Monitoring your music folder for new songs is not a "niche" feature. It's an "everybody except iTunes manages to do this" feature.
My wife doesn't understand why songs she downloads from somewhere other than iTMS won't just be "seen" by iTunes. Especially when, say, her photo library software, or ANYTHING ELSE media related, does exactly this.
Absolutely nothing "niche" about such a simple, painfully obvious feature.
I find that people in a power position tend to find ways of justifying their own opinions and ways of treating people, and when others truly take offense at something they should be offended at the peron(s) in power simply lock them out by justifying that their own moral superiority because they remained calm.
Being offended, even on justified grounds, is never an excuse for bad behavior.
Losing one's cool online is simply never, ever, ever productive, and often turns a manageable problem into an out-of-control one.
There is plenty of room between being completely "corporate America" emotionless, and being able to control one's emotions. Most of us exist in this middle ground in our everyday "offline" life.
I am a member of a number of sites that enforce a very simple, yet very firm, code of conduct. If you cannot behave like a civil human being, you are out. Period. It's not done punitively, but rather in a very calm and matter-of-fact manner.
People can say "don't feed the trolls" all they want, but it's no replacement for real moderation. In the absence of the social consequences that exist in a real, in-person social experience, something else needs to step in to help give the correcting nudge to facilitate good behavior all around.
I'd kill to have Christopher Eccleston back. One season (err, "series", sorry) was just not enough, it's not fair.
3 seasons for David Tennant was a nice run.
But I'm most excited about Steven Moffat taking over the show as lead writer and executive producer. I loved his writing on Coupling, and I especially love the Doctor Who episodes he wrote these past seasons.
When you see how the mirrors are getting slammed right now (8.10 is on most of them), you simply must realize that Ubuntu has stolen most of the mindshare aware from Debian. Is that not good?
Given how dependent Ubuntu is on Debian packages, what happens if everyone abandons Debian? Will that development for certain resume on the Ubuntu side of the line?
Mod me Redundant but the above post could've been written by me. When I was using Gentoo, the other options seemed to be either a too-out-of-date-for-the-desktop Debian install, or some other distro with overly tiny repositories.
Ubuntu came along, leveraging Debian's big software repository while providing up-to-date key packages in their own repos.
I never looked back. Debian powers my servers and Ubuntu powers my desktops (along with OS X)
A lot of MMOs don't make their patches available as standalone downloads... after all, they're online only games, so the thinking goes, who would need anything besides the built-in updater?
Seven hundred?!?! Microsoft had a web page where you could put in your client requirements and they would tell you how many Win 2003 TS machines you would need to support these clients. I don't think we ever got it down to fewer than 10 users per server - how did you manage 700?
He'll have a much harder time breaking one 128 bit key than ten 80 bit keys.
Which is a meaningless statement, because it's not a choice between one strong key versus ten lesser keys.
There's nothing stopping anyone from using ten strong keys.
if he can brute force one password he can quite probably do it again.
That's true, but misses the point. The POINT is that if it takes a loooong time to break a key (as it does with strong WPA/WPA2 keys), changing the key closes the window on successful cracks. By the time he cracked the old key, you've moved on to a new one. Keep using fresh keys, and you significantly reduce the window of opportunity for a brute force attack on any given key.
Nearly every discussion of in-game ads works under the assumption that in-game ads means ads plastered all over the game world.
This is true in some cases, but is a narrow view of the in-game ads concept as a whole.
There is a lot of real estate for ads to inhabit that is outside of the game world. Start-up screens (wedged between the ten different developer/publisher/middleware/etc splash screens). Menu areas (like the Samsung logo in the Perfect Dark Zero menus). Loading screens (like the Red Bull ones in Wipeout XL/2097). Downloadable content "brought to you by" on online marketplaces (that one's become common on Xbox Live). Community portals.
There's a lot of ways to introduce ads to games that don't involve splashing billboards all over a game world that shouldn't have them. Battlefield Heroes, for example, has ads all over, except in the game world itself.
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Monitoring your music folder for new songs is not a "niche" feature. It's an "everybody except iTunes manages to do this" feature.
My wife doesn't understand why songs she downloads from somewhere other than iTMS won't just be "seen" by iTunes. Especially when, say, her photo library software, or ANYTHING ELSE media related, does exactly this.
Absolutely nothing "niche" about such a simple, painfully obvious feature.
The Zune software does it brilliantly.
I find that people in a power position tend to find ways of justifying their own opinions and ways of treating people, and when others truly take offense at something they should be offended at the peron(s) in power simply lock them out by justifying that their own moral superiority because they remained calm.
Being offended, even on justified grounds, is never an excuse for bad behavior.
Losing one's cool online is simply never, ever, ever productive, and often turns a manageable problem into an out-of-control one.
There is plenty of room between being completely "corporate America" emotionless, and being able to control one's emotions. Most of us exist in this middle ground in our everyday "offline" life.
