As an avid gamer this sounds very familiar - the amount of games I've bought in the past that have been verging on uplayable until the third of fourth patch.
You have to have some sympathy for programmers though, I mean the ingenuity and sheer determination of malware authors means that even the smallest oversight or design flaw is going to be found and used for "evil" purposes.
The (untrue) assumption that many people seem to hold that Macs are just invulnerable to anything bad happening has finally spread to Apple itself, and they're the last to patch this exploit. Since a lot of Mac advertising used to be based on "Macs don't get Viruses" you'd think they'd have been the first to patch this to maintain their reputation.
Yes I know I'm probably going to get modded down immediately for saying this, but hell, it's the truth.
Are you referring to the application limit in the Starter Edition? The one designed for the most basic of netbooks? The one where IE or Firefox can have as many tabs as they want as they're still a single application?
Similar story here, though never as many as 60 tabs! How do you keep track of them?
For academic purposes it can get a bit out of hand when I have 20-30 tabs open, each one containing a journal paper. Trying to juggle them, find the one that I need to look at right now, then another that I need to quote etc. can be difficult. An intelligent way of managing this would be a godsend. TFA is quite correct when it says that browsers are becoming less and less about pure data display - they're a portal to what has become a major part of everyday life - the Internet.
It's only being "removed" for some form of secure certification. Basically if you use it you can't have your software certified as "secure", whatever that means. It's not being removed from the language.
Isn't aesthetic value a hugely personal thing? I mean I looked at some of the photos on the site and the ratings were arse-backwards as far as I was concerned. Generic, boring and frankly badly composed images were getting ~95%, whereas others that I thought were truely exceptional were being ranked in the 50's.
I'm not saying "my opinion is better", just that it seems sort of pointless to assign a value to a picture like this.
I really doubt that this camera-based input system is going to be as innovative or ground-breaking as the Wiimote. And hasn't everyone in the world already bought a Wii anyway?
Seriously though, I honestly believe that they're targetting the wrong group. Hardcore gamers aren't going to like an imprecise control system (and they'd have to come up with something unbelievably ahead of the current state of the art to get decent controls from a camera) and casual gamers probably aren't going to shell out for a 360 when they already own a Wii. The small niche of people who are yet to buy either console and might be pursuaded by this makes for a small market.
Someone bought me the Xbox camera already. Now I'm expected to buy anther camera so I can waggle my arms about like a moron to make something happen on screen?
I think perhaps Microsoft are forgetting two key points here. The 360 has a particular set of users that are unlikely to be that enthused about a motion capture camera. They can already go out and buy a Wii if they prefer to make their input without using a normal controller. Couple this with the fact that motion capture through a single fixed camera probably isn't going to be as spectacular as their press releases are going to make it sound. For these reasons and more, I'll not be putting this on my Christmas list thankyou very much.
The no VoIP will have been imposed by phone companies who don't want their customers making cheap calls. These restrictions don't seem excessive to me, merely the result of enforcing software standards (from TFA) and the usual price fixing from mobile phone companies.
Anyway, can't you just install unofficial apps (not from the store) if you want to bypass these restrictions? Any sort of software protection preventing this will likely be broken in short order...
So if you decide you want children you have to wait 6 months for the injections to wear off, or stop taking them 6 months early, possibly having a child before you planned because your fertility returned in 2 months instead of 6.
It's not totaly impossible that whoever is responsible managed to disrupt the back-up procedure. They sound fairly confident that the backups won't work. Perhaps they managed to intercept the treansmission of the backup data, or destroy or steal the physical media that the backups are stored on.
I've seen quite a few companies that store their backups on tapes which are just put on a shelf - and while you'd hope that a governmental body would be more responsible, we've all seen the monumental blunders such as leaving laptops, memory keys etc. in public places.
You can mock it all you want. Those 400 milliseconds will add up, and after a few years you'll have saved enough time to make a cup of coffee, or chat to a co-worker about your plans for the weekend.
Since when has anyone had to "trick" their PC into streaming to their Xbox? Put the videos somewhere that Media Player can see them, set up the Xbox as a media extender and you can watch them on your XBox as long as your PC is online.
Installing REG files? Does TFA author have any idea what they're talking about or did I suffer a head injury and forgot this part of getting my movies on the XBox?
I always felt disappointed with the majority of Star Trek games. Sure there were some half decent first person shooters, and a few point-and-click adventures back in the day that were fun and engrossing. Then I think of Birth of the Federation, which wasn't awful, but as 4X space games go it was no Master of Orion 2. Ditto two fly-around-a-solar-system shooters that were completely underwhelming (the names escape me).
I'm sure loads of people would disagree, but I always thought Star Trek games had the potential to be awesome, but were consistently mediocre.
