Um you must have missed out on the games in the late 90's. That's right you had to have a video card & an accelerator card as well as we didn't have the video accelerator built into any of the cards out at the time. Or MMX had the same sort of thing, assuming any of you remember the Pentium with & without MMX. I liked my MMX processor better because the bus ran at 66 MHz instead of 60 MHz that may not seem like a lot now a days but it was back then.
IIRC Forsaken was one of those games along with Descent 3 & several others.
I'm guessing they will do the same thing. Start with it on the recommended system requirements then move it to the required system requirements.
In my experience if you know what you are doing with NTFS permissions & registry permissions this is not a problem. First thing to do is disable simple file & printer sharing so you can actually see what you are doing. (For Windows XP Home reboot into safe mode.) Then you just need to remember that the default security settings for the program files folder does not allow the "anyone" group full control starting with Windows 2000. I can't remember what the default setting was in Windows NT 4, but I think it was way more open then 2000. Then just create a group & give that group full control or whatever level of access they need to the individual folders inside the program files folder. Yes I can get TurboTax 2003 to run on Windows XP without having admin rights to run it. I can do this with a ton of programs you just need to learn about NTFS and permissions.
I guess you never heard of the MN-100, the MN-500, or the MN-700. Of course if you lived outside of the USA & Canada you were not supposed to even have the hardware. I'm not 100% sure if the MN-740 was running Windows CE like the routers. More information can be found at the following links. (The first link shows a page with some of the links I'm going to list.)
Now you are probable wondering why I know so much about this hardware. I'll tell you I supported it, back when I worked for Microsoft. I didn't know what OS till I had a defective one in a call where the error message indicated that the router runs Windows CE. I forget which version it was running, but it is still an embedded OS AFAIK.
You may want to check out what came out before Paul Verhoeven as J. Michael Straczynski came out in 1994 & had that on at least one of the episodes had a technology like this. IIRC it was something the mentioned HTML or something sounding like it. I'd have to go watch the show again to say what it was for sure.
I guess you haven't heard about b3d Projector. They would install it with Kazaa & then Brilliant Digital would sell you processor time. (This was back in 2001-2003 AFAIK. They may have cleaned up their act since then, but I doubt it.)
I quick look at their site & they make no mention of doing this in the past. I don't know if they still do that. I had to use a coral cache to even pull it up because I have blocked the brilliantdigital.com domain in my router. I made sure I didn't download any of the software they have as I still don't trust them.
Another option although I don't know if they would hijack your processor time was new.net. I don't trust them either. I had to use a coral cache to even pull it up because I have blocked the new.net domain in my router. I made sure I didn't download any of the software they have as I still don't trust them.
I'm glad my city like other cities in this area were smart enough to do this. Now the city has created competition for Qwest, Comcast and the other Internet providers in the area. Yes I do live in Provo, & I can't use iProvo yet.
How do you mean Linux is more secure then Windows? Is it because I have almost no options on controlling the permissions on my files in Linux compared to Windows? Or is it something else?
One advantage to Microsoft in the security department is the NTFS file system. Unlike any of the file systems I've tried on Linux I can set permissions for more then just three groups & I have options other then just read, execute, & write. I know the owner, root & everyone else are the only groups I can change, while with the NTFS file system on Windows NT & newer I can configure several different groups, I can even deny permissions (a deny permission takes precedence over an allow permission, it you didn't already know) (I can't remember if you can deny permissions in Windows NT, I know you can in Windows 2000 & newer). If there was some way to add this feature into Linux I'd be much happier with Linux.
I'm just curious why everyone says Linux is more secure when I can't even set permissions to the same level of complexity that I can with Windows. Also from what I've seen most viruses now take advantage of people being naïve or stupid about using a computer so please don't rant about the lack of viruses for Linux & that fact that Windows has a ton more. I'm quite sure if Linux had the market share that Windows has now it would become the target of virus writers instead of Windows. This is because it is a larger target & thus more likely to spread your virus.
You must be smoking some pretty good crack to say that you can't login with the administrator account. Either that or the install you have been using is modified from one the official versions Microsoft has released. I know that they have released at least three different versions for most flavors of Windows XP. (First no Service Pack, second Service Pack 1, & third Service Pack 2. Of course they may have released other official versions as there was both a Service Pack 1 & a Service Pack 1a, but that doesn't really matter because even with Service Pack 2 they didn't disable access to the Administrator account.)
