The only difference between the home versions is the license key, and that license key determines how and what CABs are installed. This is similar the the current XP scheme, where, for example Media Center XP is exactly the same as XP except that a different key is entered, changing the product type and allowing the Freestyle components to be loaded.
So, you can either buy the license for home that allows virtualization usage, or not. Do they charge more for it? Yes. Can you virtualize home? Yes. Can you virtualize home basic under the existing Microsoft license? No. Is that limitation technical (the kernel refuses to run under VMharware)? Not sure.
For developers, like me, it's going to be a matter of reading the fine print. I'm certain that there's a licensing mechanism for me to use HOME in VMWare/Virtual PC for a development environment -- it might require a unique license, or it might be as simple as me having an MSDN subscription.
The "oh n0z, no vm for teh home!" panic is a bit premature.
Paradox of choice isn't the only problem. IE's dominance (and, to an extent Microsoft's dominance) is about mindshare. Right now, most people think there is one browser. Many of my friends and relatives aren't ready to switch from IE to *anything*. The more people running Firefox, the more likely it is to gain the sort of wide acceptance that it needs to be seen as a viable choice for Joe Everyman.
For every copy of Iceweasel that gets installed instead of Firefox, Firefox fails to gain mindshare. You just get a big pile of "those other confusing browsers" out there.
Buying a small percentage of the games you "pirate" doesn't make you right, and making NO-CD cracks for games isn't civil disobedience -- if it was even CLOSE to civil disobedience, it'd be done in public, with shared source code, and the "crack" would get distributed WITHOUT A COPY OF THE GAME ATTACHED TO IT.
Oooh, look at all the cool civil disobedience on eMule today...
Things like YouTube (and for that matter Google) don't exist if there isn't a revinue source behind them. There are certainly labor-of-love good-of-all-mankind websites with spectacular content on them (Wikipedia comes to mind), but most of us have bandwidth bills to pay and can't depend on the kindness of strangers.
Oh, sure, we all skip our commercials and block our popups, but when nobody sees those ads, we're going to be one step closer to DRINK COCA COLA in neon on the moon.
I don't mind lending an advertiser my ear if they can advertise tastefully, and in return they provide funding to My Favorite Distracting Thing on Television/Web/Radio(tm) so they can make a few more episodes.
While I hate to "me too" on a topic list this, the parent is correct. In game ads, where appropriate, add to the realism. NASCAR games *need* ads on the cars and along the racetracks. Fight Night might have gone over the top with the Burger King ads, but the rest of the in-game "advertising" was spot on -- and, yes, Beating el Ray to get The King as your trainer/promoter was, at least in my opinion, cool/funny/neat. Fights have sponsors. Real sponsors add a sense of immersion in the game.
Nobody wants to kick in a door in a FPS and find a flashing "$10 off your first $50 in electronics at Buy.com" ad plastered on the wall, but since I drink branded soda, I don't have a problem with kicking in the door and finding my target sipping an ice cold Coca Cola. I'm more bothered by the knock-offs seen in movies/games without sponsored products. They're even MORE distracting.
'Spaceballs: The Animated Series' will spoof current blockbusters as well as every genre of entertainment from movies and reality TV to culture and politics.
My fear is that it becomes something akin to the Scary Movie line, where they just spoof everything in the genre...badly.
...the aspect ratio and even lighting are your enemies. It's almost impossible to shoot a bill or a check stub dead on, at close rage, without fish-eye'ing, and without getting in your own shadow. Sure, you might have a little white linnen box that you use to take your eBay photos, but, seriously, this is a job for a scanner.
Anyone else find it ironic that the ad in the parent's sig is for a web hosting site that undoubtedly oversells in exactly the same way? Wonder if they expect all of their customers to use their full disk space, bandwidth and DB size.
While I haven't had the chance (obviously) to go read the first eight chapters of the book, these always feel to me like I'm going to end up with something like the recent "Tom Clancy" books -- some sort of author-inspired but mostly-ghost-written things that, despite being written in the STYLE of the autor, will just fall short.
(Insert gratuitous joke about Tupac and Biggie albums here...)
Get investors to your "bank" and pay them a high rate of return on their investments. Use your "success" to get bigger investors. Use their capital to pay out your early investors. Get more even bigger investors. Use their capital to pay out most of your investors. As soon as you think you can't widen the parymid, close up shop and keep all of the investors money.
Sex and drugs are part of the answer to the parent question in the article. When the buy.com 10% off orders over $100 ads hit the site, they're going to be obligated to remove sections like "Services, Erotic", "Rants and Raves" and "Casual Encounters" -- or at least begin policing them by means other than community flagging.
