Dude you obvious was never in the business of Desktop support or selling computers. If you are you would undoubtedly knows that it is a cardinal sin to not test an image through all the possibilities, even in theories (and in practice) there should be no ill effect on making image change such as these.
Furthermore, I should also mention that the image is simply not the same, in desktop deployment side of business, that uninstalling any software and then re-install another version of it is never the same as keeping the original. There is always a slim chance of making that image becoming less stable. I can tell you from experience that the only way to keep a clean image is to load it up from scratch and redo the whole thing. By the time it is done the "new" image will have to undergo the entire testing/verification process and being documented as such. If a company of a few thousands are doing this in their own desktop deployment I have no reason to believe companies as big as Dell and HP are not doing anything more rigirous than that. And that obvious cost some dollars to do so.
Slashdot: The LAN-play question has been a major issue. What are you doing to facilitate gameplay between people who are in the same room? Rob Pardo: There are definitely some things we are investigating. Whether or not they will be in at launch, I don't know. I really think that the vast majority of people wont have an issue. Even if you look at Warcraft 3, which did have LAN play, the vast, vast majority of people played on Battle.net and that was what, seven years ago? So I think that it is a very small percentage of people that will be affected, and only a small percentage of the time. That said, we are looking at some technology that would allow us to detect a peer-to-peer connection if we detect something like a high latency over a certain amount. Unfortunately, this would only be able to work for custom games, since we need to ensure the accuracy of competitive or ladder games via Battle.net.
I hate to be critical. But this VP basically just admits that he has never had a true gamer's experience. He has zero clue why many gamers has such passion on a LAN capabilities on a good multiplayer RTS game like StarCraft. Also who would care about their ladder ranking when playing in a room in a LAN party? Some of the best SC games I've played one player is constantly playing defense (at a level of being sacraficial) and another player on the team is focusing on generating resources. Their stats looked terrible but guess what, who cares! It's about the fun of trying different ways of playing. Many friends who will never be an avid game player had fun playing SC only because he can feel comfortable playing under someone's wing without the pressure to perform. Game experience on Bnet is simply not the same.
The statistics of total play hours using LAN are not really measurable since they are not connected to their servers during the game play. If they want to make a throw-away game that cease to be played in a year or two maybe that's the way to go. But to make a game worth playing for years like the StarCraf? You be the judge.
I second that question. As a follow-up to that question, what can be done to setup a dedicated server for the LAN game, assuming Blizzard had in mind more than 8 players at a time. That would be the most likely reason why Blizzard wanted to go with B-net route in the first place.
Ballmer: So....we're boiling a frog it seems?
Engineer: we may as well be vaporizing a frog. it neither knows, nor cares.
According to the typical estimates, consoles are being sold at a loss, except wii. I would think Ballmer would like the failure rate to be as low as possible to maximize the profits garnered by selling exclusive game titles.
Seriously, there's nothing new here. There's plenty of new bar-code replacement scheme that has surfaced even in the past few years, including one that will fade the barcode after the milk past its expiration date. Same application has been discussed in various bar-code replacements, including (and especially) RFID technology to include more information about the product on the RFID as well. So what is new here? a package including an LED, lense, and a battery pack?
Don't get me wrong, the research itself gives a new idea of diong things. It may be more suitable for other applications. As far as bar-code replacement goes this idea has zero application that is not already thought of. But research wise, I would give the research team credit to their creativity to come up with a different way of doing the same thing.
You don't build them to use them, you build them so you don't have to use them. You also force anyone who thinks they need to counter them to spend resources on developing and deploying the countermeasures.
This is why China is spending big on economic development. Economic war is the real war and it can bring United States to our knees. While doing that they get to keep a smile on their straight face! Not to mention all the wealth they collect from us in the process! What a bargain!
Real war is for the uncivilized and the weak. The true world players wage their wars on something better.
Agreed with your post. I can put a football team analogy to the analysis you just given: F-22 is more like a running back, and F-35 is more or less a tied-end, running back, and a wide receiver combined (more or less in combat terms). They are all excellent players.
