$35 for all of them combined. Now granted, they were older used titles but who cares if it's an NFL 2004 or NFL 2006 game other than some sports fanatic? Those kinds of people run out and pay $75 for NFL 2006 as soon as it comes out. It's just silly. They've locked us into these stupid upgrade schemes where the majority of stuff that changes, especially in sports games, is the roster. They could easily make that updateable online onto a memory card or something. I know I know, then they wouldn't sell that $75 game each season. Sports games == vampires.:-)
And just in case the story poster missed it, HERE IS YOUR ANALOG HOLE. WIDE OPEN, AND USED BY PIRATES WORLD WIDE!!!
I thought you were going to post a link to the Goatse.cx guy with a sentence like that. Anyway, what stops people from still going into a theater with a video camera? They're getting smaller and smaller and harder to detect. Putting complex DRM or analog-crippling output on a DVD isn't going to stop people from doing that.
I buy around 4 games per year, they cost $75 each (if not more).
If you're paying $75 for games you're on some serious crack. Go to a Gamestop and pick out some used games. I bought 5 games for $35 around Christmas time. It's not like they wear out, they're CD/DVD media these days and not the awful "blow on them and pray your NES reads them" cartridges. If they're scratched or unreadable they take them back.
That's pretty neat, but the interface looks really hokey. It costs a bit more, but you'll get a nicer setup if you go with a Via EPIA motherboard and memory in a small case and have it boot off the network as well using the MiniMyth distribution. I will have to look into the Hauppauge though just for kicks in case they improve the themes available.
Since over 90% of visitors use IE, I have to design the site for IE.
So why don't they program firefox to render pages the same way IE does it?
Because IE is displaying them incorrectly and is not standards compliant. Just because Microsoft's calculator application says 2.45+2.45=5 doesn't mean it's correct. The most intelligent thing you could do is write your web pages for Firefox and then have Javascript that munges the IE-specific parts so it displays "correctly" for users using the broken IE browsers.
Doesn't he know lm_sensors is available for Linux? I've been using it for as long as I can remember to monitor the temperature, voltage, fans, etc. When I saw this announcement I was kind of startled that OpenBSD *hasn't* had this sensor support for so long, yet people consider it a production operating system. How can it be production if you don't know whether or not your CPU fan has died and your CPU is melting? I guess they're trying to say lm_sensors isn't included in the vanilla kernel, but a lot of distributions include it in their kernels.
Vista appears to be no different -- if your "limiting reagent" is the rating amount of video RAM, you cannot produce a total 5.2 score. Nor can you take the average, so you're stuck with 3.7. You also don't have enough to meet the 4 threshold, so you're stuck with less than 4... which turns out to be a 3 on the Vista step-scale.
So why not just skip all the other numbers and just list the performance of the system based on the lowest whole number? Woo, you have a 5 GHZ AMD Ahtlon64 system with 4 gigs of ram and a 1GB NVidia 7800 video card, but you have a 40 gig hard drive. Your overall system score is a 1.
The first of these is the most ironic. Back in 1999, Mac users were still ridiculing "Micros~1", while in fact it was their operating system, not Microsoft's, which could not handle adequately long filenames!
And Microsoft Office X still had that crappy 31 character limitation. I was wondering why it wouldn't let me save a document with more than 31 characters since I had never used OS 9.. I guess that explains it, Microsoft sucks.
Why not just build a word processor into a Firefox extension if you're going to require it? Why not just write the word processor using Java and remove the requirement to be online at all?
Microsoft has said that the Intel GMA 900 and ATI Radeon X200 are the minimum graphics cards for using the "new" DirectX GUI.
I really miss the old days when I knew my friend's EGA card was better than my CGA card and my CGA card was better than a monochrome graphics card. When I got a 386 with a VGA card I made sure to really brag about it to him because he was still stuck in lame 16 color land. Muhahahaha. These days I have no fucking clue if my NVidia GeForce 6600 is slower or faster than an ATI Radeon X200 or an Intel GMA 900. Why can't these companies just come up with a common numbering scheme so that newer and faster graphics cards get higher numbers so we can easily tell why they want us to spend more money on them? And WTF is up with ATI naming it an X200? What the hell does that even mean? Their high end cards used to be 9800 or something. Are they going to roman numerals? Why not just name it the ATI Radeon 10200?
I suspect most of the sites that will be blocked are the commercial ones, where you need a credit card to get 'in the front door' anyway, which blocks all but the most determined minors.
