1. Gambling is regulated by the state. A better example would be something like chess. The chess club could kick you out or fine you if you wanted to stay, but unless you signed a legally binding contract, they couldn't go any further.
2. If it was any other EULA (possibly even other clauses of WoW's), you probably wouldn't give a rat's ass about it.
Although I find the fact that a bad animated mouse cursor can subject me to a remote code execution exploit to be adding insult to injury, this isn't something unique to Windows. Something has to parse the cursor file, and it runs as whatever the current user is, and thus has the privileges of the current user. If Linux's GUI had a shitty implementation of an animated mouse cursor file, it would subject to the same exploit (but probably with less damage because you're less likely to be running as root).
How about an hourglass? The animation is merely for looks, the animation is not necessary for feedback. It's not like the animation is actually tied to the progress anyways. It's like those sites that use animated GIFs as a "progress bar" -- there is nothing tying progress of the task to progress of the animation.
I wonder how the JO would feel if he were kicked out of his house or lost his car or his paycheck for a week because his neighbors were under investigation.
Okay, but I still believe a CD (and especially a DVD) would do far better than a tape. Note they also talked about "recovering" the data -- the same can be done on a CD/DVD. The main difference is going to be data density associated with digital formats, especially compressed formats. But it's also easier to make backups and distribute them with digital formats. With analog formats, there's always something special about that "master copy", but there's no such thing with digital media.
If a CD had been submerged in water, it would've been fine. There's no point in making the comparison if it wouldn't have been damaged in the first place. They need to find a better example.
Knowing how to secure both Linux and Windows, plus understanding Cisco firewall configurations (or Shorewall/iptables) -- not to mention having a firm grasp of web application security -- is not a realistic expectation of any newly graduated employee, much less a seasoned veteran.
What? I'm guessing that maybe this is because a seasoned veteran would expect for the network to be maintained correctly? Especially the firewall?
I'm guessing that someone did a poor job of proofing that article, or just has their expressions backwards (along the lines of "I could care less").
Apple creates commercials that portray the Mac as a jeans-clad hipster and a Windows PCs as a balding lame-o in a suit. They believe it will harm Microsoft. News at 11.
Part of the problem with in-place upper/lower case functions is that once you go beyond ASCII, you get into situations where the string can actually change length. One I remember in particular is that the German beta looking character changes to "ss" when you lower-case it.
It's sad to think that geniuses may languish among the world's millions of underprivileged children who lack access to education. When you think of the potential impact of a single person of the caliber of Mozart, Ramanujan, etc., our civilization could be missing out on some truly wonderful things.
Yes, but think of all the Hitlers we're also missing out on. We'd better play it safe and hold them down. Besides, they only discover things I don't care about or don't want to hear.
I'm definitely going to buy LED bulbs when they come down in price. Much longer lasting than any other type of bulb under on/off cycling, a fraction of the power usage of even CFLs, easier to make work with dimmers, easier to control color temperature, instant-on, no warm-up... the advantages are huge. Think of all the blinking LEDs you've seen -- they can easily withstand the stresses of continuous cycling. My only concern is the environmental cost of building them -- but I suspect that when they become cheap, some of these production problems will have been solved.
The heat not put out by CFLs during the winter can be compensated for by running an electric heater slightly longer (no loss) or a gas heater slightly longer (net gain). If you want your electric heat to do something useful (besides heating you), run the electricity through a computer. It's just as efficient as an electric heater, which is to say 100% aside from negligible RF, and performs computations as a byproduct. The power company may disagree if you have a low PF power supply, but PF corrected PSUs are available and IIRC, mandated in Europe.
I just bought a variety of CFL bulbs for my house. They are instant-on; however, there is a very marked difference in brightness at startup. Even the CFL manufacturer websites talk about this. I was most noticeable when I had a mix of incandescent and CFL bulbs in my kitchen. The CFL bulbs were maybe half the brightness (or less) of the incandescent bulbs when first turned on, but were pretty close in about a minute, and were just as bright and maybe even a tad brighter after a couple more minutes. You should try putting two bulbs side by side from a cold start -- unless you have some fancy CFL bulb that gets around the problem, you'll definitely notice the difference. I'm not trying to knock CFL -- I use them a lot, and my kitchen is now all CFL despite the initial dimness. But there is a difference at startup.
I also have some plain fluorescent lights throughout. I bought all the fixtures at two separate times -- this year and about one year ago. Those I bought this year have instant-on ballasts, but the ones I bought last year flicker for a second or two before coming full on. I have cold-start ballasts in my garage, also new -- those bastards buzz very loudly. Definitely belong in the garage.
