That may not be a bad idea. In order to kick the habit, give people a patch, just like they do for cigarettes with the nicotine patch. Slowly reduce the dose, and eventually, the person isn't addicted anymore. Seems a lot easier than keeping them locked in a room for a couple days while they go through withdrawal and almost die, after which they will probably relapse, because they haven't stop being addicted.
I hear the same thing about Zelda: Twilight Princess. People spend half an hour, don't make it out of the village, and complain that you have to fish to much, conclude that the game sucks, and don't play any further. This isn't Ducktales. You aren't going to beat it in 3 hours from the first time you pick up the controller. I've played over 40 hours already, and I'm not done. And I haven't even really focussed on getting all the sidequests done. That's just time spent trying to go through the game. Spending an hour to get out of the village at the start seems like nothing when you spend a couple hours running around the temple in the sky.
I'm not sure about gamestop, but EBGames, which does the same thing, puts a little sticker so once you break the seal, you can no longer bring it back.
The government of Canada actually has all their job titles standardized. Systems Analyst seems to me to be a pretty low job on the list. Phrases like "experience as a computer programmer is usually required", and "Completion of a college program in computer science is usually required." For those in the US, college in Canada is community college with 2-3 year programs and you get a diploma at the end. University is where real computer science is taught, you get a degree, and can move onto grad school after that. If I remember right, I had a friend who was hired as a systems analyst to do some programming, because they didn't have a high enough budget to hire a programmer, so they just gave him a different title, lower pay, but he did the same work.
Working with any language for about 2 weeks, any programmer worth their salary (there are a lot that aren't) could learn just about any language. Unless you are stepping way outside any paradigm you've ever worked in, say, programming in prolog, when you've never done Object Oriented programming, or programming parallel algorithms when you've only ever done single threaded programming, then learning a new language, like moving from C# to Java doesn't take much training at all. It will take the programmer much longer to learn the intricacies of they system their working on, then it will to learn any language. Even if you're completely new the language, you're probably better off hiring someone who is smart, and who can figure out a new language, rather than someone who has 10 years experience with the language, but still doesn't know how to use it to solve problems.
You can either copy the settings as others have suggested, or go for OpenOffice Portable. Basically you can install the entire program, and all settings on a USB stick or other portable drive, or non-portable (but that defeats the purpose), and run it right off the drive with no installation or transferring of settings necessary.
As far as generating PDFs goes, you could install PDF Creator, and just "print" your documents to PDF. Would probably provide better compatibility than creating Adobe 4.0 pdfs.
My entire high school had those WP cheat sheets on the top of every keyboard. However, most students didn't need them, because they had all (or all the commonly used ones) memorized. I'm not sure why anyone every thought it was necessary to move only a point and click type interface. Sure it's a little harder to learn, but for something that you use as often as a word processor, it makes things a lot faster. Another thing that I think killed word processing interfaces is real time spell check with word underlining. Every time you see that squiggly red line, you want to go back and correct it, and you lose your train of thought. It was much faster to write a document when you didn't keep on going back to correct spelling mistakes every 30 seconds. Sure you could just ignore those lines, but they make they are very annoying to look at. Personally, I just have the feature turned off, and spellcheck when I'm done. Another thing that's annoying about that is when you send somebody a technical document, with lots of words that aren't in their dictionary, and it comes up with red squiggly lines all over the document, making it look very ugly on their screen.
The only problem I see with that is that if the textures are on the disk, then someone is going to find them, find a way to unlock them, and then the game production company gets in a lot of trouble for releasing AO content in a T rated game. For more info, see the Hot Coffee Mod. What they would have to do, is release different disks with completely different content. It would still be possible, but might be a little more difficult.
