This same crap is happening with the auto companies. I want a car that flys, but they say **ooo, but we aren't in the market for flying cars**. That's bullcrap. In a free market, consumers should get what they want. Want to know what is even worse? When I added wings and jet engine to my car, the government got on my case about my car not being "road worthy".
But want to post this too:
They should sell a more expensive console and advertise that you can run code on it and also buy high quality games. They could even advertise its portability, versatility, and scalability. They should then call it the laptop[...]
> (although I can think of circumstances in which I would find that information highly relevant).
Agreed. Sometimes when people twitter about the massive crap they are taking, I think that the content of their breakfast would *definately* be relevant.
These wern't actually found that close to Drumheller. They were found near the tiny village (hamlet?) of Hilda, which is about 50 KM NE from Medicine Hat.
Yes, kind of. The torrent app will connect to the tracker (usually via UDP) and send it's IP address. There is an (optional) field in the message your computer sends to the tracker that may contain an IP address. It's possible that if you enter your enemy's IP address there, that it might work on some trackers. If not, you could just spoof the packet's source address to whatever you wanted.
So you could, yes, but there are better ways to get revenge.
AFAIK, Apple is not in a position, nor has the desire to enter the enterprise market where MS makes a large portion of their money. MS is not going anywhere in the forseeable future. The Zune was unquestionably a flop. Apple has a great foothold in the consumer market, but in the business world they are barely even a player.
No. I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do. I'm saying that supporting millions of different hardware configurations does, and I'm saying that only supporting a handfull of hardware configurations sure makes things easier.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
On a related note, if they were in business to make a quality operating system, they would have a tough time selling "upgrades."
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories. The level of complexity between Windows and OSX is incomparable. OSX works on like 5 hardware configurations, while windows will run on pretty much any hardware. OSX doesn't have enterprise level support/management, and it's arguable that the only reason that OSX is more "secure" is simply because they are less of a target.
Linux may have some technical merit, but is a mess where people without advanced computer skills are left in the dark. Sure windows had bugs, but many of those aren't MS's fault, but rather venders that write crap drivers.
P.S. MS is having problems selling upgrades. Why do you think ~90% of businesses are still on XP? Because it was/is a useable, relatively stable OS that did what people wanted.
You can say what you want about MS, but the fact is, they are the best OS for Businesses, and most consumers. When OSX works for more than a handfull of hardware configs, I'll take it seriously. When Linux is usable by joe user, I'll take it seriously. Until then, we have MS.
The only problem is that this is the equivalent of burning up all that oil
The US uses as more oil in a single day, for transportation alone, then the total of the leak. The C02 emissions from the eventual death and breakdown of the organisms [more on that...] is a very, very, small drop in the bucket.
those microorganisms break down, and how bad will be whatever's left over? Will there be other bacteria to devour that mess; if so -- are we going to get massive CO2 bubbles coming out of the ocean, potentially sinking ships?
At the time, we had all our WLAN connections carried through Bell Canada VIA Frame circuits. I guess many of these circuits went through a facility in Edmonton. This facility was being rennovated, and some poor worker drilled through a pipe that they thought was empty... As it turns out, that pipe was filled with pressurized water, and so the water started spraying everywhere/everything and ended up taking down all our frame services north of Edmonton (about 30 sites). It took about 2 (very stressful) days for Bell to route our frame circuits through another data center.
It sucked, but I really feel bad for the poor guy that drilled through the wrong pipe.
I would take that route if is saved me time. I would also be cautious and watch for traffic. People walk along highways all the time without incident, she was either inattentive or unlucky.
Should google have to write warnings for all dangers? WARNING: You are about to cross the road. Our records show that this intersection has a crosswalk. Please wiat until the red hand turns into a white funny-looking guy before proceeding. Be sure to check both ways for traffic before stepping onto the road. Be aware that there may be other pedestrians crossing the road. Be sure not to collide with them. Caution! Be aware that there may be open manholes! DO NOT step on a manhole that has it's cover removed. For a full list of applicable warnings, please go to www.google.ca/pleasetiemyshoes/
I had a 386/66 when I was about 12 and I remember playing games using the internal speaker for sound. There was one note that when it played, would resonate with the PC case and make an awful sound. You'd be listening to the bleeps and blorps when the note would sound and kinda wreck the effect. After a while you would get used to it and if just became part of the song.
I agree, but last month sucked for games... At least to me. There haven't been any compelling releases. I usually buy at least a game per month, and the last game I bought was Mass Effect 2(2-3 months ago).
The format of the disk does not really add to security. The thing that provents disk copying right now is that a writable cd itentifies itself as writable (so that your burner knows that it can write to that disk). The XBOX just looks at the inserted disk and if it is a writable disk, it throws an error. The firmware hacks for the xbox work by tricking the drive into telling the OS that *ALL* disks are pressed, read only disks.
