Once a surge protector trips, its off until its manually reset. So anything after the first surge shouldnt matter, assuming surge protectors actually do what they claim to do.
Your comment is like saying "WHoa, I dont need USB. I have two serial ports and a parallel port on my computer. Not to mention two ps/2 ports. Everything made in the history of personal computers uses serial and parallel." Yet here we are.
Why isnt esata everywhere? The mb manufacturer has already paid for a sata license, put the chip in, put in the interface for the internal connectors, etc. How hard is it to put in a damn physical connector for the esata? esata should be replacing usb for disks. Another physical connector and external connector costs pennies. Instead we have millions of computer users pegged at well under 400mbps for disk operations. In the real world USB2 is something like 30 or less MB/s because of all the overhead.
I can understand cutting off firewire, but the sata is already there. It would be nice if one of the big OEMs started promoting it. Save your usb ports for flash drives and mice.
Its pretty sad I came here just to post that exact joke. Ronald's passing has opened my eyes on how unoriginal I am. Thank you sir, that is the greatest gift of all.
NPCs are constantly walking off and killing themselves. There's at least one mission I cant finish because of a bug and another I had to do some weird work-around I found online to finish. There are occasional random crashes too.
Its not too bad, but releasing a patch to fix the six or seven bugged missions would have been nice, instead we're probably getting "horse armor" and "more fancy dresses" for your character.
Thats not really true. Although current blur implementations are not very mature and add overheard, they dont require 2x the horsepower. A good part of this stuff is just rehashing the previous frames, so youre not rerendering everything. I wouldnt be surprised to see blur effects mature (say with Temporal anti-aliasing) to a point where they arent very intensive. Even with the overhead you still get a realistic feeling of movement as opposed to the super-smooth glassy feeling that really has no real life analogue.
Actually 24-30 is all your really need. The illusion of motion works great there. This is mostly due to the motion blur illusion that works in photographic mediums, but not so well with CGI. Essentially, moving things dont look right without blur. Youre not getting anymore response at 80+ fps, what youre getting is the illusion of a polygon moving across a screen looks more "smooth" because evolution has made us so that things moving without blur look wrong. Things still look wrong, but its so smooth and glassy its less distracting.
So more FPS is throwing hardware at a software problem. Modern games designers and console makers dont see an absurd fps as the fix here. They are artificially inducing blur with CGI motion blur. Now you can run your game at 24-30 fps and it will feel like a film movie does or how a DVD looks like. Your monkey brain wont be thinking "that looks wrong for some reason" because the machine will be generating blur for you.
With good CGI blurring you can use your CPU/GPU horsepower for other things instead of pushing FPS. Details, physics, etc. Its all a pay off one way or another. Nothing is for free.
>hipsters are hardly "provincial", they are sophisticated and urban.
No theyre not. They childish and ignorant. They are barely able to speak outside the confines of comics and bad 80s television shows. I should know, most of my friends are hipsters. Its depressing to talk to a 30-something who only knows Transformers and the latest Steampunk fashion.
>Let me guess, you must live in a place that has more churches than coffee shops?
Wrong again. I live in Wicker Park in Chicago. Its hipster central. There's nothing respectable of hipster culture. Its dress up for people who wont grow up. Its conformity while pretending to be non-conformist. Its a manufactured attitude sold by the media. Its really the opposite of DIY and being smart. Its "let someone else tell me what music to like and how to dress and I will just follow along in my finest trucker hat and chain wallet."
I also am turned off by the hipster attitude and kitsch. How many more TV-begone posts do they need? I mean, is being a jackass that shuts off the TV at a sports bar really that important?
Or how many more lame PoV projects do we need to see? How many more random LEDs attached to random electronics? How many more times do I need to hear how cool "Steampunk" is? How many more pacman scarves do we need to see?
There's a lot of potential at Make, but it stems directly from the boingboing tradition of urban American hipsterism thats very off-putting. Its just so provincial. Its really unwelcoming of anyone who isnt under 25 and lives in a big city and self-identifies with the indie rock movement. Heck, half the blog posts are needle and thread craft projects or just art projects, not tech projects.
Id love to see Make grow up. Perhaps add a section for DIY automobile repairs/hacks/projects and home repairs/hacks/projects. I guess most Makers only ride tricked out bikes and rent.
