"The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand."
Wow, there was a 99.9999% of it killing him!
Seriously, surely the odds of being struck are much smaller than one in a million? Isn't it closer to one in a few billion, since there's a population of 6 billion and only 2 occurrences?
"Users who have to sit for days doing nothing because their user accounts aren't set up right"
Oh, you know the what's wrong with your account? How about you fix it, Mr Genius.
btw, if you are sitting around doing nothing for longer than an hour then TELL someone about it. Sounds like you just want an excuse to do nothing all day.
Often we could, but don't have permission. And past making a phone call every morning and evening, and eventually escalating it to department managers, what are we supposed to do?
"Ridiculous security policies like being forced to change your password every month"
Sounds like a SysAdmin straight out of school. You get what you pay for.
Or, middle management stuck their nose into IT & now everyone is suffering.
Yes, everybody suffers. You're missing the point. It's not the the IT guy sucks and the user is saintly, OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND. The point is that it's too easy for BOTH sides to think the other side are incompentent buffoons.
"Network configuration changes that break software they've been using for years"
Maybe if you updated your software once in a blue moon, then it would be able to run in a modern environment.
Why update the software? It works until something unrelated breaks it. Should we be running Vista?
"Pointless upgrades that add bloat and remove features."
That pointless upgrade will allow you to continue using the sofware you've been using for years without failing due to the network-boogey-man
Often simply LEAVING CRAP ALONE would allow us to continue using the software, as well.
Again, I think you didn't get the moral of my post; it's easy for BOTH sides to blame the OTHER side. For every crappy story about a user, there's a crappy story about an IT guy. If I was in a management position in IT, I would NEVER hire a person that I EVER saw use the term 'luser'. Same thing in software development.
I think it would still be very unusual for a vendor to not include IE on a machine. I use Firefox nearly exclusively, but want IE on my machine for the odd web-page. The only real difference is that it may mean most vendors will ship with both IE AND Firefox... or maybe Opera, if they can score some sort of deal.
The continued dominance of Windows XP might be viewed as consumers REJECTING change that was attempted to be forced upon them. There's a near infinite amount of contradictory change being forced upon consumers to change in various directions, and consumers get to pick which succeeds... which really means they aren't being forced. The only group that can force consumers is the government.
The cheapest boxes I ever saw were above $50. Interesting economic lesson, there; if the $40 coupons didn't exist, I'm sure low-end boxes would have been selling for under $20.
Remember the other side of the equation. Users who have to sit for days doing nothing because their user accounts aren't set up right. Ridiculous security policies like being forced to change your password every month. Network configuration changes that break sofware they've been using for years. Pointless upgrades that add bloat and remove features.
It's tough being a user, seemingly toyed with by the IT guys.
I'm thinking clearly; you're not. You didn't really stop long enough to understand what I wrote.
I didn't say the hack violated copyright, nor did I say I cared even if it did. I never said that hack was wrong. In fact, I said I would do it myself, because homebrew is sufficient justification.
I said the hack will be mainly USED to pirate software... breaking copyright. That's not a hypothetical, that's simply true, and if you deny it, you'll ruin your credibility with any reader. When the someone says "the PSP hack can be used to run emulation, homebrew, and other stuff" they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the primary use of the hack: Piracy. I'm not saying everybody using it is a pirate. I'm saying most people using it are.
Emulation is great, and I would crack my PSP just for that, if I had one.
But it is just a bit disingenuous of the summary to not mention game piracy. It is one of the main reasons people install the new firmware; I suspect it's by far the primary driving force. It's also the main reason Sony is constantly plugging the holes and making revisions. It's not to combat emulation and homebrew.
I have no problem with modifying things you own; but the actual reasons that most people are interested in it shouldn't be just ignored. That's not intellectually honest.
It wasn't larger, and I'm not convinced it's more complex. If you eliminate the complexity that is purely a consequence of a 3d modeled environment, I'd say it's clearly less complex.
Take all the data that describes, say, a particularly NPC, or a particular room. I bet that, by size, 95% of it is related to 3d graphics, and only a few percent to actual gameplay elements.
