Support emulatorVM developers! Encapsulate your entire machine in a VM and you can run the entire software stack if necessary. Anything you need convenient access to, export to CSV, XML or some other standard format.
Bullshit. It would be relatively trivial to make a charger do the same or worse to an android device as the full filesystem is there for the raping. And the control signals are there so that the phone can tell the charger what voltage to supply to best optimize charge rate and minimize battery wear. Not everything is about/caused by DRM.
Except your android phone is exactly the same and even makes it easier for the malware charger as it presents pretty much everything on the phone via USB.
Hmm... jury out on that one. I think you'd be surprised at the amount of time people spend on their phones and tablets - in transit on the bus/train, while driving their car (#^@@*&*!!), in the movie theatre, at the bar, at home on the couch, in bed before going to sleep, first thing in the morning when they wake up, whilst eating breakfast getting ready for work, etc, etc.
Sure. I wasn't counting appliances to make the numbers look good though. iPhones, Androids, Winmobile, etc are appliances like your refrigerator. It's not *really* relevant to the end user what they run, so long as they work. They're also all mostly closed/locked devices (yes, you can root them - you can root a PS3 too, doesn't make it an open platform either).
As with the OS X userbase, the Linux userbase is fairly blaise with regards to the possibility of being compromised.
So far, the platform has been relatively safe, however as it gains popularity on the desktop expect more end-user focused malware (vs. the traditional sort of rootkit) to be developed. Given the vulnerabilities these days are mostly found in flash, java, javascript, etc, and your DATA is just as valuable (if not more) than root on your machine (and is available from your user account), I'd say that it is inevitable that sooner or later we'll see a cross-platform or Linux / OS X exclusive exploit get significant penetration.
Given that very few OS X or Linux users actually run any form of malware protection - IF something breaks out in a serious manner, it's likely to be a pandemic.
They're trying to kill the classic UI so no, don't expect shiny there. Expect that the be gradually crippled and made to look worse than metro, which they are betting the farm on. In true microsoft tradition they are attempting to use influence in one market to open another (get people used to metro on desktop and they may buy a metro tablet)....
Yeah, but what microsoft want is to force metro on desktop users so they can use that leverage to break into the mobile market. What YOU and I want is irrelevant.
Keep "fixing" the minor stuff the plebs whine so hard about whilst missing the point (Metro is shit, and will continue to be shit on desktop). Windows is already down to 25% of web traffic, the sooner they fuck it up so bad businesses abandon it the better.
You can happily ignore the real money auction house and play it the way most people originally played D1 and D2 - with a bunch of peeps you know.
I didn't touch the RMAH at all.
You say D3 is a badly engineered game, but maybe the glasses are a bit rose tinted, because D2 was pretty laughably imbalanced originally and went through heaps of nerfs over the last decade and a bit.
I guess if you're looking to compete on battlenet then yes the RMAH introduces a bit of "pay to win", but I don't do that so it doesn't affect me.
The only problems I had were a couple of connection issues in the first couple of weeks after release, other than that, no complaints.
Installed it, spent an hour or two with it, haven't loaded it since.
Not sure why, but it just didn't grab me the way the diablo series has. Ditto for torchlight.
Maybe its because I'm more interested in the Diablo series story, the background, etc. and the other games just feel like a hack and slash for the point of it... I mean i don't even remember/know what the point of Path Of Exile was, ditto for torchlight.
Maybe that's not the game's fault and D3 is getting by with me on the basis of prior involvement in the series back to Diablo 1, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter to me. My time is limited, i have a few hours to kill now and then and for that purpose, diablo 3 worked just fine for me.
I'm not interested in getting to the top of the Battlenet ladder, getting the perfect kit, doing PvP, etc... so the minor imbalances don't really bother me so much. I just hook up with a few mates and go kill stuff co-op.
Yeah, I had fun and played through the first difficulty levels until inferno.
I didn't touch the real money auction house at all, and barely touched the other auction house. I played in games only with people I otherwise know.
I can see how if you were involved with the real money auctions or playing with people who were it could be a massive problem, but I didn't, and it is optional, so...
The game is what you make of it. No it isn't perfect by any means, but I played it (end enjoyed it) more than most of the games I've purchased in the past 5 years or so. The only thing I've put more hours into since is Borderlands 2. Similar deal - only play with people I know.
Essentially I treat them like LAN games, without the LAN... to catch up with friends I used to go to LANs with back in the early 2000s.
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Also.... I already have VMs that run software from 20 years ago (well, 1995 - close enough).
Virtualbox has an open source edition. If you think x86 VMs are going anywhere you are mistaken.
Support emulatorVM developers! Encapsulate your entire machine in a VM and you can run the entire software stack if necessary. Anything you need convenient access to, export to CSV, XML or some other standard format.
Maybe? It could have snooped that at the login window?
No but the BIOS may be set to boot from it.