Dishonest dealings makes you paranoid and suspicious. It increases your chances of going to jail. The people you work with end up going to jail or get killed. People like the guy in the FPP sell crypto and hardening services to child pornographers and human traffickers. They dart from gig to gig hoping they wont get caught. Its incredibly stressful to be a successful crook.
Ultimately, many gun and drug deals lead to victimization or are victimizing acts themselves. Read about how many people get killed just trying a deal.
Yes, there is a real benefit in an honest living. Its 'hip' to think everything is morally relative, but really threyre not. How you feel about selling guns to gangbangers is very different about how you feel selling widgets to the Walmart crowd.
>You can't prove you're right any more than he can.
I dont think the reluctance to have one of these is irrational. These are niche devices. Theyre for areas where power is hard to come by and when you get it, its very expensive. If you live in a populated center then the power you get from the energy company is probably cost effective.
These things have a 10 or 15 year repayment schedule. It makes your little town or big subdivision a little power company. Toss in what it costs for some backup power and the laying of lines, etc its usually better to just go with the power company.
These things are good for rural situations and in poor countries without infrastructure. Its not a drop in replacement for the power company.
Let me guess, you only listen to vinyl records and post to slashdot with a commodore64. I'll wait a while for your response, I know how slow and annoying 300 baud modems can be, especially when they disconnect right when youre flipping the LP.
Im convinced that most people who talk about OSX being superior are windows users who have built up some kind of weirdo OSX fetish fantasy. At my old job I supported several OSX machines and they were as much trouble as anything else. I loved sitting there watching the spinning rainbow do its thing for no reason and trying to navigate to the command line to run top while it was running so slow. There really should be a hotkey to top or a GUI-based task manager equivalent.
Apple does a good job of forcing a lot of features into its OS but that usually translates into a slow experience, especially coming from XP on an modern machine.
As far as the lying goes, well, exaggeration is human nature. Its really your job to filter out the BS. This doesnt just apply to computers, but to everything in life.
It works fine and well enough for a large % of ads. Its better than nothing when I have to use something other than firefox. As good as adblock is its still limited to one single browser. Ive been using the hosts file method for ages and I havent noticed an increase of ads lately. I disagree that anything has really been changed in ad delivery since 1996.
The fact is that a large majority of ads really do come from 3rd parties who use their own servers. Thats how syndication works. You dont host the ads, caselmedia does. Block casel and youre done.
I also build hosts files to block server names of malware and other unsavory destinations potential spyware might call.
>so if a site puts ads in a div class="adcolumnwrapper" or so.
Thats presentation/formatting. The image or flash object still needs to be loaded from the ad server.
>(This also works for many text ads, BTW.)
Blocking google text ads takes one line in the hosts file.
>I'm not saying that NOONE does that anymore
Just about everyone who does ad blocking in IE uses this method.
MSRT is packaged with windows update. If they have automatic updates set as theyre supposed to then they run it every month. Its just not obvious to the end user. MS uses MSRT for a lot of things. Last time they took down one of the bigger botnets.
Ive seen PCs with "Antivirus 2009" and its precessors still able to use automatic updates. Im sure malware writers will now just disable the service. I believe some versions of Antivirus 2009 did shut down the service.
That said, the real problem here is why legitimate sites are service up the pop-under ads for antivirus 2009. Ad networks need to start vetting their clients. People should just start blocking all ads as a security threat.
>Whatever problem we have, it is always an imposition on their precious time which never involves teaching us enough so that we won't be in their office in another 6 months
Wow, bitter mcuh?
My time is precious. I cant baby every single user. If I do something I cant spend 30 minutes explaining to you the nitty gritty details of what happened, our network infrastructure, etc.
>leading the sainted admins to crack wise knowing inside jokes about the stupidity they manage to put up with (read: instill) in their users.
So youre saying that if you knew the details youd be able to fix everything yourself. So lets say we are having some problems with one of lines and I need to quickly put in a static route on your desktop. Am I going to sit you down and explain to you what a route is and how the route command works. Heck, if I did that then I could expect a lot of random routes put in by "smart" guys like you.
Hey, at the end of the day its a job. You took the job and you need to learn to live with how the business is run. If you want full admin rights and want to be able to get into the routers you are more than welcome to bring this up with your boss. We'd love to hear how all the "elitist" IT people are keeping you down and how your accounting degree from State U along with your WoW addiction makes you much better qualified to do everything.
