I don't know that I would call it a "cure". You can hardly call fear a disease, sickness, or even a problem. It's usually a healthy reaction to a dangerous situation.
The problem with dialup is that many (most) applications nowadays are built for broadband. You have to monitor your connections all the time or you will end up downloading a 20MB adobe update while trying to read your email via 28.8 connection.
If you just need simple email access (gmail or any pop/imap client) then dialup is fine. My wife and I even share a dialup connection via wireless sometimes. It's not too difficult as long as you watch your attachments.
It's all the poorly written applications out there that assume EVERYONE has unlimited bandwidth and they can 'phone-home' all the time that make dilaup suck so bad. Even Windows has to talk to our Active Directory servers periodically even though I am logged into the local machine, what's up with that?
With Windows downloading patches, antivirus updating, Flash, Adobe, Realplayer, Quicktime and Java all updating at the same time even a T1 would have trouble (well, it would be a lot of traffic anyway).
Doesn't anyone remember the days of installing DOS BEFORE installing Windows? I am fairly certain that Windows is still just a bloated application bundled on top of and embedded into an old out of date DOS version that has been patched and patched over the last 20 years. Isn't that what they tried to do with IE? Didn't they try to convince us that it was part of the OS? Nobody talks about X being an OS... It's the same situation.
By the time the Internet grew out of its DOD and university stage it was far too large and complex for any corporation to fully get a hold of and regulate/sensor it. I don't see any problem in something like this happening again today. Corporate/university contracts might slow it down a little but I think it could happen again.
There is a point (and anyone who has ever done ANYTHING wrong knows that point) where you know when you are doing something wrong.
Come on, how hard is it to walk into a candy store and leave with a candybar without paying for it. The point is, you know you did something wrong. You can blame your parents for your upbringing but you know who is at fault.
I am not saying that the bank executive who keeps account numbers on a laptop in a standrad spreadsheet isn't to blame when that laptop is stolen and the accounts are drained. Sure, he has to carry some of the blame. But the person who stole the laptop is really the criminal here.
Blame isn't given out in black and white, it is shared. Breaking the law however, is black and white. You are either guilty or innocent. When you knowingly pass that point, you are guilty and must accept at least part of the blame no matter how easy it was to commit the crime.
There will always be more than one person to blame for everything. He is right in placing blame on the hackers but there is obvisouly more responsibilty involved in computer security. The "blame" is truly shared by all parties involved.
We discovered this works for your phone line too when dealing with sales calls. We did the cell phone thing for a while then had to get dialup (moved the the country) so we got the land line back. We were able to get the same number since it was only a few months. We noticed a huge decrease in the annoying sales calls as a result.
Uh, re-read the headline... ""Apple has published a discussion of Spotlight, the radical systemwide search technology that will be part of Mac OS X 10.4"".
I think that is saying that Spotlight is actually radical, not that using metadata is radical. Hate to be picky but that is twisting someones words.
I remember owning a 3 cylinder Chevy Sprint back in the early 90s. I am sure it made 40 MPG and it wasn't even a hybrid! Sure, it wouldn't do more than 65 going downhill with the wind in its back but it was fine for around town...
Why has the auto industry buried this type of research? I am sure with 10 years of advancements the smaller engines could perform as well if not better than some hybrids. I am all for the new technology but why not continue to use conventional engines just make them more efficient and/or smaller. I remember a discussion on cartalk a while back on how the HP-to-weight ratio of cars has changed so much it is scary. Why do they continue to develop these unnecessary powerful engines for average city driving. It is not only killing more and more teenagers every year but continues our dependence on foreign oil. Unless we change our attitude towards automobiles, this trend will always be there.
It isn't just the SUV owners that need a reality check. It's the Mustang owners too. Anyone who drives a car for more than essential needs should reconsider what vehicle they buy.
Any driver can affect how your hardware/BIOS works, not just Windows drivers. This how "plug and play" works.
I have worked on a number of Windows machines that will not connect to the network in DOS (for imaging purposes) unless you power them off before booting to DOS. Windows drivers can/will affect your hardware/BIOS.
I have no doubt that in your case this wasn't the problem but the fact remains that Windows drivers can affect your hardware/BIOS.
I remember from my phone-tech days at GW2K (the old Gateway) that with Windows95 rebooting the machine 3 times in a row was a valid trouble shooting method.
Also, powering off and back on vs. rebooting can make a huge difference depending on what you are troubleshooting...
The internet is too saturated with greed to allow any kind of distibuted application viable on the internet.
