Well I built a form based Pocket Access app for my dads business that uses bluetooth to fax the form to their order entry person, the alternative was custom apps written for Palm OS that used the expensive Palm wireless service and a proprietary service with yet another monthly cost. The other thing the app does is weekly download an updated product database through GPRS.
Those taxes are generally based on the physical location of your main work site or business office if you travel more than 50% for work. If you are telecommuting then there is no way that you would pay income tax to any locality other than where you live.
Actually Black Hawk Down wasn't at all loosly based, it does a pretty damn good job of telling the story according to all survivors I've heard interviewed. I agree that the OP was a bit oversensitive but perhaps he has a close friend or relative in the military who was recently lost. It's not hard to imagine with ~1,000 dead and many times that injured due to our president "correcting" dady's mistake.
I know that, that's why I said DX8 LEVEL functions. Unfortunatly the ARB hasn't kept up so there is no standard subversion of OpenGL to define the same set of functionality. The programmable pixel shader was the big deal with the DX8 parts, obviously it was a LOT of work performing the stuff without the programmable shader since he essentially had to convert the programmable code down to packs of fixed function ops which could be run on the older T&L engines.
That's a change. Carmack origionally wanted to make the min the GF3Ti200, since that was the lowest card with the capabilities to run DX8 level shader functions. Wonder why he relented? Maybe a licensee didn't want to be so pigenholed for their own project? In fact I bought my GF3Ti200 specifically based on that since I needed a new card for NWN anyways (didn't support my old Voodoo3 V3000 and the Ti was the only DX8 card even close to $100 at the time). Of course now you can buy a card that will probably run Doom3 at 60fps with reasonable options for that same $100 =)
except it's Mac only. I love Firewire but for some reason people who produce Firewire products like to make them Mac only, excluding about 80% of the potential audience.(PC's are about 95% of the audience but quite a few don't have Firewire).
No, from what I read the virus has a crappy date detection routine and for some reason the "safe" environment they run tests in causes it to break. Of course when writing a virus you go for lean and mean rather than using the standard bloated OS interface so it's not a bug in the virus so long as it works correctly under a normal environment.
Uh, check the processor? Yeah there's a flag that is set when it's in debug mode. Of course the code to check the flag is easily recognized and JMP'd over so it doesn't take a genius to defeat it, wonder why it would have even slowed down the guys at an AV lab?
My guess is that it's not a factory installed OS image and that your IT department didn't bother to setup power management correctly for it. It's always the first thing I do with a new laptop because I personally don't want my laptop to sleep as soon as I close the cover. I generally setup power management to do nothing on close, sleep on power button, then setup auto sleep at 5 minutes and auto hibernate at 10 minutes when on battery and never when on AC. Btw, I'm not aware of any laptop that when functioning correctly does not hardware auto-kill the backlight when the screen is closed. If it's not doing that then it probably has a broken sensor in the lid catch.
So, flash ram is cheap. Compaq has been providing a secondary BIOS image on their servers for some time now, there's no real reason not to other than saving a couple pennies. HP has a special key combo on the Kayak line that will force a ROM loaded image to read a new BIOS image from floppy, and other manufacturers have their own way to recover a hosed machine. This isn't the bad old days of computers, most of the issues with a failed BIOS update have been solved so the worst that will happen is that some service depot's will get some extra waranty repair revenue (and yes installing a vendor supplie BIOS update should be covered under warant)
Wow, I guess the last time you used a laptop was under 9x. I have seen almost zero problems with power management features under win2k, and zero under XP. All of the 2k problems were with hardware that predated the OS and had it installed by an organization rather than the OEM.
Your post illustrates the problem in the framework that was created to address the problem. It depends on knowing which protocols are dangerous, which is impossible since any program can register a protocol handler. The root of the problem is the way Windows handles these protocols, but the way Mozilla dealt with that problem was, in hindsight, not the best solution. Let's learn from the mistake and move on, instead of pretending everything went perfectly.
