A couple three years ago I got *really addicted* to Black & White and its expansion pack (I spent 42 hours on the last level alone). As I would commute to work I had a similiar experience; driving past the pastures and fields that connect my shitty town to the less shitty town down the way, I disassociated for a moment (if thats the correct term --? I think it is...) and for a split second I thought I was playing black and white, I saw the landscape as something I could manipulate with my godly powers, then I nearly hit the black BMW in front of me and it was back to reality:)
Toms is scum:) They offered me a "job" writing articles for their site. The offer was, *NO* pay, I couldn't keep any goodies, *AND* they couldn't ship the stuff to me, I had to pick it up.
I was wondering the same thing. The general rule is that 1 meter of cat5 and AC cable laying next to each other, will cancel out the cat5 signal completley (I've never tried it honestly, but that's what I was taught).
Of course you could transmit DC, but you have to double the power every 50 feet over copper IIRC?
As a university SysAdmin, we had a couple computers with ATI "all in wonder" cards. Students needed to be able to do video capture for their research. Long story short, in 98 the ATI drivers crashed the machine non-stop. The Win2k drivers were a little better -- but every 2 months or so, the drivers would just *quit*. The machine wouldn't capture. The first time it happened, I furiously worked on the machine, reinstalled drivers, manually deleted them and their reg keys, did a PNP reset... NOTHING did any good. The only thing that fixed the card was reinstalling the OS! *and THAT* only lasted another 2 months until the drivers gave up again! It got to the point where the students would walk up to me and say "It happened again", and after that, they stopped even bothering me, and they just reinstalled 2k themselves!
Would you like to start a ATI hate group together ?
Please! +4 Insightful? You're a troll or an idiot. The S. Korean government isn't supporting them to be nice, Lets try the real world breakdown:
1. Hynix sells below Micron for X years
2. Hynix bankrupts Micron.
3. Hynix captures large portion of DRAM market.
4. Hynix doubles prices and recoups lost money AND makes a bank because there is no competition.
C is not a language for the timid:) Case in point: A really interesting hole in the C/C++ spec
that nails programmers is the interaction between side effects and sequence points. Which, long story short leaves statements such as: Fx(y++, z=y), undefined. The compiler only guarantees that side effects will have been completed at the next sequence point, the compiler could choose to evaluate the operators in either order and be in complete compliance.
Win2k will not format a FAT32 over 32 gigs under *any* circumstance. Quite annoying. There are legit uses for FAT32 that large. (my car mp3 player being one)
dude, is your website some kind of sick joke or is it the funniest thing Ive ever seen ?
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Oh and I forgot to add, that, theres an endless supply of 18 - 25 year olds. So when your current crop gets fed up with your abuse, leaves, quits or gets married, you hire new ones.
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Managers look at ages 18 - 25 as people they can abuse. They are inexperienced so they won't stand up for themselves, and usually aren't married so they can work them 60 hours a week for low pay.
My good man! you have discovered a classic junk science trick -- playing the odds. For items of very low incidence, you can obtain great accuracy raiting by simply sticking with the most common answer. Polygraphs for instance, about.01% of people who take polygraphs are "deceptive" (most people take them as part of background checks, employment, etc). So polygraph operators could get a 99.99% accuracy raiting by simply saying *everyone* was telling the truth. In reality polyographers aren't even smart enough to do that -- as polygraphs have a 20% false acusal rate:) Junk science man to the rescue!!
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You are grossly misinformed. MP3 and most other audio compression formats perform FFT's and throw away coefficents of the FFT that are least noticeable (thats a gross simplification).
There *are* lossless codecs like FLAC and SHN, but they generally achieve between 10 - 30% compression.
Well, I am not an *expert*, but I know my stuff pretty well... I have all the certs and the degrees, and was a sysadmin at a major university for 2.5 years (and I dealt with this kind of shit every day).
If you're really interested -- here's my config. I have a linksys firewall/router (befsx41) which I use connecting to an internal lan. When I wanted to DCC, the linksys box has an option called "DMZ" which will allow you to put one computer infront of the firewall.
In addition to the hardware firewall, my computer has a kerio personal firewall and is set to only allow share access to my internal lan (192.168.1.*). I have only the default administrative share "C$" and non-obvious passwords on default accounts.