As soon as any type of app becomes widely used enough to make it worth while it is either bought up and ruined by any number of corporations or sued and shutdown for some kind of obscure copyright violation in order to allow for a bigger and better solution from the copyright holder which will inturn be so ridden with spyware that it will never get used.
Why on earth would the military need a robotic assistant on the battlefield? Especially one who responds to the moods of the 'master'?
"I am sorry sir, I can't allow you to arm that grenade due to the anger you hold from your recent divorce..."
I think they should reveal the real reason for the research instead of using the military in order to gain funding from some grant or federal cash flow.
First there are a few concets that you need to understand.
1. Computer games are just that, 'computer' - 'games'. They are run on computers and deveolped on computers. That means they are all based on binary mathematics at some point. Which means things are right or wrong, complete or incomplete, black or white. There is no maybe, no 'kinda' and no almost. Even with the most massive computer systems powering advanced AI software it still comes down to a one or a zero.
2. All computer games are run on computers. And just like any other machine made up of that many parts they are prone to failures. At some point in time either your machine, their machine or a machine in between both macihines will fail. It is a fact of life.
3. Any game, action, or performance that requires the interaction of more than two individuals in the same location (virtual or in person) is bound to bring out the worst in them. It is an iherent flaw in human design that requires them to show off and attempt to be better than everyine else, at all costs.
If you understand all of these concepts and can deal with them accordingly, you can easily excel and enjoy any computer game, even the dreaded and most loathed, Everquest.
If you can't understand and deal with all of these comcepts please stick to games like tetris, pacman and donkey kong. If you feel you must participate in any modern games such as Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot and Warcaft, please refrain from any commentary. Just quietly stop playing the game and leave them for the rest of us to enjoy.
I think all the people who despise Everquest are people who mainly play games that have that large blinking "GAME OVER" screen at the end.
I understand that there is no 'end' to the game (it is called Everquest now, isn't it?).
I don't plan on ever 'finishing' the game. I play because I enjoy the interaction. I have been playing for 3 years and never once have I 'needed' to speak with a GM.
I can think of one time when my server crashed that I sat in a chat room waiting for my character to be reset.
Everquest is a game, just like any other game. If you don't enjoy playing, don't play.
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
Everquest didn't become a cultural phenomenon by being a boring, repetitive game. Any game has a certain repetitive nature to it. The trick is to bury it into content and make it interesting. Everquest has done that in my opinion.
If you have been playing so long to ignore that content and only pay attention to the repetition, that is no ones fault but your own.
That doesn't make it a bad game, it makes you a bad player.
--wal (many characters at many levels, on many servers)
Maybe the theaters should just start kicking people out? If they don't read signs stating the rules then escort them out of the theater. I think a law is going a little too far.
Cell phones while driving is one thing (affecting the safety of others), interupting a movie/performance is another.
I really doubt Sony/Verant think that they are coming up with anything new as far as gaming concepts here. They are just trying to make things prettier and more enjoyable than text based MUDs.
I am active on EQ and a text based MUD currently and I enjoy both types of fantasy games.
Anyone who thinks that Sony/Verant is trying to introduce new concepts is looking at it all wrong.
Anyone who has played computer games long enough knows that the concepts will always be the same: to emulate a fantasy world on a computer.
It is the delivery that will always provide the thrill factor and keep people paying (addicted). When Star Wars Galaxies is released, it won't be new concepts that people are looking for, it will be people wanting to act out life as a jedi/dark-jedi.
Sony will debut Shadows of Luclin on the 4th. It should be a nice upgrade. I am not thrilled about the 256MB RAM requirement (512 recommended) but I can't wait for the new graphics.
I am sure most EQ addicts will run out and buy it as soon as they can so it might not make the best gift. How about those memory and video card upgrades. They make nice gifts too.
I would like a decent Episode II trailer, not this flashy, vague stuff they call a teaser. Release is only 6 months away, we all know they have better footage. Give us a peak!
And why did other companies start making less expensive wireless base stations? Because everyone was buying Apple base stations...
Apple has been putting out an affordable wireless product for much longer than Linksys.
The original product may have had its bugs but I have ben using one for over a year now and that was just not possible with a PC (without a lot of moolah).
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No-Script does a great job solving this problem.
I don't know that I would call it a "cure". You can hardly call fear a disease, sickness, or even a problem. It's usually a healthy reaction to a dangerous situation.
Let's hope our terraformers aren't as curious as the ones on LV-246 or we might have to send the colonial marines to rescue them.
"Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen..."
What the heck is a physicist doing studying eBay?
The problem with dialup is that many (most) applications nowadays are built for broadband. You have to monitor your connections all the time or you will end up downloading a 20MB adobe update while trying to read your email via 28.8 connection.
If you just need simple email access (gmail or any pop/imap client) then dialup is fine. My wife and I even share a dialup connection via wireless sometimes. It's not too difficult as long as you watch your attachments.
It's all the poorly written applications out there that assume EVERYONE has unlimited bandwidth and they can 'phone-home' all the time that make dilaup suck so bad. Even Windows has to talk to our Active Directory servers periodically even though I am logged into the local machine, what's up with that?
With Windows downloading patches, antivirus updating, Flash, Adobe, Realplayer, Quicktime and Java all updating at the same time even a T1 would have trouble (well, it would be a lot of traffic anyway).
Uh, I don't think this Dell technician spoke English as their native tongue.
http://www.jigglethecable.org/node/139
Doesn't anyone remember the days of installing DOS BEFORE installing Windows? I am fairly certain that Windows is still just a bloated application bundled on top of and embedded into an old out of date DOS version that has been patched and patched over the last 20 years. Isn't that what they tried to do with IE? Didn't they try to convince us that it was part of the OS? Nobody talks about X being an OS... It's the same situation.
By the time the Internet grew out of its DOD and university stage it was far too large and complex for any corporation to fully get a hold of and regulate/sensor it. I don't see any problem in something like this happening again today. Corporate/university contracts might slow it down a little but I think it could happen again.
There is a point (and anyone who has ever done ANYTHING wrong knows that point) where you know when you are doing something wrong.
Come on, how hard is it to walk into a candy store and leave with a candybar without paying for it. The point is, you know you did something wrong. You can blame your parents for your upbringing but you know who is at fault.
I am not saying that the bank executive who keeps account numbers on a laptop in a standrad spreadsheet isn't to blame when that laptop is stolen and the accounts are drained. Sure, he has to carry some of the blame. But the person who stole the laptop is really the criminal here.
Blame isn't given out in black and white, it is shared. Breaking the law however, is black and white. You are either guilty or innocent. When you knowingly pass that point, you are guilty and must accept at least part of the blame no matter how easy it was to commit the crime.
There will always be more than one person to blame for everything. He is right in placing blame on the hackers but there is obvisouly more responsibilty involved in computer security. The "blame" is truly shared by all parties involved.
Finally we can get a good comparison of Windows vs. OSX on the same hardware... This will be good.
We discovered this works for your phone line too when dealing with sales calls. We did the cell phone thing for a while then had to get dialup (moved the the country) so we got the land line back. We were able to get the same number since it was only a few months. We noticed a huge decrease in the annoying sales calls as a result.
--Bill
Uh, re-read the headline... ""Apple has published a discussion of Spotlight, the radical systemwide search technology that will be part of Mac OS X 10.4"".
I think that is saying that Spotlight is actually radical, not that using metadata is radical. Hate to be picky but that is twisting someones words.
--Bill
Isn't this what terminal/shell accounts were all about?
I remember owning a 3 cylinder Chevy Sprint back in the early 90s. I am sure it made 40 MPG and it wasn't even a hybrid! Sure, it wouldn't do more than 65 going downhill with the wind in its back but it was fine for around town...
Why has the auto industry buried this type of research? I am sure with 10 years of advancements the smaller engines could perform as well if not better than some hybrids. I am all for the new technology but why not continue to use conventional engines just make them more efficient and/or smaller. I remember a discussion on cartalk a while back on how the HP-to-weight ratio of cars has changed so much it is scary. Why do they continue to develop these unnecessary powerful engines for average city driving. It is not only killing more and more teenagers every year but continues our dependence on foreign oil. Unless we change our attitude towards automobiles, this trend will always be there.
It isn't just the SUV owners that need a reality check. It's the Mustang owners too. Anyone who drives a car for more than essential needs should reconsider what vehicle they buy.
--Bill
Any driver can affect how your hardware/BIOS works, not just Windows drivers. This how "plug and play" works.
I have worked on a number of Windows machines that will not connect to the network in DOS (for imaging purposes) unless you power them off before booting to DOS. Windows drivers can/will affect your hardware/BIOS.
I have no doubt that in your case this wasn't the problem but the fact remains that Windows drivers can affect your hardware/BIOS.
FWIW
I remember from my phone-tech days at GW2K (the old Gateway) that with Windows95 rebooting the machine 3 times in a row was a valid trouble shooting method.
