Exactly. SSL and Certs solves the wrong problem. It's hard for somebody to actually sit in the middle of your connection and do an actual MITM attack. It's much easier to just break into the database at the other end of the connection and steal all the data. The solution isn't to encrypt the credit card number, as it travels to the reseller. The real solution is to not send them the credit card number at all, and just send the retailer a signed cert from the credit card company, verifying that the transfer has been from the buyer to the reseller has been approved. The reason something like this didn't get set up, is because it means the retailer has to do a little more work to get things set up initially. We went with the easy method rather than the secure method in this instance.
I know a guy who played on a passive lcd display on an old laptop. There was more than 8 fps, but everything really blurred together to the point where it was almost unplayable. When he upgraded to a real screen, he started to really win quite a bit, as he was so used to playing with such a bad view of the game. He almost learned to play blind.
Which is quite odd, because you can still buy Windows XP OEM edition from TigerDirect. I think the best way to get a computer with XP would be to buy a barebones PC, and then buy an OEM copy of XP to go with it.
Or any other edition. I personally find that the standard version provides more than enough features for most developers, and costs a lot less than the full MSDN, and has no recurring subscription costs. You could go all out and get Team System, but it's a lot cheaper to just use the standard version, and go with SVN for source control, and NUnit for unit testing. Team System costs 15 times as much as standard, yet offers only a minimal amount of functionality over what you could do with the standard version + add-ons. Many development shops I've been to don't have MSDN subscriptions for all their developers. And it seems like the ones who do have it seem to enjoy spending lots of money on useless stuff, like government and uber-huge corporations.
Haven't met a lot of windows admins, have you? That isn't to say that there aren't a lot of really good Windows Admins, but the lucrative market attracts all kinds of people. Lots of good people, and lots of really bad people.
What I find interesting, just from a quick glance at the chart beside the article, is that apparently parents only buy between 1 and 2 science/math items, regardless of the sex of the child. That number seems to be way too low on both sides of the line. Also, it doesn't seem to address the reason of why they are buying more math/science toys for the boys, or why they are doing more math/science activities with the boys. As a parent myself I can say this. You generally try to buy toys that the kid is interested in. You also try to do activities, that the child is interested in. If you try to buy toys that the child isn't interested in playing with, or doing activities that the child isn't interested in, then your wallet will be quite a bit lighter, and the child will be extremely bored. If on the other hand, you try to feed your child's interests, you wallet will still be light, but at least your kids will be having fun.
You don't even have to go as far as fourth grade. Just look at a 4 year old boy compared to a 4 year old girl. Watch how they play with with others of the same sex, and others of opposite sex, and tell me there are no inherent differences. I'm a father of 2 girls, and although they have some tendencies that one might stereotypically associate with boys, such as playing with trucks, their behaviors are vastly different from most boys. You can start to see the differences at a very young age, and it has nothing to do with how they are raised. They've been able to find similar differences in chimps.
Because the last OS put out previous to Vista was Windows XP. That's why we are talking about such old software. It's only 1 version behind current. The biggest problem, is that there's a lot of people who have XP discs with no service pack incorporated. When you reinstall from these discs, and try to connect to the internet to download SP2, your computer is owned before you can even download the service pack. That's a major problem.
I'd settle for being able to stretch/shrink a wallpaper image to the size of the desktop without messing up the aspect ratio. They had a team working 5 years on the Windows Vista shutdown menu, and couldn't find an intern to spend 1 afternoon making it so you can just slap an image on the desktop without it looking like crap.
The English language also has no word for the day after tomorrow. Many other languages do. It's not that English doesn't have any use for this word. The concept exists in English culture. However, creating a new word for a concept rather than stringing already existing words together to portray the same concept seems to be a matter of how important and often used the word might be.
Personally, I find my hearing gets a lot better just putting on a good set of headphones. It really helps to pin down exactly where the sound is coming from. It's a lot easier than trying to get perfect placement on your 5.1 setup.
I have the same router. Never had it reboot on itself. At least not that I noticed. There is one problem I do have with it though. If I leave the WiiConnect 24 on, it craps out and requires a reboot after a few hours for any other wireless devices to connect.
