This is just silly, even Apple knows that their O/S just isn't useful to most people, they just released a tool to let you put Windows on their boxes for christ sake.
Not saying there is anything wrong with MacOS, I use it. But it isn't useful to many people to be in the 1% minority. The entire purpose of computing is the ease of data exchange, not trying to be different.
I wouldn't be surprised is Apple was already planning on phasing out their software and just providing hardware/ipod.
Heres a nice qoute from Steve Jobs:
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
Ya ya, we all hate AOL, but lets be reasonable here...
This WAS spam was it not? The article clearly says that 300 people reported they couldn't send a copy of this email. If 300 people reported it, I can only imagine how many thousands tried to send it.
If I was a spam filter, and I saw thousands of copies of the same email going out, I'd filter it too.
Bethesda is an example of a company that typically waits until everything is 'just right' before releasing.
The company rarely gives any public information about timelines, they simple say "It will be released when it is done". Which often includes many long delays, but when the product finally is released you can always count on getting your money's worth.
Ironically, the last few days I've been trying to get Windows installed on a machine and it REFUSES to install it's boot loader.
Seems like whenever I try to do a dual boot windows wants to take over the boot sector, and when I'm doing a clean install it refuses to properly take over the boot sector.
Drivers aren't signed until they are tested and certified by Microsoft, right?
Wrong.
Your confusing certification with signing. Driver signing is just like signing a webpage or a document. It just ensures that the driver is coming from who it says it is from. It has nothing to do with microsoft. The company simply signs up with Verisign and gets a key and such, and signs their drivers with it. Very easy and inexpensive.
It depends what you work on. The two types of software projects that require ALOT of math (of projects i work on) are graphics and genetics related software. In any software dealing with vector graphics you'll do more math on curves than you'd ever want to do. In software dealing with DNA analysis there was pretty intense mathematics.
But, it is true that for alot of developers working on business related software, you really only need simple math skills to estimate memory usage, efficiency, etc.
I just can't understand why people have so many problems with this. I know that being a software engineer I am a bit more savvy with my computers than most people, but this is still amazing me.
I have under my control (between work and home) about 7 Windows XP machines, none of them secured any more than the installation defaults, and most much less. About half of them have SP2.
I've never had a peice of spyware, malware, anything-ware, virus, or trojan..... Ever....
I am browsing a bizzare combination of sites for probably 10 hours of each day, using firefox and internet explorer. I goto plenty of free game sites, pr0n sites, etc.... Never have I had a problem, never has anything installed, never has my machine slowed down....
I have seen what some peoples machines look like, completely crippled and unusable with Malware... What the hell are these people doing? Why can I use so many machines for so many hours every day for many years and never have a single incident? Are these people just randomly choosing to download, and install applications right and left?
It sounds to me like everyone needs to just stop whining about malware being the problem, and instead learn how to use their damn operating system. And installing firefox would help, it seems to protect users from themselves a bit.
Somebody tell me if I am mistaken, but isn't it an extrodinarly rare case when we come across some malware/virus that is able to install and run itself with no user intervention? So all of these people must, for the most part, be choosing to install this crap one way or another.... Sounds to me like we should just revoke their computer privileges.
Lastly, note that nuclear energy is a limited resource, like oil.
Do you mean limited by the amount of Uranium 235 we can get our hands on? I suppose it is limited but the supply of available uranium is very large. I think the going price is about $26 a kilogram. Supposedly it is much more plentiful than gold, mercury, or tungsten. And doesn't a little bit go a very long ways?
Unfortunately the majority of pollution causing global warming is due entirely to the environmentalists that are yelling about the global warming.
Nuclear energy is cheap and clean. And on top of that, If we had huge amounts of cheap electricity flowing through the country, it would be a huge push to move other technologies to electric, such as cars and trucks.
But since the tree-huggers throw such a fit about it, we haven't built a nuclear plant in what, 30 years? The rest of the world is merrily building these wonderful clean powerhouses, while we sit here in the U.S. and destroy the atmosphere out of sheer political bullshit.
