Which is exactly what will happen. Current link farms will cross pollinate each other and it will be nearly impossible to tell who really wrote anything. Least likely will be the person who did write the original content.
A real programming language has things like variables and text stuff. My experience dates back to flash 4 (haven't dealt with it since then..), but you didn't need to know anything about programming. Just arrange things on a timeline and you could do some fairly complex stuff. A nightmare if you wanted to do anything advanced, but easy to pick up for graphic artists and such.
This controller seems like it's well suited for turn based RPGs and that's about it. You have to LOOK at the controller to do anything on that touch screen, and that goes against much of the philosophy of modern games. I get the general idea, you put your status indicators and such on the controller screen, but to really register anything you're going to have to be looking at it all the time.
I'm hoping that this is a mistake that this is the default controller and they expect you to normally used an evolved version of the current controller.
Some password systems aren't allowing you to type the same character in more than twice in a row these days. That's what stopped me from putting arbitrary non alphanumerics at the end of my password. I've also tried to do sequences of alternating characters but I find myself tripping over password length limits just as often.
And on top of this they want some stupid security question that lets you bypass all this.
That's why I stopped using the pattern lock myself. In order to keep it "secure", I had to continuously clean off the screen. Learning someone's pattern just means someone has to pay attention to your phone. Sooner or later the finger trail will be there even for those who bother to wipe it off on occasion will either forget to do it, or don't do it obsessively enough to really hide it.
That was the common hole for the floppy boot sector virus. Granted it didn't spread while the machine was off, but worked based on the assumption that a lot of PCs would boot to the floppy drive first. After which the virus could bypass everything and install itself to the hard drive. Got hit with that one myself when making a recovery disk from another machine ironically.
You have to consider that from Microsoft's perspective, they expect you to engineer your network around windows, not have windows necessarily do the right thing. To them it's progress because everything revolves around windows anyway.
Lots of things about Windows I don't know (didn't say I was any good). Sad to say I looked for quite a while if scripts could use the application log and never found an answer, but it doesn't look like it was exactly hidden on technet...
Can applications actually use the windows logging facility? I'd be surprised if after all these years of doing windows administration that I hadn't come across a single application that does. As far as I know windows doesn't allow scripts to access the logging facility either. This has always been a big point in my preference to unix, because I can usually dig into problems as the logs give me a starting point to resolve things.
Also system errors are hit and miss even in the windows system.log Some of the errors are resolvable, many of the error messages don't tell you anything, and some of them aren't even an error corresponding to the real problem.
Before trying all that it would be better to inventory what your network is doing right now as a starting point. Figure out what services are running, and how the current machines are configured to connect to the network. I'm assuming this wasn't all magically done and there must have been someone who did it before you. That's where I started and I learned a lot. I especially learned that our network was done horrifyingly wrong.
As for learning, the server type doesn't matter much (BSD/Linux) but you can learn a LOT by writing your own firewall rules from scratch (use FreeBSD myself). Not saying to do that for your company, but you'd be surprised at how much you learn from documentation, howto's and experimentation for firewalls.
It's an arms race basically. In order to make their hardware out perform the "current" generation, they adopt hardware that costs too much, but then the other guy does it too, so his console doesn't look vastly "outdated". Think of how the PS3 was marketed as very powerful, not as affordable, fun or anything else like that. When your main selling point is the capabilities of the system, then lowering profits makes a bit more sense if it works out in the long run. - which it may or may not
Considering almost no one had direct contact with him, I doubt anyone in Al Qaeda even knows the extent of the stuff on that hard drive. Any organization that could pull off hiding someone that notorious with a $25 million bounty on his head for 10 years is going to assume the worst case scenario anyway.
Thinking of this from the other angle, I'd be more concerned as an english/liberal arts major myself. This pricing scheme seems to indicate that their degrees/occupation are worth little to nothing. (I'm not arguing if that's true or not).
