It's still not the largest optical telescope. SALT is 11.1m and is, like GTC, made of an array of mirrors. The LBT is 2x8.4m mirrors for an effective 11.8 aperture. Also "bigger" than GTC.
Sure, the LBT isn't fully functional, but neither is GTC.
SALT is fully operational. SALT is bigger. Article is WRONG.
Who makes unlocked unbranded versions of nearly all of their phones? Well, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, HTC and Palm...off the top of my head. But, they're only like 95% of the market, so, who knows.
Sure. Some of their phones are only available branded. If you want a Blackjack or a Dash -- you're going to have to get a Cingular branded or TMobile branded phone. If you want an unbranded Samsung i607, or 320n instead of a "Blackjack" then get one. Same goes for any HTC Excalibur that someone rebadged and sold carrier specific.
www.myworldphone.com -- if you want one of a hundred resellers of unbranded unlocked phones.
...if Apple meant it, the phones would be 100% unbranded and unlocked, they'd take any GSM provider's card, and APPLE would provide simple, regional, downloadable settings (for carrier-based web proxies, etc.)
Apple doesn't have to sell them through Cingular (AT&T) or anyone else.
For starters, try, oh, I dunno, a newer RC, if you were part of the test, or...wait for it...the release version?
This sort of story makes me a bit ill. I know this is Slashdot and all, but can we please have SOME sort of filter for "my lonely pre-release copy of Vista dosen't work on my home network" stories?
Wireless (GSM) data is expensive. You need to pay out the nose for it, and you're probably going to need a bulky contract.
If WiMAX lets me connect my devices "in the wild" at a reasonable price and without a hefty contract, then it'll be a winner.
To businesses, nobody's going to drop Verizon or Sprint or Cingular or TMobile's data services for a new offering as long as they're already in an existing relationship and entrenched in hardware (sorry, we just moved to Treos or Blackberries). It's the you and me's of the world -- and we need cheap devices, contracts and rates, or it's just another "thing" that our company pays for.
A minor point, but any quest or NPC flag should be command-line fixable. The UESP Wiki has every quest documented quite well, most of them with item/flag command-line information.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion
Odd. While there were huge *glaring* technical problems with the film (acoustic modem wardialing, anyone?), it had a fairly reasonable portrial of "young hacker kid" before it was popularized. Social loner who wardials entire exchanges looking for carriers is EXACTLY how a lot of us spent our time growing up. Poking and probing new systems was always a joy.
Few other movies include the phrase, "I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd help."
We keep the AV scanner at the gateway up. We keep the spam filter at the gateway up. We keep the AV on the desktop up-to-date.
Right now there's no good RPC-exploitable worm for Windows. Any word-based infection is going to be localized to a single machine (or, at most, to those machines a user has remote local administrative rights on). So, we watch. We stay at yellow allert, and we don't panic. Because right now, there's nothing to panic about. The ability to spread a virus/worm/mal* to a single machine isn't exactly a huge danger. We already have that every time someone sends us an URL.
The problem is mostly with the difference between the laws of different countries. The ages of consent and majority, as well as the ages of "appropriate" relations differ between the US and Canada. Taking a 15 year old lover in Canada (and recording that "love" on film) isn't a crime. Common-carrier providers in the US then end up being conduits for what's clearly against the law here.
This is the reason you can still get original prints of Tracy Lourdes videos in Canada (and other parts of the world). She wasn't committing a crime in Canada - the video isn't ciminal, etc.
There is also (because of easier laws) a "hotbed" of child-related nudist and art material hosted in Canada. The law is fairly clear that nude children in a "natural" setting isn't pornography either -- and, clearer still in Canadian law (and on Canadian servers). Still more a number of NAMBLA-type organizations operate out of Canada. "Loving" relationions have a much wider age range in Canadian law.
I'll stick to the "half plus seven" rule, thank you:)
If we're going to use the "center" of the earth as our reference point (thus counting the equatorial bulge) -- we need to not only use Chimborazo as the "farthest" point, but use the Artic Ocean (not the Maiana Trench) as the "closest" point.
