I just have to mention that I like the irony of the fact someone by the name of "Anti Cheat" is explaining how Microsoft can tell when someone is cheating.
Yeah they do, shows you that in the video at 1:03 when they mentioned that he had been labeled a cheater. It shows a close up of a Xbox Live Gamertag. It shows right under the Gamertag score.
The issue is, the MS icon was updated to give a new art style to an old, completely irrelevant picture. Bill Gates retired from Microsoft and moved onto other things as binarstu mentioned, there is no need to make him the icon, let alone a borg style icon.
It might have been because Steve Jobs has gone on medical leave again. It's presumed to be related to his Pancreatic Cancer which was diagnosed in 2004. Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate averaging between 4.6 percent to 6 percent after 5 years of being diagnosed. Steve Jobs is now on year 7, beating the odds.
Thats whats sad about it. They will just add it to the list of non-violent objects banned even though it won't work nor has ever worked. And people around will still be allowed to carry dangerous weapons like semi-automatic handguns around airports which can be very dangerous.
But you intrigue me, I had never heard of apple deleting apps from users devices, nor have I heard of them alloing some users to run software that others are not allowed to run.
Can you list links and examples of remote app deletion and apps that are not allowed to be used by certain consumers?
While I do admit I haven't heard of any times Apple has remotely deleted Apps (yet), they have admitted that they built in a back door in iOS that will allow them to do just that.
It really reminds me of a Asus Eee Keyboard. It is a whole computer built into a keyboard with a 5 inch touch screen that can change what is displayed or be used as a mouse.
I mentioned it more because I've seen people doing just that before with Facebook (I live in a vacation area, a national park). I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, and had to show them to difference between their original digital photos (which they had been deleting to save space) and what the versions on Facebook were like side by side.
Joking aside, places like Facebook are horrible for storing photos since Facebook shrinks them and degrades their quality so they take less space on their server. Facebook photos are for the quick pictures you took with your phone, not for the good ones you took with a decent digital camera.
Thats a small part of the problem. The big issue is that without a LOT of research the consumer wouldn't know about this. Motorola isn't going to print this as a selling feature, in fact they won't mention it on the product at all, and neither will the reviews about this phone. When I'm looking about upgrading to a new electronic device, searching Google for something like "What software hacks will cause this product to self-destruct" isn't on the list of things I'm going to research. What needs to be addressed is that the consumer should be able to be notified about these issues before they are allowed to buy it, not find out from buyers remorse. This was the same issue that came up a while ago with DRM on music cd's. People wanted to be able to know which ones had DRM and not learn the hard way and the companies don't want to make this information available because people will vote with their feet so they prefer to try to hide it (the companies claimed they didn't want to make the information known because people would only buy the cd's they claimed that would be able to easily pirate if I remember right).
No, I think they mean the Valve that made Half-life episodes with the explanation that by doing it that why they could make smaller games faster, then proceeded to make 2 episodes of a trilogy and then stopped making them but will happily keep selling you the episodes that they don't seem interested in finishing.
Highly doubtful. There is the World of Warcraft mod for Starcraft 2. And it seems like its still available for Starcraft 2, Blizzard doesn't seem to mind about it being made.
Where did you hear that Titan was going to be any of those you listed? According to this article, Titan is only known as being Blizzards next-gen MMO that is due to launch at the end of 2014. Now the whole Starcraft 2 trilogy is due to be finished and released in the beginning of 2013, a year and three quarters before Titan is released. This is around the same time span as World of Warcraft was released after Warcraft 3 (if you ignore a few months, due to it being pushed back.) Sounds like this will be like what Blizzard did with World of Warcraft. Release the game, give it around 2 years for the public to have a good grasp of the worlds lore, then release MMO set a little further beyond the last game, profit (wouldn't want to release it too soon or it could hurt the RTS's sale, and not too late that it's foggy for people to remember the lore). This time it looks like it will be Starcraft to use this formula.
Anyone who really thinks Playboy is pornography just needs to surf the internet using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 and have their horizons dramatically broadened. It's awesome. The porn just pops up allover the place. you don't have to do anything!
This might get entertaining. In the Maritimes (Eastern Canada) you can buy a McLobster. Maybe they're just getting everything ready to sell the Shark-O-Filet?
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I was thinking around those lines too. Why are almost all the mistakes done with iPhones? Like there is a rare one that isn't an iPhone, but it seems very rare. I admit that my Androids auto correct wasn't that great (tried it with Swype, hated it), but I don't recall it being as bad as these examples. Noticed the odd message here and there from my friends who own iPhones but always thought it was their fast typing causing the issues. Does pretty much every iPhone user notice this problem and just ignore it or is this site just a list of a more "vocal" minority?
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I just have to mention that I like the irony of the fact someone by the name of "Anti Cheat" is explaining how Microsoft can tell when someone is cheating.
Yeah they do, shows you that in the video at 1:03 when they mentioned that he had been labeled a cheater. It shows a close up of a Xbox Live Gamertag. It shows right under the Gamertag score.
The issue is, the MS icon was updated to give a new art style to an old, completely irrelevant picture. Bill Gates retired from Microsoft and moved onto other things as binarstu mentioned, there is no need to make him the icon, let alone a borg style icon.
