My real concern with Google DNS is privacy. Your DNS records are extremely valuable to google, so I sincerely doubt google is not going to record them.
I'm not even entirely convinced about the benefit of using google's; your local DNS server hierarchy is going to be far more responsive, even if it does have a higher miss rate.
Apple is entering a losing battle with this change. Next up, I imagine either: a) firmware update on the Palm Pre that more thoroughly disguises the way the device advertises itself b) app you can run from your Palm Pre that shims iTunes.
Quoting crazy people who live in the boonies and drink their own urine because they're too good for the rest of society is well and good, but original thought has its benefits as well.
Well, the thinking probably resembles this: If you were willing to say it to my face, you certainly expect me to react and remember it. What's good enough for ME ought to be good enough for others.
Implementations of TCP in most operating systems fall a bit short of that, killing off stalled connections, etc. Also, some firewall suites, and some routers make a habit of killing off connections after a certain amount of time, sometimes without regard to whether or not they are 'active'.
You might have some luck boosting reliability with the TcpMaxDataRetransmissions registry setting in Windows. But ultimately, the poster is going to need to find a file copy suite which retries when connections die.
If you're that tolerant (I am), you may or may not experience withdrawl symptoms. I believe I get a little irritated if I haven't had anything caffeinated for a day or two, but I no longer get withdrawl headaches. YMMV.
The diuretic effect of caffeine is not linear with consumption.
I am somewhat skeptical of the notion that most caffeinated beverages are dehydrating to begin with. That claim doesn't hold a shred of plausibility when you're talking about multiple cups of coffee, though. It's certainly true you are getting less hydrated per cup than you would be, drinking water, but that's not the same thing dehydrating.
As an addenum, it seems like most people who responded to my comment didn't understand which component I was griping about.
1) The long cable you plug into things. Sennheiser has done a good job with certain lines of their headphones in making this reliable, replaceable, and serviceable. The overal mini/stereoplug scheme is unfortunate. But that's not Sennheiser's fault.
1) The tiny wiggly wire that connects to a bit of rigid solder, hidden inside the plastic casing around the speaker right up next to your ear. This is the thing that keeps failing, and that part is open to innovation.
And no, that's not because I collect them, it's because the damned connections keep failing, on everything from 212-pros up through a set of 595s.
I'm not ready to call Sennheiser reliable, even if they are more reliable than a lot of the low-end competition. Headphones could be a LOT more reliable if someone would take some damned time to find a more reliable way to deliver signal than a tiny wiggly wire and a bit of rigid solder.
I very much disagree - systematic attempts to play poorly with competitors, regardless of market position, should be considered anticompetitive - it's the DEFINITION of anticompetitive. It's also bad engineering, IMO.
Does Apple de-list applications that compete with products they are planning to offer?
A moderation of Troll would have been correct. The comment introduces an unlikely culprit that doesn't apply in this scenario as an opportunity to gripe about something that isn't even on-topic.
I have been running linux exclusively at home since 1995.
Think of it this way: can you imagine anyone thinking UAC was going to be a big selling point? They did it because they needed to to.
As far as IE; try setting a different default browser and try to find instances where IE still gets launched. I imagine people do take dependencies on IE's rendering engine, so I wouldn't be surprised if you're going to have a hard time getting rid of ieframe.dll.
Name an OS consumers use that is browserless. Fact is, an OS without a browser in this day and age is utterly useless. Less than useless. It's a paperweight.
In general, Microsoft has made great strides to make its OS more transparent and more 'fair' than ever. A lot of people (who are technically aware enough to agree) will probably attribute this to the court, but I think the reason is a lot simpler: good engineering is winning out over corporate greed. Case in point? UAC. A lot of people give Microsoft crap over UAC, but the truth is, if you're a standard user, your life has never been better, and it's getting better every time someone gripes about what a pain UAC is.
Idiotic title aside, UAC normalizes the experience for Administrator and for Standard User. With UAC, it's easier than it has ever been before to be a standard user on a Windows platform. I'm not sure what the article is driving at.
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My real concern with Google DNS is privacy. Your DNS records are extremely valuable to google, so I sincerely doubt google is not going to record them.
I'm not even entirely convinced about the benefit of using google's; your local DNS server hierarchy is going to be far more responsive, even if it does have a higher miss rate.
Actually, the scenario is 650GB sitting in their user folder. Absurd.
But the truth of the matter is, I will put on my wizard hat and robe and change any DPP content to a proper collection of bits.