In addition to these, I have norton installed, Ad-aware running ad-watch, and am running Win2k + SP3 + every update that was avaliable up to yesterday (but not the newt one that was issued today).
So what happens is, I leave the linksys firewall open for a day or two (almost always forget to turn it off). I wake up in the morning and norton has 100 warnins up about viruses just having appeared on my machine (keep in mind there was no one there to run programs or do something stupid). The last time it happened it tried to drop these trojavns/virues "W32.HLLW.Nebiwo", "Backdoor.IRC.Flood.E", "W32.HLW.LOVGATE.G@MM", "W32.Pinfi".
If I reset the machine, the problecm goes away and a virus scan reveals nothing! The first couple times it happened, I reinstalled my machine and I always had the same problem after being on IRC for a couple days.
Another interesting thing -- the worm couldn't/didn't infect any of the machines on my lan, except a virtual (vmware) machine running under Linux. If the VMWARE machine was patched then the machine would just be infected, if the VMWARE machine was unpatched (I have several of them for testing) it actually crashed the linux machine and caused a reboot.
Anyways, there could be some vulnerability on my box I'm not aware of, but its not something dead to rights obvious. I am very open to alternate explinations. I suppose it doesn't have to be IRC either, someone could be randomly probing my subnet. But just the same the room is #rareroms I have the problem with, and my nick is __odie. My solution was pretty simple, use port forwarding so I didnt have to turn the firewall off.
And! Thanks for being polite instead of telling me i'm an idiot like the other folks who replied:)
There are ALOT of worms out there that there are no patches for. Everytime I go on IRC (zeerofuzion.net in particular) and I turn off my firewall I end up with a worm. Norton catches the worm dropping viruses/trojans, but obvsiously is unable to catch the worm itself. I am *fully* patched running win2k.
Its really about income level... the poor are more likely to commit violent/drug crimes, and the better to do are much more likely to commit financial crimes (fraud, imbezzlement etc).
I would actually say that the level of criminality of the well to do is MUCH higher, but their damage isn't as noticeable--usually. However, think about Enron, Adelphia, Martha Stewart...
I don't think settlements have any value as far as precedent goes.
IANAL, but they do...
You sure aren't a lawyer. Settlements have no precedent setting abilities whatsoever. If they did, I could sue my brother claiming I'm the king of town, have him settle out of court in my favor, then I would be the king of town?
Of course not. The only thing this proves is that bonzai's position was either indefensable, they were too poor to defend themeselves (very likely), or they simply weren't interested in defending themselves (easiesr to switch to a new banner ad -- most likely scenario).
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I'll tell you what I'm thinking, 1.6 Billion dollars, and they need the ad revenue from putting ads at the bottom of my yahoo e-mail account?
A couple three years ago I got *really addicted* to Black & White and its expansion pack (I spent 42 hours on the last level alone). As I would commute to work I had a similiar experience; driving past the pastures and fields that connect my shitty town to the less shitty town down the way, I disassociated for a moment (if thats the correct term --? I think it is...) and for a split second I thought I was playing black and white, I saw the landscape as something I could manipulate with my godly powers, then I nearly hit the black BMW in front of me and it was back to reality :)
I've seen that question in a very old algorithims book called "programming pearls" (pearls as in pearls of wisdom).
Toms is scum :) They offered me a "job" writing articles for their site. The offer was, *NO* pay, I couldn't keep any goodies, *AND* they couldn't ship the stuff to me, I had to pick it up.
Of course you could transmit DC, but you have to double the power every 50 feet over copper IIRC?
Would you like to start a ATI hate group together ?
I have the complete mame split-set and it is well over 8 GB. about 3GB of this is CHD files
1. Hynix sells below Micron for X years
2. Hynix bankrupts Micron.
3. Hynix captures large portion of DRAM market.
4. Hynix doubles prices and recoups lost money AND makes a bank because there is no competition.
5. Everyone suffers
C is not a language for the timid :) Case in point: A really interesting hole in the C/C++ spec
that nails programmers is the interaction between side effects and sequence points. Which, long story short leaves statements such as: Fx(y++, z=y), undefined. The compiler only guarantees that side effects will have been completed at the next sequence point, the compiler could choose to evaluate the operators in either order and be in complete compliance.