In a football team you only need 1 (max 2 for specific trick play/option) quaterback on the field. Same thing in combat: you don't need that many unit of planes acting as a quaterback (as F-22 does), but you need to have lots of excellent secondaries (F-35) to get the ball to the end zone.
I know it is/. but I'm sure at least a few people can appreciate the excitement of football!
Second, if distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?
Incompentence is not a crime, but instigating a false accusation, especially falsely accusing individuals of a crime, is. At least it is in civil court.
You brought on a good point. Since this is a debit card how does his bank account not getting freezed because he has TWO transactions exceeding $5000.00 and not getting freezed for 7-30 days by procedure to prevent money laundering...
A bank did that to me while I was still in school when the financial aid finally came in. Took them over a week after I went to the branch to have them unfreezed. This is why I hold my main checking account with a credit union to this day, even though I have accounts with other major banks.
The intrinsic value of gold is that it is rare enough to hold large quantities of wealth and cannot be manufactured arbitrarily.
This is why Federal Reserve has deposited large amount of gold. Fort Knox is most famous by its huge deposit and tight security, hence the phrase "security is tight like Fort Knox" (I'm sure you heard phrases like that).
In another word, us dollars are still backed up partially by gold. So there, we are "somewhat" covered.
I think what most people trying to convey is: there is a better questions to be asked, or there is a much better alternative than the conditions you presented. Others have presented you with their Google search results.
By the way I can still order standard 4:3 LCD Monitors. You might have to get it through the business line product from HP or Dell, but they are better quality product, in my opinion. And yes, they do offer higher resolutions than the average Joe's LCD Monitor bought from Office Depot. I did not check the resolutions since usually a 20" can do a lot higher resolution than I can read while squinting my eyes and glasses on.
I also find out that my eyes gets a lot less tired over the long period of time starring at the LCD monitor than the old CRT tube. I had the prevlidge of sitting in front of a few 21" giant and the only comments afterwards are to arrange for their replacement ASAP.
I really like what you have said, uptownguy. You cannot really do well in your job if you don't have a passion for it. Yet you don't really want to work on your hobby as your job to ruin your life.
Anywork that is worth doing usually have a part where no one wants to do. That's what they pay people for. There's also plenty of technology oriented job that is not part of IT organization.
My group does industrial automation for a mid-to-large energy company and we just hired a cybersecurity consultant who has extensive background of IT support, network deployment and maintenance, as well as plenty of network security experience. Yet he will have to learn all about the backgrounds of industrial automations and understand our roles (as well as our equipments) and our priorities, which can be quite different when comparing to straight IT support. Eventhough every one of us in the group are competent in general IT functions we sure appreciate to have someone who knows even more than we do working with us. I'm sure he is excited to be in a different position and solving problems from a totally different angle.
How about while were at it we repeal any tax that the government didn't deserve in the first place (that they did nothing more than basic safety/defense).
In theory, governments deserves none of our taxes. But since government cannot function without resources and we need the government in real life, we pay taxes to the government.
The trick seems to be 1) don't deregulate the financial system, because greedy bastards will rob you blind if given a free hand. 2) turf out politicians who take too much pork (a little pork fat does keep the wheels turning), because the greedy bastards will rob you blind if they can and 3) turf out politicians who threaten to take away your most cherished social programs, because the greedy bastards would rather spend the money on pork (see 2).
Why should the USA have any say as to what happens under, say, China's TLD?
In reality (and as a technicality), no. US dos not regulate how China regulates the usage under China's TLD. A good example would be to take a look at how many Chinese hosting sites using the.com,.net domain to avoid certain regulations from the Chinese Government.
You might try to infer that US CAN, based on the current structure. However US does NOT actively regulate China's TLD because China has a government stable enough to self determine how to use it. The overall control in US hand is simply a formality.
I have spent about $200+ dollars on a top-notched graphics card, about a few months after it was first released. Of course I took advantage of a price break and get it less than $200. I have not have the need to upgrade again for two and a half years now. I think I can hold out long enough until Thanksgiving time before I have to upgrade the graphics again.
If I started out with a $100 dollar range card I might already gone through one or even two upgrades on the graphics card. I my opionion there is still a place on the price curve it is more cost effective to buy the card now when it cost a little bit more, than pay later when the technology is about to become obsolete.
