Just an FYI - the compilation is 5 CDs, and there's a separate torrent for each disc. Right now, volume I's torrent is in great shape, but III and IV need some help. (II's torrent file seems to be missing from the server.)
Symantec's and McAffee's respective antivirus products are some of the buggiest software I've ever seen. The latest versions of both are awful memory hogs with questionable reliability and average detection rates. McAffee installs are widely known to 'go bad', resulting in cryptic error messages, failed updates, and vulnerable systems. There are threads upon threads in the Dell forums of users trying to ununstall McAffee off a brand new computer and failing.
As for Symantec, , I had a computer at work with a copy of Symantec Corporate AV 10.1 (the latest version) still installed after we chose to migrate away from it due to ever rising costs and poor support. I tried to uninstall it. The uninstaller crashed. Then, every time I tried to right click, it tried to reinstall itself. Yes, you read that right - Symantec's antivirus installs a handler that traps every right click within Explorer that runs a check to see if files are missing. After two hours on the phone with a Symantec rep who didn't know what they were talking about, I finally had it cleaned off the system.
What I'm trying to say, I suppose, is that the original Netscape, while not perfect software, had the right vision behind it. Symantec and McAffee don't. Both companies have gone downhill, and I'm absolutely sure it's for reasons completely unrelated to Vista's new kernel.
It's quite simple, actually. It's like celery. It takes more energy for you to consume it and your body to subsequently break the food down than is actually contained within the food.
And yes, though their methodology wasn't mentioned in this article, I've seen other places where they did run lab tests and concluded that the people who drank this stuff burned a couple extra calories. They do mention the tests in this press release. Also, they never claim that it's going to make you lose weight. It specifically says that it burns a few extra calories if you drink xyz amount per day.
P.S. I call shenanigans on your Ph.D. Either that, or you just didn't read the article. Either way.
Let me get this straight: pretexting is currently a legal "gray area," and you're talking about people getting raped.
I'm confused. Apparently, you've taken your time to rail against government regulation by attempting to make a highly strained analogy between two entirely unrelated subjects, and the second idea you offer to prove your point - ie, that hate crime laws are only in place so that the ebil gubmint can circumvent the Constitution and place people in double jeopardy - isn't even widely held or supported.
Look. What Dunn did was either 1) illegal, or 2) should be. This isn't a question of Congressional pandering. Let me remind you that the current administration and congress hold the belief that big business = better economy. Nothing wrong with that, but it's of worth to note since you seem to additionally imply that Congress is ready to beat up on any corporation it sees, which isn't true.
Pretexting, the main legal question here, should be illegal if it's not. From what I can make of your rather bizarre argument, you seem to claim otherwise. You're wrong.
Let's draw an extremely fine line here: commercial parts/versions of OSS products, and products built on OSS.
Commercial versions of OSS products aren't worth it, anywhere, almost ever. Just look at the prices above. In almost every case, go with the closed soruce version, and you'll save yourself a hell of a lot of money.
Now, look at two highly successful products built on open source: Fonality PBX (Asterisk) and Barracuda Spam firewall (Spamassassin). We use 'em both. I'm our entire IT department - just me. I already have too much on my plate, and when we were in the market for a new antispam solution, the natural pick was a Linux-Exim-Spamassassin/RBL frontend to our Exchange 2003 server. Powerful, effective, free (aside from hardware).
Problem: I'm already working tons of overtime - do we pay a contractor $120/hour to come in and try to set a system up, then rely on me to support it when I already don't have time? Or, do we pay a company like Barracuda Networks $1300 for their itty bitty model of the spam firewall and get a system that's guaranteed, backed up by all the time they've spent developing their hardware and frontends, 24/7 support, automatic updates, and license-free monitoring and filtering? I don't have the numbers with me, but the cost in staff + contractor time + hardware vs. the Barracuda system (which is overkill for our little network) was something like 3:1.
That is a contentious point. Normally, I am for strict gun control (strong liberal). However, seeing what is happening to my - our - country, you just made the single strongest argument for the Second Amendment I've ever seen.
Actually, I was expecting him to indicate the other way. When I bought Prey a couple months ago, I was expecting 5-6 hours single player, got 7.5 and was happy.
It's been a long, long time since I've seen a game, especially in my preferred genre (FPS) that carries anywhere near the playtime promised.
