Apple led the charge of SCSI, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, integrated webcams, multitouch, WiFi, sudden motion sensors, new battery technologies, unibody construction, DVD burners...
TO start with, USB was developed by Microsoft amongst other company's according to Wikipedia,
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus ) so I'm not believing that they led the charge of it. FireWire is made by Apple ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire ), yet isn't the standard option with iPods, iPhones or other major Apple products, USB is. And if a company won't stand by it's own standards with its highest standing products, I wouldn't call that leading the charge. As for your other 'facts', they would take a lot of effort to figure out the truth, and with you blunt mis-understanding of USB alone makes me lean towards you talking whatever you feel without wanting/needing facts.
Current Macs all have Core2Duo or better. That is by *no* reckoning "trailing edge".
Backlit keyboards, mini displayport, magsafe--these, or similar features, are by no means even *remotely* common.
Mini DisplayPort are Apple tech, so thats more of a 'force upon' then leading edge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Display_Port ) Similar to how a lot of Sony products use a Memory Stick. Its not forward thinking, its forward 'pushing'.
As for a premium, that's absurd. Macs cost similar, and often cheaper, than equivalently specced PCs.
I always do love this one. Total BS because all Apple users pray to god no one will check. So lets check. I'll compare the best 15 inch MacBook Pro to a Dell Alienware laptop of as similar spec's as I can: (and before I hear the 'Apple makes top quality hardware claims, this PDF comparing laptop hareware: http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliability_1109.pdf )
CPU (best I could match, Dell doesn't use the older Core 2 Duo): Intel® Core i7-620M 2.66GHz (3.33Ghz Turbo Mode, 4M cache)
RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
HD: 500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Display: WideHD+ 1600x900
Graphics card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M (new gen card)
Apple doesn't state it's battery size, so assumed 9 cell, the best
Both have wi-fi cards (Apple doesn;t say with one), backlit keyboards.
Now the Apple, with a smaller screen (pixel size), slower CPU, slower/older graphics card, older gen HD will set you back $2,749.00. The Faster Alienware with a faster CPU, newer graphics card, new gen HD, larger (pixel count) screen will set you back $2,024. Saving more then $700 for a faster laptop over the Apple... I don't see how your last claim works... But pl
When it was first announced, everybody and their dog figured Apple would charge closer to $1000 for the base model, and now it's hundreds of dollars overpriced at $499.
When it was first announced, everyone and their dog figured it was going to be a tablet computer with the spec's and abilities of a MacBook, not the iTouch X-Large. Functions and options change the perceived value.
More importantly, people tend to CALL from predictable places. As others have pointed out, most people spend the majority of their time at home and work. But on top of that, these studies only look at where calls are made, not where people actually are. So while I may spend a lot of time out and about on the weekends, I still make the majority of phone calls when I'm at home (not at the movie, shopping, gym, etc..)
The MIT test didn't work based on calls, it used a program that would run every 5 minutes to locate itself based on cell tower information (a low grade GPS). While the test also used calling information, it wasn't for the purpose of figuring out where someone on average would be. Calling information was used to predict whether someone would going out with friends, ect...
analyzed six months of anonymous cell phone records from more than 100,000 people in a European country, obtained from a European cell phone provider. Those cell phone records gave an approximation of each person's location at the time of each call, because cell phone calls are routed through the nearest cell tower.
He and his colleagues found that people tend not to stray far -- almost three quarters of the people stayed mainly within about a 20-mile circle for the entire six months, and nearly half the people rarely strayed outside a six-mile circle. They also tended to go back and forth regularly between only a few locations, such as home and work.
And another attempt on the same idea was done by MIT in July 2005 ( http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/1751234 ). Difference here was that the percentage was 85%. Not the 93% declared now. From the Wired article:
Eagle's Reality Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were friends or just co-workers.... Given enough data, Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time.... Eagle used Bluetooth-enabled Nokia 6600 smartphones running custom programs that logged cell-tower information to record the phones' locations. Every five minutes, the phones also scanned the immediate vicinity for other participating phones. Using data gleaned from cell-phone towers and calling information, the system is able to predict, for example, whether someone will go out for the evening based on the volume of calls they made to friends.
