nother thing that I see as "broken" in UNIX is that there is no normal/standardized/sane way of installing software. Debian gets it the closest, but the LSB picked RPM for some insane reason for package mismanagement on Linux.
I think the OSX solution is by far the most elegant. Self contained packages with everything needed, drop and go.
I don't care who bought them, or even who is working on them, all I care about is the quality of the games. In my opinion Bungie peaked with Marathon 2, and has been downhill ever since. The plot and gameplay on Marathon 2 were better than any FPS I have seen since, it was 5 years ahead of it's time for features like team play, customizability, and audio chat as well. I waited and waited for Halo to come out and blow me away again, but after the Microsoft purchase it took forever (3+ years after showing a working demo, and then it was only Xbox and PC. Even so, I tried it immediately on a friend's system. It was, sadly, obviously dumbed down for play on the Xbox, lacking half the features of Marathon 2, without the compelling, interactive story line, and basically without the fun.
Maybe Bungie will be back in all their former glory for Halo 2, but I am certainly not counting on it. I suspect this will be another cookie cutter game with the same crap as every other FPS and slightly more realistic graphics. I'm not sure a console can have enough controls to make a game truly great, and everything they put out will certainly be designed with the Xbox as the primary platform. Prove me wrong guys.
Terms of surrender only apply if we are following the conventions of war and treaties we have signed. Since the U.S. has violated both the non-proliferation treaty and the Geneva convention, and has blatently invaded another country and siezed power from it's democratically elected leader, I am sure we will be submitting to the UN and President Bush will be stepping down immediatly and submitting to a trial for war crimes. Right?
No one is saying that Hussien was a good guy, what people are saying is the Bush fricking lied to us, which he, and most every other politician does daily. The big difference is he is not very good at it, or just doesn't care, and thousands have been killed as a result to bring "freedom" to a country that would probably re-elect Hussien, given the chance. Did you know we planned to bring democracy to Vietnam too? MACVSOG polls indicated that Ho-Chi-Mihn, a devout communist would be elected, so we scrapped the election there too.
How stupid would it be if you bought a computer, and then had to spend $50 for a separate browser?"
Yeah and I'm sick an tired of people complaining about DeBeers bundling free gold rings with all their Diamonds, I mean who wants to buy diamonds without a ring for them?
Oh wait, DeBeers doesn't bundle gold? And people might want to use computers, but not the internet in some applications? And maybe it should be up to PC manufacturers to bundle applications since they are the ones selling directly to consumers. Oh boy, I guess we were both way off base for a minute there. Man I feel stupid, you too huh?
I believe you are mistaken. I took an electomagentics course years ago, taught by someone who had worked at the Escanaba facility. He explained the system as dependant largely upon the geology of the area in which it was built, but as a means of reienforcing the waves projection against the atmosphere where it rebounded and reflected back to the earth in a wide scatter pattern. The idea was for a few large antenna to cover the entire surface of the earth, so that subs could pick it up anywhere, without having to be in a specific location. The wavelengths of several meters allowed it to easily penetrate a great deal of sea water, so depth was also not an issue. As far as surviving a nuclear war goes, that seems very unlikely. Without maintenance, I imagine the weather in the U.P. would destroy the Escanaba array in two or three good winters.
the entry for "East Germany" (before a friendly editor came across it) opened with: "foo"
I think you just destroyed your own case. If it has been corrected to be more world-centric then it is obviously not permanently biased, just written or copied from biased sources intially. Maybe it seems like a white, middle class american's view of the world because most of the contributors (to the english section) are white, middle class americans? This method might be enlightening to you.
Actually, you are missing a few pieces of this picture. While having a bot play for you is not "cheating" in the traditional sense, as it does not violate the rules, it will not be long before bots do cheat while playing. Several programers I know have talked about creating bots that are networked, hence, they know what is in each other's hands and can collaborate. The chances that people have not already inplemented such cheating bots is pretty slim.
I moved into a new apartment and the phone lines didn't work.
I moved into an apartment where the phone was not turned on or hooked up. When I called the phone company and apt manager, I got the same run around. Curious about the realities of the situation I called a few people. It seems, at least in Minnesota, that it is entirely the phone company's responsibility. Furthermore, if you request service, they have 30 days to get it up and running, or they have to provide you with a free cell phone, until such a time as it does work (by free I mean completely free including long distance service). After calling the phone company back, and telling them this, my phone was turned on in 31 days.
