FTFA: But is that just wishful thinking? "Inflation would be an explanation if it occurred," says University of Cambridge astronomer Martin Rees. The trouble is that no one knows what could have made that happen.
I was under the impression that Inflation is caused by a certain energy value of the Higgs field. Did I miss something and Higgs field is no longer the savior of Inflation?
Why is the job of Homeland Security to secure the data storage of a random company? Start putting out heavy fines on companies who fail to securely store customer data and the problem will go away. Right now there is no "incentive" for companies to keep personal data stored safely. A little PR can take care of a hack.
Companies need to be held liable for the safety and security of their customer's data. The problem then will go away.
- You really think Mr. Joe Computer Illiterate would do that? Or how about Ms. Soccer Mom? One of the biggest Windows security issues is that everyone and their mother is running with root privileges. Unfortunately zillions of programs have been written by clueless coders who assume everyone is root. Endresult: You can't run many things without being root. As soon as you dwell into technicalities of user security, 99.99% of computer illiterate people will tell you to f*** off and let them use their computers as they want to. Not to mention they won't have the patience, will, desire to learn this stuff. They just want stuff out of the box that works. They don't want to spend time entering commands that appear to them as pure gibberish.
Microsoft needs to do a few things: - Copy Ubuntu security ideas: no one knows root password, use sudo (well... MS equivalent). - Take out IE and crap from the kernel. There is no excuse for a virus running as an image with SYSTEM authority. None. - Default user setting is very limited. Right now windows doesn't even warn you (SP2) if you put a blank password as administrator. W-T-F?
But they key is, never let a clueless user have full control over the system except for one single process that is needed to configure hardware. All this have to be done seamlessly or users will simply ditch these measures and go back using root.
When will programmers start writing secure code? When will we stop hearing "security is hard" or even worst "security is impossible"? When will people start demanding that programmers write secure code? - When software makers will be held liable for security holes in their products. Managers and marketing will wake up then and stop demanding ridiculously tight schedules that pretty much eliminates the time a programmer could take for code review and security measures. Until there is no $$ involved in punishing the culprit (corporation), there won't be any security improvments.
I don't think that aesthetics are really that important. I think that part of it is the overall perception as Alliance="good guys" and Horde="bad guys" than anything else. - My personal experiences tell me the complete opposite. Before quitting WoW, I was in a semi casual guild. We had a lot of couples. I'd say that 35% of our guild were women (about an 80 person guild). They played mostly the "cutest" troll female model and the "cutest" undead female model. We had maybe 4 exceptions: an orc female model and an ugly undead female model and two taurens. No "ugly" trolls, almost no orcs and almost no ugly undead or taurens. Not to mention, we had at least 4-5 couples, switch to alliance because the gf/wife didn't like the Horde models. The EQ guild I was in before, most female players played human, high elf or woodelf models. Very few females played trolls, ogres. Even barbarians and dark elves (who looked decent) weren't that popular.
Speculation or not, the Alliance needs a very ugly race while the Horde needs a "cute" race to help with realm balance issues (it won't cure the population imbalance problem but it will help a lot). Maybe Draenei aren't the race but I am willing to bet the Alliance will receive a very fugly race. If not, realm population imbalance will continue.
IMO, just got to grok OO programming, know different protocols (SOAP, HTTP), know XML, have good self teaching skills, know how to google for answers.
Learning a language or tech trend is not hard if one understands the underlying concepts: operating systems, OO code, various design patterns, protocols, etc.
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that this was an out of court settlement. The guy didn't win in court, he settled. - I am sure many people who don't give a damn about SPAM look at this and think... man I could make some good money. It sets a good (IMO) precedent for people to sue them. In many countries there is a small claims court that costs very little. If people can get a few hundred maybe a thousand $currency$ then they might be inclined to sue spammers. How can SPAM be stopped? $$.
