So he could sue them for loss of income in beer terms?
"Your honor, the actions of the defendant cost my client over 31,423 kegs, 3 cases, 2 20 oz cans, and 1.3 12 oz cans of lost beer. We are requesting monetary compensation of $1,000,000 in order that my client can recreate that stash. We have not asked for damages regarding lost time as we feel that, had my client actually had the aforementioned amount of beer, he likely would have done less work in the interim, not more."
I bet they could get a lot more than that. The main problem is they'd lose too much money. Apple is NOT an applications company...just about all of their noted applications come with the operating system (things like Final Cut Pro are the exception, and I think the non-pro version may included with the OS?). At any rate, this would do nothing but help Microsoft; IIRC Office is the highest-selling software for Mac OS.
It goes back to computer quality triangle: company profits, software quality, and far-reaching hardware support...you can pick 2. Apple has historically chosen the first 2, and Microsoft 1 and 3.
Any piece of information I can obtain is another piece of information I didn't have. Who knows...I call up the registrar's office and say "I'm filling out this form, and it asks for my student ID number, but I don't have it." (At my school the ID number is different than my SSN.) "My name is...my phone number is...I paid $17856.97 for this semester of school..." Then I call up the financial aid office and say "I'm filling out this form, and it asks for my SSN, but I don't know what an SSN is. I have my student ID number..."
Any time you can gain information about someone, with or without social engineering required, you gain more information to make social engineering easier, in addition to acquainting yourself with a likely target for continued probing.
No, you don't have to convert your engine to run on biodiesel. However my understanding is that biodiesel will "gel" (the waxes become solid) at a somewhat higher temperature than petroleum diesel. So you may run into problems with cold starts.
(Again, my understanding of ) the reason people say you have to "convert" a vehicle to run on vegetable oil is that you have to add another tank to hold diesel; the gelling is a much bigger problem in WVO. Therefore you have to get the fuel warm in order for it to get pumped into the engine, and the kits use engine heat to warm the fuel. I think the general reasoning is that it's approximately the same amount of work to add a heater to a fuel tank (safely) as it is to add an auxiliary fuel tank.
I think a lot has to do with knowing who to talk to; the problem of not having a SSN can also be solved via identity theft. At the school I'm getting my Master's from, you can call the financial aid office and get information on your account by using your name. I've always thought it was convenient, but I can certainly see how it's very dangerous.
I can't wait to get my laptop so I don't have to be in my cube. Granted I'm not thrilled about using Visual Studio on a 14" display, but if I can do it anywhere on the corporate campus, or even anywhere else in the world, it's worth it.
I've still got my workstation machine(on which, via Remote Desktop, the actual work will be taking place), but now I won't have to be tied to my desk in order to use it.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Not really, assuming the market for offshoring remains strong; it's only really been an issue in the past what, 6 to 8 years? And only really taken off in the last 2 to 3. So if only, say, one out of every four companies that decides to offshore sends its business to India, that just means India's share doesn't grow as fast as the market.
I don't have any hard numbers, but let's say for example that India currently has 70% of all offshoring business. A 45% drop puts them at around 40% of the total market in two years, which isn't all that bad if, during the same period, you're adding in a whole bunch of new competitors.
Or better yet...I could use it to get the jump on Microsoft. Like in H2G2, where they sent the breakfast cereal information(was it?) back in time, copyrighted it, and then proceeded to sue the original writer out of existence.
So Microsoft has a room full of computers that do nothing but automatically surf the "questionable" parts of the web?
Anybody wanna guess how many hours a day that room is packed with employees just sitting in front of a computer "doing nothing"?
Easy enough. There are chinese realms; you implement an age verification system on those realms, and allow minors to only play on servers that don't allow PvP. You also make minors registering accounts in non-chinese realms a violation of TOS, and let the government chase them from there.
You can turn PvP off by not letting players on PvE servers get flagged; might not even have to remove the honor system, it just won't mean anything.
No, this is like buying the latest Harry Potter book, and then wanting to make a copy of it so you can put the original in your fire safe (so one day you can sell the first run copy for One Million Dollars), and your copier isn't allowed to copy the book.
To counterpoint, though: Licenses generally allow the software to be installed in any number of places, as long as only one user is using the software at a time. Does anyone know whether the Mac OS _license_ allows the user to install the software on anything that's not specifically Macintosh hardware?
If so, then that's something else to complain about, and this issue is not.
