Why did malware migrate away from breaking usability to being as transparent as possible? Because when users see that something is comprimised, they act to fix it. Currently, a user can't easily tell if their FB account is comprimised and stealing information, and with this new feature they can. This benefits the user more than the bot, because if it tries to prevent the user from logging out bot connections, then the user knows something is up. The only sure-fire way to prevent the user from seeing the bot is preventing their log-in, which is a gigantic red flag in and of itself. Knowing is half the battle my friend.
Based on above, I feel like they made the right choice on this feature. This is coming from a FB hater and a very pro-privacy person.
Aren't processors already layered, and we use multiple platters in HDDs? As interesting as a "memory cube" sounds, I would expect heat dissipation and magnetic fields from the current could be a major roadblock in its production.
However, Even if they could only do three layers with insulation layers inserted in between them, it'd probably still be more cost effective than current implementations as long as the memory density is similar.
For those who have seen Inception, I can guarantee that it will be the best way to test a new sound system in recent memory. The sound made that movie.
Unions reward based on seniority, not performance. This is in complete contrast with the demands of any industry they take part in (including teaching). One of the main reasons for poor teaching performance is that it is impossible to fire poor teachers. Its about balance, and at the moment the balance has swung too far into the union's favor, making them ineffective.
Disclaimer: I work in an industry that is forced to hire union labor. They are not concerned with how much work they have to do, just how many hours they are allowed to work. Some of them make more than 10x my salary.
This is the same rebuttal MMA advocates use when people comment on the brutality of their sport, and its very valid. Blackouts aren't caused by the force of the punch, but the force applied per second. Boxing gloves spread this force out (like the crumple zone in a car), making them more damaging in the long-term than single-punch knockouts that you see in MMA.
Give this man a cookie. Another thing to note is that freight transport is significantly more fuel-intensive than passenger travel, and freight trains are orders of magnitude more efficient than trucks. Due to the predictability of freight, there is also almost never any wasted capacity. Passenger trains are significantly more inefficient for moving their "cargo" in relation to alternatives than freight trains.
You may be right about them making good products, but that does not make his statement untrue about them being fashion products. That is a false dichotomy.
There are a large number of Apple users who treat it as a fashion accessory, and also treat those who don't use Apple products as unfashionable. My roomate hangs out with the liberal arts crowd, including actors and writers, and she was made fun of for getting a blackberry. They make sure when they take out their phone that they hold it in a way that shows the apple logo to everyone around. Also, when asking questions about phones, they use statements like "do you have that on your iPhone?" even if they know you don't have one, implying that you should have one. You will also hear this on the radio if you listen to any talkshows that have celebrity hosts on, and even see it in entertainment news. People feel the need to distinctly state its brand name every time they mention their phone, even when it isn't necessary..."hold on, I'll text them on my iPhone."
I also see this in the younger age group that idolizes pop culture, such as my stepbrother putting his apple products on a pedestal. Even working part-time with extremely low income he saved an extra 2 months to get a macbook, when I asked why the only reason he could come up with is "because its apple." That is not logical decision making. You'll also notice that the only stickers on car windows that are more popular than apple logos are those stupid white ovals with letters and parking stickers. Face it, it is trendy and trendy does sell a portion of apple products.
Now this may have not been Apples intention, but it happened. The ire for apple fanboys started as a reaction to above behaviors, not before. This is not a generalization of all apple users, but a distinct subset that is the most visible to the general populace.
I think another important factor was timing...doom 3 was released when LCDs were starting to become popular. Unfortunately, the only real option you had was TN panel LCDs which had awful blacks. I found the game quite enjoyable on my old CRT, even though the lighting wasn't realistic, but when I saw my friend playing it on his LCD it kept me from buying an LCD for three years.
I agree. I'd probably hate Google as much as Apple if Brin wasn't always in the back of Schmidt's thoughts when he makes decisions. I wish someone would go all Mel Gibson on his ass and wake him up...although I guess it wouldn't effect a sociopath.
enough surface-mineable thorium alone to power us for hundreds of thousands of years to come
While I agree with you, I thought I'd point out that using that line is akin to "640k is enough for anyone." If we have an abundance of cheap energy, we will find a way to use it. In the 1850's, did they expect power usage to be so astronomically high now? The basics like AC and refrigeration in the home weren't even considered possible. Imagine if wireless power catches on after an energy boom...talk about a massive energy sink./pedant off
Obvious article is obvious, but I'm really hoping we see some more innovation with controllers in the next generation on consoles. I won't buy consoles solely due to not having a keyboard and mouse, but loved games like the FF series (including FFT), smash bros, soul calibur, zelda, and sonic (even the dreamcast ones). A controller that doesn't make me hate life in 90% of console games might make me want to buy one. I hope they make a controller where you have something like a touchpad where your thumb is and a joystick on the back of the controller for your middle finger. This way, you can use your thumb to aim (thumb on thumbpad is like a mini-mouse on a mousepad, will take time to get used to) and control directional movement with the same hand on the back of the controller. This would give a close-enough control level to PCs for consoles, and either allow cross-competition or KBM combos on consoles.
