Or you could make sure you activate your WinXP software firewall and get the patches directly from Windowsupdate. Putting an unpatched XP box on the internet without a firewall is almost as easy as finding and installing the viruses yourself.
Possibly, but it still is a bit of an issue. Lots of SATA motherboards have only 2 ports, and the largest drive (ignoring Hitachi's 5400rpm 300GB) is around 250GB. Most people would be forced to do 4x250 IDE or 2x250SATA + 2x250IDE and thats still a bit of a hassle. I have 480GB spread out over 4 drives and at present, it suits my needs.
My Nvidia 5900 ultra bit the dust early last year I was forced to pull out my old Creative Labs PCI TNT2. I run a 21" CRT at 1600x1200x85 and the display was SO bad with the TNT2 that I had to drop it to 1024x768x85 before the screen was really usable. Older cards just really often don't have the RAMDACs to keep up with nice monitors. By the way, if you want crisp flicker free 2d, then why not just get a Matrox card? Nvidia and ATI are catering to a specific market so a 2d Matrox card might just suit your needs better.
So I fire up my properly patched WinXP box and run "netstat -a." Ports 59, 1025, 1034, 1035, 1039, 1379, 3366, 4361, 5000, and 30515 are all listening. Port 59 is my mirc client, but why good are the rest of those to me? Rather then shipping with everything on, XP should ship with everything off and ask the user. Unfortunatly, most users wouldn't know what to do if windows presented the option "Would you like to enable the LSASS.EXE Local Security Authority Service?"
You know, back in my day viruses used to do nasty things like write data into the bios or randomly delete data on the HD. I think we should all just thank our lucky stars that the writers of Blaster and Sasser decided not to add a malicious payload. In fact, I'm pretty sure that there isn't anything Microsoft fears more then a widely spread destructive worm.
I can attest to that. My small room's temperature rises noticeably when I'm playing games or rendering video. I've recently given up, pulled the side of my case off and aimed a tabletop fan at it.
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Because you want reliablity in an airplane motor. Mazda's rotaries are not reliable enough. Not to mention they're terribly fuel inefficiant and heat up quickly.
Wow, you're absolutly right. I'm impressed. I failed to mention in the article that I ended up using theGIMP instead of downloading photoshop, but your argument is extremely compelling nonethless.
Mod my parent up too.
I took an animation class in high school that was taught with Adobe After Effects. After the class I decided that I enjoyed doing it, and went online to see how much a lisence cost. $700! (400 for the educational version). Needless to say I didn't buy a copy. It would have been very easy to download one instead. Photoshop is $300 for a student version, and quite honestly, most regular users can't justify the cost. I'm not saying that the software isn't worth the cost, I'm just saying that for people outside of the targeted markets the cost is too high to justify.
I'm going to venture a guess that you're refering to "Martian Successor Nadedesico" without even clicking your link! I just watched it a few weeks ago and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Lets Gekiga In!
The article claims that he is able to extract about half a kilogram of mercury from each hectare (about 2.5 acres according to google calculator). I'd assume that the gold is being collected simply because the corn is corn is picking it up, but it isn't the primary metal they're trying to pull out of the ground.
You're absolutly correct, I don't know how I missed that one. I guess near the end of the article I had just started scanning and that particular statment caught my eye.
From the article: "Also, ownership is an important component of American culture. People do not like to buy things unless they feel that they own it with no strings attached" How is it that the head of Japan's major video game trade group has more insight into American consumer desires then our own trade groups?
A few nights ago I shut down my computer before I climbed into bed. What followed was half an hour of errie silence. Needless to say I turned my computer right back on, turned off the monitor and went to bed.
They don't calculate values like that. Remember those college sudents caught sharing a few thousand tracks? The RIAA threatened to sue each one for hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. They valued each track at something like $1000 in copyright violations. They didn't even have to offer proof that the music was actually distributed, just made available.