You know, back in the old days (1995/1996 thereabouts) porn vendors had SOME level of common decency and would at least black out the penetration and tits on their teaser pages, now even the "free preview" stuff is just as hardcore as the shit you'll get when you pay for it. They don't even bother with false pretenses of setting up a click-thru page to accept the "I am 18, blah blah blah" agreement anymore. Mistype a common popular URL and you're usually finding yourself at either a domain squatter's site or a pornographic site with nudity right there on the front page. Frankly before I ever let my daughter on the Internet I will ensure she is blocked access to ALL websites and is only allowed to surf an approved whitelist of sites (and I will monitor her IM and her e-mail and everything else she does like a parent SHOULD do). Some people don't know how to do that though so I can understand them calling for legislation to compensate for their technical ignorance.
Here in Finland one can by whatever phone he wishes and then he can choose whatever service provider he likes. He even can change his service provider to another without that his gsm number changes at any given point in time.
Here in America you get a $150 phone for free when you sign up for a 2 year commitment to use the services of a single cell phone company. If you want to cancel your contract you're often charged around $150-$200 for an early cancellation penalty AND your phone is often worthless and you either need to sell it on eBay or toss it in the trash and buy a new one. I've gone through this several times when going from GTE Wireless to Alltel to AT&T Wireless to Sprint PCS. I really wish there was just a standard phone that worked on all the networks and had a card like they have in Europe... Hell, I should be able to remove the card and put it in someone else's phone in a pinch and use my phone service using their phone without a hassle.
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watching as some overlay pops every time i accidentally move my mouse over underlined words. Sheesh. No wonder nobody reads TFA
Overlay? What underlined words? Must require Javascript or something. Pick up the NoScript Firefox extension and you'll never see that again. The next, next, next style of all these damn review sites is certainly annoying, but that's how they get their banner ad hits. In the good old days they'd put all that text on one long page (hey, browsers have a scroll bar and the page can be really long if you want).
Maybe it's just because I'm growing older, but the older I get the more cynical I feel like people are becoming.
That tends to happen when you're continually lied to on a daily basis, like from your executive branch of government for instance, or big corporations that claim to be looking out for your best interests and not their profits.
so, I have a hard time understanding exactly why everybody seems so obsessed about this.
Because it'd let you play games (Windows) and when you're done reboot into MacOS to do your web browsing and real work. Now that they have this working I have no reason other than money not to go buy a new iMac to replace my current desktop Wintel system that I just use for gaming and light Visual Studio programming.
So it seems other people using WoW under WINE are safe, you'd just better not get too trigger-happy with the keyboard macros.
Is there anything that stops him from setting up a keyboard macro to repeat indefinitely until he pressed another key? I don't know anything about the specific keyboard he uses, but I bet that something like that was taking place. They probably have alerts that go off if some repeated sequence of events happens at regular exact intervals that couldn't possibly be a human doing it.
What about that OpenBSD-based live CD? Isn't that a top security OS?
OpenBSD is a strong server operating system but it makes a horrible forensics toolkit base because of the lack of the level of hardware support that Linux enjoys. I'm not bashing it as a server OS since you can pick and choose the best supported components in that environment, but when using it as a forensics tool you have to support a wide variety of very oddball hardware that a desktop or server might contain and Linux is better at doing that.
I think that if any distribution had the right to claim being "Linux" it'd be Red Hat. I don't know if it still holds true, but they used to be the most popular distribution by far and thus, when someone made a commercial package that's what they (still) target. If it runs without any changes to your system on another distribution that's fine, but vendors will often only support Red Hat (and these days just specific versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Our RSA Authentication Manager for instance is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 (not 4, not WS, but ES 3 ONLY. Their setup scripts check for this).
I think he's referring to an old company that used to make really good compilers for Pascal and C but have become obsolete with Microsoft's dominance on the Windows platform with Visual Studio and GNU's dominance everywhere else. Could you believe that people actually once PAID for a C or Pascal compiler for their computer? How fucking silly is that?
I had to sit through a full half hour of commercials and trailers before they even started the f*cking movie. The theater was packed
Do you think one might have something to do with the other? They're probably threw on tons of additional commercials because they knew they'd have a captive full house. I would've waited a month and then gone and saw it if I wanted to see it.. then you just walk in 10 minutes after the show time and the movie is just starting. Perfect. If you go on opening nights then you have to deal with a packed house full of nerds running around in their Jar Jar Binks outfits. I haven't seen a movie in a theater in at least a year since my daughter was born since it's just not worth it trying to arrange a babysitter when we have Netflix.
Because without fault, ALL APs are configured to accept any and all connections by default.