Bullshit. It would be relatively trivial to make a charger do the same or worse to an android device as the full filesystem is there for the raping. And the control signals are there so that the phone can tell the charger what voltage to supply to best optimize charge rate and minimize battery wear. Not everything is about/caused by DRM.
Except your android phone is exactly the same and even makes it easier for the malware charger as it presents pretty much everything on the phone via USB.
You think it is not possible to build a charger for any other phone that reads the filesystem?
On the contrary, most other phones simply present as a USB drive and are wide open for the pillaging.
So you played the game twice through with one character (I'm guessing 30-60+ hrs?), and then feel hard done by?
If you beat inferno I'm sure we'd be hearing about how blizzard made the game too easy, blahblah...
Just treat hell as the final difficulty level?
Hmm... jury out on that one. I think you'd be surprised at the amount of time people spend on their phones and tablets - in transit on the bus/train, while driving their car (#^@@*&*!!), in the movie theatre, at the bar, at home on the couch, in bed before going to sleep, first thing in the morning when they wake up, whilst eating breakfast getting ready for work, etc, etc.
Sure. I wasn't counting appliances to make the numbers look good though. iPhones, Androids, Winmobile, etc are appliances like your refrigerator. It's not *really* relevant to the end user what they run, so long as they work. They're also all mostly closed/locked devices (yes, you can root them - you can root a PS3 too, doesn't make it an open platform either).
Well yes.... but we're talking about number of machines, not workload :D
Every time i fire up my ubuntu box it requires updates...
Sure, do all your browsing in a VM. I'll still steal your credit card details, identity, etc.
As with the OS X userbase, the Linux userbase is fairly blaise with regards to the possibility of being compromised.
So far, the platform has been relatively safe, however as it gains popularity on the desktop expect more end-user focused malware (vs. the traditional sort of rootkit) to be developed. Given the vulnerabilities these days are mostly found in flash, java, javascript, etc, and your DATA is just as valuable (if not more) than root on your machine (and is available from your user account), I'd say that it is inevitable that sooner or later we'll see a cross-platform or Linux / OS X exclusive exploit get significant penetration.
Given that very few OS X or Linux users actually run any form of malware protection - IF something breaks out in a serious manner, it's likely to be a pandemic.
The ratio of 650 Windows 7 boxes plus 75 Windows 2008 R2 boxes at work to 3 Unix machines tends to swing the balance in favour of Windows where I am.
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It doesn't run Metro apps! LOL. :)
They're trying to kill the classic UI so no, don't expect shiny there. Expect that the be gradually crippled and made to look worse than metro, which they are betting the farm on. In true microsoft tradition they are attempting to use influence in one market to open another (get people used to metro on desktop and they may buy a metro tablet)....
Yeah, but what microsoft want is to force metro on desktop users so they can use that leverage to break into the mobile market. What YOU and I want is irrelevant.
Keep "fixing" the minor stuff the plebs whine so hard about whilst missing the point (Metro is shit, and will continue to be shit on desktop). Windows is already down to 25% of web traffic, the sooner they fuck it up so bad businesses abandon it the better.
You can happily ignore the real money auction house and play it the way most people originally played D1 and D2 - with a bunch of peeps you know.
I didn't touch the RMAH at all.
You say D3 is a badly engineered game, but maybe the glasses are a bit rose tinted, because D2 was pretty laughably imbalanced originally and went through heaps of nerfs over the last decade and a bit.
I guess if you're looking to compete on battlenet then yes the RMAH introduces a bit of "pay to win", but I don't do that so it doesn't affect me.
The only problems I had were a couple of connection issues in the first couple of weeks after release, other than that, no complaints.
Installed it, spent an hour or two with it, haven't loaded it since.
Not sure why, but it just didn't grab me the way the diablo series has. Ditto for torchlight.
Maybe its because I'm more interested in the Diablo series story, the background, etc. and the other games just feel like a hack and slash for the point of it... I mean i don't even remember/know what the point of Path Of Exile was, ditto for torchlight.
Maybe that's not the game's fault and D3 is getting by with me on the basis of prior involvement in the series back to Diablo 1, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter to me. My time is limited, i have a few hours to kill now and then and for that purpose, diablo 3 worked just fine for me.
I'm not interested in getting to the top of the Battlenet ladder, getting the perfect kit, doing PvP, etc... so the minor imbalances don't really bother me so much. I just hook up with a few mates and go kill stuff co-op.
Yeah, I had fun and played through the first difficulty levels until inferno.
I didn't touch the real money auction house at all, and barely touched the other auction house. I played in games only with people I otherwise know.
I can see how if you were involved with the real money auctions or playing with people who were it could be a massive problem, but I didn't, and it is optional, so...
The game is what you make of it. No it isn't perfect by any means, but I played it (end enjoyed it) more than most of the games I've purchased in the past 5 years or so. The only thing I've put more hours into since is Borderlands 2. Similar deal - only play with people I know.
Essentially I treat them like LAN games, without the LAN... to catch up with friends I used to go to LANs with back in the early 2000s.