Well, I like my iPod Nano. It wasn't too expensive and works pretty well. I'm not unhappy with it. I don't think it's the best device possible, but unless they made a media player custom designed for me, I don't think I would ever find anything to be perfect. As far as cell phones go, I find the iPhone to be quite expensive, and the fact that it doesn't have buttons just annoys me to no end. There's no reason they couldn't put buttons on the back, or a long row of buttons along the side to facilitate dialing with some tactile feedback, and without having to look at the phone. With my current phone, I can dial my top 8 numbers with holding down a single key for a couple seconds. Can you do this on the iPhone? I think the iPhone is throwing out a lot of phone features, just to bring in other music/video/photo features. To me that's less reason to buy it. I' probably be happier with a phone that's just a phone, and an ipod touch.
Isn't that the whole point of the distro though? They should do some testing to ensure that packages they release with their distro are really up to snuff. Just because somebody decides to call something ready, doesn't mean it should be included in the distro. Different distros take different approaches with what they consider ready. Debian stable usually stays well behind the curve, while Fedora seems to be quite bleeding edge. I also think KDE should have made it really clear that it wasn't feature complete, and also not stable, but the distros shouldn't blindly pick it up and push it on users, regardless of what KDE says about it.
I'm using Mandriva 2008.1, and it's an option on there. The default KDE is still 3.5, but it's really easy to install KDE4. You can install them both at the same time, and the settings and all libraries are separate, so you can play around with 4, without having to commit to using it.
Just a shot in the dark here, but it might have something to do with the repository mirror you are using. Let's say for instance that it's an FTP mirror. Well some FTP servers return really weird directory listings that the system can't end up parsing, and there are a bunch of ftp servers that don't support the non-standard SIZE command. You see, FTP was originally meant to be done via a command line and be human readable. So they didn't put anything in there that made it easy for a computer to parse and figure out information about the files. So sometimes servers return unparsable data back, that the ftp code can't handle, and most of the time, it fails to get the size of the file. This is why for years, IE wouldn't tell you the size of the file you were downloading if it happened to come from an FTP site. I think it's specific for you repository mirror, because my copy of Mandriva 2008.1 shows me file sizes and a progress bar for all my updates.
The Gdium looks really nice. I really like the idea of the GKey. I always thought that eventually people wouldn't carry laptops and computers around, and instead would just carry a USB key with all their apps and data on it, and just plug it into any computer they came across. And they get the computer experience they are used to on every computer. This looks like a small step in that direction.
I've used Mandriva ever since the year 2000, and when Ubuntu came around, I never really caught on to what all the hype was about. It was touted as being more desktop friendly, but in the first few iterations, it was anything but. And I still don't think it really has anything that makes it that much more attractive than Mandriva. I still use and prefer Mandriva. After you hook up a few extra repositories, like PLF, you can basically install any piece of software available for Linux, and it takes care of all the dependancies. Ubuntu users push the strenghts of apt-get, but I really don't see what it does that urpmi doesn't.
To only Amanda Hudson I can find is a camera operator. She's done some pretty big movies, but I don't see why anything in her life would be in the news. Maybe she's related to Kate Hudson. Anyway, I find the amount of attention rich people get in the news to be way over the top.
Yeah. I think the trick here is that Google doesn't try to muck up their main entry point displaying everything they support while yahoo does. You can go to search.yahoo.com and get a nice little search screen, very similar to google. But most people don't go there. They go to www.yahoo.com. I think Google was smart in keeping their homepage simple.
I think something like Tor would be useful also. Because even if your communications are encrypted, they can tell a lot about you just by the people you are communicating with, even if they don't know what you are saying. Also, things like bittorrent encryption are only good for getting past your ISPs traffic handling services, and do nothing to disguise your identity from other people connected to the same swarm. Another possibility, since Tor is so horribly slow, would be to have encrypted communication of non-sense information between you and a bunch of random parties. That way they wouldn't be able to tell who you were really communicating with, and who you were just sending random garbage to.
I had an old ATI TV Tuner card. If you opened up MSPaint, and drew in purple, the video would show through. So you fill the picture with purple, and then select the yellow brush, and you had yourself a really cheap telestrator.
