WHY would you use it, when Windows has had a better firewall since XP, and the Vista/Windows 7 firewall is even better than that?
Why? Simple: because the Windows firewalls have a built-in white-list. That completely removes it from my consideration. I'd argue that 'firewall' is not even applicable to that service.
Checks may seem "quaint" to you techies, but vast swaths of America's infrastructure and social mechanisms are still greased this way. Checks are superior to cash in too many ways: if I'm carrying my checkbook, I'm technically carrying as much cash as I have, and the recipient doesn't have to make change. If I send my kids to school with a check, lost,stolen, or "misdirected" is not an issue. Plus, I always have a receipt.
I've been doing this for years through my credit union, with my flatbed scanner. With cell phones commonly pushing over the 3 megapixel mark, it's not at all surprising to see this as a natural extension of the existing process.
Consider it a loss leader. If those people play the game, love it as much as the average person, and mention it to others or directly expose them to the game, while also sharing the great value in the deal, then those people will probably go an and buy the game as well. Most people wouldn't admit to paying $0.01, so their friends are likely to spend more than that. Personally, if someone introduced me to the game, and I found out they paid $0.01 for it, I'd pay MORE just to make up for them.
I think I figured out a problem here; you keep saying "the bible", when surely you meant "a bible". It's a common mistake. A lot of people need to learn the difference between "the" and "a".
I usually do my best coding when I'm nowhere near a computer. Sure, eventually, I'll have to sit at a computer to *implement* it. Coding, the true poetry part of it, happens wherever it wants to, and often when I'm not at a computer. Seriously. The idea will strike, ferment, pass or fail some roughshod mental testing, and start to form into pseudo code a while before I can implement it. I can write a serious amount of pseudo code in my head. After all, the poetry of programming is in the logic, not the words.
I have a lot of records & CDs. I *could* convert my collection to MP3s, but I am lazy. I sometimes download someone else's copy.
I *have* the physical media; have I committed a crime? Has the person who made it available for download committed a crime? Are they given the chance to prove they also own the physical media? If they don't, then the possession of the MP3 *may* be illegal, but is the transfer of a copy to me illegal? Am I not legally entitled to own a digital copy of the music I bought on physical media? Do I have to make it myself in order for it to be legal? Can I legally make my copy available to others who have asserted they own the physical media also?
Internet connectivity is approaching "utility" status with many people. It's how I work, how I do my banking, and how I make & receive phone calls. Should mere accusations of alleged illegal activities be permitted to shut me off?
For many companies, paying the ridiculous price of VMWare is worth it for this reason alone.
Ridiculous? Quick & dirty numbers here: we have at least 90 ESX servers, with at least 800 virtual guest servers. That's 4 million US dollars worth of physical servers we didn't buy. Not to mention the cost of power, rack space, and associated infrastructure. I can't begin to estimate the cost savings in 100% remote management of every aspect of those 800 servers. Cost is all relative.
Not going to read it, and I say that as a dedicated Douglas Adams fan - I have the omnibus edition of HHGTTG (thanks to my daughter), the movie on DVD...
You watched the movie, yet you will not read the forthcoming book? This makes no sense to me. The book has a 84% chance of not sucking. The movie had only a 2% chance of not sucking. (Whether it actually sucked is purely subjective.)
Rule #1: Read the book or see the movie, NEVER do both. Rule #2: No matter how much your brother BEGS you, do not see Dune in violation of Rule #1.
Lead is a carcinogen, in fairly massive doses. It'll generally lead to heavy metal poisoning long before you have to worry about it giving you cancer. As a bonus, when contained in a solder you really only have to worry about it if you're drinking water run over it, like in pipes. Sitting in your playstation or DVD player, it's not a concern to anybody but the workers soldering all day, and we have machines for that now.
Yet we spend billions on developing lead free solder techniques that create bonds that are worse than lead ones for these applications*, tending to break more often.
*You have a point if you're looking at drinking water pipes, but otherwise?
The major concern with lead is not cancer. Lead is a neurotoxin, shown in numerous studies to affect brain function and development; increasing the risk of cognitive and behavioral problems.
Check out the fascinating, and disturbing, study: "Research Links Childhood Lead Exposure to Changes in Violent Crime Rates Throughout the 20th Century"
Post dot-com-boom, companies wanted IT people to wear more hats: "We can get the same work done with fewer people! Wanted: Senior Oracle DBA; must know VBScript and Cisco VPN concentrators."
