Because MathType lets you just click some buttons and insert mathematical equations into Word. If you already have Word and mathematical experience, your downtime is approximately 30 seconds. To deploy LaTeX however, you have to learn an entire typesetting language, from scratch, with a significantly poorer interface (text file). And then you have to 'compile' your file into something before you can observe the results. No wonder they spent the couple hundred mathtype licences; how many man hours would be lost training everyone to use LaTeX?
It doesn't even have to be "close the application". It can be anything as trivial as "close the dialog window" which is a far more frequent source of frustration, I'd say.
Obviously being anywhere close to the center of a nuclear explosion will result in instant vapourization. Outside of that, and a horrible burning death. Outside of that, and buildings crumble, broken glass and other debris is flying everywhere, so yeah, hiding under a desk might help you a bit. It sure beats standing up and taking a pair of high-velocity scissors in the face it like an idiot. Then of course you get to deal with the fallout.
They're nice because you don't even have to take your hand off the home-row to use them (and the buttons are well placed, right below the spacebar.
I tend to have input problems with touchpads, especially since I tend to accidentally trigger them with the balls of my hands while I'm typing, which has a tendency to switch the focus, so I disable them completely.
However, I don't find either device particularly accurate, and would generally prefer a real mouse to any built-in method on laptops.
From what I've seen of some game mod SDKs there's pretty big chunks of ifdefed demo-specific code. It must be easier for crackers to just disable copy protection in most cases.
I had assumed that it was simply saturating all the available bandwidth with arp requests. There are plenty of things that can DoS a network and there's very little anyone can do about it. Set your IP address to the same thing as the local gateway, for example. And for extra measure, set your MAC the same too.
Wait, I think I know what you're suggesting here: You're saying that more than one IP network is being used within a single broadcast domain, and all of the clients connected to that broadcast domain receive the ARP request since it is a layer 2 broadcast. I think that's irrelevant, but it does makes sense, and you would hope that VLANs would help with this problem. VLANs probably ARE helping considering that only certain segments are going down and not the whole thing. Presumably only VLANs with iPhones connected are being DoSed.
I think this is clearly an iPhone problem; It shouldn't be flooding a network asking for information it already has and/or is unable to get.
Now that I think about it, what you say is happening is probably true, but is completely unavoidable, by design. The only way to limit layer 2 broadcasts is to split up broadcast domains with VLANs and use layer 3 routing. You can't vlan the clients on a wireless access point because a WAP is effectively a hub. In theory any malicious person would be able to join the wireless lan and spew layer 2 garbage addressed to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and there's nothing anyone could do.
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What?
http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBuo41qYOgw
This is a common encryption technique, called Hybrid Encryption. Off the top of my head, I know that SSH and TLS use this scheme.
That's not a pun.
Haha and what might those ways be?
Because MathType lets you just click some buttons and insert mathematical equations into Word. If you already have Word and mathematical experience, your downtime is approximately 30 seconds. To deploy LaTeX however, you have to learn an entire typesetting language, from scratch, with a significantly poorer interface (text file). And then you have to 'compile' your file into something before you can observe the results. No wonder they spent the couple hundred mathtype licences; how many man hours would be lost training everyone to use LaTeX?
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rel="nofollow". Look it up.
It doesn't even have to be "close the application". It can be anything as trivial as "close the dialog window" which is a far more frequent source of frustration, I'd say.
We're all too busy doing real work.
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I can't read for more than 8 hours streight[sic]
I'm pretty sure MS has a web interface to their MSDN usenet groups.
It looks like he had to remove some characters because otherwise it wouldn't fit in the 120 character sig limit.
Obviously being anywhere close to the center of a nuclear explosion will result in instant vapourization. Outside of that, and a horrible burning death. Outside of that, and buildings crumble, broken glass and other debris is flying everywhere, so yeah, hiding under a desk might help you a bit. It sure beats standing up and taking a pair of high-velocity scissors in the face it like an idiot. Then of course you get to deal with the fallout.
They're nice because you don't even have to take your hand off the home-row to use them (and the buttons are well placed, right below the spacebar. I tend to have input problems with touchpads, especially since I tend to accidentally trigger them with the balls of my hands while I'm typing, which has a tendency to switch the focus, so I disable them completely. However, I don't find either device particularly accurate, and would generally prefer a real mouse to any built-in method on laptops.
From what I've seen of some game mod SDKs there's pretty big chunks of ifdefed demo-specific code. It must be easier for crackers to just disable copy protection in most cases.
So something like mosquito point defense? I love it.
Everyone? Can you imagine how bad their network stack would be if they had written it themselves?
Wasn't it released under GPL2 just recently? I think by most people's standards, that is both "Free" and "Open Source".
EVERY phone does that. Wow. Why did you bring up iPhone again?
I had assumed that it was simply saturating all the available bandwidth with arp requests. There are plenty of things that can DoS a network and there's very little anyone can do about it. Set your IP address to the same thing as the local gateway, for example. And for extra measure, set your MAC the same too.
Except a WAP is a hub. You can't segment it. Everything gets broadcast over the same medium if it is a broadcast packet or not.
Wait, I think I know what you're suggesting here: You're saying that more than one IP network is being used within a single broadcast domain, and all of the clients connected to that broadcast domain receive the ARP request since it is a layer 2 broadcast. I think that's irrelevant, but it does makes sense, and you would hope that VLANs would help with this problem. VLANs probably ARE helping considering that only certain segments are going down and not the whole thing. Presumably only VLANs with iPhones connected are being DoSed. I think this is clearly an iPhone problem; It shouldn't be flooding a network asking for information it already has and/or is unable to get. Now that I think about it, what you say is happening is probably true, but is completely unavoidable, by design. The only way to limit layer 2 broadcasts is to split up broadcast domains with VLANs and use layer 3 routing. You can't vlan the clients on a wireless access point because a WAP is effectively a hub. In theory any malicious person would be able to join the wireless lan and spew layer 2 garbage addressed to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and there's nothing anyone could do.
Would you care to explain how that is even possible?
Well they're obviously not useless to him... That was the whole point of the post, in a way.