On a default install from the non-OEM install the administrator account can logon in either safe mode or in normal mode. (To login in normal mode you just need to know what you are doing. I'm not sure with the "Welcome screen" which I hate & thus I don't even bother using it. I know if you disable the "Welcome screen" You can just type in the username administrator & the password if you have set one & you can login. The other thing I do is change the name of the administrator account as this makes it harder for people to figure it out because they need to know the username & the password; instead of just the password which the "Welcome screen" flat out tells you all the usernames that it knows, that it's supposed to show.) This is because the guest account is denied local access not the administrator account. If you don't believe me take a non-OEM install (also one that hasn't been tweaked in any way since it left Microsoft so one of their official CDs would work, but anything else would be considered tweaked) & install it on a fresh machine or virtual machine. I make no warranties for OEM installs as the OEM is known to mess with the install so much that Microsoft techs have no idea what is going on in the OEM install.
One other thing many/.ers don't seem to know is that the early OEM installs of XP had the administrator account configured with a random password. (I know about this issue because I was supporting Windows 98 & ME at the time, so I was able to talk to the XP techs about Windows XP so I could learn more about it. They hated the OEM installs because the Administrator account password was random & the OEM didn't even know what the password was for that machine.) This caused a problem for tech support when the users forgot their own password. So the OEMs stopped doing this because it was causing more problems then it solved. True the computers were less secure, but tech support didn't have its hands tied when some moron couldn't remember that his password was "password". (With out the quotes of course.)
I remember my first modem. I bought it second hand. It was a 9600 Baud ISA modem, right when the 14.4 modems were the fastest. This was in my sophomore year of high school.
The things I learned from it. IRQ conflicts after I figured out how to get it inserted correctly, my mouse was on COM1 & I used it on COM3, I switched the mouse to COM2 as that was easier to do then open the case again. Oh yes that was fun, the other lesson it taught me is that when adding new hardware don't close the case until you are 100% sure it works, because opening the case several times is really annoying.
One other thing that computer was the first computer I could truly call mine. Before the family had owned several computers starting with a commodore 64. They still had a computer I had just bought an old one from Mom & Dad.
So are you saying they didn't use Intelligent Design in building this application. I'm not going to say how to prevent it as I lack sufficient knowledge to perform that task, but still it does prove that Intelligent Design is needed.
Well where I live people put a large antenna out side the house, with a cable bringing the data inside. Thus making it possible to do that & still be able to watch TV.
True Windows users mainly run as admin mainly because most programs require them to have that many rights.
Two of the biggest targets in Windows is Internet Explorer & Outlook which all Windows computers have at least Internet Explorer & Outlook Express. You can never truly remove either of these programs without causing major problems on the computer.
The reason Linux is even harder to target is you have several different e-mail apps to choose from & everybody isn't using the same app with the same secuirity flaw. This makes it harder to target Linux users although not impossible as I mentioned earlier. One package that seems to be in many flavors of Linux is the Apache web server which was targeted by several viruses.
So my point was Microsft would have to release 100+ different flavors of Windows that prefered a different set of software & had a different user interface. That would make it a harder target like Linux is right now, since flavors that prefer KDE for the GUI use mainly KDE apps & flavors that prefer Gnome use Gnome apps mainly. The other advantage I can think of for Linux is that because you can see the source when you post about a bug or flaw, assuming you know enough about programing, you can also include a patch for the problem. This happened with the 0-day exploit in Wine, when the flaw was posted a patch was posted at about the same time.
That is why I think making Windows safe by making it more like Linux would be bad in some ways. I think making admin right needed was a really bad idea for the programers who did it. I know that Intuit has learned from that mistake, in the 2003 version of TurboTax you needed Admin rights to install & run the program, while in the 2004 version & the 2005 version you only needed admin rights to install the app with regular user rights being enough to run it.
Windows Vista is supposed to fix the issue with users always running around as an admin evven though they almost never need it.
