Anyone who has kids knows you are far more likely to be spending money on them than yourself. It is the nature of the beast.
Basically, your above statement would only be true if the majority of the middle class had no children. If that was the case the entire economy would be due to crash in about 10 years. (It is totally *not* true, although there *are* indeed fewer children being born in the middle class than ever before, there are *still* lots of em).
So, at 3.8 Mbps, I can be paying $7/s for my cell phone, which sets a new world record for price gouging.
Seriously, until the carriers have some more reasonable data plans available, all this speed is useless. There is currently no way to get an "unlimited" data plan without a Blackberry with Rogers, and check out this BS added to their "unlimited" blackberry plan:
***Rogers Wireless reserves the right to limit usage and charge $7 per additional MB for excessive usage over 25 MB of data per month.
So, "unlimited" == 25 MB now? WTF?
The only carrier I know of in North America with an true "unlimited" data plan is T-Mobile. I don't know how these companies expect a wireless revolution to take place when they are gouging the prices like this.
I would gladly pay $35 / month for unlimited wirless data + only 100 anytime minutes. Unlimited talk time is useless to me - I want mobile data access dammit!
.. because, an OS has one of two choices. Either it uses it's own boot loader, or it requires a third party one.
I don't know anything about ReactOS, but Windows ships with it's own, and always has since 95. If you installed "real" Windows on this computer, it would overwrite the MBR and get rid of Grub. But if installing RactOS does *not* do this, then it likely does not ship with it's own boot loader, so you would *have* to use Grub or some other tool to load it.
Unless it uses the old DOS boot loader but does not ship with it, which would be very weird.
In any case, you can download DOS boot disk images from bootdisk.com and fdisk/mbr, no problem. (if you don't have a flyppy drive, just use the image to make a bootable CD.)
...of Internet users, only 4% knowingly use ARP. However, 99.99% of Internet users do use it.
Seriously, WTF is with that "knowingly" in there, the majority of "Internet users" wouldn't know their ass from their elbow, let alone whar RSS is or what it stands for.
I would hope VMWare fully simulates all hardware and wouldn't have this kind of vulnerability. It's slow, but it's safe.
I won't dispute any of your other points, but VMWare is anything but slow. I have been useing it for years, and both under a Linux and Windows host, the guest OS runs at near-native CPU speed.
The only noticeable slowdown comes if you are doing heavy disk IO, and even then, it is barely noticeable. But that would never be your problem in a web browser.
No one using the VMWare browser applicance would notice any slowdown whatsoever.
If all you are doing is browsing the web, there is absolutely no reason to not do it in a sandbox. In fact, I don't get why all browsers run in sandboxes. Why do they *ever* need access to the host OS? If they need to save downloaded files, they can do so via a mounted share. At least in a sandbox they cannot execute privilidged code, at most they could infect executabes on said share.
DCOP is about as much about configuring as Brave New World is about snowmobiles. You obviously didn't RTFA and also don't know anything about DCOP.
DCOP is simmilar to what is now 'dbus' (in fact the dbus idea is based off of it). It gives command line access to the APIs of an application during runtime, and can also be used to let applications communicate with each other across the system or even across the network.
I have worked both as an admin and a developer, and I can tewll you the real answer to this problem, and it does not involve giving out root.
The whole reason people get pissed at admins and want to do it themselves, is that they always feel the time crunch. They have project X that is due on Friday, they submit a request to have something done to the server Wednesday morning, and it still is not done by Wednesday afternoon. This is not always the admin's fault, they have priorities too, and sometimes it is hard to juggle all the requests because he doesn't really know what the real priorities are in terms of the company as a whole.
The solution is to implement a trouble ticket system for all admin requests, and give managers access to it as well, allowing them (and only them) to adjust priorities of requests. That way, managers can set the priorities of the requests to the admin as they see fit. As well, because the managers all know that the developer *did* make the request, and there is a record of it, the developer feels less worried about delays coming from the admin department (passes the buck), and less pissed off at the admins.
The beauty of it is it also takes some responsibilities off the admin, and gives it to the managers, where it should be anyway.
If you multiply those 18 or 20 cents by millions of blank CDs and DVDs, you'll see that millions of dollars are being stolen...
I don't know what elementary school you went to, but here in Canada $1,000,000 * $0.01 = $10,000, hadly anything of importance to the multi-national record labels that do tens of billions on revenue a year.
I don't know what kind of pot you'd have to be smoking to think that millions of pennies would mean anything to any decent sized corperation.
I mean, I live in Canadam, and I can buy a spindle of 50 blank CDRs for 8.99 CDN or so on sale, 50 DVDs for 9.99. Thats 18 measly cents a disc for CDRs or 20 cents a disc for DVDs... its even less for DVDs if you figure it per GB. The levy is pretty much irrelevant.
