Except that the work device was expected to be used for personal use as well if you pay your bills.
It'd be like your company buying you and IPhone and paying for a Dataplan. You are perfectly allowed to to put unlimitted Texts, your fav 5, or whatever other plan you want on it so long as you cover the extra Cost.
What seperates this here is that the police force said if you pay the bills you won't get inspected.
And that's all thats required to know they were in the wrong. If they were going to change their mind, they need to inform their employees that the change is occuring, and that his privacy will then be at stake. They should only be able to check pager transcriptions after that day.
You can't say one thing and then do another, even if it's to stop sexually implicit messages. Deceipt cannot be tolerated at any level of government.
All I was saying is that the size of the business has nothing to do with it.
And AFAIK, you do not NEED to use the XNA system to develop for the 360. You can produce something in C++ using Visual Studio and submit that (But don't hold me to that).
Sure, but would the increase in sales make up for the reduced margins?
Big thing lately is downloading your content. Steam, Xbox Live, PS3 Second Life - it all offers content straight from the developers or your console maker.
Gamestop & EB Games & Toys R Us put the prices up about $15-20 more So that they can turn a profit off of games. You cut them out, either the prices go down, or the profits go up.
Steam has shown this - Everything I have looked at for games are at least $10 less than in store boxed goods, and often they have deals, 50% off, 75% off, bundled packages, and all that good stuff. Why, I got myself the entire Civilization 4 series (expansions included) for about $15 dollars + tax. No shipping, No markup, just straight up. They made the same profit they would have made had it been manufactured and shipped to a store, only now the consumer is HAPPY to buy their product. And will do so again.
I alone could submit a game to the Xbox Live Arcade - for a small investment. Whether it makes it up there or not depends on how good it is - but the fact remains a single person can make a game for the 360.
Left Joystick Movment Right Joystick aiming/Camera Movement
A is to select a menu item B is to cancel out of a menu item
These are all pretty standard across all the consoles (Well PS3 uses shapes but if you use their relative positions its the same).
The thing that scares most people away from consoles is that they have too many buttons. 2 Joysticks, 2 bumpers 2 triggers, a D-pad, start, select, and 4 other buttons? It overwhelms most casual gamers. A keyboard full of controls gets even worse.
The arguement has and always will remain the same: Computers have more flexibility but also more issues tied with it. The money you save in online playing fees are spent in computer upgrades. Console games are guaranteed to work on your brick whereas your PC game might not support your video card.
We can circle around all day - neither is any "Better" for gaming, its all dependant on your needs. Some people would much rather sit down, use two thumbs to make masterchief Shoot, putting little to no thought into cursing at 10 year olds on Xbox Live. Other people want to be able to micro manage and feel their adrenaline pump as they perfectly maneuver their forces into the enemy base.
I think the point you are missing is that this is not replacing the old system: it is an addition. You can still use paypal EXACTLY how it was before, completely secure and all that.
This is merely allowing Paypal to do subscription based services without explicitly requiring a user "Yes" every single month. Before now you HAD to enter your credit card to these websites, websites you could deem insecure. Websites that would steal your credit card info as easily as they would steal your paypal username and password.
Seriously, anyone who thinks this is a bad news for Paypal doesn't understand the system.
They are simply making it more convenient for those who do not want to have to explicitly approve each and every transaction. Specifically subscription based items, Like World of Warcraft, Lottery Tickets, online Poker, etc etc.
It makes no difference. Either you can trust the site or not. I mean if you go through a transaction with them after logging into to Paypal does it really make a difference? Paypal sends you an email for each purchase, and if it's not right you can respond immediately. You can change your password if you suspect the site of phishing.
Any site I'll be entering my Paypal Info will have an SSL of its own that I have to login with different details.
I wouldn't consider it a ploy at all. Essentially this is what Developers and Producers have wanted from PayPal for a LONG time. There are ways to store your paypal account info in other services (Steam comes to mind) but you always had to go to the paypal site to complete the transaction.
Paypal has never been anything but a processing center. All it ever did was hold your bank accounts and Credit cards online so that you don't have to enter that number in more than one place on the internet. All it ever did was keep the #'s secure, in a sort of "I'll give paypal my money if paypal pays for the product" - thus you only ever have to trust 1 person online. If you ever thought it was anything different, you were sadly mistaken.
Anyways, this is good, it's kind of a "Here's what you asked for" and a little kicker to make sure the rest of the world knows, to help it take off quicker.
For the 1 week of free Internet access? Whoever the provider is, (AT&T or whoever) WILL shut it down.
Either they'll find a way to block opened Nooks, or they'll force a patch onto Nook's and disallow access to unpatched Nook's, and the patch will essentially either lock you into the closed system or shut off your internet access.