So, isn't this more of a problem that the estimates are just totally wonky across the board, and vary wildly between genres and the players playing the games, and not a singular "40 hour myth?"
Okay. 37 credits your spring semester. That's pretty much 9 AM to 5 PM in class, five days a week. Add in study time and prep time plus time to do assignemnts, and (judging by what I did carrying 15 credits at Penn State) he was working an additional 6+ hours a night, seven nights a week, for his classes. That's it. That was his life for a year.
See, to me, college was about learning first and foremost, about obtaining a well-rounded academic education. The key here is "well-rounded." If you're literally spending 13-14 hours a day on class, what else are you doing? Nothing. That's not well-rounded. This kid missed out on everything that makes college, college. Friends, relaxing...hell, dorm floor-wide LAN matches in CS and UT99 (as in my case). Oh, and football. Sweet, sweet football. On the other hand, I can guarantee you that he did nothing but eat, sleep, work, and study.
I'll take a party here and there and some video games, please. I would not do what this kid did, nor would I consider it, or consider letting my children (someday) do it. It's just flat out not worth it.
I'm late with this reply, but perhaps you'll revisit this thread. At MBNA, the system actually called the other party first, then patched us in to the call. You heard a beep, and that was it - you had to be ready to start talking. The info came up on your computer at the same time. This was to handle bad phone numbers and busy signals by the automated system, so as not to use up our time (telemarketing is a business where time is absolutely money). As I understood it, the delay you hear on your end is caused by the lag time between when the autodialer system called your number and then found a person on our end to connect to your call.
I worked for the telemarketing department at MBNA for a while. They're a good company, and while it wasn't my favorite job ever, MBNA is a good business, and they follow the telemarketing rules. (If it's any testament, I carry an MBNA credit card.)
Anyhow, in answer to the second part of your question: If you say "take me off your list" or "don't call here again," if the telemarketers are following the rules - and they're subject to MASSIVE fines if they're not (like $1000+ per phone call in violation), your phone number will be removed from the marketing programs you mentioned for two years (or if you say "all" your lists, all their marketing programs).
The magic words are "do not call list" or "ever." The better choice is "do not call list." If you say "Don't call here," it's still two years. However, if you say "Do not call here ever again," or if you say the magic phrase "Add me to your do not call list," your phone number will be added to their federally mandated do not call list for a period of ten years. Also note that once you say one of those two phrases, they are required to give the three pieces of information they need for every call if they have not yet mentioned them, and then terminate the call immediately. (These include their full company name, a telephone number at which they can be reached, and....the third I don't remember. Oops. But! I do remember MBNA being so paranoid about it that we were even required to say the phone number to dead air if someone hung up on us - it was always the last thing you gave them, and we were recorded every second we were on the clock, even while not on a call.) Again, this is if they're following the rules. No one likes a telemarketing call at dinnertime, but the bad guys do a hell of a lot worse than that.
Oh, and I can't comment on surveys or political calls. This is just commercial stuff - the guys who aren't out to make $ have looser rules.
I would say that this has nothing to do with the internet. Sending highly private, personal information to someone you've never met, know nothing about and whose identity you can't even be sure of (as in this case!) means you're just an idiot. There's really no way around that one.
People do this through the mail, people do this through email. Hell, con artists have tricked people into doing this since cavemen were banging each other on the heads with clubs. Whatever way it occurs, it's the same thing.
Herein lies an additional problem with security questions. I don't answer them. I work for a nonprofit. The gentleman whose job it is (for lack of a better way to say it) to find rich people to donate money to us sits in the office next to mine. His data mining capabilities are beyond my comprehension, and I'M supposed to be "the computer guy" here. I sat down with him one day and with 15 minutes and $20 he had enough info about me to get into my bank account via the security questions feature.
The answer to my security questions on ALL websites is now something to the effect of 20-40 random characters.
I didn't experience any extra load time when I played through with commentary on...and it's turned off by default anyway. You have to check a box to enable it when you begin a new game.
HL2 shows as 841 MB on my HD; EP1 shows as an additional 606 MB (the games are independent of one another, and when you delete a game, you're free to download it later).