That's why the Mozilla foundation had already decided that the next version of Mozilla and Firefox would default to whitelisting allowed protocols instead of the current blacklist framework. Unfortunatly this problem was discovered before that change was implemented.
More like 2 years . The origional bug relating to handing off unhandled URI's to the OS goes back that far. It kept getting marked as "will not fix" because it was a stupid architectural decision that some of the guys at Netscape made. The decision was made recently to switch from a blacklist system to a whitelist system. This happened to coincide with lots of people switching to FireFox for security reasons and all of the sudden there was a patch to change the default behavior.
The fact that it's classles. The fact that you can do more than just specialize in fighting or magic using classes, etc. It's been quite some time since I played Arcanum but I really remember it as being quite different from most 'classic' RPG's and a bit more like an open ended MMORPG for one =)
Troika tried this with their Arcanum title. AFAIK its sales were a bit disapointing. I personally enjoyed it but it was perhaps a bit TOO open ended in that it was easy to lose track of the main thrust of the storyline. That and the automap sucked completely.
They do have experience with strategy games, check out their Magic and Mayhem series. I bought and thoroughly enjoyed both titles. Of course my personal favorite would have been the guys over at Nival Interactive. They have done such an awsome job with their spiritual sucessor to X-Com, Silent Storm that I would have loved a Fallout game from them.
There were enough problems with SP2 RC2 that they are going for another test release. Whether that will be called RC3 or just RC2 with a different build number was unknown as of late last week. I personally am of two minds, one the one hand I want to see them do it right since there won't be another SP for quite some time if at all, on the other hand it would be REALLY nice if this were out in time for the college rush so that it could be made a requirement of getting on the network.
No one I've personally shown it to. Of course by the time I tell people to use an alternative browser it's generally because they have had such a horrible experience with IE related malware that it really is the best solution for them. The only reason I can think to switch back is broken sites that claim to be IE only, most would render fine if they just got rid of the stupid browser detection Javascript. Luckily the percentage of sites that are like that are incredibly low and for the most part run by morons who don't deserve my time or money.
We used to use pellet guns. A bunch of crazy kids running around in winter coats in the middle of summer with weapons tends to draw all sorts of unwanted attention from the local constibulary for some odd reason =)
s/currently/ever. IE has ALWAYS been a horribly insecure browser. It's inherint in its design and design goals. MS WANTED to tie web apps to their platform so by definition it was going to intertwine native code and remote inherintly untrustable sources.
re-read my entire comment, I admitted that they may now be making a small profit per transaction and that they probably make something on volume. However I don't think they are making that much and most of the profits are probably going back into the product at this point, whether that is into more servers or bandwidth or advertising. The fact is that Apple's entire portion of the sales was only $35 million for 14 months, for a company with tens of billions in the bank that's chump change. What Apple gets most of all out of iTMS is that their brand is once again in the forefront of peoples minds, and THAT is very valuable to them, so they would run iTMS even if it cost them some money at this point, just like the trailer site (which also goes to promote Quicktime and thus encourage people to buy producer licenses for QT).
Probably. It was obviously an unchecked buffer condition, and it was sometimes crashing the local register, and on at least three occasions it crashed the backend database server so there must have been some path that wasn't checked locally where the data was sent to the backend system. Of course coming up with a barcode long enough to do something meaningfull would have been very difficult since there are so few characters to deal with (and the scanning hardware probably has a limited buffer size).
I worked for a small grocery store chain that had a new NCR system installed when they remodeled the location I was working at. Well unfortunatly soon after it was installed we had mysterious lockups and system wide crashes. We of course got the NCR guys in to look at it, and after about a week they realized that the cause was 13-digit bar codes! Some percentage of our stock came from oversees and their labeling machinery printed out 13-digit codes even if it was US bound stock. So even though it was a brand new system from a global producer the stupid code couldn't handle the 13-digit codes because of some stupid assumption by a code monkey. They released a patch and after that we had almost zero problems but I'll tell you cashiers get really, really prissy when their registers lock up several times per shift.
