Not as good as the pack of ravenous wolves attacking a high-school marching band though, which was another of their ads. Aah, the good old dot.com days.
$100 new for a 40 hour series 2 Tivo right now (with mail in rebate). See here for details.
We had two series 1 Tivos, and we just updated to 2 series 2 Tivos. The cool thing about the series 2 is, they support ethernet (or wireless) out of the box (with a USB ethernet/wireless adaptor). You hook the two up, and then you can use the Remote viewing feature to transfer shows between the two.
Oh, and if that's not enough, you can even schedule recordings online, so if you're on holiday on the other side of the planet, and someone emails you to let you know $COOL_SHOW is on, you can browse to the website and tell your Tivo to record it for you. How damn cool is that?
Before anyone responds, yeah I know you can probably do all this and more with MythTV, but for $100, you can't really go wrong, and it's a really nicely integrated solution for people who just want to plug and play.
The.NET runtime? So what? This is the same as all those VB apps you used to install which required the VB Runtime.. I don't understand what your complaint is.
If I recall it was just two (2) months into Bush's presidency that most economists came out and called it a recession. I don't care if you are Satan himself, you cannot kill the economy in two months.
Erm, a recession is:
"A downturn in economic activity, broadly defined by many economists as at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a nation's gross domestic product."
Actually calling it a recession has nothing to do with Bush, or Clinton, or assigning blame. It's a simple fact.
This is routine for any organization. Even the normal hotfixes put out through Windows update can cause problems and incompatibilities for other software used through the organization. Here where I work, our IT department tests every patch with all the software we use before authorizing it for use on the desktops.
This is especially important for XP SP2, because it does break a lot of stuff. In particular, it breaks the (enterprise class) products we produce in several places (I personally am working on our own hotfixes to be sent out ASAP). This is the sort of problem companies like IBM want to avoid. So, all things considered, this is a total non story.
I've considered getting the surgery, but it comes down to a risk/benefit choice. How important is your eyesight to you? How much impact does it have on your life to be able to see? If something went wrong, would you be able to work? Try and imagine your life without eyesight..
As far as I'm concerned, unless they can give me a 100% guarantee it will work, I won't have the surgery. It's just not worth the risk of going blind, or other complications. Can you imagine not being able to see clearly at all? Regardless of whether you have glasses/contacts? When they've done a million consecutive surgeries with a million consecutive successes, maybe then I'll consider it. Call me paranoid, but I consider my eyesight one of the most important things in my life, and no reward is worth the risk, no matter how small, of losing it.
It irritates me even more when someone like Bill Gates or some incredibly weathly celebirty donats something like a few tens of thousand to someone or a charity. WTF? Gates could donate 20 billion and still be worth billions. Whats he need it for? bragging rights?
Interesting point, but your example could be better. Bill Gates has actually given $23 Billion to charity, more than half of his worth.
My guess would be that the majority of what's left of his fortune is tied up in Microsoft stock, and by keeping it invested, he's left the door open to making even bigger charitable donations in future.
Still, the point is almost certainly true for other rich people as well.
In England, all construction work has traditionally been done in imperial. At some point, in the last 6 or 7 years, people started moving to metric. Possibly as a result of legislation - I'm not sure.
Anyone with half a brain can realise the the problem with making this change, especially in an environment where you're working with existing materials. The following is a genuine conversation I had while out buying some 4 inch guttering:
Me: Hi, I need some 4 inch guttering. Plumbing shop: Oh sorry, we don't have any 4 inch guttering. Me: How can you not have any? This sucks! Plumbing shop: As luck would have it, we do have some 101.6mm guttering that is exactly the same size. Me: I'll take it!
Add in the fact that, to burn 4.7GB in CDs takes 7x700MB CDs, so you're doing a lot more disc swapping.. I can't see any reason to use CDs. Especially not for media cost reasons. Yeah, you can get cheaper media than that, but if you want good quality stuff, this is the range you're looking at.
I actually created a secure database which I can access from anywhere on the net to hold my passwords. They're all encrypted for security, and you access the site over SSL. You can download the code for it here.
No guarantees as to how secure it is. So far I haven't found any problems with it.
According to this analysys, it does a lot more than corrupt the first few sectors of the drive:
The worm's functionality is as follows:
1) Generates a random IP address
2) Sends the worm payload
3) Repeats steps 1-2 20,000 times
4) Opens a random PHYSICALDRIVE from 0-7, which allows raw hard disk access 5) Seeks to a random point on the disk
6) Writes 65K of data from the beginning of the vulnerable DLL to the disk
7) Closes the disk
8) Starts the process over from step 1
Who said Mars had no atmosphere? Any object with a gravitational pull that exceeds the mean escape velocity of gas molecules (over-simplifying here - better explanation here) will have an atmosphere. The moon has a gravity below that mean (think of it as a vertical line on a bell curve, but before the bell), hence it has little/no atmosphere.
