The first... will give a presentation on security engineering in Vista.
Well, that won't take long...
The second speaker... will review Vista's BitLocker Drive Encryption and the company's analysis of threats and attempts to penetrate the security feature.
28 seasons of Star Trek + all the movies = 250GB. Daily bandwidth used for trollind slashdot = 17Mb Proving your geek-manliness to the largest online geek community = Priceless.
When has there ever been a divergence between shareholders and customers? No one is out saying, "Let's screw this customer today, and if we do, our share price might go up 20 cents." They're just not doing it.
I thought "Well he's obviously never bought a Sony product"...
What to quit smoking? Smoke all the cigarrettes in your current pack right now. After all, the more you smoke, the faster they run out, right?
Actually, the most effective solution is the "Russian Roulette" technique: give your smokes to your fattest coworker, and get them to stick one of them up their backside, filter-first, then put it back in the box somewhere...
I agree. And furthermore, it's been my general experience that the more professional a university lecturer dresses, the less you learn from them. One of the best Comp. Sci. lecturers I ever had was mistaken for a homeless guy (long ratty hair, ripped tshirt, no shoes, etc.) by about half the class until he stood up and introduced himself, but he was intelligent and able to teach very well. Those who dressed like professionals were staff who had left the professional world to come back to teaching, more often than not... IE couldn't cut it in the commercial world, needed something easier, and had talked their way into a teaching job.
If you're working in the fashion industry you can worry about the clothes on his back. In IT, I'd stick to worrying about the information in his head.
In other news, a cyber turf war was sparked today when the MySpace Crips DDOSed the Geocities Bloods. The Bloods retaliated by hacking the Crips website to say "Eastside is t3h sUx0r"...
My personal favourite was at a university tech support office about 4 years ago (before live CDs were popular). A female student (of Computer Science no less) phoned up and said "I've got a Windows PC at home, I installed Linux on it and I don't like it, how do I get my Windows back?". She was very concerned about regaining access to all the old files she had on her Windows system. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing to find out how she had set it up, I asked her how she had partitioned her hard drive when she installed Linux. The inevitable response... "what's a partition?".
Thank God that home machines were outside our jurisdiction. I managed to point her in the direction of the local Linux User Group and close the call before braking into an uncontrollable sniggering fit...
To butcher a metaphor, the overall effect of standing on the shoulders of giants is negligible if you are upside down, doing a headstand. Or if you're a midget. Or even an upside down midget.
Anyway, my point being: it's pretty blatant to the rest of us where they went wrong...
I agree, with one notable exception - any price is too high for a Sony product. I even turned down a pair of Sony headphones (which were a gift) because of their appalling business practices. And I'd bet London to a brick I'm not the only one here either.
Seriously, though, doesn't Microsoft realize that significant number of users aren't going to go out and suddenly buy Windows? Sure, most (half?) will, but the rest will go hunting for a truly free (read: no-cost) alternative until a hack comes out.
If you are a true capitalist, why would you be worried if they are allowed to do so by law? An overpriced legal team or a quick backhander to your friendly neighbourhood federal politician will sort that little hiccup out...
And it also balances out some less realistic abilities you tend to get.
How many times does it need to be said, people? Video games are not Real Life . The goal is entertainment, not realism. Any resemblance to reality is purely and solely to aid the entertainment factor. Simulating reality is computationally and financially expensive (game physics engines, 3d models, etc.) - hence there is no point incorporating any aspect of reality into a game unless there is a significant return for the effort. And lets face it, there are large aspects of reality that are not enjoyable and would detract from the enjoyment of a videogame, such as:
The 20km route-march to get to the battlefield.
Injury and loss of limbs is typically permanent, and tends to impair your functionality much more than simply reducing a little red "health" bar.
There is no respawn.
The T-rex has long been made extinct, and not by 9mm-wielding overweight teenage boys living in their parents' basement. Likewise, orcs, imps, cacodemons, dragons, monsters and even Santa Claus are pretty hard to come by too. Instead reality is populated with endless qualtities of boring people.
Sure, military bases have large munitions dumps, but you would never be able to simply walk in and take it all. Even if everyone else on the base was already mysteriously dead. Perhaps Doom 4 should be set in a Wal-Mart instead.
etc...
People play games to take a break from reality, not to simulate it. It's called suspension of disbelief, and it works in the cinema too. You want absurd and boring? I refer you to this entire thread of discussion. By ranting on about how games should be more realistic, all you are doing is giving people like Jack Thompson more credibility.
The university I graduated from relied very heavily on these types of fines and I would imagine if this technology took a bite out of that this loss would be shifted else where (tuition)... of course it was all students paying for it but now even kids w/ out cars would have to pay a share
Heaven forbid that those who use a particular service, actually have to pay for that service instead of palming it off onto the wider community. And I say that despite having a student debt of my own.
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Checkbook? Hah! He could find that much under toe cushions of his sofa.
The first... will give a presentation on security engineering in Vista.
Well, that won't take long...
The second speaker... will review Vista's BitLocker Drive Encryption and the company's analysis of threats and attempts to penetrate the security feature.