I HOPE so. The fact that MS and Sony are scrambling for the leftovers of Nintendo's market might indicate that.
The graphically weakest console won this gen. It won last gen. Arguably it won the gen before. I would rather see new features, new directions, than simply upping clock speeds.
For one thing, the increased graphics are putting a huge burden on developers. They can't take risks on a 360 or PS3 game; it's a huge investment, like making a major motion picture... yet the product really isn't particularly more FUN than a DS game whipped out by a 5-man shop.
Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.
My interpretation... yes, it's about delivery people watching MTV.
But, it's _ABOUT_ the way MTV manipulates the audience, and perverts the music, by making turning musicians and their lives into shallow fantasies of the working class.
Who cares if someone says/hears a swear word, really? It surely doesn't hurt anyone, unless they've been trained to be offended by them.
Well, a lot of people HAVE been trained to be offended by them.
It's time to realize that swearing is only "bad" due to religious baggage, nothing else.
True, although I'd say it's cultural baggage that was influenced by religion. The crucial point is that swearing is also only "good" due to that baggage. If nobody cared about a particular swear word, it would soon fall out of favor for something that would be more offensive.
In other words, if there was no taboo against saying 'fuck', there would be no reason for Hitler to be saying 'fuck' in the first place. (Except maybe to his dear wife.)
I managed to avoid the whole Apple experience; never bought an iPod, never bought a song from iTunes, never had any desire to get an iPhone. I'm feeling a bit relieved. The whole thing feels like a trap. If I had a thousand bucks tied up in all this interconnected web of apps, platforms, and media, with it's seemingly ever-constricting chains, I'd be pretty irritated.
Lesson I've learned? Always buy IP-violating, unregulated, cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Plus, the Wii is so much cheaper to develop for. I don't know exact budgets, but just the textures and modeling is so much more intensive on the PS3 and 360, I'd be suprised if a Wii game cost half as much to develop. Probably significantly less. I would have thought the Wii would have more cool, 'indy' titles, where risks are taken. The other consoles, everything has to be like a summer blockbuster. Big budget, guaranteed return, slickly polished, and no risk.
I just get a feeling of untapped potential for the Wii, that I don't get from the other two consoles.
But that's just graphics. I know that's really, really, important to some people, but I just don't get it. The console with the worst graphics won this gen, won last gen, and arguably won the gen before.
I do think we'll get a Wii2... in a couple years, and it probably will be no more powerful than a 360 is now... but it won't even be marketed as a new console. Just the logical upgrade for current Wii owners. Kind of like moving to a new model of iPod.
Mario, Mario, and Metriod. And another gimmick, Wii fit. How depressing for us Wii owners.
If it's that depressing for Wii owners, why do those games SELL SO WELL? Why is Sony and Microsoft intent on copying them?
I get what you're saying. I want some hardcore action, FPS, RPG, and strategy games. The Wiimote would make a sweet interface for a RTS like Starcraft. But just remember, Wii Fit makes more people more happy than a port of 'Bioshock' would. Just not necessarily you or I.
Keep in mind, it also is the reason why the Wii has far more exclusives than its competitors. They may not be GOOD exclusives, but there's a lot of them. (And some ARE good.)
I think this upcoming year is a good one, with some serious games. Conduit, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, a new Resident Evil, a new 'mature' action Metroid...
And Red Steel 2, which I'm anxiously awaiting. Overall, I think all three developers had a good showing this year, but I think Nintendo's was strongest. Not just because of their conference, but because the entire subtext of Sony and Microsoft's presentations was about them trying to copy the Wii's success.
My understanding is that the point isn't whether you would be committing a crime or not, but that your record wouldn't be admissible in court because you're not a licensed investigator.
No, that's kind of silly. That's not what it means at all. It means that those credit companies can continue using those algorithms, but they can't stop somebody else from using them also. Invalidating a patent doesn't mean the subject of the patent is illegal to create or use...
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Sega, Sega, and Microsoft.
"The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand."
Wow, there was a 99.9999% of it killing him!
Seriously, surely the odds of being struck are much smaller than one in a million? Isn't it closer to one in a few billion, since there's a population of 6 billion and only 2 occurrences?
