Anticheat systems can easily update themselves, you do it by informing the user that an updated version of the app is available, provide a link to the App Store app, and then halting. This is no different to a desktop OS requiring a password in order to install an update (e.g. Windows UAC). Surely you don't think it's a good thing for apps to silently download updated code without user interaction?
Your post is also self-contradictory- not the one hand you want to "systems we can use the way we want" and on the other hand you want games manufacturers to silently download and update your apps. If you want total liberty/anarchy then there definitely will be no way to prevent game cheats.
Are you sure your director didn't just watch WarGames? What you describe sounds almost exactly like the setup in the military base there, even down to the curtained rooms overlooking the main area.
I think the 'wow' factor will come from having even a small video wall that actually works properly. Every one I've seen in the public and private sector has been misconfigured, usually because it's driven via the analogue VGA input with the wrong aspect ratio. Even when driven via DVI/HDMI often they've used a domestic TFT TV and not put the direct/exact pixels mode so the driver is using whatever smoothing and interpolation that makes a movie look good but an actual monitor feed look rubbish.
I drive my living room TFT via HDMI from my Mac with the correct settings, and it looks great. I would say 4 to 6 domestic TFTs that do 1080p properly configured with relevant information and maybe a 24hr news channel or something like that would be more than enough to impress clients, because the chances are the system back at their own office is fuzzy and stretched and generally looks rubbish. In 3-5 years' time, go out and spend a bit of money to replace them with whatever the cutting edge is, hopefully HDMI will be standard for a good 5-10 years so you should be able to update without hassle.
With some HDMI switchboxes it wouldn't be too hard to be able to switch a workstation onto one of the large monitors if someone wants to show their screen to the rest of the room, and you could impress [potential] clients by asking one of your staff an impromptu question and having them switch their display onto a big screen to show you the answer. Another option would be to permanently have some or all of the big screens as the secondary display of the workstations, and have your staff drag a status display of some sort onto it. They could then very quickly show something to the rest of the team if they needed to.
You're conflating Apple PCs running OS X with i-devices. You're not limited in any way to an Apple 'ball and chain' using one of their desktop or notebook machines. There's probably not as much choice as on Windows, simply because Windows has a larger installed base and more software available in total, but you can install whatever third party software you want, including Flash.
Really... no. You won't get a 'studio' sound without at least some outboard, even if you're a purist. Some decent reverb, proper EQ, and a bit of compression are mandatory for almost all styles of music. What's changed in the past 5 years is that all of that is available at a reasonable price point, and desktop computers are powerful enough to run dozens of tracks with outboard on each and mix in the box. Without the outboard, the 'cd quality' recording would have sounded like a demo, even if the actual recording quality was good.
Actually, my experience in the UK has been that a strongly worded letter by registered post to the head office quoting the relevant law will get you a repair or at least a partial refund. Except for fly-by-night crooks, most companies know that it will cost them way more to fight in court than to just pay up.
Usually in the local stores, even the managers are totally ignorant of the law ("you have to have a receipt - it's the law!" - really, show me the Act of Parliament then...) but at head office they're totally aware that they are lying to customers every day by claiming that their responsibility ends after one year, that it's standard practice throughout the industry, and that avoiding noisy customers going to court is important otherwise everyone would know.
Yes - breath and blood tests can go wrong, but it would be pretty unusual circumstances I admit. I know of at least one police officer who routinely pulls over people driving really, really carefully after midnight, especially if they are doing well under the speed limit, because he knows that it's often someone who knows they're over the limit but is sober enough to over-compensate.
A careful driver plus a botched breath test could lead to someone suffering financial harm due to loss of reputation when the police publish their arrest before they've been found guilty.
"Data" is plural; the singular is "datum". Just like errata and erratum. In a sense you're right, "data" has turned into a popular word and its meaning is changing, but trying to claim that it has recently become popular to use it as plural is completely wrong; rather the reverse is true.
Actually, I don't think this test is all that useful. According to the article, the test was validated for people with significant memory loss. Alzheimer's can really be diagnosed clinically in that group, so the test won't add all that much, and if it is from spinal fluid then it involves a painful and invasive lumbar puncture (spinal tap). I would say that this test is of academic interest, a step in the right direction towards finding a test that can be used early on. There is more interesting research into bloods tests which are less invasive.
I don't know if you're trolling or just inept. There's at least three different ways to do what you describe. In three column view (selected with the [ | | ] button at the top of the Finder window) the picture thumbnail will show in the right-hand column. The second option is to use Coverflow (the button to the right of the three column button) and preview your pictures that way. The third is to select all the files (cmd+a) then open in preview, and use the next/previous buttons in there. Not identical to Windows, but three very good options, all of which seem pretty intuitive to me.