Great films span all ratings levels. If you look at the critically acclaimed movies, you'll find stuff like Wizard of Oz and Snow white, all the way up to Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. If you look at critically acclaimed games, you'll find the same thing. Very tame games like PacMan, Mario, and Tetris, all the way up to Quake, and Rainbow Six. On the other side of the coin, ask someone what their favourite movie of last 3 years was. It most of the time won't be something critically acclaimed, but actually something that's considered to be quite a bad movie, but probably some action flick that moves along quickly, doesn't have a hard story line to follow, and doesn't make them think too much. Same thing goes with games. I know people who rush out and buy copy after copy of FPS #23, even if the games are terrible, just because they want some action game, with lots of blood.
They do it for music, I don't see why the same couldn't be done for video games. Granted there's not "Adult Only" music, and I remember buying albums with "Parental Advisory" stickers when I was 12, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for both. Many parents buy the edited versions of pop albums for their kids.
Just as a reference point, the Concorde has a cruising speed of 1350 mph. However I'm wondering if we have to change the distance around the earth, since the circumference is measured from the surface of the earth, Actually, never mind, just checked, if you assume flying at an altitude of 30,000 ft (5.68 miles), then you only increase the distance around the earth by about 100 miles. So, if the Concorde can beat the sun around the earth, can it go back in time? Isn't that how superman did it?
But because you would have perpetual sunlight, you wouldn't have to carry batteries that needed to hold a charge (or would need considerably fewer batteries). Judging by the weight of most batteries I've seen, this could cut the weight considerably.
But then it's not an operating system. It's like calling Excel a word processor, because if you try hard enough, you can type up a multipage document in it. If we want to skew the definition of words, then you could call my "keyboard" a "monkey", and say you were correct, if that meets your definition of a "monkey". You can't just go around in redefine all the words, just to make it seem like you are correct. It might be a web based desktop environment, if anything, but definitely not a web based operating system.
I can see the blinking on 60 Hz screen looking at it straight on. It drives me nuts to the point that I have to change the settings if I'm looking at the screen for more than a couple minutes. I often switch people's display settings if I am stuck using their computer. I don't know why other's don't see this, or if there is a reason why I'm overly sensitive to this. It's kind of like once you know what encoding artifacts look like in digital video, it's hard to watch digital cable, because you can see the encoding artifacts all the time.
Does bitlocker make your system use an encrypted swap file? I really don't think so. At some point the data read from the file will be decrypted in memory, and if that chunk of memory gets swapped out, then it's now recorded, unencrypted to some part of your hard drive. This is why encrypted swap is needed.
I recommended PDO because I find that most webhosts that I have seen have it installed by default. Any webhost that doesn't install PDO by default is probably worth switching from.
I remember once I tried a Linux bootable floppy that was supposed to be able to reset windows passwords, from what I recall, by just changing the value of the hash. Anyway, the drive was NTFS, and something got screwed up, and the file was unreadable. What I ended up doing was copying the same file from a computer with a similar set up (both were college issued laptops), and use the other person's username as password to log in. Anybody with enough access to the machine can get past a simple password. And unless you keep all your important data on an encrypted partition, and use encrypted swap (can you do this in windows??), then you really don't have much protection, and shouldn't assume that the data on your computer is locked down.
Sorry to tell you this, but it very much doesn't. First, and not even related to whether it protects or not, is that it very much limits when someone can post to your server. If I need to post my name, and my name is Walter, then your script is just going to die. On the question about how well it works for blocking attacks, well, like mysql_real_escape_str, is what happens when you forget to use it. With prepared queries (not talking stored procedures here, so I don't scare anyone away), it's a completely different method of creating a query, and therefore it isn't very easy to "forget" something, and leave a vulnerability. Also, there's probably a large list of words you could be fogetting to check for. Stuff like "RENAME SCHEMA" may not be in your list, but could cause a DOS attack. You wouldn't lose any data, but your database would be renamed and therefore your site inaccessible to users. Your solution would protect against a common script kiddie, but wouldn't protect against someone who is determined to bring your site down. Using prepared queries is very easy to do, makes your code easier to read and maintain, and also speeds up database access. There really is no reason not to use it.
