I screwed up and replaced the wrong word. I replaced the word 'twice' for 'accurate' when the word that should have been replaced was 'right'.
Every single analog watch I've ever seen is based on 12 hours and since there are two 12 hour periods in the standard 24 hour day, then the statement that a stopped watch (which need not be broken, btw, simply not wound) is accurate twice a day is a fair statement. The duration of the accuracy can be for an infinitesimal amount of time, but it is still accurate.
Thanks for pointing that out, it was a problem with my editing I only caught after I had posted it.
Actually, I believe Gary Kurtz helped George Lucas with 'new hope' and 'empire strikes back' which were arguably the best two of the whole lot of them.
He quit when George Lucas insisted on changing the plot for 'return of the jedi' by making darth vader turn away from the dark side at the very end in a single act of sacrifice - as if that one act alone was enough to redeem him.
The original story called for darth vader to be killed in episode 6.
Only one point I'd like to add though, is that unlike hitler and other fascists in history, I do believe Bush is not so much after the allure and power in and of itself, but rather by a dubious sense of 'higher purpose' by his beliefs and his insistance that everyone share them. From his point of view it's his 'duty' to bring democracy and stability to the world and to persuade other like minded people to help him push it through, essentially by any means necessary. He's on some kind of crusade, and while in the end the effects are pretty much the same, the motives are somewhat different.
Easter egg 1 - background mumbling - during normal shooting, background actors are usually asked to pretend like they are talking but not actually make any noise. This allows the boom mic to pick up the main actor's voice more clearly without the distraction of somebody in the background. The background dialogue you hear in this case is more than likely the ad-libbing of the foley sound stage actors.
Easter egg 2 - Hayden's acting - Given 2 hours + of movie time, it's entirely possible he appears to be able to act decently for that one frame through pure random coincidence. A similar concept of a stopped 'analog' watch is right accurate a day.
I think George Lucas got lucky with these two points.
Tabs are going to confuse most users for some unknown reason, but due to popular demand, IE7 will finally have them?
Wow.
But on an aside, will they be using that mentality and implementing them in a similar way as others, or will microsoft go their own way again as usual and set their own standard which they will try to force everyone to adhere to and firefox and the likes will be forced to implement something similar?
I keep hearing stories about how language abc or environment xyz is going to revolutionize the programming world and it will be so simple, easy to use and all encompassing that the boss's pet monkey can do most of the work.
The fact of the matter is, all languages, no matter how clever, complete or complicated they are, must ultimately get translated to binary code. There are so many proven and well established languages/environments out there, I roll my eyes when I hear of promises that another will become the definitive one that will displace all others (yeah, here we go again).
Given this one is from microsoft means it's (very likely) targetted to windows exclusively (or mainly, most complete, the only supported platform) and in the grander scheme of things, becomes irrelevant for other platforms like mac os, or linux/bsd/etc. Microsoft has shown again and again that they want to please everyone (as long as everyone is everyone who uses their products), just a little bit, so they end up making their products so utterly complicated and complex pleasing everyone just a tiny little bit, security and performance are the first casualties.
They've recently abandonned all hope for their passport id system, and while it may have been clever on paper, in reality, didn't seem so clever. I wonder if the result of the passport debacle has made them think twice about.net. Also, given the chicken and the egg phenomenon, its (eventual) adoption is slowed by the lack of developers and the developers are waiting for its adoption.
While I'm not convinced it will flop so utterly horribly, I do believe looking back 30 or even 15 years from now, it will have been marginalized to some extent like so many other things that promised so much yet delivered so little.
Here I am, minding my own business, trying to protect people by setting up a very similar web site to their bank so I can "store" their credit card numbers for them, and some jackass goes and defaces my web site.
I never felt so insulted in all my life. Well, then. If that's people's gratitude, I'll just stop that and if they lose their credit cards, they're on their own.
That's interesting. Removing carbs from the diet to get the body to use ketones and help pevent seizures is fine, however, seizures are a good indication that the brain doesn't quite fire right (or has a much more narrow range of 'normal' operation).
