Indeed... I think trying to compare the importance of flight to a war-effort to ANY Intellectual Property patent is going to result in strange looks and white canvas shirts with reeaally long arms that tie in the back.
Flight revolutionized the world at the time, none of this IP patent nonsense is really earth-shattering
You've got to remember one VERY significant detail...
ATI's got their next gen product on the market, available for purchase...
...Nvidia is still working on NV30, and as such, has a few better things to do with their engineers than have them sit and talk to AnandTech editors...
Heh, actually all my girlfriend insists on is that my monitors all be shutdown/in suspend mode when we go to bed... She doesn't mind the fan noise at all
Honestly, I don't think my system is very loud, 3x80mm cheapy fans, retail p4 cooler... my msi ti4600 makes more noise than the rest of the fans do) A good solid case contains most of the noise anyway...
I honestly have grown to love the steady white-noise of a running computer... I find it difficult to sleep if my computer is shut off, and I know of several others who have found the same thing holds true for them. I have several systems running in my bedroom, and combined, the noise from them would probably drive someone like yourself insane. Myself, I find it comforting.
Even my PS2 has a cooling fan in it, and it's audible from across the living room.
Modern systems (especially modern systems running at 2-3ghz speeds, unlike the G4) are going to require active cooling, and unless you're shelling out $$$ for liquid cooling, you're going to have to deal with some noise.
And that's secure?? May as well add an option under the f8 menu along with the other options...
"Safe Mode"
"Safe Mode with Command Prompt"
[...]
"I'm allowed to have administrator access, really"
I would tend to agree that there should be *some* sort of method to retrieve a lost password, but I don't think it should be as easy as keystrokes or such...
You have to make a decision... which would you rather risk, an unauthorized user potentially getting into your financial data, or an authorized user potentially not being able to access said data...
I stand by my earlier comment that password management isn't the OS' responsibility, it lies with the users and the administrators.
Yes, they should make it EASY for you to login as administrator if you don't know the password... Maybe put a little button on the login prompt that says "Administrator, forgot your password?? Click here to login anyway"
It shouldn't be the OS' responsibility to implement recovery if you somehow manage to lose the password...
Actually, I believe (95% sure) if you checked, you'd see that the application that ships with WinXP SP1 does a bit more than hide a couple of icons... it's supposed to change all references to a web browser, for instance, to NOT point to IE, but to some user-defined application
I'll admit the size of SP1 is a lot larger than this app would require, and I imagine eventually they'll have to release it separately, as a downloadable file, rather than a WindowsUpdate 'feature'... But as many others have noted, this isn't a court-enforced mandate at this point... this is MS trying to pretend they're co-operating:)
In any event, I can't see MS releasing anything as small as 20k (even my long-time fav, PowerToys, weighs in at considerably more than 20k:)
I know it must be shocking, but NWN *has* a plot, and characters... The characters in NWN actually have back-stories... Not just "Barbarian", "Amazon", "Hotdog Vendor"
NWN has a well written, engaging story, with plot twists, betrayal, intrigue, mystery... Diablo's story? "Kill Diablo"
Gamevoice ran fine for me and my friends (one of who was even on dialup) while playing NWN
I play NWN @ 1280x1024x32bpp w/ 4x FSAA on a p4 1.6@2.1 and ti4600 w/ 512mb under XP Pro... no crashes, no chop... The game runs flawlessly on my system, even before they released patches.
"As a last minute attempt at corporate sabotage, he decided to change all of the Computer Administrator passwords on a few of the XP Professional boxes sitting around in the server room.
[...]
It is strictly because of Microsoft's poor implementation of a multi-user computing environment that our company lost three days of productivity."
Let me get this straight... One of your employees gets canned, the rest of your IT team is too incompetent to change the administrator passwords and revoke privledges for said employee before giving them the news... (You guys do realize employees quite often go off the deep end when being let go) And you blame MS for "poor implementation of a multi-user computing environment" rather than blaming your company's IT team for lack of pre-planning...
Please... Excuse me for defending Microsoft, but you've also just realized how secure Windows NT/2k/XP are locally, tho they're full of exploits remotely.
