The beauty of the scam is that all they have to do from an engineering standpoint is to fit a PC into the plastic case. Since that would take a week's worth of development at best, they will pretend to work out the distribution model and server configurations until they go bankrupt. The officers will have already sold off their stock in the company, and the Johnny-come-lately investors will be stuck with the short shrift. It's a beautiful con, worthy nearly of traveler status. PONZI SCHEME, PONZI SCHEME!
It's fun enough for me to own Halo for PC since I don't own a console. I only play multiplayer online. In that, it really shines in gameplay if not graphic richness.
I immerse the entire computer in liquid nitrogen as fast as I can in order to keep the processor from overheating. Then I pick up all the little pieces and put them back through the holes in the case they came out of and shake gently.
Our IT manager claims it saved us about US$4,000. We would like to replace all of our desktops with Linux machines, but the electronics design and CAD software used makes this impossible. I figure it won't be impossible forever, so Ken (the IT guy) is biding his time and will evangelize when it becomes practical, I am sure.
Yeah, if you don't have a decent antivirus program on every windows box in your office (with daily virus updates on servers) then your company has serious issues.
The REAL serious issue is that they're giving NETWORKED computers to people who will open a.zip file attached to an email that doesn't seem addressed to them, see an.exe file in there and DOUBLE CLICK IT!!! Before anyone touches a computer, people need to be told that the internet is a hostile area where theft and fraud occurs with complete anonymity. What isn't chained down is stolen. Sadly, offices are completely filled with morons who know this and click the file anyway. I actually had to EXPLAIN what a computer virus was to a thirty year old woman yesterday. I am still upset over that, as she has had internet access at home and work for three years.
Just so you know, the real seedy underbelly of the web isn't the porn sites. It's the free cutesy image and animated cursor sites. You will get more spyware collecting funky fonts than nekkid pictures. At least, that's what SHE tells me.
Believe it or not, this malware is exactly why I have linux on my home machine. I kept noticing that my windows machine would slow down after six months of use, and I would have to pick off all this crap software that loaded TSRs and filled my systray.
You see, my wife collects cutesy animated GIFs and Sims objects. This is bad, because the sites which host this content are loaded with gator, comet cursors, and every other kind of crap you can imagine. I can't make her stop going to these sites, and even with Spyware S+D, Ad-Aware and Mozilla I can't keep it all off completely. So I gave up and I just use a separate partition with Linux on it. So far, nobody has bothered to write malware for Linux that I have managed to find. I also seriously doubt that alien software could be installed without my knowledge. Is that the case or am I wrong in that?
Our office mail server is a linux box. It's a nice little redhat, properly administered. Haven't had a bit of trouble. Major government contractor across town has NT all over, massive problems. Of course, our email server doesn't allow.exe,.scr,.vbs extensions for attachments at all. There's a few more that are disallowed. The server replaces those attachments with a.txt file which states that a file has been removed.
It works fine in linux too. I have Windows as well, but I never have spyware/malware hassles in Linux. I never find some crappy software has installed itself on my box. For simplicity, it just works better for me. Linux is a perfectly good OS. Guess how much it cost me? So far, about 24 bucks. I buy the CDs, update when I want, no hassles. Your devotion to Windows puzzles me. I am not a Linux zealot, but if there are two operating systems and they both work for what I need, why would you reccommend the proprietary and expensive one?
I know what you mean. Seems like every time I want to kill a person for personal convenience, some dipshit wants to prevent me from doing so. I am not making fun of you, but you obviously have no clue what it is that anti-abortion people think. They don't think it's just a choice, they see a doctor ending the life of a person, and they oppose it. For them it's just as if murder of the handicapped was the norm, and they were the fringe faction opposing it. If you want to enter that debate, make sure you can accurately characterize your opponent's position. You've only characterized the effect of your opponent's position as seen through your own position.
I happened to play GTA3 for an hour this morning and ran taxi missions- I only killed four people and they were all pedestrians. I made eleven thousand dollars only running taxi missions. I didn't receive any reward for running over any of the pedestrians. I was merely trying to meet my deadlines. I also have enough sense to know that these are videogame representations of people, not real people, so there wasn't any need to actively avoid them when they wandered in front of my taxi. Is that bad?
The statistics you quote are funny, and, as you pointed out yourself, false. They are based on a comparison between the number of crimes in a 40 year period compared to the number of people whose lives overlap that same period. Since many crimes happen in high crime areas, these statistics don't give an accurate portrayal of reality since there is no attempt made to distinguish unique victims. That means if you have ten people and there are nine muggings, you could pull a statistical analysis and say that each of them had a 90% chance of being mugged, but what if ONE of the ten got mugged nine times and everyone else got mugged zero times?
