there's no transmission of account numbers, PINs or other identifying information
To set it up, those must be entered at least once. Which means they are being called SOMEWHERE in the process of using it on twitter. Which to hacker, means it can be accessed.
If Twitter can be hacked, your banking information can be stolen. Simple as that.
And I don't mean, login to your twitter, transfer the money, haha its gone, I mean, login to twitter, get your info, go to your banks site, login there, haha its gone.
It's not exactly Interacting with yourself in the past, but its the first game I can recall that had this type of gameplay. It came out long before Chronotron, features the same puzzle elements as Chronotron, and was originally in Japanese.
The ghost was present in the last mention because it was an integral part of the gameplay because while you yourself didn't have to interact with it, it still did interact with the environment. And everytime the timer ran out a new ghost was created. The objective was to reach the end in the quickest time possible.
For example, one level would only let you reach the next level once All the boxes in the room are destroyed, which is done by clicking on them. Remember you are trying to do it as fast as possible, because you want to get as far as possible to see what the next level is to plan out where you should be clicking the next time around.
So if the room has 50 boxes, I might start at the top my first time through, and then I make it to the next level. If say I don't make it past the next level in time, the timer restarts and I'm back to the first level. Now - my ghost is going through clicking on the the boxes in the same order I did initially, so to save time I'm going to start at the bottom and by the time we reach the middle, me and my ghost will have cleared out the boxes in half the time. So I have that much MORE time on the timer to start the next puzzle.
I wish I could remember its name, but it was in Japanese or Chinese, and it came out at least a good year or 2 before Chronotron.
It really was a very well built flash game, and I think it was the first one to open the idea of interacting with ones past, as this game had come out in
I can think of 3 other games besides Braid to have done this Mechanic! Chronotron A top down game very similar to Chronotron (you were a robot, I remember) Some Oriental Mouse-click game where you simply try to get to the last level before the time runs out - and if time Does run out, you are sent back to level 1, but then a ghost of your last round would preform your same actions.
I stopped going to Retailers for PC games, and started using a downloadable system (Steam).
And when I want a 360 game - I'll either Rent it, or one of us in our group of 5 friends will buy it and we'll rotate our games around, or on the odd Chance that it has great addictive multiplayer (Halo 3, Call of Duty, etc) We'll all buy it ourselves. But with episodic content (Like ODST) its cheap enough that we all can grab it, IF we really want it.
I had a cell phone through Bell, and when my contract was up, I decided to switch, only because I didn't like any of their phones and mine was outdated (3 year contract right).
Anyways, so for whatever reason, Bell simply could not let me go. I told them, the contract is up next month, I'm cancelling my plan at the end of the contract. And the customer service rep was unable to understand that I was giving him advanced notice, and he was like, "You can pay the 200 dollars to buy out of your contract now.. Or just cancel it when the plan is up" And I tried this with about 3 other phone calls all getting the same response. So when the day came that my plan was up, I called in, and customer service wasn't available I must have missed their operation hours. I call IMMEDIATELY the next day as soon as they were open - and they wanted to charge me for an extra month.
I wasn't even calling them ON that Cell phone, that cell phone was out of use for at least 3 weeks.
Seriously, I didn't mind Bell when everything was up and running, but if you wanted to change ANYTHING (even something simple like your billing address) they were by far the worst I've ever dealt with, even Worse then Telus, and thats saying something.
If the browser on this HTC was any good for browsing. Seriously logging into a website can take a good 5 full minutes because my STYLUS isn't accurate enough to click the username field - unless I zoom in, which is something that I have yet to master, because its the least intuitive user control ever. If I hold down my click I can select zoom in, and it will remove about 1 pixel from each dimension requiring multiple hold&zoom selections to get it to a point where i can click on what I want. OR, on the odd chance I DO do it correctly, it zooms me in the full 200% possible and I have to literally scroll the screen sideways in order to enter my full username visibly. But since I don't know what it is to do it correctly, I will sometimes zoom in the full 200% on accident, and there seems to be absolutely NO way to Zoom out that I can find.