I've heard about this over a year ago, at a minimum.
Same goes with Jupiter's moon Europa ( http://www.solarviews.com/eng/europa.htm ). Signs are that it could have liquid water inside, as quoted from the site: "Since liquid water existed in the past, could life have formed and even exist today? The primary ingredients for life are water, heat, and organic compounds obtained from comets and meteorites. Europa has had all three. From the images and data collected by the Galileo spacecraft, scientists believe that a subsurface ocean existed in relative recent history and may still be present beneath the icy surface. Europa's water should have frozen long ago, but warming could be occurring due to the tidal tug of war with Jupiter and neighboring moons."
Same site mentions that the water has been spotted spewing forth from Enceladus in July 14, 2005, being also noted as a "dramatic warm spot centered on the pole that is probably a sign of internal heat leaking out of the icy moon" ( http://www.solarviews.com/eng/enceladus.htm )
At thats pretty much the tip of the iceberg. Many company's and products run on different versions of OSS, which all would be effected with this. And as you can see, this list of company's effected aren't just a small group of no names, but the big players like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Verizon, Linksys...
I noticed she didn't have an issue interrupting the guy but from 2:45 on, you never hear her voice regardless of gaps in his speech. I wonder if when he mentioned that the internet was only $14.95 and she was just being cheap, did she hang up on him and he just kept going on?
Don't cite the Daily Mail if you can avoid it. (For the reason why, read the article carefully, looking for the facts and the opinion, and the "weasel words" like "may" or "could". Then see if the article has any relation to the headline. Unfortunately, fear sells this type of newspaper.)
Thanks, didn't know that. Try to use at least semi-decent places for news/facts (why I won't link to sites like The Register). In the end, it isn't a major issue. The camera's are there and there still is crime showing that its not a full-proof fix.
ROFL. Wow, a Yank huh? Never hear anyone from anywhere say that word. Might be because I'm not American, no do I live in the US.
And since I can find many sites using the word Britain, from the Royal Mint to the Royal family, makes it hard to know that it's a seldom used word. Just to let your ignorance know:)
Unless I missed it, I'm pretty sure DirectX is Windows only. So that means any web game/app that is written in it would have to have be made for either Windows Vista or 7 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX ) as those are the only 2 OS's that support it. It also means that any and all OSX and Linux boxes wouldn't be able to use these browser games/apps. This type of problem has already caused strains with Flash not being better supported on those OS's, now we'll have a worse issue with this. Yeah, don't see it happening just for this issue alone.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
Or use a bike. Better for you and the environment too at the same time.
Okay, that's one problem avoided. So then how would one protect themselves from a skimmer on any other type of card reader, like at an ATM, vending machine, or a gas pump since no, you can't always just bike everywhere.
Ok, on a serious note about the problem. How to figure out a solution to this problem. Issue is, there isn't a simple answer.
Some might say we just need more education on the subject. But lets be honest. That won't work, never has, never will. People have been told that about everything from health (eat less processed/junk food, exercise more, ect... and as there are more people obese today then ever shows how well that works), to drugs (I've heard of the problems with things like crack since the 80's when I was born, and it's still being used today), to the basics of never share passwords but these things still happen.
Other things need to be taken into consideration. Why are these happening? People are need money more then before with a lack of jobs due to the recession. Also the ease of availability of these problems (these machines are showing up in more and more places). Also a lack of security in these newer forms of payment that are shown to be insecure ( http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/how-to-hack-an-rfide.html ) yet still forced upon the consumer due to the millions funded into these technologies and the fear of admitting these losses to shareholders.