This brings up a good point. Most people will just stick with using MySQL or some other RDBMS because it does what they need it to do, and writing your own database engine specific to your project is hard, and not worth the effort. However, writing a framework is often less hard, and also, what a framework does, is usually less specific. That is, most frameworks are very broad, and very much not suited to the kind of project you want to do. You see a lot of, "we're doing it this way, because that's the restriction the framework places on us" kind of thing going one when people start using generic frameworks. However, when you build your own framework, it fits your needs perfectly, and is only as big as you need it to be. For most large projects, it makes the most sense to build your own framework for your own needs, instead of trying to cram everything into an existing framework that may not meet all your needs. As the project gets bigger, the percentage of code (relative to the whole project) that the framework takes up is very small in comparison to the rest of the project.
A bit of advice. Use PDO. Don't use MySQL or MySQLi functions. This will not only make your life a little easier if you ever need to switch database engines, but I also find that it makes doing prepared queries much easier (although it's possible with MySQLi). Being mostly a.Net developer, I find it hillarious and sad that most PHP tutorials recommend using the mysql_ functions, along with mysql_real_escape_str() function for doing database queries. One interface for all databases makes a lot more sense, and using prepared queries protects against SQL injection in a way that trying to remember to use mysql_real_escape in every query can't come close to.
But the $80 (don't know where the $100 came from) is easily worth it when you consider you don't have to go through the trouble of getting MythTV to work. Myth TV will probably give you more functionality. But SageTV will give you ease of use, with everything included in one nice package. I probably sound like some kind of fanboi, or someone who works for the company, but I'm really just a happy customer. After trying to days to get MythTV working, I just downloaded the trial version of SageTV, and it was up and running in 1/2 an hour. At that point, I was sold. So if you are having trouble getting MythTV to work. Just give SageTV a try, if you don't like it, don't use it. But don't discount it because you think $80 is too much, because once you count the time to get MythTV up and running, and the cost of Listings. $15 for 3 months = $60 a year = almost the cost of Sage. Then SageTV is well worth the money.
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That may not be a bad idea. In order to kick the habit, give people a patch, just like they do for cigarettes with the nicotine patch. Slowly reduce the dose, and eventually, the person isn't addicted anymore. Seems a lot easier than keeping them locked in a room for a couple days while they go through withdrawal and almost die, after which they will probably relapse, because they haven't stop being addicted.
I hear the same thing about Zelda: Twilight Princess. People spend half an hour, don't make it out of the village, and complain that you have to fish to much, conclude that the game sucks, and don't play any further. This isn't Ducktales. You aren't going to beat it in 3 hours from the first time you pick up the controller. I've played over 40 hours already, and I'm not done. And I haven't even really focussed on getting all the sidequests done. That's just time spent trying to go through the game. Spending an hour to get out of the village at the start seems like nothing when you spend a couple hours running around the temple in the sky.
Too bad the article was about the Bully video game, and not Bully, the movie, directed by Larry Clark.
I'm not sure about gamestop, but EBGames, which does the same thing, puts a little sticker so once you break the seal, you can no longer bring it back.
The government of Canada actually has all their job titles standardized. Systems Analyst seems to me to be a pretty low job on the list. Phrases like "experience as a computer programmer is usually required", and "Completion of a college program in computer science is usually required." For those in the US, college in Canada is community college with 2-3 year programs and you get a diploma at the end. University is where real computer science is taught, you get a degree, and can move onto grad school after that. If I remember right, I had a friend who was hired as a systems analyst to do some programming, because they didn't have a high enough budget to hire a programmer, so they just gave him a different title, lower pay, but he did the same work.
Working with any language for about 2 weeks, any programmer worth their salary (there are a lot that aren't) could learn just about any language. Unless you are stepping way outside any paradigm you've ever worked in, say, programming in prolog, when you've never done Object Oriented programming, or programming parallel algorithms when you've only ever done single threaded programming, then learning a new language, like moving from C# to Java doesn't take much training at all. It will take the programmer much longer to learn the intricacies of they system their working on, then it will to learn any language. Even if you're completely new the language, you're probably better off hiring someone who is smart, and who can figure out a new language, rather than someone who has 10 years experience with the language, but still doesn't know how to use it to solve problems.