Don't even get me started on actual BROWSING... sometimes, and by that I mean about 30% of the time, my page will load, and then it will start to Refresh even though its done loading, but it won't actually refresh, it'll just sit at a white blank page with the URL I entered and a progress bar, despite it already having loaded the full page less than a second ago.
Seriously, if I didn't use my email so much, I would say that Internet browsing on this thing is NOT worth the Data package.
From your physical house, yes, Shaw will handle the cable, Telus will handle the DSL. As soon as it hits a Shaw building - and it needs to hop outside of the city, it sure ain't over a Shaw Cable, and when it needs to hit a different server inside the city to get outside the city, they go through Telus wiring.
Similarily Shaw offers Phone services. Telus offers Television services. They both provide the EXACT same services, whatever you want (if you wanted dialup you could still go through Shaw) because the two of them just work together on it.
I wish we could - but its already too late. Any of the smaller ISP's have basically already shut down because they couldn't compete with the two. This latest move by the CRTC was the last nail in the coffin, sealed the deal.
Living in Canada and working in Telecommunications a bit (and my father still does) you begin to learn a few things about these two big companies. Where I live there are 2 basic Internet Service Providers, Shaw (cable) and Telus (Telecommunications).
Telus, being the Telecommunications company - actually OWNS most of the physical infrastructure, or the wiring, that runs across the city. Shaw basically sets up a deal (not sure of the terms) so that they can provide internet access THROUGH telus' wiring. You can try both service providers, but essentially you have two choices: Regular speed with random faults of downtime (telus) or something slightly slower but pretty reliable.
The big wigs of these companies are by no means in competition, with the way they charge rates, make deals to use each others services*, I wouldn't be surprised if they both play Golf together, all the while discussing "How can we make an extra few Million this year. A little for me, a little for you..."
*(for example, 411 directory service from ALOT of providers that aren't Telus is done by Telus Employees)
Which is really as good as it can get - I mean when you design for yourself in mind, you're bound to run into issues when its released for someone not like you.
I humbly think of that kind of programming in a less professional sense of the term "Developing". Similar to how someone who is a chef for a living probably doesn't garnish the dishes he makes for himself - someone who is developing for himself won't worry about something that becomes standard when developed for other people to use (example: documentation/help files).
Don't get me wrong, I write my own programs for myself - but at no point do I feel like I'm really creating a piece of software, I feel more like I'm just telling the computer to do what I want and storing that process for re-usability.
I don't know how many times I've torn my hair out because the 'Help' menu's only item was "About".
PS - I thought I was the only one. I banged my head on the desk one time and it left a bruise because of that. True story. (I wasn't having a very good day to begin with though)
Well exactly. Someone up there in the comments mentioned how Open Source Developers like to "Scratch their own itch" - which in my opinion is really the wrong way to tackle a problem. What alot of developers don't realize is that the actual design process (which should be done first) can be done with very little input from the developer. Well, the blame isn't squarely on them, the users also need to be clear and concise about what they want and they need to be able to present it to a developer - in the same way the developer has to present their product:
A Developer can't be expected to know everything about how the user does their job - but they're expected to make a program to assist in that process. Likewise a user can't be expected to know everything about how a program works - but they're expected to know how it works when its done.
So there is this huge middle ground where either: A) The user is so confused by what does what, because the Developer took it upon himself to make an amazing program that does it all or B) The user is not happy with what the functions are doing - or its missing functionality, or some logic is missing - which ends up being blamed on the Developers for not making it properly and they have to go through it all again.