It won't work for you...they use an on-board or add-on SATA controller.
This was my only beef with them: you can get a tiny SATA chipset, integrate it with the card, and have a completely self-contained solution. It could even offer expansion SATA capabilities for older boxes.
But they chose to go with an FPGA and plug into Someone Else's SATA®, which means you've either got to have a newer computer anyway, or buy another controller card. If they'd used their own controller, it'd still appear to windows as a normal SATA disk (which was the praise Anand gave them), but it'd also provide much more functionality, and be fully backwards compatible.
Everybody has to farm at one time or another. Generally around level 40, I think.
Except for warlocks...:D
Blizzard has done a very good job of keeping the gold requirements for skills and equipment down to a reasonable level for a player's particular level, but when it comes time to buy a mount, you have 2 options: beg or farm. It's VERY hard for a level 40 character to raise 90 to 100 gold doing one of those two things, just because the mobs around that level drop so little silver (if it's even silver at all).
US diesel is very dirty, as witnessed by plumes of black smoke any large tractor trailer will emit on acceleration.
That's one of the most misinformed things I've ever heard, and I've heard myself and others say a lot of misinformed things!
The reason a tractor trailer (or a 3/4 ton diesel truck, or a VW Golf TDI) emits black smoke on acceleration is that on acceleration, the engine controller adds more fuel than can be fully burned by utilizing the available air. The smoke you see is simply unburned fuel particles (that's probably a bad way to state it, but you get the point). A gasoline engine that is running much too rich will also emit a puff (or stream) of black smoke on acceleration.
I agree with you that we need cleaner diesel fuel in the US, and according to everything I've read diesel fuel is supposed to be mandated to ultra low-sulfur content (which will allow them to meet new EPA standards) for sometime in 2006.
Could it have something to do with the fact that the previous/.-games article linked an article from this online magazine over 2 hours before this one announced that the magazine exists?
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Ummm...no IP address. How do you think he manages to stay uncracked?
So he could sue them for loss of income in beer terms?
"Your honor, the actions of the defendant cost my client over 31,423 kegs, 3 cases, 2 20 oz cans, and 1.3 12 oz cans of lost beer. We are requesting monetary compensation of $1,000,000 in order that my client can recreate that stash. We have not asked for damages regarding lost time as we feel that, had my client actually had the aforementioned amount of beer, he likely would have done less work in the interim, not more."
I bet they could get a lot more than that. The main problem is they'd lose too much money. Apple is NOT an applications company...just about all of their noted applications come with the operating system (things like Final Cut Pro are the exception, and I think the non-pro version may included with the OS?). At any rate, this would do nothing but help Microsoft; IIRC Office is the highest-selling software for Mac OS.
It goes back to computer quality triangle: company profits, software quality, and far-reaching hardware support...you can pick 2. Apple has historically chosen the first 2, and Microsoft 1 and 3.
Any piece of information I can obtain is another piece of information I didn't have. Who knows...I call up the registrar's office and say "I'm filling out this form, and it asks for my student ID number, but I don't have it." (At my school the ID number is different than my SSN.) "My name is...my phone number is...I paid $17856.97 for this semester of school..." Then I call up the financial aid office and say "I'm filling out this form, and it asks for my SSN, but I don't know what an SSN is. I have my student ID number..."
Any time you can gain information about someone, with or without social engineering required, you gain more information to make social engineering easier, in addition to acquainting yourself with a likely target for continued probing.
Just in case you haven't been there... http://forums.tdiclub.com/
No, you don't have to convert your engine to run on biodiesel. However my understanding is that biodiesel will "gel" (the waxes become solid) at a somewhat higher temperature than petroleum diesel. So you may run into problems with cold starts.
(Again, my understanding of ) the reason people say you have to "convert" a vehicle to run on vegetable oil is that you have to add another tank to hold diesel; the gelling is a much bigger problem in WVO. Therefore you have to get the fuel warm in order for it to get pumped into the engine, and the kits use engine heat to warm the fuel. I think the general reasoning is that it's approximately the same amount of work to add a heater to a fuel tank (safely) as it is to add an auxiliary fuel tank.
I think a lot has to do with knowing who to talk to; the problem of not having a SSN can also be solved via identity theft. At the school I'm getting my Master's from, you can call the financial aid office and get information on your account by using your name. I've always thought it was convenient, but I can certainly see how it's very dangerous.
You probably don't want one. Do you have ANY idea how expensive a gallon of Skittles is?
