticket for spotlighting because my headlights were shining on the deer. I suppose it might be common knowledge among rural dwellers that it's illegal to use your headlights if deer happen to be in the path, but as an out-of-towner just trying to enjoy the sights in the park, I found it pretty ridiculous. I was driving a two-seater, by the way.. not exactly the sort of vehicle you'd try to put a bloody carcass in. Anyway, I appreciate that poaching is illegal (by definition) -- although I have no feelings one way or the other on the subject -- but is it too much to wait until someone actually takes a shot before treating them like a criminal and wasting a half hour of their time? I don't think so, but maybe that's just me.
Music isn't illegal, and "well-known" is subjective.
So you're blaming pirates...
Actually, it's directly attributable to the counting method used. As it turns out, penguins are extremely uncooperative when asked to raise their hands.
This was a happy accident in 2001. 9/11.. not so much.
The News.com piece makes it clear the report was released on Friday in an attempt to obscure it from public notice
I'm as cynical as the next Slashdotter, but I find that conclusion a bit paranoid. I find it at least as likely that somebody or other mandated that the report be finished by end-of-year, and in typical bureaucratic fashion, it was finished last minute, right before somebody went on leave for the holidays.
Aside from that, the report was pretty much just a reiteration of what everybody already knew. Old news. Maybe they didn't want to bring it back in the spotlight, but good luck getting news agencies to report or update a story older than 24 hours anyway, let alone a year.
Simultaneously or sequentially?
Is this really that big a deal? I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers, but was a couple of hours of downtime early in a workday really such a burden?
Hi, Asia? "Off-peak" is the middle of the evening here. Don't mind us though, we'll just do some math while we wait. We'll count Aussies or something, since nobody else seems to.
That's a nice building, but man is that picture spooky. It starts fading away like the end of a song, and then BLAM! "Woah, I'm not going anywhere! Thought I was leaving did you? Anyway, I'll just be going now. Off to do some... HEY, LOOK AT ME!"
Anyway, yeah, I got an e-mail with a crappy PowerPoint attachment playing "So this is Christmas" in the background. Indeed. Didn't let that spoil the mood when I opened the socks from my girlfriend though. Nosiree.. They almost perfectly match the color of the floor in the house I just bought for us, so that's nice... Gives her a plausible excuse for not seeing my feet now.
Linux working and detecting all hardware on a 5 year-old laptop isn't surprising in the least. What would be surprising was if you installed it without a hitch on a 5 month-old laptop.
As for your hitch, try apt-get install hibernate
Unfortunately, that's a european decimal notation.
1974: Freshman year.
1983: Vowed to quit computer gaming.
Stay tuned for Part II (1984-1994), due out Tuesday (patch day!), in which I relate the story of how the now-famous Apple commercial lowered my Con by 2 and lured me back in.
With this set of personal flying wings strapped to your back, you'll be able to bail out of a plane miles from your target, glide to a landing area while staying virtually undetectable by radar, and then pull the rip cord on your 'chute for a soft landing
The key thing I think they've failed to account for in all of this is that, if they're even a little smarter than the guards in Splinter Cell, people are somewhat likely to be alarmed enough by falling wings that they don't just go back to patrolling while you continue to descend by parachute.
Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) is a liquid armor that turns extremely hard and spreads itself out when punctured or struck with a high-velocity object, such as a bullet.
Making it only a matter of time before the phrase "Gear up" is replaced by "STF up!"
NT4+ requires administrative rights to install most software, and does a fairly good job of protecting the registry from casual tinkering. Additionally, admins can make the "Program Files" folder RX only. Meanwhile Unix allows (encourages?) users to install any program they wish in their home directory, and the nature of OS is such that there are no controls whatsoever aside from user/group permissions for the filesystem. Granted, further limits aren't really required, and questionable programs are in far less supply, but that doesn't change the fact that there's *more* user control in an NT environment which, I believe, is what we're talking about.
Only for very limited definitions of "hide." Selecting any drive shows utilization in the pane on the left, and network utilization is viewable from the task manager. Further, selecting the "Properties" of any folder shows its specific size, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say "hide". Any Unix user would need to know similar commands or techniques, thus the existance of applets such as gKrellm.
Definately wandering off topic here. The "user" in a domain shouldn't be worrying about that sort of thing at all. A user in a Windows home environment can probably figure out how to access Windows Firewall, and a home Linux user would have no indication whatsoever (on any install that I've seen) that they should consider making rules for iptables/ipchains, unless they bothered to RTFM.
Not unless the user is logged on as an administrator. Sure, there are programs that use privilage escalation exploits, but malware is malware. The fact that there is little to no equivelant malware in Linux/Unix is not, in and of itself, an indication that such vulnerabilities do not exist.
I wouldn't go so far as to call them clueless. Rather, interface usability and user convenience have been their primary considerations over security in the past, which sort of makes sense from a company selling a method of making computers usable for "regular people," who have neither the time nor the inclination to investigate every aspect of their computing environment.
Yeah, I use the same technique on my young kids.
"I bet you can't clean your rooms..."
"Oh YEAH?!?"
Who knows, maybe software devs will fall for it. I mean, EA got them to work 90 hour weeks at 40 hour pay rates!
Yeah, my roommate made a similar claim, and let's just say a permanent marker and some unsavory pictures begged to disagree.
Shock collars and profanity? Something smells fishy...
Likewise, I'd describe ambiguous inapplicable analogies with no supportive statements the same way that I would describe fruit.
We don't get many rogue alligators around these parts.. mostly just the shamans, and believe me, bananas do NOT deter an angry alligator shaman. Just you go ahead and try to restore 243 points over 21 seconds with that banana, and we'll see who's laughing and who's dead.