So, how exactly does that stop that nasty other program from doing what it wants to the file then?
If it runs under your account, nothing. Installers generally switch to admin at start, though, and so does Windows Update.
Yeah, but that's hardly much of an obstacle. I've seen plenty of installers where the install.exe actually launches a child process to do the install and then waits for the child to finish. It would be trivial to do that, letting the child install as admin while the parent is still running as the logged in user. Or even simpler...throw an entry in the RunOnce registry key (so the next time you log in a process runs as the user and does the install).
Uhhhh, ok. So, what you are saying is that I've logged in so my apps can now access the file without me having to enter a password. So, how exactly does that stop that nasty other program from doing what it wants to the file then? Does windows allow you say "only application x can use this file"? As far as I've seen, it doesn't.
Also, there is a simple way to counter it at least on Windows: use encrypted files to store user settings for system-wide plugins. NTFS file encryption uses a key associated with a given user account, and derived from his password, and thus cannot be decrypted even by administrator.
Of course, wouldn't that require you to provide your password every time you start up firefox? No thanks.
How exactly do you propose to stop a process from doing so when it is running outside the scope of firefox? Whatever files Firefox updates to indicate an extension has been installed can also be modified by an outside process. Want to make the file digitally signed? Well, Firefox has to get the signing key from somewhere, but then the other app could just go and get it from the same place. Want to move stuff like this off the local system and have it stored in some network repository...well, no, almost nobody is going to want this, but even if they did it wouldn't matter since the other app could just contact the repository pretending to be firefox.
You see, you run into the same problem you run into with any other sort of malware. The only way to stop it is to have a process loaded beforehand at a higher privilege level than it. That's what virus scanners do, but I don't think it's the sort of thing firefox should be doing (otherwise, why shouldn't every single application have it's own monitoring process to handle this sort of thing).
That paragraph quoted from the article is terribly worded and somewhat confusing. It continually lists things without telling the counterpart value or what the conversion is
1) Flower...gives us the US price, the US to AU conversion, but doesn't tell us the actual AU price 2) What is the US release price for Bomberman Ultra, Heavy Weapon, and Commando 3? I'm assuming it $9.99, but I can't say for sure 3) Battlefield 1942 and Fat Princess...great, we have their US and AU prices, but they didn't mention what the conversion is. Yes, we can calculate it from the previous 10->12.95 figure, but the reader shouldn't have to do that. From reading, I was under the impression that these 2 games were both overpriced, but then I did that conversion and I see a $15US game should be about $19.41AU, meaning that Battlefield 1943 was actually priced normally for the conversion (btw...they should have sold Battlefield 1943 for $19.43AU)
He might not have had the money in a trust fund but there's someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth if ever I saw one.
Possibley, but in terms of the original question of how he got to where he is, the question is still just as valid. Relatively speaking, compared to where he is now he was dirt poor when he was 18. Plenty of people were born into the same level of wealth he was who don't go on to accumulate significantly more they start with, much less become the richest man in the world. So the question of what did he do to get "rich" is still relevant (though the question also suggested he got rich quick, which wasn't really the case).
There has not been a single fund that has returned 200% over the last five years (which is what you are claiming -- 1.25^5 == 3.05). If that's really the return you've made over the last five years, then I know some people who will want to talk with you about opportunities. Especially considering hedge funds averaged losses in the teens last year, with young funds having a stdev of about 6.5% (from an category-leading loss of only 11%).
Note, although that page says "5 year total return", that is inaccurate. It is listing a 5 year annualized return. To confirm, look up the #1 on google finance http://www.google.com/finance?q=MUTF:PRLAX
See on the right of the graph, it shows a 5 year annualized return of +31.12%. Loot at the 5 year graph. You can see that Oct 15, 2004 it traded at 13.44, and todays price is 47.24
I am somebody who invests and trades the market. These days I work at a hedge fund. Want to know my return?
Let me stop you right there.....NO! I don't want to know. Any insight you might have on the subject was completely lost on me the second you turned it into a penis measuring contest.
It was meant to be confusing with the repeated "words". h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org. Without the slashes, it would have to have been h-t-t-p-colon-colon-dot-dot-org
there has been an outcry about the loss of all of those extras
From who?
From lots of fans of music. I absolutely love the artwork you find on albums like Rush, Dream Theater, and Yes. It is all part of an expression of their artwork.
