It's actually fixed now. And in those two years, there are no known exploits, so it's maybe not as a big of a deal as if it were an actual exploitable hole.
$10/mo? that's $240 over two years, not too bad I guess, considering I got $300 discount on my phone when I signed a 2 year contract with t-mobile. Do you have a link to this? I haven't seen these plans before.
If paying $400-500 for my phone upfront, and paying half as much for a monthly cell phone contract was an option, saving me money in the long run, I would do that. But unfortunately, in the US, it is not an option. Carriers charge you exactly the same amount per month whether or not you are getting a discount/subsidy on a fancy phone.
You're wrong in several ways:
1) It's not an xbox dev kit...it's standard PC parts stuffed in an xbox shell
2) It's not mac hardware like in TFA, it's a 'hackintosh', with standard PC parts
even the UAC prompt can be faked to look and sound real, if you're willing to spend some time at it. (It would be hard though, and I doubt it would look 100% right.)
Why would you fake a UAC prompt? Users don't type their passwords into the UAC prompts. All you'd succeed in doing is getting the user to click OK on a fake prompt. That would buy you nothing, versus clicking OK on a real UAC prompt, which would actually get you admin access.
Maybe Google doesn't feel like burning huge piles of cash on the wolfram API? Have you seen how much they charge for it?
It starts at a minimum commitment of $2,000/mo at $0.10 per query. At the high end it's $220,000/mo at $0.023 per query. I wonder how much google makes off each search? Can't be much more than that.
Uh...instead of downloading OpenCV 1.0 and renaming the files to 1.1, why not download OpenCV 1.1 in the first place?
msvcr* is the MS Visual C++ runtime...you can usually find it pretty quick just by googling for the DLL name (software devs that know what they are doing, redistribute it with their app...but obviously these guys just hacked it together really quick to make it work ok enough to meet their deadlines).
Hopefully they package it up nicely...but I doubt it. Nine times out of ten, these cool papers out of SIGGRAPH research never release finished projects. Occasionally other people will take their work, then implement it correctly.
It's called wear-leveling. Writing to the same spot from the OS's point of view, doesn't actually write to the same spot on the chip inside the actual drive. It shuffles things around to make sure everything gets used up evenly.
Umm, you can buy an Android phone, with no contract, unlocked (not tied to any carrier), officially sanctioned, with root access out of the box. What more do you want?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Dev_Phone
$5 including shipping for something that sells locally for $35 is worth the two week wait. $85 for an ARM9 development platform with LCD touch screen - gimme!
All those cheap bits and bobs you can also buy directly from places like dealextreme.com
There's really not all that many good deals on ebay these days.
I'm gonna be a jerk here and say It Works For Me(TM). I had Linux running just fine on a 1280x1024 as the main monitor and 1368x768 as the second monitor. Of course I had a NVidia card, which I believe works the best out of the brands under Linux. There's a little NVidia config gui that you can use to setup multiple monitors etc. This was three years ago, so it's possible things have gone downhill, but unlikely.
The TV is native 1366x768.
Max supported resolution over HDMI: 1280x720
Max supported resolution over VGA: 1368x768 (I assume the two extra pixels is just a rounding error thing to get it to be a multiple of 8)
Unfortunately I didn't figure this out until AFTER I bought a nice long HDMI to reach from my PC to my TV, then I had to go back and buy a long VGA cable. I would have preferred to use HDMI to keep it all digital so I don't have to worry about interference, or the TV locking onto the VGA signal clock exactly right etc etc.
It's a Vizio 32-inch.
Seriously, it can all be done in flash 8, released nearly four years ago. And that's in every browser on every platform*.
* = Ok, maybe only 99.99% of desktop PCs out there are supported. A few obscure platforms like 64-bit FreeBSD can't run Flash. But Windows, Mac, Linux (including 64-bit linux), and even SPARC are supported.
Are you kidding me? Just rotating, resizing, and playing multiple videos at once? That example could have very easily been done in flash 8 (released 2005), probably even flash 7 (released 2003). Wake me up when HTML5 can do something flash couldn't do years ago.
The distortions, skewing, reflections on video I think would require Flash 8, they added some new graphics filters in that version.
Also as for interaction between flash and the page, it's very simple for Flash to call javascript methods, and for javascript to call flash methods. The calls are synchronous, and can pass & return complex data types.
One final advantage of flash...you almost never have to worry about browser compatibility. Your example works fine in Firefox 3.5.2, but is very broken in the latest Chrome beta (3.0.195.4).
The original eeepc netbook (x86) was $250 at launch two years ago, so I wouldn't say 200 euros (almost $300 USD) is a fair bit less.
