I was thinking along similar lines. I was in wrestling in high school and chose to run in these types of shoes and it was freaking terrible. However as I read through these comments I can tell that I've been running completely wrong. I think wrestling shoes would be a good thing to try, but NOT if you heel strike - that will only make the stress far worse.
Well the achievements thing is cute, but I honestly think they need to work it a bit more like the world of warcraft armory. Where you can click the achievement and it reveals the text to tell what it actually is.
Also taco's page link should leave this story open to the tag itsatrap.
Keep in mind that while #1 might sound good on paper, you may very well kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Paying developers / artists less (and I don't think they even make that much) will likely drive them away. It may be these very developers who make the gameplay fun, or the designers that make the art appealing. Good luck selling games that people don't want to play.
Capitalism also isn't this magic pixy dust that makes everything work just because money is involved. You're missing the third capitalist option that broken systems die because they're broken.
As far as I've ever heard, IBM was happy to finally be at an end with Apple. Apple had a fairly diverse product line that wanted to be updated all the time, yet no huge volume on chips. In the end that just works towards being a pain the ass for IBM. Now look at the Xbox 360: Millions of units with identical chips that don't require retooling or updating. It's quite the gravy train in comparison.
As someone else stated this guy has balls. Having the config in memory and not writing to flash? Yeah that confirms it. No way I'd have the guts to run a router like that. You take power and power backup systems for granted, but there is always a chance at failure. I'd think that the last thing you would want after an extended power failure and all the problems that come with it is to have all your routers defaulted.
I'm not exactly a security expert, but how is this different from regular HTTPS hijacking? Specifically this seems to be the same as what I read in the dsniff FAQ years ago. It was written in 2001. I'm apparently missing something.
I'm in a similar spot. I've advocated the use of Firefox for many reasons - security being one of them. We now have a few systems that are dependent on having a web browser. Then firefox 3 comes out with initial testing going fine, but after putting it on a few machines it starts spewing out total garbage in print jobs. That appears to be bug 454532. Probably something to do with Cairo from my understanding. Anyway that makes the browser pretty much worthless to people who need to print - which is part of the tasks expected of the browser so I'm at the point where I cannot upgrade. At this point I'm sort of just crossing my fingers that nothing bad happens and no one says "why don't we just use IE?". Since FF3 has been out for quite a while and this hasn't been addressed yet (and likely won't until 3.1 or whatever) I'm starting to have doubts myself.
But not necessarily more profit. If I have a pizza delivery company in NY, I could start selling to people in Kansas. However my delivery costs going to a few people in Kansas will more than eat up my profits. It's justifying the extra cost that's the sticking point.
No, after the install windows (2000) I "remove" IE as an application. It doesn't show up anywhere, but you can still launch it through run > iexplore. For regular users that require this (usually people who have to manage things like our fuel accounts and such) I re-enable it. I leave content adviser on, and basically have to enable it to browse the site. Unfortunately content adviser is sort of brain dead and I've never gotten wild cards to work, so many sites redirect you all over the place, and pull images from sub domains etc. I also have to be logged in as Administrator for the changes to stick so it becomes this big circus just to browse a site.
So they have the IE icon, but it doesn't function for anything but those sites. I considered trying to solve this with a proxy, but it seemed like it would be too much to try to juggle two browsers through while only allowing one to have unrestricted access.
Really it's not that simple. I was a supporter of firefox in my organization, and to my surprise I pretty much won. We use Firefox for nearly everything. Nearly. I have content adviser turned on for each of the machines which for the most part cripples IE and makes it nearly impossible to actually browse the web. IE is still very necessary for many sites which are required for our operation. Not internal "we developed in house badly designed pages", but actual corporate sites to manage various accounts on the Internet. That's surprising in 2008 that companies could have their head stuck in the sand that badly, but they seem to be all over the place... and unfortunately in places required for essential function.
I'm fortunate that the medium sized company goes along with this, because in any other organization we'd just use IE and that would be the end of it. Just managing the work arounds has actually been a lot of work, although in my mind it comes out to a wash in being a bit more proactive in preventing the vulnerabilities that flood IE.
Yeah I'll agree with you there. Being a sort of computer geek myself I have this tendency to anchor myself to a computer. My last girlfriend would get annoyed, yet she was watching TV. I figured it was the same thing. But often she wanted us to watch TV together. Stupid right? But you have to understand that even though you sort of zone out watching the show, when the show is over you have another thing in common. Even if you just part ways and do your own thing afterwords, when waiting in line for a movie or whatever you can discuss the show.
It's that sort of thing that can bring people together. A game like World of Warcraft can do that as well, IF you both play. It sounds like there is a bit of a disconnect between their interests. Without seeing how things are first hand it's hard to say though. I mean if he spends 2 hours a day on WoW, I would think that's within reason, more than that; probably not. Even so it seems like the guy doesn't get the hint that his woman want's attention. That strikes me as a pitfall of youth though:P
Well think about this: do you think that certification is still valid when you modify anything? When you go down that line of thinking you come up with the conclusion that any consumer usable system is not going to be certified and be anywhere near modern. The best we can do is probably OpenBSD.