The Source engine core is probably another 2.5 GB. All told, my SteamApps folder, which includes Valve's ENTIRE catalog (19 games, including the entire HL and CS series) + 2 3rd party games is 15.2 GB.
Direct answer to your question: as others have said, no. This is included with the game.
I'll second all that, though I have no experience with View Formatted Source. I'll make a note to check it out - in debugging page display and layout issues, those other three extensions are absolutely indispensable.
The problem is a bunch of the tags you just listed no longer exist - at least, not in XHTML or HTML 4.1 Strict. and are both gone totally, as are and . is now />. Everything has shifted over to CSS, which is far more powerful anywho.
Eek. I'd say avoid Dreamweaver at all costs. It causes exactly these kinds of problems. And, if not configured correctly, it can even put out malformed code itself.
Debugging HTML/PHP/etc files: UltraEdit-32. $40 for the single best Swiss Army Editor I've ever found. In cominbation with Tidy (which it has 100% integrated in the interface), it can handle every file-related problem mentioned except for the names themselves. Out of the box, it can do everything from line ending conversion to your standard syntax highlighting (though it doesn't have as many languages out of the box as Scintilla) to assisting you with actually correcting the HTML errors.
Try cost. Before I moved our Goodlink server in house, we were paying $800/month for it, and it was going up every single month as we added more users and increased usage. It's be $1200+/month now. Buying our own? $1800. After that, $149/user/year. ROI was 2.5 months. My boss liked that option.:)
The way I have SA set up, scores up to 3 are green, 3-6 are held for my personal review, and 6+ are rejected outright. I settled on those scores after a month of testing...never saw a legit non-newsletter message score higher than 3.1, and I've never seen a legit newsletter score higher than 4.5.
Thankfully, our server only handles ~5000 emails a day, and that leaves about 30 a day I review. I know that I'm in a special situation, where at a larger organization I wouldn't be able to do that. But it works.
Dang, I was trying to share my experiences as part of an underfunded one man IT department at a nonprofit organization. I wasn't fishing for snide comments!
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4 CDs, sorry ;)
Just an FYI - the compilation is 5 CDs, and there's a separate torrent for each disc. Right now, volume I's torrent is in great shape, but III and IV need some help. (II's torrent file seems to be missing from the server.)
Apologies for the typos.
Symantec's and McAffee's respective antivirus products are some of the buggiest software I've ever seen. The latest versions of both are awful memory hogs with questionable reliability and average detection rates. McAffee installs are widely known to 'go bad', resulting in cryptic error messages, failed updates, and vulnerable systems. There are threads upon threads in the Dell forums of users trying to ununstall McAffee off a brand new computer and failing.
As for Symantec, , I had a computer at work with a copy of Symantec Corporate AV 10.1 (the latest version) still installed after we chose to migrate away from it due to ever rising costs and poor support. I tried to uninstall it. The uninstaller crashed. Then, every time I tried to right click, it tried to reinstall itself. Yes, you read that right - Symantec's antivirus installs a handler that traps every right click within Explorer that runs a check to see if files are missing. After two hours on the phone with a Symantec rep who didn't know what they were talking about, I finally had it cleaned off the system.
What I'm trying to say, I suppose, is that the original Netscape, while not perfect software, had the right vision behind it. Symantec and McAffee don't. Both companies have gone downhill, and I'm absolutely sure it's for reasons completely unrelated to Vista's new kernel.
It's quite simple, actually. It's like celery. It takes more energy for you to consume it and your body to subsequently break the food down than is actually contained within the food.
And yes, though their methodology wasn't mentioned in this article, I've seen other places where they did run lab tests and concluded that the people who drank this stuff burned a couple extra calories. They do mention the tests in this press release. Also, they never claim that it's going to make you lose weight. It specifically says that it burns a few extra calories if you drink xyz amount per day.
P.S. I call shenanigans on your Ph.D. Either that, or you just didn't read the article. Either way.
Let me get this straight: pretexting is currently a legal "gray area," and you're talking about people getting raped.
I'm confused. Apparently, you've taken your time to rail against government regulation by attempting to make a highly strained analogy between two entirely unrelated subjects, and the second idea you offer to prove your point - ie, that hate crime laws are only in place so that the ebil gubmint can circumvent the Constitution and place people in double jeopardy - isn't even widely held or supported.