Most statistics are made up, 78% of all people know that. According to the census, the wealthiest 1% of the country owns approximately 21% of the wealth. These numbers are definitely low due to the 1 million dollar a year income cap user for their surveys, but I have not seen any reliable statistics as to how low they are. Where does your 40% number come from?
I am not certain exactly what is going on with these updates, but I think you are missing two pieces of data. First, there are two versions of "Security Update 2004-09-07" 1.0 and 1.1. Second, although I'm not certain it is relevant, the only demo of this exploit I saw called the ftp: handler and directed it at a local.app bundle in order to launch it. My test of the exploit, however, failed. This might be due to the fact that ftp had been broken by a previous update.
It would be interesting to hear how this round of updates came about.
The more people that use Macs, the more people that will be browsing web sites without IE, and the more websites that won't rely on IE-only functionality.
Especially when they realize that although mac-users only make up 4% of their traffic, due to the cost of a mac, it is a very affluent 4%, with disproportionate buying power.
Actually there have been 3 in the last week or so, which is pretty unusual for Apple. Of the many fixes included, however, I only see two that are remotely exploitable on a default install. One is a theoretical, this might be exploitable and the other is the new and very serious, links in ichat may remotely start programs, if the user clicks on them and the exploiter knows the path. I could see this used very maliciously with rm.
Even so, I think practical security on OSX, while it could be better, is still on par with, or superior to most linux distros.
nobody even seems interested in making a good quality external box, never mind trying to make quality PVR software for it?
I'm pretty happy with my Elgato EyeTV external tuner. It interfaces vie firewire with my old G4 and has been working steadily for the last few months. It is not perfect, there are occasionally scheduling issues, you can only export to mpeg2 one show at a time, and it has some bugs that can cause it to crash if you do particular operations, but all in all it is very functional.
I went with the eyeTV solution because I wanted PVR functionality including scheduled recordings, and I wanted to be able to burn DVDs of shows I particularly like. I also did not want to pay a monthly fee. I could not find any standalone boxes that would enbable me to easily do these tasks. Nothing comes with a dvd burner. Also, I had a g4 tower doing minor duty as a terminal, mp3 player, and image renderer.
Actually, "visa versa" translates roughly to "to turn things that have been seen" which is not wholly inappropriate given the nature of the parent post.
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nother thing that I see as "broken" in UNIX is that there is no normal/standardized/sane way of installing software. Debian gets it the closest, but the LSB picked RPM for some insane reason for package mismanagement on Linux.
I think the OSX solution is by far the most elegant. Self contained packages with everything needed, drop and go.
I don't care who bought them, or even who is working on them, all I care about is the quality of the games. In my opinion Bungie peaked with Marathon 2, and has been downhill ever since. The plot and gameplay on Marathon 2 were better than any FPS I have seen since, it was 5 years ahead of it's time for features like team play, customizability, and audio chat as well. I waited and waited for Halo to come out and blow me away again, but after the Microsoft purchase it took forever (3+ years after showing a working demo, and then it was only Xbox and PC. Even so, I tried it immediately on a friend's system. It was, sadly, obviously dumbed down for play on the Xbox, lacking half the features of Marathon 2, without the compelling, interactive story line, and basically without the fun.
Maybe Bungie will be back in all their former glory for Halo 2, but I am certainly not counting on it. I suspect this will be another cookie cutter game with the same crap as every other FPS and slightly more realistic graphics. I'm not sure a console can have enough controls to make a game truly great, and everything they put out will certainly be designed with the Xbox as the primary platform. Prove me wrong guys.
Terms of surrender only apply if we are following the conventions of war and treaties we have signed. Since the U.S. has violated both the non-proliferation treaty and the Geneva convention, and has blatently invaded another country and siezed power from it's democratically elected leader, I am sure we will be submitting to the UN and President Bush will be stepping down immediatly and submitting to a trial for war crimes. Right?
No one is saying that Hussien was a good guy, what people are saying is the Bush fricking lied to us, which he, and most every other politician does daily. The big difference is he is not very good at it, or just doesn't care, and thousands have been killed as a result to bring "freedom" to a country that would probably re-elect Hussien, given the chance. Did you know we planned to bring democracy to Vietnam too? MACVSOG polls indicated that Ho-Chi-Mihn, a devout communist would be elected, so we scrapped the election there too.
How stupid would it be if you bought a computer, and then had to spend $50 for a separate browser?"
Yeah and I'm sick an tired of people complaining about DeBeers bundling free gold rings with all their Diamonds, I mean who wants to buy diamonds without a ring for them?
