Their firewall is solid! Much better than ZoneAlarm or the other free firewalls because it lets you get granular. I can block via ports, IPs, applications and several other ways which I haven't bothered to test because I haven't needed it. (Port opening and blocking I did need... gotta let those game servers of mine accept incoming friends connections.)
In any case, I've been using the A/V and other products and it doesn't seem to bother my system. I've been wanting two things recently
A fair review of Comodo's A/V and other security products
AVG to stop being so annoying
Didn't Grisoft know that when their product was going to get so popular, they were going to get a lot more downloads and "leeches" (from updates, et al.) Really, I think they are trying to lose users at this point, because I know that I've been getting the itch to try out competing free a/v software because of the advertising and potentially deceptive warnings Grisoft puts into its free a/v software. In the past, I have recommended businesses to use the pay-for version of Grisoft's products, because I felt they were that good (at least as good as Symantec). But now I can't do that. Now... where's my fair and critical review of Comodo going to come from?
If you only got your economic news from the sensationalism on TV, you'd think we've had a bad economy since Ol' Bill left office. This is hardly truth. With that said, I do think there is some severe bubbling going on in some sectors of the economy. (Oil futures, Housing market, etc.) Idiots who dig pits for their brothers, will find the pits they dig include themselves.
And just yesterday, my wife was watching Raymond or some such show, and lo the video squished into a box and a text ad was displayed for some bank. I thought and stated, "Great! Now they're advertising to us during non-commercial breaks."
I think his desire is not to have to program. While I seek out programmatically solving test cases, etc., this isn't always necessary. I completely agree that great QA people are hard to find. It takes a different mentality to seek out the wrong thing to do, do it repeatedly, and then convey the reasons and actions for the errors to the developers. I am in a very similar situation as the "anonymous reader", I'm very good at a lot of different tech, but am not as strong in programming. I fit very well in the QA world.
Not its intended use, but I've found this to be very good for Diablo II. However, it appears my $80 model is no longer made, and they've created or renamed their consumer line here
A couple of things I noticed with the graphics and physics engine in the game. At the beginning, it showed the barbarian walking through the water causing ripples to expand outward. (Still gimmicky looking to me, but they are getting better at it. That's hard stuff to do for a PPU.) However, at the end, with the big boss battle, characters are running through the pool of water and no ripples. You can't even tell they are in or on top of the water.
Now, certainly, they are probably using the best $600-$1000 card from nVidia or ATI, but I think the graphics will scale down nicely for the budget $50-$150 card crowd. And, Blizzard knows its target audience, they know some of them will likely own the Win Vista PC that comes with the nVidia 6100 onboard POCrap chipset that has no WinXP drivers and is an underpowered non-Aero GPU.
The teaser didn't have much in it, but the gameplay video has some pretty sick and gruesome stuff happening in it. (Particularly at the end when they show you half of a big boss battle and the big boss picks up the barbarian and... happens.)
I wish I could ignore ads. I am completely amazed everytime I fire up a browser without adblock (whether FF or IE) and see the amount of space wasted on that user's PC monitor due to ads.
It's like saying that speed cameras are at fault because people brake heavily before them. They are not, they are exposing the problem that stupid drivers have always existed and yet nothing is done about them. You should ALREADY be at the speed limit...
You've obviously have never been behind someone driving 10 mph lower than the speed limit, see the cop car/speed camera, and stomp on their brake.
//it's a joke, laugh... except when it happens to you:(
It's interesting, because neither enjoy the violence nor the sex. Granted, I don't watch R rated movies and carefully choose the PG-13 and PG movies. (Yeah, PG is getting annoyingly bad.)
I think there were a lot of unsuspecting parents who picked up this game for little Johnny and didn't bother to look at the rating. I had a co-worker who did just that for her 9 year old son. She had to take it back from him once she figured out what was going on.
Now, I agree, the lady wasn't smart by not paying attention to the rating and warnings. I also agree that it's stupid for the government to sue Take Two. But I also think that GTA stands for everything that is wrong with the world and does nothing to help improve it. In fact, I believe it actively does the opposite. I feel the rating on GTA should warrant something much stronger than "mature", in that it should not be sold to anyone.
The question is simple: why are natural things like nudity, sex, and sexual intercourse considered obscene to begin with?
Because it is such a private and special act, despite the act having been demeaned over the past 60+ years. And that's the problem. Sexual intercourse is meant to be an act performed in private for the two parties that love and care for each other deeply enough to create a stronger bond. When you put that on public display, the act is reduced to a trite sensuality.
