The tagline for VIPRE AntiVirus is 'Finally Antivirus Software That Won't Slow Down Your PC!'.
I guess we know why. Who wants to spend all those CPU cycles searching through binaries both in RAM and on disk, comparing them against a database of virus patterns, and performing advanced heuristics checks when it's so much easier to match directory names and call it a day?
Let's see how that 8 year old Pentium M based laptop does playing back a bunch of 720p H.264-encoded movies on that 'long flight' the author talks about as reason why his ancient laptop and it's replaceable battery is better. No wonder he thinks the iPad will need a second battery, despite being capable of 10+ hours of typical web+music+email usage and 13 hours of continuous 720p playback. You'd be lucky to get 90 minutes out H.264 of his laptop, and it probably wouldn't decode 720p at all.
Laptop is versatile. Tablet does few things outside of content consumption but does them well and efficiency. How are we still seeing articles like this a year after the tech world scoffed at the iPad? It's not a product for them, and they still don't get it.
The funny thing is that it was released uncensored first. The Shareware version was uncensored and got an MA15+ in Feb 1996. Unfortunately the Port Arthur massacre in April got the new right-wing government in hysterics about violent media.
By the time of it's full release in late May, it was apparently unsuitable for MA15+, but rather than making changes to the code, the distributor decided to force the game's in-built parental control mode on. The uncensored game was still on disc, and within days of its release pretty much every Australian was playing the uncensored version. I remember cracking it myself as a 12 year old -- it wasn't as sophisticated as the 'real' crack -- it forced adult mode ON, but the fact was anyone could modify duke3d.exe even without a hex editor -- opening duke3d.exe in WordPad or DOS Edit and changing the first ASCII 0 to a 1 was all it took.
Alarmed by the prevalence of the uncracked version (it was common to find it running uncensored in PC Gaming stores -- remember those?), the OFLC tried to recall the game but failed because they had been made aware the uncensored game was still on disc. At this point the distributor also submitted the unedited version.
The OFLC has never been known for their consistency -- but definitely not under the old pre-2003 code. Where an 'interactive movie' on DVD-Video could be given an unrestricted M, but the same title on PC CD-ROM went beyond MA15+ and had to be banned.
Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5. Type of Work: Text Registration Number / Date: TX0006849489 / 2008-01-24 Application Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5. Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5. Description: Print material + CD-ROMs. Copyright Claimant: Apple Inc.. Address: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014 Date of Creation: 2007 Date of Publication: 2007-10-26 Nation of First Publication: United States Authorship on Application: Apple Inc., employer for hire; Domicile: United States. Authorship: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program. Previous Registration: 2006, TX-6-325-148. Pre-existing Material: Previous versions of "Mac OS" and "Mac OS X" operating system software code. Basis of Claim: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program. Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.
5) Despite the fact that the MP3 technology is over a decade old, encoders are still getting better. You only have to look at the progress LAME has made (particularly the 3.90 and 3.97 'milestone' releases) in not just surpassing the quality of other once-popular MP3 encoders such as Fraunhofer and Xing but in some more recent listening tests even equalling its successor, at ~128kbps VBR, let alone the more high quality VBR presets (V0/V2) that many people rip in and that most pirated releases are released in via the scene.
Exactly. The changes they make aren't necessarily the issue, it's the fact that they made the changes in the first place and couldn't be bothered to read or follow the contract.
A good example might be the infamous Van Halen incident where the band did thousands of dollars to a venue after they were given brown M&Ms. The band's rider stated that M&Ms were to be provided but buried deep withing the technical paragraphs was a line stipulating that brown coloured M&Ms were to be removed. Obviously they didn't give a shit about the colour of their chocolate, it was just an easily-verifiable test to make sure the technical specifications of the contract were followed correctly and accurately. The actual breach of contract didn't matter.
I would disagree. I've run Tiger on many lowend machines (including a 350MHz G3 and a 400MHz G4) and while I wouldn't say it was faster it certainly wasn't any slower than Panther.
One thing that IS noticeably faster on old machines is the Safari 3 beta, which requires Tiger. In my book that makes day to day use of Tiger faster. The fact that many basic programs such as Adium and Transmission require 10.4 is another reason to upgrade.
Hopefully "after this gets publicised" more people will bother to read the manual which clearly states in Chapter 2 "The Basics" (page 14) how to turn the iPod completely off.
It frightens me that there's a very real chance that had castmember Chas Licciardello not been dressed up as Osama Bin Laden, they could have made it all the way inside.
Of course the police are spinning this and saying that due to the arrests its 'proof' that security works and the $170 million spent on security was well worth it, despite the fact that Candian flags and fake APEC stickers on the hood are all that's required to get within ten metres of the President's hotel.
And the National Library of Canada has had one of those units since 1992.
You'd expect the poster to have read the article
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...before asking a stupid question.