History of Wikipedia Art completely erased from Wikipedia. Despite more than 2 dozen edits to the page, there is absolutely no record of its text, anywhere on the site.
Now is it just me or does it sound like there's more to this story than simply protection of a trademark? Why would the Wikipedia people permenantly erase a wiki page that seems legit? There's more evidence of deletions too...
Not relevant. A fair trial should be measured from an objective viewpoint by people totally removed from any significant emotional, financial, political (etc.) links to the case or the people involved.
Good point, but wouldn't it be better (read fairer) to have a judge presiding over a case of this magnitude that has no affiliation to any organisations with a distinct interest - political and financial - in the outcome?
Dammit man, I'm trying to pretend to work here and this sort of thing, making me giggle like a 7 year old schoolboy, is alerting my colleagues to my laziness!
As much as it pains me to use Wikipedia for a meaningful discussion of facts:
Those with a conflict of interests are expected to recuse themselves from (i.e., abstain from) decisions where such a conflict exists. The imperative for recusal varies depending upon the circumstance and profession, either as common sense ethics, codified ethics, or by statute. For example, if the governing board of a government agency is considering hiring a consulting firm for some task, and one firm being considered has, as a partner, a close relative of one of the board's members, then that board member should not vote on which firm is to be selected. In fact, to minimize any conflict, the board member should not participate in any way in the decision, including discussions.
Judges are supposed to recuse themselves from cases when personal conflicts of interest may arise. For example, if a judge has participated in a case previously as some other judicial role he/she is not allowed to try that case. Recusal is also expected when one of the lawyers in a case might be a close personal friend, or when the outcome of the case might affect the judge directly, such as whether a car maker is obliged to recall a model that a judge drives. This is required by law under Continental civil law systems and by the Rome Statute, organic law of the International Criminal Court.
Emphasis mine. Background reading and links for anyone interested here. If this description is accurate (and I remind you again it's from Wikipedia so that's a real concern) then it would appear that any affiliation with copyright organisations would present a potential bias.
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As an avid gamer this sounds very familiar - the amount of games I've bought in the past that have been verging on uplayable until the third of fourth patch.
You have to have some sympathy for programmers though, I mean the ingenuity and sheer determination of malware authors means that even the smallest oversight or design flaw is going to be found and used for "evil" purposes.
The (untrue) assumption that many people seem to hold that Macs are just invulnerable to anything bad happening has finally spread to Apple itself, and they're the last to patch this exploit. Since a lot of Mac advertising used to be based on "Macs don't get Viruses" you'd think they'd have been the first to patch this to maintain their reputation.
Yes I know I'm probably going to get modded down immediately for saying this, but hell, it's the truth.
Are you referring to the application limit in the Starter Edition? The one designed for the most basic of netbooks? The one where IE or Firefox can have as many tabs as they want as they're still a single application?
Similar story here, though never as many as 60 tabs! How do you keep track of them?
For academic purposes it can get a bit out of hand when I have 20-30 tabs open, each one containing a journal paper. Trying to juggle them, find the one that I need to look at right now, then another that I need to quote etc. can be difficult. An intelligent way of managing this would be a godsend. TFA is quite correct when it says that browsers are becoming less and less about pure data display - they're a portal to what has become a major part of everyday life - the Internet.
It's only being "removed" for some form of secure certification. Basically if you use it you can't have your software certified as "secure", whatever that means. It's not being removed from the language.
Isn't aesthetic value a hugely personal thing? I mean I looked at some of the photos on the site and the ratings were arse-backwards as far as I was concerned. Generic, boring and frankly badly composed images were getting ~95%, whereas others that I thought were truely exceptional were being ranked in the 50's.
I'm not saying "my opinion is better", just that it seems sort of pointless to assign a value to a picture like this.
I can only imagine that this new camera has better resolution, or some built in hardware for motion capture. Either that or M$ are cashing in.
As a fellow Xbox Live Vision camera owner, how much do you think it sucks on a scale of 1 to 10? I have to go straight for the 10...
I really doubt that this camera-based input system is going to be as innovative or ground-breaking as the Wiimote. And hasn't everyone in the world already bought a Wii anyway?
Seriously though, I honestly believe that they're targetting the wrong group. Hardcore gamers aren't going to like an imprecise control system (and they'd have to come up with something unbelievably ahead of the current state of the art to get decent controls from a camera) and casual gamers probably aren't going to shell out for a 360 when they already own a Wii. The small niche of people who are yet to buy either console and might be pursuaded by this makes for a small market.
Someone bought me the Xbox camera already. Now I'm expected to buy anther camera so I can waggle my arms about like a moron to make something happen on screen?
