It's not a 'bad move' by valve. VU forced Valve to charge the same amount for the steam version as the boxed version, so folks wouldn't have a huge incentive to buy the steam version and screw VU.
Most of the newer ATI all-in-wonder models, like the one in the grandfather post, are dual head. You can run one VGA/DVI to a monitor for your regular computer work and run the other head off of composite-video/s-video to your TV to show you your multimedia softare. I have dual monitors in my computer room, but sometimes I'll switch the second monitor to my TV in the next room when I want to go watch a movie.
A lot more people than just those in Clark County heard about it and were angered that foreigners were trying to influence the voters about the election. Thanks Guardian, for 4 more years of shrub.:(
What he probably doesn't appreciate is being typecast. How many good jobs do you think he was offered in the few years right after the Trek series? As far as I know he had nothing till T.J. Hooker. And after that... only more Trek movies? No other characters. Until just now he's finally coming back on a law show.
Being on Trek made him desirable at Trek conventions, but probably pretty much killed his career otherwise. Which do you think and actor would prefer, acting in movies and TV shows and being able to play a wide variety of characters, or going to Trek conventions and being surrounded by geeks? It wouldn't really be surprising if he was bitter, would it?
Unfortunately, when there are both movies and computer games about something, bad things happen. People dress up as characters and eventually you wind up with very bad things happening...
Watch lots of our troops get blown up. Watch more of our civil right disappear. Watch the taxes for the rich go down while the deficit goes up and up. Watch our world popularity drop several more notches.
There's lots of stuff to watch. None of it good, but lots of stuff to watch.
I helped campaign for the other guy. I talked to all my friends about voting for the other guy. I contributed to the other guys campaign. There's not a whole lot more I could have done unless I wanted to go to jail.
What the current administration has done does not reflect my beliefs in any way, shape or form, but there is a limit to what any one individual can do in the process. Now, if you want to say collectively, on average, the American people are to blame, you'd have more of an arguement (Though I'll remind you, the other guy got the more votes).
As far as the media goes, it's not mainly a responsibility issue. One of the main reasons we don't see more events from the world in our media has more to do with 5 megacorps owning 95% of the media outlets in the US, and the people who run them know which side their bread is buttered on. The other is the fact that the average American is woefully ignorant in geography and world politics ( Note I said average. Once again you can't say all of us are.), and so programs on those don't necessarily get great ratings.
The most any citizen can do is try to make sure the right( well, we are talking politicians... make that 'better') guy gets in office. So no, I did not have 'everything to do with those crimes'. I tried to prevent them. Sorry.
If you are going to lay blame at my feet for what's going on, then the same blame is laid at your feet for being a 'world citizen'. What exactly are you doing to fix the problem?
Someone who exploits a machine will often patch it against that exploit so no one else can take it over. They keep their own trojan/application running that they use to remotely control it, but seal off the original route of infection.
Maybe, but understand that some of us who are MySQL admins may have been thrust into that position as a result of our jobs and not necessarily because we were trained on databases.
That's obvious. If you were trained in databases, you wouldn't be using MySQL:P
Funny, lots of folks don't like Bill, but do use Windows.
Frankly I like to run a secure OS (OpenBSD) for my firewalls, etc. I don't really care if Theo flames folks every so often. It doesn't really affect me as a end-user. My network is still locked down. If Linus went on a rant and flamed a bunch of folks, how exactly would it affect your usage of Linux on your computers?
More like Employee sick week. I can't believe they are releasing it on a Tuesday. They must be terrorists, they are going to destroy the productivity of the country's workforce for the week.:)
Ok, so only the productivity of the gamers, but still!
Are you really trying to equate the two types of research?
When you learn how to cure a disease, you learn how to cure it for all the people of the world. Forever.
When you fix some computer security issue. You fix it on a subset of computers that OS/app runs on, which will last maybe 5-10 years till the next generation of equipment/OS's comes out making that fix obsolete. And in the end that doesn't even matter because some user is going to give out their password for a piece of chocolate.
Dell tried to explain it away as having a hard time getting good tech support in the US. The reality was it saved them money. If the US tech support was in reality so much worse, their customers would not have almost revolted until they promised that all biz class customers would still get US tech support, and only the lower end consumer customers would get tech support from India.
I wonder why they didn't integrate it into the filesystem. That was one of the great things about BeOS, total integration. Everything, including queries was updated on-the-fly. Seeing as Apple now has the guy who wrote BeOS's filesystem working for them (probably on this project), I'm really surprised they didn't move to a real database-type file system.
You can get exactly what was released under the BSD license as a source code.
Just because some company takes a copy of it and adds some stuff and releases a binary, that doesn't make the original BSD released code magically disapper. It's still there for anyone to have/use as they see fit. The only thing you might not get is the code for the *extra* stuff that the company added in. They might want paid for their labor and might or might not release their own special code at any later point in time.
You still haven't lost the original BSD code. BSD is less restrictive of everyone.
Well, that kind of depends on the application. Say we are talking about stuff controlling machines in factories...
The Reg just put out a story how all sorts of embedded controllers in factory machines are a huge risk for attacks because the chips in them don't have the horsepower to do new things that the equipment's designer didn't originally take into account.