Having never written VB.net, I'm pretty sure it would work there :)
function nuller(object)
set object = null
end function
I can't wait to get my laptop so I don't have to be in my cube. Granted I'm not thrilled about using Visual Studio on a 14" display, but if I can do it anywhere on the corporate campus, or even anywhere else in the world, it's worth it.
I've still got my workstation machine(on which, via Remote Desktop, the actual work will be taking place), but now I won't have to be tied to my desk in order to use it.
Ob. Simpsons reference
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Now that we are talking about audio, I don't see why they use an Audigy2 when you can get for the same money one of the new Creative X-Fi.
Because they've got a stack of them in the back, and their webpage already has that option in the code?
He's got at least a couple of OC3s coming from Bell South(?) It's listed farther down in today's entries.
Not really, assuming the market for offshoring remains strong; it's only really been an issue in the past what, 6 to 8 years? And only really taken off in the last 2 to 3. So if only, say, one out of every four companies that decides to offshore sends its business to India, that just means India's share doesn't grow as fast as the market.
I don't have any hard numbers, but let's say for example that India currently has 70% of all offshoring business. A 45% drop puts them at around 40% of the total market in two years, which isn't all that bad if, during the same period, you're adding in a whole bunch of new competitors.
Or better yet...I could use it to get the jump on Microsoft. Like in H2G2, where they sent the breakfast cereal information(was it?) back in time, copyrighted it, and then proceeded to sue the original writer out of existence.
So Microsoft has a room full of computers that do nothing but automatically surf the "questionable" parts of the web? Anybody wanna guess how many hours a day that room is packed with employees just sitting in front of a computer "doing nothing"?
Easy enough. There are chinese realms; you implement an age verification system on those realms, and allow minors to only play on servers that don't allow PvP. You also make minors registering accounts in non-chinese realms a violation of TOS, and let the government chase them from there.
You can turn PvP off by not letting players on PvE servers get flagged; might not even have to remove the honor system, it just won't mean anything.
No, this is like buying the latest Harry Potter book, and then wanting to make a copy of it so you can put the original in your fire safe (so one day you can sell the first run copy for One Million Dollars), and your copier isn't allowed to copy the book.
To counterpoint, though: Licenses generally allow the software to be installed in any number of places, as long as only one user is using the software at a time. Does anyone know whether the Mac OS _license_ allows the user to install the software on anything that's not specifically Macintosh hardware?
If so, then that's something else to complain about, and this issue is not.
It won't work for you...they use an on-board or add-on SATA controller.
This was my only beef with them: you can get a tiny SATA chipset, integrate it with the card, and have a completely self-contained solution. It could even offer expansion SATA capabilities for older boxes.
But they chose to go with an FPGA and plug into Someone Else's SATA®, which means you've either got to have a newer computer anyway, or buy another controller card. If they'd used their own controller, it'd still appear to windows as a normal SATA disk (which was the praise Anand gave them), but it'd also provide much more functionality, and be fully backwards compatible.
powering their web server?
should not
I believe your choice of words is quite accurate.
Everybody has to farm at one time or another. Generally around level 40, I think.
:D
Except for warlocks...
Blizzard has done a very good job of keeping the gold requirements for skills and equipment down to a reasonable level for a player's particular level, but when it comes time to buy a mount, you have 2 options: beg or farm. It's VERY hard for a level 40 character to raise 90 to 100 gold doing one of those two things, just because the mobs around that level drop so little silver (if it's even silver at all).
So, this would be "stuff that matters", right? :)
US diesel is very dirty, as witnessed by plumes of black smoke any large tractor trailer will emit on acceleration.
That's one of the most misinformed things I've ever heard, and I've heard myself and others say a lot of misinformed things!
The reason a tractor trailer (or a 3/4 ton diesel truck, or a VW Golf TDI) emits black smoke on acceleration is that on acceleration, the engine controller adds more fuel than can be fully burned by utilizing the available air. The smoke you see is simply unburned fuel particles (that's probably a bad way to state it, but you get the point). A gasoline engine that is running much too rich will also emit a puff (or stream) of black smoke on acceleration.
I agree with you that we need cleaner diesel fuel in the US, and according to everything I've read diesel fuel is supposed to be mandated to ultra low-sulfur content (which will allow them to meet new EPA standards) for sometime in 2006.
Could it have something to do with the fact that the previous /.-games article linked an article from this online magazine over 2 hours before this one announced that the magazine exists?