And on that note, Radio Shack survives Circut City. Totally bizarre that nothing seems to kill that chain. I'm starting to think that if there is a nuclear war, I may just run to radio shack since they seem to strangely survive everything without rhyme or reason.
I think MS has been doing fine business wise. Windows Server is much improved. Personally I find Exchange 2007 to be in far better shape than it was in say 2000. As far as that goes, integrating the power shell scripting abilities with exchange was a great boon to the system. Now has MS pushed out anything new and exciting on the business front? Sharepoint would probably be it I guess. But I think it appears that MS is now focusing more on consumer products due to the fact that there isn't much room for growth in the business sector for them at the moment. And as far as that goes, many businesses are satisfied (or at least put up with) Microsoft products and would prefer that they don't rock the boat too much.
Not to say that Microsoft isn't directionless and sprawling, but those consumer products don't worry me as much as MS focusing on worthless crap like facebook.
Who needs to leave the house? I just voted using absentee ballot. No way I'm standing in line to vote.
It also gives me a chance to see who's on the ballot and do some research online to election posts I'm unfamiliar with. Overall I don't really pay much attention to politics or the media, so that's about as close to an informed decision as I can make.
Age of Conan is a dead man walking. World of Warcraft is solid and polished, although getting a bit... drab if you've been playing it for a while. While I haven't played it; most people I've talked to thought Lord of the Rings Online is a pretty good game. Aside from that you still have EQ2, Eve, and FF Online. So what exactly is this game going to give us that these other games don't? Alright... boobies.
Anyway, it's easy to see that you're going to have to go for some sort of niche and as it just so happens World of Warcraft is dropping the ball big time in PvP. Warhammer is all over this, and I think this is why that game will survive. Age of Conan? Just having a game online isn't going to cut it anymore. You've got to offer something better or different, and Age of Conan offers neither.
I'm skeptical. How could a disease with such a long incubation period not be recognized for over a century
Keep in mind that AIDS doesn't actually kill you. Your immune system is defeated by AIDS and something else kills you. If you have the flu (which can be fatal), then die, the conclusion would probably be that the person died of the flu instead of that their immune system was compromised by some virus that stays dormant for years. Then add onto that the medical technology of the period, and what it was in Africa at that time.
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I was thinking along similar lines. I was in wrestling in high school and chose to run in these types of shoes and it was freaking terrible. However as I read through these comments I can tell that I've been running completely wrong. I think wrestling shoes would be a good thing to try, but NOT if you heel strike - that will only make the stress far worse.
Well the achievements thing is cute, but I honestly think they need to work it a bit more like the world of warcraft armory. Where you can click the achievement and it reveals the text to tell what it actually is.
Also taco's page link should leave this story open to the tag itsatrap.
Keep in mind that while #1 might sound good on paper, you may very well kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Paying developers / artists less (and I don't think they even make that much) will likely drive them away. It may be these very developers who make the gameplay fun, or the designers that make the art appealing. Good luck selling games that people don't want to play.
Capitalism also isn't this magic pixy dust that makes everything work just because money is involved. You're missing the third capitalist option that broken systems die because they're broken.
As far as I've ever heard, IBM was happy to finally be at an end with Apple. Apple had a fairly diverse product line that wanted to be updated all the time, yet no huge volume on chips. In the end that just works towards being a pain the ass for IBM. Now look at the Xbox 360: Millions of units with identical chips that don't require retooling or updating. It's quite the gravy train in comparison.
As someone else stated this guy has balls. Having the config in memory and not writing to flash? Yeah that confirms it. No way I'd have the guts to run a router like that. You take power and power backup systems for granted, but there is always a chance at failure. I'd think that the last thing you would want after an extended power failure and all the problems that come with it is to have all your routers defaulted.
I'm not exactly a security expert, but how is this different from regular HTTPS hijacking? Specifically this seems to be the same as what I read in the dsniff FAQ years ago. It was written in 2001. I'm apparently missing something.
I'm in a similar spot. I've advocated the use of Firefox for many reasons - security being one of them. We now have a few systems that are dependent on having a web browser. Then firefox 3 comes out with initial testing going fine, but after putting it on a few machines it starts spewing out total garbage in print jobs. That appears to be bug 454532. Probably something to do with Cairo from my understanding. Anyway that makes the browser pretty much worthless to people who need to print - which is part of the tasks expected of the browser so I'm at the point where I cannot upgrade. At this point I'm sort of just crossing my fingers that nothing bad happens and no one says "why don't we just use IE?". Since FF3 has been out for quite a while and this hasn't been addressed yet (and likely won't until 3.1 or whatever) I'm starting to have doubts myself.
Anyone else think this is totally absurd? Yeah what is a teenager going to do with super powers? Fight crime? Riiight.
But not necessarily more profit. If I have a pizza delivery company in NY, I could start selling to people in Kansas. However my delivery costs going to a few people in Kansas will more than eat up my profits. It's justifying the extra cost that's the sticking point.
Welcome to the age of thoughtcrime.