That being said, there is no such mechanism on a USB drive that can identify a device as an original or a copy. Maybe you could sign the serial number of the stick with a private key, and have the console check the signature against the public key and if they match, allow loading of the game...
Software per console == software sold/consoles sold. As consoles sold increases, the software per console decreases assuming that software sold remains constant. For example, if I had purchased 10 games for my console, then it dies, so I buy another, the software attachment rate goes from 10 to 5. Do you see?
Just because you were dumb enough to buy yet another soon to be broken device does not enter into it.
Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones...
Paying $2/epsiode is not cheap. I would pay $1 for an hour long show (42 minutes in reality) as long as it is commercial free. IF you try to sell me commercials, forget it! 30 minute shows I would pay $.50-$.75, but again, only for a commercial free version.
The purchased copy would also have to be DRM free.
You could also make the arugment that the XBOX360 figure is artificially deflated. I have purchased 2 XBOX360s because my first one RRoDed. Same with my buddy. We got the original replaced, but now we each have one sitting on a shelf not being used. I suspect that if the XBOX360 didn't crap out so often that the attach rate would be even higher.
one for the outer door, two for the inner, three for girlfriends place, one for the office, one for the postbox, one for my bicycle, the car, the motorbike and the roof
Motorbike key stays at home keeping the roof key company. Unless you use your bicycle every day, take that off too. Assuming you live in an apartment and the outer door is a communal one, keep that one and one of you inner door ones. Leave the other lock unlocked. Locks are for honest people anyways. Ditch either the girlfriend or her keys. They are weighing you down too much. Get her to buzz you in. Why carry they keys? With that you are down to 5 keys. Buy a $2 keyring (don't get any extra crap, just a ring) and ta-da key problem solved.
I imagine that it could evolve into something that is texture aware. Cutting carrots feels different from cutting flesh. Maybe it's possible to tell the difference between chicken, fish, beef, and baby.
There is a problem with your reasoning. The 60 cubic meters of water is not the total amount of water that would run by this device. The 60 cubic meters figure you quote would be the amount of water acting upon the device *at a single point in time*. As the water flows and the kite moves, much, much more than 60 cubic meters of water will flow by this device.
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I was going to post this:
This same crap is happening with the auto companies. I want a car that flys, but they say **ooo, but we aren't in the market for flying cars**. That's bullcrap. In a free market, consumers should get what they want. Want to know what is even worse? When I added wings and jet engine to my car, the government got on my case about my car not being "road worthy".
But want to post this too:
They should sell a more expensive console and advertise that you can run code on it and also buy high quality games. They could even advertise its portability, versatility, and scalability. They should then call it the laptop[...]
They DO call something like that a laptop.
Nobody cares about the workers; All the head offices are in Calgary.
Who is Babby?
> (although I can think of circumstances in which I would find that information highly relevant).
Agreed. Sometimes when people twitter about the massive crap they are taking, I think that the content of their breakfast would *definately* be relevant.
These wern't actually found that close to Drumheller. They were found near the tiny village (hamlet?) of Hilda, which is about 50 KM NE from Medicine Hat.
Nope, there is still a brick: http://www.engadget.com/photos/xbox-360-250gb-first-unboxing-0/#3077004
Yes, kind of. The torrent app will connect to the tracker (usually via UDP) and send it's IP address. There is an (optional) field in the message your computer sends to the tracker that may contain an IP address. It's possible that if you enter your enemy's IP address there, that it might work on some trackers. If not, you could just spoof the packet's source address to whatever you wanted.
So you could, yes, but there are better ways to get revenge.
AFAIK, Apple is not in a position, nor has the desire to enter the enterprise market where MS makes a large portion of their money. MS is not going anywhere in the forseeable future. The Zune was unquestionably a flop. Apple has a great foothold in the consumer market, but in the business world they are barely even a player.
No. I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do. I'm saying that supporting millions of different hardware configurations does, and I'm saying that only supporting a handfull of hardware configurations sure makes things easier.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
On a related note, if they were in business to make a quality operating system, they would have a tough time selling "upgrades."
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories. The level of complexity between Windows and OSX is incomparable. OSX works on like 5 hardware configurations, while windows will run on pretty much any hardware. OSX doesn't have enterprise level support/management, and it's arguable that the only reason that OSX is more "secure" is simply because they are less of a target.
Linux may have some technical merit, but is a mess where people without advanced computer skills are left in the dark. Sure windows had bugs, but many of those aren't MS's fault, but rather venders that write crap drivers.
P.S. MS is having problems selling upgrades. Why do you think ~90% of businesses are still on XP? Because it was/is a useable, relatively stable OS that did what people wanted. You can say what you want about MS, but the fact is, they are the best OS for Businesses, and most consumers. When OSX works for more than a handfull of hardware configs, I'll take it seriously. When Linux is usable by joe user, I'll take it seriously. Until then, we have MS.
