I think your intepretation of the saying is wrong. Going to the mattress was slang for going to get the guns. People would keep their long guns under the mattress.
I've always wondered about that. The test for cancer is to... swallow a bunch of radioactive isotopes and then get zapped by large doses of radiation that cause the swallowed isotopes to show up in a way that an image can be constructed? That sounds like a bad deal to me.
The thing is that those girls didn't have a choice about he was going to do with them. He had the choice, and he made the wrong choice. Now he gets to spend a good portion of the rest of his life in jail. He wasn't some 18 year old kid who grew up in a violent home and made some poor decisions with his girl friend and her sister. He was a grown man with the mental capacity to understand the heinous nature of his actions and yet he went through with them anyway. Why anyone is feeling sorry for him is far beyond me.
I was not able to get a virtual CD device to mount an iso image or burn an iso image (as a work around for getting the WMA files in a format I could play).
I've never tried to burn CDs from an inside a VirtualBox VM, but I always install the OS from.iso images and it works just fine. We have a volume license agreement with Microsoft and they provide.iso files for all of their OSes.
I hate to break it to you but you wasted $80 on Parallel's. I run Virtual Box on OSX, XP and Win7. I have run guest OS installs of Server 2003 and XP. They run like they do on the bare metal. Virtual Box is honestly one of those applications that I look at and shake my head in amazement over the fact that it is free.
I don't think so. From everything I've read (and I've been doing a lot of research lately) you need Virtual Center if you want to use VMotion. Standard ESX server only supports basic guest creation via the web interface. For all of the HA and DR bells and whistles you have to cough up the money for Virtual Center.
I agree one hundred percent. I had been trying to get Virtual PC to work and even the simple task of mounting an.ISO image as the virtual CDROM was a headache. Having heard about VirtualBox here on/. I went ahead and downloaded it and got it up and running. I haven't looked back since.
The more things change... the more they stay the same. It sounds like going back to the old philosophy of having to have a separate boot disk for each game. I understand what you're saying though. The benefit of having a clean system with the bare minimum of services + the game is a good deal.
I personally use virtual box to help some clients of mine in their OSX transitions. I'm not a big fan of OSX and I still run Windows on my personal computers, but I'm getting tired of cleaning up after other people. With virtual box they can have the clean experience of OSX and still run their applications, like Quickbooks. (Yes, I know there is a QuickBooks for OSX. No, it isn't the same product and it is lacking some key features.)
The premise is put forth that the existing legal frameworks surrounding open source projects aren't unified and have been mashed together by individual foundations to serve the needs of their specific projects. The CodePlex claims to be offering a solid legal foundation that can be freely adapted to any open source product. The claimed benefit of that is it makes it easier for projects to attract corporate support, presumably because corporations will have a better understanding of what they are getting into.
My question is, is there really a problem with murky legalesse around open source projects that is scaring off corporations with the inclination to invest resources?
From reading the Q&A I get the sense that CodePlex is little more than a marketing machine for open source projects. They provide a legal framework and a showcase to bring open source developers together with corporations who could presumably fund them. That seems like a good thing.
What's the other side? They are only pushing open source code written in.Net that runs on the Microsoft platform?
The AT&T EDGE service on my Blackberry would have delivered the information by the baby's 1st birthday if I was lucky. That is making the assumption that the built in browser could actually load the webpage.
Acrobat uses JavaScript for enhanced functionality. Where are the exploits coming from? Is there something wrong with the actual functions that Adobe is creating (lack of bounds checking, etc.)? Is the problem that the JavaScript engine they are using is full of holes (buffer overflows, etc.)?
In other words, to recycle an old meme, where's the beef?
That's true. There are other video content creation tools out there. I was just making the point that Adobe owns a large portion of the market, along with Apple and their Final Cut software. There are a lot of "content creation professionals" out there who don't know anything more than Adobe products, and those people will continue to use those products no matter what HTML5 brings to the table.
Don't count on it. Like the poster above you said, Adobe has the design tools. Flash is just the presentation layer. Even with HTML5 video tags, the developer still needs to create that video some how. The odds are pretty good that Adobe will be involved some where in the creative process.
You bring up a good point. There is a column specifically for "differed interest" on the bills. Best Buy touts their financing as "same as cash" so in reality the interest rates are 20%+. If you don't pay them off in the period specified, all of the differed charges come into effect. The process is pretty transparent though. There is a date on the bill that tells you when the special financing period expires.
The only way to get screwed by the program is to make the assumption that paying the minimum will result in the balance being paid off in time.