My question is why this exoskeleton? Why not some vehicle that can resist a blast from a roadside bomb? The US army is ridiculously powerful, no nation stands a chance in direct confrontation. So the only option is what the insurgents in Iraq are doing: guerilla warfare. How will this slow exoskeleton help that? The soldier who could duck for cover when attacked now won't be able as fast. This exoskeleton sucks for defending and going after people in cities, close alleys.
Steve Balmer discovered at the office party having sexual relations with Google in a storage cupboard. - Depends on your definition of "sexual relation"...
I'd imagine by at least 80%. - I'd say he is exagerating by 100%, there is not one human being who understands Quantum Mechanics. We can measure things with it, predict things but explain the why and how? No chance.
Do I read that right and they created entangled atoms, giving us possible faster than light communications? Or is this just the usual journalists misreporting of scientific facts?
IIRC, IANAQP, only random information is "transmitted" FTL. When at one side one measures the spin of the particle, the other side, the entagled particle will have same spin. However this spin value is random so useless for communication.
Funny, for linux apparently being a non-viable desktop alternative OS, I've never had any issues. - I love Linux, but IMO, OP does have a point. I recently switched my notebook to Kubuntu. Boy was I in for a suprise. 3 year old Presario 905 US, cardbus D-Link wireless.
I installed the OS, no problemo. Well other than wireless not working. After toying around, I noticed the GUI won't let me change the wireless parameters. Some weird bug, asks me for my pw (sudo), nothing happens. All right, let's do it manually, edit interfaces file, play with iwconfig. Got it running.
Next problem, Firefox. The menu and toolbar was ridiculously huge, large fonts. Of course no option to change it. Again, hack a configuration file in the chrome folder. Firefox doesn't like KDE...
Next problem, Mp3. The package manager (Adept) kept giving me Install (BREAK) messages and wouldn't let me install the correct libraries. Of course I had to google around to find that I didn't have the ID3 tag reader, install that, then the gstreamer package and I could finally play Mp3s.
Next problem, video files. I installed the correct libraries for Kaffeine, oops , it started to crash. Adept wouldn't le me install anything MPlayer related. Finally I installed the xine engine for Kaffeine and it was working. I still couldn't get Firefox to display streaming video, tried installing mozilla-mplayer, adept said screw you!
Now I am not a Linux expert, far from it. More like a novice, I was/am a longtime windows user, infact I can do pretty much everything on windows including analyzing BSOD crap. I was very dissapointed in Kubuntu. I had to do text file hacking, install various packages just to be able to do three things: - Browse web. - Play my MP3s. - Play my ripped DVDs (video files).
IMO, Linux is not ready for desktop. There I said it, now let's see getting moderated to -5 troll.
Since the article is touting the Pentium 4 D as processor, it is already a bad choice to run:). Opterons can be put into 1U easy and are superior to a P4 D server. Why would anyone not use Opterons/AMD 64 X2s today in servers, especially for small companies is beyond me. How is this rackmount different from a 1U?
Any person from France can tell you the Quebec lingo can hardly be called french. It's just about impossible to understand outside of Montreal... - The Québec french dialect is about as different from french in France as Aussie dialect vs US dialect. Of course if you don't call the aussie dialect english, then yeah, don't call this french either.:)
They should have listened to Celine Dion, get a nice rootkit as a bonus and be able to cheat without Blizzard's Warden client to detect them!
Silly cheaters!
Scratch the current "business plan"
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So a focus for us right now is, how do we get new, innovative features that take the existing franchises and move them forward in interesting ways? And then I think what you'll see is a couple of--you know a couple might be the wrong term--but some very focused bets at doing really innovative and different things.
Step 1: Stop making sequels with no noticable gameplay differences but a bit nicer graphics. Infact, let's stop this sequel bullshit.
Step 2: Stop making games based on movies.
Step 3: Profit!
The current "business plan" on making sequel after sequel is not innovation. Making mostly three genres of games (FPS, Sports and Driving) isn't the solution either. Game industry needs to make original games. No more recycled turd.
