What is HP's problem with women? This is twice that the women in charge have screwed HP. Is simply the fact that a pretty face always tramples over engineers, or is there something more to it?
CmdrTaco, you're a dumbass. They mean more stable versus the Vista betas. Windows hasn't released an unstable operating system since Windows 98 first edition.
They still haven't gotten the site-wide comment feed working yet. You can turn it on in the Blogger controls, but no link for it is provided anywhere. You have to guess the url from the post feed and the individual post comment feed.
Even after that, I found that it only lists the first 25 comments ever made to my blog. This makes a recent comments sidebar hard.
Whether this will ever get fixed, I don't know. Google uses "beta" to mean "released" for all their software and the practice sucks. I have the feeling that a lot of their free "beta" software will one day become non-free, and they will only at that point "release" it.
Ayn Rand only said that because she was a kooky chick with her own cult. Many of the most creative people in history were motivated by the desire to beat others.
Actually, I wish that everybody shipped laptops like this. I have a Windows laptop from Compaq. First thing I did when I got it was to wipe the disk, and reinstall Windows. I would be even less comfortable with a Linux system that someone else set up for me.
I wonder if there are some licensing issues (agreements with Microsoft) that have made them do this, or whether it's customers like me.
Individual copyright infringement is not a crime that should be punished with draconian measures. For individuals, it should be punished at a somewhat lower level than one gets punished for speeding.
Though the RIAA is a private body,they are using governmental powers against the average person. I see them as no different than tyrants. Congress has finally gotten lazy enough to begin outsourcing the erosion of our freedoms.
My program compresses the sample down to nothing, and recreates it from that same nothing. The binary is somewhat large however, approximately 100M in size.
You're right, you can't specify wildcards in hosts. I've used it for some special things, but never read the documentation on it. It looks like this solution won't work at all.
On the other hand I assume his users don't have admin access, if he wants to do something to the computer that the "users can't change."
Hey, I'm having enough trouble getting us to use what we already own. But my first question is: can Acronis install and uninstall software packages like Ghost Console? Also, does it support multicast?
I'm a sys admin at a technical university, and when I started this job, I inherited a couple hundred Windows boxes that hadn't been patched for a year. The previous admin hadn't been able to get SP2 pushed out through WSUS. There turned out to be a couple issues that had to be fixed on each machine. I wound up doing this remotely using the psexec tool from sysinternals. (You can also enable remote desktop remotely through that.)
Right now I'm trying to get my boss interested enough in the features of Symantec Ghost, which we own, to start using this for maintaining all all our computers (instead of just using it as a glorified disk imager to push out templates each semester).
The problem isn't that they're trying to make their game super-addictive for its own sake. It's that the very things they do to attract the casual players are the things that make it most addictive. There are no "addict-creating-features" as opposed to "casual-features" in their game. (Certain feature probably support addicts, but that's after the fact.) It's the casual features that are the problem for certain types of personalities.
Clinical psychologists are probably the most pragmatic people in the social sciences
Which means that she gets a least silly clown award. A clinical psychologist. That's impressive. A psychology degree—everyone knows how hard those are to get—and some graduate work to add the "clinical" tag. It's certainly not the sort of field that attracts incompetents. There's not a biology professor in the world who moans about the morons who show up for his class when it's listed in the catalogue as a psych prereq.
Having worked in the mental health industry for a bit, I can tell you that the whole psychiatric industry is only at the edges of knowing it is talking about. Don't believe me? Pin a psychiatrist (those are the ones with the actual M.D., unlike psychologists) down on the term "chemical imbalance" some time. "Chemical imbalance" is a term they use for everything, and is not actually a diagnostic term—it's a theoretical term—there is no test for "chemical imbalance." All they know (from autopsies mainly) is that certain brain chemicals are associated with pleasure and depression, and that happy and depressed people have got a lot of receptors for them. The more complicated explanations you have heard tend to be heavy on the theory and light on the evidence.
They pretend that they are somehow on the same footing as a doctor treating physical conditions. They pretend that their drugs cure conditions. In fact, all they have is a vague understanding of how the brain works and a bunch of drugs are only slightly removed from happy pills. If asked they will launch long explanations on how these drugs are extremely targeted and completely unlike the drugs of 10 years ago—which they've been been saying since lithium—despite having only vague theories about what's being targeted and how that works.