The trench has a maximum depth of 10,911 meters (35,798 ft) below sea level. Taking into account its latitude and the Earth's equatorial bulge, this puts it at 6,366,400 meters (3,955.9 mi) from the center of the Earth. The Arctic Ocean, on the other hand, is about 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) deep, which would put its floor at 6,353,000 meters (3,947 mi) from the Earth's center, some 13 kilometers (8.5 mi) closer.
...but what in god's name does the defendant having MS have to do with anything? Granies, children, the infirm...c'mon. Leave the heart-string pulling crap out next time.
I hate to burst your bubble, but here's the reality. You, at 24, probably have a similar knowledgebase and skillset as other applicants for my positions. Since I run a background and credit check against my future employees, I get to pick between someone with the same skills as you and a "clean" record, or you with bad credit, a divorce and and a criminal record. Guess who I'm hiring.
Unfair? No. You're not the sort of person I want working for me. You don't have a stable family life. As such you're more likely to quit/move and give shorter notice when you do. You have bad credit. You haven't demonstrated (regardless of good or bad reasons) to large financial institutions that you're worth loaning money to. I'm less likely to want to give you access to mine. Finally, you're a criminal. Sure, you were a criminal when you were a kid, but, on paper, you're more likely to be a criminal in the future, and that's nothing my company wants anything to do with.
On the other hand, if you've got a great resume, and you stand out, and it's not a tiebreak, we might overlook SOME of those problems.
I sympathize. I have a divorce. Until recently I had bad credit. I got in trouble as a young adult and have a misdemeanor record (reduced felony). I know if I didn't have the skills I do in my special niche of the IT world, I'd be passed over in favor of others. Thems the breaks. It's the price I pay for the mistakes in my youth.
Incorrect. XPE can have a GUI if you want it to. A first-timer can build an XPE image with a GUI and an Explorer shell in about 300 megs - and that'd include IE. You used to be able to download XPE yourself, but now you have to send for a CD, or you have to get access from your OEM license.
Bad traffic in Phoenix has significantly less to do with illegial imigrants who can't read English (sheesh...) and much more to do with the facts that:
(a) Phoenix is too broad for it's own good. People live 30-40-50 miles from where they work. (b) Phoenix freeway and surface street infrastructre has lagged behind our phenominal growth (see above). (c) Phoenix is a melting pot. Nobody's actually FROM Phoenix. We're made of EX-somethings. Sure, there's a few natives, but it's NOT the norm. (d) We have a significant snowbird population (also, see above).
Combine the overloaded bad infrastructure with a nation's worth of driving customs and a constantly supply of new (and seasonal) people, and you're looking at the bulk of what's wrong with Phoenix traffic.
Speeds of 85+ are the norm on I-10 (and 17 and 101/202/60/51) when congestion permits it.
"$500 for a complete PC system installed? Your $500 machines aren't nearly as powerful as my 2.5 year old equipment!"
A new Dell GX6xx in quantity is about $500. I'm not sure what machines you were buying 2.5 years ago with core duos, but, I'm sure you might have been buying things that powerful. In our environement, a box from Dell shows up post-sysprep with our enterprise standard image on it (imaged AT Dell from our prepared image). A technician takes it out of the box, types a machine name, it auto-joins the domain, and policy (through BMC Configuration Management / Marimba) deploys any extra non-standard software for the users based on geographic and user-specific identifiers.
"I need something that will last for several years with near-zero fuss. I really can't afford to buy equipment that was obsolete last year, or that needs constant tinkering and upgrades and support."
Which is exactly why turning over a brand new Dell every 3 years (which matches the warranty period) makes sense for us - and for many, many, other large organizations. No tinkering -- we made the image. No upgrades needed -- it's new. And we're already the support. No fuss, no muss.
Also, as an added bonus, since the process we MAKE our enterprise standard image comes from a single unattended DVD (with a plethora of driver support, updated by us), when my "Developer" system was deployed, in dual-proc, 15k SCSI glory, it too ran the standard image, and got non-standard software deployed automatically.
"Assume that this machine will be in service for at least 3 years with near-zero maintenance."