Given the relatively low percentage of the population that gets them and the low/no carb diet to stop them, does not necessarily apply to the rest of us that don't get seizures.
The benefits of ketones might be overshadowed by its longer term detriment. According to the ketone definition, it's an acid and can be responsible for nasty things like cell death to probably cancer. I'd rather eat a mix of carbs, fat, protein, etc in moderation with lots of exercise than cut out carbs as a weight loss program.
Saying that when you eat compared to when you metabolize fastest makes a difference in calorie balance is like saying paying your bills right after versus right before your next paycheck changes your overall cash flow.
I believe it does. If your metabolism burns 2000 calories per day and you take in all 2000 calories in one sitting, only to drink water for the rest of the day, your body will go on the defensive and slow itself down, burning less than 2000 calories before long.
If you eat 200 calories 10 times per day, instead of having your body try to store 1900 calories for later that day, that 200 calories can stay in the bloodstream a little longer before the body needs to react, and before it does, that 200 calories is gone, only to be replaced by a new 200 calories.
There's only so much your liver can reasonably store before it tucks it away. You can't eat 14000 calories in one go and expect the liver to hold it all for the rest of the week, so it quite correctly converts it to fat. Later, it takes that fat and converts it back, but the fact of the matter is, the liver is a finite calorie storage device.
You total fuck up your metabolism by binge eating then fasting which is why all nutritionists say if you want to lose weight, eat less but more often. Also huge spikes in sugar and its storage as fat requires insulin and increases the chance of burning out the pancreas and you eventually get type 2 diabetes. The skinny people don't get type 2 diabetes, and that's because they only feed their body what it needs, when it needs it and the pancreas is not overtaxed. Fat people overload it for so long it affects their ability to produce insulin and eventually, it just stops producing it.
So I'd say, yes it makes a difference how much you eat, how often and how quickly it gets absorbed into the blood. The calorie burned v.s. calorie ingested equation is far more complicated than those two factors alone.
Isn't sugar a simple carbohydrate and glucose is a specific form of simple carbohydrate? For example, doesn't the brain use glocose OR fructose or sucrose? Glucose, fructose and sucrose are sugars but are not molecularly identical.
google definition of sugar:
A sugar is a form of carbohydrate; the most commonly used sugar is a white crystalline solid, sucrose; used to alter the flavor and properties ('mouthfeel', preservation, texture) of beverages and food. The "simple" sugars, such as glucose (which is produced from sucrose by enzymes or acid hydrolysis), are a store of energy which is used by biological cells.
Starch = complex carb sugar = simple carb
To say the brain runs on 'glucose' not sugar is like saying people drive fords, not cars.
chain enough sugar molecules together and you get starch.
It's the difference between a chain and a link in a chain. But the type of link is the type of sugar. glucose might be like a dog chain that is twisted and wound in the middle, where fructose might be a simple oval. They are both simple links.
google definition of ketone:
Waste product produced when the body is using fat as an energy source. Ketones are acids, and can cause damage or death to cells. Excess ketones accumulate in the blood and are excreted in the urine. Acetone is a ketone which can be eliminated through the lungs. Ketoacidotic animals often have a chemical smell to their breath (Some nail polish removers contain acetone - it is a similar smell).
There is a difference between 'starch fat' and 'fat fat'. Sugar is converted to 'starch fat' and back again. Fat fat is molecularly different and is not a good substitute for sugar.
Also, I did know about fat to glucose, but my point about eliminating carbs from the diet is that the body has to work harder to provide that glucose, so instead of eating a greasy hamburger patty without the bun (to avoid the carbs), eat less greasy meat and a bit more carbs. That way, you're providing a more balanced availability of energy for both the muscles (to get the high energy foods they need when walking, jogging, etc), and the brain (so it has its readily available glucose).
Thanks for clearing up that absorption thing. I'd heard a few years back that while rice, potatoes, etc were loaded with starch, it still took a fair bit of time for the enzymes to break them down to their simpler sugar forms, or simple enough to be absorbed through the intestinal wall. It would be akin to making gravel size pebbles fit through a grate from fist sized rocks v.s. car sized boulders using a large workforce swinging pick axes. There are only so many people that can surround a car sized boulder, but if you have that same mass of rock already fist sized, you could get a whole lot more people breaking it down, far more rapidly. Getting indigestable matter like fiber to slow it down is another way, but I thought the main method of preventing absorption was in the complexity of the initial carbohydrate molecule. I guess it's not that simple.