If those 3G connections are not VPNed exclusively to B&Ns servers that is criminally stupid.
More criminally stupid than sticking an Open Source Operating System (or OSOS as I like to say) on a removable storage device, and unlocking the full potential only requires the altering of 1 word in 1 file?
the identity thief has more and better forms of ID then the real person does....
That shouldn't* even be possible. By the time I applied for credit I can think of more than 10 pieces of plastic in my wallet that have MY signature on it, and at least 2 that have my Picture on it. And if I lose this wallet, You can bet for sure the first thing I'm doing is cancelling any and all credit cards, and informing my bank not to re-activate them until they see me in person.
And the bank has my picture on file, so should I show up there one day, they can't go "I can't help you" over not ensuring my identity because they are 100% capable of identifying me without the use of any identification on me. They have my signature, a picture of me, as well as a handful of other personal information not found in my wallet (Mother's maiden name, etc).
*I say shouldn't because I'm sure that is the case, but I know in my situation it isn't the case, and everyone should be taking these precautions.
I agree that this sounds like just another branch to add to Interpol. I mean, its short for International Police, right? Which is exactly what they are insinuating with Global Cyber Police...
As a side note, low bandwidth does not make a hacker any less of a threat. Especially the kind who like to set up botnets on American PC's that DO have high bandwidth capabilities.
He probably didn't want it to have that "Slashdot" reputation associated to it.
You know the one, where if you read this site you probably have a Linux homebrew in your parents basement where you live and host D&D parties regularily. You also don't have a girlfriend, or have the confidence to speak to a girl, or even meet girls in your daily life, and are still a virgin. You know a zillion internet memes and are constantly trying to condense them into a single post that makes sense to increase your status with other readers of the site.
Yeah - we poke fun at ourselves every time we make those jokes, but in all honesty it doesn't help our image.
Slashdot Mirror
Except that the work device was expected to be used for personal use as well if you pay your bills.
It'd be like your company buying you and IPhone and paying for a Dataplan. You are perfectly allowed to to put unlimitted Texts, your fav 5, or whatever other plan you want on it so long as you cover the extra Cost.
What seperates this here is that the police force said if you pay the bills you won't get inspected.
He paid the bills. He got inspected.
Except that they said they wouldn't inspect the pagers if he paid the excess bills. And he paid the excess bills.
So while I support them having the right, they went back on their word.
From the Summary:
The lieutenant eventually changed his mind
And that's all thats required to know they were in the wrong. If they were going to change their mind, they need to inform their employees that the change is occuring, and that his privacy will then be at stake. They should only be able to check pager transcriptions after that day.
You can't say one thing and then do another, even if it's to stop sexually implicit messages. Deceipt cannot be tolerated at any level of government.
All I was saying is that the size of the business has nothing to do with it.
And AFAIK, you do not NEED to use the XNA system to develop for the 360. You can produce something in C++ using Visual Studio and submit that (But don't hold me to that).
Sure, but would the increase in sales make up for the reduced margins?
Big thing lately is downloading your content. Steam, Xbox Live, PS3 Second Life - it all offers content straight from the developers or your console maker.
Gamestop & EB Games & Toys R Us put the prices up about $15-20 more So that they can turn a profit off of games. You cut them out, either the prices go down, or the profits go up.
Steam has shown this - Everything I have looked at for games are at least $10 less than in store boxed goods, and often they have deals, 50% off, 75% off, bundled packages, and all that good stuff. Why, I got myself the entire Civilization 4 series (expansions included) for about $15 dollars + tax. No shipping, No markup, just straight up. They made the same profit they would have made had it been manufactured and shipped to a store, only now the consumer is HAPPY to buy their product. And will do so again.
Define Smallest?
I alone could submit a game to the Xbox Live Arcade - for a small investment. Whether it makes it up there or not depends on how good it is - but the fact remains a single person can make a game for the 360.
Left Joystick Movment
Right Joystick aiming/Camera Movement
A is to select a menu item
B is to cancel out of a menu item
These are all pretty standard across all the consoles (Well PS3 uses shapes but if you use their relative positions its the same).
The thing that scares most people away from consoles is that they have too many buttons. 2 Joysticks, 2 bumpers 2 triggers, a D-pad, start, select, and 4 other buttons? It overwhelms most casual gamers. A keyboard full of controls gets even worse.
The arguement has and always will remain the same: Computers have more flexibility but also more issues tied with it. The money you save in online playing fees are spent in computer upgrades. Console games are guaranteed to work on your brick whereas your PC game might not support your video card.
We can circle around all day - neither is any "Better" for gaming, its all dependant on your needs. Some people would much rather sit down, use two thumbs to make masterchief Shoot, putting little to no thought into cursing at 10 year olds on Xbox Live. Other people want to be able to micro manage and feel their adrenaline pump as they perfectly maneuver their forces into the enemy base.
