People with "Coe" as a surname have big problems. Ken Coe, Tess Coe and Phil Coe get you into trouble with large corporations. Bill Coe gets you sued by Phil Silvers' estate, and if your name is Simon, never abbreviate it to Si Coe...people just might start avoiding you.
Seriously, I heard a Mr Coe complaining about this once, and the severe limitations it put on his children's names.
AV software is useless against new exploits unless heuristics are turned on. Few people will do this because of false positives.
Relying on OS patches is useless because the true dark-side hackers won't publicise any holes they've found until they've used them.
What could be useful is - dare I suggest it - holding essential OS kernel files in ROM. Slightly awkward if you want an upgrade, but not insurmountable with socketed chips. If you use UV-erasable ROM chips, you can still burn upgrades at home but remote hacking is impossible. And your PC would start up in the blink of an eye!
He'd better have the original cinematic release on there too, or I will be most displeased.
One of the strengths of the original series (although ROTJ was weaker) was that the Emperor was mentioned, but not clearly revealed until ROTJ. This is a lot more sinister than having Vader meet him at the end of ANH.
I'm pretty sure NT was actually a fork from OS/2 after MS fell out with IBM. NTFS is based on HPFS. Either way, it has the square root of fsck all to do with DOS.
Marlon Brando rolled and turned in bed last night. The orbit of the Moon was slightly affected by the resulting shift in Earth's gravitational field, but NASA have emphasised that the risk of asteroid strikes is still low.
I for one won't be sorry to see the back of APS. The foolproof loading and negative storage were a nice idea, but then the designers ruined it by using a smaller negative than 35mm, so enlargements were limited. Digital will kill off APS well before 35mm.
Kodak cameras were Not Very Good and sold in low numbers
Kodak are expanding film sales in other countries
Digital cameras are fine for 95% of photography, i.e. family snapshots, press work and even society/wedding stuff. Where they fall down is what might be termed "fine art photography", where the end result is big prints to hang on the wall. Digital is nowhere near that level of resolution yet, and even cameras that can knock out a decent 14" x 11" print are beyond the reach of most people.
I thought Barton had more or less torpedoed the "more cache makes up for a lower clock speed" theory? The old Thoroughbred-B 2800+ was faster than the Barton 2800+ for most applications. No integrated L2 cache is undoubtedly a Very Bad Thing - see the original crippled Celeron for an example - but when you start increasing an already adequate cache, you're rapidly into diminishing returns and the core clock speed is more important.
The lower clocked, bigger cache part does run a bit cooler though, so if a quiet fan is what pops your cork, go for it!
Obviously the Spanish Inquisition got to them first. Incidentally, the link says the Catholic Church finally agreed the Earth wasn't at the centre of the solar system in 1983!
Actually, mechanical watches are crap from an accuracy, cost and reliability point of view. Their traditional technical advantage is that they can be self-winding and work without batteries, but Seiko have trashed that particular argument with their Kinetic watches (quartz watches powered by a capacitor which is charged by a small pendulum-driven generator). These will also run ad infinitum provided you wear them once in a while, and are more accurate than any fancy tourbillon movement.
When I see some of the giant sculptures they have at Legoland, it makes me wonder whether building something half life size might get just a tad repetitive. Or maybe the master builder does the initial plan and supervises while his minions get on with placing 10,000 red bricks?
Kind of reminds me of Herb Ritts (the late fashion photographer). As well as lighting technicians, reflector holders and makeup artists, he had an assistant simply to raise his heavy Pentax 6x7 to his eye - all he had to do was squint through it and take the shot. Now *that's* when you know you're at the top of your profession.
A number of ISPs in the UK have done this, including NTL cable, who restrict you to an average of 1GB per day, and BT, who "port throttle" to slow down the common P2P applications. There are many, many other ISPs to choose from who take a more laissez-faire approach.
Having said that, if you're on cable owned by the ISP, rather than ADSL, you may well be buggered.
