What's with all the milk comments? They aren't even completely accurate. In Canada, sure, you can get milk in bags...but most people don't. I've only known two people who buy their milk in bags...and those were both 10-15 years ago. I don't even know if you can still get it in bags. Why are you spreading rumors that us Canadians are weirdos who drink our milk from bags?
I don't disagree with anything you have said. But the point I was trying to make was that it doesn't seem right to assume that they were "script kiddies" rather than "skilled hackers" just because of age.
As per the wikipedia definition of script kiddie: In hacker culture, a script kiddie (occasionally script bunny, skidie, script kitty, script-running juvenile (SRJ), or similar) is a derogatory term used for an inexperienced malicious cracker who uses programs developed by others to attack computer systems...
I woke up to SP1 on my Vista Ultimate 64 desktop as well...I instantly checked my laptop (which is running 32 bit Vista), but it was not installed there. It seems they are only giving it to the 64 bit people.
But to all the people bitching about the "ridiculous" amount of RAM the Vista "needs", what is your problem? Vista runs great with 2 GB of RAM. Sure, in my desktop PC I have 4 gigs...but that's just the type of person I am. I would have just as much if I was running XP...(well, only 3 gigs I guess;-)). Anyway, my point is: with the price of RAM now, who gives a shit? I just bought 4GB of PC-6400 RAM for my new laptop, and it only cost $90 . So what's the big deal?
Calling them script kiddies based solely on their ages? As a 19 year old, that offends me. How many real (not script kiddie) hackers are 40-something or 50-something?
Yeah, there are. One example that comes to mind is game patches. On a few occasions I have torrented patches that weren't offered as a torrent from the software vendor. Sure, there are about 50 gameing sites that offer the download....but at a ridiculously slow speed.
I know that typically a cell towers might be placed 1-2 km apart (it really depends on the area, but typically). With WiMax, if you want decent throughput in a non line-of-sight environment, you should not be exceeding 2 km spacing on the towers. I guess from those numbers alone it would seem like you could just put WiMax on existing cell towers. But I know for a fact, that Sprint is putting up something like 6000 additional towers for their WiMax roll-out (in addition to using their existing towers of coarse).
Yeah, but with WiMax (which is what Sprints Xohm is using), your towers only cover like 25 Km or something (sure, you can go longer), so you will need a lot of towers (more than a cellular network). And, unless I'm mistaken, you need wired infrastructure to lead to those towers (and manage all the data). The towers aren't magically connected to the internet.
Yeah, but Sprint (who is basically the biggest player in the WiMax market in the US) is going to be operating at the 2.5GHz frequency, and they have owned that since the 90s. I think the most important influences right now will be Sprint with their "Xohm" WiMax.
Actually, in the case of Sprints "Xohm", they are not going to achieve that by giving you bandwidth caps, but rather QoS. They will give higher priority to their own VoIP packets, for example. The current speculation is that if, say, Skype wanted a higher priority for its packets too, they would just have to pay Sprint. (source: IEEE Spectrum magazine)
Personaly, I like this idea better than actual caps. (and, yes, I realize that this is mostly applicable to streaming media)
It's funny that wireless internet access would prompt such a thing though. You would think it would be easier to deliver lots of bandwidth over wires than it would be over the air.
I know what you mean. To people who know Thinkpads, Thinkpads are beautiful. To the regular public, they are ugly. They have always looked the same so people think they are all old.
I think this works out well for Thinkpad owners. You may have a very nice and expensive laptop, but nobody will want to steal it. The thief will opt for the flashy (and crappy) HP.
Being relatively young, I have only owned 2 laptops so far a Compaq Presario v2310 (which I regret by the way, but it met my needs for the cost), and a Dell Inspiron e1505/6400 (which I am still using, but will replace with a ThinkPad x61t soon). Anyway, I just wanted to say that I have been shocked (pretty good, I might add) by both of these laptops at least once. Note, both of these laptops are in simple plastic cases, not aluminum. When it happens however, my greatest concern has always been the laptop. I actually caused the Compaq to reboot once.
The interesting thing is, I'm really not in dry environments typically. I don't usually shock things.
As a side note, that Dell is a piece of crap electronically. Any time it is plugged into the wall you get noise out of the speaker/headphones. The Compaq had a similar issue, but the Dell is 10 times worse.
Well, I will tell you right now that this is not true. I have Firefox installed and set as my default browser right now. Any link I click on opens in Firefox, any time a program calls a default browser, Firefox opens.
There are a few rare cases when IE opens to display a website, but this is only when following a link from a really crappy program. I can only assume that this would be due to the programmer of said app hard coding the app to use IE (which is retarded, but has absolutly nothing to do with Vista). I can't even give an example of a program that acts like this, because it is so uncommon.
