I think I said something insightful like "Wow, a decade of network security awareness and we're still surprised that humans are the weak link. Go figure.
Humans are dumb. Humans who are faced with somebody they're sexually attracted to are especially dumb. This is not a revelation.
And for pity's sake get these guys a tool to remove EXIF data from photos.
That would do nothing more than turn the conflict into another Vietnam war. Fighting the indigenous population worked well there, didn't it?
According to the Wikipedia page, the total civilian deaths of the Vietnam war was over double that of military personnel, both sides combined. I'd call that a massacre.
This Kotick guy wants something he can't have unless he ponies up the investment himself. He needs to talk to fabs and board manufacturers (mother-, graphics-, sound-, and peripheral-) to get large quantities of identically designed and spec'd hardware which conforms to the x86 architecture. He needs to make sure it runs an operating system his games will run on, namely Windows. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't differentiate between different x86-compatible hardware, so any and all hardware which conforms can be used. Oh hey, isn't that a PC?
By the way, will this box be able to browse the internet, download flash movies, get viruses, require reinstallations of the OS like Windows does now? Because we already have those kind of boxes; They're called PCs. If not, we have those too; They're called consoles.
Is it me or is Kotick living in Cloud Cuckoo Land? A console that isn't vendor-locked is a PC. If you want your own console, build it.
RealID is only required if you want to chat cross-realm, -faction, or -game. You can carry on using the regular friends list if you only want to talk ot friends who are playing your game, on your server, on your faction (in WoW).
Who would have thought that the immune system treats any foreign object as harmful. Once exposed to it, your immune system responds by trying to kill it. If it can't, it just gets used to it. Simplified, but fairly accurate description.
Moving from a hyper-clean environment into a natural one will of course expose you to many things which cause an immune response upon first contact: Fungus and pine spores, dust mites, pollens, bacteria and protozoa, all of which will cause an immune response which is far more aggressive than anyone who encounters them in every day life.
Holy crap, I failed Human Biology and this isn't surprising to me.
"What are you doing? Stop it! I-i-i-i-i-... Weeee are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honour of your tremendous success. Place the device on the ground, then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party. Make no further attempt to leave the testing area. Assume the 'Party Escort Submission Position' or you will miss the party."
Unless he's totally insane, he'll never ask for royalties from schools. You can probably imagine what will happen it hits the local news that 7 year olds with special educational needs have to pay royalties to sing Happy Birthday to a fellow pupil.
The Two Minute Hate was mandated by The Party. Something tells me that Apple isn't the one organising bad publicity, other than by being completely inept.
Ok, rich boy. How about TicketMaster make their "convenience charge" $50? How about the venue sells tickets at $100 each, Ticketmaster buy all of them, and sell them for $170 a piece? Don't you feel like you're being shafted? That's a $100 ticket which is costing you $220 because of a monopoly on ticket sales.
I'm glad you're rolling in dough like Scrooge McDuck, but I'm not. There are some bands I really want to see, but won't because of this racket on ticket sales.
As for your live band / rock concert comparison, I couldn't disagree more. At the concert you're a blank face amongst thousands of others. You might enjoy yourself, but you're still only a number on a ticket stub to the guy on stage. In a bar, there's every chance you can chat to the guy afterwards, buy him a beer, see what influences him, any other local bands you should check out etc etc. It's a much more personal experience.
Don't get me wrong, I loved shouting "Angus!" at AC/DC when they played Whole Lotta Rosie at Download this year, but I enjoyed the personal atmosphere of Turisas in a small local venue a lot more.
No need. We can barely feed everyone at the moment anyway. Pretty soon we'll farm the crap out of the land so much that it'll become infertile until there's a mass shift in the balance of the nitrogen cycle, for one. Nature has a way of culling large populations very effectively: Stopping stuff from growing.
3% of the human body is nitrogen. Might need to bury a few before we can go back to stuffing ourselves with foie gras and prime rib.
- Turn the screen off before putting it away. Not only will this conserve battery life, but it will prevent you from activating the touchscreen while in your pocket. The only way to turn on the screen is to press the power button again. If it's still happening, the power button is probably pressing on your keys or coins. Why are these things in your pocket with your lovely 3.7" AMOLED screen device?! - Turn the in call volume up slightly and move the phone slightly upwards on your ear. The speaker is very close to the top of the phone, so having it positioned straight over the ear canal will allow light to pass over the top of the phone and may be sufficient to activate the light sensor. Moving it up slightly higher closes that gap and prevents sufficient light hitting the light sensor. We're talking maybe 3 or 4 mm of movement.
As for the pattern lock, I use that anyway. If my phone is ever misplaced or stolen, it prevents access to the device. It may even give me enough time to get home and remotely wipe it before they pull any data off.
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I think I said something insightful like "Wow, a decade of network security awareness and we're still surprised that humans are the weak link. Go figure.
Humans are dumb. Humans who are faced with somebody they're sexually attracted to are especially dumb. This is not a revelation.
And for pity's sake get these guys a tool to remove EXIF data from photos.
That would do nothing more than turn the conflict into another Vietnam war. Fighting the indigenous population worked well there, didn't it?
According to the Wikipedia page, the total civilian deaths of the Vietnam war was over double that of military personnel, both sides combined. I'd call that a massacre.
