He's newsworthy, in some circles, and his move to MS was certainly noted. In his departure he didn't badmouth anyone or bitch and moan. I'd personally like to know more about why he left, but the way he did it seems pretty classy.
If a blu-ray player is $1000 (and currently it is) and the PS3 is sub-$500 (they currently claim it will be) then you'll see people walk over to buy a PS3 just to play blu-ray.
Of course this is where I get confused. If the cheapest BR player is a grand and bigger than my stereo reciever, how on earth is the PS3 going to come in at less than half the price and no bigger than the 360?
I'm reserving judgement until I see the final product, but I think this is why no one has see the final product.
Well, there's nothing quite like a Blackberry to switch to. There are some devices that can be tweaked to get a Blackberry-esque experience, but it isn't the same.
The closest thing will be the new Windows Mobile 5 devices, but they aren't really out yet. So RIM could have lost a lot of customers, but the competition just wasn't positioned in time.
Yea, but everyone already knew that (crime pays). Luckily, finding security holes in products is hard work and that keeps most of the criminally inclined away.
We moved over to XP after SP2. The integrated firewall was something that made the move worthwhile to us. At least for us, Vista will be the same way. It'll wait until there's something compelling about it. (like running on the MacBook);)
I don't think most people knew about it in the first place. A friend of mine manages a virgin music store and when I asked about it he hadn't had anyone try to exchange a DRM cd for a new one.
All the other people I've talked to about it had blank faces.
AC went all sidewise there at the end, but you're wrong about the ownership issue. It's not your car. It's the bank's car. There's a lein on it that must be cleared before the state will allow you to do anything with the car. If you had collision coverage, you'd know that because the beneficiary is the bank. **Sorry had to get in at least one dig since I pay thru the nose for insurance**
This is something that allows car salesmen (slimey in even the nicest of dealerships) to sell cars to people that have shown again and again that they are not able to manage their money and meet their obligations.
Since the concequences for non-payment are immediate, they're less likely to skip a payment or not pay at all. In a perfect world this would reduce their interest/cost since the dealership is not so much at risk, but people who have pissed away all their options / had repeated horrible luck don't have many choices which tends to result in lopsided deals in the seller's favor.
Act! does this and it pisses me off. It's a special instance of the MS SQL Desktop Engine (you should already be worried) with a SE password known only to the app. There's a tool that you can use to reset it (probably where I'd start if I wanted to capture it), but you can't ever get it to reval it.
This is really annoying since you then can't actually back up the data from SQL; since you can't connect to it. You either have to manually export or trust the users do this occassionally.
Sadam had fake elections too, that didn't make Iraq a Democracy. When you have an un-elected board that trims and picks those who are allowed to run (including the omission of many incumbants) it's a sham, not Democracy.
You have to go North to Turkey to find the closest Democracy in the region.
I don't have the time now to make such a thoughful and respectful reply as you did (although I'll leave the respect in).
I see the desire to quit in Iraq to be the typical response of the lazy American public. "It's hard, let's quit." Hopefully I'm wrong.
I don't see our situation as weak and in need of repositioning. Military targets are hard to get to, and the obstrucionist murderers are now mainly killing Iraqis. I don't see how US force repositioning can help them.
I also don't see a civil war as inevitable, that orientation is what really shapes our views. I just think that it'll take the comitminet of US forces for up to 10 years to really stabilize the country.
This wasn't what most people expected. I don't think that anyone who really looked at the issue really saw this as a 1-3 year mission. The American public should be pissed at ALL of Congress over this horrible mistake.
Your opposition to the war in Iraq is moot. Unless you have a time machine it doesn't matter. The question now, is do we cut and run (which we know will end in disaster) or do we finish what we started (even if you think we shouldn't have started anything).
I never did buy the whole WMD thing, I figured if there were really there we could seize an installation and bring in the inspectors, or at least tell the inspectors where to look. Still, I say we stay and finish it right. Our half-assed nature of messing things up and then leaving is what got us islamo-terrorism in the first place. (Of course deciding that totalitarian states were better than communist ones was a bad choice as well.)
Well, the 150 decible, bleeding from the ears level is only at a range of 1 meter. At a hundred meters, it's probably closer to the "what the hell is that" level. Perfect for getting the attention of the drunks aboard the Good Times and preventing any loss of life.
I do agree that at either level it does no good against someone set on suicide.
No, stupid rules aren't illegal, but stuipd rules that will cause harm can be blocked. I didn't RTFA, but you can get an injunction that either prevents the stupid rule from being enforced or invalidates the rule altogether.