Oh wait, DeBeers doesn't bundle gold? And people might want to use computers, but not the internet in some applications? And maybe it should be up to PC manufacturers to bundle applications since they are the ones selling directly to consumers. Oh boy, I guess we were both way off base for a minute there. Man I feel stupid, you too huh?
"ELF waves travel through the earth;"
I believe you are mistaken. I took an electomagentics course years ago, taught by someone who had worked at the Escanaba facility. He explained the system as dependant largely upon the geology of the area in which it was built, but as a means of reienforcing the waves projection against the atmosphere where it rebounded and reflected back to the earth in a wide scatter pattern. The idea was for a few large antenna to cover the entire surface of the earth, so that subs could pick it up anywhere, without having to be in a specific location. The wavelengths of several meters allowed it to easily penetrate a great deal of sea water, so depth was also not an issue. As far as surviving a nuclear war goes, that seems very unlikely. Without maintenance, I imagine the weather in the U.P. would destroy the Escanaba array in two or three good winters.
"that sort of setup wouldn't ever need resurrection, because it'd never go down"
Unless someone DDoS's their DNS servers. Then they go down for a few hours (if you recall).
the entry for "East Germany" (before a friendly editor came across it) opened with: "foo"
I think you just destroyed your own case. If it has been corrected to be more world-centric then it is obviously not permanently biased, just written or copied from biased sources intially. Maybe it seems like a white, middle class american's view of the world because most of the contributors (to the english section) are white, middle class americans? This method might be enlightening to you.
Actually, you are missing a few pieces of this picture. While having a bot play for you is not "cheating" in the traditional sense, as it does not violate the rules, it will not be long before bots do cheat while playing. Several programers I know have talked about creating bots that are networked, hence, they know what is in each other's hands and can collaborate. The chances that people have not already inplemented such cheating bots is pretty slim.
I moved into a new apartment and the phone lines didn't work.
I moved into an apartment where the phone was not turned on or hooked up. When I called the phone company and apt manager, I got the same run around. Curious about the realities of the situation I called a few people. It seems, at least in Minnesota, that it is entirely the phone company's responsibility. Furthermore, if you request service, they have 30 days to get it up and running, or they have to provide you with a free cell phone, until such a time as it does work (by free I mean completely free including long distance service). After calling the phone company back, and telling them this, my phone was turned on in 31 days.
Most statistics are made up, 78% of all people know that. According to the census, the wealthiest 1% of the country owns approximately 21% of the wealth. These numbers are definitely low due to the 1 million dollar a year income cap user for their surveys, but I have not seen any reliable statistics as to how low they are. Where does your 40% number come from?
I am not certain exactly what is going on with these updates, but I think you are missing two pieces of data. First, there are two versions of "Security Update 2004-09-07" 1.0 and 1.1. Second, although I'm not certain it is relevant, the only demo of this exploit I saw called the ftp: handler and directed it at a local .app bundle in order to launch it. My test of the exploit, however, failed. This might be due to the fact that ftp had been broken by a previous update.
It would be interesting to hear how this round of updates came about.
The more people that use Macs, the more people that will be browsing web sites without IE, and the more websites that won't rely on IE-only functionality.
Especially when they realize that although mac-users only make up 4% of their traffic, due to the cost of a mac, it is a very affluent 4%, with disproportionate buying power.
Actually there have been 3 in the last week or so, which is pretty unusual for Apple. Of the many fixes included, however, I only see two that are remotely exploitable on a default install. One is a theoretical, this might be exploitable and the other is the new and very serious, links in ichat may remotely start programs, if the user clicks on them and the exploiter knows the path. I could see this used very maliciously with rm.
Even so, I think practical security on OSX, while it could be better, is still on par with, or superior to most linux distros.
nobody even seems interested in making a good quality external box, never mind trying to make quality PVR software for it?
I'm pretty happy with my Elgato EyeTV external tuner. It interfaces vie firewire with my old G4 and has been working steadily for the last few months. It is not perfect, there are occasionally scheduling issues, you can only export to mpeg2 one show at a time, and it has some bugs that can cause it to crash if you do particular operations, but all in all it is very functional.I went with the eyeTV solution because I wanted PVR functionality including scheduled recordings, and I wanted to be able to burn DVDs of shows I particularly like. I also did not want to pay a monthly fee. I could not find any standalone boxes that would enbable me to easily do these tasks. Nothing comes with a dvd burner. Also, I had a g4 tower doing minor duty as a terminal, mp3 player, and image renderer.
Actually, "visa versa" translates roughly to "to turn things that have been seen" which is not wholly inappropriate given the nature of the parent post. .05%
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Chance that this is a typo: 98%
Other: 1.095%