How is that hibernation? That's more like Vistas "Hybrid sleep". (yes, I know, safe sleep came before hybrid sleep)
Windows has "sleep", OS X has "sleep". Both of these work as expected
Windows has "hybrid sleep", OS X has "safe sleep". Both of these are sleep + save memory to hard drive. The important thing to note is that while this sounds like hibernate IT IS NOT! It's "sleep till the battery is dead" and then when a new power source comes along, "act like I was hibernating"
Windows has "hibernate", OS X does not. Hibernate saves the ram to disk and SHUTS OFF THE SYSTEM. This is important, it saves more power!
(I know, I left out Linux. Linux has sleep and hibernate)
Yeah, but when you are dealing with bits or telecommunications (and networking) the base 10 definition is the one that is more widely accepted. This is why (usually) you can't convert directly from Kb to KB just by dividing by 8 (or Mb to MB, or whatever). Yes, B to b it's just a simple 'divide by 8', but kilo meaning 1000 for bits, and 1024 for bytes really starts to make things fun.
Yeah, but what the heck does that thing cost you every month? Data plans in Canada suck. The best data plan I can find on the Rogers site right now is $10 a month for 10MB of data...each additional KB of data will cost you 3 cents (thats $30 a MB!). If I recall correctly, there was a $100/month plan that gave you 100MB(ish) of data a month, but I can't find it anymore. But even if I could, it's still ridiculous (and I think it was still 3cents/KB when you went over).
Newegg, at least last time I checked, only ships to the US. Therefor, the assumption was made when he chose to quote a price that was only available to US residents. Although, in his defense, a nice WD 500GB drive can be had for $100 CAD as well (NCIX.com). So one could extrapolate and say that hard drive prices should be pretty cheap for most people anywhere.
Nooo! How dare you! I wish I had never seen that post, I had an old Compaq monitor with, presumably, the same Sony tube with the same brightness problem, but I threw it out:(. I wish I knew the fix was so easy before I got rid of it! lol
So now my laptop will need an exhaust pipe? Great, that's just what I always wanted.
And am I now going to have to worry about gas prices every time I run out of power on my laptop?
Oh yeah, will these "batteries" be allowed on a plane? If so, will I have to pay duties?
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Um, the x60s and x61s have had LED backlighting for at least a year.
I believe that's why the merchant is supposed to at least make a half-assed attempt at checking the signature...but how often does that really happen?
What's with all the milk comments? They aren't even completely accurate. In Canada, sure, you can get milk in bags...but most people don't. I've only known two people who buy their milk in bags...and those were both 10-15 years ago. I don't even know if you can still get it in bags. Why are you spreading rumors that us Canadians are weirdos who drink our milk from bags?
Not necessarily. It wouldn't be right to assume one way or the other
I don't disagree with anything you have said. But the point I was trying to make was that it doesn't seem right to assume that they were "script kiddies" rather than "skilled hackers" just because of age.
As per the wikipedia definition of script kiddie: In hacker culture, a script kiddie (occasionally script bunny, skidie, script kitty, script-running juvenile (SRJ), or similar) is a derogatory term used for an inexperienced malicious cracker who uses programs developed by others to attack computer systems...
I woke up to SP1 on my Vista Ultimate 64 desktop as well...I instantly checked my laptop (which is running 32 bit Vista), but it was not installed there. It seems they are only giving it to the 64 bit people.
;-)). Anyway, my point is: with the price of RAM now, who gives a shit? I just bought 4GB of PC-6400 RAM for my new laptop, and it only cost $90 . So what's the big deal?
But to all the people bitching about the "ridiculous" amount of RAM the Vista "needs", what is your problem? Vista runs great with 2 GB of RAM. Sure, in my desktop PC I have 4 gigs...but that's just the type of person I am. I would have just as much if I was running XP...(well, only 3 gigs I guess
Calling them script kiddies based solely on their ages? As a 19 year old, that offends me. How many real (not script kiddie) hackers are 40-something or 50-something?
Compared to who? The states? Ha! riiight...
Yeah, there are. One example that comes to mind is game patches. On a few occasions I have torrented patches that weren't offered as a torrent from the software vendor. Sure, there are about 50 gameing sites that offer the download....but at a ridiculously slow speed.
I know that typically a cell towers might be placed 1-2 km apart (it really depends on the area, but typically). With WiMax, if you want decent throughput in a non line-of-sight environment, you should not be exceeding 2 km spacing on the towers. I guess from those numbers alone it would seem like you could just put WiMax on existing cell towers. But I know for a fact, that Sprint is putting up something like 6000 additional towers for their WiMax roll-out (in addition to using their existing towers of coarse).
