1. I, an American, sympathize. When I move out of my parents' place and get my own Internet connection, I'm most definitely going for a plan that won't limit me on data transfered.
2. It doesn't have to be for large files, small personal files can be backed up to such a service more easily than burning a CD or DVD. Plus, this is MICROSOFT.COM we're talking about here. I've never found a better server for download rates, at least. Upload rates will probably be good as well. Same with Google.
Ah well. I suppose this is a blessing in disguise though as it means:
1) We'll get to see the Ori beaten (hopefully, according to gateworld.net the last few episodes aren't set in stone yet).
2) At the end of Episode 200 Martin Lloyd announces to the 10-season cast of Wormhole X-treme that "the movie's back on!". I like to think this extends back to that Stargate SG-1 movie, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Now that the series is over there's more hope for it, at least according to gateworld...
I wonder how long the SG-1 writers/producers etc knew the 10th season would be the last. Episode 200 makes a BIT more sense if you realize "hey, they knew they would never have another chance to pull stuff like this again".
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Parent brings up many good points. I don't think someone has a right to criticize the military unless they've been a part of it, even for a little bit. The only way to really know something is to experience it first hand. Otherwise you run the risk of the straw-man fallacy.
We don't see what the server side does. But, I can assure you that it doesn't use $_SERVER, because it's perl, not PHP.:p However it likely uses the perl equivalent (a good script would also DNS the IP to get a hostname and store it as well).
Writely is missing the fundamental concept of page breaks. I imported an ODT and my manual page breaks were ignored, footnotes were all dumped at the bottom of the document (as opposed to the bottom of each page). It wasn't pretty.
It also failed to import the font correctly (I typed the document in ARIAL, not Times New Roman!). Everything else was fine, though.
AJAX is a good thing, as it allows for more dyanmic web-stuff. Dynamic is good. Web-stuff is good. Dynamic web-stuff is better. In my book at least. The only abuse of it at this point I've seen is that your browser freezes when you load a particularly large chunk of javascript. Some people (ahem Yahoo Mail Beta) should really slim up their AJAX apps.
Some games use it for CD verification. If you tamper with it (ie remove it) the game will likely fail it's CD check and no longer run.
I have a game that uses it, you probably agree to it in the EULA somewhere. I forget which game it was...
Oh and I can't help but notice, as others have before me, that software pirates are not encumbered by these restrictions and bloatware, while legitimate customers are forced to use it.
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Troll? OK granted I'm a little upset that I had to jump through all these hoops to get my computer back to a state it should have already been in, but I wasn't trolling. I REALLY had to do all that, and it was annoying.
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Just today I turned my computer on after leaving it on hibernate for a week. The "thaw" as I guess it could be called, failed (the computer hung before showing anything useful) so I rebooted. Windows starts up fine and then tells me my hardware has changed and I need to reactivate Windows. Except my hardware hadn't changed since the last boot (over the course of owning this computer, admittedly it had changed a lot). Oh wait, I can't activate over the Internet anymore, I've installed it too many times on the same machine, I have to call Microsoft, speak a 42 digit number slowly into the phone, get put on hold, be told I spoke the number wrong, put on hold again, read part of the number to a person, and then type another 42 digit number read to me over the phone. Then my computer will work again.
I think it's just on products that you already bought where the EULAs' validity is questionable. The reasoning was that the terms of the transaction were already finalized... you paid money and got your product. The EULA tries to add on additional terms on top of that, when the transaction was already finalized WITHOUT those terms, or so they say (IANAL and all that). Add onto this the fact that many places won't let you return opened software, and you can see that anyone who CAN'T agree to an EULA for whatever reason is in an unfair position.
But the service packs are free, so this wouldn't apply there.
You'll need to wait for Firefox's own DNS cache to expire (takes 60 minutes by default, quicker if you change the option in about:config).