It mostly worked. The people running the infrastructure, who had intimate knowledge of the technology, were able to deliver applications & services that not only worked, but worked well. No committees & no politics; things just got done.
Code was written by people who understood the fundamentals of what needed to happen. Not by I-have-this-friend contractors, or my-friends-son-needs-a-job software developers, but by smart & deeply technical people.
These people weren't software developers. They wrote code using the tools at hand. By necessity: free tools. The code was developed in production. The phrase "But it worked on my desktop!" was never heard.
I'm not defending the practice, or suggesting that it's better. These people are writing code that someone else should have written, or to replace code that should have written vastly better. If you haven't done it; you've been sorely tempted.
Development can't use the tools the "hackers" used. They don't even want to discuss it; they're on their way to a meeting to try out some new buzzwords. They have budgets to justify and friends & relative to employ.
When my company needed an ISAPI to support a new architecture, I wrote it in C, in 2 days, and it's been running flawlessly for 4 years on 600+ servers. Now there's a need for another, similar, ISAPI, but this time we're going to do it "properly". Development has been working on it for 3 months, mumbles a lot about ".NET", and uses the phrase "But it worked on my desktop!" even more.
But, you still can't (AFAIK) run two instances of the browser running under different profiles at the same time. Sometimes it would be nice to have 2 different profiles running at the same time so you could go to sites you trust in one, and sites you don't in another.
Now, I'm perfectly willing to be told I'm wrong (in fact, if someone can I'd love to know how), but I have yet to find a way to have two profiles of Firefox running under Windows at the same time in the same Windows session.
Yes, you are completely wrong.
My wife and I have discrete Firefox profiles on one computer, and often have 2 browser windows open, one on each profile. She has her own plugins, preferences, bookmarks, & history; and I have mine.
Use the profile manager to create the profiles, add "-no-remote -p profilename" to a shortcut, and you're good to go.
There was a plugin for FF2 called FireTitle, that allowed us to put our profile names in the window title, but alas it's not been updated for FF3.
This automatically mixes the phone and a sound source. You could mix them into a headset so the caller couldn't hear it, also allowing you to choose whether you keep the 2nd audio source playing.
Don't mind the $2500 per-physical-machine-maximum-2-cpus price tag on the version which actually lets you do stuff, like manage the machines, migrate them, share storage, etc.
When you're running 10-20 virtual servers on a single ESX host and look at the hardware cost, space & resource consumption, and management costs of 10-20 physical servers.... this suddenly looks cheap. We're running 100+ ESX hosts... this is an *extremely* cost-effective solution.
I will most likely regret this, getting flagged as flamebait while the parent remains insightful; but I can't resist comment.
Statements like "Putting out a 160 kbps crap quality version" irritate me. 90% of the people out there are listening to this music on the $5 speakers that came with their computer, or the $5 earbuds that came with their portable music player. To all these people, myself included, it sounds *fantastic*.
Take your audiophile sneering and go listen to your vinyl records through your tube amplifier, and let us just enjoy the music.
IIRC the problem is that 911 call centers use an enhanced caller-ID with the caller's address, and are reluctant to give VOIP operators the appropriate access to it. Without a doubt, every VOIP operator would provide this service if given the chance.
Watch the videos again. There are strings.... you can see them in most of the videos. I can't tell if there is enough tension on them to indicate these are really just PUPPETS; but at the very least, it's a dramatically less impressive feat to have a robot that requires guide wires!
Too bad it demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of how Akamai works. You don't 'Upload' to the Akamai network, Akamai populates it's cache directly from the source server.
The Akamai "ARL" was: http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/343/stor e.appl e.com/Catalog/US/Images/step1bullet1powermac.gif Unless this employee poisoned the DNS servers that Akamai uses, and pointed it at a fake store.apple.com server.... a pretty amazing feat. And such a high risk just for a practical joke?
I would SWEAR people were talking about this 5-7 years ago. I even remember some company was going to release a switch or router based on this concept. Now if only I could back up my assertion with a link...
If only the manufacturers of these micro-pc's would stop puting built-in ethernet and modems, and just put a pcmcia slot so you can connect it via the wireless tech of your choice, I'd buy one.
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WHY would you use it, when Windows has had a better firewall since XP, and the Vista/Windows 7 firewall is even better than that?
