25 Rating board head - lawyer 24 CEO 23 Comic makers 22 President 21 gfx engine developer 20 Shop network division president 19 hardware manufacturer's PR guy 18 CEO 17 Marketing 16 shop network COO 15 CEO 14 developer 13 Sales&Marketing 12 director 11 distribution 10 sales, marketing and management 9 PR 8 CEO and creative director 7 marketing 6 executive producer 5 engineered the takeover of the Eidos 4 sales and marketing 3 attending interviews and doing the whole PR thing, 2 boss of Nintendo 1 business leader
Rather few people who are involved in making actual games. Sales, management, shops, money making, corporate relationships and so on. Somehow actual games get lost in this all.
If I carve a table, I have a beautiful table. If you make a copy of it somehow, I still have my table but so do you. I don't have anything less than I had before. I still own the table. I still have my ideas. But what god-given right grants me exclusivity to all these? Why can't anyone else have an identical table, or a picture of said table, or plans of making it, or similar table painted different colours? If I didn't know they do, I'd have no slightest idea I lost anything after most careful examination of all my property. A strange crime, when I lose nothing but you gain something, isn't it?
Been on/. already, even easier. Want to access free porn? Solve this captcha. And the captcha image gets imported from Yahoo mail account creation page.
nope. Read some on 5510 design. It was horrible. They took a decent small phone - Nokia 3310, loaded it into bulky box and started adding "features" that have little/no connection between each other. There's a qwerty keyboard but no notepad-like app. There is voice recognition but no audio recording. There is the mp3 player with 64M flash, with no connection to the rest of the system of the phone and a horrible upload app for the PC. Same about the FM radio, it's in the same box but no other functions. Generally it's several completely separate devices in one box. The phone company didn't need to cripple it any more..
I mean, I have Nokia 5510 with 64MB Flash and USB interface.But you can use that flash only for mp3s for the mp3 player, and the usb only for uploading the mp3s. to do things like syncing addressbooks, uploading ringtones or logos, downloading/uploading SMS and so on you need to use a proprietary plug that goes under the battery, costs arm and leg and is available almost strictly to servicemen.
Quite likely you won't be able to do anything other than view photos you have stored on the SD, and no hope of using it for any other data.
1) Did this error change the outcome of a race? That is the first consideration, because if it didn't then the severity of the error is vastly reduced.
Not this occurance of this bug, but its presence indicates extremely likely that the bug could.
Counted result: 18:18:0 Actual result: ??:??:1
Meaning it's very likely the 18:18 tie between two other candidates wouldn't occur if not for this error.
Google should now buy out utube. Certainly a good deal, after all they've been buying out all the dark fiber, now they'd have even more pipes for the intarnets.
If the company is huge, it's hard to audit all the systems to ensure no backdoors - especially that local admins have years of experience with said systems, often with custom modifications auditors will have no idea about. If the company is small, it's very expensive to employ a reliable external contractor who will implement security properly (and won't side with the admin instead of the boss, "overlooking" some backdoor). It may be easier in a new company where a system is created from scratch and a different crew is in charge of creating it, than the crew that will maintain it, but still there's nothing that stops an admin from installing an exploit instead of a patch on the mailserver and only regular, unexpected (and very expensive) audits can detect it.
About the best way I know how such situation can be handled is to have dedicated, loyal employees and care for them. I didn't read my boss' mail. He was a nice guy and it would be rude, and I wouldn't do rude things to a nice guy.
A study has revealed correlation between low school grades during childhood and increased alcohol consumption later. A special open letter to teachers has been published, demanding to give higher grades to kids to help them fight the alcohol problem later in life.
(a sex ed program for teens was cancelled 6 months after it started, because no drop in number of underaged mothers was noticed during that period...)
Sure this test is about remembering words. If you are retarded, you have difficulty remembering words. If you're stupid, you eat junk food and don't understand what is good for your body.