But browsers? Can anyone name the last time Microsoft sold a browser?
IMO selling or not selling a browser is a non issue. A free browser deeply rooted into the operating system is a great way to keep people locked in. Especially if your OS has 90%+ marketshare. Why would Joe Average download another browser if he gets one free with the OS? Fast forward and you have many websites built around a non standard supporting browser. It just makes the Windows lock-in even stronger and for many average users almost impossible to break.
So yes, Anti-trust regulators should look at MS buying Opera (if rumors are true).
Good for them, Whatever you may think about their products or SOE in general this is a positive response to a legitimate complaints of a small subset of the SWG universe. They could've ignored it, but they didn't and for that I think they deserve a congratulations. - It has nothing to do with the insane amount of bad press they got lately?
I am sure they did it out of the kindess of their hearts. It's a brilliant business move to listen to 0.000001% of your user base, waste resources on it, all this time when 99.99999% of your user base is complaining about serious bugs, stability.
Reminds me of "great" Everquest patches when they changed how doors opened in remote towns instead of fixing critical class balance issues and other bugs. I am not saying they shouldn't make their games playable by disabled people, but frankly, the game has much more serious issues that affects a much larger playerbase.
This is news, but it isn't big news, and it isn't very interesting news. - Maybe this new guy will tell Bill to implement a fricking virtual window manager into Windoze.
whereas liberal in Canada and Europe and most other places means the same thing as "conservative" means in the US
- Uh? Not even close.
Liberal in Canada = Socialist orientation, gay rights, state run healthcare, free education, yadda yadda yadda.
Conservatives in Canada = No gay rights, privatized healthcare, importance on "family values", religion, etc.
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FTFA: But is that just wishful thinking? "Inflation would be an explanation if it occurred," says University of Cambridge astronomer Martin Rees. The trouble is that no one knows what could have made that happen.
I was under the impression that Inflation is caused by a certain energy value of the Higgs field. Did I miss something and Higgs field is no longer the savior of Inflation?
Why is the job of Homeland Security to secure the data storage of a random company? Start putting out heavy fines on companies who fail to securely store customer data and the problem will go away. Right now there is no "incentive" for companies to keep personal data stored safely. A little PR can take care of a hack.
Companies need to be held liable for the safety and security of their customer's data. The problem then will go away.
You mean 5 million?
Use
/user:root_user "Whatever command goes here"
... MS equivalent).
runas
- You really think Mr. Joe Computer Illiterate would do that? Or how about Ms. Soccer Mom? One of the biggest Windows security issues is that everyone and their mother is running with root privileges. Unfortunately zillions of programs have been written by clueless coders who assume everyone is root. Endresult: You can't run many things without being root. As soon as you dwell into technicalities of user security, 99.99% of computer illiterate people will tell you to f*** off and let them use their computers as they want to. Not to mention they won't have the patience, will, desire to learn this stuff. They just want stuff out of the box that works. They don't want to spend time entering commands that appear to them as pure gibberish.
Microsoft needs to do a few things:
- Copy Ubuntu security ideas: no one knows root password, use sudo (well
- Take out IE and crap from the kernel. There is no excuse for a virus running as an image with SYSTEM authority. None.
- Default user setting is very limited. Right now windows doesn't even warn you (SP2) if you put a blank password as administrator. W-T-F?
But they key is, never let a clueless user have full control over the system except for one single process that is needed to configure hardware. All this have to be done seamlessly or users will simply ditch these measures and go back using root.
When will programmers start writing secure code? When will we stop hearing "security is hard" or even worst "security is impossible"? When will people start demanding that programmers write secure code?
- When software makers will be held liable for security holes in their products. Managers and marketing will wake up then and stop demanding ridiculously tight schedules that pretty much eliminates the time a programmer could take for code review and security measures. Until there is no $$ involved in punishing the culprit (corporation), there won't be any security improvments.
