I'd imagine that another group of possible subjects would be spouses/partners of those who have HIV, but who are themselves negative. Presumably they still engage in some sort of safe(r) sexual activity with their partner/spouse, but there is probably some risk of infection, depending on behavior. I'd also imagine that some percentage of that group accidentally contracts HIV, so if the vaccine lowers or eliminates that percentage, it'd be evidence of efficacy.
Regarding the flushing, we just redid our bathroom with a low-flow toilet, but our new one flushes 10X better than our old high-flow toilet ever did. Get yourself a Kohler Class 5, it's rated to handle 100 feet of toilet paper, and I haven't even had a single second-flusher on it. As the plumber said when he installed it, "this will handle quite a load".
Efficient equipment doesn't have to be inferior, just properly designed.
Maximum PC is a pretty good mag, if you're into PC hardware. Profesionally, Windows IT Pro is worth every penny of the hefty subscription price (compared to many other mags). A few well-written articles in there have helped me implement something at work in hours that would have taken me days of fiddling on my own.
To sum it up, his first laptop didn't have updated Vista drivers, and the other two he tried both had hardware problems, so "obviously" Vista is crap.
While I haven't installed Beta 2 yet, I did install the February CTP on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop, and it worked quite well, I had all my drivers, and apart from the somewhat pokey video performance, it worked great.
The description would be better served by noting that this is EMBRYONIC stem cell research, not just stem cell research, as there are "other" stem cell technologies already in use.
There are two REALLY big blunders that TiVo is making with this new pricing model:
1. The box is only warrantied for 1 year, but you can be under contract for up to 3! If the box dies on you 13 months into your contract, you're stuck either paying for 23 more months of service on a box you can't use, or paying TiVo a fee to swap your box for a refurbished model and move your service to it.
2. Hidden away in the fine print (but mentioned at the TiVoCommunity.com forums) is that the monthly fee you're paying doesn't automatically go down to the $12.95/month "service-only" option once your contract period is up. You have to call TiVo and request that it be lowered to save yourself the extra monthly fee, which is buying you NOTHING, not even warranty coverage. It's a win-win for them, no one had to do the new coding in their billing system, and they get to take advantage of everyone too busy to note exactly what month they purchased their TiVo in.
I've been a huge TiVo fanboy, I've owned 6 boxes since 2000, and have referred enough friends and family to TiVo to earn a 140 hour box, a Nikon digicam, and an iPod Shuffle, but I think my love affair may be coming to an end over this. I'm already suffering through using a Motorola HD DVR on my HDTV, and was planning on getting the HD TiVo later this year when it was introduced, but now I'm sorely tempted to get a Microsoft Media Center box instead, as it'll work with my Xbox 360...
At a minimum, TiVo really needs to warranty the box for as long as the contract is in effect, and swap it out for NO CHARGE when one breaks, they also need to automatically revert the charge to the "service-only" option after the contract has expired.
Fortunately, TiVo breakdowns are pretty rare, but they do happen. I lost a hard drive in my Toshiba DVD/TiVo box after it was only 5 months old, and I lost a modem in my 20 Hour Series 1 box in 2001. The Toshiba was replaced under warranty, and I hacked in an ethernet card to repair the Series 1 box.
I used to easily defend TiVo's monthly fee by pointing out that not only did they have to pay for guide data, but they had to pay for ISP service for the boxes to dial in nighly to retrieve guide data. Now that most of the people I know have their TiVos hooked to their home network, it's a lot harder to defend...
You miscalculated in choosing the monthly fee option, I've had 6 TiVos since the year 2000, and always bought Lifetime. I've always sold those units later on eBay, or to friends, and recouped most, if not all of the Lifetime service I paid on them, which I would roll over to my next box. Lifetime service meant there was an increased value attached to your box, which you could recover when you sold it. The only time that monthly service made sense was if you knew you wouldn't have the box more than 23 months, and that you would never sell it, in any other situation, you were losing money, though if the box was your second unit, which made you eligible for $6.95/month pricing, it took more months to make Lifetime pay off...
My 53" Panasonic RPTV (cost me $1800 at the time) is less than four years old, and it didn't come with any HD inputs other than Component, and there are a whole lotta people with sets like me. Yes, I was an early adopter of HD, but if the studios think that wives are going to let their husbands replace their first generation HDTVs already, they've got another thing coming.
