It's all fun and games (no pun intended) until you've been playing for a couple of hours and used up the whole of your monthly bandwidth allowance.
I know that some people have the option of truely unlimited service, but an awful lot don't and that puts this service out of their reach.
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Newsnight Review think everything that anyone has heard of is a turkey though; they only like films that are very obscure and hugely pretentious - if they can find one that's not in English then it's a bonus.
DFS isn't new, it's been around for years; the latest incarnation with delta replication appearing with 2003 R2. All 2008 adds is transparent Access Based Enumeration for DFS shares and the ability to have more than 5000 DFS targets in a single namespace.
I played the demo on Steam a few weeks ago and from that it seems that they've Deus Ex'd it - that is, butchered it for the benefit of Consoles.
Unreasonable large install - Check Implausably shiny textures, especially on enemies - Check Weapon "quick menu" - Check Dumbed down HUD - Check
I blame Halo really - pre-Halo FPS games were generally devloped purely for the PC and benefitted greatly from it. Now, almost every FPS has to be designed for a simultaneous release on PC & console and thus suffers from having to cater to lower resolutions, lack of a keyboard and the rather strange desire to have everything looking shiny.
IIRC the Data Protection Act doesn't allow you to demand removal of personal data by someone that you have previously provided it to.
They would, however, probably be required to provide you with a copy of any personal data that they hold on you at your request and they obviously wouldn't be allowed to provide it to anybody else without your express permission (Although the TOS may have granted them that permission when you signed up - whether it's legally binding or not is another matter entirely).
Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the.NET Framework 2.0 and.NET Framework 3.0 subcomponents. The.NET Framework 3.5 Family Update provides important application compatibility updates.
People can rent a room in an hotel and leave with a bar of soap â" there's a big difference between leaving with a bar of soap and leaving with the television
In other words, it's fine to steal things as long as they're of low value. I'm fairly certain the hotel *could* have me arrested for stealing their soap, it's just not usually worth their time.
*ALL* operating systems much be constantly patched to protect against the "latest" threats. Windows just gets the majority share of attention because there are millions of Windows boxes, many unpatched, many owned and operated by computer illiterate users who have little or no interest in securing them (And even in Vista, which is a vast improvement on XP from a security perspective, the default security leaves a lot to be desired).
Ok, they are *usually* less serious than this particular vulnerability, but my Ubuntu box downloads "critical" updates at least once a week on average.
Microsoft have made a lot of bad design decisions in their products, often in order to thwart competition, but them actually being incompetent or negligent, especially in recent years, is a lot harder to prove.
Autorun is still enabled by default in Windows for all removable devices.
USB sticks are a little odd though as autorun only works for certain ones with a specific hardware flag set. I would guess it's trivial for this worm to change the flag to enable autorun, however.
Let's assume that you're selling enough tickets/cds/software to break even.
If additional people sneak into your gigs, you haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained anything.
If additional people download your software without paying, you haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained anything.
If additional people steal your CDs, you *have* lost something, something that prevents a legitimate customer from purchasing your product.
That's not to say that the first 2 are right, only that they aren't directly depriving anyone of anything - there's potential revenue, but not actual revenue.
Because there are people willing to do "same money for more work" that you can be replaced with (regardless of those unimportant factors like experience or skill level).
I agree entirely; I've got a moderately specced PC: Core2 E6400, 320Mb nVidia 8800GTS, 2Gb RAM, XP 32-bit and I've not played anything on it that I haven't been able to run at 1280x1024@72Hz on High detail (Even Crysis).
I know it's supposedly "all about the 2560x1600 at 200fps" these days, but a) I hate widescreen monitors and b) I'm happy with 1280x1024 (Maybe 1600x1200 if I can find a reasonably priced 4:3 LCD that does it).
Correction, they were brought down because they had underfunded and/or under-qualified IT departments.
I know of 2 NHS trusts in my local area that were hit by worms (Blaster and Mytob); the former because they weren't running any edge firewalls - left alone internal ones - and believed that the NHS N3 network was secure (It really, really isn't) and the latter because they didn't check to make sure that their AV software was actually updating itself.