If life is complicated, then the answers to life are by no means simple and it's very likely that the impact of foods on blood sugar are also quite complex. Also, I agree with your assessment of diet and weight loss. The brain only runs on sugar and cutting out carbohydrates to me is a very dangerous game to play. It should be clear that a diet of donuts and coffee is not a very good choice of diet, going on an all meat diet is also quite foolish.
A balanced moderated diet of carbs, proteins, vitamins, fats/oils, minerals and water along with a scheduled and adequate sleep cycle with an exercise program is probably the only thing that will make your brain and body work at its best. We as a north american society, choose to run around incessantly so we have little time to eat properly, no time to exercise, and we try to do too much in the day which cuts down on our quality sleep, then we wonder why we're so overweight, lethargic and stupid.
Perhaps the problem is as much what people eat as how much time they are willing to invest in eating it.
Something like a pop tart or nutrigrain bar is it's ready right away.
Sugar is a simple carbohydrate and is readily absorbed into the bloodstream. There's a nasty spike of sugar in the blood and the body produces a whole lot of insulin to get rid of it by converting it into fat. Whole wheat toast is an example of a complex carbohydrate which has long chains of carbohydrates. The body has to expend a fair bit of energy just to break it down so it ends up taking far longer to work into the bloodstream.
While there are convenient foods like toast or fruit that provide the complex carbohydrates, leftover spaghetti or rice from the night before would also do the trick and would give you the staying power that a piece of fruit might not give.
The body also starts to slow its metabolic rate down several hours before you go to bed and in north america, we (foolishly) eat our biggest meal then. From a weight loss point of view it makes the most sense to eat a modest meal when we get up to kickstart the metabolism, to eat the largest meal at noon so we have the energy to do all our work throughout the day, and a light snack at 6pm to tide us over through the night (for/. regulars that would be noon for breakfast, 4:0pm for lunch and 10:00 pm for the evening snack before bed).
I wonder if it is possible to have a near infinite number of copyrighted works available
Sure it is. All you need is an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards.
For that matter, why not just get hardware based random number generators to produce endless streams of chars. Sooner or later, you'll get anything from the complete works of shakespeare to instructions on how to cure cancer or instructions to legally kick out the current administration.
Oh wait, never mind. You're talking about copyrighted works available. My bad.
It's a game console. It plays games. As long as it plays games well, does it matter if it's windows, a derivative of windows, or flying pixies?
If the sole purpose of my computer was for playing games, then I wouldn't care if it was run by windows, linux, or hampsters, as long as it did that well. My objection to using windows for my desktop is that I do all my computer related stuff on it (pvr, software dev, internet, etc) and because of that, for me, window's crap runs down its leg far too often for my liking and I'm left trying to clean up the mess.
Given the fact that this new XBox, from a business point of view, should be able to play the games from the first XBox, means it will have an OS that is very similar to the first.
I'm not shocked it's based on the one that was based on win 2k. But really, what are you going to do with your xbox other than play games? surf for porn? If it's based on IBMs processor, at least it wouldn't be affected by wintel spyware.
We should show them the/. effect and send nothing but linux security questions
And it would be just as much a waste of effort. The current design of windows is so flawed when it comes to security if microsoft actually listened to their customers, would have to revamp their entire security model in the OS breaking just about everything in windows. Microsoft is in a very tight spot right now with their design of windows and anything more than lipservice on their part would mean making a very hard decision to change the OS so fundamentally that it is not compatible with its predecessors and is something they cannot afford to do. As it stands, the security or lack of security in windows will remain for quite some time.
