If you're going to tell the story at least get it right. Virgin was about to launch competing channels to Sky One-Three and Sky didn't like that too much and tried to up the cost and Virgin didn't back down and just pushed forward their launch. As a result all of the "free" Sky channels got pulled (Sky One-Three, Sky News, et al).
Sky Sports and Sky Movies never got pulled from Virgin's services since they ran on entirely different agreements (plus Sky and Virgin make far too much on those premium channels).
There was no "big sports event" since no sports channel got pulled. I think this was just before a 24 season start however.
The slot can be damaged by overheating cards, and if it is your only 16x slot then you could wind up throwing away the entire motherboard. Although typically this is more often seen when a card overheats multiple times causing the material to expand and contract until it eventually fails (as opposed to this case when cards just die).
My only guess about CPU damage is unregulated power spikes but that is just conjecture. Plus if anything was going to get damaged by power spikes it wouldn't be the CPU it would be the RAM.
While hackers are often shown to have super-technical abilities that make no sense, so are the "good guys." I think to some degree it kind of counter-balances the whole thing.
Computers/technology isn't accurate in films but that is a small part of a much larger science rant in which all of the fields of science are abused for your viewing pleasure, biology, chemistry, engineering, and psychics.
Heck even psychology is abused in movies and that is borderline pseudoscience anyway....
The changes Microsoft made to both Windows Vista and 7 have resulted in more CO2 savings that most other efforts combined. I am of course talking about the default and recommended power settings in Windows along with the "best practice" guidelines given to their corporate partners. Microsoft has also added support for power saving features to Windows ahead of what the hardware and or drivers in the market offered...
Windows XP is secure if configured correctly, and Vista hasn't been crap since its first Service Pack. Your entire post feels like a throw back from several years ago.
Also, I wouldn't switch users away from Windows. It is cheap enough, with great software support, to make it worth while to keep working around any problems you encounter.
The boys are all looking at porn, and the girls are on social networks discussing how to get their boy's attention or how to make themselves look nicer than the professional porn stars...
In all seriousness however, in ten years I imagine that the internet will be accessible in every location and being unable to access the internet in the middle of the desert or on top of a mountain will result in some serious complaints to the phone companies.
Cheating is laziness by the student but also the teacher who allowed it to take place. Cheating is very easy to avoid but it does require educators to be willing to create assignments that they themselves didn't download or buy from a teaching website. The fact is that when you use the same exact assignment year after year you're going to make cheating both accessible and profitable.
I would also like to add, that cheating is far worse in the US since the teachers grade the students instead of third party independent testing organisations who are contracted to create unique material for each test.
These "police portals" are logistical nightmares. Keep in mind that there are hundreds of police forces in the US then take into account security services and other interested parties are we might be talking about the population of a city who need completely secure access to a great deal of private information.
Then we need to talk about audit trail and legality of these searches. Who monitors the police/security services to make sure they're acting within the law? How do we know someone isn't spying on their ex' or getting stock tips?
I think the best system for all involved is a dedicated department at large ISPs/hosts who responds to requests, reads the warrant and grants/denies it. If they grant it then they're given a portal for JUST that request which disables when the warrant expires.
What they should discuss is the negative impact on legitimate customers rather than on piracy...
For one example, I legally own *two* copies of Red Alert 2 yet I have them both no-CD cracked. Why? Because I don't want to have to go find the CD each time I want to play and worse still the game even supports playing back Audio CD while you play but yet that requires you to juggle the RA2 and Audio CD constantly just to get the damn thing to work!
The best thing to happen to DRM has been Steam. They have a fairly healthy level of DRM or at least the Valve games do... I hear Bioshock 2 has Steam + "Games for Windows" + SecureRom? What the heck? And an activation limit on Steam?!... Well Steam *used* to be good for consumers before they started letting publishers do whatever the hell they want.
You cannot compare our need for oil to our "need" for manufactured goods. The former is a finite resource, you can only get it from a handful of places around the world, the latter will be sourced from literally whoever is cheapest. If China suddenly cut the west's supply of goods off I'm sure one of their cheapest competitors would happily step in to fill the void. Or if it got too expensive then they would be produced in the west.
A fully patched IE8 running on either Vista or Windows 7 is far safer than Firefox. Why?
- Low privileged mode. IE8 runs with lower rights than the logged in user, Firefox doesn't...
- DEP is turned on for IE8 by default. Firefox has to be added (or the "all applications" option).
- IE8 patches can be deployed from the Domain very easily. Firefox on a corporate network is a pain in the butt...
Now I entirely grant that this is Microsoft's browser running on Microsoft's OS and thus it gains unfair advantages but that doesn't change the facts or reality of the situation.
So you create copyright works in country A, and when that expires you then renew your copyright in country B? After that expires will they just transfer it yet again to another country and extend it yet again? Since all of these countries have [evil] trade treaties copyright in one is copyright in all....