For example, Dream Theater's Octavarium was really incredible when taken as a full package. Although not a concept album in the usual sense, there was a way it was all tied together: a musical octave (hence the album name). There were 8 tracks and each one was in a successive whole-note key (the white keys on the piano) spanning an octave. Between the correct songs, there were small little interludes that were done in the corresponding half-note keys (the black keys). Then littered all through the CD booklet's artwork were all sorts of references to this...lots of occurances of the numbers 2, 3, 5,and 8, and artwork that ties into some of the corresponding songs. To me, the artwork was an important extension of their musical expression.
It seems I recently heard some comedian making a similar joke, about how he used to roll joints on an album cover, and how difficult it is to do now on an ipod.
OK, wonderful (and yes, I already knew that). OK, so now I've got an album with 10 songs. Which song do I store all the art in?
And before you get to it, yes I know you can store them in their own separate files. The idea is to have a standard way of storing and dealing with everything, so that it is more universally supported
The LP is part of the move toward providing a more complete product back like they did with CDs, cassettes, and vinyl. With those things, you typically got extra stuff, like elaborate cover and inside art, and song lyrics, and with CDs there could be a data track with videos and other stuff. These are things that have gone by the wayside with digital downloads. Now that we are reaching the point where CD's are becoming a thing of the past for a much larger number of people, there has been an outcry about the loss of all of those extras. The digital LP is a focus to get those things back, so you can have all your extras for the complete experience.
but if the leaders of a movement are sexist, the movement is sexist.
Wait, is that how it works? So if the leaders of the movement were homosexual, then the movement would also be homosexual? If they were Latino, then the movement would be Latino? If they preferred green tea, then the movement would prefer green tea? I'm not sure how that makes any sense.
I'm sorry, but I don't consider that to be finding 54 incidents in 25 second. That would be like me saying "atomic elements are easy to discover. Look...I just discovered 110 elements in 15 seconds: http://www.elementsdatabase.com/"
What you linked to was a compilation that was produced by other people, and it was the culmination of a LOT more than 25 seconds of searching (through what was likely 100's of thousands of non sexist posts).
As far as your moving goalpost criticism, you might want to pay more careful attention. khasim (the guy you were responding to) has been asking the same "0.1%...what problem are you trying to solve" question since his very first post in this story. Go look at his profile if you don't believe me. He never asked for 1 or 2 or even 54 incidents. He asked for anything that amounted to anything significant....like more than his 0.1% figure. So far, I still haven't seen that request met. 54 is a drop in the bucket. There are plenty of project that each have more than 54000 comments in their forums, much less all FOSS projects combined.
1) I don't bother researching other people's claims for them. Enough people make baseless claims that cannot be verified. I don't have the time to waste attempting to verify all of that stuff. If you want to make a claim without backing it up with something, then unfortunately you get lumped in with the trolls until you follow up with evidence.
2) That doesn't change the fact that you accused someone of being lazy for not reading something you posted when in fact you didn't actually post it.
No, because apparently you were too lazy to post the link. Reread your prior post agian...it contains no link (other than the one in your sig, which is not flu related)
Prime 95 is a good test of CPU/RAM, as well as to see if the system remains stable under peak temperature. It's often used to burn in overclocked machines.
Good summary, but you forgot the part where you not only need to know the model number, but often the revision number, too. Sometimes only certain revisions are supported, and the flashing method is different for the various revisions that are supported.
I'm guessing you got modded troll because you said "We have a White House that can't even stand the idea of people criticizing the president without getting reported to flag@whitehouse.gov". The purpose of that email was not because Obama couldn't stand being criticized. It was because republicans were blatently lying about health care in order to obstruct passing a health care bill. If all they are doing was criticizing him, I don't think Obama could have cared less. It was the trolling they were looking to be kept up on. Granted, I too have issues with the way they went about the process, but for you to say it was because he was being criticized...well, I too would mod you troll if you hadn't asked for an explanation.
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Robotron....no story to speak of
Hey, what you do mean no story?
http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/4099/0501.png
Moses had an Ark, too?
So, how exactly does that stop that nasty other program from doing what it wants to the file then?
If it runs under your account, nothing. Installers generally switch to admin at start, though, and so does Windows Update.