The woman is in one of the silly sciences, and almost all of what she says can be discounted, but this was interesting:
RW: A lot of comparisons have been made between video game addiction and gambling addiction. Are the two similar?
Dr. Orzack: They are pretty much the same. They have many of the same symptoms: neglecting work and severing personal relationships, for example. People get the same type of excitement from gambling and playing video games. It's called variable ratio reinforcement, which basically means that you keep playing or gambling and failing until you reach your intended goal, but once you reach that goal, you still keep playing.
RW: What about self control and willpower? Should players take some responsibility for their heavy play?
Dr. Orzack: This isn't about willpower or restraint. These games are very elaborately designed to ease you in gently, entice you, and keep you there. And it's a cycle: people begin to spend too much time playing and their careers and personal relationships begin to deteriorate. Then they begin to withdraw more into the game because it's an escape from their real world problems.
The bit about variable ratio reinforcement is the important part. Video game designers haven't perfected this with MMORPGs—they're just starting to get it right. In the future games will be more addictive, more damaging to life outside the game. They'll be better at making you play, but be less satisfying a part of your life.
I agree with the higher the better approach. On the other hand, a person calling malloc while coding in C++ probably doesn't know C++. Nor are C++ strings like C strings. Handler and callback routine setup is generally handled by the library you use (QT has a nice slots and sockets implementation. Boost also has a library devoted completely to that which can be dropped into other projects.) The "layout-bag-grid-column" will depend on whatever library or API you are using, not the language.
C++ is not C by any stretch of the imagination. It's a multi-paradigm langauge (that's both the best and worst thing about it). If there is a programming methodology out there, C++ probably supports it. Although it'll be nice if functional programming gets some help with C++0x -- Boost Lambda doesn't really cut it.
If I ever found myself in the situation where I was arguing with Paul Thurott over Macs versus Windows, I'd know it was the time to give up on computers forever.
If they double the speed of my CPU, I can take advantage of that just by not trying as hard and letting my code bloat.
If they double the number of cores, I can only take advantage of that if I have a problem that can be parallelized and then if I work very very hard to multi-thread my project.
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What is HP's problem with women? This is twice that the women in charge have screwed HP. Is simply the fact that a pretty face always tramples over engineers, or is there something more to it?
CmdrTaco, you're a dumbass. They mean more stable versus the Vista betas. Windows hasn't released an unstable operating system since Windows 98 first edition.
A Java programmer, I take it?
That's an interesting legal theory, to say the least. Where did you say you went to law school?
They still haven't gotten the site-wide comment feed working yet. You can turn it on in the Blogger controls, but no link for it is provided anywhere. You have to guess the url from the post feed and the individual post comment feed.
Even after that, I found that it only lists the first 25 comments ever made to my blog. This makes a recent comments sidebar hard.
Whether this will ever get fixed, I don't know. Google uses "beta" to mean "released" for all their software and the practice sucks. I have the feeling that a lot of their free "beta" software will one day become non-free, and they will only at that point "release" it.
I'm not for more legal immigration. My country has enough people.
Ayn Rand only said that because she was a kooky chick with her own cult. Many of the most creative people in history were motivated by the desire to beat others.
Actually, I wish that everybody shipped laptops like this. I have a Windows laptop from Compaq. First thing I did when I got it was to wipe the disk, and reinstall Windows. I would be even less comfortable with a Linux system that someone else set up for me.
I wonder if there are some licensing issues (agreements with Microsoft) that have made them do this, or whether it's customers like me.
Individual copyright infringement is not a crime that should be punished with draconian measures. For individuals, it should be punished at a somewhat lower level than one gets punished for speeding.
Though the RIAA is a private body,they are using governmental powers against the average person. I see them as no different than tyrants. Congress has finally gotten lazy enough to begin outsourcing the erosion of our freedoms.
My program compresses the sample down to nothing, and recreates it from that same nothing. The binary is somewhat large however, approximately 100M in size.
You're right, you can't specify wildcards in hosts. I've used it for some special things, but never read the documentation on it. It looks like this solution won't work at all.