The only problem is that this is the equivalent of burning up all that oil
The US uses as more oil in a single day, for transportation alone , then the total of the leak. The C02 emissions from the eventual death and breakdown of the organisms [more on that...] is a very, very, small drop in the bucket.
those microorganisms break down, and how bad will be whatever's left over? Will there be other bacteria to devour that mess; if so -- are we going to get massive CO2 bubbles coming out of the ocean, potentially sinking ships?
Have you ever heard of limestone?
BTW... WLAN - Our Greater LAN that spans thousands of KMs, not the wireless...
About a year ago...
At the time, we had all our WLAN connections carried through Bell Canada VIA Frame circuits. I guess many of these circuits went through a facility in Edmonton. This facility was being rennovated, and some poor worker drilled through a pipe that they thought was empty... As it turns out, that pipe was filled with pressurized water, and so the water started spraying everywhere/everything and ended up taking down all our frame services north of Edmonton (about 30 sites). It took about 2 (very stressful) days for Bell to route our frame circuits through another data center.
It sucked, but I really feel bad for the poor guy that drilled through the wrong pipe.
I would take that route if is saved me time. I would also be cautious and watch for traffic. People walk along highways all the time without incident, she was either inattentive or unlucky.
Should google have to write warnings for all dangers? WARNING: You are about to cross the road. Our records show that this intersection has a crosswalk. Please wiat until the red hand turns into a white funny-looking guy before proceeding. Be sure to check both ways for traffic before stepping onto the road. Be aware that there may be other pedestrians crossing the road. Be sure not to collide with them. Caution! Be aware that there may be open manholes! DO NOT step on a manhole that has it's cover removed. For a full list of applicable warnings, please go to www.google.ca/pleasetiemyshoes/
I'll give you more reliable, but better? That is debatable, especially since most/all multiplatform games look better on the xbox360.
Clearly, my memory was wrong... Maybe it was a 33 mhz. It hardly matters, the point was the sound resonating.
I had a 386/66 when I was about 12 and I remember playing games using the internal speaker for sound. There was one note that when it played, would resonate with the PC case and make an awful sound. You'd be listening to the bleeps and blorps when the note would sound and kinda wreck the effect. After a while you would get used to it and if just became part of the song.
I agree, but last month sucked for games... At least to me. There haven't been any compelling releases. I usually buy at least a game per month, and the last game I bought was Mass Effect 2(2-3 months ago).
The format of the disk does not really add to security. The thing that provents disk copying right now is that a writable cd itentifies itself as writable (so that your burner knows that it can write to that disk). The XBOX just looks at the inserted disk and if it is a writable disk, it throws an error. The firmware hacks for the xbox work by tricking the drive into telling the OS that *ALL* disks are pressed, read only disks.
That being said, there is no such mechanism on a USB drive that can identify a device as an original or a copy. Maybe you could sign the serial number of the stick with a private key, and have the console check the signature against the public key and if they match, allow loading of the game...
Software per console == software sold/consoles sold. As consoles sold increases, the software per console decreases assuming that software sold remains constant. For example, if I had purchased 10 games for my console, then it dies, so I buy another, the software attachment rate goes from 10 to 5. Do you see?
Just because you were dumb enough to buy yet another soon to be broken device does not enter into it.
Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones...
Paying $2/epsiode is not cheap. I would pay $1 for an hour long show (42 minutes in reality) as long as it is commercial free. IF you try to sell me commercials, forget it! 30 minute shows I would pay $.50-$.75, but again, only for a commercial free version.
The purchased copy would also have to be DRM free.
You could also make the arugment that the XBOX360 figure is artificially deflated. I have purchased 2 XBOX360s because my first one RRoDed. Same with my buddy. We got the original replaced, but now we each have one sitting on a shelf not being used. I suspect that if the XBOX360 didn't crap out so often that the attach rate would be even higher.
Motorbike key stays at home keeping the roof key company. Unless you use your bicycle every day, take that off too. Assuming you live in an apartment and the outer door is a communal one, keep that one and one of you inner door ones. Leave the other lock unlocked. Locks are for honest people anyways. Ditch either the girlfriend or her keys. They are weighing you down too much. Get her to buzz you in. Why carry they keys? With that you are down to 5 keys. Buy a $2 keyring (don't get any extra crap, just a ring) and ta-da key problem solved.
Tune in tomorrow to learn how to clean your room.
I imagine that it could evolve into something that is texture aware. Cutting carrots feels different from cutting flesh. Maybe it's possible to tell the difference between chicken, fish, beef, and baby.
There is a problem with your reasoning. The 60 cubic meters of water is not the total amount of water that would run by this device. The 60 cubic meters figure you quote would be the amount of water acting upon the device *at a single point in time*. As the water flows and the kite moves, much, much more than 60 cubic meters of water will flow by this device.