Just read the RF tag within the store from a cheap item and use it to encode an expensive item.
You can even 'switch' the RF tags, so the expensive item is accounted for in the store's inventory. In a huge store, no one will find a mismarked item until long after you've left.
IIRC, which I rarely do, an executive said that XBox2 compatibility with XBoX is not a prerequisite.
Because of XBoX 2 hardware change, it might be cost prohibitied to produce XBoX-compatible XBoX2s. Maybe Microsoft will produce a game system where they actually make a profit from the hardware, like almost every company out there.
(Yes, almost every system, besides the Saturn and XBoX are planned to make a slim profit. Compatition might drive them below that line, but they're planned that way.)
Just within the past month, I was in line at Safeway who was paying for her groceries with one of those newfangled food stamp debit cards so I knew she was economically challenged. But to my amazement, she was talking on a cell phone the whole freakin' time she was in line. Now there's someone who's well on the way to financial responsibility and welfare independence...
Pay as you go. It's a lot safer than a landline. No monthly fee, so you don't have to worry about not having the money.
Frasier? What about: - Simpson - Futurama - Family Guy - King of the Hill - Everyone Loves Raymond - Steifeld - Married with Children - That's 70's Show - Cheers - M.A.S.H. - A.L.F.(at times) - Golden Girls
The only thing British comedies do better tending to end at the correct times, while American comedies tend to die painful deaths of teh unfunny.
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Not really sure I understand. Surely a better way would be to train the person, rather than build in safeguards just in case they produce something that is faulty ( a likely event)
Ok, there's a difference between cutting a board with a handsaw and cutting something with a electric powered table saw. No matter how much training I have, a table saw will cut a board faster and straigher than a hand saw.
Which is why education is so important, let's move away from syntax/coding and look at testing/evaluation.
Ok, let's look at testing/evaluation. The truth is, must exploits happen because a hax0r finds a way to interact with a program that the programmer wasn't thinking about.
How do you design a test that interacts with a program that the programmer wasn't thinking about? How do you design a test that interacts with a program where another program causes the error, such as the COM / ActiveX Exploit.
Education is fine, but there is a time when it's not enough. You have to accept that there will be situations where people don't think. If you can design your tools to protect yourself around those, then your company will be better off.
But the world is probably safe: Somehow good social skills and good technical skills are mutually exclusive...
Actually, those removed from a situation are best able to observe it. Kids learn the 'social tricks' instictively, to the point where even they don't know what they're doing. Outcasts have to play catch-up with their peer group. They tend to socialize with knowledge rather than instinct.
The asshat at work, if I see him approaching and I don't want to speak with him, I initate the conversation with his catchphase, "Hey, What's up?" It throws him off, because he's unuse to dealing with people without it. (Yes, sometimes I see the him bluescreen and reboot. It's interesting, midconversation and he'll ask me what's up after we've covered it.)
If you're running on instinct, you'll never notice it, but if you're running on knowledge instead, you can spot patterns of human interaction. And you can use them to your benifit.
Distract the boss so he forgets you made a mistake yesterday. Come in late on purpose and get yelled at, inorder to avoid a bigger punishment that should have taken place at that time.
The only catch is, you can only dazzle someone with bullshit for so long, before they catch on. With hacking style social engineering, you can. However, with office politics, I've taught myself to avoid manipulating people for my benifit, inorder to avoid a situation down the road.
If a business critical application is broken, you might as well be r00ted.
Boss: "Why is everyone sitting around?" Me: "Well, the patch broke an important application, so no work can get done, but at least our documents are safe!" Boss: "Great! Have some more stock options!"
It's much more humane to be killed by a DU then a conventional bomb. Being sucked through a small hole is less painful then being mostly burned alive until you're dead.
The only problem 'dust' isn't like the dust that you're familure with. It's much heavier then the stuff you blow off your computer every night. The only ones who are really affected by inhalation are people who are being shot at.
I don't believe it's an environmentally sound way to murder people, but the problems with unexploded ammo and from lead, it seems to be the current best way to murder people.
The biggest problem with graphical adventures is that you must represent what your character is playing with graphically. You can't represent something that isn't obvous and the scenes must be uncluttered to keep your adventurer excited.
Let's take an example the standard cliche, taking stuff outta the trash. In IF, you can alude to stuf being in the trash, you can mention the trash can and hope the adventurer looks, you can relate a story about trashcans or you can hint to look directy. With graphical adventures, the trashcan looks like the recyclebin in Windows. Heaped full of papers one minute, take one sheet out and it's empty. It's pretty blunt when you think about it.