It usually all boils down to people not telling the Developers enough, or the Developers are assuming that they know what to do and don't ask questions. The solution is just better communcation. If you can, get a Visio Diagram going, maybe some flow charts, anything and everything to help you lay down the design of the project. Designing is really a 2 way street, it needs to be done by the user just as much as it does have to be done by the developer, maybe even a little more so on the user. Once Design is down - Development becomes an EASY process that can be done in DAYS instead of weeks. It becomes like High school physics where you have the formula sheet and you just plug in the numbers to get the answer. (Assuming you were good at high school physics. I'm sorry, I'm an insensative Clod)
Well thats your definition of gaming though - the Wii's Target Audience is not the Age 12 through 40 Males who enjoy the satisfaction of a good online headshot.
Their Target Audience was: Everyone ELSE. I guess someone in marketting said "Hey, you know, I looked at the numbers, and there are more people who haven't played Mario then the people who have played Mario. I guess the Gamer group is still not quite a majority. What if we made something for everyone that isn't a gamer?" and thus the Wii was born.
It is still Gaming, just not in the sense that you've grown to call it. The games aren't "Good" because you don't find them challenging, or you find the controls to be lacking, or the graphics are bad, or anything else you've put on the list.
These are not reasons that the Wii is a bad Gaming Console. These are reasons that YOU don't like the Wii. The Wii is a very successful gaming console, and it is very good at doing what it aimed to do: Taking someone who has never in their life touched a nintendo product, and made them purchase it.
You will find that the amount of people who Have a Wii and DON'T want a 360 or PS3 is Staggering, if you get out and meet some new people who aren't into gaming.
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The case looks like a prop from 2001, rendered in black steel instead of white plastic. It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever seen before.
How can it look like a prop from a movie if its unlike anything you've ever seen before?
Logic failing aside,
It makes me think of what might happen if they combined the Death Star's Exterior with a PS3.
there's no transmission of account numbers, PINs or other identifying information
To set it up, those must be entered at least once. Which means they are being called SOMEWHERE in the process of using it on twitter. Which to hacker, means it can be accessed.
If Twitter can be hacked, your banking information can be stolen. Simple as that.
And I don't mean, login to your twitter, transfer the money, haha its gone,
I mean, login to twitter, get your info, go to your banks site, login there, haha its gone.
It has been remade, its called Cursor*10 - you can find it at onemorelevel.com and probably addictinggames.com
RIGHT. I was going to link it
It's not exactly Interacting with yourself in the past, but its the first game I can recall that had this type of gameplay. It came out long before Chronotron, features the same puzzle elements as Chronotron, and was originally in Japanese.
The ghost was present in the last mention because it was an integral part of the gameplay because while you yourself didn't have to interact with it, it still did interact with the environment. And everytime the timer ran out a new ghost was created. The objective was to reach the end in the quickest time possible.
For example, one level would only let you reach the next level once All the boxes in the room are destroyed, which is done by clicking on them. Remember you are trying to do it as fast as possible, because you want to get as far as possible to see what the next level is to plan out where you should be clicking the next time around.
So if the room has 50 boxes, I might start at the top my first time through, and then I make it to the next level. If say I don't make it past the next level in time, the timer restarts and I'm back to the first level. Now - my ghost is going through clicking on the the boxes in the same order I did initially, so to save time I'm going to start at the bottom and by the time we reach the middle, me and my ghost will have cleared out the boxes in half the time. So I have that much MORE time on the timer to start the next puzzle.
I wish I could remember its name, but it was in Japanese or Chinese, and it came out at least a good year or 2 before Chronotron.
It really was a very well built flash game, and I think it was the first one to open the idea of interacting with ones past, as this game had come out in
I can think of 3 other games besides Braid to have done this Mechanic!
Chronotron
A top down game very similar to Chronotron (you were a robot, I remember)
Some Oriental Mouse-click game where you simply try to get to the last level before the time runs out - and if time Does run out, you are sent back to level 1, but then a ghost of your last round would preform your same actions.
Ars Technica obviously isn't into Flash games.
You have a choice:
You can stop Grad school now and hope that the ill effects are mild or negligent.
You can continue Grad school, and forget it all immediately after.
I stopped going to Retailers for PC games, and started using a downloadable system (Steam).
