The biggest problem I see with this is the controls. The NES and SNES have a diamond-grid-based layout for their buttons, just like you see damned near every controller, including all of the Playstation and XBox controllers. Once you start veering away from that toward odd controls like the 6-button genesis, the pitchfork-N64, and the oddly laid out Gamecube controller you'll start hitting some strange button mapping problems.
I played the hell out of Metroid Prime, Zelda: Twilight Princess and a handful of other games on GameCube. I tried them out again in Dolphin on my PC and the GC->Xbox controller mapping just didn't work. The muscle memory was just too strong and I kept hitting the wrong buttons.
The N64 isn't much better, it's just awkward to map all the C buttons in a sane way.
Don't forget about the "Good ol' boys club" that Patreus was a member of. Once you reach a certain rank, you are damned near untouchable and - at worst - will get a demotion if you get caught. Simply wasn't high-ranking enough to get that immunity.
Somehow spending $5 for that shirt, or $10 for that character, or $nn for whatever cosmetic thing just doesn't appeal to me.
I can appreciate that the game isn't pay-to-win and they gotta make money somehow... I just don't get how people can spend so much money on so little real content.
That's the nature of "Hall of Fame" lists - it's a popularity contest, not an olympic competition.
Everquest may have done all the things WoW did before WoW came along, but WoW added the approach ability and is still the reigning king of MMOs. Everquest never had 15 million+ subscribers.
Similarly with FF7 and FF6. FF7 was a 4-disk story that created a world and characters that inspired movies, figures, remakes, fan art and so on for DECADES afterward. FF6 is widely regarded to be the best of the FF series, but it just didn't have the same impact. More people recognize Cloud than Kefka.
Then what? *all* traffic goes through Facebook servers. I don't see anything wrong with a company whose whole reason for being is to sell as much data about the public as it can having the capability to sniff all traffic at a provider level. Do you?
I can't wait for the law to catch up to this bullshit and finally start breaking apart the media/internet stovepipes.
Many years ago there was an email attachment called "Australia.exe" that got your computer ready for travelling south of the Equator by turning the screen upside-down. It got picked up by a friends virus scanner as malware, so it was removed.
Some years later, that same thing was introduced into Windows 7 (Ctrl + Alt + down arrow).
We can only assume that NK is trying to keep up with the US by incorporating viruses into the OS itself. I'd expect this "Australia" thing to show up in the next 5-10 years.
Should this evidence have been provided to authorities?
Just how far did this stalking go? Did he ever act on any of the information? Make unrequested contact or show up on doorsteps?
This sort of abuse of power *should* get him fired. Depending on his other actions, it should also get him arrested. If someone in the medical or financial fields use their access to someones private information (e.g. home address or phone number), then they'd get slapped with some "hacking" or "unlawful computer access" charges. What gives?
What? Someone is making money? Quick! scour our patents for something obscure we can use to milk money from them!
The whole idea about patents was to *make money* with an invention for some period of time. Doing a quick search on Gamevice and looking at their site, they don't look to have anything above and beyond what Moga, Pyrus and a slew of others have made for android/iphone. The difference here is a phone is inserted into the controllers, almost like two partial cases that only wrap around a fraction of an inch on either side. The Switch uses a sliding/locking mechanism to create one (mostly) seamless device.
I still think it's hilarious that people think Gnome is clunky then sing the virtues of Cinnamon. Considering Cinnamon depends on Gnome 3. Sure, the look and feel is more like Gnome 2, but it's still Gnome "under the hood".
Personally, I like how Gnome3 stays out of your way when doing something. After installing a few plugins and learning a few shortcut keys, I'm just as productive as I was in Gnome 2 or in KDE.
One of the tenets of Java is its backwards compatibility. I can write Java 6 code that runs just fine on Java 8 or 9. I have a hard time believing that they are set to a specific version (unless they have some stupid version check that sets hard boundaries).
Best way to indoctrinate the masses is to keep them ignorant to what's happening up top. Look to any dictatorship - past or present - and you'll see that the way they maintain power is to keep the masses in the dark. The Great Firewall of China, Iranian sensorship of the internet, assorted countries outlawing speaking ill of leadership (China, Thailand...). There are recent historical examples, but I don't want to Godwin this thread so soon...