From a hardware standpoint, we do. A rotating stock of 0-3 year old PCs is greatly cheaper than trying to stretch them beyond that age with upgrades, or to try to over-buy them with bleeding-edge technology at purchase time. We have similar support to our machines in terms of upgrades and maintainence (low), and I pay [for hardware], under $200 a year for PCs. If you're paying 2,000 but can stretch your PC lifecycle out, you'd better be getting 10 years from a PC without any upgrades. I assume you splurged for 64 megs of memory on the machine you bought in 1996? $200 is *nothing* for a productivity tool for an employee for a year.
This is pointless, of course. This is HOW large enterprise organizations are going to acquire Vista licenses and O2007 licences. Select agreements work that way. You can't buy a Windows 2000 license with your new PC - even if that's what ships on the disk. You just maintain enough OS/App/CAL/Exchange/whatever licences to match the NUMBER of machines that you have. Someday we'll have enough licences, and someday the suits will want to change the standard...just like we did from 2000 to XP a few years ago.
[For what it's worth, we embrace open source and open standard initiatves at our company. They honestly aren't mature enough yet, and the programs available aren't specific to our industry yet. We keep moving closer and closer, and someday, we'll divorce ourselves from Microsoft -- but that day isn't exactly tomorrow.]
Few organizations are going to go and re-image every computer with Vista. What's going to happen is that every company of significant size that regularly purchaes machines from a large vendor is going to start getting Vista LICENSES shipped to them with their regular purchases of hardware. Your large-organization IT staff is going to keep deploying the standard image while stockpiling Vista licenses and working on the "when the suits are ready" Vista image.
And, those $500 Dells that big organizations give to their employees - they're all quite up to snuff for running Vista. Optiplex 6xx series desktops have been good to go with Vista for while a while.
Oh, sure, some organizations might never move to Vista, but they're going to be buying Vista licences (and Office 2007 licenses) when they buy their machines. That's the nature of the beast for people far enough up the ladder to be VLA/Select. It doesn't mean we'll deploy them - but we're sure going to be buying those licenses.
Our standard will remain XP for the next, oh, two years. Then we'll start delivering new machines with Vista, and making an effort to retire any Windows 2000 machines still in service. Of course, we're still about 2% Windows 9x, but it takes time to change out 25,000 desktops running hundreds of different pieces of software at dozens of different facilities.
...not noticing this was bsd.slashdot, instead of games.slashdot, I was tricked into clicking on the link by my hopes of hearing that someone recovered the Amulet of Yendor and taken it to the astral plane:(
...then things are at an all-time high. I can hardly delete fake PayPal, eBay and banking phishing emails fast enough. I do legitimate eBay sales and the phishers get more sophisticated every day -- well, at least their formatting has gotten better.
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "netsh firewall set opmode mode = DISABLE"
But what's the point? ZOMG! You can turn off features in Windows from scripts and command lines? You don't say.
While the article does it's best to hide it, the simple matter is that this is a bug in the ICS service that could allow firewall to break. So, if you're on the inside of a lan, and a Windows machine running ICS is your gateway to the outside world, you could possibly cause the ICS service to crash, taking Windows Firewall with it and exposing the machine to the outside world.
It's a bug that needs fixed, no doubt -- but hardly critical.
Gamers who "change hardware more than underwear" are part of the "not nearly" group.
At some point, someone who changes their hardware over and over is running a "new" computer. While we might not like the licensing scheme, one license for one computer isn't too far fetched. That model isn't going to work well for the "more than underwear" group - but they're a distinct minority.
Vista home BASIC can't be VM'd per the license. Home "Ultimate" can. It is unclear if it refuses to run in a VM environment, or if the restriction is purely based on the EULA.
Since "Ultimate" can, and there's no difference between the two (other than the components loaded at install time, and the product type), there is no technical reason (beyond the kernel simply refusing to execute when it "sees" it's in a VM) it can't run.
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It takes a great deal of chutzpah to announce "We're doing a trilogy" on a new game.
Sure, it's Bioware and all...
Doesn't matter.
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It's still not the largest optical telescope. SALT is 11.1m and is, like GTC, made of an array of mirrors. The LBT is 2x8.4m mirrors for an effective 11.8 aperture. Also "bigger" than GTC.