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Well I built a form based Pocket Access app for my dads business that uses bluetooth to fax the form to their order entry person, the alternative was custom apps written for Palm OS that used the expensive Palm wireless service and a proprietary service with yet another monthly cost. The other thing the app does is weekly download an updated product database through GPRS.
Those taxes are generally based on the physical location of your main work site or business office if you travel more than 50% for work. If you are telecommuting then there is no way that you would pay income tax to any locality other than where you live.
Actually Black Hawk Down wasn't at all loosly based, it does a pretty damn good job of telling the story according to all survivors I've heard interviewed. I agree that the OP was a bit oversensitive but perhaps he has a close friend or relative in the military who was recently lost. It's not hard to imagine with ~1,000 dead and many times that injured due to our president "correcting" dady's mistake.
I know that, that's why I said DX8 LEVEL functions. Unfortunatly the ARB hasn't kept up so there is no standard subversion of OpenGL to define the same set of functionality. The programmable pixel shader was the big deal with the DX8 parts, obviously it was a LOT of work performing the stuff without the programmable shader since he essentially had to convert the programmable code down to packs of fixed function ops which could be run on the older T&L engines.
That's a change. Carmack origionally wanted to make the min the GF3Ti200, since that was the lowest card with the capabilities to run DX8 level shader functions. Wonder why he relented? Maybe a licensee didn't want to be so pigenholed for their own project? In fact I bought my GF3Ti200 specifically based on that since I needed a new card for NWN anyways (didn't support my old Voodoo3 V3000 and the Ti was the only DX8 card even close to $100 at the time). Of course now you can buy a card that will probably run Doom3 at 60fps with reasonable options for that same $100 =)
except it's Mac only. I love Firewire but for some reason people who produce Firewire products like to make them Mac only, excluding about 80% of the potential audience.(PC's are about 95% of the audience but quite a few don't have Firewire).
No, from what I read the virus has a crappy date detection routine and for some reason the "safe" environment they run tests in causes it to break. Of course when writing a virus you go for lean and mean rather than using the standard bloated OS interface so it's not a bug in the virus so long as it works correctly under a normal environment.
Uh, check the processor? Yeah there's a flag that is set when it's in debug mode. Of course the code to check the flag is easily recognized and JMP'd over so it doesn't take a genius to defeat it, wonder why it would have even slowed down the guys at an AV lab?
My guess is that it's not a factory installed OS image and that your IT department didn't bother to setup power management correctly for it. It's always the first thing I do with a new laptop because I personally don't want my laptop to sleep as soon as I close the cover. I generally setup power management to do nothing on close, sleep on power button, then setup auto sleep at 5 minutes and auto hibernate at 10 minutes when on battery and never when on AC. Btw, I'm not aware of any laptop that when functioning correctly does not hardware auto-kill the backlight when the screen is closed. If it's not doing that then it probably has a broken sensor in the lid catch.
So, flash ram is cheap. Compaq has been providing a secondary BIOS image on their servers for some time now, there's no real reason not to other than saving a couple pennies. HP has a special key combo on the Kayak line that will force a ROM loaded image to read a new BIOS image from floppy, and other manufacturers have their own way to recover a hosed machine. This isn't the bad old days of computers, most of the issues with a failed BIOS update have been solved so the worst that will happen is that some service depot's will get some extra waranty repair revenue (and yes installing a vendor supplie BIOS update should be covered under warant)
Wow, I guess the last time you used a laptop was under 9x. I have seen almost zero problems with power management features under win2k, and zero under XP. All of the 2k problems were with hardware that predated the OS and had it installed by an organization rather than the OEM.
Your post illustrates the problem in the framework that was created to address the problem. It depends on knowing which protocols are dangerous, which is impossible since any program can register a protocol handler. The root of the problem is the way Windows handles these protocols, but the way Mozilla dealt with that problem was, in hindsight, not the best solution. Let's learn from the mistake and move on, instead of pretending everything went perfectly.
That's why the Mozilla foundation had already decided that the next version of Mozilla and Firefox would default to whitelisting allowed protocols instead of the current blacklist framework. Unfortunatly this problem was discovered before that change was implemented.