Copyright is seriously out of control and I point the finger squarely at the US for creating this greedy flawed system...
I myself used to play Counter-Strike (classic), and I can tell you both FPS and Ping made a HUGE difference in that game to the point that my score would increase as I connected to servers closer to home and used OpenGL instead of DirectX (since OpenGL almost doubled the FPS at the time).
Now, I wasn't an expert but I did play a whole lot. I think you ask most serious players and they would agree the impact of both...
I believe the reason why people like the iPhone/Touch is that the UI is very clean, simple, and responsive. Plus in addition to that you have an insanely good multi-touch interface that with software simulated physics feels "real" somehow. All in all the iPhone/Touch software is a very intuitive piece of kit, which makes people want to create cool applications for it and thus the cycle continues.
I am a geek, I read tech-spec's, but I also know that MOST of what I am buying is a software experience, that's why I buy a branded device at all instead of a Chinese eBay import with generic software that is at least twice as powerful and half the price.
Does anyone else feel like standard ways of encrypting USB Drivers are urgently requires so we no longer need to depend on third party vendor software to do the job [badly]?
Unfortunately only Microsoft or to a lesser degree Apple could roll out such a standard since nobody else have the leverage.
MP3 players cannot control volume since they have no way of knowing how loud a headset/earphones will convert the output into. For example small earbud in-ear output extremely high volumes with very low powers, while "cup" headsets would output a much lower volume with the volume indicator set at the same point.
If MP3 players for example limit volume to 80% you might wind up requiring batteries for several high end headsets that are currently on sale (even while the volume is extremely low).
I have very bad hearing, have done since I was a kid (even had surgery to correct it). I listen to music roughly 10-15% louder than most of my peers. In a noisy room louder still. If they limit volume on my MP3 player will I have to hack it in order to listen to it at a reasonable volume for me?
I was about to post the same thing. Firefox isn't bloated as a result of addons it is bloated and addons are the reason people still want to use it given that fact. Opera is less bloated but yet isn't popular, why?: No addons.
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If you're going to tell the story at least get it right.
Virgin was about to launch competing channels to Sky One-Three and Sky didn't like that too much and tried to up the cost and Virgin didn't back down and just pushed forward their launch. As a result all of the "free" Sky channels got pulled (Sky One-Three, Sky News, et al).
Sky Sports and Sky Movies never got pulled from Virgin's services since they ran on entirely different agreements (plus Sky and Virgin make far too much on those premium channels).
There was no "big sports event" since no sports channel got pulled. I think this was just before a 24 season start however.
The slot can be damaged by overheating cards, and if it is your only 16x slot then you could wind up throwing away the entire motherboard. Although typically this is more often seen when a card overheats multiple times causing the material to expand and contract until it eventually fails (as opposed to this case when cards just die).
My only guess about CPU damage is unregulated power spikes but that is just conjecture. Plus if anything was going to get damaged by power spikes it wouldn't be the CPU it would be the RAM.
We already have a solution - Cut the power when the break is pushed.
What I struggle to understand is why this isn't a legal requirement on all new drive-by-wire cars?
This doesn't apply in the UK. If you don't tell the police a mitigating piece of evidence you cannot use it in court later.
While hackers are often shown to have super-technical abilities that make no sense, so are the "good guys." I think to some degree it kind of counter-balances the whole thing.
Computers/technology isn't accurate in films but that is a small part of a much larger science rant in which all of the fields of science are abused for your viewing pleasure, biology, chemistry, engineering, and psychics.
Heck even psychology is abused in movies and that is borderline pseudoscience anyway....
The changes Microsoft made to both Windows Vista and 7 have resulted in more CO2 savings that most other efforts combined. I am of course talking about the default and recommended power settings in Windows along with the "best practice" guidelines given to their corporate partners. Microsoft has also added support for power saving features to Windows ahead of what the hardware and or drivers in the market offered...
Windows XP is secure if configured correctly, and Vista hasn't been crap since its first Service Pack. Your entire post feels like a throw back from several years ago.
Also, I wouldn't switch users away from Windows. It is cheap enough, with great software support, to make it worth while to keep working around any problems you encounter.
The boys are all looking at porn, and the girls are on social networks discussing how to get their boy's attention or how to make themselves look nicer than the professional porn stars...
In all seriousness however, in ten years I imagine that the internet will be accessible in every location and being unable to access the internet in the middle of the desert or on top of a mountain will result in some serious complaints to the phone companies.
Cheating is laziness by the student but also the teacher who allowed it to take place. Cheating is very easy to avoid but it does require educators to be willing to create assignments that they themselves didn't download or buy from a teaching website. The fact is that when you use the same exact assignment year after year you're going to make cheating both accessible and profitable.
I would also like to add, that cheating is far worse in the US since the teachers grade the students instead of third party independent testing organisations who are contracted to create unique material for each test.
