I've deployed Vista at home in a VMWare 5.5 virtual machine. It is the only way I can make sure my wife doesn't crater my XP machine. The day I saw her clicking at the internet fart button was the last straw. She has been banished to a virtual Vista with IE7 in protected mode.
On another note, OpenOffice.Org 2.2.1 works pretty good with Vista.
A major corporation, Dell, is offering Linux on 3 machines and offering service. This is an unprecedented announcement and still there are a$$h0le Linux turds who say it is not good enough.
Ok, so look at it this way...
Whatever charge the RIAA levels on the radio station, the radio station levels it back as the cost of promotion and advertising.
Does this "groovy" breakthrough only apply to chips that have been pasted with thermal goo? Will I get a hotter CPU by only using the new roughened heat sink without the goo?
Multiple processes is an area I've just started delving into. In my bubble I had a shell application, driven by command line switches. I wanted a shiny MFC interface on it so others could use it since they don't like command line driven programs. Instead of raping my lightweight shell program and whoring an interface on it, I created an MFC UI program that spawned the shell program and used interprocess communication via named pipes. IPC works and is a good solution for bringing legacy/DOS/shell applications into a visual age. It is a good solution for a CPU hungry task that takes away the headaches of multithreading. I enjoy multithreading and synchronization but I'm enjoying this too because it presents a good solution for certain problems.
I get 1080i out of my component video, which is the max on my TV. It also switches through my older Sony receiver. It bothered me so much, that I needed to spend $1000 on a receiver just to switch HDMI and have a monitor out HDMI, that I didn't do it. Also, I heard many complain that switching HDMI didn't work as advertised because of copy protection. For some reason, if you switch HDMI from the digital cable box, through your receiver, and then out to your TV you have suddenly become a pirate on some systems because copy protection stops you. Because I wanted 1080i so badly on my DVD player, I fed it directly to the HDMI port on the TV, but ran the digital audio out to the receiver. This still lets me klunkily switch to and from DVD on my receiver, but I now have to swith to it on the TV too. I am so bummed by the superior qualitied HDMI being crippled by copy protection. I can't wait to set up broadcast multimedia from my PC's wireless router/firewall and capture it on the stereo receiver (hopefully there is finally a good product which does this). Then I can DVD shrink my movies at full resolution and beam them to the receiver and monitor out to the TV. I pay for my content too and I feel like I am being treated like a crook with all this copy protection crap. I will win!!!
They may do something like the following and use the MAC address of the PC as the public key and exchange a private certificate that is then verified by this key. On a tangent, companies like Macrovision, who license API's to provide software licensing, at some basic level depend upon the MAC address, the globally unique ID, to establish all or a portion of the users identity for software licensing. I have spent a number of years working with their API's and this is the paradigm that is used. Microsoft may not do this, but I was just generally responding to your curiosity about how it might be done. If the hard drive ever fried then your MAC address is still intact as it is embedded in your NIC card at the hardware level and you can then be re-identified. This is all speculation of course, and in my scenario, not very secure when one would have to beg M$ for a new certificate.
It's nice to see M$ taking pointers from Apple and focusing on the design and user experience. Sometimes a radical departure is necessary. I look forward to trying the new software.
From a security standpoint, or at least using a paradigm from Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" book, protected content has a lifetime. Once the lifetime of the content is up then there is no longer a need to protect it as the return on the investment of breaking the protection is nothing. After reading the article and saying to myself "what if it was 100% true" then that means that Vista is trying to protect content forever.
Just have them use their PC. There are hundreds and hundreds of free teamspeak servers peppered around the globe. If they need tech help and are not computer literate then they are unfortunately tied to their land line. If not then why pay LD charges when your entire family can talk to each other all at once. It really does enhance your conversation with your family. I think it is funny that some people were negative about my remark; but I really stand by it. TS is free software, there is no viral marketing to it.
I would like to remind you of a great literary passage by Oscar Wilde. The preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. The last statment says "We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely." Think on that one and then read the book. Hopefully it will open your mind up momentarily to give you a different perspective on the artistic side of software development.
The Preface
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
HTML is in fact a vessel for programming languages. Combined with XSL, XML, javascript, COM, and even PHP, it should be considered a programming system. It allows programming languages to tie-in and extend the capabilities. It is arrogant to hear someone say that it is not a programming language. People need to invest time learning how to code it, learn the shortcuts, the workarounds and the deployment. Next time, keep it to yourself if you think it is just a toy for someone to play.
I have heard it said that when God cast out Satan from heaven that his impact on the earth is the same meteoric impact that scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs.
The article left an impression that backwards compatibility with DX9 should theoretically be possible. Back in reality I still use a nice high-end AGP card which lets me play my flight simulator online with others. My gaming experience would not yet benefit from this VGA card. According to the article, and my assumptions, I would get more bang for my buck by investing in a multi-core CPU since my current VGA card demands more from the CPU.
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I've deployed Vista at home in a VMWare 5.5 virtual machine. It is the only way I can make sure my wife doesn't crater my XP machine. The day I saw her clicking at the internet fart button was the last straw. She has been banished to a virtual Vista with IE7 in protected mode.
On another note, OpenOffice.Org 2.2.1 works pretty good with Vista.
Present: Gateway 2000 currently owns the Amiga line of computers.
