As an experienced IT professional, I'm comfortable setting up WPA2-PSK (AES) on my laptops, desktops, and other wireless bits like my Wii and Smartphone.
But for the average schmuck who just stolled home with a new "link-sees" wireless box and new wireless laptop 'puter - they won't bother setting up security, they'll stop when the lights are blinkin' and the porn is streaming.
AOSS seems to be the way to go if more manufactures supported it. Push a button on the access point, and it goes into training mode for 60 seconds. Push a button in the AOSS client program on the device and the two setup a nice encrypted connection without nary a password prompt or "WEP, WPA, or WPA2?" question.
"Security for Absolute Idiots" is what we need... or just disconnect those dumbasses from the internet.
I laid on my horn, holding it down and it so startled her that she dropped the phone and she looked over at me and I pointed my finger at her and she took off at 85 again.
You used the wrong finger. I'll have to dock you a point for that.
Come on. Even Vista is more responsive than that 8086.
When you spend $3,000(USD) on a T61p ThinkPad, you'd expect it to be faster than the R52 running XP it was replacing.
When I experienced Vista for myself, I was impressed at the visual styles - it was pretty. Almost like running OSX. But then when I actually had to use it to perform my duties, it was literally an anchor on my boat. I was waiting for programs to load that I didn't have to before. Quirks in the OS that would be solved with the first service pack, I thought.
Nope. SP1(prerelease... I couldn't wait) didn't fix any performance issues. Technically Vista was actually costing the company I work for money - every single day. So I decided to stop the bleeding and installed XP.
So when you introduce games with optional micropayments you do two things:
1. You make it an exclusive for people willing to pay for improvements or perks. 2. You drive your fodder base away.
People who would just like to play once in a while, but are getting p0wned by folks who've dumped a lot of cash for all the greatest stuff. With no fodder or incentive for newbies to stick around and get good (or pay to get there) - the player pool dries up, and we're off to another game.
"Hey, we have this really bad game. We can't justify making box art for, much less putting it on a shelf... our test group estimated its value at just over a dead raccoon's testicle."
"Make a bigger box, toss a wiimote in and charge five bucks more."
Maybe not a cardboard juicebox, but more like a foil or plastic bag.... I was thinking the same thing.
This goes back to the millions of dollars spent researching and developing an ink pen that would write in zero G. The Russians laughed all the way to the pencil sharpener.
Unfortunatly due to the nature of ADB, the response time will be quite low, and although there may have been some improvements in the driver software since then, at the time it was very hard to map all of the keys correctly to use with windows.
You had me excited until you mentioned response time. So much for fragging UT players with my AAK.:(
This one should have made the list... it was one of the first adjustable ergonomic keyboards to come from a computer manufacturer. It also came with a disclaimer about RSI that was almost as heavy as the keyboard itself.
What the wikipedia article's photo fails to show you are the giant wrist rests that are attached to the main keyboard and number keyboard. A small ADB cable attached the external number keyboard to the main qwerty board and could be arranged on either side. It also provided audio controls and a full compliment of F keys.
I miss that keyboard... I had one and enjoyed it up until the point I no longer could use an ADB keyboard.
Lenovo and IBM were working with Novell for a long time in bringing this to market. The belief here is that some of the laptops in a corporate environment would be running SuSE which could still be a part of the corporate windows domain. I couldn't locate a press release either, so I wonder how much truth is in this story.
I also think Lenovo is smart about keeping Ubuntu off their corporate laptops for now, they look at Ubuntu as being a consumer Linux distribution where SuSE is geared for the corporate environment. Just because some poll was stuffed by the ubuntu mob, I don't think either is better than the other. It's just like anything else in this world - right tool for the right job.
SharePoint's search function is universally hated in my office. So if they decide they need to pull a Microsoft and buy a search engine to replace their existing one - great.
Too bad we dumped them for a MediaWiki site and a Google Search Appliance.
As a tabletop RPG - shadowrun was one of the games that I will always have a fondness in my heart for. The rules were cryptic, battles took forever, but that didn't seem to make a difference. The world was described so clearly with so many things that were logically futuristic it didn't seem like were you playing a fantasy sci-fi game - you were just role playing in the future.
Microsoft milked this cow for all it could - finally ending the with a PC game that required Vista or an Xbox 360. Neither I was willing to purchase just to play a game that would probably ruin my memory of the weekends rolling dice.
