The article makes it seem like it was some sort of classified document or trade secret or something and the world is going to end tomorrow.
Big deal. Some average movie out of about another 40,000 average movies is now available on the Internet.
I doubt Carmine Caridi is the one who ripped it and releasaed it onto the Internet. Thousands of these screeners are sent out to thousands of people. These people probably get sent 20 or 30 of these things each, and these people also have many friends who probably have access to them.
I saw the "proof" on mplayer's site, but all I see are similarities in the compiled code.
Yes, they probably are violating the GPL, however I think it would be very hard to prove it in court, and even harder to find a judge that can comprehend the "proof".
I highly recommend the extended warranty or service plan especially on a laptop. I didn't believe in them until I started working at a place that does repairs on these items. You would be suprised how many people are screwed because they didn't get the service plan.
The hinge should be covered. We replace broken hinges all the time under warranty. I would have went to a different location and gotten a second opinion.
What you need are a good pair of walking shoes. I've had good luck with any standard Rockport or even Nike shoes. I walk for 8+ hours a day at work with these.
Dr Scholls shoes are comfortable too and can be had for cheap at wal mart. The insides will start to rip apart in a a few months though.
Don't get running shoes.. Even if you are walking fast around airport or trade show floors. There is a big difference in point of impact between walking fast and running.
There are a few phones that have an actual GPS in them, but for the most part, the "GPS" feature in the mainstream phones use tower based triangulation, along with some other calculations to be more precise.. Most of these phones don't even have a way to report the location info to the end user..
I don't think Sony ever officially called it the PSX.. That was a name perpetuated by a bunch of video game magazines.. I had never seen "PSX" mentioned in any official sony literature. They always just called it the Playstation. Yes,,they were working with nintendo on a CD based unit, but it fell through, and sony made their own system instead.
Only way to avoid this is to not let people know that you know about computers. I used to have people call me all the time because their computer isn't working right.. Sometimes people I don't even know! How the hell did you get my number?
Now when i'm out with friends I don't even talk about computers.. If the subject comes up I am just like, yeah I got a computer..
You always see on some TV show or newspaper article that throwing away PC's with the rest of the garbage is bad for the environment. Maybe so, but why do they always single out PC's ? Pretty much every electronic gadget in existence uses the same stuff found in PC's..
Most modern laptops will draw about 70-80 watts while plugged in.
My PC's CRT monitor draws about 150 watts on it's own.. PC about 140.. about 300 watts..
A VIA Epia Mini ITX desktop system with a 7200 rpm hard drive will draw about 40 watts average.. You will not get the performance of most modern laptops though..
If you are looking for performance, get a regular INTEL or AMD desktop system.. For power saving, get a Mini ITX.. If you want mobility, get a laptop
I have XP running on a Celeron 333 with 256 megs of RAM. Might not be as fast as 98 but it's fast enough and damn stable.
The key to running XP on slower machines is to NOT have extraneous programs running on startup. I've seen 1.4ghz machines run slower than my 333 because of spyware and startup items.
This paper was not written by Daniel Greer alone. He just happens to be the first person mentioned in the credits. There are actually 7 authors mentioned in the credits. @stake is only mentioned twice in the entire paper, and it's during the author descriptions.
It's pretty damn clear that this paper was put out by the CCIA, and not @stake.
Looks like verisign's web servers can't handle all the traffic from mistyped domains. Not only does sitefinder.verisign.com take forever to load, but it sends a blank document (they probably took the main page down and replaced weith a blank document due to heavy traffic). Way to go mistypers!
Dude. DirectX is completely backward compatible too. Apps written with DirectX 2.0 still run with DirectX 9. You can also still write code targeted for older versions of DirectX with the DX9 SDK.
I beg to differ. I have two of the same Seagate drives mentioned in the article. One of them has been running over 2 years. The Barracuda IV series are some of the most reliable I've seen.
This guy's logic board was fried. It was not a mechanical failure like most HD failures are. He could have gotten a power surge and fried the electronics.
BTW, this is the easy way of reviving a HD, not "The Hard Way". Boards are designed to be easily replaced in most HD's. Now, if he had opened the other side. It would have been a total loss, unless he was in a clean room free of any dust or debris in the air.
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The article makes it seem like it was some sort of classified document or trade secret or something and the world is going to end tomorrow.
Big deal. Some average movie out of about another 40,000 average movies is now available on the Internet.
I doubt Carmine Caridi is the one who ripped it and releasaed it onto the Internet. Thousands of these screeners are sent out to thousands of people. These people probably get sent 20 or 30 of these things each, and these people also have many friends who probably have access to them.