IMHO, most of the creativity was used to dress up a rather repeditive game genre.
I understand the reasons, it's just I prefer systems which are semi-n00b friendly.
Unlike most p2p systems, which share what you are obtaining / obtained, ftp requires you to find something new to upload. With even a small mature server, you'll run into a situation where everything that's accessable to a newbie is already uploaded or not wanted. If a newbie can't even get started, why would he want to become a server?
Then you get people who are greedy and want a extremely small ratio, like 1:3 or even 1:2, because they want stuff they don't have so they can go onto the bigger ftps. Or have an ftp which shuts down as soon as the admin gets enough to pump up his ratio on a larger ftp.
Of course, the biggest casualities of ratios are ratio-less ftp. They get raped by n00bs and semi-n00bs downloading things they don't care about but larger ratio-based ftps don't have.
You're not going to get very much info, because of NDAs, but Playstation had it's own compression algorthm for textures This is partly responsible for the playstation "look" on many of the textures.
One important thing you're missing here is streaming. You don't need to load everything off the disc, because you can stream texture and music, and get rid of it as soon as it's used..
As a current owner of an Odyssey2, I can safely tell you that keyboard is worthless. Typing on it was slow, and it was only used for non-realtime, because of this problem. Very few games took advantage of it, although the classic K.C. munch did.
You had to be 3 feet from the TV to use it, because the wires weren't that long. Plus, if it gets destroyed, you'll have to buy a new console.
I prefer a removable keyboard, simply because removable = replaceable.
Why aren't we fighting tooth and nail to try and save our planet, our resources and ultimately our way of life?
Simple. How do you fight an unknown enemy? There is some evidience that suggests that the world was much warmer 200 years ago. Mostly from sparce scientific data and anecdotal evidience. Maybe humanity has lived in a cyclic world of heat and cold, and just never noticed until they started keeping records of it.
If we run around like chickens with their heads cut off, we'll never accomplish anything. We DO have time to study the issues and come up with a solution rather than going on an environmental witch hunt.
I'm not sure how many 11 year-olds research sex crimes before they commit them.
I doubt many 11 year-olds know exactly what a sex crime is.:/
Sadly, there is no facts on this case & I'm too lazy to look them up. Its possible he deserved the punishment, but the kid himself will never be a deterant to other kids.
There is still a large market for Dreamcast, which is now the longest dead concole that is still selling commercial games.
What killed the Dreamcast was piracy, plain and simple. As soon as the boot disks were discovered, the amount of games sold took a nose dive, and the amount of systems sold increased massively.
There best selling game after their priacy crash, was Shenmue, and that was because of all the in game cut scenes made it a monster to download.
Usually, sighting the sources is troll technique #3, however, I decided to make sure I was right myself.:P
isbn: 0-201-69497-2
Title: Designing the User Interface 3rd editon
Quote from page 412:
Approximately 10 studies during the 1980s found 15- to 30-percent slower task times for comprehension or proofreading of text on computer displays compared to on paper. The potential disadantages include these:
Fonts maybe poor...Dots composing the letters may be so large that each is visible,...Monospaced fonts...inappropriate interletter and interline spacing...and inappropriate colors...making the user expand effort to recognize the characters.
Low contrast between the characters and the background, and fuzzy character boundaries also can cause trouble.
Emitted light from displays may be more difficult to read by than reflected light from paper. Glare...flicker...and curved displays may be troubling.
Small displays require frequent page turning...Issuing the page-turning commands is disruptive, and the page turns are unsettling, especially if they are slow and visually distracting.
Reading distance can be greater than paper, displays are fixed in place.
Layout and formatting can be problems, such as improper margins, inappropriate line widths.
Reduced hand and body motion with displays as compared to paper, and reduce rigid posture for displays, as both may be fatiguing.
Unfamiliarty of displays and anxiety that the image may disappear can increase stress.
The book also lists a proofreading study, done in 1984, where people were able to complete the task between 30-40% faster.
The final study that should be mentioned, was done in 1988, where the resolution and the display of the paper and computer were equal, and everything was set up very ergonomicly. There was no differences in reading speed.
The book concludes that when we get 500 dpi monitors, then reading speed between computers and books will be equal. Until then, you'll have to contend with slower reading times.
The ISP would also need a cut from Kazaa, since they're taking a portion of the bandwidth hit.
As I post this, slashdot is using bandwidth it hasn't payed for! And slashdot is making money hand over fist because of it. Won't someone think of the ISPs?