There are tricks they can use to minimize the damage once security has been breached. For example, Upgrade the active/x layer to allow a 'read-only' mode for a given process wherein the first thing the web browser does when it starts up is to neuter itself. Whether you run IE as administrator or not, it's a safe bet that more harm than good can be done letting it run silently. By having IE issue a call to a one-way demotion of privileges, along with a 'this application is trying to do this. Enter your administrator password to override for this one time occasion', would vastly improve but not solve the security problems. With this simple trick, spyware infested web sites would have a much harder time installing their wares without you knowing about it. Again, it wouldn't solve that security problem, but it would greatly improve it.
Then again, maybe, yeah. We SHOULD ask them how to secure our linux boxes better. At least I'd get a kick out of the reaction from the microsoft soldiers.
Of course, the end-user must be responsible for keeping this updated.
Why not incorporate a GPS receiver into the unit? When 911 is dialed, the phone can send the co-ordinates to the 911 center.
It might be overkill to have a GPS receiver built into the phone, only to be used for that purpose and when it's actually needed it might not give an actual apartment number, but it could come in handy on its own for people who travel a lot.
Perhaps too, every time the phone is unplugged it could force the person to voice their current location which it keeps in flash memory before it allows them to use it again. Then if the 911 service needs to know where you are, they could send a query command so the phone can tell them where you are for you.
why not just make a 'faster windows' all around, that runs fast on both old and new hardware?
Didn't ya know? every version of windows has a hidden kernel level idle loop to make it chunky and slow. It starts off to make any computer feel like a pentium 75 and only slows down from there. The additional duration of that idle loop is proportional to the size of the registry. Windows is slow? It's not an accident. It's a design feature.
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Actually revision one of my post was:
watch is right twice a day.
and revision two was supposed to be:
watch is accurate twice a day.
I screwed up and replaced the wrong word. I replaced the word 'twice' for 'accurate' when the word that should have been replaced was 'right'.
Every single analog watch I've ever seen is based on 12 hours and since there are two 12 hour periods in the standard 24 hour day, then the statement that a stopped watch (which need not be broken, btw, simply not wound) is accurate twice a day is a fair statement. The duration of the accuracy can be for an infinitesimal amount of time, but it is still accurate.
Thanks for pointing that out, it was a problem with my editing I only caught after I had posted it.
Actually, I believe Gary Kurtz helped George Lucas with 'new hope' and 'empire strikes back' which were arguably the best two of the whole lot of them.
He quit when George Lucas insisted on changing the plot for 'return of the jedi' by making darth vader turn away from the dark side at the very end in a single act of sacrifice - as if that one act alone was enough to redeem him.
The original story called for darth vader to be killed in episode 6.
Mod parent +10 insightful!
Only one point I'd like to add though, is that unlike hitler and other fascists in history, I do believe Bush is not so much after the allure and power in and of itself, but rather by a dubious sense of 'higher purpose' by his beliefs and his insistance that everyone share them. From his point of view it's his 'duty' to bring democracy and stability to the world and to persuade other like minded people to help him push it through, essentially by any means necessary. He's on some kind of crusade, and while in the end the effects are pretty much the same, the motives are somewhat different.
You mean... they weren't intentional?!
Maybe they were. It's hard to tell. Given that the rest was pretty much crap, maybe he finally did something right.
I'd say it +5 funny more than +5 informative. It can still be tragically true and be funny.
Easter egg 1 - background mumbling - during normal shooting, background actors are usually asked to pretend like they are talking but not actually make any noise. This allows the boom mic to pick up the main actor's voice more clearly without the distraction of somebody in the background. The background dialogue you hear in this case is more than likely the ad-libbing of the foley sound stage actors.
Easter egg 2 - Hayden's acting - Given 2 hours + of movie time, it's entirely possible he appears to be able to act decently for that one frame through pure random coincidence. A similar concept of a stopped 'analog' watch is right accurate a day.
I think George Lucas got lucky with these two points.
Tabs are going to confuse most users for some unknown reason, but due to popular demand, IE7 will finally have them?
Wow.
But on an aside, will they be using that mentality and implementing them in a similar way as others, or will microsoft go their own way again as usual and set their own standard which they will try to force everyone to adhere to and firefox and the likes will be forced to implement something similar?
I keep hearing stories about how language abc or environment xyz is going to revolutionize the programming world and it will be so simple, easy to use and all encompassing that the boss's pet monkey can do most of the work.