Why? Simple: because the Windows firewalls have a built-in white-list. That completely removes it from my consideration. I'd argue that 'firewall' is not even applicable to that service.
Checks may seem "quaint" to you techies, but vast swaths of America's infrastructure and social mechanisms are still greased this way. Checks are superior to cash in too many ways: if I'm carrying my checkbook, I'm technically carrying as much cash as I have, and the recipient doesn't have to make change. If I send my kids to school with a check, lost,stolen, or "misdirected" is not an issue. Plus, I always have a receipt.
I've been doing this for years through my credit union, with my flatbed scanner. With cell phones commonly pushing over the 3 megapixel mark, it's not at all surprising to see this as a natural extension of the existing process.
Consider it a loss leader. If those people play the game, love it as much as the average person, and mention it to others or directly expose them to the game, while also sharing the great value in the deal, then those people will probably go an and buy the game as well. Most people wouldn't admit to paying $0.01, so their friends are likely to spend more than that. Personally, if someone introduced me to the game, and I found out they paid $0.01 for it, I'd pay MORE just to make up for them.
Children of parents who encourage poor & impulsive choices grow up to make poor & impulsive choices.
I think I figured out a problem here; you keep saying "the bible", when surely you meant "a bible". It's a common mistake. A lot of people need to learn the difference between "the" and "a".
I usually do my best coding when I'm nowhere near a computer. Sure, eventually, I'll have to sit at a computer to *implement* it. Coding, the true poetry part of it, happens wherever it wants to, and often when I'm not at a computer. Seriously. The idea will strike, ferment, pass or fail some roughshod mental testing, and start to form into pseudo code a while before I can implement it. I can write a serious amount of pseudo code in my head. After all, the poetry of programming is in the logic, not the words.
I have a lot of records & CDs. I *could* convert my collection to MP3s, but I am lazy. I sometimes download someone else's copy.
I *have* the physical media; have I committed a crime?
Has the person who made it available for download committed a crime?
Are they given the chance to prove they also own the physical media?
If they don't, then the possession of the MP3 *may* be illegal, but is the transfer of a copy to me illegal?
Am I not legally entitled to own a digital copy of the music I bought on physical media?
Do I have to make it myself in order for it to be legal?
Can I legally make my copy available to others who have asserted they own the physical media also?
Internet connectivity is approaching "utility" status with many people. It's how I work, how I do my banking, and how I make & receive phone calls. Should mere accusations of alleged illegal activities be permitted to shut me off?
For many companies, paying the ridiculous price of VMWare is worth it for this reason alone.
Ridiculous? Quick & dirty numbers here: we have at least 90 ESX servers, with at least 800 virtual guest servers. That's 4 million US dollars worth of physical servers we didn't buy. Not to mention the cost of power, rack space, and associated infrastructure. I can't begin to estimate the cost savings in 100% remote management of every aspect of those 800 servers. Cost is all relative.
You're obviously not a real Lego person.
Surely, you meant: plate or brick?
Not going to read it, and I say that as a dedicated Douglas Adams fan - I have the omnibus edition of HHGTTG (thanks to my daughter), the movie on DVD...
You watched the movie, yet you will not read the forthcoming book? This makes no sense to me. The book has a 84% chance of not sucking. The movie had only a 2% chance of not sucking. (Whether it actually sucked is purely subjective.)
Rule #1: Read the book or see the movie, NEVER do both.
Rule #2: No matter how much your brother BEGS you, do not see Dune in violation of Rule #1.
I propose: theologic time scale.
Lead is a carcinogen, in fairly massive doses. It'll generally lead to heavy metal poisoning long before you have to worry about it giving you cancer. As a bonus, when contained in a solder you really only have to worry about it if you're drinking water run over it, like in pipes. Sitting in your playstation or DVD player, it's not a concern to anybody but the workers soldering all day, and we have machines for that now.
Yet we spend billions on developing lead free solder techniques that create bonds that are worse than lead ones for these applications*, tending to break more often.
*You have a point if you're looking at drinking water pipes, but otherwise?
The major concern with lead is not cancer. Lead is a neurotoxin, shown in numerous studies to affect brain function and development; increasing the risk of cognitive and behavioral problems.
Check out the fascinating, and disturbing, study: "Research Links Childhood Lead Exposure to Changes in Violent Crime Rates Throughout the 20th Century"
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Post dot-com-boom, companies wanted IT people to wear more hats: "We can get the same work done with fewer people! Wanted: Senior Oracle DBA; must know VBScript and Cisco VPN concentrators."