Hey Digitus1337 if you're so 1337, you already know you can just telnet to brian's box and go to the same folder he had the USS enterprise schematics in autocad 12 format. It's the folder after the fake blowjob pictures of the olsen twins. If you get to the folder with the old Gillian Anderson stuff, go back one level.
If you think you can stroll in and solve even ONE problem TODAY then you are a flagrant master smith of bullshit. You're one of those bigteeth bastards who watches motivational speakers on DVD, aren't you, pal? One of those firm handshake and power-tie motherfuckers we all hate down to our bones. The type who makes friends only to further their career and plays squash and raquetball with his boss? Come on, don't yank our chains- Can you really wade through 90 million lines of code and find the problem that makes the program stop responding in Windows NT when I push X button? Nah, not today. Maybe by the end of the week IF the code is notated really well. Just keep on talking loud- you're probably an excellent programmer. I have no doubt. I would have to say that you're either a multi-PHD (or equivalent) master of code and/or a cocky sonofabitch who has to change jobs often.
/. is not full of average people so it's okay. I just installed a new heatsink, fan and shim. I used arctic alumina. works just fine. (I do not overclock)
LCD resolutions are not high. It would be relatively simple to set up a splitscreen output for an emulator, providing that the code is written to address the displays separately. A standard monitor would have no problems with two windows representing the two screens.
You, sir, are the new winner of the "Seriously Fucked-up But Still Absofuckinglutely Hilarious Bent Allegory Award" for 2004.
Congratulations. Get the fuck back to work.
That's a fairly weak argument. It's not like the government is taking your rights away. Show me where, in the constitution of any nation, there exists a right to use hardware in the manner that you choose?
I will have to discontinue USING it on the desktop, then. I'm not a programmer, I don't even have a CS degree, and I use it quite a bit. I use it more than ever now that Openoffice is so useable. Lets not forget that MS Office is FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, okay?
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The beauty of the scam is that all they have to do from an engineering standpoint is to fit a PC into the plastic case. Since that would take a week's worth of development at best, they will pretend to work out the distribution model and server configurations until they go bankrupt. The officers will have already sold off their stock in the company, and the Johnny-come-lately investors will be stuck with the short shrift.
It's a beautiful con, worthy nearly of traveler status.
PONZI SCHEME, PONZI SCHEME!
It's fun enough for me to own Halo for PC since I don't own a console. I only play multiplayer online. In that, it really shines in gameplay if not graphic richness.
I think I will remap my bindings to make shift-a the reboot command. That pretty much means this will be my last successful slashdot post. Farewell!
I immerse the entire computer in liquid nitrogen as fast as I can in order to keep the processor from overheating. Then I pick up all the little pieces and put them back through the holes in the case they came out of and shake gently.
Our IT manager claims it saved us about US$4,000. We would like to replace all of our desktops with Linux machines, but the electronics design and CAD software used makes this impossible. I figure it won't be impossible forever, so Ken (the IT guy) is biding his time and will evangelize when it becomes practical, I am sure.
Yeah, if you don't have a decent antivirus program on every windows box in your office (with daily virus updates on servers) then your company has serious issues. .zip file attached to an email that doesn't seem addressed to them, see an .exe file in there and DOUBLE CLICK IT!!!
The REAL serious issue is that they're giving NETWORKED computers to people who will open a
Before anyone touches a computer, people need to be told that the internet is a hostile area where theft and fraud occurs with complete anonymity. What isn't chained down is stolen.
Sadly, offices are completely filled with morons who know this and click the file anyway.
I actually had to EXPLAIN what a computer virus was to a thirty year old woman yesterday. I am still upset over that, as she has had internet access at home and work for three years.
Just so you know, the real seedy underbelly of the web isn't the porn sites. It's the free cutesy image and animated cursor sites. You will get more spyware collecting funky fonts than nekkid pictures.
At least, that's what SHE tells me.
Believe it or not, this malware is exactly why I have linux on my home machine. I kept noticing that my windows machine would slow down after six months of use, and I would have to pick off all this crap software that loaded TSRs and filled my systray. You see, my wife collects cutesy animated GIFs and Sims objects. This is bad, because the sites which host this content are loaded with gator, comet cursors, and every other kind of crap you can imagine. I can't make her stop going to these sites, and even with Spyware S+D, Ad-Aware and Mozilla I can't keep it all off completely. So I gave up and I just use a separate partition with Linux on it. So far, nobody has bothered to write malware for Linux that I have managed to find. I also seriously doubt that alien software could be installed without my knowledge. Is that the case or am I wrong in that?
