Ever seen a group of average mac users working on OSX? (average, not nix type folks)
I've never seen one fail to type in the admin password as soon as prompted, no hesitation, no questions asked. I don't think it's going to be hard to start generating lots of self-hacked machines once OSX gets more market share and becomes a more viable target for the spread of little nasty things.
Pretty much every Barns & Nobles, etc, that I've seen that has WiFi access, has it in a part of their store that is a coffee cafe. People browse a book and sip coffee. So they would probably still make the coffe/pastry sale to the WiFi leech.
Unfortunately they don't tell you the real server that is more secure.
The correct answer is the one with the better administrator.
You can have a Linux box locked down tight, and a Windows box wide open. You can also have the inverse. Probe around, and you will find boxes of all those flavors out there. It all depends on the competence of the guys running it. The competence of the administrator at running the system he is running has a much larger effect on overall security than which OS is chosen.
Parents should be the strongest influence on letting their kids know what is right and wrong. I watched war movies all the time when I was a kid. I played cowboys and indians all the time. I've never gone to a reservation and shot some innocent native American.
The parents either did a crappy job raising him, or he was born with or developed a severe chemical imabalance, or he's just a bad guy. Either way, it's not the gaming companies fault. It's the kids and possibly his parents.
Uhh, I think that was included in the 50k. Are you really going to pay people 50k salary just to sit on a phone bank and read back from a manual? They don't need these call centers to be located in San Francisco, they can put them in places with reasonable costs of living.
Keep in mind these things are being introduced in CALIFORNIA and such - you can see why. In the cold winter you need a lot more power to start your frozen engine, a lot more power to move on difficult surfaces, and diminished battery life due to the cold. Even worse, getting stranded due to a dead battery can be dangerous. Like I said in an earlier post, some of us are spread out in a way Europe doesn't always grasp. The country doesn't look like NY and LA.
Sorry, that arguement just doesn't fly. I'm from the north coast of Ohio. Home of Lake Effect Snow. Hybrids will work just fine. You don't need huge amounts of power, you just need tires that grip in the snow. I'm from farm country too. My house looks across the road at a 1000 acre field. I know we are spread out. You still don't need an SUV over a sedan unless you are going offroad through the back country, and pretty much nobody does that. I've had a small car with a small battery for years. No problems starting up in the winter.
Remember in my original post? "Europeans don't like us, and may not have our best interests at heart". If you are trying to pursuade people into doing something that may cause them grief, you ought to try to pretend you don't lothe them.
I'm not trying to persuade them. If they are dumb enough to vote for George Bush, they aren't going to suddenly gain intelligence and switch to more environmentally friendly but less 'cool' vehicles. I'm just telling it like it is.
I never said lowering gasoline usage would solve the whole problem, but it would put a good size dent in it, and without any real 'pain' except for loss of the 'coolness' of your vehicle. That was to refute the beginning of your original post when you said how 'miserable it was in the 70's. My point was we could make a significant dent in fuel-usage/air-pollution without going through any misery.
The point was hybrid vs SUV. Biking or walking is of course great if that will get you where you need to go.
The SUV drivers pay more for gas tax eh? So? That just means they spend more money. Do you think that tax on the gas magically sucks all the CO2, particulate matter, etc, out of the air? It doesn't. Burn more gasoline, more bad stuff goes in the air.
The tax has zero to do with how much cleaner the environment is when they get where they are going. SUVs pollute more.
It isn't a start. Cutting energy production is always tough on the economy. The US went through this in the late 70's, and most people remember how miserable that was.
Yea, I remember the gas lines in the 70's. Not fun. But we could do a LOT of things to cut down on energy usage and not make it rough on ourselves.
Hibrid cars and regular sedans with good gas mileage are readily available. But our streets are clogged with huge living-room sized SUVs which get crappy mileage, and also only have to meet truck emmission regulations, not stricter car regulations. Do most people EVER take thieir SUVs off-road? No.
Getting rid of SUVs alone would be a big chunk of oil usage and air pollution gone. And it would be an easy change to make. Will we make it? No. The avaerage American is far to fat, lazy and greedy to think of the enviroment as more important than his ability to drive around in a living-room-on-wheels. "Screw the future, I look cool in my H2". It's a sad state of affairs.