Look. What Dunn did was either 1) illegal, or 2) should be. This isn't a question of Congressional pandering. Let me remind you that the current administration and congress hold the belief that big business = better economy. Nothing wrong with that, but it's of worth to note since you seem to additionally imply that Congress is ready to beat up on any corporation it sees, which isn't true.
Pretexting, the main legal question here, should be illegal if it's not. From what I can make of your rather bizarre argument, you seem to claim otherwise. You're wrong.
That's exactly where Barracuda is (in part!) saving us tons and tons of $.
Let's draw an extremely fine line here: commercial parts/versions of OSS products, and products built on OSS.
Commercial versions of OSS products aren't worth it, anywhere, almost ever. Just look at the prices above. In almost every case, go with the closed soruce version, and you'll save yourself a hell of a lot of money.
Now, look at two highly successful products built on open source: Fonality PBX (Asterisk) and Barracuda Spam firewall (Spamassassin). We use 'em both. I'm our entire IT department - just me. I already have too much on my plate, and when we were in the market for a new antispam solution, the natural pick was a Linux-Exim-Spamassassin/RBL frontend to our Exchange 2003 server. Powerful, effective, free (aside from hardware).
Problem: I'm already working tons of overtime - do we pay a contractor $120/hour to come in and try to set a system up, then rely on me to support it when I already don't have time? Or, do we pay a company like Barracuda Networks $1300 for their itty bitty model of the spam firewall and get a system that's guaranteed, backed up by all the time they've spent developing their hardware and frontends, 24/7 support, automatic updates, and license-free monitoring and filtering? I don't have the numbers with me, but the cost in staff + contractor time + hardware vs. the Barracuda system (which is overkill for our little network) was something like 3:1.
That is a contentious point. Normally, I am for strict gun control (strong liberal). However, seeing what is happening to my - our - country, you just made the single strongest argument for the Second Amendment I've ever seen.
Actually, I was expecting him to indicate the other way. When I bought Prey a couple months ago, I was expecting 5-6 hours single player, got 7.5 and was happy.
It's been a long, long time since I've seen a game, especially in my preferred genre (FPS) that carries anywhere near the playtime promised.
So, isn't this more of a problem that the estimates are just totally wonky across the board, and vary wildly between genres and the players playing the games, and not a singular "40 hour myth?"
Okay. 37 credits your spring semester. That's pretty much 9 AM to 5 PM in class, five days a week. Add in study time and prep time plus time to do assignemnts, and (judging by what I did carrying 15 credits at Penn State) he was working an additional 6+ hours a night, seven nights a week, for his classes. That's it. That was his life for a year.
See, to me, college was about learning first and foremost, about obtaining a well-rounded academic education. The key here is "well-rounded." If you're literally spending 13-14 hours a day on class, what else are you doing? Nothing. That's not well-rounded. This kid missed out on everything that makes college, college. Friends, relaxing...hell, dorm floor-wide LAN matches in CS and UT99 (as in my case). Oh, and football. Sweet, sweet football. On the other hand, I can guarantee you that he did nothing but eat, sleep, work, and study.
I'll take a party here and there and some video games, please. I would not do what this kid did, nor would I consider it, or consider letting my children (someday) do it. It's just flat out not worth it.
I'm late with this reply, but perhaps you'll revisit this thread. At MBNA, the system actually called the other party first, then patched us in to the call. You heard a beep, and that was it - you had to be ready to start talking. The info came up on your computer at the same time. This was to handle bad phone numbers and busy signals by the automated system, so as not to use up our time (telemarketing is a business where time is absolutely money). As I understood it, the delay you hear on your end is caused by the lag time between when the autodialer system called your number and then found a person on our end to connect to your call.
I worked for the telemarketing department at MBNA for a while. They're a good company, and while it wasn't my favorite job ever, MBNA is a good business, and they follow the telemarketing rules. (If it's any testament, I carry an MBNA credit card.)
Anyhow, in answer to the second part of your question: If you say "take me off your list" or "don't call here again," if the telemarketers are following the rules - and they're subject to MASSIVE fines if they're not (like $1000+ per phone call in violation), your phone number will be removed from the marketing programs you mentioned for two years (or if you say "all" your lists, all their marketing programs).