I don't think the Wii 2 needs to be that much better than the current PS3 honestly. The development costs required to get a title to really push the boundaries of what the PS3 can do is crazy high, and it doesn't seem like most game makers are that interested in trying to figure out how to interface the Wiimote with a game. TV technology has left the Wii in the dust, and the controllers could certainly be improved, but I think if they manage to keep the price down and do that much they'll be fine.
While I'm not disagreeing that Poker would teach valuable lessons, I think there is a distinction to be made at the target age group. They're talking about teaching chess from age 6 and up. Chess is a logical rule based game that teaches calculated decisions, and I'd say that's the sort of thing that is comprehendable by kids to varying degrees (not chess master level at age 6, but they can grasp the ideas and get better at them). The skills you're talking about with Poker are better suited to high school kids.
I've been using Mozilla since back when Mozilla was actually the browser (suite). I've been thinking of switching to Chrome myself, but I wouldn't say there's anything to feel guilty about. The point of Firefox wasn't about the browser at all, but an open Internet that followed standards. The fact that we can use most any browser and have pages render (mostly) the same means that it's succeed, even if the browser itself has turned into something we're unhappy with. Being able to use Chrome was part of the freedom that Firefox pushed for.
The problem with a minus button is that people tend to use that kind of button on things that they don't agree with, but isn't wrong information. Like if I search for abortion and don't like what people say I just vote them down even if their points are valid from their perspective. You see this kind of behavior on movie rating sites a lot. If you're searching for something on KKK, and find that site to have the information you want why wouldn't you use +1?
I could see a problem where popularity is screwing up results where I don't know precisely what I'm asking, and expect to wade through search results to find it. Popularity will likely just yield results that I've already thought of, being popular and all that.
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Which is exactly what will happen. Current link farms will cross pollinate each other and it will be nearly impossible to tell who really wrote anything. Least likely will be the person who did write the original content.
A real programming language has things like variables and text stuff. My experience dates back to flash 4 (haven't dealt with it since then..), but you didn't need to know anything about programming. Just arrange things on a timeline and you could do some fairly complex stuff. A nightmare if you wanted to do anything advanced, but easy to pick up for graphic artists and such.
This controller seems like it's well suited for turn based RPGs and that's about it. You have to LOOK at the controller to do anything on that touch screen, and that goes against much of the philosophy of modern games. I get the general idea, you put your status indicators and such on the controller screen, but to really register anything you're going to have to be looking at it all the time.
I'm hoping that this is a mistake that this is the default controller and they expect you to normally used an evolved version of the current controller.
Some password systems aren't allowing you to type the same character in more than twice in a row these days. That's what stopped me from putting arbitrary non alphanumerics at the end of my password. I've also tried to do sequences of alternating characters but I find myself tripping over password length limits just as often.
And on top of this they want some stupid security question that lets you bypass all this.
That's why I stopped using the pattern lock myself. In order to keep it "secure", I had to continuously clean off the screen. Learning someone's pattern just means someone has to pay attention to your phone. Sooner or later the finger trail will be there even for those who bother to wipe it off on occasion will either forget to do it, or don't do it obsessively enough to really hide it.
Obviously you invent time travel at a later date.
That was the common hole for the floppy boot sector virus. Granted it didn't spread while the machine was off, but worked based on the assumption that a lot of PCs would boot to the floppy drive first. After which the virus could bypass everything and install itself to the hard drive. Got hit with that one myself when making a recovery disk from another machine ironically.
Fun fact according to wikipedia:
So a tax to cover a flood disaster not only continues indefinitely, but is raised 60 years later.
You have to consider that from Microsoft's perspective, they expect you to engineer your network around windows, not have windows necessarily do the right thing. To them it's progress because everything revolves around windows anyway.
Lots of things about Windows I don't know (didn't say I was any good). Sad to say I looked for quite a while if scripts could use the application log and never found an answer, but it doesn't look like it was exactly hidden on technet...