It's because of your own company's poor judgement, and questionable security policies concerning administrator passwords (not to mention getting new systems, NOT recieving admin passwords from Dell at that time, and NOT contacting them immediately) that lost you 3 days of productivity, not because of MS.
Do you think the DoJ basically are using you as an example to dissuade other 'w4r3z d00ds' from pirating commerical software, or do you actually believe they undertook a massive operation to specifically stop DoD?
Do you find most people are more concerned with the morality of software piracy, rather than the legality? (e.g. piracy is bad because its morally wrong rather than piracy is bad because it's illegal)
I don't think anyone is ever going to forget 9/11/01, regardless of whether there is extensive media coverage or not.
We don't need the media to help us remember, or deal with the feelings of loss or anger... That isn't what the media does, they exploit what happens in our daily lives, and then continue to do so ad infinium...
Everyone remember what happened a year ago, but don't dwell on it. 3,000+ civilians losing their lives to an act of terror is no worse than 1 civilian losing their life to an act of terror.
Acts of terror are as much a way of life for the people in the middle east as "mom and apple pie" is for Americans.. The cilvilans there have to deal with stuff like this happening every day, hundreds lose their lives there every year due to car bombs, suicide bombers, you name it... Why doesn't the world mourn for them??
The answer: Nobody's afraid of pissing off a small middle eastern country like they are the US of A...
Not to fall for the troll, but I assume he realizes the US share a fairly substantial border with Canada, and as such, share a fairly substantial amount of weather with Canada:P
Since when did the Europeans start being the competitive ones?
Someone posts a STATISTIC (not a competition) and every ego-centric American goes off about how the US kick's Europe's butts at numbers?
I don't see any Canadians getting all pissy about a statistic... (FYI, we Canucks are a pretty small part of that 182 million... sorry guys, we're not pulling our own weight)
Have some faith... They said the game would rock, and it does...
They've said it'll be out, it'll be out...
From Bioware's Linux Client page:
What we can't give you right now:
- an exact completion date
All we can estimate is that we expect the Linux Client to be available for download in Fall 2002.
What we can give you:
- Linux client screenshots
- an assurance that the Linux client will be released
- a web page for the Linux Client where all updates will take place
1) Chances are this digital storage format would be used for digital video, and not for personal storage (at least on launch, how long was it from the launch of the DVD standard before consumer recordable devices were available?)
2) Digtal video/audio quality/resolution can always be improved, as (eventually) displays will be able to handle a higher res than what DVD offers, and as such, a full-length motion picture will require more space. For that matter, many DVD's we're already watching are multiple disc sets, whereas with any of these new formats, the whole thing could be shipped on one disc.
3) If you think 4.7gb of removable storage is enough, remember the 100mb zip drive? Remember when that was all the space most you ever thought you'd need to take with you? There are USB storage devices with almost this much space (or are there 128mb+ keychains available already?)
4) I'd almost guarantee you we won't be using DVD+RW drives in 10 years, especially if these new formats are available. Considering 10 years ago almost nobody was using CDR for storage, and CDR as a storage format is pretty much starting to phase out already, being replaced by DVD media and such.
Now to sit back and watch the electronics giants fight for supremacy and see which 'standard' is adopted...
"The loss of one gyro will not impact operations. In fact, the station can function with two. Even if three failed, the station can use thrusters for stability, but that means using up precious propellant that has to be flown up from Earth. The gyroscopes work on solar power.
"To lose a CMG is a big deal; this is a major component, but from a risk perspective right now we're in good shape," flight director Paul Hill told reporters. "The next CMG we lose, there is going to be a gut check."
I'd say they're not super-concerned at this point, but if one failed, another could fail quite easily...
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I would assume the LCD is under the 'plexiglas' so that it can't be damaged/scratched?
Indeed... I think trying to compare the importance of flight to a war-effort to ANY Intellectual Property patent is going to result in strange looks and white canvas shirts with reeaally long arms that tie in the back.
Flight revolutionized the world at the time, none of this IP patent nonsense is really earth-shattering
You've got to remember one VERY significant detail...
...Nvidia is still working on NV30, and as such, has a few better things to do with their engineers than have them sit and talk to AnandTech editors...
ATI's got their next gen product on the market, available for purchase...