The magic words are "do not call list" or "ever." The better choice is "do not call list." If you say "Don't call here," it's still two years. However, if you say "Do not call here ever again," or if you say the magic phrase "Add me to your do not call list," your phone number will be added to their federally mandated do not call list for a period of ten years. Also note that once you say one of those two phrases, they are required to give the three pieces of information they need for every call if they have not yet mentioned them, and then terminate the call immediately. (These include their full company name, a telephone number at which they can be reached, and....the third I don't remember. Oops. But! I do remember MBNA being so paranoid about it that we were even required to say the phone number to dead air if someone hung up on us - it was always the last thing you gave them, and we were recorded every second we were on the clock, even while not on a call.)
Again, this is if they're following the rules. No one likes a telemarketing call at dinnertime, but the bad guys do a hell of a lot worse than that.
Oh, and I can't comment on surveys or political calls. This is just commercial stuff - the guys who aren't out to make $ have looser rules.
I would say that this has nothing to do with the internet. Sending highly private, personal information to someone you've never met, know nothing about and whose identity you can't even be sure of (as in this case!) means you're just an idiot. There's really no way around that one.
People do this through the mail, people do this through email. Hell, con artists have tricked people into doing this since cavemen were banging each other on the heads with clubs. Whatever way it occurs, it's the same thing.
Herein lies an additional problem with security questions. I don't answer them. I work for a nonprofit. The gentleman whose job it is (for lack of a better way to say it) to find rich people to donate money to us sits in the office next to mine. His data mining capabilities are beyond my comprehension, and I'M supposed to be "the computer guy" here. I sat down with him one day and with 15 minutes and $20 he had enough info about me to get into my bank account via the security questions feature.
The answer to my security questions on ALL websites is now something to the effect of 20-40 random characters.
I didn't experience any extra load time when I played through with commentary on...and it's turned off by default anyway. You have to check a box to enable it when you begin a new game.
HL2 shows as 841 MB on my HD; EP1 shows as an additional 606 MB (the games are independent of one another, and when you delete a game, you're free to download it later).
The Source engine core is probably another 2.5 GB. All told, my SteamApps folder, which includes Valve's ENTIRE catalog (19 games, including the entire HL and CS series) + 2 3rd party games is 15.2 GB.
Direct answer to your question: as others have said, no. This is included with the game.
The PS3 only hits the Sony fanbois because it loves them!
Here's the four frames extracted.
Main image
Subliminal image 1
Subliminal image 2
Subliminal image 3
The subliminal images are shown for a fraction of a second every few seconds.
I'll second all that, though I have no experience with View Formatted Source. I'll make a note to check it out - in debugging page display and layout issues, those other three extensions are absolutely indispensable.
The problem is a bunch of the tags you just listed no longer exist - at least, not in XHTML or HTML 4.1 Strict. and are both gone totally, as are and ./>. Everything has shifted over to CSS, which is far more powerful anywho.
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Eek. I'd say avoid Dreamweaver at all costs. It causes exactly these kinds of problems. And, if not configured correctly, it can even put out malformed code itself.
Debugging HTML/PHP/etc files: UltraEdit-32. $40 for the single best Swiss Army Editor I've ever found. In cominbation with Tidy (which it has 100% integrated in the interface), it can handle every file-related problem mentioned except for the names themselves. Out of the box, it can do everything from line ending conversion to your standard syntax highlighting (though it doesn't have as many languages out of the box as Scintilla) to assisting you with actually correcting the HTML errors.
Try cost. Before I moved our Goodlink server in house, we were paying $800/month for it, and it was going up every single month as we added more users and increased usage. It's be $1200+/month now. Buying our own? $1800. After that, $149/user/year. ROI was 2.5 months. My boss liked that option. :)
The way I have SA set up, scores up to 3 are green, 3-6 are held for my personal review, and 6+ are rejected outright. I settled on those scores after a month of testing...never saw a legit non-newsletter message score higher than 3.1, and I've never seen a legit newsletter score higher than 4.5.
Thankfully, our server only handles ~5000 emails a day, and that leaves about 30 a day I review. I know that I'm in a special situation, where at a larger organization I wouldn't be able to do that. But it works.
Dang, I was trying to share my experiences as part of an underfunded one man IT department at a nonprofit organization. I wasn't fishing for snide comments!