Until they figure out a way to transfer power through wireless technology too, I say this is all a waste of time. A cable is a lot less annoying than having to buy new/recharge batteries all of the time.
The "Other popular game titles have included spyware in the past to aid anti-cheating measures" are quite a different thing than this. For example, the most popular game to include "spyware" is World of Warcraft which calls it's "spyware" Warden. The difference? Warden only runs while the game is up, and it only sends hash data to Blizzard so they don't have any idea what you're doing unless it specifically matches a known cheating program.
The problem with this EA Bullshit, is that it's active all the time, choking up resources, it's literally spying on everything you do. On top of that, the reason is to display ADVERTISING in a game you ALREADY BOUGHT. That's just completely unacceptable. It's like those god damn ads they show before movies. Except in this case, EA would be breaking into your house and installing cameras.
I'm all for advertising as long as it's legitimate and used to pay the costs of delivering free content. Anyone who uses advertising to supplement their income for a paid-for product (which is completely capable of turning a profit on it's own) needs to be executed, or at least given a few decades of jail time.
It's a well known fact that lower class people (poorer) have a much higher rate of obesity because of all the cheap food these days is high calorie junk food. It's also well known that lower income people generally have lower IQs.
The scientists doing these tests are obviously idiots.
And no, I'm not fat.
I'm sorry, but you're just wrong, completely wrong. CNN is a little to the right, and Fox is definatley radical right. Not as radical as Pat Robertson, but still radical.
Claiming CNN is liberal is one of the sadddest, most ignorant, things you can possibly say. No, it's not radical right wing like Fox, but it sure as hell isn't liberal.
Give me a break. you know as well as I do that you, I, and everyone else only cares about this case because of Reiser's work on ReiserFS. My best friend's mom died of cancer last week and I didn't see an article about that here. Why? Because it's not relevant to a tech news site, it's just another one of the thousands of unpleasant things that happen daily. Reiser's situation is of relevance here for a specific reason, so obviously that's what's going to be talked about.
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Wont it be ironic if in 10 years Microsoft is doing what Apple is doing now (selling windows on their own hardware only) and vice versa?
Read/Write limitations on flash memory are so high these days, they generally last as long as a regular hard drive does before it breaks.
Until they figure out a way to transfer power through wireless technology too, I say this is all a waste of time. A cable is a lot less annoying than having to buy new/recharge batteries all of the time.
This whole thing is assuming that we have the same type of political structure and lifestyle that we do now for the next 100,000 years. Yeah right.
The "Other popular game titles have included spyware in the past to aid anti-cheating measures" are quite a different thing than this. For example, the most popular game to include "spyware" is World of Warcraft which calls it's "spyware" Warden. The difference? Warden only runs while the game is up, and it only sends hash data to Blizzard so they don't have any idea what you're doing unless it specifically matches a known cheating program. The problem with this EA Bullshit, is that it's active all the time, choking up resources, it's literally spying on everything you do. On top of that, the reason is to display ADVERTISING in a game you ALREADY BOUGHT. That's just completely unacceptable. It's like those god damn ads they show before movies. Except in this case, EA would be breaking into your house and installing cameras. I'm all for advertising as long as it's legitimate and used to pay the costs of delivering free content. Anyone who uses advertising to supplement their income for a paid-for product (which is completely capable of turning a profit on it's own) needs to be executed, or at least given a few decades of jail time.
It's a well known fact that lower class people (poorer) have a much higher rate of obesity because of all the cheap food these days is high calorie junk food. It's also well known that lower income people generally have lower IQs. The scientists doing these tests are obviously idiots. And no, I'm not fat.
I'm sorry, but you're just wrong, completely wrong. CNN is a little to the right, and Fox is definatley radical right. Not as radical as Pat Robertson, but still radical.
That's because the rest of the civilized world is left of the USA right now.
Claiming CNN is liberal is one of the sadddest, most ignorant, things you can possibly say. No, it's not radical right wing like Fox, but it sure as hell isn't liberal.
That's.... disturbing.
How the hell do you just lose three hydrogen bombs?
It's just common sense, if ICAAN had complied, it'd be the beginning of the end for them.
Give me a break. you know as well as I do that you, I, and everyone else only cares about this case because of Reiser's work on ReiserFS. My best friend's mom died of cancer last week and I didn't see an article about that here. Why? Because it's not relevant to a tech news site, it's just another one of the thousands of unpleasant things that happen daily. Reiser's situation is of relevance here for a specific reason, so obviously that's what's going to be talked about.