This is good on Linux, where you KNOW everything you install is GNU unless stated otherwise and present in non-free directory (in which case you're usually presented with the licese during first launch, even worse than during install.) On Windows, where you live in a mix of very different licenses, and most of them restrictive about using the program, not just distribution, knowing what license a given program is, is more important. Of course if there was an installer in windows where you pick software by license, click "install" and have 50 pieces of software installed (...like Cygwin?) the "shrinkwrap" step could be skipped.
Sure they are pretty obvious, but it's the ordering that is surprising.
1. Storage of Magnetic Stripe Data Once you know it, it's obvious. I bet you wouldn't guess it before. My bet was social engineering. What a surprise, it's not even on the list.
2. Missing or Outdated Security patches This one is pretty obvious, although I bet 50% of you would bet on 0-day exploits instead.
3. Use of Vendor Supplied Default Settings and Passwords I personally thought this one died around the end of the last century, and the vendors have learned a thing or two about "default/service passwords".
4. SQL Injection Certainly not #4. I mean, buffer overflows, sniffing, man in the middle. SQL injection seemed as a rather far borderworld technique of small significance.
5. Unncessary and Vulnerable Services on Server Yeah, this one was obvious. Until Windows Server 2003. Now I'm not sure anymore.
I'm not sure if you realize why IE loads fast. IE loads fast because Windows load slowly. IE loads for about 10 seconds, before the desktop appears. Once you click the blue e, you just open a small executable that tells the system to open a new browser window. If you see "start" button, it means IE is already loaded, it's the same program only called with different parameters.
As others suggested, dropping Firefox into the startup folder gives about the same result - its load time extends Windows load time. Clicking the fox icon simply tells it to open a new window instead of loading from scratch.
'cause the dogs broke the only piece of twisted pair long enough to reach to mom's bedroom to network her computer. Plus all the ports of the switch are already occupied by my own hardware, only the BNC connector is available. Her computer is too weak to make any use of 100mbit or wifi anyway and I'm not quite in mood to buy extra hardware.
Huge boom in independent services of user support, helpdesk, troubleshooting etc. Lots of jobs for getting failed critical systems back online. And a huge boom in disaster recovery sector.
The hourly rating in their case is completely meaningless number calculated basing on some average based on expected usage.
Normal fluorescent lamps lifetime professionally is not rated in hours but in switch-on operations. Leave it on for a month, you might have decreased its lifetime by 0.01%. Toggle the switch 500 times in 1 hour, you decreased the lifetime by 10%. Bulbs are way more resistant to this problem, but switching them on does shorten their life too.
Another factor is working conditions. Primarily power supply - I found the energy-saving lamps to die within a week of usage on a line with "dirty" power - voltage at about 90% of norm, lots of spikes, noise etc. Same brand works for years in conditions of good power in places where they are switched on once and left running, never switched off, in temperature never dropping below zero and low humidity. In both cases the numbers are nowhere near what was written on the box, but if you'd average the numbers you might likely get somewhere near the stated life expectancy.
It's easy to say "switch everything unnecessary off". Sure I do switch off the obvious things. Then still my bill is high. Then I check: The monitor (22" CRT) is rated at 40 Watt in standby mode. The ethernet switch is pretty hot. I have no idea how much the laser printer needs in stand-by, but likely not all that little. All these toys plugged into the USB hub, do they remain off when I power off the computer? The BNC ethernet wire was shocking me with electricity. I grounded it, but how much does leak to ground that way? The grounding sparks a little when disconnected. If I leave the battery charger plugged in, it's warm even if it's not charging any batteries....and so on. I switch all the huge energy hogs off, but there are many dozens of small devices which pull 5, 10 watts of energy, 24/7 and it really adds up. A quick and easy way to measure actual power usage of a device would be really nice.