Mars, on the other hand, is a much larger body and hence has enough gravity to retain an atmoshphere of about 1-9 millibars, depending on altitude. Indeed, it's the very existence of this atmosphere that allowed the lander to slow from 12,000mph to 1000mph before the parachute opens.
I have two Tivos (Series 1). A Sony model and a Philips model. I can't stand the Philips remote. but the Sony remote completely rules. All the commonly used stuff is grouped together. You rarely need to stray beyond the central buttons.
Another problem with the Philips remote is that it feels the same upside down, making it hard to tell which way you're holding it in the dark. With the Sony remote, I can do everything without even glancing at the thing.
On the whole, the Sony remote is among the best remotes I've ever used for anything. No extraneous buttons (you use basically everything), but the frequently used stuff is intelligently placed.
If this were really to happen, then surely it gives credence to the idea that you're buying a physical copy of the music, not the right to listen to it, and that for each format you have to pay for it again? It would set a precedent that says that it's not okay to make a copy of your CD collection for your own personal use, effectively trumping fair use. Or maybe fair use trumps this? Either way, I can't see how anyone could support the RIAA having to pay the artists twice while at the same time saying it's ok for them to make copies of their CD collection for their own personal use..
Look at a site like Livejournal. It started small, and now it's taken off to being incredibly popular. They had a small team working on the site who had to decide what stuff needed to be done. Once the site got large, you have to go, "well, the site is running slow as it is, do we set up some more databases, work on memcache, or impliment SSL which will bog down performance even more." Obviously in order to stay in business they had to improve the site performance and struggle to keep good service up. It's easy to let security go slack
Yeah, nice example, except (and I'm quoting from the front page of livejournal.com here):
"Plans for 2004
Things we're interested in working on this year:
Secure logins and password changes using SSL and challenge/response (this is finished, but we're going through final testing now)"
.. the extent of acronyms these days. A typical sentence uttered by a 13 year old on a Counter-Strike server might look like this:
wtf omfg ffs nfw tbh bs h4x ban plskthx
There's a clear solution to this problem: Ban 13 year olds. Actually, you'd need to take out quite a few other ages as well, but that would be a good start.
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It's.. 1984
Outpost.com tried something similar to this as an ad campaign, with gerbils and a cannon (not real gerbils, naturally), but it was nicely done.
Check it out
Not as good as the pack of ravenous wolves attacking a high-school marching band though, which was another of their ads. Aah, the good old dot.com days.
$100 new for a 40 hour series 2 Tivo right now (with mail in rebate). See here for details.
We had two series 1 Tivos, and we just updated to 2 series 2 Tivos. The cool thing about the series 2 is, they support ethernet (or wireless) out of the box (with a USB ethernet/wireless adaptor). You hook the two up, and then you can use the Remote viewing feature to transfer shows between the two.
Oh, and if that's not enough, you can even schedule recordings online, so if you're on holiday on the other side of the planet, and someone emails you to let you know $COOL_SHOW is on, you can browse to the website and tell your Tivo to record it for you. How damn cool is that?
Before anyone responds, yeah I know you can probably do all this and more with MythTV, but for $100, you can't really go wrong, and it's a really nicely integrated solution for people who just want to plug and play.
You need an invite. Try http://www.gmailswap.com/.
Sooo.. the NSA is watching us.. reading Penny Arcade, where Gabe is watching Tycho watching his Sim watch TV..
Hrnngh!
The .NET runtime? So what? This is the same as all those VB apps you used to install which required the VB Runtime.. I don't understand what your complaint is.
Erm, a recession is:
"A downturn in economic activity, broadly defined by many economists as at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a nation's gross domestic product."
Actually calling it a recession has nothing to do with Bush, or Clinton, or assigning blame. It's a simple fact.
This is especially important for XP SP2, because it does break a lot of stuff. In particular, it breaks the (enterprise class) products we produce in several places (I personally am working on our own hotfixes to be sent out ASAP). This is the sort of problem companies like IBM want to avoid. So, all things considered, this is a total non story.
Really? I downloaded it through MSDN at 1.6MB/s, no problems.. probably not hosted on the same server, I guess.
Why not try some Dehydrated water?