Nudity is slightly different. Depending on the subject matter it is usually to be demeaning the topic (usually females) or to create a sensuality in the observer that may create conflict in that person's personal life. Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality.
While I realize this is not a popular opinion, I'm not going to hide behind AC on this one.
HP is doing a lot to tighten control on their printers, though. That cheap, sub-$100 printer? You can't easily share it out on the network (in Windows). They write their drivers specifically to prevent that. Also, their ink prices are quite high compared to the other quality brands out there, such as Brother or Epson.
My favorite is the Brother MFCn series of printers. They include the document feeder tray for the scanner, excellent phone line recognition faxing (i.e. it knows when to pick up or when to let a human/answering machine pick up), and it has ethernet, all for around $150. When I bought this printer, I looked at all the others and some had the feeder tray, but not ethernet, some had ethernet but not the feeder tray. And the few I found that did have it all were easily $300+.
Well, I didn't mean for this to come out as an advert for Brother. Anyway, that's my opinion. Also, for what it's worth, I've not been a big fan of HP since the late 90's. (Their HP-48GX was a great calculator, though.)
It starts inviting the managers to take a test to match their skills against a set of experiments wherein they must use environmental objects to get past obstacles. Promise to provide them with a new, really cool anti-gravity type gun.
The reason they chose that horrible text based system over Apple is because of the famously "closed" system that Apple represented. Are you just not aware that Apple/Macintosh controlled not only the software but the hardware distribution? With that amount of control, a person was unable to buy alternative hardware for the systems. On the flipside, an IBM PC user was able to purchase IBM clones, with standards compliant, generic hardware that worked in both IBM PCs and the clones. Plus, from what I've heard, the Apple hardware was a little more difficult to program and get to the back-end of the system, the terminal was not readily available. People still had direct hardware access in those DOS days. .
On a 750MHz Duron, I would not use the latest nVidia drivers. And, IMO, the 6600 is being wasted on a slower system. I really hope you are not running any OS newer than Win2000, as WinXP is too "feature" laden to run decently on anything slower than a 1500MHz CPU.... In my opinion.
A computer is a device that computes, often a programmable machine, which can perform a programmed list of instructions and respond to new instructions given to it. An electronic computer accepts data, manipulates data, produces results, and stores results.
As noted here, a microwave could be considered a computer by this definition. It is a programmable machine, it performs a list of instructions, etc. Your TV, remote, watch, cell phone, mouse, vending machine, car, can all be considered a computer under many federal and state definitions of a computer.
According to your link, here are some interesting stats (as of 20080618 11:22 EST)
Iran has more downloads than Canada
Central African Republic has 3 downloads
222 (servicemen?) downloads are recorded in Iraq
Germany has almost doubled all downloads of any other European country (and as far as I can tell, comes in 2nd to the US's 2.3M downloads)
Not only that, but they repeat the links at the bottom of the page. As if they think their readers are too ignorant to see the links at the end of the article. Talk about your "one kind of stupid".
UltraVNC will work just fine on WinXP Home. Though it is not suggested, but Apache will work on WinXP Home. WinXP Home is limited by the number of connections: 5. At least you will be able to do some dev testing (think the 15 year-old trying out his skills at web-dev).
Yes, let's look at the Wii. It came out roughly the same time as Xbox 360 and the new Playstation. The GP stated "fancy graphics will probably sell more on opening day." (emphasis mine)
I remember LONG lines, limited purchasing, etc. for these Playstation things (as a gamer I scoffed... but mostly because I'm almost exclusively a PC gamer.) It wasn't until months later that the Wii really took off. People started to say, "Hey, these games are simple, but they're FUN." And then, since, it has been difficult to find them on the shelf even during the "off-seasons".
My point, the Wii wasn't first in line on opening day, but your point is valid that it seems to be the better system (better in terms of sales, general gameplay for the masses.) Though, I would argue the "decent storyline" is missing from most games.
/currently playing: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - nice graphics, decent (and even somewhat plausible) storyline. /currently playing: Civ 4:Warlords with a few friends /currently playing: Trackmania Nations: An incredibly good racing sim, that is FREE through non-obtrusive ad support (think billboards on the side of the road.) /currently wanting: a Geforce 8800GT or 9800GTX, so I can crank the resolution on Oblivion and max out GRAW2 /just became a tennis pro on Wii Sports.
As a conservative, I doubt I will vote for him. I don't shut-up and fall in line. Granted, this Democrat is running against a Socialist, so what of this two party system? It may be a low turn-out voting season in November.