"Users who have to sit for days doing nothing because their user accounts aren't set up right" Oh, you know the what's wrong with your account? How about you fix it, Mr Genius. btw, if you are sitting around doing nothing for longer than an hour then TELL someone about it. Sounds like you just want an excuse to do nothing all day.
Often we could, but don't have permission. And past making a phone call every morning and evening, and eventually escalating it to department managers, what are we supposed to do?
"Ridiculous security policies like being forced to change your password every month" Sounds like a SysAdmin straight out of school. You get what you pay for. Or, middle management stuck their nose into IT & now everyone is suffering.
Yes, everybody suffers. You're missing the point. It's not the the IT guy sucks and the user is saintly, OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND. The point is that it's too easy for BOTH sides to think the other side are incompentent buffoons.
"Network configuration changes that break software they've been using for years" Maybe if you updated your software once in a blue moon, then it would be able to run in a modern environment.
Why update the software? It works until something unrelated breaks it. Should we be running Vista?
"Pointless upgrades that add bloat and remove features." That pointless upgrade will allow you to continue using the sofware you've been using for years without failing due to the network-boogey-man
Often simply LEAVING CRAP ALONE would allow us to continue using the software, as well.
Again, I think you didn't get the moral of my post; it's easy for BOTH sides to blame the OTHER side. For every crappy story about a user, there's a crappy story about an IT guy. If I was in a management position in IT, I would NEVER hire a person that I EVER saw use the term 'luser'. Same thing in software development.
We don't like IE, so we invent justifications to pretend including it is illegal. We like arbitrary laws when they can be twisted to our side.
I think it would still be very unusual for a vendor to not include IE on a machine. I use Firefox nearly exclusively, but want IE on my machine for the odd web-page. The only real difference is that it may mean most vendors will ship with both IE AND Firefox... or maybe Opera, if they can score some sort of deal.
The continued dominance of Windows XP might be viewed as consumers REJECTING change that was attempted to be forced upon them. There's a near infinite amount of contradictory change being forced upon consumers to change in various directions, and consumers get to pick which succeeds... which really means they aren't being forced. The only group that can force consumers is the government.
The cheapest boxes I ever saw were above $50. Interesting economic lesson, there; if the $40 coupons didn't exist, I'm sure low-end boxes would have been selling for under $20.
The government has no involvement at all in dealing with HTML 5, and I fail to see how it can "auction off" HTML 4 at all.
By [threat of] imprisoning or killing you if you disagree? That's the same way, ultimately, the government seizes power in any domain. See GM.
Remember the other side of the equation. Users who have to sit for days doing nothing because their user accounts aren't set up right. Ridiculous security policies like being forced to change your password every month. Network configuration changes that break sofware they've been using for years. Pointless upgrades that add bloat and remove features.
It's tough being a user, seemingly toyed with by the IT guys.
Then I apologize, and blame the mess that slashdot has made of nested comments.
I'm thinking clearly; you're not. You didn't really stop long enough to understand what I wrote.
I didn't say the hack violated copyright, nor did I say I cared even if it did. I never said that hack was wrong. In fact, I said I would do it myself, because homebrew is sufficient justification.
I said the hack will be mainly USED to pirate software... breaking copyright. That's not a hypothetical, that's simply true, and if you deny it, you'll ruin your credibility with any reader. When the someone says "the PSP hack can be used to run emulation, homebrew, and other stuff" they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the primary use of the hack: Piracy. I'm not saying everybody using it is a pirate. I'm saying most people using it are.
I would bet 90%+.
Emulation is great, and I would crack my PSP just for that, if I had one.
But it is just a bit disingenuous of the summary to not mention game piracy. It is one of the main reasons people install the new firmware; I suspect it's by far the primary driving force. It's also the main reason Sony is constantly plugging the holes and making revisions. It's not to combat emulation and homebrew.
I have no problem with modifying things you own; but the actual reasons that most people are interested in it shouldn't be just ignored. That's not intellectually honest.
It wasn't larger, and I'm not convinced it's more complex. If you eliminate the complexity that is purely a consequence of a 3d modeled environment, I'd say it's clearly less complex.