Why should the goverment give you a gift (from other taxpayers) for a low water washing machine? It'd be better if they didn't subsidize the water to the point that it is almost free. Then your water saving washer would pay for itself, and more people would be encouraged by their own self interst into buying them.
Stop looking for handouts for doing the right thing. Lobby to have the goverment stop keeping the price of doing the wrong thing artifically low.
Nah... It's really nothing different from the other consoles. The first games don't have the experience with the compilers or dev tools necessary to really get everything out of the box. The second and third rounds of games get better, with the devs really getting things going right before the platform gets upgraded.
Compare a new PS2 release with something that came out at launch, (depending on the titles) they don't even look like they were for the same system.
I always thought it was a more theoretical argument.
Today unused embryos are worthless trash, if legal for research they'd be a very valuable commodity. This might give the incentive to overcollect embryos or start paying women to donate embryos only to turn around and sell them.
I'm not familiar with Bastille but the Security Configuration Wizard included with W2k3 SP1 does a lot of this. It will help you by identifying services that you can disable, modify the registry to secure the machine and will help build your firewall rules for the things you want to have runnning.
It's not perfect, but it provides a good starting point and can roll back the changes you make. It also creates an XML file with the changes it recommends if you want to simply review it and make any changes yourself.
When your interoperability disables the copy protection technique, you are breaking the law. I'd like to see the DMCA go away, but as written the outcome was obvious.
Not safe to make assumptions, especially with the breadth of a site like this. I remember a time before the 8086, and most of the companies you mention were niche players. Just like HPUX is a niche player today, and doing quite well (we just picked up one machine for a quarter million).
No one was mainstream at that time, since most people didn't have (and didn't need) a computer.
I still stand by my statement. There's lots of room for all kind of *nix based systems, some like BSD, some like Linux (a million flavors in one), some like their old school unix. Some shops run Windows, some run Apple. There's lots of room. Maybe not everyone will be a gazillionaire, but if the open source movement is to believe, they really don't want to be.
I like lots of different ways to get the job done. Not every problem that looks the same at first glance is best achieved in the same way. I like to pick the tool that does the best job (or sometimes best fits the budget).
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He's newsworthy, in some circles, and his move to MS was certainly noted. In his departure he didn't badmouth anyone or bitch and moan. I'd personally like to know more about why he left, but the way he did it seems pretty classy.
If a blu-ray player is $1000 (and currently it is) and the PS3 is sub-$500 (they currently claim it will be) then you'll see people walk over to buy a PS3 just to play blu-ray.
Of course this is where I get confused. If the cheapest BR player is a grand and bigger than my stereo reciever, how on earth is the PS3 going to come in at less than half the price and no bigger than the 360?
I'm reserving judgement until I see the final product, but I think this is why no one has see the final product.
Well, there's nothing quite like a Blackberry to switch to. There are some devices that can be tweaked to get a Blackberry-esque experience, but it isn't the same.
The closest thing will be the new Windows Mobile 5 devices, but they aren't really out yet. So RIM could have lost a lot of customers, but the competition just wasn't positioned in time.
Yea, but everyone already knew that (crime pays). Luckily, finding security holes in products is hard work and that keeps most of the criminally inclined away.
I don't use it on my desktop, but for pushing to 300 desktops with control via group policy, the SP2 firewall is just fine.
We moved over to XP after SP2. The integrated firewall was something that made the move worthwhile to us. At least for us, Vista will be the same way. It'll wait until there's something compelling about it. (like running on the MacBook) ;)
I don't think most people knew about it in the first place. A friend of mine manages a virgin music store and when I asked about it he hadn't had anyone try to exchange a DRM cd for a new one.
All the other people I've talked to about it had blank faces.
AC went all sidewise there at the end, but you're wrong about the ownership issue. It's not your car. It's the bank's car. There's a lein on it that must be cleared before the state will allow you to do anything with the car. If you had collision coverage, you'd know that because the beneficiary is the bank. **Sorry had to get in at least one dig since I pay thru the nose for insurance**
This is something that allows car salesmen (slimey in even the nicest of dealerships) to sell cars to people that have shown again and again that they are not able to manage their money and meet their obligations.
Since the concequences for non-payment are immediate, they're less likely to skip a payment or not pay at all. In a perfect world this would reduce their interest/cost since the dealership is not so much at risk, but people who have pissed away all their options / had repeated horrible luck don't have many choices which tends to result in lopsided deals in the seller's favor.
Act! does this and it pisses me off. It's a special instance of the MS SQL Desktop Engine (you should already be worried) with a SE password known only to the app. There's a tool that you can use to reset it (probably where I'd start if I wanted to capture it), but you can't ever get it to reval it.