Many of these company's and people are no doubt hoping things like DMCA laws and their inclusion into global laws like the ACTA will help get rid of the problems since it will make the technology illegal (these break digital security locks). Thing is, again it won't work. Drug growers have shown that when these problems come about, people will just go underground and look for other ways to do this. This was shown during the Regan years of the war against drugs. As time passed, it was harder to smuggle weed from places like Afghanistan, so people started shipping hash. Same type of drug but smaller and easier to ship. After that came hash oil since it was again smaller and the law started to figure out about hash. When hash oil was found out, people started to look into hydroponics (a new growing method for plants of ANY kind) and found they could grow a better crop (better watered, feed, controlled, ect...) in the country bypassing the issue of smuggling it in.And just like pot dealers/growers showed that the law means little in the end to get what they want, same will happen with this and as with every crime in history.
And the world goes on. Even if Win7 had huge memory problems, it wouldn't have stopped people from buying it. Though I wonder how close this comes to an actionable legal issue?
And yet, this being Slashdot, if this was reversed and it was anti-Apple we would have been flooded with comments of telling Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer to stop making this stuff up... Fun the differences that the company makes.
(These might be the wrong examples, since I'm bad with biology, hopefully they are right though...) In the game Creatures (using Creatures 3 as my example)
They will search for food when (and only when) they are hungry and sometimes not just any food, sometimes as exact as a starch (Homeostatis).
They can talk, and language will alter if you let them learn on their own without help (Organization).
As I do mention, they do eat and eat things like fruit, nuts and other things like mushrooms. They will starve to death without eating (Metabolism).
Each creature you raise (called a Norn) has a life span of 8 hours, going from childhood, to adult to old age (then die of old age if they lived that long. They can die from attacks or disease). It is also possible to use selective breeding for extend or shorten their life span (Growth).
As I also just mentioned, you can give them selective breeding/cross breeding to allow for traits like ability to extend life span or resistance to certain diseases (Adaptation).
If you abuse a Norn enough they might hit other Norns (you can hit them to punish or scratch their nose to reward them). They can also learn to avoid Grendels (one of the other species that carry disease and like to kill), or learn to group up and gang up on the Grendels (Response to Stimuli).
Adults do reproduce (they make a Kiss/Pop sound), then the female is pregnant and will lay an egg that will hatch and life cycles continue. (Reproduction)
1- The 4 problematic PCs are running XP or 7 perfectly right now, so I'm not buying the faulty/crappy hardware line. I checked driver support, they are even supposed to be linux-compatible even if old-ish, except for a very old Via-C7 one which should require manual config, except I can get to that point. My issue is not about Linux being hard to install, because when everything works it's very easy. My issues with Linux are more about limited driver support, failure to install on some systems, lacking/outdated documentation, and disappointment with forums help. But that's not the question at hand, I'll make do with those issues.
Stupid question time. Did you make sure to use the option during the cd/dvd boot manager to check if the disc was burnt correctly? Had issues installing Linux with a lot of errors coming up, and it ended up being that I didn't have a good burn. Sometimes its the small things.
The capacity and bitrate were the only advantage. On the other hand HD-DVD was a "finished" platform, with dozens of other advantages.
Advantages don't matter a lot in the long run. Its convenience and usability. This was shown during the VHS vs Betamax wars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war ) even though in the beginning Betamax was a better overall picture then VHS. Also why the Laserdisc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc ) never took off due to it's huge size (just shy of a foot long cd) being not practical (and made me always worry if it could snap under it's own weight if you held it on one side instead of the middle. Not sure if it could though), amoungst other reasons (the 1 hour limit per side was pretty much handled with auto-flipping after the mid-80's)
Not all netbooks have low res. There's a couple of 12 inch that have higher resolution, and some like the nokia booklet have 1280x720 on 10 inch.
That still isn't going to play a 1080p video as mentioned in the article. 1080p needs a screen size of 1920x1080. If your going to go through this much effort to get the best picture would be better to just re-encode the video to your screens pixel size, would make it not stutter either.