I don't know about that. The Bush Family and Dick Cheney have made many billions of dollars off of fearmongering.
There, fixed that for you.
Corrections needed. The Bush Family did not make billions of dollars off of fearmongering. Our last president blew many billions of dollars of YOUR money off of fearmongering.
I must say that while I enjoy my salary here in US and making a descent living, there are other engineers in other countries who are paid far less than we do but are probably equally competent if given a chance. I really hate to say this, since I would truly wish to justify that 1. we make more because we are more effective, and 2. we make more because the standard of living is much higher here.
For many companies the reason it is still cost effective to pay such a high salaries is simply the fact that the US trained engineering professionals are trained to work in such a fashion managable by the companies without a need for a cultural training, as well as the fact that the job itself is not easily transferrable to other countries without either raising the cost to do business itself, that or because of the safety regulations. In addition, US professionals tends to be more ethical in their actions, which does means the company can afford to trust them more on their individual actions. I'm sure some would argue otherwise. Yet I have to point out that many senior level professionals that I know are able to do much, much more than their counterparts in other countries because they are indeed given more latitude in what they decide to do. Of course they are given more responsibility on the end result.
heck, I have a copy of Word from the Windows 3.1 era on my Windows PC because I had to open old Word files and current versions wouldn't read the old format
I think if you install all of the options for the new Word you will be able to open old Word document as old as version 2.1 in Windows. It's been there for years. You just need to modify the installation or at least pay more attention to the custom settings when installing Word.
I honestly don't know what you are talking about as far as the "wiered Christian rhetoric people" is concerns. Most of the well known conservative media has been playing quite nice and give lots of respect to Obama for the Presidency as well as the significance in terms of being the first African-American being elected to become the President.
But I think everyone would agree he care deeply about the American people and he will do what he can to bring us out of the terrible condition we're in riht now. He will/should be a great President in the modern history but he's certainly no Messiah, that's for sure (for the record FDR wasn't one either--He has made significant foreign policy mistakes during the 4th term that essentially brought us the Cold War). Those who think he's one would be sorely dissapointed.
You might be surprised at how much hardware testing both Microsoft and its partners do for compliance reasons.
When I was an intern at a hardware company (audio solutions), there are a lot of platform testing, including standard reference testing boxes from Intel as well as Microsoft. On top of that the company send the demo boards as well as beta drivers to MS for compliance testing. The entire process is structured and it is intend to make sure the final solutions will work across the board.
Since quite a bit of the drivers included in the OS or service packs has Microsoft's signiture on them I would not be completely surprised if Microsoft write their own drivers from time to time. In fact some of the standard USB drivers are written by Microsoft and being used or referenced by the hardware vendors.
I'm not too sure why people keep on ignoring the fact that we are "borrowing" money by issuing bonds to foreign and domestic entities to buy. Therefore we are not just printing more money. We are however assuming the tax revenue would be higher down the stretch once the economy gets better.
Issuing bonds for a massive amount of currency, however, has two side effects: Inflation because the market is flood with currency, and it does not take into consideration of other priorities for budget once the economy gets better.
As far as inflationary effect goes, it may actually do us better by inducing a slight inflation to counter the deflation that we currently facing. So no major concerns there for the next year or so.
On the other hand, once the economy gets better it is almost guarenteed that social welfare group will ask for more money for the welfare program. Other interest group would most likely argue that they or who they represent deserve a break either by funding a program or by tax break. Heck, for all we know some politicians could argue for a tax cut for everyone once the money is "there". People tend to forget that we still have to pay back our national debt that was already there.
So I'm neutral towards a temperary overbudget policy. However not the same arguments as most people's have either for or against the "bail-out" package or the New Deal type program.
If they cannot point out the specific photos they own copyrights with, Nexus does not have to comply out of obscurity of the notice. Simple as that. Try to bring that to court Toyota!
While we're at this spread the word to all major news network and let them broadcast the clip for a few minutes in evening news (or better yet, put that in the Morning section of Headline News). Let's see who is the ultimate winner here.
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Dude you obvious was never in the business of Desktop support or selling computers. If you are you would undoubtedly knows that it is a cardinal sin to not test an image through all the possibilities, even in theories (and in practice) there should be no ill effect on making image change such as these.