So there are few women in technology. Sad. There are few men in primary or secondary education, nursing, or child care. Do we care?
These "police portals" are logistical nightmares. Keep in mind that there are hundreds of police forces in the US then take into account security services and other interested parties are we might be talking about the population of a city who need completely secure access to a great deal of private information.
Then we need to talk about audit trail and legality of these searches. Who monitors the police/security services to make sure they're acting within the law? How do we know someone isn't spying on their ex' or getting stock tips?
I think the best system for all involved is a dedicated department at large ISPs/hosts who responds to requests, reads the warrant and grants/denies it. If they grant it then they're given a portal for JUST that request which disables when the warrant expires.
What they should discuss is the negative impact on legitimate customers rather than on piracy...
For one example, I legally own *two* copies of Red Alert 2 yet I have them both no-CD cracked. Why? Because I don't want to have to go find the CD each time I want to play and worse still the game even supports playing back Audio CD while you play but yet that requires you to juggle the RA2 and Audio CD constantly just to get the damn thing to work!
The best thing to happen to DRM has been Steam. They have a fairly healthy level of DRM or at least the Valve games do... I hear Bioshock 2 has Steam + "Games for Windows" + SecureRom? What the heck? And an activation limit on Steam?! ... Well Steam *used* to be good for consumers before they started letting publishers do whatever the hell they want.
You cannot compare our need for oil to our "need" for manufactured goods. The former is a finite resource, you can only get it from a handful of places around the world, the latter will be sourced from literally whoever is cheapest. If China suddenly cut the west's supply of goods off I'm sure one of their cheapest competitors would happily step in to fill the void. Or if it got too expensive then they would be produced in the west.
A fully patched IE8 running on either Vista or Windows 7 is far safer than Firefox. Why?
- Low privileged mode. IE8 runs with lower rights than the logged in user, Firefox doesn't...
- DEP is turned on for IE8 by default. Firefox has to be added (or the "all applications" option).
- IE8 patches can be deployed from the Domain very easily. Firefox on a corporate network is a pain in the butt...
Now I entirely grant that this is Microsoft's browser running on Microsoft's OS and thus it gains unfair advantages but that doesn't change the facts or reality of the situation.
It is very hard to block NATs even if they aren't allowed.
Apart from being far cheaper and safer, how is this different from police helicopters they already use and have been using for over twenty years?
So you create copyright works in country A, and when that expires you then renew your copyright in country B? After that expires will they just transfer it yet again to another country and extend it yet again? Since all of these countries have [evil] trade treaties copyright in one is copyright in all....
Copyright is seriously out of control and I point the finger squarely at the US for creating this greedy flawed system...
I myself used to play Counter-Strike (classic), and I can tell you both FPS and Ping made a HUGE difference in that game to the point that my score would increase as I connected to servers closer to home and used OpenGL instead of DirectX (since OpenGL almost doubled the FPS at the time).
Now, I wasn't an expert but I did play a whole lot. I think you ask most serious players and they would agree the impact of both...
Could you be any more smug and arrogant?
I believe the reason why people like the iPhone/Touch is that the UI is very clean, simple, and responsive. Plus in addition to that you have an insanely good multi-touch interface that with software simulated physics feels "real" somehow. All in all the iPhone/Touch software is a very intuitive piece of kit, which makes people want to create cool applications for it and thus the cycle continues.
I am a geek, I read tech-spec's, but I also know that MOST of what I am buying is a software experience, that's why I buy a branded device at all instead of a Chinese eBay import with generic software that is at least twice as powerful and half the price.
Does anyone else feel like standard ways of encrypting USB Drivers are urgently requires so we no longer need to depend on third party vendor software to do the job [badly]?
Unfortunately only Microsoft or to a lesser degree Apple could roll out such a standard since nobody else have the leverage.
Apart from that comment being extremely offensive, how would you suggest I use a hearing aid with a headset? The feedback would make it impossible.
MP3 players cannot control volume since they have no way of knowing how loud a headset/earphones will convert the output into. For example small earbud in-ear output extremely high volumes with very low powers, while "cup" headsets would output a much lower volume with the volume indicator set at the same point.
If MP3 players for example limit volume to 80% you might wind up requiring batteries for several high end headsets that are currently on sale (even while the volume is extremely low).
I have very bad hearing, have done since I was a kid (even had surgery to correct it). I listen to music roughly 10-15% louder than most of my peers. In a noisy room louder still. If they limit volume on my MP3 player will I have to hack it in order to listen to it at a reasonable volume for me?
Did you ever consider taking what you did and using it as a reason they SHOULD hire you?
I was about to post the same thing. Firefox isn't bloated as a result of addons it is bloated and addons are the reason people still want to use it given that fact. Opera is less bloated but yet isn't popular, why?: No addons.