The article (yeah, I did RTFA) points out that those games are rated for age 17+, so I don't see what the issue is.
I wouldn't want my kids playing COD-MW2 or L4D2, but to be honest, they wouldn't want to play them anyway - they'd be much happier with the latest cutesy Wii party game, or something for the DS involving ponies.
Yet again, the mainstream media make the assumption that all games are for kids and are therefore completely shocked to see that some games involve blood, gore and subversive naughtiness.
Actually, I don't think they're shocked at all. They just think that their readers will be, and that's what sells papers and generates click revenue.
So let me see if I understand this: if someone, somewhere manages to compromise a particular model of HDTV, and that model's KSV is added to a revocation list used by broadcasters and stored on future HD media, anyone else innocently owning the same model TV would be affected?
So successfully compromising an HDCP device would be a very costly DOS attack?
I mean, what if some high-profile manufacturer's products (like Sony) were compromised in this way?
Does that mean the owners of an entire class of Sony products would find their devices unable to display certain content until they could apply some firmware update or buy a new device?
Well my interpretation of the patent was that:they cite SGML and RTF as examples of embedding style and structure directly into the content stream, and their patent is for "an improved method" which emphatically does not put that metadata into the content but keeps the two separate. So it's explicitly not like XML (which is an application of SGML).
And their method is not simply about a separate style sheet which defines mark-up in the content - it seems to be a description of which parts of the text have which formatting, so that the content could be plain text without any embedded mark-up.
So they haven't patented CSS either.
I fail to see what this patent has to do with Word or XML, and the complaint doesn't exactly point out the similarities.
The Tomb Raider game environments have
been 3D from the beginning, and Tomb Raider: Underworld
(TRU) is no exception. The game features exceptional graphics
and takes full advantage of the graphics processors of
game consoles.
It wouldn't surprise me if Bugatti make a big move into a (obviously lower) luxury market very soon, cashing in on the recognition they've earned.
They wouldn't be the first.
The Bugatti brand has historically been known for exclusive and mostly very high performance automobiles in relatively the same market as other boutique Italian manufacturers such as Ferrari and Lamborghini or the British Aston Martin. The halo effect is well known in mass market brands, but Bugatti and other boutiques like it are NOT mass market brands and cannot be made into mass market brands without losing their boutique pedigree and exclusivity.
Aston Martin's halo might be about to slip, although the Cygnet will only be available to existing A-M owners.
So you see, I know about the 20% difference, and I even displayed both figures, so dumb folk don't have to calculate it.
When I write: 45-50mpg, that's in your smaller US 3.785 liter gallons. Okay? (Look, I even spelt litre your way)
I will concede that the official combined MPG figure for an Octavia 2.0 TDI is only 51.4mpg (UK), and that's only just above 42mpg (US).
But that only proves my point: the proposed mileage is achievable now, from normal, big-enough, fast-enough cars available now, and it's been possible for many years already.
The only problem is that the US hasn't caught up with Europe.
In 2016 I will be driving a car that does 33 to 50 kilometers per liter. http://evolution.loremo.com/
This car is based on technology that is available NOW.
That Loremo looks ingenious; the rear-facing rear seats are an interesting idea, but I know what'll happen with kids in the back:
* one will be upset that she can't see Mum & Dad
* the other will be car-sick.
The Tesla Model S looks promising, too, but would need to be about half the price before I could get really interested.
Lets tax FOREIGN oil. Lets Raise the Consumption tax on oil, to where the gas price is $10 gal regardless, and lets get light rail built quickly in the bigger cities and bullet trains along the coasts.
As a European (British, but I consider it a region of Europe), I find it strange that 42mpg seems so draconian.
For the last decade at least, the UK and the rest of Europe has had diesel cars the size of an Accord / Aura / Fusion which could average 42mpg (50mpg Imp.) in mixed driving - at least it was never a problem for me - urban driving reduces the mileage of course.
My Octavia (basically a Jetta liftback with a cheaper badge) averages 45-50mpg (55-60 Imp.) on my 30-mile runs to work; and there's enough room for a 6-footer to be comfortable (more head- and leg-room than a Freelander or a RAV4).
My wife's Renault Clio averages 60mpg (72mpg Imp.) when I drive it, and the driving position doesn't feel cramped.
These are not hybrids, by the way. Even the Freelander and RAV4 can achieve 35mpg with a diesel engine.
Since we're paying the equivalent of $8/gallon for fuel over here, cars like this make a lot of sense.
I didn't see any Comic Sans MS.
But that's probably because:
* The site requires Flash 10
* Flash 10 requires local admin rights to install.
* Getting local admin rights here at work would require me to perform "favors" for the desktop support staff.