.net. Also, given the chicken and the egg phenomenon, its (eventual) adoption is slowed by the lack of developers and the developers are waiting for its adoption.
The fact of the matter is, all languages, no matter how clever, complete or complicated they are, must ultimately get translated to binary code. There are so many proven and well established languages/environments out there, I roll my eyes when I hear of promises that another will become the definitive one that will displace all others (yeah, here we go again).
Given this one is from microsoft means it's (very likely) targetted to windows exclusively (or mainly, most complete, the only supported platform) and in the grander scheme of things, becomes irrelevant for other platforms like mac os, or linux/bsd/etc. Microsoft has shown again and again that they want to please everyone (as long as everyone is everyone who uses their products), just a little bit, so they end up making their products so utterly complicated and complex pleasing everyone just a tiny little bit, security and performance are the first casualties.
They've recently abandonned all hope for their passport id system, and while it may have been clever on paper, in reality, didn't seem so clever. I wonder if the result of the passport debacle has made them think twice about
While I'm not convinced it will flop so utterly horribly, I do believe looking back 30 or even 15 years from now, it will have been marginalized to some extent like so many other things that promised so much yet delivered so little.
.....and a hell of a lot of porn. How sweet is that?
Here I am, minding my own business, trying to protect people by setting up a very similar web site to their bank so I can "store" their credit card numbers for them, and some jackass goes and defaces my web site.
I never felt so insulted in all my life. Well, then. If that's people's gratitude, I'll just stop that and if they lose their credit cards, they're on their own.
That's interesting. Removing carbs from the diet to get the body to use ketones and help pevent seizures is fine, however, seizures are a good indication that the brain doesn't quite fire right (or has a much more narrow range of 'normal' operation).
Given the relatively low percentage of the population that gets them and the low/no carb diet to stop them, does not necessarily apply to the rest of us that don't get seizures.
The benefits of ketones might be overshadowed by its longer term detriment. According to the ketone definition, it's an acid and can be responsible for nasty things like cell death to probably cancer. I'd rather eat a mix of carbs, fat, protein, etc in moderation with lots of exercise than cut out carbs as a weight loss program.
Saying that when you eat compared to when you metabolize fastest makes a difference in calorie balance is like saying paying your bills right after versus right before your next paycheck changes your overall cash flow.
I believe it does. If your metabolism burns 2000 calories per day and you take in all 2000 calories in one sitting, only to drink water for the rest of the day, your body will go on the defensive and slow itself down, burning less than 2000 calories before long.
If you eat 200 calories 10 times per day, instead of having your body try to store 1900 calories for later that day, that 200 calories can stay in the bloodstream a little longer before the body needs to react, and before it does, that 200 calories is gone, only to be replaced by a new 200 calories.
There's only so much your liver can reasonably store before it tucks it away. You can't eat 14000 calories in one go and expect the liver to hold it all for the rest of the week, so it quite correctly converts it to fat. Later, it takes that fat and converts it back, but the fact of the matter is, the liver is a finite calorie storage device.
You total fuck up your metabolism by binge eating then fasting which is why all nutritionists say if you want to lose weight, eat less but more often. Also huge spikes in sugar and its storage as fat requires insulin and increases the chance of burning out the pancreas and you eventually get type 2 diabetes. The skinny people don't get type 2 diabetes, and that's because they only feed their body what it needs, when it needs it and the pancreas is not overtaxed. Fat people overload it for so long it affects their ability to produce insulin and eventually, it just stops producing it.
So I'd say, yes it makes a difference how much you eat, how often and how quickly it gets absorbed into the blood. The calorie burned v.s. calorie ingested equation is far more complicated than those two factors alone.
Isn't sugar a simple carbohydrate and glucose is a specific form of simple carbohydrate? For example, doesn't the brain use glocose OR fructose or sucrose? Glucose, fructose and sucrose are sugars but are not molecularly identical.
q =define:ketone
google definition of sugar:
A sugar is a form of carbohydrate; the most commonly used sugar is a white crystalline solid, sucrose; used to alter the flavor and properties ('mouthfeel', preservation, texture) of beverages and food. The "simple" sugars, such as glucose (which is produced from sucrose by enzymes or acid hydrolysis), are a store of energy which is used by biological cells.
