My bro ran into this studing for his certs. The Microsoft books are organized in such a way that each book has some necessary and vital information and a ton of filler. So you're stuck buying them _all_ for a complete overview of Microsoft systems. Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft press. You're better off with brain dumps, but OHOT you run the risk of becomming a paper MCSE.
and people just didn't patch. What everyone hates about this kid so much is that he caught the IT world with it's pants down. And BTW, why the heck was an _airline_ running non-mission critical software connected to a public network anyway. Boy, that makes me feal real safe.
There's intent in criminal law you know, it's not like this kid is a terrorist. You're just bitter because he made a fool of the IT industry, of which you are probably part.
anyone know? I know with tivo2go you can make dvds and transfer video and what not, but are they doing annoying stuff like encoding macrovision on it and what not?
my piece keeps getting smaller. Really, it does. My raises at my current job aren't keeping place with inflation. Meanwhile, I'm more productive then ever without a coresponding increase in wealth (google for the phrase "productivity up real wages down"). That productivity is going somewhere you know. Some of it's the global market leveling out, but a _lot_ of it is getting into the hands to the rich. This isn't something to be surprised about. Throughout human history most of society's wealth was in the hands of a lucky few. What's surprising was the idea that the trend might reverse permanently after WWII. Welp, so much for that.
and everything to do with cheap and incompetent oursourcers. They cut training and compensation budgets to hide the initial cost of offshoring (or to just make more money), and the result is that calling telephone tech support is a disaster (a free disaster though). Right now telephone techs fall into two categories: those with a minimum call time and those without. The latter will do everything they can to punt you and the former will jerk you around as long as they can. Sure there are exceptions (I'm working for one now), but they're too few and far between.
anyone else having trouble with saa7134 based tuners (I've got a compro videomate tv/fm). My image is way off center (towards the top right). I'm currently us Dscaler in Windows because of it (great program, but Windows... ug). The weird thing is, dvds played from my PS2 are centered, but games are way off center (and some like Street Fighter Alpha 3 won't play in tvtime but will in xawtv, go figure). No luck on the v4l list yet (noone there's seen the the problem), so I'm wondering if I should try patching up my kernel. tia.
if you liked Flashback, the 2D game that it was a 3D version of (and amazing if you liked Fade to Black). If you came to it from the N64 the (for the time) expansive environments and freedom wouldn't impress you. But if you took it for what it was (a sequence of cleverly timed jumping and key puzzles with a little action in between) it was great. It's like people who play Vagrant Story or Land Stalker and complain about the block puzzles. You either like it or you don't, and if you do those are great games.
I won't appoligize for the sequels though, they were just more of the same, and after 2 there was no excuse.
the life out of good films. Look at Eps I-III. Is there any doubt that crap like Mitocloreans, virgin births and all that Democracy nonsense are there to appease nitwits who can't watch something without meaning? With focus groups, producers can get instant feedback on a film and tone it down to least common denominator with frightening ease, speed and consistancy. Name an American film from the 90's that you'd call 'timeless'. Something you'd stand up against Star Wars or ET or Indian Jones, let alone Citizen Kane. You can't, they've all been through the wringer. With few exceptions (The Incredibles and Lilo and Stich come to mind) they've all been compromised.
and if you haven't done a lot of CS you wouldn't recognize it. If a cust complains, you try to get them to play ball in a manner that's most profitable to you (i.e. Sony ATRAK). If that doesn't work, you want a fallback. As a whole companies don't care much about cust service and happy customers, but the individual departments who get scored and graded by customer surveys do, and so we get stuff like this.
More and more game shops are hiring normal people. Back'in my day, only the nerdiest of the nerdy were fit to hock games. Just look at 'em now. Straight teeth, good complexion, boobs (and not man-boobs either, real honest to God female breasts). I tell ya it's a crying shame.