Heh, actually all my girlfriend insists on is that my monitors all be shutdown/in suspend mode when we go to bed... She doesn't mind the fan noise at all
Honestly, I don't think my system is very loud, 3x80mm cheapy fans, retail p4 cooler... my msi ti4600 makes more noise than the rest of the fans do) A good solid case contains most of the noise anyway...
I honestly have grown to love the steady white-noise of a running computer... I find it difficult to sleep if my computer is shut off, and I know of several others who have found the same thing holds true for them. I have several systems running in my bedroom, and combined, the noise from them would probably drive someone like yourself insane. Myself, I find it comforting.
Even my PS2 has a cooling fan in it, and it's audible from across the living room.
Modern systems (especially modern systems running at 2-3ghz speeds, unlike the G4) are going to require active cooling, and unless you're shelling out $$$ for liquid cooling, you're going to have to deal with some noise.
And that's secure?? May as well add an option under the f8 menu along with the other options...
"Safe Mode"
"Safe Mode with Command Prompt"
[...]
"I'm allowed to have administrator access, really"
I would tend to agree that there should be *some* sort of method to retrieve a lost password, but I don't think it should be as easy as keystrokes or such...
You have to make a decision... which would you rather risk, an unauthorized user potentially getting into your financial data, or an authorized user potentially not being able to access said data...
I stand by my earlier comment that password management isn't the OS' responsibility, it lies with the users and the administrators.
Yes, they should make it EASY for you to login as administrator if you don't know the password... Maybe put a little button on the login prompt that says "Administrator, forgot your password?? Click here to login anyway"
It shouldn't be the OS' responsibility to implement recovery if you somehow manage to lose the password...
Actually, I believe (95% sure) if you checked, you'd see that the application that ships with WinXP SP1 does a bit more than hide a couple of icons... it's supposed to change all references to a web browser, for instance, to NOT point to IE, but to some user-defined application
:)
:)
I'll admit the size of SP1 is a lot larger than this app would require, and I imagine eventually they'll have to release it separately, as a downloadable file, rather than a WindowsUpdate 'feature'... But as many others have noted, this isn't a court-enforced mandate at this point... this is MS trying to pretend they're co-operating
In any event, I can't see MS releasing anything as small as 20k (even my long-time fav, PowerToys, weighs in at considerably more than 20k
You can have your diablo...
I know it must be shocking, but NWN *has* a plot, and characters... The characters in NWN actually have back-stories... Not just "Barbarian", "Amazon", "Hotdog Vendor"
NWN has a well written, engaging story, with plot twists, betrayal, intrigue, mystery... Diablo's story? "Kill Diablo"
Gamevoice ran fine for me and my friends (one of who was even on dialup) while playing NWN
I play NWN @ 1280x1024x32bpp w/ 4x FSAA on a p4 1.6@2.1 and ti4600 w/ 512mb under XP Pro... no crashes, no chop... The game runs flawlessly on my system, even before they released patches.
20k to implement a system of hiding/restricting usage to MS bundled apps (IE/WMP/Outlook/MSN)... You must produce some tight-ass code, my friend...
I'd love to see you create a win32 app to do all that in 20k
"As a last minute attempt at corporate sabotage, he decided to change all of the Computer Administrator passwords on a few of the XP Professional boxes sitting around in the server room.
[...]
It is strictly because of Microsoft's poor implementation of a multi-user computing environment that our company lost three days of productivity."
Let me get this straight... One of your employees gets canned, the rest of your IT team is too incompetent to change the administrator passwords and revoke privledges for said employee before giving them the news... (You guys do realize employees quite often go off the deep end when being let go) And you blame MS for "poor implementation of a multi-user computing environment" rather than blaming your company's IT team for lack of pre-planning...
Please... Excuse me for defending Microsoft, but you've also just realized how secure Windows NT/2k/XP are locally, tho they're full of exploits remotely.
It's because of your own company's poor judgement, and questionable security policies concerning administrator passwords (not to mention getting new systems, NOT recieving admin passwords from Dell at that time, and NOT contacting them immediately) that lost you 3 days of productivity, not because of MS.
