I highly recommend this game. Lots of depth... lots of sneaking around. You don't have to rent anything, and the story is great. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me. And you should feel that you got your money's worth.
I have the exact same processor, and I use a Volcano 9... variable rate fan that will speed up when the thing gets too hot... nice and quiet except when I play a high-poly game. I didn't know that an Athlon XP was rated for higher temps... I guess I shouldn't be so worried when it hits 49C... most of the time it runs at 41C idle!
I don't work for the company, but I plan on buying one in the next two weeks. Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifier has a ton of features that I think will be beneficial to computers as well as people. The thing only consumes 10 Watts! It's completely silent, and it doesn't use disposable air filters. It only uses stainless steel metal plates to filter the air. I suffer from allergies, and I think both my computer and my sinuses will thank me once I have this baby running in my appartment.
I think that an office could definitely benefit from one of these babies! You should see what it does with cigarette smoke! Gone in a flash!
I am also a PowerShow owner... I have a PowerShot S230, and it is probably less expensive than the S400, and it takes 3.2 Megapixel photos. It also supports CF, and it has a great movie mode with mono audio. The video is useable, and the photo quality is excellent for a snapshot camera. The puppy does all the hard work for you when you're outdoors, and the battery lasts a good while too... rechargable Lithium-Ion. USB 1.1, and 9 point auto-focus system. I would recommend these cameras to anyone! We also dropped it once... it went flying across a room when someone flung their arms, and it kept on working. I like the stainless steel case. I would recommend the underwater enclosure if you descide to take it around for rainy days... it should add to the durability of the camera, and make it waterproof. The stainless steel does scratch easily, but at least the lens retracts into the casing. But I still don't think it would survive a dumptruck or a bulldozer.
I think that this excellent novel would be directed well by Brian Singer. He has the kind of quality in a director that really portrays character-driven stories... His work with "The Usual Suspects" and "X-Men" was brilliant, and I think he could bring this Hugo and Nebula award winning story from Orson Scott Card to the big screen with humanity and depth.
I have read the abstract, and everyone who has their nipples in a twist should actually read the abstract. He's not patenting web advertising per se, but advertising relating to bids in auctions. I would have thought that the word "bid" in the patent application would have given this away.
How come no one ever addresses the issue that students who have managed to scrape a computer together probably can't afford to pay for expensive music and movies. This is not to condone the actions of the students, but certainly points to the motivation for piracy. If the students can't afford it, some of them will unfortunately steal it.
Well as a VB developer (don't hit me please), I find that Java seems just a bit unapproachable. Now that I moved to VB.NET, I don't feel as dumb as I used to when it comes to OOP, so I think I could actually get into Java with 4 on the floor. Having a set of tools that make this transition easier for us VB developers would be beneficial for the Java market.
However, I think that most IT departments won't care a hill of beans to migrate all their existing code to another codebase because the tools are good. I think this will bring newer projects online with Java, and create a bit more competition in the desktop application market. Look back to what C was with Windows 3.1... Visual Basic made Windows programming easy. If this is any indication, then the new Java tools will give developers a leg-up on cross-platform development with Java.
All the world needs is another MMORPG to subdue our culture and take away our valuable time where we could instead be spending with each other. Play a MMORPG for what gain? To play endlessly and spend horrendous amounts of money playing a game that will never amount to very much other than a depleted credit card. There is NO gain in it. In fact, there are articles on/. that talk about how people who play MMORPGs are unhappy with them. I think it's because they are ultimately unfulfilling. Playing MMORPGs... to what end?
Everyone got the 32k+ games, but what about the company itself?
What is interesting everyone, is that if you look at the company info, they were only formed in October 2002. They plan on launching their platform in November 2003. They haven't even been in business for 4 months! I would NEVER buy a console from a company that puts out such a suspicious press release without actually backing any of their claims with hard evidence, screenshots, etc.
I installed SpyBot-Search & Destroy 1.1 and I hardly get ANY pop-ups or doublclick ads anymore... I don't know what the software did, but I actually don't see 75% of the crap ads out there... and I DO see only ads that are relevant to my interests. I hardly get pop-ups either, though I haven't blocked all of them yet.
Check out this program... its great for killing spyware too!
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Hello Mr. Shatner,
If you were to have grown up amongst the Generation-Xers (born 1966 to 1975), what do you think you'd be working at instead of acting? Have you ever thought about a career outside of acting or the public? Did you ever have a secret passion for something other than acting?
Thanks... I think a lot of us are wondering if you'd be a geek just like us here on/.
You know... having read a LOT of the Expanded Universe, I think we're needlessly comparing apples to shit... there is NO comparison.