It will most likely be 10+ years. Most of the 10 year old games, never less the 15+ year old games even work on today's OS. Does that mean that when I bought the games I didn't value my rights as a consumer, because they don't work now?
It's a central activation server for all their games. I think there would be quite nice uproar if all of their games stopped working suddenly.
Nevertheless, if someone still plays them in 10-20 years, I'm sure they can buy a really cheap, current-OS-capable version from the likes of Steam for like $1, probably with improved graphics too. The classic games I play now are either fixed versions from Steam or GOG. Sure you pay that one dollar again, but who cares when they fix it for the new operating systems and hardware too.
10+ years huh? Tell that to EA ( http://www.ea.com/2/service-updates ). Many of those games on that list are on the PS3 and XBox360. Godfather was released on the PS3 in 2007, 3 years ago as one example. Some of the games listed are PC games as well. Hell, Army of 2 was only released just shy of 2 years ago and is being shut down in Asia.
Splinter Cell 2; one of the first Starforce protected games.
According to Wikipedia, Splinter Cell 2 was released on March 23, 2004 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS_(Splinter_Cell)#Multiplayer ), while the first english crack is dated to have been released March 25, 2004, only 2 days later. And that would be when the basic cracking sites got it, not went it went wild within the game. While it wasn't hours before, it wasn't a month later either.
Your assumption, which is wrong, that it isn't a full game. If you damn them now, you should have damned them when they released Brood Wars. It has roughly the same number of missions as the first full game. If they feel they can give each race a full Starcraft length story, then good on them for doing it.
Blizzard mentioned back in 2008 that they were splitting the whole game into 3 campaigns ( http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2008/10/11/starcraft-2-split-into-three-parts-terran-wings-of-liberty-zerg-heart-of-the-swarm-and-protoss-legacy-of-the-void.htm ). And it takes more then size to judge a game. It takes quality. Breaking a story from 1 whole part into 3 smaller parts breaks the quality (think of a movie put on tv made into multiple episodes, cheapens the feel with the breaks and the wait between episodes kills). And yes, they do CLAIM to be trying to maximize each part to be the fullest possible, but every company does that. Its marketing. No company is going to come out and say "Well we had a chance to make a high quality product... but decided not to due to x reasons."
Or in the case of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, it was released on the album A Night at the Opera which had a total length of 43:10 originally. On the other hand, the Backstreet Boys original self-titled album had a total length at 52:03, around 9 minutes more. Would you say that the Backstreet Boys album was a better album because it had more play time?
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"Trailing edge"?
Apple led the charge of SCSI, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, integrated webcams, multitouch, WiFi, sudden motion sensors, new battery technologies, unibody construction, DVD burners...
TO start with, USB was developed by Microsoft amongst other company's according to Wikipedia, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus ) so I'm not believing that they led the charge of it. FireWire is made by Apple ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire ), yet isn't the standard option with iPods, iPhones or other major Apple products, USB is. And if a company won't stand by it's own standards with its highest standing products, I wouldn't call that leading the charge. As for your other 'facts', they would take a lot of effort to figure out the truth, and with you blunt mis-understanding of USB alone makes me lean towards you talking whatever you feel without wanting/needing facts.
Current Macs all have Core2Duo or better. That is by *no* reckoning "trailing edge".
Since the Core2Duo was made in 2007, and most PC makers use the i3/5/7 chips that are new and faster... that would be considered trailing edge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors#Core_2_Duo )
Backlit keyboards, mini displayport, magsafe--these, or similar features, are by no means even *remotely* common.
Mini DisplayPort are Apple tech, so thats more of a 'force upon' then leading edge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Display_Port ) Similar to how a lot of Sony products use a Memory Stick. Its not forward thinking, its forward 'pushing'.
As for a premium, that's absurd. Macs cost similar, and often cheaper, than equivalently specced PCs.