On the other hand I assume his users don't have admin access, if he wants to do something to the computer that the "users can't change."
Editing system32/drivers/etc/hosts should do what you want. Direct everything (except windows update, maybe nist) to that one site.
Hey, I'm having enough trouble getting us to use what we already own. But my first question is: can Acronis install and uninstall software packages like Ghost Console? Also, does it support multicast?
I'm a sys admin at a technical university, and when I started this job, I inherited a couple hundred Windows boxes that hadn't been patched for a year. The previous admin hadn't been able to get SP2 pushed out through WSUS. There turned out to be a couple issues that had to be fixed on each machine. I wound up doing this remotely using the psexec tool from sysinternals. (You can also enable remote desktop remotely through that.)
Right now I'm trying to get my boss interested enough in the features of Symantec Ghost, which we own, to start using this for maintaining all all our computers (instead of just using it as a glorified disk imager to push out templates each semester).
Hello, I represent Time Warner, and we'd like to buy your girlfriend's cat for $350 billion.
It seems I hit a sore spot.
Who owns the 3dfx code?
They should be awarded not on what they produce but on the effort they put into it? You sound like a chick.
The problem isn't that they're trying to make their game super-addictive for its own sake. It's that the very things they do to attract the casual players are the things that make it most addictive. There are no "addict-creating-features" as opposed to "casual-features" in their game. (Certain feature probably support addicts, but that's after the fact.) It's the casual features that are the problem for certain types of personalities.
Which means that she gets a least silly clown award. A clinical psychologist. That's impressive. A psychology degree—everyone knows how hard those are to get—and some graduate work to add the "clinical" tag. It's certainly not the sort of field that attracts incompetents. There's not a biology professor in the world who moans about the morons who show up for his class when it's listed in the catalogue as a psych prereq.
Having worked in the mental health industry for a bit, I can tell you that the whole psychiatric industry is only at the edges of knowing it is talking about. Don't believe me? Pin a psychiatrist (those are the ones with the actual M.D., unlike psychologists) down on the term "chemical imbalance" some time. "Chemical imbalance" is a term they use for everything, and is not actually a diagnostic term—it's a theoretical term—there is no test for "chemical imbalance." All they know (from autopsies mainly) is that certain brain chemicals are associated with pleasure and depression, and that happy and depressed people have got a lot of receptors for them. The more complicated explanations you have heard tend to be heavy on the theory and light on the evidence.
They pretend that they are somehow on the same footing as a doctor treating physical conditions. They pretend that their drugs cure conditions. In fact, all they have is a vague understanding of how the brain works and a bunch of drugs are only slightly removed from happy pills. If asked they will launch long explanations on how these drugs are extremely targeted and completely unlike the drugs of 10 years ago—which they've been been saying since lithium—despite having only vague theories about what's being targeted and how that works.
The bit about variable ratio reinforcement is the important part. Video game designers haven't perfected this with MMORPGs—they're just starting to get it right. In the future games will be more addictive, more damaging to life outside the game. They'll be better at making you play, but be less satisfying a part of your life.
I agree with the higher the better approach. On the other hand, a person calling malloc while coding in C++ probably doesn't know C++. Nor are C++ strings like C strings. Handler and callback routine setup is generally handled by the library you use (QT has a nice slots and sockets implementation. Boost also has a library devoted completely to that which can be dropped into other projects.) The "layout-bag-grid-column" will depend on whatever library or API you are using, not the language.
C++ is not C by any stretch of the imagination. It's a multi-paradigm langauge (that's both the best and worst thing about it). If there is a programming methodology out there, C++ probably supports it. Although it'll be nice if functional programming gets some help with C++0x -- Boost Lambda doesn't really cut it.
I'm waiting for Pacman to get to the Live Arcade. They've announced they're working on it, but I don't know anything about a date.
If I ever found myself in the situation where I was arguing with Paul Thurott over Macs versus Windows, I'd know it was the time to give up on computers forever.
If they double the speed of my CPU, I can take advantage of that just by not trying as hard and letting my code bloat.
If they double the number of cores, I can only take advantage of that if I have a problem that can be parallelized and then if I work very very hard to multi-thread my project.