Console controllers are vastly inferior to KB+M, and need SOMETHING to narrow the gap.
People, people, people. Its not about the death grip. Its not about general signal loss on all phones.
It is about the magnitude of signal loss. According to Anand's article, the iPhone 4 loses 20 dBm from holding it naturally with the antenna gap covered. That is 30% of the signal range. No other phone can acheive this signal loss, even with the death grip. Most phones 10 dBm or less, or better, even with a death grip. The magnitude of the iPhone 4's signal loss is 100% higher, or more, than all of its competitors when held naturally. This is abysmal, and makes it very hard for the user to predict whether his call is in danger or not. The bar change helps this a bit, but it doesn't take away the fact that a vanilla iPhone 4 has a signal handicap on all of its competitors due to shitty engineering.
Its a real shame that these small studios were gobbled up by the corporate monsters. Back in the day we had Sierra, Maxis, Blizzard, Origin, and loads of other awesomeness. Now we have....EA, Activision, Ubisoft? Here's to hoping smaller successful startup companies like S2 continue to prosper, saving us from our corporate overlords.
I think everyone here is taking the philosophical question too literally, and placing black-and-white logic into a question where it wasn't meant to be. I'm going to re-phrase the statement after incorporating the theory of evolution so it makes more sense to the literalists: Was the first egg-laying organism born from an egg? When apprached this way, the answer is likely the chicken, not the egg.
The most memorable events for me were from Asheron's Call. The whole PK Baelzharon event was fantastic. Devs would log in as the characters and play out their parts, and the players had an effect on what was going on.
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Why did malware migrate away from breaking usability to being as transparent as possible? Because when users see that something is comprimised, they act to fix it. Currently, a user can't easily tell if their FB account is comprimised and stealing information, and with this new feature they can. This benefits the user more than the bot, because if it tries to prevent the user from logging out bot connections, then the user knows something is up. The only sure-fire way to prevent the user from seeing the bot is preventing their log-in, which is a gigantic red flag in and of itself. Knowing is half the battle my friend.
Based on above, I feel like they made the right choice on this feature. This is coming from a FB hater and a very pro-privacy person.
Aren't processors already layered, and we use multiple platters in HDDs? As interesting as a "memory cube" sounds, I would expect heat dissipation and magnetic fields from the current could be a major roadblock in its production.
However, Even if they could only do three layers with insulation layers inserted in between them, it'd probably still be more cost effective than current implementations as long as the memory density is similar.
For those who have seen Inception, I can guarantee that it will be the best way to test a new sound system in recent memory. The sound made that movie.
Unions reward based on seniority, not performance. This is in complete contrast with the demands of any industry they take part in (including teaching). One of the main reasons for poor teaching performance is that it is impossible to fire poor teachers. Its about balance, and at the moment the balance has swung too far into the union's favor, making them ineffective.
Disclaimer: I work in an industry that is forced to hire union labor. They are not concerned with how much work they have to do, just how many hours they are allowed to work. Some of them make more than 10x my salary.
This is the same rebuttal MMA advocates use when people comment on the brutality of their sport, and its very valid. Blackouts aren't caused by the force of the punch, but the force applied per second. Boxing gloves spread this force out (like the crumple zone in a car), making them more damaging in the long-term than single-punch knockouts that you see in MMA.
Ah, the infamous handegg comment. Analogous to Godwin for football topics.
I feel the same way. To add on to GP, possible hand muscle locks from excessive finger pointing.
You got me thinking: Does Brett Favre read quantum physics books in his spare time?
Give this man a cookie. Another thing to note is that freight transport is significantly more fuel-intensive than passenger travel, and freight trains are orders of magnitude more efficient than trucks. Due to the predictability of freight, there is also almost never any wasted capacity. Passenger trains are significantly more inefficient for moving their "cargo" in relation to alternatives than freight trains.
You may be right about them making good products, but that does not make his statement untrue about them being fashion products. That is a false dichotomy.
There are a large number of Apple users who treat it as a fashion accessory, and also treat those who don't use Apple products as unfashionable. My roomate hangs out with the liberal arts crowd, including actors and writers, and she was made fun of for getting a blackberry. They make sure when they take out their phone that they hold it in a way that shows the apple logo to everyone around. Also, when asking questions about phones, they use statements like "do you have that on your iPhone?" even if they know you don't have one, implying that you should have one. You will also hear this on the radio if you listen to any talkshows that have celebrity hosts on, and even see it in entertainment news. People feel the need to distinctly state its brand name every time they mention their phone, even when it isn't necessary..."hold on, I'll text them on my iPhone."