From TFA: "For the last three years, lawyers for the two sides have waged an increasingly contentious - though largely unnoticed - court battle. On March 28, a resolution seemed at hand when a Massachusetts judge threw out the original lawsuit on a technicality. But because the court did not rule on the legal merits of the case, ConnectU promptly filed a new lawsuit, with a newly honed legal presentation and additional charges. Facebook then filed a terse countersuit in California federal court, accusing ConnectU of tort violations and unfair business practices."
Even ignoring the fact that it was aired on Fox, land of the mistreated TV show, and showed a marked increase in popularity when it hit DVD and other channels such as Comedy Central......there's a reason it was brought back from the dead too.
As one Engadget reader commented mere minutes after the initial story was posted:
"This simply does not make any sense.
Apple only pushed Leopard back a few weeks ago, and confirmed the iPhone shipping even more recently when they released their quarterly earnings.
Is someone pulling your leg?"
These are the kind of things that Engadget should have thought about before the story was posted without contacting Apple.
And if they were running behind, as you hypothesize, why would they need to "test if they could push back the releases", either they're behind and they have to, or they're not behind and they don't have to. What do they do if they are running behind and do "scare the sheep"? That makes even less sense.
The bold claims made in this article make me even more skeptical. If the technology could really identify 'content' in the way they describe -- handling different forms, resolutions, lengths partial clips, watermarks and other changes --- with reasonable time and processing constraints, it would be a lot more valuable in other fields than as a form of DRM protection. At the very least I would be wondering if it would only be monitoring the audio track of the accompanying video to determine its matches.
It reminds me of the claims made by various "smart" porn blockers that "know" naked flesh from regular skin tones and photos -- generally it's nothing but baseless hype, or it's going to find a lot of false positives.
Some of my friends are quite lazy and will not deviate from the first suggestion their phone's dictionary gives them. I've become quite adept at deciphering what predictive text words are likely to correlate to, and that "Safe? sub" is likely to be "Paddys Pub"
I suspect the Iranians will be able to cyber their "citags" and "dual" their "yet" "aunts" just as well as anyone else. Then there's l33tsp3ak, backwards text, intentional misspellings, number sequences, and the like.
One strange bug (or should that be 'feature') I've noticed with Vista is with its granting of admin privileges. It's well known that Vista runs apps without admin privileges by default, which is a good thing, that happens to break a few apps. But somehow there's a difference between:
- Running with UAC off (ie. always running as Admin) - Right clicking and selecting run as Administrator - Setting "run with Admin privileges" in the shortcut's properties
and
- Settings "run with Admin privileges" on the compatibility tab in the shortcut's properties
The difference? Who knows, but the Sony Ericsson Update Service refuses to run under Vista if you grant it admin privileges via the first three methods. The last method, strangely enough, works perfectly.
If Microsoft wants to tell me what the difference is between admin privileges and "compatible" admin privileges, I'd love to hear it.
I was copying an HD-DVD backup I made from one hard drive to another and it took a considerable amount of time -- as you'd expect from a 24.8GB folder. But Vista happily said "about 30 seconds remaining" midway through the operation as it began copying one of the main files of the movie -- a 12GB file.
Now I may not be an expert programmer but I'd have thought that with Vista telling me that 24GB of the operation is remaining and even saying that the throughput is currently 35MB/sec, it wouldn't be particularly hard to calculate 24576/35 instead of quoting "about 30 seconds".
It's almost as if Vista was calculating that it had copied about half of the files in the directory (.MAP files ranging from 2KB to 8KB in size) and that it would take just as long to copy the.EVO files that were many times larger.
I tried doing the exact same thing on XP and the remaining time was somewhat accurate.
Despite what the link says that commercial was not banned in Australia or New Zealand.
In Australia it received a very small number of complaints. It did get upgraded to a PG rating meaning it could not be aired until 7:30pm, however. New Zealanders appeared to be a little more upset about it, but it wasn't banned.
Toyota voluntarily restricted the airing of the commercial until after 8:30pm in both countries.
But it's highly unlikely the manufacturers are going to release unsigned 64-bit drivers with the helpful instruction to simply hold F8 and disable driver signature enforcement every time you start up your PC. While the default action is to prevent you from installing the driver, not even giving you the option to bypass it, the manufacturers just won't release drivers as quickly.
Which means that the "no drivers" situation is likely to continue on Vista x64 as it has on XP x64, at least while the majority of users run 32-bit.
Within 15 minutes of its inital install, my 32-bit Vista box was already running 3 unsigned drivers. Whereas on 64-bit Vista I had no drivers at all for my webcam, TV card, or sound card.
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The tagline for VIPRE AntiVirus is 'Finally Antivirus Software That Won't Slow Down Your PC!'.