After purchage, ACER owns the Amiga line of computers
Future: ACER Amiga
A sample size of 400 is not enough to generate accurate results.
God lit the fuse.
A major corporation, Dell, is offering Linux on 3 machines and offering service. This is an unprecedented announcement and still there are a$$h0le Linux turds who say it is not good enough.
Ok, so look at it this way... Whatever charge the RIAA levels on the radio station, the radio station levels it back as the cost of promotion and advertising.
Does this "groovy" breakthrough only apply to chips that have been pasted with thermal goo? Will I get a hotter CPU by only using the new roughened heat sink without the goo?
If pro is the opposite of con then progress is the opposite of congress
Multiple processes is an area I've just started delving into. In my bubble I had a shell application, driven by command line switches. I wanted a shiny MFC interface on it so others could use it since they don't like command line driven programs. Instead of raping my lightweight shell program and whoring an interface on it, I created an MFC UI program that spawned the shell program and used interprocess communication via named pipes. IPC works and is a good solution for bringing legacy/DOS/shell applications into a visual age. It is a good solution for a CPU hungry task that takes away the headaches of multithreading. I enjoy multithreading and synchronization but I'm enjoying this too because it presents a good solution for certain problems.
Haha, Europe cries sour grapes when they steal hollywood content by the billions. How does it feel to be stolen from and not paid.
I get 1080i out of my component video, which is the max on my TV. It also switches through my older Sony receiver. It bothered me so much, that I needed to spend $1000 on a receiver just to switch HDMI and have a monitor out HDMI, that I didn't do it. Also, I heard many complain that switching HDMI didn't work as advertised because of copy protection. For some reason, if you switch HDMI from the digital cable box, through your receiver, and then out to your TV you have suddenly become a pirate on some systems because copy protection stops you. Because I wanted 1080i so badly on my DVD player, I fed it directly to the HDMI port on the TV, but ran the digital audio out to the receiver. This still lets me klunkily switch to and from DVD on my receiver, but I now have to swith to it on the TV too. I am so bummed by the superior qualitied HDMI being crippled by copy protection. I can't wait to set up broadcast multimedia from my PC's wireless router/firewall and capture it on the stereo receiver (hopefully there is finally a good product which does this). Then I can DVD shrink my movies at full resolution and beam them to the receiver and monitor out to the TV. I pay for my content too and I feel like I am being treated like a crook with all this copy protection crap. I will win!!!
They may do something like the following and use the MAC address of the PC as the public key and exchange a private certificate that is then verified by this key. On a tangent, companies like Macrovision, who license API's to provide software licensing, at some basic level depend upon the MAC address, the globally unique ID, to establish all or a portion of the users identity for software licensing. I have spent a number of years working with their API's and this is the paradigm that is used. Microsoft may not do this, but I was just generally responding to your curiosity about how it might be done. If the hard drive ever fried then your MAC address is still intact as it is embedded in your NIC card at the hardware level and you can then be re-identified. This is all speculation of course, and in my scenario, not very secure when one would have to beg M$ for a new certificate.
It's nice to see M$ taking pointers from Apple and focusing on the design and user experience. Sometimes a radical departure is necessary. I look forward to trying the new software.
From a security standpoint, or at least using a paradigm from Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" book, protected content has a lifetime. Once the lifetime of the content is up then there is no longer a need to protect it as the return on the investment of breaking the protection is nothing. After reading the article and saying to myself "what if it was 100% true" then that means that Vista is trying to protect content forever.
Just have them use their PC. There are hundreds and hundreds of free teamspeak servers peppered around the globe. If they need tech help and are not computer literate then they are unfortunately tied to their land line. If not then why pay LD charges when your entire family can talk to each other all at once. It really does enhance your conversation with your family. I think it is funny that some people were negative about my remark; but I really stand by it. TS is free software, there is no viral marketing to it.
The punishment should be equivalent to the punishment for trespassing.
Just use teamspeak. Skype is overrated.
I would like to remind you of a great literary passage by Oscar Wilde. The preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. The last statment says "We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely." Think on that one and then read the book. Hopefully it will open your mind up momentarily to give you a different perspective on the artistic side of software development.
The Preface
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
HTML is in fact a vessel for programming languages. Combined with XSL, XML, javascript, COM, and even PHP, it should be considered a programming system. It allows programming languages to tie-in and extend the capabilities. It is arrogant to hear someone say that it is not a programming language. People need to invest time learning how to code it, learn the shortcuts, the workarounds and the deployment. Next time, keep it to yourself if you think it is just a toy for someone to play.
I could care less if they managed their code using punch cards.
The silver surfers enjoy the bible software that comes bundled. It is the only software that won't need refurbishing with locked in hardware.
I have heard it said that when God cast out Satan from heaven that his impact on the earth is the same meteoric impact that scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs.
Thailand literally means 'land of the free'
Turn off monitor when not using. Never rely on microshafts hibernation and standby software.
The article left an impression that backwards compatibility with DX9 should theoretically be possible. Back in reality I still use a nice high-end AGP card which lets me play my flight simulator online with others. My gaming experience would not yet benefit from this VGA card. According to the article, and my assumptions, I would get more bang for my buck by investing in a multi-core CPU since my current VGA card demands more from the CPU.