No guys... you have it all wrong... HydroPHOBIC would be when windows are scared of water, right???
Where did this guy state that you're *supposed* to feel sorry for him??
This is a question session with a convicted pirater (pirateer?!) not him trying to obtain a public pardon.
Do you think the DoJ basically are using you as an example to dissuade other 'w4r3z d00ds' from pirating commerical software, or do you actually believe they undertook a massive operation to specifically stop DoD?
Do you find most people are more concerned with the morality of software piracy, rather than the legality? (e.g. piracy is bad because its morally wrong rather than piracy is bad because it's illegal)
Where is the DHTML code on this page?"
/. articles properly BECAUSE I'm an idiot"?
Bruce's site uses straight HTML, no graphics at all...
I think Rune69 may have got confused and went to (the alleged) Microsoft run Software Choice site, which DOES use DHTML
Can you say "I'm an idiot"?
How about "I can't read
I don't think anyone is ever going to forget 9/11/01, regardless of whether there is extensive media coverage or not.
We don't need the media to help us remember, or deal with the feelings of loss or anger... That isn't what the media does, they exploit what happens in our daily lives, and then continue to do so ad infinium...
Everyone remember what happened a year ago, but don't dwell on it. 3,000+ civilians losing their lives to an act of terror is no worse than 1 civilian losing their life to an act of terror.
Acts of terror are as much a way of life for the people in the middle east as "mom and apple pie" is for Americans.. The cilvilans there have to deal with stuff like this happening every day, hundreds lose their lives there every year due to car bombs, suicide bombers, you name it... Why doesn't the world mourn for them??
The answer: Nobody's afraid of pissing off a small middle eastern country like they are the US of A...
Opera 6.05 said the same... So it definitely appears the plugin/link are Win/IE limited...
That almost gives me a good justification to owning a cell phone :)
I got a couple of awesome arkanoid theme remixes off of Overclocked Remix that were pretty good as well...
Apollo 13 is coming out on IMAX this month as well
Not to fall for the troll, but I assume he realizes the US share a fairly substantial border with Canada, and as such, share a fairly substantial amount of weather with Canada :P
Since when did the Europeans start being the competitive ones?
Someone posts a STATISTIC (not a competition) and every ego-centric American goes off about how the US kick's Europe's butts at numbers?
I don't see any Canadians getting all pissy about a statistic... (FYI, we Canucks are a pretty small part of that 182 million... sorry guys, we're not pulling our own weight)
They've said it'll be out, it'll be out...
From Bioware's Linux Client page:
How is a woman wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of black pants 'scantily clad' ?
Maybe somewhere in the muslim nation, not anywhere else that I know of...
z.
A couple of points to ponder:
1) Chances are this digital storage format would be used for digital video, and not for personal storage (at least on launch, how long was it from the launch of the DVD standard before consumer recordable devices were available?)
2) Digtal video/audio quality/resolution can always be improved, as (eventually) displays will be able to handle a higher res than what DVD offers, and as such, a full-length motion picture will require more space. For that matter, many DVD's we're already watching are multiple disc sets, whereas with any of these new formats, the whole thing could be shipped on one disc.
3) If you think 4.7gb of removable storage is enough, remember the 100mb zip drive? Remember when that was all the space most you ever thought you'd need to take with you? There are USB storage devices with almost this much space (or are there 128mb+ keychains available already?)
4) I'd almost guarantee you we won't be using DVD+RW drives in 10 years, especially if these new formats are available. Considering 10 years ago almost nobody was using CDR for storage, and CDR as a storage format is pretty much starting to phase out already, being replaced by DVD media and such.
Now to sit back and watch the electronics giants fight for supremacy and see which 'standard' is adopted...
z.
From this article on Yahoo! News: Link
"The loss of one gyro will not impact operations. In fact, the station can function with two. Even if three failed, the station can use thrusters for stability, but that means using up precious propellant that has to be flown up from Earth. The gyroscopes work on solar power.
"To lose a CMG is a big deal; this is a major component, but from a risk perspective right now we're in good shape," flight director Paul Hill told reporters. "The next CMG we lose, there is going to be a gut check."
I'd say they're not super-concerned at this point, but if one failed, another could fail quite easily...