No list failure list is complete without Duke Nukem Forever played on a Phantom game console! ;)
I don't think that aesthetics are really that important. I think that part of it is the overall perception as Alliance="good guys" and Horde="bad guys" than anything else.
- My personal experiences tell me the complete opposite. Before quitting WoW, I was in a semi casual guild. We had a lot of couples. I'd say that 35% of our guild were women (about an 80 person guild). They played mostly the "cutest" troll female model and the "cutest" undead female model. We had maybe 4 exceptions: an orc female model and an ugly undead female model and two taurens. No "ugly" trolls, almost no orcs and almost no ugly undead or taurens. Not to mention, we had at least 4-5 couples, switch to alliance because the gf/wife didn't like the Horde models. The EQ guild I was in before, most female players played human, high elf or woodelf models. Very few females played trolls, ogres. Even barbarians and dark elves (who looked decent) weren't that popular.
Speculation or not, the Alliance needs a very ugly race while the Horde needs a "cute" race to help with realm balance issues (it won't cure the population imbalance problem but it will help a lot). Maybe Draenei aren't the race but I am willing to bet the Alliance will receive a very fugly race. If not, realm population imbalance will continue.
IMO, just got to grok OO programming, know different protocols (SOAP, HTTP), know XML, have good self teaching skills, know how to google for answers.
Learning a language or tech trend is not hard if one understands the underlying concepts: operating systems, OO code, various design patterns, protocols, etc.
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that this was an out of court settlement. The guy didn't win in court, he settled. ... man I could make some good money. It sets a good (IMO) precedent for people to sue them. In many countries there is a small claims court that costs very little. If people can get a few hundred maybe a thousand $currency$ then they might be inclined to sue spammers. How can SPAM be stopped? $$.
- I am sure many people who don't give a damn about SPAM look at this and think
Let's sue spammers out of business.
My question is why this exoskeleton? Why not some vehicle that can resist a blast from a roadside bomb? The US army is ridiculously powerful, no nation stands a chance in direct confrontation. So the only option is what the insurgents in Iraq are doing: guerilla warfare. How will this slow exoskeleton help that? The soldier who could duck for cover when attacked now won't be able as fast. This exoskeleton sucks for defending and going after people in cities, close alleys.
Steve Balmer discovered at the office party having sexual relations with Google in a storage cupboard. ...
- Depends on your definition of "sexual relation"
I'd imagine by at least 80%.
- I'd say he is exagerating by 100%, there is not one human being who understands Quantum Mechanics. We can measure things with it, predict things but explain the why and how? No chance.
Do I read that right and they created entangled atoms, giving us possible faster than light communications? Or is this just the usual journalists misreporting of scientific facts?
IIRC, IANAQP, only random information is "transmitted" FTL. When at one side one measures the spin of the particle, the other side, the entagled particle will have same spin. However this spin value is random so useless for communication.
Funny, for linux apparently being a non-viable desktop alternative OS, I've never had any issues.
- I love Linux, but IMO, OP does have a point. I recently switched my notebook to Kubuntu. Boy was I in for a suprise. 3 year old Presario 905 US, cardbus D-Link wireless.
I installed the OS, no problemo. Well other than wireless not working. After toying around, I noticed the GUI won't let me change the wireless parameters. Some weird bug, asks me for my pw (sudo), nothing happens. All right, let's do it manually, edit interfaces file, play with iwconfig. Got it running.
Next problem, Firefox. The menu and toolbar was ridiculously huge, large fonts. Of course no option to change it. Again, hack a configuration file in the chrome folder. Firefox doesn't like KDE...
Next problem, Mp3. The package manager (Adept) kept giving me Install (BREAK) messages and wouldn't let me install the correct libraries. Of course I had to google around to find that I didn't have the ID3 tag reader, install that, then the gstreamer package and I could finally play Mp3s.