For an example of Linux running around as root check out Linspire Linux. Yes I know running as root is a bad idea which is why I'm considering either Kubuntu or Ubuntu when I make the switch to Linux, they both only give you sudo access & if you decided to install root support the forum users will assume you know enough to fix it yourself & will not help you other then tell you to re-install Linux, this is because running as root on that flavor of Linux causes problems if you are not an expert & know what you are doing with it.
My current problem is going to be reformating my data drives from NTFS to FAT32 without loosing any data, the reason for FAT32 is because they are external & I'd like to be able to use them on other Windows computers, currently I can because the other computers I connect them to are also running Windows XP which supports NTFS. That means I need to either move the data around & format one drive at a time or use a tool to convert the partitions. I will no longer use Partition Magic as it is now owned by the evil Symantec company.
Well to do that Microsoft would have to release at least 100 different versions of Windows & support all of them. They would all use the same core kernel, but they would have so many other differences that would make it hard for a virus to infect all the different flavors of Windows.
Another thing is that Linux is a smaller percentage of the computers on the Internet & it is generally assumed that the users of Linux are smarter then the average Windows user. Thus making Linux a harder target, please note it is not impossible as I know of at least 30 viruses writen for Linux some of which could infect several flavors because of a piece of software that is shared between the different flavors, mainly apache web server for the ones I actually read about.
I know if I supported Windows I'd really hate dealing with 100+ different flavors that all have their own different quirks. Several different user interfaces that don't even resemble each other. The list goes on with more then I feel like posting.
Well, they opposed Bush in his "omg teh terroristz lets bomb iraq!" madness.
Did you forget that France also sold lots of military hardware to Iraq. Why attack you customer, unless you are Sony of course?
On that note I remember a joke that went around for the short period of time when they supported the war. It was something about being able to tell if a "Mirage" was a friend or a foe.
I know France wasn't the only country selling arms to Iraq in spite of the embargo placed by the UN, but Russia & China have been less of an ally in the past then France was, so they didn't piss me off as much, I still think they deserved a more harsh punishment, such as death for all involved, for selling weapons to people they were not supposed to sell them to. I personally think that for doing that we should have also attacked them (France, Russia, & China) killing the people who sold weapons to people like Sadam.
If I remember corectly France, Russia, & China were all against that war because it would force them to fight against a customer which would then cost them money. I really wish Sony & all those other DRM zealots would learn this lesson. The customer needs to not be your enemy.
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By saying "Haupage" did you actually mean Hauppauge? I'm asking because when I did a google search for "Haupage" google asked did you mean "Hauppauge".
For those of you who don't know how to pronounce it here as a copy from their site FAQ.
"How do you pronounce Hauppauge?
Hauppauge is pronounced HOP-HOG."
Also why use USB, as from my experience IEEE 1394 is better for transfering data of this size or using the PCI push technology (IIRC that is what they called it back then) that my ancient TV Tuner card from them uses (Please note I use the PCI card not the even older ISA card). Also from checking out the various cards & USB devices they make it is clear that the PCI devices work better because they use almost no processor time, while USB hogs it all up in comparison. I know this because I used to use my TV tuner card in a computer with an AMD 486 120 Mhz. Also the PCI versions frequently have a driver for running in Linux. My card had the driver included into the 2.2 version of the Linux kernel.
So why use USB for this when PCI is a much better option? I mean I can understand for the people who use a laptop as a desktop. I laugh at them, but still since they don't have a PCI slot I can at least understand. If they actually have a valid reason for the laptop I don't laugh, it's just the ones who buy a laptop, but don't even use them as a portable computer that I laugh at.
Googling for "Ceragenins" results in zero hits. Which means this is some magical elixir that is a mistakened cure all. Or perhaps it's something very obscure that no one has thought of until today? We shall see.
One possibility for that is that the writer & or the editor spelled the word wrong. I've seen that to many times when they write about computers & many things in the other sciences as well. I'm not 100% certain though.
Well then you just might want to go to Wal-Mart. At the self check out lanes it tells you all of the simple things you need to do. Do they pay any attention to when the voice tells them their change is under the scanner? Of course not, then they wouldn't leave behind $100 a the register (I've seen this several times & from talking to other employees it sounds like I'm not the only one that the ID10T's do this to.), they just ask the person dealing with them & all the stupid questions that they keep asking. I can think of several other things like that just with the self checks that people don't pay attention. It really irks me when they don't pay attention. I also hate it when they are just plain stupid & ignore the good advise I give them.