I think perhaps Microsoft are forgetting two key points here. The 360 has a particular set of users that are unlikely to be that enthused about a motion capture camera. They can already go out and buy a Wii if they prefer to make their input without using a normal controller. Couple this with the fact that motion capture through a single fixed camera probably isn't going to be as spectacular as their press releases are going to make it sound. For these reasons and more, I'll not be putting this on my Christmas list thankyou very much.
Until you go to an interview for your next job.
Interviewer: "So what have you been doing for the last 15 years?"
Applicant: "I've been working on Duke Nukem Forever!"
Interviewer: "Get the fuck out..."
True, but what about those that plan properly but want to start trying to conceive immediately? You force them to plan AND wait 6 months.
The no VoIP will have been imposed by phone companies who don't want their customers making cheap calls. These restrictions don't seem excessive to me, merely the result of enforcing software standards (from TFA) and the usual price fixing from mobile phone companies.
Anyway, can't you just install unofficial apps (not from the store) if you want to bypass these restrictions? Any sort of software protection preventing this will likely be broken in short order...
So if you decide you want children you have to wait 6 months for the injections to wear off, or stop taking them 6 months early, possibly having a child before you planned because your fertility returned in 2 months instead of 6.
It's not totaly impossible that whoever is responsible managed to disrupt the back-up procedure. They sound fairly confident that the backups won't work. Perhaps they managed to intercept the treansmission of the backup data, or destroy or steal the physical media that the backups are stored on.
I've seen quite a few companies that store their backups on tapes which are just put on a shelf - and while you'd hope that a governmental body would be more responsible, we've all seen the monumental blunders such as leaving laptops, memory keys etc. in public places.
You can mock it all you want. Those 400 milliseconds will add up, and after a few years you'll have saved enough time to make a cup of coffee, or chat to a co-worker about your plans for the weekend.
Man, that's something to look forward to...
I'm confused. Is that larger or smaller than a metric fuckload of evidence?
Since when has anyone had to "trick" their PC into streaming to their Xbox? Put the videos somewhere that Media Player can see them, set up the Xbox as a media extender and you can watch them on your XBox as long as your PC is online.
Installing REG files? Does TFA author have any idea what they're talking about or did I suffer a head injury and forgot this part of getting my movies on the XBox?
I always felt disappointed with the majority of Star Trek games. Sure there were some half decent first person shooters, and a few point-and-click adventures back in the day that were fun and engrossing. Then I think of Birth of the Federation, which wasn't awful, but as 4X space games go it was no Master of Orion 2. Ditto two fly-around-a-solar-system shooters that were completely underwhelming (the names escape me).
I'm sure loads of people would disagree, but I always thought Star Trek games had the potential to be awesome, but were consistently mediocre.
History of Wikipedia Art completely erased from Wikipedia. Despite more than 2 dozen edits to the page, there is absolutely no record of its text, anywhere on the site.
Now is it just me or does it sound like there's more to this story than simply protection of a trademark? Why would the Wikipedia people permenantly erase a wiki page that seems legit? There's more evidence of deletions too...
I was just kidding. I don't really think he spat in people's faces. I'll use humour HTML tags next time.
Not relevant. A fair trial should be measured from an objective viewpoint by people totally removed from any significant emotional, financial, political (etc.) links to the case or the people involved.
Good point, but wouldn't it be better (read fairer) to have a judge presiding over a case of this magnitude that has no affiliation to any organisations with a distinct interest - political and financial - in the outcome?
Dammit man, I'm trying to pretend to work here and this sort of thing, making me giggle like a 7 year old schoolboy, is alerting my colleagues to my laziness!
Those with a conflict of interests are expected to recuse themselves from (i.e., abstain from) decisions where such a conflict exists. The imperative for recusal varies depending upon the circumstance and profession, either as common sense ethics, codified ethics, or by statute. For example, if the governing board of a government agency is considering hiring a consulting firm for some task, and one firm being considered has, as a partner, a close relative of one of the board's members, then that board member should not vote on which firm is to be selected. In fact, to minimize any conflict, the board member should not participate in any way in the decision, including discussions. Judges are supposed to recuse themselves from cases when personal conflicts of interest may arise. For example, if a judge has participated in a case previously as some other judicial role he/she is not allowed to try that case. Recusal is also expected when one of the lawyers in a case might be a close personal friend, or when the outcome of the case might affect the judge directly, such as whether a car maker is obliged to recall a model that a judge drives. This is required by law under Continental civil law systems and by the Rome Statute, organic law of the International Criminal Court.
Emphasis mine. Background reading and links for anyone interested here. If this description is accurate (and I remind you again it's from Wikipedia so that's a real concern) then it would appear that any affiliation with copyright organisations would present a potential bias.
That's how they caught him. Someone asked "Is that 931 quarters in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?"
He broke down and confessed almost immediately...