Yes, "Casual Encounters" is 100 men begging for sex, 1 woman laughing, and 200 bots posting single-picture links to "hotcamgirlzmilfsecks dot com" -- but that doesn't make the content any less objectionable to advertisers. In the evenings, in my town, there's an ad a minute posted in "Services, Erotic" for escorts and call-girls -- most of them legitimate (or, as legitimate as a hooker can be)....great place to find someone giving away a washer and dryer though.
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This is about 100x better than ASCII Goatse, which is much more common:(
You may never see this reply, and you don't have a listed email, but...
Technicians taking a machine out of the box have to do one thing -- enter a machine name. After they've done that, the machine (pre-sysprep) was configured for one more auto-logon as the local administrator with an semi-secure password. There's a RUNONCE key that launches a script that runs the final configurations. Those configurations include the changing of the local administrative password to a pattern based "secure" one and some final configurations that would otherwise get wiped by the sysprep process. The last act of that script is that it writes one final RUNONCE command that removes the previous configuration script:)
I support about 20,000 desktops, running mostly Windows XP, and here's what we do.
For the actual system image itself, I've created a single DVD that contains a simple boot menu. There are some basic tools (like DBAN and an "old school" Bart's Network Boot Disk) but the bulk of the disk is devoted to an unattended XP install with (a) splipstreamed patches, (b) drivers for ALL of our major hardware models, (c)custom configuration, and (d) all of our enterprise software.
Any time that Dell (or one of our other vendors - kiosks, tablets) ships us a new machine, I update one line in an INF file, add some drivers, and automatically build another image exactly to standard -- no mystyped keys -- no forgotten registry settings. The image completes, sysprep runs, the machine shuts off, and we make an image with Ghost to send to our vendors.
That image is sent back to the OEM, and our boxes come pre-imaged. You don't need a lot of pull with your vendors for this. Most OEMs are hungry enough for your business that they'll do it no matter how small you are -- and Dell's CFI group has been a pleasure to work with.
When a machine shows up at any of our 50+ facilities, the first thing it does after getting a machine-name post-sysprep is boot up, logon as the local administrator, and visit a webpage that presents a "pretty" front end to our automated software deployment tool. [We use Marimba.] The password for the administrative account is then changed to a unique pattern-based one automatically (to allow support from Desktop, but to prevent worm-like activity) and the machine is deployed with any regional or departmental programs chosen from the Marimba front-end.
While you may not have Marimba or Alteris or SMS to do your customization dirty-work for you, you've got Active Directory, and people in the right OU's will get whatever you want deployed to them.
Similarly, we use AD to do all of our policy management -- keeping enforcement of screensavers and proxy manageable.
There's a great joy in having all of your machines running the EXACT same image - with "Extra" software installed from a known reference point (even network shares - as long as it's your network share).
The unattended guides at MSFN.org are a fantastic reference for making an unattended CD/DVD.
We don't want Pepsi ads in our Star Wars game, but if I don't see Catholic Healthcare West logos at AT&T Park and Chase Field when I'm playing MBL 0x, I'm missing part of what I *know* to be at those fields.
My NASCAR car better be covered in ads -- and if there's not a huge Tide logo on one of them, I'm disappointed.
Sure, this is mostly sports-related so far (much like my original post had comments about Tiger Woods and Nike [and Ping, and....]) -- but it extends to things that happen in a simulation of the real world. If I end up on a cross country police chase down I-10, I demand a traffic jam in Phoenix and a bunch of billboards for Arizona home builders.
Nobody wants "Drink Pepsi" on the hud of their FPS. Duh.
Amusingly, I *enjoy* seeing a Coke truck along the side of the road. It seems realistic to me, and it's a lot less annoying than the "Cohe" truck with the near-Coke logo. My real world has ads everywhere. I don't mind when my gaming world has them to match. [When appropriate.]
Oh, sure, nobody wants to see a Nike branded sword in EverCraftWars, but we *all* want to see Nike clubs in Tiger Woods 2007.
The "high-tech" device you're looking for is a hydrometer. Any brewing supply company will sell you one -- even a "special high-tech" one with alcohol percentage graduated on it.
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The only difference between the home versions is the license key, and that license key determines how and what CABs are installed. This is similar the the current XP scheme, where, for example Media Center XP is exactly the same as XP except that a different key is entered, changing the product type and allowing the Freestyle components to be loaded.