I agree that if you're a consistently good driver and keep the same vehicle, the only time you are going to see rate reductions is when you pass those age gateways. For most people I know they saw a reduction when they turned 25. If you're getting dinged for mileage then your broker isn't treating you very well. I've been with State Farm except for a brief period when my driving record was so bad that I had to go with a special AllState program for terrible drivers. I've always had a 15,000 mile a year policy and never gotten any grief for it.
My only real beef with insurance companies is how quickly they will total a car, and how low their compensation rates are when they do it. I've gotten around that by going with a declared value policy. Now I know that if I lose my car, I know exactly how much I will be getting for it. It costs a little bit more per month, but I never have to worry about being given thousands of dollars less than market value for my vehicle. I have never once had an insurance company give me enough money to actually replace my vehicle with one of equal value in the same condition as the one they totaled out.
You get much better insurance than I do. In the USA, they tell us that that's what the rates are based on - but in reality, nothing I drive never ends up with an insurance reduction.
They take you for every nickel that they can imagine ways to justify and get from you.
I think it's time for you to change insurance companies then. In fifteen years I've driven close to ten different vehicles. Over the course of fifteen years I've had everything from a perfect driving record almost all the way to the other extreme of being on probation and being one ticket away from having my license revoked. My insurance costs have fluctuated accordingly to reflect the vehicles that I drive, the coverage that I have on them, and my driving habits at the time and my age. The only time I've seen my insurance go up is when I drove a newer car, or when I went from liability to comprehensive.
I'm willing to bet that you keep changing up to newer cars and therefore your rates never go down.
That does seem to be the case. Most of the in the wild exploits these days are targeting applications like Acrobat and Flash because the underlying OS has been hardened to the point that remote exploits are becoming harder to come by.
I've been cleaning up other people's infected Windows machines for longer than I have wanted to. It seems like nine times out of ten, the only way to ensure that the computer is clean after it gets infected is to do a complete pave and rebuild of the OS. That level of complexity isn't something that a tech support person can walk an average user through over the phone. Forget about backing up the data beforehand, or re-installing the applications after the fact.
I like the idea. The way that the article is worded is complete flamebait though. I think we can all agree that steps need to be taken to reduce the number of malware infected Windows boxes on the internet. Doing so makes the internet a better place for everyone. It just seems to me like the Germans are taking on an impossible task. Once a Windows box is owned, it stays owned.
On a related tangent, I think things could be better if ISPs institute the equivalent of a "good driver discount". Give the owners of clean computers a discount on their monthly service fee. I'm not an economist, but it seems like it would need to be enough of a discount to cover the cost of having a "professional" setup the computer right in the first place. I see advertisements where I live that claim to clean malware infected computers for $30-50. So a discount of $5 a month seems about right. On the other hand, if the discount isn't high enough, then the incentive won't be strong enough to encourage people to keep their computers clean. At that point maybe the ISPs need a stick, instead of a carrot. Perhaps throttling the connection, or re-directing to a subset of URLs for how to deal with malware infections.
On the other hand, with financing deals these days because resellers are so desperate to make sales, it isn't exactly a brain dead move to finance a $1,000+ purchase. Best Buy just gave me 3 years of 0% interest when I bought my new Samsung LCD set. The payments come out to less than $30 a month. I could have paid cash for it, but I'd rather let the cash sit some place that it is earning interest for the next three years.
How is Google's DNS service any more reliable than a tier 1 service provider? It seems to me like your Tier 1 provider is going to have peering arrangements with just about any other ISP you'd ever connect to. I like Google and all, but I will stick with 198.6.1.5 and 4.2.2.2 for my DNS. In ten plus years I've never had a problem with them.
If you're too cheap to pay the recycling fee, just put it in the garage and wait until someone is doing a free recycling drive. I personally think that recycling fees are bogus. In California they already tack on a waste fee when you buy electronic goods. It's ridiculous that recyclers charge to recycle at the end other end of the waste stream as well.
I'm probably too late, but I want to get in on this patent game. I will patent, "Turning on a computer and doing stuff with it." It's just like living, but with a computer. Anyone who does anything with a computer will have to pay me and my crack legal team of digital ambulance chasers. All of your profits will belong to me's.
1. Find a task 2. Append "with a computer" 3. Patent 4. ??? 5. Profit!
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I think your intepretation of the saying is wrong. Going to the mattress was slang for going to get the guns. People would keep their long guns under the mattress.