I always do love this one. Total BS because all Apple users pray to god no one will check. So lets check. I'll compare the best 15 inch MacBook Pro to a Dell Alienware laptop of as similar spec's as I can: (and before I hear the 'Apple makes top quality hardware claims, this PDF comparing laptop hareware: http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliability_1109.pdf )
Apple MacBook Pro: 15 inch ( http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB985LL/A?mco=MTM3NDczMDg )
CPU: 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (only option)
RAM: 8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
HD: 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
Display: 1440-by-900-pixel LED-backlit display
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 512MB
Alienware 15.6 inch laptop: ( http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=DKCWFW1&s=dhs )
CPU (best I could match, Dell doesn't use the older Core 2 Duo): Intel® Core i7-620M 2.66GHz (3.33Ghz Turbo Mode, 4M cache)
RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
HD: 500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Display: WideHD+ 1600x900
Graphics card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M (new gen card)
Apple doesn't state it's battery size, so assumed 9 cell, the best
Both have wi-fi cards (Apple doesn;t say with one), backlit keyboards.
Now the Apple, with a smaller screen (pixel size), slower CPU, slower/older graphics card, older gen HD will set you back $2,749.00. The Faster Alienware with a faster CPU, newer graphics card, new gen HD, larger (pixel count) screen will set you back $2,024. Saving more then $700 for a faster laptop over the Apple... I don't see how your last claim works... But pl
This is hilarious.
When it was first announced, everybody and their dog figured Apple would charge closer to $1000 for the base model, and now it's hundreds of dollars overpriced at $499.
When it was first announced, everyone and their dog figured it was going to be a tablet computer with the spec's and abilities of a MacBook, not the iTouch X-Large. Functions and options change the perceived value.
More importantly, people tend to CALL from predictable places. As others have pointed out, most people spend the majority of their time at home and work. But on top of that, these studies only look at where calls are made, not where people actually are. So while I may spend a lot of time out and about on the weekends, I still make the majority of phone calls when I'm at home (not at the movie, shopping, gym, etc..)
The MIT test didn't work based on calls, it used a program that would run every 5 minutes to locate itself based on cell tower information (a low grade GPS). While the test also used calling information, it wasn't for the purpose of figuring out where someone on average would be. Calling information was used to predict whether someone would going out with friends, ect...
While not to the exactness of this study, this has been done before in May 2009 ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/science/jan-june09/celldata_05-15.html ). From the article:
analyzed six months of anonymous cell phone records from more than 100,000 people in a European country, obtained from a European cell phone provider. Those cell phone records gave an approximation of each person's location at the time of each call, because cell phone calls are routed through the nearest cell tower. He and his colleagues found that people tend not to stray far -- almost three quarters of the people stayed mainly within about a 20-mile circle for the entire six months, and nearly half the people rarely strayed outside a six-mile circle. They also tended to go back and forth regularly between only a few locations, such as home and work.
And another attempt on the same idea was done by MIT in July 2005 ( http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/1751234 ). Difference here was that the percentage was 85%. Not the 93% declared now. From the Wired article:
Eagle's Reality Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were friends or just co-workers.... Given enough data, Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time.... Eagle used Bluetooth-enabled Nokia 6600 smartphones running custom programs that logged cell-tower information to record the phones' locations. Every five minutes, the phones also scanned the immediate vicinity for other participating phones. Using data gleaned from cell-phone towers and calling information, the system is able to predict, for example, whether someone will go out for the evening based on the volume of calls they made to friends.
I've heard about this over a year ago, at a minimum.
Same goes with Jupiter's moon Europa ( http://www.solarviews.com/eng/europa.htm ). Signs are that it could have liquid water inside, as quoted from the site: "Since liquid water existed in the past, could life have formed and even exist today? The primary ingredients for life are water, heat, and organic compounds obtained from comets and meteorites. Europa has had all three. From the images and data collected by the Galileo spacecraft, scientists believe that a subsurface ocean existed in relative recent history and may still be present beneath the icy surface. Europa's water should have frozen long ago, but warming could be occurring due to the tidal tug of war with Jupiter and neighboring moons."