I don't know a huge amount about US company law, but it seems to me that a lot of firms over there that file for Chapter 11 protection eventually emerge from it and become successful again, so the system works if the fundamentals of the business are good. Here in Britain, once you're seen to be insolvent (however temporarily), 99% of the time you're completely fscked.
The guy in the article has at least saved a decent proportion of his client firms; it's pretty rare here unless you get a management buyout (e.g. Rover Cars - not exactly a roaring success). Most of the time the firm just shuts down and gets asset stripped. Oh well, we've never had anything *quite* as big as Enron.
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Seriously, I heard a Mr Coe complaining about this once, and the severe limitations it put on his children's names.
Relying on OS patches is useless because the true dark-side hackers won't publicise any holes they've found until they've used them.
What could be useful is - dare I suggest it - holding essential OS kernel files in ROM. Slightly awkward if you want an upgrade, but not insurmountable with socketed chips. If you use UV-erasable ROM chips, you can still burn upgrades at home but remote hacking is impossible. And your PC would start up in the blink of an eye!
I was hoping it was the one where Han shoots first.
Q.E.D.
One of the strengths of the original series (although ROTJ was weaker) was that the Emperor was mentioned, but not clearly revealed until ROTJ. This is a lot more sinister than having Vader meet him at the end of ANH.
I'm pretty sure NT was actually a fork from OS/2 after MS fell out with IBM. NTFS is based on HPFS. Either way, it has the square root of fsck all to do with DOS.
Marlon Brando rolled and turned in bed last night. The orbit of the Moon was slightly affected by the resulting shift in Earth's gravitational field, but NASA have emphasised that the risk of asteroid strikes is still low.
You now get hit for 104x the penalties?
I for one won't be sorry to see the back of APS. The foolproof loading and negative storage were a nice idea, but then the designers ruined it by using a smaller negative than 35mm, so enlargements were limited. Digital will kill off APS well before 35mm.
- Kodak are getting out of cameras, not film.
- Kodak cameras were Not Very Good and sold in low numbers
- Kodak are expanding film sales in other countries
Digital cameras are fine for 95% of photography, i.e. family snapshots, press work and even society/wedding stuff. Where they fall down is what might be termed "fine art photography", where the end result is big prints to hang on the wall. Digital is nowhere near that level of resolution yet, and even cameras that can knock out a decent 14" x 11" print are beyond the reach of most people.The lower clocked, bigger cache part does run a bit cooler though, so if a quiet fan is what pops your cork, go for it!
Obviously the Spanish Inquisition got to them first. Incidentally, the link says the Catholic Church finally agreed the Earth wasn't at the centre of the solar system in 1983!
Mechanical watches are male jewelry. Face it.
I'll run it in software mode at 320 x 240. If I can't see the monsters properly, they probably can't see me either ;-)
Because there wasn't any juice left for their server ;-)
Christmas Islanders will be scenting a business opportunity...
Actually, that's way cooler - I'd mod it informative if I had points and hadn't posted the parent!
Kind of reminds me of Herb Ritts (the late fashion photographer). As well as lighting technicians, reflector holders and makeup artists, he had an assistant simply to raise his heavy Pentax 6x7 to his eye - all he had to do was squint through it and take the shot. Now *that's* when you know you're at the top of your profession.
I don't think The Reverend is a *real* Reverend though.
Having said that, if you're on cable owned by the ISP, rather than ADSL, you may well be buggered.
Of course the Martians have no WMDs. Cheney hasn't sold them any yet.
The basic principle of securing documents is logical access controls (e.g. passwords) == poor; encryption == good.
Same applies to your hard disk. If it's not encrypted, I can either change your admin password or just stick the hard drive in one of my machines.
The guy in the article has at least saved a decent proportion of his client firms; it's pretty rare here unless you get a management buyout (e.g. Rover Cars - not exactly a roaring success). Most of the time the firm just shuts down and gets asset stripped. Oh well, we've never had anything *quite* as big as Enron.
You've never come across a Delta Black Label, have you?
Where's the .torrent? ;-)