So, you can either buy the license for home that allows virtualization usage, or not. Do they charge more for it? Yes. Can you virtualize home? Yes. Can you virtualize home basic under the existing Microsoft license? No. Is that limitation technical (the kernel refuses to run under VMharware)? Not sure.
For the end-user, this is nearly a non-issue.
For developers, like me, it's going to be a matter of reading the fine print. I'm certain that there's a licensing mechanism for me to use HOME in VMWare/Virtual PC for a development environment -- it might require a unique license, or it might be as simple as me having an MSDN subscription.
The "oh n0z, no vm for teh home!" panic is a bit premature.
Paradox of choice isn't the only problem. IE's dominance (and, to an extent Microsoft's dominance) is about mindshare. Right now, most people think there is one browser. Many of my friends and relatives aren't ready to switch from IE to *anything*. The more people running Firefox, the more likely it is to gain the sort of wide acceptance that it needs to be seen as a viable choice for Joe Everyman.
For every copy of Iceweasel that gets installed instead of Firefox, Firefox fails to gain mindshare. You just get a big pile of "those other confusing browsers" out there.
Buying a small percentage of the games you "pirate" doesn't make you right, and making NO-CD cracks for games isn't civil disobedience -- if it was even CLOSE to civil disobedience, it'd be done in public, with shared source code, and the "crack" would get distributed WITHOUT A COPY OF THE GAME ATTACHED TO IT.
Oooh, look at all the cool civil disobedience on eMule today...
Things like YouTube (and for that matter Google) don't exist if there isn't a revinue source behind them. There are certainly labor-of-love good-of-all-mankind websites with spectacular content on them (Wikipedia comes to mind), but most of us have bandwidth bills to pay and can't depend on the kindness of strangers.
Oh, sure, we all skip our commercials and block our popups, but when nobody sees those ads, we're going to be one step closer to DRINK COCA COLA in neon on the moon.
I don't mind lending an advertiser my ear if they can advertise tastefully, and in return they provide funding to My Favorite Distracting Thing on Television/Web/Radio(tm) so they can make a few more episodes.
While I hate to "me too" on a topic list this, the parent is correct. In game ads, where appropriate, add to the realism. NASCAR games *need* ads on the cars and along the racetracks. Fight Night might have gone over the top with the Burger King ads, but the rest of the in-game "advertising" was spot on -- and, yes, Beating el Ray to get The King as your trainer/promoter was, at least in my opinion, cool/funny/neat. Fights have sponsors. Real sponsors add a sense of immersion in the game.
Nobody wants to kick in a door in a FPS and find a flashing "$10 off your first $50 in electronics at Buy.com" ad plastered on the wall, but since I drink branded soda, I don't have a problem with kicking in the door and finding my target sipping an ice cold Coca Cola. I'm more bothered by the knock-offs seen in movies/games without sponsored products. They're even MORE distracting.
Art echos life. Life had ads.
...the aspect ratio and even lighting are your enemies. It's almost impossible to shoot a bill or a check stub dead on, at close rage, without fish-eye'ing, and without getting in your own shadow. Sure, you might have a little white linnen box that you use to take your eBay photos, but, seriously, this is a job for a scanner.
Irony?
Anyone else find it ironic that the ad in the parent's sig is for a web hosting site that undoubtedly oversells in exactly the same way? Wonder if they expect all of their customers to use their full disk space, bandwidth and DB size.
If my parents and grandparents are any indication, people were *probably* having sex 50 years ago.
While I haven't had the chance (obviously) to go read the first eight chapters of the book, these always feel to me like I'm going to end up with something like the recent "Tom Clancy" books -- some sort of author-inspired but mostly-ghost-written things that, despite being written in the STYLE of the autor, will just fall short.
(Insert gratuitous joke about Tupac and Biggie albums here...)
...the scam was your basic Ponzi scheme.
Get investors to your "bank" and pay them a high rate of return on their investments.
Use your "success" to get bigger investors. Use their capital to pay out your early investors.
Get more even bigger investors. Use their capital to pay out most of your investors.
As soon as you think you can't widen the parymid, close up shop and keep all of the investors money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Let it fit the crime.
AOL should release - without names, of course - the text of all the searches executed by recent AOL CTOs.
It's an evil cycle.
Much like our spam emails have adapted and (mostly) overcome spam filters, link-farm search-hogs will adapt too.
As much as we'd like to remove the root cause, nobody's going to fix "greed" anytime soon.
In the meantime, like spam, we can make it more difficult for them to do business.