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25 Rating board head - lawyer
24 CEO
23 Comic makers
22 President
21 gfx engine developer
20 Shop network division president
19 hardware manufacturer's PR guy
18 CEO
17 Marketing
16 shop network COO
15 CEO
14 developer
13 Sales&Marketing
12 director
11 distribution
10 sales, marketing and management
9 PR
8 CEO and creative director
7 marketing
6 executive producer
5 engineered the takeover of the Eidos
4 sales and marketing
3 attending interviews and doing the whole PR thing,
2 boss of Nintendo
1 business leader
Rather few people who are involved in making actual games. Sales, management, shops, money making, corporate relationships and so on. Somehow actual games get lost in this all.
Go Dead!
If I carve a table, I have a beautiful table. If you make a copy of it somehow, I still have my table but so do you. I don't have anything less than I had before. I still own the table. I still have my ideas. But what god-given right grants me exclusivity to all these? Why can't anyone else have an identical table, or a picture of said table, or plans of making it, or similar table painted different colours? If I didn't know they do, I'd have no slightest idea I lost anything after most careful examination of all my property. A strange crime, when I lose nothing but you gain something, isn't it?
Then go after zombie Michael Jackson. He even claims to be still alive.
Been on /. already, even easier. Want to access free porn? Solve this captcha. And the captcha image gets imported from Yahoo mail account creation page.
I, for one, found out I can't solve most captchas while being drunk.
Does that fall under any of 'unfair treatment' laws?
Actually, Russia and China are far second behind USA which holds over 60% of spam market.
nope. Read some on 5510 design. It was horrible. They took a decent small phone - Nokia 3310, loaded it into bulky box and started adding "features" that have little/no connection between each other. There's a qwerty keyboard but no notepad-like app. There is voice recognition but no audio recording. There is the mp3 player with 64M flash, with no connection to the rest of the system of the phone and a horrible upload app for the PC. Same about the FM radio, it's in the same box but no other functions. Generally it's several completely separate devices in one box. The phone company didn't need to cripple it any more..
The question is what can you do with these slots.
I mean, I have Nokia 5510 with 64MB Flash and USB interface.But you can use that flash only for mp3s for the mp3 player, and the usb only for uploading the mp3s. to do things like syncing addressbooks, uploading ringtones or logos, downloading/uploading SMS and so on you need to use a proprietary plug that goes under the battery, costs arm and leg and is available almost strictly to servicemen.
Quite likely you won't be able to do anything other than view photos you have stored on the SD, and no hope of using it for any other data.
1) Did this error change the outcome of a race? That is the first consideration, because if it didn't then the severity of the error is vastly reduced.
Not this occurance of this bug, but its presence indicates extremely likely that the bug could.
Counted result:
18:18:0
Actual result:
??:??:1
Meaning it's very likely the 18:18 tie between two other candidates wouldn't occur if not for this error.
Google should now buy out utube. Certainly a good deal, after all they've been buying out all the dark fiber, now they'd have even more pipes for the intarnets.
The original occurance of a Grue was in The Collosal Adventure (/usr/games/adventure in bsd-games package) and all the others are just "ports".
Who polices the police?
If the company is huge, it's hard to audit all the systems to ensure no backdoors - especially that local admins have years of experience with said systems, often with custom modifications auditors will have no idea about. If the company is small, it's very expensive to employ a reliable external contractor who will implement security properly (and won't side with the admin instead of the boss, "overlooking" some backdoor). It may be easier in a new company where a system is created from scratch and a different crew is in charge of creating it, than the crew that will maintain it, but still there's nothing that stops an admin from installing an exploit instead of a patch on the mailserver and only regular, unexpected (and very expensive) audits can detect it.
About the best way I know how such situation can be handled is to have dedicated, loyal employees and care for them.
I didn't read my boss' mail. He was a nice guy and it would be rude, and I wouldn't do rude things to a nice guy.
A study has revealed correlation between low school grades during childhood and increased alcohol consumption later. A special open letter to teachers has been published, demanding to give higher grades to kids to help them fight the alcohol problem later in life.
(a sex ed program for teens was cancelled 6 months after it started, because no drop in number of underaged mothers was noticed during that period...)
Sure this test is about remembering words. If you are retarded, you have difficulty remembering words. If you're stupid, you eat junk food and don't understand what is good for your body.
