Microsoft's gamespot.com gives a 9.0 to perfect dark with the following:
The Good: Awesome presentation, featuring cutting-edge graphics and sound; delicious assortment of high-powered near-future weapons; excellent cooperative mission mode lets you play split screen or online; lots of multiplayer options, including some clever twists on familiar themes; one of the best original soundtracks this year. The Bad: Characters can look ugly up close, plus some other minor graphical glitches; some missions are frustrating, especially since you can't save midmission; pretty weak storyline is incidental to all the action.
So it has an awesome presentation (WTF is that anyway?) but a pretty weak storyline, incidental to all the action? It also has cutting-edge graphics, but characters can look ugly up close, plus some other minor graphical glitches.
Let me reword that then for you gamespot: The Good: Great sound and soundtrack. Excellent coop mode, and great weapons. The Bad: Frustrating missions, weak storyline. The Ugly: Characters upclose.
CWS: Hello secure app, I'm coolwebsearch! SA: Hi, I'm busy. CWS: HEEY! Look at me! SA:Uh-huh. CWS:You sure are secure aren't you? SA: Sure am. CWS: Hey, let's see which one of us is more important! SA: Whatever. CWS: MR PROCESS MANAGER!!! WHICH ONE OF US IS MORE IMPORTANT??? Windows PM: It looks like you're trying to type a letter... CWS: YAAY! You know what,this sucks, I'm just gonna take all of the CPU cycles and all the network bandwidth now! SA:...!!...No..Must...keep......working..m....u... ....sT...... Windows PM: Well, it looks.... like you guys..... are busy, I'm gonna take a n......ap. Wake me up if anyone starts writing............... letters.kbyethx...... BSD: "Pleased to meet you, Hope you've guessed my name..."
The thing about a mortality rate of 5% is that this is a flu. Flus are very easily spread, so if 50% of world's population catches it, that's a 150 million dead people. I think most people don't realize that this can be a common flu and even a small mortality rate will have a huge impact in our day to day operations. Who's gonna do the work that the dead people were supposed to be doing? Who's gonna do the work of all the infected people that are staying at home?
Not neccesarily true. No one is saying that the flu WILL kill 50% of the victims. It kills 50% of the victims right now. However, during the mutation, the mortality rate drops. So let's say that it drops down to a mere 5% mortality rate.
Now, how many people does a normal flu infect worldwide? 50%? so that's then a 2.5% of the world's population dead. (150 million)
Remember, that's only if the flu infects half the population and mortality rate drops to 5%. So, the problems are: Where are we gonna burry them? Who's gonna do their work (are they truck drivers, janitors, doctors, nurses, teachers, cops, firemen?) And who's gonna do the work of the people that are ill, but not dead?
The problem is that this is a FLU not SARS or AIDS, and almost EVERYONE catches a flu.
And see, that is exactly what bugs me about OS X, and why Windows is easier to use. On OS X, I stick a CD in, and it shows up on my desktop but doesn't autorun. iTunes pops up, and allows me to rip the CD by clicking on a button.
This is completely backwards to me. I like it when Windows autoruns the CD, starting up the elegant "Let's display hidden windows" WMP and having me search around for my CD. (Autorun also allows the CD to install programs in the background, whithout bothering me.) And if Autorun is disabled, finding a CD is as easy as clicking on the Start, finding My Computer and clicking on it, and then finding the icon for the CD player and clicking then on that. On OS X, I just stare at the mounted CD and it doesn't do anything.
No, seriously, I'm not trolling. I don't install much software on windows any more, so I'm not sure what asks for a password and what does not. I thought that their initiative on security might have done something about that.
Your second point is exactly what I was trying to get to, CD playing is not a "routine configuration change".
And I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about the security of OS X or linux, the numbers of exploits speak for themselves.
OK, I've found a partial list, but according to the article SONY/BMG are not releasing a complete list:
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia) Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic) Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia) Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia) Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia) Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia) Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia) The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia) Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia) Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic) Amerie, Touch (Columbia) Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic) Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy) Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy) Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy) The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia) The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic) Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy) Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Can anyone explain if this rootkit prompts for a password when installing (during the autorun, I presume)
As an OS X user, I'd find it slightly odd that my music CD is prompting me for an administrative password.
But to stay on topic, I'm sure this is but one of the many exploits that will be based on this rootkit. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of CDs that install it, and is it true that Sony has been using it since April?
What if you detonate a nuke surrounded by say, cement, close to the asteroid. That way the small bits of cement would nudge the asteroid off the course, without breaking it appart?
You, dare I say fundamentalists, have it all backwards.
For a lot of us, it is irellevant whether there is a God. If there is, she is omnipotent and all-loving, and of the form that we can not comprehend, simply due to the fact that she is divine, and we're not. So there's no fear here.
All we'd like to know is how things work, not why!
And on the other side we have people like you who try to shove the why into our schools, and confuse our childrent that why is the new how.
Remember there's no fear of God, only fear of government sponsored misinformation.