Perhaps we just disagree on the language. I think we are both aware that the administration is pushing for intelligent design being taught in schools, and other similarly outlandish things. But I haven't seen any propaganda, any talk of these ideas has been clear and concise. And the lack of merit behind the ideas has been readily apparent.
Evolution? WTF are you talking about. Is our government trying to trick us into believing evolution is a legitimate theory? Or are they trying to trick us into thinking the world is only 6000 years old? I can't remember which one, please advise.
The english was correct though, if it had said "have" instead of "has", then it would have been referring to the plural "groups". It says "has" though, which means it could only have been referring to the singular "US".
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
For greater security, our screw drive openers include Security+® rolling code technology. Each time the remote is activated, Security+ automatically rolls the code over to any one of 100-billion new codes, never to be repeated.
Yet when I brought home my new car, It was able to derive this 'secure' code scheme after listening to only 3 button presses on the garage door opener. Now I can open and close the garage with the button built into the car.
And apart from the fact that over-the-air codes are probably unsafe, you have the far bigger problem of all these minimum-wage technicians that have access to the technology and transmitters. I'm fairly confident that you could either a) get a job in this facility yourself, to gain access to the technology, or b) pay off an existing employee/technician.
Just please god, tell me that there is some hard-disconnect that deactivates these latches entirely during flight. I really don't want to be flying along and suddenly tumble to the back of the plane with everyone else like a bunch of marbles in a jar.
The cheating on the console is too easy. This works on xbox though where you cannot do that, and really takes some patience to get the money. Also the guy is kinda hard to kill, he keeps running for the guards.
A truly great game. I've been playing an awful lot since it came out a few days ago. I think the reviewer was spot on when he said that the player is given respect in the game. Theres no other way to describe it.
Oh, and this wouldn't be a game review without some tips!
Go find Dorian's house in the Tolas district of Imperial City. Kill him, and you can take an unlimited supply of money off of him. As much as your willing to take at 8gp per button press.
Well, I don't know that it falls on any party lines.
It is just how congress works. It's the slimey underbelly of our government, and is run like an organized crime group. All bills and decisions are made either becuase of a bribe or a threat, and a senators constituants have little impact on his behavior.
It has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats though. More realistically, the worst earmarks/pork/bribes/threats/power come from those congressmen who have been in office the longest. With time, they become members of very powerful committees (Ways and Means for instance) and can do pretty much whatever they want.
A particularly sickening example comes from one of the most powerful members of congress, Ted Kennedy. He orchestrated the Big Dig which had spent $14.6 billion tax payer dollars to build a highway in his state. No one is quite sure why the other 49 states should have to chip in on $14.6 billion for a road that only benefits Massachusetts. Of course it is great if you are in Boston, where $14.6 billion was pumped into the economy in the form of new jobs. Only a congressman could get away with murder and still pull off something like that.
This sort of thing is common though, find any congressman who has server for 15 or more years and they will be equally corrupted.
The new lobbying reform bill, which either was just enacted, or is about to be enacted (I haven't seen much news in the last few days) does change the way this pork will work a bit...
While the bill isn't very groundbreaking, and doesn't change much, it does make a new policy for earmarks. Now all earmarks must be published 24 hours in advance, and the earmark can be stripped from the bill if 40 members of congress wish it to be removed.
Of course, if you tried to remove an earmark placed by a powerful congressman, someone like Kennedy perhaps, you'd likely regret it. So i'm not sure how this will all play out, but its a tiny step in the right direction.
If anyone else is more sure of the details or status of this Lobbying Reform bill, let us know.
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This is just silly, even Apple knows that their O/S just isn't useful to most people, they just released a tool to let you put Windows on their boxes for christ sake.
Not saying there is anything wrong with MacOS, I use it. But it isn't useful to many people to be in the 1% minority. The entire purpose of computing is the ease of data exchange, not trying to be different.
I wouldn't be surprised is Apple was already planning on phasing out their software and just providing hardware/ipod.
Heres a nice qoute from Steve Jobs:
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
Ya ya, we all hate AOL, but lets be reasonable here...