I would agree. If they spent a little more time developing decent clients for ATI GPUs and PS3s, they'd easily have the horsepower to crunch this new data. When the PS3 client hit FAH, my four dual core P4s were able to keep me in the top 50 of my group... but not nearly toward the top after the PS3s and ATI GPUs started kicking my ass.
It really makes me wonder about the rumors of intentional shorting. From a business point it would make no sense to short your sales. From a marketing point however it's been brilliant. Wii is all the rage and is likely so popular BECAUSE it's hard to get. Nothing lights a fire under middle American purchasing power like that hard to get must have Christmas gift.
I don't think the shortage is perpetuating itself... it's only a byproduct of mass market appeal.
This game console appeals to people outside the normal game console demographic. I've seen Wii's in nursing homes, day care facilities, church groups (with adults and children), and actually on my parent's wish list.
None of these groups would be on the PS3 or XBox 360's radar... but the Wii's appeal literally knows no boundaries.
A criminal will work for the quick buck. BnE is great when lots of people are leaving their windows open and you are the only burglar, but once every one is on the BnE bandwagon, it's time to switch to mugging or extortion.
Regardless of their reasons - I don't blame them for wanting to develop nuclear weapons. It seems that once you have one, the Whitehouse gives you respect. Look at NK, China, Pakistan, and the rest...
Until you have a nuke, you're just GWB's scapegoat for the world's woes. When we had the insurance of mutually assured destruction - it really didn't matter who had nukes, as long as you did.
Now with extreme religious sects running amok they give the nuke to some nutjob that knows he's going to be getting 40 virgins for detonating it in some far off land. Now we're all fucked.
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As an experienced IT professional, I'm comfortable setting up WPA2-PSK (AES) on my laptops, desktops, and other wireless bits like my Wii and Smartphone.
But for the average schmuck who just stolled home with a new "link-sees" wireless box and new wireless laptop 'puter - they won't bother setting up security, they'll stop when the lights are blinkin' and the porn is streaming.
AOSS seems to be the way to go if more manufactures supported it. Push a button on the access point, and it goes into training mode for 60 seconds. Push a button in the AOSS client program on the device and the two setup a nice encrypted connection without nary a password prompt or "WEP, WPA, or WPA2?" question.
"Security for Absolute Idiots" is what we need... or just disconnect those dumbasses from the internet.
I laid on my horn, holding it down and it so startled her that she dropped the phone and she looked over at me and I pointed my finger at her and she took off at 85 again.
You used the wrong finger. I'll have to dock you a point for that.
I get softer in the middle the more I sit at my desk and surf /. at work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#Problems_with_UPnP
What about those of us who will cancel their Charter service? How does a rebate help us?
Just don't pay your last bill until the refund shows up.
Come on. Even Vista is more responsive than that 8086.
When you spend $3,000(USD) on a T61p ThinkPad, you'd expect it to be faster than the R52 running XP it was replacing.
When I experienced Vista for myself, I was impressed at the visual styles - it was pretty. Almost like running OSX. But then when I actually had to use it to perform my duties, it was literally an anchor on my boat. I was waiting for programs to load that I didn't have to before. Quirks in the OS that would be solved with the first service pack, I thought.
Nope. SP1(prerelease... I couldn't wait) didn't fix any performance issues. Technically Vista was actually costing the company I work for money - every single day. So I decided to stop the bleeding and installed XP.
So when you introduce games with optional micropayments you do two things:
1. You make it an exclusive for people willing to pay for improvements or perks.
2. You drive your fodder base away.
People who would just like to play once in a while, but are getting p0wned by folks who've dumped a lot of cash for all the greatest stuff. With no fodder or incentive for newbies to stick around and get good (or pay to get there) - the player pool dries up, and we're off to another game.
Nintendo marketing genius...
"Hey, we have this really bad game. We can't justify making box art for, much less putting it on a shelf... our test group estimated its value at just over a dead raccoon's testicle."
"Make a bigger box, toss a wiimote in and charge five bucks more."
"Profit!"
Maybe not a cardboard juicebox, but more like a foil or plastic bag.... I was thinking the same thing.
This goes back to the millions of dollars spent researching and developing an ink pen that would write in zero G. The Russians laughed all the way to the pencil sharpener.