A lot of IT "departments" in the NHS are actually made up of one of two guys in a broom cupboard with £75 a year to spend on new kit. I'm lucky in that the NHS trust I'm contracting for at the moment has a Finance director who understands the importance of having a properly financed and staffed IT department, but most aren't that lucky.
Windows is really not an issue if you have a competent and well funded IT department to manage it, just as Linux can be an issue if you don't.
I don't know, there are definite benefits to those "learning experiences" once you've recovered from the 16 straight hours of panicked desperation trying to recover the Exchange databases you've just accidentally blown away by formatting the wrong LUN on the SAN (Not that I've managed that personally yet, but I've certainly been part of the panic).
As with anything, you need to strike a balance between taking all the advice and instruction from someone more experienced than yourself and doing things on your own so that you truly learn how they work.
In my experience of users outside of the Slashdot demographic, there are a small subset who refuse to use office without their paperclip/wizard/dog to guide them, a similar subset who refuse to use office if the Office Assistant component is even installed. The majority really don't care either way but would probably be happier if they weren't constantly asked if they needed help writing a letter, what with having mastered that art at primary school.
We'd love to, but we can't because the NHS National Clinical Record System only supports IE6. Some bits of some of the apps work with IE7, but not enough to make it workable.
Given that the national system isn't even finished yet, that it also requires Java 1.4.2, doesn't support Vista or 64-bit and has no concrete plans to do so, it's unlikely it'll ever get full IE7 support. Until it does, we're stuck with IE6 on 90% of our desktops.
Drives me insane at work (I work in the NHS) because we have up to 1.3 million users running through about 5 ip addresses (Unavoidable NHS N3 internet gateways).
Most of the people I know (18-30 age group) don't have the slightest clue about how the internet actually works.
Don't make the same mistake that everyone else does in assuming that being comfortable using computers and being on the Facebook every waking hour somehow means that you have any idea or any desire to know how it all works.
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It's all fun and games (no pun intended) until you've been playing for a couple of hours and used up the whole of your monthly bandwidth allowance.
I know that some people have the option of truely unlimited service, but an awful lot don't and that puts this service out of their reach.
Newsnight Review think everything that anyone has heard of is a turkey though; they only like films that are very obscure and hugely pretentious - if they can find one that's not in English then it's a bonus.
DFS isn't new, it's been around for years; the latest incarnation with delta replication appearing with 2003 R2. All 2008 adds is transparent Access Based Enumeration for DFS shares and the ability to have more than 5000 DFS targets in a single namespace.
Of course, nobody cared that the first 4 games featured white zombies.
Also, I'd imagine that if the game, set in Africa, featured exclusively white zombies, there would be just as much "controversy" surrounding it.
I played the demo on Steam a few weeks ago and from that it seems that they've Deus Ex'd it - that is, butchered it for the benefit of Consoles.
Unreasonable large install - Check
Implausably shiny textures, especially on enemies - Check
Weapon "quick menu" - Check
Dumbed down HUD - Check
I blame Halo really - pre-Halo FPS games were generally devloped purely for the PC and benefitted greatly from it. Now, almost every FPS has to be designed for a simultaneous release on PC & console and thus suffers from having to cater to lower resolutions, lack of a keyboard and the rather strange desire to have everything looking shiny.
...stab with one hand while they stroke with another
It's an interesting fetish, I'll grant you...
IIRC the Data Protection Act doesn't allow you to demand removal of personal data by someone that you have previously provided it to.
They would, however, probably be required to provide you with a copy of any personal data that they hold on you at your request and they obviously wouldn't be allowed to provide it to anybody else without your express permission (Although the TOS may have granted them that permission when you signed up - whether it's legally binding or not is another matter entirely).
I wouldn't mind a little of Microsoft's "failure" myself.
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 subcomponents. The .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update provides important application compatibility updates.
People can rent a room in an hotel and leave with a bar of soap â" there's a big difference between leaving with a bar of soap and leaving with the television
In other words, it's fine to steal things as long as they're of low value. I'm fairly certain the hotel *could* have me arrested for stealing their soap, it's just not usually worth their time.
I think you mean that you couldn't care less...
*ALL* operating systems much be constantly patched to protect against the "latest" threats. Windows just gets the majority share of attention because there are millions of Windows boxes, many unpatched, many owned and operated by computer illiterate users who have little or no interest in securing them (And even in Vista, which is a vast improvement on XP from a security perspective, the default security leaves a lot to be desired).