I saw the "proof" on mplayer's site, but all I see are similarities in the compiled code.
Yes, they probably are violating the GPL, however I think it would be very hard to prove it in court, and even harder to find a judge that can comprehend the "proof".
I highly recommend the extended warranty or service plan especially on a laptop. I didn't believe in them until I started working at a place that does repairs on these items. You would be suprised how many people are screwed because they didn't get the service plan.
The hinge should be covered. We replace broken hinges all the time under warranty. I would have went to a different location and gotten a second opinion.
What you need are a good pair of walking shoes. I've had good luck with any standard Rockport or even Nike shoes. I walk for 8+ hours a day at work with these.
Dr Scholls shoes are comfortable too and can be had for cheap at wal mart. The insides will start to rip apart in a a few months though.
Don't get running shoes.. Even if you are walking fast around airport or trade show floors. There is a big difference in point of impact between walking fast and running.
Best Buy has been offering pre-orders in-store since before christmas.. I'm also pretty sure this has been covered on slashdot before.
There are a few phones that have an actual GPS in them, but for the most part, the "GPS" feature in the mainstream phones use tower based triangulation, along with some other calculations to be more precise.. Most of these phones don't even have a way to report the location info to the end user..
I don't think Sony ever officially called it the PSX.. That was a name perpetuated by a bunch of video game magazines.. I had never seen "PSX" mentioned in any official sony literature. They always just called it the Playstation. Yes, ,they were working with nintendo on a CD based unit, but it fell through, and sony made their own system instead.
Only way to avoid this is to not let people know that you know about computers. I used to have people call me all the time because their computer isn't working right.. Sometimes people I don't even know! How the hell did you get my number?
Now when i'm out with friends I don't even talk about computers.. If the subject comes up I am just like, yeah I got a computer..
You always see on some TV show or newspaper article that throwing away PC's with the rest of the garbage is bad for the environment. Maybe so, but why do they always single out PC's ? Pretty much every electronic gadget in existence uses the same stuff found in PC's..
Most modern laptops will draw about 70-80 watts while plugged in.
My PC's CRT monitor draws about 150 watts on it's own.. PC about 140.. about 300 watts..
A VIA Epia Mini ITX desktop system with a 7200 rpm hard drive will draw about 40 watts average.. You will not get the performance of most modern laptops though..
If you are looking for performance, get a regular INTEL or AMD desktop system.. For power saving, get a Mini ITX.. If you want mobility, get a laptop
I have XP running on a Celeron 333 with 256 megs of RAM. Might not be as fast as 98 but it's fast enough and damn stable.
The key to running XP on slower machines is to NOT have extraneous programs running on startup. I've seen 1.4ghz machines run slower than my 333 because of spyware and startup items.
not html..
Too bad this computer does not meet the requirements to run the new AOL 9.0..
It does not transmit, but doesn't mean AOL software can't query it and transmit it..
THese guys are crying Microsoft now.
Can't ICANN just revoke Verisign's registrar accredidation and stop them from ever being able to do this again ?
./configure = all the dependancy checking required.
This paper was not written by Daniel Greer alone. He just happens to be the first person mentioned in the credits. There are actually 7 authors mentioned in the credits. @stake is only mentioned twice in the entire paper, and it's during the author descriptions.
It's pretty damn clear that this paper was put out by the CCIA, and not @stake.
Looks like verisign's web servers can't handle all the traffic from mistyped domains. Not only does sitefinder.verisign.com take forever to load, but it sends a blank document (they probably took the main page down and replaced weith a blank document due to heavy traffic). Way to go mistypers!
Dude. DirectX is completely backward compatible too. Apps written with DirectX 2.0 still run with DirectX 9. You can also still write code targeted for older versions of DirectX with the DX9 SDK.
"An employee usually costs close to 2 times his/her salary."
could you give me a little more detail ?
I feel the same about video games. I just don't get excited about video games like I did 10 years ago..
Does a user actually have to download this worm, or can it affect a machine by just being on the Internet with a default install of windows xp?
I beg to differ. I have two of the same Seagate drives mentioned in the article. One of them has been running over 2 years. The Barracuda IV series are some of the most reliable I've seen.
This guy's logic board was fried. It was not a mechanical failure like most HD failures are. He could have gotten a power surge and fried the electronics.
BTW, this is the easy way of reviving a HD, not "The Hard Way". Boards are designed to be easily replaced in most HD's. Now, if he had opened the other side. It would have been a total loss, unless he was in a clean room free of any dust or debris in the air.