Though, honestly, for the majority of movies, HD doesn't have all that much WOW to it. I have HD HBO and Cinemax now, and due to the depth of focus of most things shot on film, the background is usually somewhat blurred, so it doesn't POP at you the way things shot on HD video do.
Sure, it looks better (with the possible exception of some CGI-effects-laden movies, where the HD simply shows the flaws), but not so much better that I can justify buying a new TV and a new DVD player (already have a Farjouda chipset player now). Movies that are pure CGI, such as Pixar stuff, do look great in HD though.
That's funny, the two games I've purchased off Xbox Live Arcade are Geometry Wars, and SmashTV.:)
SmashTV is easy to get through when you have unlimited quarters, but the high score boards take your score and divide it by the number of virtual quarters you used.
My next XBLA purchase will probably be the Street Fighter II game that's coming soon.
For added security, I suggest requiring that all travelers board in the nude, and that the only carry-on allowed is a stick of gum and a copy of Skymall.
No doubt, I don't understand why you'd be upset. You get paid for two weeks you don't have to work, and you don't suffer through two weeks of them scrambling to have you document everything you ever did? I'd give them a hug, and walk out the door with my paycheck and a smile.
I've got one of those lucky shots too. I was about 13 and was out jack-rabbit hunting with a friend in the Mojave desert, far from any sort of authority. Anyhow, we were riding in the back of the pickup that his dad was driving, picking off rabbits with our.22 rifles near the alfalfa fields when a Kanagroo Rat ran across the road, and I picked it off from the back of a moving pickup with a single shot rifle using the iron sights with one shot. No way I could ever duplicate that shot in a million years, but you should have seen the look on their faces...
Great to hear you're working on it, Brad, you've done great work on the previous ports, and you've always been forthcoming with the community, which we appreciate immensely. While my desktop is a PC, my portable is a PowerBook, and I'm looking forward to buying the new versions, especially Civ 3 Complete.
I just hope that Civ 4 will be playable on my PowerBook (12" G4 1.33Ghz, 1.25GB RAM), I picked it up yesterday for the PC, and found that huge maps simply aren't going to be an option on my PC, (2.2Ghz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, and Radeon 9700 Pro). I played a game on a standard map through last night (on Settler difficulty), just to get a feel for the techs and building improvements without having to actually compete much, and I'm already hooked, there's just obviously a lot more going on in Civ 4, both graphically and computationally, and I think that many of us turn-based gaming fans don't have the latest CPU & GPU gear that the hard-core shooter crowd does.
We use Oracle Calendar (formerly Steltor CorporateTime, formerly CS&T, formerly Netscape Calendar) at the University I work for. I'd love to see it integrated with Thunderbird, which is our e-mail client of choice, since it's easy to support on all platforms.
That's only WPA-PSK, WPA aka WPA Enterprise, with a RADIUS server has no such vulnerability. For my home network, I use WPA-PSK with a really long random string. As soon as I can get another WPA2 capable router/AP I'll be upgrading WPA2, as 2 of my 3 APs support it now.
Nvu really needs to add support for SFTP/SCP before we can use it here at the University where I work. We require encryption for access to our web server, and the lack of it in Nvu kind of kills it for us.
We've already adopted Thunderbird as our default supported e-mail client, as we love both the price and the wide platform availability, it'd be great to have Nvu as a web editor with the same features.
Sure, the geeks among us can SSH-tunnel it, but that's not really an end-user solution, and end-users are the ones who need WYSIWYG editors.
Sounds like our old ArcServe system, everyone started doing their own backups because the backup system was so bad. The new NetBackup system works a lot better.:)
I wish they'd just put it on CBS. Viacom owns them both, and at least most people have a clue what the channel number of their local CBS station is. The only thing I watch on UPN is Enterprise (now that Buffy is over) and now it appears I won't be watching any UPN next season, just like the WB is now dead to me since they canceled Angel.
With the large number of absolute garbage shows that the networks develop and rapidly cancel each fall, why not try to run Trek in prime time on a large network? They haven't done that since 1969, and it just might work...
I used a TGI Fridays in Moscow for Wi-Fi access when I was there in October. It's a bizarre experience being in Russia, yet in a TGI Friday's, it's sort of American, but not really...
Anyhow, their Wi-Fi is free, though the food and drinks aren't cheap. A lot of people use their wi-fi though, so they don't look at you like you're a big nerd for bringing in your laptop, you'll never be the only one doing it.
Yep, we're going to have the same issue with our students here. It may be time to re-examine using SAV as a client on non-managed machines in the higher-ed environment.