Furthermore, I should also mention that the image is simply not the same, in desktop deployment side of business, that uninstalling any software and then re-install another version of it is never the same as keeping the original. There is always a slim chance of making that image becoming less stable. I can tell you from experience that the only way to keep a clean image is to load it up from scratch and redo the whole thing. By the time it is done the "new" image will have to undergo the entire testing/verification process and being documented as such. If a company of a few thousands are doing this in their own desktop deployment I have no reason to believe companies as big as Dell and HP are not doing anything more rigirous than that. And that obvious cost some dollars to do so.
Taiwan has neither nuclear weapon nor cruise missle. Their weapons are supplied by US. Please check your facts before posting.
Slashdot: The LAN-play question has been a major issue. What are you doing to facilitate gameplay between people who are in the same room?
Rob Pardo: There are definitely some things we are investigating. Whether or not they will be in at launch, I don't know. I really think that the vast majority of people wont have an issue. Even if you look at Warcraft 3, which did have LAN play, the vast, vast majority of people played on Battle.net and that was what, seven years ago? So I think that it is a very small percentage of people that will be affected, and only a small percentage of the time. That said, we are looking at some technology that would allow us to detect a peer-to-peer connection if we detect something like a high latency over a certain amount. Unfortunately, this would only be able to work for custom games, since we need to ensure the accuracy of competitive or ladder games via Battle.net.
I hate to be critical. But this VP basically just admits that he has never had a true gamer's experience. He has zero clue why many gamers has such passion on a LAN capabilities on a good multiplayer RTS game like StarCraft. Also who would care about their ladder ranking when playing in a room in a LAN party? Some of the best SC games I've played one player is constantly playing defense (at a level of being sacraficial) and another player on the team is focusing on generating resources. Their stats looked terrible but guess what, who cares! It's about the fun of trying different ways of playing. Many friends who will never be an avid game player had fun playing SC only because he can feel comfortable playing under someone's wing without the pressure to perform. Game experience on Bnet is simply not the same.
The statistics of total play hours using LAN are not really measurable since they are not connected to their servers during the game play. If they want to make a throw-away game that cease to be played in a year or two maybe that's the way to go. But to make a game worth playing for years like the StarCraf? You be the judge.
I second that question. As a follow-up to that question, what can be done to setup a dedicated server for the LAN game, assuming Blizzard had in mind more than 8 players at a time. That would be the most likely reason why Blizzard wanted to go with B-net route in the first place.
Ballmer: So....we're boiling a frog it seems?
Engineer: we may as well be vaporizing a frog. it neither knows, nor cares.
According to the typical estimates, consoles are being sold at a loss, except wii. I would think Ballmer would like the failure rate to be as low as possible to maximize the profits garnered by selling exclusive game titles.
Seriously, there's nothing new here. There's plenty of new bar-code replacement scheme that has surfaced even in the past few years, including one that will fade the barcode after the milk past its expiration date. Same application has been discussed in various bar-code replacements, including (and especially) RFID technology to include more information about the product on the RFID as well. So what is new here? a package including an LED, lense, and a battery pack?
Don't get me wrong, the research itself gives a new idea of diong things. It may be more suitable for other applications. As far as bar-code replacement goes this idea has zero application that is not already thought of. But research wise, I would give the research team credit to their creativity to come up with a different way of doing the same thing.
You don't build them to use them, you build them so you don't have to use them. You also force anyone who thinks they need to counter them to spend resources on developing and deploying the countermeasures.
This is why China is spending big on economic development. Economic war is the real war and it can bring United States to our knees. While doing that they get to keep a smile on their straight face! Not to mention all the wealth they collect from us in the process! What a bargain!
Real war is for the uncivilized and the weak. The true world players wage their wars on something better.
Agreed with your post. I can put a football team analogy to the analysis you just given: F-22 is more like a running back, and F-35 is more or less a tied-end, running back, and a wide receiver combined (more or less in combat terms). They are all excellent players.
/. but I'm sure at least a few people can appreciate the excitement of football!