In the UK, you won't have the right to use lethal force, because that would be murder.
We have the concept of "reasonable force": shooting somebody in the back as he's running away is not reasonable force, and it's not "protecting yourself".
ipc0nfig:...why not just move the computer clock forward to April 1st, and see what Conficker does.
cdrudge:
For the same reason that a bomb technician doesn't reset the timer to zero just to see what the bomb does. Sure it may be a dud and do nothing, or it may be huge and blow up in their face.
I think ipc0nfig has a fair point - you could run an date-adjusted infected machine in a VM, isolated inside a virtual network, and monitor any disk/network activity.
Of course, you might not know what'll really happen unless you let it phone home, and even then you might not see what will happen on April 1st; but it might give more clues about which external addresses to block.
will most likely only be used at newer development / building sites
I don't know what this means: my house is about 20 years old - is that new enough?
it warned that such products would initially be more expensive than existing ADSL based land-line broadband services.
Currently, combined broadband & phone packages cost about £25-£30 a month if you want to avoid download caps, so I assume higher bandwidth will cost £40+
At least it may push down the price of up-to-8Mbps services (and later up-to-24Mbps).
I always think it's funny when someone gets nervous about whether to use "I" or "me" when referring to themselves in a sentence, so they give up and say "myself" instead, and sound even more stupid.
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The article (yeah, I did RTFA) points out that those games are rated for age 17+, so I don't see what the issue is.
I wouldn't want my kids playing COD-MW2 or L4D2, but to be honest, they wouldn't want to play them anyway - they'd be much happier with the latest cutesy Wii party game, or something for the DS involving ponies.
Yet again, the mainstream media make the assumption that all games are for kids and are therefore completely shocked to see that some games involve blood, gore and subversive naughtiness.
Actually, I don't think they're shocked at all. They just think that their readers will be, and that's what sells papers and generates click revenue.
So let me see if I understand this: if someone, somewhere manages to compromise a particular model of HDTV, and that model's KSV is added to a revocation list used by broadcasters and stored on future HD media, anyone else innocently owning the same model TV would be affected?
So successfully compromising an HDCP device would be a very costly DOS attack?
I mean, what if some high-profile manufacturer's products (like Sony) were compromised in this way?
Does that mean the owners of an entire class of Sony products would find their devices unable to display certain content until they could apply some firmware update or buy a new device?
Possibly sales of x4o have tanked recently, so the only option available to them is to steal ... er ... claim money directly from Microsoft.
Well my interpretation of the patent was that:they cite SGML and RTF as examples of embedding style and structure directly into the content stream, and their patent is for "an improved method" which emphatically does not put that metadata into the content but keeps the two separate.
So it's explicitly not like XML (which is an application of SGML).
And their method is not simply about a separate style sheet which defines mark-up in the content - it seems to be a description of which parts of the text have which formatting, so that the content could be plain text without any embedded mark-up.
So they haven't patented CSS either.
I fail to see what this patent has to do with Word or XML, and the complaint doesn't exactly point out the similarities.
The Tomb Raider game environments have been 3D from the beginning, and Tomb Raider: Underworld (TRU) is no exception. The game features exceptional graphics and takes full advantage of the graphics processors of game consoles.
Nice way to get free exposure via churnalism.
... along with Hull being a horrible place) to stop me ever even thinking of living there.
Er ner it int. Ull's real nahce. Yer just jealous cos we get cheap fern curls. Shurrup merning.
It wouldn't surprise me if Bugatti make a big move into a (obviously lower) luxury market very soon, cashing in on the recognition they've earned.
They wouldn't be the first.
The Bugatti brand has historically been known for exclusive and mostly very high performance automobiles in relatively the same market as other boutique Italian manufacturers such as Ferrari and Lamborghini or the British Aston Martin. The halo effect is well known in mass market brands, but Bugatti and other boutiques like it are NOT mass market brands and cannot be made into mass market brands without losing their boutique pedigree and exclusivity.
Aston Martin's halo might be about to slip, although the Cygnet will only be available to existing A-M owners.
It comes with Windows Mobile on the navigation system.
If I paid $2.1 million for a car, at the very least I'd want to be able to program the nav system from my high-end smart phone
For $2.1 million, I'd expect to have Mark Russinovich programming the satnav for me.
And Jessica Alba sat in the passenger seat announcing driving directions.
Wait. Does Jessica know her left from her right?
Land Rover are a bit like Apple: expensive, desirable products (if you like that sort of thing) but laughably poor build quality.
If the phone's like their cars, it will make strange knocking noises when you move around quickly, and eventually develop an oil leak.
For the third time:
Read my post again!