Perhaps you should just let us do our fucking jobs so we can go home at 5 just like you do. Thanks.
I disagree with your doctor analogy. You bet doctors have to deal with the same sort of issues we deal with. Yes, even outright denial. Afterall, a doctor is just a technician. He just works with a different type of machine.
The real issue here isnt about IT its that IT is a test. It tests your problem solving skills and your learning skills. It turns out that most people have horrible skills thus all the horror stories.
In my career Ive found that people who do well with technology or have patience tend to be good people in other parts of their lives. Those who are impatient and bad with technology tend to be mouth-breathing dolts everywhere else in their lives too. Ignoring novices, its rare to meet someone who is just "bad at computers." They're usually pretty bad at everything.
Yep, if the executable is packed with a couple of the more popular tools then youre bound to get a false positive.
You dont really need to submit this stuff to the pros. Install it on a vm and just see whats changed. If suddenly the startup entries have changed, files are running from temp, lots of outgoing tcp connections are made to russian/chinese servers, etc its probably safe to assume that this isnt just the digital frame software, but a virus.
>This is where municipal government--boroughs, villages, city sections--could play a hand in essentially buying groups--"aggregate individual choices"-- for broadband service, but still allow residents to choose their own provider.
You mean the municipal morons who gave comcast or at&t a monopoly in their towns and these companies promptly stopped building out infrastructure and improvements because they had no competition all of a sudden?
I know here at slashdot the myth of the liberarian/unregulated everything is strong, but in practice the local government is usually the most inept and most in the pocket of corporations. They dont care about your choice. They care about Comcast's contributions to their re-election campaign and enough HDTV channels to keep people happy.
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Once a surge protector trips, its off until its manually reset. So anything after the first surge shouldnt matter, assuming surge protectors actually do what they claim to do.
Dont worry, the self-important nutters have moved on to 9/11 "inside job" theories. Apollo denial is out of fashion.
Powered esata is here. It came later in the spec, but its here. This 32gb drive supports it:
http://www.kanguru.com/eflash.html
29mb/s in USB2 and 80mb/s in esata.
Your comment is like saying "WHoa, I dont need USB. I have two serial ports and a parallel port on my computer. Not to mention two ps/2 ports. Everything made in the history of personal computers uses serial and parallel." Yet here we are.
Why isnt esata everywhere? The mb manufacturer has already paid for a sata license, put the chip in, put in the interface for the internal connectors, etc. How hard is it to put in a damn physical connector for the esata? esata should be replacing usb for disks. Another physical connector and external connector costs pennies. Instead we have millions of computer users pegged at well under 400mbps for disk operations. In the real world USB2 is something like 30 or less MB/s because of all the overhead.
I can understand cutting off firewire, but the sata is already there. It would be nice if one of the big OEMs started promoting it. Save your usb ports for flash drives and mice.
Its pretty sad I came here just to post that exact joke. Ronald's passing has opened my eyes on how unoriginal I am. Thank you sir, that is the greatest gift of all.
NPCs are constantly walking off and killing themselves. There's at least one mission I cant finish because of a bug and another I had to do some weird work-around I found online to finish. There are occasional random crashes too.
Its not too bad, but releasing a patch to fix the six or seven bugged missions would have been nice, instead we're probably getting "horse armor" and "more fancy dresses" for your character.
Thats not really true. Although current blur implementations are not very mature and add overheard, they dont require 2x the horsepower. A good part of this stuff is just rehashing the previous frames, so youre not rerendering everything. I wouldnt be surprised to see blur effects mature (say with Temporal anti-aliasing) to a point where they arent very intensive. Even with the overhead you still get a realistic feeling of movement as opposed to the super-smooth glassy feeling that really has no real life analogue.
Actually 24-30 is all your really need. The illusion of motion works great there. This is mostly due to the motion blur illusion that works in photographic mediums, but not so well with CGI. Essentially, moving things dont look right without blur. Youre not getting anymore response at 80+ fps, what youre getting is the illusion of a polygon moving across a screen looks more "smooth" because evolution has made us so that things moving without blur look wrong. Things still look wrong, but its so smooth and glassy its less distracting.