This WAS spam was it not? The article clearly says that 300 people reported they couldn't send a copy of this email. If 300 people reported it, I can only imagine how many thousands tried to send it.
If I was a spam filter, and I saw thousands of copies of the same email going out, I'd filter it too.
Bethesda is an example of a company that typically waits until everything is 'just right' before releasing.
The company rarely gives any public information about timelines, they simple say "It will be released when it is done". Which often includes many long delays, but when the product finally is released you can always count on getting your money's worth.
Ironically, the last few days I've been trying to get Windows installed on a machine and it REFUSES to install it's boot loader.
Seems like whenever I try to do a dual boot windows wants to take over the boot sector, and when I'm doing a clean install it refuses to properly take over the boot sector.
I suppose its a 'feature'.
Drivers aren't signed until they are tested and certified by Microsoft, right?
Wrong.
Your confusing certification with signing. Driver signing is just like signing a webpage or a document. It just ensures that the driver is coming from who it says it is from. It has nothing to do with microsoft. The company simply signs up with Verisign and gets a key and such, and signs their drivers with it. Very easy and inexpensive.
It depends what you work on. The two types of software projects that require ALOT of math (of projects i work on) are graphics and genetics related software. In any software dealing with vector graphics you'll do more math on curves than you'd ever want to do. In software dealing with DNA analysis there was pretty intense mathematics.
But, it is true that for alot of developers working on business related software, you really only need simple math skills to estimate memory usage, efficiency, etc.
I invoke Godwins Law.
Just another clear reason of why you should avoid doing business or in any way coming in contact with the Telco's.
I just can't understand why people have so many problems with this. I know that being a software engineer I am a bit more savvy with my computers than most people, but this is still amazing me.
I have under my control (between work and home) about 7 Windows XP machines, none of them secured any more than the installation defaults, and most much less. About half of them have SP2.
I've never had a peice of spyware, malware, anything-ware, virus, or trojan..... Ever....
I am browsing a bizzare combination of sites for probably 10 hours of each day, using firefox and internet explorer. I goto plenty of free game sites, pr0n sites, etc.... Never have I had a problem, never has anything installed, never has my machine slowed down....
I have seen what some peoples machines look like, completely crippled and unusable with Malware... What the hell are these people doing? Why can I use so many machines for so many hours every day for many years and never have a single incident? Are these people just randomly choosing to download, and install applications right and left?
It sounds to me like everyone needs to just stop whining about malware being the problem, and instead learn how to use their damn operating system. And installing firefox would help, it seems to protect users from themselves a bit.
Somebody tell me if I am mistaken, but isn't it an extrodinarly rare case when we come across some malware/virus that is able to install and run itself with no user intervention? So all of these people must, for the most part, be choosing to install this crap one way or another.... Sounds to me like we should just revoke their computer privileges.
Lastly, note that nuclear energy is a limited resource, like oil.
Do you mean limited by the amount of Uranium 235 we can get our hands on? I suppose it is limited but the supply of available uranium is very large. I think the going price is about $26 a kilogram. Supposedly it is much more plentiful than gold, mercury, or tungsten. And doesn't a little bit go a very long ways?
The difference is that it never occured to the legislators that this was a recursive acronym.
Unfortunately the majority of pollution causing global warming is due entirely to the environmentalists that are yelling about the global warming.
Nuclear energy is cheap and clean. And on top of that, If we had huge amounts of cheap electricity flowing through the country, it would be a huge push to move other technologies to electric, such as cars and trucks.
But since the tree-huggers throw such a fit about it, we haven't built a nuclear plant in what, 30 years? The rest of the world is merrily building these wonderful clean powerhouses, while we sit here in the U.S. and destroy the atmosphere out of sheer political bullshit.
I'm not sure what indentifiable is.
teh indentifiable serialz pwn u!!!!!!!1!!11!!1111!111eleventy111!!one!
Google has never heard of that committee.
Perhaps we just disagree on the language. I think we are both aware that the administration is pushing for intelligent design being taught in schools, and other similarly outlandish things. But I haven't seen any propaganda, any talk of these ideas has been clear and concise. And the lack of merit behind the ideas has been readily apparent.
