I recall that things got pretty bad for awhile, but I still have a hard time with the concept of price fixing, when I clearly remember paying $150 for 8MB of ram, and how good of a deal that was.
Yea, I know the cable your referring too, when I worked at radioshack, we had a 3,000 dollar sale riding on finding that cable. Whole point of the sale was to hook up the cell phone the guy bought from us, to the laptop he bought from us.
One hitch, no serial port, and the cell phone was one of the few that didn't use usb cables.
After driving around for 2 hours looking for it, we finally found it at best buy, (They promised they didn't have it, but it was there.
Then spent another hour setting up all the software to get it to work.
About a month later we started to carry that cable.
To top it all off, it wasn't even my sale I was trying to save, but the Assist Managers, because of that effort, to this day we are friends, even after leaving the Shack for a real job.
Got a good friend that has worked in radio, according to him, ideally a DJ should finish his last word just as the first note of the song starts.
Difficult to time though.
Yes, but where do they spend most of there time?
If you spend 70% of your time 1/8 of a mile away from the transmiter, and 30% 20 miles away, your still spending a lot of time next to the transmitter.
Remember Inverse square means power levels drop very fast at a distance, and some people live / work right next to the transmitter (dozens or hundreds of feet away), if your going to study the matter, study those people, not someone 2 miles away getting a tiny fraction amount.
And where do you get the training to write secure code?
College only thought me how to get something down. Not the right way.
Books teach the easy way to get something down.
Most of the security I've picked up has been from web forumns or personal experience. The rest has been the small tidbits that my books have provided. And these are mostly O'Reilly books.
Welcome to Linux!
seriously, In many ways this is proof that Linux is not 100% ready for the desktop.
On the flip side though, I have had multiple times I was installing some bit of hardware (typically networking), and it worked will little too no trouble in linux, and in Windows (various versions), it would take me hours to get it working right.
So it does go both ways.
Actually where I work (Fortune 500 company) all the bean counter people have some much junk loaded onto there systems (Virus Scanners, 50 zillion company security programs, docking station programs, etc) that even a 1 ghz p3 windows 2000 computer is slow as mud.
I had to help clean the virus's off many of our VP's laptop's, and even without the virus those computers were just painfully slow. The people with the 2+ GHz (Pentium 4's) seem to do just fine.
For myself, I just uninstalled all the company junk, and my system is fine.
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As big as Microsoft is, they can't simply make useless all usb drives out there with a flick of a switch, as the artical sugests.
More likly, Longhorn will by default allow standard behavior from usb devices.
If and only if the administrator of the OS flips a switch will the usb port be (Disabled / Read only / {Custom USB Writeable})
So while they may require a Longhorn only usb drive, in certain scenario's, regular ones should still work in most situations.
This is of course only conjecture, only time will tell for sure what will happen.
I recall that things got pretty bad for awhile, but I still have a hard time with the concept of price fixing, when I clearly remember paying $150 for 8MB of ram, and how good of a deal that was.
Yea, I know the cable your referring too, when I worked at radioshack, we had a 3,000 dollar sale riding on finding that cable. Whole point of the sale was to hook up the cell phone the guy bought from us, to the laptop he bought from us.
One hitch, no serial port, and the cell phone was one of the few that didn't use usb cables.
After driving around for 2 hours looking for it, we finally found it at best buy, (They promised they didn't have it, but it was there.
Then spent another hour setting up all the software to get it to work.
About a month later we started to carry that cable.
To top it all off, it wasn't even my sale I was trying to save, but the Assist Managers, because of that effort, to this day we are friends, even after leaving the Shack for a real job.
Got a good friend that has worked in radio, according to him, ideally a DJ should finish his last word just as the first note of the song starts. Difficult to time though.
Odd question,
Scenario: A very high heavy object is left by itself in an empty universe for trillions of years.
Would not the inside of the object gets very hot from the extreme gravity?
Would that heat not then move to the outer cooler regions of the object?
Would the outer regions then not radiate that heat outward?
Obviously such an object could not lose heat forever, at some point it would simply run out of energy.
But if gravity is what is creating the heat, then what happens to the gravity?
Can anyone please explain the flaw in my logic?
Yes, but where do they spend most of there time? If you spend 70% of your time 1/8 of a mile away from the transmiter, and 30% 20 miles away, your still spending a lot of time next to the transmitter. Remember Inverse square means power levels drop very fast at a distance, and some people live / work right next to the transmitter (dozens or hundreds of feet away), if your going to study the matter, study those people, not someone 2 miles away getting a tiny fraction amount.
Would these be the same criminals that let the police search thier car when there IS something hidden?
Emergency project this weekend, had to come in on two hours sleep, and I'm still all screwed up from it.
And where do you get the training to write secure code?
College only thought me how to get something down. Not the right way.
Books teach the easy way to get something down.
Most of the security I've picked up has been from web forumns or personal experience. The rest has been the small tidbits that my books have provided. And these are mostly O'Reilly books.
Windows has supported that for years.
Why just yesterday it stoped executing for no particular reason.
Welcome to Linux! seriously, In many ways this is proof that Linux is not 100% ready for the desktop. On the flip side though, I have had multiple times I was installing some bit of hardware (typically networking), and it worked will little too no trouble in linux, and in Windows (various versions), it would take me hours to get it working right. So it does go both ways.
Actually where I work (Fortune 500 company) all the bean counter people have some much junk loaded onto there systems (Virus Scanners, 50 zillion company security programs, docking station programs, etc) that even a 1 ghz p3 windows 2000 computer is slow as mud.
I had to help clean the virus's off many of our VP's laptop's, and even without the virus those computers were just painfully slow.
The people with the 2+ GHz (Pentium 4's) seem to do just fine.
For myself, I just uninstalled all the company junk, and my system is fine.