I think the point you are missing is that this is not replacing the old system: it is an addition. You can still use paypal EXACTLY how it was before, completely secure and all that.
This is merely allowing Paypal to do subscription based services without explicitly requiring a user "Yes" every single month. Before now you HAD to enter your credit card to these websites, websites you could deem insecure. Websites that would steal your credit card info as easily as they would steal your paypal username and password.
Seriously, anyone who thinks this is a bad news for Paypal doesn't understand the system.
Right - and you will STILL have that option.
They are simply making it more convenient for those who do not want to have to explicitly approve each and every transaction. Specifically subscription based items, Like World of Warcraft, Lottery Tickets, online Poker, etc etc.
It makes no difference. Either you can trust the site or not. I mean if you go through a transaction with them after logging into to Paypal does it really make a difference? Paypal sends you an email for each purchase, and if it's not right you can respond immediately. You can change your password if you suspect the site of phishing.
Any site I'll be entering my Paypal Info will have an SSL of its own that I have to login with different details.
I wouldn't consider it a ploy at all. Essentially this is what Developers and Producers have wanted from PayPal for a LONG time. There are ways to store your paypal account info in other services (Steam comes to mind) but you always had to go to the paypal site to complete the transaction.
Paypal has never been anything but a processing center. All it ever did was hold your bank accounts and Credit cards online so that you don't have to enter that number in more than one place on the internet. All it ever did was keep the #'s secure, in a sort of "I'll give paypal my money if paypal pays for the product" - thus you only ever have to trust 1 person online. If you ever thought it was anything different, you were sadly mistaken.
Anyways, this is good, it's kind of a "Here's what you asked for" and a little kicker to make sure the rest of the world knows, to help it take off quicker.
Well then I wonder how Idle made front page.
Unless he DID do it for 24 hours, as in, what you see at 1 O'clock (and 1:01, and 1:02... etc) has 2 different possibilities or occurances.
Neat but not newsworthy.
About the same as any other jailbroken IPhone, smart-phone, dataphone, Web-phone or handheld device.
I believe it's mission is to do 1.5 times though, no more no less, at this current juncture, so it's not strange to report it that way.
For the 1 week of free Internet access? Whoever the provider is, (AT&T or whoever) WILL shut it down.
Either they'll find a way to block opened Nooks, or they'll force a patch onto Nook's and disallow access to unpatched Nook's, and the patch will essentially either lock you into the closed system or shut off your internet access.
If those 3G connections are not VPNed exclusively to B&Ns servers that is criminally stupid.
More criminally stupid than sticking an Open Source Operating System (or OSOS as I like to say) on a removable storage device, and unlocking the full potential only requires the altering of 1 word in 1 file?
Can I attach this term to the Nook now too?
I can also foresee alot of Open source apps unable to foster because of global copyright laws.
I generally thought it'd be the nation whom was victimized. IE - American citizens victims, American Court, and all that.
the identity thief has more and better forms of ID then the real person does....
That shouldn't* even be possible. By the time I applied for credit I can think of more than 10 pieces of plastic in my wallet that have MY signature on it, and at least 2 that have my Picture on it. And if I lose this wallet, You can bet for sure the first thing I'm doing is cancelling any and all credit cards, and informing my bank not to re-activate them until they see me in person.
And the bank has my picture on file, so should I show up there one day, they can't go "I can't help you" over not ensuring my identity because they are 100% capable of identifying me without the use of any identification on me. They have my signature, a picture of me, as well as a handful of other personal information not found in my wallet (Mother's maiden name, etc).
*I say shouldn't because I'm sure that is the case, but I know in my situation it isn't the case, and everyone should be taking these precautions.
I agree that this sounds like just another branch to add to Interpol. I mean, its short for International Police, right? Which is exactly what they are insinuating with Global Cyber Police...
As a side note, low bandwidth does not make a hacker any less of a threat. Especially the kind who like to set up botnets on American PC's that DO have high bandwidth capabilities.
He probably didn't want it to have that "Slashdot" reputation associated to it.
You know the one, where if you read this site you probably have a Linux homebrew in your parents basement where you live and host D&D parties regularily. You also don't have a girlfriend, or have the confidence to speak to a girl, or even meet girls in your daily life, and are still a virgin. You know a zillion internet memes and are constantly trying to condense them into a single post that makes sense to increase your status with other readers of the site.
Yeah - we poke fun at ourselves every time we make those jokes, but in all honesty it doesn't help our image.
It's shocking to know this site was up before I had my own email account.
I will proceed with getting off of CmdrTaco's Lawn.