I've seen one or two of those MIPS netbooks online, and they were very cheap, however they seem pretty under-powered compared to the currently available x86 netbooks. Something like 20% less cost but 50% less performance/ram/storage.
seriously, at the most basic level you listen to the guy for 15 minutes, and then spend a few hours hammering nails where they tell you to. you don't need a degree in civil engineering to help habitat for humanity
Last I checked pretty much every modern processor and OS was capable of supporting 36 bit addressing
Unfortunately both Windows XP and Windows Vista do not support 36-bit addressing in their 32-bit flavors. 32-bit XP & Vista are limited to a little less than 4GB of RAM, no matter what. I think there's a 32-bit uber expensive Server 2008 that supports it, but nobody's gonna be buying that for desktop use or even for render farm use.
However Linux supports it fine, I've happily used 8GB of total RAM while running a completely 32-bit kernel/OS/applications.
Sounds to me it's a problem with Thecus, not with Linux software raid (md) in general. I've used md for years on several workstations and servers, had several failed HDDs, but never lost any data.
Disadvantages are difficult to incorporate into a purely skill-based system because nobody is going to pick a disadvantage unless forced,
That's an interesting idea...force the players to pick disadvantages. Say start them off with zero (or even negative) skill points, and picking disadvantages increases your available skill points.
Or maybe another way is to simple require them to allocate X disadvantage points for every Y advantage points given.
I can see it adding a whole other level of strategy to things.
That's a nice long detailed explanation, except you forgot the fact that only notepad.exe has this 'feature'. Almost every other text-based application I could find quickly on my windows PC does not have this feature, instead the text will keep scrolling even if you don't wiggle your mouse outside the window.
The Flex framework is open sourced...that includes the client libraries, the visual components, even the compiler is open source & cross-platform (amusingly it's written in Java. There are some good uses for Java, but web applets is not one of them). The only part not fully open sourced is the Flash plugin (the Actionscript Virtual Machine is open sourced, ie, the part that executes all the code, it's the part that does the rendering that's closed)
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It's actually fixed now. And in those two years, there are no known exploits, so it's maybe not as a big of a deal as if it were an actual exploitable hole.
My speculation is they didn't want to pay the $10-$20/unit licensing fee to MPEG/CSS/etc people to legally allow DVD playback.
$10/mo? that's $240 over two years, not too bad I guess, considering I got $300 discount on my phone when I signed a 2 year contract with t-mobile. Do you have a link to this? I haven't seen these plans before.
If paying $400-500 for my phone upfront, and paying half as much for a monthly cell phone contract was an option, saving me money in the long run, I would do that. But unfortunately, in the US, it is not an option. Carriers charge you exactly the same amount per month whether or not you are getting a discount/subsidy on a fancy phone.
You're wrong in several ways: 1) It's not an xbox dev kit...it's standard PC parts stuffed in an xbox shell 2) It's not mac hardware like in TFA, it's a 'hackintosh', with standard PC parts
even the UAC prompt can be faked to look and sound real, if you're willing to spend some time at it. (It would be hard though, and I doubt it would look 100% right.)
Why would you fake a UAC prompt? Users don't type their passwords into the UAC prompts. All you'd succeed in doing is getting the user to click OK on a fake prompt. That would buy you nothing, versus clicking OK on a real UAC prompt, which would actually get you admin access.
Maybe Google doesn't feel like burning huge piles of cash on the wolfram API? Have you seen how much they charge for it?
It starts at a minimum commitment of $2,000/mo at $0.10 per query. At the high end it's $220,000/mo at $0.023 per query. I wonder how much google makes off each search? Can't be much more than that.
Uh...instead of downloading OpenCV 1.0 and renaming the files to 1.1, why not download OpenCV 1.1 in the first place? msvcr* is the MS Visual C++ runtime...you can usually find it pretty quick just by googling for the DLL name (software devs that know what they are doing, redistribute it with their app...but obviously these guys just hacked it together really quick to make it work ok enough to meet their deadlines). Hopefully they package it up nicely...but I doubt it. Nine times out of ten, these cool papers out of SIGGRAPH research never release finished projects. Occasionally other people will take their work, then implement it correctly.
It's called wear-leveling. Writing to the same spot from the OS's point of view, doesn't actually write to the same spot on the chip inside the actual drive. It shuffles things around to make sure everything gets used up evenly.
Umm, you can buy an Android phone, with no contract, unlocked (not tied to any carrier), officially sanctioned, with root access out of the box. What more do you want? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Dev_Phone
$5 including shipping for something that sells locally for $35 is worth the two week wait. $85 for an ARM9 development platform with LCD touch screen - gimme!