In addition ipconfig has a/flushdns option which you might need to use to force Windows in general to look up the address in HOSTS instead of the cache.
I'm thinking any subversive VM thing would be like an uber-rootkit. When infected, the user's ntldr or winload.exe (for Vista) would be overwritten to load our new OS instead of Windows. On the next boot (which could come early by the delivery system resetting the computer), the new OS would load which would be little more than a very thin VM wrapper around windows. It would immediately boot up windows, and the user would be none the wiser. Basic things it would do (that would classify it as a rootkit) would be to modify the raw hard drive data running between Windows and the BIOS to hide it's own files as well as hide the ntldr and winload.exe tampering (it would make backups of them before modification and would hide the backups, but would show them in place of its hacked versions).
Theoretically this would be undetectable unless you boot from a CD... even this could potentially be compromised if the BIOS can be "upgraded"... of course there would be no way to protect from moving the HD into another computer and immediately booting from a CD to look at the contents.
...we are forgetting Microsoft has it's own anti-virus software. I'm not saying MS is trying to shut out competition, but that MS wouldn't do this if it would break their own software. They probably have OneCare doing things the "correct" way.
[url=http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/]BartPE[/url] is the Windows equivalent, pretty nifty. Although something like Knoppix is infinitely more useful, BartPE is still neat.
...I want a spam filter that bounces back spam with a boilerplate "This e-mail address does not exist" message, like one you would get if you sent e-mail to a REAL non-existent address. I would think that might help cut down spam by some amount.
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1. I, an American, sympathize. When I move out of my parents' place and get my own Internet connection, I'm most definitely going for a plan that won't limit me on data transfered.
2. It doesn't have to be for large files, small personal files can be backed up to such a service more easily than burning a CD or DVD. Plus, this is MICROSOFT.COM we're talking about here. I've never found a better server for download rates, at least. Upload rates will probably be good as well. Same with Google.
3. That's why encryption exists.
Weird Al doesn't tag his MP3s when he rips them. For shame.
Do you know how heavy swords are? The Wiimote is this little plastic thing. Deal.
Ah well. I suppose this is a blessing in disguise though as it means:
1) We'll get to see the Ori beaten (hopefully, according to gateworld.net the last few episodes aren't set in stone yet).
2) At the end of Episode 200 Martin Lloyd announces to the 10-season cast of Wormhole X-treme that "the movie's back on!". I like to think this extends back to that Stargate SG-1 movie, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Now that the series is over there's more hope for it, at least according to gateworld...
I wonder how long the SG-1 writers/producers etc knew the 10th season would be the last. Episode 200 makes a BIT more sense if you realize "hey, they knew they would never have another chance to pull stuff like this again".
Parent brings up many good points. I don't think someone has a right to criticize the military unless they've been a part of it, even for a little bit. The only way to really know something is to experience it first hand. Otherwise you run the risk of the straw-man fallacy.
It's the thing the Sci-Fi channel is on! And you call yourself a slashdotter...
We don't see what the server side does. But, I can assure you that it doesn't use $_SERVER, because it's perl, not PHP. :p However it likely uses the perl equivalent (a good script would also DNS the IP to get a hostname and store it as well).
Writely is missing the fundamental concept of page breaks. I imported an ODT and my manual page breaks were ignored, footnotes were all dumped at the bottom of the document (as opposed to the bottom of each page). It wasn't pretty.
It also failed to import the font correctly (I typed the document in ARIAL, not Times New Roman!). Everything else was fine, though.
AJAX is a good thing, as it allows for more dyanmic web-stuff. Dynamic is good. Web-stuff is good. Dynamic web-stuff is better. In my book at least. The only abuse of it at this point I've seen is that your browser freezes when you load a particularly large chunk of javascript. Some people (ahem Yahoo Mail Beta) should really slim up their AJAX apps.
Some games use it for CD verification. If you tamper with it (ie remove it) the game will likely fail it's CD check and no longer run.