The real question is have they finally figured out how to do differential updates?
It's a pain in the ass to download and reinstall the whole blasted OS with *every* update. I can't wait to need to use my PC for something, only for it to tell me it's applying updates for 15 minutes on boot. Upgrading RHEL 7.4 to RHEL 7.5 is only a couple hundred MB - and it is done by running "yum update". Whole process changes lots of system files, but only took maybe 3 minutes and a restart.
Having watched a few of the Netflix-original movies, they can best be described as "high-dollar crap". Killer Clowns from Outer Space has a better plot than some of Netflix's brain-garbage.
Spectral had an interesting idea, good special effects, mediocre acting and a crap resolution.
Mute was scattered, confusing, and violent for the sake of violent. I had no idea what the hell was going on until the end.
I'm sure there are others that my mind has shoved away in some deep dark corner never to be thought of again.
So people get Chrome because its "fast and safe". They trust this company who loves to siphon all the public's data. That same public then wants to avoid the obnoxious advertisements pushed by Google, and get malware... from a site managed by Google.
You'd think Google would get the picture and provide some sort of built-in ad management/protection in Chrome. With millions of downloads it's pretty obvious what people want. So why haven't they done a built-in ad-block?
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I've started seeing a lot of Google Assistant ads on Hulu lately that advertise letting Google "lock that" or "watch this" or "turn on the lights". How about NO to all of the above.
What happened to the massive backlash pointed at Microsoft over the Kinect being an always-on camera and microphone? Are we really so quick to forget about having something always listening and watching in our homes?
GPS works by triangulating between 4-6 satellites that are all spread out. A 3d hexagon with a person in the middle somewhere.
With extra-terrestrial navigation, the person is very far outside of that hexagon. It's really hard to find an exact position when you have multiple sources that - for all intents and purposes - are co-located. Get far enough from Earth and all GPS satellites are one dot in the distance. Looks like they've found a way to use various stars as the points of that hexagon. Cool.
The information was freely given to Facebook - not to third parties.
When you do a pen-test you set boundaries with the client up-front. Things like "just break into the DMZ" or "leave our customer database alone" are part of the contract. If you go in and gather that customer database, then that customer data is compromised (and you are in breach of contract). My understanding is FB only sells anonymous data, so CA gathering real sheeple data is where the "compromise' comes from.
You haven't seen the bi-directional cattle car that is the Austin metro rail. Its nothing more than a single ~15 mile stretch of rail that goes from downtown Austin to a couple towns north. 2 cars. 6 stops. 1 hour waits. Imagine a single line between Brooklyn and Manhattan to service all of New York, and you get the idea.
Perhaps they shouldn't call it autopilot? The term is clearly a marketing term that makes you think it is going to automatically pilot the car. Call it advanced cruise control, or lane assistance.
The terminology issue is a red herring.
No, it isn't. People have a conception that "autopilot" for aircraft means the computer takes over for the pilot, who can then take a nap or wander around the cabin. We as a society have used the prefix "auto-" to mean that a computer handles the whole process.
Second, the situation was entirely predictable. For at least a decade, people have warned that humans are likely to zone out in partial self-driving situations... and someone died.
No amount of PR can fix dumb people and their misinterpretations of reality and Tesla has made it a big point to sell how "safe" their combination of technology they call "auotpilot" while not addressing any shortcomings. A car that can keep you in a lane and even follow curves, automatically brake for traffic/obstructions, and speed back up to follow traffic sure sounds like I don't have much to do behind the wheel.
I agree with you otherwise. Caltrans has some blame for failing to reset a safety barrier - they could have at least put up some water barrels or something. The driver is an idiot for trusting a system to do more than it can reasonably be asked to do (even if those shortcomings aren't well published). My biggest gripe is Tesla has made themselves the *only* place to get crash data. The fact that *every* crash involving one of their cars means having to trust their log data just doesn't sit will with me. Especially since they seem to have issues with build quality and upholding promises with their 3 series.
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The biggest problem I see with this is the controls. The NES and SNES have a diamond-grid-based layout for their buttons, just like you see damned near every controller, including all of the Playstation and XBox controllers. Once you start veering away from that toward odd controls like the 6-button genesis, the pitchfork-N64, and the oddly laid out Gamecube controller you'll start hitting some strange button mapping problems.