Or, in this case, the moderation.
I am a member of a number of sites that enforce a very simple, yet very firm, code of conduct. If you cannot behave like a civil human being, you are out. Period. It's not done punitively, but rather in a very calm and matter-of-fact manner.
People can say "don't feed the trolls" all they want, but it's no replacement for real moderation. In the absence of the social consequences that exist in a real, in-person social experience, something else needs to step in to help give the correcting nudge to facilitate good behavior all around.
Threefish is the name of the block cipher part of Skein.
I thought Redfish and Bluefish came after Twofish.
I'd kill to have Christopher Eccleston back. One season (err, "series", sorry) was just not enough, it's not fair.
3 seasons for David Tennant was a nice run.
But I'm most excited about Steven Moffat taking over the show as lead writer and executive producer. I loved his writing on Coupling, and I especially love the Doctor Who episodes he wrote these past seasons.
When you see how the mirrors are getting slammed right now (8.10 is on most of them), you simply must realize that Ubuntu has stolen most of the mindshare aware from Debian. Is that not good?
Given how dependent Ubuntu is on Debian packages, what happens if everyone abandons Debian? Will that development for certain resume on the Ubuntu side of the line?
Wow. Did anyone else notice that Win2K is actually going up? Maybe folks burnt on Vista are going back to the fugly goodness that is Win2K Pro. ;-)
You might want to double-check the dates on that chart, friend. Win2000 is only going "up" when reading in reverse chronological order.
How would you feel about this man if it was your child's photograph on this man's notebook.
I would ground him for disobeying me. I specifically told him no posing naked for pictures!
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you.
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do...
Mod me Redundant but the above post could've been written by me. When I was using Gentoo, the other options seemed to be either a too-out-of-date-for-the-desktop Debian install, or some other distro with overly tiny repositories.
Ubuntu came along, leveraging Debian's big software repository while providing up-to-date key packages in their own repos.
I never looked back. Debian powers my servers and Ubuntu powers my desktops (along with OS X)
I wonder if kids had some kind of job if they would be less likely to steal or break the law.
I totally agree, but prostitution is illegal!
I'm strongly in favor of groups that protect individuals' rights, even ones as over-the-top as the ACLU.
"Constitution-Free Zone?" So the 4th amendment is the entire Constitution? Taking the rhetoric a bit far, aren't we, friends?
Don't worry, I still love you, and next year's check is still coming.
A lot of MMOs don't make their patches available as standalone downloads... after all, they're online only games, so the thinking goes, who would need anything besides the built-in updater?
I agree. I don't want any of this "doesn't drop packets" Ethernet either. Packet loss is critical to a number of my in-house applications.
I like mixed-race black/Asian women for their mathematically precise crack smoking skills.
... and use the audio preview, will radicals go blow up Youtube?
Because I would be OK with that.
Seven hundred?!?! Microsoft had a web page where you could put in your client requirements and they would tell you how many Win 2003 TS machines you would need to support these clients. I don't think we ever got it down to fewer than 10 users per server - how did you manage 700?
I think I found your problem.
He'll have a much harder time breaking one 128 bit key than ten 80 bit keys.
Which is a meaningless statement, because it's not a choice between one strong key versus ten lesser keys.
There's nothing stopping anyone from using ten strong keys.
if he can brute force one password he can quite probably do it again.
That's true, but misses the point. The POINT is that if it takes a loooong time to break a key (as it does with strong WPA/WPA2 keys), changing the key closes the window on successful cracks. By the time he cracked the old key, you've moved on to a new one. Keep using fresh keys, and you significantly reduce the window of opportunity for a brute force attack on any given key.
With good keys, even a 100x increase in cracking speed is still not fast
Don't use a little 8-character passphrase. Use long keys, and don't just leave them in place forever. Change them periodically.
"Man" might be pushing it.
The great thing about D is that the name alone clues you in as to how well it grades out...
This American is becoming partial to the Welsh accent. Thanks mostly to the girl from Torchwood.
Nearly every discussion of in-game ads works under the assumption that in-game ads means ads plastered all over the game world.
This is true in some cases, but is a narrow view of the in-game ads concept as a whole.
There is a lot of real estate for ads to inhabit that is outside of the game world. Start-up screens (wedged between the ten different developer/publisher/middleware/etc splash screens). Menu areas (like the Samsung logo in the Perfect Dark Zero menus). Loading screens (like the Red Bull ones in Wipeout XL/2097). Downloadable content "brought to you by" on online marketplaces (that one's become common on Xbox Live). Community portals.
There's a lot of ways to introduce ads to games that don't involve splashing billboards all over a game world that shouldn't have them. Battlefield Heroes, for example, has ads all over, except in the game world itself.
misleading title
It's a little-known fact that "Posted by kdawson" is Slashdot-ease for "better read TFA because TFS is FUBAR".
Looks like I picked the wrong week to ditch C#.
If it took you a week, you weren't doing it right.