Sex and drugs are part of the answer to the parent question in the article. When the buy.com 10% off orders over $100 ads hit the site, they're going to be obligated to remove sections like "Services, Erotic", "Rants and Raves" and "Casual Encounters" -- or at least begin policing them by means other than community flagging. Yes, "Casual Encounters" is 100 men begging for sex, 1 woman laughing, and 200 bots posting single-picture links to "hotcamgirlzmilfsecks dot com" -- but that doesn't make the content any less objectionable to advertisers. In the evenings, in my town, there's an ad a minute posted in "Services, Erotic" for escorts and call-girls -- most of them legitimate (or, as legitimate as a hooker can be). ...great place to find someone giving away a washer and dryer though.
This is about 100x better than ASCII Goatse, which is much more common :(
You may never see this reply, and you don't have a listed email, but...
:)
Technicians taking a machine out of the box have to do one thing -- enter a machine name. After they've done that, the machine (pre-sysprep) was configured for one more auto-logon as the local administrator with an semi-secure password. There's a RUNONCE key that launches a script that runs the final configurations. Those configurations include the changing of the local administrative password to a pattern based "secure" one and some final configurations that would otherwise get wiped by the sysprep process. The last act of that script is that it writes one final RUNONCE command that removes the previous configuration script
I support about 20,000 desktops, running mostly Windows XP, and here's what we do.
For the actual system image itself, I've created a single DVD that contains a simple boot menu. There are some basic tools (like DBAN and an "old school" Bart's Network Boot Disk) but the bulk of the disk is devoted to an unattended XP install with (a) splipstreamed patches, (b) drivers for ALL of our major hardware models, (c)custom configuration, and (d) all of our enterprise software.
Any time that Dell (or one of our other vendors - kiosks, tablets) ships us a new machine, I update one line in an INF file, add some drivers, and automatically build another image exactly to standard -- no mystyped keys -- no forgotten registry settings. The image completes, sysprep runs, the machine shuts off, and we make an image with Ghost to send to our vendors.
That image is sent back to the OEM, and our boxes come pre-imaged. You don't need a lot of pull with your vendors for this. Most OEMs are hungry enough for your business that they'll do it no matter how small you are -- and Dell's CFI group has been a pleasure to work with.
When a machine shows up at any of our 50+ facilities, the first thing it does after getting a machine-name post-sysprep is boot up, logon as the local administrator, and visit a webpage that presents a "pretty" front end to our automated software deployment tool. [We use Marimba.] The password for the administrative account is then changed to a unique pattern-based one automatically (to allow support from Desktop, but to prevent worm-like activity) and the machine is deployed with any regional or departmental programs chosen from the Marimba front-end.
While you may not have Marimba or Alteris or SMS to do your customization dirty-work for you, you've got Active Directory, and people in the right OU's will get whatever you want deployed to them.
Similarly, we use AD to do all of our policy management -- keeping enforcement of screensavers and proxy manageable.
There's a great joy in having all of your machines running the EXACT same image - with "Extra" software installed from a known reference point (even network shares - as long as it's your network share).
The unattended guides at MSFN.org are a fantastic reference for making an unattended CD/DVD.
Correct. 100% Correct.
We don't want Pepsi ads in our Star Wars game, but if I don't see Catholic Healthcare West logos at AT&T Park and Chase Field when I'm playing MBL 0x, I'm missing part of what I *know* to be at those fields.
My NASCAR car better be covered in ads -- and if there's not a huge Tide logo on one of them, I'm disappointed.
Sure, this is mostly sports-related so far (much like my original post had comments about Tiger Woods and Nike [and Ping, and....]) -- but it extends to things that happen in a simulation of the real world. If I end up on a cross country police chase down I-10, I demand a traffic jam in Phoenix and a bunch of billboards for Arizona home builders.
Nobody wants "Drink Pepsi" on the hud of their FPS. Duh.
Amusingly, I *enjoy* seeing a Coke truck along the side of the road. It seems realistic to me, and it's a lot less annoying than the "Cohe" truck with the near-Coke logo. My real world has ads everywhere. I don't mind when my gaming world has them to match. [When appropriate.]
Oh, sure, nobody wants to see a Nike branded sword in EverCraftWars, but we *all* want to see Nike clubs in Tiger Woods 2007.
The "high-tech" device you're looking for is a hydrometer. Any brewing supply company will sell you one -- even a "special high-tech" one with alcohol percentage graduated on it.
Products from Guardian Edge
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http://www.guardianedge.com/
I'm quite pleased with the encryption product itself, but the guys who package their MSIs need shot