You'll see that I wrote:
42mpg (50mpg Imp.)
and
45-50mpg (55-60 Imp.)
and
60mpg (72mpg Imp.)
So you see, I know about the 20% difference, and I even displayed both figures, so dumb folk don't have to calculate it.
When I write: 45-50mpg, that's in your smaller US 3.785 liter gallons. Okay? (Look, I even spelt litre your way)
I will concede that the official combined MPG figure for an Octavia 2.0 TDI is only 51.4mpg (UK), and that's only just above 42mpg (US).
But that only proves my point: the proposed mileage is achievable now, from normal, big-enough, fast-enough cars available now, and it's been possible for many years already.
The only problem is that the US hasn't caught up with Europe.
Read the post again. I didn't forget.
I know. The ratio is about 5:6.
If you read my post again, carefully, you will notice that I've included both figures (US and UK).
The numbers in bold are the US figures.
In 2016 I will be driving a car that does 33 to 50 kilometers per liter. http://evolution.loremo.com/ This car is based on technology that is available NOW.
That Loremo looks ingenious; the rear-facing rear seats are an interesting idea, but I know what'll happen with kids in the back:
* one will be upset that she can't see Mum & Dad
* the other will be car-sick.
The Tesla Model S looks promising, too, but would need to be about half the price before I could get really interested.
Lets tax FOREIGN oil. Lets Raise the Consumption tax on oil, to where the gas price is $10 gal regardless, and lets get light rail built quickly in the bigger cities and bullet trains along the coasts.
I don't know... sounds like Socialism to me.
Why do you hate America?
Yes, but I read the article, and it says that the 42mpg target is for cars.
Light trucks would have a completely different target (26.2mpg, not much above the current 24mpg)
I suspect the 12mpg trucks would be exempt.
...so unless you are bugger than me I call BS.
I hope you meant "bigger", you big bugger.
As a European (British, but I consider it a region of Europe), I find it strange that 42mpg seems so draconian.
For the last decade at least, the UK and the rest of Europe has had diesel cars the size of an Accord / Aura / Fusion which could average 42mpg (50mpg Imp.) in mixed driving - at least it was never a problem for me - urban driving reduces the mileage of course.
My Octavia (basically a Jetta liftback with a cheaper badge) averages 45-50mpg (55-60 Imp.) on my 30-mile runs to work; and there's enough room for a 6-footer to be comfortable (more head- and leg-room than a Freelander or a RAV4).
My wife's Renault Clio averages 60mpg (72mpg Imp.) when I drive it, and the driving position doesn't feel cramped.
These are not hybrids, by the way. Even the Freelander and RAV4 can achieve 35mpg with a diesel engine.
Since we're paying the equivalent of $8/gallon for fuel over here, cars like this make a lot of sense.
* The site requires Flash 10
* Flash 10 requires local admin rights to install.
* Getting local admin rights here at work would require me to perform "favors" for the desktop support staff.
Have you met our desktop support guys?
Frankly, I'm not that desperate.
In the UK, you won't have the right to use lethal force, because that would be murder.
We have the concept of "reasonable force": shooting somebody in the back as he's running away is not reasonable force, and it's not "protecting yourself".
ipc0nfig: ...why not just move the computer clock forward to April 1st, and see what Conficker does.
cdrudge:
For the same reason that a bomb technician doesn't reset the timer to zero just to see what the bomb does. Sure it may be a dud and do nothing, or it may be huge and blow up in their face.
I think ipc0nfig has a fair point - you could run an date-adjusted infected machine in a VM, isolated inside a virtual network, and monitor any disk/network activity.
Of course, you might not know what'll really happen unless you let it phone home, and even then you might not see what will happen on April 1st; but it might give more clues about which external addresses to block.
I don't know what this means: my house is about 20 years old - is that new enough?
Currently, combined broadband & phone packages cost about £25-£30 a month if you want to avoid download caps, so I assume higher bandwidth will cost £40+
At least it may push down the price of up-to-8Mbps services (and later up-to-24Mbps).
Edit your hosts file to block all ad servers. Its quick and painless.
Not when you don't have local admin rights.
It's also a system-wide setting.
You can't have a per-user hosts file.
According to the UK site, a Mini with 2GB RAM and 320GB HD will cost £711 when I've added a keyboard + mouse. That's without a display of course.
So around £750-£800, for a machine with about the same spec as the Dell I bought nearly 2 years ago for less than £500.
And it's also getting a bit too close to the price of a 20" iMac (£949 with keyboard + mouse).
Yes, even for Apple, the Mini is erm, reassuringly expensive.
I always think it's funny when someone gets nervous about whether to use "I" or "me" when referring to themselves in a sentence, so they give up and say "myself" instead, and sound even more stupid.