Here is the original story with people thinking it was a new Facebook page in the comments section at the bottom of the article.
Carlin as the architect. Missy as the Oracle.
Pffft! Carlin's dead! It's not like you can just resurrect somebody to play a role in a film.
Won't be the first movie where they used clips from dead actors to make them into a new movie. Granted it would be great to Carlin as the train conductor instead.
By outsourcing it to a company that is more capable then you?
So it means that this dial goes to 11?
It might have been because Steve Jobs has gone on medical leave again. It's presumed to be related to his Pancreatic Cancer which was diagnosed in 2004. Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate averaging between 4.6 percent to 6 percent after 5 years of being diagnosed. Steve Jobs is now on year 7, beating the odds.
Thats why I said around and not in airports (like at the end of the tarmac just outside the fence, ect...)
Thats whats sad about it. They will just add it to the list of non-violent objects banned even though it won't work nor has ever worked. And people around will still be allowed to carry dangerous weapons like semi-automatic handguns around airports which can be very dangerous.
But you intrigue me, I had never heard of apple deleting apps from users devices, nor have I heard of them alloing some users to run software that others are not allowed to run.
Can you list links and examples of remote app deletion and apps that are not allowed to be used by certain consumers?
While I do admit I haven't heard of any times Apple has remotely deleted Apps (yet), they have admitted that they built in a back door in iOS that will allow them to do just that.
It really reminds me of a Asus Eee Keyboard. It is a whole computer built into a keyboard with a 5 inch touch screen that can change what is displayed or be used as a mouse.
I mentioned it more because I've seen people doing just that before with Facebook (I live in a vacation area, a national park). I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, and had to show them to difference between their original digital photos (which they had been deleting to save space) and what the versions on Facebook were like side by side.
Joking aside, places like Facebook are horrible for storing photos since Facebook shrinks them and degrades their quality so they take less space on their server. Facebook photos are for the quick pictures you took with your phone, not for the good ones you took with a decent digital camera.
Thats a small part of the problem. The big issue is that without a LOT of research the consumer wouldn't know about this. Motorola isn't going to print this as a selling feature, in fact they won't mention it on the product at all, and neither will the reviews about this phone. When I'm looking about upgrading to a new electronic device, searching Google for something like "What software hacks will cause this product to self-destruct" isn't on the list of things I'm going to research. What needs to be addressed is that the consumer should be able to be notified about these issues before they are allowed to buy it, not find out from buyers remorse. This was the same issue that came up a while ago with DRM on music cd's. People wanted to be able to know which ones had DRM and not learn the hard way and the companies don't want to make this information available because people will vote with their feet so they prefer to try to hide it (the companies claimed they didn't want to make the information known because people would only buy the cd's they claimed that would be able to easily pirate if I remember right).
Only works that way if they get turned into a newt.
No, at least Starcraft: Ghost was officially put down.
No, I think they mean the Valve that made Half-life episodes with the explanation that by doing it that why they could make smaller games faster, then proceeded to make 2 episodes of a trilogy and then stopped making them but will happily keep selling you the episodes that they don't seem interested in finishing.
Highly doubtful. There is the World of Warcraft mod for Starcraft 2. And it seems like its still available for Starcraft 2, Blizzard doesn't seem to mind about it being made.
Where did you hear that Titan was going to be any of those you listed? According to this article, Titan is only known as being Blizzards next-gen MMO that is due to launch at the end of 2014. Now the whole Starcraft 2 trilogy is due to be finished and released in the beginning of 2013, a year and three quarters before Titan is released. This is around the same time span as World of Warcraft was released after Warcraft 3 (if you ignore a few months, due to it being pushed back.) Sounds like this will be like what Blizzard did with World of Warcraft. Release the game, give it around 2 years for the public to have a good grasp of the worlds lore, then release MMO set a little further beyond the last game, profit (wouldn't want to release it too soon or it could hurt the RTS's sale, and not too late that it's foggy for people to remember the lore). This time it looks like it will be Starcraft to use this formula.
They'll get to it, eventually I'm sure. Blizzard: Your children will love the sequels you grew up waiting for.
Too late, that tag line is already for Duke Nukem Forever.
Anyone who really thinks Playboy is pornography just needs to surf the internet using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 and have their horizons dramatically broadened. It's awesome. The porn just pops up allover the place. you don't have to do anything!
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Yeah, those guys at Hustler really know how to use an airbrush to the best of their abilities.
This might get entertaining. In the Maritimes (Eastern Canada) you can buy a McLobster. Maybe they're just getting everything ready to sell the Shark-O-Filet?
I was thinking around those lines too. Why are almost all the mistakes done with iPhones? Like there is a rare one that isn't an iPhone, but it seems very rare. I admit that my Androids auto correct wasn't that great (tried it with Swype, hated it), but I don't recall it being as bad as these examples. Noticed the odd message here and there from my friends who own iPhones but always thought it was their fast typing causing the issues. Does pretty much every iPhone user notice this problem and just ignore it or is this site just a list of a more "vocal" minority?