Sometimes you don't realize when you will actually need more horsepower (perhaps for things like encryption and authentication) than you originially thought you would.
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You better be careful, or he will sue you. Then in a few hours, he will forget he'd done it, and he'll sue you again. Dupe lawsuits!
It's not a 'bad move' by valve. VU forced Valve to charge the same amount for the steam version as the boxed version, so folks wouldn't have a huge incentive to buy the steam version and screw VU.
You had respect for Limbaugh before that? Scary.
#2 would be: Short your own stock.
rock'em sock'em robots.
Most of the newer ATI all-in-wonder models, like the one in the grandfather post, are dual head. You can run one VGA/DVI to a monitor for your regular computer work and run the other head off of composite-video/s-video to your TV to show you your multimedia softare. I have dual monitors in my computer room, but sometimes I'll switch the second monitor to my TV in the next room when I want to go watch a movie.
A lot more people than just those in Clark County heard about it and were angered that foreigners were trying to influence the voters about the election. Thanks Guardian, for 4 more years of shrub. :(
Being on Trek made him desirable at Trek conventions, but probably pretty much killed his career otherwise. Which do you think and actor would prefer, acting in movies and TV shows and being able to play a wide variety of characters, or going to Trek conventions and being surrounded by geeks? It wouldn't really be surprising if he was bitter, would it?
I thought Wiley Coyote was hungry for the roadrunner, not jealous of him.
Like this.
There's lots of stuff to watch. None of it good, but lots of stuff to watch.
Illinois looks kinda central to me. Kerry got their electoral votes.
Which are you talking about, drifting or racing? Drifting is almost NEVER the fastest way around a corner, so it's not really racing.
Sorry, no. I voted for the other guy.
I helped campaign for the other guy. I talked to all my friends about voting for the other guy. I contributed to the other guys campaign. There's not a whole lot more I could have done unless I wanted to go to jail.
What the current administration has done does not reflect my beliefs in any way, shape or form, but there is a limit to what any one individual can do in the process. Now, if you want to say collectively, on average, the American people are to blame, you'd have more of an arguement (Though I'll remind you, the other guy got the more votes).
As far as the media goes, it's not mainly a responsibility issue. One of the main reasons we don't see more events from the world in our media has more to do with 5 megacorps owning 95% of the media outlets in the US, and the people who run them know which side their bread is buttered on. The other is the fact that the average American is woefully ignorant in geography and world politics ( Note I said average. Once again you can't say all of us are.), and so programs on those don't necessarily get great ratings. The most any citizen can do is try to make sure the right( well, we are talking politicians... make that 'better') guy gets in office. So no, I did not have 'everything to do with those crimes'. I tried to prevent them. Sorry.
If you are going to lay blame at my feet for what's going on, then the same blame is laid at your feet for being a 'world citizen'. What exactly are you doing to fix the problem?
Someone who exploits a machine will often patch it against that exploit so no one else can take it over. They keep their own trojan/application running that they use to remotely control it, but seal off the original route of infection.
Unless your a sucker who subscribes. Then your getting rooked!
Maybe, but understand that some of us who are MySQL admins may have been thrust into that position as a result of our jobs and not necessarily because we were trained on databases.
That's obvious. If you were trained in databases, you wouldn't be using MySQL :P
Which will work real well what with most of them playing CDs...
Frankly I like to run a secure OS (OpenBSD) for my firewalls, etc. I don't really care if Theo flames folks every so often. It doesn't really affect me as a end-user. My network is still locked down. If Linus went on a rant and flamed a bunch of folks, how exactly would it affect your usage of Linux on your computers?
Ok, so only the productivity of the gamers, but still!
When you learn how to cure a disease, you learn how to cure it for all the people of the world. Forever.
When you fix some computer security issue. You fix it on a subset of computers that OS/app runs on, which will last maybe 5-10 years till the next generation of equipment/OS's comes out making that fix obsolete. And in the end that doesn't even matter because some user is going to give out their password for a piece of chocolate.
Dell tried to explain it away as having a hard time getting good tech support in the US. The reality was it saved them money. If the US tech support was in reality so much worse, their customers would not have almost revolted until they promised that all biz class customers would still get US tech support, and only the lower end consumer customers would get tech support from India.
I wonder why they didn't integrate it into the filesystem. That was one of the great things about BeOS, total integration. Everything, including queries was updated on-the-fly. Seeing as Apple now has the guy who wrote BeOS's filesystem working for them (probably on this project), I'm really surprised they didn't move to a real database-type file system.
Just because some company takes a copy of it and adds some stuff and releases a binary, that doesn't make the original BSD released code magically disapper. It's still there for anyone to have/use as they see fit. The only thing you might not get is the code for the *extra* stuff that the company added in. They might want paid for their labor and might or might not release their own special code at any later point in time.
You still haven't lost the original BSD code. BSD is less restrictive of everyone.
The Reg just put out a story how all sorts of embedded controllers in factory machines are a huge risk for attacks because the chips in them don't have the horsepower to do new things that the equipment's designer didn't originally take into account.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/cyber_thre ats_menace_factories/
Sometimes you don't realize when you will actually need more horsepower (perhaps for things like encryption and authentication) than you originially thought you would.