I've always wondered about that. The test for cancer is to... swallow a bunch of radioactive isotopes and then get zapped by large doses of radiation that cause the swallowed isotopes to show up in a way that an image can be constructed? That sounds like a bad deal to me.
The thing is that those girls didn't have a choice about he was going to do with them. He had the choice, and he made the wrong choice. Now he gets to spend a good portion of the rest of his life in jail. He wasn't some 18 year old kid who grew up in a violent home and made some poor decisions with his girl friend and her sister. He was a grown man with the mental capacity to understand the heinous nature of his actions and yet he went through with them anyway. Why anyone is feeling sorry for him is far beyond me.
I was not able to get a virtual CD device to mount an iso image or burn an iso image (as a work around for getting the WMA files in a format I could play).
I've never tried to burn CDs from an inside a VirtualBox VM, but I always install the OS from .iso images and it works just fine. We have a volume license agreement with Microsoft and they provide .iso files for all of their OSes.
What problems did you run into with Virtual Box? I found it to be simple to use.
1. Download software .iso image of OS
2. Run software
3. Define parameters of VM
4. Point virtual CD at
5. Install OS
Then it just works.
I hate to break it to you but you wasted $80 on Parallel's. I run Virtual Box on OSX, XP and Win7. I have run guest OS installs of Server 2003 and XP. They run like they do on the bare metal. Virtual Box is honestly one of those applications that I look at and shake my head in amazement over the fact that it is free.
I don't think so. From everything I've read (and I've been doing a lot of research lately) you need Virtual Center if you want to use VMotion. Standard ESX server only supports basic guest creation via the web interface. For all of the HA and DR bells and whistles you have to cough up the money for Virtual Center.
What problems did you run into with VirtualBox that you didn't run into with VMWare?
I agree one hundred percent. I had been trying to get Virtual PC to work and even the simple task of mounting an .ISO image as the virtual CDROM was a headache. Having heard about VirtualBox here on /. I went ahead and downloaded it and got it up and running. I haven't looked back since.
The more things change... the more they stay the same. It sounds like going back to the old philosophy of having to have a separate boot disk for each game. I understand what you're saying though. The benefit of having a clean system with the bare minimum of services + the game is a good deal.
I personally use virtual box to help some clients of mine in their OSX transitions. I'm not a big fan of OSX and I still run Windows on my personal computers, but I'm getting tired of cleaning up after other people. With virtual box they can have the clean experience of OSX and still run their applications, like Quickbooks. (Yes, I know there is a QuickBooks for OSX. No, it isn't the same product and it is lacking some key features.)
The premise is put forth that the existing legal frameworks surrounding open source projects aren't unified and have been mashed together by individual foundations to serve the needs of their specific projects. The CodePlex claims to be offering a solid legal foundation that can be freely adapted to any open source product. The claimed benefit of that is it makes it easier for projects to attract corporate support, presumably because corporations will have a better understanding of what they are getting into.
My question is, is there really a problem with murky legalesse around open source projects that is scaring off corporations with the inclination to invest resources?
From reading the Q&A I get the sense that CodePlex is little more than a marketing machine for open source projects. They provide a legal framework and a showcase to bring open source developers together with corporations who could presumably fund them. That seems like a good thing.
What's the other side? They are only pushing open source code written in .Net that runs on the Microsoft platform?
The AT&T EDGE service on my Blackberry would have delivered the information by the baby's 1st birthday if I was lucky. That is making the assumption that the built in browser could actually load the webpage.
Acrobat uses JavaScript for enhanced functionality. Where are the exploits coming from? Is there something wrong with the actual functions that Adobe is creating (lack of bounds checking, etc.)? Is the problem that the JavaScript engine they are using is full of holes (buffer overflows, etc.)?
In other words, to recycle an old meme, where's the beef?
That's true. There are other video content creation tools out there. I was just making the point that Adobe owns a large portion of the market, along with Apple and their Final Cut software. There are a lot of "content creation professionals" out there who don't know anything more than Adobe products, and those people will continue to use those products no matter what HTML5 brings to the table.
Don't count on it. Like the poster above you said, Adobe has the design tools. Flash is just the presentation layer. Even with HTML5 video tags, the developer still needs to create that video some how. The odds are pretty good that Adobe will be involved some where in the creative process.
You bring up a good point. There is a column specifically for "differed interest" on the bills. Best Buy touts their financing as "same as cash" so in reality the interest rates are 20%+. If you don't pay them off in the period specified, all of the differed charges come into effect. The process is pretty transparent though. There is a date on the bill that tells you when the special financing period expires.