Yeah, but with WiMax (which is what Sprints Xohm is using), your towers only cover like 25 Km or something (sure, you can go longer), so you will need a lot of towers (more than a cellular network). And, unless I'm mistaken, you need wired infrastructure to lead to those towers (and manage all the data). The towers aren't magically connected to the internet.
Yeah, but Sprint (who is basically the biggest player in the WiMax market in the US) is going to be operating at the 2.5GHz frequency, and they have owned that since the 90s. I think the most important influences right now will be Sprint with their "Xohm" WiMax.
Actually, in the case of Sprints "Xohm", they are not going to achieve that by giving you bandwidth caps, but rather QoS. They will give higher priority to their own VoIP packets, for example. The current speculation is that if, say, Skype wanted a higher priority for its packets too, they would just have to pay Sprint. (source: IEEE Spectrum magazine)
Personaly, I like this idea better than actual caps. (and, yes, I realize that this is mostly applicable to streaming media)
It's funny that wireless internet access would prompt such a thing though. You would think it would be easier to deliver lots of bandwidth over wires than it would be over the air.
I know what you mean. To people who know Thinkpads, Thinkpads are beautiful. To the regular public, they are ugly. They have always looked the same so people think they are all old. I think this works out well for Thinkpad owners. You may have a very nice and expensive laptop, but nobody will want to steal it. The thief will opt for the flashy (and crappy) HP.
Being relatively young, I have only owned 2 laptops so far a Compaq Presario v2310 (which I regret by the way, but it met my needs for the cost), and a Dell Inspiron e1505/6400 (which I am still using, but will replace with a ThinkPad x61t soon). Anyway, I just wanted to say that I have been shocked (pretty good, I might add) by both of these laptops at least once. Note, both of these laptops are in simple plastic cases, not aluminum. When it happens however, my greatest concern has always been the laptop. I actually caused the Compaq to reboot once. The interesting thing is, I'm really not in dry environments typically. I don't usually shock things. As a side note, that Dell is a piece of crap electronically. Any time it is plugged into the wall you get noise out of the speaker/headphones. The Compaq had a similar issue, but the Dell is 10 times worse.
Well, I will tell you right now that this is not true. I have Firefox installed and set as my default browser right now. Any link I click on opens in Firefox, any time a program calls a default browser, Firefox opens.
There are a few rare cases when IE opens to display a website, but this is only when following a link from a really crappy program. I can only assume that this would be due to the programmer of said app hard coding the app to use IE (which is retarded, but has absolutly nothing to do with Vista). I can't even give an example of a program that acts like this, because it is so uncommon.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
How is that hibernation? That's more like Vistas "Hybrid sleep". (yes, I know, safe sleep came before hybrid sleep)
Windows has "sleep", OS X has "sleep". Both of these work as expected
Windows has "hybrid sleep", OS X has "safe sleep". Both of these are sleep + save memory to hard drive. The important thing to note is that while this sounds like hibernate IT IS NOT! It's "sleep till the battery is dead" and then when a new power source comes along, "act like I was hibernating"
Windows has "hibernate", OS X does not. Hibernate saves the ram to disk and SHUTS OFF THE SYSTEM. This is important, it saves more power!
(I know, I left out Linux. Linux has sleep and hibernate)
You are confusing two great movies. Easy to do, I know. But still...
Yeah, but when you are dealing with bits or telecommunications (and networking) the base 10 definition is the one that is more widely accepted. This is why (usually) you can't convert directly from Kb to KB just by dividing by 8 (or Mb to MB, or whatever). Yes, B to b it's just a simple 'divide by 8', but kilo meaning 1000 for bits, and 1024 for bytes really starts to make things fun.
Yeah, but what the heck does that thing cost you every month? Data plans in Canada suck. The best data plan I can find on the Rogers site right now is $10 a month for 10MB of data...each additional KB of data will cost you 3 cents (thats $30 a MB!). If I recall correctly, there was a $100/month plan that gave you 100MB(ish) of data a month, but I can't find it anymore. But even if I could, it's still ridiculous (and I think it was still 3cents/KB when you went over).
Newegg, at least last time I checked, only ships to the US. Therefor, the assumption was made when he chose to quote a price that was only available to US residents. Although, in his defense, a nice WD 500GB drive can be had for $100 CAD as well (NCIX.com). So one could extrapolate and say that hard drive prices should be pretty cheap for most people anywhere.
Nooo! How dare you! I wish I had never seen that post, I had an old Compaq monitor with, presumably, the same Sony tube with the same brightness problem, but I threw it out :(. I wish I knew the fix was so easy before I got rid of it! lol
So now my laptop will need an exhaust pipe? Great, that's just what I always wanted. And am I now going to have to worry about gas prices every time I run out of power on my laptop? Oh yeah, will these "batteries" be allowed on a plane? If so, will I have to pay duties?