Sure, the LBT isn't fully functional, but neither is GTC.
SALT is fully operational. SALT is bigger. Article is WRONG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_opti
Of *course* if AOL says that they can record you - you can record them.
AOL is aware that the call may be recorded. You are aware that the call may be recoded.
Record at will.
Who makes unlocked unbranded versions of nearly all of their phones? Well, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, HTC and Palm...off the top of my head. But, they're only like 95% of the market, so, who knows.
Sure. Some of their phones are only available branded. If you want a Blackjack or a Dash -- you're going to have to get a Cingular branded or TMobile branded phone. If you want an unbranded Samsung i607, or 320n instead of a "Blackjack" then get one. Same goes for any HTC Excalibur that someone rebadged and sold carrier specific.
www.myworldphone.com -- if you want one of a hundred resellers of unbranded unlocked phones.
...if Apple meant it, the phones would be 100% unbranded and unlocked, they'd take any GSM provider's card, and APPLE would provide simple, regional, downloadable settings (for carrier-based web proxies, etc.)
Apple doesn't have to sell them through Cingular (AT&T) or anyone else.
Bucking the system...my shiny metal ass.
Uh... Zero unpatched means all patched; or if you like the percentages, means 100% patched. That's the best of the bunch.
What it should tell you is that dumb routers that don't correctly support TCP/IP aren't good products.
Vista RC1 build 5600?
For starters, try, oh, I dunno, a newer RC, if you were part of the test, or...wait for it...the release version?
This sort of story makes me a bit ill. I know this is Slashdot and all, but can we please have SOME sort of filter for "my lonely pre-release copy of Vista dosen't work on my home network" stories?
Wireless (GSM) data is expensive. You need to pay out the nose for it, and you're probably going to need a bulky contract.
If WiMAX lets me connect my devices "in the wild" at a reasonable price and without a hefty contract, then it'll be a winner.
To businesses, nobody's going to drop Verizon or Sprint or Cingular or TMobile's data services for a new offering as long as they're already in an existing relationship and entrenched in hardware (sorry, we just moved to Treos or Blackberries). It's the you and me's of the world -- and we need cheap devices, contracts and rates, or it's just another "thing" that our company pays for.
A minor point, but any quest or NPC flag should be command-line fixable. The UESP Wiki has every quest documented quite well, most of them with item/flag command-line information. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion
Odd. While there were huge *glaring* technical problems with the film (acoustic modem wardialing, anyone?), it had a fairly reasonable portrial of "young hacker kid" before it was popularized. Social loner who wardials entire exchanges looking for carriers is EXACTLY how a lot of us spent our time growing up. Poking and probing new systems was always a joy.
Few other movies include the phrase, "I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd help."
We keep the AV scanner at the gateway up. We keep the spam filter at the gateway up. We keep the AV on the desktop up-to-date.
Right now there's no good RPC-exploitable worm for Windows. Any word-based infection is going to be localized to a single machine (or, at most, to those machines a user has remote local administrative rights on). So, we watch. We stay at yellow allert, and we don't panic. Because right now, there's nothing to panic about. The ability to spread a virus/worm/mal* to a single machine isn't exactly a huge danger. We already have that every time someone sends us an URL.
Panic on your own time.
The problem is mostly with the difference between the laws of different countries. The ages of consent and majority, as well as the ages of "appropriate" relations differ between the US and Canada. Taking a 15 year old lover in Canada (and recording that "love" on film) isn't a crime. Common-carrier providers in the US then end up being conduits for what's clearly against the law here.
:)
This is the reason you can still get original prints of Tracy Lourdes videos in Canada (and other parts of the world). She wasn't committing a crime in Canada - the video isn't ciminal, etc.
There is also (because of easier laws) a "hotbed" of child-related nudist and art material hosted in Canada. The law is fairly clear that nude children in a "natural" setting isn't pornography either -- and, clearer still in Canadian law (and on Canadian servers). Still more a number of NAMBLA-type organizations operate out of Canada. "Loving" relationions have a much wider age range in Canadian law.
