And there are eleventy billion "apps" for the GBA (including legacy "app" cartridges), would you say that's targeted at content creators?
For iOS there are 10 billion glorified site-specific RSS readers, flash game substitutes, and other commercial flotsam. How many IDEs and compilers? How many Photoshop/GIMP-like apps? Anything that can compete with Audacity or Kdenlive?
Security of the App Store? Security on iOS devices is a fucking nightmare. Apple doesn't do code reviews of any of the apps it approves - that's how a tethering app was able to slip by disguised as a flashlight app, for one example of many (including actual malware).
The security of the App Store consists of Apple saying "don't worry, it's totally safe, we promise!" and you believing that on blind faith.
To use the analogy of airport security, an iOS device is a guy in a trenchcoat who you can't search. He can have whatever the hell he wants under there and there is jack and shit that you can do about it. You can either ban him or let him through and cross your fingers.
You notice anything odd about user zget? Maybe he just a guy who likes Microsoft stuff, but he's a new user and gets in a pro-MS and/or anti-Google point into most of his posts, and he's pretty good at first-posting. Maybe the explosion of shilling earlier this year has left me paranoid but I get the feeling he might be a more clever and subtle Microsoft shill.
When I'm typing in my PIN I do a fancy jig with my fingers, and I use my fingernails - admittedly to avoid getting the ick from the ATM on my fingers - but that should help keep the thermal signatures down as well.
I'm sure they could pay some poor 3rd-worlders to be their servants on the island, the employer provides housing on the island and good (by 3rd world standards) pay to the employee's family back home. Many would jump at the chance.
There's "exploited" and there's exploited. When you're filthy stinking rich but are sad that you could be richer if only you didn't have to pay so much in taxes (even though you're likely already paying a much smaller percentage than the middle and lower classes), you're "exploited."
Would you want to attack an island full of libertarians? They're probably armed to the teeth and itching to use their guns on something other than a beer can or a paper target for the first time, and what do you think one of the first things they're going to do with their new-found freedom is? Buy rocket launchers, assault rifles and all the other goodies that were illegal in the civilized world, that's what.
Subs and torpedoes would be a threat but pirates should stay well away...
Damn right. I bring pirated movies to work for the other guys in the IT department and talk about pirating stuff all the time. I just helped my boss get his satellite-pirating box working. Hasn't hurt my career. If anything it makes me look more l33t.
Yeah I have an uncle who needs the fonts on his computer amped up to jumbo-size to see them at all and sits with his knees to his near-50" TV, he can't see well enough to drive and would likely be considered legally blind (hasn't been tested), but he can still watch things just fine if they're up close and big enough.
Didn't you know? A pervert is any man whose sex life consists of anything other than fucking his wife, with the lights off, in the missionary position, while still wearing as many clothes as possible, and with no dirty talk.
Not sure what kind of URL trickery you're trying to do there, but I substituted the goo.gl code for a known safe one and it didn't work, so you're doing it wrong.
Sure as hell wasn't FarCry2, the gameplay in that was just awful. I couldn't push myself to play any more than about 5 hours. I just had to clear out the same outpost of militiamen one too many times.
Oh and about performance, if anything Crysis 2 is less demanding than Crysis 1. In Crysis 1 with the settings maxed (except AA, I run 8xAA because 16x crashes for some reason) it runs close to 60fps but drops down to 40-something in some scenes. In Crysis 2 with the settings maxed I was getting a solid 60fps+ with no slowdown. This is with twin GTX260 Superclocked cards, an i7 940 and 12GB DDR3.
Crysis 2 didn't look any better than Crysis 1 to me. If anything, it may be a step backwards. And Crysis 1 was unquestionably the better game - it had a better storyline, more varied and bigger levels (Crysis 1 was an on-rails shooter but the levels were so wide open that you didn't notice it - Crysis 2 was an on-rails shooter and that fact was in your face the entire time), and actual vehicle combat which was almost done away with in Crysis 2. The only improvements in Crysis 2 were the controls and maybe the suit upgrades.
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And there are eleventy billion "apps" for the GBA (including legacy "app" cartridges), would you say that's targeted at content creators?
For iOS there are 10 billion glorified site-specific RSS readers, flash game substitutes, and other commercial flotsam. How many IDEs and compilers? How many Photoshop/GIMP-like apps? Anything that can compete with Audacity or Kdenlive?
