Myspace appears to use a static content server that does no validation of who you are before returning JPGs.
When not working or browsing Slashdot, a friend and I will exchange URLs to profile pics of "interesting" looking women. If the profile is private, the URL to the private JPG is not protected and we would exchange those instead. I haven't spent any time trying to find a pattern in the seemingly-random JPG names, so it appears difficult to pull the private images of any one person, but in general everyone's pics are available if you know the URL.
[quote]Because I consider it pretty weak for a programmer to be restricted to the languages he already knows.[/quote]
Nice shot at my skills, but you missed the point. I have too much work to learn anything new while I'm here, and too many interesting things to do at home that aren't related to work.
Sometimes the 'right tool' is one that fits the company as well as the job. You hit the nail right on the head. Take it or leave the pun, our mid-sized company is stretched tight on IT skillsets and bringing new ones in isn't an option.
[quote]When you got the music in digital format pirated you don't get any additional value by buying the CD.[/quote]
Sure you do, some of my favorite albums have the best album art. Besides if you only listen to your digital pirated copies, you'll have a perfectly unscratched, original CD to keep as an archive. There are other neat tricks they can put into the authentic purchase of the CD, like getting to buy concert tickets a few days in advance if you can show you bought the disc.
I'm not saying it's something I do very often, but when my favorite bands have a new album coming out I'm not ashamed to grab a copy off the net, pre-release, then buy the disc when it goes on sale.
This has been most visible with 1st gen XBOX with has been a plain PC under the hood and the Celeron 733 powering it, yet the PC ports of XBOX games required 1GHz + processors and much more RAM. That full featured OS you're running has to fit somewhere. You can't really compare the two just because the underlying hardware is similar, unless you want your PC to be about as useless as an XBox.
Sprint has the lowest rated network in the US. Virgin has the highest. AND IT'S THE SAME DAMN NETWORK. That tells you it's not the network, stupid, it's the perception.
I would clear out a large (or medium sized, the LCD monitor won't take up much space) broom closet for an IT worker that is expected to produce working code, even if it is just maintenance scripts.) I'll take my cube over a broom closet any day.
I leave my WiFi open. I mean hey, why not? I think the practice started somewhere in a college apartment, where there are 12 unsecured APs that break just often enough to make paying for your own internet connection worth the while. Anyways, I broadcast my SSID for all five of my neighbors that are close enough to borrow the bandwidth. If they get out of hand and I start to notice my own performance dropping, their MAC gets banned.
I'm sure there are many reasons why I should have it locked down, but it's easy enough to share so I do. I think the internet should be free, so I'm doing my very small part.
...link vehicles equipped with driverless technologies. I can't wait to see how many competing and incompatible standards this industry can come up with..
[quote]No, he said the earth was not the center of the universe.[/quote]
What part does the GP quote is wrong then? You seem to agree with it yourself. I don't see anything about "who said it first" -- and he is spot on about the Greeks, too.
Ever play Halo 3 on your HDTV? Pixels are found at almost every edge in the game. I was very unimpressed last night when my friend brought it over to play on my 1080P set, yes it is the first time I've seen Halo 3. Bioshock, on the other hand, looked fantastic on the 360 and really blew Halo 3 out of the water as far as visuals go.
I'm not "crying over 80P" here, I'm pointing out the fact that Halo 3 looks a lot more like "Halo 2.5" and that other games on the same system look much nicer.
I don't know how many Slashdot readers made it to ZendCon this year, but Microsoft had their hand in the event. At night they supplied 4 XBox 360s, each with a pair of wireless controllers and wifi internet, and they were all working properly in the same small room.
If the 360 has problems with wireless interference, I sure didn't see it.
I feel almost certain that this will do the trick! Thanks for your feedback, every replacement bar I have seen so far plugs into the Wii itself -- which I assume will be no more powerful than the stock sensor.
This sensor with its AC adapter should be able to provide a brighter IR signal for better long-distance remote control. I've got it on order, thanks again!
I actually get a better response from my Wii if I pull the sensor bar a bit over the top edge of my TV screen. Further out than flush seemed to make a big difference in my living room. I still can't reliably use the thing from across the room where I would like.
I've been waiting for a good 3rd party sensor bar that might actually glow a bit brighter. You mention the "Nintendo Stock sensor bar" and imply there are better sensor bars out there. Have you had any success extending the practical range of your Wii with a better sensor bar? Do you have any brands you would suggest?
at the moment I'm having great fun buying up ultra-cheap Gamecube games from all the trade-ins the Wii frenzy has generated. I'm having great fun buying up ultra-cheap Gamecube games -- to play on my Wii. Until recently, the Wii wasn't any good for much but replaying my older generation games. I picked up Mario Galaxy on Sunday and was very, very impressed with the title. The graphics look amazing (even at 61 inches) and the game itself is fantastic -- after a full year of wondering what I was going to do with the thing, I'm finally happy with my Wii.
I disagree with your statement. Sure Flash isn't as glamorous when dropping three stories then soaring across the room, but the functionality, level design and problem solving are all very directly comparable to its Orange-boxed counterpart.
I obsessed over the Flash version for a full week, leading me to buy the Box for the real deal. While fully satisfied with my purchase, I still had a strong sense of "I've solved this already" when playing through the Orange version.
So it's not hardware accelerated, first person, three-dimensional goodness. But it still is a very solid and faithful replication of everything that makes Portal, well, Portal.