I have just the opposite experience. Ameritech.. err SBC.. err AT&T offers DSL in my area and sold a very popular line of 2Wire wireless routers for home networking as part of their install and I can find at least 12 of these around my neighborhood and they're all locked down with a semi-unique SSID (usually 2Wire_???) and the WEP or WPA key is a number written on the underside of the router. So, by default, these come with encryption enabled. Not that I was up to anything nefarious, I just got one of those 802.11b sniffing handheld gadgets for Christmas and I was driving around wondering how many people around me had computers and wireless. Turns out the only open place was a coffee shop down the street.
It looks to me like Bush is one more pushing the "increased business profits are good for my friends" line. I'm not sure how the average US citizen will benefit from this strategy.
Buy stocks in the companies that are profiting overseas then. An initial investment of $5 or $6 million should be able to keep you going in the market for the rest of your life! Just borrow the money from your parents or a friend and then pay them back with your profits.
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$35 for all of them combined. Now granted, they were older used titles but who cares if it's an NFL 2004 or NFL 2006 game other than some sports fanatic? Those kinds of people run out and pay $75 for NFL 2006 as soon as it comes out. It's just silly. They've locked us into these stupid upgrade schemes where the majority of stuff that changes, especially in sports games, is the roster. They could easily make that updateable online onto a memory card or something. I know I know, then they wouldn't sell that $75 game each season. Sports games == vampires. :-)
I thought you were going to post a link to the Goatse.cx guy with a sentence like that. Anyway, what stops people from still going into a theater with a video camera? They're getting smaller and smaller and harder to detect. Putting complex DRM or analog-crippling output on a DVD isn't going to stop people from doing that.
If you're paying $75 for games you're on some serious crack. Go to a Gamestop and pick out some used games. I bought 5 games for $35 around Christmas time. It's not like they wear out, they're CD/DVD media these days and not the awful "blow on them and pray your NES reads them" cartridges. If they're scratched or unreadable they take them back.
That link doesn't work for me but the Mirrordot link is quite snappy.
That's pretty neat, but the interface looks really hokey. It costs a bit more, but you'll get a nicer setup if you go with a Via EPIA motherboard and memory in a small case and have it boot off the network as well using the MiniMyth distribution. I will have to look into the Hauppauge though just for kicks in case they improve the themes available.
So why don't they program firefox to render pages the same way IE does it?
Because IE is displaying them incorrectly and is not standards compliant. Just because Microsoft's calculator application says 2.45+2.45=5 doesn't mean it's correct. The most intelligent thing you could do is write your web pages for Firefox and then have Javascript that munges the IE-specific parts so it displays "correctly" for users using the broken IE browsers.
I warned you against buying that Adaptec shit. Get a decent RAID controller that isn't so touchy with latency issues.
Doesn't he know lm_sensors is available for Linux? I've been using it for as long as I can remember to monitor the temperature, voltage, fans, etc. When I saw this announcement I was kind of startled that OpenBSD *hasn't* had this sensor support for so long, yet people consider it a production operating system. How can it be production if you don't know whether or not your CPU fan has died and your CPU is melting? I guess they're trying to say lm_sensors isn't included in the vanilla kernel, but a lot of distributions include it in their kernels.
So why not just skip all the other numbers and just list the performance of the system based on the lowest whole number? Woo, you have a 5 GHZ AMD Ahtlon64 system with 4 gigs of ram and a 1GB NVidia 7800 video card, but you have a 40 gig hard drive. Your overall system score is a 1.
And Microsoft Office X still had that crappy 31 character limitation. I was wondering why it wouldn't let me save a document with more than 31 characters since I had never used OS 9.. I guess that explains it, Microsoft sucks.
Why not just build a word processor into a Firefox extension if you're going to require it? Why not just write the word processor using Java and remove the requirement to be online at all?
I really miss the old days when I knew my friend's EGA card was better than my CGA card and my CGA card was better than a monochrome graphics card. When I got a 386 with a VGA card I made sure to really brag about it to him because he was still stuck in lame 16 color land. Muhahahaha. These days I have no fucking clue if my NVidia GeForce 6600 is slower or faster than an ATI Radeon X200 or an Intel GMA 900. Why can't these companies just come up with a common numbering scheme so that newer and faster graphics cards get higher numbers so we can easily tell why they want us to spend more money on them? And WTF is up with ATI naming it an X200? What the hell does that even mean? Their high end cards used to be 9800 or something. Are they going to roman numerals? Why not just name it the ATI Radeon 10200?
There's nothing funny about it, plenty of critical infrastructure runs on Windows and that's just plain sad.