So more FPS is throwing hardware at a software problem. Modern games designers and console makers dont see an absurd fps as the fix here. They are artificially inducing blur with CGI motion blur. Now you can run your game at 24-30 fps and it will feel like a film movie does or how a DVD looks like. Your monkey brain wont be thinking "that looks wrong for some reason" because the machine will be generating blur for you.
With good CGI blurring you can use your CPU/GPU horsepower for other things instead of pushing FPS. Details, physics, etc. Its all a pay off one way or another. Nothing is for free.
>hipsters are hardly "provincial", they are sophisticated and urban.
No theyre not. They childish and ignorant. They are barely able to speak outside the confines of comics and bad 80s television shows. I should know, most of my friends are hipsters. Its depressing to talk to a 30-something who only knows Transformers and the latest Steampunk fashion.
>Let me guess, you must live in a place that has more churches than coffee shops?
Wrong again. I live in Wicker Park in Chicago. Its hipster central. There's nothing respectable of hipster culture. Its dress up for people who wont grow up. Its conformity while pretending to be non-conformist. Its a manufactured attitude sold by the media. Its really the opposite of DIY and being smart. Its "let someone else tell me what music to like and how to dress and I will just follow along in my finest trucker hat and chain wallet."
I also am turned off by the hipster attitude and kitsch. How many more TV-begone posts do they need? I mean, is being a jackass that shuts off the TV at a sports bar really that important?
Or how many more lame PoV projects do we need to see? How many more random LEDs attached to random electronics? How many more times do I need to hear how cool "Steampunk" is? How many more pacman scarves do we need to see?
There's a lot of potential at Make, but it stems directly from the boingboing tradition of urban American hipsterism thats very off-putting. Its just so provincial. Its really unwelcoming of anyone who isnt under 25 and lives in a big city and self-identifies with the indie rock movement. Heck, half the blog posts are needle and thread craft projects or just art projects, not tech projects.
Id love to see Make grow up. Perhaps add a section for DIY automobile repairs/hacks/projects and home repairs/hacks/projects. I guess most Makers only ride tricked out bikes and rent.
Dishonest dealings makes you paranoid and suspicious. It increases your chances of going to jail. The people you work with end up going to jail or get killed. People like the guy in the FPP sell crypto and hardening services to child pornographers and human traffickers. They dart from gig to gig hoping they wont get caught. Its incredibly stressful to be a successful crook.
Ultimately, many gun and drug deals lead to victimization or are victimizing acts themselves. Read about how many people get killed just trying a deal.
Yes, there is a real benefit in an honest living. Its 'hip' to think everything is morally relative, but really threyre not. How you feel about selling guns to gangbangers is very different about how you feel selling widgets to the Walmart crowd.
>You can't prove you're right any more than he can.
Here's some illustrated proof on what a typical life of crime gets you. Or this.
I dont think the reluctance to have one of these is irrational. These are niche devices. Theyre for areas where power is hard to come by and when you get it, its very expensive. If you live in a populated center then the power you get from the energy company is probably cost effective.
These things have a 10 or 15 year repayment schedule. It makes your little town or big subdivision a little power company. Toss in what it costs for some backup power and the laying of lines, etc its usually better to just go with the power company.
These things are good for rural situations and in poor countries without infrastructure. Its not a drop in replacement for the power company.
Let me guess, you only listen to vinyl records and post to slashdot with a commodore64. I'll wait a while for your response, I know how slow and annoying 300 baud modems can be, especially when they disconnect right when youre flipping the LP.
Im convinced that most people who talk about OSX being superior are windows users who have built up some kind of weirdo OSX fetish fantasy. At my old job I supported several OSX machines and they were as much trouble as anything else. I loved sitting there watching the spinning rainbow do its thing for no reason and trying to navigate to the command line to run top while it was running so slow. There really should be a hotkey to top or a GUI-based task manager equivalent.
Apple does a good job of forcing a lot of features into its OS but that usually translates into a slow experience, especially coming from XP on an modern machine.
As far as the lying goes, well, exaggeration is human nature. Its really your job to filter out the BS. This doesnt just apply to computers, but to everything in life.
It works fine and well enough for a large % of ads. Its better than nothing when I have to use something other than firefox. As good as adblock is its still limited to one single browser. Ive been using the hosts file method for ages and I havent noticed an increase of ads lately. I disagree that anything has really been changed in ad delivery since 1996.