This is really annoying since you then can't actually back up the data from SQL; since you can't connect to it. You either have to manually export or trust the users do this occassionally.
Yes it does. It also costs less than $100, which is what a nice set of sunglasses will set you back anyways.
Sadam had fake elections too, that didn't make Iraq a Democracy. When you have an un-elected board that trims and picks those who are allowed to run (including the omission of many incumbants) it's a sham, not Democracy.
You have to go North to Turkey to find the closest Democracy in the region.
I don't have the time now to make such a thoughful and respectful reply as you did (although I'll leave the respect in).
I see the desire to quit in Iraq to be the typical response of the lazy American public. "It's hard, let's quit." Hopefully I'm wrong.
I don't see our situation as weak and in need of repositioning. Military targets are hard to get to, and the obstrucionist murderers are now mainly killing Iraqis. I don't see how US force repositioning can help them.
I also don't see a civil war as inevitable, that orientation is what really shapes our views. I just think that it'll take the comitminet of US forces for up to 10 years to really stabilize the country.
This wasn't what most people expected. I don't think that anyone who really looked at the issue really saw this as a 1-3 year mission. The American public should be pissed at ALL of Congress over this horrible mistake.
Your opposition to the war in Iraq is moot. Unless you have a time machine it doesn't matter. The question now, is do we cut and run (which we know will end in disaster) or do we finish what we started (even if you think we shouldn't have started anything).
I never did buy the whole WMD thing, I figured if there were really there we could seize an installation and bring in the inspectors, or at least tell the inspectors where to look. Still, I say we stay and finish it right. Our half-assed nature of messing things up and then leaving is what got us islamo-terrorism in the first place. (Of course deciding that totalitarian states were better than communist ones was a bad choice as well.)
Man, I wish my server had that mod. :)
I think that's a "dear john" letter.
Well, the 150 decible, bleeding from the ears level is only at a range of 1 meter. At a hundred meters, it's probably closer to the "what the hell is that" level. Perfect for getting the attention of the drunks aboard the Good Times and preventing any loss of life.
I do agree that at either level it does no good against someone set on suicide.
No, stupid rules aren't illegal, but stuipd rules that will cause harm can be blocked. I didn't RTFA, but you can get an injunction that either prevents the stupid rule from being enforced or invalidates the rule altogether.
Wow, I'm not sure how you got to shutting down the water treatment plants and dehydrating the poor, but enjoy playing with your straw man over there.
Why should the goverment give you a gift (from other taxpayers) for a low water washing machine? It'd be better if they didn't subsidize the water to the point that it is almost free. Then your water saving washer would pay for itself, and more people would be encouraged by their own self interst into buying them.
Stop looking for handouts for doing the right thing. Lobby to have the goverment stop keeping the price of doing the wrong thing artifically low.
Nah... It's really nothing different from the other consoles. The first games don't have the experience with the compilers or dev tools necessary to really get everything out of the box. The second and third rounds of games get better, with the devs really getting things going right before the platform gets upgraded.
Compare a new PS2 release with something that came out at launch, (depending on the titles) they don't even look like they were for the same system.
I always thought it was a more theoretical argument.
Today unused embryos are worthless trash, if legal for research they'd be a very valuable commodity. This might give the incentive to overcollect embryos or start paying women to donate embryos only to turn around and sell them.
I'm not familiar with Bastille but the Security Configuration Wizard included with W2k3 SP1 does a lot of this. It will help you by identifying services that you can disable, modify the registry to secure the machine and will help build your firewall rules for the things you want to have runnning.
It's not perfect, but it provides a good starting point and can roll back the changes you make. It also creates an XML file with the changes it recommends if you want to simply review it and make any changes yourself.
The reported battery life is 14 hours.
When your interoperability disables the copy protection technique, you are breaking the law. I'd like to see the DMCA go away, but as written the outcome was obvious.
Not safe to make assumptions, especially with the breadth of a site like this. I remember a time before the 8086, and most of the companies you mention were niche players. Just like HPUX is a niche player today, and doing quite well (we just picked up one machine for a quarter million).
No one was mainstream at that time, since most people didn't have (and didn't need) a computer.
I still stand by my statement. There's lots of room for all kind of *nix based systems, some like BSD, some like Linux (a million flavors in one), some like their old school unix. Some shops run Windows, some run Apple. There's lots of room. Maybe not everyone will be a gazillionaire, but if the open source movement is to believe, they really don't want to be.
I like lots of different ways to get the job done. Not every problem that looks the same at first glance is best achieved in the same way. I like to pick the tool that does the best job (or sometimes best fits the budget).
As always, YMMV.