Same site mentions that the water has been spotted spewing forth from Enceladus in July 14, 2005, being also noted as a "dramatic warm spot centered on the pole that is probably a sign of internal heat leaking out of the icy moon" ( http://www.solarviews.com/eng/enceladus.htm )
UNIX isn't open source, never make that mistake. LINUX is open source, UNIX has never been.
According to Wikipedia, UNIX projects like BSD are open sourced ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix ), as is Open Solaris which is based on UNIX System V Release 4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_solaris ). While I admit I was wrong about all of UNIX being open sourced, some of it is like the BSD parts which are used in OSX. Apple even states that OS X is bundled with Open Source ( http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html )
As this could effect MANY big players in unexpected ways.
Company's like Amazon will be effected due to the Kindle reader uses open source software ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10266319-16.html )
Apple would be pretty much killed on sight since all there products run on either OSX or a modified version which is programmed from UNIX ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osx ) (which is open sourced) and the open source Mach Kernel from BSD ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel ).
While it is not in the US, the London Stock Exchange runs on the open source program MillenniumIT system ( http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1742203/London-Stock-Exchange-Rejects-NET-For-Open-Source )
Last I knew, Linksys routers run on Linux ( http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2005/12/the_l_in_linksys_wrt54gl_stands_for_linux.html )
Microsoft could also be effected due to their new deal with Amazon with issues towards the patents involved in said deal ( http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/1231255/Microsoft-Amazon-Ink-Kindle-and-Linux-Patent-Deal )
Then there is every Android phone since Android is made from Linux ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) ).
At thats pretty much the tip of the iceberg. Many company's and products run on different versions of OSS, which all would be effected with this. And as you can see, this list of company's effected aren't just a small group of no names, but the big players like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Verizon, Linksys...
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I noticed she didn't have an issue interrupting the guy but from 2:45 on, you never hear her voice regardless of gaps in his speech. I wonder if when he mentioned that the internet was only $14.95 and she was just being cheap, did she hang up on him and he just kept going on?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
Don't cite the Daily Mail if you can avoid it. (For the reason why, read the article carefully, looking for the facts and the opinion, and the "weasel words" like "may" or "could". Then see if the article has any relation to the headline. Unfortunately, fear sells this type of newspaper.)
Thanks, didn't know that. Try to use at least semi-decent places for news/facts (why I won't link to sites like The Register). In the end, it isn't a major issue. The camera's are there and there still is crime showing that its not a full-proof fix.
ROFL. Wow, a Yank huh? Never hear anyone from anywhere say that word. Might be because I'm not American, no do I live in the US.
And since I can find many sites using the word Britain, from the Royal Mint to the Royal family, makes it hard to know that it's a seldom used word. Just to let your ignorance know :)
Unless I missed it, I'm pretty sure DirectX is Windows only. So that means any web game/app that is written in it would have to have be made for either Windows Vista or 7 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX ) as those are the only 2 OS's that support it. It also means that any and all OSX and Linux boxes wouldn't be able to use these browser games/apps. This type of problem has already caused strains with Flash not being better supported on those OS's, now we'll have a worse issue with this. Yeah, don't see it happening just for this issue alone.
Sarcasm is a dying form of humor I guess.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
Or use a bike. Better for you and the environment too at the same time.
Okay, that's one problem avoided. So then how would one protect themselves from a skimmer on any other type of card reader, like at an ATM, vending machine, or a gas pump since no, you can't always just bike everywhere.
Ok, on a serious note about the problem. How to figure out a solution to this problem. Issue is, there isn't a simple answer.
Some might say we just need more education on the subject. But lets be honest. That won't work, never has, never will. People have been told that about everything from health (eat less processed/junk food, exercise more, ect... and as there are more people obese today then ever shows how well that works), to drugs (I've heard of the problems with things like crack since the 80's when I was born, and it's still being used today), to the basics of never share passwords but these things still happen.