People in the U.S. culture often have families in which the members are very disconnected from each other. It's healthy to feel sad about that.
I don't agrree with that at all. If your life is depressing because you are not near your family, then it is high time you formed a *new* family, closer to where you live.
Of course, by family I mean a tight circle of friends with whom you can socialize and lean on.
Which is all a real "family" is anyway. The idea that just because you share some DNA with someone that you should feel some tight bond with them is ludicrous. I have several friends who I would call on and trust before any member of my family, aside from my parents.
Whoever came up with "blood is thicker than water" did not have any real friends.
You are not supposed to be able to rip *any* 360 game and play it off a burt DVD
The fact that you can do this means with this demo DVD means that all any group has to do is figure out *why* this is (what the relevant section of bytes is), rip out the needed bytes, and use it to bootstrap the 360 to run any burnt game or app they please.
I find GMail catches 100% of all phishing attempts directed at me, resulting in it sterilizing all the links, and moving them to the Spam bucket. Even if it is "unsure" about an email, it will put a huge warning at the top and semi-sterilize the links.
It doesn't catch 100% of my spam, but it does well over 99% I would say. And none of the ones that get through are anything resembling phishing.
Your information is useless (in a relative sense). Your demographics is not.
Information on the buying trends of a certain salary range in a certain area are only valuble in a large-scale demographic. Even if a dollar value was assigned to it, your own *personal* share of that pie would be infentessimal.
Do you really expect them to pay you 10 cents to fill out those fields? Because in actual fact, they are - via the rebate program / rewards program / whatever.
A majority of these accounts were found to be using third-party programs to farm gold and items
There is nothing wrong with the side-economy of gold-farming in and of itself. In fact, it is just a natural extention of the MMORPG, and if Blizzard killed it by force, it would just be making the game less realistic. In the real world, people with money pay people with less money to do their dirty work for them, why would the online world be any different? Its a game, not a Utopia.
The whole point of the crackdown is that these people were using bots to farm the gold, which basically means making money out of nothing, because they did not even have to be at their PCs to be farming the gold. Now *that* is not like real life, and that should be stopped.
As the secondary characters get more screen time, their names appear in the main credits, even if they were not before.
You can see it in nearly all non-sitcom TV shows (it doesn't usually happen in sitcoms cause the characters rarely shift and change).
See the different seasons of the West Wing for example. There are people in the credits of later seasons that were not in earlier seasons, even though they were charachters in the shows. They are just more important later.
In a complicated device like a hard drive, if an assembly line is tooled to produce drive X, that is all it can produce. Period. It is not like you can flip a switch and have 1000 Seagate drives roll off the line in the mornning and have 1000 totally different Maxtor drives roll off the line in the afternoon.
Any drives produced off of that line would be identical until it was retooled, regardless of the company that owns the plant.
So they live with dial-up. If the only provider of cable television in my area is NAMBLA, then I'll live with the seven local broadcast channels rather than give NAMBLA my money.
Now that Seagate 'owns' Maxtor, will they make Maxtor drives better or just kill the product line off and just use Maxtor's facilities to churn out Seagate HDs?
And pray tell, why the hell do you think that a Seagate drive produced at the same facility with the same equipment would be different than a Maxtor drive? Loyal to the sticker perhaps?
I bet you're one of those people who have a "Piss on Ford" bumper sticker too eh?
I have had an IBM "DeathStar" for the past 5 years (yes, it is a 75GXP, the bad ones). Never had a problem with it.
On the other hand, I have had one of your beloved Maxtors totally crap out on me after only having it for 6 months?
What does this mean? Nothing. Hard drives are no different from elevisions or laptops any other piece of complicated equipment when it comes to reliability - on large scale average all the big brands have simmilar failure rates plus or minus a percentage point.
If you are worried about your data theres just a few you can do.
BACKUP OFTEN
Spend the extra $$$ on a server-class SCSI drive. If reliability is your aim it is well worth it. Regardless of the brand a server-class SCSI drive is much more reliable cause they are designed with heavy abuse in mind. The downside is they are noisy.
BACKUP OFTEN
Use a redundant RAID configuration
BACKUP OFTEN
That's about it - loyalty to a given brand will get you nowhere, in the end they are all the same - for the most part good, but a bad batch once in a while.
Personally, I just buy the cheapest drives I can find and run them in my RAID array. If one fails, no big deal. And it saves a ton of cash.
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Anyone who has kids knows you are far more likely to be spending money on them than yourself. It is the nature of the beast.
Basically, your above statement would only be true if the majority of the middle class had no children. If that was the case the entire economy would be due to crash in about 10 years. (It is totally *not* true, although there *are* indeed fewer children being born in the middle class than ever before, there are *still* lots of em).