Get right the heck out of town. DDoS is redundant enough; _M_DDoS adds NOTHING of value to the word.
I'm having difficulty finding this specific prohibition (TID & PID spoofing) in the USB specification or trademark agreement.
Anti-debugging is a pain, but anyone who routinely debugs programs without source eventually encounters it and learns to cope.
Have you never heard of a debugger?
Please. It doesn't take special knwowledge to debug or disassemble a program.
Apple is entering a losing battle with this change. Next up, I imagine either:
a) firmware update on the Palm Pre that more thoroughly disguises the way the device advertises itself
b) app you can run from your Palm Pre that shims iTunes.
It's not nice.
Quoting crazy people who live in the boonies and drink their own urine because they're too good for the rest of society is well and good, but original thought has its benefits as well.
Well, the thinking probably resembles this:
If you were willing to say it to my face, you certainly expect me to react and remember it. What's good enough for ME ought to be good enough for others.
Implementations of TCP in most operating systems fall a bit short of that, killing off stalled connections, etc. Also, some firewall suites, and some routers make a habit of killing off connections after a certain amount of time, sometimes without regard to whether or not they are 'active'.
You might have some luck boosting reliability with the TcpMaxDataRetransmissions registry setting in Windows. But ultimately, the poster is going to need to find a file copy suite which retries when connections die.
If you're that tolerant (I am), you may or may not experience withdrawl symptoms. I believe I get a little irritated if I haven't had anything caffeinated for a day or two, but I no longer get withdrawl headaches. YMMV.
The diuretic effect of caffeine is not linear with consumption.
I am somewhat skeptical of the notion that most caffeinated beverages are dehydrating to begin with. That claim doesn't hold a shred of plausibility when you're talking about multiple cups of coffee, though. It's certainly true you are getting less hydrated per cup than you would be, drinking water, but that's not the same thing dehydrating.
As an addenum, it seems like most people who responded to my comment didn't understand which component I was griping about.
1) The long cable you plug into things. Sennheiser has done a good job with certain lines of their headphones in making this reliable, replaceable, and serviceable. The overal mini/stereoplug scheme is unfortunate. But that's not Sennheiser's fault.
1) The tiny wiggly wire that connects to a bit of rigid solder, hidden inside the plastic casing around the speaker right up next to your ear. This is the thing that keeps failing, and that part is open to innovation.
I've owned a large number of Sennheisers.
And no, that's not because I collect them, it's because the damned connections keep failing, on everything from 212-pros up through a set of 595s.
I'm not ready to call Sennheiser reliable, even if they are more reliable than a lot of the low-end competition. Headphones could be a LOT more reliable if someone would take some damned time to find a more reliable way to deliver signal than a tiny wiggly wire and a bit of rigid solder.
'Training programs' sound like a money-maker for the videogame censorship movement.
I very much disagree - systematic attempts to play poorly with competitors, regardless of market position, should be considered anticompetitive - it's the DEFINITION of anticompetitive. It's also bad engineering, IMO.
Does Apple de-list applications that compete with products they are planning to offer?
A moderation of Troll would have been correct. The comment introduces an unlikely culprit that doesn't apply in this scenario as an opportunity to gripe about something that isn't even on-topic.
There should be benchmarks for how other cards perform as well. It could just be Nexuiz isn't performant under load on windows.
I have been running linux exclusively at home since 1995.
Think of it this way: can you imagine anyone thinking UAC was going to be a big selling point? They did it because they needed to to.
As far as IE; try setting a different default browser and try to find instances where IE still gets launched. I imagine people do take dependencies on IE's rendering engine, so I wouldn't be surprised if you're going to have a hard time getting rid of ieframe.dll.
Name an OS consumers use that is browserless. Fact is, an OS without a browser in this day and age is utterly useless. Less than useless. It's a paperweight.
In general, Microsoft has made great strides to make its OS more transparent and more 'fair' than ever. A lot of people (who are technically aware enough to agree) will probably attribute this to the court, but I think the reason is a lot simpler: good engineering is winning out over corporate greed. Case in point? UAC. A lot of people give Microsoft crap over UAC, but the truth is, if you're a standard user, your life has never been better, and it's getting better every time someone gripes about what a pain UAC is.
It was changed because it was such an incredibly inappropriate title.
Idiotic title aside, UAC normalizes the experience for Administrator and for Standard User. With UAC, it's easier than it has ever been before to be a standard user on a Windows platform. I'm not sure what the article is driving at.