Or you could buy it directly for only $5 more... $105 ($85+20 shipping) on ebay, versus $110+free shipping.
All those cheap bits and bobs you can also buy directly from places like dealextreme.com There's really not all that many good deals on ebay these days.
Maybe if he used z instead of j...bzip2 is a notoriously slow compression algo.
I'm gonna be a jerk here and say It Works For Me(TM). I had Linux running just fine on a 1280x1024 as the main monitor and 1368x768 as the second monitor. Of course I had a NVidia card, which I believe works the best out of the brands under Linux. There's a little NVidia config gui that you can use to setup multiple monitors etc. This was three years ago, so it's possible things have gone downhill, but unlikely.
Funnily, I have a TV with the reverse problem.
The TV is native 1366x768.
Max supported resolution over HDMI: 1280x720
Max supported resolution over VGA: 1368x768
(I assume the two extra pixels is just a rounding error thing to get it to be a multiple of 8)
Unfortunately I didn't figure this out until AFTER I bought a nice long HDMI to reach from my PC to my TV, then I had to go back and buy a long VGA cable. I would have preferred to use HDMI to keep it all digital so I don't have to worry about interference, or the TV locking onto the VGA signal clock exactly right etc etc. It's a Vizio 32-inch.
Seriously, it can all be done in flash 8, released nearly four years ago. And that's in every browser on every platform*.
* = Ok, maybe only 99.99% of desktop PCs out there are supported. A few obscure platforms like 64-bit FreeBSD can't run Flash. But Windows, Mac, Linux (including 64-bit linux), and even SPARC are supported.
Are you kidding me? Just rotating, resizing, and playing multiple videos at once? That example could have very easily been done in flash 8 (released 2005), probably even flash 7 (released 2003). Wake me up when HTML5 can do something flash couldn't do years ago.
The distortions, skewing, reflections on video I think would require Flash 8, they added some new graphics filters in that version.
Also as for interaction between flash and the page, it's very simple for Flash to call javascript methods, and for javascript to call flash methods. The calls are synchronous, and can pass & return complex data types.
One final advantage of flash...you almost never have to worry about browser compatibility. Your example works fine in Firefox 3.5.2, but is very broken in the latest Chrome beta (3.0.195.4).
The original eeepc netbook (x86) was $250 at launch two years ago, so I wouldn't say 200 euros (almost $300 USD) is a fair bit less. I've seen one or two of those MIPS netbooks online, and they were very cheap, however they seem pretty under-powered compared to the currently available x86 netbooks. Something like 20% less cost but 50% less performance/ram/storage.
seriously, at the most basic level you listen to the guy for 15 minutes, and then spend a few hours hammering nails where they tell you to. you don't need a degree in civil engineering to help habitat for humanity
Last I checked pretty much every modern processor and OS was capable of supporting 36 bit addressing
Unfortunately both Windows XP and Windows Vista do not support 36-bit addressing in their 32-bit flavors. 32-bit XP & Vista are limited to a little less than 4GB of RAM, no matter what. I think there's a 32-bit uber expensive Server 2008 that supports it, but nobody's gonna be buying that for desktop use or even for render farm use. However Linux supports it fine, I've happily used 8GB of total RAM while running a completely 32-bit kernel/OS/applications.
Sounds to me it's a problem with Thecus, not with Linux software raid (md) in general. I've used md for years on several workstations and servers, had several failed HDDs, but never lost any data.
Disadvantages are difficult to incorporate into a purely skill-based system because nobody is going to pick a disadvantage unless forced,
That's an interesting idea...force the players to pick disadvantages. Say start them off with zero (or even negative) skill points, and picking disadvantages increases your available skill points.
Or maybe another way is to simple require them to allocate X disadvantage points for every Y advantage points given.
I can see it adding a whole other level of strategy to things.
the word 'wiimote' is just like the word 'fucktard' and 'sheeple'. how can you hate the former but love the latter?
That's a nice long detailed explanation, except you forgot the fact that only notepad.exe has this 'feature'. Almost every other text-based application I could find quickly on my windows PC does not have this feature, instead the text will keep scrolling even if you don't wiggle your mouse outside the window.
Not only does it work on 64-bit Vista, but it actually has native 64-bit Linux support too! Get with the times, troll.
The Flex framework is open sourced...that includes the client libraries, the visual components, even the compiler is open source & cross-platform (amusingly it's written in Java. There are some good uses for Java, but web applets is not one of them). The only part not fully open sourced is the Flash plugin (the Actionscript Virtual Machine is open sourced, ie, the part that executes all the code, it's the part that does the rendering that's closed)