Or he has an unstable prescription. I'm not a candidate as it requires your prescription to be the same for 2+ years and mine has never been the same two years in a row, I've even had to go back at 6 months because I noticed my correction was too weak. I started wearing glasses in the 4th grade for nearsightedness and my eyes got progressively worse until about age 34, now they're slowly getting better, but at age 38, I think that reading glasses are going to be coming my way soon. I'
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Wow, obviously I meant "games" not "gays". I wish Slashdot had an edit feature.:)
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Bioshock is/was an amazing game, one of the few gays to truly elicit an emotional response from me while playing. It remains the only game I've unlocked every achievement for on the 360, as I wanted to find everything in the world. The play-through where I doggedly hunted down every audio diary in the game really made me a fan, as once you hear all the stories being told (with excellent voice actors) by the end of the game, you can actually start to feel very sorry for the splicers you have to kill. Bioshock is more of a tale of tragedy, less so of vengeance and war, which is what most of the FPS genre is about.
A special mention also has to be made for Sander Cohen, who is one of the most memorable game characters ever. Playing through Fort Frolic still creeps me out, and the audio diary with him reading his poem "The Wild Bunny" is one of the most chilling pieces of game audio ever.
I think you mean 802.1x, not 802.11x, which doesn't exist, as far as I know.:)
Any ResNet system worth its salt should also have the ability to allow your device past authentication based on its MAC address. Security obviously isn't great there, but you have to do those things to allow Xboxes, PS3s, TiVos, and all manner of other devices to connect.
I love it when Slashdot can't post an accurate headline. This is a flaw in SMB 2.0, which is present in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and probably Windows Server 2008 R2 as well. This is not new to 7, it's a common flaw in all the implementations of SMB 2.0. XP isn't affected because XP can't speak that protocol.
Uh, by default on modern incarnations of Windows, accounts without passwords are *not* allowed to log in remotely. So, they're extremely difficult to access remotely.
You might also want to check out Goozex. You trade your games to other gamers for points there. If a game is 500 points, you get all 500 points, and Goozex.com gets a buck on each transaction. It's not perfect, as you'll sometimes have to wait a few days/weeks to get the game you want, or for someone to want your game, but there's not a middleman making $30 off each used game transaction.
(Yes, that's my referral code in the Goozex link):)
IANAF: (I am not a Farmer, but I do live in Iowa) - Uh, the kind of corn you buy "on the cob" and the type turned into ethanol are not the same. Ethanol is made from "field corn" aka Yellow Dent corn. It's not something you want to eat in its raw form, and it's harvested by combines. Corn on the cob is made from sweet corn, which is not used for making ethanol. Popcorn is yet a third kind of corn...
Now, the prices of various crops can affect the prices of others, but it's just because farmers may decide to plant fewer acres of soybeans if corn prices are high, or vice versa.
In short, ethanol is not stealing all the sweet corn away from the Jolly Green Giant. I picked up 4 ears for a dollar at the grocery store, and ate them tonight.
This is the way BIS works. The reason you get great battery life out of a Blackberry is that RIM's server is hitting your POP/IMAP server and checking for mail, then it just pushes it to your Blackberry as needed. Compared to running a Windows Mobile phone with your IMAP connection being live all day, the battery & traffic savings are enormous. The downside is that you have to share your username & password with RIM, unless you're using BES, which is what enterprises who worry about giving out their passwords do...
I found a bug/cheat back in the day on my Genesis. I read in a magazine about some game that'd glitch in a cheating fashion if you put in Altered Beast, waited for the title screen to come up, then yanked it out with the power still on, put in the next game, and hit restart. I didn't have that game, but I tried it with Strider, I'm not sure why, but it worked! You now had unlimited lives, but you had to play on the hardest difficulty setting! That was actually the first way I beat the game, though...
I know, this sounds like one of those stupid things you hear someone claim worked, but doesn't, but truly, it worked! And I never fried my Genesis doing it, though the Genesis certainly didn't seem happy about having the cartridge ripped out in mid-load...
Yes, but satellite internet pretty much kills any possibility of internet gaming, other than turn-based games. Wikipedia says it adds 500 to 900 miliseconds, which, erm, would suck.
Unfortunately, most schools now mandate an e-mail address for their students, because it's included in the Yahoo or Wired "rankings" of schools with good technology services. I know, it's crazy, but many schools that used to leave obtaining an account as an optional thing made it a mandatory thing just to boost their scores here.