Don't forget, it's Quebec, so it would have to say "aucun stationnement" first, and then "no parking".
You can either copy the settings as others have suggested, or go for OpenOffice Portable. Basically you can install the entire program, and all settings on a USB stick or other portable drive, or non-portable (but that defeats the purpose), and run it right off the drive with no installation or transferring of settings necessary.
As far as generating PDFs goes, you could install PDF Creator, and just "print" your documents to PDF. Would probably provide better compatibility than creating Adobe 4.0 pdfs.
My entire high school had those WP cheat sheets on the top of every keyboard. However, most students didn't need them, because they had all (or all the commonly used ones) memorized. I'm not sure why anyone every thought it was necessary to move only a point and click type interface. Sure it's a little harder to learn, but for something that you use as often as a word processor, it makes things a lot faster. Another thing that I think killed word processing interfaces is real time spell check with word underlining. Every time you see that squiggly red line, you want to go back and correct it, and you lose your train of thought. It was much faster to write a document when you didn't keep on going back to correct spelling mistakes every 30 seconds. Sure you could just ignore those lines, but they make they are very annoying to look at. Personally, I just have the feature turned off, and spellcheck when I'm done. Another thing that's annoying about that is when you send somebody a technical document, with lots of words that aren't in their dictionary, and it comes up with red squiggly lines all over the document, making it look very ugly on their screen.
The only problem I see with that is that if the textures are on the disk, then someone is going to find them, find a way to unlock them, and then the game production company gets in a lot of trouble for releasing AO content in a T rated game. For more info, see the Hot Coffee Mod. What they would have to do, is release different disks with completely different content. It would still be possible, but might be a little more difficult.
Great films span all ratings levels. If you look at the critically acclaimed movies, you'll find stuff like Wizard of Oz and Snow white, all the way up to Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. If you look at critically acclaimed games, you'll find the same thing. Very tame games like PacMan, Mario, and Tetris, all the way up to Quake, and Rainbow Six. On the other side of the coin, ask someone what their favourite movie of last 3 years was. It most of the time won't be something critically acclaimed, but actually something that's considered to be quite a bad movie, but probably some action flick that moves along quickly, doesn't have a hard story line to follow, and doesn't make them think too much. Same thing goes with games. I know people who rush out and buy copy after copy of FPS #23, even if the games are terrible, just because they want some action game, with lots of blood.
They do it for music, I don't see why the same couldn't be done for video games. Granted there's not "Adult Only" music, and I remember buying albums with "Parental Advisory" stickers when I was 12, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for both. Many parents buy the edited versions of pop albums for their kids.
Just as a reference point, the Concorde has a cruising speed of 1350 mph. However I'm wondering if we have to change the distance around the earth, since the circumference is measured from the surface of the earth, Actually, never mind, just checked, if you assume flying at an altitude of 30,000 ft (5.68 miles), then you only increase the distance around the earth by about 100 miles. So, if the Concorde can beat the sun around the earth, can it go back in time? Isn't that how superman did it?
But because you would have perpetual sunlight, you wouldn't have to carry batteries that needed to hold a charge (or would need considerably fewer batteries). Judging by the weight of most batteries I've seen, this could cut the weight considerably.
But then it's not an operating system. It's like calling Excel a word processor, because if you try hard enough, you can type up a multipage document in it. If we want to skew the definition of words, then you could call my "keyboard" a "monkey", and say you were correct, if that meets your definition of a "monkey". You can't just go around in redefine all the words, just to make it seem like you are correct. It might be a web based desktop environment, if anything, but definitely not a web based operating system.
I can see the blinking on 60 Hz screen looking at it straight on. It drives me nuts to the point that I have to change the settings if I'm looking at the screen for more than a couple minutes. I often switch people's display settings if I am stuck using their computer. I don't know why other's don't see this, or if there is a reason why I'm overly sensitive to this. It's kind of like once you know what encoding artifacts look like in digital video, it's hard to watch digital cable, because you can see the encoding artifacts all the time.
