They're also working on powering generators with energy from angry poltergeists and other such ghosts who are angry over the modifications to their resting place. That's right, that would technically be generators running on the solar panels simply existing lol.
wait, what? I thought you were going somewhere obvious with this post and then you go and swerve off the road. Apple suing people? I read about that maybe twice on Slashdot. Now Apple getting sued, there's something to anticipate! It's like their racing with Microsoft to see who can get sued more times by some European group. They've been sued over Itunes alone what like 6 times? They're one giant lawsuit magnet from their proprietary, monopoly-inducing crap that they always pull.
I'm no security expert (and neither are yahoo employees lol) but for a MITM attack don't you need there to be a man in the middle. How do you just jump in the middle of someone's connection? You'd have to re-route them with a proxy or something but you'd need code already on their machine to do that and then you might as well just use a keylogger. Is there some other way of intercepting traffic other than unencrypted wireless?
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yeah, it's absolute lunacy. It's physically impossible for slower input methods to beat faster ones no matter what the setup. And in my experience no RTS console game has ever been remotely good at all (if you're used to PC ones). Unless you max your population at 12 people and can zoom down into their point of view and start Halo FPS-ing it up AND level up individuals in your army like an RPG I don't think it will go over well. Actually that'd make a sweet game if they did that.
They basically are underpowered laptops. How are they going to shake that image if it's true? Simple! Make it capable of making cell phone calls. Then it's like the ultimate super-blackberry smart phone for not much more money. I really don't know why they can't make phone calls given their size and price. I really think if they added that feature, people would have a much better opinion of them because they'd always be compared to a cell phone. It'd be a cell phone but with a bigger screen, longer battery, and better features.
This sounds like another one of those ideas they get where someone thinks it'd make them look more open and nice and not overly-controlling and blah blah blah. Then someone reports on a human rights violation or some government BS that went down and tada, they turn back to clamping down on everything. I mean how many times have they and countries like them banned all of youtube and then changed their mind and then banned it again like 3 times in the same month. It's ridiculous. Governments like theirs just don't change when it comes to protecting their image or whatever they're trying to do.
what you'd got to do is before they close, buy up some 99% off circuit city gift cards and then buy some of those credit card launcher guns and have a big Christmas gift card war. Btw I gotta add my 2 cents. Maybe people would like their store better if they HAD CHECKOUTS! They're just terminals that are never manned randomly scattered around the store and the one stationary, staffed checkout is labeled "customer service." That's retarded! People walk in and say "okay, let's buy this...wait, where's the checkout?.......screw it, let's go to Best Buy." But then Best Buy invented their own cloned internet/intranet but without all their web deals to scam people about of deals in case you missed that story on Slashdot.
No matter what, it's idiotic to file for bankruptcy before the holiday shopping season! All they have to do is mark stuff down as though they were going bankrupt and closing stores without actually filing for it yet. Their store would be packed and Best Buy would be empty. You just can't compete with suicidally low prices. If they're still too far in the red after stomping all competition and making a profit just by volume, THEN file for bankruptcy! But if you happen to make enough money to stay going after that little stunt, then they wouldn't need to file for bankruptcy now would they?
I think they forgot that as far as I've heard, the netbooks aren't getting very good reviews from people who I guess you could say are using them wrong. If they sell their old P4 laptop and get a netbook as their only computer, they say it sucks. If they have a PC and want to be more mobile and get a netbook, they love them. So basically nobody can own one without owning another machine. So there's really still almost the same sales in windows operating systems because a large percentage who buy netbooks for the price wouldn't have bought a full $800 laptop anyway so microsoft isn't losing much. With netbooks and their amazing sub 14 inch screens and slow processors and inability to run many types of games and software, I don't expect them to take over for PCs ever so it's not as doom and gloom as this article makes it sound.