Next problem, video files. I installed the correct libraries for Kaffeine, oops , it started to crash. Adept wouldn't le me install anything MPlayer related. Finally I installed the xine engine for Kaffeine and it was working. I still couldn't get Firefox to display streaming video, tried installing mozilla-mplayer, adept said screw you!
Now I am not a Linux expert, far from it. More like a novice, I was/am a longtime windows user, infact I can do pretty much everything on windows including analyzing BSOD crap. I was very dissapointed in Kubuntu. I had to do text file hacking, install various packages just to be able to do three things:
- Browse web.
- Play my MP3s.
- Play my ripped DVDs (video files).
IMO, Linux is not ready for desktop. There I said it, now let's see getting moderated to -5 troll.
Since the article is touting the Pentium 4 D as processor, it is already a bad choice to run :). Opterons can be put into 1U easy and are superior to a P4 D server. Why would anyone not use Opterons/AMD 64 X2s today in servers, especially for small companies is beyond me. How is this rackmount different from a 1U?
Any person from France can tell you the Quebec lingo can hardly be called french. It's just about impossible to understand outside of Montreal... :)
- The Québec french dialect is about as different from french in France as Aussie dialect vs US dialect. Of course if you don't call the aussie dialect english, then yeah, don't call this french either.
They should have listened to Celine Dion, get a nice rootkit as a bonus and be able to cheat without Blizzard's Warden client to detect them!
Silly cheaters!
So a focus for us right now is, how do we get new, innovative features that take the existing franchises and move them forward in interesting ways? And then I think what you'll see is a couple of--you know a couple might be the wrong term--but some very focused bets at doing really innovative and different things.
Step 1: Stop making sequels with no noticable gameplay differences but a bit nicer graphics. Infact, let's stop this sequel bullshit.
Step 2: Stop making games based on movies.
Step 3: Profit!
The current "business plan" on making sequel after sequel is not innovation. Making mostly three genres of games (FPS, Sports and Driving) isn't the solution either. Game industry needs to make original games. No more recycled turd.
But browsers? Can anyone name the last time Microsoft sold a browser?
IMO selling or not selling a browser is a non issue. A free browser deeply rooted into the operating system is a great way to keep people locked in. Especially if your OS has 90%+ marketshare. Why would Joe Average download another browser if he gets one free with the OS? Fast forward and you have many websites built around a non standard supporting browser. It just makes the Windows lock-in even stronger and for many average users almost impossible to break.
So yes, Anti-trust regulators should look at MS buying Opera (if rumors are true).
They sure got a good grip on the file sharing world!
...
Or maybe not
Good for them, Whatever you may think about their products or SOE in general this is a positive response to a legitimate complaints of a small subset of the SWG universe. They could've ignored it, but they didn't and for that I think they deserve a congratulations.
- It has nothing to do with the insane amount of bad press they got lately?
I am sure they did it out of the kindess of their hearts. It's a brilliant business move to listen to 0.000001% of your user base, waste resources on it, all this time when 99.99999% of your user base is complaining about serious bugs, stability.
Reminds me of "great" Everquest patches when they changed how doors opened in remote towns instead of fixing critical class balance issues and other bugs. I am not saying they shouldn't make their games playable by disabled people, but frankly, the game has much more serious issues that affects a much larger playerbase.
Damn it, what's wrong with the Intelligent Design theory?
- Simple answer, in the form of a question: If ID is true, then who created our designer?
This is news, but it isn't big news, and it isn't very interesting news.
- Maybe this new guy will tell Bill to implement a fricking virtual window manager into Windoze.
whereas liberal in Canada and Europe and most other places means the same thing as "conservative" means in the US - Uh? Not even close. Liberal in Canada = Socialist orientation, gay rights, state run healthcare, free education, yadda yadda yadda. Conservatives in Canada = No gay rights, privatized healthcare, importance on "family values", religion, etc.