Can applications actually use the windows logging facility? I'd be surprised if after all these years of doing windows administration that I hadn't come across a single application that does. As far as I know windows doesn't allow scripts to access the logging facility either. This has always been a big point in my preference to unix, because I can usually dig into problems as the logs give me a starting point to resolve things.
Also system errors are hit and miss even in the windows system.log Some of the errors are resolvable, many of the error messages don't tell you anything, and some of them aren't even an error corresponding to the real problem.
Before trying all that it would be better to inventory what your network is doing right now as a starting point. Figure out what services are running, and how the current machines are configured to connect to the network. I'm assuming this wasn't all magically done and there must have been someone who did it before you. That's where I started and I learned a lot. I especially learned that our network was done horrifyingly wrong.
As for learning, the server type doesn't matter much (BSD/Linux) but you can learn a LOT by writing your own firewall rules from scratch (use FreeBSD myself). Not saying to do that for your company, but you'd be surprised at how much you learn from documentation, howto's and experimentation for firewalls.
It's an arms race basically. In order to make their hardware out perform the "current" generation, they adopt hardware that costs too much, but then the other guy does it too, so his console doesn't look vastly "outdated". Think of how the PS3 was marketed as very powerful, not as affordable, fun or anything else like that. When your main selling point is the capabilities of the system, then lowering profits makes a bit more sense if it works out in the long run. - which it may or may not
Considering almost no one had direct contact with him, I doubt anyone in Al Qaeda even knows the extent of the stuff on that hard drive. Any organization that could pull off hiding someone that notorious with a $25 million bounty on his head for 10 years is going to assume the worst case scenario anyway.
Dumb idea for soda, but could have possibilities if done with beer.
Thinking of this from the other angle, I'd be more concerned as an english/liberal arts major myself. This pricing scheme seems to indicate that their degrees/occupation are worth little to nothing. (I'm not arguing if that's true or not).
On the bright side you might be able to sell it back for $10
I don't think the Wii 2 needs to be that much better than the current PS3 honestly. The development costs required to get a title to really push the boundaries of what the PS3 can do is crazy high, and it doesn't seem like most game makers are that interested in trying to figure out how to interface the Wiimote with a game. TV technology has left the Wii in the dust, and the controllers could certainly be improved, but I think if they manage to keep the price down and do that much they'll be fine.
And I'm wondering if Apple might change their mind if WebM gains enough traction, that their support would further encourage everyone dumping flash.
While I'm not disagreeing that Poker would teach valuable lessons, I think there is a distinction to be made at the target age group. They're talking about teaching chess from age 6 and up. Chess is a logical rule based game that teaches calculated decisions, and I'd say that's the sort of thing that is comprehendable by kids to varying degrees (not chess master level at age 6, but they can grasp the ideas and get better at them). The skills you're talking about with Poker are better suited to high school kids.
I've been using Mozilla since back when Mozilla was actually the browser (suite). I've been thinking of switching to Chrome myself, but I wouldn't say there's anything to feel guilty about. The point of Firefox wasn't about the browser at all, but an open Internet that followed standards. The fact that we can use most any browser and have pages render (mostly) the same means that it's succeed, even if the browser itself has turned into something we're unhappy with. Being able to use Chrome was part of the freedom that Firefox pushed for.
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What ever happened to Good Ol' RSS/Atom? My feed reader is infinitely better than using Twitter or Facebook
Most awesome geeky comment I've read this year.
I'll take "Other stuff that isn't related to Canada" for $500 Alex.
The problem with a minus button is that people tend to use that kind of button on things that they don't agree with, but isn't wrong information. Like if I search for abortion and don't like what people say I just vote them down even if their points are valid from their perspective. You see this kind of behavior on movie rating sites a lot. If you're searching for something on KKK, and find that site to have the information you want why wouldn't you use +1?
I could see a problem where popularity is screwing up results where I don't know precisely what I'm asking, and expect to wade through search results to find it. Popularity will likely just yield results that I've already thought of, being popular and all that.