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$.50 a track, 192kbit stereo is what it'll take to get me to buy my music. Until then I'll just drive around and listen to the dozen used CDs I bought five years ago. $1 a track is already too expensive for most of the music out there. In a perfect world we'd be able to pay a small subscription fee for access to all the music we want via audio on demand. Can you imagine how popular XM radio would be if you could go online and set up a playlist of ANY music you want (and none that you dont) and listen to it from you car?
I've got some 18 year old 8mm tapes that I was planning to convert to DVDs later this year, but the possibility of my discs failing has me quite worried. Unfortunatly, magnetic tapes don't usually last more then 25 years, so I'm forced to do something about it. I'd really like to get them off analog media and onto something that doesn't degrade. Its a shame that I'm going to have to worry about my discs falling apart much sooner then the 18 years these tapes lasted.
Do we expect most car drivers to change their own oil, perform maintinence, and change their timing belts? Most people don't. I know many people who have never even opened their hood. In the same way ease of use is vital for unix to gain marketshare. Most of the "computer users" I know haven't the slightest idea what brand their audio or video cards are, much less where to find and install drivers. You should see how some of them freak out when I give them an install CD without an auto-run option.
While it is true that coal mining is still a rather dangerous occupation, the polution generated by coal-fired power stations isn't as bad as many people belive. In the last few decades, coal has come quite a long way in reducing toxic emmisions. Modern coal plants combust the fuel much more completly, and are outfitted with high-tech (and very expensive) scrubbers to remove the really toxic byproducts (especially sulfer). Considering that our coal supplies will long outlast our oil supplies, I think that its still a good idea to invest in cleaner coal technologies. Linky.
Aww, I wired my whole house with CAT5, which I assume wouldn't handle anywhere near gigabit speeds. Still, I can't justify tearing out all that wireing just for gigabit.
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Or you could make sure you activate your WinXP software firewall and get the patches directly from Windowsupdate. Putting an unpatched XP box on the internet without a firewall is almost as easy as finding and installing the viruses yourself.
Possibly, but it still is a bit of an issue. Lots of SATA motherboards have only 2 ports, and the largest drive (ignoring Hitachi's 5400rpm 300GB) is around 250GB. Most people would be forced to do 4x250 IDE or 2x250SATA + 2x250IDE and thats still a bit of a hassle. I have 480GB spread out over 4 drives and at present, it suits my needs.
Duh... Overclock.
I'm running my light at 3.4 x 10^8 m/s.
My Nvidia 5900 ultra bit the dust early last year I was forced to pull out my old Creative Labs PCI TNT2. I run a 21" CRT at 1600x1200x85 and the display was SO bad with the TNT2 that I had to drop it to 1024x768x85 before the screen was really usable. Older cards just really often don't have the RAMDACs to keep up with nice monitors.
By the way, if you want crisp flicker free 2d, then why not just get a Matrox card? Nvidia and ATI are catering to a specific market so a 2d Matrox card might just suit your needs better.
So I fire up my properly patched WinXP box and run "netstat -a." Ports 59, 1025, 1034, 1035, 1039, 1379, 3366, 4361, 5000, and 30515 are all listening. Port 59 is my mirc client, but why good are the rest of those to me? Rather then shipping with everything on, XP should ship with everything off and ask the user. Unfortunatly, most users wouldn't know what to do if windows presented the option "Would you like to enable the LSASS.EXE Local Security Authority Service?"
You know, back in my day viruses used to do nasty things like write data into the bios or randomly delete data on the HD. I think we should all just thank our lucky stars that the writers of Blaster and Sasser decided not to add a malicious payload. In fact, I'm pretty sure that there isn't anything Microsoft fears more then a widely spread destructive worm.
I can attest to that. My small room's temperature rises noticeably when I'm playing games or rendering video. I've recently given up, pulled the side of my case off and aimed a tabletop fan at it.
Because you want reliablity in an airplane motor. Mazda's rotaries are not reliable enough. Not to mention they're terribly fuel inefficiant and heat up quickly.