The fact is that a large majority of ads really do come from 3rd parties who use their own servers. Thats how syndication works. You dont host the ads, caselmedia does. Block casel and youre done.
I also build hosts files to block server names of malware and other unsavory destinations potential spyware might call.
>so if a site puts ads in a div class="adcolumnwrapper" or so.
Thats presentation/formatting. The image or flash object still needs to be loaded from the ad server.
>(This also works for many text ads, BTW.)
Blocking google text ads takes one line in the hosts file.
>I'm not saying that NOONE does that anymore
Just about everyone who does ad blocking in IE uses this method.
>IE7 has an Adblock Plus equivalent?
A lot of people just install a hosts file that has many ad servers pointing to 127.0.0.1. This is a cross platform solution.
Take off your tin foil hat, man. Put down the gun. Seriously.
MS has been using MSRT for years and no one has targeted your little cd apps.
If youre this paranoid, then dont run it. Uncheck it from automatic updates.
Dont run it then. Uncheck it from automatic updates. No one is putting a gun to your head.
>simply because nobody I know actually uses MSRT
MSRT is packaged with windows update. If they have automatic updates set as theyre supposed to then they run it every month. Its just not obvious to the end user. MS uses MSRT for a lot of things. Last time they took down one of the bigger botnets.
Ive seen PCs with "Antivirus 2009" and its precessors still able to use automatic updates. Im sure malware writers will now just disable the service. I believe some versions of Antivirus 2009 did shut down the service.
That said, the real problem here is why legitimate sites are service up the pop-under ads for antivirus 2009. Ad networks need to start vetting their clients. People should just start blocking all ads as a security threat.
>Whatever problem we have, it is always an imposition on their precious time which never involves teaching us enough so that we won't be in their office in another 6 months
Wow, bitter mcuh?
My time is precious. I cant baby every single user. If I do something I cant spend 30 minutes explaining to you the nitty gritty details of what happened, our network infrastructure, etc.
>leading the sainted admins to crack wise knowing inside jokes about the stupidity they manage to put up with (read: instill) in their users.
So youre saying that if you knew the details youd be able to fix everything yourself. So lets say we are having some problems with one of lines and I need to quickly put in a static route on your desktop. Am I going to sit you down and explain to you what a route is and how the route command works. Heck, if I did that then I could expect a lot of random routes put in by "smart" guys like you.
Hey, at the end of the day its a job. You took the job and you need to learn to live with how the business is run. If you want full admin rights and want to be able to get into the routers you are more than welcome to bring this up with your boss. We'd love to hear how all the "elitist" IT people are keeping you down and how your accounting degree from State U along with your WoW addiction makes you much better qualified to do everything.
Perhaps you should just let us do our fucking jobs so we can go home at 5 just like you do. Thanks.
I disagree with your doctor analogy. You bet doctors have to deal with the same sort of issues we deal with. Yes, even outright denial. Afterall, a doctor is just a technician. He just works with a different type of machine.
The real issue here isnt about IT its that IT is a test. It tests your problem solving skills and your learning skills. It turns out that most people have horrible skills thus all the horror stories.
In my career Ive found that people who do well with technology or have patience tend to be good people in other parts of their lives. Those who are impatient and bad with technology tend to be mouth-breathing dolts everywhere else in their lives too. Ignoring novices, its rare to meet someone who is just "bad at computers." They're usually pretty bad at everything.
Yep, if the executable is packed with a couple of the more popular tools then youre bound to get a false positive.
You dont really need to submit this stuff to the pros. Install it on a vm and just see whats changed. If suddenly the startup entries have changed, files are running from temp, lots of outgoing tcp connections are made to russian/chinese servers, etc its probably safe to assume that this isnt just the digital frame software, but a virus.
Try getting a Biostar main in rebate too. Over a year and still waiting on mine.
>This is where municipal government--boroughs, villages, city sections--could play a hand in essentially buying groups--"aggregate individual choices"-- for broadband service, but still allow residents to choose their own provider.
You mean the municipal morons who gave comcast or at&t a monopoly in their towns and these companies promptly stopped building out infrastructure and improvements because they had no competition all of a sudden?
I know here at slashdot the myth of the liberarian/unregulated everything is strong, but in practice the local government is usually the most inept and most in the pocket of corporations. They dont care about your choice. They care about Comcast's contributions to their re-election campaign and enough HDTV channels to keep people happy.