Seriously though it is annoying. I had a friend get told that Wild Arms Altercode F was out and the store just didn't have any copies. He wasted a bunch of time trying to hunt down a copy before checking online and finding out it doesn't ship till later this year. 5 years ago that didn't happen.
you don't move so fast anymore, damn whippersnapper Jedi:). Seriously though, there is a reason for this. Luke was comparatively untrained, and the Emperor and Vader where so powerful by then they were beyond the need for light Sabers. You'll notice the Emperor didn't even have a saber by then, and Vader didn't draw his Saber to block blaster bolts. Luke overpowered Vader in Jedi not with skill, but with hate and the power of the Dark Side.
from what I read,.apps look a lot like a.tar.gz binary that the OS can run directly. How's the Mac handle shared libraries loaded into memory then? I guess it helps that Apple gets to dictate the core APIs and all (your windowing toolkit's loaded into the OS, I'd guess).
Sweet, didn't know there was a new KDE out:). Usually/. will post new about it. In 3.4.0 the middle tab bar at the top will overrun the other two between in, as well as overlap some of the text above it. It doesn't affect functionality, but it bugs me. I'll got download and install 3.4.1 now:)
I usually do the opposite. newegg renders badly in firefox by default unless I adjust font sizes, so I usually go to it in konq. Even more strange, neither of them can render circuitcity.com correctly, but netscape 7 can (but that's under Windows at my job, haven't tried it in linux), go figure.
I find myself going back to firefox because konq tends to pause a bit on some sites (especially flash and animated gif heavy sites) before rendering the page. To be truthful, the actual time I wait to get a page I can view is about the same, but that little pause bugs me:). It seems like konq wants to render the whole page in one go and firefox'll render pieces.
Well, they patented playing a game during those really frickin slow load times anyway:). Too lazy to dig it up right now, but someone linked to it in the last discusion over European software patents.
most don't, but it's taboo to even think that, let alone say it. The Gov't has an obligation to make sure you're raising useful members of society. You need to realize that your actions don't happen in a vacuum. Just about everything you do has some effect on society, and having a kid is a big one.
This whole "you're not gonna do my parenting" idea is one of the big problems with America. We've got millions of parents who are in no position finacially or emotionally to be parents, but by God they're not gonna let the gov'ment (sic) do it! This leaves their kids in a sick limbo where no one really wants to or can raise them. It's fucked up.
Now then, the easy solution to all this is forced sterialization for the poor/stupid. Not for Genetic engineering, but for social.
and not a soap opera. Near as I can tell I'm one of only two people who loved Nemesis (my Brother being the other). I miss pure, cheesy space opera, and Star Wars more or less failed me (Clone Wars TV and various Jedi Duels not withstanding). Oh well, there's always anime...
virus support is free form Microsoft. Just say you've got a virus and you're in que, no arguments. The cust serv reps aren't technical enough to call you on it even if you're lying. Now, the quality of the techs may be debatable...
just as soon as businesses start using it. Comparied to a C64/Amiga/AtariST using an 8086 was an ugly mess. Microsoft took off because people where too lazy/afraid to learn a slightly different UI. As businesses start using Linux for cost and the sake of their own software industry (especially as all those nasty copyright laws start getting enforced) you'll see more people with Linux at home. It doesn't matter how much Linux sucks for them. They're so scared of the home button being out of place they'll adapt to anything.
UT2K3 drove me nuts. The enemy bots didn't seem any better than the original UT (which is fine, they where excellent there), but your bots where dumb as bricks. In UT, I'd leave my whole compliment of bots to defend and be pretty sure I could at least get back in time to keep the flag from being taken. In 2k3, they're a bunch of babies or something, requiring constant attention, and can't make it to the bathroom without getting blown to hell, let alone to a flag...
Sorry, just venting. I loved the game until the later levels. I know the AI's great, but the balance on the bots could've been better. The AI was more than good enough to support it.
you're fighting terrorism! Don't take the chance that you're legitimately purchased DVDs are in fact funding terrorists. Get out there and seed one for Uncle Sam!
This may be a silly idea given the kinds of error correction already on a CD, buy what if you convert to lossless flac, split everything up with rar and add some par archives to the cd. Each par archive can recrete one missing rar archive, so if one gets hosed on the cd, it won't matter. I guess you could burn the data twice, but if both pieces get hosed in both locations you're done. What I don't know is if CDs and DVDs can go out in spots w/o affecting the rest of the data integrity. I'd expect them to, but you never know.