You know, back in the old days (1995/1996 thereabouts) porn vendors had SOME level of common decency and would at least black out the penetration and tits on their teaser pages, now even the "free preview" stuff is just as hardcore as the shit you'll get when you pay for it. They don't even bother with false pretenses of setting up a click-thru page to accept the "I am 18, blah blah blah" agreement anymore. Mistype a common popular URL and you're usually finding yourself at either a domain squatter's site or a pornographic site with nudity right there on the front page. Frankly before I ever let my daughter on the Internet I will ensure she is blocked access to ALL websites and is only allowed to surf an approved whitelist of sites (and I will monitor her IM and her e-mail and everything else she does like a parent SHOULD do). Some people don't know how to do that though so I can understand them calling for legislation to compensate for their technical ignorance.
Here in America you get a $150 phone for free when you sign up for a 2 year commitment to use the services of a single cell phone company. If you want to cancel your contract you're often charged around $150-$200 for an early cancellation penalty AND your phone is often worthless and you either need to sell it on eBay or toss it in the trash and buy a new one. I've gone through this several times when going from GTE Wireless to Alltel to AT&T Wireless to Sprint PCS. I really wish there was just a standard phone that worked on all the networks and had a card like they have in Europe... Hell, I should be able to remove the card and put it in someone else's phone in a pinch and use my phone service using their phone without a hassle.
Overlay? What underlined words? Must require Javascript or something. Pick up the NoScript Firefox extension and you'll never see that again. The next, next, next style of all these damn review sites is certainly annoying, but that's how they get their banner ad hits. In the good old days they'd put all that text on one long page (hey, browsers have a scroll bar and the page can be really long if you want).
That tends to happen when you're continually lied to on a daily basis, like from your executive branch of government for instance, or big corporations that claim to be looking out for your best interests and not their profits.
Because it'd let you play games (Windows) and when you're done reboot into MacOS to do your web browsing and real work. Now that they have this working I have no reason other than money not to go buy a new iMac to replace my current desktop Wintel system that I just use for gaming and light Visual Studio programming.
Is there anything that stops him from setting up a keyboard macro to repeat indefinitely until he pressed another key? I don't know anything about the specific keyboard he uses, but I bet that something like that was taking place. They probably have alerts that go off if some repeated sequence of events happens at regular exact intervals that couldn't possibly be a human doing it.
OpenBSD is a strong server operating system but it makes a horrible forensics toolkit base because of the lack of the level of hardware support that Linux enjoys. I'm not bashing it as a server OS since you can pick and choose the best supported components in that environment, but when using it as a forensics tool you have to support a wide variety of very oddball hardware that a desktop or server might contain and Linux is better at doing that.
I think that if any distribution had the right to claim being "Linux" it'd be Red Hat. I don't know if it still holds true, but they used to be the most popular distribution by far and thus, when someone made a commercial package that's what they (still) target. If it runs without any changes to your system on another distribution that's fine, but vendors will often only support Red Hat (and these days just specific versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Our RSA Authentication Manager for instance is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 (not 4, not WS, but ES 3 ONLY. Their setup scripts check for this).
I think he's referring to an old company that used to make really good compilers for Pascal and C but have become obsolete with Microsoft's dominance on the Windows platform with Visual Studio and GNU's dominance everywhere else. Could you believe that people actually once PAID for a C or Pascal compiler for their computer? How fucking silly is that?
Do you think one might have something to do with the other? They're probably threw on tons of additional commercials because they knew they'd have a captive full house. I would've waited a month and then gone and saw it if I wanted to see it.. then you just walk in 10 minutes after the show time and the movie is just starting. Perfect. If you go on opening nights then you have to deal with a packed house full of nerds running around in their Jar Jar Binks outfits. I haven't seen a movie in a theater in at least a year since my daughter was born since it's just not worth it trying to arrange a babysitter when we have Netflix.
I have just the opposite experience. Ameritech.. err SBC.. err AT&T offers DSL in my area and sold a very popular line of 2Wire wireless routers for home networking as part of their install and I can find at least 12 of these around my neighborhood and they're all locked down with a semi-unique SSID (usually 2Wire_???) and the WEP or WPA key is a number written on the underside of the router. So, by default, these come with encryption enabled. Not that I was up to anything nefarious, I just got one of those 802.11b sniffing handheld gadgets for Christmas and I was driving around wondering how many people around me had computers and wireless. Turns out the only open place was a coffee shop down the street.
Buy stocks in the companies that are profiting overseas then. An initial investment of $5 or $6 million should be able to keep you going in the market for the rest of your life! Just borrow the money from your parents or a friend and then pay them back with your profits.