What would be an interesting thing, is whether or not readers of Chinese (on average) can read faster, because the word is just a single glyph.
Does bitlocker make your system use an encrypted swap file? I really don't think so. At some point the data read from the file will be decrypted in memory, and if that chunk of memory gets swapped out, then it's now recorded, unencrypted to some part of your hard drive. This is why encrypted swap is needed.
I recommended PDO because I find that most webhosts that I have seen have it installed by default. Any webhost that doesn't install PDO by default is probably worth switching from.
I remember once I tried a Linux bootable floppy that was supposed to be able to reset windows passwords, from what I recall, by just changing the value of the hash. Anyway, the drive was NTFS, and something got screwed up, and the file was unreadable. What I ended up doing was copying the same file from a computer with a similar set up (both were college issued laptops), and use the other person's username as password to log in. Anybody with enough access to the machine can get past a simple password. And unless you keep all your important data on an encrypted partition, and use encrypted swap (can you do this in windows??), then you really don't have much protection, and shouldn't assume that the data on your computer is locked down.
Sorry to tell you this, but it very much doesn't. First, and not even related to whether it protects or not, is that it very much limits when someone can post to your server. If I need to post my name, and my name is Walter, then your script is just going to die. On the question about how well it works for blocking attacks, well, like mysql_real_escape_str, is what happens when you forget to use it. With prepared queries (not talking stored procedures here, so I don't scare anyone away), it's a completely different method of creating a query, and therefore it isn't very easy to "forget" something, and leave a vulnerability. Also, there's probably a large list of words you could be fogetting to check for. Stuff like "RENAME SCHEMA" may not be in your list, but could cause a DOS attack. You wouldn't lose any data, but your database would be renamed and therefore your site inaccessible to users. Your solution would protect against a common script kiddie, but wouldn't protect against someone who is determined to bring your site down. Using prepared queries is very easy to do, makes your code easier to read and maintain, and also speeds up database access. There really is no reason not to use it.
This brings up a good point. Most people will just stick with using MySQL or some other RDBMS because it does what they need it to do, and writing your own database engine specific to your project is hard, and not worth the effort. However, writing a framework is often less hard, and also, what a framework does, is usually less specific. That is, most frameworks are very broad, and very much not suited to the kind of project you want to do. You see a lot of, "we're doing it this way, because that's the restriction the framework places on us" kind of thing going one when people start using generic frameworks. However, when you build your own framework, it fits your needs perfectly, and is only as big as you need it to be. For most large projects, it makes the most sense to build your own framework for your own needs, instead of trying to cram everything into an existing framework that may not meet all your needs. As the project gets bigger, the percentage of code (relative to the whole project) that the framework takes up is very small in comparison to the rest of the project.
A bit of advice. Use PDO. Don't use MySQL or MySQLi functions. This will not only make your life a little easier if you ever need to switch database engines, but I also find that it makes doing prepared queries much easier (although it's possible with MySQLi). Being mostly a .Net developer, I find it hillarious and sad that most PHP tutorials recommend using the mysql_ functions, along with mysql_real_escape_str() function for doing database queries. One interface for all databases makes a lot more sense, and using prepared queries protects against SQL injection in a way that trying to remember to use mysql_real_escape in every query can't come close to.
But the $80 (don't know where the $100 came from) is easily worth it when you consider you don't have to go through the trouble of getting MythTV to work. Myth TV will probably give you more functionality. But SageTV will give you ease of use, with everything included in one nice package. I probably sound like some kind of fanboi, or someone who works for the company, but I'm really just a happy customer. After trying to days to get MythTV working, I just downloaded the trial version of SageTV, and it was up and running in 1/2 an hour. At that point, I was sold. So if you are having trouble getting MythTV to work. Just give SageTV a try, if you don't like it, don't use it. But don't discount it because you think $80 is too much, because once you count the time to get MythTV up and running, and the cost of Listings. $15 for 3 months = $60 a year = almost the cost of Sage. Then SageTV is well worth the money.