In a football team you only need 1 (max 2 for specific trick play/option) quaterback on the field. Same thing in combat: you don't need that many unit of planes acting as a quaterback (as F-22 does), but you need to have lots of excellent secondaries (F-35) to get the ball to the end zone.
I know it is
Second, if distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?
Incompentence is not a crime, but instigating a false accusation, especially falsely accusing individuals of a crime, is. At least it is in civil court.
You brought on a good point. Since this is a debit card how does his bank account not getting freezed because he has TWO transactions exceeding $5000.00 and not getting freezed for 7-30 days by procedure to prevent money laundering...
A bank did that to me while I was still in school when the financial aid finally came in. Took them over a week after I went to the branch to have them unfreezed. This is why I hold my main checking account with a credit union to this day, even though I have accounts with other major banks.
The intrinsic value of gold is that it is rare enough to hold large quantities of wealth and cannot be manufactured arbitrarily.
This is why Federal Reserve has deposited large amount of gold. Fort Knox is most famous by its huge deposit and tight security, hence the phrase "security is tight like Fort Knox" (I'm sure you heard phrases like that).
In another word, us dollars are still backed up partially by gold. So there, we are "somewhat" covered.
I think what most people trying to convey is: there is a better questions to be asked, or there is a much better alternative than the conditions you presented. Others have presented you with their Google search results.
By the way I can still order standard 4:3 LCD Monitors. You might have to get it through the business line product from HP or Dell, but they are better quality product, in my opinion. And yes, they do offer higher resolutions than the average Joe's LCD Monitor bought from Office Depot. I did not check the resolutions since usually a 20" can do a lot higher resolution than I can read while squinting my eyes and glasses on.
I also find out that my eyes gets a lot less tired over the long period of time starring at the LCD monitor than the old CRT tube. I had the prevlidge of sitting in front of a few 21" giant and the only comments afterwards are to arrange for their replacement ASAP.
I really like what you have said, uptownguy. You cannot really do well in your job if you don't have a passion for it. Yet you don't really want to work on your hobby as your job to ruin your life.
Anywork that is worth doing usually have a part where no one wants to do. That's what they pay people for. There's also plenty of technology oriented job that is not part of IT organization.
My group does industrial automation for a mid-to-large energy company and we just hired a cybersecurity consultant who has extensive background of IT support, network deployment and maintenance, as well as plenty of network security experience. Yet he will have to learn all about the backgrounds of industrial automations and understand our roles (as well as our equipments) and our priorities, which can be quite different when comparing to straight IT support. Eventhough every one of us in the group are competent in general IT functions we sure appreciate to have someone who knows even more than we do working with us. I'm sure he is excited to be in a different position and solving problems from a totally different angle.
How about while were at it we repeal any tax that the government didn't deserve in the first place (that they did nothing more than basic safety/defense).
In theory, governments deserves none of our taxes. But since government cannot function without resources and we need the government in real life, we pay taxes to the government.
The trick seems to be 1) don't deregulate the financial system, because greedy bastards will rob you blind if given a free hand. 2) turf out politicians who take too much pork (a little pork fat does keep the wheels turning), because the greedy bastards will rob you blind if they can and 3) turf out politicians who threaten to take away your most cherished social programs, because the greedy bastards would rather spend the money on pork (see 2).
Good point. Easier said then done.
Why should the USA have any say as to what happens under, say, China's TLD?
In reality (and as a technicality), no. US dos not regulate how China regulates the usage under China's TLD. A good example would be to take a look at how many Chinese hosting sites using the .com, .net domain to avoid certain regulations from the Chinese Government.
You might try to infer that US CAN, based on the current structure. However US does NOT actively regulate China's TLD because China has a government stable enough to self determine how to use it. The overall control in US hand is simply a formality.
I have spent about $200+ dollars on a top-notched graphics card, about a few months after it was first released. Of course I took advantage of a price break and get it less than $200. I have not have the need to upgrade again for two and a half years now. I think I can hold out long enough until Thanksgiving time before I have to upgrade the graphics again.
If I started out with a $100 dollar range card I might already gone through one or even two upgrades on the graphics card. I my opionion there is still a place on the price curve it is more cost effective to buy the card now when it cost a little bit more, than pay later when the technology is about to become obsolete.