Seriously, until the carriers have some more reasonable data plans available, all this speed is useless. There is currently no way to get an "unlimited" data plan without a Blackberry with Rogers, and check out this BS added to their "unlimited" blackberry plan:
***Rogers Wireless reserves the right to limit usage and charge $7 per additional MB for excessive usage over 25 MB of data per month.
So, "unlimited" == 25 MB now? WTF?
The only carrier I know of in North America with an true "unlimited" data plan is T-Mobile. I don't know how these companies expect a wireless revolution to take place when they are gouging the prices like this.
I would gladly pay $35 / month for unlimited wirless data + only 100 anytime minutes. Unlimited talk time is useless to me - I want mobile data access dammit!
.. because, an OS has one of two choices. Either it uses it's own boot loader, or it requires a third party one.
I don't know anything about ReactOS, but Windows ships with it's own, and always has since 95. If you installed "real" Windows on this computer, it would overwrite the MBR and get rid of Grub. But if installing RactOS does *not* do this, then it likely does not ship with it's own boot loader, so you would *have* to use Grub or some other tool to load it.
Unless it uses the old DOS boot loader but does not ship with it, which would be very weird.
In any case, you can download DOS boot disk images from bootdisk.com and fdisk /mbr, no problem. (if you don't have a flyppy drive, just use the image to make a bootable CD.)
Unless the RSS feed is from my bank account, showing me withdraws in real time on my cellphone, I don't see myself using it either.
Do you really have that many people with access to your bank account that you need a live feed?
You should change your PIN.
...of Internet users, only 4% knowingly use ARP. However, 99.99% of Internet users do use it.
Seriously, WTF is with that "knowingly" in there, the majority of "Internet users" wouldn't know their ass from their elbow, let alone whar RSS is or what it stands for.
I would hope VMWare fully simulates all hardware and wouldn't have this kind of vulnerability. It's slow, but it's safe.
I won't dispute any of your other points, but VMWare is anything but slow. I have been useing it for years, and both under a Linux and Windows host, the guest OS runs at near-native CPU speed.
The only noticeable slowdown comes if you are doing heavy disk IO, and even then, it is barely noticeable. But that would never be your problem in a web browser.
No one using the VMWare browser applicance would notice any slowdown whatsoever.
If all you are doing is browsing the web, there is absolutely no reason to not do it in a sandbox. In fact, I don't get why all browsers run in sandboxes. Why do they *ever* need access to the host OS? If they need to save downloaded files, they can do so via a mounted share. At least in a sandbox they cannot execute privilidged code, at most they could infect executabes on said share.
DCOP is about as much about configuring as Brave New World is about snowmobiles. You obviously didn't RTFA and also don't know anything about DCOP.
DCOP is simmilar to what is now 'dbus' (in fact the dbus idea is based off of it). It gives command line access to the APIs of an application during runtime, and can also be used to let applications communicate with each other across the system or even across the network.
I have worked both as an admin and a developer, and I can tewll you the real answer to this problem, and it does not involve giving out root.
The whole reason people get pissed at admins and want to do it themselves, is that they always feel the time crunch. They have project X that is due on Friday, they submit a request to have something done to the server Wednesday morning, and it still is not done by Wednesday afternoon. This is not always the admin's fault, they have priorities too, and sometimes it is hard to juggle all the requests because he doesn't really know what the real priorities are in terms of the company as a whole.
The solution is to implement a trouble ticket system for all admin requests, and give managers access to it as well, allowing them (and only them) to adjust priorities of requests. That way, managers can set the priorities of the requests to the admin as they see fit. As well, because the managers all know that the developer *did* make the request, and there is a record of it, the developer feels less worried about delays coming from the admin department (passes the buck), and less pissed off at the admins.
The beauty of it is it also takes some responsibilities off the admin, and gives it to the managers, where it should be anyway.
If you multiply those 18 or 20 cents by millions of blank CDs and DVDs, you'll see that millions of dollars are being stolen...
I don't know what elementary school you went to, but here in Canada $1,000,000 * $0.01 = $10,000, hadly anything of importance to the multi-national record labels that do tens of billions on revenue a year.
I don't know what kind of pot you'd have to be smoking to think that millions of pennies would mean anything to any decent sized corperation.
I mean, I live in Canadam, and I can buy a spindle of 50 blank CDRs for 8.99 CDN or so on sale, 50 DVDs for 9.99. Thats 18 measly cents a disc for CDRs or 20 cents a disc for DVDs... its even less for DVDs if you figure it per GB. The levy is pretty much irrelevant.
... would be to simply find a buffer overflow within the executable that can be exploited by modifying a data file (which are usually unsigned).