I always stated that if Hillary won her primary, McCain would give up and suggest she win and he would be her VP. If Hillary loses, McCain would probably approach her to be his running-mate. Could happen...
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In any case, I've been using the A/V and other products and it doesn't seem to bother my system. I've been wanting two things recently
Didn't Grisoft know that when their product was going to get so popular, they were going to get a lot more downloads and "leeches" (from updates, et al.) Really, I think they are trying to lose users at this point, because I know that I've been getting the itch to try out competing free a/v software because of the advertising and potentially deceptive warnings Grisoft puts into its free a/v software. In the past, I have recommended businesses to use the pay-for version of Grisoft's products, because I felt they were that good (at least as good as Symantec). But now I can't do that. Now... where's my fair and critical review of Comodo going to come from?
If you only got your economic news from the sensationalism on TV, you'd think we've had a bad economy since Ol' Bill left office. This is hardly truth. With that said, I do think there is some severe bubbling going on in some sectors of the economy. (Oil futures, Housing market, etc.) Idiots who dig pits for their brothers, will find the pits they dig include themselves.
And just yesterday, my wife was watching Raymond or some such show, and lo the video squished into a box and a text ad was displayed for some bank. I thought and stated, "Great! Now they're advertising to us during non-commercial breaks."
I think his desire is not to have to program. While I seek out programmatically solving test cases, etc., this isn't always necessary. I completely agree that great QA people are hard to find. It takes a different mentality to seek out the wrong thing to do, do it repeatedly, and then convey the reasons and actions for the errors to the developers. I am in a very similar situation as the "anonymous reader", I'm very good at a lot of different tech, but am not as strong in programming. I fit very well in the QA world.
Somewhat joking... "mental note: always build in a kill switch on demo products that can be activated remotely... preferably from another country."
Not its intended use, but I've found this to be very good for Diablo II. However, it appears my $80 model is no longer made, and they've created or renamed their consumer line here
A couple of things I noticed with the graphics and physics engine in the game. At the beginning, it showed the barbarian walking through the water causing ripples to expand outward. (Still gimmicky looking to me, but they are getting better at it. That's hard stuff to do for a PPU.) However, at the end, with the big boss battle, characters are running through the pool of water and no ripples. You can't even tell they are in or on top of the water.
Now, certainly, they are probably using the best $600-$1000 card from nVidia or ATI, but I think the graphics will scale down nicely for the budget $50-$150 card crowd. And, Blizzard knows its target audience, they know some of them will likely own the Win Vista PC that comes with the nVidia 6100 onboard POCrap chipset that has no WinXP drivers and is an underpowered non-Aero GPU.
The teaser didn't have much in it, but the gameplay video has some pretty sick and gruesome stuff happening in it. (Particularly at the end when they show you half of a big boss battle and the big boss picks up the barbarian and ... happens.)
I wish I could ignore ads. I am completely amazed everytime I fire up a browser without adblock (whether FF or IE) and see the amount of space wasted on that user's PC monitor due to ads.
We've socialized much of our water and electric utilities, and that's worked out well so far.
Californians (electricity) would like to object.
It's like saying that speed cameras are at fault because people brake heavily before them. They are not, they are exposing the problem that stupid drivers have always existed and yet nothing is done about them. You should ALREADY be at the speed limit...
:(
You've obviously have never been behind someone driving 10 mph lower than the speed limit, see the cop car/speed camera, and stomp on their brake.
//it's a joke, laugh... except when it happens to you
It's interesting, because neither enjoy the violence nor the sex. Granted, I don't watch R rated movies and carefully choose the PG-13 and PG movies. (Yeah, PG is getting annoyingly bad.)
I think there were a lot of unsuspecting parents who picked up this game for little Johnny and didn't bother to look at the rating. I had a co-worker who did just that for her 9 year old son. She had to take it back from him once she figured out what was going on.
Now, I agree, the lady wasn't smart by not paying attention to the rating and warnings. I also agree that it's stupid for the government to sue Take Two. But I also think that GTA stands for everything that is wrong with the world and does nothing to help improve it. In fact, I believe it actively does the opposite. I feel the rating on GTA should warrant something much stronger than "mature", in that it should not be sold to anyone.
... Oh, anyone considered a "minor".
The question is simple: why are natural things like nudity, sex, and sexual intercourse considered obscene to begin with?
Because it is such a private and special act, despite the act having been demeaned over the past 60+ years. And that's the problem. Sexual intercourse is meant to be an act performed in private for the two parties that love and care for each other deeply enough to create a stronger bond. When you put that on public display, the act is reduced to a trite sensuality.