This Kotick guy wants something he can't have unless he ponies up the investment himself. He needs to talk to fabs and board manufacturers (mother-, graphics-, sound-, and peripheral-) to get large quantities of identically designed and spec'd hardware which conforms to the x86 architecture. He needs to make sure it runs an operating system his games will run on, namely Windows. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't differentiate between different x86-compatible hardware, so any and all hardware which conforms can be used. Oh hey, isn't that a PC?
By the way, will this box be able to browse the internet, download flash movies, get viruses, require reinstallations of the OS like Windows does now? Because we already have those kind of boxes; They're called PCs. If not, we have those too; They're called consoles.
Is it me or is Kotick living in Cloud Cuckoo Land? A console that isn't vendor-locked is a PC. If you want your own console, build it.
40% is a lot more than I was expecting.
RealID is only required if you want to chat cross-realm, -faction, or -game. You can carry on using the regular friends list if you only want to talk ot friends who are playing your game, on your server, on your faction (in WoW).
Who would have thought that the immune system treats any foreign object as harmful. Once exposed to it, your immune system responds by trying to kill it. If it can't, it just gets used to it. Simplified, but fairly accurate description.
Moving from a hyper-clean environment into a natural one will of course expose you to many things which cause an immune response upon first contact: Fungus and pine spores, dust mites, pollens, bacteria and protozoa, all of which will cause an immune response which is far more aggressive than anyone who encounters them in every day life.
Holy crap, I failed Human Biology and this isn't surprising to me.
"What are you doing? Stop it! I-i-i-i-i-... Weeee are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honour of your tremendous success. Place the device on the ground, then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party. Make no further attempt to leave the testing area. Assume the 'Party Escort Submission Position' or you will miss the party."
I work in one, and we do.
Unless he's totally insane, he'll never ask for royalties from schools. You can probably imagine what will happen it hits the local news that 7 year olds with special educational needs have to pay royalties to sing Happy Birthday to a fellow pupil.
Cheesing.
Don't complement her fanny either.
The Two Minute Hate was mandated by The Party. Something tells me that Apple isn't the one organising bad publicity, other than by being completely inept.
There is no other person with my surname. Anywhere.
Blizz lost a sale of Cata if they implement this.
It's good to know that you have the time, money, and emotional hardiness it would take to sue a large company.
$50 says you'd go bankrupt before any judgement, and have to withdraw your case.
John Davis from Korn plays WoW, as does Mila Kunis (Ditzy brunette from That 70's Show)
I'm SURE they both love this idea. I look forward to seeing them on Warhammer Online, or some other MMO which isn't made by idiots.
They say two thousand zero, zero, party over,
Oops, out of time!
So tonight I'm gonna Twitter like it's 2009!
See, you lost me right there.
Thanks for letting me know you didn't read my post. Since I now know there's nothing in your reply which is relevant, I'll return the favour.
Ok, rich boy. How about TicketMaster make their "convenience charge" $50? How about the venue sells tickets at $100 each, Ticketmaster buy all of them, and sell them for $170 a piece? Don't you feel like you're being shafted? That's a $100 ticket which is costing you $220 because of a monopoly on ticket sales.
I'm glad you're rolling in dough like Scrooge McDuck, but I'm not. There are some bands I really want to see, but won't because of this racket on ticket sales.
As for your live band / rock concert comparison, I couldn't disagree more. At the concert you're a blank face amongst thousands of others. You might enjoy yourself, but you're still only a number on a ticket stub to the guy on stage. In a bar, there's every chance you can chat to the guy afterwards, buy him a beer, see what influences him, any other local bands you should check out etc etc. It's a much more personal experience.
Don't get me wrong, I loved shouting "Angus!" at AC/DC when they played Whole Lotta Rosie at Download this year, but I enjoyed the personal atmosphere of Turisas in a small local venue a lot more.
Post links to the Wayback Machine instead.
Go on. C&D a non-profit org. The internet won't thank you for that one, and there's quite a lot of voters connected to it.
No need. We can barely feed everyone at the moment anyway. Pretty soon we'll farm the crap out of the land so much that it'll become infertile until there's a mass shift in the balance of the nitrogen cycle, for one. Nature has a way of culling large populations very effectively: Stopping stuff from growing.
3% of the human body is nitrogen. Might need to bury a few before we can go back to stuffing ourselves with foie gras and prime rib.
Couldn't the same be achieved with CPAP machines to relieve sleep apnoea?
I call the reversal of the process Idiostmotic Pressure.
There's something below Fox News in integrity?
BP?
I think you'll find that for the current generation, it's called an "Oops! I Did It Again!"
I too have an HTC Desire.
- Turn the screen off before putting it away. Not only will this conserve battery life, but it will prevent you from activating the touchscreen while in your pocket. The only way to turn on the screen is to press the power button again. If it's still happening, the power button is probably pressing on your keys or coins. Why are these things in your pocket with your lovely 3.7" AMOLED screen device?!
- Turn the in call volume up slightly and move the phone slightly upwards on your ear. The speaker is very close to the top of the phone, so having it positioned straight over the ear canal will allow light to pass over the top of the phone and may be sufficient to activate the light sensor. Moving it up slightly higher closes that gap and prevents sufficient light hitting the light sensor. We're talking maybe 3 or 4 mm of movement.
As for the pattern lock, I use that anyway. If my phone is ever misplaced or stolen, it prevents access to the device. It may even give me enough time to get home and remotely wipe it before they pull any data off.
Have you held one of those in your hand? It'a too big. It's way too big. Just look at the thing!