I for one re-played (in an emulator) Phntasy Star 3 because yeah it has ancient graphics and music but the gameplay kicked so much ass in its time, other games couldn't even come close. Even today it at least ties some modern games when it comes to size of the world and the fight system. Other older games completely beat their modern counterparts in gameplay. Starcraft's online play still beats modern games and that's why it's still sold in stores today. The only usual downfall for older games is AI but that doesn't always affect every game.
I was just arguing with a mac fanatic on a forum about how 99% of software doesn't run on a mac cuz they're kinda specialized and now here comes the best article ever. Netflix has been around for how long? And they only pretty much did it because they found out it works easily with Silverlight in Intel based macs only. Other than that mac users are left out in the cold as usual it seems. I think this is kinda dumb news though cuz I mean if people have a mac, they should be used to pretty much not being to run any appls they find online ever so they usually either dual boot with XP or have a limited purpose mac like for multimedia editing. Mac people, give it up already and either have a single purpose media editing Linux system for a hell of a lot less or just get a damn PC and stop making people occasionally write software for you.
no, it refers to the fact that you pay up front and then get to use it instead of like a cell phone bill where you use it then get billed and pay after you use it.
I've used Avast for at least 6 years. I put it on everyone's comp who is having problems with their current one...which is everyone! The pre-boot scan isn't like Spybots, it actually doesn't let windows boot at all when it scans so it can delete ANYTHING. It's like booting into a live CD almost. The latest version 4.8 improvements were fantastic too. It doesn't nag you about buying a full version, auto updates, never makes you do a full system scan after you install it. The realtime protection is extremely effective and doesn't slow down your system noticeably. It's really the perfect antivirus and I guess that's my review of it:D
Except when you kill an older technology, you're supposed to replace it with something as good or better that does the same thing. From what I read, they just plain removed it and users are left without an alternative.
That might be true under other circumstances but you forget what time of year it is. With people hating voting robo-calls so much, they've developed these plants instead. They sneak into your home under the guide of being cute and fun and sort of gimmicky but when you're sitting there reading slashdot, you hear a really quiet "vote for _____" and then you look around and think "who the hell just said that?" and IT WAS THE PLANT!
they own the server and the hard drives and they don't want to pay out settlements if there's data loss. BUT I've always said you can sell in game activities all you want. If you go on ebay and list an auction for "a one sided trade that would benefit the other party by exactly 10,000,000 gold" that's as legal as auctioning off in-game bodyguard services. Somehow ebay still lets companies remove listings like that though!
oh yeah, so what happens when I want to plug in a USB drive or put in a CD or DVED? No matter what you answer, it's either going to involve a lot of walking to the server room (yeah right) or a huge delay while the entire contents of the storage device is transfered over the network to open the file(s) on it OR even worse, I simply can't use a disc or USB drive. It's idiotic in today's world for any school or work environment. Sure, put it in for public access terminals instead of super locking down XP otherwise skip it.
you forgot to factor in the last 20 or so Slashdot stories about efficiency boosts. They're about 100,000% efficient now. But seriously, all these people need to get together and make some sort of electron cascading, black silicon, graphite, whatever the hell else solar panel that's way efficient
If surgeons can't stick a probe into a breast cancer tumor and just burn it today then why could they in a year or two? Often times there has to be a masectomy because...well because you can't just stick a probe in and burn it or remove it any other way really. If a robot can supposedly do it, why can't aren't all surgeons using this method right now? Probably just another Roland screw up in the story.
Why let psychotic fanboys beta test? Beta testing has become an advertising measure, not a quality control process. I've played SC BW forever and I have a dual monitor system, which makes every full screen game act screwey and I'm a PC software programmer so I can test and crash anything AND send you the exacty conditions that caused it and probably how to fix it too. But no, I'm sure someone walking past your booth at a convention is WAY more likely to be helpful. If they want to stop the flood of "WOW, SC2, AWESOME!" comments on the beta instead of "hey, it crashes when you do this" then they should tighten it down a bit. How would people prove they're the type of person to beta test it? Well, I don't know but there's probably a way. They could start by having a booth at a programming convention instead!