Our office mail server is a linux box. It's a nice little redhat, properly administered. Haven't had a bit of trouble. Major government contractor across town has NT all over, massive problems. Of course, our email server doesn't allow .exe, .scr, .vbs extensions for attachments at all. There's a few more that are disallowed. The server replaces those attachments with a .txt file which states that a file has been removed.
It works fine in linux too. I have Windows as well, but I never have spyware/malware hassles in Linux. I never find some crappy software has installed itself on my box. For simplicity, it just works better for me. Linux is a perfectly good OS. Guess how much it cost me? So far, about 24 bucks. I buy the CDs, update when I want, no hassles.
Your devotion to Windows puzzles me. I am not a Linux zealot, but if there are two operating systems and they both work for what I need, why would you reccommend the proprietary and expensive one?
It makes it so much the richer that you shipped powdered milk.
I know what you mean. Seems like every time I want to kill a person for personal convenience, some dipshit wants to prevent me from doing so.
I am not making fun of you, but you obviously have no clue what it is that anti-abortion people think. They don't think it's just a choice, they see a doctor ending the life of a person, and they oppose it. For them it's just as if murder of the handicapped was the norm, and they were the fringe faction opposing it. If you want to enter that debate, make sure you can accurately characterize your opponent's position. You've only characterized the effect of your opponent's position as seen through your own position.
I happened to play GTA3 for an hour this morning and ran taxi missions- I only killed four people and they were all pedestrians. I made eleven thousand dollars only running taxi missions. I didn't receive any reward for running over any of the pedestrians. I was merely trying to meet my deadlines. I also have enough sense to know that these are videogame representations of people, not real people, so there wasn't any need to actively avoid them when they wandered in front of my taxi. Is that bad?
The statistics you quote are funny, and, as you pointed out yourself, false. They are based on a comparison between the number of crimes in a 40 year period compared to the number of people whose lives overlap that same period. Since many crimes happen in high crime areas, these statistics don't give an accurate portrayal of reality since there is no attempt made to distinguish unique victims. That means if you have ten people and there are nine muggings, you could pull a statistical analysis and say that each of them had a 90% chance of being mugged, but what if ONE of the ten got mugged nine times and everyone else got mugged zero times?
Hey Digitus1337 if you're so 1337, you already know you can just telnet to brian's box and go to the same folder he had the USS enterprise schematics in autocad 12 format.
It's the folder after the fake blowjob pictures of the olsen twins. If you get to the folder with the old Gillian Anderson stuff, go back one level.
If you think you can stroll in and solve even ONE problem TODAY then you are a flagrant master smith of bullshit. You're one of those bigteeth bastards who watches motivational speakers on DVD, aren't you, pal? One of those firm handshake and power-tie motherfuckers we all hate down to our bones. The type who makes friends only to further their career and plays squash and raquetball with his boss?
Come on, don't yank our chains- Can you really wade through 90 million lines of code and find the problem that makes the program stop responding in Windows NT when I push X button? Nah, not today. Maybe by the end of the week IF the code is notated really well.
Just keep on talking loud- you're probably an excellent programmer. I have no doubt. I would have to say that you're either a multi-PHD (or equivalent) master of code and/or a cocky sonofabitch who has to change jobs often.
When I say just, I mean JUST like 20 minutes ago on this computer and it 109@#87654 57657]]]]
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/. is not full of average people so it's okay. I just installed a new heatsink, fan and shim. I used arctic alumina. works just fine. (I do not overclock)
You're a whore! A disgusting, filthy whore!
Had to do that.
You just know you worked for a front company for a cocaine distrubutor don't you?
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Never in all of my life have I seen moderation be part of the joke. Good teamwork, everyone.
LCD resolutions are not high. It would be relatively simple to set up a splitscreen output for an emulator, providing that the code is written to address the displays separately. A standard monitor would have no problems with two windows representing the two screens.
You, sir, are the new winner of the "Seriously Fucked-up But Still Absofuckinglutely Hilarious Bent Allegory Award" for 2004.
Congratulations.
Get the fuck back to work.
That's a fairly weak argument. It's not like the government is taking your rights away. Show me where, in the constitution of any nation, there exists a right to use hardware in the manner that you choose?
I will have to discontinue USING it on the desktop, then. I'm not a programmer, I don't even have a CS degree, and I use it quite a bit. I use it more than ever now that Openoffice is so useable. Lets not forget that MS Office is FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, okay?