Starch = complex carb
sugar = simple carb
To say the brain runs on 'glucose' not sugar is like saying people drive fords, not cars.
chain enough sugar molecules together and you get starch.
It's the difference between a chain and a link in a chain. But the type of link is the type of sugar. glucose might be like a dog chain that is twisted and wound in the middle, where fructose might be a simple oval. They are both simple links.
google definition of ketone:
Waste product produced when the body is using fat as an energy source. Ketones are acids, and can cause damage or death to cells. Excess ketones accumulate in the blood and are excreted in the urine. Acetone is a ketone which can be eliminated through the lungs. Ketoacidotic animals often have a chemical smell to their breath (Some nail polish removers contain acetone - it is a similar smell).
There is a difference between 'starch fat' and 'fat fat'. Sugar is converted to 'starch fat' and back again. Fat fat is molecularly different and is not a good substitute for sugar.
Also, I did know about fat to glucose, but my point about eliminating carbs from the diet is that the body has to work harder to provide that glucose, so instead of eating a greasy hamburger patty without the bun (to avoid the carbs), eat less greasy meat and a bit more carbs. That way, you're providing a more balanced availability of energy for both the muscles (to get the high energy foods they need when walking, jogging, etc), and the brain (so it has its readily available glucose).
Other references:
http://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000064/CH064.HTML
and
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&
Thanks for clearing up that absorption thing. I'd heard a few years back that while rice, potatoes, etc were loaded with starch, it still took a fair bit of time for the enzymes to break them down to their simpler sugar forms, or simple enough to be absorbed through the intestinal wall. It would be akin to making gravel size pebbles fit through a grate from fist sized rocks v.s. car sized boulders using a large workforce swinging pick axes. There are only so many people that can surround a car sized boulder, but if you have that same mass of rock already fist sized, you could get a whole lot more people breaking it down, far more rapidly. Getting indigestable matter like fiber to slow it down is another way, but I thought the main method of preventing absorption was in the complexity of the initial carbohydrate molecule. I guess it's not that simple.
If life is complicated, then the answers to life are by no means simple and it's very likely that the impact of foods on blood sugar are also quite complex. Also, I agree with your assessment of diet and weight loss. The brain only runs on sugar and cutting out carbohydrates to me is a very dangerous game to play. It should be clear that a diet of donuts and coffee is not a very good choice of diet, going on an all meat diet is also quite foolish.
A balanced moderated diet of carbs, proteins, vitamins, fats/oils, minerals and water along with a scheduled and adequate sleep cycle with an exercise program is probably the only thing that will make your brain and body work at its best. We as a north american society, choose to run around incessantly so we have little time to eat properly, no time to exercise, and we try to do too much in the day which cuts down on our quality sleep, then we wonder why we're so overweight, lethargic and stupid.
Perhaps the problem is as much what people eat as how much time they are willing to invest in eating it.
/. regulars that would be noon for breakfast, 4:0pm for lunch and 10:00 pm for the evening snack before bed).
Something like a pop tart or nutrigrain bar is it's ready right away.
Sugar is a simple carbohydrate and is readily absorbed into the bloodstream. There's a nasty spike of sugar in the blood and the body produces a whole lot of insulin to get rid of it by converting it into fat. Whole wheat toast is an example of a complex carbohydrate which has long chains of carbohydrates. The body has to expend a fair bit of energy just to break it down so it ends up taking far longer to work into the bloodstream.
While there are convenient foods like toast or fruit that provide the complex carbohydrates, leftover spaghetti or rice from the night before would also do the trick and would give you the staying power that a piece of fruit might not give.
The body also starts to slow its metabolic rate down several hours before you go to bed and in north america, we (foolishly) eat our biggest meal then. From a weight loss point of view it makes the most sense to eat a modest meal when we get up to kickstart the metabolism, to eat the largest meal at noon so we have the energy to do all our work throughout the day, and a light snack at 6pm to tide us over through the night (for
First, go to the top of the class by eating breakfast.