I mean the compact flouresent bulbs use more energy on startup and all too.
Mythbusters tested a variety of bulbs, and a CF's startup cost was a small fraction of a second, I think even lower than the small startup cost of a regular bulb. In fact, all regular bulbs except standard fluorescent bulbs had almost negligible startup costs. The fluorescent bulb had a startup cost of 23 seconds IIRC, still pretty small in most cases.
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Two points:
1. Gambling is regulated by the state. A better example would be something like chess. The chess club could kick you out or fine you if you wanted to stay, but unless you signed a legally binding contract, they couldn't go any further.
2. If it was any other EULA (possibly even other clauses of WoW's), you probably wouldn't give a rat's ass about it.
I don't like cheaters, but it's not the law's job to support Blizzard's business model.
And even Y2K didn't make legacy COBOL go away...
Although I find the fact that a bad animated mouse cursor can subject me to a remote code execution exploit to be adding insult to injury, this isn't something unique to Windows. Something has to parse the cursor file, and it runs as whatever the current user is, and thus has the privileges of the current user. If Linux's GUI had a shitty implementation of an animated mouse cursor file, it would subject to the same exploit (but probably with less damage because you're less likely to be running as root).
How about an hourglass? The animation is merely for looks, the animation is not necessary for feedback. It's not like the animation is actually tied to the progress anyways. It's like those sites that use animated GIFs as a "progress bar" -- there is nothing tying progress of the task to progress of the animation.
I wonder how the JO would feel if he were kicked out of his house or lost his car or his paycheck for a week because his neighbors were under investigation.
I bet the owner will really feel special when their million dollar laptop bluescreens.
Okay, but I still believe a CD (and especially a DVD) would do far better than a tape. Note they also talked about "recovering" the data -- the same can be done on a CD/DVD. The main difference is going to be data density associated with digital formats, especially compressed formats. But it's also easier to make backups and distribute them with digital formats. With analog formats, there's always something special about that "master copy", but there's no such thing with digital media.
If a CD had been submerged in water, it would've been fine. There's no point in making the comparison if it wouldn't have been damaged in the first place. They need to find a better example.
Dumbfuck article summary (did anyone bother to proof it even once??)
The fund represented in the lost files was worth $38 billion. It'd be like if I had a QuickBooks file on my $38 billion account, and I erase the file.
Big businesses do not own massive climate controlled rooms filled with panties. We hope.
Apple creates commercials that portray the Mac as a jeans-clad hipster and a Windows PCs as a balding lame-o in a suit. They believe it will harm Microsoft. News at 11.
Part of the problem with in-place upper/lower case functions is that once you go beyond ASCII, you get into situations where the string can actually change length. One I remember in particular is that the German beta looking character changes to "ss" when you lower-case it.
I'm definitely going to buy LED bulbs when they come down in price. Much longer lasting than any other type of bulb under on/off cycling, a fraction of the power usage of even CFLs, easier to make work with dimmers, easier to control color temperature, instant-on, no warm-up... the advantages are huge. Think of all the blinking LEDs you've seen -- they can easily withstand the stresses of continuous cycling. My only concern is the environmental cost of building them -- but I suspect that when they become cheap, some of these production problems will have been solved.
The heat not put out by CFLs during the winter can be compensated for by running an electric heater slightly longer (no loss) or a gas heater slightly longer (net gain). If you want your electric heat to do something useful (besides heating you), run the electricity through a computer. It's just as efficient as an electric heater, which is to say 100% aside from negligible RF, and performs computations as a byproduct. The power company may disagree if you have a low PF power supply, but PF corrected PSUs are available and IIRC, mandated in Europe.
I just bought a variety of CFL bulbs for my house. They are instant-on; however, there is a very marked difference in brightness at startup. Even the CFL manufacturer websites talk about this. I was most noticeable when I had a mix of incandescent and CFL bulbs in my kitchen. The CFL bulbs were maybe half the brightness (or less) of the incandescent bulbs when first turned on, but were pretty close in about a minute, and were just as bright and maybe even a tad brighter after a couple more minutes. You should try putting two bulbs side by side from a cold start -- unless you have some fancy CFL bulb that gets around the problem, you'll definitely notice the difference. I'm not trying to knock CFL -- I use them a lot, and my kitchen is now all CFL despite the initial dimness. But there is a difference at startup.
I also have some plain fluorescent lights throughout. I bought all the fixtures at two separate times -- this year and about one year ago. Those I bought this year have instant-on ballasts, but the ones I bought last year flicker for a second or two before coming full on. I have cold-start ballasts in my garage, also new -- those bastards buzz very loudly. Definitely belong in the garage.