As far as I'm concerned, unless they can give me a 100% guarantee it will work, I won't have the surgery. It's just not worth the risk of going blind, or other complications. Can you imagine not being able to see clearly at all? Regardless of whether you have glasses/contacts? When they've done a million consecutive surgeries with a million consecutive successes, maybe then I'll consider it. Call me paranoid, but I consider my eyesight one of the most important things in my life, and no reward is worth the risk, no matter how small, of losing it.
Interesting point, but your example could be better. Bill Gates has actually given $23 Billion to charity, more than half of his worth.
My guess would be that the majority of what's left of his fortune is tied up in Microsoft stock, and by keeping it invested, he's left the door open to making even bigger charitable donations in future.
Still, the point is almost certainly true for other rich people as well.
Anyone with half a brain can realise the the problem with making this change, especially in an environment where you're working with existing materials. The following is a genuine conversation I had while out buying some 4 inch guttering:
Me: Hi, I need some 4 inch guttering.
Plumbing shop: Oh sorry, we don't have any 4 inch guttering.
Me: How can you not have any? This sucks!
Plumbing shop: As luck would have it, we do have some 101.6mm guttering that is exactly the same size.
Me: I'll take it!
4700000000 bytes = 4589843KB = 4482MB = 4.37GB.
Going back to my original calculation..
25*4.37GB / 31 = 3.5GB/$ for DVDs
So, still considerably cheaper.
Media costs? Well let's see..
25 4X DVD+R for $31
100 52X CD-R for $31
So that's.. 25*4700MB[*] / 31 = 3.7GB/$ for DVDs
And.. 100*700MB / 31 = 2.2GB/$ for CDs.
Add in the fact that, to burn 4.7GB in CDs takes 7x700MB CDs, so you're doing a lot more disc swapping.. I can't see any reason to use CDs. Especially not for media cost reasons. Yeah, you can get cheaper media than that, but if you want good quality stuff, this is the range you're looking at.
[*] DVDs are 4700MB, not 4.7GB (4812MB)
I actually created a secure database which I can access from anywhere on the net to hold my passwords. They're all encrypted for security, and you access the site over SSL. You can download the code for it here.
No guarantees as to how secure it is. So far I haven't found any problems with it.
The worm's functionality is as follows:
1) Generates a random IP address
2) Sends the worm payload
3) Repeats steps 1-2 20,000 times
4) Opens a random PHYSICALDRIVE from 0-7, which allows raw hard disk access
5) Seeks to a random point on the disk
6) Writes 65K of data from the beginning of the vulnerable DLL to the disk
7) Closes the disk
8) Starts the process over from step 1
(emphasis mine)
Oh, and I should note.. it says that the download is only for IE 5.x, but it works fine in IE 6.0 as well. YMMV.
Enjoy!
Oh what am I doing? I don't even understand this joke..
Who said Mars had no atmosphere? Any object with a gravitational pull that exceeds the mean escape velocity of gas molecules (over-simplifying here - better explanation here) will have an atmosphere. The moon has a gravity below that mean (think of it as a vertical line on a bell curve, but before the bell), hence it has little/no atmosphere.
Mars, on the other hand, is a much larger body and hence has enough gravity to retain an atmoshphere of about 1-9 millibars, depending on altitude. Indeed, it's the very existence of this atmosphere that allowed the lander to slow from 12,000mph to 1000mph before the parachute opens.
Another problem with the Philips remote is that it feels the same upside down, making it hard to tell which way you're holding it in the dark. With the Sony remote, I can do everything without even glancing at the thing.
On the whole, the Sony remote is among the best remotes I've ever used for anything. No extraneous buttons (you use basically everything), but the frequently used stuff is intelligently placed.
If this were really to happen, then surely it gives credence to the idea that you're buying a physical copy of the music, not the right to listen to it, and that for each format you have to pay for it again? It would set a precedent that says that it's not okay to make a copy of your CD collection for your own personal use, effectively trumping fair use. Or maybe fair use trumps this? Either way, I can't see how anyone could support the RIAA having to pay the artists twice while at the same time saying it's ok for them to make copies of their CD collection for their own personal use..
Yeah, nice example, except (and I'm quoting from the front page of livejournal.com here):
"Plans for 2004
Things we're interested in working on this year:
Secure logins and password changes using SSL and challenge/response (this is finished, but we're going through final testing now)"
wtf omfg ffs nfw tbh bs h4x ban plskthx
There's a clear solution to this problem: Ban 13 year olds. Actually, you'd need to take out quite a few other ages as well, but that would be a good start.