/. are two ways to turn your brain into a couch potato.
That and late nights on
I'm not dumb. I'm resting my brain.
I wonder if it is possible to have a near infinite number of copyrighted works available
Sure it is. All you need is an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards.
For that matter, why not just get hardware based random number generators to produce endless streams of chars. Sooner or later, you'll get anything from the complete works of shakespeare to instructions on how to cure cancer or instructions to legally kick out the current administration.
Oh wait, never mind. You're talking about copyrighted works available. My bad.
It's a game console. It plays games. As long as it plays games well, does it matter if it's windows, a derivative of windows, or flying pixies?
If the sole purpose of my computer was for playing games, then I wouldn't care if it was run by windows, linux, or hampsters, as long as it did that well. My objection to using windows for my desktop is that I do all my computer related stuff on it (pvr, software dev, internet, etc) and because of that, for me, window's crap runs down its leg far too often for my liking and I'm left trying to clean up the mess.
Given the fact that this new XBox, from a business point of view, should be able to play the games from the first XBox, means it will have an OS that is very similar to the first.
I'm not shocked it's based on the one that was based on win 2k. But really, what are you going to do with your xbox other than play games? surf for porn? If it's based on IBMs processor, at least it wouldn't be affected by wintel spyware.
We should show them the /. effect and send nothing but linux security questions
And it would be just as much a waste of effort. The current design of windows is so flawed when it comes to security if microsoft actually listened to their customers, would have to revamp their entire security model in the OS breaking just about everything in windows. Microsoft is in a very tight spot right now with their design of windows and anything more than lipservice on their part would mean making a very hard decision to change the OS so fundamentally that it is not compatible with its predecessors and is something they cannot afford to do. As it stands, the security or lack of security in windows will remain for quite some time. There are tricks they can use to minimize the damage once security has been breached. For example, Upgrade the active/x layer to allow a 'read-only' mode for a given process wherein the first thing the web browser does when it starts up is to neuter itself. Whether you run IE as administrator or not, it's a safe bet that more harm than good can be done letting it run silently. By having IE issue a call to a one-way demotion of privileges, along with a 'this application is trying to do this. Enter your administrator password to override for this one time occasion', would vastly improve but not solve the security problems. With this simple trick, spyware infested web sites would have a much harder time installing their wares without you knowing about it. Again, it wouldn't solve that security problem, but it would greatly improve it.
Then again, maybe, yeah. We SHOULD ask them how to secure our linux boxes better. At least I'd get a kick out of the reaction from the microsoft soldiers.
Of course, the end-user must be responsible for keeping this updated.
Why not incorporate a GPS receiver into the unit? When 911 is dialed, the phone can send the co-ordinates to the 911 center.
It might be overkill to have a GPS receiver built into the phone, only to be used for that purpose and when it's actually needed it might not give an actual apartment number, but it could come in handy on its own for people who travel a lot.
Perhaps too, every time the phone is unplugged it could force the person to voice their current location which it keeps in flash memory before it allows them to use it again. Then if the 911 service needs to know where you are, they could send a query command so the phone can tell them where you are for you.
why not just make a 'faster windows' all around, that runs fast on both old and new hardware?
Didn't ya know? every version of windows has a hidden kernel level idle loop to make it chunky and slow. It starts off to make any computer feel like a pentium 75 and only slows down from there. The additional duration of that idle loop is proportional to the size of the registry. Windows is slow? It's not an accident. It's a design feature.
And when they hyped their office xp, they played it to (can't remember the exact song title but something close to) 'lunatic fringe'.
Who modded this funny? Insightful, yes, Informative yes, but funny? I don't think there's anything funny about it.
/. should also limit AC posts to one every 10 or 30 minutes.
Through the use of cookies and ip addresses, I think
If you want to be an AC, then exposure should be limited.
Santa Clara Operations.
I believe that's Santa Cruz Operations.
choke the chicken....
I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!
Touching yourself? Well that's not hard. I do that all the time.
The trick is to get a real girl to want to touch you..... together OR remotely. That's the really hard part.