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My bro ran into this studing for his certs. The Microsoft books are organized in such a way that each book has some necessary and vital information and a ton of filler. So you're stuck buying them _all_ for a complete overview of Microsoft systems. Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft press. You're better off with brain dumps, but OHOT you run the risk of becomming a paper MCSE.
and people just didn't patch. What everyone hates about this kid so much is that he caught the IT world with it's pants down. And BTW, why the heck was an _airline_ running non-mission critical software connected to a public network anyway. Boy, that makes me feal real safe.
There's intent in criminal law you know, it's not like this kid is a terrorist. You're just bitter because he made a fool of the IT industry, of which you are probably part.
anyone know? I know with tivo2go you can make dvds and transfer video and what not, but are they doing annoying stuff like encoding macrovision on it and what not?
my piece keeps getting smaller. Really, it does. My raises at my current job aren't keeping place with inflation. Meanwhile, I'm more productive then ever without a coresponding increase in wealth (google for the phrase "productivity up real wages down"). That productivity is going somewhere you know. Some of it's the global market leveling out, but a _lot_ of it is getting into the hands to the rich. This isn't something to be surprised about. Throughout human history most of society's wealth was in the hands of a lucky few. What's surprising was the idea that the trend might reverse permanently after WWII. Welp, so much for that.
and everything to do with cheap and incompetent oursourcers. They cut training and compensation budgets to hide the initial cost of offshoring (or to just make more money), and the result is that calling telephone tech support is a disaster (a free disaster though). Right now telephone techs fall into two categories: those with a minimum call time and those without. The latter will do everything they can to punt you and the former will jerk you around as long as they can. Sure there are exceptions (I'm working for one now), but they're too few and far between.
I hear 2.6.11.12 compils on the Phantom!
anyone else having trouble with saa7134 based tuners (I've got a compro videomate tv/fm). My image is way off center (towards the top right). I'm currently us Dscaler in Windows because of it (great program, but Windows... ug). The weird thing is, dvds played from my PS2 are centered, but games are way off center (and some like Street Fighter Alpha 3 won't play in tvtime but will in xawtv, go figure). No luck on the v4l list yet (noone there's seen the the problem), so I'm wondering if I should try patching up my kernel. tia.
if you liked Flashback, the 2D game that it was a 3D version of (and amazing if you liked Fade to Black). If you came to it from the N64 the (for the time) expansive environments and freedom wouldn't impress you. But if you took it for what it was (a sequence of cleverly timed jumping and key puzzles with a little action in between) it was great. It's like people who play Vagrant Story or Land Stalker and complain about the block puzzles. You either like it or you don't, and if you do those are great games.
I won't appoligize for the sequels though, they were just more of the same, and after 2 there was no excuse.
the life out of good films. Look at Eps I-III. Is there any doubt that crap like Mitocloreans, virgin births and all that Democracy nonsense are there to appease nitwits who can't watch something without meaning? With focus groups, producers can get instant feedback on a film and tone it down to least common denominator with frightening ease, speed and consistancy. Name an American film from the 90's that you'd call 'timeless'. Something you'd stand up against Star Wars or ET or Indian Jones, let alone Citizen Kane. You can't, they've all been through the wringer. With few exceptions (The Incredibles and Lilo and Stich come to mind) they've all been compromised.
and if you haven't done a lot of CS you wouldn't recognize it. If a cust complains, you try to get them to play ball in a manner that's most profitable to you (i.e. Sony ATRAK). If that doesn't work, you want a fallback. As a whole companies don't care much about cust service and happy customers, but the individual departments who get scored and graded by customer surveys do, and so we get stuff like this.
More and more game shops are hiring normal people. Back'in my day, only the nerdiest of the nerdy were fit to hock games. Just look at 'em now. Straight teeth, good complexion, boobs (and not man-boobs either, real honest to God female breasts). I tell ya it's a crying shame.
Seriously though it is annoying. I had a friend get told that Wild Arms Altercode F was out and the store just didn't have any copies. He wasted a bunch of time trying to hunt down a copy before checking online and finding out it doesn't ship till later this year. 5 years ago that didn't happen.
you don't move so fast anymore, damn whippersnapper Jedi :). Seriously though, there is a reason for this. Luke was comparatively untrained, and the Emperor and Vader where so powerful by then they were beyond the need for light Sabers. You'll notice the Emperor didn't even have a saber by then, and Vader didn't draw his Saber to block blaster bolts. Luke overpowered Vader in Jedi not with skill, but with hate and the power of the Dark Side.