When people with deathly genetic mutations can just get treatments for like a half million dollars (and magically raise everyone else's health care costs) and then they have kids and suddenly oh look, there's 1000 people carrying the gene and suffering horribly because one couple couldn't just adopt a damn kid or something. Plus in general, you can be pathetically unathletic and you have crappy survivability traits, you can still be sucessful and have kids these days. That's why on slashdot like 2 years ago there was a story about how humans are going to split off into degenerate neanderthals and superior, smart people. And of course people posted stuff like "oh yeah, and some already work at my office, HA HA HA" but seriously, I think in a couple decades there will be a slashdot story (on my holographic visor with wifi) about the first set of humans were found taht have been determined to be too genetically dissimilar to have offspring.
holy crap, you're right! We can't even play space D&D now! Or Yahtzee! This is a disaster! Well okay, we can just use a computer randomizer but come on, you might as well just be playing Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter NIghts then.
you make it sound like something made up. It's the point at which no matter can escape, not just some "okay, let's mark it here" thing that scientists make up. And if it has none then that means at the center, there's not enough gravity to hold the highest energy level particles and it would disintigrate or not even form in the first place really. There's some theory I heard that since the radius is infinitely small, if it stands perfectly still and takes in a bunch of high energy matter from the same direction, it would spin faster and faster and eventually be rotating faster than the speed of light. How does something with no radius rotate at a measurable speed? I dunno, I didn't write the book. But they say in theory that at that exact point, it would stop emitting gravity completely and have no event horizon. So that's one theory I heard at least for how one would exist without one. Of course, we wouldn't be able to detect it so it could be anywhere. That must be what flips hard drive bits. BTW, isn't it funny that a galactic "censor" that they say the event horizon is technically takes the form of a big, black circle just like the FCC uses:p
You can't just say "gaming." Playing GTA or a racing games might improve your driving and first person shooters might improve your reaction time but puzzle games or solitaire won't do anything for you.
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They're also working on powering generators with energy from angry poltergeists and other such ghosts who are angry over the modifications to their resting place. That's right, that would technically be generators running on the solar panels simply existing lol.
wait, what? I thought you were going somewhere obvious with this post and then you go and swerve off the road. Apple suing people? I read about that maybe twice on Slashdot. Now Apple getting sued, there's something to anticipate! It's like their racing with Microsoft to see who can get sued more times by some European group. They've been sued over Itunes alone what like 6 times? They're one giant lawsuit magnet from their proprietary, monopoly-inducing crap that they always pull.
I'm no security expert (and neither are yahoo employees lol) but for a MITM attack don't you need there to be a man in the middle. How do you just jump in the middle of someone's connection? You'd have to re-route them with a proxy or something but you'd need code already on their machine to do that and then you might as well just use a keylogger. Is there some other way of intercepting traffic other than unencrypted wireless?
yeah, it's absolute lunacy. It's physically impossible for slower input methods to beat faster ones no matter what the setup. And in my experience no RTS console game has ever been remotely good at all (if you're used to PC ones). Unless you max your population at 12 people and can zoom down into their point of view and start Halo FPS-ing it up AND level up individuals in your army like an RPG I don't think it will go over well. Actually that'd make a sweet game if they did that.
actually it usually uses compressed propane distillates
They basically are underpowered laptops. How are they going to shake that image if it's true? Simple! Make it capable of making cell phone calls. Then it's like the ultimate super-blackberry smart phone for not much more money. I really don't know why they can't make phone calls given their size and price. I really think if they added that feature, people would have a much better opinion of them because they'd always be compared to a cell phone. It'd be a cell phone but with a bigger screen, longer battery, and better features.