Yep, there's even a company called Navizon that's building a competing service to Skyhook, yet they pay individuals to collect the MAC addresses (as well as Cell tower IDs) with their GPS-equipped devices, so that those without GPS can still obtain their location. It integrates with the new Fire Eagle software/service from Yahoo too.
Here's a link (with my referral code inserted): Navizon
Skyhook has zero data in the city I live in, though I did eventually figure out how you could submit a MAC and coordinates to their system, and fed mine in, so at least my iPhone-owning friends will know where they are when they're at my house...
I always have to answer questions, because they see the visa in my passport from traveling to Russia in 2004 for work. I get asked about it every single time I clear customs, even though I've only been there once, more than a decade after the cold war, to set up a video conferencing system. Apparently I still might be a double agent, cleverly disguised as a tubby IT nerd from Iowa.
I have one of these players, and we're not upset about Profile 1.1 vs 1.0, we're upset that it's a total crapshoot whether or not a given movie will play on your player. I got mine in September, this isn't a device that's three years old, either, but it has been plagued with bugs. I rented Weeds from Netflix, and the disc would play fine ONCE, but not a second time (confirmed with others on AVSForum). Rise of the Silver Surfer didn't work for a month or two after release. Deja Vu would constantly hang during playback. Pirates of the Carribean 3 didn't work until last week, nor did Little Miss Sunshine. 3:10 to Yuma still doesn't work, and last week I sat down to watch Across the Universe to find that you're left at the menu screen, but with no cursor to start the movie, and you can't even skip to a chapter or work-around the issue.
Samsung needs to figure out what the hell is wrong with their firmware and correct it so that it'll actually play movies, and they need to be more transparent about what's going on. They rarely acknowledge issues, and never document what fixes are in new firmware revisions as they're released. Perhaps they could give some test units to the shops that are authoring Blu-Ray discs, or, you know, get an advance copy of the disc so that firmware can be ready on the day the movie hits the streets. Follow this thread at AVSForum for more info.
Yeah, even though the pound is worth $2, things are priced like pounds are dollars, which is shocking when you first arrive.
I went to the UK for the first time this summer. Ate at Burger King in Waterloo Station after getting off the Eurostar, cost me 6 pounds ($12!) for a Whopper Meal, OMG! Thought about seeing Spiderman 3 one rainy day, but tickets were 12 pounds each. $50 for my wife and I to see a movie, before popcorn? We waited until we got home, and saw it for $5.50 each...
Notre Dame was free to enter in France, but in the UK it was 10 pounds/person if you wanted to see Westminster Abbey. Wow, $40 for the two of us to see the inside of your church? Umm, I'll read about it on Wikipedia, thanks...
I'm trying to convince my friend who lives in London to come visit the US for the first time. She'll feel like a queen here...
Yep, I was in Fiji in July, and they served some fish at our resort that was poisoned. I didn't eat any, my mom ate a small bit, but was fine. The resort owner and one other guest were quite ill for days, and their cat that ate the leftovers nearly died. Apparently there's no way to tell if the fish is infected, and cooking it doesn't destroy the toxin.
Isn't there an inherent conflict of interest in letting you pick your own metric? If I get to pick my metric, I'm picking something that I know will increase over time, so I can always point to it and say "Look, we're doing an even better job this year!". I suggest picking the number of GB/TB/PB of storage space you have, it goes up, the costs go down, make that the metric by which your performance should be judged.
Then your university didn't follow the rules. VLK media is only supposed to be used by the institution, and the VLKs aren't supposed to be given to end-user types. For media given to students, faculty, and staff for their personal computers, the institution is supposed to buy (and can resell) media that requires activation, and comes with a unique key. It's pretty cheap, under $5/disc if I recall. I know that at one time, the IT staff of the institution could install the VLK version on your machine for you as well, but they still were supposed to keep the VLK itself semi-secret.
I wish. It would have been nice if Bungie had been able to add online co-op play into Halo & Halo 2 afterwards, especially Halo 2, as it was originally going to be a feature (that I was really looking forward to) that got yanked out somewhere before the release. It's even a choice in the multiplayer interface, not that you can actually set up an online co-op game...
I always thought that Microsoft and Bungie could have made the Xbox 360 even more popular by having a Halo 2.5 native on the 360 hardware at launch. Sell it for $29.99, put back in the online co-op mode, spruce up some textures, throw in 8 new multiplayer maps, and it'd sell pretty well, with relatively low development costs.