I'll stick to the "half plus seven" rule, thank you
If we're going to use the "center" of the earth as our reference point (thus counting the equatorial bulge) -- we need to not only use Chimborazo as the "farthest" point, but use the Artic Ocean (not the Maiana Trench) as the "closest" point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
The trench has a maximum depth of 10,911 meters (35,798 ft) below sea level. Taking into account its latitude and the Earth's equatorial bulge, this puts it at 6,366,400 meters (3,955.9 mi) from the center of the Earth. The Arctic Ocean, on the other hand, is about 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) deep, which would put its floor at 6,353,000 meters (3,947 mi) from the Earth's center, some 13 kilometers (8.5 mi) closer.
...but what in god's name does the defendant having MS have to do with anything? Granies, children, the infirm...c'mon. Leave the heart-string pulling crap out next time.
I hate to burst your bubble, but here's the reality. You, at 24, probably have a similar knowledgebase and skillset as other applicants for my positions. Since I run a background and credit check against my future employees, I get to pick between someone with the same skills as you and a "clean" record, or you with bad credit, a divorce and and a criminal record. Guess who I'm hiring.
Unfair? No. You're not the sort of person I want working for me. You don't have a stable family life. As such you're more likely to quit/move and give shorter notice when you do. You have bad credit. You haven't demonstrated (regardless of good or bad reasons) to large financial institutions that you're worth loaning money to. I'm less likely to want to give you access to mine. Finally, you're a criminal. Sure, you were a criminal when you were a kid, but, on paper, you're more likely to be a criminal in the future, and that's nothing my company wants anything to do with.
On the other hand, if you've got a great resume, and you stand out, and it's not a tiebreak, we might overlook SOME of those problems.
I sympathize. I have a divorce. Until recently I had bad credit. I got in trouble as a young adult and have a misdemeanor record (reduced felony). I know if I didn't have the skills I do in my special niche of the IT world, I'd be passed over in favor of others. Thems the breaks. It's the price I pay for the mistakes in my youth.
Incorrect. XPE can have a GUI if you want it to. A first-timer can build an XPE image with a GUI and an Explorer shell in about 300 megs - and that'd include IE. You used to be able to download XPE yourself, but now you have to send for a CD, or you have to get access from your OEM license.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/downloads/xp/d
Bad traffic in Phoenix has significantly less to do with illegial imigrants who can't read English (sheesh...) and much more to do with the facts that:
(a) Phoenix is too broad for it's own good. People live 30-40-50 miles from where they work.
(b) Phoenix freeway and surface street infrastructre has lagged behind our phenominal growth (see above).
(c) Phoenix is a melting pot. Nobody's actually FROM Phoenix. We're made of EX-somethings. Sure, there's a few natives, but it's NOT the norm.
(d) We have a significant snowbird population (also, see above).
Combine the overloaded bad infrastructure with a nation's worth of driving customs and a constantly supply of new (and seasonal) people, and you're looking at the bulk of what's wrong with Phoenix traffic.
Speeds of 85+ are the norm on I-10 (and 17 and 101/202/60/51) when congestion permits it.
"$500 for a complete PC system installed? Your $500 machines aren't nearly as powerful as my 2.5 year old equipment!"
A new Dell GX6xx in quantity is about $500. I'm not sure what machines you were buying 2.5 years ago with core duos, but, I'm sure you might have been buying things that powerful. In our environement, a box from Dell shows up post-sysprep with our enterprise standard image on it (imaged AT Dell from our prepared image). A technician takes it out of the box, types a machine name, it auto-joins the domain, and policy (through BMC Configuration Management / Marimba) deploys any extra non-standard software for the users based on geographic and user-specific identifiers.
"I need something that will last for several years with near-zero fuss. I really can't afford to buy equipment that was obsolete last year, or that needs constant tinkering and upgrades and support."
Which is exactly why turning over a brand new Dell every 3 years (which matches the warranty period) makes sense for us - and for many, many, other large organizations. No tinkering -- we made the image. No upgrades needed -- it's new. And we're already the support. No fuss, no muss.