Yeah, but that's hardly much of an obstacle. I've seen plenty of installers where the install.exe actually launches a child process to do the install and then waits for the child to finish. It would be trivial to do that, letting the child install as admin while the parent is still running as the logged in user. Or even simpler...throw an entry in the RunOnce registry key (so the next time you log in a process runs as the user and does the install).
Uhhhh, ok. So, what you are saying is that I've logged in so my apps can now access the file without me having to enter a password. So, how exactly does that stop that nasty other program from doing what it wants to the file then? Does windows allow you say "only application x can use this file"? As far as I've seen, it doesn't.
Also, there is a simple way to counter it at least on Windows: use encrypted files to store user settings for system-wide plugins. NTFS file encryption uses a key associated with a given user account, and derived from his password, and thus cannot be decrypted even by administrator.
Of course, wouldn't that require you to provide your password every time you start up firefox? No thanks.
How exactly do you propose to stop a process from doing so when it is running outside the scope of firefox? Whatever files Firefox updates to indicate an extension has been installed can also be modified by an outside process. Want to make the file digitally signed? Well, Firefox has to get the signing key from somewhere, but then the other app could just go and get it from the same place. Want to move stuff like this off the local system and have it stored in some network repository...well, no, almost nobody is going to want this, but even if they did it wouldn't matter since the other app could just contact the repository pretending to be firefox.
You see, you run into the same problem you run into with any other sort of malware. The only way to stop it is to have a process loaded beforehand at a higher privilege level than it. That's what virus scanners do, but I don't think it's the sort of thing firefox should be doing (otherwise, why shouldn't every single application have it's own monitoring process to handle this sort of thing).
Would you be referring to the "Enable" button that is greyed out? Click on it as much as you like, but it's not doing anything.
Uhhhh, you are off by an order of magnitude. That would be 800 MSP, not 80
That paragraph quoted from the article is terribly worded and somewhat confusing. It continually lists things without telling the counterpart value or what the conversion is
1) Flower...gives us the US price, the US to AU conversion, but doesn't tell us the actual AU price
2) What is the US release price for Bomberman Ultra, Heavy Weapon, and Commando 3? I'm assuming it $9.99, but I can't say for sure
3) Battlefield 1942 and Fat Princess...great, we have their US and AU prices, but they didn't mention what the conversion is. Yes, we can calculate it from the previous 10->12.95 figure, but the reader shouldn't have to do that. From reading, I was under the impression that these 2 games were both overpriced, but then I did that conversion and I see a $15US game should be about $19.41AU, meaning that Battlefield 1943 was actually priced normally for the conversion (btw...they should have sold Battlefield 1943 for $19.43AU)
He might not have had the money in a trust fund but there's someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth if ever I saw one.
Possibley, but in terms of the original question of how he got to where he is, the question is still just as valid. Relatively speaking, compared to where he is now he was dirt poor when he was 18. Plenty of people were born into the same level of wealth he was who don't go on to accumulate significantly more they start with, much less become the richest man in the world. So the question of what did he do to get "rich" is still relevant (though the question also suggested he got rich quick, which wasn't really the case).
There has not been a single fund that has returned 200% over the last five years (which is what you are claiming -- 1.25^5 == 3.05). If that's really the return you've made over the last five years, then I know some people who will want to talk with you about opportunities. Especially considering hedge funds averaged losses in the teens last year, with young funds having a stdev of about 6.5% (from an category-leading loss of only 11%).
Not that I want to help the guy in his penis measuring competition, but there are some funds that have done just that. They are all invested invested in either Latin America or in Metals/Minerals. You can see them all here:
http://screen.morningstar.com/FundSearch/FundRank.html?fundCategory=all&screen=tr5yr
Note, although that page says "5 year total return", that is inaccurate. It is listing a 5 year annualized return. To confirm, look up the #1 on google finance
http://www.google.com/finance?q=MUTF:PRLAX
See on the right of the graph, it shows a 5 year annualized return of +31.12%. Loot at the 5 year graph. You can see that Oct 15, 2004 it traded at 13.44, and todays price is 47.24
No he is not an investor... HE GOT LUCKY!
I am somebody who invests and trades the market. These days I work at a hedge fund. Want to know my return?