This sounds like another one of those ideas they get where someone thinks it'd make them look more open and nice and not overly-controlling and blah blah blah. Then someone reports on a human rights violation or some government BS that went down and tada, they turn back to clamping down on everything. I mean how many times have they and countries like them banned all of youtube and then changed their mind and then banned it again like 3 times in the same month. It's ridiculous. Governments like theirs just don't change when it comes to protecting their image or whatever they're trying to do.
what you'd got to do is before they close, buy up some 99% off circuit city gift cards and then buy some of those credit card launcher guns and have a big Christmas gift card war. Btw I gotta add my 2 cents. Maybe people would like their store better if they HAD CHECKOUTS! They're just terminals that are never manned randomly scattered around the store and the one stationary, staffed checkout is labeled "customer service." That's retarded! People walk in and say "okay, let's buy this...wait, where's the checkout?.......screw it, let's go to Best Buy." But then Best Buy invented their own cloned internet/intranet but without all their web deals to scam people about of deals in case you missed that story on Slashdot.
No matter what, it's idiotic to file for bankruptcy before the holiday shopping season! All they have to do is mark stuff down as though they were going bankrupt and closing stores without actually filing for it yet. Their store would be packed and Best Buy would be empty. You just can't compete with suicidally low prices. If they're still too far in the red after stomping all competition and making a profit just by volume, THEN file for bankruptcy! But if you happen to make enough money to stay going after that little stunt, then they wouldn't need to file for bankruptcy now would they?
I think they forgot that as far as I've heard, the netbooks aren't getting very good reviews from people who I guess you could say are using them wrong. If they sell their old P4 laptop and get a netbook as their only computer, they say it sucks. If they have a PC and want to be more mobile and get a netbook, they love them. So basically nobody can own one without owning another machine. So there's really still almost the same sales in windows operating systems because a large percentage who buy netbooks for the price wouldn't have bought a full $800 laptop anyway so microsoft isn't losing much. With netbooks and their amazing sub 14 inch screens and slow processors and inability to run many types of games and software, I don't expect them to take over for PCs ever so it's not as doom and gloom as this article makes it sound.
I for one re-played (in an emulator) Phntasy Star 3 because yeah it has ancient graphics and music but the gameplay kicked so much ass in its time, other games couldn't even come close. Even today it at least ties some modern games when it comes to size of the world and the fight system. Other older games completely beat their modern counterparts in gameplay. Starcraft's online play still beats modern games and that's why it's still sold in stores today. The only usual downfall for older games is AI but that doesn't always affect every game.
I was just arguing with a mac fanatic on a forum about how 99% of software doesn't run on a mac cuz they're kinda specialized and now here comes the best article ever. Netflix has been around for how long? And they only pretty much did it because they found out it works easily with Silverlight in Intel based macs only. Other than that mac users are left out in the cold as usual it seems. I think this is kinda dumb news though cuz I mean if people have a mac, they should be used to pretty much not being to run any appls they find online ever so they usually either dual boot with XP or have a limited purpose mac like for multimedia editing. Mac people, give it up already and either have a single purpose media editing Linux system for a hell of a lot less or just get a damn PC and stop making people occasionally write software for you.
no, it refers to the fact that you pay up front and then get to use it instead of like a cell phone bill where you use it then get billed and pay after you use it.
I've used Avast for at least 6 years. I put it on everyone's comp who is having problems with their current one...which is everyone! The pre-boot scan isn't like Spybots, it actually doesn't let windows boot at all when it scans so it can delete ANYTHING. It's like booting into a live CD almost. The latest version 4.8 improvements were fantastic too. It doesn't nag you about buying a full version, auto updates, never makes you do a full system scan after you install it. The realtime protection is extremely effective and doesn't slow down your system noticeably. It's really the perfect antivirus and I guess that's my review of it :D
Except when you kill an older technology, you're supposed to replace it with something as good or better that does the same thing. From what I read, they just plain removed it and users are left without an alternative.