And when I want a 360 game - I'll either Rent it, or one of us in our group of 5 friends will buy it and we'll rotate our games around, or on the odd Chance that it has great addictive multiplayer (Halo 3, Call of Duty, etc) We'll all buy it ourselves. But with episodic content (Like ODST) its cheap enough that we all can grab it, IF we really want it.
If I hadn't used up all my mod points... LOL
I had a cell phone through Bell, and when my contract was up, I decided to switch, only because I didn't like any of their phones and mine was outdated (3 year contract right).
Anyways, so for whatever reason, Bell simply could not let me go. I told them, the contract is up next month, I'm cancelling my plan at the end of the contract. And the customer service rep was unable to understand that I was giving him advanced notice, and he was like, "You can pay the 200 dollars to buy out of your contract now.. Or just cancel it when the plan is up" And I tried this with about 3 other phone calls all getting the same response. So when the day came that my plan was up, I called in, and customer service wasn't available I must have missed their operation hours. I call IMMEDIATELY the next day as soon as they were open - and they wanted to charge me for an extra month.
I wasn't even calling them ON that Cell phone, that cell phone was out of use for at least 3 weeks.
Seriously, I didn't mind Bell when everything was up and running, but if you wanted to change ANYTHING (even something simple like your billing address) they were by far the worst I've ever dealt with, even Worse then Telus, and thats saying something.
If the browser on this HTC was any good for browsing. Seriously logging into a website can take a good 5 full minutes because my STYLUS isn't accurate enough to click the username field - unless I zoom in, which is something that I have yet to master, because its the least intuitive user control ever. If I hold down my click I can select zoom in, and it will remove about 1 pixel from each dimension requiring multiple hold&zoom selections to get it to a point where i can click on what I want. OR, on the odd chance I DO do it correctly, it zooms me in the full 200% possible and I have to literally scroll the screen sideways in order to enter my full username visibly. But since I don't know what it is to do it correctly, I will sometimes zoom in the full 200% on accident, and there seems to be absolutely NO way to Zoom out that I can find.
Don't even get me started on actual BROWSING... sometimes, and by that I mean about 30% of the time, my page will load, and then it will start to Refresh even though its done loading, but it won't actually refresh, it'll just sit at a white blank page with the URL I entered and a progress bar, despite it already having loaded the full page less than a second ago.
Seriously, if I didn't use my email so much, I would say that Internet browsing on this thing is NOT worth the Data package.
Where does the cable start going through the phone?
As soon as it hits a Shaw building and needs to go somewhere else.
From your physical house, yes, Shaw will handle the cable, Telus will handle the DSL. As soon as it hits a Shaw building - and it needs to hop outside of the city, it sure ain't over a Shaw Cable, and when it needs to hit a different server inside the city to get outside the city, they go through Telus wiring.
Similarily Shaw offers Phone services. Telus offers Television services. They both provide the EXACT same services, whatever you want (if you wanted dialup you could still go through Shaw) because the two of them just work together on it.
I wish we could - but its already too late. Any of the smaller ISP's have basically already shut down because they couldn't compete with the two. This latest move by the CRTC was the last nail in the coffin, sealed the deal.
Living in Canada and working in Telecommunications a bit (and my father still does) you begin to learn a few things about these two big companies. Where I live there are 2 basic Internet Service Providers, Shaw (cable) and Telus (Telecommunications).
Telus, being the Telecommunications company - actually OWNS most of the physical infrastructure, or the wiring, that runs across the city. Shaw basically sets up a deal (not sure of the terms) so that they can provide internet access THROUGH telus' wiring. You can try both service providers, but essentially you have two choices: Regular speed with random faults of downtime (telus) or something slightly slower but pretty reliable.
The big wigs of these companies are by no means in competition, with the way they charge rates, make deals to use each others services*, I wouldn't be surprised if they both play Golf together, all the while discussing "How can we make an extra few Million this year. A little for me, a little for you..."