Troll? Wow, posting correct information is now considered trolling. I really hope someone nails that idiot in metamod.
More like 2 years . The origional bug relating to handing off unhandled URI's to the OS goes back that far. It kept getting marked as "will not fix" because it was a stupid architectural decision that some of the guys at Netscape made. The decision was made recently to switch from a blacklist system to a whitelist system. This happened to coincide with lots of people switching to FireFox for security reasons and all of the sudden there was a patch to change the default behavior.
The fact that it's classles. The fact that you can do more than just specialize in fighting or magic using classes, etc. It's been quite some time since I played Arcanum but I really remember it as being quite different from most 'classic' RPG's and a bit more like an open ended MMORPG for one =)
Well since the Mozilla URI exploit was specific to XP I would imagine that these exploits would likewise be limited to a vulnerable OS.
Troika tried this with their Arcanum title. AFAIK its sales were a bit disapointing. I personally enjoyed it but it was perhaps a bit TOO open ended in that it was easy to lose track of the main thrust of the storyline. That and the automap sucked completely.
They do have experience with strategy games, check out their Magic and Mayhem series. I bought and thoroughly enjoyed both titles. Of course my personal favorite would have been the guys over at Nival Interactive. They have done such an awsome job with their spiritual sucessor to X-Com, Silent Storm that I would have loved a Fallout game from them.
There were enough problems with SP2 RC2 that they are going for another test release. Whether that will be called RC3 or just RC2 with a different build number was unknown as of late last week. I personally am of two minds, one the one hand I want to see them do it right since there won't be another SP for quite some time if at all, on the other hand it would be REALLY nice if this were out in time for the college rush so that it could be made a requirement of getting on the network.
No one I've personally shown it to. Of course by the time I tell people to use an alternative browser it's generally because they have had such a horrible experience with IE related malware that it really is the best solution for them. The only reason I can think to switch back is broken sites that claim to be IE only, most would render fine if they just got rid of the stupid browser detection Javascript. Luckily the percentage of sites that are like that are incredibly low and for the most part run by morons who don't deserve my time or money.
We used to use pellet guns. A bunch of crazy kids running around in winter coats in the middle of summer with weapons tends to draw all sorts of unwanted attention from the local constibulary for some odd reason =)
s/currently/ever. IE has ALWAYS been a horribly insecure browser. It's inherint in its design and design goals. MS WANTED to tie web apps to their platform so by definition it was going to intertwine native code and remote inherintly untrustable sources.
re-read my entire comment, I admitted that they may now be making a small profit per transaction and that they probably make something on volume. However I don't think they are making that much and most of the profits are probably going back into the product at this point, whether that is into more servers or bandwidth or advertising. The fact is that Apple's entire portion of the sales was only $35 million for 14 months, for a company with tens of billions in the bank that's chump change. What Apple gets most of all out of iTMS is that their brand is once again in the forefront of peoples minds, and THAT is very valuable to them, so they would run iTMS even if it cost them some money at this point, just like the trailer site (which also goes to promote Quicktime and thus encourage people to buy producer licenses for QT).
Probably. It was obviously an unchecked buffer condition, and it was sometimes crashing the local register, and on at least three occasions it crashed the backend database server so there must have been some path that wasn't checked locally where the data was sent to the backend system. Of course coming up with a barcode long enough to do something meaningfull would have been very difficult since there are so few characters to deal with (and the scanning hardware probably has a limited buffer size).
I worked for a small grocery store chain that had a new NCR system installed when they remodeled the location I was working at. Well unfortunatly soon after it was installed we had mysterious lockups and system wide crashes. We of course got the NCR guys in to look at it, and after about a week they realized that the cause was 13-digit bar codes! Some percentage of our stock came from oversees and their labeling machinery printed out 13-digit codes even if it was US bound stock. So even though it was a brand new system from a global producer the stupid code couldn't handle the 13-digit codes because of some stupid assumption by a code monkey. They released a patch and after that we had almost zero problems but I'll tell you cashiers get really, really prissy when their registers lock up several times per shift.