Security of the App Store? Security on iOS devices is a fucking nightmare. Apple doesn't do code reviews of any of the apps it approves - that's how a tethering app was able to slip by disguised as a flashlight app, for one example of many (including actual malware).
The security of the App Store consists of Apple saying "don't worry, it's totally safe, we promise!" and you believing that on blind faith.
To use the analogy of airport security, an iOS device is a guy in a trenchcoat who you can't search. He can have whatever the hell he wants under there and there is jack and shit that you can do about it. You can either ban him or let him through and cross your fingers.
I cause virtual chaos in the GTA and Just Cause games all the time.
You notice anything odd about user zget? Maybe he just a guy who likes Microsoft stuff, but he's a new user and gets in a pro-MS and/or anti-Google point into most of his posts, and he's pretty good at first-posting. Maybe the explosion of shilling earlier this year has left me paranoid but I get the feeling he might be a more clever and subtle Microsoft shill.
What if I post from behind 7 proxies?
Check this out:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/beautifulcompanions-missbimbo.php
(hope I copied that right from my phone)
When I'm typing in my PIN I do a fancy jig with my fingers, and I use my fingernails - admittedly to avoid getting the ick from the ATM on my fingers - but that should help keep the thermal signatures down as well.
Which shady scumbag am I supposed to trust here?
Maybe buy the Maldives and build up the land above the projected sea level?
What are you talking about? Running a cyber-mercenary organization is about as libertarian as it gets!
From what I understand, the government controlled area in Somalia would be better described as a compound than a territory.
I'm sure they could pay some poor 3rd-worlders to be their servants on the island, the employer provides housing on the island and good (by 3rd world standards) pay to the employee's family back home. Many would jump at the chance.
There's "exploited" and there's exploited. When you're filthy stinking rich but are sad that you could be richer if only you didn't have to pay so much in taxes (even though you're likely already paying a much smaller percentage than the middle and lower classes), you're "exploited."
That fundie Mormon pedo dude tried this and wasn't able to rape children in peace for very long...
Would you want to attack an island full of libertarians? They're probably armed to the teeth and itching to use their guns on something other than a beer can or a paper target for the first time, and what do you think one of the first things they're going to do with their new-found freedom is? Buy rocket launchers, assault rifles and all the other goodies that were illegal in the civilized world, that's what.
Subs and torpedoes would be a threat but pirates should stay well away...
iPhone auto-correct strikes again...
Damn right. I bring pirated movies to work for the other guys in the IT department and talk about pirating stuff all the time. I just helped my boss get his satellite-pirating box working. Hasn't hurt my career. If anything it makes me look more l33t.
Well at least he's upgraded to IPv6.
Yeah I have an uncle who needs the fonts on his computer amped up to jumbo-size to see them at all and sits with his knees to his near-50" TV, he can't see well enough to drive and would likely be considered legally blind (hasn't been tested), but he can still watch things just fine if they're up close and big enough.
An IP address is not a person.
Yeah but it's close enough for law enforcement work :-P
Didn't you know? A pervert is any man whose sex life consists of anything other than fucking his wife, with the lights off, in the missionary position, while still wearing as many clothes as possible, and with no dirty talk.
Not sure what kind of URL trickery you're trying to do there, but I substituted the goo.gl code for a known safe one and it didn't work, so you're doing it wrong.
Sure as hell wasn't FarCry2, the gameplay in that was just awful. I couldn't push myself to play any more than about 5 hours. I just had to clear out the same outpost of militiamen one too many times.
Oh and about performance, if anything Crysis 2 is less demanding than Crysis 1. In Crysis 1 with the settings maxed (except AA, I run 8xAA because 16x crashes for some reason) it runs close to 60fps but drops down to 40-something in some scenes. In Crysis 2 with the settings maxed I was getting a solid 60fps+ with no slowdown. This is with twin GTX260 Superclocked cards, an i7 940 and 12GB DDR3.
Crysis 2 didn't look any better than Crysis 1 to me. If anything, it may be a step backwards. And Crysis 1 was unquestionably the better game - it had a better storyline, more varied and bigger levels (Crysis 1 was an on-rails shooter but the levels were so wide open that you didn't notice it - Crysis 2 was an on-rails shooter and that fact was in your face the entire time), and actual vehicle combat which was almost done away with in Crysis 2. The only improvements in Crysis 2 were the controls and maybe the suit upgrades.