*(for example, 411 directory service from ALOT of providers that aren't Telus is done by Telus Employees)
I don't get why a cooking article is on /. but I mean, who hasn't had some Mashed potatoes and SPAMburgers at some point in their life?
Which is really as good as it can get - I mean when you design for yourself in mind, you're bound to run into issues when its released for someone not like you.
I humbly think of that kind of programming in a less professional sense of the term "Developing". Similar to how someone who is a chef for a living probably doesn't garnish the dishes he makes for himself - someone who is developing for himself won't worry about something that becomes standard when developed for other people to use (example: documentation/help files).
Don't get me wrong, I write my own programs for myself - but at no point do I feel like I'm really creating a piece of software, I feel more like I'm just telling the computer to do what I want and storing that process for re-usability.
I don't know how many times I've torn my hair out because the 'Help' menu's only item was "About".
PS - I thought I was the only one. I banged my head on the desk one time and it left a bruise because of that. True story. (I wasn't having a very good day to begin with though)
Well exactly. Someone up there in the comments mentioned how Open Source Developers like to "Scratch their own itch" - which in my opinion is really the wrong way to tackle a problem. What alot of developers don't realize is that the actual design process (which should be done first) can be done with very little input from the developer. Well, the blame isn't squarely on them, the users also need to be clear and concise about what they want and they need to be able to present it to a developer - in the same way the developer has to present their product:
A Developer can't be expected to know everything about how the user does their job - but they're expected to make a program to assist in that process. Likewise a user can't be expected to know everything about how a program works - but they're expected to know how it works when its done.
So there is this huge middle ground where either:
A) The user is so confused by what does what, because the Developer took it upon himself to make an amazing program that does it all
or
B) The user is not happy with what the functions are doing - or its missing functionality, or some logic is missing - which ends up being blamed on the Developers for not making it properly and they have to go through it all again.
It usually all boils down to people not telling the Developers enough, or the Developers are assuming that they know what to do and don't ask questions. The solution is just better communcation. If you can, get a Visio Diagram going, maybe some flow charts, anything and everything to help you lay down the design of the project. Designing is really a 2 way street, it needs to be done by the user just as much as it does have to be done by the developer, maybe even a little more so on the user. Once Design is down - Development becomes an EASY process that can be done in DAYS instead of weeks. It becomes like High school physics where you have the formula sheet and you just plug in the numbers to get the answer. (Assuming you were good at high school physics. I'm sorry, I'm an insensative Clod)
I've done a bit of software dev here and there, and I've never had the luxury of being near the users when they first prop it open.
For that reason, I've developed a habit of showing a beta to a nearby co-worker, or a friend, and ask them "Check this out."
And when they say "What is it?" - I haven't done my job right.
Buying a faster connection technology won't somehow make your hard drive faster.
What if you aren't going to your hard drive?
Well thats your definition of gaming though - the Wii's Target Audience is not the Age 12 through 40 Males who enjoy the satisfaction of a good online headshot.
Their Target Audience was: Everyone ELSE. I guess someone in marketting said "Hey, you know, I looked at the numbers, and there are more people who haven't played Mario then the people who have played Mario. I guess the Gamer group is still not quite a majority. What if we made something for everyone that isn't a gamer?" and thus the Wii was born.
It is still Gaming, just not in the sense that you've grown to call it. The games aren't "Good" because you don't find them challenging, or you find the controls to be lacking, or the graphics are bad, or anything else you've put on the list.
These are not reasons that the Wii is a bad Gaming Console. These are reasons that YOU don't like the Wii. The Wii is a very successful gaming console, and it is very good at doing what it aimed to do: Taking someone who has never in their life touched a nintendo product, and made them purchase it.
You will find that the amount of people who Have a Wii and DON'T want a 360 or PS3 is Staggering, if you get out and meet some new people who aren't into gaming.
It's not a bug, its a feature.
Well exactly, Does dropping it from 250 to 200 make ANY difference to you?