You could then use this unmodified signed executable to load any code you want.
People in the U.S. culture often have families in which the members are very disconnected from each other. It's healthy to feel sad about that.
I don't agrree with that at all. If your life is depressing because you are not near your family, then it is high time you formed a *new* family, closer to where you live.
Of course, by family I mean a tight circle of friends with whom you can socialize and lean on.
Which is all a real "family" is anyway. The idea that just because you share some DNA with someone that you should feel some tight bond with them is ludicrous. I have several friends who I would call on and trust before any member of my family, aside from my parents.
Whoever came up with "blood is thicker than water" did not have any real friends.
You are not supposed to be able to rip *any* 360 game and play it off a burt DVD
The fact that you can do this means with this demo DVD means that all any group has to do is figure out *why* this is (what the relevant section of bytes is), rip out the needed bytes, and use it to bootstrap the 360 to run any burnt game or app they please.
I find GMail catches 100% of all phishing attempts directed at me, resulting in it sterilizing all the links, and moving them to the Spam bucket. Even if it is "unsure" about an email, it will put a huge warning at the top and semi-sterilize the links.
It doesn't catch 100% of my spam, but it does well over 99% I would say. And none of the ones that get through are anything resembling phishing.
.. they care about your demographic.
Your information is useless (in a relative sense). Your demographics is not.
Information on the buying trends of a certain salary range in a certain area are only valuble in a large-scale demographic. Even if a dollar value was assigned to it, your own *personal* share of that pie would be infentessimal.
Do you really expect them to pay you 10 cents to fill out those fields? Because in actual fact, they are - via the rebate program / rewards program / whatever.
A majority of these accounts were found to be using third-party programs to farm gold and items
There is nothing wrong with the side-economy of gold-farming in and of itself. In fact, it is just a natural extention of the MMORPG, and if Blizzard killed it by force, it would just be making the game less realistic. In the real world, people with money pay people with less money to do their dirty work for them, why would the online world be any different? Its a game, not a Utopia.
The whole point of the crackdown is that these people were using bots to farm the gold, which basically means making money out of nothing, because they did not even have to be at their PCs to be farming the gold. Now *that* is not like real life, and that should be stopped.
From the grandparant:
Even though they would not own the browser...
They don't need to buy Firefox to use Gecko. It's MPL. They could just take it and use it.
It'd be better for everyone if they did too.
But don't cirticize the government too much - that is **anti-American** and if you do that, then the terorrists win!
Unless *you* are a terrorist too - we'd better tap your phone lines without a warrant to make sure.
Wil Wheaton from Star Trek:TNG and Stand By Me
The Woz, creator of the Mac
Peter Jackson of LOTR fame
Kevin Mitnick, of "Free kevin!" fame
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com
Slashdot has also interviewed some presidential candidates (from 3rd parties), but I can't find the links.
As the secondary characters get more screen time, their names appear in the main credits, even if they were not before.
You can see it in nearly all non-sitcom TV shows (it doesn't usually happen in sitcoms cause the characters rarely shift and change).
See the different seasons of the West Wing for example. There are people in the credits of later seasons that were not in earlier seasons, even though they were charachters in the shows. They are just more important later.
In a complicated device like a hard drive, if an assembly line is tooled to produce drive X, that is all it can produce. Period. It is not like you can flip a switch and have 1000 Seagate drives roll off the line in the mornning and have 1000 totally different Maxtor drives roll off the line in the afternoon.
Any drives produced off of that line would be identical until it was retooled, regardless of the company that owns the plant.
So they live with dial-up. If the only provider of cable television in my area is NAMBLA, then I'll live with the seven local broadcast channels rather than give NAMBLA my money.
What do you have against Marlon Brando?
Now that Seagate 'owns' Maxtor, will they make Maxtor drives better or just kill the product line off and just use Maxtor's facilities to churn out Seagate HDs?
And pray tell, why the hell do you think that a Seagate drive produced at the same facility with the same equipment would be different than a Maxtor drive? Loyal to the sticker perhaps?
I bet you're one of those people who have a "Piss on Ford" bumper sticker too eh?
On the other hand, I have had one of your beloved Maxtors totally crap out on me after only having it for 6 months?
What does this mean? Nothing. Hard drives are no different from elevisions or laptops any other piece of complicated equipment when it comes to reliability - on large scale average all the big brands have simmilar failure rates plus or minus a percentage point.
If you are worried about your data theres just a few you can do.
That's about it - loyalty to a given brand will get you nowhere, in the end they are all the same - for the most part good, but a bad batch once in a while.
Personally, I just buy the cheapest drives I can find and run them in my RAID array. If one fails, no big deal. And it saves a ton of cash.