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Exactly. SSL and Certs solves the wrong problem. It's hard for somebody to actually sit in the middle of your connection and do an actual MITM attack. It's much easier to just break into the database at the other end of the connection and steal all the data. The solution isn't to encrypt the credit card number, as it travels to the reseller. The real solution is to not send them the credit card number at all, and just send the retailer a signed cert from the credit card company, verifying that the transfer has been from the buyer to the reseller has been approved. The reason something like this didn't get set up, is because it means the retailer has to do a little more work to get things set up initially. We went with the easy method rather than the secure method in this instance.
I know a guy who played on a passive lcd display on an old laptop. There was more than 8 fps, but everything really blurred together to the point where it was almost unplayable. When he upgraded to a real screen, he started to really win quite a bit, as he was so used to playing with such a bad view of the game. He almost learned to play blind.
Which is quite odd, because you can still buy Windows XP OEM edition from TigerDirect. I think the best way to get a computer with XP would be to buy a barebones PC, and then buy an OEM copy of XP to go with it.
Or any other edition. I personally find that the standard version provides more than enough features for most developers, and costs a lot less than the full MSDN, and has no recurring subscription costs. You could go all out and get Team System, but it's a lot cheaper to just use the standard version, and go with SVN for source control, and NUnit for unit testing. Team System costs 15 times as much as standard, yet offers only a minimal amount of functionality over what you could do with the standard version + add-ons. Many development shops I've been to don't have MSDN subscriptions for all their developers. And it seems like the ones who do have it seem to enjoy spending lots of money on useless stuff, like government and uber-huge corporations.
Haven't met a lot of windows admins, have you? That isn't to say that there aren't a lot of really good Windows Admins, but the lucrative market attracts all kinds of people. Lots of good people, and lots of really bad people.
Do these hardware firewalls work with dial-up connections?
What I find interesting, just from a quick glance at the chart beside the article, is that apparently parents only buy between 1 and 2 science/math items, regardless of the sex of the child. That number seems to be way too low on both sides of the line. Also, it doesn't seem to address the reason of why they are buying more math/science toys for the boys, or why they are doing more math/science activities with the boys. As a parent myself I can say this. You generally try to buy toys that the kid is interested in. You also try to do activities, that the child is interested in. If you try to buy toys that the child isn't interested in playing with, or doing activities that the child isn't interested in, then your wallet will be quite a bit lighter, and the child will be extremely bored. If on the other hand, you try to feed your child's interests, you wallet will still be light, but at least your kids will be having fun.
You don't even have to go as far as fourth grade. Just look at a 4 year old boy compared to a 4 year old girl. Watch how they play with with others of the same sex, and others of opposite sex, and tell me there are no inherent differences. I'm a father of 2 girls, and although they have some tendencies that one might stereotypically associate with boys, such as playing with trucks, their behaviors are vastly different from most boys. You can start to see the differences at a very young age, and it has nothing to do with how they are raised. They've been able to find similar differences in chimps.
Because the last OS put out previous to Vista was Windows XP. That's why we are talking about such old software. It's only 1 version behind current. The biggest problem, is that there's a lot of people who have XP discs with no service pack incorporated. When you reinstall from these discs, and try to connect to the internet to download SP2, your computer is owned before you can even download the service pack. That's a major problem.
I'd settle for being able to stretch/shrink a wallpaper image to the size of the desktop without messing up the aspect ratio. They had a team working 5 years on the Windows Vista shutdown menu, and couldn't find an intern to spend 1 afternoon making it so you can just slap an image on the desktop without it looking like crap.
Just hope you're not using VS.Net. That background compiler could be deadly.
The English language also has no word for the day after tomorrow. Many other languages do. It's not that English doesn't have any use for this word. The concept exists in English culture. However, creating a new word for a concept rather than stringing already existing words together to portray the same concept seems to be a matter of how important and often used the word might be.
So if you offload the sound processing to the sound card, and the graphics processing to the graphics card, what exactly is left for your CPU to do?
Personally, I find my hearing gets a lot better just putting on a good set of headphones. It really helps to pin down exactly where the sound is coming from. It's a lot easier than trying to get perfect placement on your 5.1 setup.
I have the same router. Never had it reboot on itself. At least not that I noticed. There is one problem I do have with it though. If I leave the WiiConnect 24 on, it craps out and requires a reboot after a few hours for any other wireless devices to connect.