The Expanded Universe concept was introduced in the 90's, where the Ewoks and Droids were introduced in the 80's. The current Star Wars novels are on average pretty good, and LucasArts Licensing has done a pretty good job with continuity across the storyline over the years. I certainly hope (as an avid Star Wars fan) that LucasArts Licensing does the series some justice and manages to incorporate enough of the historical mythology of the Star Wars universe before and during the E1 and E2 movies. Please no more winner TV specials either *ugh*!
Ok, just so I don't end up eating my words in 6 months from now...
Dear LucasArts and Mr. Lucas,
Please don't screw up this new animated series. Most of your Star Wars video games until recently have sucked, and your animated series from the past have sucked too. Don't forget your awful TV specials either. Your books are good, and your last two movies have been passable as entertainment. Please don't add this new animated series to the pile of Star Wars material that sucks monkey bobo.
Your fan,
CokoBWare
P.S.: If you all screw this up, I will personally hire a clone of Jango Fett and have him unleash a can of whoopass on all of you.
Although we used the tactic for web-based attacks on our servers, our security manager has been dilligently block the subnets responsible for the attack... interestingly enough the majority from China, Korea, and Russia. We still get attacked, but progressively over the last year, most of the attacks have turned out to be North American domestic attacks. I guess hackers are gaining access to more domestic unprotected systems than ever before.
So a few words to all network security admins.... patch up the dang holes in your servers! ISPs... keep your SMPT servers safe from relaying...
You know, there would be a lot less of this niggling and policy crap (and rights being trampled, etc.) if some smart people mandated the creation of the.xxx domain extension. Easy to identify, easy to filter, easy to block. I guess it's not so easy to enforce. How could you enforce companies to use the new domain extension and abandon their old one by law with many countries having different pornography laws? Credit card companies could be mandated to refuse to pay for porn access from companies outside of this.xxx domain. You're a.com smutt dealer? Sorry, you're not getting paid!
Well anyways, David Coursey once talked about this idea (though most likely not his original idea) being one of the more simple approaches to tackle the censorship of Internet porn.
My wife even said "the reviewer was probably 12 years old and couldn't get past the first level..." That explaines it! Normally I wouldn't repeat this, but come on... we all know how much our wives are videogame widows. My wife not only dissed the commentator, but she is going to buy me a copy for Christmas!
I can't believe this is for a console! I own a PS2, and yes, the game seems made for a console, but I would have thought that this SHOULD have been made for the PC. I will buy it, but I was just hoping to flex my PC's muscles and play this game at my desk with a real keyboard and mouse instead of an awkward console controller.
It's StarCraft after all...made for and inspired by the PC... what else will the video game publishers take away from the PC gamers who MADE the next generation gaming market?
@Home went bankrupt? Holy crap! What's this world coming to? No wonder I switched from cable high-speed internet to DSL!
(Yes I did think it was about @Home actually);)
I work in a company where HIPAA compliance has been mandated by our legal counsel for liability reasons. Here's what I've managed to synthesize from the requirements...
1. HIPAA is meant to protect the patient and their medical information from getting leaked out into the public.
2. HIPAA is good, and it requires organizations working with medical data to treat it as sensitive information. Medical data of patients should be kept safe like your own children (not the best example, but you get the point).
3. Protect the association between a paitient and their medical information. There is nothing wrong with having medical information less secure unless it is accompanied by anything traceable to a patient (like SSN, address, name, next-of-kin, etc.).
4. HIPAA demands that any time personal medical information is viewed or used, it needs to be tracked somehow to show the fingerprint trail.
5. Protect all information systems from unauthorized access, including computer systems, physical claims, etc. Your premises should be as secure as your network!
6. Read the HIPAA proposal, AND look for summaries on HIPAA. If the HIPAA proposal is too dense a read, then the summaries will help you get started.
7. Form a HIPAA committee... usually one person from each department or overseeing group to help make implementations possible.
8. Get your company audited for HIPAA compliance after you have implemented your measures. This way, you can have an "objective" 3rd-party evaluate your compliance and suggest remedies before the deadline.
9. Don't get caught up in "If they can't enforce it, why should I bother?" That's lazy... would you want your personal medical information left on the sidewalk for someone to pick up and use against you? These are peoples lives we're talking about!
Well I've said enough. I am NO expert on HIPAA, but I have our CIO's and Security Manager's ear. These few points are what I've managed to make sense of while discussing the topic with them.
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I highly recommend this game. Lots of depth... lots of sneaking around. You don't have to rent anything, and the story is great. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me. And you should feel that you got your money's worth.
I have the exact same processor, and I use a Volcano 9... variable rate fan that will speed up when the thing gets too hot... nice and quiet except when I play a high-poly game. I didn't know that an Athlon XP was rated for higher temps... I guess I shouldn't be so worried when it hits 49C... most of the time it runs at 41C idle!