...and that won't take any longer.
28 seasons of Star Trek + all the movies = 250GB.
Daily bandwidth used for trollind slashdot = 17Mb
Proving your geek-manliness to the largest online geek community = Priceless.
You mean my sole reason for existence is now opening jars for the missus?
When I read his rebuttal:
When has there ever been a divergence between shareholders and customers? No one is out saying, "Let's screw this customer today, and if we do, our share price might go up 20 cents." They're just not doing it.
I thought "Well he's obviously never bought a Sony product"...
What to quit smoking? Smoke all the cigarrettes in your current pack right now. After all, the more you smoke, the faster they run out, right?
Actually, the most effective solution is the "Russian Roulette" technique: give your smokes to your fattest coworker, and get them to stick one of them up their backside, filter-first, then put it back in the box somewhere...
I agree. And furthermore, it's been my general experience that the more professional a university lecturer dresses, the less you learn from them. One of the best Comp. Sci. lecturers I ever had was mistaken for a homeless guy (long ratty hair, ripped tshirt, no shoes, etc.) by about half the class until he stood up and introduced himself, but he was intelligent and able to teach very well. Those who dressed like professionals were staff who had left the professional world to come back to teaching, more often than not... IE couldn't cut it in the commercial world, needed something easier, and had talked their way into a teaching job.
If you're working in the fashion industry you can worry about the clothes on his back. In IT, I'd stick to worrying about the information in his head.
...or, with custom hardware, you could save yourself hours of coding effort. I'm off to by shares in a drinking-bird company!
Patent it and give every tax payer a license to use the patent.
There's no commercial analogue for that. Shareholders do not automatically get licences to the IP held by their company.
</devil's advocate>
Do they have human sized centrifuges?
Yes.
...and in the same newspaper:
In other news, a cyber turf war was sparked today when the MySpace Crips DDOSed the Geocities Bloods. The Bloods retaliated by hacking the Crips website to say "Eastside is t3h sUx0r"...
I am interested in this "snake oil" of which you speak, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Oh wait, you were being metaphorical. For a minute there I thought it was a sex-related pharmaceutical - my mistake...
My personal favourite was at a university tech support office about 4 years ago (before live CDs were popular). A female student (of Computer Science no less) phoned up and said "I've got a Windows PC at home, I installed Linux on it and I don't like it, how do I get my Windows back?". She was very concerned about regaining access to all the old files she had on her Windows system. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing to find out how she had set it up, I asked her how she had partitioned her hard drive when she installed Linux. The inevitable response... "what's a partition?".
Thank God that home machines were outside our jurisdiction. I managed to point her in the direction of the local Linux User Group and close the call before braking into an uncontrollable sniggering fit...
Is that what it's supposed to be?
At my workplace, it's more like "for every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"...
To butcher a metaphor, the overall effect of standing on the shoulders of giants is negligible if you are upside down, doing a headstand. Or if you're a midget. Or even an upside down midget.
Anyway, my point being: it's pretty blatant to the rest of us where they went wrong...
Why not take it to the next level? All you need is a toast grill and an ample supply of cheese...
No it's not. Extradition only applies to criminal proceedings. This is a civil case.
I agree, with one notable exception - any price is too high for a Sony product. I even turned down a pair of Sony headphones (which were a gift) because of their appalling business practices. And I'd bet London to a brick I'm not the only one here either.
Seriously, though, doesn't Microsoft realize that significant number of users aren't going to go out and suddenly buy Windows? Sure, most (half?) will, but the rest will go hunting for a truly free (read: no-cost) alternative until a hack comes out.
Just how much hunting can you do in five minutes?
Yeah... who says the recording industry is failing to update their business model to keep with the latest technology?
If you are a true capitalist, why would you be worried if they are allowed to do so by law? An overpriced legal team or a quick backhander to your friendly neighbourhood federal politician will sort that little hiccup out...
How many times does it need to be said, people? Video games are not Real Life . The goal is entertainment, not realism. Any resemblance to reality is purely and solely to aid the entertainment factor. Simulating reality is computationally and financially expensive (game physics engines, 3d models, etc.) - hence there is no point incorporating any aspect of reality into a game unless there is a significant return for the effort. And lets face it, there are large aspects of reality that are not enjoyable and would detract from the enjoyment of a videogame, such as:
People play games to take a break from reality, not to simulate it. It's called suspension of disbelief, and it works in the cinema too. You want absurd and boring? I refer you to this entire thread of discussion. By ranting on about how games should be more realistic, all you are doing is giving people like Jack Thompson more credibility.
The university I graduated from relied very heavily on these types of fines and I would imagine if this technology took a bite out of that this loss would be shifted else where (tuition)... of course it was all students paying for it but now even kids w/ out cars would have to pay a share
Heaven forbid that those who use a particular service, actually have to pay for that service instead of palming it off onto the wider community. And I say that despite having a student debt of my own.
Well his parents must've been pretty creative to name him after a Batman sound-effect.
I wonder if his older brother is called "Flash"...
If I had mod points, you would be +5 Amen Brother right now...