Win2k will not format a FAT32 over 32 gigs under *any* circumstance. Quite annoying. There are legit uses for FAT32 that large. (my car mp3 player being one)
I think it's time to put the fear of god in them. Does anyone else feel it's time for some street justice here?
dude, is your website some kind of sick joke or is it the funniest thing Ive ever seen ?
Oh and I forgot to add, that, theres an endless supply of 18 - 25 year olds. So when your current crop gets fed up with your abuse, leaves, quits or gets married, you hire new ones.
Managers look at ages 18 - 25 as people they can abuse. They are inexperienced so they won't stand up for themselves, and usually aren't married so they can work them 60 hours a week for low pay.
My good man! you have discovered a classic junk science trick -- playing the odds. For items of very low incidence, you can obtain great accuracy raiting by simply sticking with the most common answer. Polygraphs for instance, about .01% of people who take polygraphs are "deceptive" (most people take them as part of background checks, employment, etc). So polygraph operators could get a 99.99% accuracy raiting by simply saying *everyone* was telling the truth. In reality polyographers aren't even smart enough to do that -- as polygraphs have a 20% false acusal rate :) Junk science man to the rescue!!
Thanks for the correction. Mind explaining how a DCT differs from an FFT (if they even are similiar)?
Rule #1 is don't talk about rule #1.
There *are* lossless codecs like FLAC and SHN, but they generally achieve between 10 - 30% compression.
I dont think it is -- although I am using mirc -- because I can still use mirc WITH the firewall and get no infections. but tis a good idea.
If you're really interested -- here's my config. I have a linksys firewall/router (befsx41) which I use connecting to an internal lan. When I wanted to DCC, the linksys box has an option called "DMZ" which will allow you to put one computer infront of the firewall.
In addition to the hardware firewall, my computer has a kerio personal firewall and is set to only allow share access to my internal lan (192.168.1.*). I have only the default administrative share "C$" and non-obvious passwords on default accounts.
In addition to these, I have norton installed, Ad-aware running ad-watch, and am running Win2k + SP3 + every update that was avaliable up to yesterday (but not the newt one that was issued today).
So what happens is, I leave the linksys firewall open for a day or two (almost always forget to turn it off). I wake up in the morning and norton has 100 warnins up about viruses just having appeared on my machine (keep in mind there was no one there to run programs or do something stupid). The last time it happened it tried to drop these trojavns/virues "W32.HLLW.Nebiwo", "Backdoor.IRC.Flood.E", "W32.HLW.LOVGATE.G@MM", "W32.Pinfi".
If I reset the machine, the problecm goes away and a virus scan reveals nothing! The first couple times it happened, I reinstalled my machine and I always had the same problem after being on IRC for a couple days.
Another interesting thing -- the worm couldn't/didn't infect any of the machines on my lan, except a virtual (vmware) machine running under Linux. If the VMWARE machine was patched then the machine would just be infected, if the VMWARE machine was unpatched (I have several of them for testing) it actually crashed the linux machine and caused a reboot.
Anyways, there could be some vulnerability on my box I'm not aware of, but its not something dead to rights obvious. I am very open to alternate explinations. I suppose it doesn't have to be IRC either, someone could be randomly probing my subnet. But just the same the room is #rareroms I have the problem with, and my nick is __odie. My solution was pretty simple, use port forwarding so I didnt have to turn the firewall off.
And! Thanks for being polite instead of telling me i'm an idiot like the other folks who replied :)
There are ALOT of worms out there that there are no patches for. Everytime I go on IRC (zeerofuzion.net in particular) and I turn off my firewall I end up with a worm. Norton catches the worm dropping viruses/trojans, but obvsiously is unable to catch the worm itself. I am *fully* patched running win2k.
I would actually say that the level of criminality of the well to do is MUCH higher, but their damage isn't as noticeable--usually. However, think about Enron, Adelphia, Martha Stewart ...
log(500), but it was a joke ... wasn't supposed to make too much sense
Except its a logarithmic progression, half a picture is worth 2.698 words.
IANAL, but they do...
You sure aren't a lawyer. Settlements have no precedent setting abilities whatsoever. If they did, I could sue my brother claiming I'm the king of town, have him settle out of court in my favor, then I would be the king of town?
Of course not. The only thing this proves is that bonzai's position was either indefensable, they were too poor to defend themeselves (very likely), or they simply weren't interested in defending themselves (easiesr to switch to a new banner ad -- most likely scenario).