This is good on Linux, where you KNOW everything you install is GNU unless stated otherwise and present in non-free directory (in which case you're usually presented with the licese during first launch, even worse than during install.) On Windows, where you live in a mix of very different licenses, and most of them restrictive about using the program, not just distribution, knowing what license a given program is, is more important. Of course if there was an installer in windows where you pick software by license, click "install" and have 50 pieces of software installed (...like Cygwin?) the "shrinkwrap" step could be skipped.
To think you laughed at the name "Wii".
yes, it's linux flash issue. The game requires flash 8.
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Mirror plz?
Sure they are pretty obvious, but it's the ordering that is surprising.
1. Storage of Magnetic Stripe Data
Once you know it, it's obvious. I bet you wouldn't guess it before. My bet was social engineering. What a surprise, it's not even on the list.
2. Missing or Outdated Security patches
This one is pretty obvious, although I bet 50% of you would bet on 0-day exploits instead.
3. Use of Vendor Supplied Default Settings and Passwords
I personally thought this one died around the end of the last century, and the vendors have learned a thing or two about "default/service passwords".
4. SQL Injection
Certainly not #4. I mean, buffer overflows, sniffing, man in the middle. SQL injection seemed as a rather far borderworld technique of small significance.
5. Unncessary and Vulnerable Services on Server
Yeah, this one was obvious. Until Windows Server 2003. Now I'm not sure anymore.
I'm not sure if you realize why IE loads fast.
IE loads fast because Windows load slowly. IE loads for about 10 seconds, before the desktop appears. Once you click the blue e, you just open a small executable that tells the system to open a new browser window. If you see "start" button, it means IE is already loaded, it's the same program only called with different parameters.
As others suggested, dropping Firefox into the startup folder gives about the same result - its load time extends Windows load time. Clicking the fox icon simply tells it to open a new window instead of loading from scratch.
'cause the dogs broke the only piece of twisted pair long enough to reach to mom's bedroom to network her computer. Plus all the ports of the switch are already occupied by my own hardware, only the BNC connector is available. Her computer is too weak to make any use of 100mbit or wifi anyway and I'm not quite in mood to buy extra hardware.
Huge boom in independent services of user support, helpdesk, troubleshooting etc. Lots of jobs for getting failed critical systems back online. And a huge boom in disaster recovery sector.
The hourly rating in their case is completely meaningless number calculated basing on some average based on expected usage.
Normal fluorescent lamps lifetime professionally is not rated in hours but in switch-on operations. Leave it on for a month, you might have decreased its lifetime by 0.01%. Toggle the switch 500 times in 1 hour, you decreased the lifetime by 10%. Bulbs are way more resistant to this problem, but switching them on does shorten their life too.
Another factor is working conditions. Primarily power supply - I found the energy-saving lamps to die within a week of usage on a line with "dirty" power - voltage at about 90% of norm, lots of spikes, noise etc. Same brand works for years in conditions of good power in places where they are switched on once and left running, never switched off, in temperature never dropping below zero and low humidity. In both cases the numbers are nowhere near what was written on the box, but if you'd average the numbers you might likely get somewhere near the stated life expectancy.
It's easy to say "switch everything unnecessary off". ...and so on. I switch all the huge energy hogs off, but there are many dozens of small devices which pull 5, 10 watts of energy, 24/7 and it really adds up. A quick and easy way to measure actual power usage of a device would be really nice.
Sure I do switch off the obvious things. Then still my bill is high. Then I check: The monitor (22" CRT) is rated at 40 Watt in standby mode. The ethernet switch is pretty hot. I have no idea how much the laser printer needs in stand-by, but likely not all that little. All these toys plugged into the USB hub, do they remain off when I power off the computer? The BNC ethernet wire was shocking me with electricity. I grounded it, but how much does leak to ground that way? The grounding sparks a little when disconnected. If I leave the battery charger plugged in, it's warm even if it's not charging any batteries.
Several high-power resistors.