That might be true under other circumstances but you forget what time of year it is. With people hating voting robo-calls so much, they've developed these plants instead. They sneak into your home under the guide of being cute and fun and sort of gimmicky but when you're sitting there reading slashdot, you hear a really quiet "vote for _____" and then you look around and think "who the hell just said that?" and IT WAS THE PLANT!
they own the server and the hard drives and they don't want to pay out settlements if there's data loss. BUT I've always said you can sell in game activities all you want. If you go on ebay and list an auction for "a one sided trade that would benefit the other party by exactly 10,000,000 gold" that's as legal as auctioning off in-game bodyguard services. Somehow ebay still lets companies remove listings like that though!
oh yeah, so what happens when I want to plug in a USB drive or put in a CD or DVED? No matter what you answer, it's either going to involve a lot of walking to the server room (yeah right) or a huge delay while the entire contents of the storage device is transfered over the network to open the file(s) on it OR even worse, I simply can't use a disc or USB drive. It's idiotic in today's world for any school or work environment. Sure, put it in for public access terminals instead of super locking down XP otherwise skip it.
you forgot to factor in the last 20 or so Slashdot stories about efficiency boosts. They're about 100,000% efficient now. But seriously, all these people need to get together and make some sort of electron cascading, black silicon, graphite, whatever the hell else solar panel that's way efficient
If surgeons can't stick a probe into a breast cancer tumor and just burn it today then why could they in a year or two? Often times there has to be a masectomy because...well because you can't just stick a probe in and burn it or remove it any other way really. If a robot can supposedly do it, why can't aren't all surgeons using this method right now? Probably just another Roland screw up in the story.
VHB tape from 3M is currently the world record holder for that and I believe they still are seeing as how it can hold more weight than that.
Why let psychotic fanboys beta test? Beta testing has become an advertising measure, not a quality control process. I've played SC BW forever and I have a dual monitor system, which makes every full screen game act screwey and I'm a PC software programmer so I can test and crash anything AND send you the exacty conditions that caused it and probably how to fix it too. But no, I'm sure someone walking past your booth at a convention is WAY more likely to be helpful. If they want to stop the flood of "WOW, SC2, AWESOME!" comments on the beta instead of "hey, it crashes when you do this" then they should tighten it down a bit. How would people prove they're the type of person to beta test it? Well, I don't know but there's probably a way. They could start by having a booth at a programming convention instead!
When people with deathly genetic mutations can just get treatments for like a half million dollars (and magically raise everyone else's health care costs) and then they have kids and suddenly oh look, there's 1000 people carrying the gene and suffering horribly because one couple couldn't just adopt a damn kid or something. Plus in general, you can be pathetically unathletic and you have crappy survivability traits, you can still be sucessful and have kids these days. That's why on slashdot like 2 years ago there was a story about how humans are going to split off into degenerate neanderthals and superior, smart people. And of course people posted stuff like "oh yeah, and some already work at my office, HA HA HA" but seriously, I think in a couple decades there will be a slashdot story (on my holographic visor with wifi) about the first set of humans were found taht have been determined to be too genetically dissimilar to have offspring.
holy crap, you're right! We can't even play space D&D now! Or Yahtzee! This is a disaster! Well okay, we can just use a computer randomizer but come on, you might as well just be playing Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter NIghts then.
you make it sound like something made up. It's the point at which no matter can escape, not just some "okay, let's mark it here" thing that scientists make up. And if it has none then that means at the center, there's not enough gravity to hold the highest energy level particles and it would disintigrate or not even form in the first place really. There's some theory I heard that since the radius is infinitely small, if it stands perfectly still and takes in a bunch of high energy matter from the same direction, it would spin faster and faster and eventually be rotating faster than the speed of light. How does something with no radius rotate at a measurable speed? I dunno, I didn't write the book. But they say in theory that at that exact point, it would stop emitting gravity completely and have no event horizon. So that's one theory I heard at least for how one would exist without one. Of course, we wouldn't be able to detect it so it could be anywhere. That must be what flips hard drive bits. BTW, isn't it funny that a galactic "censor" that they say the event horizon is technically takes the form of a big, black circle just like the FCC uses :p
You can't just say "gaming." Playing GTA or a racing games might improve your driving and first person shooters might improve your reaction time but puzzle games or solitaire won't do anything for you.