It mostly worked. The people running the infrastructure, who had intimate knowledge of the technology, were able to deliver applications & services that not only worked, but worked well. No committees & no politics; things just got done.
Code was written by people who understood the fundamentals of what needed to happen. Not by I-have-this-friend contractors, or my-friends-son-needs-a-job software developers, but by smart & deeply technical people.
These people weren't software developers. They wrote code using the tools at hand. By necessity: free tools. The code was developed in production. The phrase "But it worked on my desktop!" was never heard.
I'm not defending the practice, or suggesting that it's better. These people are writing code that someone else should have written, or to replace code that should have written vastly better. If you haven't done it; you've been sorely tempted.
Development can't use the tools the "hackers" used. They don't even want to discuss it; they're on their way to a meeting to try out some new buzzwords. They have budgets to justify and friends & relative to employ.
When my company needed an ISAPI to support a new architecture, I wrote it in C, in 2 days, and it's been running flawlessly for 4 years on 600+ servers. Now there's a need for another, similar, ISAPI, but this time we're going to do it "properly". Development has been working on it for 3 months, mumbles a lot about ".NET", and uses the phrase "But it worked on my desktop!" even more.
But, you still can't (AFAIK) run two instances of the browser running under different profiles at the same time. Sometimes it would be nice to have 2 different profiles running at the same time so you could go to sites you trust in one, and sites you don't in another.
Now, I'm perfectly willing to be told I'm wrong (in fact, if someone can I'd love to know how), but I have yet to find a way to have two profiles of Firefox running under Windows at the same time in the same Windows session.
Yes, you are completely wrong. My wife and I have discrete Firefox profiles on one computer, and often have 2 browser windows open, one on each profile. She has her own plugins, preferences, bookmarks, & history; and I have mine. Use the profile manager to create the profiles, add "-no-remote -p profilename" to a shortcut, and you're good to go. There was a plugin for FF2 called FireTitle, that allowed us to put our profile names in the window title, but alas it's not been updated for FF3.
This automatically mixes the phone and a sound source. You could mix them into a headset so the caller couldn't hear it, also allowing you to choose whether you keep the 2nd audio source playing.
Don't mind the $2500 per-physical-machine-maximum-2-cpus price tag on the version which actually lets you do stuff, like manage the machines, migrate them, share storage, etc.
When you're running 10-20 virtual servers on a single ESX host and look at the hardware cost, space & resource consumption, and management costs of 10-20 physical servers.... this suddenly looks cheap. We're running 100+ ESX hosts... this is an *extremely* cost-effective solution.
I will most likely regret this, getting flagged as flamebait while the parent remains insightful; but I can't resist comment.
Statements like "Putting out a 160 kbps crap quality version" irritate me. 90% of the people out there are listening to this music on the $5 speakers that came with their computer, or the $5 earbuds that came with their portable music player. To all these people, myself included, it sounds *fantastic*.
Take your audiophile sneering and go listen to your vinyl records through your tube amplifier, and let us just enjoy the music.
IIRC the problem is that 911 call centers use an enhanced caller-ID with the caller's address, and are reluctant to give VOIP operators the appropriate access to it. Without a doubt, every VOIP operator would provide this service if given the chance.
Watch the videos again. There are strings.... you can see them in most of the videos. I can't tell if there is enough tension on them to indicate these are really just PUPPETS; but at the very least, it's a dramatically less impressive feat to have a robot that requires guide wires!
Who CARES?
Gah! Redundant! Must type faster!
Too bad it demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of how Akamai works. You don't 'Upload' to the Akamai network, Akamai populates it's cache directly from the source server.
r e.appl e.com/Catalog/US/Images/step1bullet1powermac.gif
The Akamai "ARL" was:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/343/sto
Unless this employee poisoned the DNS servers that Akamai uses, and pointed it at a fake store.apple.com server.... a pretty amazing feat. And such a high risk just for a practical joke?
The joke was on you.
It was called 'fast start'
I would SWEAR people were talking about this 5-7 years ago. I even remember some company was going to release a switch or router based on this concept. Now if only I could back up my assertion with a link...
If only the manufacturers of these micro-pc's would stop puting built-in ethernet and modems, and just put a pcmcia slot so you can connect it via the wireless tech of your choice, I'd buy one.