Others might say we need more surveillance with cameras and police. But this isn't working either with Britain having millions of CCTV and also being the most violent country in Europe ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html ). So this is also not a solution.
Other things need to be taken into consideration. Why are these happening? People are need money more then before with a lack of jobs due to the recession. Also the ease of availability of these problems (these machines are showing up in more and more places). Also a lack of security in these newer forms of payment that are shown to be insecure ( http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/how-to-hack-an-rfide.html ) yet still forced upon the consumer due to the millions funded into these technologies and the fear of admitting these losses to shareholders.
Many of these company's and people are no doubt hoping things like DMCA laws and their inclusion into global laws like the ACTA will help get rid of the problems since it will make the technology illegal (these break digital security locks). Thing is, again it won't work. Drug growers have shown that when these problems come about, people will just go underground and look for other ways to do this. This was shown during the Regan years of the war against drugs. As time passed, it was harder to smuggle weed from places like Afghanistan, so people started shipping hash. Same type of drug but smaller and easier to ship. After that came hash oil since it was again smaller and the law started to figure out about hash. When hash oil was found out, people started to look into hydroponics (a new growing method for plants of ANY kind) and found they could grow a better crop (better watered, feed, controlled, ect...) in the country bypassing the issue of smuggling it in.And just like pot dealers/growers showed that the law means little in the end to get what they want, same will happen with this and as with every crime in history.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump? Pay cash inside.
Or use a bike. Better for you and the environment too at the same time.
And the world goes on. Even if Win7 had huge memory problems, it wouldn't have stopped people from buying it. Though I wonder how close this comes to an actionable legal issue?
And yet, this being Slashdot, if this was reversed and it was anti-Apple we would have been flooded with comments of telling Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer to stop making this stuff up... Fun the differences that the company makes.
In biology, life is defined as have the following characteristics:
Having these characteristics defines something as being "alive." See, not magic.
But thats very vague. Makes things like the game Creatures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(artificial_life_program) ) and things made in A-Life ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life ) truly alive. Even though they are just program code, 0's and 1's at their base.
(These might be the wrong examples, since I'm bad with biology, hopefully they are right though...) In the game Creatures (using Creatures 3 as my example)
They will search for food when (and only when) they are hungry and sometimes not just any food, sometimes as exact as a starch (Homeostatis).
They can talk, and language will alter if you let them learn on their own without help (Organization).
As I do mention, they do eat and eat things like fruit, nuts and other things like mushrooms. They will starve to death without eating (Metabolism).
Each creature you raise (called a Norn) has a life span of 8 hours, going from childhood, to adult to old age (then die of old age if they lived that long. They can die from attacks or disease). It is also possible to use selective breeding for extend or shorten their life span (Growth).
As I also just mentioned, you can give them selective breeding/cross breeding to allow for traits like ability to extend life span or resistance to certain diseases (Adaptation).
If you abuse a Norn enough they might hit other Norns (you can hit them to punish or scratch their nose to reward them). They can also learn to avoid Grendels (one of the other species that carry disease and like to kill), or learn to group up and gang up on the Grendels (Response to Stimuli).
Adults do reproduce (they make a Kiss/Pop sound), then the female is pregnant and will lay an egg that will hatch and life cycles continue. (Reproduction)
Well, someone's already started to do that with the iPad, they are going to have 3rd party stylus ( http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10443415-233.html )
1- The 4 problematic PCs are running XP or 7 perfectly right now, so I'm not buying the faulty/crappy hardware line. I checked driver support, they are even supposed to be linux-compatible even if old-ish, except for a very old Via-C7 one which should require manual config, except I can get to that point. My issue is not about Linux being hard to install, because when everything works it's very easy. My issues with Linux are more about limited driver support, failure to install on some systems, lacking/outdated documentation, and disappointment with forums help. But that's not the question at hand, I'll make do with those issues.