I guess we know why. Who wants to spend all those CPU cycles searching through binaries both in RAM and on disk, comparing them against a database of virus patterns, and performing advanced heuristics checks when it's so much easier to match directory names and call it a day?
Let's see how that 8 year old Pentium M based laptop does playing back a bunch of 720p H.264-encoded movies on that 'long flight' the author talks about as reason why his ancient laptop and it's replaceable battery is better. No wonder he thinks the iPad will need a second battery, despite being capable of 10+ hours of typical web+music+email usage and 13 hours of continuous 720p playback. You'd be lucky to get 90 minutes out H.264 of his laptop, and it probably wouldn't decode 720p at all.
Laptop is versatile. Tablet does few things outside of content consumption but does them well and efficiency. How are we still seeing articles like this a year after the tech world scoffed at the iPad? It's not a product for them, and they still don't get it.
Sex is one visual very few Wikipedia editors will experience. They need as much information as possible.
You keep making all these comments without RTFA, which clearly states the author's 32-bit version of Chrome needed a 64-bit executable.
The funny thing is that it was released uncensored first. The Shareware version was uncensored and got an MA15+ in Feb 1996. Unfortunately the Port Arthur massacre in April got the new right-wing government in hysterics about violent media.
By the time of it's full release in late May, it was apparently unsuitable for MA15+, but rather than making changes to the code, the distributor decided to force the game's in-built parental control mode on. The uncensored game was still on disc, and within days of its release pretty much every Australian was playing the uncensored version. I remember cracking it myself as a 12 year old -- it wasn't as sophisticated as the 'real' crack -- it forced adult mode ON, but the fact was anyone could modify duke3d.exe even without a hex editor -- opening duke3d.exe in WordPad or DOS Edit and changing the first ASCII 0 to a 1 was all it took.
Alarmed by the prevalence of the uncracked version (it was common to find it running uncensored in PC Gaming stores -- remember those?), the OFLC tried to recall the game but failed because they had been made aware the uncensored game was still on disc. At this point the distributor also submitted the unedited version.
The OFLC has never been known for their consistency -- but definitely not under the old pre-2003 code. Where an 'interactive movie' on DVD-Video could be given an unrestricted M, but the same title on PC CD-ROM went beyond MA15+ and had to be banned.
Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Type of Work: Text
Registration Number / Date: TX0006849489 / 2008-01-24
Application Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Description: Print material + CD-ROMs.
Copyright Claimant: Apple Inc.. Address: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
Date of Creation: 2007
Date of Publication: 2007-10-26
Nation of First Publication: United States
Authorship on Application: Apple Inc., employer for hire; Domicile: United States. Authorship: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Previous Registration: 2006, TX-6-325-148.
Pre-existing Material: Previous versions of "Mac OS" and "Mac OS X" operating system software code.
Basis of Claim: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.
5) Despite the fact that the MP3 technology is over a decade old, encoders are still getting better. You only have to look at the progress LAME has made (particularly the 3.90 and 3.97 'milestone' releases) in not just surpassing the quality of other once-popular MP3 encoders such as Fraunhofer and Xing but in some more recent listening tests even equalling its successor, at ~128kbps VBR, let alone the more high quality VBR presets (V0/V2) that many people rip in and that most pirated releases are released in via the scene.
Exactly. The changes they make aren't necessarily the issue, it's the fact that they made the changes in the first place and couldn't be bothered to read or follow the contract.
A good example might be the infamous Van Halen incident where the band did thousands of dollars to a venue after they were given brown M&Ms. The band's rider stated that M&Ms were to be provided but buried deep withing the technical paragraphs was a line stipulating that brown coloured M&Ms were to be removed. Obviously they didn't give a shit about the colour of their chocolate, it was just an easily-verifiable test to make sure the technical specifications of the contract were followed correctly and accurately. The actual breach of contract didn't matter.
I would disagree. I've run Tiger on many lowend machines (including a 350MHz G3 and a 400MHz G4) and while I wouldn't say it was faster it certainly wasn't any slower than Panther.
One thing that IS noticeably faster on old machines is the Safari 3 beta, which requires Tiger. In my book that makes day to day use of Tiger faster. The fact that many basic programs such as Adium and Transmission require 10.4 is another reason to upgrade.
Hopefully "after this gets publicised" more people will bother to read the manual which clearly states in Chapter 2 "The Basics" (page 14) how to turn the iPod completely off.
It frightens me that there's a very real chance that had castmember Chas Licciardello not been dressed up as Osama Bin Laden, they could have made it all the way inside.
Of course the police are spinning this and saying that due to the arrests its 'proof' that security works and the $170 million spent on security was well worth it, despite the fact that Candian flags and fake APEC stickers on the hood are all that's required to get within ten metres of the President's hotel.
And the National Library of Canada has had one of those units since 1992.
...before asking a stupid question.