Matrix style geek fight!
Slashdot has become Digg 2.0.
You must be new here...
Unfortunatly due to the nature of ADB, the response time will be quite low, and although there may have been some improvements in the driver software since then, at the time it was very hard to map all of the keys correctly to use with windows.
You had me excited until you mentioned response time. So much for fragging UT players with my AAK.
For most of these people, uPNP is a godsend since it eliminates the need to mess around with portforwarding in the router configuration.
If uPNP is a godsend to those people... they need to get a better God.
This one should have made the list... it was one of the first adjustable ergonomic keyboards to come from a computer manufacturer. It also came with a disclaimer about RSI that was almost as heavy as the keyboard itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Adjustable_Keyboard
What the wikipedia article's photo fails to show you are the giant wrist rests that are attached to the main keyboard and number keyboard. A small ADB cable attached the external number keyboard to the main qwerty board and could be arranged on either side. It also provided audio controls and a full compliment of F keys.
I miss that keyboard... I had one and enjoyed it up until the point I no longer could use an ADB keyboard.
Lenovo and IBM were working with Novell for a long time in bringing this to market. The belief here is that some of the laptops in a corporate environment would be running SuSE which could still be a part of the corporate windows domain. I couldn't locate a press release either, so I wonder how much truth is in this story.
I also think Lenovo is smart about keeping Ubuntu off their corporate laptops for now, they look at Ubuntu as being a consumer Linux distribution where SuSE is geared for the corporate environment. Just because some poll was stuffed by the ubuntu mob, I don't think either is better than the other. It's just like anything else in this world - right tool for the right job.
SharePoint's search function is universally hated in my office. So if they decide they need to pull a Microsoft and buy a search engine to replace their existing one - great.
Too bad we dumped them for a MediaWiki site and a Google Search Appliance.
Should be the first line in the damn budget.
How many office printers are chugging away on this print job? (And probably not even printed in full duplex...)
As a tabletop RPG - shadowrun was one of the games that I will always have a fondness in my heart for. The rules were cryptic, battles took forever, but that didn't seem to make a difference. The world was described so clearly with so many things that were logically futuristic it didn't seem like were you playing a fantasy sci-fi game - you were just role playing in the future.
Microsoft milked this cow for all it could - finally ending the with a PC game that required Vista or an Xbox 360. Neither I was willing to purchase just to play a game that would probably ruin my memory of the weekends rolling dice.
So long FASA, thanks for the great RPG...
I would agree. If they spent a little more time developing decent clients for ATI GPUs and PS3s, they'd easily have the horsepower to crunch this new data. When the PS3 client hit FAH, my four dual core P4s were able to keep me in the top 50 of my group... but not nearly toward the top after the PS3s and ATI GPUs started kicking my ass.
If it doesn't work in Firefox, I'm not interested.
Oh wait... it does. Just kidding - still not interested.
even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.
By threatening to nuke their power company?
It really makes me wonder about the rumors of intentional shorting. From a business point it would make no sense to short your sales. From a marketing point however it's been brilliant. Wii is all the rage and is likely so popular BECAUSE it's hard to get. Nothing lights a fire under middle American purchasing power like that hard to get must have Christmas gift.
I don't think the shortage is perpetuating itself... it's only a byproduct of mass market appeal.
This game console appeals to people outside the normal game console demographic. I've seen Wii's in nursing homes, day care facilities, church groups (with adults and children), and actually on my parent's wish list.
None of these groups would be on the PS3 or XBox 360's radar... but the Wii's appeal literally knows no boundaries.
A criminal will work for the quick buck. BnE is great when lots of people are leaving their windows open and you are the only burglar, but once every one is on the BnE bandwagon, it's time to switch to mugging or extortion.
Like Patent trolling, DRM, or WGA.
I knew there was a catch... now I don't have to RTFM!
Regardless of their reasons - I don't blame them for wanting to develop nuclear weapons. It seems that once you have one, the Whitehouse gives you respect. Look at NK, China, Pakistan, and the rest...
Until you have a nuke, you're just GWB's scapegoat for the world's woes. When we had the insurance of mutually assured destruction - it really didn't matter who had nukes, as long as you did.
Now with extreme religious sects running amok they give the nuke to some nutjob that knows he's going to be getting 40 virgins for detonating it in some far off land. Now we're all fucked.