It's more than a patch you download, it's an entire new CD, it was 218MB for me.
You don't have to do it "manually" unless your network is completely unmanaged, if you can't run login scripts, or push via Active Directory, or use the client install utility with Administrative username and password, what were you networking these computers for exactly?:)
If you're running Corporate Edition, you won't be getting the patch via LiveUpdate. You need to call their tech support line with your serial number or contact/contract number, and they'll give you the information (FTP site and password) for obtaining the 9.0 MR3 update for SAV Corporate Edition. This updates the software to version 9.0.3.1000
Some of the earlier Maintenance Releases aren't vulnerable either, but MR3 is the newest. If you're still on vanilla 9.0.0.338, you need to update ASAP, the same applies if you're on the update revision that made SAV CE work with the Windows SP2 Security Control Panel, version 9.0.0.1400.
Since it's "Corporate Edition", Symantec assumes that you're managing these desktops and wants to control when you push patches to them, so now you get to do just that.:) The good news is that you can use the remote client installer to just lay the new version over the old one via the network (or push a new.msi file via Group Policy, or run the update in a login script). Make sure you upgrade your servers before doing the clients, Symantec (or at least the rep I talked to) suggests completely removing the server (via add/remove programs) and installing the new version, not merely doing an upate.
You're only telling half the story though. It used to be called the "Solid South" for the Democratic party, until a little something called the Civil Rights Act. Once the Northern Democrats and LBJ got their way and actually started granting rights to blacks living in the South, the Democratic party lost a large percentage of the southern white voters over that single issue. There are still some of the old Democrats hanging around, like Zell Miller, who didn't change party association, even though they no longer hold mainstream Democratic viewpoints, but by and large, the South has been ceded to the Republican party.
Commission a poll from Gallup that correlates Party ID with this question:
"Do you approve or disapprove of interracial marriage?"
You'll have all the answers you need about which party contains the most racists.
I'm also curious to hear your theories about why black voters overwhelmingly vote Democratic, since the Republican party is apparently so progressive.
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I'd imagine that another group of possible subjects would be spouses/partners of those who have HIV, but who are themselves negative. Presumably they still engage in some sort of safe(r) sexual activity with their partner/spouse, but there is probably some risk of infection, depending on behavior. I'd also imagine that some percentage of that group accidentally contracts HIV, so if the vaccine lowers or eliminates that percentage, it'd be evidence of efficacy.
Regarding the flushing, we just redid our bathroom with a low-flow toilet, but our new one flushes 10X better than our old high-flow toilet ever did. Get yourself a Kohler Class 5, it's rated to handle 100 feet of toilet paper, and I haven't even had a single second-flusher on it. As the plumber said when he installed it, "this will handle quite a load". Efficient equipment doesn't have to be inferior, just properly designed.
Maximum PC is a pretty good mag, if you're into PC hardware. Profesionally, Windows IT Pro is worth every penny of the hefty subscription price (compared to many other mags). A few well-written articles in there have helped me implement something at work in hours that would have taken me days of fiddling on my own.
To sum it up, his first laptop didn't have updated Vista drivers, and the other two he tried both had hardware problems, so "obviously" Vista is crap. While I haven't installed Beta 2 yet, I did install the February CTP on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop, and it worked quite well, I had all my drivers, and apart from the somewhat pokey video performance, it worked great.
The description would be better served by noting that this is EMBRYONIC stem cell research, not just stem cell research, as there are "other" stem cell technologies already in use.
There are two REALLY big blunders that TiVo is making with this new pricing model:
1. The box is only warrantied for 1 year, but you can be under contract for up to 3! If the box dies on you 13 months into your contract, you're stuck either paying for 23 more months of service on a box you can't use, or paying TiVo a fee to swap your box for a refurbished model and move your service to it.
2. Hidden away in the fine print (but mentioned at the TiVoCommunity.com forums) is that the monthly fee you're paying doesn't automatically go down to the $12.95/month "service-only" option once your contract period is up. You have to call TiVo and request that it be lowered to save yourself the extra monthly fee, which is buying you NOTHING, not even warranty coverage. It's a win-win for them, no one had to do the new coding in their billing system, and they get to take advantage of everyone too busy to note exactly what month they purchased their TiVo in.