Take all the data that describes, say, a particularly NPC, or a particular room. I bet that, by size, 95% of it is related to 3d graphics, and only a few percent to actual gameplay elements.
I HOPE so. The fact that MS and Sony are scrambling for the leftovers of Nintendo's market might indicate that.
The graphically weakest console won this gen. It won last gen. Arguably it won the gen before. I would rather see new features, new directions, than simply upping clock speeds.
For one thing, the increased graphics are putting a huge burden on developers. They can't take risks on a 360 or PS3 game; it's a huge investment, like making a major motion picture... yet the product really isn't particularly more FUN than a DS game whipped out by a 5-man shop.
Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.
But what makes it different than any other ISP?
My interpretation... yes, it's about delivery people watching MTV.
But, it's _ABOUT_ the way MTV manipulates the audience, and perverts the music, by making turning musicians and their lives into shallow fantasies of the working class.
Anybody got something different?
Who cares if someone says/hears a swear word, really? It surely doesn't hurt anyone, unless they've been trained to be offended by them.
Well, a lot of people HAVE been trained to be offended by them.
It's time to realize that swearing is only "bad" due to religious baggage, nothing else.
True, although I'd say it's cultural baggage that was influenced by religion. The crucial point is that swearing is also only "good" due to that baggage. If nobody cared about a particular swear word, it would soon fall out of favor for something that would be more offensive.
In other words, if there was no taboo against saying 'fuck', there would be no reason for Hitler to be saying 'fuck' in the first place. (Except maybe to his dear wife.)
I managed to avoid the whole Apple experience; never bought an iPod, never bought a song from iTunes, never had any desire to get an iPhone. I'm feeling a bit relieved. The whole thing feels like a trap. If I had a thousand bucks tied up in all this interconnected web of apps, platforms, and media, with it's seemingly ever-constricting chains, I'd be pretty irritated.
Lesson I've learned? Always buy IP-violating, unregulated, cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Plus, the Wii is so much cheaper to develop for. I don't know exact budgets, but just the textures and modeling is so much more intensive on the PS3 and 360, I'd be suprised if a Wii game cost half as much to develop. Probably significantly less. I would have thought the Wii would have more cool, 'indy' titles, where risks are taken. The other consoles, everything has to be like a summer blockbuster. Big budget, guaranteed return, slickly polished, and no risk.
I just get a feeling of untapped potential for the Wii, that I don't get from the other two consoles.
But that's just graphics. I know that's really, really, important to some people, but I just don't get it. The console with the worst graphics won this gen, won last gen, and arguably won the gen before.
I do think we'll get a Wii2... in a couple years, and it probably will be no more powerful than a 360 is now... but it won't even be marketed as a new console. Just the logical upgrade for current Wii owners. Kind of like moving to a new model of iPod.
Mario, Mario, and Metriod. And another gimmick, Wii fit. How depressing for us Wii owners.
If it's that depressing for Wii owners, why do those games SELL SO WELL? Why is Sony and Microsoft intent on copying them?
I get what you're saying. I want some hardcore action, FPS, RPG, and strategy games. The Wiimote would make a sweet interface for a RTS like Starcraft. But just remember, Wii Fit makes more people more happy than a port of 'Bioshock' would. Just not necessarily you or I.
Keep in mind, it also is the reason why the Wii has far more exclusives than its competitors. They may not be GOOD exclusives, but there's a lot of them. (And some ARE good.)
I think this upcoming year is a good one, with some serious games. Conduit, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, a new Resident Evil, a new 'mature' action Metroid...
And Red Steel 2, which I'm anxiously awaiting. Overall, I think all three developers had a good showing this year, but I think Nintendo's was strongest. Not just because of their conference, but because the entire subtext of Sony and Microsoft's presentations was about them trying to copy the Wii's success.
My understanding is that the point isn't whether you would be committing a crime or not, but that your record wouldn't be admissible in court because you're not a licensed investigator.
No, that's kind of silly. That's not what it means at all. It means that those credit companies can continue using those algorithms, but they can't stop somebody else from using them also. Invalidating a patent doesn't mean the subject of the patent is illegal to create or use...