I played the hell out of Metroid Prime, Zelda: Twilight Princess and a handful of other games on GameCube. I tried them out again in Dolphin on my PC and the GC->Xbox controller mapping just didn't work. The muscle memory was just too strong and I kept hitting the wrong buttons.
The N64 isn't much better, it's just awkward to map all the C buttons in a sane way.
Don't forget about the "Good ol' boys club" that Patreus was a member of. Once you reach a certain rank, you are damned near untouchable and - at worst - will get a demotion if you get caught. Simply wasn't high-ranking enough to get that immunity.
Somehow spending $5 for that shirt, or $10 for that character, or $nn for whatever cosmetic thing just doesn't appeal to me.
I can appreciate that the game isn't pay-to-win and they gotta make money somehow... I just don't get how people can spend so much money on so little real content.
That's the nature of "Hall of Fame" lists - it's a popularity contest, not an olympic competition.
Everquest may have done all the things WoW did before WoW came along, but WoW added the approach ability and is still the reigning king of MMOs. Everquest never had 15 million+ subscribers.
Similarly with FF7 and FF6. FF7 was a 4-disk story that created a world and characters that inspired movies, figures, remakes, fan art and so on for DECADES afterward. FF6 is widely regarded to be the best of the FF series, but it just didn't have the same impact. More people recognize Cloud than Kefka.
Lets start building the vacuum-powered hamster tubes from Futurama.
Then what? *all* traffic goes through Facebook servers. I don't see anything wrong with a company whose whole reason for being is to sell as much data about the public as it can having the capability to sniff all traffic at a provider level. Do you?
I can't wait for the law to catch up to this bullshit and finally start breaking apart the media/internet stovepipes.
Many years ago there was an email attachment called "Australia.exe" that got your computer ready for travelling south of the Equator by turning the screen upside-down. It got picked up by a friends virus scanner as malware, so it was removed.
Some years later, that same thing was introduced into Windows 7 (Ctrl + Alt + down arrow).
We can only assume that NK is trying to keep up with the US by incorporating viruses into the OS itself. I'd expect this "Australia" thing to show up in the next 5-10 years.
Should this evidence have been provided to authorities?
Just how far did this stalking go? Did he ever act on any of the information? Make unrequested contact or show up on doorsteps?
This sort of abuse of power *should* get him fired. Depending on his other actions, it should also get him arrested. If someone in the medical or financial fields use their access to someones private information (e.g. home address or phone number), then they'd get slapped with some "hacking" or "unlawful computer access" charges. What gives?
What? Someone is making money? Quick! scour our patents for something obscure we can use to milk money from them!
The whole idea about patents was to *make money* with an invention for some period of time. Doing a quick search on Gamevice and looking at their site, they don't look to have anything above and beyond what Moga, Pyrus and a slew of others have made for android/iphone. The difference here is a phone is inserted into the controllers, almost like two partial cases that only wrap around a fraction of an inch on either side. The Switch uses a sliding/locking mechanism to create one (mostly) seamless device.
I still think it's hilarious that people think Gnome is clunky then sing the virtues of Cinnamon. Considering Cinnamon depends on Gnome 3. Sure, the look and feel is more like Gnome 2, but it's still Gnome "under the hood".
Personally, I like how Gnome3 stays out of your way when doing something. After installing a few plugins and learning a few shortcut keys, I'm just as productive as I was in Gnome 2 or in KDE.
One of the tenets of Java is its backwards compatibility. I can write Java 6 code that runs just fine on Java 8 or 9. I have a hard time believing that they are set to a specific version (unless they have some stupid version check that sets hard boundaries).
Best way to indoctrinate the masses is to keep them ignorant to what's happening up top. Look to any dictatorship - past or present - and you'll see that the way they maintain power is to keep the masses in the dark. The Great Firewall of China, Iranian sensorship of the internet, assorted countries outlawing speaking ill of leadership (China, Thailand...). There are recent historical examples, but I don't want to Godwin this thread so soon...
The real question is have they finally figured out how to do differential updates?