Nudity is slightly different. Depending on the subject matter it is usually to be demeaning the topic (usually females) or to create a sensuality in the observer that may create conflict in that person's personal life. Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality.
While I realize this is not a popular opinion, I'm not going to hide behind AC on this one.
HP is doing a lot to tighten control on their printers, though. That cheap, sub-$100 printer? You can't easily share it out on the network (in Windows). They write their drivers specifically to prevent that. Also, their ink prices are quite high compared to the other quality brands out there, such as Brother or Epson.
My favorite is the Brother MFCn series of printers. They include the document feeder tray for the scanner, excellent phone line recognition faxing (i.e. it knows when to pick up or when to let a human/answering machine pick up), and it has ethernet, all for around $150. When I bought this printer, I looked at all the others and some had the feeder tray, but not ethernet, some had ethernet but not the feeder tray. And the few I found that did have it all were easily $300+.
Well, I didn't mean for this to come out as an advert for Brother. Anyway, that's my opinion. Also, for what it's worth, I've not been a big fan of HP since the late 90's. (Their HP-48GX was a great calculator, though.)
It starts inviting the managers to take a test to match their skills against a set of experiments wherein they must use environmental objects to get past obstacles. Promise to provide them with a new, really cool anti-gravity type gun.
The reason they chose that horrible text based system over Apple is because of the famously "closed" system that Apple represented. Are you just not aware that Apple/Macintosh controlled not only the software but the hardware distribution? With that amount of control, a person was unable to buy alternative hardware for the systems. On the flipside, an IBM PC user was able to purchase IBM clones, with standards compliant, generic hardware that worked in both IBM PCs and the clones. Plus, from what I've heard, the Apple hardware was a little more difficult to program and get to the back-end of the system, the terminal was not readily available. People still had direct hardware access in those DOS days. .
On a 750MHz Duron, I would not use the latest nVidia drivers. And, IMO, the 6600 is being wasted on a slower system. I really hope you are not running any OS newer than Win2000, as WinXP is too "feature" laden to run decently on anything slower than a 1500MHz CPU. ... In my opinion.
According to your link, here are some interesting stats (as of 20080618 11:22 EST)
Iran has more downloads than Canada
Central African Republic has 3 downloads
222 (servicemen?) downloads are recorded in Iraq
Germany has almost doubled all downloads of any other European country (and as far as I can tell, comes in 2nd to the US's 2.3M downloads)
Unless it's Jane Austen.
Not only that, but they repeat the links at the bottom of the page. As if they think their readers are too ignorant to see the links at the end of the article. Talk about your "one kind of stupid".
UltraVNC will work just fine on WinXP Home. Though it is not suggested, but Apache will work on WinXP Home. WinXP Home is limited by the number of connections: 5. At least you will be able to do some dev testing (think the 15 year-old trying out his skills at web-dev).
Yes, let's look at the Wii. It came out roughly the same time as Xbox 360 and the new Playstation. The GP stated "fancy graphics will probably sell more on opening day." (emphasis mine)
/currently playing: Civ 4:Warlords with a few friends
/currently playing: Trackmania Nations: An incredibly good racing sim, that is FREE through non-obtrusive ad support (think billboards on the side of the road.)
/currently wanting: a Geforce 8800GT or 9800GTX, so I can crank the resolution on Oblivion and max out GRAW2
/just became a tennis pro on Wii Sports.
I remember LONG lines, limited purchasing, etc. for these Playstation things (as a gamer I scoffed... but mostly because I'm almost exclusively a PC gamer.) It wasn't until months later that the Wii really took off. People started to say, "Hey, these games are simple, but they're FUN." And then, since, it has been difficult to find them on the shelf even during the "off-seasons".
My point, the Wii wasn't first in line on opening day, but your point is valid that it seems to be the better system (better in terms of sales, general gameplay for the masses.) Though, I would argue the "decent storyline" is missing from most games.
/currently playing: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - nice graphics, decent (and even somewhat plausible) storyline.
You forgot 4) the voter doesn't want a Socialist in power and will accept a fence sitter for 4 years.
As a conservative, I doubt I will vote for him. I don't shut-up and fall in line. Granted, this Democrat is running against a Socialist, so what of this two party system? It may be a low turn-out voting season in November.
I always stated that if Hillary won her primary, McCain would give up and suggest she win and he would be her VP. If Hillary loses, McCain would probably approach her to be his running-mate. Could happen...