Evolution? WTF are you talking about. Is our government trying to trick us into believing evolution is a legitimate theory? Or are they trying to trick us into thinking the world is only 6000 years old? I can't remember which one, please advise.
The english was correct though, if it had said "have" instead of "has", then it would have been referring to the plural "groups". It says "has" though, which means it could only have been referring to the singular "US".
I tried to check out the movielink site, but instead got a page telling me that the site can only be viewed on Internet Explorer using Windows XP.
You won't even let me see your page with Firefox?
What the fuck. I hope they are a massive fucking failure of a company.
I don't know that it takes alot of intelligence for a robot to bring you a beer or give you a hand job.
That is what they are for, isn't it?
Turns out of you bribe Dorian first, then he'll have more money when you kill him, so you can steal it faster.
I bribed him a bit, then killed him and was able to get ~200 gp each time I pressed the 'A' button.
I got to 1,000,000gp in about 10 minutes or so, then saved and moved on.
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
Well, my garage door opener also says it has secure codes:
For greater security, our screw drive openers include Security+® rolling code technology. Each time the remote is activated, Security+ automatically rolls the code over to any one of 100-billion new codes, never to be repeated.
Yet when I brought home my new car, It was able to derive this 'secure' code scheme after listening to only 3 button presses on the garage door opener. Now I can open and close the garage with the button built into the car.
And apart from the fact that over-the-air codes are probably unsafe, you have the far bigger problem of all these minimum-wage technicians that have access to the technology and transmitters. I'm fairly confident that you could either a) get a job in this facility yourself, to gain access to the technology, or b) pay off an existing employee/technician.
Just please god, tell me that there is some hard-disconnect that deactivates these latches entirely during flight. I really don't want to be flying along and suddenly tumble to the back of the plane with everyone else like a bunch of marbles in a jar.
The cheating on the console is too easy. This works on xbox though where you cannot do that, and really takes some patience to get the money. Also the guy is kinda hard to kill, he keeps running for the guards.
A truly great game. I've been playing an awful lot since it came out a few days ago. I think the reviewer was spot on when he said that the player is given respect in the game. Theres no other way to describe it.
Oh, and this wouldn't be a game review without some tips!
Go find Dorian's house in the Tolas district of Imperial City. Kill him, and you can take an unlimited supply of money off of him. As much as your willing to take at 8gp per button press.
Well, I don't know that it falls on any party lines.
It is just how congress works. It's the slimey underbelly of our government, and is run like an organized crime group. All bills and decisions are made either becuase of a bribe or a threat, and a senators constituants have little impact on his behavior.
It has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats though. More realistically, the worst earmarks/pork/bribes/threats/power come from those congressmen who have been in office the longest. With time, they become members of very powerful committees (Ways and Means for instance) and can do pretty much whatever they want.
A particularly sickening example comes from one of the most powerful members of congress, Ted Kennedy. He orchestrated the Big Dig which had spent $14.6 billion tax payer dollars to build a highway in his state. No one is quite sure why the other 49 states should have to chip in on $14.6 billion for a road that only benefits Massachusetts. Of course it is great if you are in Boston, where $14.6 billion was pumped into the economy in the form of new jobs. Only a congressman could get away with murder and still pull off something like that.
This sort of thing is common though, find any congressman who has server for 15 or more years and they will be equally corrupted.
There was no comity when Google obeyed China's laws.
The new lobbying reform bill, which either was just enacted, or is about to be enacted (I haven't seen much news in the last few days) does change the way this pork will work a bit...
While the bill isn't very groundbreaking, and doesn't change much, it does make a new policy for earmarks. Now all earmarks must be published 24 hours in advance, and the earmark can be stripped from the bill if 40 members of congress wish it to be removed.
Of course, if you tried to remove an earmark placed by a powerful congressman, someone like Kennedy perhaps, you'd likely regret it. So i'm not sure how this will all play out, but its a tiny step in the right direction.
If anyone else is more sure of the details or status of this Lobbying Reform bill, let us know.