It's a pain in the ass to download and reinstall the whole blasted OS with *every* update. I can't wait to need to use my PC for something, only for it to tell me it's applying updates for 15 minutes on boot. Upgrading RHEL 7.4 to RHEL 7.5 is only a couple hundred MB - and it is done by running "yum update". Whole process changes lots of system files, but only took maybe 3 minutes and a restart.
Having watched a few of the Netflix-original movies, they can best be described as "high-dollar crap". Killer Clowns from Outer Space has a better plot than some of Netflix's brain-garbage.
Spectral had an interesting idea, good special effects, mediocre acting and a crap resolution.
Mute was scattered, confusing, and violent for the sake of violent. I had no idea what the hell was going on until the end.
I'm sure there are others that my mind has shoved away in some deep dark corner never to be thought of again.
So people get Chrome because its "fast and safe". They trust this company who loves to siphon all the public's data. That same public then wants to avoid the obnoxious advertisements pushed by Google, and get malware... from a site managed by Google.
You'd think Google would get the picture and provide some sort of built-in ad management/protection in Chrome. With millions of downloads it's pretty obvious what people want. So why haven't they done a built-in ad-block?
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I've started seeing a lot of Google Assistant ads on Hulu lately that advertise letting Google "lock that" or "watch this" or "turn on the lights". How about NO to all of the above.
What happened to the massive backlash pointed at Microsoft over the Kinect being an always-on camera and microphone? Are we really so quick to forget about having something always listening and watching in our homes?
I agree. He should be forced to have a conversation with Lenny for an hour every day for 20 years.
GPS works by triangulating between 4-6 satellites that are all spread out. A 3d hexagon with a person in the middle somewhere.
With extra-terrestrial navigation, the person is very far outside of that hexagon. It's really hard to find an exact position when you have multiple sources that - for all intents and purposes - are co-located. Get far enough from Earth and all GPS satellites are one dot in the distance. Looks like they've found a way to use various stars as the points of that hexagon. Cool.
The information was freely given to Facebook - not to third parties.
When you do a pen-test you set boundaries with the client up-front. Things like "just break into the DMZ" or "leave our customer database alone" are part of the contract. If you go in and gather that customer database, then that customer data is compromised (and you are in breach of contract). My understanding is FB only sells anonymous data, so CA gathering real sheeple data is where the "compromise' comes from.
Because people are genuinely interested in the amount of fiber in Mr. Musk's diet.
You haven't seen the bi-directional cattle car that is the Austin metro rail.
Its nothing more than a single ~15 mile stretch of rail that goes from downtown Austin to a couple towns north. 2 cars. 6 stops. 1 hour waits. Imagine a single line between Brooklyn and Manhattan to service all of New York, and you get the idea.
I expect it to be called "White Flag". Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.
Even worse is that someone is *actually surprised* by this information.
Perhaps they shouldn't call it autopilot? The term is clearly a marketing term that makes you think it is going to automatically pilot the car. Call it advanced cruise control, or lane assistance.
The terminology issue is a red herring.
No, it isn't. People have a conception that "autopilot" for aircraft means the computer takes over for the pilot, who can then take a nap or wander around the cabin. We as a society have used the prefix "auto-" to mean that a computer handles the whole process.
Second, the situation was entirely predictable. For at least a decade, people have warned that humans are likely to zone out in partial self-driving situations ... and someone died.
No amount of PR can fix dumb people and their misinterpretations of reality and Tesla has made it a big point to sell how "safe" their combination of technology they call "auotpilot" while not addressing any shortcomings. A car that can keep you in a lane and even follow curves, automatically brake for traffic/obstructions, and speed back up to follow traffic sure sounds like I don't have much to do behind the wheel.
I agree with you otherwise. Caltrans has some blame for failing to reset a safety barrier - they could have at least put up some water barrels or something. The driver is an idiot for trusting a system to do more than it can reasonably be asked to do (even if those shortcomings aren't well published). My biggest gripe is Tesla has made themselves the *only* place to get crash data. The fact that *every* crash involving one of their cars means having to trust their log data just doesn't sit will with me. Especially since they seem to have issues with build quality and upholding promises with their 3 series.
And just how do you know they prefer other wedding cakes? Have you observed their mating rituals?
I always wondered where cupcakes came from...