I have a game that uses it, you probably agree to it in the EULA somewhere. I forget which game it was...
Oh and I can't help but notice, as others have before me, that software pirates are not encumbered by these restrictions and bloatware, while legitimate customers are forced to use it.
Troll? OK granted I'm a little upset that I had to jump through all these hoops to get my computer back to a state it should have already been in, but I wasn't trolling. I REALLY had to do all that, and it was annoying.
Just today I turned my computer on after leaving it on hibernate for a week. The "thaw" as I guess it could be called, failed (the computer hung before showing anything useful) so I rebooted. Windows starts up fine and then tells me my hardware has changed and I need to reactivate Windows. Except my hardware hadn't changed since the last boot (over the course of owning this computer, admittedly it had changed a lot). Oh wait, I can't activate over the Internet anymore, I've installed it too many times on the same machine, I have to call Microsoft, speak a 42 digit number slowly into the phone, get put on hold, be told I spoke the number wrong, put on hold again, read part of the number to a person, and then type another 42 digit number read to me over the phone. Then my computer will work again.
I think it's just on products that you already bought where the EULAs' validity is questionable. The reasoning was that the terms of the transaction were already finalized... you paid money and got your product. The EULA tries to add on additional terms on top of that, when the transaction was already finalized WITHOUT those terms, or so they say (IANAL and all that). Add onto this the fact that many places won't let you return opened software, and you can see that anyone who CAN'T agree to an EULA for whatever reason is in an unfair position.
But the service packs are free, so this wouldn't apply there.
Nothing! The tech for it has been around forever, they just slapped a new name on it.
It IS nice to make web applications that can behave more like desktop applications.
You'll need to wait for Firefox's own DNS cache to expire (takes 60 minutes by default, quicker if you change the option in about:config).
In addition ipconfig has a /flushdns option which you might need to use to force Windows in general to look up the address in HOSTS instead of the cache.
I hope these Coverity guys aren't pompous enough to think that their tool can find ALL bugs in a program with... magic...
Hmm, they should run their tool on its own source code, that would be fun.
I'm thinking any subversive VM thing would be like an uber-rootkit. When infected, the user's ntldr or winload.exe (for Vista) would be overwritten to load our new OS instead of Windows. On the next boot (which could come early by the delivery system resetting the computer), the new OS would load which would be little more than a very thin VM wrapper around windows. It would immediately boot up windows, and the user would be none the wiser. Basic things it would do (that would classify it as a rootkit) would be to modify the raw hard drive data running between Windows and the BIOS to hide it's own files as well as hide the ntldr and winload.exe tampering (it would make backups of them before modification and would hide the backups, but would show them in place of its hacked versions).
Theoretically this would be undetectable unless you boot from a CD... even this could potentially be compromised if the BIOS can be "upgraded"... of course there would be no way to protect from moving the HD into another computer and immediately booting from a CD to look at the contents.
It's been a loooong time since I watched the show, but didn't the Jetson's have a robot like this?
...we are forgetting Microsoft has it's own anti-virus software. I'm not saying MS is trying to shut out competition, but that MS wouldn't do this if it would break their own software. They probably have OneCare doing things the "correct" way.
Some idiot changed "Turing machine" to "Penis machine". But then someone else changed it back before I could... good ol' wikipedia indeed.
It's possible to get EVERYONE'S login details! All you have to do is crack into their database and reverse any hashes! OH SH!! STOP THE PRESSES!
Possibly because of your overzealous insulting.
[url=http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/]BartPE[/url] is the Windows equivalent, pretty nifty. Although something like Knoppix is infinitely more useful, BartPE is still neat.
...I want a spam filter that bounces back spam with a boilerplate "This e-mail address does not exist" message, like one you would get if you sent e-mail to a REAL non-existent address. I would think that might help cut down spam by some amount.
Bah I thought it said "Homebrew" not "Highbrow". Now I look like an idiot.