Wow, you're absolutly right. I'm impressed. I failed to mention in the article that I ended up using theGIMP instead of downloading photoshop, but your argument is extremely compelling nonethless.
Mod my parent up too.
I took an animation class in high school that was taught with Adobe After Effects. After the class I decided that I enjoyed doing it, and went online to see how much a lisence cost. $700! (400 for the educational version). Needless to say I didn't buy a copy. It would have been very easy to download one instead.
Photoshop is $300 for a student version, and quite honestly, most regular users can't justify the cost. I'm not saying that the software isn't worth the cost, I'm just saying that for people outside of the targeted markets the cost is too high to justify.
What will happen? No one will be able to beat Square's "Legend of Dragoon" .... oh wait
I'm going to venture a guess that you're refering to "Martian Successor Nadedesico" without even clicking your link! I just watched it a few weeks ago and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
Lets Gekiga In!
The article claims that he is able to extract about half a kilogram of mercury from each hectare (about 2.5 acres according to google calculator). I'd assume that the gold is being collected simply because the corn is corn is picking it up, but it isn't the primary metal they're trying to pull out of the ground.
I don't have any mod points to give you, but I will bear you a child...
Hey guys, I don't get whats the big deal? I downloaded a ton of these 85 to 150KB ".exe" games off kazaa yesterday. They never seem to run though...
You're absolutly correct, I don't know how I missed that one. I guess near the end of the article I had just started scanning and that particular statment caught my eye.
From the article:
"Also, ownership is an important component of American culture. People do not like to buy things unless they feel that they own it with no strings attached"
How is it that the head of Japan's major video game trade group has more insight into American consumer desires then our own trade groups?
A few nights ago I shut down my computer before I climbed into bed. What followed was half an hour of errie silence. Needless to say I turned my computer right back on, turned off the monitor and went to bed.
They don't calculate values like that. Remember those college sudents caught sharing a few thousand tracks? The RIAA threatened to sue each one for hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. They valued each track at something like $1000 in copyright violations. They didn't even have to offer proof that the music was actually distributed, just made available.
$.50 a track, 192kbit stereo is what it'll take to get me to buy my music. Until then I'll just drive around and listen to the dozen used CDs I bought five years ago. $1 a track is already too expensive for most of the music out there. In a perfect world we'd be able to pay a small subscription fee for access to all the music we want via audio on demand.
Can you imagine how popular XM radio would be if you could go online and set up a playlist of ANY music you want (and none that you dont) and listen to it from you car?
I've got some 18 year old 8mm tapes that I was planning to convert to DVDs later this year, but the possibility of my discs failing has me quite worried. Unfortunatly, magnetic tapes don't usually last more then 25 years, so I'm forced to do something about it. I'd really like to get them off analog media and onto something that doesn't degrade. Its a shame that I'm going to have to worry about my discs falling apart much sooner then the 18 years these tapes lasted.
Do we expect most car drivers to change their own oil, perform maintinence, and change their timing belts? Most people don't. I know many people who have never even opened their hood.
In the same way ease of use is vital for unix to gain marketshare. Most of the "computer users" I know haven't the slightest idea what brand their audio or video cards are, much less where to find and install drivers. You should see how some of them freak out when I give them an install CD without an auto-run option.
The traffic is so bad in California that I can't even imagine how bad it would be if we weren't allowed to turn right on reds.
While it is true that coal mining is still a rather dangerous occupation, the polution generated by coal-fired power stations isn't as bad as many people belive. In the last few decades, coal has come quite a long way in reducing toxic emmisions. Modern coal plants combust the fuel much more completly, and are outfitted with high-tech (and very expensive) scrubbers to remove the really toxic byproducts (especially sulfer).
Considering that our coal supplies will long outlast our oil supplies, I think that its still a good idea to invest in cleaner coal technologies. Linky.
Aww, I wired my whole house with CAT5, which I assume wouldn't handle anywhere near gigabit speeds. Still, I can't justify tearing out all that wireing just for gigabit.