From TFA:
"For the last three years, lawyers for the two sides have waged an increasingly contentious - though largely unnoticed - court battle. On March 28, a resolution seemed at hand when a Massachusetts judge threw out the original lawsuit on a technicality. But because the court did not rule on the legal merits of the case, ConnectU promptly filed a new lawsuit, with a newly honed legal presentation and additional charges. Facebook then filed a terse countersuit in California federal court, accusing ConnectU of tort violations and unfair business practices."
Even ignoring the fact that it was aired on Fox, land of the mistreated TV show, and showed a marked increase in popularity when it hit DVD and other channels such as Comedy Central... ...there's a reason it was brought back from the dead too.
As one Engadget reader commented mere minutes after the initial story was posted:
"This simply does not make any sense.
Apple only pushed Leopard back a few weeks ago, and confirmed the iPhone shipping even more recently when they released their quarterly earnings.
Is someone pulling your leg?"
These are the kind of things that Engadget should have thought about before the story was posted without contacting Apple.
And if they were running behind, as you hypothesize, why would they need to "test if they could push back the releases", either they're behind and they have to, or they're not behind and they don't have to. What do they do if they are running behind and do "scare the sheep"? That makes even less sense.
The bold claims made in this article make me even more skeptical. If the technology could really identify 'content' in the way they describe -- handling different forms, resolutions, lengths partial clips, watermarks and other changes --- with reasonable time and processing constraints, it would be a lot more valuable in other fields than as a form of DRM protection. At the very least I would be wondering if it would only be monitoring the audio track of the accompanying video to determine its matches.
It reminds me of the claims made by various "smart" porn blockers that "know" naked flesh from regular skin tones and photos -- generally it's nothing but baseless hype, or it's going to find a lot of false positives.
Some of my friends are quite lazy and will not deviate from the first suggestion their phone's dictionary gives them. I've become quite adept at deciphering what predictive text words are likely to correlate to, and that "Safe? sub" is likely to be "Paddys Pub"
I suspect the Iranians will be able to cyber their "citags" and "dual" their "yet" "aunts" just as well as anyone else. Then there's l33tsp3ak, backwards text, intentional misspellings, number sequences, and the like.
One strange bug (or should that be 'feature') I've noticed with Vista is with its granting of admin privileges. It's well known that Vista runs apps without admin privileges by default, which is a good thing, that happens to break a few apps. But somehow there's a difference between:
- Running with UAC off (ie. always running as Admin)
- Right clicking and selecting run as Administrator
- Setting "run with Admin privileges" in the shortcut's properties
and
- Settings "run with Admin privileges" on the compatibility tab in the shortcut's properties
The difference? Who knows, but the Sony Ericsson Update Service refuses to run under Vista if you grant it admin privileges via the first three methods. The last method, strangely enough, works perfectly.
If Microsoft wants to tell me what the difference is between admin privileges and "compatible" admin privileges, I'd love to hear it.
deltree functionality was sensibly incorporated in the rd/rmdir command a while back -- rd /s is the same as the old deltree.
I was copying an HD-DVD backup I made from one hard drive to another and it took a considerable amount of time -- as you'd expect from a 24.8GB folder. But Vista happily said "about 30 seconds remaining" midway through the operation as it began copying one of the main files of the movie -- a 12GB file.
.EVO files that were many times larger.
Now I may not be an expert programmer but I'd have thought that with Vista telling me that 24GB of the operation is remaining and even saying that the throughput is currently 35MB/sec, it wouldn't be particularly hard to calculate 24576/35 instead of quoting "about 30 seconds".
It's almost as if Vista was calculating that it had copied about half of the files in the directory (.MAP files ranging from 2KB to 8KB in size) and that it would take just as long to copy the
I tried doing the exact same thing on XP and the remaining time was somewhat accurate.
You'll find "recognises" is correct British English too.
It didn't protect IE on Vista for me. I created a dummy boot.ini and IE7 Vista happily spat it out.
Despite what the link says that commercial was not banned in Australia or New Zealand.
In Australia it received a very small number of complaints. It did get upgraded to a PG rating meaning it could not be aired until 7:30pm, however. New Zealanders appeared to be a little more upset about it, but it wasn't banned.
Toyota voluntarily restricted the airing of the commercial until after 8:30pm in both countries.
But it's highly unlikely the manufacturers are going to release unsigned 64-bit drivers with the helpful instruction to simply hold F8 and disable driver signature enforcement every time you start up your PC. While the default action is to prevent you from installing the driver, not even giving you the option to bypass it, the manufacturers just won't release drivers as quickly.
Which means that the "no drivers" situation is likely to continue on Vista x64 as it has on XP x64, at least while the majority of users run 32-bit.
Within 15 minutes of its inital install, my 32-bit Vista box was already running 3 unsigned drivers. Whereas on 64-bit Vista I had no drivers at all for my webcam, TV card, or sound card.