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Or he has an unstable prescription. I'm not a candidate as it requires your prescription to be the same for 2+ years and mine has never been the same two years in a row, I've even had to go back at 6 months because I noticed my correction was too weak. I started wearing glasses in the 4th grade for nearsightedness and my eyes got progressively worse until about age 34, now they're slowly getting better, but at age 38, I think that reading glasses are going to be coming my way soon. I'
Wow, obviously I meant "games" not "gays". I wish Slashdot had an edit feature. :)
Bioshock is/was an amazing game, one of the few gays to truly elicit an emotional response from me while playing. It remains the only game I've unlocked every achievement for on the 360, as I wanted to find everything in the world. The play-through where I doggedly hunted down every audio diary in the game really made me a fan, as once you hear all the stories being told (with excellent voice actors) by the end of the game, you can actually start to feel very sorry for the splicers you have to kill. Bioshock is more of a tale of tragedy, less so of vengeance and war, which is what most of the FPS genre is about.
A special mention also has to be made for Sander Cohen, who is one of the most memorable game characters ever. Playing through Fort Frolic still creeps me out, and the audio diary with him reading his poem "The Wild Bunny" is one of the most chilling pieces of game audio ever.
I think you mean 802.1x, not 802.11x, which doesn't exist, as far as I know. :)
Any ResNet system worth its salt should also have the ability to allow your device past authentication based on its MAC address. Security obviously isn't great there, but you have to do those things to allow Xboxes, PS3s, TiVos, and all manner of other devices to connect.
I love it when Slashdot can't post an accurate headline. This is a flaw in SMB 2.0, which is present in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and probably Windows Server 2008 R2 as well. This is not new to 7, it's a common flaw in all the implementations of SMB 2.0. XP isn't affected because XP can't speak that protocol.
Uh, by default on modern incarnations of Windows, accounts without passwords are *not* allowed to log in remotely. So, they're extremely difficult to access remotely.
I think Top Gear is on a mission to destroy all those Morris Marinas...
You might also want to check out Goozex. You trade your games to other gamers for points there. If a game is 500 points, you get all 500 points, and Goozex.com gets a buck on each transaction. It's not perfect, as you'll sometimes have to wait a few days/weeks to get the game you want, or for someone to want your game, but there's not a middleman making $30 off each used game transaction.
:)
(Yes, that's my referral code in the Goozex link)
IANAF: (I am not a Farmer, but I do live in Iowa) - Uh, the kind of corn you buy "on the cob" and the type turned into ethanol are not the same. Ethanol is made from "field corn" aka Yellow Dent corn. It's not something you want to eat in its raw form, and it's harvested by combines. Corn on the cob is made from sweet corn, which is not used for making ethanol. Popcorn is yet a third kind of corn... Now, the prices of various crops can affect the prices of others, but it's just because farmers may decide to plant fewer acres of soybeans if corn prices are high, or vice versa. In short, ethanol is not stealing all the sweet corn away from the Jolly Green Giant. I picked up 4 ears for a dollar at the grocery store, and ate them tonight.
Um, you're kind of forgetting the hidden cost of roads... I think the public pays for them too. :)
This is the way BIS works. The reason you get great battery life out of a Blackberry is that RIM's server is hitting your POP/IMAP server and checking for mail, then it just pushes it to your Blackberry as needed. Compared to running a Windows Mobile phone with your IMAP connection being live all day, the battery & traffic savings are enormous. The downside is that you have to share your username & password with RIM, unless you're using BES, which is what enterprises who worry about giving out their passwords do...
I found a bug/cheat back in the day on my Genesis. I read in a magazine about some game that'd glitch in a cheating fashion if you put in Altered Beast, waited for the title screen to come up, then yanked it out with the power still on, put in the next game, and hit restart. I didn't have that game, but I tried it with Strider, I'm not sure why, but it worked! You now had unlimited lives, but you had to play on the hardest difficulty setting! That was actually the first way I beat the game, though... I know, this sounds like one of those stupid things you hear someone claim worked, but doesn't, but truly, it worked! And I never fried my Genesis doing it, though the Genesis certainly didn't seem happy about having the cartridge ripped out in mid-load...
Yes, but satellite internet pretty much kills any possibility of internet gaming, other than turn-based games. Wikipedia says it adds 500 to 900 miliseconds, which, erm, would suck.
23AndMe includes HIV Resistance in their battery of genetic tests.
Unfortunately, most schools now mandate an e-mail address for their students, because it's included in the Yahoo or Wired "rankings" of schools with good technology services. I know, it's crazy, but many schools that used to leave obtaining an account as an optional thing made it a mandatory thing just to boost their scores here.