Stupid question time. Did you make sure to use the option during the cd/dvd boot manager to check if the disc was burnt correctly? Had issues installing Linux with a lot of errors coming up, and it ended up being that I didn't have a good burn. Sometimes its the small things.
The capacity and bitrate were the only advantage. On the other hand HD-DVD was a "finished" platform, with dozens of other advantages.
Advantages don't matter a lot in the long run. Its convenience and usability. This was shown during the VHS vs Betamax wars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war ) even though in the beginning Betamax was a better overall picture then VHS. Also why the Laserdisc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc ) never took off due to it's huge size (just shy of a foot long cd) being not practical (and made me always worry if it could snap under it's own weight if you held it on one side instead of the middle. Not sure if it could though), amoungst other reasons (the 1 hour limit per side was pretty much handled with auto-flipping after the mid-80's)
Canada is the reason we have Celine Dion, not Sony... Move along now, eh?
No, Quebec is the reason we have Celine Dion. She got her start in French music before she did English ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine_Dion ).
Not all netbooks have low res. There's a couple of 12 inch that have higher resolution, and some like the nokia booklet have 1280x720 on 10 inch.
That still isn't going to play a 1080p video as mentioned in the article. 1080p needs a screen size of 1920x1080. If your going to go through this much effort to get the best picture would be better to just re-encode the video to your screens pixel size, would make it not stutter either.
It will most likely be 10+ years. Most of the 10 year old games, never less the 15+ year old games even work on today's OS. Does that mean that when I bought the games I didn't value my rights as a consumer, because they don't work now?
It's a central activation server for all their games. I think there would be quite nice uproar if all of their games stopped working suddenly.
Nevertheless, if someone still plays them in 10-20 years, I'm sure they can buy a really cheap, current-OS-capable version from the likes of Steam for like $1, probably with improved graphics too. The classic games I play now are either fixed versions from Steam or GOG. Sure you pay that one dollar again, but who cares when they fix it for the new operating systems and hardware too.
10+ years huh? Tell that to EA ( http://www.ea.com/2/service-updates ). Many of those games on that list are on the PS3 and XBox360. Godfather was released on the PS3 in 2007, 3 years ago as one example. Some of the games listed are PC games as well. Hell, Army of 2 was only released just shy of 2 years ago and is being shut down in Asia.
Splinter Cell 2; one of the first Starforce protected games.
According to Wikipedia, Splinter Cell 2 was released on March 23, 2004 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS_(Splinter_Cell)#Multiplayer ), while the first english crack is dated to have been released March 25, 2004, only 2 days later. And that would be when the basic cracking sites got it, not went it went wild within the game. While it wasn't hours before, it wasn't a month later either.
Your assumption, which is wrong, that it isn't a full game. If you damn them now, you should have damned them when they released Brood Wars. It has roughly the same number of missions as the first full game. If they feel they can give each race a full Starcraft length story, then good on them for doing it.
Blizzard mentioned back in 2008 that they were splitting the whole game into 3 campaigns ( http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2008/10/11/starcraft-2-split-into-three-parts-terran-wings-of-liberty-zerg-heart-of-the-swarm-and-protoss-legacy-of-the-void.htm ). And it takes more then size to judge a game. It takes quality. Breaking a story from 1 whole part into 3 smaller parts breaks the quality (think of a movie put on tv made into multiple episodes, cheapens the feel with the breaks and the wait between episodes kills). And yes, they do CLAIM to be trying to maximize each part to be the fullest possible, but every company does that. Its marketing. No company is going to come out and say "Well we had a chance to make a high quality product... but decided not to due to x reasons."
Or in the case of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, it was released on the album A Night at the Opera which had a total length of 43:10 originally. On the other hand, the Backstreet Boys original self-titled album had a total length at 52:03, around 9 minutes more. Would you say that the Backstreet Boys album was a better album because it had more play time?