I think that an office could definitely benefit from one of these babies! You should see what it does with cigarette smoke! Gone in a flash!
I am also a PowerShow owner... I have a PowerShot S230, and it is probably less expensive than the S400, and it takes 3.2 Megapixel photos. It also supports CF, and it has a great movie mode with mono audio. The video is useable, and the photo quality is excellent for a snapshot camera. The puppy does all the hard work for you when you're outdoors, and the battery lasts a good while too... rechargable Lithium-Ion. USB 1.1, and 9 point auto-focus system. I would recommend these cameras to anyone! We also dropped it once... it went flying across a room when someone flung their arms, and it kept on working. I like the stainless steel case. I would recommend the underwater enclosure if you descide to take it around for rainy days... it should add to the durability of the camera, and make it waterproof. The stainless steel does scratch easily, but at least the lens retracts into the casing. But I still don't think it would survive a dumptruck or a bulldozer.
I think that this excellent novel would be directed well by Brian Singer. He has the kind of quality in a director that really portrays character-driven stories... His work with "The Usual Suspects" and "X-Men" was brilliant, and I think he could bring this Hugo and Nebula award winning story from Orson Scott Card to the big screen with humanity and depth.
Heh... I'll admit it when I am a doofus too... I read the patent... obviously not too well.
I have read the abstract, and everyone who has their nipples in a twist should actually read the abstract. He's not patenting web advertising per se, but advertising relating to bids in auctions. I would have thought that the word "bid" in the patent application would have given this away.
BTW, I hate dumb patents.
How come no one ever addresses the issue that students who have managed to scrape a computer together probably can't afford to pay for expensive music and movies. This is not to condone the actions of the students, but certainly points to the motivation for piracy. If the students can't afford it, some of them will unfortunately steal it.
Well as a VB developer (don't hit me please), I find that Java seems just a bit unapproachable. Now that I moved to VB.NET, I don't feel as dumb as I used to when it comes to OOP, so I think I could actually get into Java with 4 on the floor. Having a set of tools that make this transition easier for us VB developers would be beneficial for the Java market.
However, I think that most IT departments won't care a hill of beans to migrate all their existing code to another codebase because the tools are good. I think this will bring newer projects online with Java, and create a bit more competition in the desktop application market. Look back to what C was with Windows 3.1... Visual Basic made Windows programming easy. If this is any indication, then the new Java tools will give developers a leg-up on cross-platform development with Java.
And the most profitable...
:D
3D porn... I know it's the lowest common denominator, but I bet you anything that it will drive the consumer market
All the world needs is another MMORPG to subdue our culture and take away our valuable time where we could instead be spending with each other. Play a MMORPG for what gain? To play endlessly and spend horrendous amounts of money playing a game that will never amount to very much other than a depleted credit card. There is NO gain in it. In fact, there are articles on /. that talk about how people who play MMORPGs are unhappy with them. I think it's because they are ultimately unfulfilling. Playing MMORPGs... to what end?
Everyone got the 32k+ games, but what about the company itself?
What is interesting everyone, is that if you look at the company info, they were only formed in October 2002. They plan on launching their platform in November 2003. They haven't even been in business for 4 months! I would NEVER buy a console from a company that puts out such a suspicious press release without actually backing any of their claims with hard evidence, screenshots, etc.
Something fishy is going on here...
I installed SpyBot-Search & Destroy 1.1 and I hardly get ANY pop-ups or doublclick ads anymore... I don't know what the software did, but I actually don't see 75% of the crap ads out there... and I DO see only ads that are relevant to my interests. I hardly get pop-ups either, though I haven't blocked all of them yet.
Check out this program... its great for killing spyware too!
Hello Mr. Shatner,
/.
If you were to have grown up amongst the Generation-Xers (born 1966 to 1975), what do you think you'd be working at instead of acting? Have you ever thought about a career outside of acting or the public? Did you ever have a secret passion for something other than acting?
Thanks... I think a lot of us are wondering if you'd be a geek just like us here on
You know... having read a LOT of the Expanded Universe, I think we're needlessly comparing apples to shit... there is NO comparison.
The Expanded Universe concept was introduced in the 90's, where the Ewoks and Droids were introduced in the 80's. The current Star Wars novels are on average pretty good, and LucasArts Licensing has done a pretty good job with continuity across the storyline over the years. I certainly hope (as an avid Star Wars fan) that LucasArts Licensing does the series some justice and manages to incorporate enough of the historical mythology of the Star Wars universe before and during the E1 and E2 movies. Please no more winner TV specials either *ugh*!
Ok, just so I don't end up eating my words in 6 months from now...