There are lots of different reasons for different apps. One in particular I'd love to use, VMWare (v 4), hooks deeply into the Linux kernal, so it isn't something you can just migrate over to a *BSD.
So you are dealing with someone who has no scruples about dealing out pirated works of other peoples copywrited material, and giving them no compensation in return...
Now you are surprised when he once again shows a lack of personal ethics and decides to sell out the people he was dealing the pirated material to?
"Playing" as a mere user is even worse. Doom3 doesn't work. Most (or all) EA games don't work.
This is a problem with the way ID and EA wrote their games. Plenty of other games work just fine with normal user permissions.
Yes, MS does a dumb thing letting home users run as admin by default, but on most corporate networks the users are NOT allowed to run as admin (or usually even know what an admin password is) and work gets done just fine. I don't let users admin their own boxes, except for a very few trusted/competent individuals.
Well, Amazon does have a 'Sponsored Links' section that is keyed off the search terms.
I just did a search on "Baseball Prosppectus" as you said. Right below it in the 'sponsored links section is:
"2005 Baseball Forecaster -- Insightful information to help you win your fantasy baseball league. -- www.baseballforecaster.com "
Well, in the meantime, I suggest you make sure you only pay for ads for keyword searches that have nothing to do with your company, because they might be searching for a competitor with any relavent terms.
So from now on, if you sell 'ketchup', you should only buy ads for keyword searches such as "hang gliding".
So does that mean Amazon shouldn't be showing what other books people who searched for a certain one also bought? They might be costing a sale of the original book if the add shows a book with similar content they chose instead if it.
Which means I don't have to spend another dime for a projector for a decade. At which time I'll buy some nice cheap hi-def prejector.
My last TV set cost a few hundred dollars. That set lasted me about 15 years until it finally died. I don't want to spend several hundred for a projector, just to put in a few hundred more every couple years for new bulbs. Long life is good.
Want to set up a display projector in your store at the mall running 12+ hours a day? Hook this thing up and don't worry about maintenence for a few years. That's kind of handy.
Right. But the bulbs only last 4000 hours and cost ~$340 each. That's an extra $1300+ over the lifetime to equal what you get with the bulb in this little unit.
So for 20,000 hours of viewing it's:
$ 699 for the new LED unit.
$2100 for the InFocus X1a.
How big is yours compared to this unit? How loud? How much are you going to spend on bulbs to get 20000 hours of life out of it? I think those are some of the reasons why.
Heck, with my video card I can only play Doom3 at 800x600 anyhow. Otherwise it's a slide show. I might as well use this projector as my 17" LCD monitor;)
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I've never seen one fail to type in the admin password as soon as prompted, no hesitation, no questions asked. I don't think it's going to be hard to start generating lots of self-hacked machines once OSX gets more market share and becomes a more viable target for the spread of little nasty things.
Pretty much every Barns & Nobles, etc, that I've seen that has WiFi access, has it in a part of their store that is a coffee cafe. People browse a book and sip coffee. So they would probably still make the coffe/pastry sale to the WiFi leech.
The correct answer is the one with the better administrator. You can have a Linux box locked down tight, and a Windows box wide open. You can also have the inverse. Probe around, and you will find boxes of all those flavors out there. It all depends on the competence of the guys running it. The competence of the administrator at running the system he is running has a much larger effect on overall security than which OS is chosen.
Those movies are usually done from the victims or 3rd party view. Not usually from that of the villain. Same with Stephen King books.
The parents either did a crappy job raising him, or he was born with or developed a severe chemical imabalance, or he's just a bad guy. Either way, it's not the gaming companies fault. It's the kids and possibly his parents.
Uhh, I think that was included in the 50k. Are you really going to pay people 50k salary just to sit on a phone bank and read back from a manual? They don't need these call centers to be located in San Francisco, they can put them in places with reasonable costs of living.
Sorry, that arguement just doesn't fly. I'm from the north coast of Ohio. Home of Lake Effect Snow. Hybrids will work just fine. You don't need huge amounts of power, you just need tires that grip in the snow. I'm from farm country too. My house looks across the road at a 1000 acre field. I know we are spread out. You still don't need an SUV over a sedan unless you are going offroad through the back country, and pretty much nobody does that. I've had a small car with a small battery for years. No problems starting up in the winter.