This may come off as a crazy question but why would Vista need anti-spyware?
Aren't they gonna implement a secure user-privilege levels?
Even if someone does mess up their own home directory, they won't be able to touch system files? So theoretically one could log in as an admin and easily remove the unwanted warez.
Or is Vista going to be more of the same when it comes to file permissions?
While this is a step in the right direction, I think they still miss the big picture. "My" DVR box is very convenient. I time shift shows and then erase them. But when it comes to movies, I'm one of those people that likes to own the movies I very much like, just like books or music. I like to have it close at hand for reference, entertainment, whatever.
Now I realize that they're not selling movies yet, but maybe at some point they will. The question is, why would I pay for a show twice, if I'm not gonna own it? I pay for it with my cable subscription, and then again to rent it. That's not a very good value proposition (if I understand the buzzword correctly).
With iTunes I at least, get to keep my shows and some day hopefully movies.
They're not thinking "How can we increase our value to the consumer" but rather "How can we extract even more money out of them?" (Notice that these shows are not downloadable over the net, they go directly to your DVR.)
And that brings me to the second point. I like storing stuff on my PC. I've got all of my data there, my music, pr0n, whatever. I don't want to keep track of different devices for my collections...
did you stack the plates like I asked you? did you clean out the kitty-litter box? did you forget to buy the toothpaste? will you rub my feet? will you take the trash out?...
one of these days Alice... *POW* straight to the moon...
Not really, I have BSD and a web server on it, but don't have the 3rd party packages that this virus exploits. Once they exploit Apache, then one's at risk..
Considering that IBM only recently announced the beginning of production of the chips for the 360 maybe the shortage is more due to the chip supply than it is artificial. Article in question.
How many chips can they make in a month? 10000, 100000?
Perhaps MS is about to learn why Apple switched from IBM.
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Microsoft's gamespot.com gives a 9.0 to perfect dark with the following:
The Good: Awesome presentation, featuring cutting-edge graphics and sound; delicious assortment of high-powered near-future weapons; excellent cooperative mission mode lets you play split screen or online; lots of multiplayer options, including some clever twists on familiar themes; one of the best original soundtracks this year.
The Bad: Characters can look ugly up close, plus some other minor graphical glitches; some missions are frustrating, especially since you can't save midmission; pretty weak storyline is incidental to all the action.
So it has an awesome presentation (WTF is that anyway?) but a pretty weak storyline, incidental to all the action?
It also has cutting-edge graphics, but characters can look ugly up close, plus some other minor graphical glitches.
Let me reword that then for you gamespot:
The Good: Great sound and soundtrack. Excellent coop mode, and great weapons.
The Bad: Frustrating missions, weak storyline.
The Ugly: Characters upclose.
And this is the best of the show?
This one is on Sony and Nintendo to lose...
Perchance it's one of them elusive women?
CWS: Hello secure app, I'm coolwebsearch!. ....sT...... ...
SA: Hi, I'm busy.
CWS: HEEY! Look at me!
SA:Uh-huh.
CWS:You sure are secure aren't you?
SA: Sure am.
CWS: Hey, let's see which one of us is more important!
SA: Whatever.
CWS: MR PROCESS MANAGER!!! WHICH ONE OF US IS MORE IMPORTANT???
Windows PM: It looks like you're trying to type a letter...
CWS: YAAY! You know what,this sucks, I'm just gonna take all of the CPU cycles and all the network bandwidth now!
SA:...!!...No..Must...keep......working..m....u..
Windows PM: Well, it looks.... like you guys..... are busy, I'm gonna take a n......ap. Wake me up if anyone starts writing............... letters.kbyethx...
BSD: "Pleased to meet you, Hope you've guessed my name..."
4x4x8=17 so yes, that makes it 17 times better.
looks like they owe the kid some royalties...
nice, one could even say that all his base are belong to you.
The thing about a mortality rate of 5% is that this is a flu. Flus are very easily spread, so if 50% of world's population catches it, that's a 150 million dead people. I think most people don't realize that this can be a common flu and even a small mortality rate will have a huge impact in our day to day operations. Who's gonna do the work that the dead people were supposed to be doing? Who's gonna do the work of all the infected people that are staying at home?
Not neccesarily true.
No one is saying that the flu WILL kill 50% of the victims. It kills 50% of the victims right now. However, during the mutation, the mortality rate drops. So let's say that it drops down to a mere 5% mortality rate.
Now, how many people does a normal flu infect worldwide? 50%? so that's then a 2.5% of the world's population dead. (150 million)
Remember, that's only if the flu infects half the population and mortality rate drops to 5%.
So, the problems are: Where are we gonna burry them? Who's gonna do their work (are they truck drivers, janitors, doctors, nurses, teachers, cops, firemen?) And who's gonna do the work of the people that are ill, but not dead?
The problem is that this is a FLU not SARS or AIDS, and almost EVERYONE catches a flu.
Installation from a bootable DVD takes about two hours, and the operating system requires 5.9GB of hard disk space.