The only way to get screwed by the program is to make the assumption that paying the minimum will result in the balance being paid off in time.
I agree that if you're a consistently good driver and keep the same vehicle, the only time you are going to see rate reductions is when you pass those age gateways. For most people I know they saw a reduction when they turned 25. If you're getting dinged for mileage then your broker isn't treating you very well. I've been with State Farm except for a brief period when my driving record was so bad that I had to go with a special AllState program for terrible drivers. I've always had a 15,000 mile a year policy and never gotten any grief for it.
My only real beef with insurance companies is how quickly they will total a car, and how low their compensation rates are when they do it. I've gotten around that by going with a declared value policy. Now I know that if I lose my car, I know exactly how much I will be getting for it. It costs a little bit more per month, but I never have to worry about being given thousands of dollars less than market value for my vehicle. I have never once had an insurance company give me enough money to actually replace my vehicle with one of equal value in the same condition as the one they totaled out.
You get much better insurance than I do. In the USA, they tell us that that's what the rates are based on - but in reality, nothing I drive never ends up with an insurance reduction.
They take you for every nickel that they can imagine ways to justify and get from you.
I think it's time for you to change insurance companies then. In fifteen years I've driven close to ten different vehicles. Over the course of fifteen years I've had everything from a perfect driving record almost all the way to the other extreme of being on probation and being one ticket away from having my license revoked. My insurance costs have fluctuated accordingly to reflect the vehicles that I drive, the coverage that I have on them, and my driving habits at the time and my age. The only time I've seen my insurance go up is when I drove a newer car, or when I went from liability to comprehensive.
I'm willing to bet that you keep changing up to newer cars and therefore your rates never go down.
That does seem to be the case. Most of the in the wild exploits these days are targeting applications like Acrobat and Flash because the underlying OS has been hardened to the point that remote exploits are becoming harder to come by.
I've been cleaning up other people's infected Windows machines for longer than I have wanted to. It seems like nine times out of ten, the only way to ensure that the computer is clean after it gets infected is to do a complete pave and rebuild of the OS. That level of complexity isn't something that a tech support person can walk an average user through over the phone. Forget about backing up the data beforehand, or re-installing the applications after the fact.
I like the idea. The way that the article is worded is complete flamebait though. I think we can all agree that steps need to be taken to reduce the number of malware infected Windows boxes on the internet. Doing so makes the internet a better place for everyone. It just seems to me like the Germans are taking on an impossible task. Once a Windows box is owned, it stays owned.
On a related tangent, I think things could be better if ISPs institute the equivalent of a "good driver discount". Give the owners of clean computers a discount on their monthly service fee. I'm not an economist, but it seems like it would need to be enough of a discount to cover the cost of having a "professional" setup the computer right in the first place. I see advertisements where I live that claim to clean malware infected computers for $30-50. So a discount of $5 a month seems about right. On the other hand, if the discount isn't high enough, then the incentive won't be strong enough to encourage people to keep their computers clean. At that point maybe the ISPs need a stick, instead of a carrot. Perhaps throttling the connection, or re-directing to a subset of URLs for how to deal with malware infections.
On the other hand, with financing deals these days because resellers are so desperate to make sales, it isn't exactly a brain dead move to finance a $1,000+ purchase. Best Buy just gave me 3 years of 0% interest when I bought my new Samsung LCD set. The payments come out to less than $30 a month. I could have paid cash for it, but I'd rather let the cash sit some place that it is earning interest for the next three years.
I have an 8300 and the GPS works fine with Google Maps. I'm on AT&T though so as you mentioned, your problem might be Verizon centric.
How is Google's DNS service any more reliable than a tier 1 service provider? It seems to me like your Tier 1 provider is going to have peering arrangements with just about any other ISP you'd ever connect to. I like Google and all, but I will stick with 198.6.1.5 and 4.2.2.2 for my DNS. In ten plus years I've never had a problem with them.
If you're too cheap to pay the recycling fee, just put it in the garage and wait until someone is doing a free recycling drive. I personally think that recycling fees are bogus. In California they already tack on a waste fee when you buy electronic goods. It's ridiculous that recyclers charge to recycle at the end other end of the waste stream as well.
I'm probably too late, but I want to get in on this patent game. I will patent, "Turning on a computer and doing stuff with it." It's just like living, but with a computer. Anyone who does anything with a computer will have to pay me and my crack legal team of digital ambulance chasers. All of your profits will belong to me's.
1. Find a task
2. Append "with a computer"
3. Patent
4. ???
5. Profit!