Slashdot Mirror
I agree mostly with Slack3r78, but just because they're the same corporation doesn't mean they're the 'same company'.
Management is usually against what the prevous management did.
My god, the fiber, the fiber!
Just read the RF tag within the store from a cheap item and use it to encode an expensive item.
You can even 'switch' the RF tags, so the expensive item is accounted for in the store's inventory. In a huge store, no one will find a mismarked item until long after you've left.
Ya, I don't get it either, like why don't apple release the iNewton2 or something....
Not Invented Here syndrome. The Newton was a part of the old Apple.
First public release is the best birthday of a piece of software.
Mainly because every programmer has 6 ~ 8 programs that have been at least mostly thought out in their heads.
IIRC, which I rarely do, an executive said that XBox2 compatibility with XBoX is not a prerequisite.
Because of XBoX 2 hardware change, it might be cost prohibitied to produce XBoX-compatible XBoX2s. Maybe Microsoft will produce a game system where they actually make a profit from the hardware, like almost every company out there.
(Yes, almost every system, besides the Saturn and XBoX are planned to make a slim profit. Compatition might drive them below that line, but they're planned that way.)
Just within the past month, I was in line at Safeway who was paying for her groceries with one of those newfangled food stamp debit cards so I knew she was economically challenged. But to my amazement, she was talking on a cell phone the whole freakin' time she was in line. Now there's someone who's well on the way to financial responsibility and welfare independence...
Pay as you go. It's a lot safer than a landline. No monthly fee, so you don't have to worry about not having the money.
Frasier? What about:
- Simpson
- Futurama
- Family Guy
- King of the Hill
- Everyone Loves Raymond
- Steifeld
- Married with Children
- That's 70's Show
- Cheers
- M.A.S.H.
- A.L.F.(at times)
- Golden Girls
The only thing British comedies do better tending to end at the correct times, while American comedies tend to die painful deaths of teh unfunny.
Not really sure I understand. Surely a better way would be to train the person, rather than build in safeguards just in case they produce something that is faulty ( a likely event)
Ok, there's a difference between cutting a board with a handsaw and cutting something with a electric powered table saw. No matter how much training I have, a table saw will cut a board faster and straigher than a hand saw.
Which is why education is so important, let's move away from syntax/coding and look at testing/evaluation.
Ok, let's look at testing/evaluation. The truth is, must exploits happen because a hax0r finds a way to interact with a program that the programmer wasn't thinking about.
How do you design a test that interacts with a program that the programmer wasn't thinking about? How do you design a test that interacts with a program where another program causes the error, such as the COM / ActiveX Exploit.
Education is fine, but there is a time when it's not enough. You have to accept that there will be situations where people don't think. If you can design your tools to protect yourself around those, then your company will be better off.
But the world is probably safe: Somehow good social skills and good technical skills are mutually exclusive...
Actually, those removed from a situation are best able to observe it. Kids learn the 'social tricks' instictively, to the point where even they don't know what they're doing. Outcasts have to play catch-up with their peer group. They tend to socialize with knowledge rather than instinct.
The asshat at work, if I see him approaching and I don't want to speak with him, I initate the conversation with his catchphase, "Hey, What's up?" It throws him off, because he's unuse to dealing with people without it. (Yes, sometimes I see the him bluescreen and reboot. It's interesting, midconversation and he'll ask me what's up after we've covered it.)
If you're running on instinct, you'll never notice it, but if you're running on knowledge instead, you can spot patterns of human interaction. And you can use them to your benifit.
Distract the boss so he forgets you made a mistake yesterday. Come in late on purpose and get yelled at, inorder to avoid a bigger punishment that should have taken place at that time.
The only catch is, you can only dazzle someone with bullshit for so long, before they catch on. With hacking style social engineering, you can. However, with office politics, I've taught myself to avoid manipulating people for my benifit, inorder to avoid a situation down the road.
Just hop online.
Clicky
If a business critical application is broken, you might as well be r00ted.
Boss: "Why is everyone sitting around?"
Me: "Well, the patch broke an important application, so no work can get done, but at least our documents are safe!"
Boss: "Great! Have some more stock options!"
It's much more humane to be killed by a DU then a conventional bomb. Being sucked through a small hole is less painful then being mostly burned alive until you're dead.
The only problem 'dust' isn't like the dust that you're familure with. It's much heavier then the stuff you blow off your computer every night. The only ones who are really affected by inhalation are people who are being shot at.