Compared to a normal installation which takes less than 40 minutes and what, about 3 gigs of space?
Considering this article, I would also be very interested in what they think of the DNF physics engine performance.
Actually, there IS no autorun on Mac OS X.
And see, that is exactly what bugs me about OS X, and why Windows is easier to use. On OS X, I stick a CD in, and it shows up on my desktop but doesn't autorun. iTunes pops up, and allows me to rip the CD by clicking on a button.
This is completely backwards to me. I like it when Windows autoruns the CD, starting up the elegant "Let's display hidden windows" WMP and having me search around for my CD. (Autorun also allows the CD to install programs in the background, whithout bothering me.) And if Autorun is disabled, finding a CD is as easy as clicking on the Start, finding My Computer and clicking on it, and then finding the icon for the CD player and clicking then on that. On OS X, I just stare at the mounted CD and it doesn't do anything.
I think it just means a little bit of decency. Like decency+itsy = decentsy.
Ohh, you and your kind make me real mad, buddy.
You go around picking on little robots, too chickenshit to attack someone your own size.
Yeah, buddy I'm talking to you! Pick on some of the androids, or cyborgs or whatever else cracks your rocks. But leave the little guys alone.
R2D2 doesn't need a gaydar anyway. C3PO is the gay one.
No, seriously, I'm not trolling. I don't install much software on windows any more, so I'm not sure what asks for a password and what does not. I thought that their initiative on security might have done something about that.
Your second point is exactly what I was trying to get to, CD playing is not a "routine configuration change".
And I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about the security of OS X or linux, the numbers of exploits speak for themselves.
OK, I've found a partial list, but according to the article SONY/BMG are not releasing a complete list:
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Can anyone explain if this rootkit prompts for a password when installing (during the autorun, I presume)
As an OS X user, I'd find it slightly odd that my music CD is prompting me for an administrative password.
But to stay on topic, I'm sure this is but one of the many exploits that will be based on this rootkit.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of CDs that install it, and is it true that Sony has been using it since April?
What if you detonate a nuke surrounded by say, cement, close to the asteroid. That way the small bits of cement would nudge the asteroid off the course, without breaking it appart?
You, dare I say fundamentalists, have it all backwards.
For a lot of us, it is irellevant whether there is a God. If there is, she is omnipotent and all-loving, and of the form that we can not comprehend, simply due to the fact that she is divine, and we're not.
So there's no fear here.
All we'd like to know is how things work, not why!
And on the other side we have people like you who try to shove the why into our schools, and confuse our childrent that why is the new how.
Remember there's no fear of God, only fear of government sponsored misinformation.
It's just like our understanding of the atom, we have a decent working definition that has need for improvement...
Really?! This is news to us. Allow us to formulate a new solution for you. We expect to have an answer within two weeks.
Sicnerely,
Kansas Board of Edumacation
This may come off as a crazy question but why would Vista need anti-spyware?
Aren't they gonna implement a secure user-privilege levels?
Even if someone does mess up their own home directory, they won't be able to touch system files?
So theoretically one could log in as an admin and easily remove the unwanted warez.
Or is Vista going to be more of the same when it comes to file permissions?
hehe, i know i have no right to complain, but it's kinda fun to do it.
the only offense i take is that you think i play WoW! i'm a diehard FPS player. (and CivIII)
I like peachy lotions though.
While this is a step in the right direction, I think they still miss the big picture.
"My" DVR box is very convenient. I time shift shows and then erase them.
But when it comes to movies, I'm one of those people that likes to own the movies I very much like, just like books or music. I like to have it close at hand for reference, entertainment, whatever.
Now I realize that they're not selling movies yet, but maybe at some point they will.
The question is, why would I pay for a show twice, if I'm not gonna own it?
I pay for it with my cable subscription, and then again to rent it. That's not a very good value proposition (if I understand the buzzword correctly).
With iTunes I at least, get to keep my shows and some day hopefully movies.
They're not thinking "How can we increase our value to the consumer" but rather "How can we extract even more money out of them?" (Notice that these shows are not downloadable over the net, they go directly to your DVR.)
And that brings me to the second point. I like storing stuff on my PC. I've got all of my data there, my music, pr0n, whatever. I don't want to keep track of different devices for my collections...
not only that, but an RPG can't go no 100 miles... unless it flies into a tube that injects more propellant into it at every couple of miles.
did you stack the plates like I asked you? ...
did you clean out the kitty-litter box?
did you forget to buy the toothpaste?
will you rub my feet?
will you take the trash out?
one of these days Alice... *POW* straight to the moon...
Not really, I have BSD and a web server on it, but don't have the 3rd party packages that this virus exploits.
Once they exploit Apache, then one's at risk..
Considering that IBM only recently announced the beginning of production of the chips for the 360 maybe the shortage is more due to the chip supply than it is artificial.
Article in question.
How many chips can they make in a month? 10000, 100000?
Perhaps MS is about to learn why Apple switched from IBM.