Also, powering off and back on vs. rebooting can make a huge difference depending on what you are troubleshooting...
FWIW
The internet is too saturated with greed to allow any kind of distibuted application viable on the internet.
As soon as any type of app becomes widely used enough to make it worth while it is either bought up and ruined by any number of corporations or sued and shutdown for some kind of obscure copyright violation in order to allow for a bigger and better solution from the copyright holder which will inturn be so ridden with spyware that it will never get used.
Not that I am a pessimist or anything...
Why on earth would the military need a robotic assistant on the battlefield? Especially one who responds to the moods of the 'master'?
"I am sorry sir, I can't allow you to arm that grenade due to the anger you hold from your recent divorce..."
I think they should reveal the real reason for the research instead of using the military in order to gain funding from some grant or federal cash flow.
--wal
First there are a few concets that you need to understand.
1. Computer games are just that, 'computer' - 'games'. They are run on computers and deveolped on computers. That means they are all based on binary mathematics at some point. Which means things are right or wrong, complete or incomplete, black or white. There is no maybe, no 'kinda' and no almost. Even with the most massive computer systems powering advanced AI software it still comes down to a one or a zero.
2. All computer games are run on computers. And just like any other machine made up of that many parts they are prone to failures. At some point in time either your machine, their machine or a machine in between both macihines will fail. It is a fact of life.
3. Any game, action, or performance that requires the interaction of more than two individuals in the same location (virtual or in person) is bound to bring out the worst in them. It is an iherent flaw in human design that requires them to show off and attempt to be better than everyine else, at all costs.
If you understand all of these concepts and can deal with them accordingly, you can easily excel and enjoy any computer game, even the dreaded and most loathed, Everquest.
If you can't understand and deal with all of these comcepts please stick to games like tetris, pacman and donkey kong. If you feel you must participate in any modern games such as Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot and Warcaft, please refrain from any commentary. Just quietly stop playing the game and leave them for the rest of us to enjoy.
I think all the people who despise Everquest are people who mainly play games that have that large blinking "GAME OVER" screen at the end.
I understand that there is no 'end' to the game (it is called Everquest now, isn't it?).
I don't plan on ever 'finishing' the game. I play because I enjoy the interaction. I have been playing for 3 years and never once have I 'needed' to speak with a GM.
I can think of one time when my server crashed that I sat in a chat room waiting for my character to be reset.
Everquest is a game, just like any other game. If you don't enjoy playing, don't play.
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
Everquest didn't become a cultural phenomenon by being a boring, repetitive game. Any game has a certain repetitive nature to it. The trick is to bury it into content and make it interesting. Everquest has done that in my opinion.
If you have been playing so long to ignore that content and only pay attention to the repetition, that is no ones fault but your own.
That doesn't make it a bad game, it makes you a bad player.
--wal (many characters at many levels, on many servers)
Maybe the theaters should just start kicking people out? If they don't read signs stating the rules then escort them out of the theater. I think a law is going a little too far.
Cell phones while driving is one thing (affecting the safety of others), interupting a movie/performance is another.
I really doubt Sony/Verant think that they are coming up with anything new as far as gaming concepts here. They are just trying to make things prettier and more enjoyable than text based MUDs.
I am active on EQ and a text based MUD currently and I enjoy both types of fantasy games.
Anyone who thinks that Sony/Verant is trying to introduce new concepts is looking at it all wrong.
Anyone who has played computer games long enough knows that the concepts will always be the same: to emulate a fantasy world on a computer.
It is the delivery that will always provide the thrill factor and keep people paying (addicted). When Star Wars Galaxies is released, it won't be new concepts that people are looking for, it will be people wanting to act out life as a jedi/dark-jedi.
--wal
Sony will debut Shadows of Luclin on the 4th. It should be a nice upgrade. I am not thrilled about the 256MB RAM requirement (512 recommended) but I can't wait for the new graphics.
I am sure most EQ addicts will run out and buy it as soon as they can so it might not make the best gift. How about those memory and video card upgrades. They make nice gifts too.
I would like a decent Episode II trailer, not this flashy, vague stuff they call a teaser. Release is only 6 months away, we all know they have better footage. Give us a peak!
And why did other companies start making less expensive wireless base stations? Because everyone was buying Apple base stations...
Apple has been putting out an affordable wireless product for much longer than Linksys.
The original product may have had its bugs but I have ben using one for over a year now and that was just not possible with a PC (without a lot of moolah).