I also see this in the younger age group that idolizes pop culture, such as my stepbrother putting his apple products on a pedestal. Even working part-time with extremely low income he saved an extra 2 months to get a macbook, when I asked why the only reason he could come up with is "because its apple." That is not logical decision making. You'll also notice that the only stickers on car windows that are more popular than apple logos are those stupid white ovals with letters and parking stickers. Face it, it is trendy and trendy does sell a portion of apple products.
Now this may have not been Apples intention, but it happened. The ire for apple fanboys started as a reaction to above behaviors, not before. This is not a generalization of all apple users, but a distinct subset that is the most visible to the general populace.
I think another important factor was timing...doom 3 was released when LCDs were starting to become popular. Unfortunately, the only real option you had was TN panel LCDs which had awful blacks. I found the game quite enjoyable on my old CRT, even though the lighting wasn't realistic, but when I saw my friend playing it on his LCD it kept me from buying an LCD for three years.
I agree. I'd probably hate Google as much as Apple if Brin wasn't always in the back of Schmidt's thoughts when he makes decisions. I wish someone would go all Mel Gibson on his ass and wake him up...although I guess it wouldn't effect a sociopath.
Really? Botnet used for financial gain, just like every other botnet in the past decade?
I'm flabbergasted!
Well, its win-win for them in this situation. Using flash kinda slights Apple, where Silverlight is proprietary lock-in.
enough surface-mineable thorium alone to power us for hundreds of thousands of years to come
While I agree with you, I thought I'd point out that using that line is akin to "640k is enough for anyone." If we have an abundance of cheap energy, we will find a way to use it. In the 1850's, did they expect power usage to be so astronomically high now? The basics like AC and refrigeration in the home weren't even considered possible. Imagine if wireless power catches on after an energy boom...talk about a massive energy sink. /pedant off
I could swear that was from "The Sum of All Fears" released earlier this decade. Maybe it was re-used in that movie?
Obvious article is obvious, but I'm really hoping we see some more innovation with controllers in the next generation on consoles. I won't buy consoles solely due to not having a keyboard and mouse, but loved games like the FF series (including FFT), smash bros, soul calibur, zelda, and sonic (even the dreamcast ones). A controller that doesn't make me hate life in 90% of console games might make me want to buy one. I hope they make a controller where you have something like a touchpad where your thumb is and a joystick on the back of the controller for your middle finger. This way, you can use your thumb to aim (thumb on thumbpad is like a mini-mouse on a mousepad, will take time to get used to) and control directional movement with the same hand on the back of the controller. This would give a close-enough control level to PCs for consoles, and either allow cross-competition or KBM combos on consoles.
Console controllers are vastly inferior to KB+M, and need SOMETHING to narrow the gap.
Doesn't work during games. Its intentional by Microsoft.
If outsourcing has taught me anything, this is going to BSOD unless you follow the step-by-step script that comes with the tablet.
As a note on alien FPSes, Natural Selection 2 enters playable alpha in 5 days. I'm itching with excitement!
and it only takes running in front of your team mate while they file a few times to kill you
I know file folder papercuts hurt but DAMN. That gives me the chills just thinking about it!
People, people, people. Its not about the death grip. Its not about general signal loss on all phones.
It is about the magnitude of signal loss. According to Anand's article, the iPhone 4 loses 20 dBm from holding it naturally with the antenna gap covered. That is 30% of the signal range. No other phone can acheive this signal loss, even with the death grip. Most phones 10 dBm or less, or better, even with a death grip. The magnitude of the iPhone 4's signal loss is 100% higher, or more, than all of its competitors when held naturally. This is abysmal, and makes it very hard for the user to predict whether his call is in danger or not. The bar change helps this a bit, but it doesn't take away the fact that a vanilla iPhone 4 has a signal handicap on all of its competitors due to shitty engineering.
Its a real shame that these small studios were gobbled up by the corporate monsters. Back in the day we had Sierra, Maxis, Blizzard, Origin, and loads of other awesomeness. Now we have....EA, Activision, Ubisoft? Here's to hoping smaller successful startup companies like S2 continue to prosper, saving us from our corporate overlords.
I think everyone here is taking the philosophical question too literally, and placing black-and-white logic into a question where it wasn't meant to be. I'm going to re-phrase the statement after incorporating the theory of evolution so it makes more sense to the literalists: Was the first egg-laying organism born from an egg? When apprached this way, the answer is likely the chicken, not the egg.
The most memorable events for me were from Asheron's Call. The whole PK Baelzharon event was fantastic. Devs would log in as the characters and play out their parts, and the players had an effect on what was going on.