Ok, they are *usually* less serious than this particular vulnerability, but my Ubuntu box downloads "critical" updates at least once a week on average.
Microsoft have made a lot of bad design decisions in their products, often in order to thwart competition, but them actually being incompetent or negligent, especially in recent years, is a lot harder to prove.
Autorun is still enabled by default in Windows for all removable devices.
USB sticks are a little odd though as autorun only works for certain ones with a specific hardware flag set. I would guess it's trivial for this worm to change the flag to enable autorun, however.
Let's assume that you're selling enough tickets/cds/software to break even.
If additional people sneak into your gigs, you haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained anything.
If additional people download your software without paying, you haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained anything.
If additional people steal your CDs, you *have* lost something, something that prevents a legitimate customer from purchasing your product.
That's not to say that the first 2 are right, only that they aren't directly depriving anyone of anything - there's potential revenue, but not actual revenue.
"An Ohio teen was found guilty of murdering his mother and shooting his father in the head after they took away his [thing that he really liked]"
If he had a caffeine addiction and his parents took away his Coke would that mean that it was the fault of the Coke that he murdered them?
Because there are people willing to do "same money for more work" that you can be replaced with (regardless of those unimportant factors like experience or skill level).
I agree entirely; I've got a moderately specced PC: Core2 E6400, 320Mb nVidia 8800GTS, 2Gb RAM, XP 32-bit and I've not played anything on it that I haven't been able to run at 1280x1024@72Hz on High detail (Even Crysis).
I know it's supposedly "all about the 2560x1600 at 200fps" these days, but a) I hate widescreen monitors and b) I'm happy with 1280x1024 (Maybe 1600x1200 if I can find a reasonably priced 4:3 LCD that does it).
Correction, they were brought down because they had underfunded and/or under-qualified IT departments.
I know of 2 NHS trusts in my local area that were hit by worms (Blaster and Mytob); the former because they weren't running any edge firewalls - left alone internal ones - and believed that the NHS N3 network was secure (It really, really isn't) and the latter because they didn't check to make sure that their AV software was actually updating itself.
A lot of IT "departments" in the NHS are actually made up of one of two guys in a broom cupboard with £75 a year to spend on new kit. I'm lucky in that the NHS trust I'm contracting for at the moment has a Finance director who understands the importance of having a properly financed and staffed IT department, but most aren't that lucky.
Windows is really not an issue if you have a competent and well funded IT department to manage it, just as Linux can be an issue if you don't.
I don't know, there are definite benefits to those "learning experiences" once you've recovered from the 16 straight hours of panicked desperation trying to recover the Exchange databases you've just accidentally blown away by formatting the wrong LUN on the SAN (Not that I've managed that personally yet, but I've certainly been part of the panic).
As with anything, you need to strike a balance between taking all the advice and instruction from someone more experienced than yourself and doing things on your own so that you truly learn how they work.
In my experience of users outside of the Slashdot demographic, there are a small subset who refuse to use office without their paperclip/wizard/dog to guide them, a similar subset who refuse to use office if the Office Assistant component is even installed. The majority really don't care either way but would probably be happier if they weren't constantly asked if they needed help writing a letter, what with having mastered that art at primary school.
The Kitchen Sink, you say?
We'd love to, but we can't because the NHS National Clinical Record System only supports IE6. Some bits of some of the apps work with IE7, but not enough to make it workable.
Given that the national system isn't even finished yet, that it also requires Java 1.4.2, doesn't support Vista or 64-bit and has no concrete plans to do so, it's unlikely it'll ever get full IE7 support. Until it does, we're stuck with IE6 on 90% of our desktops.
Drives me insane at work (I work in the NHS) because we have up to 1.3 million users running through about 5 ip addresses (Unavoidable NHS N3 internet gateways).
Sad thing is, it was the best of the summaries that I saw on the firehose.
Most of the people I know (18-30 age group) don't have the slightest clue about how the internet actually works.
Don't make the same mistake that everyone else does in assuming that being comfortable using computers and being on the Facebook every waking hour somehow means that you have any idea or any desire to know how it all works.