Yep, there's even a company called Navizon that's building a competing service to Skyhook, yet they pay individuals to collect the MAC addresses (as well as Cell tower IDs) with their GPS-equipped devices, so that those without GPS can still obtain their location. It integrates with the new Fire Eagle software/service from Yahoo too.
Here's a link (with my referral code inserted): Navizon
Skyhook has zero data in the city I live in, though I did eventually figure out how you could submit a MAC and coordinates to their system, and fed mine in, so at least my iPhone-owning friends will know where they are when they're at my house...
I always have to answer questions, because they see the visa in my passport from traveling to Russia in 2004 for work. I get asked about it every single time I clear customs, even though I've only been there once, more than a decade after the cold war, to set up a video conferencing system. Apparently I still might be a double agent, cleverly disguised as a tubby IT nerd from Iowa.
I have one of these players, and we're not upset about Profile 1.1 vs 1.0, we're upset that it's a total crapshoot whether or not a given movie will play on your player. I got mine in September, this isn't a device that's three years old, either, but it has been plagued with bugs. I rented Weeds from Netflix, and the disc would play fine ONCE, but not a second time (confirmed with others on AVSForum). Rise of the Silver Surfer didn't work for a month or two after release. Deja Vu would constantly hang during playback. Pirates of the Carribean 3 didn't work until last week, nor did Little Miss Sunshine. 3:10 to Yuma still doesn't work, and last week I sat down to watch Across the Universe to find that you're left at the menu screen, but with no cursor to start the movie, and you can't even skip to a chapter or work-around the issue.
Samsung needs to figure out what the hell is wrong with their firmware and correct it so that it'll actually play movies, and they need to be more transparent about what's going on. They rarely acknowledge issues, and never document what fixes are in new firmware revisions as they're released. Perhaps they could give some test units to the shops that are authoring Blu-Ray discs, or, you know, get an advance copy of the disc so that firmware can be ready on the day the movie hits the streets. Follow this thread at AVSForum for more info.
Yeah, even though the pound is worth $2, things are priced like pounds are dollars, which is shocking when you first arrive. I went to the UK for the first time this summer. Ate at Burger King in Waterloo Station after getting off the Eurostar, cost me 6 pounds ($12!) for a Whopper Meal, OMG! Thought about seeing Spiderman 3 one rainy day, but tickets were 12 pounds each. $50 for my wife and I to see a movie, before popcorn? We waited until we got home, and saw it for $5.50 each... Notre Dame was free to enter in France, but in the UK it was 10 pounds/person if you wanted to see Westminster Abbey. Wow, $40 for the two of us to see the inside of your church? Umm, I'll read about it on Wikipedia, thanks... I'm trying to convince my friend who lives in London to come visit the US for the first time. She'll feel like a queen here...
Yep, I was in Fiji in July, and they served some fish at our resort that was poisoned. I didn't eat any, my mom ate a small bit, but was fine. The resort owner and one other guest were quite ill for days, and their cat that ate the leftovers nearly died. Apparently there's no way to tell if the fish is infected, and cooking it doesn't destroy the toxin.
Isn't there an inherent conflict of interest in letting you pick your own metric? If I get to pick my metric, I'm picking something that I know will increase over time, so I can always point to it and say "Look, we're doing an even better job this year!". I suggest picking the number of GB/TB/PB of storage space you have, it goes up, the costs go down, make that the metric by which your performance should be judged.
Then your university didn't follow the rules. VLK media is only supposed to be used by the institution, and the VLKs aren't supposed to be given to end-user types. For media given to students, faculty, and staff for their personal computers, the institution is supposed to buy (and can resell) media that requires activation, and comes with a unique key. It's pretty cheap, under $5/disc if I recall. I know that at one time, the IT staff of the institution could install the VLK version on your machine for you as well, but they still were supposed to keep the VLK itself semi-secret.
I wish. It would have been nice if Bungie had been able to add online co-op play into Halo & Halo 2 afterwards, especially Halo 2, as it was originally going to be a feature (that I was really looking forward to) that got yanked out somewhere before the release. It's even a choice in the multiplayer interface, not that you can actually set up an online co-op game... I always thought that Microsoft and Bungie could have made the Xbox 360 even more popular by having a Halo 2.5 native on the 360 hardware at launch. Sell it for $29.99, put back in the online co-op mode, spruce up some textures, throw in 8 new multiplayer maps, and it'd sell pretty well, with relatively low development costs.
She should set up shop doing people's voice mail intros, I'd pay $25 to have Cortana as my outgoing message. :)
I think you mean WEP, I haven't seen an FBI demo of someone breaking WPA-PSK in 20 minutes, assuming a decent passkey was used...