When an upgrade to IE 7 fails.
No, after the install windows (2000) I "remove" IE as an application. It doesn't show up anywhere, but you can still launch it through run > iexplore. For regular users that require this (usually people who have to manage things like our fuel accounts and such) I re-enable it. I leave content adviser on, and basically have to enable it to browse the site. Unfortunately content adviser is sort of brain dead and I've never gotten wild cards to work, so many sites redirect you all over the place, and pull images from sub domains etc. I also have to be logged in as Administrator for the changes to stick so it becomes this big circus just to browse a site.
So they have the IE icon, but it doesn't function for anything but those sites. I considered trying to solve this with a proxy, but it seemed like it would be too much to try to juggle two browsers through while only allowing one to have unrestricted access.
Really it's not that simple. I was a supporter of firefox in my organization, and to my surprise I pretty much won. We use Firefox for nearly everything. Nearly. I have content adviser turned on for each of the machines which for the most part cripples IE and makes it nearly impossible to actually browse the web. IE is still very necessary for many sites which are required for our operation. Not internal "we developed in house badly designed pages", but actual corporate sites to manage various accounts on the Internet. That's surprising in 2008 that companies could have their head stuck in the sand that badly, but they seem to be all over the place... and unfortunately in places required for essential function.
I'm fortunate that the medium sized company goes along with this, because in any other organization we'd just use IE and that would be the end of it. Just managing the work arounds has actually been a lot of work, although in my mind it comes out to a wash in being a bit more proactive in preventing the vulnerabilities that flood IE.
Yeah I'll agree with you there. Being a sort of computer geek myself I have this tendency to anchor myself to a computer. My last girlfriend would get annoyed, yet she was watching TV. I figured it was the same thing. But often she wanted us to watch TV together. Stupid right? But you have to understand that even though you sort of zone out watching the show, when the show is over you have another thing in common. Even if you just part ways and do your own thing afterwords, when waiting in line for a movie or whatever you can discuss the show.
It's that sort of thing that can bring people together. A game like World of Warcraft can do that as well, IF you both play. It sounds like there is a bit of a disconnect between their interests. Without seeing how things are first hand it's hard to say though. I mean if he spends 2 hours a day on WoW, I would think that's within reason, more than that; probably not. Even so it seems like the guy doesn't get the hint that his woman want's attention. That strikes me as a pitfall of youth though :P
I suppose that means that in the future the earth is going to get tea bagged?
Well think about this: do you think that certification is still valid when you modify anything? When you go down that line of thinking you come up with the conclusion that any consumer usable system is not going to be certified and be anywhere near modern. The best we can do is probably OpenBSD.
And on that note, Radio Shack survives Circut City. Totally bizarre that nothing seems to kill that chain. I'm starting to think that if there is a nuclear war, I may just run to radio shack since they seem to strangely survive everything without rhyme or reason.
I think MS has been doing fine business wise. Windows Server is much improved. Personally I find Exchange 2007 to be in far better shape than it was in say 2000. As far as that goes, integrating the power shell scripting abilities with exchange was a great boon to the system. Now has MS pushed out anything new and exciting on the business front? Sharepoint would probably be it I guess. But I think it appears that MS is now focusing more on consumer products due to the fact that there isn't much room for growth in the business sector for them at the moment. And as far as that goes, many businesses are satisfied (or at least put up with) Microsoft products and would prefer that they don't rock the boat too much.
Not to say that Microsoft isn't directionless and sprawling, but those consumer products don't worry me as much as MS focusing on worthless crap like facebook.
Who needs to leave the house? I just voted using absentee ballot. No way I'm standing in line to vote.
It also gives me a chance to see who's on the ballot and do some research online to election posts I'm unfamiliar with. Overall I don't really pay much attention to politics or the media, so that's about as close to an informed decision as I can make.
That's probably very telling of how far behind Enlightenment has gotten.
Age of Conan is a dead man walking. World of Warcraft is solid and polished, although getting a bit... drab if you've been playing it for a while. While I haven't played it; most people I've talked to thought Lord of the Rings Online is a pretty good game. Aside from that you still have EQ2, Eve, and FF Online. So what exactly is this game going to give us that these other games don't? Alright... boobies.
Anyway, it's easy to see that you're going to have to go for some sort of niche and as it just so happens World of Warcraft is dropping the ball big time in PvP. Warhammer is all over this, and I think this is why that game will survive. Age of Conan? Just having a game online isn't going to cut it anymore. You've got to offer something better or different, and Age of Conan offers neither.
Source of the reality distortion field revealed!
In a strange way, the slashdot summary actually sounds a lot like second life.
I'm skeptical. How could a disease with such a long incubation period not be recognized for over a century
Keep in mind that AIDS doesn't actually kill you. Your immune system is defeated by AIDS and something else kills you. If you have the flu (which can be fatal), then die, the conclusion would probably be that the person died of the flu instead of that their immune system was compromised by some virus that stays dormant for years. Then add onto that the medical technology of the period, and what it was in Africa at that time.
You forgot the part where the execs give themselves raises because they're brilliant.