I don't know about that. The Bush Family and Dick Cheney have made many billions of dollars off of fearmongering.
There, fixed that for you.
Corrections needed. The Bush Family did not make billions of dollars off of fearmongering. Our last president blew many billions of dollars of YOUR money off of fearmongering.
I must say that while I enjoy my salary here in US and making a descent living, there are other engineers in other countries who are paid far less than we do but are probably equally competent if given a chance. I really hate to say this, since I would truly wish to justify that 1. we make more because we are more effective, and 2. we make more because the standard of living is much higher here.
For many companies the reason it is still cost effective to pay such a high salaries is simply the fact that the US trained engineering professionals are trained to work in such a fashion managable by the companies without a need for a cultural training, as well as the fact that the job itself is not easily transferrable to other countries without either raising the cost to do business itself, that or because of the safety regulations. In addition, US professionals tends to be more ethical in their actions, which does means the company can afford to trust them more on their individual actions. I'm sure some would argue otherwise. Yet I have to point out that many senior level professionals that I know are able to do much, much more than their counterparts in other countries because they are indeed given more latitude in what they decide to do. Of course they are given more responsibility on the end result.
heck, I have a copy of Word from the Windows 3.1 era on my Windows PC because I had to open old Word files and current versions wouldn't read the old format
I think if you install all of the options for the new Word you will be able to open old Word document as old as version 2.1 in Windows. It's been there for years. You just need to modify the installation or at least pay more attention to the custom settings when installing Word.
I honestly don't know what you are talking about as far as the "wiered Christian rhetoric people" is concerns. Most of the well known conservative media has been playing quite nice and give lots of respect to Obama for the Presidency as well as the significance in terms of being the first African-American being elected to become the President.
But I think everyone would agree he care deeply about the American people and he will do what he can to bring us out of the terrible condition we're in riht now. He will/should be a great President in the modern history but he's certainly no Messiah, that's for sure (for the record FDR wasn't one either--He has made significant foreign policy mistakes during the 4th term that essentially brought us the Cold War). Those who think he's one would be sorely dissapointed.
You might be surprised at how much hardware testing both Microsoft and its partners do for compliance reasons.
When I was an intern at a hardware company (audio solutions), there are a lot of platform testing, including standard reference testing boxes from Intel as well as Microsoft. On top of that the company send the demo boards as well as beta drivers to MS for compliance testing. The entire process is structured and it is intend to make sure the final solutions will work across the board.
Since quite a bit of the drivers included in the OS or service packs has Microsoft's signiture on them I would not be completely surprised if Microsoft write their own drivers from time to time. In fact some of the standard USB drivers are written by Microsoft and being used or referenced by the hardware vendors.
I'm not too sure why people keep on ignoring the fact that we are "borrowing" money by issuing bonds to foreign and domestic entities to buy. Therefore we are not just printing more money. We are however assuming the tax revenue would be higher down the stretch once the economy gets better.
Issuing bonds for a massive amount of currency, however, has two side effects: Inflation because the market is flood with currency, and it does not take into consideration of other priorities for budget once the economy gets better.
As far as inflationary effect goes, it may actually do us better by inducing a slight inflation to counter the deflation that we currently facing. So no major concerns there for the next year or so.
On the other hand, once the economy gets better it is almost guarenteed that social welfare group will ask for more money for the welfare program. Other interest group would most likely argue that they or who they represent deserve a break either by funding a program or by tax break. Heck, for all we know some politicians could argue for a tax cut for everyone once the money is "there". People tend to forget that we still have to pay back our national debt that was already there.
So I'm neutral towards a temperary overbudget policy. However not the same arguments as most people's have either for or against the "bail-out" package or the New Deal type program.
If they cannot point out the specific photos they own copyrights with, Nexus does not have to comply out of obscurity of the notice. Simple as that. Try to bring that to court Toyota!
While we're at this spread the word to all major news network and let them broadcast the clip for a few minutes in evening news (or better yet, put that in the Morning section of Headline News). Let's see who is the ultimate winner here.
Well I like Outbacks a lot better. Steaks are more of the national food for Americans than the cheezy hamburgers from McD. You insensitive clod!