I should know what I'm talking about as I've been a cashier for over 16 months at two different stores & they act just a stupid at both stores. I also am considered the most well informed about how the self checks work & how best to use them at both stores. I have no hope for people to get a brain, or figure out how to use the one they have on their head.
So I still stand with the only way to get them to pay attention is to make it worh their while. In other words they get to live if they pay attention. If you don't well death to you. I know it sounds really cynical of me, but I've never seen people act in their own best interest unless they were told the results would be death. For some reason they start to pay attention. I guess they don't want a game over.
I still think making learningas the only way to continue living is a good way to take care of the problem. Yes I know we will have fewer people on this planet, but the ones who live will have learned to be smarter & thus improve our intelegence as a whole group.
You forget nothing is fool proof to the suficintaly talented fool. You are just making it ID10T resistant.
One thing that might help is to have the computer read alloud the warning & make it so you can't click ok untill at least 10 seconds after it stops talking, but still that would not be fool proof. The only way I can think of to make a fool proof computer is that it kills all of the people who are ID10T's or do something stupid, but that would mean we would have almost no one left on this planet of ours.
I only suggest this because it might force people to actually pay attention as they just might want to live.
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I guess you missed out on "'Weird Al' Yankovic's" "Straight Outta Lynwood" album. Track three in the USA is "Canadian Idiot".
I think it is a type of humor, as Canadian Bacon is as well.
Um you must have missed out on the games in the late 90's. That's right you had to have a video card & an accelerator card as well as we didn't have the video accelerator built into any of the cards out at the time. Or MMX had the same sort of thing, assuming any of you remember the Pentium with & without MMX. I liked my MMX processor better because the bus ran at 66 MHz instead of 60 MHz that may not seem like a lot now a days but it was back then.
IIRC Forsaken was one of those games along with Descent 3 & several others.
I'm guessing they will do the same thing. Start with it on the recommended system requirements then move it to the required system requirements.
Well for Cds, DVDs, HD-DVD, & Blue-Ray it is all about one single laser beam that doesn't get split.
With Holographic memory it is a question of a beam being split then both beams being pointed to the same spot. So to be Holographic memory you need the beam to be split then to hit the same point at different angles.
One small problem. They are demanding a Jury trial. I don't have high hopes knowing that.
In my experience if you know what you are doing with NTFS permissions & registry permissions this is not a problem. First thing to do is disable simple file & printer sharing so you can actually see what you are doing. (For Windows XP Home reboot into safe mode.) Then you just need to remember that the default security settings for the program files folder does not allow the "anyone" group full control starting with Windows 2000. I can't remember what the default setting was in Windows NT 4, but I think it was way more open then 2000. Then just create a group & give that group full control or whatever level of access they need to the individual folders inside the program files folder. Yes I can get TurboTax 2003 to run on Windows XP without having admin rights to run it. I can do this with a ton of programs you just need to learn about NTFS and permissions.
I guess you never heard of the MN-100, the MN-500, or the MN-700. Of course if you lived outside of the USA & Canada you were not supposed to even have the hardware. I'm not 100% sure if the MN-740 was running Windows CE like the routers. More information can be found at the following links. (The first link shows a page with some of the links I'm going to list.)
Broadband Networking
Microsoft Help and Support - Broadband Networking
Microsoft's support LifeCycle for Broadband Networking products
Frequently asked questions regarding Microsoft's Support LifeCycle
Search the Microsoft Download Center for any available downloads
Update the firmware and software for your Microsoft Broadband networking devices
Microsoft BroadBand Networking Hardware - Newsgroup (This link should point your news reader to the newsgroup for this hardware.)
Discussions in microsoft.public.broadbandnet.hardware (This link is to the newsgroup that deals with this hardware.)
Now you are probable wondering why I know so much about this hardware. I'll tell you I supported it, back when I worked for Microsoft. I didn't know what OS till I had a defective one in a call where the error message indicated that the router runs Windows CE. I forget which version it was running, but it is still an embedded OS AFAIK.