Also, as an added bonus, since the process we MAKE our enterprise standard image comes from a single unattended DVD (with a plethora of driver support, updated by us), when my "Developer" system was deployed, in dual-proc, 15k SCSI glory, it too ran the standard image, and got non-standard software deployed automatically.
"Assume that this machine will be in service for at least 3 years with near-zero maintenance."
From a hardware standpoint, we do. A rotating stock of 0-3 year old PCs is greatly cheaper than trying to stretch them beyond that age with upgrades, or to try to over-buy them with bleeding-edge technology at purchase time. We have similar support to our machines in terms of upgrades and maintainence (low), and I pay [for hardware], under $200 a year for PCs. If you're paying 2,000 but can stretch your PC lifecycle out, you'd better be getting 10 years from a PC without any upgrades. I assume you splurged for 64 megs of memory on the machine you bought in 1996? $200 is *nothing* for a productivity tool for an employee for a year.
This is pointless, of course. This is HOW large enterprise organizations are going to acquire Vista licenses and O2007 licences. Select agreements work that way. You can't buy a Windows 2000 license with your new PC - even if that's what ships on the disk. You just maintain enough OS/App/CAL/Exchange/whatever licences to match the NUMBER of machines that you have. Someday we'll have enough licences, and someday the suits will want to change the standard...just like we did from 2000 to XP a few years ago.
[For what it's worth, we embrace open source and open standard initiatves at our company. They honestly aren't mature enough yet, and the programs available aren't specific to our industry yet. We keep moving closer and closer, and someday, we'll divorce ourselves from Microsoft -- but that day isn't exactly tomorrow.]
$2000 desktops? Good lord.
Few organizations are going to go and re-image every computer with Vista. What's going to happen is that every company of significant size that regularly purchaes machines from a large vendor is going to start getting Vista LICENSES shipped to them with their regular purchases of hardware. Your large-organization IT staff is going to keep deploying the standard image while stockpiling Vista licenses and working on the "when the suits are ready" Vista image.
And, those $500 Dells that big organizations give to their employees - they're all quite up to snuff for running Vista. Optiplex 6xx series desktops have been good to go with Vista for while a while.
Oh, sure, some organizations might never move to Vista, but they're going to be buying Vista licences (and Office 2007 licenses) when they buy their machines. That's the nature of the beast for people far enough up the ladder to be VLA/Select. It doesn't mean we'll deploy them - but we're sure going to be buying those licenses.
Our standard will remain XP for the next, oh, two years. Then we'll start delivering new machines with Vista, and making an effort to retire any Windows 2000 machines still in service. Of course, we're still about 2% Windows 9x, but it takes time to change out 25,000 desktops running hundreds of different pieces of software at dozens of different facilities.
...not noticing this was bsd.slashdot, instead of games.slashdot, I was tricked into clicking on the link by my hopes of hearing that someone recovered the Amulet of Yendor and taken it to the astral plane :(
...then things are at an all-time high. I can hardly delete fake PayPal, eBay and banking phishing emails fast enough. I do legitimate eBay sales and the phishers get more sophisticated every day -- well, at least their formatting has gotten better.
While the article does it's best to hide it, the simple matter is that this is a bug in the ICS service that could allow firewall to break. So, if you're on the inside of a lan, and a Windows machine running ICS is your gateway to the outside world, you could possibly cause the ICS service to crash, taking Windows Firewall with it and exposing the machine to the outside world.
It's a bug that needs fixed, no doubt -- but hardly critical.
Gamers who "change hardware more than underwear" are part of the "not nearly" group.
At some point, someone who changes their hardware over and over is running a "new" computer. While we might not like the licensing scheme, one license for one computer isn't too far fetched. That model isn't going to work well for the "more than underwear" group - but they're a distinct minority.
Vista home BASIC can't be VM'd per the license. Home "Ultimate" can. It is unclear if it refuses to run in a VM environment, or if the restriction is purely based on the EULA.
Since "Ultimate" can, and there's no difference between the two (other than the components loaded at install time, and the product type), there is no technical reason (beyond the kernel simply refusing to execute when it "sees" it's in a VM) it can't run.