I've been a huge TiVo fanboy, I've owned 6 boxes since 2000, and have referred enough friends and family to TiVo to earn a 140 hour box, a Nikon digicam, and an iPod Shuffle, but I think my love affair may be coming to an end over this. I'm already suffering through using a Motorola HD DVR on my HDTV, and was planning on getting the HD TiVo later this year when it was introduced, but now I'm sorely tempted to get a Microsoft Media Center box instead, as it'll work with my Xbox 360...
At a minimum, TiVo really needs to warranty the box for as long as the contract is in effect, and swap it out for NO CHARGE when one breaks, they also need to automatically revert the charge to the "service-only" option after the contract has expired.
Fortunately, TiVo breakdowns are pretty rare, but they do happen. I lost a hard drive in my Toshiba DVD/TiVo box after it was only 5 months old, and I lost a modem in my 20 Hour Series 1 box in 2001. The Toshiba was replaced under warranty, and I hacked in an ethernet card to repair the Series 1 box.
I used to easily defend TiVo's monthly fee by pointing out that not only did they have to pay for guide data, but they had to pay for ISP service for the boxes to dial in nighly to retrieve guide data. Now that most of the people I know have their TiVos hooked to their home network, it's a lot harder to defend...
You miscalculated in choosing the monthly fee option, I've had 6 TiVos since the year 2000, and always bought Lifetime. I've always sold those units later on eBay, or to friends, and recouped most, if not all of the Lifetime service I paid on them, which I would roll over to my next box. Lifetime service meant there was an increased value attached to your box, which you could recover when you sold it. The only time that monthly service made sense was if you knew you wouldn't have the box more than 23 months, and that you would never sell it, in any other situation, you were losing money, though if the box was your second unit, which made you eligible for $6.95/month pricing, it took more months to make Lifetime pay off...
My 53" Panasonic RPTV (cost me $1800 at the time) is less than four years old, and it didn't come with any HD inputs other than Component, and there are a whole lotta people with sets like me. Yes, I was an early adopter of HD, but if the studios think that wives are going to let their husbands replace their first generation HDTVs already, they've got another thing coming.
Though, honestly, for the majority of movies, HD doesn't have all that much WOW to it. I have HD HBO and Cinemax now, and due to the depth of focus of most things shot on film, the background is usually somewhat blurred, so it doesn't POP at you the way things shot on HD video do.
Sure, it looks better (with the possible exception of some CGI-effects-laden movies, where the HD simply shows the flaws), but not so much better that I can justify buying a new TV and a new DVD player (already have a Farjouda chipset player now). Movies that are pure CGI, such as Pixar stuff, do look great in HD though.
That's funny, the two games I've purchased off Xbox Live Arcade are Geometry Wars, and SmashTV. :)
SmashTV is easy to get through when you have unlimited quarters, but the high score boards take your score and divide it by the number of virtual quarters you used.
My next XBLA purchase will probably be the Street Fighter II game that's coming soon.
For added security, I suggest requiring that all travelers board in the nude, and that the only carry-on allowed is a stick of gum and a copy of Skymall.
OneCare is the beta of the Microsoft anti-virus software, I'm guessing they just put in defs that catch the known malware using the exploit.
No doubt, I don't understand why you'd be upset. You get paid for two weeks you don't have to work, and you don't suffer through two weeks of them scrambling to have you document everything you ever did? I'd give them a hug, and walk out the door with my paycheck and a smile.
I've got one of those lucky shots too. I was about 13 and was out jack-rabbit hunting with a friend in the Mojave desert, far from any sort of authority. Anyhow, we were riding in the back of the pickup that his dad was driving, picking off rabbits with our .22 rifles near the alfalfa fields when a Kanagroo Rat ran across the road, and I picked it off from the back of a moving pickup with a single shot rifle using the iron sights with one shot. No way I could ever duplicate that shot in a million years, but you should have seen the look on their faces...
Great to hear you're working on it, Brad, you've done great work on the previous ports, and you've always been forthcoming with the community, which we appreciate immensely. While my desktop is a PC, my portable is a PowerBook, and I'm looking forward to buying the new versions, especially Civ 3 Complete. I just hope that Civ 4 will be playable on my PowerBook (12" G4 1.33Ghz, 1.25GB RAM), I picked it up yesterday for the PC, and found that huge maps simply aren't going to be an option on my PC, (2.2Ghz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, and Radeon 9700 Pro). I played a game on a standard map through last night (on Settler difficulty), just to get a feel for the techs and building improvements without having to actually compete much, and I'm already hooked, there's just obviously a lot more going on in Civ 4, both graphically and computationally, and I think that many of us turn-based gaming fans don't have the latest CPU & GPU gear that the hard-core shooter crowd does.