You may want to check out what came out before Paul Verhoeven as J. Michael Straczynski came out in 1994 & had that on at least one of the episodes had a technology like this. IIRC it was something the mentioned HTML or something sounding like it. I'd have to go watch the show again to say what it was for sure.
Please check out the following links
Bart & Google Search
define:dll
BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
I guess you haven't heard about b3d Projector. They would install it with Kazaa & then Brilliant Digital would sell you processor time. (This was back in 2001-2003 AFAIK. They may have cleaned up their act since then, but I doubt it.)
I quick look at their site & they make no mention of doing this in the past. I don't know if they still do that. I had to use a coral cache to even pull it up because I have blocked the brilliantdigital.com domain in my router. I made sure I didn't download any of the software they have as I still don't trust them.
Another option although I don't know if they would hijack your processor time was new.net. I don't trust them either. I had to use a coral cache to even pull it up because I have blocked the new.net domain in my router. I made sure I didn't download any of the software they have as I still don't trust them.
I'm glad my city like other cities in this area were smart enough to do this. Now the city has created competition for Qwest, Comcast and the other Internet providers in the area. Yes I do live in Provo, & I can't use iProvo yet.
How do you mean Linux is more secure then Windows? Is it because I have almost no options on controlling the permissions on my files in Linux compared to Windows? Or is it something else?
One advantage to Microsoft in the security department is the NTFS file system. Unlike any of the file systems I've tried on Linux I can set permissions for more then just three groups & I have options other then just read, execute, & write. I know the owner, root & everyone else are the only groups I can change, while with the NTFS file system on Windows NT & newer I can configure several different groups, I can even deny permissions (a deny permission takes precedence over an allow permission, it you didn't already know) (I can't remember if you can deny permissions in Windows NT, I know you can in Windows 2000 & newer). If there was some way to add this feature into Linux I'd be much happier with Linux.
I'm just curious why everyone says Linux is more secure when I can't even set permissions to the same level of complexity that I can with Windows. Also from what I've seen most viruses now take advantage of people being naïve or stupid about using a computer so please don't rant about the lack of viruses for Linux & that fact that Windows has a ton more. I'm quite sure if Linux had the market share that Windows has now it would become the target of virus writers instead of Windows. This is because it is a larger target & thus more likely to spread your virus.
You must be smoking some pretty good crack to say that you can't login with the administrator account. Either that or the install you have been using is modified from one the official versions Microsoft has released. I know that they have released at least three different versions for most flavors of Windows XP. (First no Service Pack, second Service Pack 1, & third Service Pack 2. Of course they may have released other official versions as there was both a Service Pack 1 & a Service Pack 1a, but that doesn't really matter because even with Service Pack 2 they didn't disable access to the Administrator account.)
/.ers don't seem to know is that the early OEM installs of XP had the administrator account configured with a random password. (I know about this issue because I was supporting Windows 98 & ME at the time, so I was able to talk to the XP techs about Windows XP so I could learn more about it. They hated the OEM installs because the Administrator account password was random & the OEM didn't even know what the password was for that machine.) This caused a problem for tech support when the users forgot their own password. So the OEMs stopped doing this because it was causing more problems then it solved. True the computers were less secure, but tech support didn't have its hands tied when some moron couldn't remember that his password was "password". (With out the quotes of course.)
On a default install from the non-OEM install the administrator account can logon in either safe mode or in normal mode. (To login in normal mode you just need to know what you are doing. I'm not sure with the "Welcome screen" which I hate & thus I don't even bother using it. I know if you disable the "Welcome screen" You can just type in the username administrator & the password if you have set one & you can login. The other thing I do is change the name of the administrator account as this makes it harder for people to figure it out because they need to know the username & the password; instead of just the password which the "Welcome screen" flat out tells you all the usernames that it knows, that it's supposed to show.) This is because the guest account is denied local access not the administrator account. If you don't believe me take a non-OEM install (also one that hasn't been tweaked in any way since it left Microsoft so one of their official CDs would work, but anything else would be considered tweaked) & install it on a fresh machine or virtual machine. I make no warranties for OEM installs as the OEM is known to mess with the install so much that Microsoft techs have no idea what is going on in the OEM install.