Impressive showing, and a good use of the specialized hardware that the Cell brings to the table. Impressive showing, and a good use of the subsidized hardware that the Cell brings to the table.
Doesn't patent-enforcement and claims for damages, etc, require ongoing, active enforcement? No, the active enforcement requirement applies to trademarks, not to patents.
I had to look up the system requirements to see that your sarcasm was set to the "on" position.
The demo will barely run on my roommates very quick 3200+ Athlon system, here are the "official" system reqs:
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
- 512 Mbytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
- 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements
- 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
- 1 GBytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
- 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Slashdot Mirror
Myspace appears to use a static content server that does no validation of who you are before returning JPGs.
When not working or browsing Slashdot, a friend and I will exchange URLs to profile pics of "interesting" looking women. If the profile is private, the URL to the private JPG is not protected and we would exchange those instead. I haven't spent any time trying to find a pattern in the seemingly-random JPG names, so it appears difficult to pull the private images of any one person, but in general everyone's pics are available if you know the URL.
Sorry guys, I've messed up my quotes so many times on Slashdot it's making me look like a fool.
Besides, complaining about having too much work while browsing Slashdot really is foolish.
[quote]Because I consider it pretty weak for a programmer to be restricted to the languages he already knows.[/quote] Nice shot at my skills, but you missed the point. I have too much work to learn anything new while I'm here, and too many interesting things to do at home that aren't related to work.
[quote]When you got the music in digital format pirated you don't get any additional value by buying the CD.[/quote] Sure you do, some of my favorite albums have the best album art. Besides if you only listen to your digital pirated copies, you'll have a perfectly unscratched, original CD to keep as an archive. There are other neat tricks they can put into the authentic purchase of the CD, like getting to buy concert tickets a few days in advance if you can show you bought the disc.
I'm not saying it's something I do very often, but when my favorite bands have a new album coming out I'm not ashamed to grab a copy off the net, pre-release, then buy the disc when it goes on sale.
No.
I leave my WiFi open. I mean hey, why not? I think the practice started somewhere in a college apartment, where there are 12 unsecured APs that break just often enough to make paying for your own internet connection worth the while. Anyways, I broadcast my SSID for all five of my neighbors that are close enough to borrow the bandwidth. If they get out of hand and I start to notice my own performance dropping, their MAC gets banned.
I'm sure there are many reasons why I should have it locked down, but it's easy enough to share so I do. I think the internet should be free, so I'm doing my very small part.
...link vehicles equipped with driverless technologies. I can't wait to see how many competing and incompatible standards this industry can come up with..[quote]No, he said the earth was not the center of the universe.[/quote] What part does the GP quote is wrong then? You seem to agree with it yourself. I don't see anything about "who said it first" -- and he is spot on about the Greeks, too.
Ever play Halo 3 on your HDTV? Pixels are found at almost every edge in the game. I was very unimpressed last night when my friend brought it over to play on my 1080P set, yes it is the first time I've seen Halo 3. Bioshock, on the other hand, looked fantastic on the 360 and really blew Halo 3 out of the water as far as visuals go.
I'm not "crying over 80P" here, I'm pointing out the fact that Halo 3 looks a lot more like "Halo 2.5" and that other games on the same system look much nicer.
I don't know how many Slashdot readers made it to ZendCon this year, but Microsoft had their hand in the event. At night they supplied 4 XBox 360s, each with a pair of wireless controllers and wifi internet, and they were all working properly in the same small room.
If the 360 has problems with wireless interference, I sure didn't see it.
I feel almost certain that this will do the trick! Thanks for your feedback, every replacement bar I have seen so far plugs into the Wii itself -- which I assume will be no more powerful than the stock sensor.
This sensor with its AC adapter should be able to provide a brighter IR signal for better long-distance remote control. I've got it on order, thanks again!
I actually get a better response from my Wii if I pull the sensor bar a bit over the top edge of my TV screen. Further out than flush seemed to make a big difference in my living room. I still can't reliably use the thing from across the room where I would like.
I've been waiting for a good 3rd party sensor bar that might actually glow a bit brighter. You mention the "Nintendo Stock sensor bar" and imply there are better sensor bars out there. Have you had any success extending the practical range of your Wii with a better sensor bar? Do you have any brands you would suggest?
I disagree with your statement. Sure Flash isn't as glamorous when dropping three stories then soaring across the room, but the functionality, level design and problem solving are all very directly comparable to its Orange-boxed counterpart.
I obsessed over the Flash version for a full week, leading me to buy the Box for the real deal. While fully satisfied with my purchase, I still had a strong sense of "I've solved this already" when playing through the Orange version.
So it's not hardware accelerated, first person, three-dimensional goodness. But it still is a very solid and faithful replication of everything that makes Portal, well, Portal.
Fixed it for ya.
I had to look up the system requirements to see that your sarcasm was set to the "on" position.
The demo will barely run on my roommates very quick 3200+ Athlon system, here are the "official" system reqs:
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
- 512 Mbytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
- 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements
- 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
- 1 GBytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
- 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
NoseyNick knows. That's exactly what happened, I looked right over his troll.
> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
VERSION = 10.2
> rpm --query zmd
zmd-7.1.100.0-46
I never mentioned mono once. What are you talking about?
They finally added metadata caching in 10.2 - but you're right it was way overdue.