Well, I like my iPod Nano. It wasn't too expensive and works pretty well. I'm not unhappy with it. I don't think it's the best device possible, but unless they made a media player custom designed for me, I don't think I would ever find anything to be perfect. As far as cell phones go, I find the iPhone to be quite expensive, and the fact that it doesn't have buttons just annoys me to no end. There's no reason they couldn't put buttons on the back, or a long row of buttons along the side to facilitate dialing with some tactile feedback, and without having to look at the phone. With my current phone, I can dial my top 8 numbers with holding down a single key for a couple seconds. Can you do this on the iPhone? I think the iPhone is throwing out a lot of phone features, just to bring in other music/video/photo features. To me that's less reason to buy it. I' probably be happier with a phone that's just a phone, and an ipod touch.
Isn't that the whole point of the distro though? They should do some testing to ensure that packages they release with their distro are really up to snuff. Just because somebody decides to call something ready, doesn't mean it should be included in the distro. Different distros take different approaches with what they consider ready. Debian stable usually stays well behind the curve, while Fedora seems to be quite bleeding edge. I also think KDE should have made it really clear that it wasn't feature complete, and also not stable, but the distros shouldn't blindly pick it up and push it on users, regardless of what KDE says about it.
I'm using Mandriva 2008.1, and it's an option on there. The default KDE is still 3.5, but it's really easy to install KDE4. You can install them both at the same time, and the settings and all libraries are separate, so you can play around with 4, without having to commit to using it.
Just a shot in the dark here, but it might have something to do with the repository mirror you are using. Let's say for instance that it's an FTP mirror. Well some FTP servers return really weird directory listings that the system can't end up parsing, and there are a bunch of ftp servers that don't support the non-standard SIZE command. You see, FTP was originally meant to be done via a command line and be human readable. So they didn't put anything in there that made it easy for a computer to parse and figure out information about the files. So sometimes servers return unparsable data back, that the ftp code can't handle, and most of the time, it fails to get the size of the file. This is why for years, IE wouldn't tell you the size of the file you were downloading if it happened to come from an FTP site. I think it's specific for you repository mirror, because my copy of Mandriva 2008.1 shows me file sizes and a progress bar for all my updates.
The Gdium looks really nice. I really like the idea of the GKey. I always thought that eventually people wouldn't carry laptops and computers around, and instead would just carry a USB key with all their apps and data on it, and just plug it into any computer they came across. And they get the computer experience they are used to on every computer. This looks like a small step in that direction.
I've used Mandriva ever since the year 2000, and when Ubuntu came around, I never really caught on to what all the hype was about. It was touted as being more desktop friendly, but in the first few iterations, it was anything but. And I still don't think it really has anything that makes it that much more attractive than Mandriva. I still use and prefer Mandriva. After you hook up a few extra repositories, like PLF, you can basically install any piece of software available for Linux, and it takes care of all the dependancies. Ubuntu users push the strenghts of apt-get, but I really don't see what it does that urpmi doesn't.
To only Amanda Hudson I can find is a camera operator. She's done some pretty big movies, but I don't see why anything in her life would be in the news. Maybe she's related to Kate Hudson. Anyway, I find the amount of attention rich people get in the news to be way over the top.
Yeah. I think the trick here is that Google doesn't try to muck up their main entry point displaying everything they support while yahoo does. You can go to search.yahoo.com and get a nice little search screen, very similar to google. But most people don't go there. They go to www.yahoo.com. I think Google was smart in keeping their homepage simple.
I think something like Tor would be useful also. Because even if your communications are encrypted, they can tell a lot about you just by the people you are communicating with, even if they don't know what you are saying. Also, things like bittorrent encryption are only good for getting past your ISPs traffic handling services, and do nothing to disguise your identity from other people connected to the same swarm. Another possibility, since Tor is so horribly slow, would be to have encrypted communication of non-sense information between you and a bunch of random parties. That way they wouldn't be able to tell who you were really communicating with, and who you were just sending random garbage to.
I had an old ATI TV Tuner card. If you opened up MSPaint, and drew in purple, the video would show through. So you fill the picture with purple, and then select the yellow brush, and you had yourself a really cheap telestrator.