One other thing many
Well I guess you haven't seen Spaceballs then, as 12345 was taken way back in 1987.
Try again, but something better.
Well for the list of hardware that supports FLAC. Why not start at the source?
I remember my first modem. I bought it second hand. It was a 9600 Baud ISA modem, right when the 14.4 modems were the fastest. This was in my sophomore year of high school.
The things I learned from it. IRQ conflicts after I figured out how to get it inserted correctly, my mouse was on COM1 & I used it on COM3, I switched the mouse to COM2 as that was easier to do then open the case again. Oh yes that was fun, the other lesson it taught me is that when adding new hardware don't close the case until you are 100% sure it works, because opening the case several times is really annoying.
One other thing that computer was the first computer I could truly call mine. Before the family had owned several computers starting with a commodore 64. They still had a computer I had just bought an old one from Mom & Dad.
Lowest bidder. Poorly specified requirements document.
Yeah, I think that about sums it up.
So are you saying they didn't use Intelligent Design in building this application. I'm not going to say how to prevent it as I lack sufficient knowledge to perform that task, but still it does prove that Intelligent Design is needed.
Well where I live people put a large antenna out side the house, with a cable bringing the data inside. Thus making it possible to do that & still be able to watch TV.
True Windows users mainly run as admin mainly because most programs require them to have that many rights.
Two of the biggest targets in Windows is Internet Explorer & Outlook which all Windows computers have at least Internet Explorer & Outlook Express. You can never truly remove either of these programs without causing major problems on the computer.
The reason Linux is even harder to target is you have several different e-mail apps to choose from & everybody isn't using the same app with the same secuirity flaw. This makes it harder to target Linux users although not impossible as I mentioned earlier. One package that seems to be in many flavors of Linux is the Apache web server which was targeted by several viruses.
So my point was Microsft would have to release 100+ different flavors of Windows that prefered a different set of software & had a different user interface. That would make it a harder target like Linux is right now, since flavors that prefer KDE for the GUI use mainly KDE apps & flavors that prefer Gnome use Gnome apps mainly. The other advantage I can think of for Linux is that because you can see the source when you post about a bug or flaw, assuming you know enough about programing, you can also include a patch for the problem. This happened with the 0-day exploit in Wine, when the flaw was posted a patch was posted at about the same time.
That is why I think making Windows safe by making it more like Linux would be bad in some ways. I think making admin right needed was a really bad idea for the programers who did it. I know that Intuit has learned from that mistake, in the 2003 version of TurboTax you needed Admin rights to install & run the program, while in the 2004 version & the 2005 version you only needed admin rights to install the app with regular user rights being enough to run it.
Windows Vista is supposed to fix the issue with users always running around as an admin evven though they almost never need it.
For an example of Linux running around as root check out Linspire Linux. Yes I know running as root is a bad idea which is why I'm considering either Kubuntu or Ubuntu when I make the switch to Linux, they both only give you sudo access & if you decided to install root support the forum users will assume you know enough to fix it yourself & will not help you other then tell you to re-install Linux, this is because running as root on that flavor of Linux causes problems if you are not an expert & know what you are doing with it.
My current problem is going to be reformating my data drives from NTFS to FAT32 without loosing any data, the reason for FAT32 is because they are external & I'd like to be able to use them on other Windows computers, currently I can because the other computers I connect them to are also running Windows XP which supports NTFS. That means I need to either move the data around & format one drive at a time or use a tool to convert the partitions. I will no longer use Partition Magic as it is now owned by the evil Symantec company.
Well to do that Microsoft would have to release at least 100 different versions of Windows & support all of them. They would all use the same core kernel, but they would have so many other differences that would make it hard for a virus to infect all the different flavors of Windows.
Another thing is that Linux is a smaller percentage of the computers on the Internet & it is generally assumed that the users of Linux are smarter then the average Windows user. Thus making Linux a harder target, please note it is not impossible as I know of at least 30 viruses writen for Linux some of which could infect several flavors because of a piece of software that is shared between the different flavors, mainly apache web server for the ones I actually read about.
I know if I supported Windows I'd really hate dealing with 100+ different flavors that all have their own different quirks. Several different user interfaces that don't even resemble each other. The list goes on with more then I feel like posting.