So if Apple had died in 1999, Windows 7 would be better now? Huh? You're just arguing why the useful things Apple has done shouldn't be counted for some reason you've invented. The GP claimed that Apple's 'good' actions only benefited their customers, which is rubbish, and your arguments don't change the fact that Apple has done multiple things in the last decade that have benefited the IT industry overall, not just Apple customers.
Despite the fairly recent anti-Apple sentiment on/., which actually seemed to start with the launch of the iPhone App Store (which for some reason I can't fathom all the non-iPhone-owner people here seem to be really bothered about), Apple has done plenty for the industry since the launch of OSX.
That's rubbish. There was nothing compelling Apple to remove DRM from the iTunes store, they did it because they didn't want DRM. Apple had pretty much cornered the portable mp3/AAC player market, so it's not as if they were pressured into removing DRM. Without the pressure from Apple, there's a good chance we would still be waiting for legal, cheap, DRM-free music downloads.
When Apple does something you judge as morally "good", it is good for their customers only.
Why do you say that? Is Apple contributing back to Webkit good for Apple customers only? What about the pressure Jobs has put on the music industry to allow DRM-free online music sales? What about the competitive pressure on the other big industry players, particularly Microsoft - do you think Windows 7 would be what it is now if Apple had quietly died around 1998/1999?
I appreciate that, like any company, Apple does things that are good and bad, both for its own customers and for the IT world in general, but I think it's extremely biased and inaccurate to claim that they only do good things for their customers.
I'm not sure that's the case. A person may be happy to have their views shared with their elective representative(s) but not with the world at large. I'm not sure a person has to make their views widely public in order to participate in democracy.
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Anticheat systems can easily update themselves, you do it by informing the user that an updated version of the app is available, provide a link to the App Store app, and then halting. This is no different to a desktop OS requiring a password in order to install an update (e.g. Windows UAC). Surely you don't think it's a good thing for apps to silently download updated code without user interaction?
Your post is also self-contradictory- not the one hand you want to "systems we can use the way we want" and on the other hand you want games manufacturers to silently download and update your apps. If you want total liberty/anarchy then there definitely will be no way to prevent game cheats.
Are you sure your director didn't just watch WarGames? What you describe sounds almost exactly like the setup in the military base there, even down to the curtained rooms overlooking the main area.
I think the 'wow' factor will come from having even a small video wall that actually works properly. Every one I've seen in the public and private sector has been misconfigured, usually because it's driven via the analogue VGA input with the wrong aspect ratio. Even when driven via DVI/HDMI often they've used a domestic TFT TV and not put the direct/exact pixels mode so the driver is using whatever smoothing and interpolation that makes a movie look good but an actual monitor feed look rubbish.
I drive my living room TFT via HDMI from my Mac with the correct settings, and it looks great. I would say 4 to 6 domestic TFTs that do 1080p properly configured with relevant information and maybe a 24hr news channel or something like that would be more than enough to impress clients, because the chances are the system back at their own office is fuzzy and stretched and generally looks rubbish. In 3-5 years' time, go out and spend a bit of money to replace them with whatever the cutting edge is, hopefully HDMI will be standard for a good 5-10 years so you should be able to update without hassle.
With some HDMI switchboxes it wouldn't be too hard to be able to switch a workstation onto one of the large monitors if someone wants to show their screen to the rest of the room, and you could impress [potential] clients by asking one of your staff an impromptu question and having them switch their display onto a big screen to show you the answer. Another option would be to permanently have some or all of the big screens as the secondary display of the workstations, and have your staff drag a status display of some sort onto it. They could then very quickly show something to the rest of the team if they needed to.
Yeah, I just did it too, drag and drop. iTunes 10 on a Mac.
I think it is a Windows vs. Mac thing. On my MacBook Pro I have 5055 songs right now, opens in less than a second, runs perfectly.
Which formats and programs do you think you are forced to use on the Mac? You're no more forced to use anything than you are on Windows or Ubuntu.
You're conflating Apple PCs running OS X with i-devices. You're not limited in any way to an Apple 'ball and chain' using one of their desktop or notebook machines. There's probably not as much choice as on Windows, simply because Windows has a larger installed base and more software available in total, but you can install whatever third party software you want, including Flash.
Removing something, even something very small, will give more battery space (or space for some other function) if the case stays the same size.