We use Oracle Calendar (formerly Steltor CorporateTime, formerly CS&T, formerly Netscape Calendar) at the University I work for. I'd love to see it integrated with Thunderbird, which is our e-mail client of choice, since it's easy to support on all platforms.
That's only WPA-PSK, WPA aka WPA Enterprise, with a RADIUS server has no such vulnerability. For my home network, I use WPA-PSK with a really long random string. As soon as I can get another WPA2 capable router/AP I'll be upgrading WPA2, as 2 of my 3 APs support it now.
Uh, that assumes that they're running some sort of UNIX. Which most of them are not. :)
Nvu really needs to add support for SFTP/SCP before we can use it here at the University where I work. We require encryption for access to our web server, and the lack of it in Nvu kind of kills it for us.
We've already adopted Thunderbird as our default supported e-mail client, as we love both the price and the wide platform availability, it'd be great to have Nvu as a web editor with the same features.
Sure, the geeks among us can SSH-tunnel it, but that's not really an end-user solution, and end-users are the ones who need WYSIWYG editors.
Sounds like our old ArcServe system, everyone started doing their own backups because the backup system was so bad. The new NetBackup system works a lot better. :)
I wish they'd just put it on CBS. Viacom owns them both, and at least most people have a clue what the channel number of their local CBS station is. The only thing I watch on UPN is Enterprise (now that Buffy is over) and now it appears I won't be watching any UPN next season, just like the WB is now dead to me since they canceled Angel.
With the large number of absolute garbage shows that the networks develop and rapidly cancel each fall, why not try to run Trek in prime time on a large network? They haven't done that since 1969, and it just might work...
I used a TGI Fridays in Moscow for Wi-Fi access when I was there in October. It's a bizarre experience being in Russia, yet in a TGI Friday's, it's sort of American, but not really...
Anyhow, their Wi-Fi is free, though the food and drinks aren't cheap. A lot of people use their wi-fi though, so they don't look at you like you're a big nerd for bringing in your laptop, you'll never be the only one doing it.
Yep, we're going to have the same issue with our students here. It may be time to re-examine using SAV as a client on non-managed machines in the higher-ed environment.
It's more than a patch you download, it's an entire new CD, it was 218MB for me.
:)
You don't have to do it "manually" unless your network is completely unmanaged, if you can't run login scripts, or push via Active Directory, or use the client install utility with Administrative username and password, what were you networking these computers for exactly?
According to the advisory 9.0.2.1000 is safe from this so you don't have to upgrade ASAP.
If you're running Corporate Edition, you won't be getting the patch via LiveUpdate. You need to call their tech support line with your serial number or contact/contract number, and they'll give you the information (FTP site and password) for obtaining the 9.0 MR3 update for SAV Corporate Edition. This updates the software to version 9.0.3.1000
:) The good news is that you can use the remote client installer to just lay the new version over the old one via the network (or push a new .msi file via Group Policy, or run the update in a login script). Make sure you upgrade your servers before doing the clients, Symantec (or at least the rep I talked to) suggests completely removing the server (via add/remove programs) and installing the new version, not merely doing an upate.
Some of the earlier Maintenance Releases aren't vulnerable either, but MR3 is the newest. If you're still on vanilla 9.0.0.338, you need to update ASAP, the same applies if you're on the update revision that made SAV CE work with the Windows SP2 Security Control Panel, version 9.0.0.1400.
Since it's "Corporate Edition", Symantec assumes that you're managing these desktops and wants to control when you push patches to them, so now you get to do just that.
You're only telling half the story though. It used to be called the "Solid South" for the Democratic party, until a little something called the Civil Rights Act. Once the Northern Democrats and LBJ got their way and actually started granting rights to blacks living in the South, the Democratic party lost a large percentage of the southern white voters over that single issue. There are still some of the old Democrats hanging around, like Zell Miller, who didn't change party association, even though they no longer hold mainstream Democratic viewpoints, but by and large, the South has been ceded to the Republican party. Commission a poll from Gallup that correlates Party ID with this question: "Do you approve or disapprove of interracial marriage?" You'll have all the answers you need about which party contains the most racists. I'm also curious to hear your theories about why black voters overwhelmingly vote Democratic, since the Republican party is apparently so progressive.