Ok, I'm done geeking out for the night.
from what I read, .apps look a lot like a .tar.gz binary that the OS can run directly. How's the Mac handle shared libraries loaded into memory then? I guess it helps that Apple gets to dictate the core APIs and all (your windowing toolkit's loaded into the OS, I'd guess).
Sweet, didn't know there was a new KDE out :). Usually /. will post new about it. In 3.4.0 the middle tab bar at the top will overrun the other two between in, as well as overlap some of the text above it. It doesn't affect functionality, but it bugs me. I'll got download and install 3.4.1 now :)
I usually do the opposite. newegg renders badly in firefox by default unless I adjust font sizes, so I usually go to it in konq. Even more strange, neither of them can render circuitcity.com correctly, but netscape 7 can (but that's under Windows at my job, haven't tried it in linux), go figure.
:). It seems like konq wants to render the whole page in one go and firefox'll render pieces.
I find myself going back to firefox because konq tends to pause a bit on some sites (especially flash and animated gif heavy sites) before rendering the page. To be truthful, the actual time I wait to get a page I can view is about the same, but that little pause bugs me
Well, they patented playing a game during those really frickin slow load times anyway :). Too lazy to dig it up right now, but someone linked to it in the last discusion over European software patents.
most don't, but it's taboo to even think that, let alone say it. The Gov't has an obligation to make sure you're raising useful members of society. You need to realize that your actions don't happen in a vacuum. Just about everything you do has some effect on society, and having a kid is a big one.
This whole "you're not gonna do my parenting" idea is one of the big problems with America. We've got millions of parents who are in no position finacially or emotionally to be parents, but by God they're not gonna let the gov'ment (sic) do it! This leaves their kids in a sick limbo where no one really wants to or can raise them. It's fucked up.
Now then, the easy solution to all this is forced sterialization for the poor/stupid. Not for Genetic engineering, but for social.
and not a soap opera. Near as I can tell I'm one of only two people who loved Nemesis (my Brother being the other). I miss pure, cheesy space opera, and Star Wars more or less failed me (Clone Wars TV and various Jedi Duels not withstanding). Oh well, there's always anime...
virus support is free form Microsoft. Just say you've got a virus and you're in que, no arguments. The cust serv reps aren't technical enough to call you on it even if you're lying. Now, the quality of the techs may be debatable...
just as soon as businesses start using it. Comparied to a C64/Amiga/AtariST using an 8086 was an ugly mess. Microsoft took off because people where too lazy/afraid to learn a slightly different UI. As businesses start using Linux for cost and the sake of their own software industry (especially as all those nasty copyright laws start getting enforced) you'll see more people with Linux at home. It doesn't matter how much Linux sucks for them. They're so scared of the home button being out of place they'll adapt to anything.
for hiring Imperial Stormtroopers. Just be glad you're not laying siege to a forest moon.
UT2K3 drove me nuts. The enemy bots didn't seem any better than the original UT (which is fine, they where excellent there), but your bots where dumb as bricks. In UT, I'd leave my whole compliment of bots to defend and be pretty sure I could at least get back in time to keep the flag from being taken. In 2k3, they're a bunch of babies or something, requiring constant attention, and can't make it to the bathroom without getting blown to hell, let alone to a flag...
Sorry, just venting. I loved the game until the later levels. I know the AI's great, but the balance on the bots could've been better. The AI was more than good enough to support it.
a quick ctrl-t or alt-pgup and you're safe.
you're fighting terrorism! Don't take the chance that you're legitimately purchased DVDs are in fact funding terrorists. Get out there and seed one for Uncle Sam!
This may be a silly idea given the kinds of error correction already on a CD, buy what if you convert to lossless flac, split everything up with rar and add some par archives to the cd. Each par archive can recrete one missing rar archive, so if one gets hosed on the cd, it won't matter. I guess you could burn the data twice, but if both pieces get hosed in both locations you're done. What I don't know is if CDs and DVDs can go out in spots w/o affecting the rest of the data integrity. I'd expect them to, but you never know.