Well, they opposed Bush in his "omg teh terroristz lets bomb iraq!" madness.
Did you forget that France also sold lots of military hardware to Iraq. Why attack you customer, unless you are Sony of course?
On that note I remember a joke that went around for the short period of time when they supported the war. It was something about being able to tell if a "Mirage" was a friend or a foe.
I know France wasn't the only country selling arms to Iraq in spite of the embargo placed by the UN, but Russia & China have been less of an ally in the past then France was, so they didn't piss me off as much, I still think they deserved a more harsh punishment, such as death for all involved, for selling weapons to people they were not supposed to sell them to. I personally think that for doing that we should have also attacked them (France, Russia, & China) killing the people who sold weapons to people like Sadam.
If I remember corectly France, Russia, & China were all against that war because it would force them to fight against a customer which would then cost them money. I really wish Sony & all those other DRM zealots would learn this lesson. The customer needs to not be your enemy.
By saying "Haupage" did you actually mean Hauppauge? I'm asking because when I did a google search for "Haupage" google asked did you mean "Hauppauge".
For those of you who don't know how to pronounce it here as a copy from their site FAQ.
"How do you pronounce Hauppauge?
Hauppauge is pronounced HOP-HOG."
Also why use USB, as from my experience IEEE 1394 is better for transfering data of this size or using the PCI push technology (IIRC that is what they called it back then) that my ancient TV Tuner card from them uses (Please note I use the PCI card not the even older ISA card). Also from checking out the various cards & USB devices they make it is clear that the PCI devices work better because they use almost no processor time, while USB hogs it all up in comparison. I know this because I used to use my TV tuner card in a computer with an AMD 486 120 Mhz. Also the PCI versions frequently have a driver for running in Linux. My card had the driver included into the 2.2 version of the Linux kernel.
So why use USB for this when PCI is a much better option? I mean I can understand for the people who use a laptop as a desktop. I laugh at them, but still since they don't have a PCI slot I can at least understand. If they actually have a valid reason for the laptop I don't laugh, it's just the ones who buy a laptop, but don't even use them as a portable computer that I laugh at.
Googling for "Ceragenins" results in zero hits. Which means this is some magical elixir that is a mistakened cure all. Or perhaps it's something very obscure that no one has thought of until today? We shall see.
One possibility for that is that the writer & or the editor spelled the word wrong. I've seen that to many times when they write about computers & many things in the other sciences as well. I'm not 100% certain though.
Well then you just might want to go to Wal-Mart. At the self check out lanes it tells you all of the simple things you need to do. Do they pay any attention to when the voice tells them their change is under the scanner? Of course not, then they wouldn't leave behind $100 a the register (I've seen this several times & from talking to other employees it sounds like I'm not the only one that the ID10T's do this to.), they just ask the person dealing with them & all the stupid questions that they keep asking. I can think of several other things like that just with the self checks that people don't pay attention. It really irks me when they don't pay attention. I also hate it when they are just plain stupid & ignore the good advise I give them.
I should know what I'm talking about as I've been a cashier for over 16 months at two different stores & they act just a stupid at both stores. I also am considered the most well informed about how the self checks work & how best to use them at both stores. I have no hope for people to get a brain, or figure out how to use the one they have on their head.
So I still stand with the only way to get them to pay attention is to make it worh their while. In other words they get to live if they pay attention. If you don't well death to you. I know it sounds really cynical of me, but I've never seen people act in their own best interest unless they were told the results would be death. For some reason they start to pay attention. I guess they don't want a game over.
I still think making learningas the only way to continue living is a good way to take care of the problem. Yes I know we will have fewer people on this planet, but the ones who live will have learned to be smarter & thus improve our intelegence as a whole group.
You forget nothing is fool proof to the suficintaly talented fool. You are just making it ID10T resistant.
One thing that might help is to have the computer read alloud the warning & make it so you can't click ok untill at least 10 seconds after it stops talking, but still that would not be fool proof. The only way I can think of to make a fool proof computer is that it kills all of the people who are ID10T's or do something stupid, but that would mean we would have almost no one left on this planet of ours.
I only suggest this because it might force people to actually pay attention as they just might want to live.