Let me stop you right there.....NO! I don't want to know. Any insight you might have on the subject was completely lost on me the second you turned it into a penis measuring contest.
http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150
It was meant to be confusing with the repeated "words". h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org. Without the slashes, it would have to have been h-t-t-p-colon-colon-dot-dot-org
From lots of fans of music. I absolutely love the artwork you find on albums like Rush, Dream Theater, and Yes. It is all part of an expression of their artwork.
For example, Dream Theater's Octavarium was really incredible when taken as a full package. Although not a concept album in the usual sense, there was a way it was all tied together: a musical octave (hence the album name). There were 8 tracks and each one was in a successive whole-note key (the white keys on the piano) spanning an octave. Between the correct songs, there were small little interludes that were done in the corresponding half-note keys (the black keys). Then littered all through the CD booklet's artwork were all sorts of references to this...lots of occurances of the numbers 2, 3, 5,and 8, and artwork that ties into some of the corresponding songs. To me, the artwork was an important extension of their musical expression.
Here's the first webpage I found that analyzes it:
http://dt.spatang.com/octavarium.php
It seems I recently heard some comedian making a similar joke, about how he used to roll joints on an album cover, and how difficult it is to do now on an ipod.
OK, wonderful (and yes, I already knew that). OK, so now I've got an album with 10 songs. Which song do I store all the art in?
And before you get to it, yes I know you can store them in their own separate files. The idea is to have a standard way of storing and dealing with everything, so that it is more universally supported
The LP is part of the move toward providing a more complete product back like they did with CDs, cassettes, and vinyl. With those things, you typically got extra stuff, like elaborate cover and inside art, and song lyrics, and with CDs there could be a data track with videos and other stuff. These are things that have gone by the wayside with digital downloads. Now that we are reaching the point where CD's are becoming a thing of the past for a much larger number of people, there has been an outcry about the loss of all of those extras. The digital LP is a focus to get those things back, so you can have all your extras for the complete experience.
but if the leaders of a movement are sexist, the movement is sexist.
Wait, is that how it works? So if the leaders of the movement were homosexual, then the movement would also be homosexual? If they were Latino, then the movement would be Latino? If they preferred green tea, then the movement would prefer green tea? I'm not sure how that makes any sense.
I'm sorry, but I don't consider that to be finding 54 incidents in 25 second. That would be like me saying "atomic elements are easy to discover. Look...I just discovered 110 elements in 15 seconds: http://www.elementsdatabase.com/"
What you linked to was a compilation that was produced by other people, and it was the culmination of a LOT more than 25 seconds of searching (through what was likely 100's of thousands of non sexist posts).
As far as your moving goalpost criticism, you might want to pay more careful attention. khasim (the guy you were responding to) has been asking the same "0.1%...what problem are you trying to solve" question since his very first post in this story. Go look at his profile if you don't believe me. He never asked for 1 or 2 or even 54 incidents. He asked for anything that amounted to anything significant....like more than his 0.1% figure. So far, I still haven't seen that request met. 54 is a drop in the bucket. There are plenty of project that each have more than 54000 comments in their forums, much less all FOSS projects combined.
Don't look now, but there's still a few verbs in there.
1) I don't bother researching other people's claims for them. Enough people make baseless claims that cannot be verified. I don't have the time to waste attempting to verify all of that stuff. If you want to make a claim without backing it up with something, then unfortunately you get lumped in with the trolls until you follow up with evidence.
2) That doesn't change the fact that you accused someone of being lazy for not reading something you posted when in fact you didn't actually post it.
Too lazy to click on the link?
No, because apparently you were too lazy to post the link. Reread your prior post agian...it contains no link (other than the one in your sig, which is not flu related)
Prime 95 is a good test of CPU/RAM, as well as to see if the system remains stable under peak temperature. It's often used to burn in overclocked machines.
Good summary, but you forgot the part where you not only need to know the model number, but often the revision number, too. Sometimes only certain revisions are supported, and the flashing method is different for the various revisions that are supported.
I'm guessing you got modded troll because you said "We have a White House that can't even stand the idea of people criticizing the president without getting reported to flag@whitehouse.gov". The purpose of that email was not because Obama couldn't stand being criticized. It was because republicans were blatently lying about health care in order to obstruct passing a health care bill. If all they are doing was criticizing him, I don't think Obama could have cared less. It was the trolling they were looking to be kept up on. Granted, I too have issues with the way they went about the process, but for you to say it was because he was being criticized...well, I too would mod you troll if you hadn't asked for an explanation.