Really... no. You won't get a 'studio' sound without at least some outboard, even if you're a purist. Some decent reverb, proper EQ, and a bit of compression are mandatory for almost all styles of music. What's changed in the past 5 years is that all of that is available at a reasonable price point, and desktop computers are powerful enough to run dozens of tracks with outboard on each and mix in the box. Without the outboard, the 'cd quality' recording would have sounded like a demo, even if the actual recording quality was good.
Actually, my experience in the UK has been that a strongly worded letter by registered post to the head office quoting the relevant law will get you a repair or at least a partial refund. Except for fly-by-night crooks, most companies know that it will cost them way more to fight in court than to just pay up.
Usually in the local stores, even the managers are totally ignorant of the law ("you have to have a receipt - it's the law!" - really, show me the Act of Parliament then...) but at head office they're totally aware that they are lying to customers every day by claiming that their responsibility ends after one year, that it's standard practice throughout the industry, and that avoiding noisy customers going to court is important otherwise everyone would know.
Yes - breath and blood tests can go wrong, but it would be pretty unusual circumstances I admit. I know of at least one police officer who routinely pulls over people driving really, really carefully after midnight, especially if they are doing well under the speed limit, because he knows that it's often someone who knows they're over the limit but is sober enough to over-compensate.
A careful driver plus a botched breath test could lead to someone suffering financial harm due to loss of reputation when the police publish their arrest before they've been found guilty.
Scottish and Welsh people are still British.
Wouldn't it be even more efficient to shorten it to "ma" ?
It's standard in British English to do the contractions this way. E.g.:
Mathematics -> Maths
Paediatrics -> Paeds
Statistics -> Stats
Obstetrics -> Obs
"Data" is plural; the singular is "datum". Just like errata and erratum. In a sense you're right, "data" has turned into a popular word and its meaning is changing, but trying to claim that it has recently become popular to use it as plural is completely wrong; rather the reverse is true.
Actually, I don't think this test is all that useful. According to the article, the test was validated for people with significant memory loss. Alzheimer's can really be diagnosed clinically in that group, so the test won't add all that much, and if it is from spinal fluid then it involves a painful and invasive lumbar puncture (spinal tap). I would say that this test is of academic interest, a step in the right direction towards finding a test that can be used early on. There is more interesting research into bloods tests which are less invasive.
I don't know if you're trolling or just inept. There's at least three different ways to do what you describe. In three column view (selected with the [ | | ] button at the top of the Finder window) the picture thumbnail will show in the right-hand column. The second option is to use Coverflow (the button to the right of the three column button) and preview your pictures that way. The third is to select all the files (cmd+a) then open in preview, and use the next/previous buttons in there. Not identical to Windows, but three very good options, all of which seem pretty intuitive to me.
No, it's not theft. Theft is when you take away something [an object] that belongs to someone else, with the intention to never return it.
So if Apple had died in 1999, Windows 7 would be better now? Huh? You're just arguing why the useful things Apple has done shouldn't be counted for some reason you've invented. The GP claimed that Apple's 'good' actions only benefited their customers, which is rubbish, and your arguments don't change the fact that Apple has done multiple things in the last decade that have benefited the IT industry overall, not just Apple customers.
Despite the fairly recent anti-Apple sentiment on /., which actually seemed to start with the launch of the iPhone App Store (which for some reason I can't fathom all the non-iPhone-owner people here seem to be really bothered about), Apple has done plenty for the industry since the launch of OSX.
That's rubbish. There was nothing compelling Apple to remove DRM from the iTunes store, they did it because they didn't want DRM. Apple had pretty much cornered the portable mp3/AAC player market, so it's not as if they were pressured into removing DRM. Without the pressure from Apple, there's a good chance we would still be waiting for legal, cheap, DRM-free music downloads.
When Apple does something you judge as morally "good", it is good for their customers only.
Why do you say that? Is Apple contributing back to Webkit good for Apple customers only? What about the pressure Jobs has put on the music industry to allow DRM-free online music sales? What about the competitive pressure on the other big industry players, particularly Microsoft - do you think Windows 7 would be what it is now if Apple had quietly died around 1998/1999?
I appreciate that, like any company, Apple does things that are good and bad, both for its own customers and for the IT world in general, but I think it's extremely biased and inaccurate to claim that they only do good things for their customers.
If you have to ask that question, then you really shouldn't be teaching clowns.
You're not aware of _any_ shops that don't impose minimum transaction amounts? You need to get out more.
I'm not sure that's the case. A person may be happy to have their views shared with their elective representative(s) but not with the world at large. I'm not sure a person has to make their views widely public in order to participate in democracy.
Need I go on?