Dear LucasArts and Mr. Lucas,Please don't screw up this new animated series. Most of your Star Wars video games until recently have sucked, and your animated series from the past have sucked too. Don't forget your awful TV specials either. Your books are good, and your last two movies have been passable as entertainment. Please don't add this new animated series to the pile of Star Wars material that sucks monkey bobo.
Your fan,
CokoBWare
P.S.: If you all screw this up, I will personally hire a clone of Jango Fett and have him unleash a can of whoopass on all of you.
WTF are you thinking dude? Your wife will be going apeshit! Better go to divorce.com and get your on-line divorce papers! ;-)
Remember that revenue != profit... Their $177M loss was after their revenue - expenses.
;-)
Formula is R - E = Profit (or Loss)...
Now fill in our formula...
R = 505
P = -177
Therefore
Expenses = Revenue - Profit
So... Expenses = $505M - (-$177M)
or E = $505M + $177M
finally, E = $682M
God I love algebra!
Although we used the tactic for web-based attacks on our servers, our security manager has been dilligently block the subnets responsible for the attack... interestingly enough the majority from China, Korea, and Russia. We still get attacked, but progressively over the last year, most of the attacks have turned out to be North American domestic attacks. I guess hackers are gaining access to more domestic unprotected systems than ever before.
.... patch up the dang holes in your servers! ISPs... keep your SMPT servers safe from relaying...
So a few words to all network security admins
Or as Nike says... Just Do It!
You know, there would be a lot less of this niggling and policy crap (and rights being trampled, etc.) if some smart people mandated the creation of the .xxx domain extension. Easy to identify, easy to filter, easy to block. I guess it's not so easy to enforce. How could you enforce companies to use the new domain extension and abandon their old one by law with many countries having different pornography laws? Credit card companies could be mandated to refuse to pay for porn access from companies outside of this .xxx domain. You're a .com smutt dealer? Sorry, you're not getting paid!
Well anyways, David Coursey once talked about this idea (though most likely not his original idea) being one of the more simple approaches to tackle the censorship of Internet porn.
Something to think about methinks!
My wife even said "the reviewer was probably 12 years old and couldn't get past the first level..." That explaines it! Normally I wouldn't repeat this, but come on... we all know how much our wives are videogame widows. My wife not only dissed the commentator, but she is going to buy me a copy for Christmas!
Rock on, Rockstar!
I can't believe this is for a console! I own a PS2, and yes, the game seems made for a console, but I would have thought that this SHOULD have been made for the PC. I will buy it, but I was just hoping to flex my PC's muscles and play this game at my desk with a real keyboard and mouse instead of an awkward console controller.
It's StarCraft after all...made for and inspired by the PC... what else will the video game publishers take away from the PC gamers who MADE the next generation gaming market?
@Home went bankrupt? Holy crap! What's this world coming to? No wonder I switched from cable high-speed internet to DSL! (Yes I did think it was about @Home actually) ;)
Hi guys,
I work in a company where HIPAA compliance has been mandated by our legal counsel for liability reasons. Here's what I've managed to synthesize from the requirements...
1. HIPAA is meant to protect the patient and their medical information from getting leaked out into the public.
2. HIPAA is good, and it requires organizations working with medical data to treat it as sensitive information. Medical data of patients should be kept safe like your own children (not the best example, but you get the point).
3. Protect the association between a paitient and their medical information. There is nothing wrong with having medical information less secure unless it is accompanied by anything traceable to a patient (like SSN, address, name, next-of-kin, etc.).
4. HIPAA demands that any time personal medical information is viewed or used, it needs to be tracked somehow to show the fingerprint trail.
5. Protect all information systems from unauthorized access, including computer systems, physical claims, etc. Your premises should be as secure as your network!
6. Read the HIPAA proposal, AND look for summaries on HIPAA. If the HIPAA proposal is too dense a read, then the summaries will help you get started.
7. Form a HIPAA committee... usually one person from each department or overseeing group to help make implementations possible.
8. Get your company audited for HIPAA compliance after you have implemented your measures. This way, you can have an "objective" 3rd-party evaluate your compliance and suggest remedies before the deadline.
9. Don't get caught up in "If they can't enforce it, why should I bother?" That's lazy... would you want your personal medical information left on the sidewalk for someone to pick up and use against you? These are peoples lives we're talking about!
Well I've said enough. I am NO expert on HIPAA, but I have our CIO's and Security Manager's ear. These few points are what I've managed to make sense of while discussing the topic with them.
Good luck on your own HIPAA compliance efforts.
CokoBWare
If we feel this is a good cause towards humanity's future, let's not sit on our hands, and consider donating to this worthy cause!
Here's the URL... I hope many of your readers use it:
PS: I do not work for SETI@Home. I just think the Internet could work in it's favour if we all shelled out $5+ a piece
Once quick thing to do... cut the headphones off and splice in a line out jack... easy as PIE.