I don't believe it's an environmentally sound way to murder people, but the problems with unexploded ammo and from lead, it seems to be the current best way to murder people.
The biggest problem with graphical adventures is that you must represent what your character is playing with graphically. You can't represent something that isn't obvous and the scenes must be uncluttered to keep your adventurer excited.
Let's take an example the standard cliche, taking stuff outta the trash. In IF, you can alude to stuf being in the trash, you can mention the trash can and hope the adventurer looks, you can relate a story about trashcans or you can hint to look directy. With graphical adventures, the trashcan looks like the recyclebin in Windows. Heaped full of papers one minute, take one sheet out and it's empty. It's pretty blunt when you think about it.
IMHO, most of the creativity was used to dress up a rather repeditive game genre.
I understand the reasons, it's just I prefer systems which are semi-n00b friendly.
Unlike most p2p systems, which share what you are obtaining / obtained, ftp requires you to find something new to upload. With even a small mature server, you'll run into a situation where everything that's accessable to a newbie is already uploaded or not wanted. If a newbie can't even get started, why would he want to become a server?
Then you get people who are greedy and want a extremely small ratio, like 1:3 or even 1:2, because they want stuff they don't have so they can go onto the bigger ftps. Or have an ftp which shuts down as soon as the admin gets enough to pump up his ratio on a larger ftp.
Of course, the biggest casualities of ratios are ratio-less ftp. They get raped by n00bs and semi-n00bs downloading things they don't care about but larger ratio-based ftps don't have.
It's what got me out of ftp as a whole.
As long as the asshats who run the ftp require a huge upload to download ratio, it won't be as popular as a system that doesn't, like Kazaa. :(
You're not going to get very much info, because of NDAs, but Playstation had it's own compression algorthm for textures This is partly responsible for the playstation "look" on many of the textures.
One important thing you're missing here is streaming. You don't need to load everything off the disc, because you can stream texture and music, and get rid of it as soon as it's used..
Welcome to 5 years ago.
I've already discovered that women love my hot beef injections.
As a current owner of an Odyssey2, I can safely tell you that keyboard is worthless. Typing on it was slow, and it was only used for non-realtime, because of this problem. Very few games took advantage of it, although the classic K.C. munch did.
You had to be 3 feet from the TV to use it, because the wires weren't that long. Plus, if it gets destroyed, you'll have to buy a new console.
I prefer a removable keyboard, simply because removable = replaceable.
Why aren't we fighting tooth and nail to try and save our planet, our resources and ultimately our way of life?
Simple. How do you fight an unknown enemy? There is some evidience that suggests that the world was much warmer 200 years ago. Mostly from sparce scientific data and anecdotal evidience. Maybe humanity has lived in a cyclic world of heat and cold, and just never noticed until they started keeping records of it.
If we run around like chickens with their heads cut off, we'll never accomplish anything. We DO have time to study the issues and come up with a solution rather than going on an environmental witch hunt.
I'm not sure how many 11 year-olds research sex crimes before they commit them.
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I doubt many 11 year-olds know exactly what a sex crime is.
Sadly, there is no facts on this case & I'm too lazy to look them up. Its possible he deserved the punishment, but the kid himself will never be a deterant to other kids.
He means, there is no special copy protection hardware. Not 'the phone has no hardware at all'.
There is still a large market for Dreamcast, which is now the longest dead concole that is still selling commercial games.
What killed the Dreamcast was piracy, plain and simple. As soon as the boot disks were discovered, the amount of games sold took a nose dive, and the amount of systems sold increased massively.
There best selling game after their priacy crash, was Shenmue, and that was because of all the in game cut scenes made it a monster to download.
isbn: 0-201-69497-2
Title: Designing the User Interface 3rd editon
Quote from page 412:
Approximately 10 studies during the 1980s found 15- to 30-percent slower task times for comprehension or proofreading of text on computer displays compared to on paper. The potential disadantages include these:
The book also lists a proofreading study, done in 1984, where people were able to complete the task between 30-40% faster.
The final study that should be mentioned, was done in 1988, where the resolution and the display of the paper and computer were equal, and everything was set up very ergonomicly. There was no differences in reading speed.
The book concludes that when we get 500 dpi monitors, then reading speed between computers and books will be equal. Until then, you'll have to contend with slower reading times.
The ISP would also need a cut from Kazaa, since they're taking a portion of the bandwidth hit.
As I post this, slashdot is using bandwidth it hasn't payed for! And slashdot is making money hand over fist because of it. Won't someone think of the ISPs?