Remember in my original post? "Europeans don't like us, and may not have our best interests at heart". If you are trying to pursuade people into doing something that may cause them grief, you ought to try to pretend you don't lothe them.
I'm not trying to persuade them. If they are dumb enough to vote for George Bush, they aren't going to suddenly gain intelligence and switch to more environmentally friendly but less 'cool' vehicles. I'm just telling it like it is.
I never said lowering gasoline usage would solve the whole problem, but it would put a good size dent in it, and without any real 'pain' except for loss of the 'coolness' of your vehicle. That was to refute the beginning of your original post when you said how 'miserable it was in the 70's. My point was we could make a significant dent in fuel-usage/air-pollution without going through any misery.
The SUV drivers pay more for gas tax eh? So? That just means they spend more money. Do you think that tax on the gas magically sucks all the CO2, particulate matter, etc, out of the air? It doesn't. Burn more gasoline, more bad stuff goes in the air.
The tax has zero to do with how much cleaner the environment is when they get where they are going. SUVs pollute more.
Yea, I remember the gas lines in the 70's. Not fun. But we could do a LOT of things to cut down on energy usage and not make it rough on ourselves.
Hibrid cars and regular sedans with good gas mileage are readily available. But our streets are clogged with huge living-room sized SUVs which get crappy mileage, and also only have to meet truck emmission regulations, not stricter car regulations. Do most people EVER take thieir SUVs off-road? No.
Getting rid of SUVs alone would be a big chunk of oil usage and air pollution gone. And it would be an easy change to make. Will we make it? No. The avaerage American is far to fat, lazy and greedy to think of the enviroment as more important than his ability to drive around in a living-room-on-wheels. "Screw the future, I look cool in my H2". It's a sad state of affairs.
Sometimes the pay off is the journey, not the destination.
Someone must be bitter that they got sold out.
So you are dealing with someone who has no scruples about dealing out pirated works of other peoples copywrited material, and giving them no compensation in return...
Now you are surprised when he once again shows a lack of personal ethics and decides to sell out the people he was dealing the pirated material to?
Yeah, there's a shocker.
Lesson learned: There is no honor among thieves.
Install windows XP, turn on it's built-in firewall, plug in your ethernet cable. Works just fine.
This is a problem with the way ID and EA wrote their games. Plenty of other games work just fine with normal user permissions.
Yes, MS does a dumb thing letting home users run as admin by default, but on most corporate networks the users are NOT allowed to run as admin (or usually even know what an admin password is) and work gets done just fine. I don't let users admin their own boxes, except for a very few trusted/competent individuals.
"2005 Baseball Forecaster -- Insightful information to help you win your fantasy baseball league. -- www.baseballforecaster.com "
They sell a book with baseball statistics too...
FYI, Amanzon has a 'sponsored links' section that is keyed off search terms.
So from now on, if you sell 'ketchup', you should only buy ads for keyword searches such as "hang gliding".
So does that mean Amazon shouldn't be showing what other books people who searched for a certain one also bought? They might be costing a sale of the original book if the add shows a book with similar content they chose instead if it.
My last TV set cost a few hundred dollars. That set lasted me about 15 years until it finally died. I don't want to spend several hundred for a projector, just to put in a few hundred more every couple years for new bulbs. Long life is good.
Want to set up a display projector in your store at the mall running 12+ hours a day? Hook this thing up and don't worry about maintenence for a few years. That's kind of handy.
It's like playboy. They only look at the pictures ;)
Yep. I run Half-Life 2 fine at 1200x1024 with a fine framerate, but Doom3 is a lot harder on ATI cards.
So for 20,000 hours of viewing it's:
$ 699 for the new LED unit.
$2100 for the InFocus X1a.
How big is yours compared to this unit? How loud? How much are you going to spend on bulbs to get 20000 hours of life out of it? I think those are some of the reasons why.
Heck, with my video card I can only play Doom3 at 800x600 anyhow. Otherwise it's a slide show. I might as well use this projector as my 17" LCD monitor ;)